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Tobacco Average Slightly
Higher Than Last Year
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Average Estimated At
Around $17 a Hundred;
Purchase Program Is
Offered American Ex
porters as Well as For?
eign Owned Companies
1 A check up of sales on some of the
Georgia and Florida bright leaf to
bacco markets early Thursday morn
ing showed an average of around 17c
a pound was being paid for the first
offerings, with tops bringing $27 to
$28 a hundred.
A wire from H. R. Acton at Live
Oak, Fla., stated first row sold at
an average of $16.75, with 27c as
top price.
From Adel, Ga., comes a message
from Bob Edmonson saying an aver
age of $17.00 waa paid for the first
six rows. The highest price paid was
$28 a hundred.
About 250,000 Southern farmers,
with an investment in cash and sev
eral months of labor at stake, awaited
the opening of the Georgia-Florida
tobacco markets to tell the story of
profits or losses ahead of them this
season.
They looked to the first sales as a
fair guide to prices to bd expected
when the season advances and the
buyers move into the Carolinas and
Virginia, states producing the bulk
of the cigarette type leaf.
Growers hauled the newly-cured
yellow leaves of tobacco to ware
houses in 17 market towens, where
auctions began Thursday morning.
Two are in Florida, at Lake City and
Live Oak, where tobacco lately was
developed as an important crop.
The others are in Georgia at Adel,
Baxley, Blackshear, Douglas, Ha
hira, Hazlehurst, Metter, Moultrie,
Nashville, Pelham, Statesboro, Tif
ton Valdosta, Cidalia and Way
cross.
Producers were delighted with the
appearance of Imperial Tobacco Com
pany buyers on the various markets,
which is a sign that the large por
~ tion of the crop usually sold to Great
Britain would be reserved for possi
ble future export.
There seemed to be general agree
ment as to the good quality of the
crop this year.
Uncle Sam Again Helps.
A Commedity Credit Corporation
loan-and-purchase program on flue
cured tobacco * designed to stabilize
the market for the 1940 crop and to
assist in the fianncing of tobacco for
export to European countries now out
of the market because of war, was
announced by the Department of
Agriculture.
The program provides the flue
cured producers in the United States
with an average price equal to or
slightly above last year's price" level,
about 15 cents a pound, the depart
ment said. This plan is similar to
that used after markets were reopen
ed last year when, in order to main
tain prices to producers, companies
acting as agents for the Commodity
Credit Corporation were authorized
to buy tobacco for the British mar
ket.
Program Expanded.
The 1940 program is applicable
not only to foreign-controlled firms
buying largely for Great Britain
but also to tobacco companies of the
. United States which buy for export
to countries whose purchases are
now interrupted by the war in Eu
rope. The foreign-controlled com
panies are eligible only for the
purchase phase of the program.
American companies may either
purchase the tobacco as agents for
the Commodity Credit Corporation
or buy the tobacco at the auctions,
move i{ into stroage and then pro
cure a loan from the corporation.
BUDGET OF COUNTY
HAS BEEN ADOPTED
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Greenville, Aug. 6th.?The County
budget filing for a 70-cent tax rate
was formally adopted by the Pitt
County Beard of Commissioners in
repular monthly session Monday.
The budget was adopted in virtu
al} the same form as tentatively
passed at the July meeting.
Adoption of the budget was the
principal business of the session, at
which various routine matters were
\ taken up and reports of the several
departmental heads read.
E. W. Braxton, ehazgad with the
county's campaign to see that un
listed automobiles are placed on the
taa books, reported that 390 letter*
bee* sent to persona believed fa
own automobiles not on the tax books
He report ritowed that as a result od
the campaign J1S cars, valued a)
$50,094.00 had been pieced on tiu
books. Ii also disclosed that 68 let
ten bad notbeen-delivered and thai
106 bed boon delivered but no rsfli
received. Mr. Brvxton waa mstructa
to continue his campaign and es
pedally "go after" the individual
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City Cafe HbMs
ftecepitmTMlgtit
Building Has 3mt Been
"Remodeled and Redec
orated; Public Invited
To Opening Tonight
The CITY CAFE, on the corner <&
Main and Wilson streets, a recently
modernized restaurant, with facili
ties similar to those provided in the
large cities, will reopen with a pub He
reception tonight, Friday, August Iff,!
from 8:00 to 10:00 o'clock. Refresh
ments will be served.
