SURPLUS TRUCKS
TO BE ALLOTTED
COLLEGE STATION, Raleigh,
June 24.—Where there is a threat
ened impairment of farm produc
tion, surplus Trucks will be allot
ted to growers, say extension of
ficials at State College.
The first such allocation has just
been announced for the peach
growers in the Spartanburg area
of South Carolina jointly by the
War Food Administration, the De
partment of Commerce, and the
Surplus Property Board.
The peach crop in this area is
estimated at five and one half
million bushels, twice last yePr s
production and about three times
the ten-year average.
Seventy-four trucks were allotted
to the peach growers, all except one
being one and one half ton trucks
with either stake, cargo, or plat
form type bodies. The farmers to
whom the trucks will go have been
certified by county committees of
the AAA and the WFA.
Certificates for the purchase of
the trucks will be issued by the
AAA on the basis of individual and
area need for transportation to con
serve food production. These certi
ficates may be issued either to
individual farmers or farmers co
operatives. . .
The procedure to be used is in
accordance with a regulation re
cently issued by the Surplus Pro
perty Board to channel badly need
ed farm equipment into rural
areas.
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Supplies Of Corn
For Livestock Feed
Is Assured By WFA
COLLEGE STATION, Raleigh,
June 24.—Supplies of corn for live
stock feeding and the manufacture
of war products have been assured
by a new WFA order restricting
the use of grain for alcohol or ex
port, Tom Scott, chairman of 2
State AAA Committee with head
quarters at State College, stated
Saturday.
“This does not apply to corn ac
quired under contract prior to June
11,” Scott declared.
The order, which diverts more
corn to livestock feed and to in
dustrial processors is expected
speed up the lagging corn-to-mar
ket movement. Corn supplies are
reported to be substantial and any
farmer who has corn which can
be sold is asked to sell now, thus
helping maintain production of
meat, milk and eggs, and other es
sential war products.
Scott said that, according to OPA
the present ceiling prices on corn
reflect parity to the farmer and
will not be increased. _
AIR CHIEF MEETS PRESS IN MANILA
.... .wAveMS
FIVE-STAR GENERAL H. H. ARNOLD (center), head of the U. S. Army Air
Forces, is shown as he discussed future air assaulte on Japan with war
correspondents at a news conference held at Ft. McKinley, Manila, in the
Philippines. U. S. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International Soundphoto)
Carolina Farm Comment
By F. H. JETER
I __
It has been my very good for
tune to have studied farming in
North Carolina for many years. I
have observed crops, good and
bad, on poor land and fertile land,
and I have visited farms in every
single county of the 100 of this
state. It is always interesting,
therefore, to go from one section
to another and to observe the de
cided difference in crops and in
farming methods.
The other afternoon I had the
privilege of visiting in the Kenly
section of upper Johnston County.
From Smithfield to Kenly is one
of the rich crop sections of eastern
North Carolina, and while the to
bacco there is “buttoning” a little
low. due to the season, I have
never seen better prospects for
crops in all this territory. The
Kenly business men have just or
ganized a civic club and they tell
me that one of their main objec
tives will be to help build up the
agricultural prosperity of that
section.
The president of the new club
called upon the members for sug
gestions as to what activity would
serve the best interests of the com
munity and it was interesting to
note that the promotion of good
farming and rural welfare ranked
first among the answers.
Two afternoons later, I visited
Greene County at the invitation of
Mrs. Nell Butler, home agent, to
attend a meeting of the County
Council of home demonstration
clubs held in the courthouse at
Snow Hill. As was the case of the
trip from Smithfield to Kenly, so
is the drive northeastward from
Goldsboro to Snow Hill. It goes
through one of North Carolina’s
garden spots. Fine corn, promis
ing tobacco, lots of soybeans,
much of which is inter - planted
with the corn, fairly good cotton,
and gardens everywhere. It was
very hot that afternoon and as I
made my way to Snow Hill, I saw
stalwart young men, stripped to
the waist, cultivating the crops
The tobacco was being put up or
a ridge and, in many instances,
two-row riding cultivators were be
ing used with excellent effect. To
bacco in that territory is buttoning
low, in some fields, but the grow
ers said they could handle that al
right by topping the plants anc
picking out a good strong suckei
to carry the extra leaves desired
Jack Harrell, farm agent, saic
that 19,500 acres were planted tc
tobacco in Greene County last yeai
and that the crop averaged 1,201
pounds of cured leaf per acre
which, at an average of 40 cent:
a pound, means a little over nint
million dollars in tobacco income
That’s a nice bit of money for lh«
18,000 people in that county. How
ever, all the farm land in Green*
is owned by about 990 persons oi
families and of that number, a
least 100 live outside of the county
The people of Greene County ar*
beginning to give considerabl*
thought to their tenancy situatio*
and to their absentee landlords
They are beginning to wonder i
they have a healthy, farm condi
tion. As a matter of tact, that wa:
the subject for discussion befori
the meeting of the home demon
stration council and 1 have a feel
ing that the subject will be dis
cussed more and more in the dayi
to come.
