Leaf Prices Hit New
High With Official
Average of $44.63 Reported
For Monday s
Sale
Prices for a daily average reached
a new high marie here this week
when Supervisor of Sales R. A.
Fields reported 572,626 pounds of
leaf tobacco sold on Monday for am
average of $44.63.
Sales including those of last Friday
through Thursday of this week
boosted the week's total to 1,773,594
pounds, which sold for $778,267.39 at
an average of $43J$
These figures bring the current
season's totals to 16,822,762 pounds,
receipts to *6,149,228.71 and the
average $37.62. Sales for the entire
1941 season totaled 15,783,142 pounds
which sold at an average of $30.97
per hundredweight.
Sales this morning; Friday, are
heavy and bidding continues spirited
with one of the best days of the,season
anticipated. Farmers appear
well pleased with their sales and at
the stable trend of the market?
Every day is a good day on the
Farmville market and warehousemen
urge growers to bring their offerings
here, where a sale is assured
Pftrons every day.
Growing Interest
Manifested At Christian
Series Meetings
Rev.* John H. Goff, pastor of the'
Williamston Christian Church, who
is holding a series of meetings here,
is reported to be delivering excellent
Gospel sermonsI each evening at the
Christian Church, and interest is
growing rapidly, as attested by the
attendance, which has increased notably
at each service.
Hie meeting will close with the
Sunday night service. There will be
no service Saturday evening. Rev.
Mr. Goff will preach at both the
morning and evening services Sunday,
when the local pastor, Rev. Mr.
Mashburn will fill his pulpit in Williamston.
Members of the cmgregBr
tion are urged to attend the remainder
of the services and the entire
community is extended a cordial invitation
to be present
Superintendent J. O. Pollard and
all of the Sunday School teachers are
striving to have a full attendance at
Sunday School Sunday morning. The
-visiting minister will teach the men's
class at that time.
This Is Naticm-Wide
Eye Clinic To Be
Held In Greenville >,
On October 20th-21st
Greenville, Oct. 8.—Mr. K. T. Puetrell,
Pitt County Superintendent of
Public Welfare, announced today that
one hundred examinations for eye
glasses will be nuiifc in a two day
clinic to be held for indigent adults
and children of Pitt County on October
20th and 21st. All those who
wish to avail themselves of this service
must make application in writing
to the Welfare Department Before
October 12th in order to be
approved and have an appointment
made.
Applications f6r indigent school
children should be made directly to
the schools. Other applications
should be made to the Welfare Department.
Kafrh application most include
the name, address, age and
race of the person applying for an
appointment. In the case of children
the application must also show
the name and address of the parents.
Mr. Futrell urges the school .teachers
in the coonty to get their application
in promptly for the children
they wish to have attend the- clinic.
Bach applicant will be investigated
as to ability to pay examination fee
und actual cost of glasses.
The. clinic is being sponsored by
the State Commission for The Blind
through the service of the Welfare
Department and in cooperation with
the Lion's dab, the schools, and the
Health Department. Mr. J. H. Hose,
Superintendent of City Schools and
i committee from the Lion's Club
ire in charge of arrangements. The
Lin's Club committee is. composed of
Paul Scott, Clarence Coburn, sod
Withers Harvey with Mr. Scott as
chairman.
The State Commission ia arrangng
this clinic because of the shortage
of specialists in Greenville now.
Up until this time the local spetalist
gave been holding the clinics for inligent
citizens. Being, aware of the
great need of this type of clinic, the
Welfare Department made local arrangements.
Dr. Thomas Schooner of
[hike Hospital will be sent here for
;he two 'days.
It is obvious that getting glasses
for the indigent will be more difficult
since outside' specialists must be
jrought in $o those interested in attending
the clinic or in having some
jhild examined are urged to get the
applications in promptly. The Welfare
Department mast have time to
i^ect the cases to be seen and infcsttgate
each so the examination
md fitting can be completed while
he specialist is in the county.