Louis Alex, with twenty-three"
years of experience in managing res
taurants, ten of them spent here, in
delighted with the new facilities for
serving the public and assures pa
trons that tlje food and service will
be unexcelled in the State. He fur
ther states that he in bang congrat
ulated upon having secured Nelson
Picthi, (Peach), fohpsr chief- cook
of the Golden Weed Cafe in- WflSon,
to takp charge of the cuisine Miss
Ruby Heath wiH be hostess.
Farmville citizens will welcome a
modern and up to the minute eating
place and the owner of the bidding,
Mrs. J. M. Hobgood, has responded
to the urgent need for a high type
restaurant in a fine way. Mr. Alex
stated that courteous service will be
maintained and, that prices will "be
on a popular scale.
The cafe has individual booths,
where diners may look out on Wilson
and Main streets from broad windows
through Vene^an blinds. The en
tire place has been beautifully deco
rated and designed to provide every
convenience and comfort for guests.
The kitchen is modern with ample
refrigeration facilities and good ven
tilation.
The United States is well-defended,
according to plans that will become
effective in a year or two.
fitt Battery Lett
MoDdayMsrDiag
Annual Encampment T<*
Take The Guardsmen
Thru Six States; Will
Return August 25.
Captain Worth Wicker, of Green
ville, and seventy-nine enlisted men
and four officers of Battery A, 113th
Field Artillery, National Guard, left
Monday morning at 6 o'clock for
their annual encampment that will
take them through six states.
Members of the Pitt Battery drilled
every night last week except Stature
day night and confined theifactivities
that day to making last-minute prep
arations. After leaving North Caro
lina the men will go through South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis
sippi, and stop in Louisiana for* their
final maneuvers.
Officers and guardsmen assembled
at the city-county armory in Green
ville enrly Monday/ morning, after
wards leaving the city on truck*.
Three large guns mounted on pneu
matic tires were taken on the trip
for the "peacetime" activities.
Captain Wicker said all mail to
members of the Battery from Mon
day through August 14 should be
sent to Battery A, 113th Field Artil*
lery, A- P- O. 30, Hattiesburg, Mi*
From Aug. 14 to Aug. 18, the sauli
address will prevail, except that it
should be sent to Alexandria, La.
The guardsmen are expected to re
turn to Greenville, August 25th.
Stadium Tickets Far^
UNC Grid Game 9bH
Raleigh, Aug. 7.?All of tha 24,000
or soseati in lie concrete Sen.to
i stadium at Chapel Hill have bdea dif
> whS "doesn't come aloogwttil Mfo
vember 16, Dean R. B. House said
today,
i ?Ae.UWrwnity autharWm mane*
working on plans to prcWide emergen
> cy seats to smfctoMHInss* thous*ds
; andAavs reservations already in hand
> for several thousand ot
i Business in'FAJOnfflBLa* should
t be better this
- badness.* .. . ,'i w
t . ??
r The Japanese #s*?eidentiy
| mined to convince ttototoW^^
$22,080,00(1
Kit Ownty Hag. 49634
Miles of Line# Serving
t,946 Customers; Guil
ford Leads With 797.
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Raleigh, Aug. 7.?Rural electric.
Knee in North Carolina have a value
of slightly above a thousand dollars
a mile, ahd have an average of five
and a half customers to the mile.
Every one of the hundred countiar in
the statohas some REA line mileage,
although TyreU county has only a
mile and a half.
Guilford county has the most lines
with 797 miles, and Davidson is a
4fose second with 706; Durham tops
the-vlist in customers per mile and
Pamlfeo is at the bottom. Durham's
199.05 miles of ruWd power lines
Served 2,803 customers, an average of
1* per mile, while Pamlico's 14.61
miles has only 26 users, about 1.7
per mile.
Trfu? built membership co-opara
tivee tthraugh loans from REA
amount to 80 per cent of the total,
serve 21- per cent of the customers
and represent 27% per cent of the
total cost of all rural liraa.
Public utility companies, privately
owned, are responsible for-14,195.43
miles-of-all tinea, representing an in
vestment of $14,789,676.90, and sevr
ing- 92,352 customers.
