Every Wood Cutter and Farmer Who Can Are Urged To Spend At Least 3 Extra ways At Tins Work Between Now and January 1st The Farmrflle Enterprise today has Joined other weekly and daily newspapers of the nation in * campaign to aid the Government to help solve the serious pulpwood shortage situation. It is the second time since Pearl Harbor that the nation's auesyapers have been called, upon to ovweome a serious war material shortage. . Last Fall it was the Newspapers United Scrap Metsl Campaign. At that time scores of steel mills faced shutdown for lade of vital materials. What the. newspapers accomplished in that drive is history. The situa. tioa was saved with more than 6,000,000 tons of precious metal collected. Now it is the pojpwood campaign and it is equally serious because hundreds of thousands of cords of the nation's pulpwood are required for " war purpose®: t.tf t ik The Victory Pulpwood Campaign was initiated by the War Production Board, with the cooperation of other Psdend Departments, war agencies and industry. » is designed to relieve inereairfngty serious shortages in fM^wood; Hie raw materials which make smokeless powder, rayon, for psimchntcB, plastics for airplane parts, 'shell and bomb casings and shipping containers for ammunition, foods, supplies, Mood plasma and other neceastties for our armed forces and our allies. > • •• The campaign to increase the production of pulpwood for the manufacture of products vitally necessary for military needs overseas and for home front war uses, is addressed to farmers, woodland owners, forest laborers and other available workers in the three major pulpwood producing areas of the South, Northeast and Lake States, where manpower shortages have developed because of the withdrawal of woodsmen for Service in the armed forces or other war "it every one of the more than 2,[ 800,000 farm era in the 27 pqiwoo^, producing states wer* to devoOt ftre# extra days in lM3;td cutting, "pulpwood we could ovenjjw# the thfreaienr I ed 2,500,000-cord sMirtifee witft wood « to spare," Mr. Netooq doctored. "I (urge every America* .ClpMr to get in touch with uia naareet Department *, at Agricultare reprMKtatf** to find j oat whether he can bo tf Mrvice in the production of puipwood. I, of i course, realise, the incttitgttl war load ; which the fanners are h swing today, i but the puipwood sjtuatjoB^W,*|>^lol» i enough to Justify thia call for an \ extra effort." I In anticipation at the present critiScal shortage in puipwood supplies, the War Production Board called i upon the U. S. Department of Agri| culture for assistance. The Forest I Service, Regional' Extension Directors, Extension Fotwtan and County Agents were requeated to aaaist in stimulating xilpwood fitting by advising farmers on sound cutting , practices mill price* aad specification*. [ The critical naure of {Kijpwood [ shortages w»s indicated during May which showed receipts at. all mills for the first five months of the year wen 22 par cent below receipts for the corresponding period in 1942. This repoftwa* MMM by a statement tfcat Govermesnt requirements tow par work vait may ke nMUnwt by keeping the nmebhm aft suck work as will im a higk Iiwrr—l»a« at Us rated horsepower, says G. W. Ota of the Agricultural liigkmriNt Department •« State Coilaga ;i- j Where a farmer keepa akm wto he actually needs, kta power cent wfll be high. Gttaa potato oak tkat the same prfnetplee applies to tnetofa, especially if 41m operator doaaut keep aH tke available hone power of hte tractor at work. Thia ia particularly true for fM carta . The reeorda ahew tkat there la a consumption of 1J gallon* of gaeoltne per hoar for a full lead, for example, aa compared with 1J gallons per hour for ona-half load. By keeping the machb*> at full work, the second half of the job ia acoompliahed at s.ooat ot only .5 of a gallon of gasoline. Giles suggeets that tke tractor nay he kept fully loaded by increasing the width of the equipment or by using more than one piece of machinery at the same time. Ho aleo suggests that a higher gear may bo used and the job completed at greater speed, or the tractor may bo ran at a higher gear and throttled to the speed required for the job. Why worry about things that may happen the day after tomorrow. More important are the things happening the day before tomorrow. Japs Face Death In Trap; Raleigb Pilot Raids Foe Allied Headquarter*, Australia, Aug. 12.