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Rev. Mr. Haney Addresses D. A. R. At April Meet Featuring the busfansu session of the April meeting offcbe Major Benjamin Hay Chapter,' D. A. R, Wd Saturday, was the announcements of memorials by committee chairmen of the Chapter's Memorial Movement launched on February 22. Reports made by Mrs. E. B. Beasley, Mrs. M. V. Jones, Mrs. U. H. Court, Miss Tabitha DeViseonti and Mrs. G. Alex Rook revealed the fact that great interest had been manifested by descendants of prominent pioneer families of Eastern North Carolina in the movement and that the first goal set by the Chapter had been page ad. Upon motion it was agreed to set another goal and con Uiiue the movement until fall. In the meantime, committees will be designing and planning proposed memorials, the volume of family sketches and various improvements of the Chapter House and grounds. A nominating committee, composed by Mrs. E. B. Beastey, Mrs. U. H. Corart, Mrs. J. O. Pollard, Mrs. A. C. Monk and Mrs. S. T. White was appointed. « * - iv _• i• . m **__ xvtivnui^ Mic icotgiiavivu w T. C. Turnage as regent, the nominating committee chairman recommended her reelection, which received a unanimous vote by the Chapter. Rev. H. G. Haney, of Greenville, guest speaker of the afternoon, was presented by Mrs. C. S. Eagles. The speaker developed his subject "Gardens of the Bible," an interesting innovation in the Chapter's War and Post War program, by tracing the origin and describing the Garden of Eden, the Manging Gardens of Babylon and the Garden of Gethsemane as representing the Gardens of Disobedience, of Greed, and Decision, respectively. Depicting the agony of the Master in the Garden of Gethsemane, the Rev. Mr. Haney spoke at length -on the results of His decision, "Not My will but Thine Ik *ne." After adjournment, refreshments, consisting of sandwiches, pickles, stuffed eggs, cookie*, salted nuts and hot tea. were served by Mrs. W. C. Holston, Mrs. Henrietta M. Williamson, Mrs. Venessa Townsend, Mrs. C. S. Eagles, Mr. Louise Harris, Mrs. Herbert E. Hart and Mrs. G. Alex Rouse. Sprays gf spirea and white candles were used on the mantels of the drawing room of the Chapter House and spires, red tulips and blue irisemphasized the national colors in other floral arrangements, which provided an appropriate setting for the meeting, tanned as a "momentous*' one. Mi*. Hoses Moye, of Windsor, house-guest of Mrs. Hyirtetta M. Williamson, was a vtatto* this Future of Navy Depends WSToiith f United I TTi - ——i Notice of Democratic Precinct Meeting p.. AH D«nocrate o€ Farraville Precinct an notified to meet at Fttnmvitle. N. C. Saturday, April 2 dad. at 3:00 R Kf, at the City Hall, for the pwrpoae of electing an Executive Committee to sirve 0»r the ensuing two yean, and to select delegates to the County Convention, to be held in the court house, at Greenville, on Saturday, April 20th. . -rte • ;■ Large Hospital h London Hit; Death List High One Want Housing Male Patients Completely Destroyed; Death List Heavy London, April 19.—Rescue workers dug through the wreckage of one of London's largest hospitals Wednesday in a search for casualties after the building had been blasted and set on fire by a direct hit during a German air raid on the capital early Nearly 2,000 patients were in the hospital and it was feared a number of them were buried under the debris. A ward housing male patients was completaely destroyed. The raid — the first on London in four nights and the third attack this month—started about 1 a. m. and lasted for an hour. Anti-aircraft batteries hurled up a heavy barrage but it failed to turn the raiders and vari-colored flares, incendiaries and high explosives rained down on the city. At least IS enemy planes were reported shot down. Firemen and air raid workers quickly extinguished the fire at the hospital and rescue squads, worked through the night hours seeking victims. ATTENTION CITIZENS ! Please call 326-1 or Center if you wish to men in your home for a meal the week end. Do this as early the week as passible so that the committee in charge may make plans accordingly. Washington, April 28.