BPS ATTACK
U. S. FLEET
Suicide Pilot* Sink Am
erican Destroyer, Dam
age Other Ships
By LEIF ERICKSON
OUAM, April IS.—(*»)—A strong
Japanese air fleet, including sui
eldt pilot* bent on eelf-deetruction
In crashes against choice targets,
sank an American destroyer and
damaged several other shlpa Off
1 Okinawa yesterday in a fierce en
j gafement in which 18 enemy air
craft were destroyed.
All evidence suggested that most
of the attacking force was wiped
out^-by suicide crashes if not by
American interceptors and anti
aircraft guns ashore and afloat.
The attack was directed at
ships and supply dumps at the
Tenth army's beachhead estab
lished Easter morning near Ha
gushi on the west coast. Sev
en planes were destroyed in the
morning and 111 in a furious
afternoon engagement
Tokyo radio claimed, totally
Without confirmation, that Japan
ese fliers sank two battleships and
two large transports in the Oki
nawa action and left five other
large Warships afire. It said only
two Japanese planes were lost.
AIRFIELDS STRAFED
Japanese planes bombed and
etrafed Kaena and Yontan air
fields before dawn while Nippon
ese artillery shelled the landing
strips.
A few enemy aircraft attacked
shipping again last night, slightly
damaging a destroyer escort after
it shot down two.
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz,
describing the attack as “suicidal’’
in his communique today, indicat
ed the Japanese pilots were mem
bers of the “Kamikaee,” or special
attack corps, highly advertised by
the Japanese as volunteers for
death. There has been no official
mention of Japanese suicide fliers
for six months or more.
Nimitz said all the American
shipe damaged remained in oper
aupn. i
SECOND ASSAULT
Yesterday's desperate attack was
‘ the second heavy aerial assault in
six days against the invaders of
Okinawa, Just 335 miles south of
Japan proper. In a day-long on
slaught last Friday three U. S.
destroyers were lost while 116 Ja
panese planes were destroyed.
Fighting in the southern sec
tor of Okinawa did not relax
in intensity. No advances in
the southern sector were re
ported for the eighth succes
sive day, although marines in
the north moved westward along
the rugged Motobu peninsula
and pressed northward over
Ichikawa Isthmus against only
sporadic resistance.
Nimltz identified four more
American divisions as in action
on Okinawa. These were the First
and Sixth Marine divisions and the
37th and 96th army divisions. The
Seventh and 77th army divisions
already had been identified. All are
part of the New Tenth army.
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open house at their home on South
Washington street Saturday even
ing at 9 o'clock for the visiting
officers and members.
The meeting proper will get un
derway Sunday morning at 10
; o’clock at the state theatre. Prayer
will be offered by Lt. George Grove,
; wing chaplain who will also direct
the pledge of allegiance to the flag.
I This will be followed by an address
of welcome by Lt. George Wash
burn.
j DAWSON SPEAKS
| Lt. Col. Frank E. Dawson, com
mander of the North Carolina wing
| of the patrol, will follow with an
adress in which he will discuss the
future of the Civil Air Patrol and
the duty of senior members.
Other tals will be made by Maj
or W. Carl Biggers, Major C. K.
Walters, Major R. E. Dawson, Maj
or D. F. Cameron and Lt. William
A. Vores.
. The morning meeting at the
theater will be followed by a lun
cheon at the Charles hotel. Con
cluding the meeting will be an open
forum discussion of C. A. P. prob
lems which will end around 3
o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Corp. A. B. Greene
Lands Overseas
Corp. A. B. Greene has just land
ed safely overseas according to a
message received today by his pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Greene,
917 North LaFayette street. This
is the fifth member of this family
to land on foreign soil in the ser
vice of his country.
-> -—--.—.
Fresh apple sauce is good over
freshly baked molasses cake or
gingerbread.
Jefferson Day
Dinners Postponed
WASHINGTON, April 1J—(*">—
President Roosevelt’s death brought
orders from the Democratic Na
tional committee for indefinite
postponement of an elaborate ae
ries of Jefferson day dinners plan
ned for tonight.
The celebrations, by means of
which party leaders hoped to raise
hundreds of thousands of dollars
for the 1048 congressional cam
paigns, were scheduled in about 500
communities.
The programs had called for a
radio address by Mr. Roosevelt
from Warm Springs.
Mrs. Roosevelt had planned to
attend the dinner here, at which
Harry 8. Truman was to have
been one of the speakers.
