Red* Reach Prussian Border West of Kaunas; Heavy Blow Dealt To Hungary London, Oct 12.—The Red Army roared up to the East Prussian border west of Kaunas yesterday, isolated th#» (real Baltic port at Meniel, and on the southern front with the aid of Romamians troops captured Sseged, second largest city in Hungary, and Cluj, capital at Transyi* ha day of glittering' success for Soviet arms, Marshal Tito announced that the Russians and hie Yugoslav Partisan troops also had surrounded Yugoslavia's capital city of Belgrade, but this was not confirmed by the Russian communique, which inexplicably was not broadcast until well after midnight. A Russian column reached the northeastern approaches to Belgrade a week ago - but apparently it was jiecidwd hot to risk wrecking the city ">y frontal assault. * Mead Surrounded. The German radio acknowledged that Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian's First Baltic Army had entirely encircled Memel, port and chit f city of Memeland. The Russians, already within nine miles of the city and cutting a steel arc around it, did not confirm that they actually had reached the sea on both sides, but said they edged closer on the southeast and extended northward towards Liepaja, the corridor to the sea they had hammered home on Tuesday, issol&ting 100,000 to 150,000 Germaps remaining in northwest Lithuania and soeAhwest Lativia. If not completely cut off as the Germans said, Memel was isolated and tottering. The Russians were silent concerning Riga, where their siege has reached to the outskirts of that Latvian capital and seaport, except to say that again their bombers had caused havoc among German transports in the harbor. The westwaiv jlrive across Lithuania to the East Prussian border swept up more than 50 populated places, the Soviet communique said, including Priorisi, and Ponowi, on the Lithuania?! side of the frontier stream, the Ost Fuss (Sesupe). The Germans, going even farther than the Russian announcements, said the battle for East Prussia had begun with Soviet assaults from three sides—from the north against Mem el and and the frontier city of Tilsit, from the east, as confirmed by Moscow, and from the south in Poland around Rozan. The Russians were silent concerning Poland and said at ftlsit only that they had heavily bombed German troops there Tuesday night The twin victories in the south, however, were heralded by an order of the day from Premier Stalin and salutes from Moscow's cannon for tiie Russian-Romanian captors at Sieged and Cluj. In the drive that took Cluj, 70 other populated places fell in tiie same mountainous area. Twenty-four hours previously, the Russians and Romanians had fought within three miles of Cluj anfi had partly encircled Szeged at distances of a dozen miles. Sseged is 96 miles southeast of Budapest, and although Russian trpops already were only 47 mites points farther north, loss of that eity of 182^)00 was a Wow to the shaky morale of man satellite of any Cluj, deep in the JST'jrijs to the of ning it mdk> that SERVICE VOTES New York, Oct 11.—Well mr 4,800,060 men sad women in the aimed forces have applied for absentee ballots and the best estimates of state election officials indicate that more than MOfMWO of the hallota will be cast m the November 7 election. In the IJI states wHeh haveAept a record of them, more than 600,000 GI ballots already have been marked and returned. \ women who have cast the ballot* they requested—or received without asking—ranges tram five per cent la Wisconsin to around 60 per cent in wide survey by reflect the soldier vote picture as of Oct. 3, slightly more than a month before the general election, fl- •:.< The exact number Sf aiMhtty ■ ballots cast may urn be known, piace many states do not oounc them 'separately. Similarly, thousands of ballots are reaching local and county officials in each day's mail and state officials have no reoond of them. Ohio. The figures, SERVICE MEN'S • CENTER • Visiting Service Men at the Center during the week end• were: Hubert E. Webb, S.KJL, Farmville and New York, son of Mr. and Mm. Tony Webb. Kinaton Air Base: Pvt. C. Becrsft, Syracuse, N. Y.; Sgt Donald Reid, Floral Park, N. Y.; S/Sgt Vincent A. White, Whitman, Mass. Cherry Point: S/Sgt Robert Amoa, Pensacola, Pla., and * Tech. Sgt Charles O. Wood, McAleater, Oklar homa, overnight and Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mm E. V. Gaynor, Sunday night supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Abernethy. Pfc. Heniy