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FWDAT, OCTO.B Only 14 Miles from Yugoslav Capital; Reds Land on Isle In Riga Gulf / v London, Oct 6.—Russian tanks and cavalry, smaifcwrt at least 26 miles across the YugciWav plains, yesterday drove to within 14 miles northeast of the capital city of Belgrade while other Red Amy facte* south of the Danube River linked with Marshal Tito's liberation amy and throat tor waid tiie biff Yugoslav rail hob of Nfc The Red Army and Marshal Tito's Partisan fighters drove down the White Timok River valley along the Bulgarian border to within 37 mites of Nis, junction of'the SofiaBelgrade Mid Athens-Belgrade railroads. Samxmdiag Belgrade. At the same time, Belgrade, outflanked to the north, was bung surrounded by eoroshing Soviet troops striking from the north, northeast and southeast by Marshal Tito's Partisan* hammering toward the city frem the west and south. Almost 1,000 miles to the north, Soviet forces landed on the 1,000square-mile Estonian island of Saaremaa (Oesei) in Giga Gulf, Berlin said, vtrtnatly sealing the aeawwd escape route for Nazi troops in the shell-torn Latvian capital of Riga. Moscow's midnight war bulletin early today reported that Russian troops west of the Polish city of Lomza had csessed f^e highly fortified Narew River only 16 miles below the southern border of East Prussia and had broken into enemy positions. After blowing up enemy blockhouses, the Soviets returned to the sooth hank. Before the Lithuanian bofder of East Prussia rsconnain sauce troops broke into enemy lines northwest of Mariampole, Moscow said. Beaching a powerful Nasi defense area north and northeast of Belgrade, troops of Marwhal Radian Y. Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrainian Army who have driven 45 miles inside Yugoslavia from Romania in 48 hews, penetrated almost to the suburbs of Belgrade b.v capturing the rail station of Banat Kraljevicevo. By seising Banat Kraljevicevo, 14 miles northeast ef the capita), the Red Army cut the last railroad escape route north of the Danbue River for the German garrison in Belgrade, leaving only one railroad sooth of the Danbue for the endangered troops While ipdsrh—dn that captured Petrovgsad, 37 miles north of Belgrade, Tuesday bottled to cross the wide, marshy Ala. river and drive! the remaining 27 miles to this final railroad escape line from Soviet infantrymen pacted in Amori-I tankmen in a sweep toward Belgrade from the northeast. * ■ lad Am* am the south river below the iron gate, linked with Manfcal Tito's men in the first major u Re# Army and-the Yu 8T tioa an eagttal. IN ITALY Oct. 4. — American FUth Amy troops hivt reached ft point within 16 milee of Bologna, important German communication center in northern Italy, in a drive slowed by mud aad Utter Nad resistance, Allied headquarters announced today. Clearing aides, allowed Allied bombem 'to resume support of the northern Italy offensive aad gave promise of better footing. The British Eighth Amy on the Adriatic sector was still sUltofeen the basks of the flooded Fiumicino, across which the Germans are heavily ed the StreaBt and probed enemy positions. ■in the center of the battle line American troops moving along Highway 66 sdvanced two miles beyond captured Monghidor and were within 16 miles of Bologna, while other American forces east of the highway reached the area Just sooth of Boschi, 15 miles from Bologna, a city of 270,000, and a major supply base for the Germans. On the west coast, Bttudllian troops of the Fifth Amy "continued to maintain pressure against the' enemy" along their sector, hesdquartere reported. — , ' The Pitt CodftJr Fair To Be Held Week of Oct 16-21 (By Chaster Walsh) "Zucchini," £he human "cannonball," former (tar in the Banram and Bailey-Ring-line Bros.' Circus, will be the feature free attraction at the Pitt County Fair which opens at the Fair Grounds in Greenville on Monday, October 16, and continues through Saturday, Manager A. J. Grey, announced. The fair is sponsored by the American Legion. The J. C. Weer Shows, with 100 circus wagons, will feature the Midway. There will be aostarU by military bands. The ridee are modern and will provide plenty <rf thrills. The management is offering until October 10 a group of five general admissions for $1.40—a saying of $1.10. Members of the 'American legion have these tickets for sale only until Oct 10th. The tickets an on sale at the Fmrmville Drag Store in FarmvQle. A thousand dollars in cash prizes will be awarded at the Pitt County Fair this year to exhibitors of farm products, "livestock, poultry, ham demonstration elub - prfxtueta, 4bc. Farmers and others are invited to show what they are doing by exexhibiting at the fair. Hie fair officee are now open 'in the Jfexfor Hotel lobby in Greenville, with Mrs. Grey ia charge. PiftttT For Collecting, Sorting and Packing Monday; Mrs. B. O. Tamage Appointed General Chairman Repreoottiitives from the vjuious Church women's groan »*t with tShe Ministerial Association Monday mornfor!*© local collection which •will be a'partoflS million pounds of clothing—men's, women's and children's, collected in the United States for ft*e distribution in the liberated areas of Europe The Success eg this project must be achieved through the generosity of every man, woman and child. Discission of Clothing Collection Chief Bnsiness el Regular Church Meetings, Monday. Mrs. A. C. Turnage, President," presided at the Woman's Oouncfl^at the Christian Church and appointed Mrs. C. B, Mashburn, Chairman, of that otvanisation in the Clothing Drive. The devotional, "We Seek the Truth," was given by Mrs. L. E. Turnage. The program continued the study of the American Indian. Mrs. Lee Coitott talked on "Trails of Our Forefathers" and Mrs. Lloyd Smith on "The Trail of Social Betterment" Announcement of future activities tnclnds> "The 100th Anniversary of the Church, the celebration tentatively set for 5th Sunday in October; Christian Literature Week—October 29th-Noveo*ber 5th; Worid Community Day, November 3rd; and the Convention in Wilson, November 8th. The MethodiBt, Woman's Society of Christian Service, had as its devotional top|e, ."Serving * Purpose,"which was developed by Mrs. Wesley B. Willis. Scripture was from I Hmothjf. "Take My Life and Let It Be Consecrated Lord to Thee" was chosen as the meditation hymn. j Mrs. A. W. Bobbitt presented the missionary topic, "The Call and The Answer," telling of the work of Clara. H. Swain, medical missionary to India, Mr* B. 0. Turnage appointed Mrs. J. H. Harris, Mrs. E. C. Carr and Mre. M. V. Horton as a nominating committee. Quarterly reports were given; Mrs. Neal Howard reported on price declines were noted Carolina an* -ffrpnia until * current congestion In lactone* and warehouses it alleviated. J» I* Gravely ef Roeky Mount, president of USTA, said the order would become effective Monday of next week. In effect, it reduces the number of weekly selling days from five to four. Markets already am operating under reduced selling speed regulations in some cases/with! «WjP* DWyflWp* ^ h ■ «i. f- * £ Meanwhile, the War Food Administration said that the price declines shown in Tuesday's auctioning were more notable in the CM Belt WFA said lower quality leaf, lug and bondeecript grades were down from $2 to (8 per hundred pounds, with best thin nondescript declining as much as $9. However, WFA said that despite grades, the price picture was brighter on Middle Belt markets, with gains up to 92 per hundred noted in same lug, cutterand smoking leaf grades. Eastern Belt markets reported declines of up to $2 in a few lower quality grades. ' . Heavier Sales. Markets in all belts reported increasing heavier sales. Some markets in the Middle Belt were blocked, while 80 par cent of the warehouses operating- in the Eastern Belt reportad enough tobacco on hand to last a fMk '^Sl ' Monday's sales by belts: Old: Virginia, 2,551,334 pounds at an average of $41.74, North Carolina, 2,752,019 at an average of *41,32. Gross sales, 5,808,363 pounds at an average of $41.52, and for the season through Monday, 14,706,979 pounds at an average of $41.94. Eastern: Moinday's sales 7,209,792 pounds at anaverage oi $42.54, with the season total reaching 156,916,270 pounds at an average of $41.86. Middle: 3,563,540 pounds at an average of $42.09, an increase of 24 cents over figures for last Friday. Season sales totaled 26,484,111 pounds at an average of $12.32. BABY CONTEST BEGINS MONDAY [irVjgjfe ■ mrnmimmmmmmtmim &«*."' * f. 