i: T? Tr TRADE With 1W ; volume THnrrr-Two I ^ PARMVIT^ Pikes Continue ..Very Strong On Georgia ters; Bulk ofTobacco At Most Places Declar ed To Be Moving At About 23-Cent Level ' ? i.-- >V".? Valdosta, Ga-, August 7.?Bright leaf tobacco price* continued strong in the Georgia-Florida, aoctaoa mar kets today, with indications of wren better price averages than the 22-26 emits range established in the first sales. At Moultrie, Sales Supervisor C. E. Isom pointed out the average of 22.35 cents established yesterday when 519,002 pounds arid for |116, 012.79 was a gain of almost five cents a pound over the opening' day average of 17.59 in 1940. Bulk of second day sales In Pel ham were moving around . 25 cents, warehousemen said, a little better than the opening average of 23 cents set on 251,094 pounds which sold for 357,695.17. Robert Herring said so much leaf was on hand at .Tifton for opening day that it would take two and a half days to sell it all. There the price range equalled the 23.36 of yesterday, when 698,856 pounds sole for 3162,575.98. At Nashville, Sales Supervise] Frank Park, Jr., reported a rang* up to 36 cents, with most second day baskets going around 27 cents At Bavley, Warehouseman Barne reported the bulk of sales aroun* 26 cents, with the top there toda; at 37 cents. Stations Closed, But No Gas Saved ?c A welter of sectional reports, in ^ the absence of any official judgment as to the success or failure of the ^ eastern seaboard's fijst gasoline cur- } few last night, appeared today to boil s dowr. to these points: ^ 1. Virtually all service stations I from Maine to Florida (except for half of New York's independents) complied with Petroleum Coordina- ' tor HonU L. Iekes' request to close from 7 p au, to 7 ?. m, daily as & national defense measure to conserve gasoline. 2. The day time sales of gasoline everywhere along the eastern sea board exceeded the total volume of an average August Sunday's day . times sales f ? 3. Traffic was just as heavy and in many places heavier than usual during the after-dark hours: In New York City the chain sta ' tions closed promptly at 7 p. m-, but about half of the independents which constitute 50 per cent of the city's H Farm Price of Cotton Is Not Retail Price Factor' ???? The improved farm prices of cot ton in the past several months may not be ccraridered determining tore in the relatively increased prices of finished eotton goods, says E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive officer at State College. * .'v vr ? "Rather," Floyd reports, ""the in Tismi 'spread' of profit to the cot respcxwible for the rapid increase in v ? ' the price ?f cotton pcodneto. "While the fsrm price of cotton ?? moving up three cento a pound flk the past year, as a member of the ' auditing committee, as statistician ( and in various offices and capacities since becoming a member in 1920, is r well qualified for this position and ? doubtless render a signal service to - the organization as its head. v . - The new president has served the 3 local firemei as Assistant Chief foi 1 many years and has given an enthus f iastic interest and efficient service to the department throughout this I period. To the East Carolina riremens x 1 organization he-has i .ndered a great tervice also, being a past president, ' ice president and secretary and xeasurer. Mr. Joyner has been City Clerk .'or the past 16 years and been con lected with the munipical offices lince 1920. He is a member of the Methodist Board of Stewards and Superintendent of the Sunday School. Representing Farmviile at the State meet this week were Mr. and Mrs. Joyner and their youngest son, John Russell, Chief Haywood Smith and Mrs. Smith, Mayor George W. