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*
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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 <m the relief roll "and
make them fed independent again.
Mrs. Dorothea Tucker, Field Representative
of The State Commission
lor The Blind, brought greetings from
that board as well aa high praise for
the fine work accomplished during
this first year of the Pitt County
Association's existence.
It was urged by President Brown
that every member as well aa the
officers and direction put their every
effort into the coining drive for renewal
of mambenfcipa and the securing
of new members.
Election of Officers and Directors
was hekL Frank M. Brown and Paul
A. Scott were reelected President and
Vice-President, respectively. D. tL.
Conley was elected Secretary, and
Godfrey P. 'Oakley, Treasurer. The
following directors were reelected
for the coming year: Mack Smith,
Bell Arthur; Zeno Dixon, Blade Jack;
Woodrow Wooten, Falkland; D. AGlover,
Greenville; Jimmy Edwards,
Chicod; G. Clinton Elks, Grimeslaad;
Ola Lee James, Calico Cross Roads;
J. S. Chapman, Grifton; Edwards,
Ayden; Vernon Cox, WJnterville; Hal
Winders, Farmvjlle; John Fountain,
Fountain^ W. R. Tyson, Belvoir; J.
B. Bunting, Bethel; Abe Gray, Stokes;
and Cecil J. Satterthwaite, Pactolus.
Frank Brown thanked the association
for the fine cooperation and assistance
rendered him as president
for the part year and urged for the
continuance of this fine spirit during
the coming year. .
The Board of Directors of The
Pitt County Association for The Blind
heldtheir figyriton ofUte yearat
at 6:80 o'clock. President Frank M.
Brown presided. In addition to the
officers and directors present, the
board had ®s their guests Mrs. Dorothea
Tucker, Field Supervisor of The
i for The Blind, Miss
Blind Full Time
State C
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year's financial condition. Plans /or
the coming' year were discussed and
outlined. The Board is very happy
about the progress made during the
put year and-look forward to another
more successful year in thdr blind
PRESBYTERIANS HOLDING
SERIES 8PECIAL SERVICES
■ Hitter didn't plan it that way, but
. the war may be tile mean* of developing
an entirely new crop at tetfWi
Georgn W. Davis, who ia Farm|
ville Township Chairman of United
War Pond 1944 Campaign, said information
he has received from the
United War Fond of North Carolina
disclosed that War Prisoners Aid, a
member agency in the War Fund,
has just shipped 3,000 rackets to
Geneva, Switzerland for distribution
to prisoners of war who are going in
for tennis in a way.
Also included in the shipment were
56,000 tennis balls, so the embryo
Tildens and Budges among the tennis
devotees in the "barbed wire league"
will not want for equipment to
indulge their desire for playing the
game, t)r. Davis declared.
War prisoners Aid reported also
that, in order to comply with requests
of war prisoners foj association football
equipment (or soccer, as Americans
know it) it had shipped tens at
thousands of soccer shoes, balls and
Madders "Which had .to be obtained
in Braiil, because such items may
not be had in America.
Mr. Davis pointed out that shipment
of arthletic equipment to war
prisoners is only one at the many
steps War Prisoners Aid is taking to
preserve the future usefulness of the
millions of men behind barbed wire
By giving war prisoners something
to do with their minds and hands,
this sgency of the War Fund lessons
the monotony of the bleak existence
m prison c&mps, maintains mental
morals and physical vigor, and gives
the prisoners a connection with the
world from which /they hare bean
suddenly removed, and with their future
life in the postwar period. Assistance
given by War Prisoners Aid
includes the famishing of musical instruments
for the establishment of
camp orchestras; phonographs and
records; handicraft, art' and hobby
materials; textbooks, study corses,
paper and pencils; and religious material.
Contributions made by residents of
Farmville and Pitt County to the
United War Fund of Pitt County help
finance the work of War Prisoners
Aid, Hr. Savis said.
Sentences Given
In Vice Clean-Up
Kinston Court Sends 11
Women To Prison
Camp As Campaign
Continues
Kinston, Sept 27.—Gladys Ball,
a white- woman, and 10 Negro women—
Virginia Williams, Lfllie- Mae
Loftin, Mary Belle Smith, Marry
Wheeler, PearUe Hall, Maria Huggins,
Sallie May Sugg, Rosalie Sutton,
Viola Sutton, and'Belle Suggwere
sentenced to Camp 404 near
Raeligh for six months upon conviction
of vagarancy and prostitution
in Recorder's Court here Monday,
Judge Joe Dawson reported today.
