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Rommel's Drive Fails tc Crack AffiedOrgraniz ed Defense Areas; British and Amercav Planes Give Effective Support To Ground Forces; Main Clash Imminent Cairo, Egypt, Sept 2.—America! and Allied planes and British gunf heavily bombed and shelled Axis forces in the western desert today; and so effective was their resistance to Axis' pressure that the British Commander declared the organised defense areas still were holding. As the desert artillery kept op steady cannonading on the southern and most critical part of the front and Allied planes shuttled an bomb missions over the battlefield, Lieutenant General B. L. Montgomery, field commander, said: "In no place and in no part at the Eighth Army area have the enemy penetrated oar organized defense area." At his secret headquarters in the western desert, General Montgomery reviewed the fighting thus far in which the real battle between major formations has not yet been joinBd. The three days of the fighting thus far have been SpjBt in getting into position for the mam combat. Planes Busy. Planes were carrying a heavy share of the fighting, both on tin principal battlefield and in auxiliary fields supplying the Axis troops at the front. Heaty bombers of the United States Air Forces attacked shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean yesterday, hitting one vessel and almost hitting four others in a convoy; and hitting four ships and possibly a fifth hi a raid on Candia, Crete,' a link in the Axis supply chain. United States Amy Air Force fighters returned to their bases tonight after completing the heaviest day since they entered the battle in this area. They flew as escorts to bombers, and did not lose any planes. 'v i The accurate bombing of the RAF planes the Americans were helping protect on forays behind the El Alamein front drew high praise from Brfgader General Aoby Strickland, commander of the American fighters in this ana. He called it splendid. Further, he thanked the British* fliers on behalf of the Americans far the way-in which the experienced British were aiding the United States pilots to learn the desert warfare. - : ■ Raleigh, Sept. 3. — The Building, Savings and Loan Associations of North Carolina led all other States for the first six months of 1942, reports Harry F. Bauer, Executive Secretary, North Carolina Building and Loan League. An analysis at the recording of mortgages for less than |28#o0 by all types of lenders shows that the Building, Savings and Loan Association* of North Carolina, financed more than 50 percent of all home buying, building, remodeling, or refinancing. the Farmville Building & Loan 'Association of Farmville was among 'those that helped achieve this record Other States vieing for the honor were Ohio and Maryland. The significance to the national economy of this continued dominance of Building, Pavings and Loan Associations over any other group of institutions, in mortgage landing, lies in the monthly repayment type of loan which they make, and have always insisted upon with borrowers," said Mr. Bauer. "Monthly reductions on the principal of the debt are part and parcel building, savings and loan plan Of financing, and wherever the people of a State shows greater reliance on this type of imstitution, as in North Carolina, the surer one can be that there wjll be greater impetus and progress of home owners toward debt-free home ownership^' Monthly payments to provide ahead of time "or taxes an the property are also a part of the building, savings and loan plan of home ownership. Mr. Baser stated that the 155,000 members of North Carolina Associations are to be complimented on their keen insight and understanding of home financing principles in borrowing "at home," for now more than ever, it is important that loans should be handled locally where there is, and will be, a continued mutual understanding between the borrower and the Association. ' GINS Expect Rationing Program Within Near Future Washington, Sept. S. — Americans will b« asked by the government soon to forego the extra steaks and chops they a» able to bay with their record-breaking pay envelopes, and in shoot ffror months all meat will be Churchill thai China will fight until the last aggressor surrenders. The Japanese garrison inside the walled town was reported panicstricken as the Chinese Beared the climax of their seaboard counterdrive that already - has regained Chuhsien and Lishui, forming with Kinhwa the network of CheUaag air bases which the enemy grabbed -last spring after United States planes bombed Tokyo from "Shangri-La." • The maim force of attackers pressed into Kinhwa'a outskirts from the Railroad, the communique laid, while other Chinese units > Variously placed behind the Japanese lines" stormed the city from southeaat and northeast Nearer Japan. Kinhwa