to fliers convoy Capt. N. J., pilot aof Tuesday's attack, warship suffered a and later reports of ted in the the * Other Allied the A single Allied reconnaissance plane, flying' over the Bismarck Sea between New Guinea and New Britain, was reported to have shot down four of nine Japanese planes in a running battle. The Allied plane returned safely to its base. On the Burma-India front, RAF fighter planes were reported to have damaged 13 of 22 Japanese bombers and fighters attempting- to attack an Allied air base in Bengal province, India. At least five of the enemy planes were listed as "probably" destroyed. RAF bombers flying from India attacked the Japanese along the Bay of Bengal coast, north of the big enemy base at Akyab, a communique said. Congress May Take Recess Says Solons Need Time Out To Make Home Contacts Washington, March 31. — Senate Majority Leader Barkley talked today of a pouibie two-week race— for cwgreas at. Easter, now that the tax ate—Son has become suddenly The pay-as-you-go tax fight is only Joapfwg — not dnd — but Hartley said after a general survey of the legislative picture in a White House conference that if the situation permits, a recess would be helpful in letting members of congress _ i.„A „ »| I ■ - — JJi..' V-.l. -. get in toucn witn oonaxoons dick home. ' l'.i '«■ -- ■■■ _ Conditions at home and abroad were topics at OWI Director Elmer Davis' press conference, where he spoke encouragingly 'of the fighting in Tunisia and also predicted that meat supplies, now rationed, • will "he spread more evenly about the country within a very short time." Other developments in the capital afternoons is April of this year so is to enable the employees sad merchants to plant and cultivate their Victory Gardens. Please let as have your reaction of this as soon as possible. Notify the office of the Chamber of Commerce. Lot ely Ilona Muaey acta the pace for the Hotel ABtrku woman besot by ahortaiM. Dotaf bar shopping by bicycle to nn gasoline, aha also wears bright-rod. knee bigh cotton ribbed ooeks bocanse of their comfort and easy care. Theoo socks, originally dosigned for sports wear, hare boon adapted to many mass by basy house wires because a4 their longlasting qualities. PEANUTS North Carolina waa fourth in pennut production last year, with 402 million pounds. Georgia led with n billion pounds, and then came Alabama and Texas. "Alfalfa Yellows" can be cured by the application of 80 pounds of borax per acre. The disease is caused by a deficiency of boron. WAAC Recruiting Unit To Be Here Week of Apr. 12 TMfr i . Jfe The WAAC Recruiting Unit trill be stationed in the Farmville Post Office during the week of April 22th for the purpose of enrolling women Recommendation For Housewives to Put Up 100 Quarts Per Person This Year North Carolina's essential wartime home-canning goal for IMS totals 375,162,300 quarts, a leading food distributor estimated today. This huge job faring the state's 199,694 housewives represents an average of 100- quarts of home-packed food per person, the amnont the United States Department of Agriculture has recommended for rural families and which it considers desirable also for urban families, explained Harvey A. B&um, vice president of A A P Tea Company's produce-buying affiliate, the Atlantic Commission Company. Any housewife who meets this 90a! will assure each member of her family two cups of home-canned food daily for about seven months. "The need for housewives to meet the goal was emphasised when Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown reported that only 13,000,000 cases of commercially-canned fruits sod vegetables would be available to civilians each month this year as compared to 30,000^)00 cases a month last year," Baum said. "This means a reduction of 57 per cent, but civilians will get along on it so our armed forces and allies can get the food they need to whip the Axis." Baum believes many American housewives Will fill this gap by purchasing fresh fruit snd vegetables for both immediate use snd for home canning inasmuch as these perishable foods require no ration points. The War Production Board has promised adequate supplies of covers and rubber rings for home canning. "Beginning in May our company will furnish through its stores up-tothe-minute information ss to when the various fruits and vegetables are available in sufficient quantities to warrant canning," Baum said. "It is a patriotic duty this sear to can fruits and vegetable^ Cat peak production. periods to avoid waste." MRS. LULA L. MEW BORN The funeral of Mrs. Luis' Lang Mewbom, 76, widow ot William E. Mewbora of Kinston, who died of a heart attack in Burlington early Monday, were held from Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in Kinston at 4 p. m., Tuesday, with burial in Maplewood cemetery there. The Rev. Edwin F. Moseley, rector, officiated. Members of the vestry were pallbearers. Mrs. Mewbora, a native of Pitt County who had spent most of her life in Kinston was a member of $t. Mary's Church. She was a daughter of the late W. G. and Prisdfia Moye Lang of Pitt County. Her husbsnd, a prominent Kinstonian, diej^ several years ago. Surviving are two daughters, Miss Carlotta Mewbora of Kington and Mrs. Duncan MacKenzie of Burlington; one son, Ronald E. Mewborn of Kinston; sister, Mrs. C. E. Moore of Farmville; seven grandchildren, B. E. Mewbora, Jr., of Kinston, Cadet Ned P. Mewbora, West Point, Cadet BUI Mewbora, Georgia Military Academy, Dick, M|PPI' Meaaage ef Hojki. For centuries cancer threatened humanity with its hopeless fear. Today the Women'* Field of the American Society for the Control of Cancer carries to every home the message that cancer can be cured If discovered early. Launched in 1936, the Army today has Divisions at forty-seven states and the District of Columbia. It seeks to form units in every county and comm' nity in the ^United States. It has the approval and rapport of the American Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons, and the U. S. Public Health Service. It has the cooperation of large national women's organizations, the guidance of state and local medical societies, and the assistance of thousands of individuals. The Congress of the United States, appreciating the importance of the cancer control program, in 1988 set aside the month