Too T» TRADE With
Wickard Calls on Cotton Farmers
To Plant Full Acreage Allotment
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
today called on the Nation's two-anda-half
million cotton farmers to plant
their fall national acreage allotment
of aboat 27,400,000 acres of cotton in
1942 and recommended that aa much
of this allotment aa possible be planted
in medium and longer staple
varieties in order to assure adequate
supplies of the quantities needed to
meet military requirements.
The Secmtary emphasized that
this does not mean that allotments
will be increased in 1942, or that
farmers are being asked to exceed
cotton allotments. Farmers last
year underplanted the national cotton
allotment by some four million
acres. The 1941 crop of 10,976,000
bales was produced from a planted
acreage of 22,250,000. The 1941 allotment
was approximately 27,400,000
acres.
"It is especially important," the
Secretary said, "that farmers plant
their fall cotton allotments in those
areas which normally produce cotton
of a staple length of one inch or
better, and where the planting of
the full allotment will not reduce
the acreage planted to other oil
crops. The war emergency has developed
an creased need for cotton
of longer staple lengths. In addition
to helping meet the need for
longer staple lengths, increased cotton
production in these areas will
also add considerably to our supply
of vegetable oils."
On February 5, the Department
announced that the Commodity Credit
Corporation will increase premiums
under the 1942 loan program on cotton
1-1/8 inches and longer in order
to assure producers the same per
acre return from the longer staple
lower yielding cotton as from the
shorter staple, higher yielding varieties.
Growers are being urged to
exercise particular care in cultivating,
harvesting, and ginning the 1942
crop to insure the highest grades
possible.
If the 1942 cotton yield should be
equal to the average yield per planted
acre of 235 pounds for the five
years, 1936-1940, the planting of
27,400,000 acres this year would result
in a crop -of about 13,500,000
bales. If the 1942 yield should be
equal to .the average yield per planted
acre of 211 pounds for the ton
years, 1931-1940, the planting ol
27,400,000 acres this year would result
in a crop of about 12,100,000
bales. '
A substantial increase in the production
of cottonseed oil would result
from the planting of the full
cotton acreage allotment Assuming
that the entire increase in production
of cottonseed is crashed for oil, a
1942 cg>P of 13,500,000 bales would
result in an increase of 250,000,000
pounds of cottonseed oil over 1941. A
1942 crop of 12,100,000 bales would
result in stn increase of 156,000,000
pounds of cottonseed oil 1941. In-'
Tf>nit production of vegetable oils
is am at the major goals of the 1942
FooWotv Freedom Program.
In citing the need for more long
staple cotton, the Secretary said
that the carryover of American cotton
In the United States to next
Auguat 1 will total approximately
10,000,000 tales, of wfcveh it is estimated
aboct 6,000,000 tales will be
umkv one inch in staple length. The
inerontied production of military
goods is consuming more than the
normal volume of the longer staple
and higher grade cottons.
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RADIO TALKS
! * Prominent Doctor* of the cMaty *
* will speak from Station W.G.T.C. *
* on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri- *
* day, April 1, 2 and 3, at 10:45 •
* a. m. on "What The Public Should •
* Know About Cancer." *
CANCER CONTROL
CAMPAIGN DRIVE
April is the month designated by
the Women's Field Army of the
American Society for the Control of
Cancer. Mrs. George E. Marshall, of
Mount Airy, is State Commander and
Mrs. E. Thayer Walker, of Williamston,
in Vice Commander of District
number two, which includes Pitt
County.
The primary object is to fight Cancer
with knowledge. "Early Cancer
Can Be Cored," is the message we
♦ant to convey to every person—both
men women. Next to Heart Trouble,
Cancer is a major cause of death.
Over 260,000 persons died last year
with cancer. It is not contagious nor
infectious to a large degree and it is
preventable if there is no delay in
consulting a competent physician at
the first symptoms.
