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The mon To Be Delivered By Rer. J. R. Roontree; Graduates To Rear P.] W. Green, Secretary of N« C. Education Association, Tuesday Night vllle b<«ii»e&ndj^ •veaing1 at 8:80 o'eleck, when Rev. J. R. Rountree, Sector of the Episcopal Church, will deliver the BaccaRev. E. C. CharaMee, pastor of the Baptist Church, will read the scripture and Rev. C. B. Mashburn, pastor of the Christian Church, will offer prayer. Special music will be miJn„-J ocrea. The Graduation Exercises will be held on Tuesday, May 16th, at 8:90 P. M. Following the processional, the program will open with the singing of "America.'' The Invocation will be given by Rev. C. B. Mashburn. Salatatorian, Robert Flyim Paylor and Valedictorian, Robert G. Smith, Jr., wilL speak, after which Fred W. Greene, Secretary of the North Carolina Educational Association, Raleigh, will sddreas the graduates. Mr. Greene will be introduced by John B. . Lewis, member of the school board. Diplomss will be presented by Dr. Paul E. Jones, Chairman of the School Hoard and J. H. Moore, Superintend- ent of the Farmville Schools will award the prises. Other members of the BoanPare Irvin Morgan, Jr., A. C. Monk, Jr., and Arch J. Flanagan. John T. Thome is a member of the County Board of Education. A complete list of graduates will ' be published next week. PIANO RECITALS __________ 1 Mrs. Haywood Smith presented her pupils in Piano Recitals on Monday and Tuesday evenings of this week. Those appearing: on Monday were Betsy Willis Jones, Jean Moore, Carolyn Rasberry, Nancy Lu Moore, Jackie Willis, Connie Rollins, Myrtle i Stocks, Lor&ine Butts, Dora Mae Barrett, Martha Holmes, Gerald Davis, Patsy Allen, Gayle Cheek Flanagan, Doris Erwfo Wilkerson, Cedric Davis, Betty Rose Wilkerson, Lsla Grey Kemp, John Russell Joynert Rtfth Moore, Carolyn Roebuck, j Willie Bay Harper, Marie Canon, Donald Bancem, Barbara Gneene, • Settle Cook, 'Ruthie Matthews, Jo , Ann Thomas, James Thome, Betsy , Morriss, Helen Thomas, Robert , Everett Roebuck, Mary Frances Al- , lea, Patricia Corbett and Joyce Tyson. Those appearing in the-Senior Re- f on Tuesday evening included Margaret Tyson, Jean Beck- h M>i« Kemp, Mary Leah Thome, , and Etta Frances Harper. Tall baskets filled with Pawl's Scarlet roses dscorated the stags. ' NOTES FROM THE LOCAL ' SERVICE HEN'S CENTER Visitors at the Centex during the pwt week were—Greenaboro, A.A.F. Baae: S/Sgt. Tony Laateri, Omaha, Nik; Sgt, Robert C. Harden, Dalton, Greenville Air Baae: Cpl. Howard T. Huelsmaa, Dayton, Ohio; Sgt William H. Ortwein, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Sgt. BH1 Worrell, Jr„ YoHrtown, Va.; Pie. Lewie V. William*, Boone, N. cf ." :.i Pfc Hilton Barfield, Snow Hill, N. C., and David Hon than Field, Tuceon, AaU.; Pfc. Jagvis Cappe, Fort Jackaon, 8. C, and Cmrnavilte, lid., and lira. Jarria Cappe, Norses Home, C. S. Hoapital, CrownavUle. Md.; Pvt. Clayton Hill, S^mour Jefeaon Field and Pomona, Cal. I" I'll anil I . <1 WAR BULLETIN! ■ - * Something F&rmville Polka ctt£ do in the War Effort: Save Waste Pkpsr, Kagasina*' aad cardboard boxes. Place, than; qi ateoks 12 to it inches high, each class in separate package, aad ttai bootiesI before noon, so tenth can pick up. BACK FURTHER Allied Headquarters, Naples, May 10.—'The Germans have retreated acroea the Little Awgntiao River in a second day of withdrawal on the British Amy front And Allied foroas moving op than haro MrufM three rillag— -and are —ntfmytag to prat the pursuit. AUied headquartbts announced today. . The German retreat has ranged From seven to fltt miles from their line as last announceed several weeks ago, although some AlHed forces have been well beyond it more recently. In their advance behind the withirawing foe the Eighth Army occupied Aalena, AUaaooao and San tagelo and at last report was moving directly toward the important German baae of Sulmona, which is 11 ailea beyond Palena and abmtf 33 niles