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Declares America HaaJ
Been Attacked And
Urges Pull Speed
Ahead In Nation's Ef
forts To Halt Hitler
Ism; Applies Words Of
Admiral Farragut
"Damn The Torpedoes:
Full Speed Ahead
Washington.?President Roosevelt
damned the torpedoes and called for
fall speed ahead Tuesday in the na
tion's efforts to hasten "the destruc
tion of Hitlerism."
In a Nary Day srtrtwas, tits chief
executive declared last sight that'
"the shooting has started . .. Amer-j
ka has been attacked."
Then he used for his keynote the]
fighting words which Admiral Fhr?f
ragut gave to history in the battle!
of Mobile Bay.
He pledged that military supplies I
of all kinds would reach Hitler's j
foes despite all Nazi sea war thirsts
and he added with firm assurance: j
"In the light of a good many years
of personal experience, I say that'
it can never be doubted tlmt the'
goods will be delivered by na-j
tk>n whose Navy believes in the tna-j
dition of "Damn the torpedoes; full j
speed ahead."
He told the world "the for-'
wapd march of Hitlerism can be I
stopped?and it will be stopped." '
"He can be stopped and be com- i
pelled to dig in," Mr. Roosevelt said,
"and that will be the beginning of j
his downfall, because dictatorship J
of the Hitler type live only
through continuing victories ? in-)
creasing conquest."
Mr. Roosevelt made two disclos
ures of secret documents which he
said originated with Hitler's govern
ment?one for dividing South Amer
ica into five vassal states and the
other for all re
ligions. . 1
He declared that these grim truths
of present and future plans of Hit
lerism would be denied hotly by the
controlled Axis press and radio. But
he declared that he had a secret
map of South America and part of I
Central America on which Berlin
experts have "ruthlessly
all existing boundary lines"
have divided South America in*"
five vassal states, bringing the whole
continent under their domination."
~ In one of these new puppet states
would be the Republic of Panama
and the Panama CanaL
"This map dear," the
executive said, "the Nazi design not
only against South America, but
against the United States itself."
The plan to abolish all religions?
Protestant, Catholic, Mohammedan,
Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish
would be impoeed on a Nazi-domi
nated world if Hitler Won, Mr. Roose
velt asserted.
An international Nazi church
would be substituted, and the words
of Hitler's "Mean Kampf" would re
place the Bible.
Mr. Roosevelt made but a single
and indirect reference to dafima
strikes, mentioning no dispute spe
cifically, nor any individuals by
name.
The reference was in one brief
paragraph, which followed a declara
tion that defense output mast be mul
tiplied. Be said:
^JTt cannot be hampered by the sal
I We wish to raofad oar readers of
I the State Octteafsiie to bt
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I TK? Ctok takes ail types of crip
I eejte is dee^tho^
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Bat the shooting has started. And
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America has been attacked, The
U. SL & Kearny "is not just * navy
sbsp. She belongs to every man,
woman and child in this nation.
I ham in my possession a secret
map made in Germany by Hitler's
government?by the planers of the
new world order. It is a map of
South America and a part of Central
America as Hitler propones to reor
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Your government baa in ita p pas
sion another document made in Ger
many by Hitler's government.... It
is a plan to abolish all existing re
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The god of blood and iron will
tab* the place of the God of k>ve and
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Very simply and very bluntly?we
are pledged to pull our own oar in
the destruction of Hitleriam.
And when we have helped to end
ti># curse of Hitleriam, we shall help
to estahttsh a new peace which will
give to decant people everywhere a
better chance to live and prosper in
security and in freedom and in faith.
It is the-nation's will that America
shall deliver the goods. In open de
fiance of that will, our ships have
been sunk and our sailors have been
killed. I say that we do not propose
to take this lying down.
Oar output must be multiplied. It
cannot be hampered by the selfish
obstruction of a small, but dangerous
minority of industrial managers who
hold out for extra profits, or for
"bustae? as usual." It cannot be
hampered by the selfish obstruction
of a small but dangerous minority
of labor leaders who are a menace
to the true cause of labor itself, as
well as to the nation as a whole.
We Americans have cleared our
decks and taken pur battle stations.
We stand ready in the defense of our
nation and the faith of our fathers
to do what God has given us the
power to see as- our full duty.