Some good farming is being don<
in Greene by the Beaman Brother:
who live about four miles frorr
Snow Hill. We had time to visi
only two of the brothers and fount
C. J. Beaman busy in his largi
garden. He was bemoaning t h t
loss of some excellent strawberr;
plants, cabbage, and other vege
tables which were growing in tha
part of his garden next to a to
bacco barn that was struck bj
lightning the week before. Th<
barn was completely destroyed ii
the resulting fire, and Mr. Beamar
said if the wind had been blowinf
towards his home, the whole farm
stead would have been wiped out
Neighbors came to his rescue, how
ever, and a bucket brigade, aidec
by tin roofs on some of the adja
cent buildings, helped to save th<
proper ty.
Mr. Beaman has a typical east
ern Carolina farm. He owns 354
acres of land in his total farm
holdings and grows about 30 acres
of cotton, 75 acres of corn, 50 acres
of tobacco, and 20 acres of hay.
He also plants wheat and oats for
winter growth to be followed by
lespedeza or soybeans. The Bea
mans have a lovely home, well
shaded, and with flowers and
shrubs arranged in the yards.
He grows his own meat supply and
has a smoke house full of shoul
ders, side meat and hams. The
chicken yard and garden also sup
ply their share of quality food.
It was interesting to see the fine
collards now growing in Greene
gardens. Jack Harrell said this is
common to the county, although
over most of North Carolina col
lards are planted later in the
season.
Attesting to the fact that Greene
is one of North Carolina’s best crop
counties is the significant situation
existing there in regard to farm
lands. There is none for sale. One
look at the crops growing there
this year and the reason can easily
be understood.
Farmers there and elsewhere in
the state will be pleased to know
that Fred Sloan, in charge of the
emergency labor program for the
Extension Service has arranged
for fifteen hundred Bahamians to
arrive in North Carolina between
June 20 and July 9 for harvesting
beans, peaches, and tobacco.
These workers from the West In
dies are being brought in by the
War Food Administration, and
were placed through the county
agents of the Extension Service.
Contracts for them have already
been made with farmers and no
additional Bahamians are expected
this season.
The first group of 320 workers
are supposed to have reached
Candor, Montgomery County, last
Wednesday, June 20, for the har
vesting of peaches. Another group
of 500 will go to a camp at Hender
sonville on July 1 and will pick
snap beans in that area.
In the tobacco counties, the Ba
hamians will work as “primers."
They will live in tenant houses,
with Government agencies furnisn
i ing cooking stoves, beds, and
i blankets and the farmers furnish
1 ing the other necessary equipment,
i The number of Bahamians con
i tracted for by growers in the var
; ious tobacco counties follow:
Robeson, 60; Duplin, 51; Wayne,
. 45; Onslow, 19; Edgecombe, 50;
: Harnett, 60; Sampson, 22; Pitt, 127;
1 Greene, 49; Lenoir, 74; Johnston,
■ 63; and Nash, 60. The workers
were allotted by committees of
■ farmers in the counties to the
i areas where they were most need
1 ed. As they complete their con
tracts in one area, they will be
i moved to other sections.
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The 10th Miami Fishing Tourna
ment is expected to have 250,000
i entries before it closes April 15.
YOUTH CONFESSES
SISTER'S MURDER
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 24
(U.R)—1Thirteen-year-old Earl Laurie
was charged with murder by po
lice today after he allegedly con
fessed to the “ice-box” sex-slaying
of his 6-year-old sister, Hazel
Thursday.
Chief Raymond P. Gallagher
said in a statement that the vic
tim’s brother Earl was charged
with murder and that two younger
brothers, Raymond, 12, and John
11, were held on open charges for
arraignment in District Court to
morrow.
“In a signed confession, Earl
acknowledges he had illicit rela
tions with his sister, Hazel, and
also with hit 9-year-old sister, Beu
lah,” Chief Gallagher reported.
“These illicit relations had been
going on over a period of at least
a year.”
Hazel’s brutally ravished body
was discovered entombed in an
unused icebox beneath a rear
porch Friday, a day after she had
been attacked in the cellar of her
home. Earl reputedly told police
that he slammed the icebox door
shut when he discovered his sister
curled inside it an hour and a half
after the attack. Little Hazel ap
parently suffocated slowly in her
makeshift tomb, for evidence re
vealed that she must have pound
ed desperately and vainly against
the metal door to free herself.
