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Fourteen Ships, Including
Three Wargkips,
Sunk or Dam aged In
Raid On Manila Area;
Floating Drydock Destroyed
U. & Pacific Fleet Headquarters,
Pearl Harbor, Nov. 16. — Another
American carrier plane rmid on Japanese
shipping- and facilities in Mar
nil* Bay left 14 ship®—including
three warships—rank or damaged, a
floating dock destroyed and at least
28 imperial planes wiped out
The Sunday assault was announced
last night by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz.
One ship of the American carrier
task fane was damaged during
a Japanese aerial attack.
fjqpapese broadcasters said earlier
that 800 attacking planes hit the
Manila area, and claimed one
American battleship was sunk by
suicide pilots east of Luzon Island.)
Admiral Nimitz said two destroyers
in Manila Bay exploded under
the visions American attack. While
theee were not listed as sunk in the
communique, they could be termed
probables. A third warship, a light
cruisef, was left badly damaged.
An estimated 11 cargo ships and
oilers wen either sunk or left aflame,
and a floating dock was torpedoed.
The attacking force of Helcatp,
Avengers and HeUdivers tore up
numerous docks in Manila Bay and
in the Csvite navy yard and strafed
Legaspi, Manila and Clark airfields,
damaging at least temporarily 180
to 140 single and twin engined Japanese
planes caught on the ground.
Eighteen or 20 interceptors were
shot down over Luzon, and 10 others
were destroyed as they attacked the
carrier* force commanded by Rear
Adm. Frederick C. Sherman.
In fresh assaults Saturday on the
Palau Islands, Marine Corsairs sank
a small enemy vessel offshore. Hellcars
nnd Liberators bombed Koror,
Malakvi and Aragabesan Islets.
Iwojima in the Bon in group, only
760 miles south of Tokyo, was bombed
by a single search Liberator on
Saturday, and on Monday planes
from Fleet Airwing One bomber various
targets of the Bonins, scoring
near misses on an escort vessel and a
medium cargo ship.
The enemy had planes" in the air
over the islands but they did not attack.
Capt James Darden ,*j
Has Cluster Added
To His Flying Crass
Headquarters Tenth Air Force in
India.—Award of the first Oak Leaf
Cluster to the Distinguished Flying
Croat "for extraordinary achievement
in aerial flight" to Capt James
H. Darden, 25, son of Mis. Sarah A.
Daitkn, Farmville, North Carolina,
has been announced by Msj. Gen.
Howard C. Davidson, Commanding
General, Tenth Air Force, EAC.
An operations officer for the Burma
Budhess, a P-47 fighter outfit
of As Tenth Air Force thafc
operates against'the Jape over EjonuAf
Capt. Darden also holds the Air
Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster.
He has chalked "tip 126 combat
missions and S62 combat horns to
his credit
Capt Darden attended the Farmville
High School and the University
of NortlP Carolina where he participated
in football, basketball, and
Tysons-Mayslo
Hold Their Annual
Assembly Nov. 24
Descendants of the Tyaon and May
families will assemble at the Christian
Church hers, Friday, November
24, at 10:15 A. M. for the 24th annual
meeting of the Tysons snd about
half that number erf Joint reunions
held by the Tysons and Mays, which
represents ons of the most vigorous
reunion organisations in the State.
Despite adverse circumstsnsee in
connection with travel, the reunion
organization is striving towank a
goal of unbroken sequence in the
point of snnnal meetings. The custom
of carrying the spirit of Thanksgiving
over into the next day will be
continued also, and those returning
from distant places to their families
in this vicinity wfll have the added
opportunity of renewing acquaintance
and enjoying the fellowship of
a wide circle o< kinsmen.
John B. Lewis, program chairman,
announces that pins are going forward
under the direction of Andrew
Joyner, Jr., of Greensboro, President,
and Mft. Edward May,' secretary,
and the program im being designed
not only for the purpose of honoring
pioneer ancestors but to pay
tribute also to their sons and daughters,
who are givihg their life blood
today for those,same principles of
liberty, freedom and tolerance, which
inspired their forebears, in their
heroic struggle for civil snd religious
liberties snd happy homes.
