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Persistently denying that the I Japanese had delivered an ultima-1 turn to the Vichy regime or to its] officials in Indo-China, the French] clung to the assertion that the Jap-| anese had made their demand be cause of alleged military develop-] ments along the British colonial and] Chinese frontiers of Indo-China,] which Japan has guaranteed to de fend. Previously it had been stated by J French officialdom that France-and | Japan were negotiating for what was described as Japanese protec tion of French Indo-China against] a threat of British occupation. France, it was explained, is nego tiating only for "temporary military] measures," and it was stated that the term "Japanese occupation" of I Indo-China would be an incorrect description of the measure being dis cussed. The "temporary military meas ures" being discussed were under stood to include granting Japan ad ditional aviation and other bases in I Indo-China, particularly in the south, where she has none now. To questions asked at an after noon government press conference, it was answered that the example furnished by the failure of French resistance in Syria had made the Vichy government "make an ex ception" to repeated assertions that French colonies would be defended by French forces alone, without out side aid. BRITAIN REPORTED READY FOR FAR EASTERN CLIMAX London, July 23.?Singapore and other British Pacific outposts were reported tonight to have been "fore warned and forearmed" with new R. A. F. contingents to meet a Far Eastern climax expected here to arise within 24 hours from Japanese de mands on French Indo-China. R. A. F. reinforcements which ar rived in Singapore from Britain last Saturday were said by British sour ces to have been ordered distributed to outlying posts fof any eventually. I OVER 4| MILLION I POUNDS of SURPLUS ? FOODS DISTRIBUTED ' An average or more than three 50-car trainloads of surplus commo dities flowed into North- Carolina each month of the fiscal year closed in Jane with total shipments from I * the federal government being sent in I 1,891 cars, A. E. Langston, state di rector of commodity distribution, an nounced. A total of 69,613,246 pounds of foodstuffs worth $4,102*224 at retail prices was given to needy and under nourished North Carolinians along with 747489 household articles worth ? $663*424. I School lunch rooms giving free meals during the scholastic season to needy and undernourished graded school pupils received 15,382, I 207 pounds of* food valued at $1,004, 638. General cases were distributed ? 54,231,039 pounds worth $3,097,585. I Both the Surplus Marketing Ad I ministration alkd the Wofka Projects Administration contributed clothing or household hp-tides to the depart ment's distributioon program and the! I total value of all articlefrjjnd food I |L, .1. .,,.n.iAr.V,l,T * M I OTC$i| V^6V8oA?8) BTBIU WH shelled p*f"? were sent fxoml county ^a^eddeI!ar^I^gj^ub<l I locsfltsefc I Lsagston said the record food dis I trB?M$ <hd not stores by feasts of the sUunp- plai MeckMffc Gaston, GuDflta^ftfo [ ' Proclamation-Day v ? WHEREAS, a national emergency has been declared and the necessity of conserving electric energy exists, the Hon. J. M. Broughton, Gover nor of the State of North Carolina, at the Request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, has proclaimed day light saving time for the State of North Carolina, effective Sunday, [July 27th, 1941. WHEREAS, the Farmville Mer chants Association, through their Board of Directors, at a recent meet ing adopted a resolution favoring the adoption of day-light saving time; and WHEREAS, the Board of Commis sioners of the Town of Farmville in a special call session decided in favor of day-light saving time; WHEREAS, the churches of the Town of Farmville have decided to hold all services on day-light saving time after Sunday, July 27, 1941. \ NOW THEREFORE, Be and It is Hereby Proclaimed that the Town of Farmville shall be on Day - Light Saving Time on and after midnight Sunday, July 27th, 1941. For convenience, the people of the surrounding community are request ed to accept the Day-Light Saving Time. GEORGE W. DAVIS, Mayor Town of Farmville. ' ?- ' WHO KNOWS? [... 1. Is Iceland in a German-pro claimed war zone? . 2. Who is Ben Lear? 3. How does aircraft production compare with last year? 4. Is Iceland a republic or an in dependent state with the same king as Denmark? 5. How many motor vehicles are in the United States? 6. Only three wars have lasted 1 more than four years since Napo leon. Can you name them? 7. Is the language usually spoken | in Brazil Spanish, Portuguese or ! Italian? 8. What does the word "Bolshe vik" mean in Russian? 