The Hearty Cooperation |
Of Every Citizen Is Urged
House to House Canvass
To Be Made By
Rotarians and Legionnaires,
Assisted By
School Children of This
District
Rotarians and Legionnaires have
vea to make a houseof
Fanmville and
community, beginning: Monday, for
the purpose of arranging' for the delivery
of scrap materials which may
be sold or contributed in the nationwide
Scrap Salvage Campaign now
underway. These volunteers will call
at every residence and business house
in town and in the school district,
and the hearty cooperation of citizens
is urged by the Chairman, John |
B. Lewis.
Ifr. Lewis said today, "As Chairman
of the Farmville Salvage committee,
I wish to express my deep
appreciation to all who an assisting
in any way in this drive, and to
the people who are responding to I
generously to their Nation's call for
scrap materials so necessary at this
time I ln«w Farmville people will
live Bp to their record of promoting
any worthwhile movement and will
join fat this effort with wholehearted
I help bring it to a credit
If offerings are too heavy for the
swmnittoe to collect, a
track, will call - for same,
are roqwestfd and urged to
their acrap in one place and
if unwilling to donate same may arrange
tor a sale at this time. The
Setoci Library Fund will benefit
from local donations. All contributors
of scrap will he listed and will
receive public recognttkaf through
the cothmns of this paper.
Government authorities state that
it is high time Americans were
aroused to a full realisation that this
country is at war and that those on
the home front have a big part to
play in the job ahead. The pnaa
campaign heads a long range pro-l
gram of conservation, which will I
doubtless be continued for the dura-]
tioa of the war.
Excellent work is being dons here
by the school children and substantial
results are expected when the intensive
drive begins Monday. Siisable
quantities of both metal md rubber
are being deposited daily in the scrap
at both the white and colored
Farmville is expected to make
Am showing in the County Campaign,
reports of which are highly
gratifying and show splendid cooperMiss
Lsiia Higgs, County
chairman, reports n fine rethroughout
Pitt and Jfc. 6.
Fats chairman, reports
5,000 pounds of fata already
is tor conversion into gtyee
America's .
N«. 1 Problem
The moat serious problem confronting
our war effort today is the shortage
of scnsp iron and steal.
There is sufficient scrap hidden
around the country.
The Job is to LOCATE sad COLLECT
it, BUILD the STOCKPILES
in every village and city.
The Job cannot be put off any
longer.
The mills and foundries haven't
enough scrap on hand to last more
than two weeks.
From stock piles all over America
steel mills musts draw their scrap.
Every piece of steel is half scrap.
And steel mills must get scrait
every! day, including Sundays and
holidays . . , millions of tons per
month.
' The steel shortage right now is
interrupting production in many defense
plants and shipyards.
The very life of the nation is involved.
Jap Troops, Bases And
Shipping, Reported
Hard Hit
Gen. MacArthur'* Headquarters,
Australia, Sent. 23.—General Donglas
Mac Arthur aeot fighter planes
swarming: down the Buna-Kokoda
trail in New Guinea yesterday, pouring
more than 84,000 rounds of ammunition
into Japanese and their war
Instillations in a growing aerial offensive
in the southwest Pacific
which gave the Japanese a taste of
the punishment their planes inflicted
m MacArthur and Ms men on Balaan
MacArttyfa fighters and bombsrs,
in a series of attacks over New
Guinea, New Britain «ad the northern
tip of the Solomons, carried out
die most extensive sweeps sfatee the
itart of the warfare on New Guinea,
joday's communique indicated.
Roaring up and down the track
Mtween Bun* and Kokoda over
irhich the Japanese supply their
'orces in the Owen Stanley moun•ains,
the fighters set fin to fuel
■ II I« I III III ill »>'!!■ nil ■ I ■ III I i [Hi II
mt «ri - v«#!MKAK*
THE HOME
11 FRONT
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We've bean "only ankle-deep" in
war. But we're wading in, getting
deeper u we plunge into * racing
tide of scarcities through which we
must fight our war to victory. And
our strength against swirling current*
is the strength which lias in
control—control of scarce manpower,
raw materials, fuel to run war plants
and heat homes, control of foods
made scarce by the enormous need
for food of our allies and our own
armed forces.
