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The President asked Congress for
nearly six billion dollars more for
lend-lease materials. Lend-Lease Ad
ministrator Stettii^as was given
power to approve aid requests; this
wi^ other changes is expected to cut
from 30 to 15 days the period bet-
w^ receipt of a request and actual
authorization for assismnce.
Mr. Roosevelt told Congress that of
the ori^nal seven billion approriated
six months ago, all but $720,000,000
is “now moving through the succes
sive ^stages of allocation, obligation,
production and delivery.” He said
$246,400,000 in materials and $78,-
170,000 in services has been given the
anti-Axis nations.
. ^e Defense Supplies Corboration,
an HFC subsidiary, contracted widi
Amtorg Trading Corporation, A U. S.
corporatibn owned by Russia, for the
purchase of$100,000,000 of manga
nese, chromite, asbestos and platinum,
The supplies agency arranged to pay
Amtorg half of the amount in advance
so Russia could use the money to
buy war materials here. Treasury
SeCTetary Morgenthau similarly ad-
, Vanced the Soviet Union $10,000,000
►•on future gold deliveries to the United
) Stati^.
\navy protecting ships
Navy Secretary Knox told the Am
erican Legion convention the Navy
is using all methods including con
voys, to protect vessels of all flags
carrying aid to Britain. He said the
Navy has orders to capture or destroy,
by every means at their disposal.
Axis-controlled submarines or sur
face raiders in the waters betweeh the
U. S. and Iceland. ^
NEUTIALITY ACT INTERPRETA
TION
The State Department announced
that as a result of an interpretation
by the Attorney General that the
“United Kingdom” is only England,
Wales. Scotland and North Ireland,
American ships may henceforth carry
war supplies alnd passengers to parts
of the British Empire not designated
by the President to be in combat areas.
Under this interpretation American
ships are still barred from going to
France, Poland, India, the United
Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New
Zeland and the Union of South
NAVY EXPANSION PROGRESS
The Navy reported it has contracted
or 2,831 ships, including 332 fighting
vessels—every ship authorized under
the seven billion dollar program to
create “the greatest array of fighting
ships under one flag the world has
ever seen”. 32 battleships, 18 aircraft
carriers, 91 cruisers, 364 destroyers
and 183 submarines, a total (fighting
ff‘’Rltof 691 ships.
The* Navy announced development
jof a 1,900-ton cargo vessel, the Sea
Otter, so “light in weight, simple in
construction, relatively cheap in both
original cist and upkeep. . . (it) will
challenge the submarine and provide
a new bridge to the free nations of
the world.” The vessel is so small it
can be built in inland yards in two
months. It will carry anti-aircraft
battery, be manned by only a few men
make 12 knots, and be capable of
a 5,000 mile voyage.
The Maritime Commission took over
ships of the Alcoa line after striking
sailors refused to arbitrate their dis
pute. The ships will be operated by
the Commission on their regular runs.
The Commission announced that on
September 1, 104 ships had been com
pleted of a total 788 being built for
all purposes under the Commission’s
auspices. The announcement said 14
ships will be launched September 27
in joint ceremonies on the Atlantic,
Pacific and Gulf coasts.
PRODUCTION
OPM Director Knudsen, speaking on
the radio, said “I would like to see
every American decide to give
an extra hour or an extra half horu
or even an extra fifteen minutes to
his job from now on ... If we get the
work we’ll get the guns. . .” The War
Department reported all 10 machine-
gun plants required for present esti'
mated needs are now in operation anc
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AR^ MORALE
Army Chief of Staff Marshall told
the American Legion national con
vention at Milwaukee there is a
difference between “free discussion”
wd “destroctive measures to promote
discontent and destroy confidence in
the Army.”. He said “I submit. . • the
imposibility of developing an efficient
army if decision which are purely
military in nature are contoupcsly
subjected to inevstigation, cross-
exa^unation„^ debate, ridicule and
public discussion by pressure groups,
or by individuals with only a super-
flcia knowledge of military matters, or
of the acutal facts in the particular
case. . . Don’t tear down what you
are striving so hard to build up
this country must havd the best army
in the world.”
DEFENSE HOUSING PRIORITIES
OPM Priorities Director Nelson
announced several hundred -building
materials such as steel, iron, nails,
bolts, electrical fixtures, ranges, etc
have been placed on a “drfense
housing critical list.** Priorities on
them will be given to builders const
ructing 200, 000 privately-financed
housing units in 275 defense areas
of the U. S. and territories. Mr Nelson
said the plan will apply to financed
homes seUing for up to $6,000 or rent
ing for not more than $50 a month.
First preference wil be given to homes
under construction on September 1
and for remodeling and rehabilitation
work, and then for new homes for
rent and new homes to be sold.
OIL, GASOLINE
Defense Oil Coordinator Ickes said
gasoline restrictions will not be lifted.
Mr. Ickes said in the face of a 12%
percent drop in gasoline stocks com
pared to this time last year, there is
a demand of 11 percent more than
last year. Deliveries to East coast
filling stations were 11.4 percent lower
last week than the week before, and
will have to cut more, he said, unless
the pipeline is built from Texas to
New Jersey.
30-DAY MINE TRUCE
Defense Meliation Board Chairman
Davis announced an agreement with
the United Mine Workers of America
to reopen strike-bound “captive”
mines for a period of 30 days begin
ning September 22. The agreement
requires a three-day written notice by
either side before operations can be
halted. Negotiations on the union shop
demand which led to the strike will be
resumed Sfeptember 24. The U. S.
Conciliation Service announced set
tlement of 27 labor disputes.
