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KrSs.' DAT, II, IMS HIGHER TOBACCO PRICES PREVAIL ON GEORGIA MARKETS « Opening Prices Eight To Ten Cents Above Opening Day Last Year Valdosto, Ga* July 28.—Georgia's .bright leaf tobacco on the opening Tuesday brought prices averaging 28 to 33 cents per pound in first sales at the 15 markets. Some baskets sold for as high as 41 cents a pound. The average pxjce per pound during the first week's sales last year was 120.38 per hundred. Nashville and Moultrie markets re ported some sales at 41 cents per pound. The average price for the first few. rows being from 30 to 31 cents per pound, or eight to ten cents higher than last year's quotations on opening day. Tifton and Baxley markets paid a top of 40 cents on the first few rows with an estimated average of around 30 cents a pound. Lower grade leaf was selling at from six to eight cents. Georgia tohacco, used mostly in the manufacture of cigarettes, brought growers (111,408/100 last year when the crop totalled 56,086,028 pounds. The poundage has varied from twelve million in 1932 to 103,305,159 pounds. Farmers harvested 65,000 acres last year and this year's yield was ex pected to be about the same. The crop wss described by Agriculture De partment spokesmen as "fair" in some areas and "better than last year" in others. The 16 to 38 cents range held at Waycross and at Metter the first 91 baskets sold for an average of |32.03 per hundred pounds. First prices Statesboro ranged from 18 to 39 cents and at Hahira the range was from 18 to 38 cents, with the bulk of the crop selling around 30 cents per pound. Hahira warehouses were well filled with the leaf which was described as medium and low grades. The average for the first row at A del was 33 cents per pound. The range on the first 50 baskets at Adel was 30 to 35 cents with some baskets bringing up to 38 cents. The average at Hazel hurst was 28 cents fot the first two rows. Average yield per acre in Georgia has been estimated by the department at 962 pounds. This figure is seven pounds above last year's average and only 74 pounds under the all time high set in 1940. Sales at the 15 Georgia markets will continue 15 or 20 days. Auction sales did not start last year until August 5th. Due to the early opening of the markets and the lateness of the maturing season this year, no especially heavy offerings were expected the first day. Bonner To Address American Legion Meet In Edenton ■ Washington, July 28. — Congress man Herbert C. Bonner, ranking democratic member of a special com mittee from the ^Merchant Marine Committee of the House of Repre sentatives, designated to investigate the conceiting of the Higgins beat contract at New Orleans, left Wash ington City today in route to New Orleans, with other members of the investigating committee to conduct hearings in that city. Mr. Bonner will stop at Edenton, North Carolina, to address the Ameri can Legion on the occasion of its installation of Post Officers. - 'j Mr. Bonner stated that in ail prob ability the committee would be in New Orleans for at least a week, and that from the outlook, based on the hearings so far conducted in Wash ington, IX C., he will he unable to enjoy a vacation during the recess of Congress, as he intends to give his full time to this responsible duty. Report Made on Rural Electrification In This Area at St Louis Meet - '! . Ijljfl' II" . St Louis, Mo. Special) July 29.— Details of how the Pitt & Greene Electric Membership Corporation, REA system serving the rural sec tions of this ana, is geared to the war effort were reported to a con ference of REA superintendents from eight Atlantic seaboard states at the national headquarters at that agency in St. Louis this week by R. A. Joy ner, of FarmriUe, manager of the cooperative who is attending the meeting. The policy of the Pitt A Greene Elec tric Membership Corporation, accord ing to Mr. Joyner, is in line with that of the national organisation as ex pressed by REA Administrator Har ry Slattery when he said in address ing the opening session of the meet ing: "Every rod oi the 360,000 miles of' REA line must serve the war. When you managers and superintend ents keep those lines working, you are on the war front—you are doing your part." Mr. Slattery pointed out that neai* ly a million farmers, served with REA power are able to do a better job supplying much needed food for ourselves and our allies because they have electricity. In addition to serv ing the farmers themselves, REA lines are also serving hundreds of food processing plants, military establishments, and decentralised war industries. Rural power lines built in peacetime were ready when the call came, • and often advanced ths work of war plants by weeks and months. "I don't want yon to forget for one moment," said Mr. Slattery, "that the war is our number one job today and every day, until the final victory is won. If we dont win a complete victory, we might as well forget about any post-war building of elec tric lines, or building anything else, except more weapons for another war. "We've pledged ourselves, all our resources to redeem the enslav ed people, and to prove that we re member those heroes who have- laid down their lives for justice and liber ty and democracy through the ages." There is now less horn blowing on the streets but a lot mors on the hustings. Public of Fortfe Washington, July 29.