Each Member of Family
May Have Wve Cans
On Hand W i t h o u t
Penalty
Washington, Jan. 27.—Every person
in the United States may possess
without pcnaly a total of five cans
of fruits and vegetables when rationing
of those goods begins.
.The Office of Price Administration
announced this limit. The limit apparently
reflected a pessimistic view
about the size of canned goods inventories
throughout the country,
race up until a few Hours before
the announcement high officio 0f
the agency hoped that the allowable
limit might be between eight
or 10 cents a parson.
The penalty for having more than
five cans of vegetables or fruit (not
counting home canned goods or «•»"«
containing less than eight oimces
each) will be the loss of an 8-point
stamp for each excess can when new'
rationing books are issued in three
or four weeks.
An OPA spokesman said penalty
was designed to discourage
hoarding. However, officials acknowledged
that not everyone who has
a large stock of canned goods is
a hoarder. The new OPA administrator,
Prentiss M. Brown, recently
said it was common practice in some
areas for people to stock up in the
fall for the winter.
Applied Aa IMt.
For families, the quota of allowance
cans and the penalty will be
applied as a unit Thus, a family of
five will be allowed 25 <•»>» ft ft
had 30, the penalty would be five
coupons for the whole family and
could be taken either out of one
book at the family or perhaps spread
out over all five books. Each person
will have his own book, even
babies.
In applying the penalty, OPA said
it would make no distinction because
of either size or contents of
the can on hand in any family larger,
because of the difficulty of getting
every household to itentfze its pantry.
However, when the rationed
sale of canned fruits and vegetables
starts, different values will be assigned
cans as to both size and
contents.
The new ration books will be
passed out to, the public in about
three week at schools and thousands
of other registration {daces.
To get a book all a person will have
to do is to show (but not turn in)
his Number One ration book, which
contains sugar and dffee stan *.
Before the clerk hands out the new
book, he will tear out one eight-point
coupon for each can over the
five per person limit. Persons who
have an unusually large stock of
, cans could theoretically lose, by this
process, half their rations, rimn the
eight-point stamps represent half of
the point values in the book. Other
stamps, none of which will be taken
out for penalties, will be in denominations
of 6, 2, and 1 points.
Under the rationing system, each
can will have a value in points. For
instance, a can of peas might be
worth 10 points and could be obtained
by turning in two 6 point
stamps.
ine principal exception irom uw
can limit will be small cub of baby
food, since many of them fall under
the eight-ounce exemption.
Orthopedic Clinic
Greenville, Feb. 5th
We wiah to remind our readers of
the State Orthopedic Clinic to be
held nest Friday in Greenville, Feb.
5th, from 1240 to 4:00 p. m.
This Clinie takes all types of cripples,
both white and colored,, free of
chaxie who are unable to afford
private trcataunts. It is
though net required, that
be referred by a physician or lite Wel
fare Officer,
that the patient
to tiie Clinic.
is set up to serve es
Hookerton Convention
To Be Held Here On
Saturday, 30th
Hie Farmville Christian Church,
of which Rev. C. B. Mashburn is the
pastor, will be host to the Hookerton
District Convention, Satuniay, January
30.
In conjunction with the District's
inquiry, "What Can The Church Do
To Guide Us In TUs Hour?" which
has been chown as its theme for the
New Year, this meeting will take
under consideration, "The Sustaining
of Morale In The Local Church,"
with development of the subject by
Marie H. Smith, who will deliver an
address on "Our Church Attendance,"
and by Rev; H. Glenn Haney, pastor
of the Eighth Street Christian
Church, Greenville, whose sermon
will be based on "The Importance of
the Local Church."
The meeting will convene at I0!S0
o'clock, Saturday, with Rev. R. Paul
Parker, president of the Union and
pastor of the Hookerton Church, presiding1.
The devotional period will
be conducted by Rev. W. H. Branson.
A business session will be held in
the morning between the scheduled
addresses.
At 1:30 o'clock the Farmville
Woman's Council, of which Mrs. A.
C. Turn age is president, will present
a missionary program.
The program committee of the
Convention is composed of Rev. C. B.
Mashburn, of Farmville, Rev. R. Paul
Parker and Mrs. H. H. Settle, of
Greenville.
CHICORY
Secretary of Agriculture Claude
R. Wickard has just issued Food
Distribution Order No. 5 designed to
assure an adequate' supply and efficient
distribution of roasted chicory.
