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'■ VOLUME THIRTY All Farmers Will Be Urged To Have Scrap Ready When Trucks Make Collection Call * Greenville, Oct 29.—Two or three milHon pounds of scrap metal are expected to be added to Pitt County's scrap collection* on Wednesday, November 4, when a house to house drive will be( staged throughout the rural sections of the county. The decision to hold a one day clean-up campaign for all the farms of the county was reached at a meeting of salvage chairmen and civic minded representatives from various sections of the county and representatives of the county farm department and the county farm women's organi1 at ions. The an was further discussed at a meeting last Saturday of the. principals of all the county schools who have been acting as salvage chairmen in their various communities. Under the plan as outlined the salvage committees in each community will be enlarged to include large numbers of workers who will completely organise the community and make house to house canvasses between now and the day for the actual collection of scrap metal.1 Newspapers, radio, schools and churches will co-operate in carrying scrap messages to the people of the county and the personal canvassers will emphasize to the residents of each and every farm the necessity of turning in scrap now. Everyone will be asked to get together all the scrap on his or her premises between now and the day of the collection drive and on tfiat day to have it placed at the side of the road or in a convenient place where trucks can pick it up. Each community will be asked to furnish trucks-to make the collections and the communities Will be zoned in order that every road will be covered. In addition to the business men and other residents of "the various communities the boys from the various schools wall assist in manning the trucks and helping fake the collections. Although Pitt County has made a good showing in the way of scrap collections including the farm collection program back in the spring and the countywide program now under way, it is the general opinion that there are still three or more million pounds of scrap scattered about the county athd it is in an effort to get this scrap in that the drive is to be intensified. Every pieee of available scrap is needed by the government for war effort <nd this scrap must be collected and placed at strategic handling and shipping points before the bad weather sets in. THE PEANUT" Here are the interacting facto: There are nine distinct varieties rf pemwts grown in the United State, the principal being the VirThe Jumbo is grown in Virginia and North Carolina; and Spanish, the small round not, is grown mostly in in VitanMn n in which ii»i..i ■■ ■ ■■■ i ■ i rnapHi War Conference of Parent-Teachers Being Held Tofcy Tenth District N. C. Congress P. T. A. To Convene at 10 o'CIock; State Officers To Address Meeting ► • X Preparations have been completed by load committees of the local Parent-Teacher Association for the entertainment of the Tenth District North Carolina P. T. A. convening in the high school auditorium here this morning at 10:00 o'clock for a War Conference, and indications point to a full attendance. Mrs. Ted L. Alii ritton is president of the Farmville Association and 'Mrs. Henrietta M. Williamson is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. J. S. Blair, State President of the Congress, Mrs. Maude B. Foy, State District Director and Mrs. E. N. Howell, Field Representative, will address the assemblage on vital problems faced by the Association today. An attendance prize and a silver membership cup- have been offered to the Association having the largest attendance in relation to distance, and to the one first reporting 100 per cent membership enrollment. The membership report must be made prior to the meeting. Lunch will be served by the Farmville Association. Masons To .Hold Ladies Night On November 13th According-to W. E. Joyner, Master of the Farmville Masonic lodge, H. H. McLean; of Edenton, Superintendent of Chowan County schools and a former Superintendent of Farmville schools, will address the masons and their wives at "Ladies Night" to be held here Friday evening, Nevember 13, at 7:15 o'clock. A turkey dinner and musical program will be arranged and all Farmville Masons are requested to mpke plans now to attend with their wives. Frank Williams and L. P. Thomas will have charge of the dinner. > f Save The Tin Cans Campaign Now On Mrs. Ted Albritton Heads Woman's Salvage Committee nn 11 i ■ %r.' **-« "Our war effort needs every used tin am. in this country—from today until the war is over. Tin and Steel, we-want every single ounce. Not one can should be thrown away from this week on." > Miss Lelia Higgs, Chairman of the Pitt County Salvage Committee, issue* the following statement reteiv_J |f- TT aMli r> — l T r>..' * - ----- ©g iroiii mr« ncrucrt L« viuvtCTBOiij Chief of General - Salvage Section, Washington, D. C.: "Tell the. houeewhres and