from the Ararigtic coast Alied troops also seised high ground Mar the 'Hamlet of Ganberale, turn niles northwest of San Angelo on the ■oad to Palena. Competent miliary quarters de:lared the Nasi withdrawal appeared o be without signifilance beyond the raemy'g natural desire to strengthen lis line and eliminate a salient in he nigged mountain. _ ' Livestock Parasites Cause Large Losses Much heavier damage to fann aninals from all forms of livestock larasites may be expected this ipring because of the mild winter, inlesg farmers take extra precauions against these parasites, says Dr. C. D. Grinnells, veterinarian for he Agricultural Experiment Station it State College. "Parasites cause- latge losses of valuable feed and weaken animals mtil they are easy victims of cholera, iceurs. pneumonia, and other diseusGrinnells points ou£. "They if ten mean the difference between irofltable and unprofitable producion." He suggests that livestock and toultry quarters be thoroughly cleanid and d^infected this spring. Anither pi uvantive measuce -is to put ill animals on fresh, clean pasture , ind an temporary grazing crops. He ■ rarns that manure should not be, ipread on land that is to be pastared lj his year. "With these preventive measures , hpcld go a regular program of mediation to remove both internal and ixternal p&rasites, and to keep dewn ) nfestation throughout the coming ; leason," Grinnells says. He sxplaina that during a hard rioter millions W parasite eggs and srvae are killed but that during a flttd winter they live through the leason and are a constant threat to rvestock and poultry the following rpring. No. 1 Job m Secretary to succeed the late Frank if near ™ yprwrtl, one-time New York investment «wi neighbor * jf the President In Dutchess County, N. ¥., baa been Undersecretary for four yearn and since Knox's death on April 28 has bam acting secretary. — His appointment, urged by many Democratic and Republican Congressmen, clim—es the Washington career he started in 1940 when "he gave up the presidency of a Wall Street investment firm to serve as a Presidential pssistant. As the Navy's No. 2 man, he was Knox's right-hand man in building the world's biggest nary, going frequently to Cajritol Hill to testify before committees considering Navy appropriation* . ^> On many occaairas, be baa urged the maintenance of this giant fleet in peacetime, declaring" that peace which is not backed by < power "is wily a dream." At 62, 18 years' Knox's junior, ha will be one of the youngest men in the President's cabinet. - His appointment breaka up the policy Prtaident Roosevelt established in 1940 by naming Republicans, Knox and Secretary of War Stimaon, to hesd the Navy and War Department, a mora interpreted at the time as a gesture for war. unity. Congressmen on both aides applauded the Faneatal .appointment »nd Chairman Walsh (D.4Caa.). of be Senate naval committee predict>d speedy confirmation. Losers Execute Trip Play; Next Weeh Schedule Announced Behind the four hit pitching of fcndy Martin,,the Baptists trimmed Am Christians 19 to 1 in the opening tame of the Church Softball League, jdayed Monday at the Ball Park. Hie Baptists gathered 14 hits off Prank Allen, Christian Pitcher, in>1 tiding1 a Home ran by Bex Hodgea vith two man on. Hie winners seorid 6 nana in the first inning and addid 6 more in the sixth inning. 'Hie Christians scored their lone tally in he Second bwing. Both teams flaided well tor the Irst game, only 4 errors being comnitted by both teams—8 by the losers ind 1 by the winners. The Fielding f«m-of the~ttay was made by Maniger Boh Bouse, hustling third basenan for the Chilians, in the sixth inning with nobody out god three ftaptists on base. Rouse leaped high nto the air ant sphered a line drive iff the tmt of BiU Duke, tagged third » catch Jones, then threw to first lefora Fisher could return, thereby completing the first triple-play of kha sOukiu. Much was added to the pine by the fine work of $a um*— - « • « '.Air J Ji -0 1 0 0 0 % 0-1-4 6 0 0 0 0 0 x—-12-1< Confederate Memorial Bay will be Kty 14th, by the Rebecca Winbourn* Chapter, United Daughters ef H» Fo^^Juf'cMneUry Dunne the thirty mimla program, Rev. E. a Quiabiec wffl apeak and appropriate itip will he sung. Following the MBding of type, the gravea of Confederate Soldi.m will he nautod with flags and decorated with flowen. ' The puhUc is cewKaBy kivtted to attend. r. Fall Frees Soviet Armiesl Important Black Sea Fortress - Port Recaptured % Rumns Aft er 25-Day Siegre Tendon, May 10.