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Initia —1, ; .1, » * «- _i ' * - - m . wxiicn naa Decn reported c&pcurea.. Montebourg, 14 mites south of Cherbourg; Troern, an the opposite flask six miles east of Caen, and Caumont, 13 miles ao<)th at PaftiiT Fluid fighting was* continuing for all >ppasttkm," Allied heatsaid. Goirell repotted that road center *.t the base of; Dnirle air armada ever launched—the AlUsd air forces hit Hitler'. Europe with man than 12,000 plane sorties by daylight today in probably the greatest all-day operations since the Normandy invasion June 6. The widespread operations from Britain practically wen unopposed in the air, tonight's communique statsd, although anti-aircraft fire was hesvy. fifteen United States heavy i ■ 11111 «■ n i ■ ■ ■ 11 j rt r, 1,^- ■*- — . -.. - .. ^ » s do rn oc Ps, mgnx ngiitere ftnd. 0D6 inefl* ium J>omber were announced as U also was disdossd at headquarters that a umber of German airfields in France Have been captured, but are not being used at present Greatest wsight of planes and bombs came from' Britain, when planes took off on an estimated 10,000 sorties that raided explosives and ballot* on the enemy in Fiance, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany in bpth tactical and strategic support of the invasion ground forces. From Italy. Simultaneously, another estimated 2,000 sorties were flown from Italy and Mediterranean bases against a half doaen oil refineries in Hungary and Yugoslavia. . ~ : ... In all, about 46,000 tons of bombs, were cast oa enemy territory daring the day. Pie Italian-based heavy bombers encountered considerable aerial opposition, but the British-based forces reported little trouble from the Luftwaffe. Besides the great British-based mission of more than 1,500 heavy bombers escorted by some 750 fighters, the sides "reverberated from dawn until dusk with the constant coming and going of medium, light and fighter-bombers closely supporting the cross-channel ground assault. On D-Day, about 12,000 sorties were flown, but at least 2,000 of these were at night Naais Grounded. :yj The gre«k air fleet from Britain, dumped tons of bombs on six airfields in another blow to keep tMT German air force grounded, and one force branched off and struck the Emmerich oil refinery in the RMneland, 10 miles inside Germany. Fncnt dispatches said'fierce, handas the Russians pushed steadily toTil tl 1l»rl «itt4-nn rlnf ' • V" I „# 1L» ">ST- „ ward tne outer otfenaet or tne juubneiMn line strung acposb the lake and forest qountry below Viipuri, capture of which brought Finnish capitulation in the 1M9-40 "Winter WSF : • Three columns at Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's Leningrad army wwd northward toward Viipuri on a 17mile Una extending from Kuterselka northeast through KorpiBnlo, one of seven heavily-fortified towns taken yesterday on the fiftih day|»ffiui offensive that has advanced the Had Amy to a point 40 miles northwest of the center of Leningrad. A fourth column, swinging op behind the Finnish defenses across the base of vealed that the Finns had . thrown fresh troops into the battle and wat resisting- stubbornly. Moscow novated that Kuteraelka, taken in a fighting four-mile advance in two days from RaivoU, was won after a "fierce fight." Nine miles northeast of Kuterselka, another Russian force captured Jaervi, on a highway running from the Gulf of Finland to Lake Ladoga. Paervi, 40 miles southeast of Viipuri also was captured after a fierce struggle, Moscow announced. Eight miles northeast of Jaervi the Russian* took Korpildula, eastern end of the front moving northwest toward Viipuri. The front moving toward Lake Ladoga extended 11 miles southeast from Korpikiula to Nelimaeki, taken in a six-mile drive eastward along with the towns of Mustaiava, Riivartm&eki and Maselka. Hie Moscow war bulletin reported no changes on other sectors of the front, but it announced that daring the past two nights Soviet longrange heathers carried out "massed blows" on seven enemy airfields on the central front. They were: Orsha, BaraHSwicze, Pinsk and BrestLi tovsk in Poland. These points all are on a rough arc curving 350 miles from. Orsha, 60 miles south of Vitebsk, south and west to Brest-Litovsk, 116 miles east of Warsaw. A "large number" of planes were destroyed, Moscow repotted. Eight Soviet bom bars were lost. ] REVIVAL SERVICES • * ', * - Tall' ' '4je* Yoa