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• OOBHTT, NOETH CUOUK*. APML mm The Russians Report f Continued Successes Claims Thousands of Nazis Kfflcd In Important Advance On Kalinin Front Kuibyshew, April 1.—General Ivan S. Rotter's Soviet army has neaptared 84 towns and villages in a twoday battle on the Kalinin front which cost the Germans 7,000 killed and possibly has cleared the way to Vitebsk, 75 miles east of the old Polish border, front reports said tonight The Moscow radio hinted broadly that recapture of Vitebsk, communications hab 76 miles northwest of Smolensk was near, while military dispatcher implied that Konev's "crushing blow" in the same general area might mean that he had broken through the German limes. "With the hour of liberation of Vitebsk not far off," a broadcast said, "the inhabitants have intensified gnrrilla activity and are harassing the Germans." (A Soviet communique broadcast from Moscow tonight reported a number of successful Red army attacks on the Leningrad front in the last two days in which 3,000 Germans were killed and 22 blockhouses, six tanks and 10 guns were destroyed and six tanks, 34 guns, 25 trench mortars and other material captured. Fierce fighting on the central front led to the capture of one populated place and penetration of the German positions, the communique said. In beating off a counterattack more than 200 Germans were slain. Reporting "no material changes on the front," the communique said 31 German planes were shot down Monday and 24 Tuesday, while Russian losses Tuesday were given as 13 planes. Soviet dispatches taking a longrange view of the war said that the Finns had loss 200,000 men since it began and that the Germans had lost 46,000 killed and wounded in vain effort to capture Sevastopol. The British Exchange Telegraph news agency reported from Stockholm that formidable reinforcements had reached German lines in the Crimea, the Donets Basin and on the central front. It said new and rigid restrictions on railway travel in Germany were due to the big-scale transport eastward of newly trained soldiers in preparation for the spring offensive. The London radio quoted the Berlin correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Dagen Nyheter as reported that another German general, Lieut. Gen. Gerke, commander of an infantry division, had been killed on the Russian front. The Communist newspaper Pravda in special dispatches from the Kalinin front said that in scoring the new victory Konev's forces took large quantities of artillery, trench mortars, machine guns, tracks and ammunition. TIM Soviet forces on that Ul-de;sv fined front stretching: far west of the city of Kalinin into the province of the same name were believed to be far advanced toward the Baltic, countries. The Tass news agency, in a dis~*atch from the northwestern front, reported that fierce fighting went on day and night in the Staraya Russa aera, where the Gecraans con* tinned exerting every effort to relieve the encircled 16th army.-- ' | Particular Moody fighting took place around a village at a road crowing which changed hands several times, Tasa said. Both sides wed medium mad heavy tanks, artillery and planes. In another sector "i where Germans tried to penetrate the Russian lines, they lost about I I. I I WITH OUR IN THE lit Amy. Lester C. Skinner, apa of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Skinner, is in service at Port Bragg. He has been there, two weeks. Left Wednesday. Wade Drake, former manager of the Paramount Theatre here, left Wednesday for Fort Bragg for induction into the army. Drake is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Drake of Wilson. Pvt. Bennie Skinner Private Bennie Skinner, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Skinner, is in service at Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois, where he is in training for Airplane Mechanical Engineering. TrssMvMrea. Audrey Joyner, son of Mr. and Mrs. R A. Joyner, who has been stationed at Camp F. E. Warren, Wyoming, has been transferred to Camp Crowder, Missouri. Joyner is in the Personnel Department of the Quartermaster Corps. Warrant Officer. Cecil R. Thome, formerly of Farmville, has recently been promoted to Warrant Officer and is stationed on the U. S. S. Whitney, somewhere in the Pacific. This is the highest office an enlistted man is entitled to in the Navy. Thome is a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. R A. Joyner. Jams Darden. Ellington Field, Texas.