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111* at the moment when th» Gennai
*
Ked Army recaptured several vifiagei
Wednesday in the battle-acared Be)
fTorod area and killed about 2.00C
Germans in savage fighting, W~—J.
reported today.
The Germans failed to at
the Oral-Sunk mi of their off ensive
front daring Wednesday, a Bussian
communique rtportod as recorded
from the Moscow radio.
Nasi Tanks Stopped.
At the Belgorod end, they oontinoed
to send tanks ssid infantry
against the deep Russian ifcrfrmnm.
but they were stopped in their
tlacks, the communique mid, and
lost more than 100 tanks and 47
planes. '
Tuesday night, a special communique
revealed, the Bed air force attacked
Oral, one of the gii'al German
anchor points, and, without the
cost of a plane, started fires which
merged into a gigantic blaze covering
the entire center of the railroadj
unction city. Heavy explosions
mingled with the flames as the
planes rained explosive and inctmdiary
bombs on enemy train concentrations
and war supply depots.
Official reports of evidently big
scale Russian counter-attacks in th;
Belgorod area followed Moscow dispatches
which said the Russians
were now counter-attacking
with intensifying vigor all along the
Orel-Kursk-Belgorod front, that they
were slowly gaining the initiative,
and that they might yet turn their
thrusts into a counter-offensive.
The Russian communique indicated"
that the German itttsrkn around
Belgorod were diminishing in size
and determination. It was emphasized
that the Germans were stopped
coM and achieved no success whatever.
Heavy German losse in tanks and
men continued. On one fiercely contested
height the Russias destroyed
36 German tanks, including seven
Tigers, m addition to five selfpropelled
guns. More than 600 Germans
were killed here, the communique
said.
A tank-buster detachment penetrated
the enemy rear at night, the
communique said, and when the
Germans started to attack with tanks
and infantry they opened fire.
Twelve enemy tanks and 10 trbop
trucks were burned, the communique
ssid and about 200 German.
were killed.
"Our men and officers of the Red
Armv fighting in the Belgorod direction
are inflicting heavy losses
on the German Fascist troops," 'the
communique noted.
Admit Attacks.
German broadcasts head bare
said that the Russians were attacking
in great strength north and oast
of Orel. It was admitted that the
Russians had penetrated German defenses
bat Berlin said that later the
attackers were thrown hack.
The Bnaslan communique said that
complete reports showed that 168
German planes were shot down
Tuesday instead of 180 as at first
reported. ' ' ; ..
' It wka too early to conclude that,
the German offensive had been broken,
dispatches said. But for days
% enemy bad made no gaiaa, th»
Bad Army bad
•nJ tlmi Russia)
sively seeking battle at
the ■
infantry and artillery ,forcs» at the
tiring Germans still wedged into
I said- Mh
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Stockholm, July 14.—German authorities
denied today a report broadcast
yesterday that Field Mamhal
Ertoin Rommell had been
by Allied fighter pilots
route to Sicily in *
a Berlin dispatch to
ported.
The report, said to
from a broadcast by a
dergroond mdio station,
by the Swedish newspaper
Dagbladet.
Germans Deny Report
Of Rommel Shot Down
L.
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and
he lives,
perhaps,
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and
Churches in
Winterville, and
with those of the
prised
others
were
tor of
Rev.
who
Rev. Roy D. Keller of
gave the Charge to the
A. Hart well Campbell, of
who gave the Charge to the
J. W. Holmes, Chairman of
of
Referendum To Be Held
On Saturday, July 24;
Greater Profits Have
Come From Less Acres
North Carolina farmers will vote
on fine-cared tobacco marketing
quota* for the 1944 crop, or for the
three-year period 1944-46, in a referendum
to be held on Saturday, July
24 th, in accordance with War
Food Administration regulations, announce
Extension Service officials at
State CoHeg*. ^ National
marketing quotas and
state and farm acreage allotments
Will be the same as in 1948, with
similar provisions for adjustments
as have prevailed in the pMt, ft was
explained. More the quota# can become
effective they must be aMpro*ed
by n two-thirds majority ot all
eligible fiirmer* voting! 1.;.'
a meeting held in Raleigh,* JiOy
14, representatives of all the agri
of the end of that Japan-see air base
The enemy*! garrison there v
peered doomed to fight ft with
what "men and weapons wen on hand.