The boy allegedly told police
that he later joined in the search
for his sister, but was afraid to
go near the icebox. Hazel’s body
was found by Mrs. Mary Gilberti,
a tenant in the house where the
Lauries live.
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Figures Show Growth
Of Dairying In N. C.
RALEIGH, June 24. —<iP)— Re
iterating its belief that in a few
years dairying will be one of North
Carolina’s chief money industries,
the State Department of Agriculture
today released these figures on the
growth of the industry in the last
20 years.
Milk production itself has grown
from 1,100,000,000 pounds in 1925 to
1.540.000. 000 pounds in 1944. Pro
duction of creamery butter grew
from approximately 1,000,000
pounds in the same period to the
1.725.000 pounds reported produc
ed by 19 dairy products manufac
turers last year.
There were no sherbets produc
ed in the state 20 years ago, yet
1.000. 000 gallons were produced
last year. Reports from 52 manu
| facturers showed 9,382,000 gallons
of ice cream were produced for
wholesale and 527,000 gallons for
direct retail last year.
Cheese production 20 years ago
totalled 60,000 pounds. Last year
742.000 pounds were produced. Con
densed milk production totalled 6,
667.000 pounds and evaporated milk
, 27,000,000.
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Army DDT Insecticide
Is Tested By Experts
COLLEGE STATION, Raleigh,
June 24.—The wonder DDT insec
ticide, which is not yet on the mar
ket but which is being used by the
armed services and is being tested
by experts, has given exceptional
results in North Carolina, say ex
tension specialists at State College.
Poultry houses on one farm for
example, had been infested w^h
bedbugs for 17 years and thou
sands of dollars had been spent in
trying to rid the houses of the pest.
The owner was planning to sell
his chickens, burn his poultry hous
es, and go out of business.
After treatment with a five per
cent solution of DDT in kerosene,
no live bugs were found. A thorough
search at the end of two months
showed no bugs and DDT had won
the fight. The new insecticide has
also been found to be especially
useful in fighting flies, mosquitoes,
and cockroaches.
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Shortage Of Tobacco
Twine Threatens Area
COLLEGE STATION, Raleigh,
June 24.—Tobacco twine must be
conserved to avoid a shortage, says
Tom Scott, chairman, North Caro
lina State AAA Committee, with
headquarters at State College.
Scott points out that in 1944, the
cotton yarn industry produced 614,
000 pounds more tobacco twine than
the War Administration’s estimat
ed requirements of 1,586,000 pounds.
This year, however, with require
ments of 1,806,000 pounds, produc
, tion of only 1,860,000 pounds ,s
scheduled, which leaves a margin
[ of only 54,000 pounds.
TRUMAN AWARDS MEDAL TO HERO
the VACATIONING CHIEF EXECUTIVE Harry S. Truman takes time out to
pin the blue ribbon of the Congressional Medal of Honor around the
neck of Sgt. John D. Hawk, Bremerton, Wash., in a ceremony at Olympia,
Wash. Gov. Wallgren of Washington (right) looks on. (International)
TEBE SANFORD, JR.
LISTED AS DEAD
PM-2c Tebe DeWitt Sanford, Jr.,
son of Mrs. Tebe D. Sanfftrd, 605
South Third street, has been re
ported lost at sea while aboard a
Japanese vessel, on which he was
a prisoner of war. The ship was
sunk by an Allied submarine off
Shoonan, eastern coast of China,
October 24, 1944.
According to word received from
Commander H. B. Atkinson, of
ficer in charge, casuality section,
USNR, Sanford had been carried
on the official records of the Navy
Department as a prisoner of war
A full review of the evidence
pertaining to his status disclosed
that the ship on which he was
being transported by the enemy
had carried no marks to indicate
that it was transporting prisoners
of war.
A graduate of New Hanover
High school in 1939. he entered the
Navy in July, 1939, and under
went boot training at Norfolk, Va.
He is survived by his mother,
one sister, Miss Menola Sanford
and the maternal grandparents,
Capt. and Mrs. J. Sterling Single
tary.
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Person County Farmers
Hope For Corn Increases
ROXBORO, June 24.— Person
County farmers are making a real
effort to increase corn yields this
year at the suggestion of Dr. L. D.
Baver, director of the Agricultural
Experiment Station at State Col
lege. County Agent H. K. Sanders
reports that many growers are us
ing as much as 400 pounds of am
monium nitrate and 100 pounds
of muriate of potash per acre as
a topdressing. J. D. Winstead, Jr.,
has topdressed some corn with 750
pounds of nitrate of soda per acre.
