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gps mm FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, s= More Than Ninety Val uable Articles Were Donated by Business Firms For tite Auction; Military Band and Group of Entertainers Greatly Enjoyed % is previously planned, proved to be a big- day in Farmville, when beginning at 2:00 o'clock, - a large owed assembled along Main Street to attend the Auction Sale of valuable articles donated by local boriMM firms k the 5th War Lean Bond Rally. . Chairman Josh W. Munden, of the MaKhante aad Salespeople Division, sponsors of the Rally, was master of ceremonies, and following the sing ing ot "America" and prayer by Rev. Edwin -& Coates, the program got un derway. Major Wallace G. Anderson, Public Relations Officer, Seymour Johnson appreciation for the opportunity to bring thejr band and group of enter tainers to Farmville and to be of some assistance in making the Bond Rally a success. Mayor George W. Davis, General Chairman of Farmville townshjp in this, the 6th War Loan Drive, in a few well chosen> words, emphasized the great responsibility of those of us on the "Home Front" and urged everyone to buy all thp bonds they possibly could at this time. Following a hearty welcome to the group of entertainers by Chairman Munden who expressed the apprecia tion of all for their coming, the mike was turned over to Walter Jones, the auctioneer, and the sale of Bonds be gan. Practically every business concern at the city donated one or more valuable article? to be auctioned off to the highest Bond bidder, and every item, including several redonhted, was sold. The total sales and purchase of Bonds for the day was $1X6,800^0. Chairman Munden, of the Merch ants Division, Mayor Davis, Town-, ship Chairman, and C. H. Flanagan, Rural Chairman, and their co-work ers are highly pleased with the re sults of ti» day's activities and with the sncrsss off the Auction Sale. Following the Auction Sale the crowd went out to the Municipal Ball Park where a doubleheader Softball game, beginning at 4:80, was greatly enjoyed. The following is a list of the donors, articles auctioned off, and amout of War Bonds purchased: Andrews' Market, a Country Ham, $8,600; Artia Barber Shop, 12.60 in trade, (300; Brock Service Station, basket of groceries, |400; Bullock's Shoe Shop, |6.00 in trade, $600; Briley Oil Qo., 60 gallons Fuel Oil, $600; B. ft W. Chevrolet Co., 10 wash jobs, $1000; Hsdley .Aryan's Service Sta tion, Change of Oil, $200; Blackwood's Wholesale G>„ Box of Peter Paul Monads. $300; Bonnie's Cafe, $6.60 Maal ticket, $1260; Belk-Tyler Co., • pain 54 gnage hose, $3000; another box same hose « pr) $3600; > third box of ssme hose {« pr.) $16,000, and a Hassock, $1,000; City Drug Co., $6 fs Garpge, $6 City Cafe, N. Cannon, , lace table Place, 6 mos. r, $1100; oak keg, $200; | Farmvitte'i Neon Total We stilt have a long way to go to roach our quota, m> let* a all pot forth renewed efforts end go over the top m quickly am possible. ket ft Produce Co., a country ham, fllOO; Melton Motor Sendee battery for auto, |2500; Nichols Pish Market, bag of meal, *200; Pender Grocery, bag of flour, $100; Paramount Thea tre, 20 paaaes, $1200) PNpaott'a Cafe, meal ticket, $800; R. A. Purker Motor Co., auto battery, $1100; Pollard Auto Company, set of spark plugs, $300; El Barney, $4.98 ladies hat, $300; Roberta' Jewelry, China vase, $1600; Bote's 5, 10, 26c Stent, 84 piece aet if china, $600; Rollin's Cleaners and Dyers, $6.00 in trade, $200; Rouse Recapping and Vulcanizing Co., one into tire recapped,v $800; Smith [>ougiaas Co., bag at fertilizer, $800; 2nd hag fertilizer, $400; a 3rd bag for $600; The Rouse Printery, five rears' subscription to Hie Enterprise, >600; The Turnage" Co., 60 lb bag of flour, $1000; 2nd bag flour, $1000; 3rd bag of flour, $1000; and a 4th hag if Hoar, |200; N. Thomas, chenille ledspread, $1000; The Pecan Grove Dairy, bag Bean meal, $600; Vogue Seauty Salon, $6.00 permanent, $600; iVhelesa Dog Co., bath powder, $200; ITeateRi Auto Store, aet china, $1100; Wooten Oil Co., change of oil, $200; Williams Grocery ^Market, a ham, >2600; Willis Coal Co., half ton coal, (1000; (redonated by purchaser and told again for $600; The "97" Shop, >ox containing flour, coconut, hershey chocolate, brown sugar, $600; 12 pks. Fello, $600; 6 cans crushed and 6 cans iliced pineapple, $1300; J. H. Harris t Sod, Dobbs hat, $100; Jack Alien, lan aluminum paint, $600. Evening Entertainment A record crowd attended the eve ring program at the Gymnaaium, vhich began at 8:30 o'clock with a tecond Bond auction, since, due to ack at time in the afternoon, sev sral valuable articles were held over* The main entertainment feature of be day, "Four Corners, U. S. A., waa iplendidly presented by an all G-I ast, to a most enthusiastic and ap preciative audieneis{ This variety ihow with a theme, was written" and lirected by M/Sgt Dick Tait and Pfc. Merritt Stone, who portrayed the ending roles as narrators, and pro lucad by the Special Service Section ft Seymour Johnson Field. Stone, a former