Russians Drive 28 Miles Toward Riga; Hungary Proper Invaded By Reds London, Sept. 28.—Russian troops advanced as much as 28 miles yesterday, in their drive to seize the Latvian capital or Rigs while the Hungarian high command admitted that Red Army forces had invaded Hungary proper and captured the town of Make only 14 mites from Sieged, second city of Adolf Hitler's last big Balkan satellite. While the disorganized Nazi troops retreated from the Baltic states and relinquished more than 200 towns and settlements to onrushing Soviet troops closing on Riga, Berlin indicated that the Red Army had opened the first stage of a gigantic drive aimed at the German soil of East Prussia. On Czech Border. Red Army forces also reached the Czechoslovak border at two more points and captured the entrance to the 8,200-foot Rostok Pass leading across the wooded Carpathian mountains into Slovakia, where Czech partisans were battling German and Hungarian troops. Tightening' an arc northeast, east and southeast of Riga, while Soviet forces only seven miles south of the city pounded its ruins with artillery fire and aerial bombardment, three Soviet armies in eastern Latvia rapidly were closing in on the capital. Narrowing their front to 65 miles between the Gulf of Riga and the Dvina River, the Russians pressed the German rearguards into a 1,000 square - mile triangle as they surged toward the city, crossing swamps, lakes and icy rivers in the westwaro anve. _ Advancing down the east coast of the Gulf of Riga to join with forces that struck west to the sea from Limhazi, Soviet troops cleared a further 28 miles of the shoreline and captured the coastal town and railroad station of Skulte, 22 miles north northeast of Riga. Evacuating Riga. While the Nazis were reported hastily evacuating' Riga, the German high command was throwing reserves into battle in a futile attempt to a*em the Russians, Moscow said. But nearly 1,000 Germans were killed or captured. While Soviet forces drove along the Riga Bay coast, other troops northeast of the city captured the junction of the Riga-Tallinn and Riga - Bui bene railroads and advanced along the Pskov-Riga railroad and highway to take Ligatne, 36 miles from the capital's eastern limits, in a 10-mile gain. The only town of importance now barring the Soviet advance from the northeast was Sign Ida, six miles from Ligatne, pivot of a German defense line based on the Gauja River and the SgnMa-Ogre highway running to the northern bank' of the Dvina. , - ^ Driving to within 10 miles of this highway, Soviet forces - took Nitaure, 40 miles east northeast of Riga, and, eight miles from, the road, ... Qft (miIm oaof a# the capital. The nil station at Vatrane on the )fadona-Biga railroad and 36 mil as from Rigra alao was taken. It is •even miles from the Signlda-Ogre hig-hway. Meanwhile, Red Army. forces hurled hack the Nazis from fortifications along the northern bank of the Drina and, sdrancfa* 10 miles, book t«e station of £aibia, 30 miles southeast of Riga and 10 mites from the town of Ogre. WAR IN BRIEF British airborne forces fall bad •cross lower Rhine after heroic nineday stand; Tommies farther south drive to Meuse River on wide front; Americans open heavy air and artillery bombardment on Met* fortress in northern Francs. , Americans control all of PeleMo except Umarbrogol Mountain and small pocket at northeastern tip of island. Admiral Nimitx announces; Allied planes strafe Batavia on Java Island for first time. Red Army scores 28-mile advance in Latvia, tightening three-pronged stranglehold on Riga; Soviet units reportedly drfte into Hungary and take Mako. Allied air and seaborne forces invade Albania and Adriatic islands on wide front; Berlin reports fighting raging along 400-mile coastal sector. Americana north of Florence battle to regain lorft mountain positions; Eighth Army advances seven miles north of Rimini on Adriatic. "Up to 2,000 American planes brave stormy weather to hammer German railways and war industries for third successive day; RAF again pounds Nazi remnants in Calais area. Chinese cut supply lines of two Jap thrusts into Kwangsi province from south; Jape gain on northern wing. Local Churches To Collect Cloth- i ing For Europe Committees From Efech Church To Meet With Ministerial Association Monday To Formulate Plans For Local Colleci tion The people of Farmville and near by communities are being asked to participate in collecting clothes, both new and old, for the liberated peoples of Europe. ^ In order to make this drive successful there must be some committees designated from our Churches. The Ministerial Association is askiiuMhat Church Groups of all FSit£s appoint a committee of from ^three to five members to meet with the Association Monday morning at ten o'elock in the Christian Church to formulate plans, for the local eollectionvyhich will be a part of 15 million pounds being gathered in the U. S. to relieve the sufferings of European peoples. All of ua have said many times, "I wish that I could do something for the war sufferers in Europe." Now the opportunity is here. With the approach of winter the need for clothing for victim* of war becomes a most pressing need. Throughout war-tore areas liberated countries must greatly depend upon the held of the American people. J'. The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, aa international agency set up by forty* four of the United Nations, has asked the churches to assemble fifteen million pounds of used clothing to meet the needs of these suffering worthy people. Mora than 20,000,000 nan, .women, and children in Europe have been made homeless by the war, A vast proportion of these civilians have lost al Itheir possessions, including clothes. Clothing standards haw declined much aura drastically than have dietary levels^ Daring the winter of 1943-44, cold probable caused as much scfftring and aa many duathn as did hunger. The wiqtar of 1M4-45 will be even worse unless help i* . ' ,r ;. i'ii! Hal Winders of Farm jfcille Among Re-elected Greenville, Sept. 26.