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********** )BtH CAROLINA, NUMBER FoSfe MAftCH I, INS Red Cross War Fund Campaign To Be Conducted Here Next Week Captains and Lieuten ants Will Meet Tuesday Morning at 10 ©'Clock > . \ The Red Cross War Fund Cam paign will be conducted, here from March 6 through March 10. Fanp ville's quote for this year is $5,190.. the same as last year. All Captains and their lieutenant* will meet in the Farmville Funeral Home on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, at which time plans for the campaign will be completed. Group Captains are—Group 1, J. B. Lewis; Group 2, Mrs. H. Neal Howard; Group 3, Mrs. R. T. Williams; Group 4, R. D. Rouse; Group 5, Jack Lewis; Group 6, Mrs. Jesse Moye; Group 7, B." M. Lewis; Colored Group, Prof H. B. Sugg. Mrs. B. M. Lewis and Mrs. A. C. Turnage have been asked to work through the Home Demon stration Club. W. A. Allen is Special Gifts Chairman. Hon. George W. Davis, Representa tive from Pitt County, will make a radio talk for the Farmville Red Cross Branch Chapter on Saturday evening, March 3, at 9:15 o'clock from W:G.T.C., Greenville. On next Sunday morning, the ministers of the various churches and superintendents of the Sunday Schools are requested to make announcement of the cam paign and to lay emphasis on the urgent need for fulfilling the assign ed quota. Local Chapter Order Of Eastern Star Reorganized Mrs. CurfigH. Flanagan Installed As Worthy Matron; W, E. Joyner, As Worthy Patron Professor W. M. Jenkins, of Mon roe, Worthy Grand Patron, and Mrs. Blanche Twiford, of Elizabeth City, Worthy Grand Matron, assisted by Mrs. Maude B. Foy, of Kins ton, Dis trict Deupty Grand Matron; J. L. Phillips, of Kinston, District Deputy Grand Patron; Mrs. Percy Wells, of Greenville, and Mrs. W. M. Jenkins, of Monroe, reorganized the Farmville Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, on Friday evening, Feb. 23, at the Masonic Hall. Mrs. Foy served as Grand Marshal; Mr, Phillips, as Grand Chaplain; Mrs. Wells, as Grand Secretary; and Mrs. Jenkins, as Grand Organist. The Greenville Chapter No. 149 conduct ed the iniatatory program. Mrs. Twi ford officiated in the installation of the following officers: Mrs. Curtis Flanagan, Worthy Ma tron; W. E. Joyner, Worthy Patron; Mrs. Herman Baker, Associate Ma tron; Geo. W. "Davis, Associate Pa tron; Mrs. J. W. Parker, Secretary; Mrs. J. H. Darden, Treasurer; Mrs. LeRoy Rollins, Conductress; Mrs. L. E. Eason, Associate Conductress; Miss Mamie Davis, Chaplain; Mis. Carl Tyson, Marshall; Mrs. Haywood Smith, Organist; Mrs. M. W. Rollins, Adah; Mrs. Ed Nash Warren, Ruth; Mrs. Ted Albritton, Esther; Mrs. ~G. L. Gilchrist, Martha; Mi*. J. T. Sut ton, Electa; Mi as Dixie Barrett, War During the business session, ths reorganized Chapter decided to hold its meetings on the 1st and 3rd Fridays at 7:30 P. M„ and declared thfeir outstanding objectives to be aid in the maintenance of the .Masonic and Eastern Star Home for the Aged, at Greensboro, aad the Oxford Or phanage, at Oxford. . ;• Visitors from Greenville, Kinston, Elisabeth City, Rocky Mount and Em anaviHe were pwwit *b < al Man Promoted To Rrst Lieutenant AIR WAR London, Feb. 28.—Berlin was at tacked tonight by RAF Mosquito bombers which dropped two- ton block the Air Ministry Announced. The attack on the Nazi • capital brought to a clow a full month of one of the greatest aerial offensives in hiatery. Earlier today, 2,000 Al lied warplanes made six roaring smashes on rail aad oil targets in western Germany. The U. S. Eighth Air Force lost |th»e bombers and Jour fighter in these attacis. The attacks brought the number of sorties carried out over western Germany by Britain-based American and RAF fighters and bombers dur ing February to more than-100,000. —— A single-track mind shouldn't be loaded with a long train of thoughts. Russians Take Rail Hub In Ad vance On Danzig London, March 1.