'f" q The Baby Contest, which is being held under the auspices of the Junior Woman^s Club, to raise funds for the Club's standing projects; the Tiny Tots Playground, and the peojaet for the year, aiding the Tsen-Agers with their plane for a reertational center, will get underway Monday. Sponsors of entrants are already lining up supporters for their favorites and much interest is being manifested in the very young citixenry of Farmville. caoies won nw sponsors are am* Alien, by Mary Leah Thome; Kay and Pay Allen, by Sue Taylor; Kay Allen Janie Kemp; Anne Prances and Virginia Allen, Gay Pippin; Lou Aliea Bryant, Sybil Barr*tt> Joan Gregg, Joyce Tyson; Betty Lou Harris, Lola Grey Kemp; Michael Hatern, Billy Johnson; A. rone Palmer Hodges, Betsy Morrias; Tod Holmes, Emily Barrett; Walter Besmon Jones, Jr., Johnnie Moore; Noel Lang, Margaret Williams; Edith .Anna Lee, Betty Bose Wilkereon; William Horace Lewis, Jr., Nell Besmon; Andy Martin, Jr., Anne Moore; Ben Moore, Bister Satterthwaite; Betty Jane Munden, Jane Bail; Peggy Myers, Nancy Ln Moore; Harriet Lee Paylor, RuBi Tyaon; Guas Ross Roebuck, Mary Frances Allw^ Jack Rollins, Connie Rollins; Shipley Ryon, Vivian Scott; Marian Weeks, WiHte Ray Harper; Barbara Jean WheW», Betsy Jones; R«1WHliams, Jr., Babe WUlifoid; Johnnie of the United George W. Davis, ft. A. Joyner, Secrotary and Treasurer, John B. Lewis, member of the County Committee, J,' W. Holmes, J. I. Morgan, W. A. Allen, B.. D. Roue, C. H. Flanagan and Hn. Bessie Taylor. Farmville'* Quota k *9,100, aad includes both our part in the County United War Pond Quota, and the needs of the Farmville Community ;. Chairmen of the Groups have been furnished with a special gifts list and all other workers will receive their instructions and material at the meeting scheduled for Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. Sam B. Underwood, who is County Chairman of the United War Fund, spoke at the Rotary meeting, Tuesday evening, St nasi i if the need of the Fund jnd telling something of the way in which it is used. He doeed the program with a short sound reel of G-I Joe. Representatives from Farmville attended a meeting of workers from all orer the County, held in Greenville, Thursday night. GFTBI Tp keep their spirit strong, GIVE TO YOUR COMMUNITY WAB FUND, Give of your own free will. WhyT—-because victory and a lasting peace begin in the hearts at men. By your gift, you tour the combat ■ones with a USO-Camp Show troupe, bringing the men in the foxholes a holiday from War; you give a pat on the bade to the new kid in Basic Training, who feels a little, less homesick, a little lass beaten-down, after an evening's good time at the USO Club. You give a rest from convoy fatigue to the weather-burned merchant seaman, who haa just come halfway around the world; you pass through prison gates to that young bombadier and bring him a book, a game, a phonograph record to liven his hours at stagnant idleness behind barbed wire; with food, medicine and clothing you extend the hand ot friendship to sick aad starving peoples abroad and try. to make human beings again out of blasted lives; you go to the fartheraost part of the' world aad to the nearest—from the neighbor's next, door to the thatch shelter an a coral atoll. DO THIS FOB OUB OWN AND: FOB OUB ALLIES! f WOUNDED IN ACTION Pvt. Jease 3. (Jake), Joyner was wounded In action in Germany on. the morning: of September 20th. A letter from Pvt. Joyner, who is a patient in an English Hospital, to his wife, here, states that he is setting along all right § . , , THK SHRINE OF ST. THOMAS • the fathers might have raised a shaft, Of bronze, or brass or stone; With every name cot deep and large, That all men might be shown, ■ Who settled here and-owned the sd& And maimed the halls of state: :£• They might have bufll a monument. Proclaiming they were great. :V ■ ■'¥' • v? The fathers might have anchored here, A shrine to fame and sword; Hot better still, they builded well, A temple of the Lord. They majored faith and courage here, And pledged Jhe twain their troth. And every