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PAGE THREE GREENWOOD COMMONWEALTH, GREENWOOD, TUESDAY. AFTERNOON, NOVEMDER 21, 1942. quest of the Board of War Com-; MARKETS TODAY Landls cautioned Way against any relaxation of vlgiiica against possible bombing attack from German long range bomber, or from German and Japanese-based aircraft. Rationing Plan Will Be Handled Through Banks Held Necessary COTTON Telephone Head Opposes Order Reducing Rates President Waiter S. Giffoid, of the 'American Telephone Tela-graph Company, in a statement issued in connection with a recent order of the Federal Communications Commission requiring the company to show cause why long distance telephone rates should not be reduced, opposes the reduction and says: "I find it difficult to understand why the Federal Communications Commission has issued such an or.

der contemplating a drastic rate reduction because, under the circumstances it would seem to make no sense. "The important thing to win the war, and the Commission's program will interfere with our service which is vital to the war effort. ''With our lines overloaded, we are having a hard time to handle the calls we have now, and we can't get the materials to handlo neither is there manpowei to handle more. At tr.e urgent re munications, we are spending millions of dollars in advertising to get the publie to reduce its use of long distance, and now comes the Commission seeking to reduce rates which will do just the opposite. I fail to see now by any stretch of the imagination reduction in long distance rate will help win the war.

''The Company, therefore, feels it must resist a reduction in spite of the fact that a rata case would require the time of many people who are urgently needed to carry on telephone service in these critical times. "As to long lines earnings, the Commission'i figures are misleading because they do not include all taxes. Our earnings a whole, including long distance business, are substantially lower than last year, and are short of the dividend which we have paid for the last twenty-twe years." 0 BOSTON, Nov. 24 JP) Although great strides in civilian defense have been made since Pearl Harbor, OCD Director James M. MODOLINL- ITIWHITE PETROUUM JEUt Poles Declare Gestapo Orders Murder Of Jews LONDON, Nov.

24 (P) The Polish governinent-in-exile asserted touay that Heinrich Himmler, Nazi (iestapo chief, had ordered the extermination of one-half of the Jewish population of Poland by the end of this year and that 250,000 had been killed through September under that program. "According to Tuformation leaking from the German Labor Office (Arbeitsamt), Only 40,000 are to remain in the Warsaw ghetto only thoroughly skilled workers to be employed in the German war Industry," a government statement said. The statement said that those marked for extermination at any time are "driven to a squad where old people and cripples are segregated, taken to a cemetery and shot." "The remainder," it said, ''are loaded into freight cars, 150 to a car intended for 40. The floor of the car is sprinkled with a thick layer of lime or chlorine-sprinkled water. The doors of the cars are sealed.

Sometimes the train starts immediately. Other times it waits on a siding for days. TROUBLED S' lockof "buk" may bt your difficulty If you're feeling "low," dragged out, not quite up to par, consider this: In these war days your living habits are all upset. Meals especially are likely to be hurried, improperly balanced. And you're apt to forget the importune of adequate "bulk" In your diet.

Yet the lack of this one food essential is one of the common causes of wartime constipation. For this trouble, medicinal laxatives are but temporary remedies; they don't get at the cause. If this is your trouble, you need more kelloso's u.l-av, a delicious crisp cereal, supplies lt In tempting, appetizing form. Eat all-bran regularly, drink plenty of water and "Join the Regulars." Made by KeUogg's in Battle Creek. NEW YORK MARKETS IPref.

OpenHigh Low Clot CloM Dec 18.02 18.34 18.02:18.34- 118.02 Malt 14.19 18.34 18.1018.34- 18.05 May 18.14 18.2:1; 1 S.O.'t; 1 8.22-23 1 8.00 Hi, UfJ. New York Spots 20.01 31 up. NEW ORLEANS MARKETS Pr.T. Low CIom CIom Dec 18.2C 18.5718.2fiil8.B7- 118.23 Mar 18.30! 1 8.55 jl 8.30 1 8.53-55 1 8.26 May 18.28 18.45 18.20jl8.44- 18.24 CloseTo to 34 up. New Orleans Spots 18.94 28 up.

GREENWOOD Spot Cotton Prices The following quotations represent values for qualities, in terms of the Official Cotton Standards of the United States, and will apply to cotton produced in the Greenwood, Mississippi, territory. These quotations reflect values for cotton delivered in warehouse, uncompressed, in terms of the first landed cost price to the buyer, for mixed lots (not evan running qualities). Quotations based on December New York. 13-32 St. Middling 400 on Middling on St.

Low Mid. 100-123 on Low Mid 100-150 off 11-8 St. Middling C50 cn Middling 475-025 on St. ow Mid. 200-250 on Low Mid 50 to 100 off 15-32 St.