Oar latest attack on scarcity comes
from two directions—further control
over distribution of scarce
goods and products in the form of
rationing, and a new offensive
against high costs—in part created
by scarcity—through extension of
oontrol over prices and wages.
Scarcity of fud oil in the East and
Midwest, caused by our tanker losses
in the Atlantic and the qeed to send
tankers to far parts of the earth,
has led to fori oil rationing in 30
Eastern and Midwest states and the
District of Columbia.
Gaaottie Rationing To Save
^ Robber.
Gasoline rationing, in prospect for
the entire country, serves a less direct
but most vital purpose—the saving
at rubber to rebuild 200,000 tires.
A good deal of rubber has been savsd
because rationing. limited use at
gasoline by motorists in 17 Eastern
itates. But we cannot save rubber
In one state and not in another. Not
ndy. would that be unfair, it would
lot save enough rubber. There's no
•hortage of oil and gasoline in the
Southwest—far from it—but the
country's tana are wearing out at a
rate eight times faster than they are
wing replaced. It will take the OJ!ice
of Price Administration a few
reeks to work out a nationwide rationing
program, in the meantime
Mttriotic drivers everywhere will raion
themselves—stop unnecessary
Iriving—keep speeds down to SB
rifles an hear.
Quantities of rubber and gasoline 1
*111 be saved because the Governnent
has taken rontrol over the "i
iperation ot all commercials* ehicles
n the country. RMttBon of the '
lumber of tavicahg operating m Naw
fork City and curtailing: use of
hose that remain will save 428 milion
tire miles, 15,000 new tires and
he. same number of recaps, and 10
oiilion gallons at gasoline.
"AH-Purppse" Ration Books
Sent To Printer.
/Meats and meat products are
mong the foods that are scarce be- .
auae of abnormal demands. Be- i
ides the huge requirements for our ,
ighting men, hi three months we ,
lave sent to the United Nations millons
of pounds of pork, fish, dried |
«ef, army rations, and the like. «
i'aced with meat shortages, the OPA j
as bean given authority to ration
A t/pea of meat and meat products .
xcept poultry, game, and lard, and j
"ugHitro) their distribution from ,
• soma time, however, before OPA J
■ ready to ration meat at the retail .
w TT. «•» ""V *vwi s j
nying level. --'Msm
" ~s
w*
Q.-'-Whai can the farmer do
aid the NATIONAL^ VCBAP
program
and Mj ;eMb
hit farm land br
___ ^
He aboaid aeareh the lanes, the
creek Uk fence row* and tmrm
buildings for scrap.
Where poeaible he should dismantle
any nwdtkmry that Is to
be turned into scrap. J
He should bring all of hia scrap
to a collection depot or to a scrap [
If he Is unable to haul the scrap
in hia own truck or car he should
pile it new the roadside to be
picked up bf collection trucks.
If he hss a toft truck he
should cooperate in moving the
scrap from neighboring farms,
gpp can Offer M» services to bis I
Local Salvage Oeauaittee Chair- j
m far csaperatiaiB in the
NATIONAL SCRAP HARVEST |
PROGRAM.
State. Calls For
Blackout on 29th
A state-wide blackout has been announced
for Tuesday night, September
29, and air raid wardens and assistants
here are busy making preparations
and giving instructions for
the test.
This is probably the last test
blackout to be called for this area,
though the State authorities may
call others when they are deemed
T16C68fi8]yt •»
The two previous blackouts have
been successful in their training and
experience, both for the citizens aa
a whole and' for the wardens and
other emergency groups of the local
Civilian Defense > organization.
It would be an excellent idea to
prepare a blackout room in every
home prior to the test blackout Tuesday
night. The family should not
be made to sit in total darkness during
asi actual raid, which might last
leveral hours. A blackout room in
Mch house is necessary in order to
tvoid this situation during a real
blackout.
Select a room with the least outlide
exposure and provide attachments
at the windows for hanging
blankets or other covering so no
>ther light may be seen from the
ratside. A shaded lamp should, be
available for inside light, an<! chturs
ind a sofa may be arranged to make
■he family comfortable Books,
nagazines, cards, radio and other
sources oI entertainment may- be prodded
to lessen the strain of ap expended
period.
rhese Farmers Own *
A Profitable Business
' ;.'r m
North Carolina farmers have provided
the money by which many
msineas buildings have been purchasA
or constructed but actually they
>wn very few. An exception is a
[roup of buildings and three acres
ft' valuable land valued at 9191,000
wned by the Durham Farmer*'
futual Exchange to Durham.