PRIORITY UNEMPLOYMENT ,
OPM Associate Director Hillman
announced employers in Scranton and
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., have agreed to
hire 1,335 power-machine operators
and 200 assistants from among the
3.500 workers forced out of employ
ment in those two areas by the silk
shortage. Mr. Hillman also announced
a broad “model” program of State
and local cooperation with OPM to
alleviate unemplyoment in the silk,
automobile and rubber industries in
New Jersey.
PRICES
A. C. Hoffman of the OPA Food
Section, speaking in Philadelphia,
said farm prices have risen more than
49 percent since the outbreak of the
w|ir and stand now at 97 percent of
parity in terms of things farmers buy.
Labor Secretary Perkins said living
costs at August 15 this year were
7.5 percent more than two years ago.
NURSES
Surgeon General Magee announced
more than 10,000 nurses are needed
for the Army Nurse Corps, including
4,000 Reserve nurses to care for men
still to be inducted this year and an
equal number to replace the estimated
40 percent who* will request discharge
at the end of their one year enlist
ments. Information can be obtained
from the War Department or the Red
Cross, Washington, D. C.
TAXATION
Congress passed and sent to the
White House the $3,533,400,000 tax
bill for 1941, incre.asing the number
bf taxpayers by an estimated 2,275,-
OOO persons. The bill increases cor
poration surtaxes and lowers present
indivdual exemptions from $2,000 to
111.500 for married persons and from
!!800 to $750 for single taxpayers.
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PRODUCTION
armers l%odd
dainiCottim
Equity By Oct Irt
Many North Carolina farmers who
received a government loan on 1938,
1939 or 1940 cotton still have an
equity in the cotton and can sell it
at the present market price, which is
several cents a pound higher than
when the loans were made, says J. A.
Shanklin, Extension cotton specialist,
N. C. Estate College.
Mr. Shanklin advises farmers who
placed cotton under loans in the past
three years, and who have not re
deemed the lians since then, to inquire
immediately about the process of
claiming their equity in the cotton,
which the Commodity Credit Cor
poration still is holding as security
for loans. Claims for cotton equity
must be placed with the CCC before
October 1, inasmuch as all outstand
ing loans will be paid on that date.
Cotton not redeemed by October 1,
wiU be placed in pools and sold after
March 1, 1942. Upon final liquidation
of all cotton in each pool, the net
proceeds, after deduction of all ad
vances and accurel costs, including
insurance, storage and handling
charges will be distributed among
producers having cotton in the pool.
Distribution of any net proceeds will
be made among growers according to
the value of the individual holding
in the pool. *
Many persons have moved from
their former farm homes and their
present address is not known. Mr.
Shanklin urges friends of such people
to advise them of the cotton situation
immediately. Some farmers either
have forgotten about their equity in
loan cotton or have mistakenly under
stood that the government took over
the lint as payment for the loan.
Farmers are advised to determine
their equity in loan cotton based upon
the current market price, for the
grade and staple under loan, before
selling it.
PuU Its Greatest
Squeew Play
North Carolina farmers will get a
chance at bat wheq American agri
culture begins its greatest “squeeze
play” of all time in a fann-to-fann
campaign which will begin next
month and is scheduled to score
substantial increases in the produc
tion of virtuaUy all farm commodities
next year in the World Series of War.
Therfe has been a call for increases
of approximately 15 per cent in the
1952 production of all North Caro
lina farm"^ commodities except flue-
cured tobacco, cotton, com and-wheat
under the food-for-freedom campaign
recently announced by Secretary of
Agriculture Claude R. Wickard and
aimed to turn out the largest farm
production in the history of the
nation.
“Representatives of fall North Caro
lina branches of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture will attend a 13-state
food-for-freedom conference in
Memphis, Tenn., September 29 and
30, to map plans for conducting the
production increase campaign,” it was
announced by G. T. Scott, Johnston
county farmer who heals both the
state USDA Defense Board and the
state AAA Committee. The campaign,
Mr. Scott said, will involve visits by
AAA committeemen and representa-
Agriculture agencies to ^ery farm
tives of other U. S. Department of
in North Carolina and throught the
nation.
It is extremely fortunate.” the
AAA leader declared, “that our far
mers are organized as they are under
the AAA program and are able
through their local committeemen to
plan a farm program for next year
which will eclipse anything the
world has ever seen. Next month
farmers wiU elect new, 1942 AAA
committeemen in every township and
community in the state. We farmers
can make our own path easier in
this year of record production by
electing men we know to be capable
of the kind of leadership that wUl be
needed.”
The food-or-freedom campaign was
announced after Uncle Sam agreed
to feed 10.000,000 more Britons next
year.
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PLAIN
Because it takes two pounds more
of crude rubber to make a white
sidewall tire than it does to make
a regular black one, U. S. manufac
turers will suspend production' of
sidewalls for the present.
NOTICE
Owing to the increased cost of
Dairy Feeds we will be cont-
pelled to increase the price of
milk, on and after October 1,
1941. The following prices will
be in effect:
QUARTS 17c
PINTS 9c
CREAM, V2-PT 15c
CREAM, PINT 30c
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NEWS and FACTS... of SiaUwide InUrtst
FROM MANTEO
TO MURPHY
North Carolina law enforcement officials, accepting
the help of the Brewers and North ^olina Beer
Distributors Committee, have established a note
worthy record of eliminating the scattered few beer
retailers who commit or permit law violations in
their places of business.
Encouraged by the recent endorsement of our work
by law enforcernent officials and county authorities,
our Committee’s prog;ram of industrial cooperation
proceeds without let-up. Your support is needed
in making and keeping North (Carolina’s legalized
bror industry free from objectionable eluents.
You can help by patronizing only those dealers in^o
conduct their businesses in strict compliance with
the law.
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