BROTHERHOOD
SERMONJOPIC
Dr. Smart Also To Praoeh
Saturday And Sunday
Mornings
“Brotherhood" was the topic for
Dr. W. A. Smart’s lecture last
night when he continued his week
of sermons at Central Methodnst
church. The Christianity of Jesus’
day, he declared, broke down all
barriers of race, wealth, national-!
lty, and social status and made
all men brothers under God. For
true brotherhood to exist again,
that same fervor must sweep again
over the consciousness of the
world.
At the ten o’clock service this
morning Dr. smart gave an excel
lent analysis of the Book of Dan
iel saying that the first six chap
ters were stories, and the entire
book was filled with symbolism.
The book is an exhortation for
faith among people to carry them
through suffering and a promise
of hope for the future when the
trials are past.
Latham Brackett
Is Honored At
Scout Party
Mrs. Luther Eaker end Miss Billy
Catherine Eaker entertained at
their home In Lawndale, members
of scout troop No. 1. The party was
given in honor of Latham Brack
ett one of the outstanding boys of
the troop.
All members of troop 1 attended,
along with John Shuford, scout
master, and members of the com
mittee. Music was furnished by Mrs.
Baker and her daughter, Billy
Catherine. Refreshments were serv
ed after playing games.
BRITISH
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The salient the Oermans long
held in the Apennines south of
Imola swiftly was being pinched
out. While Polish troops driving in
from captured Castel Bolognese
threatened Imola from the south
east, Italian troops and partisans
driving northward in the Santerno
valley were within four miles of
Imola.
fifth army troops gained more
than a mile astride the coastal road
toward La Speria and in the high
ground northwest of Massa.
Enemy communications immedi
ately behind the battlefronts con
tinued to receive non-stop pound
ing from the air as heavy bompers
last night attacked the vital junc
tion point of Argenta, keypoint on
the road to Felrara. Sixteen planes
were reported missing from a total
of 2,650 Mediterranean air force
sorties yesterday.
RUSSIANS
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mountain fighting troops ranged
into the foothills of the Austrian
Alps on a 28-mile front, seizing
40 towns on the roads to Ormz,
Austria’s second city.
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's
Second Ukrainian army troops
were advancing along the west
and east banks of the Morava riv
er toward Bruenn, which guards
the southeastern approaches to
Prague.
In the east side they were near
ing the rail center of Lundenburg,
while on the west bank Malinov
sky's men reached the river on at
least a 14-mile front, within shell
ing distance of the Czechoslovak
communications center of Hodinln
and 33 miles southeast of Brkenn.
It was at this point the Rus
sians crossed the border of Mo
ravia, which, with Bohemia, is the
last war production area supplying
the crumbling German armies.
Royal Australian air force pilots
fly with a jungle knife strapped to
one leg.
THE RECORD SHOP
NEWEST
SELECTIONS
JUST
RECEIVED.
"Tico Tico”—Xavier Cugat
"My Dreams Are Getting Better '—Les
Brown
“Confession"—Ella Fitzgerald
“All of My Life’’ — Harry James
BOHOL INVADED
WEDNESDAY
American Troops Now On
All Of Major Philip
pines Islands
By RICHARD BERGHOLZ
MANILA, April Ameri
can troops were on every one of
the major Philippine! island* to
day. Element* of the veteran
Americal division Invaded Bohol
Wednesday and quickly dispersed
a small enemy garrison near the
main town of Tagbilaran.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com
munique today said Maj. Gen.
William H. Arnolds Americal
Doughboys “rapidly drove inland
in an endeavor to secure control
of the entire island before the
surprised enemy could rally his
strength.”
Bohol guerrillas already were in
control of much of the island, be
tween Cebu and Leyte In the
Central Philippines and just north
of Mindanao.
UNOPPOSED
The invasion was covered by
gunfire from light naval craft and
aerial bombings by ISth Air Force
pilots. It was virtually unopposed.
Elsewhere, ground troops con
tinued their swift mopupe, except
in Northern Luaon, where fighting
was slow and bitter around Balete
Pass and along the road to Ba
guio, Philippines summer capital.
In Southern Luson, 14th Corps
troops which have broken the back
of Japanese defenses the past week
shot forward 30 miles from Atl
monan to Calauag on the east
coast of Bicol peninsula. Farther
down Bicol, the 168th Regimental
combat team advanced five miles
west to Camalig and eight miles
south without serious resistance.