9. Who said, "An honest man's word is as good as his bond?" 10. How many radio receiving sets are manufactured in the United States in a year? (See the Answers, on page 2) use M weflii Slips Explained Because merchants cannot give cash change in Cotton Stamp trans actions, and since all Cotton Stamps^ are printed in 25-cent denominations, how will retailers handle sales nor mally involving change? Mr. 0. P. Matthews, Chairman of the Pitt County Cotton Industry Committee said that this situation was very effectively and simply handled by means of "Cotton Credit Slips," To clarify the situation, he cited several examples. "Suppose," he said "a Cotton Stamp customer pur chases 60 cents worth of cotton mer chandise. An alert merchant would probably suggest 16 cents worth of additional cotton items that the cus tomer could use to advantage. The customer could then give the mer chant three 25 cent stamps. But as suming that the customer did not wish to get more than lps 60 cent purchase at the time, the merchant would accept eithef two 26 cent stamps and 10 cents in cash, or three 25 cent stamp* giving the customer a 16 esfat credit aUp for the difference due him." "These Cotton Credit SUpe" he added "are issued hy the individual stores and are good for the purchase of 10056 American cotton- goods al the same store in the future. Eron I nnrehaaeif w Ire^n?^ L fu . . |1i. t> ? wlOSc FTIfr ry 11 mi VO ixuv, mrv U>KII ftK* 1 , ? |t *. V, j t 'v ' ? 1 \ A~ '( * ' ' M. '? ;v- ? n -1 Wiae-a^aKe retailers wui ta&e aa a- ? X. *i . , Ag..^ HllMMAIli ?-. v ., '#., ^Baleigiv July 24.-^Noxth Carolina will set the clock up one hour an July 27 and will observe Eastern Day light Saving Time for a period of two months, ending September 28, if it follows the proclamation Governor Broughton issued yesterday. The Governor yesterday directed all State offices, agencies and institu tions to go on daylight saving and called upon counties, municipalities i and private firms and individuals to do likewise an keeping with Presi dent Roosevelt's request for the con servation of electric power for de fense purposes. Willing To Change. Legally the Governor lacked authority to proclaim daylight sav ing time for the State, hut he stated yesterday that responses to the suggestion indicated that the change no only would be adopted universally in the State but that it would be done with willingness. Instead of following the original plan of beginning the new time on August 1, the proclamation was made effective on the beginning of Sunday, July 27, in order that in dustries may adjust their shifts dur ing the idle day. The change will lop an hour off Sunday, July 27, and will add an hour Sunday, September 28, the first thereby being 23 hours long and the second 25 hours long. Due to fewer daylight hours in Winter, the prac tice is not deemed necessary after September 28. Certain to be followed by State employes, the change will mean that capital employes highway workers, teachers and others will report for work an hour earlier?by the sun? and will leave an hour earlier in the afternoon. - Replies Favorable. Governor Broughton said that of the 75 mayors he wrote regarding the change, 74 had responded favor ably, and one did not answer. He said 35 boards of county commission ers had indicated they would place their county administrations on the new time and that merchants associa tions in 30 of the larger cities had reacted favorably. He <qi?oted Secre tary Willard Dowell of the State Merchants Association as saying that all merchants' associations were' unanimously favorable to the change but had delayed commitment until they polled their membership. "I think that automatically the rest of the population will fall in line," the Governor said. * 1 t This Year's Peach Crop Is Finestand Biggest In 10 Years Americans this year have the priv ilege of enjoying the finest and larg est peach crop in the last -decade. Unlike war-torn Europe America is not. Buffering from a shortage of needed foods?but is suffering from underconsumption, with more than 40% of our entire population actual ly undernourished. In making this statement, Miss Verona Lee Joyner, Home Demon stration Agent of Pitt County, added that a cooperative public spirited educational campaign sponsored by the Peach Producing Industry and Food Trades-Jndustry cooperationl with the U. "S. Department of Agri culture is now under, way to* increase the consumptkm of fresh peaches by everyone.- ;???'' During the period July 24th thru July 30th all housewives in this area and the South are urged to Sfiss Joyner said, "Very few peo ple know, the importance of peaches in nutritional and dietary values. It I Is not generally known that peaches I ** inwlmfe minmto, ?U oum, iron, phosphorus potas sium, needed to build bone structure, dear complexions.' "The abundance of valuable food ?.factors in peaches, scientists say, ^ grow th vitality and is s ? iirst line oi aerense against disease V* ?? ? ? -j- t 'sfc "'A ' fc ? I . J _ , X HM-yftnjii iAw If" . I I compiexw n? I ] * . . By HUGO 3m i YV . I ;*rts;aW'? Xv-' , ...