A, Wytania, Camp Lejeune and Sugar Notch, Pa., Saturday night guest of Miss Tabitha DeVisconti, Sunday dinner guest of Mr. and Mm Lyman Odom; Sgt Carl E. Hardy, Camp Peary, Va., and Benton, Arkansas, Sunday night guest of Miss DeVisoooti, Sgt. Hardy trained under Major General Allen H. Turaage at Camp Lej4une and was with him in the Pacific. Greenville Air Base: Pfc." Robert' P. Manning, Battlebor, Vermont; P^fc John L. Kelly, Canon City Colorado Refreshments served were chocolate cake, milk, fruits, nuts and candy. Miss Mamie Davis donated home made chocolate nut candy; Mr. and Mm B. A Norman and Pecan Grove Dairy, milk; and Mrs. B. 8. Sheppard, an arrangement of crote" laria and ageratum. Hostesses for the week end were Misses Dorothy Smith, Myrtle Nichols, Rose and Nellie Abaanedff, Mrs. Jack Smith and Mm J. M. Christman. The addition of calcium arsenate to standard blue mold sprays is ef fective in reducing flea beetle popular tions in tobacco plant beds. Before engaging in argument be sure you an right and then drop the subject reporting- the merton (Dick) In the United » killed » ac*it of France, this statement cam* ram toe nu Colinty Farm Bureau in response to an appeal from the American Farm Bureau Federation which was sent by J. E. Winslow, President of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation to presidents at ail county organizations. The Farm Bureau Federation is now carrying on a nation-wide campaign, strictly nonpartisan, urging rand America to vote in the November election. Farmery and dt|(A|r of small towns can have a powerful voice in governmental affairs through their representatives if they will get out and vote for the men of their choice. The rural people have the power to influence national pditics if they will only use it. The Farm Bureau called attention to the fact that 77 per cent of the senators and 62 per cent of the congressmen come from districts which have no cities of more than 10,000 population and heme ait predominantly rural. If rural America stays at home en election day and the big city vote turns oat full strength, rural people would have an even harder time from then on making their wishes heard. An appeal for farmers to vote in the coming election was stirringly made by Edward A. OWeat, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, in a recent address. Mr. < O'Neal said: MI know the farmer has an obligation to get his crops in at the proper , time, but I also know that he has a duty that transcends even the obligation to produce, and that is to contribute to good government by exercising his right to vote. Leave your plow, leave your sow, leave your sow, ' and go to the polls in what is one of the most .precjess rights and priyiIsges that we enjoy under oar demo- i cratic form of government. In my opinion, farm people carry a greater responsibility for the preservation Jd 1 our great tradition of democracy than any other- group." Although Farm Bureau members, like everyone else, are busy at this 1 time, they and all other rural citizens can take off the necessary hour or two that voting requires. "We should remember," "that our boys in the armed services are giving the best years of their lives to defense of their country. They were not too busy when the call came. We cannot and we will not be too busy to vote. We should everyone of us go to the polls November 7 and thereby act as share-holders in America." Farm Women Stress Rural Medical Care The State Council of the N. C. Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, representing 2,200 clubs and 48,000 rural women, centered the program of its "recent annual meeting in Raleigh around better medical care for| farm people. -':£ An outline of the problem as itf exists in North Carolinawas pmsn ed by Dr. C. Horace Hamilton, head of the Department of Rural Sociology at'State College, The mean* vhich an available to assist in solving the problems were discussed by E. B. Crawford of Chapel Hill. The work of the State Medical and H6spH*l Care Commission was given by Tom Pear sail of Rocky Mount. The Council p rawed a notation enplan to transfer'to local I without coat, surplus] factories of a congestion of leaf caused By extremely heavy sale* and an acute labor shortage. Hiis decision was announced yesterday by Governor J. M. Broughton after confopv&c# with Governor Col*] Kate W. Darden of Virginia, Lee L. Graveiey of Rocky Mount, president of the Tobacco Association ot the United Spates, and presidents and