11II r 111?11 it t ''****"*" ' ** 'X rgHH| wp% f*\v xiA*- ~ ? ! SELL ? BUT and BANK f | ^ ^ ^?, ^ 11 u ^f[yg| | 8g MJI ' EPb!^^ + """IN PARMVTLLE ?- * X m* m rem * no ttwit ? -. H -7-H 4* **0* A SBttU 10WB Ally fllOHt A* Z Yw T? T8A0B With Tfam * JL .JNHw -,?B>" W#> mkmm ?? W-' W ?i M.^r. ~~? vamybw micmsim ?ulut ^i"""??""y ""??""? "?1m1 ' ' . number thioteen I Dedu-ed To Be Better Than Expected |Ppj Auction markets of the Carolinas flue-cured border belts swung into were reported unofficially ranging:' - from as- to 28 cents ft pound. *|| The nine South Carotins markets in the belt averaged about 15 cents last season, while the seven North Carolina markets averaged 15.14 cents. The Georgia-Florida markets first to open in the country, averaged 2&06 cents last week. Y First reports said fanners general ly appeared pleased with prices and a number of points reported not a : single grower dissatisfied with pay ments he received during the first hoar's sale. The Tabor City, N. C., market op ened with brisk bidding and good 1 prices for domestic types with the 4 export comp&nines buying little..TW 4 first 3,590 pounds soil there brought 1 an average of 22-6 cents. Prices 1 anged from four to 38 cents. There was s considerable quanity of good j smoking tobacco in the 20-30 cents i range, but much common leaf in the i six to 10 cents class. There was an < unusual scarcity of middle grades in i the "teens" price class st Tabor H City. i ' At Wbiteville, N. C., the average 4 paid for the better than expected < quality offerings on the first 20 rows was 26.85 cents. The prices there i ranged from four to 37 cents and I . more than one million pounds were 1 no the floors. ' - Sales Supervisor Lawson Jordan i of MlLlins, largest market in the i belt, reported that the 31,688 pounds sold during the first 20 minutes of t auctioneering there, brought an av- < erage of 26.49 cents. 1 The top price paid, _Lawson said r was 50 cents for extra good quality 1 leaf. A total of 1,800,000 pounds, was i offered at Mullins. At Conway, where 750,000 pounds j were offered, the average price paid 1 during the first five minutes of the i auctioneering was 27-1-2 cents. All 1 Conway warehouses were full with 1 weed described as "very good" qual- 1 ity and the prices ran as high as 45 cents. At Trmmonsville, Sales Supervisor J. P. Hawkins said the offerings were of good quality domestic smoking types and indicated that ( the first day's average would be - around 28 cents. The first hour on the Loris mar- t ket saw 25,000 pounds sold for an } average of 27.70 , cents. Offerings { were fair in quality, but light in weight. With 450,000 pounds on the floors, sales were blocked. At Kiagstree, prices for the first two rows ran from two to 27 cents , and the indicated average was 25 cents. The medium to good quality offerings totaled 175JOOO pounds ' ?:j The first, row of. the 300,000 tot' \ 400,000 pounds offered at Pampheo brought prices which average frpm 30 to 30 1-2 cents. The quality there waa described aa fair. . .. - Prices during the first hour's Mies in Darlington, wore around 300,000 pounds were on the floors, the prices , ranged from six to 36 cents. Prices during the first hour's sale on the Chadboum, N. CL? market J indicated the average there would be between 25 and 28 cents. The better grades were selling about one^hmUJ v higher then last year, CWferings^were J J between 225,000 and 280fl00 pounds,!? Approximately 1,000#X) pounds of j tobacco, described as better than fimfei, offend opening day last yesar wias onr the Xumbezton market and the un-i official indicated avenge ww 25 I" CPptSi fj Official U. S. government figures on|! the trading there during the first! hour?80,738 pounds sold, f22^,53! ? m_ a- - .?| . - ' I . m m m- ' Washington, Aug. 13.?By the hair tine margin of a single vote, a tumul tous House gave its approval last sight to an 18-months extension of lervice for the amy's rank and file. Tempers frayed by the rough and tumble debate of a 10-hour session, the representatives bunt into a roar when Speaker Rayburn ended the iramatic suspense of the final roll all with the announcement that the egislation had abeen approved by record vote of 203 to 202.. Thus, the House joined the Senate n approving the War Department's nsistent request that Congress au horize selectees, national guardsmen md reserve amy components be kept n training for a total of 30 months nstead of 12 and that