—Russians yes terday seized the five-way rail hub of Neustettin in Pomerania, killing 3,000 of its garrison, and gained five to six miles in their offensive aimed at isolating the Germans in the Bal tic coastal area of Danzig, the Polish Corridor and northeast Pomerania. Besides the slain, 600 Germans were captured and 1,500 .Russians were liberated from slave labor when Neustettin fell to a combined frontal assault and outflanking maneuver, a late Soviet war bulletin s^id today. Line Straightened. Unofficial dispatches from Moocow said the northward - raping tank spearheads of the Second White Rus sian Army had reached the coastal highway and railroad which are the last escape routes of the Germans, but the nightly Soviet communique disclosed officially no advances nar rowing the 22-mile gap which re mained after Tuesday's capture of Bublitz and Drawehn. Instead, the communique announc ed capture of more than 50 towns in general line-straightening and solidifying operation .along the 40 mile wide- front of the advance, from Schwornigatz, 11 miles north of Chojnice, westward to Bublitz. Premier Stalin announced the cap ture of Neustettin, 88 miles north east of Stettin, in an order of the day following a German broadcast that the outflanked strongpoint had been evacuated. The Soviet commu nique added the capture of Streit zig, two and one-half miles west of Neustettin, potting the Russians out in the open past Neustettin's dif-, ficult position betweeen the Vilm and Streitzig lane. The east-front spotlight continued to beat strongly on the Soviet of fensive in Pomemtia, the Moscow communique faying only that on other points the Russians had cap tured half a dozen villages in East Prussia and took another 10 Mocks and the subuii> of Klehusschank in surrounded Breslau, capital of lower Silesia. Sonet* Reach PoUnow. The Germans also placed greatest stress on the Pomeranian struggle, broadcasting that the Soviet van guards had reached PoUnow, 12 miles north of Bublitz and 16 miles from the Baltic coastal railway, and making no secret of the peril posed for the def—n by Marshal K. K. Iiokossovsky's rampage toward the WAR IN BRIEF U. S. . First Amy, fighting iftto the outskirts of Cologne, storms Arft River at three, points; Ninth Army «8itinu«8 ssaawlt on Wseterb Ruhr, capturing dosen fortified towns. Soviet troops capture two Pomer anian strongholds; sweep on toward sea as s German figjbt .to, stove oft greatest disaster of Baltic campaign; Germans hint Russian penetrate into Damrig. Estimated 5,000 to 6,000 bombers and fighter* hit Reich in 16th day of unabated attack; strike rail centers, wiur plants, ag supplies and ceimnuni cations lines, , 1'Marines' advance scleral hundred yards on central plateau of Iwo; rec ^ ^^J, t mi II 1 I ■! ' ^ — iprcea concentrating near nortnern #1 of islanMsrUil stand, * *' Manila Bay opened to Amfripan lapping as resnlfcof Corregidor eon A* wounded American boy* come back from the battle front* they find American Red Croee worker* In all military and naval hospital* ready to help them. Thla year there will be more need than ever bef6re for Red Croea aervlce In domectlc hospital*. , SERVICE HEN'S • CENTER • Registering at the Crater during the past week were—Farmville; Joe Butts, E. M. 2/c, U^S. N. R., Mare Island, Calif.; Alfred H.Lewis, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida; John Council Parker, U. S. iN. R., Duke Hospital, Durham, N. t*fc. Lester E. Turn age U. S. A. A. C., George Field, III. Cherry Point: Pfc. Carlos Patter son, Huntsville, Ala., who has been a visitor here since November, 1944. He was transferred to Columbia S, C., this week; T/Sgt. Albert F. Mul lican, Huntsville, Ala; Sgt. H. P. O'Connor, New York, N. Y. Camp Lejeune: Sgt. Salvatore Carfi, Tarrytown, N. Y.; Pfc. Joseph C. Swayngim, Waynesville, N. C.; Cpl. John Borich, McKees Rocks, Pa. Pfc. Avery A. Briggs, U. S. M. C., Jacksonville, Fla., and Long Beach, Wash.; Frank J. Hemby, Jr., S 2/c, Bainbridge, Md., and Trenton, N. C.; J. A. Vaughan, U. S. N. R., Harrison, W. Va., and Richmond, Va. Ballard's