Nazis Say Russians
Made Temporary Stand
In City Proper; Soviets
Continue liberation of
the Baltic States
. London, Sept. 20.—The Soviet high
command has thrown a fourth army
into the final battle to liberate the
Baltic states, and In four days of
fighting: in Estonia, Russian troops
have advanced as mach as 44 miles
toward Tallinn, the capital, Marshal
Josef Stalin announced* tonight.
While the struggle to drive the.
last German from Estonia and Latvia
was intensified, Berlin admitted
that the Red Army in the battle for
Warsaw had temporarily established
a 500-yard deep bridgehead in Warsaw
proper opposite Praga after
crossing the quarter - mile Vistula
Steer.
1,804 Settlement; Freed.
The fourth battle group—Marshal
Leonid A. Govorov'e Leningrad Army,
released from its former commitments
in southern Finland — went
over to the offensive in two sectors
in northern Estonia and liberated
1300 towns and t^Ulements.
Between the Gulf of Finland and
Lake Feipus, Govorov's forces in
three.days of fighting advanced up
to 37 miles after breaching the powerful
Nazi defense line erected in
th* ftO-milA IamI rr>rriH/>r h#*twppn
the two bodies of water west of
Narva.
The northern wing- of Govorov's
army seized more than 300 towns
and settlements and drove to within
74 miles of Tallinn by capturing
the rail junction of Sonda, 48 miles
west of Narva, on the LeningradTallinn
railroad. .
The southern wing of Govorov's
army advanced north of the captured
Estonian university city of
Tartu along the western shores of
Lake Peipus with the aid of Soviet
naval units.
' Breach Widened.
In four days of fighting, these
forces advanced up to 44 miles and
widened the breach in enemy lines
to 75 miles. More than 1,600 towns
and settlements feH to the Russians,
including Avinurme, 42 miles
due north of Tartu.
Announcement of the new Soviet
victories was made in an order
of the day issued by the Soviet
premier, and Moscow's victory guns
boomed out a single salute tonight to
Bed Army soldiers in the lake and
forest regions of Estonia.
Riga Doomed.
Meanwhile, the fall of the Latvian
capital of Riga appeared imminent
as hundreds of Soviet planes blasted
enemy installations in the city, and
artillery, seven miles to the sooth
blasted the heavy Nazi fortifications
guarding approaches.
Moscow's operational war bulletin
gave no details Wednesday night
of fighting immediately south of
Riga, but to the east Gen. Andrei I.
Yeremenko's Second Baltic Army
swept up more than 100 towns and
settlements as it drove along the
northern bank of the Dvina River.
More than 60 other placep in Estonia
were liberated as the Third
Baltic Army under Gen. Ivan I.
Maslenmkov advanced toward the
Battle Sea northwest and south of
Valga,' tfK
On the Czechoslovak bowler of
southern Poland, where Berlin said
that Red Array attempts to cross
into Slovakia had been halted, Moscow
reported that several places
had been captured, including Wislok
WleUd, 15 miles smxthewat of
Sanok and five mile* from the frontier.
The four Soviet Baltic armies,
handling swamps and ky riven,
rapidly were dosing in on German
Qea. Lindemann's two Baltic armies
that once numbered some 200,060
men. ^ . v, „■
WAR IN
British Second Amy sto
Rhine at Dutch-German
fierce armored clashes I
entire 200-mile front to
Bed Amy advance* H
four daps in gigwtkic nen
to liberate Baltic state*
battle Soriet troops, in no
lWd; Berlin reports Buss
head established on wea
Vistula ia Warsaw pro]
• ^Americans end
Adriatic ftank. v-»V •? *""• £'i
Italy-baaed American bomberi hammer
Nasi communications and war
installations in Hangany and Cxechoslovakia;
Allied aircraft from Brit
and pound German remnants in Cal
sis area.
to last.
British troops reach outskirts at
Tonzang-, 15 miles han key enemy
base of Tkkfim in west Burma.