Hes only 660 miles from the southernmost Japanese island, Kyushu, and is 60 miles north of Lishui, while Chuhsien is 65 miles to the west on the railroad. The communique annooixfed that the resurgent Chinese had recaptured the county- seats at Chinyun and Hsunping on August 29, and Yungkang and Wuyi two days latter. All four towns lie between Lishui and the railroad on the line of the Japanese retreat from the Lishui sector. Chiang's message to Churchill, sent in connection with the third anniversary of the war in Europe, said "I can assure you that China, like Britain, will not stop fighting nor shrink from further sacrifices until the last aggressors give up arms." i^gs: "Your country declared war in defense of civilization," Chiang said. "For three years we have followed with great admiration how heroically and gallantly the British people under your leadership stood the most crucial tests at modem warfare ill':• •Titew'' possessions in the Far Ernst, we fere become comrades in arms, fighting ahoulder-to-shoulder against a common enemy. J "Today, the fighting strength of the United Nations daily is increasing in all theaters of operation. The tide at war is turning in our flavor. ... We do not minimise the difficulties ahead, bat we kfr -fully convinced that with the anperior material, hamnn resources and increasing solidarity at the United Nations, it will be not.long before the principle of freedom and Justice completely triumphs." INCREASED TOTAL | NOTED IN OPENING DAY ENROLLMENT The Parmville Public School opened Tuesday, September 1, with an enrollment of 452 in the elementary school and 172 in the high school, making a total of- <34 as compared with 616 recorded on opening day of last year. The first grade has an enrollment of 71. Since the last issue of the Enterprise, two new members have been added to the faculty, Miss Prudence Bazemore, of Windsor, in the high school English department, and Mrs. Joseph Batehelor, at FarmviUs, in the gmmmar grades. llany of the was annihilated. » jjg?S • > The Navy announced that Marinesholding six islands in the Southaastern Solomons had killed or captured all Japanese troops attempting to retake the Islands. The Navy repotted August 30 that seven enemy planes were shdt down when they attempted to raid the airfield facilities which the Marines had captured1 on Guadalcanal; bringing the total of enemy plane* shot down in the Solomons fighting to 78. The Navy also- announced the Marines, with Navy support, raided the Japanese Base on Makin Island in the Gilberts, killing all hut 2 of an estimated 330 enemy garrison. U. S. losses wore less than 1 to 10 of Japanese. |Vln the European Theater, U. S. flying fortresses bombed the Airdrome of Wevalghemen, near Countrai in Belgium, in the eighth straight operation without loss. In other precision bombing raids, the fortresses attacked the Rotterdam shipyards ami an airplane factory at Meaulte in Northern France. Lt Gen. Joseph W. ;StijweU announced August SI in Chunking, China, that U. S. army ptanes based in Chine* have made heavy and successful at* tacks on Myitkyina and LasMo, thA two hage Japanese bases in Northern Burma. The Navy announced the sinking of f>ve more United Nations Merchant ships by enemy submarines in the Atlantic. WW* # sudor to Japan newly returned from Tokyo, said in a radio address the Japanese will Tight "with all the force and power at their command . . . until they an utterly crushed." Mr.-Grew stated "we are up against a powerful fighting machine, a people whose morale cannot and will not be broken even by successive defeats, who will certainly not be broken by economic hardships, a people who individually and collectively will gladly sacrifice thfeir lives for their Emperor and their Nation, and can be brought to Earth only by complete defeat in battle." Controlling The Cast of Living President Roosevelt said he would announce his new anti-iadation program in a nation-wide address the evening of Labor Day, and would send a message to Congress earlier the sane day. He told his press conference that forthcoming steps to control the cost of living will include sUbilixation at farm pvtees as well as wages, because nether could be stabilised without the other. He said wage stabilization would be flexible and would' not amount to flat freesing of wages and salaries. The President also said the Government is considering one meatless day |*aw una*-. ■ v ..j.y "However, a group of Germa*,] tanks succeeded in penetrating into oar lines. After stubborn fighting, oar troops in this sector retreated to a new defense line." ' Northwest of Stalingrad, the Russians reported the Red Army had withstood a constant poanding and delivered a number of flanking blows against the Nasis. One rait alone was said to have destroyed eight Nasi tonka, 12 ammunition trucks, .and seven anti-tank guns while annihilating a company of Geraun infantry. '- *• Sooth of -Krasnodar in the Caucasus, the Russians said their troops were annihilating a trapped enemy group while vest of that city the Red Army fought heavy defensive engagements "with the etwmy advancing in the direction of Novorossisk." More than 200 Germane were reported killed on the road to, Novorossisk. - !1 A man can be outspoken gh'b tongued woman cant be. WAR IN BRIE Salvage Job b Second Front Ffcr Every Patriotic Man, Woman, Child In America Washington.