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% . .m i I ? '* i ' ? > V.V.. ? ><?, . 'f/ 1. WATAUGA DEM Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888. VOL. LVIII, NO. 4 fi BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY.' JULY 26. 1945 $1.50 A RUIN IS HEAPED ON JAPAN AS BIG PLANES HIT America's Greatest Air Smash at Japan Spreads Ruin as 2,000 Superforts Blast Tar gets in Industrial Areas; Hon shu Area Hit Guam, July 25 ? America's great est air smash at Japan spread ruin from Kure navy base to Nagoya Tuesday as 2,000 or more Third fleet carrier aircraft. B-29s and sup porting planes blasted targets from dawn to late afternoon. At least three warships were hit at Kure, Nippon's largest navy base, situated on the Inland sea. The main nest of the Kamikaze corps flyers, also at Kure, was Strafed and bombed. Then the more than 1,000 carrier planes ranged widely over south western Honshu. They brushed aside opposition, shooting down at least one of a dozen Jap fighters. The record force ol more than 600 B-29s from the Marianas attacked the already burned and battered cities of Osaka and Nagoya with 4, 000 tons of demolition bombs. Vice. Adm J. S. McCain's carrier force of Admiral Halsey's Third fleet, prowling the coast of Japan into the third straight week, steam ed in by night for the attack. The first planes, starting the great iield day for American air might, were launched in clear dawn. The The carriers, in order to strike at Kure, probably were no more than 100 miles off the mainland island of Shikoku. All throughout the morning and the afternoon the carriers continued to launch attacks. The B-29s hit their Nagoya and Osaka targets, the latter 165 miles east of Kure, around noon. They encountered no fighter opposition and only moderate anti aircraft fire. CEILING TO BE " LIFTED SOON Minor OemmoditiM An to B? Lifted From Colling Soon, th* Go ? ? rnrn ?n t Says r Washington, July 24 ? The govern ment tonight outlined a program for removing price control from minor commodities "to clear the d?cks for speedier handling of re conversion programs." Announced jointly by the Office of Economic Stabilization and the OPA, the program sets up proced ures for eliminating price ceilings under specific conditions. "Among the 8,000 commodities and services now under price con trol are some items for which ceil ings soon will no longer be neces ?ary," Price Administrator Chester Bowles said. He added that it is "essential for us to clear our decks in OPA, and ?t ream line our procedures to permit Speedy decisions" in the task of re converting industry from war pro duction to manufacture of peace time goods. Memorial Service For Theodore Ward ? To Be Held Sunday. Memorial service will be held Sunday, July 29, at Willow Valley Church for Theodore Payne Ward, Seaman first class. The service will begin at 2 o'clock. The ministers conducting the serv ice will be Rev. J. C. Canipe and Rev Will Cook. The American Legion will also have a part in the ?ervice. j Seaman Ward was killed in action in the Okinawa island fighting. There were 41 others killed at the came time, when their ship was at tacked by nine Jap planes. Consid erable damage was inflicted on the enemy before they were killed. One Of the planes shot down crashed into their ship, causing the death of 42 peamen. Seaman Ward died of blast con cussion. Deposits Reach New High at Local Bank Deposits at the Boone branch of the Northwestern Bank this week reached a total of approximately $2,700,000, according to Cashier W. D. Farthing. This represents a gain of about $100,000 since publication of the condition of the bank as of June 30 of this year. The French academy says that 2. ?W languages are spoken on earth. NEWS OF OUR MEN and WOMEN IN UNIFORM R. G. FARTHING, gunner's mate first class, U. S. Navy, who has been on duty in the Pacific for several months, is spending a 30-day fur lough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben W. Farthing, of Valle Crucis. PFC. J. V. CAUDILL, JR., is spending a 30-day leave here with his wife and daughter, and his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Caudill, Sr. Pfc. Caudill, a machine gunner, fought in France, Blegium, Luxem bourg and Germany. He has been awarded three combat ribbons, good conduct medal and the Presidential unit citation. He will report to Fort Bragg for further assignment. CLAUDE MINTON, SR. of the navy, arrived at a hospital in Oak land, Calif., July 12. Seaman Min ton has been on active duty in the Pacific aboard a destroyer since last | November. He took part in the in vasion of Luzon, Iwo Jima and Oki nawa, and was taken ill about the middle of April. T-SGT. DELL RICHARDSON is spending a few days with his p^Tf ents in Boone, en route to Langtey Field, Va., for further duty. CHAPLAIN JAMES SHERWOOD, who has been in Germany, Czecho slovakia and France for the past four months, has been spending a few days with relatives in the coun ty. He delivered an address at