of April |is Cancer Control Month. During April the Women's Field Army appeals to everyone, both men rad women, to become a member and to participate in its work. The Shoe Is On The Other F®$t. The statement by Dr. C. C. Little, managing director of the American Society for the Control, of Cancer, ivhen announcing the seventh annual enlistment campaign of the Wome's Field Army, puts reeposibility for the control of cancer squarely up to the public. The disease is the second rtigheet cause of death in the United States. It kills 160,000 persons annually. The slogan that has been selected, 'With your aid we shall be victorious," marks a change in philosophy about the cancer problem, said Dr. Little. Until recently the medical Field knew comparatively little about the causes and cure of cancer. The public grew to believe the disease iras hopeless, and demanded that science do something to improve the :hancee of cure. It has. Today the situation is changed. In the past Few years surgeons, radiologists and research workers have each contributed noteworthy advances to the ii agnosia and treatment of this disease. But, continued Dr. Little, no medicine has yet been discovered that will core cancer. Surgery, x-rays ind radium are still the only known tneana at cure; and cure can be effected -only when the disease is discovered and treated in its early WgM,'; >■*>" / \■"■> ;' This, he emphasized, places the responsibility on the Individual. Each must learn the symptoms of early cancer and go to his physician as soon as he recognises one of them in lis body, . »- ' *. v •* •: r This sounds like common sense to as. Science ha# apparently greatly increased the chance of being cured i you have cancer. Bat the first nove must be made by the patientrhis being the case, the least we can io is to help publicize the early symptoms of cancer so that our own readers need never have occasion to say, "Why, oh why, didnt someone tell ne!" ■ \ ^ If you have any of the following symptoms, consult your doctor it >nce. It may be the means of saving your life: L A persistent lurilp or thieltening, particularly in the breast. worse weather conditions to the Ion* Russian front and the Soviet midday communique today again opened with it* monotonous keynote: "No isMsttial changes occurred on the fronts. Almost a week has gone by now that no major-scale activities have been waged in the battle areas, although there still are repeated sharp clashes in various sectors. (The German Ugh command communique stated today that Russian thrusts on the Kuban bridgehead and southwest of Vyazma were repulsed. South of Lake Ladoga successful defensive fighting continued, the communique said. It reported that two Soviet battalions were annihilated and a number of tanks destroyed in this action. (It said that "sooth of Lake Ihnen a German offensive operation made in order to shorten the front readied prearranged objectives in spite of difficult terrain conditions." (The communique said that quiet prevailed yesterday on the southern and central sectors of the front.) Soviet fighters on the western front, pushing slowly into the. German position; on the distant approacses about Smolensk, were able in the thick mud and slush to carry out only scouting operations yesterday, it was said, but the Soviet noon communique announced that south of Bely an attack with cold steel and hand grenades won the Russisns a series ef German tranches, with about a company of the German defenders wiped. ot$. In the continuing battle for the Denete river valley positions east of Kharkov, Russian scouts killed 160 Germans attempting to find a new crossing over the river and cap-i tured five loaded supply trades, the war bulletin declared. Red Army artillery also was credited with destroying four German tanks and dispersing a battalion of German infantry in a bombardment of enemy forces concentrating Ln apparent preparation for another river crossing attempt It was in this sector, the Russians laid, that the Nasis yesterday renewed furious assaults after a comparative lull, and the renewal cost them 600 officers and men killed in land battles, and 16 planes shot iown. "*> ■ The Soviet midnight communique landed General Simonov as the defensive hero in this sector, with til enemy attacks being repulsed and the Russians lasMftg out with sounterattacks that caused heavy snemy losses, it was asserted. Methodist Revival Will Continue Into Kext Week Inspirational messages, splendid singing, and a large receptiva audimce mark the series of Revival Services being held at the f&arfiville Methodist Church, which have been «tended to go through Wednesday it next week. The children and young people are especially invited to attend the Services on Saturday morning which (rill begin at 9:80 o'clock. There will >e special music at the eleven o'clock — FARMVILLB BOY WINS AIR AWARD w London, 30.—Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force announced yesterday 530 awards for U. 3. airmen following a ceremony at which an additional 42 man of the.U. S. AAF bomber crews were formally decorated by Col. John H. Haydea of Tamna. PI a. Among- recipients of the Air Medal were: Staff Sgt. Herbert H. Burnetts, of Farmville, N. C., and Staff Sgt. Lindwood P. Jones of Greenville. :"-isi ' Sgt Burnett© is the son of Mr. and Mrs Herbert Burnette of near Farnjville. He was reported missing in action in the African campaign in February. $ Tn an interview this week, Mrs. Burnette said that the local Red Cross Service Committee' is investigating this news for her in an effort to find out if her son received his medal before or after he was reported missing. Since the article gave him am Staff Sgt. and the War Department telegram listed him missing as Technical Sgt., die feels that the ward was probably made before his last assignment from which he is reported mining, but is hopeful that the Committee will be able to find otherwise. Axis Ships Sunk London, March SI.—Four British submarines sank six Axis ships and damaged four others en the supply route to Tunisia, the Admiralty announced today. On* of the victim* was a mediumsized vessel carrying petroleum, it said. Another was a large, fullyladen ship which was picked off from a strongly escorted convoy off northern Sicily. . CHICKFNS USD A Seek To Prevent Join