VINEGAR JOE”—This excellent study of General Joseph Stillwell, com
panding general of the U. S. Tenth Army, was made on July 6 during a
*ress conference at his Okinawa headquarters. The general told corres
pondents that Japan would be hit from every possible channel.—(AP
Wlrephoto*.
Give Pre-Induction
Exams To 16 From
Kings Mountain Area
KINGS MOUNTAIN - Sixteen
registrants of the Kings Mountain
selective service board went to
Fort Jackson, where they received
pre-induction examinations.
Grady William Queen was sent
for immediate induction while the
Double Col* Distributing to. I
fhone 23? Shelby, N. C. I
others accepted are to be inducted
in future months. The others
which were given the pre-induc
tion examinations included: Hous
ton Black, Melton Kiser, Floyd
Orville Morris, Harry Caldwell
Beam. Evans Biders, Virgil Fletch
er Foster, Walter Durham Harmon,
BUI Eugene Carpenter, Carl Webb
Eridges. Roscoe Junior Chambers,
Henry Mason Blanton, Ervin An
drew Henderson, Yates Augustus'
Smith, jr.. Floyd Henry Styers, and
Lewis Eldford McGinnis.
Lynch Is Building
Houses At Kings Mtn.
KINGS MOUNTAIN —Haywood
E. Lynch, former editor of the
Kings Mountain Herald, Is now
having two houses built on upper
Ridge street, about three blocks
from his home. These houses are
bping built under permits recently
for the building of 25 new houses
in Kings Mountain, granted in
hopes of relieving the housing
: hcrtage.
Mr. Lynch plaas the building of
even houses immediately but only
'wo have been started to '^te al
though others will be started when
the materials become available.
Only two naval officers have ever
held seats in the U. S. senate: Com
mo. Robert F. Stockton of New
Jersey and Adm. Thomas C. Hart
of Connecticut.
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THE WAR TODAY:
Japan’s Will To Resist
Shows Signs Of Cracking
By DeWltT MacKENZIE, AP Writer
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Writer
There’s a growing (though softly
spoken) belief among professional
observers that the Japanese home
land may fold up under the com
bined allied bombardment and
blockade before the time for am
phibious invasion arrives.
This thought is based on the
knowledge that the average human
mind and body can stand only so
much punishment without cracking
up. It’s true that fanatical Jap,
soldiers have been battling to the j
death, and Japanese civilians might
do the same in face of invasion.
However, I think we shall make a
mistake if we assume that fighting
to a finish in hand-to-hand combat
is analogous to dying from starva
tion combined with fierce bombard
ment from far-distant warplanes
and warships against which there’s
little or no defense. It takes a stout
mentality to stand up long against
an “intangible” foe.
OFFICIAL WORRY
The Tokyo government has
been making no bones about the
gravity of the crisis, and signs
of official worry have been in
creasing. It would be worth
something to know what the
Mikado and his captains are
thinking as the result of the
terrific assault of the past sev
eral days. The appearance of
British bombers in Japanese
skies is in itself an ill omen for
Nippon, for it bespeaks the
gathering of allied forces in
the Orient.
j For days past, Admiral fBull) Ha-1
scy's American Third Fleet hu
j cruised along the northern coast of
| Japan with guns and carrier-based
bombers tearing at enemy shipping,
j industrial centers and communica
tions live one of Nippon’s own
earthquakes. Then yesterday 1,500
American and British carrier plan
es blasted the Tokyo area in the
heaviest seaborne attack of the war.
It's significant that the Japanese
! have taken all this without counter
; blows of any consequence. Their
greatly reduced naval fleet remain
ed hidden, not daring to venture
, out and thus risk destruction which
| would leave the motherland with
out ocean defense against invasion.
AIR FORCE GROUNDED
Likewise their airforce stay
ed largely grounded. Possibly
the Nipponese are conserving
what is left of this fleet for the
day of invasion. News dispatch
es also say one reason for this
seeming impotence in the air is
lark of gasoline, due to destruc
tion of supply centers and rail
ways.