Woodmen To Meet In
Women’s Club House
A regular meeting place for the
Shelby Woodmen of the World has
not been obtained, but they will
hold their meetings each Tuesday
evening at S:00 o’clock in the
Women’s club house on East Gra
ham street, until another place
can be found. All members are
urged to attend the first meeting,
that will be held Tuesday night,
April 17, at «:00 o’clock.
GRIEVING
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died was flashed quickly to troops
in the field and sailors at sea, now
fighting toward a victorious end
of history’s greatest war. They like
the people at home, were shocked
and unbelieving.
“COMMANDER”
One soldier in Britain, enroute
back to the western front after a
period in hospital declared:
“We men up there really felt
the president was our commander.
His loss will be felt by all of us.”
The American broadcasting
station in Europe, informing the
peoples of Europe in a special
broadcast, declared "the world
has lost its greatest champion
for peace.”
Both Berlin and Tokyo first re
layed straight news accounts to
their people, then later expressed
grieved comment.
The German radio asserted the
president “will go down in history
as the man upon whose instigation
the present war turned into the
second world war.” Tokyo said no
Japanese “harbors any fond hopes
for a sudden drop in the fighting
power of America,” and then, in
a propaganda vein, added: “We
consider Roosevelt a very fortunate j
person indeed to have died before I
conditions became unfavorable.”
HALF STAFF
Gen. Charles De Gaulle presi
dent of the provisional government
of France, ordered all flags on of
ficial buildings throughout the
French empire placed at half staff
immediately. In a telegram to
President Truman he called Roose
velt "the symbolic champion of the
cause of liberty, x x x France ad
mired and loved him.”
Pope Pius XII sent condolences
to the president’s family and the
United States government. Italian
Premier Ivanoe Bonomi expressed
"profound sorrow” on behalf of the
Italian people.
In Canada, where Roosevelt
often wm referred to as “the
best president Canada ever
had,” the house of commons
stood for a minute of silence
last night and then adjourned
until this afternoon.
Prime Minister W. L, Mackenzie
King, in moving the adjournment,
said the president was “so close
a neighbor, so great and true a
friend of the Canadian people,
that the word when received was
as if one of our very own had
passed away, x x x The death of
President Roosevelt is in truth a
loss to the whole of mankind.”
The Chinese government order
ed all flags at half mast, as did
Prime Minister John Curtin In
Australia. Many nations of Latin
America decreed periods of mourn
ing for the man who inaugurated
the “good neighbor” policy.
British Home Secretary Herbert
Morrison said "the world has lost
one of its foremost leadens x x x.
As a member of the war cabinet
I have had reason to know what
a helpful influence he was in all
the relationships between the Unit
ed States and our country.”
“I feel' stricken by the news of
the loss of this powerful friend
of the cause of freedom and
staunch comrade through all the
vicissitudes of war,” said Sir Ar
chibald Sinclair, British air min
ister.
LAST PICTURE OF ROOSEVELT—This picture of President Roosevelt,
made at the White House in Washington March 29 of this year, is be
lieved to have been the last photograph of him before his unexpected
death of a cerebral hemorrhage at the “Little White House" at Warm
Springs. Oa.. April 12—(AP Wirephoto)
DEATH
Starfts On Pace Ona
villagers, at 10:00 am. requiring
35 mlnues for the trip from atop
Pine mountain.
Mrs. Roosevelt, dressed in black,
walked to the Conneaut, Roosevelt
private car on the arm of Early,
followed shortly after by the bear
ers carrying the flag draped casket.
CAREER AT END
By D. HAROLD OLIVER
(Associated Press Reporter Who
Had “Covered’’ Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Since 1936)
WARM SPRINGS, Ga.. April 13
—(/P)—Franklin Delano Roosevelt's
long and colorful public career is
at an end.
A tragic though painless death
halted it abruptly yesterday as the
nation's 31st president seemingly
was about to see the fruition of
his plans for bringing lasting peace
to a war-ridden world. He was 63
last January 30.
Death came unexpectedly at 4:35
p.m. (EWTi in a simply furnished
bedroom of his Pine Mountain
cottage. The cause: A "massive"
cerebral hemorrhage.
Mr. Roosevelt came here March
30 for one of his periodic visits to
seek rest and to bask in the sun.
