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1^1^^' HIGH'
Thursday's Sale Aver
ag 37.81 Cents Per
Pound and a Higher
Average is Forecast
For Today
Sates on the Fkrmville tobacco
market this week have been reported
as reflect*? a stronger advance in
prices each day with yesterdsyVaale '
of S07450 pounds bringing fanners
1116,400.78 and an average of $87.81,
which is cloee to the highest paid
since 1010.
Today's sale, which is said to he
the second heaviest of the week, wfll
bring to a close the most successful
week of sales in many years. Floors :
will be cleared in the late afternoon '
in preparation for another heavy '
sale Monday. The quality of the
offering was apparently the same as
Thursday with prices denoting wen ,
stronger competition.
R. A. Fields, supervisor of sales, .
gave the season's figures, including
Thursday's sale as 12^78,454 pounds, .
which sold on the Farmville market
for $3,676^0842, en average of 22l96
cents per pound.
Observers expect the season will
be short this year and predict that {
only a small per cent 'of the crop .
will be left in the packhouses on the
farms by November L But prices
have soared to unexpected heights
and the farmers have realised more
money to date than for their entire
crop last season. According to Su- :
pervisor Fields, the market average
is $12.63 higher than the same date
of the 1940 season.
Governor Urges
Support of Fair
Raleigh, Oct. 2.?Governor Brough
ton today invited North Carolinian*
to see their State Fair at Raleigh,
October 14-18, declaring that he was
"pleased with the progress made by
the fair and with the service it has
rendered toward building a more bal
anced and prosperous common
wealth." ,
"The State agencies are working
in unison towards the goal of pre- \
sen ting to North Carolinians a
graphic picture of the progress of
the State in the various exhibits and
displays prepared for this exposi
tion," the Governor said.
"The State Fair provides a pro
of both education and enter
tainment. It Is the desire and pur
pose of those in authority that the
educational features be paramount
and that the fair shall be devoted to
the purpose of giving to the dtixen
ship of our State an opportunity to
become better acquainted with the
march of progress in education, agri
culture and industry.
"The past four expositions have
been presented under-the management
of the State Department oi Agricul
ture. They have been eminently suc
cessful both from an educational and
financial standpoint The esteem of
the people of our State for this con
structive type of exposition has been
manifested in many ways. I com
mend this great institution to' the
people of North Carolina as worthy
of their continued interest and sup
port" j
More than 90,000 square feet of,
displays of an educational nature
will be seen at the Fair this year,
bat entertainment features will be
abundant mctading the World of
Mirth Shows, with 22 ridsa and shows
on the midway; nine gmabUnd acts
George A IT?id; hsrne? and auto
races; flasauik* each night and
"Lucky" Teter and His Hell Driven
aa October 15. V
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l ^aririeP license' pLat^ wilTbe issu
ed in 1942 tar tracks owned and
M operated by fanners for the traae]
? portatkm of their products and som
? pttee, John W. Goodman* aaabtatf
? director of the N. C. State College
Extension Service said Tuesday.
I In edhf attrattra to the nei
type of license plate, Goodman said
last General Assembly amendec
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Among tzecns j
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Premier iSas is Con
demned to Death by
Germans; Shootings in ;
Yugoslavia
i
Berlin, Oct. L?The Nazi-picked 1
premier of the Czech protectorate of 1
Bohemia-Moravia, two more Czech <
generals and an undetermined num- 1
ber of other persona were shot or *
condemned to death today in stern -
continuing suppression of what the '
Germans term a treasonable plot
The generals, described by a Ger- j
man spokesman as brigadiers, were *
the fourth and fifth of the general <
rank to be executed since the Nazis -
announced they had smashed a eon- :
spiracy to overthrow German rule in 1
the protectorate. '
The announcement that they had
bees shot followed by a few hours 1
the news of the death sentence of 1
General Alois Ettas, the Bohemia- 1
Moravia Premier. He was con- 1
demned by a German court at Prague
for "preparation for high treason and
abetting the enemy." DNB said he '
bad made a "full confession." His ;
property was seized.
Four Czechs were said to have been '
acquitted by a court martial. 1
In its swift action to round up and -
root out all elements connected with '
an alleged plot to throw off German 1
rule, the Gestapo today also held 256 1
Czechs for "investigation." r
Many Executed
There was no information whether
any of these already had been placed
before firing1 squads, but 88 Czechs,
including a number of generals, edu
cators and other prominent persons,
were listed yesterday as executed.