This amazing striking-power
j which has been unleashed against
! Japan from the skies involves 2,000
1 or more allied warplanes, truly a
terrifying force. But that’s only part
of the stopr, as Tokyo well knows,
for the allied fleet will be augment
ed steadily as planes arrive from
Europe. By the same token, the
combined naval forces are increas
ing, and the landing equipment for
CLARK TO HEAD
MEDIC ALBOARD
Will Handle Contingent
$1,000,000 Found For
Hospitalized Indigent
RALEIGH, July 18. —(fP)— James
A. Clark, Elizabethtown, former
state senator, has been named head
of the 10-member state medical
commission created by the 1945
general assembly.
Dr. Clarence Poe, Raleigh, farm
editor, is vice-chairman.
Members of the commission are:
Franklin J. Blythe, Charlotte con
tractor, associated with the Memor
ial hospital at Charlotte; B. E. Jor
dan, Saxaphaw, textile manufactur
er and chairman of the board of
Almance General Hospital at Bur
lington: J. W. Beam, Spencer, for
mer Rowan legislator: Dr. C. E.
Rozzelle, pastor of the First Metho
dost church. High Point; Don E.
Elias, publisher of the Asheville
Citizen-Times; Mrs. Richard J.
Reynolds, Jr„ Winston-Salem; Wil
liam B. Rodman, Washington, for
mer state senator; William Rich,
Durham, manager of Lincoln Me
morial hospital at Durham and the
only negro member of the commis
sion.
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
Ex-oflicio members of the com
mission are: Dr. Carl V. Reynolds,
secretary of the State Board of
Health; Dr. Ellen D. Winston, state
superintendent of Public Welfare;
Dr. Paul W. Whitaker, Kinston; Dr.
William Coppidge, Durham; Dr.
Fred C. Hubbard, North Wilkesboro;
Samuel B. Forbus, Durham; Dr. O.
C .Barker, Asheville; Dr. Paul B. Bis
set te, Wilson; Flora Wakefield, Ra
leigh; and Dr. W. E. Rankin, Char
lotte.
A budget of 950,000 for each
year of the current biennium
has been set up for the com
mission which will handle a con
tingent appropriation of $1,000,
000 established to take care of
Indigent hospital patients.
Anti-Freeze Outlook
Not Good For Winter
WASHINGTON, July 18 —(/P)—
Only the alcohol type of anti
freeze will be available for civilian
use next winter, the War Produc
tion board said today. The agency
said many distributors and dealers
were not ordering the alcohol type
on the theory that methanol type
anti-freeze might be available.
This is not the case, WPB said.
amphibious invasion is being round
ed up.
Fleet Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz yesterday described this
as the “preinvasion stage” and
said we shall rely on two prin
cipal strategies to further our
aim: “First, an ever tightening
blockade of Japan’s home is
lands; second, destruction by
shelling and bombing of every
industry and resource which
contributes to Japan’s ability
to make war.” To this he add
ed grimly:
“We have paralyzed the will
and ability of the Japanese
navy to come out and fight.
From this stage we must take
a series of certaH and pro
gressive steps until the will and
ability of the Japanese people
to resist is broken.”
Can this will to resist be broken
by blockade and bombardment,
without invasion? It is a pos6ibil
it. There’s no reason why we
shouldn’t recognize this, so long as
we don’t for one moment accept it
as a probability and slacken our
blows. It is possible only if we con
tinue to press the attack while we
have the enemy at a definite dis
advantage.
Textile Scholarships
Awarded At State
By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGH. July 18. — The first
of a series of four-year scholarships
in the school of textiles at State
College was slated to be awarded
Wednesday to a son or daughter of
an employee of one of the four mills
in the Erlanger system.
