TiTSTT
The Gra&atira Exercises For Farra
riik High School To Be Held Toni^t
Dr. Maynmrd Fletcher
To Driver Comntence
ment Address
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Diplomas will to presented to thir
ty-two graduate* of Farmvillt High
SchooK in the final Commencement
program tonight at 8:80 o'clock in the
School Auditorium.
The speaker, Dr. Maynard 0.
Fletcher, who is general manager of
Tayloe's Hospital, Washington, will
be uftrwtuead by D. H. Conley, Super
intendent of Pitt County Schools.
Other addresses will be delivered by
Flora Dean Johnson, Salutatorian,
and Lorenio Daw Braxton, Jr., Vale
dictorian. Rev. M. Y. Self, pastor of
the Methodist Church, will give the
invocation.
John B. Lewis, Chairman-of the
School Board, will present the diplo
mas. Other members of the Board
are Irvin Morgan, Secretary, A. C.
Monk, Jr., Arch J. Flanagan and Dr.
John M. Mew born. Dr. Raul E. Jones
represents Farmville on the County
Board of Education.
Prizes will be awarded by Superin
tendent J. H. Moore as follows:
To the pupil making the most im
provement in mathematics, given by
J. Y. Monk, Jr., in Memory of his
mother; to the pupil making the most
improvement in ninth grade english,
given by the Farmville Literary Club;
to the pupil in the eighth, ninth,
tenth and twelfth grades making the
most improvement, given by the
Kiwanis Club; to the pupil making
the most improvement in Bibl6, giv
en by Mr, and Mm. A. J. Melton; to
the pupil making the most improve
ment in Home Economics, given by
Mrs. Paul Burton, of Wilmington; to
the home room making the best at
tendance record, given by Mrs. Frank
Davis, Sr. Prises will also be pre
scuieu pupii» ui puuiu.
Baccalaureate Sermon
Rev. P. W. Paschall, pastor of
Trinity Methodist Church, Wilming
ton, ipoke to the graduates Sunday
evening, choosing as the basis for Us
remarks the 13th Chapter of First
Corinthians, discussing Faith, Hope
and Love and, their contribution and
effect in daily life.
The speaker was introduced by Rev.
M. Y. Self. Rev. E. S. Coatee Pres
byterian minister, offered prayer.
A choir composed of members of
various churches and a quartette,
Mrs. M. V. Jones, Miss Nellie Butler,
E. C. Holmes and J. R. Shearin, sang.
The class colors, green, sad white,
and the class flower, the red rose,
were effectively carried out in the
stage decorations, under supervision
of Mrs. Archie Speight and Mrs.
Luther Thomas. The roe as were from
the garden of Mr. and Mrs. George
W. Davis.
No '46 Graduate*
Since the twelfth grade has been
added, there will be no graduating
class next year.
WAR IN BRIEF
Jap defenses on Okinawa broken,
says Aemrican corps commander;
Americans raise Old Glory over Shnri
castle.
Japan indicates most of great port
city of Yonohama. burned tout; J)0,000
homes destroyed in Tuesday's great
raid.
k. Syria pleads for Anglo-American
intervention and Lebanon calls mili
tary volunteers as violence spreads in
Levant.
Japs set-fire to former Americanj
air base of Liuchow as they retreat!
towards Kweilin.
In Burma heavy bombers rock
Japanese troop concentrations in
Moulmein with 100 tons of bombs;
Indian troops in lower Irrawaddy sec-,
tor repulse seven Japanese attacks
American bombers battle Japanese
on Luzon with 610 tons as U. 8.
troops pushed forward toward Ca
gayan valley and east of Manila.
Memorial Services
To Be Held Sunday
Memorial Services honoring the
Nation'* dead, of all wan, will be held
under the auspices of the local Post
American Legion and AaxQiiqr on
Sunday afternoon, at 6 o'clock, in the
Forest Hill Cemetery. .
John Hill Payk»r, of Farmville and
Raleigh, will deliver the Memorial
address. Mr. Pay lor, who is with
the OPA in Raleigh, is a member of
the local post and has been moat ac
tive in Legion work since the organi
zation of the American Legion.
C. A. Tyson, Commander of the
RmnviUe Post, will be m charge at
tike IS i«f«i Auxiliary
will decorate the Graves of fallen
NEWS OF OUR
BOYS IN SERVICE
Promoted
■ Ed wand T. Mosingo, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Mosingo, has recently been
promoted from. Staff Sergeant to
Flight Chief. He ia at present sta
tioned in Galveston, Texas.
