WORLD'S LARGEST FLYING BOAT CRASHES AND SINKS—The Navy’s Hawaii Mars (above), world’s
largest flying boat, crash-landed and sank in Chesapeake Bay near Rock Hall, Md., Aug. 5 while on a routine
test flight. Only one member of the 10-man crew was injured. Small boats rescued all aboard. This picture was
madeas the craft prepared for a test flight shortly after she was launched last month.—(AP Wirephoto)
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IT WAS TEX TEARS AGO
THAT:
—The new textbook rental system
for the schools of North Carolina
was in the process- of going Into
effect.
—Mrs. Clyde A. Short became wo
men's golf champion at Cleveland
Springs Country club. Mrs. Gaither
McCombs placed second, and Mrs.
Sam Schenck, third, in the tour
nament.
—Pictures were shown of Ethiopian
soldiers trained by Belgians pre
pared for war as Italy shipped
more troop* and materiel* to East
Africa for an expected invasion of
Ethiopia.
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; —Betty Grable had just begun her
! climb to stardom. "Success seems
| at last in the grasp of Betty Gra
ble,” the lines under the bathing
1 suit picture of her said. "She is
i one of the few younger featured
players ever to escape the ranks
| of extras. She is pictured on the
; beach relaxing after a hit per
! formance in a recent mystery
i comedy.”
• * • *
—There was a picture of Special
Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey as
he took his oath of office prepa
ratory to beginning his drive to
I smash vice and crime in the me
i tropolis.
• • • •
—Curtain nets were being sold at
! J. C. Penney company for 8 cents
a yard.
1 IT WAS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
AGO THAT:
—Joe E. Blanton said he was in
: favor of Cleveland county having
a county fair to replace the Farm
ers’ picnic held yearly. "If there
is any county in the state that
ought to have a fair, it is Cleve
land, because her products would
make exhibits that would compare
favorably with the big state fairs
i from an agricultural standpoint."
• • • •
1—"Speaking in Bloomingdale, Ind.,
at the closing session of the rural
educational conference on the sub
ject, ‘What Ails Us’ Prof. G. I.
Christie of Purdue university, as
serted that there were ‘too many
diamonds and not enough alarm
clocks, too many serge suits and
not enough overalls’.”
• * * •
—Dr. R. E. Ware called at The
Star office to say that the dust
on West Warren street was fierce
and wanted to invoke the use of
the city's sprinkler system. The
1 clamor against the dust was some
I what general all over Shelby where
the streets were not paved, and
citizens were “wondering why the
sprinkler is not used when the
people’s tax money is invested in
i a wagon, the water, and plenty of
men to use it.”
• * * •
—A campaign was planned for a
$100,000 hospital. Hon. O. Max
Gardner was chairman of the
meeting, and doctors attending
were W. F. Mitchell, E. B. Latti
more, B. H. Palmer, E. W. Gibbs.
S. S. Royster, E. A. Houser, T. G.
Hamrick, and J. T. Lafferty.
Thomas L. Armstrong
Dies In York, S. C.
GASTONIA—Thomas I,. Arm
strong, 64, died Sunday night after
a week’s illness, In the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Grace Graham, at
York, S. C. He had lived In Bel
j mont all his life, until he moved
to York four or five years ago.
; Surviving are his daughter, three
sons, four grandchildren and one
great grandchild. The funeral serv
ices will be held Wednesday at 11
o'clock in Belmont Abbey Cath
olic church, of which he was a
member. The body was brought
from York Monday afternoon to
the home of his son, James J.
Armstrong, to remain there until
time for the funeral.
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Ernie Pyle’s Aunt Mary
Lives In Memories Of Him
(Hal Boyle and Ernie Pyle were
the two most widely circulated col
umnists of the European war. They
covered much the same ground. Both
won the Pulitzer prize. Yet they
never competed. Each was busy in
his own way, telling America of the
lives of its sons at the front. Hal,
on his way to the Pacific to con
tinue his column in the area where
a Japanese machine gun cut short
Ernie’s career, stopped off to see
Pyle’s Aunt Mary and father Will.
