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. <n this connection
a diary has alreqjly been discovered 1
of the beat known anil most beloved
personages in this section and may 1
offer an untold wealth of information ■
far the entries. •' . >• ■
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