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II Duce Tries Blackmail
Bat Adolf Hitler Balks
(Continued From Page Four)
struggle will be long, hard and
bloody for others. In this he sees
great advantage for us.”
AUG. 29—”11 Duce is nervous.
Certain articles in the British press
which speak of the necessity for
Italian neutrality have had a bad
effect on him . . . Halifax tele
phones that the Fuehrer has not
rejected the British proposals . . .
Attolico who has conferred with
Ribbentrop says more or less the
same ... I persuade 11 Duce to
send a telegram to Hitler to ad
vise him to follow the path of ne
gotiation.”
* * *
AUG. 30—“The situation is em
bittered again. The British answer
does not close the door, but it
does not, nor could it, give the
Germans all they ask . . . News
reaches us of general mobilization
in Warsaw, and it is not the kind
of news to quiet the nerves . . .
II Duce is convinced ‘that the in
vasion will occur tomorrow.’
‘‘The idea of forced neutral
ity weighs more and more upon
him. Being unable to wage
war, he makes all the neces
sary preparations so that in the
event of a peaceful solution he
can say that he might have
waged it. Calls to arms,
blackouts, requisitions, clos
ing of cafes and places of
amusement . . .
“1 urged Bocchini (chief of
Italian police) to send the true
reports to our chief. He is very
pessimistic. In the event of up
risings, the carabinier and police
men would join the people.”
SITUATION ‘DESPERATE’;
PEACE PROPOSAL FAILS
AUG. 31—1jAttolco telegraphs at
3 a. m. to say the situation is des
perate ... I call Halifax by phone
to tell him that II Duce can inter
vene with Hitler only if he brings
a fat offering, Danzig . . . Halifax
sends word that our proposal
about Danzig is impossible.
"As a last resort I see II Duce
again to propose a conference to
France and Great Britain for
Sept. 5 to review the clauses of
the Versailles’ treaty, which dis
turb the Italians . . . Halifax wel
comes it, reserving the right to
submit it to Chamberlain ... At
8:20 p. m. the telephone office in
forms us that London has cut its
communications with Italy.
“I inform II Duce. ‘This is
war,’ he says, ‘but tomorrow
we shall declare in the Grand
Council that we will not march.’
Tomorrow will be too late . . .
* * *
a uerman communication ar
rives from Berlin, listing all that
has happened in the last few days
. . . But discussion is supperfluous
Hitler’s program, announced to me
at the Berghof, is being executed
precisely, point by point . . . The
attack begins at 5:25 a. m.’’
MUSSOLINI MOVES
TO BREAK ALLIANCE
SEPT. 1—“II Duce is calm . . .
He telephones personally to Atfol
ico to send a telegram to Hitler
breaking the alliance terms . . .
At 3 p. m. the Council of Minis
ters meets. The agenda for non
intervention, drawn up by II Duce
himself, is approved . . . The
Poles are withdrawing every
where.’’
SEPT. 2—“Under pressure from
the French, we mention to Berlin
the possibility of a conference
. . . Hitler does not reject the
proposal entirely. I call the am
bassadors of France and England.
I telephone Halifax and Bonnet
French foreign minister) . . . One
condition is advanced, evacuation
of Polish territories occupied by
the Germans.
» » *
“It isn’t my business to give
Hitler advice that he would re
ject, perhaps contemptuously. 1
tell this to Halifax, to the two
ambassadors, to II Duce. Finally,
I telephone Berlin that unless the
Germans notify us to the contrary
we will let the conversations
lapse. The last note of hope has
“II Duce is convinced of the
necessity of neutrality, but he is
not at all happy . . . The Italian
people, however, are entirely
happy.”
« * *
SEPT. 3—“Bonnet has asked if
we would obtain at least symbol
ical withdrawal of German forces
from Poland ... I throw the pro
posal in the wastebasket ... At
11 o’clock news arrives that Great
Britain has declared war. France
does the same at 5.
“I don’t know how' the war
will unfold, but it will be long,
uncertain and relentless . . .
On his way to the front, Hitler
calls Attolico to the chancel
lory. ... He thinks he will
have Poland in four weeks,
and in another four will be
able to concentrate his forces
on the Western front.
“II Duce, who stlil prizes Ger
man friendship, was glad to hear
of Hitler’s gesture.”
(Tomorrow: Russ Intervention in
Poland Shocks Italy.)
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TAXPAYERS FORGET NAME
PROVIDENCE, R. I„ June 24.
—(U.R)—Internal Revenue Collector
Joseph V. Broderick reports that
100 persons a day mail their in
come-tax payments to his office
without indentifying themselves.
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