VOLUME THIRTT-riV*
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UnL JAtARlol jitliij ulINn
AND 200 PlAffiS DESTROYED
U. S. Carrier
, Lost In Big
e; 1,361 Offifjf&t
Rescue
Over 100
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U. S. Naval Fleet Headquarter*,
Peari Harbor, Oct 25. — Carrier
planes of the U. S. Third Fleet sank
a large Japanese carrier, damaged
two other largo carriers, five or sir
battleship* one cruiser, and several
unidentified warships in a threepronged
naval batle near the Philippines.
Adm. William P. Halsey's force
lost the U. S. Princeton, a light carrier,
when, already badly crippled,
her magazaas exploded and she had
to be sunk by American ships.
the Princeton's captain and 1,360
of her officer* and men wen* rescued,
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz reported in
a 1:30 a. m. communique?*'' •
The action began Monday afternoon
(U.S.Time) extended throughout
Tuesday and general "action is
continuing," Nimitz said.
Ene*y Planes Attack.
Nimitz said a strong force of landbased
Japanese planes attacked one
U. S. task group Monday and succeeded
in seriously damaging the
Princeton, which is the first American
carrier lost since the Liscombe
Bay wemt down in flames off the
Marshall Islands in early December,
1943.
Approximately 150 of these enemy
planes were shot down during the attack,
Nimits said
Besides the captain, 133 other officers
and 1,227 enlisted men were saved
The complement of the light
(jeep) carrier is not listed but probably
is around 1,500.
The Japanese—obviously" attempting
a surprise three-pronged attack
which they hoped would catch Halsey's
force concentrating on Japanese
battleships and cruisers in the
Sibuyan and Sttlu seas—sent a third
force from Formosa.
Send? Third Force.
This group included at least three
carriers. However there was no indication
in the communique that any
Japanese carrier planes were launched
against the Third Fleet which possibly
achieved surprise instead in its
crippling attack on the Imperial Navy
ships. ^
It was from this carrier force that
Adm. Marc A. Mitscher"s planes sank
"at leaat one large carrier and severely
damaged two others."
Nimits said reports of this carrier
action sooth of Formosa yet are in-1
complete indicating the Third Fleet
may hare inflicted additional severe
damage upon the enemy.
The astions began Monday. Carrier
s earth planes discovered two enemy
forces heading eastward through
the Sibttjam and Sulu seas, ostensibly
intendiitt to bombard Gen. Douglas
Mac Arthur's ground forces on Leyte
One ferae consisted of three or four
battles**., ten cruisers and about 13
Repeated attacks by carrier aircraft
indicate that every batleship
was damaged by bombs, that at least
one was torpedoed and one cruiser
The. Second Force was signed southwest
ol Kegros island in th»Sulu sea
in the southwestern Philippines. Zt
sd the Marshall islands.
The Princeton WW converted from
a 10,000 ton light croiser into an escort
carrier after construction was
started. She was launched October
18, 1942, and commiaaoned last year.
She carried about 46 combat aircraft,
which could have landed on accompanying
carriers.
The Princeton^ of the Independence
class, was rated at 88 knots and was
equipped to carry toy type at carrier
planes—dive bomber, torpedo or
fighter. -^>^0
rapt ■ la Unidentified.
A fleet spokesman said the name
of thePrincetoo's captain was not
announced becatise a new skipper had
been assigned to her and it was not
known whether he had taken charge
or the retiring captain was still
aboard.
Destruction of 160. Japanese planes
increased the aircraft toll exacted af
the Japanese by the Halaey-Mitacher
forces since about September 1 to
between 2,425 aad 2,435.
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Imn Serenes Oi
Sufcy Eveiiag It
Preskfteriai Ckirch
The regular 6th Sunday evening
Union Services will be held October
29th at f:S0 o'clock in the Piesfcyterian
Church Rev: E. C. Chamblee,
pastor of the Baptist Church will deliver
the message of the evening.
These services afford an opportunity
for Christian Fellowship which
is good for the people in any community.
Let us support these services
with our presence.
Wilson Sailor Killed
In Pacific War Area
Aviation Mechanic Harold L.