Americans
Take Pass
Allies Closing Trap In
Tunisia; Consolidate
Positions
London, Jan. 28.—Allied offenses
squeezed the Axis from both sides of
the Tunisian front Wednesday.
Communiques reported U. S. forces |
cracking through German defensi
in the Oumeitia Valley sector and
the British Eighth Army fighting its
way steadily toward the Tunisian
border from Tripoli against Marshal
Rommel's battered rear guard.
The Americans announced the capture
of prisoners and places of tactical
importance covering the important
mountain pass between Kairouan
and Ousseltia. They rolled the Nazis
back through the nun-mired central
Tunisian battlefrent from positions
wrestled last week from the French.
"These positions we. bong consolidated,"
and Allied spokesnu
said at the north African headquarters.
The British from Cairo announced
that Tuesday our troops
were in contact with the enemy
rear guards west of Zaoia, which is
30 miles west of Tripoli The Tunisian
frontier is some 70 miles west
of Zairia. , ' V
There was one report thtt Marshal
Rommel's men had managed to
un contact with the Tunisian Axis
forces of Gen. Jurgen Von Arnim.
The report was broadcast by the
German-controlled Paris radio Tuesday
night.
This was the union that Allied
G*. £S wSL °T«to•
WASHINGTON, D- c—
W scribing one ci the big air
battles over Guadalcanal a recent
newapaper account tells of an Amer'
lean flyer who parachuted from his
crippled plane to the waters of
Lunga Bay. The Navy craft which
picked him up next went to the rescue
of a Japanese pilot seen struggling
in the Water nearby. As tile
rescue boat reached the Japanese
flyer he niddenly pulled out his revolver,
aimed it at the drenched
American pilot and pulled the trigger.
The cartridge failed to explode.
Then the Japanese officer turned the
gun on himself with suicidal intent
Again he pulled the trigger and
again his revolver failed him. At
this point an American sailor
knocked him out with a boat hook
and pulled him aboard the American
Craft a prisoner.
Almost daily one reads eye-wit.
ness stories such as this one, and all
1 of them clearly demonstrate that
war with our enemy in the Pacific
cannot end in compromise. '
for ten. years I lived .in Japan.
The truth as I know it from close
observation is this: Nothing less
than the exertion of our maximum
capacities, individually and collectively,
in a war of offense will bring
our beloved country safely to the
longed-for havep at victorious peace.
JOSEPH C. GREW
Soys It* Fight to Fmish
From the flood of eye witness accounts
of atrocity and bestiality one
fact shines clear. We must utterly
crush that machine and caste and
system. If, however, we Americana
think that collectively and individually
we can continue to lead our nor
also remember that Japan did not
I start war without carefully
by
This la * total war, the only an[
swer to which is a total American
victory. It is a war in which half
measures of any kind mean incredible
waste at material, energy and
human life. In this sense a halffilled
War Savings Stamp album is
symbolic of a half effort. There are,
I am told, roughly 100 million par|
tially complete War Stamp albums
now in circulation. Thfese uncompleted
Stamp albums are, in a measure,
like a 100 million threats to a
speedy and victorious peace. On
the other hand, for every War Savings
album completed and cashed in
for a Bond, you the owner have
helped some soldier or sailor take a
forward step on the uphill road to
total Victory. U. S. Trunr, Dfrfum
"Save The Tin
Cans" Drive
Now On Ike
Pitt Comity To Salvage
Tin Cans Week of
February 1-6
. »
Mrs. Ted L. Albritton, Salvage
chairman of the local Woman's Division,
and her committee, composed
of Mrs. H. Neal Howard, Mm R B.
Piser, Mrs. Carroll Oglesby, Mrs.
George Moore, Jr., and Mrs. A, C.
Monk, Jr., are busy with plans in
connection with the Tin Qsn Salvage
Drive that; gets underway in Pitt
county, February 1.
' A house to house canvass will be
made on Saturday, February 6, in
Farmville, and housewives are requested
to cut both ends from their
cans and crush to facilitate packing,
and place braces containing their contribution,
on their front porches. <•
People in the rural district may
leave their collection at the shop on
Wilwm street, formerly occupied by
Mashbunt Plumbing tfH Heating Cb.
Mrs. .Albritton, m an -interview,
stated that many inquiries have been
made regarding the type can to be
turned in, which may be answered
as follows:
All thoroughly clean food and tobacco
cans made from shiny {date
may be used, including coffee cans.
