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Until n»s pit ill a tit] Dispatch THIRTY-FIRST YEAR LTHEE2a^)ciATEFn VRg3gF HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 2X, l!ij| ,u bu a hed ^ vk r^y^a^te rnoqn eIYE CENTS COPY Opening bales Of Tobacco Are Light j In East; Price High Crop LaJc There; German Prisoners To Furnish Labor i Ily The Associated Press) Wry light opening tobacco' sa,. were reported today on the p.i-i.Tii North Carolina New, Hright Holt, with the unofficial avi-rage fluctuating a little mi ll, r tii*' weighted average ceiling of ):!i ■, cents a pound. Wilson, the largest bright leaf market in the world, had only i 27.",.000 pi unds on its floors, its liphtt st opening in 2b years. The average for first sales was 11..'ll cent a pound, with quality bet ter than average. Wilson usu ally opens with two to three mil lion pounds ready for sale. 1. :.;.i offerings throughout the bolt v,ere attributed 1o the late crop and i vneral shortage of labor. Far , ■ ave not completed their ivr v, and some labor is being di vers d ■ , cotton picking. <; ;,isbor,>, with an opening aver age right on the ■■oiling, had offer ing oi good quality totaling 150. ■III lifts, about half of normal, f tins ■ seemed to be pleased, and thiT, .a re no tun ed tag-. ; ,. with 125.000 pounds on its I , . e iiisiderably less than normal . c; "ted its unofficial average a1 a. so i 12 eon Is. with some piles as much as 52 cents. A tl .a • tv oi uonedseript lessened the a\ e. age. \: Km.-ton, one of the largest mar ie: . the belt, prices ranged from .'ili to hi re t - on fair to shoddy leaf, j ",g were light, with the range ' ■ c iicst grade.- from -II to tii (II la i’ ■ paid on the first hour’s sale s' iiooi.y Mount averaged between 12 .ml it cents a pound. About a t;. i I of a million pounds were m : r sale, with .grades medium. .‘-".oilfield, m ;m area where the i: p more advanced, reported 70(1. teoi |, unds on its floors, and an un- | ■: , ,i average i l about 1t cents. Ai hid.(too pounds were on the' I, on opening day las* year.; </a 'y today was fair to good, with itc,' mostly 31 to 17 cents. ■ ■ ill", another large market. ' ; '<d its lightest opening in 20 v> with less than 500,000 pounds ile. The price range was from II ' to cents, with the bulk from 17 eents.l The official average speeded to range around the " Greenville usually sells than one million pounds on m m aig day. ingtnn’s offerings were com , ' "ly light, with 250.000 pounds v The average was 12 cents. tun G K It MAN PRISONERS TO 1111,1* HANDLK SALKS • igh, Aug. 2K (AP) Dr. .1 S I' ii, director ul the Stall' War 'i • I'.vcr Commission, was notiIicd i \ by th(» Fourth Servin' Ctmi I in Atlanta, that Hit) pris • u:• ul war will be sent to North C • • ma this week to relieve the labor shortage m the East r 1 ii.lina lobaeeo belt. T ■ . hundred of the prisoners will i'i 'id to Seymour .Johnson Field, F 1 i-d'oro. and the others will l>e st e iii'd at Camp Battle, New Bern. D v ill he used to move tubnec" warehouse floors through i c d •. 