E.
for
sion
prices for
ticularly true
market. Leaf
or four
brought
there.
Over the 15
the two in Florida
the 41-cent Average
OPA. Beat weed
first and
to bring the average m una wivn uw
ceiling.
Averages High.
Some of the cigarette type leaf
touched 60 cents and a good quantity
brought from 50 to 66 cents a pound.
Most markets reported first sales
avtfraged 40-46 cents.
The average price last year was
30.25 cents a pound for a 61,500,000
pound crop. This year's production
has bee* tentatively estimated at
around 50,000,000 pounds.
The 41-cent maximum fixed by
the OPA applies to the total purchases
of a single buyer during the
entire season, permitting a tobacco
company to pay 96 to 60 cento a
pound for some~grades, bat requiring
purchase of enough lower grade
leaf to bring the average to 41
cents.
Offering* were light in some sections,
due to the lateness of the crop
this year.
CCC TO BUY TOBACCO
FOR EXPORT-MARKET
Washington, uly 27. — Approximately
300,000,000 pounds of 1943
flue-cured tobacco and small quantities
of burley and dark tobacco will
;be purchcased by the Commodity
(Credit Corporation for lend-lease and
■private export to meet military'and
minimum civilian requirements in
Jiritiab Empire countries, the War
Food Admnistration announced today.
Lend-lease purchases, according to
the announcement, will be used for
strictly military purposes.
Loans at the rate of 90 per cent
at parity effective today, the beginaing
ot the marketing year, also
wen fljonounced for farmers cooperating
In the 1943 agriculture
conservation program, and at 64 per
cent of parity to no^-cooperators
cm tobacco grown in excess of farm
quota*.
Purchases for lend-lease and
British civilian requirements totaled
250,000,000 pounds of flue - cured
tebaceo last year, the WFA said.
The proposed increase in purchases
from the 1943 crop is based upon
requirements submitted by the
British tobacco control board and
approved by the Combined Food
BoanL
Heretofore 'the bulk of the purchases
have been financed first by
CCC and ultimately through lendlease.
This year the British will pay
cash for about trwotMrds of dip
shipments. The remainder being
financed through lend-lease. As id'
the past, the 00C expects to sustain
no loss ill the operation, it said.
i»g an export market for tohacco
C. of C. Conference
V li-is. '■■■»" ,i vi . ■<;%
Charlotte, Ju!y 29.—Postwar demands
Dor goods and development of
new produets coupled with tremendous
shortages many materials apd
commodities give the Carolines great
opportunities to vastly expand—under
free enterprise—their industrial
development, Warren T. White, general
industrial agent of the Seaboard
Railway, told the presidents and
secretaries of Chambers of Commerce
in the CaroHitaa af their session
Monday.
"Aside from winning- the war," he
said, "the question of greatest importance
is whether oar economic
system can successfully withstand
the shock incident to reconversion
from a war economy to a normal
peacetime basis. If business is given
a reasonable degree of latitude, business
will accomplish the task. With
normal competitive factors allowed
reasonable sway, the Carolina* will
jorge forward into «n era of prosperity
not witnessed before."
"On the other hand," Mr. White
continued, "if free entes^rise be displaced
by arbitrary influences as in
totalitarian governments, the abundant
assets of the Carolines will profit
us but little" .
"There will be "Some thirty-odd million
war workers and men in the
armed services who must be absorbed
in private industry; our 85-bill ion
dollar annual war prod action must
be offset with an equivalent amount
of peacetime goods and services."
"There are yet untouched opportunities
for development of industries
in the Carolines," he concluded, "and
the only thing to prevent enjoyment
of them to the fullest will be failure
of the people to reoognize and utilise
them. The fault will not be in our
stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings."
Uncle Moee: Bogs say ah ain't
got no time ter fish. Ah h&dda
wu'k far raer bread. Yeah, an' ah
h&dda fish fer mer meat.
Evacuation Started
London, July 29.—Russian troops,
driving up the Kursk railroad for a
seven-mile gain, captured Stanovoy
Kolodeta, only 11 miles southeast of
of Orel, Wednesday, and, by a sadden
flanking movement north of the
city, sent thousands at Germans reding
back in fear of encirclement, Russia
reported today.
Moscow dispatches said that although
the Germans continued their
ferocious resistance, they had started
to withdraw troops and material
ifrom Orel in fear of another Stalingrad.
