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CONGRESS GROUP TO PROBE COTTON WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—UP>— Cotton is in trouble, trouble so deep that a Congressional group to morrow is beginning a series o meetings to see if some solution ers believe cotton has no future £ least no future that can com pare with its past when it liter■ * ruled the fiber world. _ Competition from foreign cotton and from synthetic fibers produced at home is threatening to shove the king from his throne. That prospect prompted a spe eial House Agriculture subcommit tee headed by Rep. Pace (D-Ga.) and backed by cotton-state legisla tors in both the House and Senate, to organize the fact-finding session keginning tomorrow. Cotton farmers, ginners, ware housemen, crushers, vrierchants, bankers, railroad men and repre sentatives of State and Federal agencies are to attend. Several for t eign nations also have received State Department approval to send representatives to the sessions, which may last a week. “In other words,” Pace • said, “we intend to assemble in one meeting every interest and every group which handles cotton or de fends upon cotton for a livelihood, in the hope that as the result of such a meeting we can, through pur united efforts, find a sound and sensible program for the fu ture of cotton.” _ WATHA SOLDIER % CITED FOR ACTS ON WEST FRONT (Special to the Star) WITH THE EIGHTH INFAN TRY DIVISION IN FRANCE. Dec. 3.—Staff Sergeant Earl F. Padgett, of Watha, N. C., now serving with a medical detachment, somewhere on the Western Front, has recently been awarded the Bronze Star medal for heroic service in con nectionJfcwith military operations againstThe enemy in France. His citation reads: “While Pad gett was attending wounded at the aid station, the enemy laid down a: terrific artillery barrage, placing all in the station in grave danger. Without regard for his own safety, he carried four seriously wounded men to places of safety, and then returned in the face of enemy fire to continue treating other wounded men. His heroic devotion to duty is in accordance with the highest traditions of the military service.” Padgett entered the Army March 6, 1941, and was sent to Fort Bragg, N. C. Later he was as signed to the Medical detachment of the 121st Infantry and has been with it ever since. At present, his duties are that of a surgical tech nician. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Padgett, of Watha. JAPS NEED MUNITIONS Premier Warns That Situa tion Warrants No Optimism By The Associated Press Japanese munitions makers were warned today by Premier Kuniaki ] Roiso that the condition of the em-j pire’s fighting power, so far as war materials are concerned, does “not permit any optimism whatsoever.” Radio Tokyo, in a domestic broadcast picked up by the Federal Communications Commission, quot ed the head of the Nippon govern ment as saying that an increase in the materials with which to wage war is “the most urgent of our National policies today.” . The premier, addressing govern ment munitions superintendents, said “there should be no reason for pessimism so long as we fight with noble fighting tactics and put superior plans into action.” -V Ceremonies Planned By State Officials For Public Servants (Special to the Star) CHAPEL HILL, Dec. 3.—Gover nor-elect R. Gregg Cherry and Col cnel William T Joyner, chairman jf the State Board ol Elections, have joined with the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina is urging that ap propriate public ceremonies be held in county courthouses throughout the state at 10 a.m. tomorrow for formal installation of local and county officers elected in the recent general elections. The ceremonies were initiated by the Institute of Government in 1932, during the administration of Gov ernor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, and have been conducted each year since. -V BUT WAR BONDS AND STAMPS Win 4-H State Honors SUPERIOR records of achievement in 4-H activities have won 1944 State championship honors for four North Carolina club members. The winners, and brief outlines of their records, follow: Frances Cornwell (right), 16, of Shelby, receives an all-expense trip to the National 4-H Club Con gress, Chicago, Dec. 3-6, as a reward from Mont gomery Ward for her “all around achievements fn the National 4-H Girls’ Record Program. Dur ing 5 years as a 4-H’er, the girl planned and pre pared SO3 dishes, sewed and remodeled 33 gar ments, canned 514 quarts of foods, and made many home improvement articles, as well as completed 17 projects. She cultivated 1)4 acres of cotton, handled a baby beef, and raised 162 fowl, <*nd served as club president for 3 years. Her cash prizes on exhibits totaled $89.50. Betty Peek (right), 15, of Gneiss, is named State entrant to be considered for sectional-national hon ors in the Sears-Roebuck Foundation 4-H Victory Garden Activity, which include a trip to the Na tional 4-H Club Congress in Chicago, Dec. 3-6, and a $100 War Bond. She put in 19,250 square feet of garden and canned 852 quarts of foods. This year she raised 47 varieties of vegetables. During her 3 years of gardening she has earned $37.75 in cash prizes, which brought her total in come from the project to $477.11. Seven State co winners who also each receive $25 War Bonds are: Tessie Zimmerman, Burlington; Addie