—Tho fall ot the Crimean fortress-port of Sevastopol] after a 25-day siege was announced Wednesday by Primier Marshal Stalin in an order of the day which indicated one of the two original] besieged Soviet armies mar *1' ready have rushed to the main front for a new Russian westward offensive. Conspicuously absent from a list of 66 commanders cited by Stalin forj distinction in the drive which completely cleared the last of the 10,000* aqsare-mile Crimean peninsula was the name of Gen. Andrei I. Yeremenko, whose independent Maritime Army struck 160 miles westward across the peninsula from Kerch and | on April 19 reached Sevastopol's southern environs. The omission suggested that Yssemenko and his men might ^have been moved elsewhere in! preparation for important new opera-1 tions. The ozder of the day was jointly to Gen. Feodor L Tol: whose Fourth Ukraine Army Sevastopol late Tuesday in a three-day plunge through three German defense belts, and Marshal Alexander M. Vasileycky, chief of the Red Anny general staff. Reds New Have Two Ports. Through fall of the city the Soviet Black Saa fleet regained the secoi of two valuable ports from which venture against Axis forces on Ro-j mania's coast 200 miles to the west. I The other is Odessa, 180 miles to the] northwest, recaptured by the April 10. DRESSING STATION ) '*■ a IM t. in,., iamLm n*u J,£! ABtnCU l^gKm ntll >3 M I fiwiiiyi and Wednesdays ... 9 JO A. M.—10:00 P. SC. ' ' The present quota is the largest to j be aaaigned to the local Option and volunteer worker* an greatly needed. ACTS TO KNOW IQRTH CAROLINA 1 A* Compiled By ./ 'riMBV IL MUfeJLEN g&gg I menti At arat fb numths, end H fa believed that the Town of Farmvilh will be ahaeet free from the ravagae of rata for the next ten year*. 17 die campaign fa wwear ful, there will be a gnat saving* of property and protection to health of untold value. - The work fa expectM to begin during the we* of May 16th. It will take about six weeks foe the first treatment, about foor weeks for' the leeond and about three or four-weeks for the third. Mr. band fa nmr engaged in similar work In the Town of Wilson, and excellent results have bean obtained. ROTARY CLUB Mrs. Cherry Easley and Mrs. Henrietta Williamson wore guests of the Rotary Ctab 9H Tuesday evening. Kra. Easley spoke on "A Teen-Age Recreational Center" as a beneficial no Yemeni for Farmville, outlining he twesfbilitiee and workings at saeh I plan. Vrs. Williamson asked the issistance at the Club, financially ind'otherwise. Mem ban commented CavotaJbly and iskad their Community Service Comnittee to investigate and consider his project, which is being engineerid by the P. T71£ mpport World Miasiorw by giving to MMl and coopecative cause® on a 6010 basis. * - ■ , af *jaa| Dr. HI H. jfcMilhn aturn* hi. omirregation at the 11:00 o'ckx* hour rtth a vivid account of Cfclna and the 2Wmm people in critical diy. !