—One hundred pSKnd thirty million Americans are facing one the most important aasigmmentB ever gi-en to tike home front In this nation'* wartime history. To meet America's increasingly I critical shortage of raw materials every man, woman and child fa the 'country is expected to be enrolled in the nation-wide drive for scrap metals, rubber, hemp, waste cooking fete and other materials, lade of which' is already beginning to hampar the war effort. The organization of the alloot scrap collection, one of the most colossal jobs evnr undertaken by this nation, is gofc« ahead under the direction of the Conservation Division of the War Production Board, which , has set a goal cf 17,000,000 tons of ' metal scrap alone for collection in the next few moethi. It is estimated that a vast resemHr of about 10,000,000 tons of scrap metal is now lying idle in WWss^on lams, and in industrial plants anil 'business conMM. ' ' cen>8. . Many thousands of taw of scrap have already been collected in response to the SOS which industries, eager to keep up present record breaking production, have sent out. Swinging into action, the Censer vatkm Division of the WI'B has under way an intensified pregram of scrap collection and salvage operations which covers the country and which is organised to obtain scrap wherever it may exist Scrap materials which are now hidden* in homes, on farms and in commercial establishments, are being sought by the General Salvage Section of the Conservation Division. This Section has set** 1«VOQO local Salvage Committees, with an aggregate volunteer membership of 180,000 persons, to expedite the flew of precious scrap frpm these sources. Organisation Grows. An industrial Salvage Section, charged with the responsibility of stimulating -the scrap wflptUoas from, 1 industry, particularly scrap such as obsolescent or unused machinery and equipment, has already organised industry-by-industry ' and plant-byplant collections in over 400 communities. *. ; v'3 Itc activities bar* already resulted in the appointment of some 27,000 salvage managers in industrial plants. Field representatives at this Section are now working in infos- ' trial centers to assist in the organisation of still mora local groups charged with obtaining salvage materials from industry.:.}*^ :-f Two other sections of the Conservation Division have been set up to take care of other sources of scrap. These are (1) The "Graveyards" Section, which is working to see that cars in automobile graveyards are moved to the steel mills inside of 60 ® days and (8) the Special Projects Section, set up to facilitate the scrapping of unused street car and rail Price Ceiling Has Not Apparently Had Adverse Effect Feared; General Satisfaction Prevails Offerings on the Farmville tobacco market have been reported aa heavy every day this week, and fears, that the price ceiling ordered Saturday by OPA head Leon Henderson might be decreasing in affect, did net ma f aem even stronger this week and general satisfaction continues to pi vvail on the market. jow grade tips and inferior tobaccos an still predominating the offering* but prices are reported one to eight cents higher per pound than at the close of-last week. Good weather will tend towards speedier grading and sales are expected to improve in quality and volume next week. ' • The Commodity Credit Corporation, not affected by the ceiling order, has started buying more freely for the Imperial Tobacco Co., resetting in apparently increased top prices an several of "the grades. The ceiling price order issued by Henderson was intended to stop aa upward trend which had threatened runaway market* for this product The order, issued with the concurrence of Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, provides that for the next 60 "days no private purchaser may buy flue-cured tobacco on any looaeleaf market at prices averaging' higher than his weighted average price on purchase* made between August 24 and 88,' inclusive. T A permanent regulation price is expected to develop from this move during the 00 day period the temporary order is in force, lids would mean that variations in the quality of tobacco offend at different periods of the marketing season will be considered in setting the ceiling. • Fuel Oil
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