New Legislature
Supports Price
Of Needed Foods
~
Enables Farmers to
Plan Production for
1942
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North Carofaa farmers who help
produce the increased quantities of
by, eggs, evaporated dry
?ought in the 1042 ' Farm Defense
Program will have the protection of
new Federal farm legislation.
price ooHapses for their particujhr
Scott, Chairman
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With additional report* by Rod
i Crose Boll Ghll worker* having been
made/the raised was report-1
Wt* 1880.75 today b^J. BL Moore,J
jfedntly as teado^elo^cai^S
with Mrs. B. S. Scott, in the absence
of the chairman, Mrs. J. M. Hobgood. ]
The directors report that the rolll
call whs successful and had highest
{raise for their co-workers, declar-{
ing that their cooperation and ser-j
vfce was splendid throughout, awl
that a liberal spirit had been demon
Upfeted by the town as a whole.
Other members of the Roll Call]
committee were: Ed Hash Warrant
S. A. Garris, T. E. Joyner, Jr., and
John B. Lewis.
\ Assisting in the canvass were: Mrs.
H. Heal Howard, Mrs. M. V. JonaJ
Miss Vernice Lang Jones, Mrs. M. V.
Horton, Mrs. Bob Fiser, Mis. Ted L.
Albritton, Mrs. James R. Lang,-Mrs.!
James Wheless, Jr., Mrs. Cherry Ess-1
ley, Mm. C. S. Hotchkiss, Mrs. R. T.
Monk, Mrs. Tommie Ryon, and Mrs.
UpB. Lewis.
H. B. Sugg, principal of the color-1
ed school, directed the campaign in
the colored section which made aij
splendid showing as usuak
Calls Sent To
48 Wtte MbH
To Be Sent to Fortfl
Bragg Wednesday,)
Noranber 5
A total of 48 white men register*
ad with the two Pitt County * Selec
tive Service Boards have been ad
?vised to report to their respective,
?hoards at 6 a. m., Wednesday, No
vember 5, whereupon they will be .
sat to Fort Bragg, to be inducted
?id the U. S. Army.
Board No. One will send 22, as
follows:
James .Beverly Congleton, Jr.,
Stokes; Samuel Williams, 115
Briggs Avenue, Greenville; Willie
Moore Murphy, Route One, Farm
ville; Herbert Hoke McGlohon,
Route One, Stokes; Jamea Richard
Jones, Farmville; Alfred T. Hum
bles, Route Two, Greenville;
Stephen Bernice Whitehurst, 789
Raleigh Avenue, Norfolk, Vs.; Hen
ry Bonner, Greenville; Rupert
Hines Barker, Stokes; William
Sherrod- Whitehurst, 304 Meade
Street, Greenville; Joseph Moseley
Newton, Farmville; John Franklin
Stokes, Route Five, Greenville; An
drew Jackson Jones,. 808 Meade.
Street, Greenville; Luther Bender
Baker, 789 Windsor Avenue, N<nv
folk, Vs.; George Thomas Brooks,
Route One, Pactolus; Cecfl Theo
dore Little, 681 N. Main Street'
Farmville; James. H. Manning,
Route Ftour, Greenville; f George
Hendricks .*?. Harris, Route Five
Greenville; Joseph Daniel Gardner,
Fountain;. William Vernon Tyson,
Route Four, Greenville; William
; Ray Bowers, Route One, Paimeta;
John David Jenkins, Route Two,
Twenty-six men will go from Board
No. Two as follows: Fretf Lancaster,
?n TayloSf Win"
*ange bombers Mid tens of thoueands
M- y.: v ' ' .jl
| According to ^reliminaryT.-ieporti
the goal it to provide this country
and Axis opponents, including Great
Britain, Russia and China, with twice
as much military material as they
had been expecting in 1942 and a
similar amount in 1948. The inten
tion is to be ready for a final show
down in 1944. s >
According to seme observnars the
present defehae T losnn Tyi'tvI pro
gram will be doubled. Production will
be speeded to secure twice as many
of nearly every item of military
equipment, with special emphasis on
airplanes, ^especially four-engined
long-range bombers, capable of blast
ing the Nasi lines of supplies on the
conquered continent of Europe, Tanks
in unbelievable numbers are contem
plated. ;V' .-':v - . , ?
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The program as this article is writ
ten, has not been officially approved
but is generally assumed, in view of
the situation in Europe, that there
is every intention of putting the plan
into action although no details are
available because of the element of
military secrecy involved.
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It should be noted that the Supply,
Priorities and Allocations Board,
headed by Vice-President Wallace, Is
acting vigorously to Conserve needed
defense supplies. The order affect
ing non-defense construction indi
cates the extent to which the Board :
is ready to go tq keep the supplies!
of military material up to schedule. ]
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Dctaald M. Nelson, executive direc-!
tor of the SPAC, is likewise known '
to be an official, ready to assume re
sponsibility and Jake the consequen
ces, bat like the Vice-President, de
termined to secure results. He has
said that the natioal defense schedule
should be doubled since the nation
faces the choice of enduring "terrific
shortages for the next* two years and
getting the job done quicUy" or of
living for the next fifteen or twenty
years in ah armed camp. The way to
pvoid this, he says, is "to^go all-out
now and finish it quickly."