brick is sabred to f the memory of both. Aft, «v*ry brick and boaid and beam, through years that are to be; Will hp a monument to faith, " . TwoMflea Wide; Patton's Men Storm Into Fort Drant, Mighty Bastion Guarding Mete and Reich's Saar Basin; Munic, Brenner Pass Bombed More than 100 miles to the south in France, Lt. Gen. George S. Petton's Third Army veteran* fought bitter hand-to-hand duels fewi&a Fort Driant, a great rabbit warren of defenees granting the rital city of Met* from the wot bank at the Moeetle River. s Alter Yank troop* stormed into the gun-atadded fortress and began driving the Nazis out of inaieigiii'iiMl tunnels with blazing oQ, the enemy and rochet neeta within the mlleand-a-haif-long mase and a deadly dose-quarter -battle raged into the night. While heed quartern aawnfr.tfied officially that the frict —e of aeveral similar strangpotata protecting Meti—had bean captured, a field dispatch from Edward Ball of Xk» WAR m BRIEF American tanks jhn|e into Germany through wide bote in Siegfried line above Aachen. First Army troops teas titan 80 mil* from Ortogne and Duaseldorf. Hand-to-hand fighting rages inside Fort Driant in northeastern France. Russians advance 14 miles in drive into Yugoslavia and setae railway station 3S miles northeast of Belgrade. Moscow announces Bad Army forces made contact with Marshal Tito's Partisans. Finns close in on Kami, German-held port of Golf of Bothnia. SV; ' British radio reports rioting in Vienna and other parts of Austria in ra^tonse to General Eisenhower's plea' to Anstrians to break with Germans. American bombers pound Munich and Brenner Pass as RAF heavies pounce on U-boat pens at Bergen,, Norway.Allied planes sweeping over Philippines, Celebes and Molucca's leave 10 Japanese freighters sank or damaged. Jap troops in China within air miles of Foochow, last hig east coast port remaining in Chinese hands, and pose new threat to Kwail in. Junior Woman's Club y To Sponsor Teen-Agre Recreational Center At tfc* WJWft of representatives from the TeenAgars and confident of the whole-hearted support of all civicminded organization* which in the early summer, under the leadership of the ParentTeacher Association, endorsed a Young People's Jiecrsational Center m a oomm unity project, the members of the Junior Woman's Club will endeavor to serve aa helpers, advisors and chaperones for the Teen-Age Group's Organized Recreational Activities. Miss Sue Taylor and Miss Joyce Tyson were present at the regular Tuesday evening meeting of the Junior Woman's Club and presented tentative plans. After discussion, the Club voted to accept this project for the year. A committee, appointed to assist the group with foundation plans, is composed of Mb. Mw Mewborn, Mrs. Clarence Hedgepeth and Miss Margaret Smith. The meeting was held m the hoove of Mrs- J. W. Mundep with Mrs. Munden and Mrs. W. R. Burnette as hostesses. Red and blue flowers were in artful decoration in the living room. Yearbook*, which this year] are in patriotic design, were distributed by Mrs. Stuart Sugg. Mrs. T. S. Ryan reported on forthe* plans for the 3aby Contest, beginning Monday, proceeds of whteh will go for the Tiny Tots Playground, Standing Club project, and for the Recreational Center, the sew Club project for the year. j Mrs. Pmnk Allen, president, who presided, reminded members of the District meeting in Ayden, Oct. 2S, and appointed Mrs. Alee Allen, Mrs. C. S. Hotchkise and Mrs. Fred Moore in charge-respectively of the serving, tablw W dewratiows for the Scottish Rites Sapper next week. At the request of Mrs. W. B. C*rraway, the Club will serve in the role of Grade-mother, for her room at school. Mrs. C. 8. Hotchkise presented the program, '"Hie U. S, in a New World," one of a series of articles on this subject, scheduled. She spoke of the U. S.'s relations wilfe Britain; the 10th Century—it's prevailing poHey; a ■post-war program, and the Atlantic Charter. Mrs. W. R. Burnette, program chairman, gave out a time Magazine Qui*, to be studied for next meetimr. „ -uJ-s K. G. Copenbaver was present and welcomed hack into the CSflb. Mrs. Bill Malone was a guest. a \ • r L/ « <K
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