—"Aunl extraction of income taxes wn goal set by house fiscal leaders T day as they launched legislation signed to relieve 30,000^)00 pen from the job of filing auy reti y^ptean Doughton (D-NC)j ed the Ways and Means Commi together to go over the fiwt d of tile simplification measure, w &r»o is calculated to make March 15 headache lesa severe the 20,000,090 other persona still would have to file Mtwra*. Beginning »«t January 1, it bin innaeted, the present -g salaries will b* rvvimd ujmmrd "jy-jigsaKW"[ik-5,000 Haws Dl„0| D..jJSM Diasi noaas m ^^Hpo invasion Nad Aircraft Factories and RaiflC enters Smashed; Northern Prance and Berlin Reof Destruction | London, April 19.—Sendiinj? out more than 5jbCtt warpl&nes, the Allies have blasted a new road toward D-day by dropping ■¥*• than 7,000 tons at explosives mi Sailer's Enrope in the last 24 hours. Nearly 2,000 U. a bombers and fighters went oat Wednesday smashing "Tighter plane factories as a similar armanda had dene Tuesday. Sandwiched between -them was a night assault on French pail junctions by more than 1,000 British bomben, the heaviest force ever dispatched by, the RAP against occupied territory. (The Vichy radio said Rouen was badly hit and the cathedral there was hit. Another French city of 15,000 was declared in flsiftee.) lighter bombers joined in the aa~l sault -r U. S. Marauders against j northern France and British Mo*y quitos against Berlin, bombed by! U. S. "heaviest. f t, The Eighth Air Force's objectives Wednesday included fighter plane factories and aircraft parking fields in western Germany—at Kasr Bel, Eschwege, Paderborn, Gutersloh •nd Wert. Thunderbolts, Lightenings an$l Mustangs accompanied the bombers. Picture* Show Damage. U. S. headquarters announced: "Photographs made during Tuesday'^ Eighth Airf<*rce attachs on Germany show bomb hits on enemy aircraft plants at Oraaienburg and Rath enow in the Berlin area, on a rayon plant at. Wittenberge, 76 miles northwest of - Berlin, airfields at Luneburg 25 miles southeast of Hamburg and Perleburg Jnear Wittenburg) and dockside warehouses at Cuxhaven on the North sea at the mouth of the river Elbe. "Two patterns of bombs fell across the Heinkel 177 components plant at Oranienburg, hittiiag four major biddings and numerous smaller ones. At fiathnow, 40 miles west of Berlin, an aircraft component plant was hit by heavy concentration of explosives and incendiaries. Two of the three major buildings received direct hits.. The plant area was obscured by smoke rising several thousand feet at the end of the attack. "At Cuxhaven a pattern of bombs warn strum? across warehouses, along docks, and a number of bombs fall in nearby marshaling yards." The first report that U. & bombers were continuing'in great force the campaign to destroy the roots of GerRan air power came from the Berlin radio. The Germane reported that violent air battles wave raging as N*xi fighters tried, to beat off raiders sweeping over northwestern Germany. The RAF loet 14 planes in the overnight operations which included extensive mine-laying in enemy waters. The British air ministry aaid that the greater part of the RAF force dispatched to Europe oooeeabrated on vital railway communications in Paris, and at Rouen and Tergnier. This indicated that the operations probably " represented the heaviest RAF night attack wrer carried out on occuniad France. J : m _ . IT bad juat a small display ia the El Reixey store on the corner at Main and Witootf streets, hava recently rented the store n«t door to the City Cafe, which has been fixed up and redecorated especially ft>r thk> firm. were bald from the Ftawille Funeral Home on Sunday afternoon at four of the Free Will Baptist Church, oft l Jtahbum, UiiriBwan iiihmmm, «®v, M* *. Self, Methodist minister, and Rev. E. C. ChamMee, Baptist minister. 