Horn* Demonstration Club was Lhoete« - group for the week and,1 serving cake with divinity-nut fudge filling, baked chicken, hfcm, deviled eggs, tomato salad and rolls. Host esses included Mrs. Lionel Jones, Mm. Jasper Jones, Mrs. Leon Jones, Mrs. Thad Nichofs, Mrs. jjeulah Causey and MisS Causey. . ! Other donations were carton cig arettes by Mr. apd Mrs. Carl toe Carr, f 1., by "Rev. C. B. Mashbum, and milk by Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Wooten and Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Norman. Sgt Leonard A. Scott, somewhere overseas, asks about his friends here and wishes to be remembered to them. He aayg he often wonders what is happening in Carolina -and thinks about the pleasant trips he took into the surrounding country from Sey mour Johnson Field — the most en tertaining of which he says were those to Farmville and he wishes he was here now. « T/Sgt. Charles 0. Wood writes that since leaving Cherry Point he has not found another Center as wonderful as the one here. It rates tops with him. The candidate doesn't always fool ■the voters. Frequently the voters fool him. Farmville Masons Looking ^Forward To Buiktiiftg Home A matter which has been in the minds of several interacted Mason* in the Farmville community for some time, is the building of „a Masonic Home for the local Lodge and East ern Star Chapter. This matter is beginning to shape into sizable proportions. The Allow ing committees have been appointed and report several large pledges to ward the financial part of this en deavor: Steering committee; George W. Dsns chairman, assisted by R. LeRoy Rollins, R. A. Joyner, E. C. Holmes and C. A. Tyson; Finance ■ committee; -W. E. Joyner, chairman, assisted by W. H. Duke, J. W. Mun-. dsn, Pred.C. Moore sad G. Earl Tre H. Flanagan wss ap and C. F. Bancom, k $**■ ' these committeemen »y other interested friends of Mawm, that will (prow rapidly after the war comes w!H be sM«to erect A will do credit as well as to this section Youths Warned To Speed Goals ■- "S-1 Washington, Feb. 28. — President Roosevelt told 1,700,000 farm' youths Wednesday that with final victory still to be attained they must pursue their seven wartime goals "with even more momentum." His letter to all 4-H club members was m recognition at national 4-H Club week opening March 3. "Nowhere are theee services more appreciated than among our fighting forces," Mr. Roosevelt wrote of the farm youth organisation's program which calls for members: To produce &nd conserve food, aid in scrap collection and war bond drives, protect their own health and that of the community, serve wher ever possible for those who have gone for war and help other youths adjust themselves to farm work, help inter pret war programs locally, practice democratic procedures and stimulate deeper appreciation of democratic ways and "to, become informed-oa. important social and economic, forces now at work and help develop a good neighbor spirit at home and abroad." Kiw.anis Club Pledges Support To Red Cross War ■ Fund Campaign 1 At the Kiwftfiia meeting on Mon-1 day night, February 26, plans for the coming Red Crom War, Fond Cam paign were made. •ff. J. Bundy, of Greenville, gave a resume of the Red Cross* work and explained the part that the Kiwanis Club will hare in the future work of their organization. At this time, E. C. Holmes, chair-' man of music, welcomed Mrs. J. W. Joyner who will serve the Club aa active accompanist. Dk R. T. Williams, president, an nounced the acceptance of the* chal lenge from the Rotarians toplay at benefit basketball game. A motion by J. T. Sutton, Jr., that the -Club assist the Boy Scouts in certain phas es of their work, wis unanimously accepted; also, a motion by Pat Ruf fin, that the Club sponsor a Victory Garden Contest, awarding prizes for the most outstanding work, was ac cepted . Frank K. Allen, member of the board of directors--assisted by Ted Albritton and Alton BobUtt, per formed the induction cwemoaies far .new members, Richard Harris, H. H. Bradham and Ernest Hunt, of Foun tain. /% C. S. Hotchkias, program chairman, introduced Lt Col. Harry Miller, of Topeka, Kansas, who related the un usual circumstances under which the man in the Aleutians fought and ex feed. Col. Miller paid the a* *er his command a glowing tribute. Col. and Mrs. Miller were the guests of Mr, and Mis. Frank K» Allen while In Farmville. o*, . ^ * Ed Rawl, Dave Moore, and Chester Walsh, of the Greenville Club, as sisted with the prograttjsy J. J. Gfimder, of ths Concord Club, guest of C. Hubert Joner, spoke briefly concerning Kiwanis work. The pro gram for next week's meeting will be pNaented by the Rocky Mount Club. ■ ' 1 ! If it takes ft thief to catch a thief there aze enough of them to catch all of them. /" _ Uncle Mose: Hit 4on* do no good iter preach Txmt hell ter some fflka H« gotto be kMBkod out5# >m- ,* Marines Compress ;; Japs into Small Ccnupdiwo xSJ&»NSrr North End «f lAnd £5t?Z£fVs;Z£: "J??'- ^ Jdriven beyond Motoyama rajagn. Ktmnite^Uve center of Iwo, ■nd is lea das one and one-quarter ®U«b trotn the northern end of the ^ garrtoon is "ported massing for m "last-ma" *t*nd, it waa «sciese* *oday The eivnne^ which carried the beyond the village was It put the front 4,16 Division nearly to the ed«e <rf the northern Iwo a»d drome Motoyama No. i-which the paneae were completing when the Marines invaded. * V, . Oalw. «. SL^1* mrd KvWon but the fifth on the weet side of the lino E* ^ F0Ui1r'Divia3OT1 on the right <u»ve forward hundreds of yards against unremitting enemy ance. It was the biggest day of gain* « point of distance since the Marines Advances of up to 700 and 800 yards were made. - Motoyama village, which the Ma rinee were expected to take as their next objective, is the. site of the government offices for Iwo— the mam village of the eight-square mite island 760 miles from Tokyo. Naval guns, carrier plants and M«. ruie artillery supported the advance. "TO the high ground in the north ern end of the island, the Japanese continued to pour artillery and mor tar fire on the Marine lines and aome mortar shells hit at the northern end of the Marines' beaches on the east foast But Adm. Cheater W. Nimitx, in announcing the new gaka, said that facilities for unloading contin ued to develop. Wednesday night the JapaneneJried again to filter men in small groups though the Marine lines. The Ma rines drove them off with the aid of star shells fired by their warships off-shore. Mortar support units and the naval guns raked the Japanese liMe throughout the night T« Prisoners Tkken Nimitz reported that up to 6 p. m. JtoMky, bodies of 4,784 Japanese cead were counted. One additional prisoner was taken, bringing the cam paign total to 10 prisoners. Undoubtedly, of the originally esti mated 30,800 Japanese troops on Iwo, «any mm were dead behind the enemy lines and many were wounded. Nimits announced v that carrier Planes caused an explosion in an attack .on the seaplane base on Chichi Island, north of Iwo, and that Marine Planes had started firea In attacks °? bases in the Palaus east of the Philippines. Court Tourney In Full Swing Here The Pitt County Basketball Tourn ament is being bald in the Fannville High School Gymnasium, got under way Monday hight when Grifton de feated Chiood; Arthur Girls were vic torious over Ayden; GrimesUnd Boys defated Bel voir; in the Girls' games Belvoiir defeated Arthur and Grimes land won from Stokes. In Wednes day's games Stokes and Bethel were victorious over Grifton and Winter ville, respectively; and Fannville Girls played Bethel with the local team tolling up top score. , Semi-finals for girls were played Thursday night with Farm ville versus i Belvoir, and Wintenrille versus Grif ton. Grimesland Beys met Ayden. Semi-finals for fee Boys' teams are slated for tonight, Friday, and the] Finals will be held Saturday night. U, S. turkey growers plan to raise about 39% million tcrkeyB this year, about 8 per cent more than the record crop of last year. There were 6 per cent more breeder hens on January 1. " NOTICE ! INCOME TAX PAYERS J. C. Herring! Deputy Collector, will he at the City Hall in Fannville today qnd tomorrow, March 2nd and 3rd, for the purpose of ssilsHng Tax payers in filing their. State Tax Re turns. | ' ■ Any single man, or woman either married or unmarried, having an in come of *1,000 or more during the year 1944, and any married man hav ing an income of *2,000 or more, must file an Income Tax Return. - ^ Drop fat fn see Mr. Herring today. I WALLACE'SAFE? Washington, Feb. 28.