* :'.jTiiiy ?:v^^: ;? S ^JC? roCPUJNR). llll i ? The apprehension of American exporters that Great Britain might jj use materials received from this country under the Lease-Lend Act to compete with them in foreign markets has been allayed by assur-j ances given by John Maynard Key lies, British economist, how in Wash- , ington. Mr. Keynes outlined England's policy toward foreign trade during the present war, saying that it had gone through four phases. When France was still in the conflict, the familiar "business as usual" formula was followed, hut with the coBapse of France and the loss of her financial help, the British made a supreme drive for export trade with which to pay for war requirements. Emphasis on this phase of the program fell off when President Roosevelt expounded the Lease-Lend principle and when the Act was finally passed in March, the British put in a program of re duced exports because American as sistance "greatly relieved" their de pendence on exports to pay for war materia,! H, NO SHOOTING YET. KNOX TESTIFIES. READY IN 1944. rQg~ .? ? # /--? I With the exception of the Robin Moor incident, the Germans have been "exceedingly careful" not to "annoy" American vessels, .says Sec retary of the Navy Frank" Knox, who -recently told members of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee that, he did not anticipate any trouble with the Germans over the shipment of supplies to the American Army of' Occupation in Iceland. The Secretary of the Navy also denied that the United States had an agreement with the British for joining-naval action in the Atlantic and declared that no American war ship had even enetered that zone as now defined'by President Roosevelt. He insisted that, up to the time he testified, the Navy followed a policy of "patrol" but explained that this did not mean the Navy would not protect ships going to Iceland or to South America. . ? While the Secretary denied that "shooting1 incidents" had occurred, the understanding is that he 'ad vised the senators that an Ameri can destroyer had dropped a depth bomb when it appeared to be threatened by -a submarine. .The Secretary declined to answer a ques tion whether our warships would "shoot their way through" if Ger man warships attempted to block passage, of American vessels to Ice land. -v Somewhat encouraged by the ac celerated construction program of the Navy, Mr.. Knox declared that the two-ocean navy, originally schedul ed for completion by 1946, wouhMy* an accomplished fact by about 1944. At that time, he said, the United States would be the 3*best armed, best equipped and best defended na tion in the worid." EXTENDING SERVICE. AROUSES DEBATE. The proposals to extend the mili tary service of selectees, National Guardsmen, reservists and enlisted ! men for the duration of the national emergency has aroused considerable discussion among congressmen. The proposal will be vigorously advocated by the President and the Chief-of??Staff, who point out that the statutory one-year training ten ure of the selectees and National ; Guard units will run out within the next six weeks or two months. Gen eral George C. Marshall, points out that selectees'; dhd National Guards men, have been mixed with the Regu lars. to form a homogeneous Army and the effectiveness of the military branch would be seriously impaired if the various units lose as much as two-thirds of their personnel. Some objection arose from the view that the Government has a vir tual contract with the men now in temporary service to muster them I55i fl ? _ _ j-. , . .. j I hv nflTKiPV Maiontv T ? I III !??? ???? ? The nation's gigantic aluminum gathering campaign got underway this week and the town of Farmville, through its Mayor, George W. Divis, Will give every family an opportunity to contribute directly in this way to the National Defense Program. % Beginning today, Friday, July 25, and continuing through Monday, vol unteer workers will call at the homes of families here asking for any old aluminum not in use. The purpose of the campaign is to supplement the vast supplies of the metal needed for the production of defense equip ment, especially fighting planes. Mayor Davis and his committee, Mrs. Ted L. Albritton and John Hffl Paylor, also announce m, this con nection that an Aluminum Receiving Ben has been erected near the Munici pal building and will be officially opened this morning. Citizens as requested to watch contributions as they come in here and to make their own at this point or have it conveni ent for workers who will call. Among the articles which may be donated are pots and pans, radio parts, toys, shakers, .screening, old washing machine 'parts, picture