—James H. Darden, Jr., of Farmville, North Carolina, in training at Ellington Field, Texas, Air Corps Advanced Flying School and the world's largest multi-motor flying school, soon will receive his wings as a second lieutenant. He is the son of Mrs. James H. Darden and the late Mr. Darden, of Farmville, N. C. When he completes his course here, which will be the last phase of seven months of intensive training, he will be assigned to active combat duty or to an air force command as an instructor. Ai Ellington he is receiving nine weeks of advanced training on the world's greatest network of concrete runways. The- new Ellington is now one of the world's most modem and complete flying fields,, in contrast to the same field during the First World War. Then it was a little more than a cluster of flimsy hangars and unpaved runways. The training he received at Ellington includes ground school instruction, combat order*, precision and in-, strument flying, radio work and "blind" flying. Before he enlisted in the Army Air Corps, he was a student of the University of North Carolina. C. H. MAtO * Greenville.—C. H. Mayo, 66, retired merchant and farmer of Falkland, died at his home early Monday night, after being in declining health for four yean and critically ill for four weeks. Funeral service* were held from the late residence Tuesday at 4:80 p. m., with the Rev. H. M. Wilson of Farmville, pastor of the Falkland Presbyterian Church, officiating. Interment followed in the Falkland cemetery. Mr. Mayo was born and reared in Falkland. He retired from hjieinees about ten years ago. He was a member of the Falkland Pwabyterfan Churchy and the Greenville lodge of the Masonic order. Surviving an his wife, Mrs. Emma Brown Mayo; three sons, Hassel Brown Mayo of Lucama, Charles E. Mayo of Falkland, and Cari Mayo of Norfolk, Va.; two daughters, Mrs. Harold P. Willis and Miss Olive Beatrice Mayo of Falkland; one brother, C. B. Mayo of Greenville; two sister*, Mrs. W. H. Moors of . -v-.dRkH?'Cwi;-! C- a"''*''[.''V '• * .V ... \ -1 1 ' " ' ■ ■■■ 1 J"'1 " " Dae For Early Call ililPmi Some of Men R««l*tered on February 16th May Be Summoned To Trabtiit? Camps In May r Washington, April 1.—Draft hsadsome of the nun who registered on February 16 may be summoned to the training camps in May, and that Jane moat probably would see a portion of them in the service. Those who registered on that date were men between 86 and 44 inclusive and those who had become 20 and 21 in the recently preceding months. A lottery determining the order of their liability for service waa conducted on March 17. The intent of the Army regarding this group waa made plain in selective service order to all local draft boards. They were told to start classifying the new registrants immediately and prepare to fill the June call, and possibly the May call, in part from them. litis clarified an uncertainty as to whether then men would be lumped with the earlier registrants and become subject to early call or whether the Army would exhaust the first group before tapping the second. The method of coordinating the two groups is to be explained in detail in a later announcement. As recently outlined, the plan is as follows: After the men have been classified, a local board determines how many from each group are 1-A. If it has, for example, sixty 1-A men from the first group and 40 from the second, all calls from the Army for new mm are filled 60 per cent from the second. "Local boards," the selective service headquarters announcement said, "were instructed to start classification at once of the several million men who enrolled on Fehroary 16 and to prepare to fill the Army's June call for men, and possibly the May call with these registrants and registrants from the first age group." After explaining that those who registered prior to February 16 were referred to as the "fint age group," and those who registered on February 16 as the "second age group," the announcement continued: "The War Department has indicated that beginning June 1, 1942, requisition will probably call for men of both age groups. In such event it will be necessary to lay calls for the month of June, 1943, and for subsequent months on both age groups. In those local boards where the first age group is exhausted by June 1, 1942, calls will of necessity be made only upon the second age group. "The precise method