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Moscow Says Naad Counterattacks Failing To Stop Russian Advance; Reds Take 80 More Towns In Recent Drive Moscow, Aug. 9.—The Bed Army tightened a doom Tuesday around Genaan Baltic forces once estimated at more than 20 division*—between 280,000 and 300,006 men—and smaahed a deeper wedge through Poland toward German Silesia west of the Viatala. . Three Soviet columns pressed on Riga from the west, south and east for possibly the biggest kill of the rammer campaign. Heavily armoreded enemy units feU beck upon the1 Latvian capital, their offensive thrusts shattered by Gen. Ivan C. Gagramian's right wing. ' Tile Soviet High Command announced that enemy forces are being "bled white" and "our troops are stubbornly advancing" against German reserve divisions thrown into desperate eoonter-attacks in nearly every sector of the front to keep the Russian hordes from German soil. A communique supplement said all were repulsed. Nearing Cxeeh order. The communique also announced a six-mile northward thrust off the Vistula bridgehead, a drive that may be pointed at Warsaw from the south, and an advance to within 33 miles of the Cseahoslovakian border. The Russians said that to support their counter-attacks the Germans are hurling "every roadbuilding, sirdrome ard other rear detachments" into battle. It wss reported 16 new German divisions have reached the front line in the past three weeks— some from the central Germany reserves, others from western Poland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Norway. (The Russians did not disclose where the German counter-attacks j have occurred but it oould be turned that.at least part were aimed at keeping the Bed Army from leaping forward the few miles needed to reach the soil of East Prussia. (The Germans announced that many new officers "have taken over on the eastern front at this critical juncture.") A German southward thrust aimed at breaking out of the Estonia-Latvia encirclement was broken up by Soviet forces several days ago in the Biriai area in northern Lithuania near the Latvian border, the daily Russian communique said. Reds Take 80 Towns. Since then the rolling Buasiaalegions in that sector have captured more than 80 communities, Badvilliskis, on the border 43 mile* from Biga. Along with the Birzai offensive the Soviet forces shot two other spearheadb into Latvia along the Daugava River toward Biga, sweeping through fa total of 140 places, including Krustpils. Front advices said then was reason to believe one of the biggest encirdsments of the summer campaign was gaining new momentum. Thousands of German soldiers strung out 0,1 V* rm apace* from the Gulf of Biga to the southern shores of Lake Pripus were reported being driven back to the Baltic in a battle of extermination. The Russian advances in the Vis-1 tula bridgehead in Pblaod likewise WAR IN BRIEF | Americana capture LeMsns, Nantes and St Malo, drive into Angers; American forward elements within 87 miles of Paris; Canadians an4 British smash last German fixed defenses below Caen. Soviet troops throw back strong German oontecattaeks at approaches to East Prussia. Conquest of Guam completed except for remnants of Japs trapped in corner at Island. Comparative loll on Italian front; civilian' strife flares in Flortaiee, where food and wa^er are scare®. Over 3,000 U. & heavy bombers attack southern Germany and Balkans; RAF bombers attack enemy targets in France and blast Nasi submarine pens. Hunan fighting rages as Chinese seek w> Mock Japanese drive south. Over 600 Nasi subs sunk by Allies since war started. Resolution By The Executive Committee State Board of Health "In view of the grave situation which exists in North Carolina because of the epidemic of potiomeyeHtis, of which there have been up to this time, August 4, 463 cases reported in 48 counties since June 1, and which has resulted in 21 known deaths, it is the sense of this committee that the local boards of education and those charged with the administration of all private and parochial schools defer the opening of any and all such schools until September 18, and then only if the epidemic has subsided to such an extent as to permit their opening with safety. "This action is taken after con- ■ sultation with Dr. James A. Leak, of Washington, Epidomiolcwist of the United States Public Health Service, ' and a nationally-known authority on : contagious diseases. "The State Health Officer is requested to prepare for the press,, for 1 subsequent publication, a statement in which he shall give more in detail 1 the sound reasons for this action in connection with the emergency now j existing." No New Pofio Is Reported In PittCtut; Health Department Says One Case In Pitt County So Far Greenville, Aug. 9.