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Americans Nearinf Port Of Inborn; Briti#* and Other Forces Moving Up Steadily Rome, July5.—Eighth Array troops . converging front the aowflpnst -wad Math, have driven within live miles of the important communications center of Arena on the road to Florence while American unite on Italy's west coast have moved up to the outskirts of Boaiynano, leas .than 18 miles airline from Livorno, Allied hwfeuarters aiuuHwed Wednesday. Both advances were recorded against stiff German resistance and the Nasia save every" indication they tatawloil to battle to retain the valuable port of Livorno as long as possible. Heavy guns situated on dominant hills opened fire oa approaching American infantry and tanks around Boajgaaao. At the same time heavy road movements westward were seen behind the enemy lines, indicating that reserve* were being moved i&to position. Strongly by artillery, the Americans finally-broke into the town in strength and reinforred their position, while north of tj* town tank* established row! block against expected German " Oat Tanks. American artillery knocked out two Tiger tanks during this fighting ' while American tanks destroyed two Nazi field gona and IK vehicles. By road the advanced troops were only 15 miles from Livorno but an official spokesman declared that only a slow advance could be exyeetad. "Livorno itaelf is defended by thick concrete pillboxes, extensive minefields, wire, anti-landing mines and ack-ack," he went on. Further indications of our approach to longprepared enemy defense lines is seen with the Gentian employment again of heavy 170-mm. guns which have sot been uaed against the Fifth Army since Rotas." i In other sectors along the entire front the Germans were being rolled back steadily against the outer fringes of the so-called Gothic liae believed to extend from the mountains south of Rimini westward toward the Pisa-Livorno area. Ft irk Advancing. French troops moved more than three miles north of Siena despite fierce msisfsncs and many minefields. Seven «Sas to the jj Eigthth Army units fighting through heavy rain captured the town of and the and Monte Hitfh&Brteemed Woman Passes After Brief Illness Final rites for Mrs. Fannie Lang Moore, 80,' widow of the late Dr. Charles, E. Moore, of Wilson, one of Farmville's most prominent and highly esteemed women and among Pitt county's oldest citizens, will be conducted thia afternoon, Friday, at 3:00 o'clock, from pf&nsnnel Episcopal Church, by the rector, Rev. J. R. Rountree, assisted by the Hev. J. Q. Beckwith, rector of St Timothy's Church, Wilson, and the Rev. C. B. Mash bum, pastor at the Christian Church. Interment will be made in Forest Hill cemetery. Favorite hymns will be sung by the Church choir. ■M mm Mrs. Moon's death occurred Wednesday, at midnight, in a Wilson hospital, where 4w succurobad to an illness of only three weeks duration. She had been critically ill for several days and her passing was not onexpected. Prior to this, she had be&i in good health, was active sad had retained her faculties'to a remarkable degree. Mrs. Mcore wis the last surviving member of her immediate family. She was the daughter of the late William Gray and Afmie P. Moye Lang. Her father was among "ttie pioneer merchants aad planters of this section and Mm Moose in like manner was connected with the business life hers, was a large landowner, and was promlnwrtly identified with all worthwhile aad progressive movements of this community. She was educated at the Farmville Academy and Greensboro Female College. Twice married, her first husband was the late Jacob Fullmore Joyner, a native of GreeuvPe. To this union were born three soma, Charles Hubert Joyner, who survives^ and the late William Lyman aad Roland Joyner. She married the late Dr. Charles E. Moore, of. Wilson, the second ting* and resided in that city for #6 fears. Following Dr. Moore's death, his widow returned to Farmville to reside in the home ot her son sad to spend her last years among other relatives and loving friends hate. Upon her return, she took W former place id the religious, civic sad social circles and was among the most zealous and active Daughters of the Majsr Beat June 29.