COAL INTERESTS
SEE CONTRACT
Operators And Lewis Ne
gotiate, Hope To Avert
Strike
WASHINGTON, March 1—«P>—
Bituminous coal operators began
negotiating a new contract with
John L. Lewis today with both
sides hopeful agreement could be
reached without a strike.
The present contract between
Lewis’s tlnited Mine Workers and
the Soft Coal Operators expires
March 31.
Lewis has served notice to the
government that a dispute exists
and a strike vote therefore must
he taken in 30 days by the Na
tional Labor Relations board.
The operators, disagreeing that
a dispute could arise before the
wage talks even start, said they
entered the conference “with a sin
cere and honest desire to attain
in the speediest possible manner,
and without any threat or inti
mation to the country of a sus
pension of production, a fair and
equitable agreement in accordance
with the laws of this nation.”
"Our hands are not tied in any
Way and our minds are free and
open,” they said.
In a joint statement represent
ing 90 per cent of the 498 oper
ators holding contracts writh the
UMWA, the mine owners said both
labor and management held the
“compelling obligation and duty to
give to our country in this most
critical hour the greatest possible
production of coal, without inter
ruption.’’
TWO THIRDS
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Several days would have been re
quired to bring supplies 700 miles
by ship.
The Third division’s push
penetrated the center of the
m».in enemy line of resistance.
From there northward Japa
nese strength can be expected
to weaken.
Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey's
Fifth division advanced up the
west shore, paced by tanks, after
being slowed momentarily on
Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Clifton B.
Cates’ Fourth Marines are on the
east coast.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an
nounced that opposition continued
stiff in all sectors. The enemy,
short of water and supplies, tried
more infiltrations into American
lines but was driven off.
4,784 ENEMY DEAD
By 6 p. m. Monday, 4,784 enemy
dead had been counted, but that
tell was far from complete. Many
hundreds are dead in cared-in
pillboxes and other fortifications.
Other enemy dead have been drag
ged away by the Japanese to con
ceal their losses.
Only 10 prisoners had been
captured—an indication of the knid
of battle being fought for the ugjly
outpost just 750 miles south of
Tokyo. (The enemy radio made
the unconfirmed claim today that
Marine casualties exceed 20,0001.
Nimitz said Japanese mortar fire
hit the northern beaches yeste r
day but did not delay the edn
struction of unloading facilities.
(Tokyo radio said a “strong fbr
mation cf Japanese planes made
“violent attacks” on a concentra
tion of American warships in the
vicinity of Iwo and the Bonin is
lands immediately to the north
this (Thursday) morning, Tokyo
time. There was no confirmation).
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automatic use of armed forces
without reservation.
The changes consist mainly of
dividing into two periods the op
eration of the commitment to put
down aggression, during the re
mainder of the war and in the
postwar period. Under the propos
ed redraft the declaration would
take effect as soon as signed and
would bind the American nations
so long as the war continues^ Af
ter the war a treaty would be ne
gotiated earning the same prin
ciples.
PROTECTION
This covers the points (1) Pres
ident Roosevelt has the authority
to use U. S. armed forces to pro
tect the United Nations’ war ef
fort under his special emergency
powers and (2) after the war con- j
gressional approval would be nec
essary.
Senator Tom Connally (D-Tex),
chairman of the senate foreign re
lations committee, is expected to
pass cn the formula by tomorrow.
At present, it would commit Unit
ed States armed forces for use in
this hemisphere at least during the
war. A senate treaty would be re
quired in peacetime.
Connally arrived here yesterday
from Washington, and was imme
diately asked to pass on basic!
United States policy decisions for:
this hemisphere.
SPEAKER—M. L. Funkhouser, di
strict manager for Eastern Air
Lines at Charlotte, will discuss war
time and post-war aviation in an
address to the Shelby Rotary club
Friday.
Posey Bryan Martin
Claimed By Death
Posey Bryan Martin, aged 47,
veteran of World War 1, died sud
denly at his home in Patterson
Springs last night at 11:45 o'clock.