which will be followed for the filling of calls for the month of June, 1942, and for subsequent months, as between registrants in the first age group and registrants in the second age group, will be made the subject of a subsequent memorandum." Air Observation Post For Week of April 6th | The following Air Observers fur this week are listed below «nd they are requested to consult posted bulletins at the City Drag Company and Post Office for Horn Scheduled to serve: Monday, April 6th. LeRoy Bass, R. N. Freeman—Robt. Lee Smith, Jm>. D. Holmes—R. A. Fields — Wooten's Station — L. E. Walston—W. S. Royster. Tueeday, Aprit 7th. W. Bryan Gaddy, Linwood Russellj W Lang—Wooten's Station—R. fcj Knott—L. T. Pierce. ■Z Wednesday, April 8th. . J. R. Shearin, Geo. W. Davis—F. M. Davis, Jr., Lewis Creech—Haywood Lovic—Wooten's Station— W. H. Duke—S. A. Garris. . ; m ■ m i Q. Roe-2. M ■ jM —X o. - it MJno. D. President Roosevelt announced creation of * Pacific war council which will sit in Washington, representing Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, fl**,*'i* China, Britain ""l the United States. The first meeting is scheduled for April 1 at the White House. Mr. Roosevelt said "It is imperative that all of the United Nations now actively engaged in the Pacific conflict consider together matters of policy relating to our Joint war effort." He said the Council "will be in intimate contact with a similar body in London." . The President authorised the War and Navy Departments and the Maritime Commissi on to guarantee or make direct loans to small businesses seeking to engage in war production. Apr Federal Reserve Bank may serve as agent for the departments concerned. Loans, disooants, advances and commitments may be arranged with private banks. The War Pmduetion Board reported organisation of a Parana of finance with 86 representatives located in WPB Field Offices to help contractors and subcontractors in solving financial problems arising in connection with war orders. The Federal Reserve Board said steel production was at 98 percent of capacity in third week of March. War Production Chairman Nelson said more than 100 war plants have already organised management-labor production drives. The President approved a plan by Attorney General Biddle to defer Federal antitrust action which would "interfere" with the output of guns, tanks, planes and ships. Bstliwieu < The OPA said that county clerks throughout the country now have 180 million sugar rationing books which will be transferred to schools for registration of commercial sugar users April 28 and 29, and of individual consumers May 4 thru May 7. The Office released for rationing beginning April 18 more than 100,000 hew typerwriters now'in the hands of distributors, wholesalers and dealers. 'I April quotas for tins provide 102,000 new tires and 470,000 recapped tires for essential passenger can and motorcycles, 275,000 new tires and 250,000 recappfed tires for trucks, and a limited number of recapped tires for war workers, taxicabs, farmers,' salesmen and government agencies.' The OPA released for rationing sev-1 end classes of higher-priced cars and those ordered by state and load agencies daring 1M1. The Office of Defense Transportation will rsttai ambulances, hearses and station wagons. Civilian Defense. Hie President signed a bill providing Federal insurance for homes, factories and farms damaged by enemy action. Civilian defense Director Landis said establishment of firstaid supply centers which duplicate equipment already existing in the OCD Emergency Service threatens to cause a serious shortage of medical essentials. The OCD said an air raid siren that could efficiently serve an ana of eight to 10 square miles will be in pradvotion soon sad might oost as little s# *1,600. Amy Ptegress. :/ All U. S. Army Air Stations, accept those at certain strategic points on the West Coast, will hold open house on Army Day, April 6, Air Forces Commander Arnold said. Late model fighter planes and bombers will be placed on exhibit, and air force activitiee will be-explained to visitors. Congress completed action on legislation which will enable approximately 20,000 Americans in Canadian and British forces to regain their citizenship to be transfer Native of Gemtany Wag Prominent In Tobacco Industry For Many Years Herman Fr. Voss died at his home here Tuesday, March Slat, at 8:46 o'clock in the afternoon. Mr. Voaa waa born March 27, 