London, Sept. 8.—Marshal Joseph
Salin announce* todar that the Bed
ed the Germans from the Donets basin,
a region rich in mines and factories.
A special order of tin day, announcing
the re-occupation of one
of the most important areas of sooth
Russia, came a few bom* after the
German radio said SaUno had been
evacuated.
Red armies, meanwhile, were
charging toward the Dafcper river
west of Stalino, cutting railways to
Dnieperopetronfc, 100 arilae to the
west, nd Mariupol and menacing
the Nasi Unas of retreat.
"As a result ot skilled maneuvers
and a determined offensive in the
last six days, our troops captured a
number of cities, including the city
of Stalino," Stalin's order said.
"The Donets basin is cleared of the
Germans."
Triumphant radio broadcasts toki
of the developments.
The daily communique recorded
by the Soviet monitor said more
than 200 additional settlements had
been overrun in the Russian drives
between the Smolensk sector jmd
the Sea of Azov.
Among them were listed the town
and rail junction of Yasinovataya,
12 miles northeast of Staifcao; the
nearby district of Novoe Knomicheskoye,
35 miles northwest of Stalino.
Red Army troops were credited
with the destruction or crippling
of 93 Nasi tanks yesterday and 118
enemy planes were declared shot
down.
This greatest Ibuapn victory since
Kharkov toppled Ruaaia's 12th largest
city of nearly 500,000 which the
Germans described as the "Essen of
the Soviet Union" when they first
overrun the center on Oct 21, 1941,
when their war with Russia was
four months old.
Stalino then became the German
command's main headquarters for
the entire southern front, and served
as such until recently.
The Germans attempted to «"plain
their defeat with the timeworn
destriptives of "shortening
the line" and "elastic defense."
"In line with the fighting on a
mobile basia, the city at Stalino was
evacuated according to plan follow.
lag the destnztion of all war facilities
aa a measure for shortening the
front," said the German communique,
recorded from the Berlin radio
by the Associated Press.
"German troops continued their
tactics of elastic defense and have
evacuated "Stalino," another German
dispatch Mid, "the battle in
irith undiminished violence. The
Soviets, by^throwmg oiore tank for
I lit. It
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Tobacco Prices On j
Fanavflie Market
Show improvement
Green Tp Hold General
Average TJ o w n;
Better Grades In Demand
and Bidding
Strong*
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Sales on the Farmville Tobacco
Market, this the thiirf week of the
BeaK.fi, continue strong, with fall
sales every day. Ppricee on some
grades have taken an up-hill climb.
A large number of Grasn and common
Tips is still holding the average
below the Ceiling price, while the
better grades go a little beyond.
Farmers are urged" not to brtag
damaged tobaccos on the market, hat
dry them out and keep them at heme
until {hey are in better shape.
Rev. Olive To Speak At
Baptist Church Sunday
Rev. Bum Olive who has spent
many years as a missionary to China
will speak at the local Baptist Church
on Sunday, at the 11:00 o'clock hour.
Both Mr. Olive and his wife, now in
the States due to war conditions in
China, are in much demand for speaking
engagements throughout North
Carolina and the Farmviile Church is
fortunate in having Mr. Olive at this
time. They hope that conditions in
China will soon be cleared se they
may return to their work, there.
Rev. Olive will also speak at the
Fountain Baptist Church in the after-;
noon, at 3:30 o'clock.
W. T. Perdew Produces
Unusual Corn Yield
An unusual display of corn was
sepn at the store of The Tuimge Co.,
Saturday, when three fall grown
stalks, each with two full grown
suckers, contained a total of 12 full
grown ears.
This com was grown oo the W. C.
Askew Belcher farm, near BeHfcrthur,
by W. T. Perdew, and planted tad
tended hi the usual way, except, due
to lade of time to poll suckers, an
additional 100 pounds of soda p%
acre was added. ■ f: - - S .
Mr. Ptrdstr states that about 75
per cent of the^auckers have full
grown ear* of can.
Approved
Washington, Sept. 8. » Possibly
jealous and fearful over the growing
power of Brazil, Argentina has asked
for—end been firmly refused
American lease-lend material!!) including
the implements ci war. .
£ The request came frem the Ax*
gOBtte foreign minister, Vice Admiral
Segundo Storm, on August i
and the flat turndown wai released
by Secretary of State Hull last
night. The exchange, in which Hull
pulled no punches, warn made public
here and in Buenos AtarfT
• The Argentine cabinet distributed
the measage without comment. 7:
StontjJ; conteded Argentine waa
pro-Ally, though it is the only neutral
in the hemisphere. Alt others
have broken off relations with
Axis. He intimated also that his
country would be accused of stahin-the-hack
tactics if the situation
were changed now, likening it to
Italy's reversal of form from neutrality
to open warfare against
Trance in 1940.
Hall shot hack that Argentina still
is doing business with the Axis, and
harbors enemy agents and .espionage.
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As long as Argentina stays out of
the inter-American hemispheric defense
setup, it would be folly for the
U. S. to allow this country to have
American-produced instruments of
war, Hull intimated. - ,t
Stomi, in his letter, recalled the
military ooup which placed General
Pedr6 Ramirez* government in power
and he said the peasant administration
was not Fascial nor ever
sympathetic with the Axis.