are condially invited to attend Revival Services at the Bell Arthur Methodist Chun* harming Monday, - '■ * * - . W * • W W June 19th, and continuing throughout at nine o'clock and both morning and evening services r on Sunday. Jtev. M. Erjfifc).Tyson of Dover is the prii u i iMKjpl Rev. Lester Jackson. Jr. of SI Paso. Texas, the sone ■*»») eti) v* " " t • " ) "L - ■ U. deef" 'if* G. M3*m, g^al ger of the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association ant) the Farmers Cooperative Exchange told over 300 delegates to the annual meeting of the two organizations held in Raleigh Tues > T "It is hard tor us who read and study," Man# a^d, "toigLfcrgtand wk? it is that wages can be inftwiifil and larger * margins of profits be taken without bringing inflation talk in Washington, but if-you talk about .giving the fanner a cent more a dozen for his eggs er one penny ». pound n»ore for his cotton, then everyone in Washington tMows up his hands in , honor and criea, 'Inflation, Infle } -l 4» not vast to b* misunderstood," Mann continued, "because many of the things that have been ilntiA Ilia' WT o alitnn4/tn l>a«« . luuin #/.« BMj® xn WlBiilliglOll ArYq , m0C!<1 IO* the benefit at agriculture, and tafe to give credit to all who have had any part in looking .after the farmer's welfare, but the thought; that I do want to fmpress an you ia that the farmer wflf have to organise and fight ss-never before if ha ia to get even a living, much lesa a decent living, ftom agriculture in the next twenty, yaare.* Mum called upon the iMiplii to ever increase their support of such organisations as the Grange, the Farm Bureau,, and their own purchasing and marketing coperativea. "Only in this manner," he aaid, "will agri:ufture be able to receive its jnrt share at the national income and talks its proper place in the national woa&mjv * '^4^ COTTON Says Tom Under, Georgia'* Commissioner of Agriculture: v. ,%9 "I have before meeight aamplen of sotton'goods from a'department store In Atlsnta, Qa. • ' Cii&J "Each aample is a different pattern and a 4ifferent weight. "The heaviest sample weighs Mix ounces to the yard. The lightest sample weighs three ounces to the rand. N "The three-ounce goods is marked J P4.98 a yard. This is $1.66 an ounce, w 126.66 a pound. $26;66 for one pound of cotton goods out of cotton hat sold fpr SO cents. "Hie heaviest of three samples weighs she ounces to the yard and the price is $2.50 a yard. This ia il centa in ounce, or $6.56 tot a pound. In thett goods you pay $6.56 tor a pound of Cotton goods out of cotton that sold for 20 cents. 'The other samples vary in between these two extreme figures. If we average the figures, we find that | these eight different kinds of cotton foods are selling tor $10.56 a pound. "At this rate one bale of cotton the farmer received for picking, ginning and the rf cotton." These figures are think about. You can any store. ^ ... • -miHBB he Marianas taigets suffered only light damage, that on* Allied warhip wasaonk and more than 121 J. S. planes downed—claims in line rith usual Tokyo announcement*) I fpL* Kli 1 ipv;j|iuH;uiittniion» jfwncnM/ vy i Ldm. Chester W. Nimitr listed oprations which began Saturday and ontinued through Monday, directed it Guam, Saipan, Tinian and Mta D the southern Marianas. Nimitz aid U. S. losses were 16 pfauies 6 airmen. The reported awmy ggMS, added 0 others inflicted in Gen. Douglas facArthor's command area along he aodth approaches to the Philiptines, premised to make June the nost disastrous in many muntha for apen's fleet and air arms. Ships listed sunk in the mmm i www)1 wi. ... ettee, seven cargo vessels and two ilea. Five ar this month in the Mki' da heavy cruiser. Bel losses in June four which Mactoday were sunk If Dtttch New Guinea. (These shipping leases do not in* lude those caused by submarine*, " * " "" * "■ ~ "~y ^ jBflayyK &ytae ates.) LABOR Washington, Jane 14.—Governor J. Melville Brought*® today expressed hope that the War Manpower Commission will give n essentia rating to labor tor North Carolina tobacco warehouses and redrying plants, after a meeting hare today with WMC Cb«nain Paul V. McNutt and War Food Administrator Marvin Jones in which he pointed , oaf that large amounts of UStmcco weald be wasted unless labor was made available for The Governor said that he believed Softball
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