Municipalities, which have extend
ed lines into surrounding country,
have built 1,232.6 miles, at a cost of
$878,006.00 and serve 7,33? patrons.
The Rural Electrification Adminis
tration has constructed 6,317.2 miles
ol lines, costing $5,995,450.00, and
serving 19,573 country homes and
small industries. -
These figures are taken from the
annual report of the North Carolina
Rural Electrification Authority, which
for the first time includes total rural
mileage in its report. Heretofore the
Authority has covered only rural line
constriction for the five years of its
own existence. Nearly half of the
utility country service was inaugurat
ed prior to that time.
Previous reports, while ace urate so
far as operations .of the REA. itself
were concerned, did not present a
true picture of rural electrification
in this state. This report does give
the full picture, and also is fairer to
privately owned public utilities.
Figures quoted in foregoing para
graphs include line under constnic
taon or authorised, white the ooumy
figures following show only lines
completed and in use as of July 1st,
1940 This occasions a minor dis
crepancy in totals, but does not ser
iously affect the results.
Pitt county has 496.34 miles of line
serving 1,946 customers.
Applications For -
Work Heavy
In Pitt county records of the North
Carolina Unemployment Compensa
tion Commission show that 1034 new
applications were filed for jobs for
the first six months of this yearv
Month-by-month registrations were
as follows: January, 867; February,
213; March, 163; April, 73; May, 106,
and Junor 112. ,
Ptaeentents on Jobs of the resi
dento of Pitt- County in the first six
months: of this year yumbered 179,
while the by-month placements fol
low: January, 16; February, 39j
March, 41; April, 28; May, 28, and
June, 32.
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Negotiations Begun For
Purchases of Artillery,
Tanks awfcOther Sup
plies From U. S.
Washington; Aug. 7.?The Britisk
i government-started negotiations here
today far thn purchase of "hundreds
of millions of dollars" worth of
artillery add othepursw supplies
in additteto to aiV previous ordsrs.
ArthdrS. Purvis, chief British pur
chasing agent, who presented the
program to Treasury Secretary tier
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?!.?.? of many types of supplies not
previously purchased in; this country.
S-jfsK'srsjss
rifftates army had left over from the
l World war, but the user progtus?
lcsfli for new'weapons
^ t* a ctiws, are^t rec^^
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Chamber"ofGjw?lj
I ciatien Sponsors Ho>
gram Over Station WG
.TC, Greenville.
Farmville citizens "timed in" on
Station WGTC, new Greenville Radio
station, Thuseday afternoon, at 3:S??
and listened for thirty minuter to
a varied and interesting program,
which marked the beginning ?f a
series to be sponsored by the Farm-;
ville Chamber of Commerce ahd Mer
chants Association. The announce
ment of the broadcast schedule dur
ing the fall and early winter is as
follows:
August 8-22} September 5-19; Oc
tober 3-17-31; November 14-28 and
December 12-26. These dates fall on
Thursday and the time is 3:30 to 4.
I Mayor George W. Davis, the first
speaker on the program, brought
greetings to the radio listeners and
spoke briefly on the assets of Farm
ville, including the civic, religions,
recreational and business institutions
of Farmville.
Stanjey A. Garris, president of the
sponsoring organization, pointed out
some of the advantages offered by
Farmville in relation to the selling
of farm products and buying of sup
plies for the home and farm.
John B. Lewis, secretary of the
sponsoring group, traced the develop
ment of the business life of Farmville,
the organization of the Farmville
Chamber of Commerce and Merchants
Association and its objectives.
The Skinner sisters, Misses Geral
I dine and Dorothy, delighted the radio
audience with vocal solos and duets,
with Miss Mary Thome Tyson as ac
companist, and Vernon Edwards
"tickled the ivories" in original in
terpretation of popular dance music.
The promotors of these radio pro
grams wish to give their listeners an
entertaining and helpful half hour in
the time assigned to Farmville, and
have expressed themselves as anx
ious to receive any suggestions and
recommendations that will provide
variety and- interest.
A number of telephone calls during
the program assured .those taking
part of the pleasure they were giving
Hhe' audience.
Shaken; Seen I
I tn Diplomatic
I German Corps
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Authorities In Germany
Said Td Be Perturbed
Oyer Goueern Felt Mil
American Republics
Washington, Aug. 7.?A shake-up.
of German diplepiatic and consular
staffs in the Western Hemisphere
was forecast in reliable quarters to
day as a result of measures adopted'
at the Havana" Pan-American confer
ence against fifth column activities.
