taring- exceeded X> by *18,868, with *. *ra^«o.k;: S Pledges taken by Hsnnvflle Store Employee#: - ife-V. ■ ;••: 1 J. F. Roger*, $625; Chu& Sogers. $306; H. N. Baitofa, $200; Nannie Moiingo, $2,200; Haxel Taylor, ««0; P. O. Dupree, Jr., $1,000; Margar* Sugg, I8»; H. T. Robersoe, $100; L. W. Allen, $526; A. C. Phillips, $100; A. J. Curry, $100; Shirley Freedman, $290; Jade Freedinan, $1,660; Rachel Heath, $275; Boot. L. Tripp, $200; Claude Joyner, $100; A. L. Joyner, $226; Albert P. Mewborne, $10,ISO; Albertine B. Moore, $1,800; J. W. Munden, $700; Mrs. Paul McDonald, $600; Bay Goin, $600; Varla William*, $600; Cecil Johnston, $650; Margaret Smith, $700; Mrs. Maynard Thome, $1,026; Fannie Mae Williford, $1400; S^rs. Ervin Evans, $660; Sudie L. GarVis, $260; Bath Williams, $225; Leona Tugweil, $600; Mildred Harcfcson, $250; Mrs. Pat Bandy, $275; Ida Cobb, $260; Mrs. Dora Journigan, $800; H. P. Norman, $200; Margie Moeingo, $200; Bertha Maasey, $300; Rosa Allen, $£60; Addie Hardison, $676; W. H. fisher, $800; Annie R, Westbrook, $200; Elvira Tyson, $40d; L. J. Williford, $200; R. L. Joyner, $2Q0; W. H. Duke, $200; A- Q- Roebock, $260; Will Jones, $800; M. G. Thorne, $260; C. L. lvey, $250; T. E. Joyner, $260; Mrs. T. E. Joyner, |3fiQ; R. L. Maiming, $200; Mrs. Fraaow AHen, $100; Mm. Fred C Moore, $76; Mrs. B. E. Duncan, $100; G. A. Boose, $6JW0i Mi*. T. R. Mi»elle, $900; Harry Diw«k| $200; C. E. Modlin, $226; Edgar J. Barrett, HfiOO: Both $2J00; Mrs. M. L. fiWA, $8,200; Annie Nichols, $1,100; Mrs. Lottie K. Lewis, $926; Mrs. Mamie a Carraway, $200; Mm. Cecil Johnston, $200) H. M. Winders, $1,000; ft. R. Newton, $200; Jane Greene, $200; Myrtle Nichols, $200; Mn. Emma L. Jones, $200; Leila H. Williams, $200; G. S. Thomas, $400; Mary Elizabeth Barrett, $950; John B. Lewi* $625; Tony Melton, $850; F, A. Williams, $860; Mrs. Linwood j Russell, $825; Clarence Davis, $500; Lossie Braxton, $676; Mrjg[|john Barrett, $900; Ja^es Rus*«^$200; Botatie Allen, $1,176; HaTrell Boyce, $600; Prisdlla Joyner, $200; I H. Hajrris, $1,200; E. L Barrett, $225; Mrs. G. H. Burnette, $200; R. LeRoy fiRollii*; $1425; M W. Rollins, $2S; ■JIL Cannot, $225; Annie Nichota, $225; Mrs. Leater Skinner, $350; FeMe Pearl Redick, $200; N. Cannon, $1,700; B. O. Tramage, $200® US* OPVMNKILL1N -#C^f§i§f HBLPS OLD AILMENT T WILD Considerable excitement prevailed for a tine on Ayden's main street Tuesday when a young bull, trained to harness and hitched to a oart, was frightened by tfee blinking of * red traffic light, ran wild, separated himself from tte cart md dumped Queenie Cox, elderly Negro farjn woman, its owner, to the pavement, crashed thru a window'at Boy L. Turaage's store and came oat of "another, to be caught and haltered' only after it became winded. A Negro boy held onto the reins on the boll until it made Ha passage through the window. Ayden's - downtown thoroughfare was empty of pedestrians until Ferdinand disappeared. "People dont go to cover that quickly where there's a practice blackout," the Storekeeper said while the bull was on the rampage.—Reflector. •" ■ Trouble is like a trap. It's easy to get into. R«d Annies Near l Railroad Center I In North Russia —;— • ?•!£'Russians Within 39 Miles, of Pskov; Trap Tightened Jp round i loadmM. 17. - Soviet Twops, driving southward through the forests and lake coon try of northern Russia, yesterday advanced to within 89 miles northwest tf the big German railroad Mob dt Pskov by eaptaring the town of Chuddtie Zabhody, on Lake Peipujk three miles from southeastern Estonia. -Striking on both ends of an 80mile front, Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's Leningrad army made ma*imom gains of nine miles to win more than 36 towns and settlements in a drivi converging on Pskov from the northwest, north and northeast Moscow's broadcast communiques announced that Soviet ski troops were catting behind the retreating Germans and chopping up their columns, at aam point capturing about 400 tracks loaded with war j* ■-•••>■■■.:•*>... n>*• .^n-.^.v- • • • . - -*•■<.