lor nrn/f^mmq, w »«***jL*it*m** **** roLUM* nmnr-rnr* BRITISH DROP 11-TON BOMB UPON TARGET IN GERMANY New World - Shaker5 Christened Ten - Ton Tess'; American Planes Busy London, March 16.—New, 11-ton super-obliteration bomb* more than 25 feet long — the moat destructive weapon of the war—were hurled at Germany yesterday as 4JO0O Allied heavy bombers in day and night se> saults on the Reich carried the "vic tory blitz" into its 31st day today. I Shortly before midnight RAP heavy J bombers carried out "heavy attach" on Zweibraeekea and Hombuifc, IS miles east of Saarbruecken, both of which woe pasked with German troope and military stores, while RAF Mosquitoes attacked Berlin for the 23rd consecutive night in the great round-the-clock offensive. "World-Shakers." The "World - shaker", bombs — so large that Britain's biggest bombers had to be rebuilt to carry them— were dropped on the railway via duct at Bielefeld, carrying one of the last remaining double-track rail ways out of the bomb - desolated Ruhr to the rest of Germany. Six ton bombs were dropped on a rail way viaduct in the Arnsburg leading east from Dortmund. Unofficial estimates said that the bomb, designed primarily for use against Nasi underground targets, could obliterate from seven to nine city blocks. It was said to be two and one-half times as destructive the six-ton "Earthquake Bomb," once heralded as the world's most potent weapon. Remodelled Lancasters, whose bomb bays had to be enlarged to accom modate the missiles nearly four feet in diameter and 25 feet, five inches long, were part of more than 3,000 Allied heavy bombers which scourg ed Germany and Hungary by day light. The bomb immediately was nick named "Ten-Ton Tess" by the Brit ish press (based, on the British 2,240-pound ton.) A Canadian flight engineer who went along on the raid said "there was a tremendous pall of blas poised for smash into the Ruhr. Russian newspaper says Red Army has smfshed across the Oder river at Kuetarin and now is headed for Ber lin, but Moscow communique makes no mention of area. - British drop 11-ton bomb on Nad target, monster misaOle being chris tened "Ten-Ton-Teas." American warplanes busy. Jap dead on Iwo Jima placed at at least 20,000 as American Flag is raised formally over first Jap terri tory taken from enemy. General MacArthur's troops land on two more Philippines islands. British reveal how Nasi plot that might have imperilled lives of "Big Three" at Teheran was smashed be fore conference. AH youthful Selective Service in ductees in 18-20 age range will be earmarked for Army duty for nesrt 90 days. Another dramatic story of how Nazis missed destroying Ludendorff bridge told by war writer. Local Club Women Attend Greenville Meet Among those of Farmville attend ing the meeting of the. Woman's Club in Greenville last Friday afternoon were Mrs. E. S. Contes, Mrs. J..M. Hobgood, Mias Mantle E. Davis, Mrs. 5. W. Rader, Miss Tabitha De Vis :onti, Mra. T. S. Ryan, Mrs.- J. W. 14unden, Mrs. Jesse Mo$w, Mrm. Clap *nce Hedgfepeth and Mn. Richard D. larrls. The Greenville Club welcomed ap Droximately 150 members and guests to hear Dr. Pfaff, of~Chapel Hill, who s director of the Southern Council >n International Relations, talk on he Dumbarton Oaks Peace Proposals. Dr. Pfaff gave a splendid outline of he machinery of the Proposals, and emphasized the responsibility ot each me of us in seeing that this plan, or, f possible, an even better one, be accepted by our Congren. He urged hat we, as individuals, as groups, :lubs, through our churches, etc., con act our Senators, our Represents ives, and make them know that we ire definitely for Dumbarton Oaks. This shaping of a plan for World Peace—the most important thing to >e done in our lifetime—will be laid ipon its foundations within the next linety days. It is our responsibility » see that these foundations are IPlid—we must not fail. Dr. Pfaff irged that everyone write to our Congressmen now and let them know halt we are backing the Dumbarton Saks Peace Proposals. Where there's discontent with hings as they- are'we can turn it into 'ruitful effort to build things as they ihould be. Dogwood trees of sufficient size an be cut and used in making shut les. Ask your Extension farm f% sster or county agent about the dog->| wood market Reported Killed In Pacific Area Thomas Herman Route, Jr., Iwo Jima Casualty. A telegram received Saturday morn ing by Mr.