This Exchange is generally regarded
as one of the most progressve
and sound farmer*.' cooperatives
o be •found in the South. For 12
ream now, it has enjoyed a period
f steady growth under the able
nanagement of C. W. Tilson, former
ounty agent of the Extension Service
and'a State CoII^p^mHhR
Mt year, ending July 1, the organiation
did a business amounting ! to
1,378,000 ef which 48 perwmt was
marketing for the farmer and 52 perent
was buying' by farmers. ""
The Exchange operates in Durham,
'erson, Orange, Chatham and Gwmille
counties and it owns stock in
he Statewide PCX as well as the
|a week of
THE WAR
••
(For Release Sept 41)
Gen. Mac Arthur's Headquarters reported
September 21 that Australian
troopa have cleaned out the entire
Milne Bay area at the southeastern
tip <1 New Guinea, thus consolidating
the biggest Japanese defeat of
the war in the Australian Zona. Despite
heavy fighting in the Owen
Stanley Mountain Bms where the
Japanese have thrust forward to
within 32 air miles of the allied base
at Port Moresby, Gen. MacArthur's
bombers and fighters have made
heavy raids on Japanese troops and
on key enemy bases in the northeast
Australian Zone in a continuing
offensive.
A Btsrong Japanese naval force,
including battleships and cruisers,
was attacked by army bombers
northeast of Tulagi, with possible
hits on two battleships, the Navy reported
September 19. After the attack,
the Jap fleet turned and fled
northward. XJ. S. Marines continued
to hold their positions in the Solomons
despite constant air attacks
from the enemy and successful landings
of small numbers of enemy 1
troops and supplies. U. S. planes
destroyed 41 more enemy planes in
the Solomons fighting. Army planes
in several raids on Japanese-held
Kiska in the Aleutian* destroyed
many installations and inflicted the
following damage — two minesweepers
sunk, six ships damaged, GOO
troops killed, seven large and small
planes destroyed. .Two U. S. planes
were lost in a collision. Army Headquarters
in London announced a
force of American parachute troops
have been in. Britain some time undergoing
intensive training. Commander
in Chief of the Pacific Fleet,
Nimiti, said the December 7 damage
to Pearl Harbor has been repaired
"far1 beyond expectations." The
rlavy announced the aircraft carrier
Yorktown was sunk June 7 after
it climaxed 104 d^ys of continuous
battle^ cruising by locating the last
of the four Japanese carriers which
attacked Midway. News of the Yorktown'*
sinking was withheld, the
Navy said, because the enemy pos- '
sibyly was not aware of it. The
Navy also announced three more
United Nations merchant ships were
sunk by enemy subs in, August
Rationing aad Rubber Situation.
"Three-fourths of the nation faces |
the prospect of uncomfortably cold '
homes this wfiiter," Price Admima- .
trator Henderson said in announcing ,
coupon rationing of fuel oil which (
will reduce consumption by 25 per- ]
cent. Machinery for the' program
will be set up by October 15. The 1
Sf* affected includes the 17
states and the District of Columbia,
where gasoline rationing is already
in effest, ae well as Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, i
Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Sooth Dakota f
and Kentocky. ,
The Office of Price Adminsfarution
said apartment houses and!'''.commercial,
industrial and institutional
establishments to convert ell.
burning furnaces to coal, but which
refuse to do so, will be denied fuol
jil rations. Only hospitals, .when
such a move would present serious
health halaids, will be exempted.
Speck! provisions will be made in
he rationing program for sections
it the country with "unusual" clinate.
The OPA said consumers Mr
he rationed area may fill their tanks
ip' to 276 gallons between now and
September 30, but oil purchased'dttr^
ng this time will be deducted frort
heir allotments for" the entire haat
Agriculture Secretary Wickand,
icting on authority from Mr. H«b>!
ierson, issued a temporary oidesr toj
•atkn new farm machinery and]
squipment, appointing Fred S. W«Iace,
AAA Administrator, to admin-1
ster the program at the national
evel. OPA placed a printing orde*
I
Sale of 700,1^2 Pounds
Monday Brought An
Average of $42^2; Receipts
Top $95,575*00
Sales OQ the Farnnrille tobacoo
market want beyond th* IS million
pound* mack this weak, with the top
average bate* noted on Monday,
when 700,102 pounds brought an
average of (42-22, according to tha
report of R. A. Fields, Supervisor of
Salea for the Tobacco Board at
Trade. Receipt* reached near tha
*96,000.00 mark.