1901 in Brnn, Germany. When eighteen yean of age he entased the tobacco bnnine—, coming to America in Ma early twenties to work with Sohiing and Company in Lynchburg, Virginia. In 1931 Mr. Voss became associated with A. C. Monk * Company, of Farmvine, as their foreign representative, and as such, travelled extensively in the United States sad Europe. He resigned his position with the Monk Company in July, 1941, to enter into his own business, but waa taken ill in August and was not able to continue his plans. Five years ago Mr. Voaa was granted the privilege of American Citixanship. He was a member of the Lutheran Church before coming to North Carolina and was affiliated with the Farmville Methodist Church during the past seven years. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Wilma Mueller Voss, to whom he was married on May 9,19S6, his mother, Mrs. Fredia Voss, and a sister, Miss Lina Voss, the latter two of Germany. Services woe held from the home in Farmville on Thursday morning at ten-thirty, with Rev. M. Y. Self, pastor of the Methodist Church officiating. The following served as active pall-bearersA. C. Monk, Sr., Lynn Eason, James Lang, L. T. Pierce, Marvin V. Jones, Richard Harris, of Farmville, J. Sterling Gates, Kinston. and Plato Monk, of Wilson. Honorary pall-bearers wen: R. T. Monk, J. L. Parker, Lath Morriss, F. W. Satterthwaite, G. E. Moon, Jr., G. E. Beckman, H. L. Winstead, G. V. Monk, B. L. Lang, George W. Davis, J. Y. Monk, Johnnie Carlton, Robert Rouse, .R. H. Knott, Andy Martin, J. W. Joyner, Ale* Allen, J. W. Rasbeiry, A. W. Bobbitt, W. A. Pollard, Jr., T. L. Albritton, Jno. T. Thome, B. O. Turnage, L. E. Wakton, C. S. Hotchkiss, R. E. Pickett, W. R. Hodges, H. N. Howard, M. V. Hortcn, R. S. Johnson and Dr. J. M. Mew born, of Farmville; Joe Frits and Chas. Griffin, of Wilson; Johnny Brocks, Walter Jones, Irvin Langley, £011 Nicholson, V. C. Dickinson, R. S. Flippen, L. N. Ligon, Jr., Louis Paylor, R. E. Hamlin and Ragland, of Kinston; J. J. Henderson, E. S. Sykes and a W. Cooper, of Wendell; C. W. Howard, W. G. Glass, N. S. Beard, |L C. Wilkerson and J. T. Cheatam, Jr., of Greenville; J. S. Harvey, Jr., of Durham; W. I. Skinner, Jr., and James King, of Williamston, and Arthur Barger, of New Bern. The Mass Meeting scheduled for Thursday, April 2, has been postponed to Thursday, April lttbu Citizens of Farmville and surrounding community are urged to meet in the Courtroom of the Municipal Building on this date at 8 p. m-, to hear Dr. J. M. Mewborn, Dr. Charles Fitzgerald and Dr. R. T. Williams discuss the "General Facts of Cancer." Cancer Control needs, the cooperation anl support of every intelligent citizen. Attend this meeting.Radio talks will continue from Station W. G. T. C., with prominent doctors of the county speaking on Friday, April 8, Monday, April «, and Thursday, April 9, at 10:45 a. m. Dr. W. L Wooten of GreenvHle is in charge of the arrangements for these talks. - —•' ^, - Na*y Plier Geta Second Sub; Offiriftfa Hint Other U - B o a t s Destroyed V Washington, April 1. — Donald Francis Maaon, the naval nnHatori pilot who recently "Sighted sub, ss»k same," has dons H again, the N«r> announced today, and for his ivpncedented double encases baa been awarded the equivalent of a second Distinguished Flying Crass and given an officer*! commission. Kason's second successful attaak was one of three submarine stale ings reported by the Navy today. The three, two in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific, raiaed to a grand total of 28 the number of- Aais undersea craft aonaunced aa "sock or presumed sunk" by U. & military and naval Ames thus far in the war. Of this total, 21 ware blasted in the Atlantic and isreii in the Padflc. Other a«W| Soak. In addition to theee, the hsvy asserted that "there is evidence of additional sinkings of Axis undersea craft" in its campaign agsiwst merchant i&pfing raiders. Bat it said that no claima would be made to these until they are ahaolnialy certain and until tha nawa will be of "no possible use to the Mtemy." Meantime, ship sinkingB by Axis subs oontinued off tha Atlantic coast. The Navy announced the torpedoing of a medium-sized Panamanian merchant vessel, and it was disrloend that 18 of its crewmen, weak and numb from exposure, wan landed at Norfolk, Vs., Saturday night. A rescue vessel picked them op after they had drifted for 46 hours in one lifeboat and two rafts. Two others of