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NEUTRALITY ISSUES.
REPUBLICANS DIVIDE :.b?i
LANDON ATTACKS. \
The fight t>ver neutrality legisla
tion in fiie Senate took a novel turn
bat week when throe Republican Sen
atoro?-Bridgei;of New Buhpehire,
Austin of Vermont, and Guroey of
South Dakota?introduced an amend
ment providing for the outright
peal of the entire Neutrality Act of
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Rains were reported as falling gen
erally over large portions of North.
Carolina at the same time, breaking
the second worst drought of the cext
Sherman Ann ? iTiist j
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Lexington, Ky., Oct. 27,?A Fed
"Wal District Court jury today con
victed the "Big,Three" tobaccp firmB,
one subsidiary and" 18 office^ on four
counts of violating the Sherman Anti
Trust Law.
p Returning.? verdict after 20 -weeks
of trial) the jury upheld the govern
ment'e charge that the major tobacco* j
?ftTnry>r>1oa inrfirfirir five firms not
involved in the trial, had conspired
to fix jprices of tobacoo products. * ;
f^lThe convicted companies were the
American Tobacco Company, the R.
J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and
the ^Liggett and Myers Tobacco Com
panyi^i^V- :
They were found guilty of combi
nation and conspiracy in restraint
of trade by price-fixing; monopoli
sation of the industry,^ attempts to
monopolise; and combination and
conspiracy to monopolize. ^
The American Suppliers, Inc., a
subsidiary; of American Tobacco,
also was found guilty on the. four
counts of the indictment, v ' i
Those Convicted
Officers of the major companies
convicted on all counts were:
George Washington Hill, president;
James E. Lipscomb, Jr., vice-presi
dent; Paul M. H&hn, vice-president,
and Vincent Riggio, vice-pie sident of J
American Tobacco. X
S. Clay Williams, hoard chairman^ I
William N. Reynolds, executive com
mittee chairman; James A. Gray,
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president; James. w. uienn, vice-1
president, and Edward A. Darr, sales
manager of the R, J. Reynolds To
bacco Company. ' .
James W. Andrew, president; Wil
liam A. Houht, manager; Edward H.
Thurston, vice-president, fad George
If!*. Whitaker, vice-president of <dg
l&t and Myers.
Maximum penalty provided by law
would carry a $6,000 fine on each
count for each company and individ
ual, anil a one-year prison sentence
for each individual. ;????,:'
Defense and government attorneys
were to confer with the court Tuee
day on fixing sentences. Defense
counsel- indicated the verdict would
be appealed.
Legal Batteries
r The trial -Opened June 2; before
Federal Judge H. Church Ford with
the government represented . by I ?
corps of 25 lawyers, economists and
investigators under Assistant Attor
ney General Bdfrard H. Miller. A
battery of more than 76 lawyers and
1.. ,i ..I t i - .2... i i a,.
i investigators r6pr6SGnt6u tu6 ? toDsc*
CO companies.
|* Fedyal evidence wai produced;!
from' an' estimated four tons of rec
ords i^;~documfcn1?^reprfcsenting
findings' of; 'if two-yefjr'^fustice De
partment' e*andtatioi|gg| 'SS&
The original charges named eight
major tobacco companies^ 26 Jiffill
ates or subsidiaries and 88 officers.
Five oi the eight defendant firms
withdrew defenses and agreed to ac
cept "any penalties* involved-if 4
guilty- dedsion results" against, the
"Big Three." The withdrawal |
braced the P. LoriUard Co., Philip
Morris Co., the Imperial Tobacco Co.,
Ltd., the British-American Tobacco
? MHTer, efiisr govenmnSIF wuuoci,
It IF? ~~ convic ion was an mcucau ^
I tobacco farmers Hid been getting1 too
little for their tobacco la a result of
?I UUV - COxlnpixmCy, -%'v .
Miller said the government plan
med to institute civil actions in an
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(to be illegal ib today's verdict, j
years, will write two or three new
gtrff gssgg
who wdl submit same for next
week's issue. '? -ii-'-' "
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CCTTON VOTE
of Agriculture Wickgrd announced 1
today that a referendum would be ^
ers on continuance of rigid market- 1
ing (Quotas for the 1942 cotton crop.