German authorities were said to be
perturbed by the determined attitude
of the American republics and by the
manner in which some Nazi officials
hpve' aroused concern in the countries
wheite they were stationed. ? ?
A possible withdrawel of a consid
erable number and their replacement
by diplomatic officials less active as
Nadi party members was expected by
soma well informed persona.
I . Washington developments relating
to foreign agents' activities included:
Crime demanded an investigation of
what it termed "Nazi-Fascist qse of
attaches of legations and consulates
for tubversive propaganda and other
fifth column activities."
Z The Federal Bureau of Inves
toration announced ib? field officers
would go on a 24-hour dally ochrfute
to expedite investigations of fifth
column suspects.
3. The House passed and sent to
the Senate ? measure to permit the
FBI' to tap wires in investigations of
sabotage, treason and espionage.
I Obe German agent in the United
States believed listed for early recall
to Berlin was Dr. Gerhard Westriek,
the commercial counselor of the Ger
man embassy, whose operations jn
New York have received wide-spread
publicity. j
Unselfish work for the common
bonuftt.iu uomehhat nure in thto dny
of looking out for selfish profits m
it phjm Mf dividends in the long run.
There are people in every section
ctthe world
things by the ^ cash reserves.
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|itll^^^P 1h?11|| L J
f--..-. JR.S2KMH ZUiMHHRk
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Announcement of the etectfdn of
John T.' Thorn* to the preaHtticy of
At Natt Carolina Cbtto* Growers
Cooperative Association, war made
pecettly. Mr. Theme, wha is widely
known throughout the Stato, in South
ern and in tftt-NartSefesl AfMhltural
groups, is a pfffMeftMr farmer and
owner of Pecan Grove Dafcy, and is
also prominent as a bAhkery hasiness
man, edtlcAtor andcfrarehmam
Presiding ovtflSthe board* meetings
is no new expert flfipft for Mli Thorne,
as he served as president for four
years prior to the election- of Dr.
Pate. Pot many years he has taken
a keen interest in the production of
cotton and in improvement of the
financial conditions faced by the cot
ton farmer, and haa been very active
in the State Cooperative Association,
and in the work of the National Cot
ton Council aa well.
Last month directors of the Asso
ciation met for the first time since
the new board was inducted into
office. George L. Pate, of Raynham,
and A. V. Oobb, of Windsor* were
new directors present at the first
meeting of the new boant B. C.
Mayo, of Tarboro, was welcomed
back jinto the director's circle after
an absence of a year.
Other officers reelected were; L.
Bruce Gunter, of Fuquay Springs,
vice president; M. G. Mann, of Ral
eigh, general manager; G. D. Arndt,
of Raleigh, treasurer and assistant
secretary.
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Officers Destroy Two
Whiskey Stffl In Pitt
V ' Mil ? ? ?
Pitt county ABC officers, assisted
by Consctable Jasper Lee mills, of
Chicod township, Wednesday morn
ing located and destroyed two dis
tillery plants in the county, one' near
Black Jack and the other in the
Penny Hill section of Befvoir town
ship.
The first still was located about
three miles southeast of Black Jack.
It was a 50-gallon sffeam plant com
posed of a 50-gallon drum used as a
boiler, a1 50-gallon doubler, another
10-gallon doubler and a 50-gallon con
denser.
The other still was composed of a
50-gallon steel drum used a a cooker
and a 50-gallon condenser.
Neither still was in operation, but
beer was found at both places; 150
gaHons at the one near Black Jack
and 25 gallons at the plant in the
Penny Hill section.
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OFFICIAL REPORTS;
ON FUNDS OF PITT
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Greenville, Aug; 6.?County Treas
urer J. Vance Perkins today made
i public the regular fiscal year-end re
port shewing the amount of1 county
money held in the several banks of
the county as of June 80th.
