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ROBESON TOBACCO CURING STARTED Jasper C. Hutto Says Grow ers Face Prospects Of Favor able Marketing Season LUMBERTON, June 27.— First curings of the 1942 tobacco crop In the Lumberton area are com ing through with good color and weight as growers face prospects for a favorable marketing season, according to Jasper C. Hutto, supervisor of the Lumberton to bacco market. The supervisor said curings are general to the south and east and beginning their first barns to the north and west. “Tobacco is above the average in the Lumberton section and a little earlier than usual,” Hutto said. “Individual plants are not as tall as they are in some years, but most of them are bushy, well filled and with good size and weight on the leaves. Reports on the first curings rate the barns as good on the whole. Hail damage has been comparatively little up to date.” The supervisor said there were some indcations that the Lumber ton market will open August 4 but the date will be set at a meet ing of the sales committee of the United States Tobacco association, at Richmond, Va., July 3. A11 market opening dates will be set by the committee at that t i me. Ten warehouses are available for handling the offerings on the Lum berton rrjarket. 4 -V Brunswick Weed Growers Busy Cropping, Curing Product For The Market SOUTHPORT, June 27.—More than half of the Brunswick tobacco growers are now busy cropping and curing the weed, according to John B. Ward, Waccamaw town ship grower. Waccamaw township is the center of the tobacco grow ing in Brunswick. Mr. Ward says that tne rest of the growers will get pt the work of cropping in a few days. Still mo'-e interesting in his . re port is tiit-t the crop is the best average in several years. The weed is large and the absence of excessive rainfall is assuring heavy leaf. The growers are all pleased with the production out look, according to Mr. Ward. Not all the satisfaction wi t h crops is centered around the to bacco growers. The Brunswick far mers, irrespective of what crops they may raise, are more than satsfied with crop conditions. For the past few years the weather has been ideal for the develop ment of tobacco, cotton, con, po tatoes ar.d all manner of crops. Much of the corn crop has al ready been “laid by” and the far mers are in good shape to g e t about the increased work of har vesting tobacco, considering t he limited labor supply. 4 -V Military Supply Bill Approved By Committee WASHINGTON, June 27—UP)—A tremendous further expansion in aerial striking power of the Army appeared assured of congressional approval today when the Senate Appropriations committee unani mously endorsed a $42,820,000,000 military supply bill carrying funds for 23,550 new warplanes. The committee action placed be fore the senate Monday a house approved measure making avail able to the Army sufficient money to complete its full quota in Presi dent Roosevelt’s program for the construction of 185,000 military planes this year and next. The speedy endorsement of the Army bill followed senate action yesterday in passing and sending to the White House an $8,500,000, 000 naval expansion measure au thorizing the construction of 500, 000 tons of aircraft carriers along with 1,400,000 tons of other war ships. -V Ramon Castillo Becomes President Of Argentina BUENOS AIRES, June 27—UP)— Ramon S. Castillo, whose policy of prudent neutrality has made Argentina one of the two South American nations still officially friendly with the Axis, became president of this South American republic today when the national congress accepted the resignation of ailing President Roberto M. Or tiz. Castillo has been acting presi dent since 1940 when Ortiz went Into retirement because of failing eyesight and diabetes. The congress’ action was unani mous and followed speeches in Which tribute was paid by rep resentatives and senators to the retiring executive. A U-BOAT: GOING... GOING... GONE The graphic battle photos, above, packed with action and drama, show a German submarine being smashed and s,unk in an air attack. Top photo: A shattering explosion throws a pillar ot' water as an R.A.F. Whitley bomber, pulling out of a dive, drops a depth charge over a ll-boat seen lurking under the sur face. Then . . . (middle photo) amid swirling froth only two minutes later, the broken submarine pops to the top with its air escaping through the ruptured hull. Bottom photo: A great, widening patch of foam a ml fuel oil mark the spot as the sub sinks to the ocean floor. Eisenhower Just Texas Boy Who ‘Makes Good’ By FRANK I. WELLER. WASHINGTON, June 27—(Wide World)—“Mamie” (that’s the name of a sensible lassie who is the wife of the man who may become the “General Pershing” of World War No. 2)—says her “Old Man” is somewhat of a card. She is talking about Maj. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, one of the Army’s chief strategists now in London to set up a U. S. general headquarters for possible assault against the Nazi-held European continent. There has been a lot of surmise around here that Gen. George C. Marshall, who a few days ago de clared Europe an active combat area for American troops and sent Eisenhow'er over there to get the situation well in hand, intends per sonally to lead a “second front” attack. If not. the bets are all on Eisenhower. Jimmie lays her dough rides with "Ike,”—the E'senhower fam ily nickname for aii the boy kids. They call the general “Ugly Ike” to distinguish him from his broth ers “Red Ike,” the carrot-top, and “Little Ike.' Dwight now is al most bald. He is 5-feet-10 tall and weighs 175 pounds full of food. His wife says he will eat anything, and she likes to cook his m?als because he never complains even when she scorches ham and cabbage. Most of their married life he has been too busy with Army work to pay any attention to what was on the tabie anyway. Between times at his desk or the table, Mamie says, he planked his slender frame in an easy chair with what seemed to her to be very heavy reading. Once in a while she caught him with a pulp magazine of western stories sandwiched between the pages of some noble tome. He’d grin and say he wished he could write the derned stuff, too. You see, Eisenhower is a Tyler, Texas, lad who lived his early life in the wooly parts of Kansas. He was galloping around on a horse the first day Mamie met him in San Antonio. He was just fresh out of West Point, back in 1915, and a dashing second lieutenant of infantry. * The general plays an indifferent game of golf, “beautiful bridge, ’ and will even run a foot race or broad jump if anyone dares him. He is smooth-shaved, has a bari tone voice and a pleasant, mobile countenance that can be stern, thoughtful, or reflect fun and frolic as the occasion dictates. He dresses extremely well, whether in uniform or civvies, but no one would dare say he was a flop or a dandy. Maybe it’s this calm, tough-fib red soldier business about him that causes his son John, only this year a “plebe” at West Point, to think his pappy could win the war all by himself. When John heard the general was headed for England he got leave from school and came down here for farewells and to absorb a little parental wisdom Mamie says it was quite a parting —two strong men, father and son— calmly shaking hands, a final toast to the success of American arms, and the boy s snappy salute to his father before he about-faced and marched off to wars that one day may be his to fight. What does Mamie do while her men follow the flag? Well, she works alternately in a couple of downtown Washington canteens serving sailors, soldiers and Ma rines. There the women wear no uniforms, and they wait tables and wash dishes—their husbands’ mili tary rank unknown to the hundreds of boys who come in for a free meal if they have no money to buy it. Mamie says that down there Kipling would have found “the col onel’s lady and Judy O’Grady’ sisters in fact—wrestling with dish pans. She is happy at her work and says the general is mighty proud she is doing it. So is son John. one says she feels she has a war job here, and wants none of the Army social life in Europe. “Ike" thinks the same way. Even when in Washington he cut out all social activity, came home to his dinner and went to bed at 9:30 p. m. “Ike never talked about the war,” she adds, “sticking strictly to his theory that a man ought to leave his business at the office. We de cided a long time ago that it was bad business to talk military af fairs either between ourselves or our friends. I used to hear more at bridge parties or what was go ing on than Ike ever told me. On the few occasions I ask him about what I had heard he seemed start led and wanted to know, ‘where did you hear that kind of talk?’ ” The general is 51 years old, and is regarded as an outstanding Army officer because of his shrewd field tactics. General Marshall, Army chief of staff, took a shine to him when he served as chief of staff on General Walter Kruger's Third Army last summer in war games against Gen. Ben Lear’s highly mechanized Second Army operating in Texas and Louisiana Personally “Ike,” Eisenhowet never smelled the smoke of battle. During the last war he command ed a tank unit at Gettysburg—the lumbering old babies that could make about five miles an hour at top speed. He thinks right much of mechanized warfare, but he has yet to see it. He has a pilot’s license and operates his private airplane—but he is not an air combat officer. Fundamentally, he is an infantry man and for his money the infan try still is the best outfit in uni form. The general has the permament rank of a lieutenant colonel, but some folks in the War department believe he will be commissioned a lieutenant general or a full general