Plans for radio talks, over W. G.
T. C., newspaper publicity and mass
meetings are under way in Pitt.
Good health and the prevention of
unnecessary deaths is certainly a part
of National Defense. We need your
help-and your financial aid.
Tabitha M. DeVisconti,
Pitt County Chairman.
AXIS SPY RING
Rio de Janeiro, March 26.—-Brazilian
authorities claimed today to have
smashed the center of an Axis spy
ring with headquarters in Sao Paulo.
Many Germans "and Brazilian
"Green Shirts" were arrested, including
their Gestapo leader, a Dane.
Announcement of the arrests was
made in Sao Paulo by the State Security
Department Secretary, who
claimed it was the biggest spy catch
yet made in Sooth America.
Investigation of the ring began
in Sao Paulo, but most arrests were
made in Rio de Janeiro, where police
today were grilling thoee in costody.
Strict secrecy was maintained as to
the identity of those arrested.
Smashing the headquarters climaxed
a two-month long campaign in
which hundreds of Axis nationals
, throughout the nation were arrested.
ATTENDS BUILDING AND
LOAN MEET IN RALEIGH
G. A. Rouse, secretary and Treasurer
of the Farmvi lie Building and
Loan Association, amended a meeting
of District "Presidents and State
Officers and Committees which was
held at the Sir Walter Hotel, in Raleigh
on Wednesday. Mr. Rouse is
president of ^District No. 2.
FOUNTAIN NEWS
(By MRS. Ij. P. YELVERTON)
Miss Bobbie House of Turboro
spent the week end with Miss Doris
Yelverton.
Mre. W. D. Owens is visiting. Mr;
and Mrs. William Walker in Washington,
N. C.
Ki«-g*« Business College in Raleigh,
was at borne for the week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Carter Smith and
Mrs. J. W. Redick visited friends
and retattves in Walstonburg, Sunday.
Mrs. J. W. J«ffirson, Mrs. J. A.
Mercer and Mrs. j. L. Dorier spent
Wednesday in Rocky Mount.
Mrs. J. N. Fountain returned on
Tuesday from Lombartcm, where she
spent several days visiting relatives.
Mrs. G. W. Lane and Mrs. B. A.
Pope sj,«nt the week end with Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. McCullere, near Gar
Air Observation Post
For Week March 30th
Gas ani Fuel 03 |
f IPiice^ncrease
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Eastern and Southern
States Affected; Sinkgiff
of Ta nkejrs la
Blamed
Washington, March 26.—The government
today approved * price-increase
for gasoline and fuel oil in 17
Eastern and Southern states and
the District of Columbia, effective
immediately, to compensate for higher
oil transportation costs resulting
from twikw sinkings.
Tank wagon gasoline prices will
be boosted half a cent a gallon
throughout the area, and service
station operators in all of the states,
except Georgia and Florida, will be
permitted to increase prices accordingly.
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Other states affected axe Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode
Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia, North Carolina
and South Carolina.
The order applies in Florida east
of the Apalachicola River.
Retail gasoline prices in Georgia
and Florida were increased last fall,
the Office of Price Administration
explained, and have since bsea
higher than those "in adjacent states.
Home owners, heavy indusries
and" shipping woe affected by the
increase in fuel oil prices.
The prder permits a four-tenths
of a cent a gallon increase in prices
of light household fuel oils and an
increase of 20 cents a barrel on fuel
oils used by heavy industries and
shipping. ,
OPA said it approved the inr
creases on "urgent recommendations"
by Petroleum Coordinator
Ickes and studies of estimated increases
in transportation costs furnished
by oil companies.
The latter estimated that their
current additional costs resulting
from use of railroad tank can instead
of ocean tankers would esceed
|100,000,000 a year.
The following Air Observers for
this week are listed below and they
are requested to consult posted bulletins
at the City Drag Company
and Post Office for Hours Scheduled
to serve:
Monday, March 30th.
