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All-Out Effort Resulting
In Sizeable Collection;
Total of 50 Tons
In Sight; Goal of 100
Tons Set
Commenting on the Salvage Drive
now in Ml arming here, Chairman
John B. Lewis stated today that the
Drive was progressing well and that
success in making a creditable collection'
was assured.
Citizens here are apparently aware
of the critical shortage that threatens
to closs many of the plants manufacturing
war implements and are
anxious to comply with the government's
appeal to turn in all available
scrap metal and rubber. A number
of citizens contributed their collector!
to the School Library Fund, while
many others made arrangements to
sell.
Rotarians, in teams of two, put
aside their business for a time this
week and searched in specified areas
for scrap with results that were highly
gratifying to the committee.
Making- top rank in hauls were J. W.
Joyner and W. A. MeAdams, who reported
20 tone collected.
Rotary teams are announced as
follows •
J. H. Moore, C. w. Blackwood,
Waverly & Greene streets; George
W. Davis, W. H. Duke, Wilson;
Frank Dupree, Paul Ewell, Comtentnea
& Pine; Dr. Paul E. Jones, John
T. Thorne, Grimmersburg & Belcher;
Walter Jones, J. B. Lewis, Home,
Jones & Lang; J. W. Joyner, W. A.
McAdams, City Hall block, Post Office
block. Light Plant and vicinity;
R. A. Joyner, Ed Nash Warren,
Man; Russell Mizelle, Irvin Morgan,
Jr., Barrett & Turnage; J. I. Morgan
Dr. John M. Mewborn, Walnut; James
Y Monk, W. J. Rasberry, Pine; R.
LeRoy Rollins, G. A. Rouse, Church;
Robert Rouse, J. M. Stansill, Fields &
May; T. E. Joyner, L. E. Walston,
42 & 43; Frank Williams, Dr. W. M.
Willis, George & Hortwr, George E.
Creekmur, Norfolk Southern area.
With Nebraska's drive record of
104 pounds per pereon before it,
Farmville aet out to m>re than double
that record and the committee report®
50 tons already in Mght,
which collections in the rural school
district will be added when the Legionnaire*
under Post Commander R.
D. Rouse get in their stride and complete
their canvass. , , 1Aft
plete their canvass. The goal of 100
tons has been set.
In the schools, Supt. John H. Moore
at the white school, and Principal H.
B. Sugg of the colored school, have
pledged 100 percent cooperation with
the drive and have arranged scrap
depots en the grounds of the two
8C]Mhw Higgs, County Salvage
Chairman, said today to issuing **
appeal for full cooperation:
•There has bean a splendid response
from many sections of the
people than we have here. Now i«s
all of us put our shoulder <<o the
wheel and push till the job is done."
It isnt too late even though you
were not at home or failed to have
your contribution ready whan the
committee called at yonr residence
Find the Bavarian's name in the hst
for your section of the
town, and 'phone Urn at once so your
donatio* or sale may be aitanged
-~i the scrap hauled away and added
to Farmville's total.
DMbJM.
Levi Hay, Negro of Farmville, was
killed instantly Saturday night while
asleep on the Norfolk Southern Railroad
track at the bridge over Contentnea
Creek near Bell Arthur.
May had a number of other men
were stationed near trusties and
bridges along the railroad to guard
against sabotage.
Coroner A. A. Ellwanger at Pitt
County said May went to sleep on
the track. He placed his cap cm the
apparently went to sleep expecting
Tobacco Averages
$42.91 Past Week
On Tkis Market
Monday's Sale of 691,122
Pounds Sold For
$299,619.32, An Average
of $43.35 *
Averaging over |40 a hundred
weight every day this week the
Farmville market hit a new high for
the current season and reached a
peak that hasn't been attained since
1919.
While better grades are being offered
on the Farmville market, yet
much of the common and trashy
types or tobacco continue to come in.
Prices on the superior grades showed
advances Monday, while the medium
grades showed even mora
strength. An average of $43.35 was
reported for the sale of 691,122
pounds Monday by R. A. Fields,
Supervisor of Sales.
The past week's average of $42.91
boosted tKe- season's average for
14,449,166 pounds to $37.17.
Marketing has been slowed down
considerably in the last few days
due to cotton picking and hay cutting.
Warehouses had a capacity sale
today, but floors are expected to be
cleared in preparation for a big
break of weed on Monday.