In his new duties, Flight Officer
Mosingo has under his supervision 15
planes and 30 men. He is entirely
responsible for the planes bung in
flying condition and mast account
for his men at all times, and direct
them in all plane repair work.
In Hh State*
S/Sgt. Malcolm Hardy "has notifi
ed his parents Mr. and Mm. J. W.
Hardy, that ha arrived in the States
several days ago and expects to be
home within .a few days.
Sgt. Hardy is in the 8th Air Force.
He went overseas in September,
1942, and has been stationed in
Africa the entire time except for a
short while spent in Cairo, Egypt
Training In XsrfMk
Herbert M. M*ore, 19, seaman,
second class, USNE, of Walstonburg,
H. C., arrived at the Naval Training
Station, Norfolk, Va., May 3 to
train for duties aboand a new de
stroyer of the Atlantic Fleet.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Moore of Waljstonburg, he has a
brother and sister in the armed
forces, Horace, a private, first class,
in the Army and Gladys a corporal in
the WAC. Before enlisting, he work
ed on his father's farm. He attend
ed Walstonburg High School.
Congratulated
England, V-E Day — Among the
185,000 men and women of the Eighth
Air Force congratulated today by Lt.
Gen. James H. Doolittle, who assum
ed command of the Eighth in Jan
uary, 1944, are Pfc. John R. Harris,
81, teletype operator, husband ' of
Mrs. J. R. Harris, of Miami Beach,
Fla., and son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Harris, of Farmville, N. C., and Cpl.
Willie T. Baker, 514 W. Church St.,
Farmville, N. C.
"I wish to extend my personal
congratulations and. my heartfelt ap
preciation to every one of you for the
maxnificient job vou have done."
Geo., Doolittle said in a message to
al l personnel.
"Each of you," he continued, "may
be prood of your part in the defeat
of Germany. I am proud of you.
The world is proud of you."
The Eighth Air Force was the
world's mightiest strategic bombing
force. Its personnel of 186,000 was
the equivalent of 12 infantry divi
sions, and it could send 21,000 air
men in 2,000 four-engine bombers and
1,000 fighters over Germany at one
time, a combat effort possible only
through the support of tens of thous
ands of non-flying specialists.
Airmen -of the Eighth were the
first Americans to attack Germany.
As the Eighth grew in strength, it
was assigned the task of crushing the
Ger&an Air Force.
After beating the Luftwaffe into
relative impotency, the Eighth threw
its growing weight agrflnst Ger
many's rail system and vital sources
of oil. These campaigns, in conjunc
tion with the British Royal Air Force
and the U. S. 15th Air Force, dis
organized all transport in Germany,
restricted German military opera
tions in the air and on the ground,
and paved the way for the march of
Allied armies across Europe.
In Okinawa Waters
Aboard a U. S. Destroyer—Mine
sweeper off Okinawa—(delayed)—
Billy Thomas Cash, seaman,;, first
class, NSN, whose mother, Mrs. A
Cash, lives at Route 1, Farmville,
N. C., was aboard the first warship
to enter Okinawa waters.
Ha was there a week before the in*
vasion of the island, at his battle sta
tion aboard this minwweeper as it
cleared a path toward the beach for
other units of the Pacific Fleet
Before the giant battleships hurled
their loads of destruction agsjnsft the
island defenses, before the other fire
support groups, the cruisers snd de
stroyers, and before the transports,
supply vessels and landing craft
cam*, this little minesweeper led a
squadron of others into the backyard
of Japan.
During the week before the land
ings, the squadrons of "sweepers"
came within range of ensMV shore
batteries, sailed through waters, som»
uncharted, where the chance at on
braved the hazards of Jap suicide
pilots. TVO
Even after the waters were swept
cUmr, the job of the mine-weepers
was not finished. They were en the
job screening larger units, escorting
Tobacco Sales
Regulations For
The 1945 Season!
Dally Sales limited To
1,400 Piles On The
Floors of North Caro
lina Belts; SVz Hours
Selling Time J
Daily sales volumes on all tobacco
belts throughout the flue-cured area
mill be limited during the 1945 sell
ing season in an- effort to avoid con
gestion in retrying plants, according
to an agreement readied by ware
house groups and tobacco-buying in
terest, recently.
Announcement of th* new markets
Ing procedure was made in Raleigh,
Monday, by Fred Royster, of Hen
ierson, president of the Bright Belt
Warehouse Association, and J. M.
Broughton, association counsel.