-/• ^iMfcijfVs strife ■: ■ -." **» .: • '".y •' ^.'IIKIl '.'I CaTrooeto, 10 mi% north " batteredtfc# man ringing' the beachhead RAP Wellingtons flung down busters in a night attack. U. S. artillery opened up on artery Hill following the aerial struction of historic Mt. Casein? Ab-1 bey, which the Germans had cot verted into a fortress. Sll&il German infantry presumably wma Ptlll in possession of the key hill, above besieged Cauoino, where violent battling into its 15* dsy. Fiyhtta, Heavier. r (The fighting increased in intensity as American soldiers who already hold one-third of the town, continued the methodical destruction of house to house which the Nasis have converted into fortresses. The loll in ground fighting in t$s beachhead continued, the communique reporting only patrol clashes Jn the Cisterna and Csrroceto (Aprilla) Headquarters, said Cerroceto was in German hands. Fierce fighting has *wirled in thi* neighborhood, with a ' canning factory there changing hands four times. Allied forces had pushed four miles north of Csrroceto to the outskirts of Campoleooe, 16 miles below Rome, but German eosnterattacks forced them back. / ^ Hit Bmw Rail Tunis. , While Allied heavy bombers gave i direct support to infantry on hath < the beach and main Fifth Army front, A-86 invaders struck a sharp aeries | of Wows at railroad yards in the < suburbs of Roma, plastering two freight yards through which Ger- 1 man" supplies and reinforcements i ware moving soulhward. (The Paris I radio said the Rome ana was attack- i ed again and that Castet Gandilfo i was hit Tqwiiy.) .1y0§ \ The Germans launched their fim 1 attack in several weeks against the 1 Eighth Army positions, sending in- < fan try and light tanks against In- • (Man troops. The assault, described i as on a "smalt scale" was beaten 1 bad^lfe^j- <;£: si In the town 0# Cassino, doughboys ' were fencing their way through blis- 1 taring machine-gun Am frotti BtMi* dSbSf ^ tected by armor plate three to fow 3 inches thick, each are held hy two ; m», aisaing nuK^ae-guns with |«ri I I'M He Laid The Cornerstone For Our Praaont Democracy. j torical Volume To Memorialize Pioneer and Present Progressive Citizenship With gifts of additional land and substantial donations already re-* calved in connection with recant plans of the Major Benjamin Kay Chapter, D. A. R, for perpetrating the memory at pioneer families of Eastern North Carolina, and their descendants who are continuing their vision of progress ami reputation for prominent citizenship, the Chapter will launch out in full force next wade in their objective to fbrther enhance the beauty historical significance of the Chapter House, the only one in the State. ..; Since 1928, when the ideal of a cultural and social center of discriminating taste and Trace had its inception, it has bean the heartfelt desire of the Chapter membership to make it|ft shrine and sanctuary as well, A historical volume, to be compiled, mil eonUia sketches of *11 the f•milias memorialized in the Btfldin*, of which there are already a large num. The recent financial gifts will relieve the Chapter toota the present indebtedness on the bui Idi njaX and the additional land offered will give ample space for laying jjg|ktoiiial -For all strategic military pcrfor^tbe thur said in a communique. SSviHe md°^SU the south "are now iimtotmi from their sources of supply at Rabaul (New Britain)," he Mid. "Starvation and disease are certain to ansae from the military blockade which renders their position hnrelrn With their airfields destroyed and titaair barge traffic paralysed, relief of the scattered garrisons is no longer practicable and their ultimate fate Ja sealed." 1j The Green Islands, also lcoown as (he Nissan Islands, an 40 miles northwest of fSBuka Island and above 188 miles east of the Jap* nese base at Rabaul, where the enemy has been taking repeated and heavy Allied aerial pounding*. appear in the local papers relative to historical truth* und treasured tradition* associated with people and events of this section as tfce eommlt- 1 tees in charge ot the memorial move- ' ment unearth facts and fables in their , contact with descendant* of the , pioneer citieens. • ■ kriSi ""'i "* • i Chairmwi and vice chairmen of the committees, on which the entire mem- J bership of 40 woman have been placed, met with the Chapter regent, Mrs. T. C. Turaage, at the home of Mm. M. V. Jones, Tuesday evening, to make final plans for the memorial movement, which will be launched on dared ^ndedb'IIm S^goaTUljS l^e comredttees are composed of ' V TO HOLD