might be
Nicholas
that they
follow up assault on
Army heavy
and
tinning
said.
ingr
S
day was
communique" left
tar situation on
time.
The nevy had
urday that as the
tered its
Japanese
split into three
These groups
Harbor, at the
the island; Chiehogof
lies southwest of
the north side
which lies still
the east of the valley.
emy
the
bleak north
lost heavily
vived the
chagof harbor for
their comrades in
A navy communique yesterday
which told of the heavy weather encountered
early this week, atoo
boosted considerably the acore of
American figtorfSlaaea.iB their engagement
with a flight of 16 Japanese
twin engine bomber* which attempted
to get through to American
M
The
sive to dfcfve Italy out at, the «v i
wreck
ta full awing
Bojial Aii' " Pore*
bombe i
taraf1
the Italian "H*"*
invasion stsppog
Sicily add ) Jj|,
mKmmmtmf ' -M crimbli%
on the bleak Island at Attu in tl»
Aleutians. The Navy announces that
one of ti»e last three; pockets of,enMJss&tss
ether now is cmder way.
Fighting is spreading on the
long Ressian front"" The Russians
report a Aacks by the Nazis repelled,
in the Bonsto and Kuban sectors to
the soath while the Germans report
fierce Pnasisn attacks on the north-1
ern end qf the front, especially
around Veiflde Luki.
Greece's sea gurxillaa axe harassing
Axis ccjatwide shipping and doing
their part in pavihg the way for a
hoped-for Allied- invasion.
Korean epekeeman .who predicted
the Pearl Harbor attack trill Congressmen
dud Japan proposes to
offer peace in China this yftar and
also has chosen the commanders to
lead an attempt to invade the United
States.
STATEMENT
Washington, May 26. — President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston
Churchill are shaping a brief
joint statement touchcing on the nature
of their more than two weeks
of war talks, the White House, disclosed
todxy.
It was not forecast, however, when j
the statement would be released.
The two landers already have made
plain that plans for an accelerated
Pacific offensive have commanded
much of their attention. Bat they
also have left no doubt that stronger
measures gainst the Japanese do
not mean abaa donment of the basic
Allied -strategy—liquidation of the
Axis in Europe first.
In the ligLit of Churchill^ remarks
at a joint: press conference with the
President Tuesday, the most immediate
goal at the AlHee seems to
be forcing,Italy, the Axis wedk'(Aster,
oat of the war by inciting revolt,
bombing the country heavily or by invading
it. Perhaps a combination of
all three will be resorted to.
, — -'.4
Movie Actress
iFim
Constance Bennett AittoffraDhs
$173,000
of Bonds At
/ Greenville, May 88.—Pitt County
bought $173,000 worth a£ war bonds
at a rally here today, featured by
the pretence of Coatanca Bennett,
Hollywood screen star.
M. 0. Minger
L I, i ijt»j|i iM'n
; '»ULmU|
* "ifit ffiif1'"1 'ifi wi 11 anf jiiii i r
in strength up too two battalians
and midnight communique said, but
were repulsed with heavy losses.
Northeast of ■ • the
communique said, Bnwrinn artillerymen
destroyed f*» German antitank
guns, three a**tm and seven
supply trades. r
FfaiWI Attack. -y
German broadcasts ^ported that
the Russians continued to regroup
their men m the Kuban and again
predicted that a big attack would
come soon. t
A broadcast by the official German
agency DNB reported that Russian
shock tnwps had penetrated
the German lines southwest of
Velikie Loki, whero the Red Army
holds a line ahdnt 80 miles from'
Latvia, ted in the Saraya Russa
sector on the Lake Ilmen front
south at Leningrad.
Both penetrations wen "sealed,"
the broadcast said * recorded here,
hot it was added that the Russians
were in grant numerical superiority
around Velikie Luki.
(A long Berlin radio review ' of
the front, heard in Ne* York, said
that in the 1 . sttiwk the
Germans crossed the Donets, "cleared"
hundreds of yatds of Russian
trenches, mopped up Rmrtnui in 4
fortified group of houses and returned
to their afcfe «f the river.