Broadway actor, played the part of the armless soldier, just re aimed from the war. Officers in-charge of the program were Major Wallace G. Anderson, Public Relations Officer, Seymour lohnson Field; Lt. Richmond, assist 4«°ndon, jane 22. — The German radio, said the RAF bombed Berlin again early today *¥»• «"» 1,011 blacked from the heaviest aerial trior ever dealt the city by more than l£Ml U. S. heavy bombers, some of1 which reportedly flew on to bases in Russia. DNB said Berlin was raided "be-, tween 1 ar m„ and 2 a. m." This hammering of the capital twice in 12 hours came as other U. S. Liberators headed a stream of planes In a round-the-clock bombardment of the comet bombUunching. platforms in the Pa« De Calais ana. Shu-He Bonbing. (CBS Correspondent James Flepr ing reported from Moacow that» hii the first time heavy Bombers at the Eighth Air Forte landed in Russia liter attacking en way targets in Eastern Europe. (This new development in shuttle tiombing, he said, followed the first ihuttle raids by U.' S. heavy bomb srs and fighters taking off from Italy. This report coincided with earlier unconfirmed ones from Ber in that some of the fleet that raided Berlin flew on East) The Americans' 12th aad heaviest )lows at Berlin cost 43 bomber* and L6. fighters as they plowed through louda aad flak. Their escort picked ttt 20 German planes, aad the heavies mocked down 2» more. Rocket Ptatfsrak. Capeured. A report from the RAF said suae -ocket-launching sites on the Char- i »urg peninsular had been captured ntact, giving Allied scientists a ! ■hance to develop further methods if combatting the Jet-propelled ax- i plosives which have bean hurled at i southern England for a week. 1 The Budapest radio went off the dr shortly before midnight, indicate < ng the Mediterranean air force f nay be striking at the Balkans. < As Berliner* dug casualties from he smouldering rubble,-the German i ■adio called The Aid * mtellaloiy» >low for the jet-propelled bombs, 1 vhksh winged over southern 'or the seventh straight day, aad : idded: "But no matter whether f tombs are being dropped on Berlin < •r not, thi^ bombardment -of London nth the new weapon will continue." Germany propagandists, admitting :Sauatties and damage in the capi at,, threatened coOnter-action with bigger aad more powerful explo ilves." 3 It was considered likely the Fly ng Fortresses sad Liberators, some >f whom reported they did not sea a lingie enemy fighter over Berlin, Iropped more explosive* on the capi ol in aa hour than the Germane had *e» able to launch from their bat- ' ered rocket ramps in seven days. ] TRACTOR TIRES Tractor* now operating on steel vheels will have to stay-on steel for iwhile longer, say WFA reports. Etear tires of tractors are made with 40 to 80 million gjifone of 86-90 proof blended whiskey, about one fourth of a normal year's supply. - Easing of the ^Td'Mr*el alcohol situation was given as the reason. The whiskey will be manufactured during the month «f August. But from Sejk Bryson (D-SC) author of a lohg-pending prohibi tion bill tame the statement that this country will be shocked by the announcement" Sfk..,,"! ■;?S\s 4] It fe tragic," he said, "that at a lime when we are tfying to feed not inly our own people but the people af other nation* that we should use rftal substances for liquor." In Near York, Kenneth S. Baxter, mecutive director of the conference >f Alcohol Beverage Industries, taid that "the only people, to whom it (the announcement)' will not be ' lood new. are the black marketers j( lad the bootleggers who have fat tened on the whiskey shortage," i short time the marls* in alcoholic >everagQ» will return to normal." ( Sen. MeCarran (D-Nev.) chair- : nfn of the committee which for wveral months has .'been Investigat ng the liquor shortage, said his < proup would make public its report < ihortly, which recommended, be- , (ides the release of alcohol for ] •lending purposes: , 1. Tighteniing up of the laws un ier wheh enforcement activities of ( he alcohol tax unit have been con- , lucted. , 2. Control of distribution but not , ncludlng the retail leirel. The report «eutemplates alloca- j ion of available supplies. I Senator Vteguaen (R-Mkh.) ex nessed belief that the release of , he alcohol alone would "aid in the , elimination of the black market," Washington, June 21.