the crew were known dead and 38 presumed lost. At New York, the captain of a Norwegian freighter, the 2,361-ton Gunny, told how be and 11 other survivors drifted for seven days on a raft after his ship waa torpedoed in the south Atlantic March 2. The survivors ate all their rations and were reduced to chewing bitts of wood before being rescued. The torpedoing resulted in the death of 14 other crewmen. Mason, a 28-year-old Rochester Minn., man, waa promoted to ensign, the starting com mission rank, and was awarded a silver star to add to his Distinguished Flying Gross, previously given for his first sinking. air action. One of these waa accomplished by Ensign William Tapani, naval leamvo pilot of San Francisco, Calif., and waa in the Atlantic area. Vice-Admiral Royal E. Ingeraoll, commander of the Atlantic fleet, awarded Tepuni -the Distinguished Flying Cross for Us * exploit. The other, in the Pacific, was effected by First Lieutenant James Valentine Edmundson, 26, of Santa Monica, Calif, an Amy flier. Nary Secretary Knox commended Ed dived and dropped two bombs at • low altitude, straddling the periscope, The sub was blown partially out of the water an^ then sank and socsi afterward a lartfe patch of oil covered the aim. > It also waa a patrol flight that led to the second attack. Again Mason swooped down aad released depth charges. All charges hit.and Am Uboat blew up, scattering wreckage e«er • laige ana. •:&; The same day—date unannounced —that Mason scored again, Teponi Sighted another submarine, whether it waa in the same general sector of the .Atlantic war or in some ether the Navy did not say, Tapani bash, ed the U-boat until it lay helpless on the surface. ' The next day, the Navy smd. destroyers "moved to for the kill." Mrs. Qwwrttn Gregory, of Halifax, District Director, presided over tha annual meeting of the Eleventh District United Daughters of the Confederacy, which met here on Friday, March 27th, with approximately one hundred women attending. Opening the program, pages bearing the United States and North Carolina Flags, lead the processional march, guiding distinguished guests to their places of honor. These ware; Mrs. J. E. Woodard, Second Vice President General and Past North Carolina Division President; Mrs. Walter Woodard, Past Division President, both of Wilson; Mr*. R. 0. Everett, North Carolina Division Presfakuf, of Durham; Mrs. Alexander Cooper, first Mice President N. C. Division, Henderson; Mrs. Quentin Gregory, Third Vice Preridsnt N. C. Division sod District Director of tha Eleventh District, Halifax; Mr*. W. L. Johnson, N. C. Division Historian, LaGrange; Mrs. J. W. Parker, State Chairman of U. D. C. History Sale, Faraville; Mis. R. L. Applewhite, Recording Secretary of the Eleventh District, Halifax. These were presented corsages of red and white The invocation was given by Rev. Marvin T. Self, pastor of the Farmville Methodist Church. Following this, pledges to tha U. S. aid the Confederate Flag were given and America and Dixie were sung by the assembly. Mrs. M. V. Jones waa at the piano. .. . '' V94i urecimgB ox welcome irom ine Farmville Chapter were given bg lire. Preston Murphrey and were responded to by Mre. P. W. M. White, of Halifax. Daring the morning session, Mrs. R. O. Everett gave the principal address, discussing the "Place of the U. D. C. in World Affairs of Today." Greetings were read from Mrs. John Anderson of Raleigh, r*ho was unable to attend. Splendid reports from the chapters in Enfield, Halifax, Rocky Mount, Scotlank Neck, Tarboro, Weldon, Wilson and Farmville, were heard. Each chapter received a pictorial map of the Jefferson Davis highway. During the Memorial hour, beads were bowed in deepest reverence for the departed daughters, who ham died since the meeting last year. Prayer wm offered by Rev. Mr. Self, and a lovely tribute was made by Mrs. W. G. Bobbins of Rocky Mount Mre. J; D. Holmes, of Farmville, sang "I Met My Master Face To Pace." During the luncheon hour, an open forum was held, hi which many phases of the U. D. C. work were discussed. Mre. J. W. Parker, chairman of the" nominating committee, presented Mre. Henry Speight, of Taiboro, for District Director, to succeed Mrs. Gregory. Mre. Speight was unanimously elected. . ■ The Lane Banner, awarded annually to the Chapter securing the largest number of new members, was wen by the William Doreey Pender Chapter
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