According to the agreement,-drawn
oy the board of governors of the
Bright Belt Warehouse Association
representing- ine jnioaie, ooraer, uia
uid Eastern Tobacco belt* and" alt
flue-cured belts from Georgia to
Virginia, daily market sales will be
limited to a total of 1,400 piles on all
t>elts except Georgia-Florida, where
the maximum will be 1,800 piles.'
However, a tolerance of not more
than 16 piles may be allowed if neces
sary to prevent stopping in the mid
ile of a crop.
Selling Hours Set.
Selling hours on all belts will be
three and one-half hours a day ex
sept hi the Georgia-Florida belt,
vhich will be allowed four and one
lalf selling hours. In all belts the
average rate of speed of selling will
je 400 piles an hour. Piles will have
i maximum of 260 pounds a pile.
For the purpose of tabulating and
checking the count of piles sold, there
■hall be a competent person employ
ed for each set of buyers at the joint
expense of tfee ^rehouses and the
buying interests, this person will
follow each sale immediately behind
the sale and enumerate each pile sold
and each buying company, not in
cluding purchases by warehouses or
speculators. . -
May Modify Plan Later.
Buying companies will be asked
to instruct each, of their individual
buyers on all markets to comply
strictly with the procedure.
. Warehousemen have agreed that
in the event the procedure adopted
should result in over-all sales of
tobacco beyond the capacity of
redrying plants to handle it, they
will consent to such modifications of
the plan as will meet the emergency.
In the event warehousemen or bay
en fail to comply with the provisions
of the selling formula, representa
tives of both groups will have a joint
meeting to deal with the situation.
The procedure as drawn has been
accepted by the m&rketfng commit
tee of the tobacco association of the
United States, representing buying
interests, it was stated.^
On those markets where, the num
ber of sets of buyers in 1944 was
reduced below the number in 1948,
additional selling time will be allow
ed to offset such reduction in buy
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NAZBSTSXECUTED
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Stockholm, May 30.—The newspa
Nyheter, quoting the
newspaper Beriingske
today that" SO German
Gestapo guards from Troeslev Con
p in Denmark had been
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FARMVIIJjp BOY
SCOUT 4CTIV 1T1KS
Kiwanis Club Sponsoring Cab
Pack; Rotar* Troop Meets
Young- boys of She Farmville Com
munity, between tkeitges of nine and
twelve, have the opportunity of join
ing a Cub Pack which is along the
lines of Junior Scouting. Otherwise
it. is a program if supervised back
yard play to teack boys of this age
the principals of feir play and how
to deal with their -fellow man.
At the organiwaon meeting, the
Kiwanis Club borrowed a sufficient
number of Scouts^ from the Rotary
Troop to use as Den Chief* until next
fall when the Cubs hope to also or
ganise a Scout Troop. Hose selected
by the Cubmaster are Robert Rollins,
Turwlge, WHfar Bermett, Billie
ROssell, James Thorn©, Emerson Roe
buck, Dan Satterthwaite- and Charles
Joyner.
The Cuhs are to assemble once or
twice each month as a Cub Pack but
are to meet each week with their
respective Den Chief. It is hoped that
parents wiH lake turn about in in
viting the Clubs to their homes each
weel^ for one-afternoon of fun and
play under the supervision of the Den
Chief.
Chief Charles Joyner has Charles
Allen, Thomas Allen and Bob Smith
in his Den with Jlmmie Chamblee
and Paschall Barrett as prospects.
Den Chief Robert Boiling has Bert
Warren and Downy -Bryan with Glen
Bundy, Tommy Littl-9, Marvin Cor
bitt Hathaway and Jade Lewis as
prospects.
Den Chiefs Jack Tuniage and Wil
bur Bennett have Jessie Spencer,
Charles Greene, William Rollins and
Emmett Picket with Martin Parker
as a prospect. Den Chiefs Billy Rus
sell and James Thorne have Charlie
Fitzgerald, Jan Cayton and Albert
Cannon with Rodney Edwards as a
prospect.
The Cubs have their own Cub
Promise and Law which is especially
designed, for younger boys. A Cub
advances from Bobcat to Wolf, both
Gold and Silver Wolf and Bear, both
Gold and Silver Lion. When they are
twelve years of age they graduate
into Scouting.
IrT addition to the Cub Master,
Kiwanians G. L. Gilchrist, Lath Mor
riss, David Harris and other mem
bers have pledged their assistance and
agree to help in every way poasible
to enable the Cubing and Scouting
programs to grow in the Farmville
District , ;
Members of Rotary Troop No. 31,
met recently and had a report of the
Camporee in Wilaon, various Scouts,
through their respective Patrols, men
tioned outstanding activities ehjoyed.