Standi Dies in Actum, Navy
Reports
Wilson, Oct. 23.—The fifth man in
the are* to have been repented killed
in action this month, AMM Harold
Loyd Stancil, 1-c of Kenly, Route 2,
son of Mrs. G. L. Stancil and. the late
Mr. Stancil, waa reported killed in
action in. the Pacific area by the
Navy Department today.
v Young Stancil «M 20 yean old and
had been in the service for three
yearst He was a first class petty
officer.
He is survived by his mother and
11 brothers and sisters, including T.
E. Stancil of Wilmington, Ralph of
Ocala, Fla., G. I. Standi in the Navy
at Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. J. N. Standi
of Rocky Mount, Mrs. J. Ri Renfrew
of Kenly, Route 2; Mrs. J. C.
Hales of Kenly, Mrs. 2. G. Renfrew
of Lucaraa, Route 2; Mrs. Kddttot Carnaway
of Farmville, Mrs. Grover
Eaaoa of Selnta, Mrs. Robert E. Dennison
of Hempstead, N. Y., and Mrs.
W. H. (Bill) Batte of Wilson.
those of the enemy, and,
WHEREAS, the unprece
eess of our Navy in put
Gen. MacArthur*s Headquarters,
Philippines, Oct, Pushing all
opposition aside and cruahing feeble
Japanese counter attacks, American
forces liberated 14 more towns and
barriers and advanced to the outskirts
o# Tabantabon, eight miles northwest
of Dulag, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's
headquarters announced Wednesday.
The advance on Tabontabon is probably
tlje longest made bjr MacAiJhur'g
men since the invasion started. Advances
were general along the entire
Capture of San Pablo aiitli^rtie I
seven milee west of Dulaga also was
announced, but a field dispatch from
AL Do piling, Associated Press war
correspondent, reported its seizure.
DopkSng disclosed that the Yanka
went through denae undergrowth and
mod and muck sometimes nearly up
to th&r seeks in a circuitous
march of 12 miles to capture the San
Pablo field. It was the third airfield
taken on Lsyte. The others at '
Tadohan and Dulag.
He# Toward Dagami
After securing the San Pablo field J
armored units of the 7th Division fanned
out to the northward toward Dagami,
important road junction at the 1
western edge of Leyte Valley. Elements
of the 96th Division advanced
to a point nine miles north of Cata- <
mon, enveloped Gaboon Hill and '
pushed on to the approaches of Ta- 1
bontabon.
Substantial gains west of Palo and ]
Tabloban were made by units of the
J 0th Corps. '
In this sector the Japanese attempted
night infiltration tactics but
they met with boodjr failure while
small scale counterattacks were easily
smashed by the Tanks.
Intermittent attacks by few enemy
planes continued. American fighter
patrols beat them off. At least five
Japanese plsnesowwe shot down. i
Pines Attack Dumps.
Carrier planes from the 7th Fleet
are giving the grrmrwi cojitinued
close support, attacking enemy
ground installations, supply dumps
snd lines taf communication.
Destruction or damaging of 64 enemy
planes >« Oct. 22 and 28 was disclosed
by MacArthur. Six American
planes were lost, but all pilots except
one were saved.
"Successive raids from all sources
on the enemy's installations," Vac- 1
Arthur said, "are nsutrslising' his 1
attempts at staging (bring in) air- j
craft—from Luzon and Borneo and !
have greatly restricted the scale of 1
his counter offensive at Leyte." 1
To Go Over
Committees in charge of Farmville's
United War Fand report »pJendid
response and state that *8,556.30
has been contributed toward the
$9,100. quota, M si Uroradajr, noon.
Solicitors will complete their canvas
this week. Anjr who have not
been contacted arc requested to brin*
their contribution to War Fund Headquarters
in the City Clerk's Office,
if not.
At two-thirty, the congregation
will reassemble when Dr. H. Glenn
Haney, pastor of the 8th St. Chriatian
Church In Greenville, will tett
something of the National Convention
which he attended in Columbus, Ohio,
aat week. '
Aa a birthday gift to the Church,
he membership is planning extensive
"epairs to the roof mm! redecoration
rf the interior of the auditroium.
Committee* to look after tin pig
>arbecue have been appointed and
nembera of the Woman's Council are
aking care of other details. All are
ooking forward to a great day,
free ting each other and worshiping
-ogether.
There will be ao services in the
evening as the congregation will Join
n the Union Services at the Preabyerian
Church.