it remove the 100,000 maximum on the number of iraftees that may be in service ai me time. Final congressional action by the week-end on a compromise between he almost identical Sehate and Souse bills was expected on all aidea ?but the unusually close House vote ?aised several questions of proced ure. The normal course would send the measure to conference with each chamber being reqnired to vote: oh he compromise version. That would nean that the administration would lave to run the risk of being defeated n the House. Senator Barkley, of Kentucky, the najonty leader, expressed the hope hat the Senate might accept the ninor House changes in its original rill, thereby permitting it to go to ;he President without any further 11 iouse consideration. ^Representatives of . the world's I Bess" in the njo^e for an intemation-11 Bl wheat pool for post-war' use. 11 ? _____ I Bo&ed by millions of fighfoqy men; Brail, Russia has provided the men. I H J ?? ? i??^ ^ >1*1 toasetoMl rita. the Farmvilie Masons os hosts I J^SmdjSaster^^r.Chi*R EHrifcefB ind^nad^' be* I eluded a number from "Rocky Mount, I ?sfew Berns district D6putyl Qrtfid jen/t Wm P OmlfU I ^ ? ~ *??** ? m? Ma OuUvU^ j I ^ 7 - " -''?- ???- ?j| J IrPArffP RivlfTtloTo f ? A ? ^ ^ rsAOV/v Trunilj. ITAASII ;r'%' ^^sSHl ? e* ''*?'? " dB - V? ; ' ' - ' J fS^nrtro Pi- . J u * ' A. (X jfftnjr and ComnBnv '? was elac!-! ?* of the Slftduhcftr To-1 o+irm I Donaldson wa|r= reelected secretary I 8 I WIIVII IwlUilH J ?*"*"??? I n v? o n I 1 -? ?-?? _??- !V ?~rST..1K ? -- -- ?- - - - M w ? K ?* -- ."1 V T&nCO CxIQailv - (Jlnlu* i S*a**'^oS- J bood." with the Axis by Bstag Martinique and other French pos sessions in-the Western Hemisphere, i The.. German-dominated news papers in Baris, quoted information from . Stockholm, alleged '-that ftrl? 1 tain and jfiie United States are "nearly agreed" on a bread program of coimtering^France's move toward 1 fuller colloboration with Adolf Hitler The British and Americans, ac cording to ?'this unconfirmed - report Will take- "immediate militaj^- and > political measures" in both V* At lantic and Pacific if Fn&* acta id conflict with the Axis, including: 1. A joint occupation of Free town on the West African coast just south of strategic Dakar to 4pttt pres ure" on the French. 2. Ocupation by United States forces of all French possessions in the Western Hemisphere. 3. A break in American-French diplomatic relations add Uniteg States recognition of Gcfaehd Charles De Gaulle's "Free French" regime. Severe financial sanctions against : France in event diplomatic relations : with Vichy are broken off. The Paris press, inflaming French- 1 American relations with a deluge -1 of bitter accusations, asserted that i Marshal Henri Philippe Petain's ; radio address Tuesday evWdng ?] marked an essential turning point in i the French national revolution" and i called it a sharp rebuff to the United 1 States. 1 Diplomats in Vich/ found nothing < in *the 85-year-old Marshal' speech, < 1 P.rio V.d J ^Huvwciei)?Mf HUllB^BnWRlw ?contentions that it cousituted a warn ling to the United States. To the con Btrary, they said, it was intended as an appeal .to American opinion for ?"understanding and sympathy." Petaxn's speech was re-broadcast tonight to France, and the overseas ?Empire, compelling postponement of a radjo address which Vice-Premier , ?Admiral Jean Francois Darian was ; ?to have delivered at 7 p. m. to the ] French armed forces. ?:%{??? '' $ '? Darian to Speak Darian,, given supreme authority [over the armed forces and overseas ?France, making him the strongest ?French leader since Napoleon, wlH speak Thursday evening. .'1 Si It was agreed today that Petain's speech, revealing that Admiral Dar- :1 lan is carrying Francs "toward whole hearted collaboration with Germany,: ' is the most important of any made since the collopee of France because < of -the unusual frankness with which 1 Petain told "of the serious situation withinr France and the split existing in public opinion. j ?MPptsun, brought into >|he opeat|h 1 situation of rampant discouragement ] and distrust of his Vichy government, both in unoccupied and?'Nazi-held IW ? ? Darian was busy today, establish ing his new national defense minis- ^ gSffiW Mm ?nr;?W'| ti I will hand-pick various former French ??. ? - . | >^ m ' ? V-J' 1 r?TLr\Tvjlwft ii LT2 ? *v ^ i 1 ?. -???? - I Pftt T in nor Colpo I -
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