. - .' - ? - - ? .. ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ?- . .-. ?? -. .,. ?it.||. t riit t+it ti \tnr+tti>4+4*+i>m* TTT I ? ?? TTTTTTTT T T OUJ. ? . ... . gi?M I ???nnMMniMtMiimiHMg ?^^ ^ opu #44 rrw IrAftiitnw h .ftTlWflfflif1 I -??Aammx-, f . -n,ey Are CmrtanOf britta | | g|?A J1 Al ill V IXJ.C J^JUVvJ. |P* $ Not A Small Town Any Hoi*} j Yoa To OttH 1R0k -##?* X JL ??? -W- ++++++++?f++++++?H"H?+++++++'H"H' ' - VOLUME THOTY-nFQ ?l. - *- - ??- - ?? " pervimr oteFarmville Market, Reports Best Crop in Many Years in This Imme&ate See-1 tion Opening dates for the 1941 nates on each at the tobacco marketing belts throogbout the South were announced last Friday kg the fetes committee at the association's an nual meeting held at Virginia Beach, Va. The opening day for each ba?t was advanced eight days from the 1946 opening except the Georgia-Florida belt, whose opening date was ad vanced three days. The full Hat of the opening dates: < Georgia-Florida Belt, August 5. '?s- ? " -. - . >-c '' ?25- ' 33rd Mao is Held t In lUUkm Brian ^ |: u f*r. ?? | ||f >|ms German-Born Drafts man for Power Haute Is Arrested In New Jersey ^ j New York, July 2.?Federal agents! today made their 33rd arrest in a counter-espionage cleanup started Monday by taking into ctutody Wil liam Gustav Kaercher, 45, of West-1 wood, N. J., on a cha?.*ge of oaa-j Bpiracy to violate the Federal code. | Kaercher, described' as being of J German nativity but e naturalised United States citizen, was employed! by tiie American Gas and Electric I Company, as a draftsman for power} plants. Kaercher pleaded innocent and two I others arrested earlier?Adolf Henry! Walischewsky, a steward aboard the} liner Uruguay, and Conradm Otto! Dold, a steward of the Excalibur?j pleaded guilty to charges -of trans- j mitting information coaceraiag the) United States to a foreign power. j Benee Nezenen, 36, a clipper stew ard, at the same time changed his plea of innocent to guilty. All four were held m $25,000 bail, j Of the 33 arrested, 10 have plead ed guilty, 18 pleaded innocent, and! five are being held for arraign-! ment. A Federal grand jury yesterday began an inquiry into the suspected} espionage. iKdfflC MwU. S. I Patrols Used Ir I (sticks By Statement! I Regarding Nazi Seal I Menace I Washington, July 2. ? Secretary I I Knox flatly stated today that' no I American vends on Attentie patrols ?had engaged in convoying, had be-1 ? come involved in combat* had Buffer-1 led any Ion of lite in their crews orl ? The question of patrol was rained! at a press conference at which- the! aJZt I aoout cnticisnf? n Congress og Jua l demand this week that the United ? - HMMftttejjIy fWg, aaaMfojv A [ . . \ . iiwtftafMis Kh - a in , : \inniim mlHIH * ??? '? & E.Walston, of Farm yffle, County Chair man: To Announce Committee f| Appoint ments Soon r Greenville, dSjtF .!> ? Edwin' A. Wayne, of Raleigh, secretary of the North Chfolitta Bankers Association, told defense saving? staff members of the city and connty in an address here last Friday morning that "more than a'billion dollars a month, of one dollar out of every eight of the na tional income is needed to perpetuate the defense program." He based this assumption on ob servations he has made in- his recent travels from the Atlantic to the Pa cific, and conferences with officials of the Treasury Department in Washington. He Baiid that $400, 000,000 in new defense securities were sold in May, the first month of existence of the government's educa tional program to stimulate interest in the sale of defense bonds and defease savings stamps. II All of lis ami fly an au-ptauc, I command a battleship, or operate a I task, but then is a definite part for lot to play in the nation's efforts to [protect oar political freedom, pre Iserve the purchasing and spending power of tomorrow, and to convert a I hundred million Americans to' say hny government'," said Wayne. I The speaker ?pmphariifrd the neces sity of keeping America economically free and preserving -the American system of free enterprise, which ex ists on the basis of working, produc ing and saving. I L. E. Walston, of Farmville and IW. H. Woolard, of Grepnville, chair men of the county and city staffs, respectfully, trill announce commit tee appointments in the immediate future. Mayor B. B. 