—The Pitt Cowity Association for The Blinc held its annual meetiagin the Court Room of the Greenville City Hall or Friday night, September 2Bnd a1 8s06 o'clock. President Frank Browr presided, and gave a brief review o! the year's work. A complete aad in terestinc report of her efforts for the [first nine months of ISM was given by Miss Jennie Manning, blind full time caseworker for Pitt County, who is employed in this capacity under th« sponsorship of the association. This talk «m made by. assistance oi braille. Miss Manning stated that she now has 130 Mastered cases. During the past year !87 visually handicapped persons were given medi. cal aid, 5 of whqm have been removed from the classification of blindness. She outlined the adjustment, personal service, home industry, borne projects, Education and Economic relief rendered the Mind and near Mind in the county. K. T. Futrell told the association that be .and his department, along with the governing boards of the ooanty, appreciated the fine work and assistance that they were giving. He urged the continuance of this *: vt. #«I1 cooperation and support. He stated that an employment project for the blind of Pitt County could be goal that the association might want to take along with the sponsoring of the caseworker. This would go far he said to take many of the visually handicapped inLiURk < jU The Baptist Missionary Society wasl Mpi £Tv'oupap|MpHH|||H Cocoanut cake, country ham, potato salad, tomatoes; lettuce, grspM, cocacolas and pear sweat pickles were sewed. Acting hostassss ware Mrs. Carl Beaman, Chairman, Mrs. A. B. Moore, Mm UR^ Rollins, MmRty 1. P Hv. / AIR WAR London, Sept. 87.—In a campaigr of aerial destruction rising to iU highest pitch in week*, more thar 1,700 Allied heavy bombers and at estimated 2,500 fighters iinivt"1 military and industrial targets in Germany and along the Western Front today. Savage aky battles muted the raids, and 42 American four engine^ bombers and seven fighters were lost Nearly 1,200 Fortiessss aad an escort of 700 fighter*, driving through thick walls of flak and temperatures 50 degrees below sero, ripped apart railway yards aad industrial plants at Kaaeel, Ludwigshafaa, Cologne and Mainz with <000 tons of bombs. The day's heaviest opposition was encountered la this operation of the U. S. Eighth Air Force, whose loss was the largest in weeks, but the Americana accounted for 41 enemy planes—81 in the air by fighters, five by boraber-gunnen and fire on the ground by strafing. [ Three hundred RAF bombers slaah ed at communications at Goch, a Garman frontier town, and pounded fortifications in the Mete area ahead of Lt. Gen. George S. Pathm'i forces. Communications in tin Rhineland also m raided. No German interceptors were encountered by meet of these formations, but many at the fliers said the flak was the wont in two months. Controls To Last Until Jap Defeat Byrnes Says U. & Must Continue Controls On Prices and Wages Washington, Sept. 27.—War Mobilisation Director James F. Byrnes declared today the government must keep controls on prices, wages and rationing, after the defeat of Germany and until total victory has been; won also in the Pacific. "While we are prosecuting the, war against Japan," he said in a speed) to. the National Picas Club, "price control must continue just as wage control must continue, and the relationship between wages and prices'must be stabilised." Should Hold The Line. Byrnes' words came at a time when the War Labor Board is considering « host of wage cases all aimed at breaking t£fe "little Steel"' formula, keystone of the government wage policy. Under that formula wage rates cannot be increased more than 16 per cent above the lerel of January, lMli The mobilisation director express ' ed pride in the "hoJd-the-Hne order" j stabilising wages and prices and said: "Rearguard actions have been foothold of about 1,000 square yard* which Hbc Red Devil* had held against incessant bombardment and armored attack. Jhey declared the almost superhuman holding ted helped in the development «f a new powerful eastward thrust nam taking shape along the length ef the Maas (Mease) River a tpw miles from the DatdMknnan frontier. Field dispatches bolstered this theory, saying the aoe-preaariaus cnrrider extending up throu^i Holland now was firmly held, rapidly Violent forces, parhapa preventing a pgw tic "AmW for large ■limawta of Lt-Olft Sir Milaa C. Dempaejr's British Second Army in the corridor from Eindhoven to Nijmegea. U they had not bean occupied in the bloody battle vrtth the unflinching Tommies on the Berth bank