"The punishment of elements in
triguing against the state continues
on its course," said Dienst Aus
Deutschland commentary in Berlin.
This was taken to indicate that
more Czechs were slated' for death
following a thoroughgoing investiga
tion by the new German protector,
Reinhard Heydrich, assistant to
Reichs Police Chief fiemrich ffimm
ter. -
The conviction of General Elias,
who has been premier since 'April,
1939, included a provision included a
provision depriving him of his civil
rights for life.
(There was no explanation for this
sentence against a man condemned
to die. His condemnation implied a
vast extent of anti-German activities
in dismembered Cxecho-Slovakia.)
There is no appeal from the deci
sion of the court except to Adolf
Hitler himself. It was not stated
whether the death sentence already
had been carrid out. '
Elias, who was arrested Sunday,
was not only premier, but minister
of interior; and was a key man in
the administratiop of the protecto
rate.
News of other developments in the
protectorate was reduced to a care
fully-controlled trickle through Ger
man official and semi-official sources.
?Tar Heel Soil
I Is h Etemasd
I Growing Interestin
Purchase of N. C.
I Farms Noted
Raleigh, Sept. 30.?There is grow
, ing interest in the purchase of farm
land in North Carolina, It W. Shoff
ner, extension specialist in farm
? management at-State College, said
[ today. He reported that most of
it those who are seeking farm land are!
?^interested in agriculture on a parti
J 'fRiere axe considerable inqui^iee
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Washington, Oct. 1.?Sweeping
charges of irregularities in policy ,
and "questionable transactions" in ]
the handling of National. Youth Ad- 1
ministration funds were filed with .
Congress today by Comptroller
General Linsay C. Warren. ,
In one of the most scathing indict- ]
ments of a federal agency in recent ,
I'ears, the North, Carolinian asserted ,
that continuation of many current
practices by the NYA "would ap
parently prevent the youth of the ,
country from receiving full bene- ]
fits of the funds" appropriated by j
Congress. ,
Warren's scorching report, cover- f
ing more than 150 pages, was sent ]
to Representative Clarence Cannon {
jf Missouri, chairman of the House i
Appropriations Committee, and was }
released on Capitol Hill. The North i
Carolinian refused to make any
comment on the report, pointing
cut that he was fulfilling his func- ]
tion as an agent of Congress in }
studying and reporting on the man" j
tier in which appropriated "funds were j
expended ,
_. Agency Costs ,
Establishment and maintenance of ^
employment agencies in 180 to 18? ,
NY A offices in 41 states during 1
March, 1940, apparently had cost
$629,527 in excess of the estimates
submitted by NYA Administrator ,
Aubrey Williams, Warren's report ^
asserted. The total administrative ,
cost of the junior replacement pro- }
gram from 1985 to July, 1940, simply .
could not be ascertained from NYA
officials, he added, as "it was stated ]
that such expenditures were charged ;
to the NYA general administration
expense and not set up on the ac- J
counting record as a project."
Examination of NYA records, War
ren declared, revealed "numerous
irregularities or questionable trans
actions, many of which, if continued,
would apparently prevent the youth
of the coSxatry from receiving the
full benefits of the funds" given to
NYA.
Correspondence fund in NYA
files, the report continues, shows
that each state was given a quota ?
of young people to bp given assist^
ance so that appropriated funds
could be expended. As early as
1939, it is charged, NYA began en
countering difficulties in maintain
ing these quotas because so many
young people were entering mili
tary service or finding private em
ployment.
In the face of this situation, NYA '
reduced its minimum age limits from
18 to 17 years and finally to 16 years
so that quotas could be maintained.
The report further asserts that
NYA even asked the Army recruit
ing servnce not to contact youths em
ployed on NYA projects for purposes
of enlisting them.
Other salient charges contained in
? Warren's reportasserte^nsF^^^*
I NY A officials mixed public and
I private business in collecting travel
I expenses, and that some false claims
? for travel authorization and expense
I Certain employes had received dual
I compensation through their being
I maintained on NYA pay rolls as os
I tensibly taking "accumulated leave"
? while they were actually working
?for the Mate employment service,
Certain officials had received per
I diem expenses while actually on
H Headquarters for officials bad been
I selected for the convenience of the
Hi jiffT.if 1_
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I Persons had been employed by
I NYA for use by other agencies.
I Additional compensation had been!
