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A. C. Monk, Chairman,
Confident of Meeting
Quota $216,000;
Urges Everyone to Buy
and Make Early Purchase
On Friday evening, an enthusiastic
meeting- was held at the City Hall in
connection with the promotion of the
4th War Loan Drive, with A. C.
Monk, General Township Chairman,
presenting Mayor George W. Davis,
who spoke briefly, but enthusiastically,
on the responsibility of the
home front to the boyB on the battle
front, giving as a comparison the
life of the boys "over there" compared
with the ease and security of
those at home.
L. E. Walqton, Vice-Chairman of;
the county, explained in detail the
various types of Bonds offered, saying
that a large put of this quota
was allotted for "E" Bonds, and emphasizing
the necessity of everybody
participating in whatever ^amount
they could possibly buy. "This is a
responsibility of the masses and not
o* the few," he said.
Several others present spoke briefly
upon the necessity of our unified
efforts and the need of giving a part
of our time as well as finances to
this worthy cause. A. C. Monk,
Chairman, thai outlined his plan of
procedure in order that everybody in
Farmville Township might be properly
approached on the necessity of
doing their part toward the War effort.
Mr. Monk stated that he was
dividing the Township into four sections
at Main and Wilson streets, extended,
being the dividing line for
four separate working committees
and appointed the following as committees
for sections named:
Group No. 1—North Section: W.
J. Rasberry, R. LeRoy Rollins, Dt.
P. E. Jones, J. W. Joyner, Dr. C. E.
Fittjprald, B. F. Lewis, Joe H.
Bynum, Glenwood Allen.
Group No. 2—West Section: W.
A. Allen, Irvin Morgan, M. Liles, T.
C. Turn age, J. T. Thorne, N. Cannon,
B. M. Lewis, J. C. Brock.
Group No. 3—South Section: C.
H. Flanagan, R. D. Rouse, J. Y.
Monk, Jr., W. C. Wooten, Dr. J. M.
Mewborn, A. J. Flanagan, Howard
Mo ye.
Group No. 4—East Section: Geo.
W. Davis, J. B. Lews, J. W. Holmes,
J. H. Harris, J. Frank Harper, Dr.
R. T. Williams, H. C. Tyson, Gordon
E. Lee, L. E. Turnage, L. R. Jones.
Mr. Monk urged this committee to
immediate action, explaining that
they might contact some who had already
been solicited but feeling that
it was better to be solicited three
times than not at alL
Die Citizen's Service Corps, or
Block Worker*, wen very prominent
in this meeting, volunteering their
services to the end that every borne
in FarmvHle be canvassed, irrespective
of any solicitation from o£her
sources. Their organisation was continued
in the same manner as in previous
drive* and in no way affected
by the special committee's mentioned
above, but pledging their cooperation
with this and other committees to see
that FarmvUle's quota of the 4th War
Loan might be aobacribeci as quickly
aa poasibte. The citHens working as
the Service Corps are headed by four
groap chairmen, namely: Mr*. I. I.
Morgan, Mr*. M. V. Jones, Mrs. A.
F. Joyner and Mm J. B. Lewis.
Mr. Monk stated today that 900,000
had slready been subscribed, and
urged that everyone buy and make
•arty pnrnbMM The chairman was
confident that the quota, $210,000,
wrndd ba mat rv: /
DR. C. C WARREN
"Faith in Gad and Man" is the subject
of Dr. C. C. Warren in his Baptist
Hoar message next Sunday morning,
January 30th, at 8: SO EWT.,
over station WPTF, as announced by
the Radio Committee of the Southern
Baptist Convention.
Dr. Warren has recently assumed
his duties as Pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Charlotte, N. C., having
come from Little Rock, Ark.,
where he was well established in the
confidence of the peeple as preacher,
pastor and religious leader,
Roanoke Asaociational
Conference Meets Here
The Baptist Missionary Society, of
which Mrs. R LeRoy Rollins is president,
was hostess to the Roanoke Associational
Leaders' Conference here
at an all day meeting, Tuesday.
The morning session was opened
with the theme hymn, chosen for the
year, "The Morning Light Is Breaking."
Mrs. W. D. Joyner, of Rocky
Mount, presided and presented divisional
officers, who conducted a
round table discussion of the follow-'
ing subjects:
Community Missions; Tithes and
Offerings; Missionary Education of
Young People; Missionary Education;
Prayer and Enlistments.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00
o'clock for lunch. Mrs. John B. Joyner
was chairman of the luncheon
committee.
The afternoon session was devoted
to separate conferences of leaders
of the various groups represented.
Upon reassembling in the auditorium,
the conference leaders heard an inspiring
address by Mrs. E. B. Beasley,
of Fountain, on the topic, "That
the Generations to Come Might
Know."