, The report' shewed the following
cash balances, current and sinking
funds* in the various banks of the
county:
Guaranty Bank and Trust Com
pany and to branches?current fund,
$63,783:21; sinfcingftmd, $187,945.25;
State Bank and Trust Co., current
fund, $67,712Jp4; sinking fund, $27,
416.88; jirst National Bkak of Ay
den, current fund, $9,023.62; sinking
fund, $24,403.71; "Bank of Farflkville,
current fund, $5,019.36; sinking fund,
$17,739.15; Bank of Wintervffle* cur
rent fund, $7,718.85; sinking fund,
$3,391.02; Bank of Fotmtaln, sinking
fund, $2,420.11. *
All of the - banks in the county
have bean designated as county de
positories.
The report of the treasurer also
showed that the various banks had
complied with the act requiring-them
to provide sufficient depository col
lateral to cover the deposits.
TOBACCONISTS
OFF TO GEORGIA
.
Farmyille tobacco vbuyers and, as
sistants migrated over the week end
to <Jeorgia, to get ready for the mar
ket opening, Thursday. Tobacconists
believe the Georgia crop will be sold
about the 25th.- --if
The big tobacco oompanies wijl be
represented on the markets' as they
were last year, the British compares
buying under government auspices
: it is reported. The Federal Commod
ity Credit Corporation. wiH cooperate
^ith some independent companies.
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Wrecks Claim
Haw in Stale
Wreck in Various Parte
of The State Revealed
By Highway Division;
PittHas Thirty-Six.
Thirty-six of the 8,709 highway
accidents in Morth Carolina, daring
the first six months of 1940 occured
in Pitt county, according to a six
months summary just released by the
North Carolina Highway Safety Di
vision. ' ; j
Pitt county's 36 accidents were
classified as follows; Pour fatal, 15
non-fatal, and 17 involving property
damage only.
For the state as a whole, there J
were 317 fatal accidents, 1,418 non
fatal and 1,874 property damage ac
cidents the first six months of this I
year. -' -
Eighteen North Carolina counties
maintained clean slates the first half I
of this year with respect to traffic |
fatalities, these being: Alleghany. J
Bertie, Caldwell, Camden, Caswell,
Chowan, Clay, Currituck, Gates, Hyde
Greene, Jackson, Onslow, Perquimans 1
Person, Randolph, Tyrell and Yancy.
Pour of these counties; Alleghany,
Chowan, Hyde and Tyrel!, reported
no traffic fatalities in 1939. Eighteen
other counties reported only one fatal |
accident^each for the firet six months I
period.
Forsyth led the state in,the total
nuniber of accidents reported-, with I
348, and Guilford led in the number
of fatal accidents, with 20.
Two hundred and seventeen of the I
317 fatal accidents occurred on roads
in rural areas. 13 in towns of less
than 500 population, 8 in towns from
?00 to 1,000 population, 19 in towns
from 1,000 ito 5,800; 10 in cities of
5,000 to 10,9001; 16 in cities of 10,000
to .25,000; 4 in cities from 25,000 to
?0,000, and 30 in cities from 50,0001
to 100,00O population.
School Opens
September 2nd
Members of Faculty for
, FarmviBe Announced
by Superintendent.
J. H. Moore, Superintendent of the
Farmville Public School, recently an-1
nounced the members of the faeulty
for the 1940-41 term, which opens
Monday, September 2, as follows:
J. H. Moore, Farmville, Superin
tendent.
Miss Russell Ward, Sunbury, Math
ematics; ' ^
1 ' Mr. W. C. Harrell, Eure, Science.
Miss Ellen Lylee, Darlington-, S. C.,
English and Latin.
Miss Eleanor Edwards, Cary, Eng
lish and French. ? I
Miss- Susan Fountain, Rocky j
Mount, History.
- Mfcr Gterwfline' Cameron, Jones
boro, Commerce."
Miss Verona Lee Joyner, Farmvfile,
Home Economics; .
Mr. Fred T. LangfOrd, Blythewood>
S. C., Agriculture.
Mrt. Haywood Smith, Farmville,!
Piano.' .' 1
Ml&s Paulyne Stroul, Kinston,
Voice, Band, Glee Club and Piano. |
? Mrs. L. P. Thomas, Farmvflle,|
seventh grade.
Miss Annie Lee Jones, Vandemere,
seventh grade. ...
Miati. Louise Paachall, Rcrasvine;
sfactH grade. - * ? -
? Miss Margaret Thigpen, Greenville,
fifth and sixth grades;
; /'Miss Edna Robinson, Ivanhoe, fifth
grade,
Camille Staton, Bethel, fourth
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grade. ? .