.^Beaeribiag the Velikie Luki attack*
by the Russians, Berlin said
that the Russians tried te dent a
German bridgehead, and the- German
troops had ot yield because of
Red Anny superiority in numbers.
This Tension; however, was that
though the RnHstans took, a town,
the Germans regained ifc i
(The Russians penetrated the GerRussa,
Berlin said, "but the dent was
8etf, and Rev. C. * Mashbum litrodoced
Re*. Haney who spoke on
"Coai»#6 To Pace The Future,''
which "fcr that quality trf mind and
heart which abaoltitaly is mdi#pehaaL1a
# ****** ,„Vn I . UI
oie ior yofpwno nave t» tomorrow.
Xet me gather that quality inter one
command—Forward March!
—to face outward and march outward
with great courage to possess
this dream of • world wide kingdom
which will briny peace and righteousness
to ail -peoples. You will need
-y.,., .■ || tlfl, fc, hi.ttil _ „ ,t,I > Jii rui*- n4
courage to Duiia s new wonci our. ^
the nrina of the world .of tods! ft
must be dreamed, it must be planned,
preparations afcwt be made to realize
& M preparations of hand, head
and heart.'.You wfll need courage
to possess it and make the dreams
of a worid ozder where a durable
peace, justice and goodwill can prevail^
come true. Pefrhaps you will
deed courage most of all to believe
that all this il possible. Arrange
your faith in the fundamental baste
upon which a n«# world order can
bebu6t that you m*y believe in them
and have courage to pcrsae them."
- Special music wan ' tendered by
Miss Nellie Butler and Elbert Holmes
who site*, "Hold Thou My Hand,
Dear Lord,- and by the other membees
of the choir, composed of Mrs.
J. M. Hobgood, Mrs, M. V. Jones,
Mrs. G. Ale* Rouse, Mrs. Mary
Jerome Simons, Wfo* ^Margaret
Qm{4L m,- t-fIk nrrtiifn^i IClM
oniiin, Mrs. jacK fr uilionij. nil.
Lath Morriss, Mr. and Mrs. Charles.
Bfiucom and BilHe Morton, singing
an anthM»<"Blessed Are They."
On Weofipday evening splendid addresses
were given by Miss Marie
Lataine Gregory, Salutatoriair and
Mia* Evelyn l»is Jones, Valedictorian.
'Irrin Morgan, jr, introduced
Prof. Deal who spoke on "Worid
Changea," fit the realm, of transportation,
medicine, science and religion,
saying that, "ever since the beg#
mng of time there have always UM.
movements and changes—the #>rtd
has ntrrar stood still. You are graduating
under conditions nO other
graduation rlasnrr of former yean in
the entire worid have ever seen or
conceived. You will assume great
responsi di l ity. riRtioiui dttiftr p9*
frees or,fall backward. They never
stand stflL l charge you to never
be satisfied with conditions as they
f, M ^ ■■A ' A ^ J- -. ■ J. t. A. 4 t, 1mii> ■ i ■■ i ■ ■ il
wit to do your duty to impfOfB
on everything we now have.
. The twenty-nine seniors, robed in
cap and grown, received their diplomas
from Dr. P«ul E. J cues,
Chairman of the School Bdardg
Mathematics, formeriy given b" Mrs.
good
0rlU^ C-t .f'lUfcL
Twenty-seven British bombers failed
to return from this erasure attack
which was regarded as a quick step
strafrgy of pounding the Axis behind
ita fortified walla until the
enemy's war plants falter in their
efforts to supply Axis armies which
must face fully-equipped Allied land
ipg on Sardinia the prev*
without offering much op
the Mberay threw up an
anti-aircraft and right®- defs
- *" - -• « > s-\
jneasum ywwwiy. une groi
Fortresses was Jumped - by
man Tighten before ,k reach
$oa and shot down 12 of ti
without losing i Ibmher.
Q One American pilot, strati
futility of the Axis defer
clared "if they had a thouaan
ere, we stffl wooid have