Rotarians Challenge
The High
te# WIWVI W^VIW
Farmvilie Rotariaas have challengcd
tli* local high school to play them
in what promisee to be a fact and
furious basketball game in the Farrovflle
gym tonight, Friday, January
28, at 8:00 o'clock, and those who
hare been sneaking In during the
practice hours and aeen the Rotarians
throwing that old basketball "high,
wide and handsome," think the school
boys wiH have it "tuff." &s
This is to be a benefit affair With
proceeds realized from the admis^on
■fees of 26c for adults and 10c for
school children going to swell the
Rotary Club's Student Loan Fund
The Botarians are wring the easiest
method they could conceive of to raise
some money for this fund, but thoee
"in the kpm" an betting that the
local doctors will benefit more than
the Student Loan Fund from the
event.
The Botarians are taking the com
WAR IN BRIEF r
dek? Mr rLi junction southvrcsit^f
Leningrad. Moscow announce* Reds
have killed or captured 43,000 Nazis
and defeated 10 divisions in first 12
days of Leningrad offensive. '
Nazis stiffening resistance to Allied
invaaton forces near Rome; Allied
foreea drive toward upland country
southeast of Rom*.
U. S. planes sink six Jap vessels
in raid oo R&baul.
RAF Beaufighten blast five ships
off Nor*ray; encounter new Nasi
weapon—a "parachute projectile"
U. S. airmen leave trail of wrecked
Jap planes, ships, installations on.
700-mile front in Bismarck archipelago;
83 Jap planea believed lost. U.
S. bombers and fighters make six attacks
on three Marshall atolls; lone
Navy plane shoots down three Jap
fighters.
Allied troops ambush Japs in upper
Chindwin valley, Burma; Chinese
forces make gain* in Hukawny valley.
Jugoslav partisans occupy two
Bosnian towns; cut Sarajevo-tfercegovina
railway; the Nazis drive other
units from Tuzla.
American Legion
Wants Pledge
Of Peace Made
We are alarmed by the rapidly
growing public expression of widely
diverging views and opinions as to
HOW a better and a peaceful world
may be achieved after this War has
come to an end. ,
We remember that the plain peace
and security objectives of OUR War,
the first World War, were distressingly
obscured by the welter of conflicting
and complex social and economic
theories and national and personal
ambitions*
We fear that the peace objective
of this War will be blurred if it is not
defined simply and precisely and
kept ever before us in a solemn pact
covering a single, restricted undebatable
subjectTHEREFORE,
WE URGE
That oar Nation and our Allies
and every other Nation which now
or later will do so join in the execution
of a written- instrument making
to each other and to the men and
women spending their Uvea in fighting
this War a solemn covenant, simple
in Jaagu&Se and limited in time,
pledging peace throughout the world;
solemnly and precisely agreeing that
for a definite period of fifty yean
there will be no more war on this
earth; that at least for that limited
period national objectives must be
accomplished by peaceful means;
agreeing that the great Nations joining
in tbe pledge will jointly exercise
every means within their power including,
if necessary, the use of their
combined armed forces to prevent the
rise or spread of the devastating
flames of war.
Hie blood and sacrifice of our
fighters hare bought and paid for an
assurance that neither Hiey nor their
children need fight again. They deserve
to receive that binding assurance
now.
The above resolution was unanimously
aad enthusiastically adopted
by the Executive Committee of the
State American Legion organisation
«t a meeting held in High Point,
Orthopedic Clii
Greenville,
Chester D. SneH, USO
Regional Executive,
Leads Session Attended
by 45 Representatives
from 10 Nearby
Cities; Consider Present
and Long Term
Problems
Leaders from ten Eastern North
Carolina, communities met Here
Thursday to exchange information
and diseuss cooperative measures on
military recreation programs, teen
age problems and lha development of
long range community planning in
the fields of recreation and social
work.
Chairman of the session, held at
the Home Economics Cottage of the
Farmville High School, was Chester
D. Snell, of Richmond, Va., USO
Regional Executive. There were *pproximately
45 present.
Following a luncheon served by
home economics classes of the High
School, Mr. Snell opened the discussion
with a presentation of the topics
under consideration. These included:
"The Military Recreation Program
in Each Community," '"the
.Teen Age Problem—How to Meet
It," and "Long Range Community
Developments." In taking up the
topic of military recreation there was
a discussion of how to enlsrge and
enrich activities in this field, cooper*
ation in planning activities, the role
of the Area USO Council and the
USO Area Staff Conference, and the
fund raising situation.
In calling upon representatives at
each community to discuss their present
recreation programs, Mr. Snell
requested each to outHne the immediate
as well as long teem needs.
He added that USO was not interested
in projecting itself into the communities
after wartime needs had
passed, but that it waa interested In
correlating present problems with
needs of the future.