A Russian special communique
and the regular communique, recorded
from the Moscow' redid?' described
a steady advance, in fa*
"No criminal will be allowed to
escape bythetapedi«t ot <resiignation'"
he said in a nation-wide radio
broadcast which bristled '-'I®
warning* to the Axis nations that
"the massed, angered force of common
humanity are on the march"
and which cautioned Americans that
"the length at the war will depend
upon the uninterrupted continuance
of all-out effort on the fighting
fronts and here at home."
Ne Track With Fascism.
Nowhere is hit speech was there
any suggestion that Italy has yet
mad** tti.tor peace.
. But sgmhurtr he served notice on
Italy, and the rest Af the Axis, that
the United Nations have but one
prieefor peace—"unconditional surrender,"
and said "We shall not settle
for less than total victory."
Aa far as Italian peace efforts are
concerned, he said, "We will have
so track with Fascism in any way,
shape of manner. We will permit
no vestige of Fascism to remain."
Officially proclaiming that the
"first crack in the Axis has oome"
with the downfall of Mussolini, the
President said "the criminal, corrupt
Fascist regime in Italy is going to
pieces."
In an all-inclusive report on the
war effort—on the battlefields and
at hrfme — Mr. Roosevelt revealed
that the administration is drawing
op "serious, constructive plans for
certain immediate forward moves"
concerning food, manpower and other
fomeetic problems which tie in
with our armed forces.
nans Another Talk.
He said that in thi* cormeftfon he
would speak to the nation again
"within a few weeks" regarding
definite actions to be taken by the
administration and specific recommendations
for new legislation.
He said the government also is
preparing for submission to Congress
plans for returning to civilian
life members of the armed forces
who "must not be demobilised into
an .environment of inflation and
government;" as well ap plana for
the "large objective of reoifvering
war-time America to a peace-time
New Ceiling .Prices
Announced Late Last
.Saturday
Complete returns from Saturday's
referendum in six southern states
showed an overwhelming preference
f continuation of the quotas which
ve been in effect since IMG. Nearly
91 per cent of the growers favored
control, with a majority voting
for a three-year extension.
I Of 120308 votes tabulated through
yesterday, 116,802 favored threeyear
plan, and 12,000 were against
federal control. *
The vote by states: VMSSSffi
'■ if' it .1 Yr. t Yrs. Agst.
Georgia 711 3,021 2^1«
Florida 186 2,106 381
Alabama 90 / 5
North Carolina 2,065 90,048 6,848
South CarolinJggSSl 7,160 1,017
Virginia 663 16,939 2,422
Pitt county tofaeco growers overwhelmingly
voted in favor of the
three-year tobacco acreage program
[cast 6,666 ballots for the three-year
Values lacrosse* • M
The increase in poMPf-ataes of
frozen foods was the expected trend
now that the 1943 crop of theee
foods is coming to market. Earlier
in the year when warehouse*! were
jammed with the 1M2 pack and
space waa needed for the oneoraing
IMS crop. OPA cot point values
temporarily to facilitate <wle of last
year's products.
The increase on tomato Juice reversed
a long series of decreases,
indicating1 that in its former efforts
to spar sales of tomato Juice, officials
went a trifle too far in consideration
of the supply. • (
Although, the duw<es were about
the fewest of any month since processed
food rationing started in
March.
Making the Aqgust stamps gvod
until September 20 will not affect
the quantity of processed fruits and
vegetables that can be bought by the
stamps, but may make it easier for
housewives to select the foods for
which they wish to use the stamps.
Formeriy, the overlap of one month's
stapms in the next month was only
one week. X)PA officials said this
caused many householders to nuh
to spend their points before they expired
without being able to determine
fully which foods they would
need most
Hotter U«es Up.
The ration price of butter also
was boosted two points a pound, effective
Sunday, by the OPA today,
but the red stamp coat of meats was
left substantially unchanged.
Partially compensating for thei
rise in the stamp value of butter to
10 points, the QPA lowered the value
of shortening, lard, salad and cooking
oils by one point Margarine
will remain unchanged at four
points. Hie
new red point values will remain
in effect through September 4.
Although the OPA reported an
increase of 10 per cent tn the civilian
beef Ripply, no drop in values is
possible at present, the agency said.
Because of the increase In beef
Violent fighting reported between
Italian and German troops in northern
Italy; Badogiio dissolves Faaeist
Grant Council; soldiers battle Blackshirt*
in Milan; Ankara hem Italy
will negotiate peace.
Roosevelt promises punishment
for Axis leaden in optimistic review
of war-tftort at home and abroad.
Wart migfatest aerial offensive in
fifth day; U. S. Flying Fortresses
smash targets 80 mUM from Berlin
in their deepest poaSration of war;
biasing Hamburg hit t«* sixth time
in 72 hours as RAP night-bombers
rain 2,800 tows of explosive# <m city.
