Two Important Rail
Junctions Fall To Red
Armies; Acta****
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London, Sept. 29.—The Bad Army
rolled to within lid miles of both
the old Polish border in the north and
the' Rumaaian frontier in the south
today in widely s-sparatad blows
jrhich captured Rndnjw, midway between
Smolensk and Vitebsk, and
Kremenchug, on the east bank of the
Dnieper River between Kiev and
Dnepropetrovsk.
The victories, announced in two
orders of the day by Premier Marshal
Joseph Stalin, reauH»d in the
capture of important towns 410 miees
apart in independent drives.
Near White Rassia
Rudnya, 40 miles from Vitebsk,
marked a similar advance from Smolensk
along the important rail line
that leads to Riga. It is only ten
miles from the northern bonier at
White Russia, and fell in a Bed
Army drive that engulfed 120 towns
and hamlets.
Stalin called it a "powerful enemy
stronghold and a center of cammunicatiois
in the Vitebsk directioau"
The advance was made by three
Soviet divisions on the Kalinin front.
Kremenchug waa seized after a
great three-day battle by sigh£. Soviet
divisions liberally supported
by planes, Stalin said. The capturti
wiped out one of the last German
bridgeheads on the east bank
of the mighty Dnieper and cut off
a large number of Consul pocketed
between the river sad Poltava.
Sfalm, whose two orders were
broadcast by Moscow radio and
recorded by the Soviet monitor, ordered
the eight divisions to. incorporate
the name Kremenchug in
their titles and called for the Moscow
victory salute of 12 salvos from
124 gune to announce the capture.
Kremenchug is a rail junction 160
miles east of Kiev, 83 miles northwest
of Dnepropetrovsk. It is St
the east end of the only Dnieper
bridge in the area. Its capture
opened vistas of outflanking .the
whole lower Dnieper line if the
Soviets can cross the river in force.
There were indications that the
Soviets had made crossings at least
with advanced units, for the' Garsaid
"haw attempts an the eaanyr'*
part to gain ground In some places
on £he middle Dnieper on western
bank failed."
CURE YAMS IN
TOBACCO BARNS
A tobacco barn may be
into a curing: and storage
sweet potato** at a nW
cost, about 66 bushel* fer
bam, aays David S. Ijfi
charge of Agricultural Ei
at N. C. State College.
pole* awl the upper tier pole* should
be removed, if posaiUa
Weaver suggests that the bottom
■tier pole* be covered with 2 inch
planks, spaced about 2 inches apart,
using s&y kind of rough lumber for
the job. i y
The next step's* to oov*r the walls
of the bam with tongue and groove
lumber so a* to form an. airtight ift*k"3
wall, unlets, the bam walls are
already insulated.
In insulating the root, temporary
pieces of 2x4, or other available lumber,
should be run from the studs to
tile collar beam, leaving » space of
about 18 inches between them send
the rafters. This space is filled with
straw to help hold the heat.
During the curing process, the
straw is pulled away from the ridge
-ventilators to let oat the moist air.
Later it is pushed back into place
while the potatoes are in storage.
"If care is taken m removing the
tier poles snd some thought is used
in leaving slots in the tongue and
groove inter >7*11, the tier poles etoi
be replaced, when it is time to cure
tobacco, without much trouble,"
Weaver say*.
Complete plan* for converting a
tobacco barn into * sweet potato curing
house may Hi obtained free upon
application to the county agent or
by writing the Department of Agricultural
Engineerings State College,
Raleigh, for Plan No. 167R.
"We'tt
the northeast New Gujbea. coast. It
wu beHeved to be the-snsmy's main
New Guinea ammunition depot.
"Combat awn state this was
the biggest explo^on and fire ever
seen by the air force in tfet south
west Padfle," the communique Aid
. /Supplies Detttoyed. .
The Liberators dropped 145 tons
of explosives on the Wewak area,
said the eoumttnk^M, striking at the
m«tn supply doitiptf tmA iretaliations
below them.
It was the third dsy to a row of
heavy air attack* on the Wcttak
area. On Monday Liberator and
Mitchell bombers with fighter escort
had destroyed 58 T»tWMli planes
and prboably three more in an attack
which caught the bulk of
enemy aircraft en the ground at tin
four major airdromes around We
strayed an estimated 61 Jap Aircraft,
seven vessel* at a fresh supply convoy^fcad
n ttorgee, and sat numerous
fire* hi m atack Monday.
"The enemy's efforts to reeetsb
liah Lis operational air - bases ia
northeast New Guinea appear to
have been ajraia effectively countered,3
Gen. Doustsa KacArthur
announced hi a communique.
The cautious impUesttion that the
Japanese might attempt new comebacks
apparently waa baaed on developments
following the first two
ha«vy raids, disclosed August 18-19
when tt waa announced that the
enemy air force at Wewak Sad been
destroyed. Subsequently, it was
revealed that the Jape were rush
1,000 tans
on Wewak
aes, officii!
ber £ Brown stamp C good through
October 80. Brown stamp D becomes
good October 8 and remains good
through October 80.
PROCESSED FOODS - Bto
stamps U, V, staft W expire October
80th.
, | ,'Ai' i j* • • - - ■' ■* ' i — v.—- •
CUT EXPECTED IN SHOE .