1 g plants to manufacturers. the request, made noro than a wee ago. and approved by the WMC, t '■■ ti"t been granted previously he r • 1 prisoners ol war were not n .''liable lor the work. Bulgarian Peace Feelers Put Out, Mr. Hull Asserts Washington. Aug. 28—(AP) — Secretary of State Hull reported Inlay that Bulgarian officials have hern in touch with Allied governments on the question of making an armistice. He said he , did not know whether American "Hicials had been among those contacted. In the face of Romania, which Ins already turned in German troops and declared its intention light on the Allied side. Hull siid that this government had l’“cn kept advised, mainly by Russian officials, of the progress i toward making armistice ar rangements. Questioned about London re ports that a Romanian armistice would he signed soon in Moscow, Hull said that the United States would probably he represented i,v both military and diplomatic officials. Romania, being in a Russian military sphere, is being handled primarily bv the Soviet Union, he added. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy to cloudy, with little temperature change to night; partly cloudy and war mer Tuesday. WPB Acting Head I 1 IT. COMDR. JULIUS A. KRUG, U.S.N., is announced in Washington as act- I ing chairman ol the War IVodue- ( tinn Board, to serve while Chair- t man Nelson is absent on the mis- c sion to Chungking. The 37-year old na\ al oflicer has been a ranking 1 vice-chairman. f International) ] , t Paris Gets New French 1 Government Pai;.. Aug \r, a ik-v. | French governineut wn. being rt ip in liberated Paris today ,.iier a pen- * zied week-end in which General Fa - 1 enhower vjr en a t.umollunus 1 1 welt .me, tlie Gormans bomb'-d the j city and General I)>- Gaulle escaped death or injury I r- an aiipei bullets. | i The Pa11 radio, in a bp ad. a..I heard in London, said the rity -w. - j quiet today and tint two arldli "I d I ne.-ls f enemy ic.i ..'iiii'c had be--n | mopped up i Nearly ail ol Ihe director, ol Hie French re i.-tunce niov'einenl 'in will 1 have prominent part in the new g.-\- > rnments were in the city Ti e Algier govern)- cut wiis cn r nit I t^uarln. Cera!, head o| ;,d Kronen I1 resist anei. was appointed n mistei at it large under l)e Gaulle Cl a‘ nan.e, t like -onie other,, in tiw re i t.nco I IIP i\ el nen l, i - an a n.. on- II I \ \\ i(1 c -()pcu I i<41 n ; Aw aits in I louse ()n Reeon\ crsion ' W; i111 n g I o n. Aug (AIM A j r froe-l’ni -all Him;:<• .crap m ci (lern'i bili/.alimi arc! irrunverunii log:.-,lat i"ti | was assured Inrlay by a rules com - • I mil too decision I" peruut everv i,p- I port unity to amend the legislation | nn the I ln"i-. Kepi r-.ent.it i\ e (.Viler. Me\> York rk I)i1111 "Tut, t'lid the i do group that a hi part i.'.'a n blur v - nil rl ol I or a .-nil-■! 111;11• mil pr>■] •• -sing unemploy ment cnmpeiisat li n I’m nil it:; . In a maximum n't $2$ weekly, and a I boost m veterans benefits limn $2(1 to $:ia weekly. The bill spoils''red by the ways and means eommiltee in debate begin ning tomorrow i ij>t nut sections ot the Senate-approved measure pro viding a program of roliaining and ' reemployment It r war workers and ‘ extension of jobless coverage to Fed- j oral employes. I The companion measure providing 1 for the disposition of surplus prop- 1 erty was criticized by government agencies. |. Hillman In Denial Made ( To Committee; i Washington. Aug. 2k (AIM - Sid- J nev Hillman told House im <” t igators today his CIO Political Action Com mittee is obeying the law in he ho ( campaign, "doesn’t wish to capture i any party, but proposes to ' get out the vote.” because it has faith m the judgment of most Americans. The head ol the CIO-.IAC, testify ing before the Anderson committee, st up to