if he is chosen to lead the Allied “second front’’ so desperately de mandJSl by the Russians. He was General Douglas MacAr thur's right hand man in Wash ington when the latter was Army chief of staff. From 1935 to 1940 MacArthUr had him in the Philip pines as assistant military advisor to the Commonwealth government. He is credited with having had a prominent part in planning the de fense of Bataan and Corregidor. When he returned from Manila he served successively with the Fifteenth Infantry at Fort Lewis, Washington, as chief of staff for the Third Division and then chief of staff for the Ninth Army. He was chief of staff of the Third Army before coming back to Wash ington. Eisenhower was named chief of the War plans division, War de partment general staff, in Febru ary, 1942, and in April of the same year became assistant chief of staff in charge of the operations division. He received the Distinguished Service Medal as commanding of ficer of the Tank Corps training center at Camp Colt, Gettysburg, Pa., in 1918 for “marked adminis trative ability in the organization, training and preparation for over seas duty of technical troops of the tank corps.” Eisenhower took top honors in the Army’s command and general staff school, the War college and the Army Industrial college. His first task in London will be to establish full collaboration between the American and British forces. You may get an idea of just how good he is in the fact that when he was only 28 he became a lieu tenant colonel just before the Ar mistice ended the former unpleas antness abroad. The general is considered an ex pert at logistics, which is the busi ness of transporting troops and supplies. There is no official' indi cation here that his presence in London indicates the imminent opening of a second front but if therd is one eventually those who know him well say that Eisenhower is a cinch to see to it that Ameri can armed forces invade the Con tinent in sufficient numbers and with enough material to stay put until the job is done. -V RAILS REMOVED RALEIGH, June 27.—(#)—G. W. Robertson, of the Bureau of In dustrial Conservation, announced today that WPA crews were re moving the rails of abandoned street car tracks in three Caro lina cities—Anderson, S. C., Green, ville, S. C., and Salisbury. The projects are expected to yield about 3,500 tons of metal. 2 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH By Billy DeBeck '■**'«*'* Y&W31K- ONE OF OUR SNUFF/- TH OL' MAN* Qk \ \ C. /Ve\0p/I T FERGflT -m TFI L VE' GEN'ftlD — \ -mi* I HEAR 1 MEN RECEIVED THE WANTS VOU TO BRaNG ) O HPE.. \ ABOUT A _/ANIMAL FROM A friend ™ RUBBlN' Hi* TAIL WIF VORE GLOVE* ON. / KANGAROO /T IN V VARMINT , »«** SET* a — /—-^ IN CAMP? // AUSTRALIA. __^sC]rf AWAy- /Vr^SV \ ™ VARVnNT / HIM DOWN OwJ, ^ ^TH^y^SAy^^^^/’ j|Jt ^ 'S—-^ Scrap Metal Salvage Drive Will Come Next By FRANK I. WELLER. WASHINGTON, June 27 — (Wide World)—The “metals for war” sit uation is acute, but if everyone co operates energetically enough, it may not become dangerous. This is the opinion of men who are devoting day and night to the roundup of waste supplies of steel, iron, copper, bronze, brass, alum inum, lead, nickel, zinc, tin and such like scrap. About July 15, they intend to call in supplies that have accumu lated in the junkyards and on the farms and in homes since the gov ernment’s request last December for everything that would make a ship, plane, tank or gun. They await only the end of the present, rubber salvage campaign to turn over organization, transportation and other facilities for an equally intense movement of metals to the mills. Lessing J. Rosenwald, WPB’s chief of industrial conservation, is placing emphasis on collection of iron and steel scrap. According to “iron age,” this country hopes to produce 87 million net tons of nev> steel this year compared with 82, 500.000 in 1941—and will need 57. 250.000 gross tons of scrap, or 2, 750.000 tons more than last year. But officials are just as eager to get every ounce of other junk metals. Last September the Army Quar termaster Corps began dickering to have bone buttons put on uni forms in the making, instead of brass and bronze. Officers are finding it* difficult, even now, to replace gleaming shoulder bars In the near future these may bs made of substitutes. There is talk of asking folks to turn in brass ash trays and other normally insignificant metal items which they can spare. Govern ment finally may require store stocks of non-essential aluminum and copper kitchen utensils. Charles H. McArthur, chief of the Industrial Salvage section of the Bureau of Industrial conserva tion, says a 10-million-ton stock pile of scrap will be necessary to keep steel production at its pres ent level through next winter. Others say that if “iron age” pro duction forecasts are to be met, at least 27 million of the prospective 87 million