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Safe* lor Seventh Week
Top Average of Seven
Seasons
Prices on the local tobacco market,!
which have increased daily, set an-1
other record for weekly sales on, the I
Farmville market when Thursday's
offerings brought the poundage to
1,154^422, receipts to $423^49.7?aad
the average to $3<L66, the highest in
seven years/ according to the report
of R. A. Fields, sales supervisor. This
despite the inferior grades and green
leaf, which have been observed on
the floors in large quantities..
The-week's totals brought the sea
son's record to 14,092^82 pounds,]
receipts to $4,348,130^91, and the av
erage to $30.35 per hundredsweight
Supervisor Fields states there is
plenty of space on local warehouse
floors for Friday's sale, which is ex
pected to send the season's total
poundage near the 15 million mad.
Good Attendaace
At Meeting Series
Of Christian Church
Reports have been made of the
steady increase in ^interest and at
tendance at the series of meetings
being held at the Christian Church,,
of which the Rev. CL B. Mashburn is
pastor. Rev. Harold Tyer, of Wash
ington, N. CL, is briniging strong and
inspiring messages each evening and
the song service, under the direction
of Mrs. C. N. Bostic, is spirited and .
beautiful.
The meeting will be continued
through Sunday evening and the en
tire community is invited to attend
all the' remaining services. The vis
iting minister will speak Sunday
morning on the subject, "Discovering
Life's Purpose," and in the evening
on "The Power of the Good Life."
There will be no services on Sat
urday. ? . f |
OPPOSE LINDBERGH TRIP TO
TEXAS
Austin, Texas.?The Texas House
of Representatives recently passed a
resolution opposing the contemplated
trip of Charles A. Lindbergh to Texas
where he planned to make several
speeches.
Institutions Sponsor
Boy Scout Troops
la a recent survey of sponsoring*
institutions ja . the East Carolina
Council, it wns discovered hat |
churches sponsored more Packs,
Troops and Senior groups than any
other institution. Of the 180 units
of the East Carolina Council, 52 are
sponsored by churches, or 40 per cent.
The following churches axe sponsor
ing units: Presbyterian, Methodist,
Christian, Church of Christ, Episco
pal, Catholic, Baptist and Universal
is
Civic Clubs were next in point of
service to boyhood through this great]
movement, with the Rotary Club
leading the way. Civic Clubs spon
sor a total of 31 units. These dubs
include:* Rotary, Kiwaais, American
Legion, CSvitao, Lions, Woman's
Clubs, Ruritan. Sixteen Parent
Teacher Associations sponsor Troops;
at presenters: Salvation Army,
Masonic Lodges, Fire Departments,
Manufacturing HflW, Orphanages,
Training -Schools, groups of dtiaene,
and one town.
Even with the above fine record
of obtain^' hNjfcuttMMi -? ftfetsrtJ
the Gvpafft realises that there are
hundreds of churches and emc dohsl
and
or Packs if gxven&b opportunity. -
The Council Is placing two addi
tional men an the Executive Staff
East C^>li^ Comma wffl? haveaJ
ijjg eiiisenship development
OIL EMBARGO
Washington, Oct 8.?The United
States, Great Britain and the retigee
government of The Netherlands, it
was learned authoritatively today,
have agreed to stop aH oil shipments.
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Whatever oil Japan may be^gettin&j
responsible officials said, is coming
from places other than the territories
controlled by the three governments.
The agreement ems made shortly'
?after the three governments on July j
26 froze all Japanese assets in their
territories.
Before that, the United States, the,
Dutch East Indies and various Brit-j
ish possessions were the principal
sources for oil for Japan.
The only oil that has left the Unit
ed States for Japan since July 26 was
625,000 worth allotted to the Japan
ese passenger liner Tatuta Maru to
enable her to return to Japan.
Bill includes
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Farm Produce
Lend-Lease Bill To Aid
Cotton and Tobacco
Washington, Oct 8??Of the near
lease-lend appropriation the govern
ment expects to spend $51,700*000
for tobacco and $47,900,000 for cot
tea, Secretary Wickard disclosed tor
day.
This would be out of a $1,87MQ0,
000 item for "agricultural, industrial,
and other commodities and articles"
in the lease-lend bill approved today
by the House Appropriations Com
mittee. Altogether, the measure
carries $5,985,000,000 for lease-lend
activities.