frames, book ends, icetrays, measur ing cups, camera equipment, kettles and double boilers, bottle an4 jar cape, refrigerator plates and dozens of others. "Anything that's made of alumi num will do, Mayor Davis said in an interview today. "That old kettle with the hole in it that's been lying aroupd for yean will help make a plane. A careful search of pantrieS, basements, back porches and out buildings will probably reveal sev eral articles no longer usuable that that will increase our present alumi num needs." . ? i? i i ' i in II 4-H Short Course Opens At State College Monday One of the richest educational ex I periences that can come to any farm I boy or'girl'awaits'the 1,000 or morel I 4-H Club members who will attend I the annual 4-H Short Course at N. C. I State College, beginning Monday, I July 28, and continuing through Sat ?urday, August 2. A full week of in Istruction, recreation, inspiration and ?good fellowship has been arranged. L. R. Harrell, State 4-H Club lead ler, and Miss Frances MacGregor, as sistant State' club leader, have an Inounced the following speakers for ?the general morning sessions: Dean ll. 0. Schaub, director of the Exten-I ?don Service, and Miss Rdth Current, I ?state home agent, on Tuesday; Dr. ?Frank P. Graham, Wednesday; Dr. ?J. 0. Howard of the U. S. Depart ?mqat of Agriculture, Washington, ?Thursday; and Governor J. M. I^?Broughton, on Friday. The small fee <?f $6.50 will entitle |a delegate to meals and lodging,'&d I incidental expenses, throughout the week. Each youth will bring his or her- own bed linens and towels, and Harrill has stressed the fact that ?delegates must wear their distinctive!! 4-H Club uniforms while at Short! Course. The theme of the meeting will be; ?"Our Responsibilities as 4-H Club ?Members in the Present World Cris lis." A Citizenship Ceremonial will be held Thursday morning. The annual Health Pagfeant, at which the State 4-H King and Queen! of Health will be crowned, is sdted lufed for Thursday evening on Riddick ?Field. Miss Madeline Stevens of the ?EMtion&l Recreation Association will direct the pageant, with the assists! ance of .Miss Virginia Wilson, Gran ville County >hpme agent. ~.;J State contests, for dairy demon Bjjjftion and judging teams will be held, starting, Tuesday, and the win ners will receive free tripe to the National Dairy Show to be held in Memphis, Tann., in the fall. m:;:y O? r' ' ? R#' A CALL TO PRATER i 'mMi " ???> ? ? Sfe 1 -?..'I , r.When the. Church beU rings each day through the week, except Sun [ day, it is for the purpose of calling i who^will, to; .join in a few mo I It,, - rn ; I H w Wilficn GARDEN CLUB I - . MONUMENT TO BE SCALPED xmnsm scalped for the sake of national defame. Civilian Defense Direc tor LaGuardia has found there are flye pounds of aluminum used as ? lighting arrester at the monu ment's peak. And' he is going to ask for it as soon as the nation wide aluminum scrap pickup cam paign gets underway. Hutson To Be Tir ,lL. -Ht'j h At Farm M - Will Address Rally At College On Friday Afternoon, July 25 Greenville, July 24.?Farmers and business , men in. eastern North Caro lina and esiewhere in the state will march to Greenville to hear J. B. Hutson, president of the Commodity Credit Corporation, discuss the to bacco situation and the effect of the 86 per cent parity , loan on tobacco, cotton and other commodity farmers in a meeting at East Carolina Teach ers College, Friday after at.3 o'clock. Walter Randolph, who is now president of the Alabama Farm Bu 1 reau, will also have an important part on the program. A barbecue supper will be served to the men and women attending 'the meeting immediately after the speaking. J. E. Window, president, and R. ; Flake Shaw, secretary of the North | Carolina -Farm . Bureau, are calling I the district meeting to discuss with the farmers of the state the vital questions faring North Carolina ag riculture as a result of present pa stabilised condition throughout the world. President Winslow and Secretary Shaw state that this meeting is called for the following purposes: 1. To explain Farm Bureau Parity Loan Legislation recently passed by Congress and the benefits each in dividual farmer will receive from this new legislation. 2. To plan organized movement throughout the state to get this temporary parity legislation made permanent 3. To inaugurate a campaign for parity loan benefits toil producers of non-basic crops like truck crops, vegetables, etc. Every county is' urged to send a large delegation of farmers and business men from every community in the state. Washington Notes i wfi ?? i !*"?