-and lire. Herman Rouse Cram the War Department revealed the fact that their eon, Pfc. Thomas Herman Rouse, Jr., of the U. S. Ma rines, was killed in action In the Pa cific theater of war oo February 19. Private Rouse entered the service sf his Country in November,- IMS. Mr. and Mrs. Rouse have one other t»oy in the service, !*. Ben L. Rouse, of the U. S. Marine Air Corps.' ROSE'S EMPLOYEES W. H. Fisher, managee of the local Bosate «tm*< wa«-hostH . The only exception to the 18-20 bracket will be inductees who quali fy and are assigned to special Navy programs, such as radio technicians tod combat- aircrewmen. The text of the statement: "As the result of an arrangement between the Army and the Navy, all inductees 18 to 20 yean old in clusive will be acquired by the Army for a period of three months be ginning March 16, with the' excep tion of inductees who qualify and are earmarked for special duty pro grams, such as radio technicians and combat aircrewmen. "This assignment was undertaken in order to satisfy the currant needs, of the Army for young in fantry replacements. During the three months period covered by the agreement, the Navy's calls upon Selective Service will be filled* with men 21 to 28 years old." The bulk of the men entering the Army in recent months have** been channeled into the infantry replace ment system and eventually into combat divisions. Only recently Selective Service calls were increased to give' the Army more men for the infhntry after all other branches Of the Service had been tapped for men who could be trained, as infantrymen. These replacements, after some 15 to 17 weeks of baste trahndgyi are shipped oversees, placed in replace ment pools, and then asStgMti to veteran divisions. MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. Jaifies F. Smith, of Kington, announce the marriage of their daughter, Alice Lee, to Pfc. Cleve T. Wesbrooks, son of Mrs. C. T. Wee brook s, of Farmville, and the late Mr. Wesbrooks. The marriage was solemnized in a double ring ceremony on March 14, in Kinston, at the home of the Right Reverend Jack Rountree, Episcopal Rector, who officiated. Only mem bers of the immediate families were present., * _ , The bride wore a black suit with white accessories. Her corsage was of red rows. Pfc. Wesbrooks, of the U. S. Army, has recently returned to the States liter two years service in Egypt. After a month's furlough, he will re turn to actrg* duty. Mrs. Wesbrooks will eorttinue her dutiek as graduate nurse at- Memorial General Hospital, Khwton. SERVICE MEN'S • CENTER • Registering at the local Center dur ing the past week were: Farmville: Ensign B, S. Smith, Jr., Baltimore, Md., and Alex Charles Craft, A/S, Bainbridge, Md. Pvt. Victor L. Cates loft Wednesday for a camp, in California, after 21 days at hotta Camp Lejeutfe: Pfc. Almon H. Stewart, Sanfovd, Maine, and Sgt. Sahratore G. Carfi, who was here on \ his last visit as he received a medi cal discharge and returned to his home, in Tarry town, N. Y., on Tues day. L. C. Jones, I|. A. 1/c, Michi gan City, Ind., and Pfc. Joseph C. Swayngim were Saturday night guests of Miss Tabitha M. DeVis conti and Sunday dinner guests of Mr.lan* Mm. B. 0. Turnage. It was Swayngiai's twentieth birthday, and tlie Tumagas honored him with a cake. This was Jones' farewell visit as he has been transferred to the Great Lakes Training Station. Cherry Point: Pfc. Robert H. Crow, Elm Grove, West V*., and Pfc. Tracy B. Stevens, Bloomfield, Conn. Sandwiches, fruit, toastefceofc salt ed nuts, and cake m served. B. 0. Norman donated -milk; Miss Elisabeth Davis, magazines, and Mrs. J. N. El Ramey, a refrigerator cover. Pfc. Carlos Patterson writes from Coagaaee Field) Columbia, 8. C., that he cerfalflly misses hi? week ends ht.e. Sgt. Salvatore G. Carfi ex presses his appreciation for every- < thing that'was draft for him during the months that he visited the Ceo ter. He-says that ba received Mb share]: W souther!! hospitality apd hopes to come back sortie day. f ' "In the "good old days- they the-milkr today they wrtsr the 4* AM ,,j|. _a_i t_ 1 ■! itii ri-ifc # ,.n cow at id automatic ariianjqr ioun tain. I If we ,toek * little more trouble with our children it would be a lot less trouble than the trouble we get when we doat " m American Fftg i Imhftlte O v c r JapTerntary i ifivBi i»emy "Taken Guam, March 16.