Not. 29. — j
Superfortresses have raided
for the tkfcd time in six days, ft Mi
announced today, and Japanese
broadcast* said that two separate
fleets of thegiant B-28 bombers had
hit the capital, one at 11.66 p. m.,
WuhnitM and a second at 4:16 a.
m., Thursday, Japanese time.
Admitting that fires had been started,
Tokyo said that raiders had
showered incendiary bombs « the
city and jntewpsasid them with
flares to light targets.
' Tokyo reported that the first fleet
of Saperforts had attacked from
11:66 pi m., Wedr-aday to 2 a. m.,
Thursday, Japanese time (1 p. m.,
Wednesday EWT.)
First Night Attack.
A small formation attacked JMtuoka
prefecture on the coaat southwest
of Tokyo while the city was
under attack, Tokyo wtt ;
A second fleet of Superforts, de-[
at 4:16 a. m., and continued to afe-1
tack ante 6 a. m., the enemy broad-1
casta arid.
It was the first night attack in|
history of the Japanese capitaL
A Tokyo broadcast recorded by {
the United Press in New York ss
that the first Superfort fleet attacked
over thick ciouda in drizzling
rain, followed by flare bombs which
incendiaries "blindly released" and
that fires ware started at two places
among civilian homes.
A second wave' of planes Tiiwpped
bombs among the flames, Tokyo
said, bat added that the fires were
"immediately brought under control*
At 4:11 a. ml, Tokyo said, the sec-|
ond fleet hit the city, "again drop-]
ping ineendiaries on civilian banes."
This time a fire started at one I
place, Tokyo said, but immediately j
waa pot out.
"As these raids were expected
people were undisturbed," Tokyo
said. "As the result of thorough
training and full preparation in fire
fighting, the damage done by the
enemy waa; slight."
Japanese night fighter planes challenged
the Superfbrta, Tokyo said.
TTjia broadcast said that the formation
which attacked Sfcdxuoka prefecture
lost its way to Tokyo and
dropped ita bombs harmless in fields
or hflla.
TM official announcement issued
hare at 4:40 p. nu, EWT said:
"B-2» aircraft of the 20th Air
For* today attacked targets in the
Tokyo area, it waa announced at
the War Department today by Geo.
H. H.-Arnold, in his capacity aa commanding'
general of the 20th Air
Force. The attack was made by
Brig. Gen. H. a Bansell's 21st
Bomfetfr Command baaed on Saipan.
A communique will be iasued when
further details are available.
*Mtyw Threatens.
A few hoars befere the attack
Chungking radio {Masters heard *
Tspagaaw Doroei agency political
ress—sri. «***
[Tokyo miaUiH fVom end >> end,
hat Superfort am who made the
first stuck on the city last Friday
saw fires horning. Oond* obscured
targets during- the second raid Monday.
Tokyo
briiA.ast again today stataMeats
that Japanese planes had attacked
the Oapsrturt 21st Bomber
Command base at Saipaa in the
Everyone I n v i t e d To
Welcome Jolly Guest
Here On Friday Ni*ht,
December 15
Another year! Another Christmas!
And once mors old Santa climbs firto
hia plane to visit boy* and giris and
die <rider folks too throughout the
land. .. " -■
The Town of Farmville is busy Setting
the stage and getting everything
in readiness for Santa's first arrival
here, Friday night, December 16, at
7:80 o'clock.
The store window* are fall of beautiful
displays and-the shelves are
piled high with lovely holiday gooda
for the pre-Christmas shopping sear
■en and for Santa's arrival aad Mayor
Davis is planning his wslcomiag
speech with the idea of making it the
warmest and heartiest yet.
Santa wiH be accompanied by a
squad of his workmen from Toyland
to assist him in handing out presents
to the hundreds of children on the
streets, who will be there to greet
and show the merry old gentleman
their joy in having him eome to
Farmville again.
The bwriasss firms have arranged
to keep their stares open from TrtX)
until 9:00 o'clock, so that their.stocks
of beautiful gifts may be inspected
by the large number of visitors, who
are expected in the down town section
Friday night, December 15th.
Josh W. Munden, President of the
Chamber of Commerce and Merchants
Association, is* urging every merchant
and homenaaker to help give the town
in gfeneral as~festiva aa atmosphere as
possible under th» present restrictions
is to lighting effects.
Officers are Elected and
Committees Appointed
Despite the present difficulties of
travel doe to conditions resulting
from the war, Tyson and May «escendanU
gathered in goodly number
at the Christian Church the day after
Thankagiriag to keep unbroken the
sequence at 24 annual reunion meetings
of theee famHiee.