These cans cannot be used:
Anti-freeie cans, condensed and
evaporated milk cans, odd shaped,
the new black tin cans, oil, paint,
varnish or beer cans.
Canned supplies are most essential
in actual comhat being used to
feed attire amies or provide sustenance
for a single soldier in a fox
hole. Thus the tin can looms large
in its significance for the fighting
forces and far tSose on the home
front, who may with a little trouble
and car* help provide this necessary
food container.
Hie bulk of the tin salvaged in
this manner is used for coating new
cans to provide a steady supply pt
properly packed food aad medical
supplies to oar armed forces. Save
every tin can and prepare it for acceptance
by your Salvage committee.
ALL MEATS 4
rationing begins, probably about
April 1, Office of Pri» Administration
officials said today.
THE HOME
FRONT
(Por Release Jan. 21)
As the United Nations get on with
this total war, every move at the
fronts reflects some effort or sacri-j
tnent in the supply lines means a
chance to transfer a little more of
our abundant material strength to
points wheto it will help fight our
battles. .
A new railway, of vital importance
to the United Nations, has been built
for 120 miles across the scortchhtg
deserts of Iraq. It was built entirely
by the Indian Army, with Indian
surveyors, railroad engineers and
labor, but it will carry British and
American Lend-Lease war weapons
and supplies to the Russians rolling
back the Nazis in a powerful winter
offensive. '
This is a good example both of
mutual kid among the United Nations,
and of the wide variety of
world routes taken by Lend-Lease
supplies to reach their destinations.
Although the greater part of reciprocal
aid given by our allies under
Lend-Lease agreements has been in
services performed and military far
cilities and supplies provided for our
forces abroad—naval, land, and air—
the greatest ^benefit of all has been
the fighting'which our allies are
waging against our enemies.
To Ship Vast Food Sapplifls.
For the benefit of our armed forces
and the Lend-Lease countries, millions
of tons of food—the bulk of it
for American troops—must be shipped
within the coming year to North
Africa, England, the Middle East,
Russia, Alaska, and other battle
fronts of the United Nations. To all
these places not much can tie sent
in the way of fresh fruits, vegetables,
fresh meats snd other fresh foods.
Instead, the fighting foods must be
sent—especially canned, dehydrated
and dried—in the processed forms
that American ingenuity has devised.
In order to make sure that our
fighting men will get what food they
need and that everyone at home gets
his fair share of the remaining canned
foods reserved for civilians, we
must resort to the "point" System of
rationing. "
Fighting men need more food than
they did in civilian life, while we at
home, with access to fresh food mar'
kets, have much less need of the canned
goods. Anyne who finds he
1 cant buy as much of his favorite
' canned food as he would like should
I remember what these supplies mean
i to a soldier in the field or lying
fice at home. And every improve
U. S. Flying
Fortresses Roar
Over Germany
RAF Bombers Have
Been Over Germany 15
Times This Month
London, Jan. 28.—United States
heavy bombers, Flying Fortresses
ind Libeimtors, attacked naval installations
in Germany Wednesday,
it was authoritatively announced.
It was the United States Army Air
Force's firet attack on the German
homeland.
It was believed that German Uboat
centers particularly were chosen
for the attack.
Just what part of the Reich ww
hit was "not disclosed. A United
States headquarters communique
said: "United States Army Air
Force Flying Fortresses (B-37s) and
Liberators (B-24s) attacked naval installations
in Germany Wednesday.
The raid followed overnight forays
in which the RAF set fires in the
dock area of Loriemt, Nazi U-boat
base on the const at France, and
bombed tin Gmmde estuary port of
Bordeaux after a two-night hill in
offensive over the oontinent.
The RAF has been over Germany
15 times this month. The industri.il
Ruhr Valley has been bombed nine
times and Berlin twice, on the nights
of January 1$ and IT.
The Ufoited States Army Air Fare*
in this theatre started the new yew
with a heavy raid on St Nasaire on
January 8. The most recent Flying
Fortress raid was a one-two battering
of Lorient in cooperation with
the RAF January 28.
Liberators', used with the Fortress®
today, are coming increasingly
into prominence in this teatre.
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The recent order allocating parchases
of the 1M2 Burley tobacco
crop has been amended to permit
dealers to resell at auction any tobacco
purchased on such markets
not later than January 16.
Why should a man sue for * divorce
if he has a nagging wife?