investigae 1944 campaign < expenses and practices, asserted: "We are not an appendage of either t major political party, nor have we any desire to capture either party. - We seek to influence thinking, the program and choice of candidates. -We know that when enough An-- ’ ericans vote, they will vote right; tl-.at their collective judgmen will ; prove to be a sound judgment. t REDS AT BORDER OF HUNGARY ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ AMERICANS GAIN TEN MILES Nazis Yield With Little Resistance For* of Le Havre Virtually Doomed By Allied Advance Suprcnv i f<‘a<i<)m;ti-1(■ i . Allied Expeditionary Force, Aug. 2S AF) —American third army anks, in a ten mile advance, aptureil .Mequx, in the .Marne iver loop, 22 miles east of Pa is, today. and raced up the his uric river, which the derma.is rare yielding without a tight. The whole attack today was winging north on or across the ■cine river along almost the ■ hole 200 miles from its source 0 the sea. Fclwccn Paris and the F.ng lish rhanni'l. Americans. Uritish and Canadian armies threw fnur In idgelieads ov er lh" Seine, and Ironi I’oucn. which now is the center ol tin man resistance, such as it is. The A1111 ■- also virtually doomed hr great port ol Le Havre, aril have pened lhe way into the Germans’ j lying bomb bell farther north. I idled States third army in laiitry was stream into the great lodge between the Seine and the Marne, forming a consolidated front 85 miles or more almost due east of Paris in a great are around the now virtually cleared French capital. The ••• three ae'e. itw-oi e heirg onducled by the Allies between Pans nd tile sea. I. The Bntifi v.-ere bullrling up a 'tidgeliead at Vernon. 5.5 air line dies from flie mouth ol Ihe Seine, 1 li'ike out probably in the direc ion of Pwate ns. winch is one of he main German ietreat lines from louen if Can a I m I’.rliii.in and I hi I ch r< ops were engaged in what one hserver called a fair sized slaiigh ■1 r ol tiio men y si" entli army (.a arlian Hoop, were Ineked with Grr ian rear go ad at the .uilliweskTii pproaehe h. i: oi-ii 5. A menci n troop., wci e idea ring ill Ci<• i 111:in ':i agglei . in the Ti lde ari a bet •■ ■■■ n Mantes and Pari:-;. Pans il elf. where General Kisen iiwct was a Sunday visitor, had ecu cleared oi die enemy except nr Gticnnan and Fascist French sm 'Ci'S. Warns About Oaks Secrecy Washington, Aug. 2ft -(AP) -Sen- ' tor Bridge.-., .WHampshire Repub (an, caul mied ,11 the Senate today i gainst tlm -orrery imposed on the Jum'oai ton (Jails security eonl'ererce nd said ( ongress would "not stand ■>r the riouble talk" surrounding ; Init.cd Stales proposals for an intcr atimal peace organization. From wliat has been learned of lie United States proposal, he said, projected assembly representing all aliens "will be a debating society, .dill nr power save to discuss and dvicc," and "all power will be in he council which will lie in the I ands of the lug four." Under it, he continued, the United Hates. Great Britain, Russian and Ihina will have permanent members n the council, while all the other ations will have only seven "and he big four will have a veto on nything proposed, and will have in ts possession whatever force is ap horized to enforce the decrees of the vague." Bridges’ speech came alter Senator ledge. Georgia Democrat, had sug ;estcd that general sessions of the .Jiimbnrlon Oaks conference lie open o the press. AM) THAT’S THAT Camp Bejeune, Aug. 2fi.