I paid a husband for work done by hisl
I Christmas cards had been printed I
?K*t government expense and sent out I
? by NYA staffs m New York Ithdl
I had been abused through private
long-distance calls, Numerous calls I
lr which parties in three or more cities
f posefipf^
r gr. , , , ,
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J accept NYA employment
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the enormous scope of the defense ?
program. Gradually, the impression J
prevails that the armament program |
presents the world's most gigantic
undertaking, one so largte as to ehal- 1
lenge the productive capacity at the
greatest industrial system in the !
world.
[w|\ ? . ? ? v^:i;:
William S. Knudsen, Director Gen- 4
iral of the Office of Production !
Management, is out with the predic
tion that longer working, hours and
i lower standard of living are jtist
ihead. The re-armament program,,
ie says, will mean sacrifices to the
iverage man and hundreds of thoua
mds of workers will-hive to shift to ?
uew types of work before the national
goal is attained.
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The $3g,000,000,000 that have been,
let in contracts by the armed forces
mean nothing to this man who says
that he understands "man hours
two hands working an hour," and he
adds that "more of us working six
Jays insteaf of five" will be necessary
to produce the tanks, small guns,
ammunition and planes which make
ip successful defense.
Mr. Knudsen points out thai the
armed serviceshave placed more
than 20,000 supply contracts of $10,
)00 or more, with a total valpe of
more than $14,000,000,000. New
plants and additions to plants have
reached a total of 2,750, with a value
of $4,800,000,000. Of this, the Gov
ernment has provided $3,800,000,000.
A., total of 165 ways have been con
structed for merchant ships, With.-81
ocean-going ships launched this year
and 561 expected next year.
The Supply Pryorities and Alloca
tions Board is trying to allocate
available supplies of materials to de
fense and civilian, -needs but Mr.
Knudsen tfarns that it wijl be e mis
take to assume that both needs can
be fully taken cai* of. Defense re
quirements, an utteily unknown quan
tity at this time, may be greatly en
larged because "war is Hke a drunk
en party; you never know what will
happen next." I
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The demand for major raw materi
als, vital to defense, increased in 1941,
over amounts consumed in 1989, from
33 per cent in rubber to 256 per cent
in brass. Requirements for next
year, under present plans, call for in
creases ranging from 4? per cent in
rubber to 214 per cent in aluminum
and 898 . per cent in brass.
vThe average American citizen
should understand that the United
States is attempting to do in a few
years what Germany accomplished
in seven years. The nation has start
ed at scratch, finding # necessary to
construct huge plants before begin
ning the- production of defense ma
terials. Even today, the flow of de
fense supplies is but a trickle com
pared with the enormous supplies
which will begin in 1942.
-
When the nation begins to produce
tanks, planes, guns and vehicles -and
other items of war equipment* by the
thousands each month there are only
two factors involved; Man
hours of work and mountainous sup
plies of raw materials. The labor
must come from Americans, cooper
ating with their Government and with
industry, and some of the materials,
at least, must be secured thrbligh the
discontinuance of the manufacture af
goods desired by American consum
ers. .
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? DEFENSE IN BRIEF
I RESULTS IN SIGHT ~
IMO SCHEDULES
Some idea of the magnitud* of the
I present defense effort is.secured by
comparing the more than $66,000,
?000,000 now involved in the arma
Jment program with the estimated
I cost of the World War to this" couh
ftry, $30,000,000,000.! ; i f Si
v.- .. ' I
Since June, 1940, when the pro
g-ram got underway,' Congress has
authorized the expenditure of $00,
? I nrnnrintinn ^
I propnoiion.
J 1
[ - - Apportionmpiie? -?-Ithft kn?^ - gmx
I shows that the army involves $24,
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| Reykjavik, Iceland, Sept 27.?(De
layed)-^'field force of the United |
States Army?infantry, artillery, and
engineer, signal, ordinance and medi
cal unito?has arrived here *ith vast '
supplies pf equipment and materials. $
to make this one of the most fonnid- t
able fortresses of the North. s
The Americans brought what their 0
commander, Major General Charles c
SrBonesteel, called "some interest- t
ing equipment"?skis, snowshoes, and
Garand automatic rifles for every $
man?to take over camps built by <j
United States Marines and British e
forces. . n
Major General H. 0. Curtis, com- i
mander-in-chief of the British forces <j
and general officer commanding the r
a i i. ? ? ' - - u?jkAM_
tmusn troops on me iokuiud, wu
tinues in command of all Boldiers ]
including the American contingent. I
(The arrival of the American Naval
and Marine forces in Iceland was ?
announced on July 7, although Amer- x
ican officers were seen there as early r
as mid-May.. United States Army) -
Air Corps units are also on the is
land. On September 25, the arrival 1
in Reykjavik of United States Army fc
nurses wtaa disclosed). B
Veteran Leader ?