Washington, Oct. 7.—By an overwhelming
vote, the Senate today approved
a 40 per cent tax 011 corporation
incomes above mfiOO, after resecting,
75 to 9, a proposal by Senator
LaFollette (P.-Wia.) to iner««w
that rate to 60 per cent
Then, in a day of rapid action* it
wted to reduce the credit for dependent
children and others from
WOO to $800 and turned to a discission
of the problem of taxing in:eme
from state and municipal Be
Colin P. Kelly, flying * bombing
plane off Luzon on December 9,1941;
made three direct hit* on a Japanese
battleship, destroying it Th*» his
plane was attacked by two enemy
fighters and set afire—bat everybody
knows the story of Captain
Kelly. - f.
Everything, perhaps, save Oat as
a boy he was a Scout in Troop 801 it
Madison, Fin. ' *
Edward CHara graduated in 1987
from Annapolis. He was present on
n recent active occasion in the Pacific
to such effect that five Japanese'bombers
were shot down by him
in a single-handed fight The President
of the United States has called
this "one of the moat daring, If not
the moat daring, single action in the
history of combat aviation."
"Butch" Create, late of Scout
Troop 214, St Louis, Ho., bears the
rank of lieutwant commander now.
After Pearl Harbor came news ot
the Army Sergeant who, on voluntary
duty, listened at the air detector
station, heard the enemy coming
on their treacherous surprise attack
and reported what he heard. With
more Joseph Lockards there, Pearl
Harbor would be a defferent tale.
This: boy of 20 with the distinguished
service medal was a Willi amsport, t
Pennsylvania, Boy Scout
Are only ex-Boy Scouts fighting
this war?
There will be lists of men gone
forth from them, by towns' and counties,
states and churches, lodges,
schools and factories to shed glory
on their country, ttyeir associates,
their homes, themselves. The Scouts
were early among those heaping up
heroes in th$ war. Their list if
long: Dean Wood, Boyd Wagner,
Randall Keator, George Welch, pari
Geis, George Schaetzel, and too, many
more to mention here. Do es~Boy
Scouts shin* specially among men
fighting in their country's cause?
, The life we call civilized leads to
ease. It turns away from rough
nature to cities vfith "modern conveniences."
It seeks automatic heat
in winter, in summer cooling drafts.
It rides to and at its work. We wear
white collars to mark our freedom
from the hard and dusty earth. ,
A war comes and tests our quality.
If we are soft selfish, inefficient
down we go.
Democracy stands or falls according
as it-builds men strong or lets
men decay. Men of faith, too, to see
that the demoratj^ public duty is <
done. Hie —CBWn P. Kelleys are •
signs that Boy Scouting builds the
men we need. <
Ttie boys ia the Scout Troop had ;
their grapple with hard nature, its
labors and discomforts and its joys. <
They had their woodcraft, their arts ;
at simple self-rapport, their work 1
together, their strengthening hikes, i
Army men find ex-Boy Scouts trainee <
aasy to make good soldiers of. ]
lis H just chance that so many of
the Colin P. KaUy kind have a- Boy
Scout JjJatory? i?.; ; ,i >
Then these home tasks the Sceut
does pro bono publico! He collects
the-old papers, rubber, the wrap of i
every kind. He helps in the fire j
drills. He is the universal errand
boy. He works as a clerk for the
Selective Service board. He-helps in >
the aaldier book campaign. The mil- ;
lion and a half of him stands ready i
it- his country's call for any service :
a disciplined boy can do. Here we i
foresee not only the toughened sol- i
diw, but the man of public spirit i
without whose labors democracy, 1
however strong of body its citizens,
cannot live. <
When the list of heroes of the war :
is all made up, the hero who was a i
Boy Scout and the hero who is a Boy i
Scout will clearly both be there. .]
—Walter Locke, <
4>Wa -J ,|| I. I I >1 I |Vnnt
vile occonc price coniroi eci, xtcsi*
dent Roosevelt ordered ceilings placed
wv«r wages, salaries, profit#, farm
prices and rente, and appointed supreme
court Justice James F. Byrnes
as Director of Economic stabilization
with the job of developing a National
Economic Policy.
•^Justice. Byrnes resigned from the
Court to accept the new ration. He
will have authority over all goventment
agencies to the economic field
and will be assisted by a fourteenman
economic stabilization board
composed of eight agency heads and
six private citizens. "
Maximum Prices and Rents.