Wickard said that of the original:
$7,000,000,000 appropriated for that
purpose, virtually all of which has
been spent or obhyated, $47,400,000
wag used for tobacco and $50,150,000
tor cotton.
The secretary submitted these
figures to an appropriations sub
committee recently. His testimony)
was made public today.
In addition to these two basic
crops, principally produced in south
ern states, Wickard. pointed out the
South also would fbxnish naval sfenusT
some rice, - soybeans, sad citrus
products for shipment to Great Brit
Spw'
Cotton Aids In
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bnproving Farm
Home Conditions
0*ed CottoTeagB Be
come Curtains: Plow
Rope Turns Into Mops
Cotton lint straight from the gini
^ cotton begs which once contained
fertilizer, flour or feed; cottcn plow.
half the counties in Mississippi.
The- tnmsformation?^ir^hMe com
I s '
[monplace cottons into wearing ap
jparel and household arttdee art, ao
wpa1*
I Housekeeping Aides project^
?Ration, care of ch&dwn and how
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Nearly WOO representatives of
Hk)a ft Baptist churches in the Itoa*
noke Association ere expected te *t
tend the orsanisation's 34th
sessions sithe ?swBaptist dnirch
m ?jwwrqic, <? :PcMoiwjHi)
B. a Fordham is pastor of the host
I ;-1 :.- :%
Moderator John T. Coley will pre
side over the sessions, which will
open on Tuesday morning, October
14, and will be brought to a close on
the afternoon <? October "it. ?? A
night session will be held on Tuesday;
A highlight, of the program this
year, in addition to the speakers,
?will he the special music, the moderar
tor said. Excellent choirs wfll come
from Scotland "Neck and the host
church st Farewille. , j-,";?
Organization and selections of of
ficers will occupy the first part of
the program on Tuesday morning,
jjfe-; Coley 'in^^^,iii|g3^(r to be
heard at morning1 session will in
clude R. H. Satterfield of the BibH
cal Recorder, Dr. J. W. Kincheloe,
pastor of the First Baptist church of
Rocky Mount, and Rev. G. L. Price
of Roanoke Rapids, In the after
noon Cale Burgess, state.dry leader,
M. A. Huggins, secretary of the Bap
tist State Convention, and Dr. Sankey
L- Blanton, Baptist pastor from
Wilmington, -wjill be' baud.
On Tuesday night a special stu
dent program -will be presented under
the direction of John L&wrience, Bap
tist student secretary, who will be
assisted by student secretaries from
Eastern Carolina Teachers College,
Wake Forest College, Meredith Col
lege and N. C. State College. The
program will embrace work of tbt
Baptist Training Union, the Baptist
Student Union and tha*Chriatian Edu
cation unit of the Baptist church*
The Scotland Neck choir will be
heard that night in a 20-minute pro
gram. ' The Farmville choir will sing
on Tuesday morning.
Speakers'for Wednesday morning
will include Rev. F. W. Haney of
Roanoke Rapids, - Rev. Ross badle of
Enfield, Mrs. E. B. Beasley of Foun
tain, Sw'th Utjpm**,
of the Baptist Hospital at Winston
Salem, and Dr. L G. Greer, superin
tendent of Mills Home at Thomas
viiie. v..; r;;
In the afternoon speakers will in-'
chide Rev. Mi. V. Johnson of Bethel,!
Mrs. R. L. Councilman, wife of the
Baptist chinch ait Dortches, and Dr.1
George Heatoa of Lynchburg, Va.
There-wBl be report* from the vari
ous committees and* busineesaes
aion also on Wednesday afternoon. ;j
More than 16,000 members are
enrolled in the 71 churches of the
Roanoke Association, which embraces;
Baptist Work m eight counties. It
is the largest association, from thB.1
standpoint of area, and next to the
largest from the. standpoint of mem
bership, in the *$?, Modamfo*
QoJeyiw&L' Mft .#)Iey will proaMe.
pyer the seeaion. Counties represent-!
fed are Nash, Edgecombe, Wilson,
to get more money for tbefr 1 esf than
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Na?.T"Jv 1A/) AAA <za\YQTP
j country Gxplnns the ^t^ u i i1^^^ns? |^
upon the price control. Thete is gen
eral agreement that the situation de
mands positive action by the .Gov
ernment although there is wide dis
agreement as totheproper remedy.
fe' -V fts&l *.