—"I lie an nlisted man" inquired the Camp Le eune operator, picking up a long lislanee call to a marine at this base. “.IHit a minute and I’ll find out,” aid the long-distance operator. She roH^-ned in a minute. "No, he’s not. His mother says ho vas drafted ” PS. "It really happened,” says nvitchboard operator Cpl. Lura D. . iiiiett. marine, j Soviets In Thirty Miles Of Budapest Disorganized Nazis Bombed and Strafed By Day and Night London. .Aug. 12s (AP) Russian troops ha\<• reached tha Hungarian border, tin- (.leini.ui radio ns-erted Tonight. .Moscow. .Aug. 12 S (AP) Two great Russian army groups, paced by colorful Cossacks, ad vanced within less than bU miL of Bucharest today in a dri\e swiftly o\errunning the weal thy 1‘loesti oil region. .'.n unconfirmed icp r' i i line col1.inns iiii'1 pi . lc : ,11. :iliy mn"., :nl( Tnm.sy.'.'iin..' Tlic !fi.fii!i not lie u ; w! Inn of 'l l i:. ■ yiv .him '"Jl in', .iv 11 ’11 Rumania inii ,ix>. arde.d ti 11. imei y iv H .' i■ . l!i" into Y - enna die! Ur Yet there were no i" p.irt. 1.i Hung- mn • lighting a!"' j -.uli ■ lip' Git: : a i; i in 1 ini I arc i i 7 he f ie man onii ..nnnirjue . 1 7 ’ cnunlei Utacli... by Hungarian -nd l Gem an 1 ■ • >je- in prevent the enemy fi " i enter'! g 11 inga: v lyii i • ea -I'' n <' u pale ,.m- a i" nuking ;— ! head "av H :... lan attacks at 'he edge 111 7'ran: y]•, ania x'. '-n. vepnr' ■'! fnderl. Till' UlTHUII:- -aid the 1! I ... ,iaii.. i mutinied then big .11 cv. ' ! • I ■> ( "li W.us.aw .inri K..;.1 Pruss ... ■ ihe r"gion between the \’i •'nia 7 i 7 I ie in. i ai i....! an d 11 "• 't 1"M I t.'n ii ani.i wa Inward Bnrh.n " t. bn! nu merous ' ' 1-.mn • weed nil 'he l!u — "HI light I la nix mtn tl' ■ ( .up St i. >ng air I■1; e ■.■ > 1 • ■ iim ■, ”7 .(rating t'-e rl 1 s 1 .rgam. -d (i r ■ an . day md night. I 1 .t 1 1 ptured < , , i‘ m ■ defenses 1 'in- gap be ' ". ! 1 : " HI • 11»-, 111 and I lie 1 1 lO li' .Ulh. advanced lx 1: .0 1,1 te.' pa . pi. er) duv " tiie highway tnv ■ d I’,in 1, " a on Iil> to ,x.,vd it. 1 rag 00 n 1 1 h i ; no I1 Igai 1 an t i on' ici . Ki" ill d palettes aid Y../i -*>'i"" ',c.'i i ingoing .lid threatening I re .. , 1 . u effn 1 . '" i" oi > 1 'ai" 1 I"1.". \< .. - spin (flic rc 1 : Vinci', no' ■ >cc ml and 111 .it 1" o:in mv 1 'ti- appeared t .■ no 1"o,,. 1 1 he Nan mi ce, before It whore: : BILL, WOULD INCLUDE MARITIME AND WACS Washington. \ug. IK—( W‘i — Itrlicfits of the "<■ I Hill of Itigiits" would In* evteilded to members ol the merchant marine and the Women's \a\iliary \r mv Corps under a hill introduced today by Senator Thomas. I tali Democrat. The W VAt was a predecessor of the W \C and was not actually a pari ol the army I'll" Thomas hill would evleu 1 henelits to those memhers of Ihe W \ \C who were discharged for disabil ity . [hunk, when u rnluam fora Grnei d Patch's advancing ar v ! 111 upon 11tem and in a series of nn,,:h en , eininters killed unfold hundiuds. It was estin a tod 13,000 ol t e bat tered Get man liHh army lime been eliminated. This detc.ited Gc 'em i, roe included elemctils "1 ‘he Gor :• an eleventh panzer and 198 n an trv divisieiis, which liave been rom fm ei'd hv scattered eletlleilts nt 1; i ee i it lit r enemy .ninntry di\ : ; . PARISIANS CHEER LIBERATION OF CAPITAL II u lid reds of Parisians line one rf (he French capital's lour boulevards to cheer wildly the new s that patriots had captured the city from the Nazis. Men, women and children turned out to celebrate the liberation, w liicli was won by a serirs of hatties within the between man armed forces and members of the i rencli Forces of the Interior. Official l\ S. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International Soundpnolo; Nazis Struggle To Escape Trap In The Rhone Valley Half of Germans Killed, Wounded or Taken Prisoners A if. its i A i') M’-I ■ than half 1 >1 nil (iennan ■ 'Idi> r garrisoning .-unitIn rn 1' ranee prim- tut hi- Allied landing-, an I .el ie Ved In have 1 iretl killed, -.'.'iintided nr eapi nred in k- - ■ than Iwn weeks, and 1 inlay the tattered remitttnts were lighting a pocket I tattle in t Ie- Rhode val lev 111 eseape a trap. Amen, a:i 11 • -ps 1 -.i'. <- i,- ,, -lied be' Rhone ,Pry oo lh M■ mti In H ■ | mi ,n Inn- iv.i le.s i o a", h ■ ,1 AT, - st-ilie, al't.el ' (lays, and have - it "I I the tin, ,! n-ii cal oi 111 - hi «-)••'. •'til a m i i red division atm ■ 111■ ■ i I, - • the . ,ml!i, Held d p itche i ..to- I today. \t |ca -i "ill,oill) '-,,, , 11 -'id tin" ■ , -, i im a!, -1 - ■, 1: ■ , ■ In as i hnoc-.s- d " ' : ■' - ■ ' 1 ’ - 'I:,- 111 ,-asio!! ■ 1 - aide 1 :, F. nice 1 . dale. The < i(- 111.,11 ■ !■ . w I- ’ll w I ijcnig pn-s Cl.1 ’ - i'll in -’die, A eei can anit>, disi VV : being ha.; -s-.-d :>> Mapuis m the Ihe rest, nd t p by Al lied artillery file n--m 'be e.ist. The Gen. I- • weir , a t ere cffurt 111 eut a way t.-uo'f:: t ' Val ence. r’a mihs ti'-rih ol M -ntelinia.-. . - . ■ , i i. but t - - Ami . - si re con: iiif-nt of their aniluy b> oru-h the bre.miiui attempi. The Germans Wore i -u!r-oiteil by * i• . ddn mna! i on,a, - ■ 1, ,, |,li ce" -the inobde r -111- ■ :i con - m aided tiy lti fiK.a-- Genera! Fied et-ii .. Bntlci. w hum >e - rai day.- ag, reached Grenoble, 70 -nilt-s i rtheasl ol Montelimar, an t wl -e - nv’be hiivc n->t been reported siree. The Gemiaus wi-:v alionipHng t uilhdnw northward t: gb du Rhi.n.. -.alley along die :\ e; V cast Peace Prospects Inspire Of Wage Controls I a!ior ) .railers May Have to Backtrack On Steel Formula V. . ling.K n \ g 2:1! (AP) : " ■ • .1 .' il l\ pCaCC in I' II ", • • • g. r. i rntneiit ■ i i re 11 l •. ago c litruls 1 orl.iy. o' d a i .! agreed that labor gah may i mil it expedient . ■ tola ,:..i tlii,i rampaign to break the little :1 eel 1". mlda. 'll:- nil icials feel that 11 a ■ : ..it -I to many u id throw wage stabdi :11 i a a! la mir iidn an cut irely i. - v 1)1 \V i; Lainn I’.imi d deal ami: ..i, . y .go rases are hardly likely lie: i e i leh .'ner Kuropean viet my bei. tlmn. Pillowed by eptnack ' ai:ii a ' .M. labor market, minviv abjv migl'.t wash out these case.-, )f\a n :h "gli a would create a host oil new !»»*• 'oleins. I'lie W 1.15 has begun cnnver.-.ati"' s with a a.w I ' preparing fm- such an la’paei Under enftsirierati' r. is i pi. p ... i that the President rmm vene It*'* a'.dustr.v-labm' coni'ei ''mg aii.ediately upon tiro fall oi Gel - i-any Tins conference would al i in|>t in work cut a new basis <>: ;nd i.-lria! peace ti carry lip. iiatm ihrn ,ga the Pacific war and the cn tii'o reo inversion. Tin- possible alternative, some of nei.fi- -ay. are wage ei:‘wide spread strikes and collapse "f the \\ i... if.i Board by the withdraw,d cl {- 'her aidasiry or labor. ()u iilts ()t I ,ake | ,vi "h. 1 " a age ei um ly u peri or c mil j olet k, aid a suit had been instituted by Ki Iv. end, Inc., opera I m s ol ila.t I u" » ,1 1 .aim. near Uhapel Hill. ae.dnst Ic iv. .a I .1 Mart in for SJa.Oi'o Lynch aid that the suit alleg' d :I *1 I publiei'.v arising from the finding m • ihe in id y a Marlin' grand).either, Mr.