Rev. Edwin S. Coatee will make
the address and Mrs. G. Alex Rouse
will have charge of the musk. Miss
Tabitha M DeVisconti will give the
genealogy report
Members of the two families are
requested to bring with them information
regarding the military service
of those of their own immediate family
circles in order that a complete
record of service may be made and
preserved for ftture generatioss.
A basket lunch will be served at
noon in the basement oi the Church.
All members of the reunion and interested
friends are cordially invited
and urged to attend. No invitations
have been mailed this year in order
to keep expenses at a minimum.
Congress Starts
On Home Stretch
Social Security Battle
Coining Up Again; Republicans
Pledge War
Aid V r'%
Washington, Nov. 16.—The 78th
Congress convened for Ms final session
Tuesday, swore in a former
Capitol elevator boy as a Senator,
and recessed until Tfavpday to map
action on a legislative slate which
it hopes can be wiped clean by December
10.
Social security taxes shared the
spotlight with election yams as each
house conducted only prefunctory
business before tackling an agenda
which includes a vast postwar highway
program, flood control, extension
of the War Powers Act and
important appropriation bills. Tits
86 "Lame Du^meuhst* who will
yield their seats January 3.
tic leaders, \ jubilant at
PSJ-ty^s vicfory^at a>s polU, will
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moc On TLeyte; Principal
Fighting Rages
Near Liftion
General Mac Arthur's Headquarters,
Philippines, Nov. 16. — American
fighting men Wednesday were on
three tides of the Japanese Leyte Island
spsaHwiad thrust north from the
port of Ormoc, and threatened to cut
[ the spear from the shaft
In a sthrategic maneuver, infantrymen
of the 24th Diviaiop swung wide
to the west of the Japanese front
line regiment near Limn, while other
units of the Mth maintained pressure
along the line from the north.
First Cavalry -(diamftwfcd) units
closed in from captured Hfll 1625 and
Mt CatahSran to the east. In hit
communique Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur
rpoke of tiie movement as a
"wide envelopment" and declared it ty
"threatening the Yamashita line beflow
Limon." He said American artillery
was giving the infantrymen highly
effective close support.
Rake Supply Unas
At the same time American long
range guns were raking the Japanese
supply line twisting op through
the mountains from Ormoc, making
reinforcement of Nipponese troops at
Limon costly and uncertain.
Elements of the 96th American Infantry
Division gained a mountain
crest looking down toward Ormoc, 14
miles to the west, in the vicinity at
Alto Peak.
The. American Seventh Division
at Damulaan on the west Leyte coast,
near the mouth of Ormoc Bay, repulsed
a small enemy force attempting
to land from barges, General MacArthur
reported.'
This was the first news of the Seventh
in more titan a week.
He declared that along the Ormoc
corridor American troops |»i—out
with constant offensive punches, have
kept the Japanese off balance, and
prevented Gen. Tokoyuki Yamashita
from gathering enough force in his
forward areas for a strong counterattack.
Elements of five Japanese divisions
are hemmed in by the Americans,
who hold high ground along
three sides of Upon and along the
east side of narrow valley leading to
Ormoc.
Principal fighting is near Limon,
to which the Japanese have bean
forced to'withdraw by the American
24th Division pushing south along
the Ormoc road from Qtfrigara Bay
on LeyteV north co&st.
The Japan— are sholding up the
%uericans sdgyy there by a stand
Along what KipArthur calls the
"Yamashita Line."
It is this line the Americana are
now threatening to cut off by moving
in behind jt from moth east and west.
SERVICE MEN'S
• CENTER •
Registering at the local Service
Men's Center during the past week
were: Leon. Lovic, of the Merchant
Marine, with home port at Norfolk,
V*., who is spending some time with
his sister, Mrs. Benaie Wooten. Lovte
has beat at sea since March touching
many of the important porta in the
Mediterranean.