General Wilson To
Fort Leonard Wood
Greenville. — Major General Durwood
S. Wilson, native of Greenville
and recent visitor here, has been;
transferred to Fort Leonard Wood,
Missouri, according to information
received by relatives here. General
Wilson, who has so-red 87 years in
the army, recently returned to this
country from Hawaii where he was
commander of the 24th division.
VICTORY BULLS
Of the 1,000 purebred bolls given
away to substantial small farmers
by the American Jersey Cattle Club,
21 went to North Carolina and ware
donated by leading breeders of the
State. c SULFUR
DUSTING
J. V. Taylor of Bethel in Pitt County
dusted his peanuts twice with sulfur
and reduced leaf spot diseases by
30 per cent a»(«otnpared with where
he did not dust.
Farm Machinery !
Rationing Board!
lamed for County
Temporary Program To
Remain In Effect Until
November 1; Classification
listed
Greenville, Oct 1.—Announcement
of the personnel of the Pitt County
Rationing Committee to handle temporary
rationing of new farm machinery
until November 1, 1942, was
made by J. V. Taylor, chairman of
the County USDA War Board.
' Mr. Taylor, who also is chairman
of the Cionty AAA Committee, will
serve aa chairman of the rationing
body, and other members named by
the County USDA War Board are:
Mark H. Smith, Bell Arthur, and &
L. Little, Grimesland, Route 1, Alternate
members are: Jack Quinerly,
Ayden, and A. L Woolard, Stokes.
Responsibility for administering
the new frirm machinery rationing
program was delegated to the Agriculture
Department by the OPA, he
aaid. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
named Fred S. Wallace, chief of
the AAA and special War Board assistant,
to handle the program nationally,
and directed State USDA
War Boards to be responsible for
rationing on state levels. Secretary
Wickard also provided for setting up
the county rationing committees.
The order setting up the rationing
program provided that the chairman
of the County AAA Committee
should be Chairman of the rationing
committee, and that two representative
farmers should be selected by
the County USDA War Board to
serve as regular members. Naming
of two alternates also was provided
in the order.
Chairman Taylor said that no
member of the committee may act
on his own application to purchase
new machinery, an application of a
member of his immediate family or
other near relative, or that of his
landlord, tenant, or other business
associate.
No member of the rationing committee
may be a person engaged in
the business of selling new farm
machinery and equipment.
Under the program, Chairman
Taylor said, one classification
(Group A), including items which
are scarce and which are vitally needed
in 1942 agricultural production,
may be sold only upon approval of
the county rationing committee.
Equipment is this class includes:
combines, com pickers, dftc'harrows,
feed grinders, fertilizer spreaders,
grain drills, grain elevators, hay balers,
lime spreaders, manure spread ers,
milk coolers, milking machfaaw,
pickup balers, potatp diggers, shredders,
and tractors, including garden
tracctors. '*
A second classification (Group B),
includes items somewhat less scarce
which may be sold upon certification
by the fanner to the dealer that it is
required to meet current agricultural
needs. This group includes moot
other types of farm machinery.
The third classification (Group C)
iactades smaller items which may "he
•old without restrictions, such as
hoes, rakes, forks, scythee, shovels,
and all hand-operated and one and
two-horse farm machinery and
equipment not included in (group A
or Group B.
Eligibility requirements for Group
A purchases, he added, includes inadequacy
of present equipment and
inability to meet form production
goals by repairing or by purchasing
or noting used machinery, or by
(For Nhh September 2»)
ftnfrhfT AifcuUfititwitni' Jeffers, acting
an two important recommendation*
of the Barueh Rubber Committee,
tfracted the Office of Defease
Transportation to limit driving speed*
to 35 miles St hoar ad told the
Office Price Administration to
prepare to ration gasoline throughout
the Nation on the same basis
that is now rationed in the East.
_ The limitation on speed will go
into effect October 1 for all vehicles
except those operated by common carriers.
Common carriers—trucks and
buses operated on regular schedules
over regular routes—will be given
until October 15 to adjust their
schedules to the new top spe^iU Enforcement
of the new speed limit
will be left up to the States for the
present, OUT announced.
Nationwide gasoline rationing—
designed to reduce mileage so as to
save rubber rather than gasoline —
will become effective about November
22, Price Administrator Henderson
reported. By that time ration
book* will have been distributed to
approximately 20 million- motorists
in the unratiooea area. The present
tire rationing program will be integrated
with the new gasoline rationing
program and tires an all cars
will have to be submitted to OPA for
"on-wheel inspection every 60 days
to insure proper care."