—A final ap >eal for a minimum,ceiling of 46% ente a pound on gndad and tied lue cured tobacco in the 1944 >eginning next month /was placed be ore the War Food Administrator farvin Jon*. by grower* and^tnem >era of Congress from the Southern obacco belt. The growers' program, presented » price administration officials at here several weeks ago a differential of 4tt of tied and graded ceiling untied tobacco :alled {or :euta in the requested .41 Sep. Burch (D-Va.) who arranged ,he seggton and acted as SDokeS" nan, said he felt confident that the 4% cents differential w<juld be retained, though it remained un »rtain that the railings recoro nended would be accepted. T). _ -. - V* MAi«l i ii ■■ i i ■ Mi n Mt.. n rl jDixrcn saia in© group urgwa tnex ceilings have bow the? ;.yi ) U. & Pacific Fleet Headquartere, Pe«| Harbor, June 21. - United Sates carrier plant* swooped down on a powerful Japanese fleet be tween the Philippines and the Mari anas Islands about dusk Monday, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today, in the opening: stage of what may develop into the decisive battle »f the war in; the Pacific. Contact with the enemy fleet, which included carriers and battle ihipe, presumably was broken off at nightfall. Losses on either side had not been compiled, Nimita said. Luf Awaited Teat. There was no indication whether the batle had been joined again rueaday. Maneuvers of both ar madas through Monday night pqob ibly would detrmine whether the ong-awaited showdown test be tween the American and- Japanese iaviee was at hand. Scouting planes from the United States Fifth Fleet, commanded by tdm. Raymond A. Spruance, spotted he enemy forces Monday afternoon. Harrier bombers swept in for the at tack. It was the first time sine the tattle of Santa Cnu, in October of IM2, that American carrier pilots lad a chance at a Nipponese fleet Adipiral Nimita, obviously with out detailed information himself, >romiMd additional communiques as juickly as possible. He told a press conference Tuesday night that the mtire Nipponese fleet may have been leployed for an all-out contest near he Marianass, which American forces tave invaded.' . Huge U. S. Pore®. A massive American force of hun Ireds <4 surface ships and mere han 1,000 planes comprised the in asion fleet, Rtt&Mrt James, As ociated Press mur correspondent re torted; There were hundreds of laad ng boats and other crirft to put majhy hftunands of soldiers ashore. That invasion, going well at last eporta, was one of the immediate oncerns of the warships under Spruance, for they must protect he American beachhead and assault orces which already had conqneatd irtually the southern third of tfcq The ground forces were advancing" torth on Saipan, Nimita reported, ^ogress also was being made against apanese pocketed it Nafutan Point, m the southeastern corner <rf Sainan. Severe fighting continued as thai (round troops fought to dear the ■land that will provide a base for tomber strikes at Japan itself. High American naval sourer in vested earlier that a crucial clash letween main units of the American ind Japanese fleets may he under ray. Tokyo Reports Battle. A Tokyo radio broadcast, recorded n London, said positively that it is, hat a "fierce naval battle" rages off he Marianas. Calm confidence in the outcome of nich an engagement, which probably rill rival anything in the history of taval warfare, prevailed at fleet leadouarters hsre as well as in Wash-i Pates for Market Open ings On Program Of Convention In Raleigh June 27-28 WmMt E Raleigh, Jam 22.—The Tobacco As sociation at the United State* will hold ita convention here on Jane 27-28. Georg* P. Geoghegan, Raleigh banker assisting in convention air rangements said the meeting would be devoted entirely to business, and estimated approximately MO "kay men" of the tobacco industry would attend The Association is composed of the nation's leaf tobacco laall — buyers, warehousemen, and into pendent dealers. Dates for markstj openings, selling horn sad speed, and other details for the 1H* to bacco season will be completed dor Total of 21 Now Faces Charges In Fountain Riot Greenville, June ML—Further Steps ware taken Sunday by the Statu High way Patrol and members of the Pitt County Sheriffs Department to smother any more racial disturbances in and around Fountain, when they arrested three more persons on charges of mutual assault as a result of a. race riot there Saturday night. TW» brings the total to 21 that charge growing oat of the riot Trial for the 21 peraons, 10 white and 11 Negroes, including one Negro woman, will be before Judge Dink Jamas next Tuesday in County Court. ;>: ... COTTON BLOSSOMS —_ Luther Baker, tenant on Fred Moore's farm, 8 miles from Farm ville, and John Gorham, tenant an Mrs. Lncy Rasberry's farm, 8 miles from Farmvitte on the Farmville Greenville highway, brought to the Enterprise Office on Monday of this week, the first cotton blossoms receiv ed this season. "W W* "Only ten cento a day" is exactly 136.50 a year, except in leap years, when it is $3«.60. ror toe rarmer witn surplus money to invest, War Bonds are today a bel ter buy than land believe® "Dean I. 0. Schaub, Director of the North Caro lina Agricultural Extension Service and Chairman of the Norwi Carolina War Finance Agricultural Oommlttee, who, points out that for the nation, the price of land «M up 88 percent from the average of the five pre-war within ft nils of Cherbourg'* dodm, ind Fort Ortwrille, bution two mile* in front of the military harbor arsa, blasted by Nwd demolitions. The Germans stag* • 1m* 4tt* defense in thtto strong potato, and fighting wu reported in the Wit up suburban section at Frjues'a Jiird grefttert port Aoquewille on tike flftnik ia four miles auuthweat of the port, aad
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