Immediately following the President's
executive order, Price Administrator
Henderson imposed emergency
60-day price ceilings on virtually
all exempt food items, bringing
90 percent of the family food budget
under rigid control. Previously
only 60 percent was controlled. Under
'control for the first time are
butter, cheese, evaporated and condensed
milk, eggs, poultry, flour, dry
onions, potatoes, fresh and canned
fruits and juices, dry edible beans,
cornmeal and mutton. Food retailers,
wholesalers, manufacturers and
processors are affected. Each dealer's
price is frozen at the highest
level be charged in the five days
September 28 to Oct 2, inclusive,
the permanent ceilings later may entail
some price reductions, Mr. Hendeno*
said.
Administrator Henderson alao completed
new orders freezing all uncontrolled
urban and rural rents at
levels mt last March 1. He announosd
the Office of Price Administration
would amend existing regulations to
prevent eviction of tenants resulting
from sales of rental property, a practice
which he said in many caa^srhas
jecome a device to avoid the effect
rf rent control. Previously rent
xmtrol was limited to approximately
100 designated defense rental, .areas.
Stabilization of Wages.
The President's order Had the effect
of freezing all wage rates for
Ae time being until the National War
Uabor Board has a chance to act in
ndividual cases. Wage rates may
lot be changed—up or down—with>ut
the approval of the NWLB. The
3oard may adjust wages "to correct
naladjustmants or inequalities, to
eliminate substandards of Jiving, to
wrrect gross'inequities, or to aid in
he effective prosecution of the war."
Salaries in excess of f5,000 a year
nay liot -he increased without the
ipproval of the stabilization Director
Syrnes unless an individual has been
tssigned to more difficult or more
responsible work. Director Byrnes
vas given power to place a 126,000 ,
knit on salaries after taxes but with
iue allowance tor life insurance
jreimums and fixed obligations pre- :
rtously incurred. ,
Mr. Roosevelt ordwrec prices of ,
aw and processed agricultural commodities
"stabilized, so far as pracj
cable," at September 15 levels and ;
n conformity with the standards i
aid down in the new law. The new ,
trice control law provides farm price .
idlings cannot "he set below parity ,
>r below the highest market level
>etween January- 1 and September
5, 1942, whichever is higher. if!■
meh ceilings are too low to r«flect
ncreases in farm labor and other
sorts since January 1, 1941, the Pres- 1
dent is directed to ndse than. Js J
The Legislation calls-for a 90 per- 1
:ent parity "floor" under cotton, 1
■orn, wheat, rice, tobacco and pea- 1
mts, the floor to be established by <
neams of loans. The loans may be
»U down to 86 percent, however, 1
>n corn and wheat used for feeding 1
[« said farm production 1
• . , *
Washington, Oct 7.—Japan's hold
on America's Western Aleutian islands
appeared tonight to be weakening
rapidly. N : 0^. ... £1
The Navy announced that there
■was no trace of the enemy on either
Attn, the westernmost island and
first seized by the Japanese, or on
nearby Agtfttu, where the enemy also
had placed email forces.
The Japanese still were in pocassion
of Kiaka Island, their most important
base of operations in the
area, but so far as was known that
was the only island they held, and
it has been under repeated and heavy
attack by air.
This information was given out in
a Navy communique which cautiously
refrained from claiming that
the enemy actually had withdrawn
from Attn and Agattu. From the
announced fact that considerate
aerial reconaissance had failed to
produce any sign of occupancy "for
several weeks," it Beemed clear,
however, that a withdrawal had been
effected.
Moreover, American bombers now
have destroyed most of the buildings
on Attn. Regarding Kiska, the communique
said that "attacks by out
aircraft continue" and reported specifically
that on Monday Army liberator
bombers, with fight*r escorts,
dropped 'many demolition and incendiary
bombs On the camp area,
and scored hits on the seaplane hangar.
mnemy times uowneo.
Six enemy seaplane fighters which
pose to the counter-kttack were shot
iown at this time. The Japanese
also put up lighT anti-aircraft opposition,
but all the American aircraft
returned Irf their base.
The communique did not mention
the: situation in the South Pacific
where at last reports, yesterday, the
Japanese were reinforcing their
troops cm Guadalcanal Island in the
Solomons in preparation for a renewed
attempt to capture the American
defense positions and airfield.