'MV ' "Crossing The Bfcr," "Sometime Well Understand" and "Hare Thin* Own Way, Lord" were cone by Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Holmes, Mrs. Alton W. Bobbitt and C. F. Bau com, with Mrs. Haywood Smith aa accompanist. Interment was in Forest Hill cemetery, beneath a loveiy floral tribute. J" Mr. Bynnm, a son of the late Peter and Florence Sugg Bynum, waa a lifelong resident of the community ahd iMMl-known throughout the county. He was engaged in fanning and prior to hia illness had been active in the business life of the town, having worked in the office of the East Carolina Railway, with the firm of Askew, Smith and Beaman, and The Turnage Oo. ^ r Surviving are his wife, the former Lydia Beaberry of Greene County; n sister, Mrs. R. B. Havens of Tarboro, and a brother, Henry Bynum of Rich Active pall-bearers were Suggs Askew, Leroy Baas, T. C. ■ Turnage, Sr., Lewis Godwin, Henry Johnson, A. W. Bobbitt, LeRoy Rollins and Melvin Rollins. ' Honorary pall-bearers were; R. A. Fields, Roland Lang, J. W. Bass, S. A. Roebuck, John Stansill, L. E. Walaton, Andy Martin, R. K. Pippin, L. T. Lucas, Joe Gregory, Leonard Joyner, N. E. Smith, A. C. Monk, Sr., Leroy Puller, Lynn Eaaon, Milton Eaaon, J. B. Briley, Thtodore Moore, Fred Moore, Lewis Creech, F. A. Darrfen, W. D. Fields, M. G. Thome, Berry Taylor, R. D. Rouse, John Fountain, Lloyd Smith, Grover Webb, Ed Suggs, Jr., W. T. Eaaon, John D. Dixon, Frank Davis, Jr., Geo^W. Davis, L T. Pierce, Neal Howard, W. S. Roy»ter, James Lang, R G. Barrett, L. E. Flowers, Seth Barrow, Ed Nash Warren, Marvin -Hwrton, John B. Lewis* Car-Iton Carr, Paul Ewell, C. A. Tyson, J. B. Joyner, R A. Joyner, G. E. Beckman, Luther Thomas, T. E. Joyner, Ernest Barrett, R. J. Wainright, Dr. C. E. Fitzgerald, Dr. J. M. Mewborn, Hal Winders, R. R. Newton, J. H. Harris, John King* W. A. McAdamw, Willie Turnage, Ban L. Lang, B. 0. Turnage, J. Y. Monk, Curtis Flanagan, Asch Flanagan, Sam Flanagan, J. lit Whale—, Sr., W. Leslie Smith, JLaih Morriss, G. A. Rouse, John T. Thome, Alex Allen, F. M. Davis, Sr., R. H. Knott, H. W. Kemp, Dr. W. M. Willis, Mark Dixon, J. C. Gibbfi, J. N. Edwards, El Ramey, Ray West, Sr., BobHtaaan, Jlmmie ^Spivey, Archie Owens, W. L. Wopten, John Gardner, Jim Joyner, Hubert Joyner, W. C. Askew, Cyril Aakew, TeemSe Suggs, Marvin-Jonas, A. B. Moore and J. M. at foarnmgixted liberators eaoounted neither aerial opporitkm nor astii aircraft fire. Bivouac arSae alao ww* Hit. i' A spokesman for G«l Douglas MaeATthur said today the attack m made in force and the weight at tx* plosives carried was sizeable In view of the 2,000-mile rotad trip over water flight from Solomons bases. Satawan was bombed Just one* before, by two Liberators on April 10. Allied airmen continued the pressure on the Japanese along the bomb-packed north oeaat of New Guinea and gave Rabaul, the enemy's fast-crumbling base at the northeast tip of New Britain, a bad mauling. Patrol bombers strafed the Aitape lector of the New Guise* coast, destroying Supply dumps and buildings, rhey sank two Japaasee supply luggers and damaged a 2,000-ton freigh more than 160 Solomona-baMd bombsi* which concentrated on aWrome runways and buildings. There was no mention of oppoaition. Nine barbae were strafed in the wide are* nearby. Far to the west, Liberators tore up the aintanme and auapty areas at Faan in the Kai Mauds with-SI ton* rf bombs, and in the Mapia islands a patrol bomber shot down a Japanese tour-engined flying boat. The Kai Islands are between Timor aad New Guinea, and the Mapia islands are north of the New Guinea "turkey neck." Late, but still incomplete, tabulations of the Sunday raid on Hoilandia rated to 296 the tonnage of bomb* dropped mi the north New Guinea haw Which has taken more Chan 1,400 tons this month. . ■ . .