—United States Msirinse on Iw Island have killed at ie*»t«><0at conditions, an exact count of memy dead is not possible. The figure of 20,000 is based on »unted burials, "plus very careful estimates as to numbers sealed in laves," the communique said. The 'igure, it was said, "is a very cloBe approximation of the enemy killed it the end of March 14." There was no new total of Ameri ca casualties, which last week set it more than 6,000. But United States losses were expected to be leavy, as it waa revealed that the fapaneae once again had resorted to he barbaric practice of bonby-trap ung the bodies of American dead. The communique said that the American flag was formally raised m Iwo at 9:30 Wednesday morning," ilthough some resistance continues.. Army fighters from Iwo struck at Chichi Jima in the Bonin Islands o the north Wednesday in support •f th6 campaign. ■STATE COLLEGE ANSWERS TIMELY FARM QUESTIONS QUESTION: How much space hould baby Chicks hate in the brood r? ANSWER: Start 2 chicks to each quare foot '«f floor space and increase be amount of space as the chicks evelop, says Prof. Soy Dearstyne, ead of the Poultry Department at Itate College. ' He explains that oung chicks double their weight ap iroximately every two weeks up to l>9ut six weeks of aga This ac ounts for the fact that brooder space rhich is adequate for day old chicks oon becomes inadaquate and more pace mint be provided. Overcrowil ng is responsible for a great deal of aortality in young birds. When igOring on the space for laying hent, ive the Leghorns 3V4 square feet ach and the heavier breeds 4 square eet QUESTION: What is the cost of pefating a tractor? x ANSWER: The average cost of penting small tractor tractors, baa d on IMS prices, was 47 cents an Pitt; medium size tractors, 64 cants; md large tractors, 67 cents. These Igftres were obtained in several com ies in the Coastal Plain &rea of North Carolina. These coats did not include he wages of the tractor driver, taxes, t shelter charge. Variations frail iverage costs for each sise group are afluenfced by size of load and amount f use. The chief Items that infin ite coats are fuel and depreciation. iSirthef information on this subject lay be obtained from Experiment Ration Bulletin No. 848, Farm Me hanizatiioc. A card to the Agricul oral Editor, State College, Raleigh, Mil bring you a free copy. , QUESTION: Can you give me defl ate figures on how much soil is say A through winter cover crops and esrumesr turned under? ANSWER: Well established win er cover crops not only furnish pro action during the winter month* but j J So result in a decided decrease in oil lots from the row crop which Wlowr, a«ys the Agricultural Expen nent Station at State College. Re al ts show that the protection afford d' by the winter cover crops, after it i1 turned under, is of more, import une than the winter protection. vHere' wheat and lwpedesa were pfcwn 'to a four-year rotation with otton ted eorn, the average aril loss rSs 144 tons for the rotation as com ta^ed with 81J tons per'acre each . - - ,. m ■ — 1 ■■■■■ i m m i i i im icet continuou* couon. ■ l <—•■■■■ ■ Hr-two per cent of the money to farmers in rural rehabili »>s since the beginning of paid Sthl Wlvll Sum of $129 Netted In Exciting Game Ttot Kiwanis Club basketball team faced a tough veteran Rotary Club team, last Friday night, fa a thrilling and enjoyable gains. The Kiwanians were victorious to the tune of 11-8. The team* were well matched and it wags a clqse game from the first Mow at the whistle. G. L. Gilchirst. was high seoter for the Kiwanians, with nine points, and WaHer Jones, for