Wholesale prices have risen stead
ily since June, 1940, and are now
about twenty per cent above pre-war
levels. Retail prices, however, have
shown increases, to a marked degree
only for the past several months.
While the ooet of i^vhig )s up about
seven per cent, the increase has bean
emphasized in the cost of food.
If the cost of living continues to
increase, than will inevitable arise
renewed demands for increased wag
es, which in turn will mean higher
production costs. The process will
continue throughout the entire price
structure. The threat of serious in
flation is accentuated by heavy Gov
ernment spending for defense and the
looming shortage of goods for civil
ian consumption.
?
Recently, Bernard M. Baruch,
financier and chairman of the War
Industries Beard in the last war, Le
on Henderson, head of the offioe of
Price Administration, Henry Morgan
thau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury,
-and Warriner S. Eccles, chairman of
the Federal Reserve Board, hvve ap
peared before the House Banking and
Currency Committee, which is now
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Washington, Oct. 8.?Indications
multiplied today that Britain is win
ning the upper hand in the vital
"Battle ?f the. Atlantic while Adolf
Hitler-concentrates upon the war in
Russia.
; Secrecy shroud, whatever navid
measures have been taken against
the German submarines sad
planes thwart the Atlantic supply,
routes between the %Viuted"'"i Stirfip
and the ^
is apparent from recent^ deve^p
In fact, Lord Woolton, British
Minister of food, to& the House of
in so many
words that "we have been getting
receiving-^haog^ ;;^^uabl|^jUi^88w
Sihyth.
?mrtifep
Britain SJueiy? 338 ?; fluf SxE ?
^ l?nd ftp"
' ? |A?j Qunnlies
r . " r r,vjV? lnAMiBOf) tn A
I point "greater than they have ever
I Alfhrnioh - Ti&iid baiH "that 26 Dcr
I Aww^d1* . "-T"- Tv *
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T niiaii I?i11 l^nOlltflOtl
warning ofihe vital need for speedy
Mrf.d Kv ?, Ammirmnf
"aitsv?
Wight he, but he asserted that "we
are in the last minute of our oppor
referred to the current Nam all-out
todwte the jo?c of hi. mforrna
tion, bat as. heed of the committee,
he has access to confidential War and
Kavjr Department information.
3/;TheVfcuge. appropriation,! bearing
the 26 to 5 approval of Cannon'* com
mittee^aiune- before the House against
a backdrop of widespread controver
sy over possible use of the funds to
aid embattled Russia. Behind the
controversy is the explosive issue of
religious freedom in the Soviet.
In that connection, Myron a Tay
lor, President Roosevelt's special
emissary whohas just returned from
The Vatican, lunched with the Chief
Executive today, fie spent an hour
with the Presided; last night. 4 One
of his objectives of his recent talks
:<wtth-ffiape .Pius-; SUgspertedly - has
been tosound out the possibility"^
??-wapi>roachment between Russia and
The Vatican.
K5
1300,000,000 from the fund proposed
for food and industrial commodities.
The G. O. P. move was expected to
w.
Cannon urged quick action so that
"clouds of airplanes, acres off tanks
and an avalanche of munitions"
veuld be unleashed to "crush > the
might of Hitler."
"Time is short," he asserted. "A
turn in the war is emminent. vWe
most 6QU3I gurp&ss ths * v^st
streams of machines that were end
fa* being thrown against every dem
ocratic country in' Europe. We are
in the last minute of our opportunity
bill, asserted that Russia has offered
[ "surprising and heroic resistance to
Axis conquest" and urgently opposed
adoption of any amendments which,
respect reflected testimony, from Gen
eral George C. Marshall; Army Chief
of Staff, who urged during secret
he^nge^on^thfi^bai that ev^pos
high officials was "revealed in can
iored trapscripts made public by the
committee as a corollary to its re
takftoThe
opinions of their etudente.
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test days tf.'totsl of bcuig
offered for prize winners.
?d f t I.NWaMt nurrkat
netcner, uve?uy?
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Germany Would Get'
Most of Chromium.
After 1942 ^ j
re.'
deal whereby Germany will get at <
least half of Turkey's expert of this ?]
war-vital product after 1942, diplo- !
matic sources said today.'"