Former Farmville Resident
Buried Here In
Forest HID Cemetery
Aquilla H. Joyner, Sr., 55, prominent
citizen of Morefcead when he
was formerly City Clerk, died at hi*
home there "early Friday morning
after an extended illness. He suffered
a stroke of paralysis in May, 1948,
and a second stroke last July.
Funeral" services were conducted
Saturday afternoon at 2:80 o'clock in
Farmville, his native town, from the
home of a sister, Mrs. & G. Garder,
by the Rev. J. H. Miller, pastor of the
Moreheod (Sty Methodist Church, aslisted
by Rev. T. R. Jenkins, pastor
if the Plymouth Methodist Church.
A. quartet, composed of Mrs. A. W.
Bobbitt, Miss Nellie Butler, Elbert
Holme* and Rev. E. C. Chamblee,
sang, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul,"
'Some Day We'll Undetstgad" and
"Old Rugged Cross."- Burial was in
Forest Hill cemetery, beneath a beautiful
floral tribute.
Mr. Joyner, a former Farmville
resident, had made his home in Morehead
for the past 14 years. Before
becoming City Clerk in 1935, a position
he hsid until the time of his illness,
he was employed by an automobile
fiim. He was treasurer of the
Morehead City Methodist Church and
a member of its bo**d at stewards.
He was the son of the late R. L.
Joyner and Mrs. Bertha Barrow Joyner
of Farmville. He wfs married
to Lucy Barrett at Farmville in 1915.
Surviving are his wife; a daughter,
Bettie Woolen Joyner of Morehead
City; a son, Lt. A. H. Joyner, Jr., who
was here on emergency leave from
France, doe to his father's critical
condition; three sisters, Mrs. T. W.
Lang, Mrs. St G. Gardner, and Miss
Bettie Joyner; all of Farmville, and
four brothers, T. E., R. A., and J. B.
Joyner, all of Farmville, and R. S.
Joyner -yt'
Active p *were: W. A.<|
Barrett,
row.
laide Barrett, Mi*-Su.> Btmtt, Alton
Barrett, Bob Barrett, Mi— Verona
Lee Jojrner, Mr. ahd Mr*. Rael Tywm,
Mr, and Mrs. 3. V. Carr, D. L. Turnage,
Mr and Mtt. J. G. Smith, Mr.
and Mr*. George Wilkerson, of Greenville;
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Field*
Walstonborg; Prank T. Wail, Raleigh;
Rev. and Mts. *. It. Jenkina,
Plymouth; Rev. and Mn.,
Kenneth Miller, Ediaond
3. S. McLohon, M<.*«h*ad;
Mrs. M C. letter, Mr* A. B. AlderMiae
Bonnie Anunotia, Snow
:
It »n I tie— in I for diatrib*^Tr
■' u"' ' ,
^on h*ta«. "he 'Sd6™
• ■ 11 1 '' *,J
this ie Nutrition Month, It
5,060 Japanese holding out in the
rugged ooral hills.
.(A* the Americans won control
of their,first island in the Palaua,
the Tokyo radio, /seconding to the
British radio, fttid 'that "An invasion
of the Philippines is immilM||t
and the sitoa&m is extremely
grave,") ^
Nimitz announced that Angaor, m
swampy island of tern square miles
but with an airfield within fighting
range of the FUlipptnea, was won
Tuesday afternoon and that the
Americans ntfW ,were tnopping up
isolated Japanese units.
Front dispatches arid that Maj.
Gen. Pan! J. Mueller's men of the
Wildcat Division fought like voterans
in their first caxanment, and
Mueller said he was "mighty proud"
of them.
Charles P. Arnot, United Prees
correspondent on Aaganr, radioed
Opt a few Japanese still were aittrenched
in reinforced pillboxes on
Cape Medorom, at the southeastern
tip of Angaur, but that they would
be wiped out in a mater of hours.