Reenforcemaht by sea had failed.
Remnants nf a Jspsiwe task force
fled the disastrous scene of the Kola
Gulf above Munda, leaving behind
the sunken hulk* of a cruiser and
from throe to five dtslauyifts to add
to nine dthss* tart there a week ago.
Smash Air Craft
Support by the Japanese Air Force
I also failed. Ttesday eighteen enemy
div« bonft^KTtwoteetad by 10 Zeros,
came over heat on pocmdisg U. S.
positions. The raiders never reached
their objective. American Corsairs
and lightnings slashed into
them at Lsngadhls Point on New
Georgia. Pour Zeros and Cofaair,
whose pilot jjsrttdratsd to safety,
were shot down. The bombers Jettisoned
their loads and fled.
Death rains duly on the garrison
from Swarms of American Avenger
torpedo and Dauntless dive bombers.
Tuesday 32 tons of bombe buret
among encamped troops and upon
anti-aircraft batteries.
Garrison Cut Off.
Reemforcement or supply of the
imperiled garrison by land was rendered
virtually impossible by the
wily Americsftt fighters.
Wednesday's communique from
Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur told of the
annihilation of 150 Japanese trapped
10 miles northeast of Munda at
Eaogai Inlet The he^vy artillcrf
and machine guns this force manned
in Munda's defense were .seized.
Another 160 Japanese lost their
lives off the coast of VaOguaot Is-'
land to the Southeast of lfunda but
they do longer were defending the
ait base. They had been ousted from
that island by oar troops and were
trying to escape in bargee.
Americans Gain.
In the jungle premier of defenses
before Mundey ttaeif, two strong
points were knocked out by our advancing
jungle fighters despite stiffening
resistance of tKe enemy.
On Northeastern New Guinee,air
the other end of the Pacific offensive,
Allied boinhero dropped ever
BO ton at bombs on Salamaua, the
;«M*y air bine toward which our
jungle troops' are fighting and 21
tons en nearby Las.
Mbra detailed accounts of the second
battle Kola Gulf confirmed that
the enemy broke off the naval engagement
after lotfng a cruiser and
from three, te five destroyers. *
WAR IN BRIEF
'ill ■* »' - t ili i ■ in n I'M
11?x^omD*Ei8Ly mill! mIIHHt 1
btertoe t Amlm*;
airfields at Abbeville
However, he added, should the outlook
in September indicate the early
induction of fathtos, additions! provisions
for fhem would have to be
made speedily by Congress.
Also on the committee's docket for
early consideration is the AustinWsdsworth
National Service Bill under
which all meh and. women would
be requind to register for Assignment
to services where there was a
need for them—in the Aimed Forces,
industry or agriculture.
Freeh interest waa aroused in the
proposal after Rep. Wafcworth (RNY)
co-author of the Selective Service
Act, .visited the White House
recently.
While not able to commit the
President to the service bill, Wadsworth
said, he left the White House
with the feeling- that ft "was being
given serious ooaeideratkn by Mr.
Roosevelt.
Rev. Edwin S. Coates, who recently
accepted a call tfotn the Farmville
Presbyterian Church, arrived with
hjs family, WwfaaSday to begin bis
duties as paster of the local church
and Ballard's «|RjS Cartway's
Chapels.
Following his graduation fremjthe
Columbia Theological Seminary !in
'1925, Itor. Coates held a pastorate in
TimmonsviOe, S. &, for four years,
following which he was called to
McColl, & C., where he has served
for the past 14 yeaj*.
Mm Goatas, formerly Miss'Geneva
Quinn of Wallace, is an alumna of
the East Carolina Teachers College,
Greenville, which their daughter,
Margaret* plans to enter in the Cut.