all the citwens in your county to- forget J about collection, but to start immediately preparing and storing every tin en used. In most cities collections are going on now; in some areas w» wont collect for six months; in remote areas maybe not for a 11 I TI4IT UHMF I FRONT > »']i The war we are fighting it war on the vastest of scales. It involves vast numbers of mm, vast quantities of weapons and materials, vast distances. In its earlier stages the Axis aggressors, faming out along interior lines, that rediato from Berlin to Tokyo, wen aided by the relatively short distances to their fronts. As the enemy1* lines of communications were extended the odds m longer were as overwhelmingly in their favor, and yet distance Is still the Allies major problem. * But Vhereas the Axis means of transportation and supply are approaching definite limits, those of the United Nations are ateadUy increasing. The phenomenal growth of our "external? system of war transportation — new ships launched at an average if three a day, thousands. of motor vehicles and cargo planes heading for overseas—is evidence that we shall solve that problem of distance as we shall solve our other problems. We may not hope, however, that this external transportation growth can be matched by a corresponding expansion of our continental transportation systems. We've about come to the end of our production of new railway freight and passenger cars, streetcars, buses, commercial trucks—materials used to build these carriers and conveyances are more needed for war uses. The wartime burden of the carriers has been staggering this year, and Will be even heavier next year. Hope To Get 10,000,000 Tires. Much of our transportation rolls on rubber wheels—about 86 pr cent of all travel ix> the U. S. is by passenger automobiles. In 2,300 cities and towns th«y constitute the only available means of transportation. And were millions of farmers, war workers and other* engaged in vital services to be derived of the. use of their cars, the extra load could not possibly be absorbed by buses, «treetcars, all the steps so far taken to save rubber might not avert a great transportation disaster. For ' we must save our stocks of crude and synthetic rubber for our armies— they also roll forward on rubbet wheels. Here's the answer—from November 22 on, well havp to get along with only one spare tire for each passenger car. All others must be sold to the Government, and it is hoped that by this means some ten million tiree may be obtained. Some of these will be good only for scrap rubber, but the greater part » will serve as a reservoir from which tires may be drawn to meet essential Matfpowr Situation To Be Critical. The program will not alter _tfie necessity to keep autos withinthie 36 miles^an hoar maximum apeed limit, In fact, well be more than over obligated to take the beat possible care of the five tires we keep. The Railway Express Agency .will collect the "idle"'Urea at no coat to owners. While njotorists may keep'their five best tires, they must note down the serial nuofbers of these they keep— these numbers must be given en your application for gasoline mileage ration. By the end of next year we'll need at least 20 million workers for direct war product!***—five millign more than we now have—and there'll be about nine million in the armed services, several million of them drawn frefill war jobs. In June, lttp, about million persons were employed, only a small percentage of them in war industry. During 1943 we can count on about 32% million people to carry on all civilian work and services other than direct war work and fighting. In the face at such a critical manpower situation local labor of all kinds, without prejudice as mk!L£trte?md Art every business and factory must e*^Whiij^y whether they can be traiped on thej The Farmville community and oar schools, working under th% lmdo** ■hip of John B.j Lewi*, township chairman, hm slmartj collected tfrar two hundred thousand pounds of scrap, and plans are now underway to secure every available piece of scrap left in the town and rural flections on the "Scrap Holiday" to be observed on Wednesday, November 4th, by the entire ccounty. The boys in the high schools will assist in this On Wednesday, Mayor George W. Davis, John B. Lewis and Supt J. H. Moore made talks over W-G-T-C on various phases of scrap collecting, and Cedric Davis of the seventh grade added variety to the program with appropriate songs, J. R. Shearin was accompanist The radio addresses of the Scrap Campaign leaders will be printed In these columns for the benefit of those who failed to hear the broadcast on Wednesday. Mr. Moore's ' address follows: "My friends of the radio audience and especially the people of Farmville and Farmville township: I am very happy to represent* the Farmville Public School m this all important scrap drive that will be made in Pitt County, WtdiMWisy, Nov. 4th. I will assure yiHi that the teachers and pupils in oar schools are eager to do all