In return, Germany has promised *
to begin immediately delivery of 1
about |15,0OO,9QO worth of military 1
equipment to Turkey, these sources J
declared. : ; ; S
Reports that an agreement to this
effect was about to be signed, per
haps today, produced a flurry of 1
activity yesterday on the parts of <
both British and United States dip
lomats. ' ? I
Sir Hugh Mn*G>i?hiill-w*iffngflnn and 1
J; V. A, MacMurray, the British and *
American ambassadors, 'hastened to *
the Turkish^^fficiwkere they j
were said ,*o,fcave warned?|pdt; 1
a move by Turkey . Would cause the
worst possible reaction in Londdn i
and Washington. I
MacMurray was reported to have
reminded, the Turkish government \
that as one of the nations whose de-t 1
"nfTnyr8in -
?2 ,^ *"*under ^ I
1eu*l?nd art. ?
-^urth !
Oc^
onp-fourth of the cost of the ptcvut
\ "cult 1 C6S are
percent higher than a year D?* '
piUtut * V ?
I mand in ?
Isiiboo000 000-next year. ?
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^ MOSCOW
S^NariGlaim
Moicow, OctTft?The Soviet Azm
?8 below Moscow withdrew today
Item the important railway town of
3rd after furious fighting, the Red
irmy high command announced to
light in a terse confession of mighty
"fie ??ii'ii-I-'- J:*-:- WLh.
merman pressure on two central sec
ors and just above the Sea of Azov,
>n the extreme south.
Orel, on rv the MoscewwKharicov
Etostov railway, some 220 miles south
>f Moscow ahd 68 miles east of Bry
msk, was squarely in the path of
he southern arm of a week-long
Serman enveloping movement intend
ed to trap and destroy the Russian
irmiee defending the Soviet capital.
Its fall put the second of two
nighty Nad columns in much more
nenacing positions below the capital,
1 ?1 A ? 1 lit . It -
vnixe to toe west tne outer supreme
;hrust was operating from the vicini
;y of Vyazma, only 126 miles short
>f Moscow.
In the far south German advances
iverer acknowledged by the Soviet
XHnmand'B admission that fighting
vas raging about Melitopol, on the
3ea of Azov along the gateway to
Xostov on the River Ron and to the
Caucasus beyond. (The Germans al
ready h*d claimed to be wfell beyond
kfelitopol with thq seizure of the
Slzov ports of Ossipenko tod Mariup
. ?~
. Hour of Crisis v
But it was on the Moscow ap- ? ,
)roaches where the hour, of greatest
risis was at han^. ;
There, in the greatest mechanized
mttle ever fought, the eental Rus
tian artnies beat back desperately
it a series of mighty concentric
rhrusts by which superior German
fences were slowly extending their
>Ioody salientaj
In a terrible chaos on two ill-de- .1
!ined and shifting fronts, German ad- 71
nances were acknowledged here and VI
here. But- they were achieved, said I
Sojfiet military dispatches, at im
nenrie cost, to.the invaders?inclini
ng more than 600 tanks destroyed
-rind by rushing up great new ' - I
jodies of armored troops and inf?T ?
Iry and fresh squadrons of dive
jonbera for the supreme test of "the
war in the East: _ ' M
urert-mrwuir ?
Jtfo auUor^towk-through, said the -
Russians, liad been achieved
Marshal Semeon Timoshenko, the
fthi pitjU agahst
he vicinities of Vya^^^it 126
idles to the west, and Bryansk, about
120 miles to the southwest, appeared
o be fighting now to hold, if pos-,
fari armies. . .. f
A single Red infantry division
hargtag^ heedlessly ^h ^flamfaw
sxploding more than 800j-; German ?
anks; hundreds more were aa^d to ^ -
ia# been smashed % Sovi^Ja#::
sry fire and Soviet bombers alone
i^^broke ^ the^ bitter wife
? jjj one sector . a Russian infantry
mr heavy - tosses, a Rnnriiiii ? j":
?tini Riim
Qn^i^ ^ jmj ^ ffsfgajl
vhs * not so oxtonsivOs
fch imi * t* siod tiBtinx
-j~ ? . ^ m ' ? %
TflTfc 7^AssMAja*sa |Vllw|[Bfl flfT| ?
fywSfofc W S' *^^pyOftCu^|y,"f- illyssvlW^wyH
six today. -? < : .f
four fuel tanks And niany xuotorcy*
The tone of crisis ^ftas strong' and
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