—Progressive shortages in essential supplies ap peared likely today to bring1 more forcibly to every home what Presi dent Roosevelt termed the need of a greater realisation of the serious ness of war. Asking full civilian participation in a scrap salvage drive aad warning of fort hoonn pg shortages in many foods, the President said at a press confer ence yesterday that the situation had yet to be realized by many people in this country. > He declared that while there would be no general food shortage, many specific items available now would be lacking later, A current shortage of meats in some area, he addW, was symptomatic of the conditions which will produce deficiencies of certain Jtods in the future. The President attributed the lack of meat to the fact that the armed services have grown to abort 4,000, 000 man with a greater consumption of meat than in normal times; par High Court Hears Pleas •*!• '.Tj Defense Counsel Seek ing: Trial of Sabo teurs By Ci?il Courts Cherare President Roosevelt Without Authority To Have De fendants Tried by Mili tary Commission "Washington, July 29. — Govern ment prosecutors of seven alleged Nazi saboteurs fought a defense chal lenge of President Roosevelt's right to onto a military trial by contend ing before the Supreme Court today that the prisoners were "enemies in as practical a sense as parachutists or invading amies." To the defense contention that the President's proclamation denying the prisoners access to civil courts was "totally invalid and unconstitutional," the prosecution rejoined: "Those wiom the enemy sends to destroy our industries and lives and the. very existence of the "nation can hardly be in a position to claim con stitutional -rights, privileges and im munities from the nation which they seek to destroy." As Col. Kenneth C. Royall of de fense counsel outlined the defense case and noted the admission of the prisoners that they ^ad landed from German submarines, Justice Jackson interposed «jgueation as to why they did not constitute "an invading force." • Royall explained that ^he prison ers were contending that they used that method to escape from Ger many, and were not admitting that they were members of the German military force. But even if they did constitute "an invading foree," he continued, they still were entitled to access to the civil courts. Jackson insisted that he could not understand when an invader re ceived the rights to enter the civil courts.. "When be enters the community," Royall said. "Does that mean that every spy has a right to the civil courts?" Justice Reed asked. Royall said it did not mean that, and that in the opinion of the de fense counsel these men were not charged as spies. Justice Jackson then interposed the hypothetical case of ' a regi ment of soldiers marching into the United States, and asked whether they would have rights in the civil courts* ' r: . - Royall said that they would not have such rights because'they would be prisoners of war, but that the seven petitioners had loo* the right to be treated as prisoners of war ,by taking off their uniforms. This challenge of the war time powers of the chief executive and commander-in-chief was made in si brief in support of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. J"' v . j In effect, the defendants' army officer counsel were asking the court to take the prisoners out of the hands of the commission ap pointed by Mr. Roosevelt and let them be tried in the civil courts. The request was made at an ex traordinary session of the nation's highest tribunal convened on call of Chief Justice Stone. The stately supreme court chamber was filled by persons eager to have s specta part of the'job is still ahead" ~Any letup now, he said, "would mean yean more of war and hundred! of thousand, more lives." Chairman Nelson, a8 an index of the Nation's productive effort, esti mated that approximately 86 per cent of the U. S.'» record fanaldng income during the fint six months ef this year went into military channels, this compares, he said, to the 50 to 75 percent of total income being spent by Great Britain and Germany. The War Production Board an nounced it will concentrate produc tion of civilian goods in certain plants and regions as much as possible. The Board said, as a general rule, small plants will be kept in civilian produc tion and large plants will be requir ed to suspend civilian production. Civilian production will be restricted or suspended in regions where labor is urgently needed in war plwits or where power shortages are likely to occur. Price Administrator Henderson re ported gasoline coupon counterfeiters had been peddling bogus ration books in the East and stated these "sabo teurs attacking our war program" will be prosecuted promptly and vigorously. All persons found to be in posses sion of