'Sugg, honorary chair Iman of the city staff, who addressed the session briefly, declared: "We*ve got to stop just singing,<|jod Bless. do something about it. A joo is facing us and we most do -iti irre spective of sacrifice" 1 ?? C mm I'.jb m .. 'jm "ii I ? A liAAr HA I: ;;-y ^ A ? _ W"\5 (J ! ? j ['? V*? HHflittiF?*' flF * CFThMI M ? pvv fWftSnimtflll I I I ?p?? SL 50 AID SOVIET. I -BEAT. HITLER" MAIN END. jg | RUSSIAN RELUCTANT ALLIES. J Not long ago, the United States,] like the British, regarded the Rus sians .as almost equal enemies with] Germany. Now: that Hitler has'at-j tacked the Soviet, which is engaged] in a desperate battle against Nasi ! armies, the two democracies find] themselves on the "same team" with] Russia Naturally, there will be] strains and stresses until the new] Conditions adjusts itself. I [I So fur tbo ^ujjL-|B cerned, our policy has been announc- { ed by Sumner Welles, Acting Secre tary of State, speaking for the Preai-J dent Mir. Welles made it plain ttat! between a Communistic dictatorship] and a Nazi dictatorship, the people of] this country make no distinction anjfHM J " ? i-~ ???_| Communism ana mcuau w wU demned as "intolerable" but never theless emphasized that the greatest task facing the world, including the I United states, is the defeat of Hit I ler's attempt at world conquest. Mr. [ Welles asserted that the "trfeacher-1 ous attack upon Russia" disclosed the real purpose of Germany to ac-l quire complete world domination. I Determined to resist the Nazi plan! for "universal conquest, for the] cruel and brutal enslavement of aUl peoples, and for the ultimate de struction of the remaining ,free de-j mocracies," which Hitler is desper-l ately attempting to carry out, the] United . Statee takes a realistic posi-J tion, accepting *Jany defense against] Hitlerism, and nBying of the forcesj opposing Hitlerism, from whatever] source these forces, may. spring," that] will hasten the downfall of Germany I and therefore "redown t> ihe benefit of our own defense' and security." , The attitude of the British and] American Government* are identical, it appears, in regardHmg Hitler as the main threat to world peace and ] security. Consequently, there will be] cooperation will Russia in I Qyj msibilitv to i^&C6 much doDond* I , ,, 4 ? ??? " ce ?.? London, July 3.-R. A. F.'s Eagle Squadron, all American volunteers, downed three German planes and damaged two others -today in its first big "outing"?a doop daylight drif| 1 cwpr northern fridge as far as Lille. I British - maimed planes partici pating in the same extended, air I offensive over German-held terri tory were credited officially with bagging 15 additional German craft while the British asknowledged loss of two bombers and eight fighters. It was learned that two of the Brit ish fighter losses were caused by a collision." It was not stated whether I any of theEagies was killed. ^Escorted Bombers I The Eagles got into action as tney escorted a strong bomber formation. About 60 Messerschmitt 109s at tacked them and a series of twisting dogfights developed, continuing un til the bombers had completed their mission and headed back home. One .veteran British flier said the l&aglesr air battles reminded him of "the old Dimkerque days." The ? youngest, of the Eagles, tackling two Germans, was caught by a burst of bullets which madly ?damaged his plane. He hung on the tail" of one of the Germans, how ever and shot off the Messerschmitt's ailerons. As a. wing crumpled arid the cockpit hood blew off, the German bailed out. ? The Eagle climbed back to rejoin his squadron. The American bag in today's fight, the |?c4^1rge-scale| engagement over-occupied territory which the Eagle Squadron has taken part, almost evened the score of ibtir .American pilots lost thus far In toe war. Much of the righting was near smoky French factory town of Lille, in? sides where American aces of the Lafayette Escadrille fought the Kaiser's air force 26 years, ago. (??EH'e'BSSel. ?