• (aid more doom are now opwiec iiLwflfcr k a tvt annua WAR IN BRIEF — ton than SMO Allied warplanes based to Britain and Italy continue steady and ntantlees bombing of man targets all the way hom the fSoi^TtSr^Tliada fact that American invasion of Aita|w ami HcUandia to New Guinea freed several h««*ed Indian Sikha held priaooers hy Jbpe. 8*h* deacrtbed Jap<M»a» atoll iWea during fighting in Baaatona unh non Axia shine tryiHM to otvmmL* Qm imn Romanian troupe from The Crimea. Busaiaas quietly tadde Job of putting great pant of Sevastopol hade into operatiutw-' ., President Kooeevelt reveals that huge carryover of unexpended fund, will reduce amount of new money aought for war by large percentage. Ada wily 15 mora billion* tor Army. Euargncy unite to aid non-combataata whan invasion ctmta are ready for duty in Britain. Meantime, Nasi propagandists continue invasion speculation iind boaste of their ability to meet it ,. Undersecretary of Navy Jamaa V. Forrestel is nominated by President Booaevalt ta succeed the late Coi. Frank Kusk as Sacrvtery of the Navy. Navy reveals loaa of the deetroyer Tjmadale in the Mediterranean, sun* by German torpedo-planes. Stores Here To Close Wednesday Afternoons Stores will clow In Farmville during tile Dimmer menths on Wednat<Uy afternoon*, beginning May 17th. The eloiing hour will be 12:80 P. M. At a meeting held on Wednesday, May 10th .the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Pcmranrec and Merchants Association, endorsed the propoeed plan, of the Town of Farmville for the extecasi nation of rata; discussed and formulated plans for advw> tising of tobaoco market, and named J. W. Munden as representative of the Farmrflle Merchants Association to attend State Merchants Association Convention to be held in Raleigh, June 6th and «*.' ' NEW ADDRESSES Cpl. Robert C. Teal, 34466983, 2111th Army Air Base Unit, Section C-3, Blytheville, 2nd U. Robert H. Baker, 0-747368, 773rd Bomb. S* 463 GP, APO No 820 — e/o Postmaster, New York, i.t, mm Cpl. John H. Paylor, Jr, 34677684, 847th Ord. Depot Cow, Camp Pblk, La. CpJ. Louis T. Holloman, 34008034, Co. C. 680th A D. Bn„ APO No. 9976, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Cpl.* Charles A. Moiingo, 2138th AAF Base Unit, Section No. B, Craig (jf) C.;K. Thorne, UiS.N., A. T. towi, B. O. Q. No. i®, Sgt Claude C. Tyson, Dir. Hq. Co. 2nd^lfauto» IMr. P. M. F, c/o Fleet JUKI — Pvt. Jvy V. Dixon, 34319899, 716th Engineers Depot Co., APO No. 600, e/o Postmaster, New.Yerk, N. Y. 24, 3rd Student Squadron, K.AA.F.| G.S., Pari* . ed cms London, May 10.—RAF hammered both Part* and Berlin | Tueaday night and Wedneaday I German radio said daylight raidwere bearing down -M the Eumpc fortress 011 the 26th day at the tha irons pre-in vision air offenaive While British heavy bombers « eentrated en military and wduati objectives in Ftance, including aircraft foundry and stamping pli in the Paria suburb of Gemtevinie swift) Mosquito* Tuesday night t loaded many 4^00-fcm Mcckbusb on Berlin, still smenldaring fm heavy American sttarks on Sand and Monday. Minaa were laid in < emy waters. | Seven RAF Plana Lent In all Ita night operations the RJ lost seven aircraft, the Air Minat announced. The Genneviiliers plants w< plastered in a "vary rapU" atta which the Air Miuntry said wan w concentrated despite a heavy an aircraft hairaga. A force of Lancaster* bombed ballbearing factory at Annecy ne the French-Italian border and i most the wfcnla works appeared be on fin after henhs fed mmm accurate markers, it was aanonnct A German broadcast declared th a formation of bombers was • preaching the Danu'^-Alpa, regi« This indicated Mediterranean A Force, whose night bombers Mt Gen and Liverao in Italy Tneaday nigi was sanding heavies baok into t Ralkaas by daylight after a two-di layoff because of had weather. Pilots returning lrom all t British-based night nms said % night was clear and the targets wi identified. Crews who bombed Ge nevilliere Vt? in the attack said th found fires started and axptoaiei continuing inside the factory with tl wLole target enveloped in jsnofen One Mosquito pilot said the nigi was ac aaw he oonld aee all the di tinctave landmarks of Berlin. "It waa one of the nwiftaai attacJ we ever made on Berlin," he sal "All the searchlights arouffl and t side the capital wan miiifcad on i we got near the city and ground nem opened up on ua. But we wa In and out before they could get tl
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