—-A safe mar gin of 10 to 20 votes for confirmation of Henry Wallace is Secretary of a pared-down Commerce Department was claimed tonight by Senate lead ers. The nomination will come up in flie Senate tomorrow. I Majority Leader BaxUey of Ken tucky told repottw he did not be lieve mora than half a down Demo crats would oppose confirmation since President Roosevelt has signed the Geoige bill. This measure, sponsored by Sena tor George (D. Ga.), "divorces the Re construction Finance Corporation and subsidiary lending agencies from the Commerce Department. The Presi dent signed it at sea Saturday but his action waa not announced until his return to Washington this morn Supers Raze 240 Blocks In Tokyo's Business Area 21st Bomber Command Headquar ters, Guam, Feb. 28.—Two hundred* and forty city blocks of Tokyo's moat highly congested industrial aad busi ness diistrict are in smouldering, twisted ruins Wedneeday as a result of Sunday's superfortress raid, 21rt Bomber Command Headquarters an nounced. The greatest punishment yet dealt the Japanese nation's proud capital was inflicted without the loss of one Bky giant of the more than 200 which participated in stormy .weather. Maj. Out. Curtis (Iron Pants) Le May, commanding general of the sky mammoths,'after studying the recon naissance photographs said the re sults .'were "excellent." The photos show 29,074,000 square feet of im portant factory and trade areas burn ed out This is 667 acres. In comparison, New York's famed Rockefeller city—radio, center covers a surface area of leu than 12 acres, _J-56th of the destroyed area in Tokyo. The ravaged area extends a short distance from Emperor Hirohito's moated palace eastward to the crowd ed waterfront. . The Superfortress assault was made in corrodination with Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscber'n carrier-based plane at tack which hit earlier in the morning and knocked, out two aircraft plants in the northwestern svb&rbs. After hearing his pilots' reports, the leath ery-faced admiral said: "I don't be lieve the Ja{Mr will get them back into production for this war/' The damage was wreaked while snow was falling. Bombardiers call ed "bombs away" while some of their pilots could not see the wingtips of their own planes due to the heavy cloud formations. The remarkable results attest to the perfection of the newly nvented precision radio bomb ing instruments. While Tokyo's heart was burning, Premier Kuniaki Koiao called on the emperor to make apologies, claiming without Allied confirmation, that im perial property was destroyed. A STATEMENT By Basil O'Connor Chairman, The America*. Red Cross * For two yean the American peo ple have responded whole-heartedly to the call of The American Ked Cross for funds to carry on its work overseas with nun and women in the service ot the Nation. - - It is my oonvtctien that the next twelve months will be most crucial for all of us, for whatever turn the war may take, we Americana will kavi a towering job ahead. Among oqr~gnateat tasks will be that of continuing to provide the high home front morale ao necessary to men on the battle fronts. Another will be PfoyMoo #er the mm who come back from the war, whether they are maimed or whole. Still a third great task will be our did and assistance to a worlds suffering human beings whose lives b«re been Masted by war's devastation. * The Bed Croat baa been entrusted by the American people with a Her culean recpbhaiblUty both to the boys on the battletfronts of the world and to torn and hlixHT< civilian popula tions- Kts® thoagh the responsibility is pt a magnitude not even enviaion ed in the past the Red Cross will do Nads Making Fkial Stand OnWeatero Skle Of Rhine; American Gun* Pound Duasel dorf and Trier; Ger man Civilians Join In Fight for Cologne; lgt Army Troopa €*os» Erft Hirff In Determ ined Drive for Cathe dral City , •; mw*t Paris, March 1.