Present at the session were not
only civic leaders from Eastern North
Carolina, but alao military officials,
representatives of the Federal Security
Agency, the national orgaoiUon
of Community Cheats and Councils
in New York City, and the North
Carolina War Fund.
The ten communities represented
included: Farmville, Wilson, Smithfield,
Goldsboro, Kinston, New Bern,
Greenville, Tarboro, Rocky Mount
and Washington.
Representing Farmville were
Mayor George W. Davis, Dr. Paul E.
Jones, president of the Farmville
School Board, and Supt. John H.
Moore of the city schools.
Among others present were: Dr.
T. T. Swearlngen of Wilson, chairman
Of the Wilson Defense Recreation
Council, John H. Hackney, chairman
of the Wilson USO Committee;
B. G. Mattox, chairman of the Smithfield
USO Council; Robert fi. Stevens,
chairman of the Goldsboro USO
Council; John F. Rhodes, Jr., chairman
of the New Bern USO Council;
Mrs. J. H. Blount, chairman of the
USO Committee of Greenville;
George N, Eamhart, chairman of the
Tarboro USO Committee; Wada N.
Cashion, of Fayfttteville, USO area
representative; Harry M. Wellott,
FSA recreation representative; Thomas
L. Carroll of Winston-Salem, director
of the North Carolina War
Fund, and Arch Mandel, field representative
of Community Chests and
Councils. vh ...
Methodist Wffl Hold 4
r~eries Of Meeting*
Beginning' April 16
\JfcWV M. Y. Self has announced that
he has secured liber. F. W. Paachall,
pasto? of Trinity Methodist Church,
Wilmington, as preacher and Rer. J.
X. Permar, pastor of the Friends
Church, Graham, as song leader for
a series of meetings to be held in the
Methodist Church here, beginning
April letii i^poontinuing through
the 23nL ''*3
These are the same minister, who
assisted in conducting the seriee of
meetings here tn the Methodist
Church last Spring and the local minister
stated that he considers the
Church fortunate in havia* them
come to Farmville again this year,'''
had served with zeal and boner in
many and varied capacities since Ottering
Davidson. With the Idea that
Farmvilie friends would be interested
in his activities and honors we requested
that they be sent us for pub
The capacities in which Pierce has
served the College and his fellow
students include; ^
President Phi Delta Theta; Editorin-Chief
of the Davidacmian; Business
Manager of the college annual,
"Quips and Cranks"; Recorder Court
of Control; Pan Hellenic Dance
Council; President of the TwentyOne
/Jlub; President of the International
Relations Club; Chairman
of the Students Daaee Committee;
Junior Marshal; Basketball 1 and 4;
Freshman Tennis; Intramural Sports
Manager; All Campus Basketball 8;
Assistant Business Manager, college
magazine, "Scripts ai»d Pranks";
Member Dormitory Council Committee;
President of Publication Board,
"Who's Who In American Colleges
and Universities,"; Omicron Delta
Kappa, National Honorary Leader ship
Fraternity.
Miss Marjorie Smith
Marries Truett Lang
Wedding Solemnized In Cere?
mony At Bride's Home In
Fountain
Fountain.—Miss Marjorie Louise
Smith, daughter at Mr. and Mrs.
Waiter 'Edward Smith at Fountain,
became the bride at Truett Edward
Lang, son of Mm Wilton Karl Lang,
and the late Mr. Lang at Walstonburg,
on January 22 in a formal home
ceremony in Fountain with the Rev.
W. I. Bennett officiating.
A program of nuptial music was
presented by Miss Elisabeth Lang of
Farmville and Miss Hilda Courin of
Ahoskie. The
bride, given in marriage by
her father, wore a gown of white
slipper satin made with a high neck
yoke of marquisette scalloped on to
the fitted bodice. Her veil of bridal
illusion fell from a cap at illusion
and orange blossoms. She carried a
prayerbook showered with an orchidMrs.
E. B. Beasley, Jr., was her
sister's matron of honor. She wore
a rose taffeta gown and carried *
bouquet of deep pWc roses.
'Little Misses Elisabeth Smith,
niece of the bride, and Fx^meee Lang,
niece of the bridegroom, were flower
girls. They wore identical dresses
of yellow and blue taffeta and carried
miniature bouquets.
W. R. Lang was his brother's best
man. Henry Smith, brother of the
bride, and Carey Gaynor were ushers.
Mi*.. Lang attended Eaj* Carolina
Teachers College in Greenville and
King's Business College.
Mr. Lang attended King's Business
-POTOFGOU)
Washington, Jan. 26. — Congrees
voted a *8,000,000,000 pot of gold
today for veterans <rf this war, to
be paid out in amount# ranging from
$100 to $300 each upon hotwmMe discharge.