He farmed up until about 17 or 18
years ago. Recently he had been a
patient at a Veterans hospital. He
was a member of New Buffalo Bap
tist church.
He is survived by his wife who
was formerly Miss Mary Sue Flip
py-, three sons, Eugene Floyd Mar
tin, who is serving in the navy,
Kenneth and C. L. Martin; a sis
ter, Mrs. C. B. Horton, of Grover;
three brothers, C. B. Martin, of
Gaffney, E. J. Martin, of Birming
ham, Ala.; J. V. Martin, of Shelby.
Funeral will be held Saturday
afternoon at 3 o’clock from the
New Hope Maptist church at Earl.
Service will be conducted by Rev.
Nathan Hardin. Interment will take
place in the church cemetery.
BATT
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the air. These were among muni
tions totals announced for the first
time, covering the period from the
start of the defense program in
July, 1940, to the end of 1944.
PLANE OUTPUT
All types of planes numbered
246,845, of which 79,776 were fight
ers and 19,547 were transports.
“In merchant vessels we have
produced 45,384,000 deadweight tons
of ocean-going cargo ships. Of na
val vessels there have been con
structed no fewer than 56,697. xxx
“The President wanted 45,000
tanws. Well, we have actually turn
ed out 75,000 tanks, x x x
"We have produced 37,198,000,000
rounds of small arms ammunition
xxx 2,297,502 short tons of ground
artillery ammunition xxx 3,130,000
short tons of aircraft bombs, 59,
646,000 grenades.
“Now these are some stratospher
ic figures xxx and every American
may justifiably feel proud.”
But, Batt said, this does not per
mit extensive planning for recon
version.
DON’T UNDERESTIMATE
"We must not underestimate the
Japanese any more than we have
now learned not to underestimate
the Germans.”
Saying the Japanese land army
now is about as large as the Ger
man army at its peak, Batt add
ed:
“Our present naval operations
and victories must certainly be
preliminary to big military land
ings somewhere. At the end of
supply lines three times as long
as those that have separated us
from the Germans, and lacking an
advance Portress base such as we
had in Britain, we must conduct
a land war, possibly a scale com
parable to that we have waged in
Europe, at that tremendous dis
tance. xxx
“I can tell you that our military
men may not use much of the
equipment they have employed in
Europe against the Japanese. Sec
retary Stimson says they will use
what thev can.
PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS
"But men fighting in the tropics
and in many parts of the Orient
require, as you know, different
clothing than men fighting in
northwest Europe. Weapons design
ed for the fairly good highways
and rail transportation of Europe
are not necessarily adapted to the
primitive conditions of the Far
East.
“Further than that, Just the me
chanical job of cleaning up, re
pairing and packing much of the
equipment x x x so that it could
be shipped to the Pacific is an ap
palling job and to a very consider
able degree simply nuot practica
ble.
“I think the inevitable result
must be therefore that as we move
to the Orient from Europe, our
Army and air force will have to be
pretty completely re-equipped. This
is another part of the big job ahear
of us.”
TTilrty-seven percent of
Fiance’s land is arable, and
about 38 percent of her prewar j
population was directly engaged j
in agriculture.
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HALSEY-ISMS
‘Bull’ Throws ’Em
Like Lariats
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Odm. Killiam Frederick “Bull”
alsey is one of the World War II’s
most washing, colorful figures. As
commander of the mighty U. S.
Third Fleet, he is writing history
in the South Pacific with broad,
smashing strokes. That he can
also throw a phrase like a lariat
is evidenced by these quotations:
“Attack. Repeat: Attack." 1942.
“Kill Japs. Kill Japs. Kill more 1
Japs. Sink ships. Sink ships. And
sink more ships.” 1942.
“Hacing sent Gen. Patch to do
a tailoring job on Guadalcanal 1
am surprised and pleased at the
speed with which he removed the
enemy's pants to accomplish it.”
1943.
“We have laid to our own satis
faction the myth of Japanese in
vincibility.” 1943:
“When the yellow monkeys are
well-fed and well-uniformed, they
are tough like any other rat. When
they’re not well-fed and well
uniformed. they’re easy to beat
like any other rat.” 1944.