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Eason and son, Norris Lee, Ed Nash 'War ren, Curtis Flanagan, Loyd. Smith and Edgar Barrett. PAI.N S ? ' / Paints made with synthetic resins as a base instead of the customary linseed oil may make good fire-re-' tarding coastings for wood, says the I U. S. Forest Service. Marketing Regu- I lations For To bacco Annoynced The Change Sets Up A Different Method Of 'Handling Nwi-Ware house Sales of Both Leaf-Scrap Tohaceo Raleigh, August Ftoe-cured to I bacco marketing isolations for. tht 1941-42 marketing year hare beet indi ?cate only one major change from I last year's regulations, it was an nounced today, by David T^Hoose, j^ly the same as teat year. ? [xZZtol ?t a W j house which ,ie to be ptepar rsard. IrjW? ? 'jfJ' '?* -a."*. .7; ^2-*'I A, 2 ^ .^Jj g.. A li ~S^Fy^^E ^Fl'??; - ?a U II Tl' I \ 1tl y* > g.; y " >^m I 940 ^ Greenville, August 7.?The Pitt ? County Board of Commissmnert, in J regular session.' this week, formally adopted the 1941-42 budget, calling for estimated expenditures of $422, 838.80, compared with a 1940-41 bud get of $480487.61, and actual ex penditures in the fast fiscal year of $468,900.07. The commissioners voted to re tain the old tax rate of 70 cents on the $100 valuation, hut this was made possible only through the fact that the bond debt service for this year is much lighter than last year and is considerably smaller than it I ^will b$ next year. I The county ended the year with the budget, as a whole, balanced, although $100,000 had been antici pated from the ABC board, whereas only $8$,000 was received due to de creased sales and accompanying profits. I '. With a budget calling for expen ditures of $480437.61 and actual ex , penditures of $468,900.07, a total of , $497,211.99 was collected d\iring the past fiscal year. Of this total reve f nue, $256,60041 was from tax Col . lections, $85,000 from the ABC board and the balance from'county k fees and state and federal aid for | such departments as social security or pensions, the health office and . I school. maintenance. Tax collections fvere approximately $32,000 in ex cess of budget estimates. With the ABC board having yielded only $85,000 last year, the ^ county reduced the estimate for the c current year to that amount This g move necessitated the levyinjg of g four cents for the Health Deport- g mifent, which last year was main- ^ tained without any aid from/ tax receipts. The ten cent figure levied J last year for the maintenance of f schools was retained for the new } year, but the 10 cents levy for pen- ( siona was increased 11% cents. A levy of 50 cents waaY required for bonds and interest last year, but only 44% emits was found necessary for the new year, which shows a drop in debt service requirements from $223,430 to $151,952^0. 1 i This year, as last, the general fund ! will be maintained from fees and -ABC funds. TheCountyHomei* be ing maintained from the sale of pro duce and' ABC fund* while outside poor and relief?strictly a county cqaritablp? problem?will be main taJied entirely from ABC fund* the same situation that applied last year. As pointed out before, a levy waa required for the Health Department this year, while in 1940-41 it was operated without any tax funds, the county hamng prodded.lis part out of ABC fund* with the remainder of the cost s>i operation coming from state.and federal funds. ;~Y; A breakdown of the 70 cents tax rate for last flseal year and the f current year follows: - ? ?, ; 1940-41 - 1941-42 ' 0 'm ?General Fund? 0 fO -Poor and Belief- 0 0 ?County-Home? 0 0 ?Health Department? 4 ? 10 11# # 50 ?Debt Service- 44^ * ? SCT^ Aettwl ;; i10R.2ttio $ 98,494.14 $110*309.80 _? { ? Comity UQIJI?j. - -r r Prtriy flrtd Relief?** I l|- ?Penaion. Fund? ^ ^| jzSMZMZZ! fivft gallons of gasoline a week. It of recent appropria tions and contract authorizations for defense purposes made by the Bu reau of Research and Statistics of tifce Office of -Production Manage ment, shows that $50,785,000,000 have been allotted to the defense ef fort. The break-down for commitments of the United States and Great Bfifc ain in this country showB that the money is being expended -as follows: Airplanes, $11,967,000,000. Naval vessels, merchant ships and transportation equipment, $8,483, $pogooor ,.y Guns and ammunition, $8,081,000, 000. Industarial facilities, - $5,530,090, SPI m Posts, Depots an&-other non-indus trial construction, $435*000,000. Other equipment, $4,000,000^.4 Miscellaneous items, $8,881,000,. 