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THEUNFTED NATIONAL CL0IHING COLLECTION SCHEDULED APR. 1-30 The Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs Co-Sponsors For Local Drive; A. W. Bobbitt aad R. A. Joy ner, General Chair men; Junior Woman's Club In Charge of Sort* in# In Launching the United National Clothing Collection Drive, Henry J. Kaiser, who waa appointed by Presi dent Roosevelt as National Chair man, says, "I know that every man, woman and child wilL want to do his utmost to help relieve the terrible suffering in war-torn areas. I pledge that the traditional generosity of the American people will again express itself in this worthy campaign. In nocent victims are dying from ex posure and disease growing out of a long and terrible war. The Presi dent has stated that as many war victims have died from exposure and lack of adequate clothing as from starvation. "I am confident that 150,000,000 pounds of clothing, shoes, and bedding will be>donated between April 1 and 30. This is about 10 times greater than the goal of any previous cam paign for contributed clothing." Mr. Kaiser pointed out that the success of the collection depends upon the individual efforts of the citizens in every community. "Our People, added the industrialist, "are going to demonstrate their gratitude for be ing spared from the horrors which have descended on other lands I wish to stress that the clothing given will be distributed free without dis crimination of say kind to needy and destitute men, women and children In the war-dsvmsted countries. "The demands of the aimed ser vices and civilian requirements in this country are so great* that only a small amount of new clothing can be secured for relief overseas. TBe only way that the war-stricken peo ple can obtain sufficient clothing to satisfy part of their needs is through gifts of garments from the Ameri can people. WE WILL MEET THIS CHALLENGE! Local Drive Pka The United National Clothing Col lection is being organized an a com munity wide basis in every coo»muni ty, large and small, in the United States. At a special meeting Wednesday evening, the Farmville community program was set up by representa tives of the co:feponsoring clubs, Ro tary and Kiwanis. R. A. Joyner and A. W. Bobbitt are general Chairmen and Dr. John Mewborn, Ed Nash Warren, Dick Harris and Frank Allen, publicity committee. | There will be two house-to-house canvasses made, one on Wednesday, April 11, another on Wednesday, April 26. All numbers of both clubs will participate in these canvasses, which begin at 9 a. m. Boy Scouts are asked to assist Rotarians are in charge of the area east of Main St and Kiwanians, the area west of Man St Receiving stations have been set up in downtown areas, at the Fast Of fice, Bank of Farmvilje, Paramount Theatre, Centre Hardware Co., Douglas Co., FaxmvilKs Furniture Co. and Ctty Drug Cot., and in the schools. Bill Duke, who presided at the meeting, appointed the following in charge of receiving stations, as . col lection and storage" oommitteeai April 1-7, Bob Fleer, C. H. David Harria, Louis Creech; April 8 14, H. H. Bradham, J. W. Edgar Barrett' R- T. Miaelle; April 15-21, Andy Martin, Walter James Monk, Ted Albritton; April 23-*), O. H. Letnmon, Lynn R. N. FVeeman, R. E. Pickett The bssenNBt ot the Church has been-design! porary storage place. Sorting will be done by the. Junior Woman's Club and Rex Hodges, Zeb Whitehurat E. C. Chamblee, Lynn Eason, George Sturgeon, E. S. Coatee and Bill Duke will pack and khip. Clothing will be sent to a specified regional ware house, freight charge* collect T»ss si The appeal is for used elothkg for both winter I Are the Fol m knitted gloves. CAPS AND KNITTED HEAD WEAR. Serviceable heavy duty cap; pad knitted headwear (such am stock ing cap) are needed. (Women's hate,, hats, and derbies cannot be > BEDDING. Blankets, afghans, sheets, pillow cases, quilts. These are needed urgently if in serviceable condition. SHOES. Either oxfords or high, shoes, of durable type with low or medium heels are desired Shoes with high heels, open toes or open hacks, evening slipper*, and novelty types cannot be used All shoes col lected should be mated and tied se curely into pain. USABLE REMNANTS, PIECE GOODS. Cut or uncut materials (cottons, rayons, woolens, etc.) one yard or more in length—but not rags or badly damaged, dirty or worn-out fabrics. Rotary Clttb Host To Boy Scouts Court of Honor and Board of Review Held At Supper Meeting- on Tuesday . t. . The twenty-eight members of the Rotary Scout Troop No. 38, and their three Scoutmasters were supper guests 9t their sponsors at the Rotary room on Tuesday evening. The meeting began promptly at 7:00 o'clock, opening with a Rotary long, immediately after which the scoots entered and were seated in svery