The OPA said fuel oil consumers
in the 30 rationed East and .Midwest
States will have to get along
this winter with one-third less oil
than usual because the originally announced
cut of one-fourth would not
be sufficient
On the biais of last winter, however—which
was about 10 percent
warmer than usual—the cut will
only be about 26 percent, the Office
said. The quota of new adult bicycles
for rationing in October was set
at 88,000, compared with the September
quota of 90,000.
n»e War f ront.
Gen MacArthur's headquarters in
Australia reported September 28
that U. S. Army flying fortresses
hit sod probably sank a 15,000-ton
merchantman In an attack on the
enemy base at BabauL It was the
fourth straight day of attack by the
fortresses on the biggest enemy base
in the Australia* cone. In the previous
radee the bombers probably
sank an 8,000-ton ship, and scored
direct hits on three medium-sized
ships. Australian forces supported
by new artillery were reported driving
Ihe Japanese from their outposts
in the Owen Stanley Mountains, ">.
tut miles from the Allied base at
Port Morseby. Heavy rains complicated
the Japanese supply problem.
The U, S. Marines to the Solomons,
sometimes outnumbered 10 to
1 by the enemy, have beaten off all
attacks and their positions remain
secure. Marine Headquarters in the
Islands announced. Reinforcements
and supplies have reached the Marines.
U. S. Army Bomber Commander
Baker in London stated U.
S. and 'Britain Airmen will work together
in day and night raids to give
Germany a long winter of bombing.
He said "I believe it is possible to
destroy the enemy from the air.
Them is hardly a comer of Germany
we cannot reach."
S' War Production.
Maritime Commission Chairman
Land, in a progress report to President
Roosevelt, said that from September
27, 1941, through this month
deliveries of completed ships will
total 488, aggregating about 5,480,•
000 deadweight tons. September deliveries
to date and those schedules
to October 1 total 90 ships of approximately
one million deadweight
tons, m avenge of three ships a
day . . . schedule Deliveries for the
remaining three months' of 1942
should bring us to the 8,000,000-ton
a of your directive," Admiral
told the President. He also
said the 1948 directive of 16,000,000
deadweight tons "appears reasonably
Farmville Took Part In
Successful Practice of
Civilian Defense Plans
Tuesday Evening
Cooperating folly in thriftatewide
practice blackout Tuesday evening,
civilians inside their homes turned
out the lights and aat in the darkness
or retired to light-proof rooms
at the 2-2 sound of the air raid siren
at 9:16 o'clock, and those on the
streets sought shelter in nearest
available buildings for the duration
of the 45 minutes period, while thft
Civilian Defense' workers manned
their various posts of duty. George
W. Davis, Mayor and Coordinator of
local Civilian Defense, announced a
gratifying response to the practice
of emergency activitiees.
Only those responsible for originating
the alarm were informed in advance
of the exact time set by the
State Office of Civilian Defense and
the First Fighter Command, so the
test was in some measure a surprise.
All automobile traffic ceased at once
in order that official cars might be
used for observation in dgtenfting
the cooperation of citizens.
The date marked the 25th anniversary
of the breaking of the Hindenburg
Line in the first World War
by North Carolina troops of the 30th
Division, and was chosen by the
United States Army for the severest
test of the State's Civilian Defense
organization to which it has been
subjected as yet
Need Permits To
Set Brush Fires
N. S. Tyson, Pitt County. Forest
warden, today called attention' to
the • ^tlfte law prohibiting the setting
_of fires in proximity of woodland
areas. Farmers and others in
rural sections are required by lair
to notify their neighbors when they
intend to build brush fires. Millions
of dollars worth of valuable timber
has been burned as a result ,of carelessness
by rural dwellers and farmera
setting fine to grass and brush
without getting permits from the
forest wardens and notifying their
neighbor*. •« c <
In dry weather, with high winds,
it is easy for a simple brush or grass
fine to get beyond control. Burning
brush is a community affair in
which neighbors and adjoining
landowners have a special ihterest
To keep out of the hands of the law
it will be well for farmers and others
to get permits from .the forest
warden. The penalty for failure to
secure a permit is either $50 fine or
30 days in Jail, or both.
For the convenience of people in
Farmville Township, a Burning Permit
may be obtained from Turner
Walston at Turaage's Store in Farmvine.
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Farmers Urged To Sell
Leaf Close To Home
Raleigh, Sept. 29.—A plea to farmers
to avoid hauling snail lot 1s of
tobacco for long distances was made
today by Bean I. O. Schaub, director
of abate College Extension Service.
He" also asked tobacco warehousemen
to discontinue long haul ^motions
and to concentrate on local
pDwan Schaub issued the «|f eal in
response to a request from Jwftes S.