The last Japanese attempt to evacuate
Angaur ended in disaster whan
Navy gunboats caught seven sampans
and sank all of them, killing
200 Japanese troop*
Arnot reported that the Japanese
lost a crack battalion of temps on
Angaur, an airfield within fighter
range of the Philippines and a rich
source of phosphate. American killed
and wounded were not even half the
total of enemy dead. ,t- , ^— ,
On Psteliu* main air bass in ths
26-island Palau archipelago, the Marine
veterans of Guadalcanal and
New Britain won most of the east
coast and fought steadily inland
against Japanese fighting for every
yard from strong cave positions.
The Marines already; had killed
more than 5,000 of the island's estimated
Japanese garrison ei 10,000
men. The Leathernecks wet* being
shelled heavily from g Japanese artillery
hidden in caves at least 80
feet deep. The Nipponese would roll
the cannon out for firing sad then
withdraw- them. "Flying jeeps", little
observation planes, were spotting
the Japanese poskkMs and American
artillery was knocking out th« enemy
"The Japanese an using trees for
snipers, and have left men tied to
their posts in eaves with radio eontact
leading backward to enemy headquartsss",
a United Press dispatch
from Peleiiu said. :
Some of file Japanese pillboxes
have huge thick iron doers and m
one instances two U. 8. Sherman
tanks battered in the door of one,
backed sway sad shot flames into
the aperture. Wis* the Japs rah out,
Nimilc' bulletin
Corps in 1918, serve* A*m 1915 to
1818 with the Murine Expeditionary
Force in Hat*- In 19|8 he left the
United States at i company commander
with the 18th Ractaent commanded
by the htte Gen. Smealey
P. Butler, and shortly after arriving
in. Pnmee, Turnage, then with the
rank of major, w«b placed in command
of the machine-gun battalion
of the Fifth Marine Brigade, stationed
at Brest He returned to tiw
United States » 1819.
. jW||Ss Served In China. KW, -■*£
Frwn 1989 to 1941, with the rank
of cokmei, he .was in command of
U. S. Marine forces in North China,
including the American Embassy hi
Peking the Mwine detachments
in Tientsin and Chinwangtao. Pol]
ft win ir his return fmm fThina Vk»
nerved with Marine Corps Headquarters
as executive officer and
later as director of the Division of
Plana and Policies before being assigned
to command Fleet Marine'
Force unite at New River, N. C His
appointment as brigadier general
waa made shortly after lus assignment
to the New River base.
Approximately half of General
Turaage'a 31 years of active service
in the Marine Corps have been spent
In sea and foreign doty. He holds a
number of decorations.
He waa born on January 3, 1891,
at FarmvOle, N. C., and attended
the old Horasr Military School at
Oxford, N. Cn the University of
North Carolina and the United
States Naval Academy. ■
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SERVICE MEN'S CENTER
Visitors at the Center during the
past week were:
Farmville—Major General A. Hal
rurnage, who recently returiiad from
the Pacific War Zone and is now
itationed in Washington, D. C.; Paul
E. JonesTJr., A/S U. a N. R., Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia,
h. > • ' '
Kinston Air Base—Cpl. O. E. Scott,
U. S. M. Ch Seattle, Washington;
Dpi. W. R. Lee, U. S. M. C. R., Mar
Texas; Saturday night guests
»f Miss Tahith* M. DeVisconti.
Camp Lejeune—Pvt. John J. Spies,
Brooklyn, N. Y„ : Satiife night
ruest of Miss Tabitha M. DeVisconti;
Sunday dinnar guest of Mr, and Mrs.
B. J. Skinner.
Pvt. Joseph P. Reddington, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Camp Davis—Pfc. Agostenko Rego,
Fall River, Mass.
Greenville Air Base—Cpl. Roy Col■ob,
Akron, Ohio; CpL J. T. Higglns,
Atlantic City, N. J. «Seymour
Johnson Field -r- Clayton
Hill, Pomona, Calif.