The Reverend C. B. M&ahburn, pastor
of the Christian Church, and ah
adopted son of the organization, presided
in iheenrr of the president,
Andrew Joyaer, Jrn at Greensboro,
, Aboard Admiral Halaey's Flagship
in the Western Pacific, Nw. 28—
Admiral William F. Halsey>s Third
flset today began «* fourth month
of unexcelled naval and air warfare
in the western Pacific after 90 history-makin®
days daring1 which it
blasted open the pacific ocean highway
to the Philippine islands and
took a terrific toll of Japanese ships
and planes
Estimates ri losses inflicted on the
enemy by the Third fleet during the
three w™*>n Miw* Admiral Chester
W. Nimitz placed Adnuril Halsey in
command, show that the Japanese
lost 8«44€ planes destroyed, 182 warships
sunk or damaged and over 600
merchant ships sank or damaged. In
addition more than 400 small craft
sunk or 4iflu|^d(L
Far-ranging planes from this flest'
in hundreds of iWh» bombed, strafed
and burned plane* and installations
of about 112 Juanese airports
during the same period.
The ninety days were of sustained
naval and air combat of unprecedented
intensity «and Scope.
Figures of Japanese losses disclosed
that 1,664 enemy air craft were
■hot out of thasdr artd 1,782 were destrayed
on the ground.
The warships' tally showed that
four catties* were sunk; nine battleships
danamged; three heavy cruisers
rank and five to seven 4*maged; two
light cruisers sunk and eight damagBd;
25 destroyers and destroyer escorts
sunk and 46 damaged; two seaplane
tenders aftnk; three mine layers
damaged, and 22 other smaller
warships sank and 29 damaged.
This added up to a total of 68 warships
sank and more than a hundred
iamaged. \ " " ■ f.:.
For merchant shipping, it is esti-j
mated there were three tankers sank
ind 26 damaged; 114 merchantmen
aver 1,000 tons sunk and 263 damaged;
and 100 smaller merchantmen
sunk and 118 damaged.
Some of -the ships damaged in one
sngamement were sunk letter and sq
the list has some duplication.
AdfeUral Halsey's flagship from
which the sturdy Japanese-hating admiral
has directed operations, has
steamed 36,186 miles since the start
at the mission 90 days ago and the
flagship has rarely been at anchor.
Dozing this time it has never so
much as been, scratched by enemy
fire. ' ■ m.
In War Bonds
First Week
.
Store employees
Mid mend 160,000 In War Bonds
through Wednesday, November 29.
Bill Duke, captain of the llacArthur
team reports tint the pledges taken
by his team reached a total of $28,825
and the Eisenhower team with Miss
Mary Elizabeth Barrett as eaptai£|
reports pledge* totalling $20,826.
It looks like then is right much
competition between the two teams
■nd it ie the popular opinion that it
will be a mighty dose race as to
which 'team will- sell tiy moat bonds.
X. W. Mnnden, Betail War Bond
Chaninan, requests that all employees]
put forth an extra special effort in
the neat few days to enable our town
to quickly meet the goal which has
been set far our community, t fe'i
Employees are also asked to turn
in any signed Mfts they may have
■- rM
Seeks True
Washington, Nov. 28. — Without
learning the reason for the car wait
dgftirpite gnortage, coRgroasonai inveatigators
htfard testimony today
that an 18-month supply of cued to>w
The-Hons* Agriculture
listened as witness after
pteaeuted siMsani llisl this
now is pmdadng more cigarette to-;
bacco tfcan evw before and that the
dvfHan supply is nearly 60 per
greater ftn Mm the war.
Only growers' representative! testified
at today's hearing. Chairman
(D-Va) said
mittee would decide later whether to
call in cigarette manufacturers and
distributees.
George E. Powell of the Commodity
Credit Corporation said the July
1 stock-on-hand of flue-cured tobacco
was 1487,000,000 of which more
than 1,000,000,000 willbe for domestic
vm. Annual consumption, he aaid,
will nm around €#0,000,000 pounds,
leaving an 18-month supply on hand]
beforv the 1M4 erep is marketed.
Several witnesses said tobacco
growers are satisfied with thr AAA
production program and argued
against any attempt to remove controls
fiVih the crop.
Rep. Chapman (D-Ky) told the
committee, "I don't know what has
caused the shortage of cigarettes
but I do know the tobacco growers
are not guilty." - ~~ '4
Powell said ear-marked exports of
floe cured tobacco this year will be
sbout one-third of the crop, compared
with the (0 per cent he aaid went
irrawsaa before the war.
~ Little smeke but a lot of fire was
tanned up on ctpitol hill today in the
Search for the missing cigarettes.
Senate investigators of the cigarette
shortage punned what Senator
Ferguson (R-Mich) called the same]
rumors "as those heaid by every
cigarette smoker."
While the Senate War Investigating
committee prabably will discuss
ua undercover inquiry by its agents
it a session today, Ferguaon said he
lid not look for a public hearing
"until additional progress has been
made."
No cigarette smoker himself, Ferguson
said his interest is "to see if
the shortage has been caused by black
market, excessive storage or for
other reasons^'*"■*"'*> " '•
"People have been led to believe
that they cant buy cigarettes bemuse
a large percentage of manufacture
is geamg to troops ov&sess,"
Ferguson continued. "Then they
learn that at many points the soldiers
cant get cigarettes or have to pay
black market prices;
"There probably are a number of
explanations for titfc shortage, including
increased consumption here
utd abroad.