North Carolina war tnwsDoitiiMon I
committee, wh# said:' "Some farm-1
fere are hauling small loads of to-l
bacco for long distances. The ware
Recounts Conquests and
Describes Enemies As
'Military Idiot#
Berlin, Sept. 80. — Adolf Hitler
told his people today that "we believe
that we shall continue to defeat our
enemies until final victory is oars."
He assured the German nation
that Stalingrad was bound to fall.
Hitler's address, his customary
winter relief campnign speech to the
Nasi party, was mitde in the packed
Sportspalast and broke a five-month
silence.
(On the same occasion lart Oct
4, Hitler told the Nazis that "now
it can be declamd that the enemy
already is broken and will never
rise again")
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was
in the galaxy of top Nasi leaders
in the huge sports arena to hear
Hitler.
Surprised by his return from
North Africa, the crowd earlier had
greeted him with tumultuous cheers
and Hitler emphasised Rommel'*
presence by stopping on the way
to the speaker's stand to shake the
desert general's hand.
Gastapo Chief Heinrich Himmler,
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief
of the high command, and Propaganda
Minister Goebbels, who prefaced
Hitler^ own winter relief appeal
with a plea for generosity,
faced the crowd alongside their
leader.
Long cheers hailed Hitler's arrival
at 6:46 p. m., (12:46- p. m.
EWT), just eleven minutes. before
he started speaking.
The cheers tuned -to laughter
when Goebbels, who had denied any
rifts within Nasi ranks or deaths
of Nasi leaders, turned to Hitler
and remarked on his joy at seeing
the fuehrer "so hale and hearty."
(The Berlin radio commented
that this was "an obvious reference
to rumors abroad*0— presumably
rumors that Hitler was ill.)
Hitler declared that if tike British
try again to invade Europe; no matter
where, "they can deem themselves
lucky if *hey stay for nine
hours on the continent, as. at Dieppe,
for we have made thorough preparations
to wsliome them."
Love can filla cottage but it takes
a lot of it to fill a palace.
Local Defense Group
Will Participate In Activities
.Planned Here
To Prevent Fires
In accordance with President
Roosevelt's Rre Prevention Week
proclamation, the local Office of
Civilian Defense will participate in
the activities planned here, for this
Week, which begins October 4, according
to an announcement by Geo.
W. Davis, Chairman of the local Deftense
Council.'
V "The U. S. Office of Civilian Defense
is actively cooperating with
Federal and State Forest Services,
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, the National Firs
Protection Association, the National
Board of Fire Underwriters, and
Germans Make Gain In
But RuSarTFlank Attack
Gathers Momen- .
turn; Russians Smash
Entire Romanian Division
^Caucasus
Moscow, Oct 1. ~ German tank
forces gained ground in Stalingrad**
northwestern outskirts yesterday
while in the Caucasus the Bad Army
smashed an entire Rumanian mountain
division, which suffered 8JW0
casual ties, the Soviet command announced
today.
The Nazi fain was made only in
a single sector, the midnight communique
said, and came after the
"Germans threw in another b \k
division" in the consuming struggle
now entering its 88th day.
"At the cost of heavy losses, the
enemy on one sector pruned back
our units," the bulletin said. "la
these battles 15 enemy tanks, 14
motor vehicles, and two mortar
batteries were destroyed, and about
two battalions (1,000 men) of enemy
infantry were annihilated." J§
Meanwhile, the Russian offensive
against the Nasi flank above Stalingrad
was gaming ground. The
communique said Russian troops
captured another hilltop after savage
all-day fighting in one sector,
and repaired Nasi counterattacks
in another on the same front
The Axis setback m the Ctocami*
Was southeast of Novorosaisk, where
the Russians said the Third Rumanian
mountain division, in addition
to 8,000 dead and wounded, lost
26 guns, seven tanks,' 75 machineguns,
50 motor' vehicles and two
ammunition damps.
"One platoon of Rumanian soldier*
came over to the side of th*
Red army," the communique said.
la the Caaeasas.
In the middle Caucasus the Russians
said their troops, in a two-day
defensive fight, destroyed 2d Nazi
tanks and 18 planes, and "annihilated
about 1,500 enemy officers and
men." All the Axis attemps to
advance were repulsed, the communique
added.
Soviet warships operating in the"
Baltic were said to ham sunk a
10,000-ton enemy transport.
In" the vicious fight * for Stalin- >
grad, the Germans were reported
using fleets of armored cars packed
with Tommy-gunners and convoyed
by tanks.' '