Cherry Point: S/Sgt Robert
Amoe, Penaacola, Fla., and Greensboro,
Ga., and TechySgt. Chsriee 0.
Wood, MfiVlnstjiy Saturday
Sunday guests of Mr.>«4Mrs. J. I.
In calling all employees to participate
fat the solicitation tad sale of
War Bonds ia the Sixth War Lean
Drive whioh-begine Minikr Nov.
20th, Ghairmas Josh W. Mimtien of
the Retailers Division, again divides
employee! into two teams as in the
last drive; the "Eisenhower" team
with Miss Mary Elisabeth Barrett aa
chairman, and the "MaeArthur" team
with W. H. "Bill" Duke as chairman.
Hie above teams aold over two
hundred thousand 'dollars in Bonds
aimi the eetmtor during the Fifth
Wit Loan Drive.
The following ia a copy at a letter,
recently mailed to co-wwtais by
Chairman Munden, which we pass on
to the peWic hcaaasi of its importance
at this time: ' :
To the Fellow Weekend of the Merchants'
Division,
Pitt County War Finance Committee,
FamvilVMwtt " . '■
As yaa already know the Sixth
War Leae Drive-begins next Monday,
November 80th. Aa before, you can
be of invaluable assistance to the
success of our part in this Drive.
There will be other workers, but we,
representing- the Merchants Division,
are to agftin play a most important
part
- Because of interest created ia our
last drive we are again dividing our
employees into teams. War Bend
Sales Tor each team will be posted
daily in the window of some centrally
located store so that the employees
may note the piugwte at his or her
team. Flans an already being mad*
by the Captains for the losing team
to entertain the winning team to a
picnic supper like the one staged at
the end of the last Drive. Our two
teams will be aa before, the "MacArthur"
-Team, with BUI Duke as
Captain, and the "Eiamhower" Team,
with Miss Mary EHaabeth Barrett
as Captain. Yon -have already been
drafted to be «« the same team that
you were on before. Pledges will be
given to each of you and there will
be plenty of additional ones when
needed.
The Sixth War Loan Drive Must be
a Success in our Community, as well
as Nationally. Everyone of us •nuat
give this all "the energy that we have.
We all must participate. If you are
a downtown worker and were not on
a team in the last drive, it is important
that you see one of the Captains
of the toro teams and enlist
roaay.
* Do you know tint over 500,000 of
our boys have already been killed or
seriously wounded during this war?
Do yon realise that every pledge you
get signed to buy War ponds will do
its part in helping to shorten the
war and thereby bring back a lot of
our boys that might not have returned?
Our boys over there are depending
on us. Let's don't let them down.
Let's all begin selling Bonds today.
We did it before. Let's do it again.
Yours very truly,
gjj; Josh W. Muoden, "f j
Township Chairman^
The following is a l&ft -of the two
teams serving in the last drive wfee
have been reappointed to help put
the 8th Way Bond Drive "Over the
Top" begmning Manday, Nov. 20th:
Mary Elisabeth Barrett, Captain;
-Owtea Regws, Nannie Mosingo, F.
G. Dupree, Jr., H. T. Itobsnwn, A. C.
PhilUpe, Mm Shirley Freedman,
Rachel Heath, A. L. Joyner, Albertine
B. Moore, Bay Goin, Ceell
Johnston, Mrs. Maynard Thome, Mrs.
Ervin Evans, Mildred Hardison, 14*
Cobb, Margie Mosingo, Addie Hardison,
Annie R. Weatbrook, L. J. WiUi
miles due east ot Budapest, the Berlin
natto said today.
He reported loss of the bitterly
contested city of 80,000 came after
the Red Army 'wheeled upon the Hungarian
capital from several directions
and liquidated a German bridgehead
Mat of the Danube and south of Budapest
Moscow said 30 towns had been
overran.
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky'a
troops, holding fast to their positions
within easy medium artillery
range of Budapest on the south,
speared north and northwest from
Monor, and captured Uri and Feteri
in gains of three to five miles.