tons of new steel must be made from non-industrial scrap Industry estimates that 70 per cent of scrap heretofore used in steel was salvaged from industrial plant operations. At present, officials say, most junkyards are well filled — some even clogged compared with an almost barren condition reported last November by the Commerce department. Meantime, industry is turning 100 per cent ol its scrap right back into production. No one knows what to expect from home and farm collections. Normally they account for about 1 to 2 per cent of the national scrap output but the scrap metal drive may bring extraordinary results— just as the waste paper collection turned up one million tons more than expected. Surveys indicate that untold sup plies of iron and steel junk are ly ing around odd places which, until now, no one found incentive or profit in collecting. Every farm boy can tell of wornout grain bind ers, hayrakes or disc-harrows he trundled out to the back lot. More important in a larger sense, 1,000 firms in the automotive in dustry alone have volunteered to salvage obsolete machinery. This is in great quantity and of liign grade. WPB considers industry’s decis ion to scrap old but costly dies a real concession to the war eflort. For months industry insisted all other sources be tapped before call ing in these high-grade steel prod ucts. Now “self-determining’ committees will inventory the in dustry as final authority on ob solescent dies, but WPB anticipates highly important contributions to the- national stockpile of extra fine scrap. Furthermore, most industrial plants will have installed the "Eri Pa., system" by July 15 to insi^ 100 per cent salvage of their own waste metals under direction f individual piant salvage manager! Many of them will go further send ing agents into the field to h scrap direct from the source 1 ternational Harvester alone is ported to have salvaged 1,300 m tons in this manner since Decem. These agents have found ant„ mobile ‘‘graveyards" an extreri Iv prohfic source, yielding 383 tons of iron and steel in May coir, pared with a normal 150 000 month turned in willy-nilly when n* one cared much about it. Official were astounded at the amount if good material in these dumps Th government may requisition’ the stocks of any yard whose owner, don’t cooperate with the saiVa»! program. 6e A delicate threat to junk dealer, went out on June 4 when wpm suggested that if accumulated stocks in some yards did not an pear for sale pretty soon, it mi(,£ ask steel mills to buy scrap metal, elsewhere at government cedin' prices and prepare them for thf furnaces in their own yards. drowns MULLINS, S. C„ June 27-'* Clarence Woodrow Harreisor, or was drowned when he fell in't0 ’ well at his home two miles from here. The funeral will be held afternoon. ? ---2 YOUR VOTE FOR WATER RON ISSUE IS YOUR APPROVAL OF A GOVERNMENT GRANT OF 60% OF THE COST Here Is What You Get For The Water Bond. Issue. A complete new and adequate source of water supply. (*)\ Fresh soft water forever free from salt or sewage contamination ‘ from the upper or lower Cape Fear (0\ You get a dollar’s worth for 40c. Conservative calculation justifys \0/ the belief that no increase in the tax-rate will result because of .... this bond issue. On page 11 of William C. Olsen report March 12th, 1941, Mr. Olsen says: “It Is my recom mendation that for the development of a safe, permanent, satisfactory, and reliable raw water supply for the City of Wilmington ... the city utilize Cape Fear River as the source of such supply by extending a pipe line ... to a point on the up-stream side of King’s Bluff Dam at Lock No. 1 On page 11 Olsen report, Mr. Olsen says: “ • • • The Cape Fear River at a point immediately above King’s Bluff Dam Lock No. 1, represents a source . . . that will after being treated in a conventional water purification plant be entirely satisfactory from every standpoint for all domestic and industrial uses.” On page 3 of Malcolm Piernie report of January 19th, 1942, Mr. Piernie states, “Sanitary quality of the Cape Fear River water is entirely satisfactory for use ...” On page 4 of Malcolm Piernie report of January 19th, 1942, Mr. Piernie says, “To obtain for all time a fresh water supply ... it will be necessary to draw water from above the U. S. Lock and Dam No. 1 at King’s Bluff” Satisfactory Water Is Wilmington's Future Development Requisite The source of supply at King's Bluff is the permanent answer. VOTE FOR THE WATER HOMI ISSUE * This Advertisement and the Entire Water Bond Issue Approved By Greater Wilmington Chamber Of Commerce And Junior Chamber Of Commerce For The City of Wilmington A question and answer program concerning Wilmington's water supply will he conducted Tuesday night. 7:30 on Radio Station WMFD. Send your signed questions io Station WMFD by noon Monday.
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