The scholarships were establish
ed by the mills in honor of Abraham
and Charles Erlanger, founders of
the business in the state. Awards are
to be arranged so that a freshman
will enter the school each year,
which means that after 1950 there
will be an Erlanger scholarship
holder in each class at the school.
Only children of employees in
the Erlanger mills below the rank of
superintendent are eligible to con
test for the scholarships, which will
pay between $400 and $500 a year.
After passing certain preliminary
educational tests, the surviving four
or five eligibles will be Interviewed
by college authorities and the most
likely one of the group selected for
that year.
College officials are much pleas
ed with the demonstration of in
terest on part cf the Erlanger mills,
which have plants at Lexington,
Salisbury and Forest City, and they
more or less quietly voice the hope
that other large organizations will
follow the scriptural injunction: “Go
thou and do likewise.”
Aerial photograph maps proved
highly successful in locating farms
and buildings in the taking of the
1945 census of agriculture.
MUSSOLINI’S WIDOW IN KITCHEN—Donna Rachele Mussolini, widow
of the late Italian dictator who was executed by partisans, stirs a pot in
the kitchen of an internment camp about 60 miles from Rome where she
and two of her children are held in protective custody. This picture was
made by Frank Noel, Associated Press photographer formerly stationed in
the Atlanta, Miami, and Tampa bureaus.—(AP Wlrephoto via Radio from
Rome).
Bobby Barlow Is
Soriously Injured
HICKORY. — Bobby Barlow, a
Seaman in the United State* Navy,
is in a critical condition at the Ri
chard Baker hospital from a skull
fracture, which, accordin* to in
formation given police, was received
in a freak accident Monday night.
According to the story that is
known, Barlow fell from a borrow
ed automobile and the vehicle con
tinued on, allegedly driverless, for
some distance, before finally halt
ing.
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How long will
to beat
JAPAN?
One Year? Three Years? Five Years? hook at these Facts...
From the Army and Navy. Then Figure it Out for Yourself!
09"* 1° spite of Midway, Bougainville,
Tarawa, Saipan, Leyte, Manila,
Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and all the other Ameri
can victories, Japan now controls an ar^ea and
population far larger than the United States,
and with many natural resources greater
than ours.
Her home islands are industrialized and or
ganized to the last rivet, the last kilowatt of
power, the last pair of human hands.
Japan can put in the field over 4,000,000
well-trained, battle-hardened troops, many
with ten years of war behind them. This
force is twice as large as all the German
armies which defended France, the low coun
tries and the Western front of the Reich
against the combined armies of the United
States, Britain, Canada and the Free French.
Back of these soldiers are more than 70 mil
lion civilians on the Jap home front, firmly
indoctrinated in emperor worship—every
man, woman and child ready and eager to
die for the man they believe is a god.
Japan is fighting on "interior” lines. It’s true
that its fleet is now much smaller than ours.
But never forget that the U. S. Navy has a
much bigger job to do.
The Japs have stated, and no thinking man
or woman doubts it, that they are prepared
to sacrifice 10,000,000 men to hold their em
pire. To the Japanese, life is cheap. The
emperor and the state mean everything—the
individual, nothing.
If the war were to end tomorrow, Japan
would have put the seal on a conquest great
er than Napoleon’s.
"But,” you say, "the war with Japan won’t
end tomorrow.”
Well, what about it? Will It end "tomor
row,” or next month or next year, for you?
Are you planning to quit your war job, stop
your blood donations, slacken your Bond
buying, use more gas, have more fun, hw
up generally?
Before you do, remember that many a
lant American boy, now vibrant with
breath of life, will die at the hands of
Japs.
How many?
Thousands? Certainly. Hundreds of thou
sands? Probably.
Well, how many?
That’s up to you.
How you con help
I Keep that war fob!
2 Keep buying Bonds I
3 Keep doing all your
country asks!
in
IT’S A TOUGH ROAD TO TOKYO
THE STAMEY CO.
FALLSTON and POLKVILLE