Circle No. 1 of the Presbyterian
Stockholm, Sept. 20—Finlandbroke
relations today with German puppet
states Hungary, Croatia an) Slovakia.
The Finnish break with Ike Nasi
-Sate! titles followed publication at the
Russian-Finnish armistice terms in
London, Sept 20.—Stripped of her
richest industrial territory aad burdened
with heavy caah reparations
the the price at peace, Finland was
dedicated today by acting Prime
Milliliter Ernst Von Bom to building
up a new national eadsteoce with
the opportunities left to us."
Of immediate concern waa the proaably
bloody task of removing German
troops remaining in the counter
—one of the oomfitionr imposed in
the 28-potnt armistice agreement with
Soviet Russia and Great Britain.
"It ia a serious matter that we
AlHee," said Von Bom la broadcasting
details of the armistice to the
Finnish people. "Aad this, although
we have to prepare hastily for the
(Finnish) amy to return to a peacetime
footing."
An appendix to the agreement
published today said withdrawal of
the Finnish troops behind the new
state frontier and advance of the
Rjasein* np to it would begin at 9
■—BPWPiPPP—^BPWP' >». I,
The London Times, declaring the
Finns "have obtained conditions much
1663 onerous than those offend in
March of this yeah" said that through
Moscow's wicwe—ive arrangements
wife Romania, Bulgaria and Finland
any "suspisionmrfa dark plot
designed to bring the whole of eastern
Europe under Russian sway is
exposed as lacking foundation."
Stockholm report* which lacked immediate
official confirmation yesterday
said Finnish troops had moved
against Nazi farces in northern Finland.
Von Born said the south as far
as Oulu already was clear. The
Germans, if they desire, can withdraw
into northern Norway.
The armistice agreement implied
at least a certain amount of Allied
assistance in case of prolonged German
resistance. The pact requires
that airfields in southern and southwestern
Finland be placed temporarily
at the disposal of the Allies*
The loss of territory to Russia was
the sorest point to the Finns and the
first item mentioned by Von Born in
las broadcast review.
Declaring that "September 19,1944,
will be one of the hardest days of our
history," the acting Prime Minister
announced that the armistice called
for immediate restoration of the Russian-Fiimish
border fixed after the
104-day winter war of 1989-1940. i
"Thus Karelia is lost," said Von
Barn. ^ ' —
Karelia, the ana northwest of
Leningrad and west and north of
Lake Ladogf, includes the city of
Vlipuri and i| the most industrially
developed region of Finland. In
that area lives more than 10 per cent
of Finland's pre-1940 population.
The agreement jdso provided for
the outright ceding to Roaaia of the
Petsamo area m the to north, with
its port and rich nickel mires, and
the leasing for 60 years of the
Porkkala peotnmla, with its naval
re on the Finnish Gulf, for use
a military rggibn.
In oaeh, Finland must pay reparation*
totalling $300,000,000 (Ameri)
within six years. Von Born
CRETE BLOCKADED
London, Sept 20.—Allied air and
naval forces have clamped aa iron
blackade around Crate, trapping its
Nasi garrison, it was announced tonight.
Middle Eastern dispatches
said the British fleet had won control
of the Aegean Sea, cutting the
escape route for other Germans in
the many islands between Greece and
The Greek govenunent in' exile
proclaimed that the hour of liberation
for starving Greece kaa arrived, and
that the Naaia already had evacuated
parte of Peloponnesus and the Ionian
islands off the southwest coast of
Greece.^;'.;'. jL.; ,,.' ^ .=;• 1
Five Nasi divisions still remaining
in Greece and its sadjaeent islands
were, reported virtually trapped between
the Allied foecsa operating in
the Southern waters and Marshal
Tito's Yugoslav patrions and the Red
Amy in the north.
r Carrier planee were disclosed to
have gene into action against Crete.