—Trapped in a closing are of liquid fire and hot steel, the last Japanese garrison on New Georgia Island today faesd ia choice of slow annihilation or a suicidal flight across Kola Gulf to nearby Kolombangare, Island which is under constant aerial assault by U. S. planes. American jungle troops, pressing north from Munda through treacherous swamps and deep ravines, systematically are heeding th» enemy toward the sea In the BairokoSunrtay inlet sector along the watt coast, a headquartec* sp>»— reported. Simultaneously, the Japanese door w|t< sealed when admnue elements on the right flank surged forward to reach Bairoko Hirer, two miles southesst of the hapfhor, to rendecvoos with forces led by Marine CM. Harry B. Liversedge which have bean working southward from the Enogai inlet area, north of Bairoko harbor, fees early In the Nsk Georgia invasion. Although it generally was wcpected that the Jape would attempt a last-ditch stand, rach as marked their battle defense of Munda, the spokesman noted that eventually the enemy might seek to scape Red Troops Cot Vital Rail link In Kharkov Area FaH of Kharkov Considered Matter of Days; Russians Register Big Gains London, Jl% 12.—Powerful, fast columns of Bad Army tanks sod motor! sad infantry cut the KharkovPoltava railroad yesterday, and passad the peak point of last winter's offensive, captured the German baas of Aktyrka, 62 miles northwest of Kharkov, and djwtffcfvtt miles northeast of Kharkov. H»e cutting of the Poltava railroad isolated Kharkov on the west, made its fall within a matter of days almost inevitable, and left the Germans with only two escape routes by rail for the tens of thousands of men garrisoned there. . Grain lands Freed. Thousands of aires of rich grainlamb, nearly ready for a harvest which the Germane had expected to reap, ware freed in a day of wild, cottfusad fighting in which the Russian columns crashed or drove before them the gasrisona of mow than M towns and vilagea in gains of up to 12% miles. In Wedneaday's advances, the Bed Army, by capturing Krasnokntsk and Perkhomovka, 48 miles northeast of Ebltava, passed the weteramost point of their winter offensive in that area. The Hnarisws cut the KharkovPoltava railroad along a 10-mile strotch by capturing Kavisgi, 29 miles wast of Kharkov; Vodyanaya, 39 miles west of Kharkov, and Vysokopolye, between those two stations. In the frontal attack on Kharkov, the Bad Amy captured the twin villages of Russikye Tishki and OwflWftya Tishki, miles northwest of the fourth city of Bus Says Ceiling MayBeRaisd Commissioner Scott Predicts Increase In Tobacco Prices Washington, Aug. 11. — Senator Maybank (D-SC) said tcxfcy the office of Price Administration was willing to raise the ceiling price on tied flu-cured tobacco to 44 cents per pound provided enough untied tobacco is sold to bring the season's average price flown to 41 cents per pound. Untied tobacco sold on the Georgia markets, nearing the end of the selling season, brought an average through last week of 40.22 cents per poind. Maybank said the OPA had suggested cutting back the ceiling price on untied tobacco to 88 cents. This proposal he termed "unsatisfactory" contending it would penalise growers who had gone _ to considerable expense to have their tobacco tied «i«i graded, had sustained some loss through the operations involved. i Although he said there probably feould not be a great deal of untied tobacco sold on the marketa hi the CaroHnas mt Virginia, Maybank said growers of those areas ^ would net be required to sell their untied tobacco at a prico lower tluui what the equivalent grade of untied taf brought on the Georgia markets. '4 The OPA, Maybank said, is drafting sn ord* changing the ceiling regulations for flue-cured tobacco. The farmers of South Carolina," he added, "will benefit under the order but will not get a top of 44 cents for their tobacco. They will average about 42 cents a pound. This is not fair in comparison with what Georgia growers got for their untied tobacco." Raleigh, Aug. 11.