This is the second of two columns
on that visit.)
By HAL BOYLE
DANA, Ind.,—UP)—The small
wren finally got the best of Ernie
Pyle’s Aunt Mary.
For two seasons the little bird
tried to build its unsightly twig nest
atop the electric light meter on the
front porch of the Pyle farm home.
It was a poor location—right
above the screen door. But the
wren was infatuated with the light
meter. Every time Aunt Mary pull
ed down her store of twigs, back
came the stubborn bird with more.
Aunt Mary was just as stubborn.
Eventually she forced the discon
tented wren to nest and raise its
brood in a box she and Will Pyle,
Ernie’s dad, built in a nearby tree.
This year the excited wren got a
head start on Aunt Mary. She flew
back and forth like a bumblebee
with her beak full of twigs. And
H)-year-old Aunt Mary, thinking
how much Ernie had loved all ani
mals, just sat and watched her
build her nest on the light meter.
“YOU CAN KEEP IT”
"That poor little wren I—I don’t
know how many times I tore that
nest down,” she said, stroking
Snooky, Ernie’s dead mother’s dog.
"It’s so messy. But she’s been so
faithful I felt sorry for her, and I
said to her, ‘this time you can keep
it’.”
And the wren is now sitting hap
pily in her hodgepodge twig palace
on the light meter.
Aunt Mary’s remaining life now
is wrapped in memories of Ernie.
"He was always so good to his
folks,” she said. "We still get let
ters from people all over the world
who knew him. Right after we lost
him on the little Pacific Island—I
never can rightly remember its
name—we got 22 telegrams and
more than 500 letters.
"They were such lovely letters—
fine letters, worded so nice. Will
and I read every one of them. They
still keep coming.”
Aunt Mary's blue eyes glimmer
unsteadily whenever she begins
talking about her nephew.
“SO FRAIL”
"He was always so frail,” she
said. “I don’t see how he ever
stood up under that cold and mud
and slush. And all that noice!”
She lifted her hands—as if to
shut that noise away from Ernie.
"He never ate much or wanted
knick-knacks, but he ate more than
common that last night he came
back.
“As a boy he was quiet and never
rowdy. He read lots of books. He
never used to take part in games at
Bono township school. He’d rather
referee them.
“He was crazy about race cars
and used to cut out all their pic
tures. He hated farm work, t/.t he
did his own work well. He liked to
drive the taactor. He wanted to be
an auto mechanic then.
"Somehow he never could learn
to milk a cow right. It always
squirted down his sleeve instead of
into the bucket.”
AS SMALL BOY
Aunt Mary got out a picture of
Ernie as a small boy, standing sol
emn and self-conscious in a new
suit. There was also a picture of
Aunt Mary herself in early middle
age—a strong, sweet-featured un
wrinkled face under high-brushed
dark hair.
“Ernest was always quiet,” she
said, studying the long ago picture
of the bdy who grew up to be the
best known writer of the second
world war.
“He never talked very loud. I
don’t know where he got that soft
voice. The last few times he was
home he talked so low I couldn’t
hear everything he said.”
Neither Aunt Mary nor Will
Pyle want Ernie brought back home
..
—at least not until after the war.
“It wouldn’t be fair to the oth
ers,” said Aunt Mary. “He fought
for those boys and he’s laid where
he wants to be. There’s nothing to
be brought back—that’s the way his
father and me feel.
“We couldn’t see him. It really
wouldn’t be him.”
Ernie’s father tapped hi| cane as
he pulled himself ot his feet.
“No,” he said, shaking his head
slowly, “we don’t want to go
through all that trouble and sorrow
again.”
When it was time to leave,
they walked with their visitors
to the porch. The hum of sum
mer filled the air, and across
the yellow road the farm fields
or Indiana stretched green and
gold under the soft sunshine.