—According to the local Health Department, no new case of polio baa been reported to the department since laat Friday. £ At'present the only known caae in Pftt county is on chariea street in the city jk Greenville. ^ v; The load health officer, Dr. Ennett, strongly advisee against children under 16 attending the movie theaters. The management of the theaters in Greenville has been approached and has offered full mupiathn to this end. The hetilth officer recommends that children under 16, not only stay &#ljr from gatherings in pubHe places, but advises that until the polio situation improves, that children be kept on their own premises. Dr. /Ennett calls attention to eartain other control measures recommended by the State Board of Health: "Improper dtapoaal of human excreta may he an important facton in the spread of infantile paralysis. Where approved sewage system* do ftot exist, excreta riiould be disposed of only In fly-proof privies."'' "Increased attention should be called to tha hygiene in the home. Food Farmers Highly Pleased Wttk Prices; Sales 4Fa»riy Light; Quality Good Slip l^m Raleigh, Ai*. North Carolina'® 1944 tobacco marketing season openad in seven Border Bait market* yesterday with prices averaging nearly HI, slightly above this year's price ceiling, and for the first time la many years not a single farmer left the first day's sales unhappy. According to salee supervisors, the 1944 opening sales were the lightest in the past decade. The usual blocked sales and glprfbpr oi crowds watching the competition ware absent. Warehouse floom this year were cleared by early afternoon on all seven mark eta, and by late afternoon there was little tobacco -being placed for today's sales, expected to be even lighter than those of yesterday. Growers and warehousemen attribute the light opening sales to the shortage of labor and the recent heavy rains, which have necessitated housing of fast-maturing leaf 1st in the fields. The dry ssasan of May wd June halted the growth of tobacco, and little waa housed until recent wwaka. Market officials of Lnmberton Fairmont, and Clarlcton estimate that 'rom 30 to 25 per eent of the leaf in this area remains in.the field. Hie preparation of leaf for marketng in this area is from two to three s eeks behind schedule. The other 'our Border Belt markets in this State White villa, Fair Bluff, Tabor Sity, and Chadbourn—are about two reeks behind schedule. Redrying plants in the Border Belt irea for the first time in 15 years ailed to begin the redrying of openng-day purchases on the day the purchases were made. Storage apace i n the plants was only partially filled i resterday, and redryers plan to be- < sin the conditioning of yesterday's purchases tAis morning. Redrying i ilants normally begin the condition- i ng process by noon of opening day. Tobacco warehousemen and, farmrrs agreed yesterday that the one- i veek postponement of market open- i ngs was a "blessing," since little of ' his year's crop jwaa ready for mark- i sting on August 1. The postpone- i nent came as a result of an-effort o persuade the Office of Price Ad- ( ninistration to raise to 45% cents tar pound the season's graded and led leaf. Jn Lumberton and Fairmont, to»acoo officials said that another week's postponement "wouldn't have lurt us at all.". - -. The affect of 3c-hour selling ; imit, established recently by the J. 8. Tobacco Association, and the eduction of buyers on major marLets is not evident yet. These new egnUtionj are expected to slow ales next week, however, when warehousemen expee$ the peak in ■olume of totacco offered. Sales I or the remainder of' this week are < ocpected to continue light. Quality Good. < Most North Carolina Border Belt • nn«lfAfa mawi/w^-aJ iA. »L 4 "htkcis rcponcf tnac ywvriwy b ifferrings were of good quality, i tfedium grades were in great de» Victor* camber, 1W1. to 7*00 Jwuax who told the natives the Americana never worid return. The counted enemy dead already exceeds 40,000. American warships, planes, Marines and soldiers herded a last ditch giwp at defenders into a 18squa»»-mil« area of the 225-aquaremile island. Then they drove a Center wedge within a mile of the northeast coast, seeking to split up the doomed Japanese and speed their destruction. \ While this clincher blow was failing cm the eastern approach to the Philippines, Gen. Dooglas MapArthur —announced at his Southwest Pacific headquarters the sapping of Japan's air strength at Halmahera on the louthern approach. He said Liberators, defying bad weather, wiped out Id parked planes and damaged many )there in a 48-ton bombing raid. . On Guam, an American line roughy forming a letter "W" speesed the snemy against the northwest shore, there to die without air or naval aupjort Describing the line in a comnunique, Adm. Chester W. Nimita laid it began at Pt Bitidian where the Ifanks have plunged the last six and >ne half miles to "the northwest end >f the island. The other end, moved last 870-foot St. Santa Rosa, is withn three miles of the northeast tip— mi of Monday, August 7, the date the :ommunique covered. The center of the "W" is within a nile of catting the cantered Japanese n half. Both MacArtbur and Nimitz retorted new air Wows. Mac Arthur laid the power plant on Yap, enemy lir base in the Western Carolines vhich