With targe and satisfactory salea
held each day thia week, prices Were
reported to have experienced an «pward
trend Thursday sad fanner*
on tha FannviQ* market expreaeed
themselves aa delighted with their
• salea. One biy observed by a repreI
sentative at this paper showed an
average at *48 per hundredweight.
Vohnne of the offerings placed on
the floors today, Friday, promiaee to
be heavy with prices continuing firm
and stable at yesterday's levels.
MOVE RESIDENCE TO
NEWPORT NEWS, VA.
Mr. and Km. M. C. McConnell aad
family moved Tueeday to Newport
News, Va^ where Mr. McConnell haa
accepted a position. Since coming to
Faraville several years ag<o bom
Virginia the McConnelle ham bean
vary active in .the Baptist Church
and have made many frtada here
who regret their removal.
'—
Stiffened French
stetanc* Quickly
Big Convoy Fights
Wayjt Russia
London Admits Some
bm&tB But Says Nazi
Claims Exaggerated
London, Sept. 28.—Hie greet majority
of a bit convoy of United
State*, British aid Russian merchant
ships heavily laden with war supplies
for Russia has reached its destination
x in north Russian porta despite
Nasi air aad tea attacks, the
Admiralty announced today.
It acknowledged some losses, bat
a communique remarked acidly that
German claims — to have sunk 38
out of 46 merchantmen—were "mote
exaggerated than usual."
None of the convoying warships
was lost, the Admiralty bulletin added,
contradicting' the German ■—or
tion that idx escort vessels were
damaged or sunk in the naming attack
by planes and U-boats in the
lengthening autumn darkness of
the Arctic..
No figures wen isstod, the communique
remarking that "it is not
intended to assist the enemy by informing
him of the extent of his
lack of success."
The communique said:
"Another* important convoy carrying
large quantities of war materials
has arrived in north Russian
ports. ."
"Losses wen suffered among the
ships in the convoy, tat despite
heavy attacks by enemy nfrcraft sod
U-boats the great majority of the
ships arrived at their destinations.
"The convoy consisted of British,
American and Russian merchant
thips.
"It is not intended to assist the
nmy by informing him of the
ixtent of Ms lack of success against
this eonvop, but^t is possible to say
hat his on this occasion
lave been more exaggerated titan
lsual.
"No ship of the escort at this oonroy
was lost" —
The Gertaan high command asterted
Sunday that Nazi submarines
tnd planee had smashed a gnat
Russia-bound convoy in Arctic wafers,
shMjj|jPfe8 merchant ships toiling
270,000 tons and destroying
>r damaging six warships in a runting
battle lasting six days. ' ' 1
With the fanfare of trumpets
isually reserved for - announcing
rreat achievements, the British radio
i lin n il n n fil a Vi<vk jtjLtwm rl aIamm
sroaacast t mgR conmiinfl • cium
hat only battered remnants of an
iriginal 46 freighters and tankers
ft said this represented a second
riumph for the Germans on tits
lorthem convoy route, recalling
irevious unconfirmed Nasi claims
hat 86 ships in a convoy of 38 had
ieen sunk in the same waters beween
July 2 sad 7.
Machinery Rationing
Boards To Be Set Up
Oocnty committees to handle the
A-- ~ - - - ■ - - . - 1 ■■ mi ■ ■■ n J* ..in.
rempor*ry rationing or new zmrm
machinery and equipment prior' to
November 1, IMS will be set up immediately
In accordance with * directive
issued bv Secretary <rf Ajrriculture
Claude R. Wickard, according
to G. T. Scott, chairman of the
State USD A War Board, with headquarters
at State College.
Under orders at the Office of
Price Administration, the Department
of Agriculture Was charged
with the responsibility at admineterinjr
the rationiw program through
the State USDA War Bowda.
County ratiltoinir committeM