American Legion Auxiliary
Sponsoring MmKTSfffSSSi
Worth Bonds Pledged
First Day at Knott's
Warehouse No. 1
A $28,750,000 Tobacco Warehouse .
Var Bond quota has been assigned ,
'forth Carolina tobacco farmers this
leaaon, who are asked to pot 6c a
ound of every tobacco sate into War
ionds. Invested in War Bonds now
he profit from this year's crop will
ertainly make a worthy contribuiom
to VICTORY. ®
Growers have produced this crop
inder difficulties and are to be congratulated
for their achievement.
Throughout the. season they were
handicapped by wartime shortages of
abor and machinery. To make up
'or this shortage of laEar farm ere
md their families worked harder than
rvar before. ; . .■
Tobacco this year is bringing a
food price hi every section and tommco
farmers, who have with their
golden weed, made the State ot North
Carolina known around the world,
Kill want to invest some of their
wbacco money in War Bends-and thus
help insure an early victory. Money
available is more
power
Supreme Headquarters Expeditionary
Force, Oct 26.—American
nl«mn now an ""jftilsi
that moves or smokes or livee in
Germany to brine the hard facts of
war home to the Reich.
Targets no logger are just Mg titles
or "rj.
This new policy is a grim and oold
answer to Hitler's total mobilisation
ot manpower. It is letting the Germans
in the little towns up front find
evt what those in the big cities already
have learned of Allied hitting
power.
Hitler is sweating the last ounce of
production out of the industrially important
belt of little factories west
of the Rhine acres* from Dnisburg
ud Bolenz, an ana now imminently
threaded by American assault
It is there that squadrons of the
American Thunderbolts an strafing
at housetop levels and letting go
with bombs weighing 260, 500 and
l,00<f pounds.
One squadron Laeder, Maj. Harold
Sparks of Frankfort, Ky„ sai(l the
whole belt wast of the Rhine was
'smoking like a boomtown" aa the
Little factories worked.
American planes, through concentrating
intensively on railroad basting
to teal off the battlefront, have
been given permission to divert
their span energies to everything
they rind along the way "thai Uvea
>r moves."
The Germans learned a lessen in
the battle of France.
Where pilots once wen able to toy
with freight trains "like a cat with a
mouse,'' the Germane now hare lined
the tracks with ail available antiaircraft
guns and an throwing up
terrific defenses, Sparics said. He
■dried that the enemy was trying
>ther tricks.
First, they worked out a stwn
release devise so that at the outset
it an attack, locoowtwes could emit
douds of steam an# make it appear
hat they were damaged badly. Than
hey worked out a camouflage which
nade the locomotives look like freight
*rs, putting a useless dummy entine
on in front to attract aerial Are.
Now, some of the locomotives ars
limply running the gantlet unhookng
their can at the first sign of an
ittacking plane and red balling it
town the tracks- in hope that the pilot
will be satttied with setting aflame
l string of boxcars.
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Visitag Service Men at the Center
luring the past week end included
'rom Camp Lejeune: Pvt John J.
3piee, Brooklyn, N. Y., who. was a
pi est at Mr. and Mm. &. J. Skinner,
Thursday to Sunday; PTC Sheldon M.
Sacks, Rochester, N. Y., and PFC
Daniel B. Ricktor, Baltimore, ltd.
Greenville Air Baae: Cpl. David E.
Hargtrom, Dallas, Texan; Cpl. Richwd
P. Hemaoth, Toledo, Ohi^ and
PFC Charles T. Wilmer, Kingfisher,
Okla., who were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Lester Turn age.
Cherry Point: S/Sgt. Nick Oliver,
Belle Vernon, Pa., ax>d S/Sgt Charles
Anderson, Httlden, Mass., who were
guests of Mr. and Mr*. R. A. Joyner,
8atarday night and Sunday, and PTC
Charles W. A%na oi Shelbyville,
Kentucky, guest at Mr. and Mn. A.
J. Greene, Saturday night and SunPEL
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The firet of a aeries of four <
ty-wlde tMhn meeting* ma heldl
at the courthouse ta Greenville, Tharsday
night, at 7:44 o'clock. Wit;
care* Lewis, President of the Ptttl
ir'Vn. * B. Jojmer.