Rip Van Winkle had a better solution
for that kind of trouble. He
took a 20-year nap and slept it off.
Churchill meeting at Gisablarmls
yet incomplete; that momentous
events in the making will give the
full picture.
Presidential Secretary ; Etephen
Early said the *acount ic complete
"so far aa it can be told a* the
present time." But, he advissd reporter!,
"subsequent chapter* undoubtedly
will be written aa event*
unfold."
An indication that tome of theae
might be forthcoming quickly wu
seen in a statement by Secretary
of State Hull that he expected to
comment soon on some of the "more
vital phases" of the dwi*ir«i» reached
there.
The State Department head also
made the dialog ure of the confer^
ences an occasion for reproving
those who have been critical of the
State Department in regard to the
North African situation.
In response to a request for comment,
he told a press conference
that critic* should wait until they
had all the facts before speaking.
Criticise that political difficulties
in North Africa Were not being resolved
was particularly heavy, he
observed, while the heads of the
British and American governments
were there laboring on the problems.
In the absence of any hint as to
what events might be expected,
speculation was rife. In the first
place, there was . a widespread belief
that far more than has been
announced must have been involved
or the President and Prime Minister
would not have risked the hasards
of their meeting.
' The fact that they spoke of determination
to secure the "unconditional
surrender" _^.of Germany,
Italy and Japan prompted conjecture
as to the whether Italy or Germany,
or both, might have put oat
"peace feeler*" as a result of the
disasters in Libya and Russia.. If
so, the statement may have been
intended to sec3ch immediately any
Arris offensive for a "negotiated
On the military; side, it was generally
assumed that there had been
no alteration of the grand strategic
plan, indicated when the United
States entered the war, of defeating
Hitler fint and then taming
the full weight of British and
AroericanPwength against Japan.
The declaration that the United
Nations intended to maintain the
initiative in all theaters, however, o >]
was regarded as assurances to Chin*
that greater help would be given
her.
Very probably, it was thought,
agreement was readied on the
place and approximate time for invasion
of Europe, once the Axis
are deaa^:;flaKfi?'Taisia.
Assuming that decisions wen
made on the command setup in
Tunisia, the expectation was that
WAR IN BRIEF
White House indicates that fall
story of hisvoric r>Tnnt'-'°--T meetings
has not been told, hinting that
more big new* h coming. London
observer* expect Allies to strike
German/ in full force in near
Russians continue liquidation of
Germans trapped at Stalingrad and
-.11 f..L-,„,Lul mUlL . ,|| ..I, ... | ' .
roil iorwvn wna unv© couVa^jug
upon Rostov. Important Caucasus
oil center added to recaptarea territory.
American troops in cental Tunisia
huri Germans from position commanding
coastal pass through which
remnants of Marshal Rommel's Afrika
Korps must pass to jom Natis in
Tunisia.
American and British big bombera
intensify attacks upon German targets.
Uncle Sam's boys blasting Wilhelmahaven
and Emdsn in daylight
and the RAF hitting Bordeaux and
Lorient in night raids.
tar Heel flier among 1 widen of
first a Il-American bombing foray
into Germany proper.
Admiral Standi ey and British
charge deliver note from President
Roosevelt and Premier Churchill
to Premier Josef Stalin at Moscow.
' .
January 31 Last Day
To Correct Certificates
Ithaca, N. Y, Jan. 27.—It is imv
portant that certificatae-of-war-necessity
for tracks be adjusted by
January 31 at the latest. ODT has
warned that temporary suspension of
operations may result unless requests
for adjustment of mileage and fuel
allotments are made before that date.
After January 31, Community
Transportation Bulletin says, "Fad,
tires and puts will be alkied only
on the basis oC the conditions set
forth in the certificate. No more
temporary transportation rations under
which many tracks are now
operated, will be issued after January
3i. By this time your certificate-of-roar-necessity
will have to be
correct. If it isnt correct now, file
an appeal form at once.*
German Picture Grows
Darker; Nazis Withdrawing
London, Jan. 27.—An entire German
regiment, the 584th, has surrendered
to the Russian army unit*
now mopping up the fear thousand
German and other Axis trofv held
in the Stalingrad trap, the Russians
said in their mid-day communique
Wednesday m recorded here by the
Soviet Radio Monitor.
The regiment came over with its
full complement, the Russians said.
It also claimed that detachments of
the 166th infiantry regiment, also
caught hi the Russian vise, had bean
completely wiped oat by Red army
outfits.