Approval by two-thirds of the
growers voting la required to make !
quotas operative. Quotas have been
in effect on cotton since 1988.
Vnder the quota system, the 1942 ?
planting aUotment for cotton would
be 27,400,000 seres, or about the same |
as this year. X '
The-rational allotment would be ,
apportioned among growers on the
basis of a formula set up in the 1988
farm act. If quotas are approved,
growers will be fist to sell cotton
grown on their acreage allotment. .
Cotton produced on excess acreages
will be sublet to a penalty, which '
this year is seven cents a pound. ; ?: > 1
Wickerd pointed out that continu
ance of. the present government loan .
program for cotton is dependent upon
grower approval of quotas! The law
prohibits loans in years when quotas 3
are rejected. ' 1
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HUNTING DIFFICULTIES '
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iaric Park, Minn.?While plowing 1
on his farm, Dewey Herfindal, near
by farmer, saw a large flock of wild ?
geese in his field. Running home to ,
get his shotgun, he found his neigh- :
bor had borrowed it. He went to-].
the neighbor's to get it, only to find
he had no shells. Getting into his car i
he went to town to get shells and re
mero.bering he no hunting license,
he bought that, too. Believe it or (
not, after all, he bagged three geese. I.
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^ Wlton Intent
intendment to the pending armed
ship bffl which would bring labor 1
ttrikes within the'category of aabo
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trith a virtual ultimatum for a speedy
nd to the captive coal wine
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nld he l^ers*mrt
proposal. J
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Moscow, Oct SO?The Bed, Atoy
ii nt .i .I m1_i_l.rmjT.jl i^m ? ?? Af'n?, .?-# ?! A
acjmowieagea evacuation or tne great
Ukraine industrial city of KtaAo?f> , ; ?
today, but said most of the important .
factories and hug? stocks of rawnss- $' .
terials were moved out befoi? the
city was abandoned ?'>y- ^'C
A total of 120,000 German officers
and meat were killed or wounded by
Red defenders who held the Kharkov
lines while the kdutfri# plants were
take$to the rear in the"leapft?g"
retreat of Russian industries aa well
as armies, said the early morning
nrn-i lunuIrjiin - _ JA- ,,A, ..k, ..d^fuLul
communique -Broadcast on omripi
wireless. t
It asserted Soviet twopt had frus
trated German plans to capture
Kharkov "as early as September."
: (The Germane announced, capture
of the city Saturday.)
. The early morailig communique It
sued by the Soviet Bureau of Infor
mation raid transmitted by official
wireless said also that * aeries, of
fierce German attacks on the Moscow
front had been beaten off by Soviet
troops! . ^r-y. ?? y- ': ?
In Same Areas
It said fighting1 continued in the
Vlokol&msk Ifortifafc and ttrtoyar
oslavets areas of the Moscow de
fenses, all of which had been men
tioned in previous communiques.
"The Gegmana planned to capture
Kharkov as early as September, but
these plank of jthe German command
remained on paper," ths. co
jaid. ?
"Kharkov has been left by our
troops for strategic considerations
at a time when the Soviet command
deemed it expedient, and not when
the Germans wanted it
"Daring this period, all the most
important factories and plants, rail
way rolling stock, raw material stoma
and other valuables were evacuated^
from the town in time.
Several medium and small plants
jf military importance were- blown
ip.
"In the fighting of Kharkov, the
German Facist troops last nearly
120,000 men and officers killed and
wounded, over 4560 tanks and armor
Bd cars, nearly 3#M) trucks with
various military supplies and . over
200 guns of various calibre."
RUSSIAN ORGAN CLAlMBr ?
I GERMANS PACE FAILURE _
Kuiiyshev, Russia, Oct 29.?-The
Bed armies were declared tonight to '
be beaiipg the Germane bad ingen
aral i'counterattacks ? ail alone the
Moscow- approaches, and iahigh ornn
M?ww^wir 11111 11 -
if the Soviet Union proclaimed that .
^&^i?^iS^d5dS^took on ;
* torn of confidence as to the strop*
gle for Moscod Si?ail|^o?-M|i|ip:r
claims that^six out <of every 10 man ?
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attacking Mofloow's approaehM; Mfcfte.
rallen and that it now m ign*
the MP?ol ?wtt would Mt tfcfe . ^
i*ataM|ta tat on. qu^iftod ta65,; v
reiae on the whole of to. central
to*--: ?
Mosco^S Hum Mmmtat compUcn*-S|;
ing the northwestern defensive poai
of" German spearheads .down -Jfrom^^^|j
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