Siesure of Solt and Duna Egyhada,
45 and 42 miles south of Budapest,
erased the enemy bridgehead on the
sast hank of the Danube. The Berlin
radio said the Russians hurled three
infantry" divisions against the Naxis,
who withdrew to nowty-preparod positions
on the west bank.
A Moscow dispatch said 1,200 prisoners
were taken in the bridgehead
battle, and hundreds more of the
snemy drowned in an attempt to flee
tcroas the river. Approximately 60,D00
Germans and Hungarians have
been captured since Hungarians have
Ids drive on Budapest.
Hungary seemed likely to remain
the main theater of action on the
eastern front, the Moscow dispatch
sdded, for there was little hint ofuiy
attempt in the near future to
break the stalemate in Poland'or
Bast Prussia.
The Russian war bulletin announced
the capture of N&gykata, railway
town 27 miles east of Budapest and
10 miles south of the rail junctioin
>f Jaszbereny. Moscow dspatches
said yesterday hand-to-hand fighting
was taking place in Jaszbereny.
Heves, 17 miles northeast of Jaszbereny,
fell to the Russians, and the
sntire operation had the effect, of
straightening a curving line stretching
80 miles northeast from the vidnr
ity at Budapest to positions south of
the big railway junction of Miskolc.
A broadcast communique from Marshal
Tito announced that his Yugoslav
partisians had captured Skoplje,
Important rail junction in southern
Yugoslavia and key to the Vardar
valley route through the Balkans.
Churchill Sees Long
Fight Ahead
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London,1 Nov. 16—Prime Minister
Churchill, home front a tour of French
battlefronts, told the House of Com-,
mong Wednesday that extremely
heavy fighting "will certainly last for
a good long time."
His statement was in reply to
lames Duncan, a conservative, who
isked that men over 40 in "static"
military stations be released from the
irmy.
"I need hardly remind you that the
itatic stations are necessary for the
prosecution of the war," Churchill replied.
"Officers and mm over 40 of
low medcal category who are employed
there release officers and men for
more active-duty. In view oi the pressnt
shortage of manpower I regret
that the present arrangement for indefinite
release from the forces cannot
be altered."
Insistence .by Duncan that the mat'
bar be reviewed in the light of new.
facte brought this statement from
Mr. Churchill: rjj <
"Tha new fact that stares one in
the face isthat extremely heavy
flighting is continuing week by week
and Will centainly last for riMi
long time."
WONT YOU SHARE YOU* HONS?
Service Men everywhere are grate
HitU RonArfiki)
Ilftlvl ^wtvpwHWI
-Under Knife Fer
Threat Tumor
Swiss Story Thus Explains
Fuehrer's Silence;
Wavering Nazis
To Be Shot
London, Nor. "14.-—A Viennese surjeon
has operated on Adolf Hitler to
remove a dangwou* throat tumor
which developed from Us chronic
throat trouble, ft high German personality
arriving in Switderland Mid
A United Pnw Zurich dtopatah importing'
the operation said thai Hitler
!"-was at his Ohf Hlmn retreat in
Bavaria an that the operating Burgeon
was Prof e—or Ekke of Vienna.
Prof. Ferdinand Sanerbruch, formerly
Hitler's personal surgeon, did not
operate because he is no kmger in
favor, the dispatch said.
Hie German informant offered the
operation as an explanation of rumors
that Hitler was incftpartated,
held a prisoner by his own Nasis, or
dead, and of his fai]*e to read in
person his manifesto last Sunday.
At the same time the Motcov radio,
also quoting reports from Sweden,
said thai Hitler had had ft stroke
which paralysed the right side of his
body and all but deprived him of the
power of speech
The News Chronical, commenting
on the Zurich report of a throat operation
on Hitler, suggested that the
surgeon was Dr. Efchen, who had removed
a- polypus from Hitler's throat
back in 1989.