other place around the room. Later in the evening this arrange ment determined the Scouts' indi vidual sponsors. Each Rotarian is iponsor for the Scout who was seat id at his left Other special guests of :he Rotary Club were Pvt. Tony Mel ion and Captain Robert H. Baker, who is a former scout After a brief business session Pres ident Paul Ewell turned the meeting >ver to Dr. W. M. Willis who had :harge of the program. Dr. Willis stated the purpose of the meeting ilong with the suggestion that each Scout be adopted by a Rotarian for die year 1945. - Senior Patrol T sadsr Marvin Hor :on, Jr., conducted the Scout program ind reconciled the Rotary Troop Com mitteemen, the three Scoutmasters, uvd troop officers, Scribe, Cedric Davis; assistant Scribe, Billie Rus sell ; assistant Patrol Leader, Frank Dupree. ratroi laansta were recognized as follows: Plying Eagle, Jackie Wil is; Rattle Snake, Neal Howard, Jr.; Flaming Arrow, Harold Rouse, and Dan Beard, Milton Williamson, who in tun introduced members of the Patrols: Flying Eagla Patrol, Wilber Bennett, Harry Albritton, Joe Smith, lohn Russell Joyner and Eldon Stur geon; Rattle Snake Patrol, James rhorne, Billie Russell, Johnnie By-, retjt, Zeb Whitehurst, Jr., and Bpbby Russell; Flaming Arrow Patrol, Charles Joyner, Robert Rollins, Jay Flanagan, Jack Turnage, Joseph Cook ind Bob Morgan;'Dan Beard Patrol, Dan Sattearthwmite, McDonald Bowl ing, Carl Creech, Donald Baucom and Shelby Roebuck. Hie Troop 38 Charter presentation iras juade by. Rotary president, Ewell, ind accepted by 2nd Class Scout, Harrys Albritton. Official Bey Scout registration cands-f&r the year 1945 yere awarded individually te each Scout by his Rotary sponsor. The Court of Honor was held with the Rotary Club acting at such. Scents receiving the recently earned advancement pins aad badges indod ed Horton, who received four merit badges and the Goal Palm award which is one of the highest awards presented in scooting; First Class Scoot Harold Bouse who received a merit badge; Life Scoot Milton Wil Iiamaon who also received a merit badge. Patrol Leader Willis s Howard advanced to First Class rank. Those advanced to Second Class rank insloded Scoots Dupree, Davis, Billie and Bobby «li, Albrit ton, Barrett, Sturgeon, Thome, White hurst, Rollins, Creech aad RoeBttck. Those receiving Tenderfoot awards were: Smith, Joyner, Flanagan, Vantage, Cooke, Morgan, Bowling aad Baucom. - The meeting closed with the Scoot oath repeated in unison by troop members and their sponsors. Silent prayer followed. & TO PRESSURE COOKER OWNERS may have their Caan I at a Pressure Cooker Clinic County by checking the Pre* t> Heid DR. JOHN C. GLENN who will preach during- the series of services at the Farmville • Methodist Church, Ajpril 16-22. _ - Clumber Commerce & Merchants Asso. Hold Annual Meet Supper Meeting Sched uled for Wednesday, April 11,7 P. M. J.W. Munden, President, Will Preside The Farmville Chamber of Com merce and Merchants Association will hold its annual sapper meeting on Wednesday night, April 11, at 7:00 o'clock, at tiie Country Club. The program jus been designed to conrtdsr and elaborate on pest war needs for oar community. Contests and prsesntatiou of prises will be held in a frivolous spirit. The Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, civic organization Isndu», and other city officials have been invited to attend. All member* are urged to be present. 'The entire piygram has been worked out not to exceed over one hundred minutes. PROCLAMATION WHBSBAS, as many war victims have died from exposure and lack of adequate Clothing as have died from starvation, and WHEREAS of these remainisg alive, more than 30,900,000 are vir tually naked, and more than four times that number, 126,000,000, are in desperate need of clothing, and WHEREAS since enough new cloth ing for the relief of these unfortunate people does not now exist anywhere in the world, and WHEREAS the only available large source of clothing for overseas relief is the serviceable, used clothing now lying forgotten in American homes, and WHEREAS the President's War Relief Control Board has authorised a nation-wide collection (April 1-30) of 160,000,000 pounds of serviceable used clothing, shoes and bedding, and WHEREAS the President's War Relief Control Board has directed more than 80 voluntary war relief agencies to suspend their national or local campaigns and public collections of used clothing during March, April and May, and join with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Ad ministration in the United National Clothing Collection, and WHEREAS the President of the United States has appointed Henry J. Kaiser as national chairman of this Collection, and WHEREAS full campaign support has been pledged by the national lead ers of every representative and re sponsiMe group in America, including industry, lshor, business, government, church groups, schools, civic and ser vice clubs, women's and fraternal or ganizations, the farm groups, youth groups, etc., and WHEREAS a.local committee to United National Clothing in Farmville has been form I, JT. Wi Joy a .was Gardner's Board Urges Equitable I Peace Tax Plans! Calls Fqr Reconversion Preparations Now; Krag Promises Civilian Goods Washington, April 6.