—American Fin* Army tank* and assault troops pour ad acroM the Erft River «t three point* yesterday, and fought into the outskirts of Cologne as onrushing Al lied armies also brought Biswriiirf and two other Rhiaeland bastions un der firs of their big guns. The Germans apparently were go ing to make & stand to tha death for the great cathedral city of Cologne. Front dispatches mid 100,000 civil ians were desperately digging tranch es to reinforce a fortified wall ring ing the Rhine!and capiSl, which has beat under Allied artillery fire for more than 36- hours. An Exchange Telegraph Agency dispatrh from the Ninth Amy front said the entry o( Allied troops into Cologne wan imminent, and tha great Ruhr mil center of Mueochsn Galdbach may fall in a matter of hours. The Ninth Army brought Dueeael dorf under shsUfire, field dispatches said. The Canadian First Army be gan shelling Xanten from four miles away. Lt, Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army sent shells lobbing into Trier ** troops closed in on the fort ress city from three sides. Allied commanders, in a broadcast over Radio Luxembourg to. the resi dents of Trior, warned than not to evacuate the city but to stay behind and seek shelter until the battle has The RAF Second and American Ninth tactical air force* -joined with ground troops in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's general assault yester day, flying 2,600 aortiea. German tank and troop concentrations were attacked and grim portions were knocked out. Although a security blackout ob scured the full extent of Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's Ninth Army advances, correepoadants were per mitted to report that more than 12 more Gsnnan cities ware overrun Staring theday and thai some spear heeds were battling German tmk forces brought from beyond the E m "The west front situation today un doubtedly is worse than yesterday." German DNB Commentator Max Krull said as the Nasi high com mand hurled its zealously boarded in ner tank reserves into battle to save the great Ruhr war plants from Simp son's headlong rush. The Erft was crossed both north and south of the great Dueren Cologne superhighway and on the road itself. The major American breach was made northwest of Mod rath, where a lightning night thrust by armored task forces seised a bridge intact. Drive Unchecked. *' Eighth Division assault troops Storming straight down the mili tary road found the main Erft bridge destroyed. They swam and forded the narrow stream and fought into Modrsth, only six and a half miles from Cologne. Then- drive appeared unchecked. The veteran Americas Pint Divi sion, which spearheaded Lt Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' winter Assault upon the Siegfried line ®ast of Malmedy Jan. 28, was indicted to have made the third crossing in the area south of Modrath. "H& battle for the Erft canal and immediate nftgh terrain and ridge behind it means we are atonning the outer defenses of Colpgns," a high armored staff officer told Unit ed Press Correspondent John B. McDermott "It is here that the German de fense of the city rests. M we tnke this sector we will command Co logne." _ Pattern's Third Army, "meanwhile, completed the capture of Biitburg and sent spwuheade thrusting from three directions toward Trier, last major bastion guarding the routs to Coblena. Raton's forces now are five miles southeast of Trier, sevssv miles- northwest and riac miles west of Wssserbillig.
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