Axftt satellites rocked by MussoH^^reJS£
otrt "peace
The Circumstarce# under which
the meetings was held were in themselves
sufficient to srouae intense
interest 13"'••../V
Menmenicoglu watted at the Moda
Club, a fashionable resort at Moda
launch as soon as it arrived at the
Bay near IsCairirai, and boarded the
club pier. The lannch turned seaward
immediately. Beside the crew
there was only one other person
unidentified — seen to board the
Uraach.
The fact that the Turkish Minister
agreed to see GnarigUa at
Istanbul instead of the Foreign Office
in Ankara indicated the importance
of the conference. Turkey,
as a neutral power maintaining
dose diplomatic relations with both
&e United States and Great Britain,
is a logical choice as the medium
for possible Italian peace over,
tores.
~ Guariglia was appointed to the
Turkish poet three months ago and
at the time it was understood that
he was not the Italians' first choice
f&r the job. Rome* it was under-'
stood, wanted to appoint an Ambassador
with pro-Allied learnings, but
the suggestion apparently "was
vetoed by Berlin, Italy's Axis partner.
Guariglia, who is not known
to have exhibited amy particular Allied
sympathies, is known to have
been only lukewarm toward the
Fascist Party.
There were unconfirmed rumors
in Istanbul that Guariglia's successor
as Ambassador to Turkey woald
be Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's
son-in-law, who was removed
as Fascist Foreign Secretary
and sent to the Vatican as Ambassador
early this year.
Edward A.Tugwell, 35,
Killed WWKWalking
tSHfeacks; 1 Funeral
Held Monday • * v
Calteveturo.
The battle of the bridgehead had
reached the "slugging stage" as
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters
■ communique announced
that Canadian troops in the center
of the front also had made progress
in hand fighting and against bitter
opposition.
The British Eighth Army still nu
stopped dead before Catanfc in the
eastern sector for tha 13th successive
day — longer than it was stopped
either at El Alamein in Egypt
when it took up the offensive, or at
the Mareth line iri Tunisia. .
Announcement of tte fall of Cefalu
oame at least S6 hours late,
and "while thefe were no more official
reports oq progress, it was plain
that the heaviest American forces
were being drawn up for an all-out
blow along the north coast*
The Germans still were getting in
reinforcements, and it was disclosed
that "the bulk of two Italian field
divisions" had escaped into the
bridgehead from the west. This appeared
to trim previous official estimates
that 110,000 Axis soUiecs
had been trapped since the start of
the campaign. "Over 70,000" was
the last official count of prisoners.
cPlan For Post - War
World at Assembly In
Wilson^ 7 •
left Mr jobs. •
Islands of Fasds ussiatsncs sre
holding out agiriast Italian troops at
Milan, it m reported Wednesday, ,
aa uncertainty onr the new government's
course between peace and ww
produced mcitaaed signs of restlessness
among1 the people.
Moat of the trouble whs centered
at Mihoii, the birthplace of Italian
Fascism but alio the strongest center
of Socialist, Communist and other
political movements. ' V
n Corrler# Delia Sent reported
that in Morganton Street, Milan Fascist
battled three hours during'
the night firing from the windows
and roofs of a building. The structure
was said now to 6e encircled
by troops hot all the Fascists had
not yst been captured.
Other small centers of resistance
in various parts of the city by
"elements refusing to comply with
the mm order* were reported hp
the Italian paper.
The newspaper presented this ae»
' Outbreaks m the center of Milan
were limited and the gravest resistance
occurred in the surburhs
where the Fascists barrkated thenselves
in building and fired on uuewls
of civilians as well as soldiers.
I : The fight to reduce these mats
waa "long, difficult and bloody."
Workers generally responded to
the request of the military eom-mander
of Milan, Gen. Canale, to return
to their work, hot in some quarters
there was "hesitation and resistance."
g ' •
In some factories of Milan workers
who presented themselves hi the
morning failed to show up in the
afternocm. Traops had to intervene
f| I|< I, .. ■, II ^ it I M M
gatnenngs gpia aemonramnowL
Prison Rioting.
Another outbreak occurred in the
gnat Milan prison at Gellularr where
an interne waa killed and many were
wounded in an attempted prison
kynnV • -'t~-'iHSy
The inmates continued to mutiny
and burned part Of the prison.
The Italian ratio Wednesday
moming ended its program by wanting
the people against rumors ef
events "of an exceptional nature
which at this moment are beta*; .trcidated
by an irresponsible effort to
affect public order." » ^ " §
HIGHER RATING