the Rotarians, with 4. E. C. Chaafnblee refereed the haf the ornamental planting of the jrounds around the homes. The plan was worked out by the Meighborh&od Leaders with the as sistance of the Extension farm and lome agents. "It will be about three i>e&M before they get much fruit but iust the same -they are beginning the ilan now," says J. Y. Lassiter, Ex «nskm horticulturist at State Col ege. There will be strawberries and caches in June; raspberries, black jerries, and peaches in July; apples ind blueberries in August; grapes in September; and muscadines until 'rost The plan provides sugar-rich, ritamin-rich fruits from the first itrawberry in June until the last prape at Thanksgiving. "Many other communities in North Carolina know the value of plenty of !ruit in the diet," says Lassiter, "but he families do not take definite steps » encourage fruit growing. "Lefs take the apple, for example. iVJiat this fruit can do sounds like the ipiel' of the medicine man an a to >aqco market. Apples aid digestion, lisinfect the body, relieve eonstipa Son, clear the complexion, improve he appetite, help prevent colds, -help wild sound bodies and teeth, cor rect the acid conditions, and prevent tnd cure diarrhea. Accondiing to Dr. ft. T. Knighton, chewing apples is he test footh brushing and mouth leaning a person can get "He said that chewing apples elimi nated 96.7 per cent of the bacteria rhile three minutes of tooth brushing rtus a mouth rinsing eliminated only 54.8 per cent of the bacteria." Among the things that most of us lont know is hoir little we dolcjw*. Prarda Says Red Axmj Has Cromed Oder Rirer At Km trim and New Is DriTtaf to [ ward Bertla, But OTfidai ma ce* Communique I* Sileet On That Area; SlevaUn High way Httb of Ztdta Fdk Te London, March 15.—The Moscow newspaper Pravda reported yesterday that the Bed Army had crossed the Oder Hirer opposite Kuestrin and was dririntr toward Berlin through power fit fortifications, bat the official So viet communiques told only of Soviet advances in the East Prussian and Czechoslovak flanks of the long front. . The Pravda reports said Berlin's defense quadrilateral based on Kues trin, which Mawdta] Gregory K. Zu koVs First White Russian Army cap tured Monday,'was in ruins, and that picked SS (elite guard) troops were i ,|L i|l|j i i ■ ■■ ■ l«iT retreating1 westward. Although the GsrrtQtos have re ported the Russians across the river it six point* for weeks, the Pravda lispatch was the first Soviet report that the Russians had forced the middle Oder at a point 88 miles east sf Berlin, aid were driviing down the last lap on the road to the bomb battered German capital. The Moscow communique reports sd a resumption at the drive against the Germans encircled along the Bast Prussian ooast sod the capture if the central Siovakian road and rail hub-of Zfolen, on the Hrau Rifer ine 67 miles north of Budapeek The large-scale tank and infantry Mtttle in the Lake Balaton region of Hungary roared into its eighth day, with Soviet guns and minefields de stroying 86 German tanks and self jropelled guns seeking to break hrough to the Danube and rtrength sn the curving 750-mile line from he Adriatic to Southern Germany (uarding the so-called' last ditch ritadel in Bavaria and Austria. Nazi reports said Marshal Zhukov lad pushed nine divisions — 135,000 roops—across the river in the 16 nile stretch between Kuestrin and •Yannfurt-on-the-Oder. KTWANIS CLUB Th3 Kiwa&is Club progwun this veek was presented by the Goldsboro ]lub, with CoUn Mints m Chairman or the group. Sgt. Martin Burch, rom Seymour Johnson Field, render id solo* with Marvin Smoot, as ac companist H. ® Hines and James G. fohnson, Jr., also of Goldsboro, re newed some of the accomplishments n the way pf civic betterment that tad been completed by the Goldsboro [roup during the past year. Ed Bawl, "V. A." Merritt, Arthur ["ripp and Chester Walsh from the ire«iville Club were present with imeJy comments. Other guests of he Club were Professor Moore and Javid Harris. The spirit of the recent Kiwanis* lotary Benefit 'game was still much dive, and coach Frank Allen express id high