V.
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State declared at
night "that suck
would destroy «
auction market.'*'
The croup passes a resolution
against such allocation of tobacco.
Called by the North Carolina Farm
Bureau, the meeting wa
over by Carl Hicks of Wi
tobacco chairman of the State Bu
reau.
J. E. Wataknr, president of the
State Bureau, spoke, pointing out
that the tobacco program was started
in 1933 and that "we are now
back where we started.". He aid
the meeting was tor th purpose of
discussing allocations and price ceilings
He said that a meeting will
.be held m Washington' on Friday
with the OPA to discuss tobacco
price ceilings. A committee from
North Carolina was to be appointed
later fmight. v
Shaw Speaka.
R. Flake Shaw of Greensboro,
executive secretary of the bureau,
spoke on the proposed referendum
on tobacco for aiMther year sod
predicted that there will be a low
vote unless everyone interested "gets
out and works." Shaw said that,
"Personally, I hope that fat regard to
the tobacco ceiling, it will not be
placed too high, because this would
be dangerous." -w
He said that he had been informed
by C. H. Gage, head of the tobacco
section of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, that the department
had estimated the total
fine cured crop for 1943 at 800,000,000
pounds, and that this would He
150,000,000 pounds short of the demand!
,
B. B. Sugg of GracnviUeb a member*
of the allocation committee, said
that Gage had told him that allocation
of tobacco as proposed by the
government wonld not- injure competition
and that the allocation
would be made among the companies
on a percentage basis after
300,000,000 pounds bad been purchased
for lend-lease shipment. He
said that despite the assurance of
Gage that allocation would not hurt
competition he felt sceptical about
the irilmMm
OFFICERS INSTALLED *
BY ROTARY CLUB
L. E. W&lston was installed as
President of the Farmrille Rotary
Club, imcoawflwg LeRoy Rollins, at
the Club's regular sapper meetta* oB
W. *.Ns Willis,
WAR IN BRIEF
massed in No.-th Africa for drive
asserted
A Middle East communique Mid
that Approximately CO Liberators
participated in Tuesday's smash,
dropping more than 286,000 poxmds
of high explosive rod fragmentation
bombs on the Gerbini fields, covering
runways and disposal areas and
leaving large fine boning. One enemy
filter was reported destroyed
and two damaged while every Liberator
retained safely.
hpPtiiRg Fortesses from the baae
struck shortly after dawn and reported
hits on an ammunition dump,
administration buildings, hangars
and five landing stripe. Five planes
of the Northwest African Force were
reported mi ring from the day's
operations, against two enemy aircspft
destroyed
During Monday night RAF Wellingtons
hammered at Gerbini sttfU"tizig
^re fires, while Biscari and Mito
airfields were assaulted by South
African Bostons and Baltimore* and
British Bostons. The same night
heavy British bombers of the Kiddle
East Command pounded railway installations
at Catania, Eastern Sicilian
port
. 1
f Axis fighter opposition which
reached a crescendo Monday, when
more than war planes attacked a
single formation of twenty-seven flying
Fortresses, dwindled Tuesday to
almost nothing, retumteg pilots reported.
The fourth day of the concentrated
attack on Sicily's airfields
from here saw the sccre stand at cm
hundred ten Axif craft destroyed
against an Allied loss of 19.
Veteran observers cautioned against
jumping to the conclusion that the
Allies have won complete supremacy
over Sicily, but the sudden falling off
is enemy fighter interception indicated
that the Germans had lost most of
their Sicilian-bitted land planes and
were in need of iWnforccuicBvte. Only
one small group of enemy
fighters approached an American
bombing mission Tuesday and escorting
lightnings drove them off.
i American Mitchell medium bombers
struck in two formations against
Biscari airfield to Southern Sicily on
sr ™ ^
feasibility of such a ta:;, and at the
same time announced 0 would begin
coMd'leratian Sept. 8 "on a nonpartisan
basis" of a new general
x&x measure with m«' «hd higher
levies.
Treasury experts and the committee's
tax staff were asked to
study all possible new tax sourees
including information on. a sales
tax, the so-called spendiog tax, compulsory
savings and increased Individual
and corporate rnoome taxes.
The committee, in its test tax
meeting before Cor gross takes a
summer recess, also agreed finally
th*T there would be no retroactive
levies in the new general tax metsUr*
'JsS .v&x'.sy.; „
One Ways and Means member
privately expressed doubt that the
excess pHtfite principle ever could
FIGHTING
' Saving food is one of the most
effective ways for the average citizen
to help win the *mr. ::-4- -