Middling 875 on Middling C30-700 on St. Low Mid. 300-350 on Low Mid 25 off to 25 on 1 3-lfi St. Middling 1100 on Middling 875-925 on St. Low Mid.

525-575 on Low Mid. 100-150 on 17-32 St. Middling 1200 on Middling 1000-1050 on St. Low Mid. 025-675 on Low Mid.

100-150 on 11-4 St. Middling 1350 or. Middling 1150-1COI) on St. Low Mid. 725-775 on Low Mid.

150-200 on 0- MARKETS AT A GLANCE NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (JP) Stocks Easy; war shares continue decline. Bonds Lower; rails under pressure. Cotton Firm; Aggressive trade buying. Chicago: Wheat Firm; small mill buying.

Corn Higher; fair shipping business. Hogs Slow, steady to 10 cents lower; top $13.65. Cattle Steady to strong; top CHICAGO MARKETS OPEN HIGH LOW CLOSE Wheat PRICES GOOD ALL THIS WEEK We Will Be Closed All Day Thursday TURKEYS All From One Flock Raised Within Twenty-Five Miles of Greenwood Specially WheakFed for 2 Months lly FRK1) J. HURST With the southwide cotton marketing quota referendum scheduled for Saturday, Decem-bei' 12, state agricultural leaders are asking Mississippi farmers to consider every factor that enters into the production, consumption, marketing, price, and income of cotton jn 1943. Cotton is Mississippi's main cash crop.

Anything that affects the production, consumption, marketing, price and income of cotton, is of vital importance to the state's cotton growers and to all other groups in the state. 'With the Nation involved in war and agriculture facing a critical shortage of labor and not enough machinery, fertilizer and other supplies to meet total needs, it becomes more important than ever that farmers devote the right acreage to the right crois to produce the right amount of each commodity needed. To produce too much of sonic crops and too little of others, might result in hunger at home and military disaster abroad. The need for planned farming is too great to pull the bridle off of production and permit over-production of crops of which there is already a big supply. The present supply of American cotton is nearly bales.

Except for some of the longer staples this is enough to do nearly two years. There is no prospective market for the production of' cotton above the amount that can be grown under the 1943 allotment of around 27,000,000 acres. Exports of American cotton, which formerly averaged around six million bales annually, have dropped to about one million bales. The present market for cotton is limited almost entirely to the home market. Domestic consumption of cotton has increased sharply during the past two years and reached eleven million bales during the past marketing year.

But the increased use of cotton at home still does not offset the loss of markets abroad. There is no market for a single bale of cotton that might be grown in excess of the 1943 allotment. With a two year supply of cotton on hand, it is apparent that the main factors supporting the price of cotton a pres-en levels are loans and quotas. During the past three years the price of cotton in the main has risen only when the loan rate was raised. Further evidence of the effectiveness of the cotton loan as a price supporting measure is seen in Brazil and Peru where cotton of the.

same grade and staple is selling around eight cents lower than American cotton' is bringing in the United States. Brazil and Peru do not have a price supporting program like that of this country. Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. there can be 110 unless marketing quotas are approved by two-ihirds or more of the producers voting in the referendum. Farmers who point to the high prices of cotton which prevailed during the last world war are reminded that, the United States was then exporting around six million bales of cotton annually and that the supply of cotton ranged around fourteen million bales instead of the present supply of twenty- tliilltil 10 POUNDS WASHINGTON, Nov.

24 WV-Dealers in rationed commodities are going to put their sugar in the bank. A system of "ration banking" requiring separate bank accounts for sugar, coffee, gasoline and other rationed products will be placed in operation throughout the nation sometime in January, the Office of Price Administration-announced last A grocer for example, will 'deposit in the bank all the sugar ration coupons he collects from customers. To replenish his stock, he will draw a check on his rationing account for required number of coupons. The check goes to the grocer's supplier who in turn will deposit the check in his own rationing account. The checks, cleared In the same manner as checks for-money will be handled by 14,000 commercial banks which will be reimbursed by the government for the added expense of keeping the new accounts of pounds and gallons of rationed products.

Designed to facilitate the handling of the coupons, the system Will affect only retailers, distributors and large users of rationed such -as restaurants which buy from wholesalers. The householder will not be affected directly. Presently, rationing stamps and coupons are taken to local ration boards and exchanged for certificates of larger denominations used to replenish supplies of rationed goods. The system was tested in. the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area of New York and was successful, OPA said, in relieving local boards of an increasing clerical burden.

four million, bales. The United States in the last war had about ten million bales less cotton on hand and markets abroad as well as at home. Cotton farmers are also asked to remember what happened to tobacco growers in 1939 when they voted down marketing quotas. The price of tobacco collapsed over night and the growers asked Congress to authorize a special referendum so that a loan program could be inaugurated to support tobacco prices. Agricultural leaders say' that the production of food and other scarce war crops should be the first consideration of farmers this year for the same reason that making mora materials has become the main inh' nf i manufacturers.