It was the third batch to be sentenced
to the camp'in current efforts]
to rid the city of venereal disc-a.
sources. Other cttee reportedly
growing out of vice raids locally
heard by the recorder Monday, included:
Frank Brinson, operating
house of prostitution, six months on
the roads, suspended upon payment
| of costs and promise of good b
or for six months; Lola N. Roas,|
PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION
HOLDS OPENING MEETING OF
-Oil CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR
Drive
Washington, Sept. 87.—The Treasury
tentatively has Wt Nov. 20, the
beginning of Thanksgiving weak, as
the kickoff date for the sixth war
loan drive and officials have decided
on a goal of about $14,000,000,000, it
waa disclosed tonight
As in previous drives, the American
Bankers Association wQI take
through its local branches.
The details were agreed "on ail
closed sessions at the Treasury, attended
by leading bankers and Federal
fiscal experts.
One banker told a correspondent
that the previoisly-favored data,
Nor. 11, Armistice Day, had been
dropped because it falls on a Saturday,
a bad day psychologically
for the opening of a campaign.
The goal is *2,000,000,000 leas than
that of the fifth war loan, which
waa 9ie highest of ail and which
was oversubscribed by $4^00^00^)0
most of which came from corporations
and other non-banking sources.
Three Masons were given for the
cut:
1. Unusually good cash condition
of the Treasury.
2. Increasingly good war news
from abroad.
S. Light bond redemptions expected
as a result of the itimplified
redemption plan which goes into
effect on Oct. 2.
There are wide differences in
views on whether Ihe new "overthe-counter"
redemption program
will increase or decrease cashing of
bonds. Ifee Treasury believes there
will be little, if any, change in the
redemption rate. Rankers in general,
pointing to high current redemptions,
aay there will be a definite
upturn when the procedure becomes
easy.
If the European phase of the war
is ended or appears in the final
ly that commercial
from purchasing .securities in thai
last two drives, may be allowed to)
participate in the new Campaign.
A high Treasury official said that
a drop in public bond purchases
could be. expected with the end of
the European war, thus making it
necessary for the Treasury to seek
aid from the banka
Banks have not bean allowed to
invest in the securities, because the
Treasury preferred to combat inflation
by "skimming" off
buying power of the public.
SERVICE MEN'S CENTER
SB
Visiting the Center the past weakl
were Sgt. and Mrs. A. D. Manning of |
Farmville and Wintervilla; Cpl. Willis
P. Odom, Farmville and Camp
Pickett, Va., and Cpl. Odom's guest,
Cpl. John J. Griffin of Cherry Point
and Philadelphia, Pfc
Sgt. Charles Wheeler, Walstonhurg
and Fort Dix, N. J.; Cpl. and Mm
William Nelson Fulfoid, FarmvUle
and Camp Wheeler, Ga,; Sgt. J. W.
Haidison, Langley Field, Va, and
Sliiow HiU; Pvt. Joseph Soddingtoo,
Camp Lejeune and Brooklyn, N. V..
guest of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Skinner.
Kinston Air Base: Bernard J. Pettitt,
Solvay, N. Y., guest at Mr. and
Mrs. J. 0. Pollard; Pfc. Edwin A.
Roberta, Maine; Pfc. David E.
JTlallgBCllf ™IWVHWrW*> 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
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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 <rf the Nader Rhiina, the German
troops around Arnhatia might
have joined with large Nasi forcaa
west at the corridor to divide and
conqucr.
The British sky-troopers made this
impossible and a dispatch from Asni\.A«
hiii. i M |-1 ti i n i^f if I^aUaS^
S(.k iateo ) r&hh ci rvsfX'rtfiem K*'iK?ri
C. Wilson, with the AUisa in Holla, JL.
said the corridor now appeared sufficiently
protected to Icm* the estimated
100,000 Germans between it
and the a^f from breaking arrow to
the Batch. The only exit for this
Nasi force, ha said, now ia the long
way around north af Arnhem.
A senior British staff officer saM
between 1,700 and 1,800 of the trappad
airborne troops at Anthem mmceadad
ia eacaping afar the order to
withdraw had bean five* by PWd
Marshal Sir Banui^aBiM||iKa
Waandad Left Behind,
Same swam the muddy Nader
Rhine, a quarter of a mile wide.
Others were carried actum in tiny
assault boats and soma rowed.
' At least 1,200 wounded were left
behind. How many of the r«nsinder
of the original force waaa killed
and how many wars capterod waa
The official blackout on the Withdrawal.
it w*s explained, had been
ordered to pwveot the Germans
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