He had planned to stay another
v ek, then return to Washington,
spend a day and start out again
for a cross-country trip to San
Francisco to open the world se
curity conference April 25.
Funeral services are to be held
at 4 p.m. (E.W.T.) Saturday in
the historic East Room of the
White House.
The body will not lie in state.
Burial will be at the family home
at Hyde Park, N. Y., Sunday.
Presidential Secretary William
D. Hassett said the funeral ser
vices would be of the same "ut
most simplicity” the President de
creed for his mother, who died in
1941.
Burial will be at 10‘a.m., in the
family garden between the ramb
ling stone and stucco house and
the Roosevelt library at Hyde
Park.
Members of the cabinet and Su
preme court, heads of federal a
gencies, a representative group of
senators and representatives, mem
bers of the family and friends will
accompany the funeral party.
The East Room services will be
conducted by Bishop Angus Dun
of the Washington Episcopal
Cathedral: Rev. Howard S. Wil-1
kinson, of St. Thomas Episcopal
church, and Rev. John G. McGee
of 6t. John’s Episcopal church.
“BUNDLE DAY”
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A. C. Bland, James Lutz, and John i
W. Cannon.
“Bundle Day” does not conclude
the committee’s drive for old j
clothing. The collection will con
tinue through April 30. The spe-1
cial collection is to enable those I
who have bundles too large to!
take to their local depots to aid in
the contributions.
Mrs. Rogers expressed deep ap
preciation for the magnificent re
sponse with which the clothing
collection has met in Shelby. An
impressive amount of usable cloth
ing has already been turned in,
and much more is expected before
the drive is concluded.
Depots are located around the
court square, at Griffin P. Smith’s
grocery store on North Washing
ton street, at Blanton’s Variety
store in South Shelby, and at each
one of the mills.
TRAIN
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cidents leading up to his fatal at
tack. Age-old hymns were sung by i
some of the best voices of the na- i
tion.
Special editions of newspaper i
were issued throughout the na-;
tion from the great metropolises,
on down to small cities.
NINTH
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Luebeck.
The disintegration of the Ger
man army continued.
Nearly 30,000 captives went into
cages of the first four armies re
porting. The First army alone
took 25.148 yesterday, most of
them from the Ruhr pocket. That
death trap is now much less than
half its original size and an esti
mated 75.000 of the originally
trapped 150.000 have surrendered.
The British took 3.000. the French
1.000 and the Seventh army 2.
500.
The Third army in the center
beat down the last 18 miles to the
great Saxony city of Leipzig in a
drive east to bisect Germany, join
the Russians and bar access from
the north to the national redoubt
in the Bavarian Alps. The Ger
mans said American tanks were
fighting in Halle, 15 miles from
Leipzig, after bypassing the me
dieval cathedral city of Merseburg
ON HIGHROAD
Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson’s
Ninth army closed up to the Elbe
along a 95-mile front. His Hell or
Wheels (2nd) armored division
crossed the river in the Magdeburr
sector yesterday, putting tanks or
the last 57 unbroken miles leading
to the capital.
The Elbe bends eastward to the
north of Magdeburg and then
swings back along a northwesterly
; course through Hamburg to th(
North Sea. Tangermuende is ir
the bend and closest to Berlir
' although troops there are on the
west bank of the 450 to 1.000 foot
wide stream.
The Fifth armored division
' reached the river at Seehausen and
the 83rd division closed up to the
stream at Barby. Outflanking Mag
; deburg 14 miles to the northwesf
Barby lies 58 miles southwest oi
Berlin.
NEAR LEIPZIG
The Third army racing acroc>
eastern Germany virtually unop
posed advanced within 34 miles oi
Czechoslovakia and a bisection oi
Germany, drove into the streets ol
Napoleon’s old battlefield city ol
Jena, and captured Erfurt < 166.
661), It was approaching Leipzig
from the southwest and was with
in 72 miles of the Saxony capital
of Dresden on the basis of reports
many hours behind the action.
The 1st army moved on Leipzig
from the northwest.
Dispatches said Leipzig should be
entered by nightfall.
The Fifth, rather than the Sec
ond armored division which wai
across the Elbe, was closest to Ber
lin on the basis of 11:05 am. dis
patches from AP Correspondent
Robert Eunson.
The Old Hell on Wheels division
proudly bearing a presidential ci
tation was meeting stiff resistance
In the manufacturing center of
Magdeburg (334,358) which was not
yet cleared. Across the Elbe, the
Second armored division also en
countered strong opposition — sug
gesting that the Germans had
shifted troops from the east.