satisfaction at the perforin - tnce rendered by all players. The 31ub gave Grady Gilchrist a rising tpplause of appreciation for his ex :eilant contribution. Next week's program will be de moted to a check up- on all details or Charter and Ladles' night which R scheduled for Monday, March 26. Quota In Red [ % H Mrs. J. M. Hobgood, local chairman if the American Red Cross, reports hat the War Fond Campaign is txm inuinfc through this wwsk and is mak ngf ine progress toward reaching the [oota assigned to Farmville. Five of he seven captains have turned in heir collection, bat each has a few oose ends to the tie before a final tccAimting. Neoct week's Enterprise carry a Ml report at the amount ollected" by each gro*j», and we are triving to exceed our 1944 effort. The first contribution to the' eur ent campaign was Si the form of a noney order for 16.00 sent to Mr. ohn Lewis by Private J A. Joyner, if Farmville, A colored Marine »erv ng in the Souttwert Pacific. Such ippteciation of the Bed Crow and ucfc sacrificial giving should inspire hose of us hack bonis to "Keep the Cross At H* Sida" rV; Theater Oaeperataa. In line with theaters throughout he nation, the local, er'is taking1 paSf in tM'drive f mans In That Ares; Nasi* Claim Ludendorf Wrecked; Pat More Totons Army Total; ery Ready To r! Puis, March If.—Paw columns across the Rhbp driving for the Cologna-Pranlcfurt road raachat within one mile at the ■hr lams super highway yitenUy, capturing fioor nef u Allied pianea rained ballets and bombs on the German* trying desperately to cluck the expawUn# Remagan bridgehead. The enemy also sent planes into the battle and attempted to knock out the Lodeadoif rail bridge at Remangen. Berlin it had been destroyed, but late headquar ters and front repoilB said the bridge now waa in better ahape than when the Alliea lint croamd it Allied Supreme Headquarter* also ei .phaaired that the Lodandorf bridjp no longer ia the sole life line to the bridgehead. United States First Army engineers have Ktructed a 980 - foot ponton which also ia pouring men and g$ns Into the powerful] y-refnforced Amer ican foothold east of the BM— Good Weather. " Brilliant flying weather for the first time in a week enabled Allied Fliers to attach German concentra tions opposing the bridgehead. At least SO large firm were obaervad behind enemy lines as swarms of planm hit ammunition dumps, air Fields, road traffic, rail Unas and troop positions. Front rep&rta said one of the greatest British armies ever placed in the field, powered with marena rf tanks *nd artillery, stood ready to drive acrom the Rhms in the north and smash completely through German last-ditch defenses. And to the south, German forcea, reeling that a great, two-way blow ^ about to hit their Saar basin de Fensea, retreated more than three miles before the United States Sev ■nth Army, falling bade to Sieg Fried defenses behind the Saar rivjr. Seventh Army. _ The Seventh Army moved up ilong a seven-mile stretch of the 3aar west of fiaarbmecken, taking he ax towns of Schaffhausen, jleslautern, GlareBthal, Schoeneck, Wehrden and Furstenhauaen, and tagan exchanging small arms fire across the river. In their with irawal, the Germans blew the Saar river bridge at Ftntenhcuaaa. Allied Supreme Headquarters re pealed that the new American Fifth Sorps, commanded by Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Huehner and tndaflng he Second, 10«th, 28th and 69th to fantry divisions as well la the 102nd Cavalry group, had fought on the rw_ , m wi . j .• ■' — »•* * » » ■ i Ufiixeci oUmb now AiTiijfl ngm Flank in the battle of the Bhine and. Huebner formerly commanded the .'eteran Pint Infarttry Division. He lucceeded Lt Gen. Leonard T. Ge now, who ha* been named ier of the new and so far United States 15th Army. Fifty per cent losses suffered by the Germans in aortal attar lea igahtst the Remsgeki bridge the enemy to hurl his beet kgainst the sp(A yesterday — jet •ropelled fighter bomber*. Nine teen of these were counted over he bridgehead during the after won, bat only one was ahst down. With battle 4 Honnef ended,* Geneml Hodges' " Ml mile h* weat