Hitler la Japan
New York, Nov. 16th-"Hitler is
alive, but isjn Japan, and made the
trip in a submarine," according to
one of the theories circulating among
doughboys of the American First
Army in^ Germany, Blue Network Correspondent
Gordon Fraeer said today
in a broadcast from the front
Wants Two Billions In
Exports In Next 12
Months; Credit problem
Arises
Washington, Nor. 14.—The French
are seeking approximately two billion
dollars worth of Uniited States
exports during the next 12 months
for use in rebuilding their country,
it was learned tonight
Arrangement* for the huge procurement
program already are nearfog
completion. Some of the goods
may be shipped on lend-lease because
they are considered necessary
to France's war effort against Germany
or Japagl but the great bulk
*ill go partly for cash and, officials
hope, partly on csedit
The French program, probably the
farthest advanced of the eoonoraic
plans to come out of liberated Europe,
calls for purchase of 700 Jieemotives
as' well as comparable quantities of
railway rolling stock and track equipment,
tracks for highway transport;
huge shipments of cotton, fertiliser*
and other raw materials.
% Ki M, Net As Great
The purchasing program recently
B«*j? New Drive
Northern Seetor
Holland; Seven
Army Advances
Southern Front
London, Nor. 1«. — U. S. Third
army troops pushed to within a rail*
and tfefto-Qtiartm of Matt from the
south Wedneeday against stiffening
resistance and fought fiercely for
foil control of Pouilly Ridge, which
controls the Germam' main escape
highway from tha French fiMieae
city.
This advance by the Fifth Infantry
division, which already hat penetrated
tha outer ftuUem system of
the city, was matched by the Mth
Infantry division driving en Mats
from tha wmt The 95th reached a
point two miles from the city limits
after gaining a mile and a half and
overrunning two mora forts in the
Metz system north ef Fort Driant.
Some 160 milea to the north, British
Second Army infantry »nsehad
into the enemy linen in southeastern
Holland behind massed artillery fire
and flame-throwers, advancing 4,000
yards on a three-mile front wast of
tha Dutch border city of Venio. This
drive waa made in bitter cold end
driving sleet
North of Mats the Koenigsmacher
Thionville bridgthsnd over the Moselle
River was lengthened to U
miles by Third Army troops and a
front dispatch uid there were Mgas
ef a general .German withdrawal to
the southeast in that area.
In the wheeling- movement southeast
of Mets the Fmrth Armored
division paased GueMing, 27 miles
from the city, and the 26th praised
closer to Disuse.
A German oouteratAack was broken
up by the troops driving on Mats
from the south and another enemy
counterattack ids repulsed ia the
Sixth Armored division none areund
Arrianca, 18 miles sonthsast of MeU
and 14 miles from the Gemma bolder.
The British mounted their drive
Tuesday from Nsderwaerk, 18 miles
southewest of Vehto and soma 88
miles northwest of Aachen. JTVt apparent
purpose of this offensive was
to flatten the German bulge west ef
the Mass (Muese) Rrrw sad straighten
the Allied front between the Dutch
city of Nijmegen and Aachitn, whan
American First Army tesops have
establshed themselves firmly on German
<soiL
The British quickly establishsd
three bridgrfk** over the Wesssra
and NoMer caaais and occupied Meijel,
six miles northeast , of Neder
went, and Bind, a mile and a half
southeast of Nedefweert. The Germans
had abandoned Meijel, hot left
it heavily mined and booby trapped.
ImmediatelyMfeh of Mets, the
American? who breached the ring
of forts—finding
unmanned and stripped of
big guns—ran up against a
em placed line rf German 88s en the
Pouilly Ridge less than two milea below
the city.
SUB Other Gaiaa.
On the right flank of the
Army's huge attack, American
try wl armor advancing i
Chateau-Salins reached the
Desrich mm
Fresh gains
Allied troops of the Oxth
arrouo in the
Thfed
footh^sgprs^ihi mmm' 1
dor. Northeast of Baccarat they ad^
anred approximately 6 miles ftftinft
light resistance. East of
town of Grangae-Sur-Votogaa and
■ever*] nearby villages ^ere <
aa the enemy wm» forced back i
than a mile.'
Still farther sooth, dsaptta i
fields, limited
against stiff
ed valley of'
The Allied
that we&the
operation*" in
attacks
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