Their bob, Edwin, Jr., will be a tindent
of the ftarmville High School.
They are gveato of Mrs. J. M. Hobgood,
while getting sattled in their
U«w home, the Presbyterian Manse
- — OLk* .ATJ - - 1. ■ ■■'L } M n — nim^ir
on rtne btreet, wiucn das oeen. newiy
decorated for them.
Rev. Coates will preach his opening
semen in the ParmviUe Church
ien Sunday morning at the 11 o'clock
hour.
' At Grototte, which is one the southern
coast near the Gulf at Tkranto,
numerous oil fire* were started
And huge columns «f Made smoke
were seen to rise from the airdrome.
4
Although Crotone is supposed to
he the baa* for enemy fighter aircraft
no fighters rose to meet any
of the raiding formations and all
Am U. 8. bombers returned to their
Ilea, the communique said.
Allied aircraft shot down 42 Axis
planes, sank two more enemy merchantman
. north' of Sicily and damaged
two more desbojet* in continued
heavy air action, a communique
from the Allied .Command
k t,, ft Aiai nfciw TMr ■■ iti —
rost arawuncea^w eaneoa&y.
Wir»HW— Bit Sicily.
Allied bombers spread a flaming
carpet of destruction on two of the
enemy's remaining airfields in Sicily,
at Mik> and Ostaenia, and successfully
beat off enemy aimift which attempted
to interfere with the Allied
invasion operations, the communique
said.
American and RAF fighter planes
carried oat sweeps and patrols over
the invasion area, the beaches and
shipping from dawn to dusk the announcement
said, at a coat of seven
Allied planes.
Many vehicles carrying enemy
troops were destroyed by the Allied
figfetem which attacked Axis troop
mr.wn. rt„tn «-"U
mov^nents wirougiiout jsicuy during
tiie day.
; fc : Day-Long Balds,
The day-long raids followed attacks
by Allied night bombers on
enemy airfield* and communications
-in Sicily and southern Italy,
the Allied communique said.
Kilo airfield, "#hich the Allied
pianos bombed heavily Tuesday lie a
short southeast Of the important
Italian naval base at Trapani
ori the western coast of Sicily.
Hie Timpani airfield, also bombed
"heavily, was s possible hinderance to
the* British Eighth Army's drive
northward along the eastern ooast
for Messina, key island city.
Formal organisation of the United
War Fund of Pitt County waa
completed in a meeting held in
Greenville Tawday. The Pitt county
organisation is patrt of a national
movement, organised at the direction
of the President of the United
States, to coordinate and combine
all agencies raising money for relid,
recreation ana community service
Into one campaign later this
»• H
J. Raymond Tiffany, of New York,
nret vice-president of Rotary International,
will be the principal sported
at the annual <$Memhly of the
189th District of Botaiy at Wilson
July 28-29, aeoenhdg to an announcement
just received by officer* of the
local Rotary Club from District Governor
R.W. Madry. ' " ^
A promiuwjtt Kcw York attorney,
Mij. Tiffany has bqen actively identiftt||?"With
Rotary' for many yean.
He ia also «Efonner Chairman of
Rotary's Magazine Committee. Jp
He has spoken at Rotary Conferences
in -North Carolina twice in the
laat fe* yean, and hk addressee
were received with great enthusiasm.
«C Mr. Tiffany will share the progwm
with Edmund H. Hording, ef Waah
mailt said it wae tfsckeed here
for the first time on the occasion
of the first unrestrained celebration
of Bastille Day since the fall of
France—that Punch forces aiao are
taking part in the Sicily campaign.
The Allies' bridgehead now extended
more than ITS miles into
north of Augusta, which an ABM
communique awwnncad fall tSda
morning, awmnd Cape Paasero la
within avftw mQsa of the big enemy
aooth coast base at Agrigento. Two
mare airfiekj, Gomiso and Ppnte
Olivo, were added to the tangthodag
list of comqnetfts.
Dispatches to haadquavtm said
land fighting had not yet reached
Catania. Bat official report*, that the