CSompanies' whiclr- used to make automobiles and typewriters are now making air-, planes and machine guns. Cotton farmers have not been asked to stop growing cotton entirely. They have only been asked to hold their production within the limits of the nation's needs, and to use their reduced supplies of labor, machinery, fertilizers, transportation and storage facilities, to the best ad vantage in producing things the nation actually needs badly, such as soybeans, hogs, beef, poultry, eggs and dairy products. 0 WASHINGTON, 24 (IP) The Navy reported today that American forces on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons had made further advances to the westward of their positions following night attacks on Japanese positions by American aircraft. Ground An POTATOES 31 ai til" Head CELERY: White, Krisp Stalks a- STOCKS Air Reduction .10 3-4 Al Chem Dye 130 1-2 Allied Stra fi 1-4 Am-Ch Mfu 24 7-8 Am Can 70 3-4 Am Car Fdy 23 1-2 Am Loco 7 3-4 Am Pow Lt 3-4 Am Roll Mill 10 1-8 Am Smelt Ref 3(1 7-8 Am Sugar Ref 19 5-8 Am Tel Tel 128 7-8 Am Tob 41 G-8 Am Wat Wks 3 1-2 Anaconda 25 1-8 Atch SF 42 3-4 Aviation Corp 3 1-4 Bait OJiio 3 1-2 Barnsdall Oil 11 Beth Steel 54 5-8 Boeing Airpl 15 1-4 Borden Co 21 5-8 Bucvrus Erie 0 3-4 Bmld Mfg 2 3-4 Calumet Hoc 6 7-8 Canad Pacific 0 1-4 Case (J I) 08 1-2 Celanese Corp 25 5-8 Cerro dc Pas 32 1-2 Ches Ohio 34 7-8 Chrysler Corp 04 3-4 Coca Cola 84 3-4 Coml Solvents 9 1-8 Comlwth Sou 5-16 Consol Coppcrmin 4 1-2 Consol.

Oil 0 3-4 Cont Can 25 1-2 Cont Motors 4 Cont Oil Del 25 7-8 Corn Products 51 Cuban Am Supra 7 1-8 Curtiss Wright 8 Curtiss Wriprht A 21 1-4 Deere Co 21 1-4 Douglas Aircraft 55 1-4 Du Pont do ....120 1-2 Eastman Kodak 141 El Auto Lite 29 1-2 El Pow Lt 1 3-8 Eng Pub Svc 2 3-8 Firestone 19 5-8 Freeport Sulph 35 1-2 Gen Electric 29 1-4 Gen Foods 35 1-2 Gen Motors 41 Ti-4 Gillette Saf 4 7-8 Goodrich (B F) 23 7-8 Goodyear 21 7-8 Gt Northern Ry pf 21 1-8 Greyhound Corp 14 Hecker Prod 7 1-2 Hudson Mot 4 3-8 Illinois Cent 7 5-8 Int Harvester 53 1-2 Int Nick Can 28 3-4 Int Tei Tel 0 1-2 Johns Manv 05 Kan City South 5 1-4 Kennecott Cop 29 1-4 Kroner Gro 25 1-4 Lib Glass 30 1-4 Lig and Mv 58 3-4 Ijockheed Aire 16 Loew's Inc 43 7-8 Lone Bell Lbr A 5 3-4 Lorillard (P) 16 3-8 Masonite Corp 28 1-2 Mengel Co 4 3-4 Montgv Ward 34 Nash Kclv 5 7-8 Nat Biscuit 15 7-8 Nat Can 5 1-4 Nat Dairv Pr 14 1-8 Nat Distillers 23 3-4 Nat Pow and Lt 2 1-4 Nat Sunplv 4 7-8 Newport Indust 9 1-8 NY Central RR 11 1-2 North Amer Co 10 1-8 Northern Pac 7 Otis Elev 10 Pacward Mot 2 3-8 Pan Am Airways 22 3-8 Param Pictures 16 1-4 Pennev (JC) 73 3-4 Penn RR 22 1-4 Phillips Pet 42 3-8 Proctor and Gamb 51 Pure Oil 10 Radio Corp of Amer 4 1-8 Reming Rand 10 3-4 Repub Steel 14 1-4 Reynolds Tob 22 7-8 Richfield Oil 7 5-8 Sears Roebuck 61 1-4 Shell Union Oil 16 Simmons Co 15 3-8 Socony Vacuum 9 1-8 Southern Pacific 14 1-4 Southern Ry 32 Soerry Corp 24 3-4 Stand Brands 4 Std Oil Cal 26 1-2 Std Oil Ind 25 5-8 Std Oil N.T 43 3-8 Stone Webster 6 1-2 ALKA'SELTZER KM a mxr mi ihi OCCASIONALLY, I wake up in the morning with a Headache. It sometimes wears off along the -middle of the forenoon, but I don't want to wait that long, so I drink a glass of sparkling ALKA-SELTZER. In just a little while I am feeling a lot better. Sometimes the week's ironing tires me and makes me sore and stiff. Then it's ALKA SELTZER to the rescue a tablet or two and a little rest makes me feel more like finishing the job.