General Bonesteel, a lean and r
lanky veteran of the last great war, c
told me aboard one of the trans
ports: (
"We are here for hard and serious o
business. I want to impress that on
everyone. There is no time for fool- j
ing." ' ' ' J
The American disembarkation was \
carried out with precisfon. While t
General Bonesteel was met ashore t
by General Curtis, men struggled <
quietly all day, pulling the equip- j
ment' of modern warfare from the f
holds of. the great transports.
General Bonesteel, making his for
mal arrival, took the Salute?along t
with General Curtil, Brigadier Gen
eral John Marston, commander of (
United. States Marine forces in Ice- <
land, and Admiral Scott, the British \
naval officer commanding?in a walk j
along rows of light infantrymen. >
Icelanders gathered at the docks j
cheerd as General Bonesteel saluted <
at the order "eyes right"
The music died, and the Americans j
fell to work. i
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|New Excise Taxes
I Become Effective
? ?? '-f%
Excise taxes levied under the re
cently enacted national defense reve- ;
nue program went into effect Wed
nesday and the public began, to feel
tiie effects immediately. -
Anyone going to a movie had to
pay an extra levy. It also was ap
plied to bus or train tickets, went
into effect immediately upon liquor
and local telephones. Movie tick
ets selling below 21 cents are no
longer exempt from taxes and in
come tax payers were reminded that
they will have to pay more next
March. The exemptions also were
lowered to include thousands here- >
tofore. exempt from the levy.
While the merchandise taxes will
be collected from the manufacturers
many retail establishments were ex
pected to put lip' their prices to.
"train" the public to the increase on
all new goods purchased.
Among the new taxes vrere .levies
on sporting goods, luggagfr^ectri
cal or gne or oil appliances, photo
graphic apparatus, electric signs,
business . machines including- type
writers; rubber articles, washing ma
chines to be used by commercial
laundries,. optical equipment and
electric light bulbs. Taxes were in
creased on automobiles, auto parts,
tires and tubes,V playing cards, ra
dios, refrigerators, safety deposit
boxes, pin ball and slot machines,
bowling alleys and billiard tables^
musical instruments and - phono
graphic records. -
There are also new taxes oh local
telephone bills 'iSM-transportation
pickets. ; ' . if
525 !
? I potatoes, biscuit*. 10c. Lemin pie.
j I Thursdfty L S&Inion croquettes
'
Moscow, Oct. 2.?The United States
md Great Britain agreed to fill vir
ually every Soviet need forf war
applies in exchange for mountains
i Russian raw materials at the conc
luding session- last night of the
hree-power conference, ?. j ^ :
The conference closed two days
ihead of schedule after only three
layB of sessions?probably the short"
st international council of such di
tiensions ever held. A communique
ssued by the British and American
elegations- and one by Russia an-(
tounced its results.
For the United States and Great
Srit&in, W. Averell Hargman and
iord Beaverbrook promised:
"To place at the disposal of the
Soviet government practically every
etpiirement for which the Soviet
oilitary and civil authorities have
aked."
In return, said the communique
ssued by Harriman and Lord Beaver
?rook "the Soviet government has
applied Great Britain and the United
States with large quantities of raw
oaterials urgently required in those
ountriee."
? *3 Tiiimsil I
Arrangements were saia vu wto
teen made to "increase the volume
if traffic in all directions."
The United States-British com
munique declared that Premier
Stalin "expressed his thanks to the
Jnited States and Great Britain for
heir bountiful supplies of raw ma
erials, machine tools and munitions
if war" and acknowledged "the am
)le supply of Russian raw materials
'rom the Soviet government."
Final Peace
The communique ended with this
rtatement:
"In concluding its session, the
xmference adheres to the resolution
)f the three governments that after;
he final annihilation of Nazi tyran
?y, a peace will be established which
vill enable the whole world to live'
n security in its own territory in
:onditions free from fear or need"
The Soviet communique stressed
he "atmosphere of perfect mutual
understanding, confidence and good
trill" and said the "delegates wore
'inspired by the eminence of the
sause of delivering other nations
from the Nazi threat o< enslave
ment." '
Stalin, it Said, "took f n active
part" in the conferen i, which
"manifested perfect unanimity and
close cooperation of the three great
powers m their common efforts to
gain a vietoty over the mortal
enemy of all freedom-loving na
tions." ?. j.' ?