“We can say of the Pacific gen
erally that if the Jap's trek is not
broken, his spine is severely bent.”
1944.
“All the Japanese are congenital
liars from bottom to top.” 1944.
“I have a good time wherever
I am.”
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Churchill at Yalta just a little more
than 24 hours after his return to
the White House.
The chief executive described the
Big Three meeting at Yalta as a
successful effort to find a common
ground for peace.
“It spells the end of the sys
tem of unilateral action and ex
clusive alliances and spheres
of influence and balances of
power and all the other ex
pedients which have been tried
for centuries—and have failed,”
he said.
‘‘We propose to substitute for all
of these a universal organization in
which all peace-loving nations will
finally have a chance to join, x x”
The President reminded the sen
ators that they will soon have an
opportunity to make a great deci
sion “which will determine the
fate of the United States—and the
world—for generations to come.”
SECURITY ORGANIZATION
He apparently referred to the
projected world security organiza
tion, American participation in
which will be passed on by the
senate some time in the future.
He expressed a hope that con
gress would decide his journey was
“a fruitful one.”
“For unless you here in the halls
of the American congress, with the
support of the American people,
concur in the decisions reached at
Yalta and give them your active
support,” he said, “the meeting will
not have produced lasting results.”
Mr. Roosevelt asserted that the
senate and house both would be
represented at the San Francisco
United Nations conference begin
ning April 25, with both major par
ties having equal representation.
Discussing at length the Big
Three agreement for united action
in the political and economic field
in liberated areas, the President
mentioned the specific agreement
regarding Poland’s future boun
daries as an outstanding example
of such joint action.
POLISH QESTUION
Asserting the whole Polish ques
tion was a potential source of trou
ble in postwar Europe and the Yalta
participants were determined to
find a common ground for its so
lution, the President said:
“We did.”
The decision to partition Poland
he described as a compromise un
der which the Poles will receive
compensation in territory in the
north and west in exchange for
what they lose east of the Curzon
line. The limits of the western
boundary, he said, will be perma
nently fixed in the final peace
conference.
The President emphasized the
unity of the major allies and said '
they are determined to continue
to be united so that “the ideal of j
lasting world peace will become a [
reality.”
VOTING PROCEDURE
The President said the Big Three
had agreed on voting procedure in
the proposed world security coun
cil—a point not settled at Dumbar
ton Oaks, and added:
“It is not yet possible to an
nounce the terms of that agree
ment publicly, but it will be in a
very short time."
The basis for the agreement, he
said, was an American proposal
“which after full discussion, was
unanimously adopted by the other
two nations.”
He pointed out that France has
CAPTURE
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Palawan's southern tip. That tip
lies within 90 miles of Dutch Bor
neo. The nearest American holding
in the Philippines is Mindoro is
land, 125 miles northeast of Pala
wan.
Palawan’s principal port,
Puerto Princesa, is midway
along the east coast. MacAr
thur's communique today re
ported the port’s installations
were pounded by "strong forma
tions of attack bombers with
escorting fighters” Wednesday.
On Corregidor, a little more than
3,000 Yanks, comprising the 503rd
parachute regiment and elements
of the 24th division, have all but
wiped out an enemy garrison twice
that size to pry open Manila's big
bay. Already a cargo ship has en
tered the bay, bringing badly
needed supplies to liberated but
hard hit Manila, once more the
capital of the Philippines.
CASUALTIES
MacArthur said 4,215 dead Jap
anese have been counted on Corre
gidor with hundreds more known
to be dead in tunnels and caves of
the rocky fortress. The cost to the
Americans was 136 »killed, 531
wounded and eight missing.
The Luzon campaign east of
Manila is growing more rugged as
Yank divisions encounter growing
enemy resistance. Along a 10-mile
line between Antipolo and Wawa
an equal distance from Manila, the
Japanese are firing rockets as well
as mortar and artillery at the ad
vancing Yanks.