• The base fttmr which the American
drcraft made their latek attack on
the Japanese in the Aieutains unloubtedly
is "the newly-developed
>peratiane" center in the Andreanof
[elands, which at one point lie only
L25 anutical miles from Kiska. Its
jccupation. by Army troops and air
forces was announced by thr Navjr
mly last Saturday, although it had
Men effected several weeks earlier,
this .westward advance, putting
American forces more th«j) -260 miles
lorthwest of their original base at
Dutch Harbor, and within easy
x>mbing range of Kiska, has made
he Japanese position on Kiska high1
precarious, if not actually untenible.
1
Thus, it appeared that the advep:ure
which the Japanese undertook
n th$ North Atlantic last June
limultemeoualy with their--disastrous
ittack of the Hawaiian area at Midvay
might be approaching a costly
J°se.
On the French Frontier, Oct. 7/—
)fficial letters announcing that "you
lave been designated to work %
Jermany" have been sent to several
lundred thousand unmarried male
vorken in both occupied and unocupied
Prance, it was learned today.
lilizatkm of labor for the Oeamp
Russians Continue
Against German
Flank Northwest
of Stalingrad and Hold fp
Positions Firmly Inside
City
.. Oct. 8.—The Red Army
continued its drive against the German
loft flank northwest of Stalingrad
yesterday and held all
the hug* mass of
Germans have thrown facto
tie, the Soviet midnight
said today, -j
Earlier report® said
ahwdco's relief offensive
of Stalingrad had tipped
line of hundreds of Nail
and evwrrqn „
out. 1^00 Rumanian troops.
lite communique's
this action said simply that
west of Stalingrad oar tfpops have '
been conducting operations for the
improvement of their
Inside the rubble strewn city, the
battle raged on fiercely, hot the
Soviet communique
the Red any had
at any«point.
"All attacks of enemy tanks and
infantry have been repulsed with
heavy losses," R sale "Our troops
are hokisg their positions."
F* During the fighting, R wu stated
officially, the Russians ldlM about
600 Germane and destroyed 19 tanks.
11 of
action
;he G^rjj^iilMWW
nforcement into the c
rhe battlefield i» 40 mik
nt ateppe, all the w*y
Son to the Volga.
itection Of 105,000
Pounds Reported By
Ciiairmaiilippwis; The
Drive Still Going On 5
Citizens of Farmville have responded
well to the Notion's call for
scrap during the past'two weeks of
th scrap campaign which is being
waged locally, and Chairman John
B. Lewis expressed himself today as
pleased with the collection to date,
which has already gone past the
100,000 pound mark.
Both the Rotarians and' Legionnaires
are concentrating our scrap
collection, with the Rotarians canvassing
the town and the Legiannaires
the rural school district.
There are doubtless many people
who were out when the canvassers
called at their homes. In that case
a telephone call may be made to
Charimaa Lewis, who will direct yop
to the committee, in whose area you
are residing, and arrangements wffl
be made to lyud your collection from
your home to the scrap depot, or you
can take it to the scrap pile at the
school yard or to Ellis' depot iad
turn it over to dbefmae industrries
for the regular price paid for scrap
materials.
The manner in which your collection
gets to the scrap heap matters
little. Bat what does matter is that
the scrap is collected and put to work
in the defease of this country.
lite United States government
wants sad needs ail the scrap available
to build ships and tanks and
planes and guns and bullets and it
wants it now.
ENOCH LUDFORD PASSES j
■ y at klizXbcth ottt
News was. received here by relatives
Thursday' at tile death, of Enoch
Ludford, of Elizabeth City, who died
at soon following' as illness of Mrend
months .duration. Funeral services
will be held Sunday. ;' -y ;
Surviving1 are his widow, formerly
Miss Blanche Can-, and two sons,
Enoch, Jr., of the Naval BvK4*es,'
stationed at Norfolk, Va., and Frank
Ludford, of Eglin Field, Fla.
"Ai . _>
Much of that loudly acclaimed par
triotism gets its noSfcs from the p^t
motive. P . if . V^bst
London, Oct. 7^—The. British radio
today carried an American warning
tb tiie French people po vacate areas
producing for Germany or be bombad,
while the potency of the American
Plying Fortresses was hailed in
an exemplary way in the House of
Commons and with forthfiffcr fear
In Tokyo, ?
The Tokyo fear, as heard I# Brit