Cove Creek Baptist Church, of which he is a former pastor, Sunday morning and at the Boone Baptist Church Sunday night. He reports for further duty to Camp Atterbury, Ind. PFC. LLOYD PENNELL. who has been on active duty in the European theatre of war for the past eleven months, is spending a W-day fur lough with his mother, Mrs. J. W. Pennell, of Boone. CELLE M. WINKLER. seaman first class, of the U. S. coast guard SPARS, is spending a ten-day leave with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Winkler, at Shulls Mills. Miss Winkler has been stationed at the coast guard supply depot in Brook lyn, N. Y., and Jersey City, N. J., for the past year. PFC. ROY L. MORETZ, of Boone Route 2, has just been awarded the Combat Infantryman's Badge for exemplary conduct in action against the Japs in the Philippine libera tion campaign. Pfc. Moretz, who previously was awarded the Expert Infantryman's Badge for service in Dutch New Guinea, is a veteran of three campaigns. He served with his unit in the recent drive through the mountains of Central Luzon which was climaxed by the capture of Baguio, the summer capital of the Philippines. Pfc. Moretz, who is a member of Company K of the 123rd infantry regiment, entered army service on Dec. 12, 1942. After serv ing in the Hawaiian Islands and New Guinea, he has been in the Philippines since February. PFC. HENRY O. MORETZ, of Boone, recently was awarded the Bronze Star medal for heroic aachievement in action on the Fifth army front during the Italian cam paign. He serves with the 346th field artillery battllion, 91st "Pow der River" division. Moretz, a mem ber of an artillery liaison team drove forward under heavy German artil lery fire to repair a broken com munications wire, the citation re lated. Working under direct enemy (CONTINUED ON PA OK EIGHT) Ration Guide Proc?M?d Foodi T2, U2, V2, W2, X2, now valid, expire July 31; Y2, Z2, Al, Bl, CI. now valid, expire August 31; D1 through HI, now valid, expire Sept. 30; J1 through N 1, expire Oct. 31. M??i and Fata K2 through P2, now valid, expire July 31; Q2 through U2, now valid, expire Aug. 31; V2 through Z2, now valid, expire Sept. 30; Al through 71, now valid, expire October 31. Sugar Sugar stamp 36 expires Aug. 31. Airplane stamp* No*. 1, 2 and S, in Book Three, continue valid In definitely. aiioHns A la coupons valid through Sept 21. E?ch car owner must write his license number and state on each ga* coupon as soon as it is issued to him. Mileage rationing record must be presented when applying for all passenger car gasoline rations. - I BIG JAP SHIPS ARE SUNK BY YANKEE FLEET Thirteen Nipponese Warships Sunk or Damaged in Daring Raid of MacArthur's Bombers; 350 Planes Take Part in Raid on Shanghai Area Manila, July 25 ? More than 350 Far East air force bombers and fighters of all categories returned to Shanghai Sunday after a four day lull to sink or damage 13 war ships and freighters and crater three major airdromes. General MacArthur's communi que today, announcing the strike 36 hours after Tokyo had acknowledg ed the raid, listed a destroyer, a 3, 000-ton freighter transport and a smaller freight definitely sunk; a destroyer escort, two submarine chasers, a 10,000-ton freighter transport and six freighter-transports aggregating 27,000 tons probably sunk, and much small shipping dam aged. First line combat planes of both the Fifth and Seventh air forces, based on Okinawa, took advantage of the first break in weather since July 12 to drop bombs ranging from 20-pound fragmentation dusters to 1,000-pounders on shipping and air dromes. Three large fires and several smaller ones licked over parked Jap aircraft caught on Kiangwan air center by flights of Liberators. In vader attack bombers hit Tachang and Tinghai airstrips at buzzing level, spewing countless fragmenta tion bombs over dispersal areas and buildings. There was no interception. Tokyo claimed seven U. S. aircraft were downed by antiaircraft fire. CHINESE TROOPS ATTACK KWEILIN Chinas* Troops Baill* Into Am of Form*r 14th U. S. Air Basa in Daring Forty Chungking, July 24 ? Chinese troops, sweeping toward almost iso lated Kweilin from the south, have battled into the outskirts of the for ?mer U. S. 14th air force base of Yangso and are laying siege to the Jap-held stronghold, the Chinese high command said tonight. Chinese artillery 13 miles northr east of Kweilin opened an artillery bombardment of Lingchan on the enemy garrison's escape route to central China in an effort to prevent a Japanese withdrawal, headquar ters reported. Elsewhere in China, a communi que said, the Japs had launched a sweep south of the Yangtze river to protect Tokyo's vital transcontinen tal corridor from Korea to Hong Kong, and bitter fighting reportedly continued along China's invasion vulnerable coast west of Formosa. Much Canned Food Is Given To Orphanage More than $1,000 worth of canned food was donated by the people of Watauga county to the Thomasville Orphanage last year, according to Russell D. Hodges, orphanage direc tor of the Three Forks Baptist As sociation, who states that jars are now available for canning this year's food crop for the orphanage. All those interested in providing food for this cause should apply at the Farmers Hardware and Supply Co. for jars. Following is a list of the value of food contributed last year by the different Baptist churches of the county to the orphanage: Beach Valley $ 45.00 Beaver Dam ?... 