«■. ... .1—>*. i.; Announces Program ; For Walstonburg High School Commencement and on to the li Music Recital in two Eg WAR IN BHIEF l hatch™J^y^d^morr^r6,000 sorties and MM ton of bombe figuriig in th( widespcesd ittaii that overwhelmed the" German air fore*, -i.^Status of Soma nwlliisiis in italiln, with Piislds^l RonesTnlt informing Eire Premier Da Valera that fata ct city rests with Germans. London report says Nscis showing signs of abandoning Rome. Allied troops in India break through Jap lines to' relieve garrison at KeItima. Pacific war fronts feature Bontfoued air raids on Jap bases. New battle for Ancio beachhead warns imminent, with gun and patrol activity increasing sharply. ' Army discloses loss of 44 men and 10 planes over Catania, Italy, last Inly, due largely to friendly guns. Congrassteen criticize withholding of news revealed first by Columnist Draw Pearson. Germans reported to have sounded invasion alarm SO the way from Norway to the Spanish frontier, saying Aliled attack is imminent HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB "Finishes That An Durable and Attractive" was the subject of the ienionstratien given by Miss Vewma Lee Joyner at the meeting of the Farnnrille Home Dsswmsbation Club, Fhursday afternoon of last week. Mrs. W. A. Hinaon, etething leader, issisted by Miss Joyner, in presentng this most helpful demonstration hiring which many of even the mote experienced seamstresses present, rare shown a better way of sewing m bottom, putting in sleeves, hens tnd collars. Several members modelid attractive dresses which they Had Dotil blame » boy for thinking' he anutrter tinn hi* daddy. Likely, r-v"J Committee Abandons Proposed Labor Bat talion WeaP*; PfjiklMTi May (D-Ky.) HHrcS live Serviee ami the Ww Russians Capture Be? i * • enu axis Btrongpoai^ On Sevastopol Ootddrte; German* » »«... yKy.,1— „», .1 f\ I . l^auncn r owcnui i/nve In Poland atiStaal* lawow On R^.d To liwow; Moscow Says Offensive Halted PvrtMH BMtia. Front dispatches sag-.# »<P— battle m in vastopel, a 21-mile line curving 100-square mite SVfc* dicataon where the were scored. .7 The ■aid that troops of K. ZhukDr*s amy « a major battle on of the front, where the Germans threw large infantry and tank ferees into the attack yesterday lor the second successive day. Military experts hen believed the might M mounting a to prevent the Russians from ing through toward Lwow — the shortest route to Berlin. The hold town* as close a* 40 of Lwow, while at Stanislawaw they are TO mile* of Lwpw. ■aid that the «M*ny atthe Russian Itoes east of Lwow and that "a is which !■ side tog! infantry, supported by mortars, killed n-jf ZJOOO Oermaas and destroyed 12 taaha and self-propelled guns ia' stemming' the Mr Fighting. planes shot down # of a fleet of German bomber? which attacked the Russian Unas. Dm Rassiaa air fleet, strilciag at Ge ments in Lwow, reidsd the Tuesday night, hitting a tration of 4rsop* *1 trains. Forty fires among the trains and viet aimen said that they < the bl&26s when they 100 mile# from Lwow. the Polish battle was reging along a 76-mile front stretching 4ewn from Tarnopol, 87 miles northeast oi Lwow, to points near the Csech border, lieriin claimed that German and Hungarian divisions, tit between the Carpathian Mo of Nadwor&a- 22 miles and 19 Chechoslovakia. The Russians had ^ u • •
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