On Sunday and Mnndey they destroyed
84 German vehklee, indudbig
three staff cars
County Association
Is Aiding Blind
And Near Blind
Five visually handicapped persons
given medical eye care by the Pitt
County Association for the Blind
have been removed from the classification
of blindness, the report of
President Prank M. Brown dvxn.
This was a gratifying achievement
duiing the little less than a year
the association has been organised
and shows what may be done for
the blind and near-blind as time
goes an and the membership in*
Miss Jennie Lee Manning, of
Bethel, (who has g "Seeing-Eye" dog)
is the full time calwrworker for the
association and is doing wonderful
work.
The association's report for the
past nine months is a revelation
of a vast mount of Good Samaritan
work among the blind in Pttt
County who are worthy of help—
white and colored. It shows that
the association is receiving 'full cooperation
from the Oovmty Welfare
Department and other interested
agencies. The association was organized
to render aid i» the needyblind
and neai*-blind of both races in
the county.
Elsewhere in this issue is a summary
of what the Pitt County Association
for the DHnd has accomplished
in less than a year ante- the banner—"I
am my brother's keeper."
The-ISO blind pacing now registered
with thepg. ialrfnn need services
not now available. There are
more than 1,000 needy tfhool children
and many needy adults in the
county who should hare medical
eye care, the association reports
Any person may join the Pitt
County Aseociation for the Blind
by sending a dollar or more to President
Prank M. Brown, in Gree»v«|g
Check Fire Hazards
To Prevent Losses
Americang Holding
Grimly To Beaches In
Siegrfried line in Face
of Jitter Counter-Attacks;
Allies Firmly
Win Brest and Boolale;
Hitler Reported
gne; MiOe
Personally
In Command
In Weflt
;; ——— Iry v -p
Allied Supreme Headquarters, London,
Sept 21.—The BilUsh Second
Army, by-passing the Dutch city of
Nijtnegen on both side*, has pent one
spearhead northward nw the
Shine and another pastwaid into
Germany while a great battle is raffing
for two Rhine bridges guarding
the level appr>achee to Berlin aad
the Ruhr, front report* Mid today.
Parachutists of the Allied First
Airborne Arciy were hcMar a Rhine
Uridgnhwd in the Aral—u ana nine
milee north of Nijmegvn, fighting atl
fierce counter-attacks, bat had not
! yet linked up with the j
which was beliarad t»
by rubber boat asri pontoon bridge
at a point farther west
Simultaneously, vast aaaying armored
battles exploded along a 800mile
frent before the Rhine to the
south, with mors than 100
tanks reported knocM out in
first etatiisa. The Germans had
fat blasting open a
that
ft* The counter-attacks extended into
Valley, tat to the south
abruptly
before the BHfort gap, and
swept forward to capture a nv
of towns including Corbeoay, Belmont,
Geney, Wgnavillera aA Chnall
northwest of
-Far behind tile battle aion* Germany's
frontiers, but of vital supply
importance in tike current
drive,-the Allies at last won
ports of Brest and BofllagM j
cleared oat virtually the astir*
bank of the Schedule eetilary in Belgium,
assuring: the earty passage of
ships into Antwerp. -A
The Germans till had not desbvyed
the two big Rhine bridges in tin
Nijmegen area, front
and were defending
ty as British tanks advanced through
the city's streets.
For the first time since Sunday's
Li ,|LL |Jn—- ,|JM,
jrDOnie DlOw, BOWW COB*
fett for the forces in the
Anthem area which, fleas th«
tablisb a front With the British
Will h« hard put to bstd with
light
the area.
£ Indicative of the
which the Germans are
the spectacular posh thrnn^|'J|iii '
land, large forces of the
DEI
night an
that Dutch city
liberation. In
The Rhine, or the Waal, aa the
Dutch call it at that
600 yards wide in the _
and tho acquisition of one of its major
bridges is vital to a
force unless the
to erect their own
time is n