And when I eat "not wisely but too well," ALKA-SELTZER relieves the Acid Indigestion that so often follows. Yes, Alka-Seltzer brightens my day. It brings relief from so many of my discomforts, that I always keep it handy. Why don'tyou get a package of ALKA-SELTZER at your drug store today? Large Package Small 3W. Otitis me i in ipi UAULIHUWtll EGG fcC3 PLANT, POUND 1216 nPiPCEniiiT pink n.

'1 he people are packed so tightly that those who die of suffocation remain in the crowd by side with those still living, half of the people arrive dead at the destination. Those surviving are sent to special camns at Treb- linka, Belzec and Sobibor. Once there they are mass-murdered. 0 WAR PLANT HEAD TELLS ARMY HOW HE'S DOING SPRINGFIELD, Mass. fP) The power of the pen, detailing war production, can make the sword mightier, in the opinion of George A.

Mohlman. Despite a long and arduous work-week, Hr. Mohlman, president of the Package Machinery a war plant, finds time to write every one of the 50-odd employees of the plant now in the armed forces, mm mm Is it good? Just IIIVIII yum -I Active bri 7 41.1 ORANGES WHITE SQUASH AVOCADOS SWIFT'S Jumbo Size OCft -W uuni ki MILK 3 hum MEAT 25c TALL CANS FOR DC APUCQ Fancy Table TUNA FISH, 7 OZ, JAR 3 PEARS 15c JELLY, 40 OZ, JAR 25c STUFFED OLIVES 12c CATSUP 15c 125 125'4 124 125 May 128 128 128 Jly 129V4 129 129 129V8 Corn Dec 82 8.312 82 83 May 88 88 88 88 V2 Jly 89 90V4 89 90 i Oats Closed Dec 49 i May 52. Jly 52 Soybeans Closed Dec l.OOVi I Jan 1.00 Vi Rve Closed Dec 6314 I May 69V4 I Jly 71 V4 0 PEANUT rLHIIU I RICE, 3 DRESOT.2Zo LB. 29c 15c ENGLISH STRING LD.

1 51c on. 2V, Can BUTTER short Quart LB. BAG 2C; WALNUTS 2C BEANS No. 2 JO. Can Battery Raised FRYERS All Sizes HENS OYSTERS BALTIMORE PINT fV Freshly Ground MEAL LB.

2 CO. All Orders For $2.00 )rMore Delivered HOME-MADE COUNTRY SALAD PECANS Sr PRUNES OLEO SAUSAGE MINCE MEAT, PORK CHOPS, Save Your Tires ROAST 'ker to their war wartime work. t0 impor. LIVESTOCK CHICAGO. Nov.

24 (U. S. Dept. Agr.) Salable hogs total 36.000; good and choice 190-325 lbs. 13.50-65; top 13.65: sows good and choice 300-500 lbs.

13.50-65. Salable cattle total salable calves total fed steers and yearlings bulk 13.75-16.75: top 17.2,5; several loads 16.75-17.00; vealers fully steady at 15.50 down. I Studebakei Corp 5 Swift Co 22 Texas Co 39 1-4 3-4 3-4 1-8 1-8 1-4 1-2 1-4 rex nun suinn an Tide Wat A Oil 9 Timken-Det Axle 28 Tiniken Bear 36 Union Carbide 73 Union Oil Cal 14 Air Lines 17 United 1 United Aircrf 26 United Corp 1 1-32 United Drug 7 United Fruit 63 United Gas Imp 4 Rubber 23 IKS Smelt 44 Steel 47 1-4 1-4 1-2 1-8 1-2 1-4 3-8 7-8 1-4 1-4 7-8 1-4 Vanadium Core 16 Warner Bros Pic 6 Wesson 16 West Un Tel 26 Westing Air Br 14 West El Mfg 76 Wool worth (FW) 29 WANTED TO BUY Scrap Iron nd metals Highest Market prices paid. Especially interested in batteries. LEVITT, HIDE FUR CO.

314 E. Johnson Phone 279 LB, 39c POUND 23c POUND 38c THICK RIB POUND 29c ON A 65,000 MILE FRONT The highways have never worked so hard before, or so effectively, to guard the nation's life. Greyhound buses today carry 50 more passengers than ever before most of them war workers, men in uniform, farmers and other essential travelers. So, avoid unnecessary trips and peak rush periods. Help keep motor buses in action for America! Aa m.

front Greyhound Bus Station 325 Main Street Phone 661 those Jiving.