offidais of the tobacco belt Broughton said the three-day sole* week would be effective for next weak only, after which all markets will return to the four-day sales week previously prescribed by TAU3 in an rffort to slow down Bales. Monday and Tuesday sales will be eliminated next week and the Monday sales only thereafter. Graveley told the Governor the Four-day sales, week would remain n effect until it had beeu determinsd the ordinary flow of tobacco for rive days of sales a weak could be adequately handled by present warehouse and factory personnel. Compromise Measure. Governor Broughton said the derision (to call a three-day selling week was reached instead of calling i full week's marketing holiday. The week's holiday had been considered wcauue ox a general aissausiacuon imong growers and warehousemen >ver the foor^ay selling week origi- . lally called by TAUS as its solition » the problem of congestion. "It is the belief of Governor Dar- ! ien and my self and all others confined that a three-day selling week ^ winning Monday is the best solaion to the problem of effectively ( bearing warehouses and factories of he current piling up of perishable ; eaf," Governor Broughton said. "It is also our belief *hat after ' ;he congestion is cleared prices will fo back to their normal status of he firet week of sales on all belts, [f not,* further action will be taken o assure the farmers of at least nor- ^ nai marketing conditions." Meanwhile, the War Food Administration said heft that prices ! >n the Old Belt markets were slighty higher for most, grades, but that red and green leaf grades showed , leclines of Aram |2 to 96 per bun- ■ ired pounds. - The advances in ^ prices for the other grades ranged Crom $1 to $2. , Sales continued heavy on all mar- , icets, WFA said. Middle Brit markets reported , steady to slightly higher prices for dl grades. Eastern Belt markets . reported declines up to |8 for some ' ug and leaf grades of quality, but >ther grades showed corresponding ^ jrice increases. Generally, growers were better ! )leased, with yesterday's sales, ' DPA said, with'fewer turned tags " mttceablo on all markets. Howsver, the quality of leaf on all markets was somewhat -down from ruesday sad the prices paid were ibout the saate as have "been in effect all eason for the quality of leaf. _• Private Jake Joyner Receiver Purple Heart Pvt. Jake Joyner, of the infantry branch of the United Slates Army, tout received the Purpl* Heart for mndf suffered in action, in Germany, on September 80, according to wwd received by T. C. Turna«e, of the Tnrnatfe Co., what* Pvt Joyner km employed when inducted into the jfijjKj/7 Relatives had been Mormed prte-j viouaty that he had been wounded) and vu recuperating' in a Hospital in J England. Pvt. Joyniw stated that he waa get-J and had beon up. He to be away from the] to havef m U. a Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Peart Barber, Oct. 11—hi the boldest naval stroke of the Pacific war, (track 200 miles south oi Japan, the free roving American Third Fleet defied both Nippon'* homa fleet and akforce t>y pouring carrier planes in w powering strength against the Kyikyu islands. .-;$?$*%*}> • 1 As the climax of powerful blowk delivered since August SO in the FhilFalaus and Benin*, Admiral F. Halsey-s task-force wiped >ut 89 planes *nd sank or damaged 18 surface craft—every vessel sightid—in the Ryukyus, 600 miles from he China coast, on Monday. Not one American warship was hit >y the enemy in an operation which, n ways, was moire daring than the L942 carrier-base^ strike at Tokyo nssmuch as the carrier in that case ■etired whUe the planes flew on to 3iina. In Monday's strike, Vice Adm. iarc A. Mitscher's carriers stayed mound for the raiders' return. hi Gnat Forec Adm. Chester W. Nimita, announeng the Ryvkyu raid in a communique, laid the planes swept over the 570nile-long chain "in great force." They ihot down 14 plane*, wiped oat 76 en he ground add eould find no warship rigger than a. destmyyw. It whs imong 12 definitely sunk. Japan's »me fleet kept out at sight and tome-hased airfare# did not wing to lyukyu's aid. Mitscher's task force raids, which iave overwhelm ed such strategic ureas as Manila, have resulted since August in knocking out more than ,100 enemy planes and MO surface raft ranging from destroyers and rig cargo vessels down to luggers. In all these raids not a wandup has ieen damaged. 