Far to the north of Manila in
Nueva Ecija province, other Yanks
battling into the Caraballo moun
tains had to repulse a Japanese
counterattack.
DOUGHBOYS
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was fashioned.
Toward the South, infantry cap
tured Wissersheim. 17 miles north
west of Bonn <101,3911, and out
flanked the useful road center of
of Zuelpich by capturing Gladbach,
five miles northeast of Zuelpich
and nine from the larger road cen
ter of Euskirchen < 14,500 >. They
also reached Ginnich, two miles
west of Zuelpich.
NINTH ON MOVE
4 dispatch passed through the
Ninth army’s blackout said Simp
son’s forces “advanced farther to
wards the Ruhr along several ap
proaches.” The continuance of the
blackout was in itself the most sub
stantial evidence that tank and
motorized infantry teams still were
on the loose in their surge around
Muenchen Gladbach (127,000', due
west of Duesseldorf.
The dispatch said resistance was
light to moderate with the Ger
mans in some places retreating in a
vild dash to cross the Rhine, ofter
destroying their own pillboxes.
In the weeklong offensive,
the First and Ninth armies have
captured a total of more than
200 inhabited piaces east of the
Roer river. Both armies are
fighting now in built up areas,
easily defended, with towns and
villages almost continuous.
The Third army on the souti
flank of the Cologne plain pushec
on from the captured road centei
of Bitburg to the Kyll river wesi
bank, where a crossing woulc
! crack the last natural defense lin<
before Coblenz.
AIR OFFENSIVE
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nications centers and three roa(
bridges from nprthwest of Cologni
to west of Coblenz.
Allied air fleets during Febru
against the Reich with record lov
ary flew more than 100,000 sortie
lasses.
Berlin was bombed again las
night by RAF Mosquitos with two
ton blockbusters. It was the nintl
successive night attack on the Ger
man capital.
Two thousand Allied planes madi
six attacks in daylight yesterday or
rail and oil targets in westerr
German. U. S. Eighth air forci
losses in those attacks were threi
bombers and four fighters.
Pfc. Everett Camp
Is Cited In France
Pfc. Everett G. Camp, son of Mr
and Mrs. Charlie Camp of Shelby
has been awarded the Army Goo<
Conduct medal for "fidelity througl
faithful and exact performance o
duty and for behavior such as t<
deserve emulation.” Pfc. Camp i.
serving with the 127th Genera
hospital stationed somewhere ir
France. Prior to induction he wa:
employed by the Esther Mills Co.
been invited to accept a zone o
control in Germany, to join as :
sponsor of the United Nations con
ference, that she will have a per
manent member on the Interna
tional Security council with th<
other four major powers, and sh(
will be associated in the joint re
sponsibility over liberated areas.
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Desire To Close All Ac
counts the first of the
Month.
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N. Y. COTTON AT 2:00
Today Prev. Da;
March.22.24 22.20
hfay .22.13 22.09
July .21.83 21.78
October.21.23 21.17
December _ .r21.15 21.10
CHICAGO GRAIN
WHEAT
May .1.64% 1.63*
July . _1.56% 1.55*
September . .1.55% 1.54%
CORN
May .1.13% 1.12%
July _ .1.12% 1.11%
September _ _1.09% 1.09
May..*....1.13% 1.12%
July . .1.12 1.10%
September _ .1.09 1.07%
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American Loco . - 34 1-4
American Tobacco B -- 73 3-4
American Tel and Tel . .. 163 1-4
Anaconda Copper . _ 34
Assoc Dry Goods __21 3-8
Beth Steel. 74 5-8
Boeing Air .. _ 20 1-8
! Chrysler . _ 102 3-8
i Curtiss-Wright . 6 1-4
Elec Boat . _ lc
! General Motors . - 61
Pepsi Cola . _ 24
Greyhound Corp _ _ 25
International Paper _ - 25
Nash Kelv . . 18
Glenn L Martin...
Newport Ind . _ 21
N Y Central . 24
Penn R R . . 36
Radio Corp . _ 12
Reynolds Tob B . ..
Southern Railroad . ..