TOMORROW
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schedule will be a busy one every
day.”
Secretary of State Stettinius
whose knowledge of the interna
tional situation was second only
to that of the late President
Roosevelt, arrived to join Mr. Tru
man at 10:15 a.m. (E.W.T.) Top
military commanders were due
minutes later.
Stettinius immediately was ush
ered into the oval room where
President Truman was working.
The military chieftains sum
moned were Fleet Admiral Wil
liam D. Leahy, the late Presi
dent's military adviser; Fleet Ad
miral Ernest J. King, chief of the
navy; General George C. Mar
shall, army chief of staff; Secre
tary of War Stlmson, and Secre
tary of the Navy Forrestal.
These grave conferences dealt
Furnished by J. Robert Lindsay
and Company
Webb Building Shelby, N. C.
N. Y. COTTON AT 2:00
Cotton exchanges closed today.
All exchanges closed Saturday.
CHICAGO GRAIN
WHEAT
May .l.75:'i
July .-.1-64'. i
September - ---1.571
May - —
July . ---
September
CORN
-,.1.15>i
..JL... .1.12%
_1.09%
RYE
May . —
July . —
September
_ 1.3312
.1.30%
.1.22%
1.75%
1.64%
1.57 Va
1.15%
1.12%
1.10
1.33%
1.29%
1.2 lvs I
STOCKS AT 2:00
Amn Rolling Mill .
American Loco _ -- 32
American Tobacco B .
American Tel and Tel --
Anaconda Copper . . 32
Assoc Dry Goods _ ...
Beth Steel..—- 75
Boeing Air .--- 18
Chrysler .- 101
Curtiss-Wright . .. 5
Elec Boat . - 15
General Motors . 66
Pepsi Cola . .. 23
Greyhound Corp...
International Paper - - 23
Nash Kelv . - - 17
Glenn L Martin. 24
Newport Ind . . 21
N Y Central. 23
Penn R R - - 36
Radio Corp . ... H
Reynolds Tob B . - 33
Southern Railroad . - 40
Stand Oil N J. . 58
Sperry Corp _ .. 29
U S Rubber. 58
U S Steel . . 64
Western Union . ~. 45
Youngstown S and T-47
18
7-8
72
163
3-8
. 21
5-8
1-8
3-8
7-8
1-8
5-8
5-8
24
3-4
7-8
3-8
3-4
1-2
3-4
1-4
3-8
1-2
3-4
5-8
3-4
3-4
7-8
1-2
STOCKS MOVE IP
NEW YORK. April 13 — i/P> —
Stocks and bonds generally moved
forward today despite the shock to
the financial community of the
president's passing.
Power and Light company stocks
came out in blocks of as much
I as 10.000 shares for Commonwealth
'and Southern, at 1945 peaks were
Consolidated Edison. North Amer
ican. Electric Pow er and Light and
American Water Works. Higher
were Du Pont, General Electric.
Montgomery Ward, U. S. Steel,
Bethlehem. International Harves
ter. U. S. Rubber and Allied Che
mical. |
BITTER AND EGGS
CHICAGO, April 13.—i-P —But
ter, firm; receipts 489.134. Egg^,
receipts 18,838.
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N. C. HOGS
RALEIGH. April 13.—(Ab—NCDA 1
—Hog markets steady with tops of
14.55 at Clinton and Rocky Mount
j and 14.85 at Richmond.
N. C. EGGS, POULTRY
RALEIGH. April 13.—i/Pi—NODA
—Egg and poultry markets steady
to firm.
Raleigh—U. S. Grade A large
36; hens, all weights, 27.
! Washington—U. S. Grade A large
i 40; broilers and fryers 33.9.
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
1 CHICAGO. April 13. —</P>— <WF
A i—Salable hogs 4.000; total 7,500;
active, fully steady; good and choice
barrows and gilts. 140 lbs up at 14.75
i ceiling: good and choice sows at
14.00: complete clearance.
Salable cattle 2,000; total 2,000;
salable calves 500; total 500; fed
steers and yearlings steady but
slow; top 17.50, paid for 1350 lb
averages; scattered supplies 14.50
l(f.75, mainly to eastern order buy
. ers; big local packers bought very
’ sparingly; heifers steady, very
scarce: cows and vealers unchang
ed but bulls 25 cents lower. Both
c>ws and vealers 11.00-14.00; can
. ners and cutters 7.75-9.75; heavy
sausage bulls 13.00; very few heavy
, beef above 14.00. with good share
' j liberal supply bulls unsold, vealers
17.60 down.