that is within their power to do that will help us to win this all important war in which we are now engaged. v "I hope thai every boy and girl, man and woman in Pitt County and Farmville Township are fully aware of "ft* seriousness of this war and that you win lend every effort in the scrap drive that is to be staged soon; making it possible for oar soldiers on the firing line to have at their command the necessary fighting ammunition to scrap the* "Jape" and the Germans. ~ i "Teachers and jfopils in our schools in thr*past have been vtey active in all phases towards winning this war, and they shall be very happy to continue this fine work; therefore, let me urge'every citizen in FarmviHe Township to join -with us in this' impoiaat campaign and all campaigns in the future to which we will be called upon to participate. "We are very happy of this oppof-s tunity to Join aH other Pitt County Shools in this scrap drive; therefore, you may, expect our studsots to call on you for your scrap,. Wednesday, Nov. 4th. We are requesting sod urging all the people within the sound of my voice to collect your scrap sad have it ready for the trucks, Wednesday, November 4. Address of Mayer Davis. "To every citizen of Pitt County, we are here tq appeal to yon in the interest of- OUR SCRAP CAMPAIGN, and this means every aldis bodied man, woman, boy and girl, regardless of race, to interest themselves sad pet forth every effort to get every bit of scrap that they might have in their homes, y&rdi, garages, baim and in the fields. Wb are representing Farmville Township, and onv November 4th, we are planning with your help b> bring in every piece of scrap that ought be lying.around doing nothing for anybody, and I feel rare that we do not have a single .citizen in our county that does not want to do all that they can to show OUR BOYS in the armed forces that we here at hoir.e are ready to back them Uk the very best of our ability. .y^"1 an satisfied that each one of you wants to see your scrap go . into battle that we might continue to live thfe great American life which w* have been enjoying for a long nam* o&t oi yw*B« i "Now, we «re not here for any glory, for ourselves. We are here |A WEEK OF THE WAR (For Release October 27) The Senate passed legilation to lower the draft age from 20 to 18. The Senate bill did not conform with the one pawed earlier by the House, however, so the legislation was sent to conference to adjust the differencee. - . y. Educational deferments in the Senate bill would be limited to high school students In the last half of their academic year. The Senate bill would also defer farmers and farm labor from military service wherever their induction would curtail agricultural production, until replacements could be found The bill would exempt men from selective service induction .after they have passed their forty-fifth birthdays. The War Front. Five strong .Japanese attempts to wipe out the American foothold on ■Guadalcanal Island have been beaten off by Marines and soldiers at a cost to the enemy of five taedcs and heavy casualties, the Nkvy announced late October 26. Four attacks were launched during the night of October 28 and 24, paced by tanks and covered by a field artillery barrage, and the fifth attack was thrown bade early the next morning. U. S. artillery, firing from emplacements in the dense jungle, wen credited with a large share of t$» American success in the first real test of strength with the Japanese on the Island. In fighting at sea and over land in the Solomons area between October 2325, 21 Japanese aircraft were destroyed and three damaged, three vessel damaged and two probably damaged, with the lops of one U. S. airplane. Earlier the Navy repotted the destroyers O'Brien and Meredith weife lost in the Solomons as a result of enemy action. n General Mac Arthur's headquarters in Australia announced October 26 that Allied planes operating from Australia in support of American forces in the Solomons have delivered another heavy blow to Japanese shipping in Rabual Harbor, increasing their total sunk or damaged there to^ 100,000 tons in three days. A cruiser? destroyer and two cargo ships were believed definitely to have been sunk. Lt General, Stilwell's Chinese headquarters reported American planes raided Hong Kong October 26 for tike second time in two days and also dropped bombs on1 Japanese-held Canton. U. S. Flying Fortresses destroyed nine German fighters in attacks on the Lorient submarine base- and a Nazi airdrome near Cherbourg, Amy Air Force Headsuarters in Loftdon announced. Three U. S. bombers were miai'ng. The Navy announced the 'staking of five more U. S. merchant vessels in the North Atlantic, four i July and one in Septate*. U. S. naval forces again raided the Gilbert Islands, sinking two patrol boats and da&aging two larger ves^ sels. Prisoners of War. Secretary of War Stfcimsoji told Ills prees conference that names of four captured U. S. fliers claimed in rokyo propaganda broadcasts correspond