ReLoy Bass, R. N. JMHi
E. Pollard, G. M. Holden—J. Y. Monk,
Jr.—Wooten's Station—W. J. Ras-|
berry—C. S. Hotchkiss.
Tuesday, March Slit
B. L. Lang, C. H. Joyner—J. B. |
Roberts, H. W. Kemp Geo. Mooi
Wooten's SMtion—A. F. Joyner—T.
B. Rouse.
Wednesday, April 1st.
F. W. Satterthwaite, M. V. Joim»~Abe
Wooten, Trfccy Johnson*—C. A.
Tyson — Wooten's Station — R. D.
Rouse—G. P. Burgeron.
Thursday, April 2nd
R. S. Scott, J. N.
Moore, Charlie
-^Wooten's Station—Geo.
B. Lewis.
Friday, April »rd.
C. W. Blackwood, M. F.
T. E. Joyner, Jr.,
R. E. Pickett — ''
Jttnea
W. C. Harrell, C.
Beckman, Ted
buck—Wooten's
lard, Jr.—C. M.
Lovelace In Plight
With Jap Planet
In Eastern Area
LiM-CenmaiKbr Don A. LonUea,
son «f Mrs. J. W. Lovelace, formerly
of this city, flight commander of a
squadron of planes 00 the Aircraft
Carrier U. S. 8. Leadngtan which recentfjr
were revealed to have engaged
Japanese planes in a terrific tattle
between the Caroline and Gilbert ialands,
has jttat written his mother Gn
interesting- description of the battle
which saw the United States forces
Moscow, March 28.—Red army
force* tonight were reported battling
within sight of Staraya Russa,
trap for the German 16th army, and
storming their way from houae to
house through the Masted stiburbs of
Stalino—"City of Steel" at the other
end of the eastern front near the
Sea of Azov.
The army publication Red Star
said that the Russian army reducing
the Gerroaa forces at Stai*ya Russa
bit by bit now has liberated 150 of.
the 800 inhabited points in that -area.
Heavy tank unitsv leading shock
tr'oepe of Marshal \ Semyon Timoshenko's
southern army were said
to be pushing into Stalino in violent
fighting.
Tern* Campaign.
The German occupation forces
were accused of waging a terror
campaign against civilians in the
Smolensk area, burning 90 vilages
and slaying "unconquerable" peasants
by the hundreds as the Russians
drove closer to that big base.
Front line dispatchee said the Red
army had regained all or part of 22
districts in Smolensk province while
guerrillas behind the German lines
had slain 4,600 enemy troops, freed
8,000 Russian prisoners aqd cleared
the way of eacape ,ior 5,000 other
Soviet aoMiars who were cut off.
Red Star aaid a Red army unit
recently sped 30 miles across icecovered
Lake Ilmen to the outskirts
of Staraya Russa in a surprise sortie
against the trapped Germans. The
detachment of Soviet skiers broke
into the outskirts of the town and
freed several hundred men from a
war prisoners' camp.
Red Star also said that on the
bitterly-contested front west of Moscow
the Russians were assaulting
continuous German lines and fortications
guarding key communications
centers and a aeries at villages.
It was the first report of' any unbroken
German lines being encountered
on any front
Recounting the batOe for the key
locality of "S" on the southern front,
a communique said that the Axis
forces supported by 35 tanks and
30 planes counterattacked the Russians
at the (outskirts. After losing
400 nun in kdl#d and wounded,
along with 13 tanks, the enemy was
forced to fall back.
In another sector of the same front,
the communique aaid, Soviet units
destroyed }4 German tanks.
Large forces of German bombers
and fighter planes appeared over
the Kalinin front northwest of Moecof,
where violent air battles going
on for some days were intensified.