1 > The oommunique on the Ryukyu aid said, "there was no damage to iur surface ships and oar plane losses ?ere light." Island Ocs^aered Significantly in demonstrating how he American -fleet can disperae its inits in strength, this blow fell ens lay after battleships spent all day Sunday Mewing to bits the Japanese lef eases on Marcus island, more than .,500 miles east of the Ryukyus. In another communique, Nimits innounced that 81st Division troops sjiich invaded a tenth islsnd in the 'alaus Sunday completely secured it within. 24 hours. It is the tiny inland >f Ganskayo, to the north of the arger American, holding of Peleliu. Tie ten islands and islets provide the ranks with an expanding base within riS miles of the Philippine*. Three hundred miles south of the Philippine* at invaded Morotai, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur announced that ighter planes and pstiol-tocpedo mats broke up an enemy attempt sarlier this week to reinforoe the apaneee remnants holding out against American forces which landed there September 15th. PITT COUNTY PAIR OPENS MONDAY (Br Chester Walsh) The Pitt County Fair, sponsored >y the American Legion, wiH open or a week's gala entertainment next Honday, October 1«. T1» J. C. Weer shows with 100 drctw wagons will irrive over the Atlantic Coast Line in !5 ean Sunday night between 6 an/ > o'clock, A. J.Greyy, fair m»nagter» laid today. Tfcere will be^20 shows ind many modern rides on the mid*11." formerly witir Jjarnum and Sailey-Ringiing Bins., Circus, will jpovide the feature free act this year irhen he is shot from a SA-foot oannon rver two ferris wheels. Wednesday will be children's Day/' when the school children will be sd WAR IN BRIEF ■— intense American air, astWery and infantry assault; Canadians gain in Holland; U. S. troops gain east of Nancy in Eebm* Red Army captures Szeged, Hungary's secoud city; Soviet force* plunge to within 48 mile* of Budapest; Russian aontinue powerful drive on Eaat Prussia. American Fifth Army yhrt through Geese to within eight mflee of main Fo Valley highway and rail line, as Britiah clear six-mile ridge cm Adriatic sector after 10-day battle. American bombers iWaflr CoMans and Cologne in support of U. a Pint Amy drive; British planes pevnd Walohren Island in Holland. Britiah capture Albanian port of Sarande; Nazis reportedly fleeing all Greece to escape Allied trap dosing in from north and south. Japaneea punch deeper hito southlaatwn Kwaagal; Chineae silent on situation at imperilled Kweilin and east coast port of Foochow. Went African treopa seise Indian village of Mowriok on Arakan front, throwing Japanese back to Burma Night raiding American Liberators bo bed for four bourn Sunday the Borneo base of Balikpapaat source of much of .Japan's aviation gasoline; Radio Tokyo broadcasts, warnings that attacking American ships are "still lurking" immediately south of Nippon homeland. ■■ ;■ . Give Freely To Hie United War Fund The local drive for the Upited War Pond officially begins Monday, Oct 16th. Organisation plans are complete and the canvassers will call on ■11 citixens of the Farmville community sometime during next week. FarmviUe's quota is $9,100 and includes both our part in tfee United War Fund and the needs of the local f troops moved ■>*» trace flags Hiding 1b Cellars It m estimated that 16,000 civilians, hiding in ceilare at the already ttadly damaged city, mnainad of Aachen's 146,900 pre-war population. Aa the blow* to tore! Aachen began, Pi ret Army men closed the ring tigfclsr about the city. To the north they tdvanced to Wurnalen, and mopped lp Germane in the southern part at Haaren, northeast of Aachen. South at the siege site, TOid imy men and Germane battled naierground in a winding tuaaei at For. Driant before Mete, ricocheting Millets off the walla Doughboys and 3ermans were so dose to eaeh other hey could hear the other's orders. The fierce straggle f* surface petitions in the fortress continued s>rirtually cleared the enemy frem Parroy Forest, and scored gdtbs east of Uinprille and EpinaL A ho—e tolouse fight was on for Maixiere, six niles a Hove Mets. Canadiaiq sliced the main highway sonnecting the Schaide estuary island >f South BwrsUnd with the Dutch nainland, lopping off the escape route for thousands of Germans baldag there who have prevented Allied jee of Af> twerp port. To the southwest, other Csnadiaa nfantry widened their Schaide river Machhead to four miles, and drove three miles inland in the bnctakeor Schelde's mouth. Berlin asid this *ea»rne landing east of Breskena />ppo lite Rushing, had bean reinforced.