MUSIC RECITAL
There will be a music recital of
; voice Rnd piano students of Gard
! ner-Webb college tonight In the
E. B. Hamrick auditorium begin
ning at 8:30 o’clock.
; | Indians once called a section of
1 the western side of Hudson Bay
“the land of little sticks," because
of low forest growth.
with a question mark raised
through the world by the death
of Franklin D. Roosevelt—inti
mate of Allied war leaders—
and the intricacies of Interna
tional relations. What of the
new chief of state, Harry Tru
man of Missouri?
The new president announced at
the outset that he would try to
carry on the Roosevelt policies. He
asked the cabinet to stay on, gave
assurance that the United Nations
conference will open In San Fran
cisco April 25 on schedule.
CONGRESS
• There were reports at the White
House, not yet official, that Mr.
Truman may address a Joint ses
sion of congress next week, possi
! bly Tuesday.
After a 20-minute conference
with the new' president, Stettinlus
' left hurriedly for the State Depart
| ment. Striding ’through a crowd of
, reporters, Stettlrtlus said:
“No comment. Sorry. No com
ment.”
Mr. Truman’s first conferences
! apparently gave immediate direction
to his statement after taking the
oath last night that one of his
prime tasks would be to prosecute
1 the war vigorously on all fronts.
The White House said no other
; callers had been scheduled offl
• daily yet and the assumption was
■ j that the new chief would devote the
• | major portion of his day to fam
, lliariring himself with military con
| ditlons all over the world.
A
PVT. RICHARDS
EVENTS PILE UP
IN LIFE OF
PVT. RICHARDS
Pvt. Clarence E. Richards, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Richards
of route 1. Ellenboro, who has
been reported missing in action
since January 20, in Luxembourg,
was recently reported by the war
department as being a prisoner
of the German government, and
on the same day that the tele
gram was received, his parents re
ceived a letter directly from him
stating that he had been recaptur
ed by American troops and is now
resting in an allied hospital.
Pvt. Richards entered the
army in November, 1942. and has
been serving in the European thea
tre of operations for the past 12
months. He was wounded in ac
tion in September. 1944, and was
awarded the Purple Heart medal.
After recovering from his wounds
he was returned to duty and was
fighting in Luxembourg when he
was reported missing in January.
Miss Bowman
To Give Program
Miss Carolyn Bowman, daughter
of Nat Bowman, of Shelby, who Is
a student at the University of North
Carolina, will give a short musical
program over radio station WDNC
Saturday at 12:45 p. m.» it was an
nounced today. Miss Bowman is a
pianist. Her friends in Shelby who
wish to tune in on the program will
find the station operating on 1.400
kilocycles.
TRUMAN
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the utmost on all fronts, east and
west.
Today as International friends
and enemies looked on, as men
high and low maneuvered to find
their place in a new U. S. orbit,
these prospects loomed
1. A speedy summoning of Gen.
George C Marshall and Admiral
i Ernest J. King for the most im
portant fill-in on the military sit
uation any world leader ever need
ed at such a critical hour.
2. A conference with Secretary
I of State Stettinius on pressing and
complicated international situa
; tiohs demanding the attention of
j a man who knows only the inside
details he gained from cabinet
meetings.
3. The sorrowful duty of helping
arrange for a White House funeral
at 4 pun., Saturday for his pie
decessor
CHURCHILL. STALIN
These transcended such impor
] tant questions as the likelihood
: that the new chief executive will
j want to meet as soon as possible
; with Prime Minister Churchill,
‘whom he knows slightly, and Pre
I mler Stalin, whom he knows not
1 at all.
Domestic problems could be push
j ed aside temporarily, too, left to
I a cabinet that stays on now, but
' may see some changes later.
To the 60-year-old, ruddy com
plexioned new president fell the
I immediate and sorrowful task 'of
burying a chief executive for whom
| he had boundless admiration and
i unfaltering loyalty.
Mrs. Roosevelt, at a charity
I benefit, received the news by tele
; phone. Without a word, she went
to the White House. The call went
out for Mr. Truman. He rushed
there with a hastily assembled
secret service esoort.