The Russians were reported to have
repulsed counterattacks on the
Bryansk front more than 200 miles
southwest of Moscow, where they
appeared to be nearing the main'
city between Orel and Smolensk. L
The Soviet radio, in broadcast
from the central front, said that in
the test few days one Russian unit
had killed 2,800 Germans, captured
600 rifles, and destroyed 13 tanks
j second, ln> prevent dinmo by prot6Ctive
vaccinations, as In Diptheria,
Small pox, Typhoid fever, etc., soil
third, to develop Therapeutic Chemical
dngs, which have specific direct
action upon the course of diseases,
namely, diaesse germs, when disease
does count. ' £*' »
It is the 'latter medical ambition
that I have chosen to discuss with
you.
For .the sake at study, disease causing
germs may he divided into three
large classes, according to their structual
appearance as we view them under
the microscope. Spirochetes, or
cork screw germs: as example, those
that cause syphilis and trench mouth
infections; cocci, or round types of
gems, which is probably the lsrgest
group with which we ore concerned
in medicine and may be divided into
four groups; the monoccocd, those
occuring in groups; the diptoooed,
those occuring in pain; the streptococci,
those oecuring in chain like'
formation; and the staphylococci,
those occuring in clusters or clumps.
Such diseases as pneumonia, scarlet
fever, ear and mastoid infections are
due to members of this group. Then
there is the Bacille, or rod-shaped
germs, which also cause quite 9 variety
of diseases: such as typhoid
fever, tuberculosis, diptheria, etc.
It ia necessary that we have conceptions
of the types of disease causing
germs in order to understand the
effective uses and limitations of the
present available chemo-therapeutic
drugs.
wmie Malarial lever la Que to parasitic
infection rather than a germ,
it was the first disease to be successfully
treated by direct actio* of a
chemical substance: namely, quinine,
which is secured from the baric at the
cinchona tree. The use of tea, made
by boiling the bark of this tree, has
been successfully used in combating
chills and fevers, caused by material
.parasites, for hundreds of yean; in
fact its use dates back as far as we
have written historiaal records. It
was used, extensively, by the early
Chinese physicians. Later, various
purified alkaloids were developed, fer
our use, such as quinine sulfate and
atabrine. This disease was successfully
treated by the use of these chemical
products far many yean before
we actually knew what caused malarial,
fever. The success of the use
of these substances in treatment of
malaria has stimulated the hope of
scientists and physicians that other
substances might be developed which
would have some dramatic action
upon diseases as the substances do in
the treatment of Malaria.
I'm telling you only of the successes;
space will not permit me to
enumerate the failures. Scientific
progress is made as the result
long tedious hours of thoughtful investigation
and research.
jiThe nsar^ Chemo-Therapeutic success
comes as a result
of Ehrikh, A German
in 1909 developed an anenktt dye
known as Salvarsa* or
Hfc<*!
of the work
:-screw-like 'germs. This drug]
valuable in
Syphilis.
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U. S. representative «W wffl assist
State Health Officer L. K Hinten
in Bstsat Control beta.
certain infections caused by the
cocci or round-type germs end especially
those which arrange themselves
in chain-like formation. This
drag was particularly useful in treatment
of Septic sore-throat and puerperal
or so-called "child bed fever."
Stimulated by this success, scientists,
the world over, started experimenting
with" other Sulphonic add
derivatives, and combing these derivatives
with various other products in
an attempt to find other useful combinations.
The next success aomes as a result
of combining Stflfanil amine with
Nicotinic add. The latter being a
portion of Vitamin B complex. This
gave us Solfapyridme in 1936. You
all know the dramatic success this
drag proved in the treatment of pneumonia.
The chief disadvantage was
that it made the patient quite uncomfortable
because of the tendency
to cause nausea and vomiting.
The next success came as a result
of combining sulfanilamide with a
portion of Vitamin B-l Complex.