"Argentine sentiment, eminently
American, firmly oppeaed to totalitarian
regimes, is on . the side of the
United Nations in material and
spiritual action," he declared.
The Argentine's principal oompet
Said HullI:
1—Only An
GASO]
sach for home canning purposes
trough October 31.
SHOEB—fitamp-No. 18 it good for
I pair through October 81.
STOVES—Consumer purchase* of
rationed stoves jnust be made with
t certificate obtained at local War
Wee and Rationing' Boards. . . *
"""MEATS, PATS—Red «tamps£%
md Z good through October £ Brown
rtamp A becomes good September 12
md remains good through October 2.
PROCESSED FOODS — Blue
50. U, V, sad W( now good, expire
October 80.
FARMERS' WAR BOND QUOTA
Fanaan have a War oBnd quota
* 1H billion dollars in the 15 Wlion
dollar Third War Loan drive
rhfch begins September 9 and oondnues
through the month. During
ire campaign canvassers expect to
all upon at least S.000,000 of the
nation's 6 million farm hemes. FarmMa'
Income figures point to big bond
subscriptions. II Jft intimated (that
feeir cash income from marketings
irill be 19 billion dollars this jmr.
TO START USING RATION
BOOK m
>The first brown "point stamp" in
frar Ration Book III will become
iralid September 12. Thia stamp, A,
s good for point* through October
L Brown stamps wiB become valid
>n successive Sundays and will *1
ised for rationing marts, lata, oils,
sanned fish, cheese, canned milk, and
ill other commodities now rationed
Kith rod stamps in War Ration Book
U. The small ~stamps bearing pic«res
of field guns, tspka, ships, and
lindanes are not yet m use- Anyone
vbo has not received Book HI may
jbtain one by applying to Us local
^FARMSfEMS UNDER PRICE
KfiPEa ' CONTROL I 1
Used hay loaders, aide delivery
m>mm UMM
vmmamt MW ISWSW^KnP^: "**«
recently placed under specific price
Mxptrol by OPA. This ruling applies
when theae Hems arc sold by may
persona, soch aa farmers or aretion66XV*
prioop will be
ie&orainad on .the following: basea:
35 pevccnt of the price of the machine
when new, if the equipment to
ieas than one year old, and TO percent
of the price of the item what
new if the equipment is one year old
»r more. ' %
OnUMJO CHRISTMAS HAIL _
no spfdffe hint where the next major
Allied Mow* will falL
He the annistice as
a great victory for the United'Nations
and aleo for the Italian people,
hat Wasted any »>.«» the
Allies hare beaten the Germans and
the Tapanrmi to their knew or
any victory celebration is in ordst> A
bigger sad tougher war "and long
months at fighting lie ahead before
the Allies achieve their primary objective*—Berlin
and Tokyo, he said.
% .Open Bend Drive.
Breaking his sSsnce on the Italian.
armistice for the first time, ha
warned the nation in a broadcast
launching the *15,000,000,000 Thin)
War Loan drive that thie is no time
for oomplacency.
>*I ask yep," he said, "to bear these
objectives constantly in mind — and
do noi forget that we still have a
long way to go before attaining
them."
He made it plain that Allied leaders
are ready to press the advantages
which the Italian capitulation
implies and hasten the death blow
against Germany sad Tsaan
a* - - 1 1 w " i'a vj«i •'
"Bat let as not delude ourselves
that ***** armistice .means the end
of the war in the Mediterranean,"
he laid, adding that the Allies still
must drive the Germans out of
Italy; must ijriva them out of
Prance awl all other captive countries
and must strike the enemy
on their own soil from all directions.
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In these generalities he gave the
only due to what might be contained
in the "new, extensive plans"
he and Churchill have drawn for
the futuip^ji^Ei^^
He noted that he and Churchill
"are together here at this crucial
moment (and) we have seen the
satisfactory fulfillment of plans that
were made in fianaManra and here
in Washington last Kay."
"And we have made new, eactenslve
plana for the future," he
said. "But throughout these «®nforesees
we have never lost, sight
of the fact this this war will become
bigger sad tougher, rather than
easier daring the hmg months that
are to coma."
actev a»ti-n
"The Italian Government has «urrendered
its aimed force* unconditionally.
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"Aa Allied Commander-in-Chief, I
have granted a military armistic, the
terms of which have been aanmd
by the governments of the United
Kingdom, the United States and the
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Thus I-am acting hi tha interests
of the United Nations.
' "The ,Ma|yi V Government has
bound itbelf to abide-by these terms
without reservation.'--1:
"The armistic was signed by my
representative and the reprspsnta
pnhower said in a broedcaft at 12:30
P. M. (Eastern War Tbns.)
■ "Hostilities between . the Armed
Forces of the United Nations _ and
these of Italy terminate at once. All
Italians who now act to help eject
-the German aggressors from Italian
soil will have the asaianee and support
«f the United Nations
The truce actually was reached
last Friday at Allied advance Headquarter*
in Sicily—the very day that
British and Canadian troops swept
across Messina Strait to invade the
Italian toe—but it was agreed, a
special announcement said, "that the
armistic should come into force at a
moment moat favorable to the Allies,
and be simultaneously announced by
both aides. TV* moment has now «r