RUPTURE
Mr. E. J. MEINHARDI, widely
!.r.own Shield Specialist of Chicago,
will again be in Charlotte, N. C.,
at the Charlotte Hotel, Thursday.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April
19th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd. Office
Hours: H A. M. to 5 P. M. daily.
MR. MEINHARDI says: The
Meinhardl Shield Is a tremendous
improvement—well known lor pro
ducing immediate results. It pre
vents the Rupture from protruding
in 1C days on the average—regard
less of size or location of Rupture
and no matter how hard you work
or strain. It has no leg straps. Mr.
Meinhardl has been coming here
f-r 15 years. He has thousands of
satisfied Customers. Ask your
neighbors.
Caution: If neglected — Rupture
may cause weakness, backache,
constipation, nervousness, stomach
pains, etc., or sudden death from
strangulation.
Men having large Ruptures which
h-'ve returned after Surgical Oper
ations or Injection Treatments are
also invited. When all others fail
see MEINHARDI. He will be pleas
ed to demonstrate to you privately
without charge. (Only men invit
ed.) White only.
LIONS HOSTS
TO LADIES
Everything is in readiness for
Lions Ladies’ night to take place
tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the
Charles hotel. Bob Patton, su
perintendent of schools in Mor
ganton, and well known after din
ner speaker, will make the princi
pal address. He will be presented
by R. H. Cooke, who has charge
of the program. Athos Rostan
will be toastmaster and President
R. J. Rucker will open the meet
ing.
Wives and friends of members
of the Lions club will attend as
guests of the club.
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Starts On Pag* One
There were no accurate estimates
of injuries and damage In the ty
pical Oklahoma storms but hun
dreds of persons were hospitalised
and whole sections of cities were
swept away by the winds’ fury.
Red Cross Chairman Paul Os
born at Antlers, struggling to bring
order into rescue work, said one
third of the city of 3,000 was de
molished when wind caught up 500
or 660 OreSldences. Army posts and
Red Cross chapters were sending
all available personnel into the
area, and Will Rogers army air
field at Oklahoma City sent a bad
ly needed portable electric power
plant.
At Muskogee a twister whirled
through the eastern outskirts, ser
iously damaging everv building of
the Oklahoma school for the blind,
many of whose inmates w’ere hos
pitalized. A large part of the city
was without electric power for
several hours when lines from a
plant on the Arkansas river were
blown down.
K. R. Reed, a resident of the
southeastern Oklahoma City dis
trict hit bv the first tornado re
ported. said the wind accompanied
a cloud which he described as
"shaped more like an acre-wide
spade than anything I can think
of." Four full blocks of residences
were leveled here.
Reed said that “it sure wasn't a
true funnel-shaped cloud.’’ adding
that “it seemed to jump up and
down, taking things along with it
every time it hit the ground "
Collectively, the tornado toll was
the worst since a twister hit Pryor
in 1942. killing more than 100 per
sons and smashing a major portion
of the city.
Twisters which did damage, but
did not kill, also struck at these
Oklahoma towas: Cushing. Flower,
Kendrick, and Chovtaw.
WANT ADS
WANTED: AT ONCE, PORTER
at Cleveland Hotel. tf 13c
LOST: BROWN EVERSHARP
fountain pen between hospital
and High school. Call Sara Wil
liams at Hospital. Reward.
3t 13c
FOR SALE 1943 MOLENE TRAC
tor, two disc plow, disc harrow
wood saw and tractor trailer.
B. T Lemons, R-2, Shelby, N. C.
3t 13p
LOOK-IN TWO MILES OF
Boiling Springs, good five-acre
farm, well located. Good six
room house, barn and other out
buildings. It will pay you to see
this farm. Will trade for city
property For price and terms,
see J. Worth Silver.
A FEW GOOD HOMES IN TOWN
i for sale See J. Worth Silver
Also a few good Investments.
; IF YOU HAVE REAL ESTATE
you want to sell, or trade, »ee J
Worth Silver.
FARM FOR SALE LOOK—YOU
will have to see to appreciate
this farm. Located one quarter
mile of Patterson Grove Church
Land lays Rrand for tractor
farming. 6-room house, 3-room
1 house, large barn, many other
buildings. Running water in
house and barn. Electric lights.
52 1-2 acres. Just an Ideal farm
for the hard-to-sult. For price
and terms, see J. Worth Silver.
at i3c
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