This drug had all the advantages of
enlfanflomide and sclfapyridfate combined
aad feradditioa was not so likely
to cause nausea and was useful in
a much wider variety or diseases. It
is called, SuHathiaaele. In the words
of Dr. Billy HacNider, Professor of
Pharmacology at the University of
North Carolina, "This seemed like a
gift direct from Heaven," and has
added greatly in our successful attempts
to combat many types of infections.
Like, the above drugs,
however, it has its limitations.
Within the past two years, another
success has be en achieved by combining
sulfanilomide with the other
portion of Vitamin B-l complex. This
is known aa sulfadiazine. This drug
promises to take til the advantages
of its predecessors and to ha useful
in still a larger group of diseases.
So far, then, we have very effective
Chemo-Therapeutic agents with
which to combat the diseases caused
by the round and cork-screw-like
germs. Neither of these agents have
proven very successful in combating
the diseases caused by bacdlli or rodshaped
germs. Science is still searching
and trying to improve the things
that we have. We trust that in the
near future we mm? find some product
that will prove as successful in
the treatment of disease* caused by
the latter type of germ. If we can
it will be a glorious day, for then
maybe we can effectively and quickly
oontrol and cure badllary types of
diseases, especially Tuberculosis.
on the alert for the beat intent* of
the citiaana of Farmville have laoo died
a war on RATS, not <mky became
the rat is very destructive M'lt
treacherous carrier of itln—wr sach
as Typhus F«ver. Assisting in this
program will be L. C. Whitehead,
representative of the U. S. flak sad
Wild Life Service, Division of Predator
sod Rodent Control for the
South. Atlantic States; ate L E.
Hinton of the Slate Board of Health.
Bait treated with Red Squill is
again being pat out by the CKy
crew in treating the duwnh/wn ana
and packages of bait an to be left
at all residences. The cooperation
of each household is requaatad in
patting the bait oat property according
to instructions given. Mr. Whitehead
emphasised that while the
greatest number of ate can be hilled
in the shortest length of time, that
conditions cooperate in the control
of rats by each person in Famvffle
in order that the rat population be
kept at a minimum at all times. To
obtain this goal, it requires your
cooperation with the Garbage and
Sanitary Department of the CSty
through the proper placing of garbage
in metal containers with tight
fitting lids and the prevention of
accumulation of debris or trash being
piled up on the residences and
vacant lota.
When ready access to food is eat _
off and garboiage places an eliminated,
the Tat population can be kept
down to a minimum.
In business houses, the closing of
openings around pipes, ventilators,
windows, through the qss of hail
screen or cement will generally keep
the rats oat of the building. The
result in saving in a short time will
pay for this cost
You should supplement the above
with the use of traps, for once the
rat population is ndnced they can
-not only be eanCaily trapped out bp
this condition, bat' maintained^ for
long periods wfasn traps an kept •
set to catch an occasional lone raider.
New First Aid Classes
To Begin March 30-31
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At ft meeting of the Medical Service
Committee Wednesday night,
March 25th, plans were laid to open
two more Red Grose Fknt Aid Training
Courses; one to begin Monday,
March 30th, at tha Farmville High
School litis dam will be made up
of from SO to 35 Seniors, Junion
and Teachers^ and will be mbducted
by Charles S. Hotchlriss and John
B. Lewis.
The second class will begin Toesday,
March 31st, and will meet Tuesday
and Thursday at each weak at
8:00 p. m., at the Fartnville Colored
High School for all interested colored
citizens.
Those wishing to take this course
are asked to contact H. B. Sugg,
principal of the Colored school, at
This class will be conducted by
Walter B. Jones ami W. H- Doke.
The class now in ptcgM— in the
City Hall'will continue under the instruction
of Stanley Garris and
Bryan Gaddy. *• . ' • >*
|Other classes are expected to be
organised at the completion of those
now in progress and scheduled, or
earlier. Watch for further announcements.
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The classes and fetching will be
"supervised from time to time by
Doctors John R 'Mtrwbosn and R. T.
Wflfiams.