The Ber. Robert W.
pastor of Jarvis Memorial Methodist
Church spoke. E. P. Johnson, principal
of the Ayden High School, lead
the discussion of the 1*44-45 program
of" the National Education Asaociation
and Raba Proctor, county BUtoer
visor of elementary schools, discuss
«d, "The Elementary Program.'
Katherlne McCleaa, principal of I
Stokes High School spoke an "HmI
High School Profomm." "
About 800 teachers attended.
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Sgt. Cati Beaman
Is Member of Group
Receiving Citation
An Eighth Aif Fare* Bomber Station,
England.—Behind the flying
personnel . who take Eighth Air
three P-17 Flying Fortresses over
enfcmy territory to bomb Gnrum
military and industrial targets, so
port Allied ground forces, and shoot I
fawn enemy aircraft are the main-1
Flying. Man such as Sergeant Carl
t Beaman, armament flight ae
geant. are little heard of but the job
they do is largely responsible for the
iu£cess at the actual bombing,
the destruction of enemy planes.
Set Beaman, 28, the son of Ore.
Csri Beaman, Sr- of 804 East Wil»on
Street, Famvflla, N. C., maintains
the armament of his Vying
Fortresses checks and rep^rs eiectncal
and mannal bombing equipment,
repairs and harmonises gun
lights, toads and fuses bombs, and
makes modifications of all armament
sqmpneot on the Porta.. A graduate
of Farmville High School he attended
Mars Hill OoUeg*. and before Joinbag
the Army in June 1M2 was tha
Charlotte, N. C., Metro-GoldwynUayer
representative. Ha completed
armament training at Buckley Field,
Coio. v • ., •
The ground specialist is a mambi
rf the group cited by the President
for its historic bombing of the Muhlembau
aircraft asMmbhr plant at
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Brunswick, Germany. This group
also participated in the Third Bombardment
Division England-Africa!
shuttle bombing of Messerschml
aircraft plants at Bsywisbnrg, Ger-1
many, in August 1943 for whk^ the
entire division W* awarded thePre«destia1
Citation.
Midaij
fens jB"Its
M<
Get 0*1
Action Necenary
Appealing to all dtisens of
County to tarn out &t tfce polls on
Tuesday, November*. Dr. M. T.Tria-^
selle,' president of the PKt County .
judgment of rural and
town America in deefcbnir who its
leaders shall be in the years immediacy
ahead.' '1
"The sUUUty of America," Jm
in tiu) SMtaR
farms and in the small towns.
are the people who own or plan to
own their own bone* aad their own
land, the people who must pay- taxes
and who from lone experience in
running their own bnsoiwsaes are accustomed
to making their own decisions.
They should study the
Mt all the and than
their wishes known at the polls."
The trcmandous task that la
will call for the beat
America can offer, ha said, quoting
this statement by Edward A. O'Neal,
president of the American Farm Bu
"The coming years will be fraught
with both opRMtanittaB and pitfalls.
Adjustments will hare to be marie
md they moat be mad* in inch a way
that the American farmer does not
ret short end of the stick. This,
means that rural America moat look
to the record, determine who ha
Wands ai% and than support them
it the polls."
Mr. Prixselle quoted figures show
lag that in only eight ei the last M
years have farm prices reachod parity—aad
fire of thpse yean
sither World War f or World War O.
Fie abo pointed oat that wnskly wagus
it factory workers as of the first of
his year were four times as Ugh aa
huing the 1910-14 period, while
pices received by famsoL was lass &
haa double.
Pointing out that every -American
kaa sn intangible as wsll as a tangi>le
stake in America, Mr. Frizsalle
■eferred to a recent statsmsnt, by J.
E. Winatow, President of tha North
Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, to •
he effect that today "the share ft
aaeh man, woman and child in America
in the national debt ia appnoi
uately *2,000. This means that the
average farm fhrnBir at ftva has an
Intangible debt of $10,000 to carry,
jr considerably more than the value
H the average American farm." - ,;
MASIAN ANNE WBKS WINS
BABT CONTEST; MICHAEL
TfPkTKM IN SBCOND PLACE
little Mia Mariaa Asm Weeks,
laughter of Captain and Mitt T. W.
Weeks, was wianar in the baby Popularity
Contest with Master Mfehwl
Bctem, eon of Mr. and Mrs. H., ft.
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