45.00 Bethany 60.00 Bethel 6.00 Boone 9.00 Brushy Fork 9.00 Cove Creek ? 25.58 Howard's Creek 33.00 Laurel Springs 28.88 Meat Camp 71.63 Middle Fork 9.00 Mountain Dale 90.00 Mt. Calvary 43.00 Mt. Lebanon 17.00 Oak Grove ? * 30.00 Pleasant Grove- 3.00 Poplar Grove 62.25 Proffitfs Grove 27.00 Rich Mountain 22.50 Rutherwood ... 6.00 Tabernacle 33.00 Union .... 52.50 Willowdale 54.00 Willow Valley 70.25 Zionville 165.00 Zion Hill 27.00 ToUl $1,044.51 An American soldier who com?? oul of lh* war minus an arm or ???n two legs and an afm. will be abla to drive an automobile. Ha can have hit o'-1 car tailored to meet his particular requirement*, thanks to devices assured by Society of Automobile Engineers and the army's surgeon general't staff. War Ration Book No. 5 Will Be Be Distributed During December War Ration Book Five, "smaller than a dollar bill" and containing just half as many stamps as the last book issued, will be distributed through the public schools in De cember, Chester Bowles, administra tor of the office of price administra tion, announced yesterday. At the same time, the new "A" gasoline ration book will be issued. Distribution will take place at school houses or other public build ings throughout the nation from December 3 through December 15. OPA district offices will fix the ex act time for each local area. The new "A" gasoline books will go into use December 22. and War Ration Book Five will be used soon after the first of the year for food ration ing and for rationing shoes. The new all-purpose ration book will measure 5.11 inches by 2* inches. Over all, it is exactly one half the size of the present ration books, and contains just half as many stamps as were in Book Four ?192 stamps in Book Five as com pared with 384 in Book Four. The stamps in the new book, however, will be the same size as the stamps now in use. Housewives will find the new "small* check book" style ration book much more convenient to carry and handle. At the current rate of making stamps good ? five red and five blue stamps at the beginning of each month ? War Ration Book Five can Blowing Rock Business Building Changes Hands Blowing Rock, July 25? One of the most important real estate trans actions of the season has just been made, involving the sale of the so called postoffice building, by Andrew Nelson, of Lenoir, to Miss Ann Cof fey of Blowing Rock. The building in addition to hous ing the postoffice, on which there if, f lon* leas?. also Includes the Watauga Grill and Lodge which has been operated by Miss Coffey for several years. In addition to the Pth?r facilities taken care of in this building it also serves as the bus station for the Queen City Trail ways which service has also been handled by Miss Coffey. Miss Coffey plans to continue the operation of the grill and lodge, which she has so successfully han dled heretofore, and the service of the bus company will continue to be housed in the building and un der the direction of Miss Coffey. The considerations for this prop erty was not divulged. Japs Have Only ? 5,000 Airplanes Washington. July 24? Vice Ad miral A. W. Fitch expressed the opinion tonight that the Japanese have only about 5,000 combat planes left. 1Not many," he commented,' Vhen you recill that the Jape lost over 4,000 planes around Okinawa." UHJT. ? r GABBeE of the Naval Training Base at MHton, Fla., is spending a 15-day furlough with his family in Boone. last, if needed, about 15 months. One hundred and fifty million copies of Book Five are now being printed. The cost of printing and shipping to distribution centers will be approximately $750,000. The book will contain 48 red stamps numbered from 11 through 58 for use in the meat-fats program. There will be 48 blue processed food stamps, also numbered from 11 through 58. There will be 12 'sugar stamps, numbered from 23 through 34, and 12 shoe stamps, numbered from 11 through 22. (? The book will also contain 72 "spare" stamps ? 24 of them green stamps numbered from 35 through 58, and 48 of them brown stamps numbered 59 through 106. These spare stamps will be available for use in extending the life of the book to approximately 15 months If needed. The list full set of five blue stamps in War Ration Book Four will become good on Sept. 1. The final set of five red stamps will be validated a month later, on Oct. 1. The New "A" Book The new "A" gasoline book, the third issued under rationing, will differ from the present book only in color. The book will contain five sets of coupons, ^six coupons to a set numbered A-18 through A-23. Each set of six coupons will cover a different validity period. The first set ? the coupons numbered A-18 ? become good December 22. 