B. Parnell, Fayetteville; Ruth Whitfield, Garland; Martha Ruth Johnson, Kinston; Dolly Ann Hedgecock, High Point; Norma Jane Cumby, Winston-Salem, and John Smart, Jr., of Hayesville. William Waller (right), 19, of Durham, has been chosen to represent the State in the Firestone 4-H Soil Conservation Activity for consideration in the selection of sectional and national winners._ His soil conservation achievements include clipping a pasture on a 120-acre farm he has rented, spread ing manure and straw to mulch badly eroded spots in fields, and terracing hilly sections. The boy has worked out a crop rotation system for next year. He also helped other ''b members rake and prepare fields to prevent soil erosion. State co winners also will receive a $50 War Bond each. Betty Teal (right), 15, cf Wadesboro, is the State’s entrant for sectional-national honors in the William G. Mennen 4-H Farm Safety Activity. The girl’s achievements in safety work include picking up broken glass, collecting and destroying old bottles of poison, mending broken chairs, fixing frayed electric cords, putting butcher knives in a separate drawer, placing screen in front of fire place and numerous other safety measures Three State co-winners who also each receive a $-5 War Bond are: Emily Cashwell, Hope Mills; Jane Alexander, Gastonia, and Leon Roberts, Bahama. Nazi Royal Tiger Tank Rated Better Than U. S. WITH THE SECOND ARMOR ED DIVISION IN GERMANY, Nov. 28.—(Delayed)— UP) —Many GI’s and officers of this veteran division believe Germany's new “Royal” or “King” Tiger tank with its “Super 88” gun is the best tank in battle today. “Our Shermans are all right in their class, but they are out-class ed,” is the way the men put it. Next in the enemy’s armory they rank the regular Tiger and the Panther. Some believe the Panther is the best all-around tank of the bunch. At least 23 Royal Tigers have been knocked out on this front, but the men who did it say it is a question of a lucky shot or sim ply overwhelming them with oth er tanks or tank destroyers. The new Royal Tiger weighs between 67 and 72 tons, has a top speed of about 20 miles an hr»ir, and its six inches of armor in front will turn American 75 and 76-mm shells at ordinary dis tances. Armor on the side is two to three inches and on the back three to four inches thick. It has a new super velocity -1 88-mm. with a shell almost a foot longer than any previously used. Its velocity is higher than any thing the Americans are using against it. Smokeless powder makes it hard to detect. The new Tiger has a faster tur ret than the old hand-operated Tiger’s. It has 34inch wide treads, which spread the great weight over a larger area. Officers tell of seeing the tracks of the Tiger cross those of the Sherman on boggy fields and the Sherman’s sinking in six inches deeper. The barrel of the 88 is over 21 feet long. It is used chiefly in defensive positions and the Ger mans dig in around towns, keep the tank well camouflaged, and wait until the advancing Ameri cans are within 500 yards before opening up. The Tiger's most vulnerable place is on top, where there is only about a half inch of armor. A direct hit with a high explo sive shell knocks them out, but the chance of scoring such a hit on a moving tank with artillery is small. Carolina Farm Comment Spending a week visiting among :he farmers of Eastern Carolina eads one to the conclusion that here is a trend to better farmi ng methods throughout this terri :ory. Jones county, for instance s one of the smallest in the eastern :ection and is strictly agricultural, laving no town of any size within is borders, with Kinston pulling t one way and New Bern the oth ;r. Hogs and chickens are the two Eorms of livestock most popular nere although there are some ex cellent pastures on which graze fine nerds of beef animals. Little dairying is done exceDt Eor family cows. There are 1,500 farms which average only 32 acres each in size. In all, these farms furnish 48,000 acres of open crop land and of this area 25,000 acres are in corn. This will explain why the growers are interested in hogs as the principal form of livestock. T1 e finished animals are marketed Ihrough the fivc-county coopera tive association at New Bern and me growers say uns metnoa oi marketing has meant the best pos sible income from their animals. Jack Kelly, farm agent in Jones, believes that probably the best farmer in his county is John Wil liams Mills, a Negro, now advanc ed in years but who owns 700 acres of good land near Richlands with 300 acres open and in cultivation. Mills made $150 one season as a share cropper when he first began to farm. With this small sum, he began to farm on his own accounl and as a result of his experience, he says there is still an opportunity for any person, white or black, who has the will to work and knows bow to save and manage. Mills grows about, 100 acres of corn each year and for years, while he was paying for his land, he kept If brood sows. His corn was market ed through the pigs and he deyel oped quite a market in this Pied mont section of the State among those who wanted to buy a pig tc fatten for a home supply of meat, Jones county farmers go in foi sweet potatoes in a big way. George Jarvis, for Instance, grew 140 acre; of the sweets this year. He anc his associates have built a rnoderr storage house wdth a