—The Advis ory Bord of the Office of Wax Mobili zation Board and Reconversion Tues day night called on Congress to pass an "equitable tax program" at the earliest possible date to prepare the nation for reconversion. At the same time, War Production Chief J. A. Krug pfedicied that al most all types of consumer goods will be put on the market again in the year after Germany's defeat, and that the rate* of civilian production will reach pre-war levels in 12 months. - _ . , This'' will mean that the people within a year after V-E-Day will be able to boy such items as medianica] refrigerators, radios, domestic wash ing machines, end possibly automo biles, he told a press conference. There wiH be * 12 per cent cut back in munitions output in the three-month period after the fall of Germany, he said. The cutback will go up to 85 per cent after a year of fighting a one-front war in the Pa cific, he added. At least 1,600,000 tons of steel and an even greater. | quantity of aluminum will be re leased for civilian use daring the first three months, and more later, he said. "Beid Decisions." The advisory board, calling at tention to the "bold decisions" which must be made soon by investors and busines men reconverting to peace time production, aid that an equit able postwar tax program is needed to provide a firm base for business planning. It urged that the War Mobilisation Director emphaize the "crucial im portance of an early consideration of th* nation's tax program." Adoption by Congress of such a program now "would represent one of the most important single steps in preparing the nation for recon version and full employment" it said. « t The extent to which business ex pansion is Justified and risks rea sonable m'uit be determined partly in relation to tax policies not yet established, the board said. "The knowledge that Congress is at work on such a program, and that its adoption would not be long deferred, would provide a strong stimulus to the formulation of specific plans by business enterprise." The hoard, composed of manage ment, laber, agriculture and con sume* representatives, was appoint ed by President Roosevelt to advise Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes on vital home front decisions. Byrnes resigned yesterday, but it will fill the same capacity with his Fred M. Vinson. The chairman, O. Max Gifcdner, said in a statement that there still be high taxes after the war— •recedent to a, . we must havej an tax capital h WAH IN BREIF U. & Third Amy bunta into CM trml Germany plain an 100-mile front after toppling cities of KaseeJ, Goths and Suhl; on north, British cross Wes er River in ftaMin movement on Bwn»nj French capture Karlsruhe, capital of Baden; V. & Seventh Army plunges within M miles of Uqomb Rusaian armies dear last Nazi from Hungary, capture StovaMan capital of Bratislava, push into Vienna'e sub Allies hurl 8,000 planes into dwin dling air battle over Germany; 1,000 Flying Forts and Liberators blast bmanne yards at Kiel .and Ham burg. MaeArthur announces invaaion of Maabate Island in central Philippines; Marines and Beofckboys advance in Okinawa with scattered resistance; Phil lipines-based heavy bombers hit Hong Kong dock areas. 16th Indian Corps troops eater Tsungup, big supply base in Arakan; cover 42 miles in four days. State Assigned Big Bond Quota North Carolina Asked to Raise $134,000,000 In Seventh War Loan Drive' Winston-Salem, April 4. — North Carolina has been assigned a quota of 1134,000,000 far the Seventh War Loan, starting May 14 and running through June 30, State War Finance Chaifman C. T. Leinbach announced today. Hie overall goal includes an E bond quota of $56,000,000, largest in the history of North Carolina war loan drives and an increase of ap proximately 62 per cent over the Sixth Loan E-bond objective of $36,000,000. The State's total- goal was $121, 000,000 in the previous campaign. Leinbach described the large E bond goal as a "real challenge." He noted that in the Sixth Loan North Carolina sold $42,000,000 worth of E bonds, and that it will be necessary to better this total by $13,000,000 if the new quota is to be reacheg. He announred that as a means of providing additional stimulus to the E-bond drive, sales of this type of security will be counted in the Sev enth Loan beginning with those re ported to the Federal