-. Kdward M .Jewett, in the i.,ke 'last May, ''damaged the plaintiff-' wiiiiinln:t. boating and lishing busi • • . ii r 1D44 and future seasons.'' Martin is in jail here awaiting 'rail in connection with Mrs. Jewett's death H has not been decided wheth er Marlin will be tried here or in B."'i-evillc. Mo, Mrs. Jewett's former nonv Big Three To Agree About Police Force \\ a sli i ng i on. Aug. 1 K l,A3*i Soviet, \ mr i i. a it and Itritish delegates In tin Dumbarton Oaks seeuiiti ruiil* roller worked In day lii’aar.l agreement—pussibli a (hrer-y a\ eninpriniiisc—an tli“ most effective will to organi/e a force lor oppressing future ag gressor nations. A . ili: in 1.1. ir pro I nil inai y I a Ik. vent r ' ■ Ilinii op>nd week, d A i - earned tin.' 1 v. • • prnie.pal ideas iiave icon de> thus lor. ()ne i.. a Jussian I>1 "I, :I I"r .',n inlernatimia 1 ur ci:r|in '1 iw Hu, ian delogali'm s undoi . In. 1 in a l.i lie irrevocably ommilteil 1- eat ien of sill'll 1 •orps. hut a i ■ barking n strongly n the : run. ent that it would pr - • jtie a nvrly a nans ol striki' g in any iart ol Hie v, rid where trouble .hreateiH’i i. Plan , in* discussed whe. •• ';ii'Ii nation 1 old eomniit par'- < . ts naval and a:i loree.- in eoiiipllance with the in:i"i national seeuriiy nr ganizalion. an i at the direction "I the national w oumwl. This Aniei i plan , uililei to id to be tied in .• iih a general p ineipal I hat developr • nl of Ihe intern: lion -I urgani/a ton ran be-t be cffrcH'd along line., regoinal responsibility for keepr g Hi, peace By this plan, each country agreeing In use Pare when railed n|" n would expect to do so primal v ill lil.al part of 111"' world in wliieli its major national interests be. Tiler,, lias .la, been some talk of organizing r" si I international bo dies. sul'i rdinaP' to the world secur ity agency, vhich would function somewhat m I In* manner of the Pan American Union in this hemisphere. So far there .s understood to have been agreements on views among the three dele”: i s on the need for forces to be available h r international po lice work in such strength that no ♦hreatenin” aggressor would be able to match them. Bombers Hit Rocket Ramp For New V-12 Secret Plane I ,c n n I' Hi. \ Ig 'AIM I! A !• 1,.ii11i - and Halil txr .. with I , t or escort , attaeki d a emir ■ ■ 1 «_• ht tiire in o.o Frem-h itt.! rotor late yesh"da\ hel.eved to hr ein-, nccted with the Nazi.- -'••■ret I mg range roeket, the air ministry ati nouneed t idav. The Berlin radio reported Allied | bombers blasted again today at Nazi , Europe from Britain and Italv, strik , :tig in Germany. Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia Hast night RAK M<> r at or ..t . fieri at the Rhineland inn ..trial ri ii'it >f Mannheim and attacked ('. mail i ransport - m the 1 ,ovv C milt ra il e ' V v hfjmbers. •.vliicl havi !(»’’ n 11.500 sorties in large scale a. mil. 1 lmm P.ritish and Italian ha c- n i'ne past fm r days, were apparently idle i overnight, but the fast Mo-'|intoes -truck into Holland, bombing and strafing motor convoys and I rges, while others slashed at Mannheua i
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