the counterfeit books, he said, are liable to have their regularly issued ration hooks either revoked or withheld. Because of delays in ob taining gasoline rationing coupon book* the OPA said service stations may sell gasoline on a "Coupon Cred it" basis until midnight July 91. The OPA increased tire ^nd tube quotas for August and skid 98,000 bicycles will be made available for rationing in 'August as compared with 45,000 in July. The office said only trucks engaged in services es sential to the war effort or public health and safety will be entitled to recapped or new tires after July 28 under a {drastic revision of the tire rationing regulations. The OPA published names and addresses of field representatives who maj{ he call ed upon by tire deales, recappers, truck operators and other users of tires for aid in solving problems aris ing under the rationing regulations. Maximum Prices and Rents. Price Administrator Henderson re ported "Government controls of prices and rents, where they are in effect, are doing a good Job of hold ing down price*, but unconti'oHed food price* are drawing a definite inflationary tendency." He said "the total'cost of food to City families ad vanced by 1.13 percent between -May IS and June 15, continuing the steady upward price trend of the previous 14 months and offsetting the benefit* of price control on all foodstuffs covered by the general regulations." Mr. Henderson said housewives and other members of the buying public will aequin the legal right, begin ning July 31, to bring civil suits for damages against any storekeeper who charges more than OPA regulations permit The purchaser is entitled to recover |50 in damages plus attor ney's.fees or triple the amount of the overcharge plus attorney's fees, whichever is larger. 1 Similar suits may be filed in de fense rental anas against landlords who collect rents above those per mitted by OPA orders The office reported is has designated 370 areas as defense rental areas and by Auguft i rent regulations will be come* effective in 94 of these areas. Agriculture secretary Wickard an nounced a price adjustment and sub sidy nrosnur desiamed to ease the temporary shortage of meats in East ern States and some parts of the Mid .London, July 29. — In a raid of ficially described aa "vary success ful"—even more bo than we antici pated," /oar motored bombets of the RAF spread a r unions rain at explo sives and . incendiaries on Hamburg last night for the second time in three nights. <£ Loss of 82 bombers was "some what higher than in previous raids," due to the light of a nearly full moon and strong concentration of fighters over Germany's greatest port ard best-defended city, an RAF commentator declared. . ' Loas of 20 plants was announced in the Sunday night raid, so that last night's may also have been on the 700- plane scale of that attack. The thunder of bombs in the al ready hard-hit submarine building center drove home Air Marshal Sir Arthur T. Harris' grim promise: "We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end." The raid, the RAF announced, cost 82 bombers three more than the number of planes lost in the Sunday night attack which retained pilots compared in destructive force to the 1,000-plane bombing of Bremen last month. The RAF statement that the Sun day night losses were less than five per cent of the total number of planes indicated that 699 raiders participated then, and again last night if losses were an the same wale. (The attack came only a few hours after the Berlin radio said 99 were known dead in Hamburg after the Sunday night raid and others still were missing in the wreckage.) (Hie German high command said 46 raiders were shot down last night in the Hamburg area, and reported additional casualties and damage there.) An RAF commentator said that 1,200 tons of bombs were dropped on Duisburg and Hamburg on the nights of July 25 and 26 and thai the continuing.attacks. were caMs ing "increasing concern" to the Nazi government The weight of the attacks has forced the Germans to esaggragate the number of their planes raiding Britain and to discount the British strength, he said. ^ Meanwhile, Hurrican^ fighter bombers patrolling the German-held coast were said to have damaged a 800 to 400-tai steamer and a motor torpedo boat, and probably damaged three other vessels. Ah RAF account -of last night's mid said: "There was much heavy cloud over the city bat large fires were seen by a number of the crews who went down below the cloud in face ct fierce opposition from- anti-aircraft guns and searchlights to bomb from a low leveL* ~ ' ' ;£Kip^ The" Air Ministry announced that, other pilots flying Hurricanes, Bos tons . and Havocs damaged air dromes, railways and German-held communications in northern France, Belgium >™i Holland and ^attacked Three fighters were lost, presum ably «n these forays. ' < Orthopedic Clinic To Be Held Friday, Aug. 7th In Greenville STATE FAIR CALLED OFF Raleigh, July 29.