—Marine' Platoon Sergeant Lenard Elton Ballard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ballard, and husband at Mm. DolRe Heath Ballard, who lives on Bouts 2, Farmville, M. C., member • of the famed first Marine Division that blazed the trail in the South Pacific in jungle warfare at Gaudalcanal and Cape Gloucester, is expected to return to his home on furlough within a few days. : Platoon Sergeant Ballard is at present with the B Company-First Tank Battalion. He attended the Maury, N. a, High School, smtrflayed on the football and W'VW**1! teams. He has one sea, Lenard Elton Ballard, Jr. Many of the men of the First Marine Division have not set foot on native soil for over two yearn, so engrossed have they been in the allimportant job of stopping the Japs in the South Pacific and pushing, them bade toward Tokyo. To thesis heroic Americans goes the signal honor of making the first attack after Pearl Harbor, on the enemy, on enemy held ground, stemming the advance of the Japanese prior to that tinMt their drvie acroee the Pacific. In recognition of valor, courage, and heroism, the Presidential Citation was givsn to the men of this Division, for outstanding gallantry and determination in successfully executing forced landing sasnlts against a number of strongly defended Japanese positions on Tulagi, Gavutu, Tsnambogo, Florida and Guadalcanal, British Solomon Is Just as difficult sad praiseworthy was their work at Cape Gloucester, New Britain. By the time their objective was achieved and their relief arrived, many had been on the lines continuously for twenty-four days with no sheltar against rains such as they had never imagined possible; with no clothes other than those on their hacks; without hot food, even coffee, k | The homecoming of the men of this great Division marks a'brisf pause in S most brilliant record of heroic service and accomplishment that has made it possible for their mates to carry on mom effectively on other battlefraits. ~ / You may recognise these historymaking Marines, by the "battle blase" on the left shoulder in the shape at a blue diamond patch, with the red numeral "1" in the center over which is super-impost perpendicularly in white word "Guadalcooal." Five white stars representing the Southern Cross appears in the blue Add. Biwy Invasion Day Yip /v An Eighth AAF Fighter Station, England.—Pvt. Robert Curry, 8on of John W. Curry of Fkimvilto, N. C., was a busy man on Invasion Day. An aircraft mechanic, Pvt. Curry, stuck to hisjob as the P-51 Mustang pilots It— i r'l rti i i'i : rin,n,,A : ft Y iww wave arter wave, smit after shift, in support of' the invading IT <5 DooilU —i - -a «T -1 L U. o. ' tuuric r icct o6flu(]UATurs, Pearl Harbor, July 6.—Guns at American warships and rockets of carrier jImm) shattered Japanese bans on the Fourth of July 700 milea south of Tokyo. _ SaipaB, on the invasion route to Japan, is seven-eights In tin hands of still advancing Yank Marine* and soldiers. . Moerfoor, on the invasion root* to tha Philippines, ia falling in • lightning operation to infantrymen, reinforced by paratroopers. The latest task force thrust toward Nippon, aimed at the Volcano (Kazan) and Benin islands,resulted in tha sinking or benching of three Jap destroyers, the sinking of two other ships and the destruction in sky battles of from M to 80 pianaa at • coat of nine American carrier aircraft. - along a western Pacific war front of mora than &000 miles >- from the Boning to Dutch Hew Guinea's Geelvink bay—mn reported in a series of communiques. r Tokyo radio added to the flaming action the unconfirmed report that carrier-based American p)anaa raided Guam, south jrf Saipan, Monday. The enemy air base of Seta, between Guam Saipan, was by warships and bombed by carrier planes Soaday. g The voicano-Bonin attack was a two-day operation which railed to 86 the number of Nipponese ships sunk and to 806 the total of enemy planes rteeUuyod since Che Western Pacific offensive opened June 10th. American losses for the same period were listed as MWrfianoa and four warships damaged, but none sunk, S Adm. Chester W. Nimiti said the Fourth of July attack also left an enemy destroyer dead in the water and burning, damaged several small cargo ships and set fire to harbor and warelmut^. Carrier planes opened the operation the day before^ blasting I wo Jima in the volcano group, footing down 89 interceptors) for certain, probably bagging 16 more anddoatrcytog or damaging 24 on the ground. Three raider* were loot Oh the sece^dayjj^iuiaers and destroyers moved in to snell Iwo Jima while rocket-firing planes attacked both it aadto«he JSnm in the Moscow, July 5.