000. ? NSW TAXES TO PAX. 2 The newrtax JriH, under-considers dm in p/moTMi in to orovide abou ' * additi to Celt by nearly everybody. mf^ for defense necessitate sonn East. Europe and Africa. ^ fte ffii 6U of staggering Russian losses, estimated by Nari spokesmen dSJ 1,000,000 dead and more than 1,000, >00 othet e^es^gpSp I Yesterday's high command an louncemen^p^military Spokesman )f June 4, 1940, marking the end of ;he Battle of Flanders and followed I LS days later by the oomplet* col- I ;apaj of France. -,y;y . The high command told of the; I capture of 895,000 Soviet prisoners, I 310,000 of them in the savage three ind a half-week battle of Smolensk-1 st the gatewdy to Moscow. During the night, the radio blared the victory claims and morning newspapers carried bold headlines telling of "the merciless shattering of the Soviet arihies" in what waa called the second stage, of the battles against Bolshevism. But both the press and radio, re-1 pasting over and over the ekum that I tte^ggd_gg^haa lost* 4,000,Q(jp orj more men- in the most savage uguu ing ever known, were completely silent regaining the German losses. The 'picture of the German vic tory drive was contained in the first detailed communiques issued . by Adolf Hitler's high command since the end of the first week of the fighting. Actually, the communi ques revealed ?o gains that had not already been claimed in the daily communiques or the- reports of the DNB official .news agency. B&^teutral observers professed to find ah explanation fbritoday's an nouncements in a preface to; the four extraordinary communiques m which the high oommand admitted that its week-long silence had re-\ suited in false ideas and rumjtfs among" the German people as well as abroad. ?: FIGHTING IN LENINGRAD I : ? 5 . : REGION GROWS ??BCE I " Moscow, .Afjgfc '.'I. ^ Mentioning for the first time, in. days the Ger man-Finnish attempt to smash into Leningrad from the north across the Karelian Isthumas, Soviet Bua sia reported early today that the against the..Invaders 'fat the Kaki salmi sector, about 7fr. miles north of .Leningrad. THe same report/ issued by th? Soviet Information" Bureau, told oi ? the Nazi advance. A l iiriffid 'to WETD tu0ir CiuiuTWi 11 m t viioot fh? dl "Asia? flw ? i I A' .' Ar*--1 _?" '^K*".'* ".;*? ed States, it has unfroien millions of dollars jyorth of Soviet outers u this country and presumably the flow of American supplies td the fighting: Russians id* k*1* : I 3 Amo unts fjjtnd details were undis closed-}, diii -the ground .tf?by.';:. wiere- ? raiUtgp secrets, but officials indi cated they constituted an impor tant beginning. v 9|jH ootf; the.4 forma* pledge this week to grant unlimited licenses and priority assistance, on Rus sian orders, "upon the principles applicable to the orders of coun tries struggling against aggression," government authorized the ex port of large amounts of materials long on order in this country. Ml How they were moving to Russia also was unrevealed, but the United States has promised "favorable con-1 sideration" to- Russian requests for the extension of available American shipping facilities, presumably fpr. trtmsport across the Pacific to Vladi A * ^ -* TO8tofc In addition, Russia was said, to hqye eight , to 10 vessels normally operating between American porta] and Vladivostok. ? 1 lj" .. " 1 ? ' I WHO KNOWS? ' Ranh Bayt' I 2. How. much is tne reaerai w?- , ernment expected to spend in this i ?$*?!, year? j 3. When does the fiscal year of the Federal Government end? \ .4. Whtfd?,the letter on a sailor's uniform? ..c ?? - \ ?gfc What is the difference between i typhoon, a typical cyclone, and a hur 6. About how many automobiles Jf$re produced in the U. & last ear? j ??' W^ch is xlosest 'to Japan;5 1 Singapore, French Indo-China, the Netherlands East , Indies, or the 9. What do the Japanese mean whm they ahoat "Zamtai"? 