Mian- Sallie Norwood, Henderson,
fourth grade. _
Miss Margaret Leswis, FarnrvflW,
tfcird grade.
Hiss Elisabeth Elliot*, Edenton,
third .grade. * '
Margaret Hester, Roxboro,
j ^ B. Carraway,, Farmville,
... tfrade
I Hiss Annie PetWns, Fsnrtvifle,
lirrtor. Warn* ?
, grade. \
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News items, for l>ublicatioir in The'
iSsaassaasB
J for proper identification, We eing
print ammymously contributed arfa
i dss-of any kted
t appear to be 5 to
Roy el Air Force Keeps
Hammering at Germany
Writer Sees Fliers Both
Before and AfterEx
cursion Across Chan
nel
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By TAYLOR HENRt
v With the RAP Bomber Command
Somewhere in England, Aug.
Twin-motored Wellington Bombm
rained tons of bombs on Gamasn
factories in the Ruhr and on Nazi
held airports in. The Netherlands
early today despite the stickiest
Weather in weeks.
The squadron with which I kept ?
watch during' the early hours of
the morning alone reported success
ful attacks against eight airdromes
and one factory.
This squadron, which carried oat
a 17-plane raid-, made bat ar small
part of the attack Which h?snma^i
Germany and Germamoccopied ter
ritory throughout the night and
early this- morning.
There were two other Bqinuiidm
from the same group- and sly in
the air were other groups of the
bomber command sent in equal
numbers to the attack.
! Despite the murky weather, .all
17 planes of "My" squadron re
turned home safely.
That was the raid of which to
day's German communique said:
"British planes which flew into
Holland and Western Germany in
small numbers dropped- bombs in
various: places without data
age worth mentionhlgt."
British pilots and-observers agreed,
however, that is was worth mention
ing.
Here is their version of the beta*
ings aa reported in the official fi&ft
analysis:
Venlo Airdrome?"Big ftash smW,
AH lights extinguished.'7
Ypenburg Airdrome ? "Large en
plosions. Small fires started,"
Texei Airdrome?"An bUtsfcf seem
Adjacent beacon put out. Fire fmrh-?
ing on airdrome as plane left"
Wesei Airdrome?"Bombs observed
to fall'across the center of the -? air
drome and incendiaries (bombs) seen
to fall near hangers.""
Schpfaol Airdrome?"Two explos
ions seen on airdrothe. Observed im
pact of stick of five 500-pound bombs
which were Been to fall from another
plane, (a stick is a salvo of bombs
dropped almost sinrnltanaotdly- bat"
spaced to bracket the target)
Eindhoven Airdrome^?"Btuhbr fMl
on flare path (Rghtd Ixmtarfaftake
off and landing-runway) whflelt waf"
Jit'up and night flying was In prog-'^
ress. Alt lights extinguished" and'
fir:** broke out."
Bomunghardt Airdrome,? "Bombs
dropped 200 yards south of the fi*fg
path." '
Krefeld Airdome?"One Stick drop
ped across airdome. Small fixes and'
one large fire seen."
Munitions factory near Mon?'Di
rect hit- with incendiary bomb and
factory set on fire. Other bombs ~
just missed."
?And it was- a bad night*" the
wing - commander apologised. "I
wish we could have put on a bettor
shew for you, but the weather still
controls operations."
He scoffed at German charges
that his men had dropped- bombs
indiscriminately on civilians* saying:
"It'a a point of honor with aa. wot
to drop bombs unless- we are sura ? ,
we're on the target. - For '""""pfrn
tbis morning- three plsnaa brought,
a full load of bombs, back hsegjgh
they couldn't locate the- targets under
a heavy cloud' layer..
. "They'll not be wasted. Don*
worry. The same- chaps- will take
them back again." c
The- average- age of. the'
crews of the squadron is just- under
twenty-six.
"The little chap over there," said
the wing commander, painting to b
lad who looked like he. ought te -ku
a college freshman, "junk celebrated
his 20th bombingn raid' over- Ger?
many."
, I had a breakfast - of scrambled
egga and bacon with'a couple of
other-youngster?' whw wsto juet
back from the ndd An* ksd?fotir
year? of flying to his and* arid'**
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