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. ... end It tood to grow pullots. Try Chow—M's built to tup ply what grain lacks. ttelps get ringginh btodn tocot tbsI feed n«Kfed to yS^Maak* la j ;ondW^yrhen^tdrd«fifs V’off •?ed"\ remember'1>Chek-R-Ton. PHONE 1008 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. Nowl Science Can Help Women Over 30 Look Younger Doctors with experience in treating women with estrogenic Hormones have found that these sex hormones have the unique faculty of thorough absorption through the skin. Their activity helps develop new cells and new tissue besides stimulating the circulation in the outer skin layers. Paint and Powder Will Not Hide an Ageing Skin There is no amount of makeup or cos metic deceit that will provide a Veneer of beauty to cover up an ageinrskin and make it look young again. QUEENOL is a new kind of Cream because it con tains 30,000 Int. units of Estrogenic Sex Hormones. It ia a cream that n revolu tionary because of its results. Applied according to directions, it helps to re store the youthful quality of firm, smooth loveliness to the skin, that might be forever lost. Try QUEENOL. Only $2.95 (plus tax) for 30 days’ supply. CLEVELAND DRUG CO. 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