<? ' STRIKES During the first six months of 1941, work on -Army defense con tracts was delayed by 187 strikes, in volving the loss of 2,458,150-man days of work, according to a War Department survey. BOMB ATTACKS A school for.training police and fire department officers in methods og combatting bomb attacks is under way at the Edgewood Assenal, Mary land, where the first class of fifty officers from 40 towns has completed training. Other schools will be established txTafford similar training for cities along the .Gulf, the Pacific Coast and the Central States. SIMPLIFICATION As an illustration of the simplify I cation program, Dongd M. Nelson, OPM Director of Purchases, points out that in the past fifteen years 4,600 kinds of shotgun shells have ijfan reduced to less than 850, 8,000 sizes and varieties abraziv<| paper and cloth have been; out to less than 2.000 and 880 varieties of forge ham mers have dropped to 180. The pur pose of the defepse simplification program is to make raw materials go fur^ AND defense Average WPA employment for the present fiscal year will be around onemlonM again^an average of I all WPA workers are engaged on na Itional defense projects. I ? V' - ? * ? - ' . 1 *1 LI * , , ,_ | __ t** I available IB rural areas* ranners ufacturers, an effort wilL be made to assure adequate supplies for repair and maintenance of privately-owned motor vehicles^ household refrigera tors, tractors, stoves, water-heaters, plumbing fixtures and furnaces by giving such materials and equipment a preference over other civilian needs. FOR PLANES The Scrap Aluminum Collection campaign, which ends July 29th, is' ? expected to provide metal for 2,000 additional fighting planes, or 500 additional four-engined bombers. For example, a fighter plane, containing . 7,000 pounds of aluminum, can be built with the metal freed by the- do nation of 5,000 dishpans, or 10,000 coffee perculators, or 2,000 roasters or 2,500 double-boilers. TWO SHIPS A DAY Merchantship production in 1942 and 1943 will reach an average of ap proximately two vessels a day, ac cording to the Maritime Commission, which announces that shipbuilding, authorized in legislation, combined with construction already under con tract, contemplates delh$&..af near- - ly 14,000,000 deadweight tons i>y the end of 1943. TWs includes 1,200 ships. AIRPLANES . ; In June, 1,476 airplazies were proE^' duced "in this country for tfte? Army. Navy and Great Britain. This com- ' pares with 1,334 in May. Production & wap alml^Uirec times as ineny as ustry, unable ^oobtain aluminum , ? ? ^ ^ ^ . I A/>W)tn(r 4A fVtA ryQ A A IJ. I wruiiig lu wits -wcpai txut:uu va culture, which reports &at 4here I ~ German Spokesman Ac "f m Otetinacy'; Ru*:, sians Say Lines Intact; ^Moscow RaidefAga|| ' ' Berlin, Joly 24.-A German mili tary spokesman acknowledged kit night that masses of fresh Russian troops fighting with "fantatical ob stinacy" have slowed down the Nazi armored drives on Moscow and Len- - ingrad. The German spearheads pointed at the two great Russian cities are not only trying to force their way eastward, but are constantly com pelled to 'fight off "extremely fero cious Soviet counter-attacks," he said. The spokesman told of large "pockets" of Russian troops hold ing out deep in the rear of the Ger man advance forces, forcing Nasi supply columns to make extensive detours along the main highway from Smolensk to Moscow and in some in stances preventing - these columns from catching up with the Panzer ' vanguard. Further aggravating the advance of the Germans upon Moscow and Leningrad unfavorable weather, in cluding cloudbursts that turned roads into quagmires and mired mechan ized equipment. The fighting front was said offi cially to be 30 miles deep in some places as the Germans attempted a series of encircling attacks in an ef fort to wipe out the strong resisting Russian forces before the approaches to Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev. Raid on Moscow. A late report of the Tuesday night air raid on Moscow said the German planes dropped a large number of bombs with powerful explosive charges as well as 10,000 incendia ries on the Soviet capital. The Ger man airmen reported counting a score of new and large fires among the smouldering blazes remaining from the bombing of the previous night Only one German Rlane failed to return from the raid on Moscow, the Nazis claimed. The greatest de struction was reported to have cen tered in the area of the Kremlin and south of the bend in the river. In an aerial bombardment of Odessa, the Soviet Black' Sea port, the Germans were said to _ have scored more than 50 bomb hits on shipyards there. A 6,000-ton mer chant skip was set on fire with sev eral bombs and a 3,000-ton vessel was damaged. Describing the "fanatical obstin acy" of the Red army troops, the spokesman said that the Russians were fighting to the death, even when encircled, thus accounting for terrific Russian loss of life and a comparatively small number of pris- _ oners taken by the Nazis in recent days. . : - 1 *