Reserve Bank on April 9. This means, Leinbach explained, f that E bonds will be counted from April 9 to June 80, and that more than one raont!: of extra time will be available for attaining the suota. Sales of F and G bonds and treas ury savings notes, Series C, from April 9 to June 30, and marketable type securities to be offered from May 14 to June 30, will, together with E bonds, be tabulated in the drive to reach the overall quota. Nation Wide Brake Check Program To Begin April 15th| To help make car* last longer *nd to reduce accidents, Farmville police will cooperate in the Nation-wide Brake Check Program, it was an nounced today by Chief Police L. T. Lucas. During a six week period, from April 15 until June 1, the police of the nation will check the brakes of all cars involved in moving traffic viola tions and in accidents, according to Chief Lucqa. He added that cars also would be checked which are operated in a maimer indicating that the brakes are not safe. "The brake check Vill be timely," he said, "because usually accidents increase sharply in the spring. Since cars on the average are twice as eld today as before the war, they are more likely to suffer breakdowns. The brake, check should be.an invalu able aid in holding the line against the certain threat," Chief Lucas said. The program, sponsored by the In ternational Association at Chiefs of Police, is supported by nearly 100 national organisations, including the Office of Defense Transportation add the U. S. Service. Forces. Police throughout North Carolina age cooperating m this cational program. "A simple brake check has hem devised," explained Chief Lucas, "which will take % police officer only a minute to make. 'It is hoped that aH motorists will cooperate in this war-tjiae program by h*$ng their brakes checked voluntarily M repair shops and by making sort tiie entire car is in safe "As was declared by G Semerville, Chief of the U. S. Amy Service Forces when he endorsed this program, 'Every automobile in Amer ica must be regarded as a weapon our all-oat war effort.' "No new caw will be made until quarter million w< badly in accidents. s^/a&s UNITED STATES *«* • fe;?''. Ant KALHHi I NEWS OP OOR&'' BOYS IN SERVICE Francis Luther Joymr, aon of Mr. and Mr*. Robert Joyiver, was recent ly pnnoted to Master Sergeant. He haa been in the army three years and the Hawaiian Islands one year. V Received Oaaibat M(e . With the 78th Infantry Diviaion in Germany—Soldiefs of the Sllth In fantry Regiment, "Lightning" Divi sion, fighting hi Germany, have re ceived Combat Infantryman's Badges from Major General Edwin P. Parker, Jr., Division Commanding General, for "exemplary conduct in action against the enem?." Among those who received the Badge is Private First Class WiUia P. Odom, of Farmviile, N. C. Charles M. Duke has recently bean promoted to Lt. Colonel in Hawaii He is with the Engineer Topographi cal Battalion there. Mrs. Duke and her infant aon reside here with h parents, Dr. and Mrs. Paul E. Jones. Sgt Ronald Earl I'ngwell, son of Mis. Alice Tugwell, of Farmviile, waa wounded by sMarpnel in the scalp, hipe and foot, February 6, in,Ger many, and is new in \ New Jersey hospital. He Is a'member ot the 88th Infantry Regiment of the Crack 2nd (Indian Head) Division. Mm Tugwell, the former Deris Burch, of Washington, D. C., is clerical supervisor with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Home Far Weak U Pvt. Archie Cayton spent the Easter week aid with his family here. He returned to Oliver General Hospital, Augusta, Ga_ Weals Overseas Stripes With the 18th AAF in Italy—Fife. Clifton Jo&es, of Farmviile, N. C., is now entitled to wear two gold over seas stripes as he haa been serving overseas for more than one year. Pfc. Jones is a cook m a 15th Air Force B-24 Liberator Bomb Group that has completed more than 150 bombing missions against the enemy and has been given the Distinguished Unit Citation. Before entering the service, April, 1943, he .was working for the North Carolina Shipbuilding A Dry Dock Company. At '«M Ottumwa, Iowa — Ensign Herbert' Horton Rountree, of Farmville, N. C., has reported at the Naval Air Sta tion, Ottumwa, Iowa, for Naval Air | Primary Flight Training. He is one of more than 800 recent-j iy commissioned ensigns who will he] given the four-month primary at the Ottumwa naval air station, | which involves mora than 76 solo and | dual flights, four hours of tion, recognition, aerology and com-1 munications study daily, and several hours -a day of athletics and swim ming. Ensign Rountree attended the Uni versity of North Carolina for four years, and was commissioned after successful completion of the mid shipmen's course at the U. S. Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School, Colum bia UsivsBsity, N. Y. In Hespital Train Crew With U. S. Supply Forces in Bel gium—Private Fi»t(Cla8e Floyd B. Croft, Rout* 1, Farmville, N. C., elec trician for the 188th Hospital Train MTainteaUnce Platoon, repairs trical fixtures on hospital trains I which evacuate casualties from the | front to rear-area-hospitals. In carrying on their work men of the 188th frequently have been, sub jected to artillery attacks, bombing and rtULshine-gun gtrafing by ainaaft Crews are attached trains running through France Belgium. Pie. Craft is the hushand of Mrs.] Bertha Ooft, Farmville. He sntsrad the Army in April, 1943, and was em ployed as an electrician's helper byj the Miller Electric Company, Jack sonville, in civilian life. Private Walter Gay, oi Route 2,1 Farmville, N. C., was recently award-] ad the Good Conduct Medal at West-] ever Field, Maaar where be is tety at passu*. The modal awarded fer "exemplary behavior, ef ficiency, and fidelity." Lt. Rolard 0- Lang, Jr., son. of Hr.| and Mrs. B. O. Lang, has been award ed the Puiple Heert tat wound* eeived in Belgium in December. Pvt R«ha*d L. — ^ p. w. Camp-<lwnP sw*>y» Ninth Army Reaches River teHigh Road to Reich Capital; Brittah Drive On Em den and Bremen la Move Abe Aimed To RU*k Nazi Baeape Route From HoUand; Ger mans f Over Two Divi sions Daily la Prisoners Paris, April 5.—U. a Third Army tank forces, breaking into the open * Thuringian plain, captured IT ■—el. Gotha and Suhl yesterday and closed in on Erfurt, ISO miles southwest of Berlin, in their swift nee to split the dying Raich. Id the north, BritiA armored forces hurdled two major rhrer barriers. The lower Weeer and Erne riven, and plunged on toward the great German North sea ports of Bremen and Em den. One force pushing into Lingen, (5 miles south of Emden, and sweeping onward, was only 46 miles from cut ting th# last Nasi escape route out of all Holland, and Canadian troops on the western flank were oremnmtng . V-bomb sites. Karlsruhe, capital of Baden on the upper Rhine, fell to the Flench First Army at the extreme southern end of the front, a French communique an nounced. The adjoining U. S. Seven th Army pushed to Ufftrihebn, 84 miles nertjbwest of Nuernberg, Nasi convention city and key road city controlling toe Berlin-Brenner Pass routes into Italy. H» Americans and French also were threatening Stutt gart, big south German city. All Allied armies were pushing ahead in a swelling tide that ovstrpn underground Nazi factories, vital air fields, and ether war plautf. 'The Naxig Wen losing mere than two di visions daily in prisoners alone. - Field Marshal Montgomery's Brit ish 11th Amend Division swe^t around Osnahroeck, when the last bitter German registers wen being slain, and creased toe Weeer River, one of toe last two water barrisrs before Berlin, in" wi apparent double strike aimed at 'Hannover and Bre Annougn im exact point or ttt crossing' w*s not divulged in t late front dispatch, it apparently occurred above Minden, which is 58 miles soath of Bremen and 82 milee wast of Henn * The British "plmgtd againat light opposition," said * dis patch from Associate Press Corre spondent William Prye. The American Third Amy, pacing the Allied drive in the center, ran through surrendered Gotha and moved on toward Erfyrt, 1L miles beyond, astride the Frankfrut-Dres den military superhighway. The Germans said to Allied giidete set down troops and fuel, and muni tions to aid in the capture of an cient Goths. The American Ninth Amy charr ed up to the 240-foot Weaer River,. next to last barrier on the high road to Berlin, 170 miles away. Beaching the river at Bed Oeynhaaaen, the Americans wwsnerf the laige Prus sian cmmunieaUons center of Hann over, 38 milee from Ninth Amy tanks. The naval baee of Bremen lay 57 milee to the north. Hie Ninth press »d down from the north on the shrinking Ruhr trap where ufc to 150,000 Germans faced surrender or snruhflstjan. Held Marshal Albert Kesaetring, supreme Nasi commander in the west, was iff the doomed pocket, a dispatch from the Ninth Amy front said. Advanc ing infantry proved within flee miles of Dormimr on two aides. Street fighting erupted through the rubbled strees of Wuersburg,' Heilbronn, Hanun and Zutphen, all of which were falling est a curving 400-mile front ae the Allies ripped through hastily The Canadians moved up to Are hem and wen leas than SO miles from the Zuider Zee in Holland. • Once they reach that great body of water they will hsrve cut off part of the 90400 Germans originally an cSored in western Holland. " - Go«ha fall without a shot being fired. Germans broke out white flag* a half-hour before the U. S. Amy's Fourth (Breakthrough Division Brig- Gen. William Hog*, ton, Mo., wae scheduled to attack. "If you dont surrender we'll blow your German _ . Mr «•
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