Stand Oil N J . . 60
Sperry Corp . . 30
U S Rubber . . 59
U S Steel . 64
Western Union . 47
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STOCKS HIT PEAKS
I NEW YORK, March 1—(A>)—Thi
! stock market got a head start oi
March today by registering nev
highs for more than seven year,
with steels and pivotal industrial
again providing the leadership.
Inflation warnings from bank
ers and others continued to ac
centuate the hedging propensitie
of idle funds. A little chilling t<
: this psychology, however, was th
! denial of Secretary Morgenthai
I that there was any likelihood o
l hiking the gold price. Dividend
niiu cauiuiffia pcxojusLcu ao ^uiuww
; mg inspiration.
Bonds and commodities ar
steady.
N. C. HOGS
RALEIGH. March 1—<JP>— fNCD
' A)—Hog markets steady with top
of 14.55 at Clinton and Rock
Mount and 14.85 at Richmond.
N. C. EGGS, POULTRY
RALEIGH, March 1—</P}—cNCD
A)— Egg and poultry market
steady.
RALEIGH—U. S. grade A larg
35 to 37; hens, all weights, 26.
WASHINGTON—U. S. grade i
large 38 to 39; broilers and fryer
32.5.
Singing Convention
Will Be Held Sunday
*1 There will be a singing conven
! tion at the Missionary Methodi.1
I church in West Shelby Sunday al
‘ temoon, March 4, beginning at 2:9
o'clock. Some of the singers )'
> surrounding communities that wi!
participate in the convention are
- Vaughn's Happy Four from Rhod
• Hess, The Carolina Melody Bo:
1 and the Spindle City Quartet fro.
' Gastonia, The Ranlo Quartet fror
Ranlo, The Smith Quartet an
1! Victory Quartet from Spartanburj
1 Parkgrave Quartet from King
‘ Mountain, The Warren Twins (ac
; cordianists) from York, and sev
eral quartets from Shelby an
Cleveland county. Garland Thomo
son of Gastonia will be in charg
of the convention. All singers ar
invited to attend and take part oi
the program.
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with sudden temperature
changes, is hard on the
chronic"cold-catcher.”Take
no chances. Stop that first
sniffle! Better call on a phy
sician, let him diagnose your
special type of cold and pre
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bring bis prescription here
for careful compounding.
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MEET IN PARIS—Cpl. Lloyd J. Cooke, left, son of J. W. Cooke of Bel
wood, route 1, and Sgt. Robert M. Parker, right, son of Mrs. C. D. Parker
of route 2, Lawndale, met accidentally in Paris for the first time since
their induction in August, 1943. Cpl. Lloyd Cooke received his training
at Paine Field, Everett, Washington, and Sgt. Robert Parker was trained
at Camp Barkeley, Texas.
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that the Russians had finally be
gun large-scale operations across
■ the Neisse in the thick defense zone .
j between that river and the Spree.
This is the ‘‘east wall” which the
Germans have prepared as Ber
lin's southeastern defenses.
German broadcasts frankly ad
I mitted that Nazi forces in Dan
zig, the Polish corridor and east
ern Pomerania were in immediate
danger of being cut off.
By latest official Russian an
j nouncement Marshal K. K. Rokos
sovsky's troops still had 22 miles
to go from captured Bublitz to
cross the coastal highway and
i railway connecting Danzig with
i Stettin, but a German broadcast;
i said Red Army vanguards had
. reached Pollnow, 16 miles from the;
: two communication lines.
I NEUSTETTIN FALLS
I: Neustettin, a five-way railway
hub and major block in Rokos-,
sovsky’s pathway to the Baltic.
. fell to a combined frontal assault
, and outflanking maneuver. A
•; communique said 300 of its garri-;
;, son were slain and 600 captured.
; Fifteen hundred Russians were
j freed from slave labor.
. | The Moscow bulletin announced
.1 gains of five to six miles along
i | Rokossovsky's 40-mile assault j
, front, but none that would take
. him any nearer the coast than
, s Bublitz, captured two days ago.
f I More than 50 towns fell yester- ;
; 1 day, however, in the general line
.1 straightening and solidifying oper
ations from Schwomigatz, 11 miles
; north of the Polish corridor city
of Chojnice, westward to Bublitz.