closely to the.names of four missing men, but stated the War Department had no information that the Japanese were failing to abide by international Law and tic Geneya Convention for, the treatment of prisoners. Mr. Stimson said "some >f the planes" to the raid on Tokyo 'encountered bad weather after they eft Japan and were farced off their yonrat. One landed, in Siberia. Several others made forced landings at sight in China,'' but no American plane was shot dvrtn. He said, "A rery tew of the crews at these planes ire carried an the Hat of missing* Some may have been forced dowfc by he lack of gasoline in Japanese-can- e rolled territory." Later the War Department announced the names of hree other participants fri the Tokyo •aid, fjpderstood to be miaaing." The Office of War Information said "secrecy was highly desirable in the hope at saving the lives and assuring the freedom of certain crew nembera who craahed landed in plete examination trf the reasona for Washington, Oct — Embattled American forces on Guadalcanal have inflicted "very heavy- loam upon Japanese troops and equipment during the past five days and have rethrusts, the Navy aoaoaaead today. By comparison. Navy officials Raid, American losses have been light in the raging battle far control of vital HendeoMK air field. A communique aaid no report of any action in the Solomons area has been received since issasme of last night's communique, which reported Army troops had thrown back h Japanese break-through on the southed flank of the air field. Officials explained that today's communique did net mean no reports had been received from the Solomone since Tuesday night, bat rather that the reports do not mention any action other than the repulse of the amall-aeale enemy thrusts on the night of October 26-27. For the first time sine* the Japanese pulled the trigger on their gigantic land, air and nan offensive air or aea action. This, howoet, did not preclude the likelihood that air and sea battles still raged in areas where communications on thi progress of fighting weald be shewed by actual combs*' / Tokyo Adarfasien. (Tokyo admitted Wednesday that a. naval battle still was in progress in the South Pacific—although pre that the United States fleet waa "destroyed" in the Solomons area Monday.) Latest reports on the Battle of the Solomons came a few boon after Pacific War Council members reported, following a conference with President RooSfelt, that there were no grounds for optimism—"just realism"—in the fighting now in prog Tuesday night's fcoromoRMjoe toM of Aiueriosn fliers attacking strong Japanese n*v*l forces north at the New Hebrides and the Fiji Islam*, which serve as Americas advance || j bascc. The report of heavy Japanese losses o« Guadalcanal did not m«ati<» numbers. The Japanese wen believed to have maaaed a estimated tO,000 or more men on the island for the all-out drive which i Have Eiggest Day, Downing Seven Axis Planes Cairo, Oct 28.—Tbe advance tank force at Britain's Eighth Army baa won the first round with Field Marshal Rommel's armor in battles through the Alamein minefield gaps, and dispatches from tbe desert front today said that the British onslaught steadily was widening the way for the major test of rival steel and gun power. Over the shell - pocked hattleground and the bomb-pitted porta of Rommel's supply lines the Allied air foree kept German and Italian planes on th*> defensive, f United States fighters reported their biggest day of the campaign, downing seven planes oat of yesterday's Allied bag of 19. Three of them were shot down by Lieutenant Lyman Middleditch, Highlwds, N. J-, fighter pilot in the Black Scorpion Squadron. Total Allied losses were six planes. The RrUJoh Middle ia*«* Command announced that farther progress had been mads Monday•» night fighting and gave Oils account of the first tank tsst of the new campaign: Tank Test Yesterday an armored clash on a larger scale than hitherto developed. "After considerable fighting, the enemy ware driven off with a considerable loss. Our own losses in tanlu were light :/ "There was no abatement in wr attacks during the night end day-of October 26 and 27." I Dispatches from the front indicated that Axis losses already had been heavy, both in tanks and men. There was no authoritative estimate, however, of the uum6er of Rommel's tanks pat oat of action in the first five dsiya of the fight RECEIVES COMMISSION Leaf Price Holding Firm on The FarmvHle Market • Sales an the Farmville Tobacco , Market were reported as fairly heavy this week with an increased amount of nondescript grades being sold. Low and common red leaf advanced about >1 per hundred with some fluctuations noted on inferior padea. Hie season's poundage through Wednesday is reported as 21,057,294 pounds, which total pots the market " five and a half million pounds bepond the sales for the entire 1941 season. Official receipts for this leason are *8,11?,87».28 and the iverage $58.56. ;
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