Scouts expressed appreciation to all
who helped in any way that they
might attend, and for feats and other
equipment loaned them by people of
the town.
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WAR BOND SHOW
i •. WINNERS OF WEEK
L 'wjf .
: i. The Paramount theatre announces
the following winning numbers from
Tuesday's War Bond Show-drawing:
War Bond, 26(57; vMe, 1261; waste
basket, 2891; newspaper subscription,
1687; skin cream, 1410; cigarettes,
rwfjt' • •
|» The Bond has already been claimed
and other winners are asked t» call
for their prizes before next drawing.
One more War Bond Show is sJm*
I duled for June 6. Buy more "E"
sfErarc&cia
Tokyo Admits Big
Damage b Attack
Upon Yokahama
San Francisco, Majr 80. — Tokyo
radio today said yesterday's Ameri
can fticendiary raid on Yokohama left
260,000 inhabitants of Japan's second
largest port homeless with 60,000
hoaaes destroyed, bat the count of
dead and injured would take some
time to complete.
The city's communications and
transportation lines were knocked
out, providing more war worries for
Premier Kantaro Suzuki, who con
ferred today with six former pre
miers of the .empire.
Narrow Nation.
While the broadcast, heard by the
FCC, gave no details of subjects dis
cussed by Suzuki and some of his
ministers with ex-premiers, Donet'
news agency hinted at the agenda
with the report that the nation waa
filled "with trepidation" arret raid
damage to the imperial palace.
The former premiers attending
the conference were listed aa Ku
niaka Koiao. Hideki Tojo, Baron
Knrhrm Hiranuma, Prince Fumi
maro Konoye, Keiauke Okada and'
Koki Hirta.
Other broadcasts eminating from
Tokyo reported aeven more of Nip
pon's admralis had died in battle,
bringing the'total to more than 100
in lass than a year, and said Vis
count Kikujiro Ishii, "dean of Ja
pan's diplomatic service," probably
was killed in last Saturday's Tokyo
raid. In 1917. Ishii nm» tn thi>
United States to conclude the so-1
called "gentlemen's agreement" gov
erning Japanese immigration.
Other Big-Shots Killed.
Two other prominent men prob
ably killed in the Tokyo raid were
identified as TVoneji Taniguchi, vice
governor of the Bank of Japan, and
Dr. Yorozu Oda, Japanese Author
ity on international law.
Tokyo termed the Yokohama raid
"by far the largest in the number
of planes" partkiuating and con
tinued to make unconfirmed claims
of shooting down 20 Superforts and
12 escorting Mustag fighters, with
another 59 planes damaged. Ameri
can communiques have, announced
the loss of two B-29a and three Mus
tangs.
A continuation attacks by Jap
anese suicide planes on "enemy
ships" around Okinawa Tbesday
night was reported by another
Tokyo broadcast It said, without
confirmation, that report*, had been
received "that all attacking planes
had crash-dived on their targets."
Walstonburg Glee
[J Club To Sing Here
Sunday Evening1
A program of sncred music will be
presented at the Farmville Baptist
Church, Sunday evening, June 3, at
8:30 o'clock, by the Watotonburg
High School Glee Club.
Mrs. Carlos Walston, director, has
announced the program as follows,
"God Bless Our Land," Kounts;
"Glory Now To The# Be Given,"
Back; "Cherubim Song" (No. 7),
Bortnyansky; "Abide With Me,"
Shelly; "Send Out Thy light,1'
Gounod; "Finland!*," Sebeliue; "0
Sacred Head-Now Wounded," Back;
"Were You There When They Cruci
fied My Lord" and "Steal Away,"
Spirituals; "Beautiful Savior," Chris
tiansen; "WhsmI Survey The. Won
drous Goes," Watts, and "The Lord
Bless You, and Keep You," Lutkin.
The Club is noted for its close har
mony and musical effectiveness and
music lovem of the satire communi
ty sue looking forwaed to this pro
gram. All people of the community
are cordially invited to attend. The'
Churches ot Farmville will suspend
their evening services in behalf of
this concert.
smart, isnt.
fice, New York.
i Cherry Point, CpL Frank Denya
novich, Lincoln Park, Michigan, ud
Pfc. Dale B. Martin, Kniglrtaville,
It*. f ■ \
Camp Lejeune Pfc. Joht €. De
laney, Harvell, Mo., dinner guest
Sunday of Mfaa Tabitha M. DeVia
eonti, and Pfc. Riohand E. Newman*
Troy, Ohio.