now has been neutralized, was iwept by fire and explosions during i Liberator raid. 5,000 Income Tax Refund Checks Being Mailed Alphabetically Each Week Greensboro, Ang. 9. — Declaring hat every effort is being- made to xpedit* refunds on IMS income tax ■eturnj C. H. Robertson, collector ( >f internal revenue, said refund hecks are being mailed to taxpayn of the North Carolina District it the rate of 8,660 per week, fjj j "To every taxpayer of this diariet who is entitled to a refund on lis 1$48 return, I would like to say," iobertaon stated, "your refund is >eing processed m rapidly as poslible. I cannot tell you exactly Washington, Aug. fl—The United States hM famished Britain about $2,00G,900,000 worth at toodstufti ir the three and a quarter year* thai lend-lease has been in operation. Thil is the moat important -element of civilian supply that wfll require adjustment when only the war with Japan remains. A steady curtailment in lend-lease aid to the British Idea, paraHed by a return to normal commercial trade, ia expected after Germany is defeated. However, so far as can be learned no program to that end has been worked out and officials plan to make the curtailment only when they have a qui situation to wort with. It is impossible at this time, one authority said, to estimate Just what lend-lease help the British will need to concentrate their efforts in the final campaigns to crush Japan Here, however, ia the background against which decision! must be made when the time comes: In the first three years' of .lendlease, March 1941 through March 1944, lend-lease shipments to all nations totaled 117,196,000,000. Of that amount $7,306,000,000 went to the United Kh^dom. The United Kingdom total canriat*i of 13,169,000,000 of munitions such is guns aad tanks* $1,853,000,000 of industrial materials and products luch aa machinery aad processed petroleum, and $2,284,000,000 of agrimltural supplies, including both food ind farm machinery. Foodstuffs alone totaled $1,825,>00,000 which maans that food shipments to" the British Idea have averiged about $50,600,000 a month. Meanwhile, reserve lend-lease, moat it it given in the British Idea, unouated to $1,526,170,000 «P to last r&nuary, the latest period for which Igurea are currently available. British reverse lend-lease has been hiefty in grounds, facilities and services for air and military bases, imerican supplies to Britain hays ■un toe list of military supplies and hose civilian supplies — principally tood—which ware considered essenial to the maintenance of Britain as i fighting nation. SOFTBALL LEAGUE final Games In Church Softball League To Be Played Next Week; The Christiana And In the two ganea played ia the oftball league during the past week, he Methodist defeated the Pres»-Eps. •n Thursday, Aug. 3, by the score of .1 to 9, while in Monday's game the ?ree.-Epe. bounced bade and defeated he Baptist 7 to 4. In both these lames an accuto shortqfi* of players aused all teams inyo!v|S»|>> use several players from other teams. The two leading team®, Christians tad Pres.-Eps. hook up twice in next reek's gamea, thus leaving the final lutcome in denbt ufttil the two leadas battle out . p ■ Schedule far Week af Aug. 14th. Monday: Prea.-Kpe. vs. Christians. Wednesday: 4:80 P. M.—Preer-Epa. CHRISTMAS Wept—bar IS amd October 16 to mmom that they will be delivered on time. FMtHitK Gmtmnd Frank C. Walker i wnliiiid tonight. Urging that Mora can be taken securely, and sridrsaaing them clearly mailing rules: •!,-/„> A , IV Mama.at the aendnr and addressee should be written fetid* the iwifcwa aa well a* outeide to assure delivery ia case the onfrtdt wrapper is teat r.* .. Containeia made of metal, wood or fiberloid are peafsrahle. Pascals must aot exceed five pounds oor be aura than IS inchaa in length or 3« in length and girth combined. "Ghriatmaa Parcel" should be narked plainly on the outside. ' One sender may mail no more than one parcel a week to the same adPerishable goods, intoxicants, inflammable material* aad anything that may damage other mail may not be seat. Sharp instruments must be protected canfully. ■ :v ■ War Bond Plan For The Farmer Raleigh, Aug. 9.—A war savings bond program with a goal of $27,750,000 for individual buying by the farmers of the state, is now being organised by the North Carolina War Vlnanea Committee, and ia receiving full cooperation from the State Department of Agriculture. The program, to be launched in connection with the open&g of the North Carolina tobacco markets, will be carried* out in towns where tobacco wsrshneew are located, by a oerpa of North Carolina "Minute Women" under the chairmanship of Mrs. John D, Robinson of Wallace. Approximately 2,000 women are expected to aid in the program. The quota figure was "eat on the estimated 1944 tobacco crop poundage report, asking that five cents from every pound of tobacco be invested in war tends by the seder. ' More Than 3^00 Sorties Support Ground Troops Driving: Toward Paris Nantes
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