—The State Board of Agriculture today concurred with Governor Broughton's recommenda tion that the State Fair be called off this year. Agriculture Commissioner W. Kerr Scott said the move was taken in the interest of the war effort and for the purpose of conserving tires and gasoline. Normally, the fair is held in Oc tober. ■ New York, July 28.—The Federal Bureau at Investigate* announced today that it had seised 10 more en emy aliens, including Maria Sichart Kerling, wife of Edward Kerling, one of tiie eight alleged Nazi spy sabo teurs on trial in Washington before a military commission. FBI agents said the 10 aliens were taken immediately to Ellis island. P. E. Forworth, FBI assistant di rector in the New York area, said that one Hungarian and two Ruman ians were among those picked up. The three were the first of those two nationalities to be taken into custody here as enemy aliens since the recent; presidential proclamation was issued. The raids were conducted in the Bronx, Manhattan, QueenB and Brook lyn. 'Hearty Welcome' Berlin (From Get wan Broadcasts, July 29.—Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels today extended "a hearty welcome" to the British and Americans in case they should try an invasion of the continent, but told them it would be "an act of madness." : Writing in the periodical Das Reich, he expressed hope that Americans would participate in such an attempt, saying, "These Mac Arthurs then for the first time would make the ac quaintance of German soldiers who, although not carrying tennis rackets or golf clubs, would carry first-class weapons and would bring with them a vast store of war experience col lected on all European battlefields. "They would gladly taken the oppor tunity of making it plain to the Yan kees that for the latter also entrance to Europe is. forbidden." Goebbels said that no German troops would be withdrawn from the west to save the east, but that some of the best and most efficient treope had been transferred to the west : fiTVT c British And American Planes Continue Ham mering Supply Lines nouuced today. * The communique reported tint heavy bomber* of the Allied «fr forces took put In the attack on Suda Bay which almost certainly meant that United States bombers Chairman John B. Lewis Namra Committee and Lays Plans For Salvag ing Of 25 Tons Here To a*e£ the nation'! war neuds for scrap '/on and steel and other salvage materials, a new intensive [■drive will be launched in Parmville and this community on August lit to obtain at least twenty-five tow of ■chap materials, it was announced to day by John B. Lewia, chairman of the local Salvage Committee. The local drive is part of the drive announced by Donald M. ] WPB Chairman. "As the war becomes •hre on the various foreign fronts," Mr. Lewis said, "the need for scrap materials has steadily increased." He declared that while collections of various types of salvage have already bean made here from time to time, the expanding requirements at the war program have made it necessary to obtain much larger ainuuBta of materials. ' "S ~ "The American steel industry this year hopes to produce a record breaking 86,000^000 tons of steel—as much ss all foreign cuuaUiea pot to gether can make. Our country alone this year is going to produoe three tons of steel for every two tons the Axis oan turn oat Ls "To bring steel production op to the industry's full capacity at 90r 000,000 tons in 1942, however, our steel industry needs an extra 6)000, 000 tone of scrap steel for its fitn aces. Every ton of scrap we can sand them will swell our national produc tion of tanks, ships, planes and guns." Members of the local Committee, Mr. Lewis said, which has charge of the salvage campaign, are: F. A. Williams, W. C. Wooten, J. W. Elba, J. B. Taylor, and H. B. Suggs. Head quaters of the Committee are at 106 North Main Street, Pannville, N. C., Phone 257-6. Vv vi r J In addition to scrap iron and steel, the materials to be collected are I and other non-ferrous metals, rope and fats. Salvage will also be picked up un der a system to be developed by the Committee. > Mr. Lewia said that many focal civic organisations would be called upon to assist in the drive. "An increasing number of boys from this city are already rnafag ac tive service," he said. "We on the home front must see to It that in dustry shall not lack the materials needed tyr adequately arming sad equipping them. "Every housewife can slay « im portant part in this drive. She should carefully' inspect all of bar house furnishings—to find out what eqoip has that has outlived its An old iron pot or a knife ia the ldtchen, the steel springs of an old upholstered chair in the attic, discarded pipe or ' in the cellar, unused wire hangers in a closet—those are a few of the items < ud usefulness. are also needed badly and shonM be turned in. "Please get oat this scrap aud get in the scrap" Scrap rubber not yet tuhnd in may ttaTwCtar "*£ the proper [.' TMIh <i)l i to J. W. Ellis on Weak' where he will price and soon into U. S. mills. '* ' Pitt Greenville, July 28.—General Hal. Tttrnaje, at the Marias Base on Now River, entertained some of the dele gate to the N. C. Alcoholic Revenue Control Board, which met viUe Beacn Monday. The Marine pitable to the ■" v %