10. gow many soldiers were killed in the World War? I . Fayetteville,~Auyust 6. - A *un }. battle aboard a private bus operating betwe*Jjw*tteyi|le ;W&Eo#mg* ; early t&ay left s white military po i't liceman and a .Negro soldier. ,df|d r jdhdufnotha^ .white miUtarpjpolice . The dead : ? grafts, 20, Prfvite Ned taB, M of jftfc I ' "ftl?"T i I *-1" ''?; '>'?b*J ilki -"' ? ? ilgw-1*}*^ * ? . V * ! -' klAl -_^^' '?' j .'i.v '" ? "mix ?'" * **' ,'?' ; s f rain from, 4x*tonieiitiMt ^ ofik> ? thd -vkit-jiM rrf "' .Li?'" 1 ~ , i snooting. i ' 1 Unlike their action in ^Annnnfipg Jj ^n.. r *V.V - " " *v -^ '- I " ." ' W9 ,- !^r>. *_ Jipan's move into Fftmeh Indo-China after it a^jifc-but an accomplished ?/ fact, the two Western powers de fined theirshuri ^'Thail^ ^ .. there still appeared a chance of re- - The policy^ declarations in Wash ington and London gave emphasis sisting there to Japanese demands, to American and British military re inforcements in the Fer East and other indications that a. defense of Thailand was deemed necessary to protect vital interests and territory of the .United States, Britain and the Netherlands in the South Pacific. , The increasing concern of the American government over. Japan's intentions- was expressed by Secre- *.;? tary of State Hull in in informal statement-' whicfi >tmphasixed a nruivu riiiiniwiiMjii ??> u. an ? Japanese move into Thailand would further threaten and endanger Amer ican .interests and security. ;^1 Almost simultaneously in London, Jfl Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden A"j told the House of Commons that I "anything which threatened the in tegrity or security of Thailand would be of immediate interest to Britain." Eden mentioned especially the ..'I Al 1 *- anii HWlntrnl ?IIraw* W kuueayviv BW* ; Jut the British had notified Jepan formally of its attitude. ?' -Both Eden and Hull, however, left unanswered the ''question whether the United States and Britain, fol lowing up their application of strong economic . sanctions against Japan, to the fate of French Indo-China. Iplhdefinmg the American attitude regarding Thailand, Hull drew chief ly from the statement of Sumner Welles, then Acting Secretary, of State, in^ denouncing the Japanese move in Indo-China on July 24. Welles declared .that step clearly ; . was undertaken "because of the esti mated value to Japan of baav in that region .primarily for purposes of further, and more obvious movements of conquest in adjacent areas." Stressing the- threat to sources of vital, defense materials such as rub? ber, tin and oil, Welles said the Japanese; steps "indanger $he safety of other areas of the Pacific, includ ing the Philippines Islands," ami that they "bear directly upon the vital (problem of our national security." Eqgpl Force. All that. Welles said about the Indo-China move and its threat to this country's interests, Hull empha sised, applied with equal force to any similar action in Thailand. Hull also: dted: his onjm statement, before the Bfoppf foreiazt com mittee last January during consider ation of the lease-lend bill,-in which ? asserted: , "It has been clear throughout that start by broad ambitious .riUuni for establishing herself in a dmni nant position in the entire region of the p||ipsp^: ?/1 "Her leaders have openly declared achieve and J namuun uiav poaiuon T?y^ppprro nnt and thua to. mate themselves ion of the we?iifc As adpnsequence, . r they, would have arbitrary control ."*?*?*. MpdP'New Order" in the Pacific ;iiw' ... ,, t ' i ': >'TiTr'??.! . . 'm ? hUy, employnw^t of. ^r^soiW^ of the area concerned for the benefit ? *?' * 9 " i '?*'~v''* ~ ^ "? ' * ^ of that country and to the ultimate Improverishments of. other parte of iaafa rtthPT tVlBtttripft. - Tt' rnftd^ifl ,? W)? -Ci8ii^ wiiQ, f ueBwruCtion ox . pexson Hjb ?*. v,2 ^ a