\Inllf fl VVilVIV 1# 1199111# I 9 r* ? lf amftricfi^ btowuiB I ** ttUur 100 per ccBttfc a*14^ . .^w ANNOUNCEMENT At the request of the Trea^iiry tare of interest and servicetomany readers, who are buying or Will buy Defense Savings Bonds and .Stamps. This will be called the Defense Bond Quiz, and Btart in next week's issue, t The questions will be chosen from, t among those asked by most Bond and e Stamp buyers. The answers will tell j what the new Defense Savings Pro gram means to the individual and jj to the Natfon^l^fJ - _?__ ? ] _ ... rrr . r 5 Traffic Accidents Con- < I tinue to Claim a Large ' Percent of the Grown-; Ups . i Raleigh. ? From January first, 1 through May, this, year, there were 34,444 babies born in North Carolina, < which was just 1,973 in excess of the s number born during the correspond-V' ing period of 1940, the State Board i of Health reports. 1 ?? Furthermore, bjrths during that 1 period exceeded the 14,424 deaths in the State by 20,020. # f I Maternal deaths were snown to ne, " on the decrease, there having been I only 161 during the first Ave months of 1941, as compared with 188 for ?? the same period last year, a decrease ' of 27. pTBut the mounting toll of deaths j'from preventable accidents also 1 I comes in for consideration. ; From January through May, vital I statistics figures show, 709 persons 1 in North Carolina were accidentally ; killed, ?s compared with 643 for the I same period a year ago?an incfease of 166. Most of these deaths result ed from traffic accidents. There were, during the period of the compilation, 104 few& deaths from pneumonia than occurred a year Up to Junp 1, there had been o dy *8 I ? V { ?H . -. Bh^^' BB^B|>' ' '"?f'' '''ii" ,*?*;? ? BIH I MB Hff IIV .flHH ISH^P^Hp ' * Berlin, July 2.?TheGerman Amy : ohight ^proclaimed a: virtual slagh- fp er of the Russian armies trapped - iast of Bialystok, announcing' a com pete ? victory with "unbelievable haos" overtaking the remnants of 06,000 Red soldiers." > "Because of the stubborn Soviet j 1 iussian defense and the embittered ittempts to* break out" of the Ger nan-laidtrap, said the high cdm ftand, "the bloody losses of the snemy exceed the number of prison ire by several times.". There was no authiized interpre ation of the communique, but some nformed quarters believed ita ref jrence to the event as of "worid I listorical proportions" possibly ' 'I neant that the backbone of the vhole Red Army is considered - ? : "vy>5 '- ?* . - 4 I German dispatches said the trap sed Red soldiers; tried four times to peak out, but failed each time. -1 A total of 160,000 Russian prison ers has been taken on all fronts rince the beginning of the war a veek ago last Sunday, the army stated. Of these, 100,000 were said to (iave been counted so far in the Bialystok trap. German losses, on the other hand, 'in all are gratifyingly small," a jommunique said. I The slashing- of the encircled Bus si an s between Bialystok (in north- ^ \ I jentral oW Poland) and Minsk, who were -defending the highway to Mos- * I cow;, has resulted in a; decision of history-making proportions, in the I words of the high command y The fate of these troops, trapped quickly in huge, numbers in a typi- > cal Blit kreg maneuver, had been a matter of keen speculation for days. The fate of Minsk Itself remained M obscure, with the high command not mentioning earlier German claims thai it had fallen. (The Russians 5 . :l admitted Nazi peiletratfoi) beyond ^Idgh, July WNorth Caiolma of Agriculture, repoitedtoday. __ Federal-State Cron Reoortinc Ser ** "*'rv O ? vice. iSLr ? V ? * SpllflCMtC6 is- ? B Sfaiy Com- ,