481 ENROLL FOR ASTC SECOND TERM Four hundred and eighty-one stu dents are in attendance at the sec ond term of summer school at Ap palachian State Teachers College, Dean J. D. Rankin announced this morning. Dean Rankin said the second term enrollment was 80 percent of the first, which is the highest per centage in the history of, the sum mer school at the local college. The enrollment for the term last year was 382. Additions to the faculty for the second term includes Dr. Roy Morri son, of the University of North Caro lina, in the graduate school, and Miss Helen Jules, of Horris-Mann Lincoln school, New York city. Noted Pianist To Appear at College On Saturday Night The number two lyceum number of the artist Series for Appalachian College second term will be given on Saturday night, July 28, at 8:00 o'clock. The artist is Mr. Ralph H. Rob bins, professor of piano in McMur ray College, Jacksonville, 111. After years of training in America, and three years abroad, he devoted him self to concert work and to teach ing. This is the fourth time he has been on the Appalachian artist series. The college community and the public is cordially invited to attend the concert. OAKBORO LUMBER PLANT SERIOUSLY DAMAGED BY FIRE Lenoir Plant, Owned by Boob* Business Men, Suffers $40, 000 Damage in Blase; Hope to Have Plant in Operation With. in 60 Days Lenoir ? More than $40,000 dam age was inflicted on the Oakboro Lumber Company plant ^wo and a half miles north of Lenoir early Tuesday morning of last week wh^n a fire of undetermined origin swept through the main building. The Lenoir fire department ans wered an alarm, called in by tele phone, at 1 :22 o'clock Tuesday' morning, but the roof of the main building, housing the planing mill and other woodworking machinery, was falling in when the truck arriv ed, according to A. Y. Cottrell, as sistant fire chief. Water was pumped from a creek and the fire was prevented from spreading to the office and the main section of the lumber yard where more than a million feet of lumber was hacked. One box car and its load of lum ber was completely destroyed while a second was partially burned. Fred A. Long, who with Dewitt Bamett and Lester Carroll own the concern, said that the damage was more than $40,000 partially covered by insurance. Mr. Long stated that the plant will be rebuilt immediately on the sacn? site. He said that new ma Chinery would be available soon and that operations would not be cur tailed entirely because of the fire. Lenoir firemen fought the blaze until 8:00 o'clock Tuesday morning, preventing the spread of the fire to the office and the main part of the lumber yard. Water was pumped from the creek on both sides of the fire, Mr. Cottrell said. Mr. Carroll states that his firm will keep buying lumber as past, and that he expects to be able to have the plant rebuilt within 00 da ft. BLOWING ROCK TO STAGE HOfjSE SHOW Annual Eftnl to Be H*ld Friday and Saturday. Aug. 3-4; Snyder * Heads G'oup The Blowing Hock Horse Show Association announces the following officers for the 1945 season: J. Lu ther Snyder, president; Lloyd M. Ttate, vice-president and general manager; ' Mrs. James Coker, III, secretary; Mlrs. J. F. Cannon, treas urer. Final plans have been completed for this year's show, which will be held at the horse show grounds in Broyhill Park Friday, August 3, at 2 p. m., and on Saturday, Aug. 4, at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. The classes are already well filled and some of the outstanding gaited horses and hunters and Jumpers of the south will be shown. There will be six classes in the five-gaited division; six classes in the three gaited division; 12 classes in hunt ers and jumpers; four walking horse classes and seven miscellaneous classes. The annual horse show breakfast will be served at the Mayview Manor on Saturday at 12 o'clock and there will be a gala horse show ball at the Country Club Saturday night. * OPA to Lower Ration Points on Beef, Lamb Washington, July 23 ? A little more meat for American dinner tables was in prospect tonight as OPA prepared to lower beef, veal and lamb ration points for the Au gust ration period. The disclosure followed reports from several areas of improved ci vilian meat supplies and signs of slight further increases in the early autumn. Reductions of one or two points a pound on steaks, roasts and other cuts of beef probably will be an nounced Wednesday and made ef fective July 29. Lamb and veal points will go down as much and perhaps slightly mora. Pork will be omitted from what officials described as the "fairly general" point reduction, because the marketing of Uve hogs baa con tinued slow. Mutton has ? zero point value because there is so little of it that rationing it not consider ed worthwhile.
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