—Two huge armies the' Baltic republics of Latvia and Lithuania at a pace that taay carry one or both to the fronOert within three or four days. The Germans appear wholly viable to halt theae pushes, field disBeating back disorganised German resistance, Gen. Ivan Bagramlan'a First Baltic j|jrniy pressed op the valley of the wetem Dvina towards Daugavpils (Dinsk), key rail junction in southeastern/Latvia, while to the south Gen. Ivan Cherniakhov<rky's Third White Russian Army made fast progress toward Wihto (VUna), in Poind and Kaunas, capital of Lith'r JlTi' --ii-i-'' .(The Berlin radio acknowledged that "The Soviet advance is sweeping ao fast a considerable number at German forces suddenly found themselves in'the rear of tiie Soviet Unea.") Important Railway. (9y London estimates the advancing Bad Army troop&lr^re within 10 mil* «f the Latvian border and 15 or 17 miles from LitfcOtnia.) The railway connecting Berlin and i-ST* * IsJ!*? at wai MM In London tint ratting of the railway would seriously affect the supply, maintenance and retreat of the German 16th and 18th irmiea in the nwtl^pMaiUy forcing them to retire to East Prussia or face mtrapment) I#: The Wilno-Kaunas «ector is-the cey-to the Baltic* Wllno (sixth large* city in old Poland) stands astride the Warsaw i": '-'M IM in • m WAR toward Wtlno fa OH 3t E Latvia ana Lithuania, t*v& Red Army swepi up two naor# important rail junctions u the Germans announced | evacuation of the tig center of Kowti tel^ . _ .|)L s . •jf-.. - > B*J ' R * - trfji me ■OUvn. American troop, fighting their way into the streets at La Haye du Putts and r»narfla;n in the Caen pet German attacks aa flswe warfare continues in Normandy. General Mac Arthur annoencea captune of the second Jap airdrome on Noemfoor Island off tit* New Guinea coast, Meatime Marines and Army regulars dote in far final battle aa . • * < Allied irtg-piasee we busy on targets aver wide arena, with one Amarican bomME squadre© completing a historic rinitls flight from Ruaaia to Italy to Britain. Robot bomb coast hit a&ain. ':•> ,,.3. Gloomy Hitler again says Germany er Nasi war production. [; War front writers paint Nazis aa dirty figkters and say thai captured Chech and Hwlan warj Lt Col. Francis Gabwski of Oil City, ftt, ia new American fighter ace wife bag of 28 Nazi planes downed in oombat. Robot bombaprwroke burning iaaas in Britain, with Prime Chi^rehill due to make ntstwasnt tol Commons today. Negro Killed Here In Resisting: Arrest) Elbart Moye, 26, Negro, while resisting arrest on t.diaonM^ conduct charge ben Saturday afternoon, was ■hot and kiUrJ by Farmville Patrolman J. A. Gregory. PHt County Coroner Griffin B. Rouse held an incruest shortly after the shooting and ft jury found that the officer shot Moye in the performance of hi* duty and exonerated him. Acoonting to authorities, Moye and two other Negroes were ia an alley acting disorderly. Patrolman Greg »ry ordereB them to keep quiet aad neva on. Moye defied the officer and struck him. Gregory drawing his gun. Moye grabbed-tt by the barrel and the officer fired, woundiag the Negro, but had to fire again to keep him oIf, be testified. 7»jj W»r»tJi Bmcv ft P • ^ Jr American Bombers' Shuttle from Russia to , Italy to Britain In His Capture of Haye Near | • Bad AmBTI F -f-'i r «.| :■'* Tj£ Anted li rbn^ Jnly 6. - TV. mty American fW Aijuy ha» battled the out ' iete in it* M boon, dililng 1 to within qm nik if U of Nui d#fenaea in Nortaaady. On tha (Htorn «JMm of the toont Caaatimn fought borol/ naisting Germans for Cttpibu«t airfield thna mflee from Caen, white the British to tha ao«h beat off mar G«e»«a ,t«k attadm with fM*Ty enemy losaaa. Lt Gen. Om.»r N. Bmdley'a tireten American doughhoya, In a jagged 20-mile an from tan to the west eoaat o< tha half mite to 2% La Haye du Ptfte, an important aix road junction, wan within two mijee rf the town en tha weat, three mflea N) the north a mile on the north Mat and three mitea on the afaL Capture at the town appeared* imProgTwaa waa" far from eaey. The Germans raaiated heavily in all *d a ■oath of newty umturti St Joraa, Mdrtof La Haye. ioughboya advanced half a utile in m attack "*•«*•« to *• Each feot «rf swampe aa* icvered with ar*Ute*T On the Careetae-'miy-Ser-aenltee of tha front then wm only
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