Henry P. Bland, C.C.8UL, Hattewu,
N. C„ and Port Pierce, Fla.; Pvt and
Mrs. Shirley D. Shackioford, Ports
mouth, Va., and Geiger Field, Spok
ane,- Wash., Sunday night guests
ef Mr. and Mrs. Wave Holaton; CpL
Chart ea C. Sholdes, Greenville Air
Base and Ceiveiaad, Ohio, guest
Thuraday, Saturday and Monday
nights of Km DeViaconti, and his
brother, Pvt. Raymond Sholdea, of
Cleveland, Ohio, and Paria Islsnd, S.
C., waa also her gueata on Saturday
and Monday night*
A letter from Henry Skinner, Ph.
M. 2/c, says "If the people at home
could know just what the men in the
war tones are doing for the freedom
of oar homeland they would newer
heeitate to buy a bond or give a pint
af Wood to the Bed Oaea. Each
Service Man ia doing hia job with a
willing heart and civiliana can newer
realize what it maane until he geta
in the actual fitting. It juat cant
be put in wonda." He has traveled
a bit in the Pacific—the Admiralty
Islands, New Guinea, the Philippine*
and numerous other placea he caat
tell about now. He elates that he ia
feeling fine and enjoying good health
but ia looking forward to the day
when we have total peace and all can
cpme sailing home, and appreciates
the wonderful things being dona for
the Service Men by the Farmville
people through the Canter.
Pfc. Clean J. Hallman, Kankakee,
□L, and Finney General Hospital,
ThomasviHe, Ga., who brought a pa
tient here and apart the night, wrote
that the tame spent hen was moat
enjoyable and .he arrived at the hoe
JRUB in a rested condition due to the
hospitality he received.
Mrs. S. G. Gardner donated a dox
en individual pecan pies; Mrs. B. A.
Norman, milk; and Miss Elisabeth
Davis, Time magazines.
The' P. & G. Electric
Membership Corp'n.
Meets Here Saturday
The annual meeting of the Pitt and
Greene Electric Membership corpora
tion will be held has* tomorrow, Sat
urday, June 2. The program will be
gin at 3 o'clock in tha High School
Gymnasium, with J. Lee Tugwell,
president) presiding.
Mayor J. W. Joyner will give the
address of- wehwnev with J. L Small
and Ret ho Suggs of Snow- Hill, re
sponding. s
Reports of officers on the aoeeass
of the previous year's operationa will
be heart Membership has base in
creased from 1,148 hi December, IMS
to 1,218 in December, '44. Member
ship to date totals-1,304. Total cash
future pclicies of the cooperative.
The frj lowing attendance prises
will be given, one year light bill not
to exceed $26.00, six months light
bill - not to exceed $18.60 three
months light bill not to erfeeed 16.28,
and a fourth prize, to be announced
later,
The construction program has been
limited during the year due to gov
ernment regulations and scarcity of
W. Nlmitx
waay tnat tunm of JMg. (MB.
Pedro A. Dal Valla's Plmt DhWon
strengthened and built op thair
positions in the castle ruins, first',
reached Tueadsy in a swift dash
by Company A of the Fifth Regi
ment, led by Capt Julius Dusen
barry of Charlotte, N. C.
Other diviaons wan cootinwias
their offensive aimed at nriwHag
and reducing the big enemy strong
hold, once the ke*atcna of the
Japaaaaa duf—as line.
Mala Dsf—
Maj. Gen. Mm R. Hodga, 24th
Amy Ooipa rnenmaarisr, said the
mam defenses of the enemy hud
been "busted" after «0 daya of bat.
tie. "I think we've got them," he
totd cnmaiinadmis
Marine Dirisien troops and Oenrenth .
piad-Naha, capital f ""ll'lil 1 The
Marines wan piwhtng towaid the
Kokuba River month from Naha.
poiat only 1* milna from the neat
coast, according to front reports.
Adverse waslhur made tha going
tough for tha Marines and soldier a.
But it also limited Japaneee aerial
attacks against Pacific Fleet units
off Okinawa. Tha enemy mate sev
eral isolated raids during Tuesday
and succeeded in damaging two
light U. S. naval unite. Eight Japa
nese planes wan shot down during
the attacks.
The Americana hammered tha last
suicide outpusts of Short Tha ad- ^
vaneee into the dwindling southern
pocket from Yoaahsro and Naha
threatened to split the area and
divide Japanese fames in tha north
and south.
The 77th Infantry Division north
east of Shnri continued to meat