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I The nation's- entire surface trans
?portation system, including railroads,
Iwater. and motor carriers, is being
I studied by a Congressional beard to
determine future possibilities'ih de
I To Remain Open
I Should Avoid Maneuv
I er Territory, Saya
I
I ^Raleigh, Sept. 25-Chief ffigwj
I rials at Hoffman, .said yesterday^!
? had been informed that no majofl
I during maneuvers scheduled to begiil
I Earlier plans had called for tern I
? routes, he said, btxt the 4rmjr&ov I
I has mapped^ ita^ movements most?
(heights, road widths and other infor
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Berlin, Oct 2^Arthorized "Nasi
commentators admitted today that
the Russians may have gained su
periori^jrin the air "in "some sectors" f
by roncentrtting their planes, hot
they said Russia's air losses vert 15
times 'greater than Germany's.' So-"
?let airplane losses the past five ':L
days weregivonas 854, compared to
23 German planes lost
The Finnish capture of Petroza
vodsk, a Lake Onega port on the
Leningrad-Murmansk railway, 88
miles beyopd the old Basso-Finnish
border, was featured in German war
dispatches last night, bat the tetest
news reels, showing German troops
slogging along mod-laden roads on
the Finnish front, augured badly for
future fighting in that area. The
news reels showed the results of fire
weeks of continuous rain in that
area. Supplies moved over roads
pitted with mud holes and "food
Dearer*" were boowh carrying
meals for the front line troops over
12 miles of tundra in five-gallon
containers strapped to their backs.
Secure Railroad.
A spokesman here saft^ however,
that the fall -of Petrozavodsk would
enable the Germans to use the Are
tic railroad to haul supplies down
to the Leningrad front.
The spokesman said "large seals"
German operations still were going
on at the southern front and that the
battle lines were constantly ap
proaching the Donetz basing in the
Kharkov area. f
Nazi informants denied reports
from Stockhom that the Baaaians
had succeeded partially in break
ing through the German siege lines
at Leningrad. The Nazi said the f
action referred to happened last
.week, that the Russians were thrown
back with heavy losses and that
they had not attempted another
break-through since.
The Stockholm report, circulat
ed by correspondents of the news
papers Tidningen and Dagfens Ny
heter from Helsinki, said the Rus
sians advanced from the Leningrad
garrison under heavy artillery bar
rage and led by heavy and medium
tanks. They drove a wedge through
the German line, recaptured one
town and were slowed' down by
German mine fields after Russian
infantry had consolidated the gains,
the newspapers said.
On the central front, "large-scale
Bolshevik attacks" wdte admitted
by DNB, but it add all were re
pulsed with heavy losses for the So
viets. Reminiscing on the battle of
the Kiev encirclement, where 655,
000 Soviet prisoners were claimed of
ficially and Soviet casualties were
estimated-as high, as 1,300,000, DNB
said that in "local action alone" in
that araa-> between August 6 and
September 27, there were 91,752
Soviet prisoners taken, along with
1,044 Soviet armored cars and -802
? ' . f
cannon. <
11 DAILY MAIL DISPATCH
? SATS GERMANS DEFEATED
I! London, Oct 2.?A Stockholm dis
I I patch ot the Dally Mail said today
l| that the Soviet Leningrad amy had
l| broken through thje German lines
II around the city at four points and
I jihad swung back the whole right wing
I 1 of Marshal Wilhelm Bitter von Ltub's
llarmy?constituting a reverse for the
. Germans of considerable magnitude,
j The Russians were said to have
II attacked-acrpss-the River Neva' on
la 30-mile 'front from. &>lfino to
' | Schluesselburgs- Kolpino is 20 miles
Iff southeast of Leningrad and Scbtaes
? j selburg is on Lake Ladago.
J The dispatch said the Germans
" | were forced to retreat 'westward
I >1 from the Eolpino - Schluesselburg
i line, after which the Leningrad gar
j rison "joined up with the rest of
-| Voroshilov's armies in the south."
l! it added that Von Leeb now finds
rj himself forced back to the post- \ ,
Irj tion he occupied early in Septamber.
I
- Mpch U. S. Deportment of Agri
I culture marketing news now is hringy
I vision by a New Tork radio station.
a] Two worthy
i-l who are too had and those who are
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