House and Senate quickly approved
the muatering-out pay isgialation
drawn up in a conference committee
at both bnnchea, the Senate acting
last and relaying the meeew to the
White Boom for ,*a PrseMent's
signature. Mr. Roosevelt had recommended
that some financial arrangement
be made to help each veteran
return to civilian life.
The final bill was a compromise
of divergent views, some at which
sailed for aa much as $700 per veteran.
As enacted, the Mil provides:
|100 to veterans with leas than 60
days' service, ail in the U. S.
1200 to thoee with more than 60
day* in uniform, all domestically.
(800 for thoee with service over-v
seas or in Alaska.
All service man and women under
the rank of captain are eligible except
those over 88 who aak to be discharged
to take a civilian job, those
dishonorably discharged, and students
in the army's educational-training
program.
Unexpended Army
Reserve Increased
By 14 Mions
Washington, Jan. 25.—A new $14,214,877,000
appropriation "kickback"
—railing to $27,878,396,000 the
amount the War Department expects
to retain to the Budget Bureau ,reserve
this year—was announced to
the House today.
Representative Snyder (D-Pa),
chairman of the appropriations subcommittee
handling Army funds,
made the report, and explained that
much money already appropriated,
would remain unobligated at the
end of the fiscal yew next June 80.
Price redactions, cutbacks in requirements
and reductions of personnel
were responsible for most of
the savings the Army expects to
make from the approximately $71,000,000,000
allocated for this year's
operations.
Last November Snyder reported
a saving of $13,163,619,000 hi the
Army's projected expenditures.
Today, a* then, Snyder warned
that the saving "offer* no sound
basis for an immediate lessening of
ithe tax load," adding that "our public
debt haa jacked such hag* proportions,
and it is daily growing,
that, in my judgment, it might be
folly not to tax to the utmost during
this period of wide employment and
high wages and large war profits."
Snyder said the War Department
attributed the-bulk of the mw saving,
$10,916,000,000, to prtea reductions,
including funds recovered by
renegotiation.
The balance was made up of $5,401,000
saved through reductions of
pMiapr; peieounei announced!" last
November; $3,190,485,000 through reductions
of military requirements
because of changia$jWBr conditions
and strategy, *nd $102^31,000
Hie savings reported in No**nber
included $1,946,089,000 through reductions
of pezaonnel, $9,629,276,000
through reduced requinmsnts, $1,500^000,000
through price reductions,
and $88^206,000 through miscellaneous
savings. :
Among the large arms cutbacks
reported today were more than 12,000
tank*, over 2,000 90mm anti-aircraft
gans, fore than 6,000 other guiis
"and billlnl»»f rounds of email anna
ammunitions. ^ , . ♦ , O
Sg|
vardeisk, Vital Railroad
function, After
Vicious Battle; More
Than 40,000 Germans
Killed Thus Far In
Leningrad Offensive
collapsing under perhaps the moot
powerful Soviet drive of the w»r
and said it was unofficially mHniatod
that apprtrrimately 280,000
Germans wen facing entrapment fat
the Volgbov sector oast of the Lningr&d
- Vitebsk railroad running
down through the center of the tout.
Vicious Battle.
Krasnogvaideisk, s large rail junction
26 miles southvest of Iisain
grad, was takes Tuesday <<ht after
a vicious house-to-house battle
through the city of 42,600 which the
Germans had coinnrttd faito a fortress
and than demolished before
evacuating. Its captor* climaxed a
12-day Red Army drive from Leningrad
during which more titan 40,000
German officers and men were killed
and 3,000 capturad, Moscow's
broadcast communiques announced.
A total of 10 German infantry divisions—approximately
160,000 men
—were defeated and two other divisions
suffered heavy losses during
the offensive which has seen the
Red Array completely break the
siege of Leningrad by pushing its
lines out to points 32 mites soothwest,
26 sooth and 28 milee southsast
of Russia's second city.
Moscow's communique indicated
that the action in lite Krasnogvardeisk
area was developing into a German
rout, and told of isolated Nasi
groups saving themsslvsa by throwing
away their arms as they
fled from Krasnogvandeiak. Several
thousands Germans were killed in
fighting on the approaches to Krasnogvaxdsisk
and in its ■tmnta.
Gen. Govorov*i left winjf troops
meanwhile won the remaining Junctions
ob the MgarKrasnogvardeiskTallinn
lateral rail lino, forcing the
Germans to fall 90 miles to the south
for their next east-vest nil link,
while his men of the center advanced
five miles south to take
Leningrad-Vitebsk railroad to take
the town of Suaanina.
Gen. Kyril A. Maretakov'g Volkhov
River army, timing its Mows with
the armies around Leningrad, advanced
to within three miles of the
big highway junction of Shimak on
the southwestern tip of Lake Ilmen
by taking the town of Geiino, 26