—An increase in the ceiling price of flue-cured tobacco waft predicted today by Agriculture Commissioner W. Kerr Scott, while at least one tobacco expert voiced tile opinion that if the ceiling was not increased, growers in this area would discontinue the practice of tifeing and grading tobacco. Scott said that "we have shown the OPA officials that the ceiling on tobacco grown in these states should be higher than the GeorgiaFlorid* market ceiling, for our production costs are higher and there la teas foreign matter in our tobacco." , He said he believed the CarolinasVirginia ceiling should be about seven cents higher than the 41cents a pound weighted average top now in effect Tobacco offered on the Geocyiar Florida belt, he said, n'AA nur^ i* i r nceumerentiai Made In Graded, Ungraded Weed Farmers at Wilson Meet Say They're Ready To Defy OPA's Price Ceiling Wilson, Aug-. 11.—Hie Office of Prifvi Administration has seTa threecents a pound differential between graded and tied tobacco and ungraded and untied tobacco, R. Flake Shaw, executive secretary of the North Carolina FkPm Bureau Federation, announced at a meeting of some 1,000 fanners from throughout the State at a protest meeting in the Wilson County courthouse tonight Shaw said he was informed of this action early tonight in a telephone conversation with J. B. Hutson, head of the Commodity Credit Corporation. -He quoted Hutson as saying further that "No further changes will be made this season in the tobacco price ceiling." Hutson said that the COC will make "purchases substantially in line with last season, but will show a little better price on better grades," with an approximate raise to 50 cents a pound instead of 47 cents. These purchases would not, however, "be at the expense! of low grade tobaccos." Ungraded, or Nothing.' The sttements were given by Shaw tonight amid a growing determination of ~ fanners throughout Eastern North Carolina to either sell their tobacco ungraded and untied or not at ail, unless the price ceiling is raised. 4^; Moat of the fanners expressed the opinion that the recent OPA ruling "meant nothing at all" and would result in the same prices, the OPA was quoted in a dispatch from Washington today as willing to raise the price on ftu» to the personnel of the eight troop patrols of which me uamporee was corapnoecL ■ j Climaxing the schedule of event* each day has been ttie campfire hoar. At the fink one held on the opening day, Monday, R. A. Joyner, Town Cleric, extended an official welcome from the town. On Tuesday evening, Rotarianf, were special guests. Fee taring the Wednesday evening program was a watermelon cutting, sponsored by the Farmvillo Post Court at Honor1 was held at which flanks, put tike heart of German Utter-end resistance at Randaszo in Sicily under increasing pressure today. British Tommies of tse 60th Northumbrian Division fought their way through the town of Guardia, seven miles north of AciraaJe on the east coast of Sicily, and advanced to within a short distance south of Ripoafeo. SO Miles Feaas Italy. The vanguard of to* British Eighth Army thus drew up to a Una directly east of lit. Btoafs summit and gained its fight glimpse of Italy's shoreline after battling its way ffcsm Egypt Riposto is nine miles south of Taormina, an Axis evacuation base, and less than 30 miles from Italy. The American Seventh Army was reported to have made gains in the battle for Cape Oris#**, a little more than 40 miles from Messina, after firmly establishing itself on the bridgehead won by a sen-borne infantrymen two days ago. This leading waa at the mouth of the Roamsrino River, three milee east of Ssn Agmta. (The German communique said German forces there were adopting a mobile defense.) lite enemy s small boat tranic across the narrow strait of Messina increased and indications of the gathering- of an evacuation fleet multiplied—signs which caused the Allied air forces, favored by moonlight nights, to hurl greater fleets than ever into making any Sicilian Dunkerque a costly endeavor. But Allied spokesmen wanted against expecting anything bat a of raking artillery fire and with their British and Canadian Allies charged to within about six milsa of their objective. Allied combat V engineers continued to perform near miracles in building temporary bridges and dealing the roads of thaasands of tons of dynamite-loosad debris in order to get up the guns and the For the fourth consecutive day fleets of Allied light and fighter bombers saturated Randauo with bombs, intended to choke the narrow twisting roads and make it mtenable. HP? German loses in killed and wounded were reported by Allied spokesmen to have been extra high Jnwmk of thsfc .grim |(£gid resistance against overwhelming odds. Some companies of parachute troops and of the Goering Armored Division, with normal complements of 200 men, were said to have bean