"But, until we find out what the
causes are, it will be difficult to find
Let's hope they find it in a, hurry,
President Eric Calamia of the National
Retail Tobacco Merchants Association
said at Kansas (Sty y ester-1
lay that the shortage will be even
worse in- the next three months than I
it has bean in the last two. 'J
Four Stri
Girls Win
FroiiWln
Two to Gr
Nov. 16, the Farm-1
iris defeated Winter-,
» Tfre giriaj
Philippines, Nov. S|fl.—Action flared
on both sides of storm-bogged Leyte
as American destroyers braved the
mined Inner Philippine seas to shall
Ormoc and the Japanese* airforoe
bombed U. S. wanshipg and transports
ed today. ,
(Tokyo radio, in uafconfinMd
broadcasts, expanded the Pacific's
war picture, saying Nipponese troops
are locked in battle on little Movotai
island, 300 miles south of the Philippines,
after a surprise camlet landing
there Sunday.
(Tokyo also made the unsubstantiated
claim that Japanese planes
struck for the third straight day Wednesday
si the American base on Saipan
in the Mariana* from wjlich Superfortresses
twice have flown to
bomb Tokyo Itself.,
The nav.il and air actios at Leyte
reported today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur
wan in sharp relief to the
ground situation where the Yanks,
pressing the enemy along the Ormoc
corridor, still were at a near halt because
of torrential rain.
American patrol -torped#^ ■ beats
have been operating in the Camotes
sea bat this was the flrirt appearance
of destroyers. They had to more
through narrow straits and past enemy-held
islands.
On the other sida of Leyte, SO Japanese
torpedo planes and dive bombers
swarmed through thick overcast
during daylight hours Monday to hit
American shipping in Leyte gulf, but
IS were knocked down by unusually
deadly ack-ack fire and two others
destroyed by flghtssa.
General Mac Arthur acknowledged
"some casualties and damage." Units
In Leyte gulf included a battleship
■fid other warships and transports.
In their first penetration of the
dangerous inland seas from the Pacific
the destroyers boldly skirted
Leyte island Monday night and entered
the Camotes sea, from which
they bombarded Japanese positions
around Ormoc for three hours from
close range, r 1
the Japanese on western Leyte.
(Tokyo's claim at the counter
unit" oiiMorotaj, and island invaded
last September I6by MacArthur in
preparation for the Philippines operations,
was recorded today by the
Federal Communications commission
in the United Statei.
(The broadcast said'"bitter fighting
is progressing on the Island between
our troops and American
troops.")
Mac Arthur's communique today
made brief mention of Morotai, reporting
that «nemy night raiders
caused "alight damage;"
(FCC also recorded the enemy
claim of the Saipan strike. Tokyo
* 01 REV. BUHN OLIVE,
at Raleigh, who will 1
for * aerial of nrtnl
finning at the Baptist Church, Sun-|
4ay night, «t VM.
WAR IN BRIEF
American tpniff capture
towns on Cologne font; U. S. Seventh
Amy poshes 12 miles south tram
Strasbourg1 and, on the north, to within
18 miles at Bavarian bond
Washington announces third B-»|
attack on Tokyo in six days;
broadcasts, reporting plants i„—
ed over. e&pital shortly before midnight
.admit fires started at two
places and warn angTy citizens will
handle any esptnred Ameriea
nese troop, killed se U. & pi _
stray 18 enemy ships attempting to
Leyte; total of 21,000 Jape-1
aahkilated in
Mere than I/>tO U. S. heavy bomben
and fighters Meet Germany's
main ©Q plants at Disberg and also
raid Hanun; RAF bonl
Rhine targets by night
British Eighth Amy troops
strong German resistance five miles 1
northeast of Ffcensa in fe valley.
Japanese airge to within 260 miles |
of Skungking; government
threat to capital
:h
VT NEED!
have their advantages.
They cover a multitude of
Forced From
Town® Along The
of Sa&rbrucken; Nazis
Trapped By French In
Vosgee 1
London, No*. 29.—Amadou taafco
Rirmr today after Mtttog the
from five towns fa bitter
to feree open the gate* to
Cologne, 28
point «wt of the
four miles from tha rhrar
Daren, Ml late :
tnm the Vint Array said. The
town lad bee
morning and the
did not attempt a i
ita eaaten limtte.
Tha Fhfat Array
stiff opposition late thai
outskirts or Merode, a mils
of Jangendorf aad •%
milea from Daren.
la tha oaater of the Western front,
Lt Gen. G«arj« & Potton's
m
croat of ths Steftfried Line in tha
rich Saar basin. Hi. men wan within
eight raises of
coed capital of
tha iadoaMal baain on a
front The important towns of 1
lantern,
Saaregueminea and Sam Union all
The Fraach Rnt Amy in tha
south trapped;
U. S. Pirat Army
tha last house and -ellar nt
attetod forea* town of H
dajra, aad then drove a
Raar River fortress efty of Dam,
falL