Moscow announced only minor
1 activities on the rest of the Red
. Army front. In East Prussia six
s more villages were captured. In
MEAT
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aoosted one point to six a pound.
Boneless hams, whole or half, go
from seven to eight points; spare- :
ribs from three to four, and fat '
backs, hocks and jowls to .two
points from one or zero. Loin
roasts go from six to seven points.
Many sausage products now ra
tion-free will cost points igain, as
will a number of liver items such
as braunschweiger and liver loaf.
Many canned meats, such as
corned beef hash and deviled
ham, either come off the point
free list or get a boost in ration
value.
EXCEPTIONS
In the few exceptions to the
general beef hike, porterhouse and
T-bone steaks, for instance, will
cost nine instead of 12 points a
pound Round steak is reduced to
10 points from 13, while a round
tip beef roast will have a value
of nine points rather than 11. A
bcnelc-ss sirloin roast will require
10 points a pound, down from 12.
Barring an unexpected change
in government requirements, the j
OPA chief asserted, "no marked
improvement in civilian meat sup
plies may be safely expected before
late summer or early autumn." !
The new higher point values'
which went into effect last week- i
end will continue during March!
for lard, shortening, salad and
cooking oils, and margarine.
Five more red stamps—E2 thru
J2 in ration book four—will be val
id for buying meats and fats be
ginning Sunday. They will be good
through June 30.
Silesia, another 10 blocks and the!
suburb of Kleinischank were taken j
in besieged Breslau.
FLOWERS WILL
BE PLENTIFUL
FOR EASTER
4
There will be plenty of flowers
or milady’s corsage for Easter
Sunday, in the opinion of Cecil Gil
iatt, Shelby’s retail florist who
aid today that the prospects arc
low that roses, lilies, orchids, and
ither blossoms will be plentiful if
irdered early enough. There will
ilso be plenty of potted plants, he
hinks.
Orders are already coming in for
lowers for Easter Sunday which
alls this year on April 1. This is
vise precaution, thinks Mr. Gil
iatt who says that it gives the
lorlst some idea of the local de
nand for which he can prepare
iccordingly.
BIENNIAL
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The only representative to ex
ilain his vote was Vogler of Meck
enburg. He said he consistently
lad opposed the three percent
;ales tax since its adoption in 1933
ind originally this session had
hought about trying to reduce it
o two percent But inclusion of
he emergency war salaries in the
ipending bill caused him to change
lis mind.
The house also passed, 29-2,
on third reading a bill for a
constitutional amendment to
give equal rights — including
jury service—to women.
As the accelerated tempo of the
1945 session of the general assem
bly continued, scheduled for spe
cial conisderatlon today was the
state’s $129,000,000 finance bill
which came from the committee
and is ready for enactment.
The measure was expected to be
sent through both houses on speedy
passage, as the lawmakers contin
ued their burst of speed looking
toward an early termination of
their deliberations.
The bill, which provides money
for the general fund, is expected
to yield a total of $129,715,000 for
the next two years. This is around
$1,500,000 under appropriations, now
standing at approximately $232,
000.000.
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This is to notify my friends and customers in Shelby,
Cleveland County and Western North Carolina that I
have sold my automotive business known as Hammock
Motors, to Herman Roberts and B. P. Sherer.
The sale became effective Tuesday, February 27, and
the business is now being operated by the new owners,
employing the same service personnel.
THANK YOU FOR PAST PATRONAGE
11 has been my pleasure and privilege to do business with
hundreds of loyal friends and customers in my eight
years of operation of Hammock Motors. Your enthus
iasm for our products—Oldsmobile cars and Interna
tional Trucks—and your acceptance of our service and
policies, have been truly gratifying. I am deeply grate
ful for your support. And when this war is over, you
may expect to see Hammock's sign hanging in some
convenient location in Shelby, to continue service to
the community which has been so good to us.
H. M. Hammock