capacity o 30.000 bushels furnished with i 4 blower system that carries the heat evenly over the eight rooms into which the house is divided. Mr. Jarvis has been growing sweets for about 15 years with much of his operations down in Pamlico coun ty before moving to Jones three years ago. “We grow the Louisiana strain of Porto Rico potatoes and grow nothing but potatoes,” Mr. Jarvis said. “Our crop is fertilized with about 1.000 pounds per acre of a 3-3-9 fertilizer to which we add from 20 to 25 pounds of borax per acre to prevent growth cracks. We save seed enough to provide our own slips and sell seedstock all over this section.” In Carteret county, Raymond and George Ball furnish an excellent example of the progressive types of farming to be found in tha1 coastal county. When these twc men moved into the Newport sec tion many years ago, they cut their farm out of almost virgir timber. They had such a hard time getting a start and paying for their land that they have never yet seer fit to break up their partnership and all the land is owned jointly. They have one bank account and they cultivate 175 acres of as fer tile ground as can be found in the east. They are truck farmers and are rated as amcng the best in the section. Some years ago when the Progressive Farmer was hunting for Master Farm Families in the State, these two were nominated by their neighbors and won easily. --V Institute For Attorneys Will Be Held This Week (Special Us the Star) CHAPEL HILL, Dec. 3.— The 1944 Institute for City and County Attorneys in North Carolina will be conducted by the Institute ol Government at the University of North Carolina Friday and Satur day, according to an announcement by Albert Coates, director. Following registration at 2 p.m. Friday, the first joint session will get underway at 3 o’clock with, dis cussions of foreclosure of city and county taxes, legal problems in the construction, maintenance and op eration of municipal airports, and ; limitations upon the expenditure cf public funds NATION’S YOUTHS PLAN TO OBSERVE PEARL HARBOR DAY (Special to the Star) NEW YORK, Dec. 3^—More than a quarter of a million members of BoVs’ clubs of America will com memorate Pearl Harbor day Thursday, reaffirming the pledge to victory which has become an annual tradition during the war. The boys will join in a fervent vow to bend every effort toward serv ing their country and bringing the day of victory nearer. Since the United States entered World War II, Boys’ club members throughout the nation have done an outstanding job of collecting waste paper, salvaging metal and rub ber, and selling war bonds and stamps. They have helped to avoid food shortages by cultivating vic tory gardens and aiding farmers during summer vacations, and con tributed to the war effort in in numerable ways. -V RAF APPOINTMENTS Two High Ranking Officers Sent To Southeast Asia LONDON, Dec. 3.—(£>)—'The Air Ministry tonight announed the ap pointment of two veteran RAF leaders to command posts in Southeast Asia. Air Vice Marshal Leslie Norman Hollinghurst was promoted to act ing air marshal and appointed air officer commanding base air forces. Air Commodore Alfred C. H. Sharp was named acting air vice marshal and appointed in charge of administration of base air forces in the Southeast Asia com mand. Hollinghurst, until recently, was in command of an Allied Expedi tionary Air Force group. JJharp is a specialist in armament and gunnery. -V BUY MORE WAR BONDS LOCAL GI’S MEET ■ ON PARIS STREET (Special to the Star) WITH U.S. FORCES IN FRANCE, Dec. 3.—In a million persons who lined the Avenue Champs Elysees for the first Armistice Day parade held in the French capital in four years, two Tar Heels from Wil mington met each other. Sergeant Glenward Blomme, pub lic relations correspondent in the office of the Chief of Transporta tion and former tennis instructor for New Hanover county schools, recognized .his old pupil, Private Kitty Bass, of South lffth street, now a WAC assigned to SHAEF headquarters. Sgt. Blomme coached the net teams of New Hanover High school for 10 years, during which time they won several state and South ern championships. Pvt. Bass was a member of the tennis team from 1934 to 1937, and was captain of the team for two years. She was the North Carolina high school girls’ singles champion during her mem bership on Sgt. Blomme’s team. Before enlisting in the Army, Sgt. Elomme was sports editor for the Morning Star. His wife, Mrs. Bea trice Fullwood Blomme and daugh ter, Bebe, live at 2013 Perry ave nue. , . THERE IT GOES' TOO LATE NOW to take out fire insurance! Have you checked up ktely to see if your prop rty is fully covered b * de niable insurance? Drop in at the office, nd let us go over the mat er with you. 12 PRINCESS STREET ^GLENMORE DISTILLERIES COMPANY, Incorporated, LOUISVILLE, KY. firejEraiEiEJEraiEJEiEfirajaramzfajEiEfEfEiajEiHiafajEjEjEjErEiarejaml OUTBOARD MOTORS For commercial users only will be available in the .Iter part of December. Only orders with deposit can be accepted—state ment of eligibility required. | Limited quantity only being received Gray Gasoline Motors In Stock for - Commercial Users, Diesel Engines ! Are Available Now Orders for Chris-Craft Cruisers and Runabouts Being Taken for Post War Delivery BARBOUR BOAT WORKS New Bern, N. C. ,. 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