RATIOS
The new shoe stamp, No. 1 on the
"airplane" dwelt in War Ration Book
three, which beeotnM valid November
1, probably will have to last six
months, OPA haa announced. At the
sane time OPA said thai stamp 18,
originally sehedeled to expire Octo-,
h«r 81, is extended indefinitely and
will overlap the next stamp. OPA's
present plan is to eliminate exptradatds
on shoe stamps and to make
new stamps valid as soon «s supplies
nouiteed * program to provide a 28
percent increase in soap production
for cMltaa u*. WPA emphasised
that them will still he no eaeese and
urged soap-saving by every poaa'ble
inetHiiil >-v £ •
MAT REQUISITION IDLE
f- / rv' r: trucks
Idte used bucks may ha reqaisitioned
by dbitrfct ODT offees or
Affrteulfcmd Oeatifcy War Beards to
M i.. H. ^ M. »* - « 1 tl -11. 1 -I. ■. 1,1^ |j.
transport ™i igneuiwirai procwirus
where such transport serviee is vitally
needed. Requisitioning will be
necessary only where owuers of idle
Med tracks an unwilling to allow
tk« use t* thetr vtSWcletn this servtee.
MARKET TURKEYS NOW
Farmers an urged to market their
GLASS CLOTS PRICKS UP
Mr. Earie pointed out that palpwood
is used in the manufacture of
■noketoa powder, rayon and paper
parachutes and parachute flares, Vboxes
which carry food, Hood plasma
contain**, camouflage nets, aria1___»
- - - -■» - -» 1- -1 1 |t„,fl-n ,lfton
vms ma netme*«> ana ounareas
of other paper and palp products
vital feHa well equipped amy.
"The U. S. Victory Pulpwood Campaign,"
Mr. Barle said, "haa the active
backing1 of the War Production
Board, the Office of Price Administration,
the War Manpower Commission,
the Offieto of Defense Transportation
and the Department of Agriculture.
All of these w*mms realise
tha grea$ need for pulpwood and are
doing everything possible to urge
owuers to enlist their trees.
"The War Manpower Commission
an raamtlsl occupation and thereby
paved the way for local Selective
Service Boards to dete* fall-time
pulpwood cutters or give credit for
time spent on paipwood cutting to
Prentiss Bioftti, Price Administrator,
hm issued a st&temtnt advising
pi 'pwood cutters who need extra
gasoline or tmck tires to advise their
local rationing' boards that they are
icotting pulpwood.
■ fhrrtsr-with a woodland ttact
has an i*ri<|*e rhaans to serve the
Nation and turn idle trees into doiian
at this time. This is another salvage
campaign, proposal to use for requirements
trees that otherwise
might go to Vaste. •
"Farmers cutting pulpwood for the
first, time should keep in mind th«
following general requirements:
"Pulpwood must be sound and free
from decay.
"The logs should be cut with a saw.
"Trim knots and limbs close to the
stick.
"No rotten or burnt wood vrill be
brine enring and smoking.
The authors have discussed the
methods for atocfeg cured meet, and
included a recipe for making sausage.
In additional, they describe the
butchering process and give instructions.
including a diagram.
The bulletin is recommended for
any farmer who is planning to butcher
pock this year, whether he he an
experienced hand or * beginner at
the Job:
The authors of tie pamphlet say,
"There it nothing so complex shout
the proper cafreand handling of meat
that cannot be readily mastered provided
the few simple directions in
lilts circular are followed."
Copies of the bulletin, Extension
Circular N6. 282, are available free
of chttge by vfriting to the Agricultural
Editor, State College, Raleigh.
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DEPOT* collector- op
INTERNAL REVENUE TO
BE HIRE EACH TtfURSDAT
J. Meivin Whitford, who is deputy
collector of hrteroal revenue for Pitt
County, will be in Parmville each
Thursday from three to five P. M., at
the Post Office, to assist you with
amy of your tax problems.
Mr. Whitford wishes to remind ail
car opectttah to purchase their Gar
Use Stamps immediately to avoid
payment of a $26 fine* - Thaw mag
be secured direct from the Departboro,
by registered mail or from the
deputy collectors here on Thursday
.tad in Greenville on Tuesdays and
Fridays at the office in the City Hall
Building
tared; Americans
Make Sharp Gains;
Pompeii Falls to Allies
Allied Headquarter* in North Africa,
Sept 29.—The Amerian Fifth
Army raced tonight to wHhhl a few
miles of ravaged Naples and was
expecfcd to enter the terrorised city
at soy moment site driving the
Germans iato full flight across the
coastal pi sins near Mt Vesuvius with
strong armored forces.
Castellammara, the naval bass 1*
miles from Naples, sad the whole
Bay of Naples to the sooth, were
in Ai led hands.
p'f Msy Biter Tsday. ' / :
(In a broadcast from London, Elmer
Peterson of NBC ssM the
Naples by tomonww.
(The GsHun-cottmlied Paris
radio said the British flsot had approached
As Golf of N spies. Units
of the fleet, the batteriss of whish
forces in the final push, hare hasn
f AtroOing the golf s*sa for ser
ally. -v^ (The
British Pre* Amoc
the Allies haraMf
the city, at the foot of
12 mile* aontheaat «f Nap
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