The wind rustled the branches of
the tall maple trees in the yard
and their leaves murmured togeth
er. Aunt Mary looked up at the
bending boughs.
"They have such a doleful sound,”
she said. “I didn’t used to notice
It much, but now—it’s so doleful.
“After the war Will wants to put
screens around the porch. Can’t sit
out here in the evening now be
cause of flies.”
U. S. Occupation
Zone Germans
May Join Unions
BERLIN, Aug. 7.—(VP)—Gen. Eis
enhower told Germans in the U.
S. occupation zone today that thjy
may form local unions and en
gage in local political activities1
with the aim of helping prepare
for the coming winter, which he
predicted will be hard.
‘‘Full freedom to forni trade
unions and to engage in democra
tic political activities will be ex
tended rapidly in those areas in
which you show a readiness for
healthy exercise of these privi
leges,” Eisenhower said in a pro
clamation read over the Berlin ra
dio.
‘‘We do not desire to degrade the
German people. We shall assist
you to build your life on a demo
cratic basis.”
‘‘Justice and education founded
on true liberal principles will be
supported vigorously.”
The American member of the
allied control council declared
there must be no idleness, adding
all signs pointed to food short
ages this winter. He said there
would be no coal for home-heating
and the people would have to
gather wood.
A similar proclamation from
Field Marshal Montgomery was
read in the British zone of occu
pation.
Army To Got More
Poultry From West
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.— UP) —
Beginning next Monday the army
will get more of its poultry from
the middle west.
Acting to relieve the pressure on
the east from heavy military de
mands, Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson has designated these 12
states as poultry procurement
areas:
North and South Dakota, Min
nesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa,
Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, In
diana, Oklahoma and Texas.
Effective August 13, half of all
chickens and turkeys handled in
“authorized plants”—those process
ing more than 20,000 pounds a
week—will be earmarked for the
armed services.
The present procurement pro
gram takes 70 per cent of all
broilers produced in Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma
and Missouri. Previously the set
aside was 100 per cent in those
states.
Anderson said the new program
looks toward "fulfillment in the
shortest possible time” of military
needs for 125,000,000 pounds of
poultry for canning.
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JAP CITY HIT BY ATOMIC BOMB—President Truman disclosed Augus
6 that one of the new atomic bombs, some of which were produced a
Oak Ridge, Tenn., has been dropped on the city of Hiroshimo (boml
burst symbol), a Japanese seaport and army base. U. S. B-29s also rainei
incendiary and explosive bombs on six Jap war centers (underlined), am
fighters used rockets and machine guns on targets in the Tokyo area (A)
Air Force headquarters said photos show Toyama (B), raided Thursday
was “totally destroyed.” Mine symbols locate areas mined over thi
week-end by B-29s.—(AP Wirephoto Map).
OLD VESSEL MASQUERADES AS BATTLESHIP TO FOOL ENEMY—Fitted out with canvas and plywood
camouflage to make her resemble the 35,000-ton British battleship H, M. S. Anson, the 33-year-old battleship
Centurian (above) was one of many “phantom” ships the British sent cruising on the seven seas during the
war to fool enemy intelligence. This is a British official photo—(AP Wirephoto).
James H. Anthony
Dies In Gaffney
GAFFNEY, s. C.—The funeral
of James Herndon Anthony, 39,
electrician, who died in a hospital
here late Sunday after an illness
of three months, was conducted
Tuesday at 4 p. m., at the home
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I.
Q. Anthony, sr„ by Dr. R. A. Mc
Farland. Burial was made in
Oakland cemetery. Survivors in
clude the widow, Mrs. Edith Pow
ell Anthony; a daughter, his par
ents, seven sisters and two broth
ers.
The daily cost of farm fires in
the United States totals about a
quarter of a million dollars.
Luther Leogue
In Lincolnton
LINCOLNTON.—The executive
committee of the Luther League
of North Carolina will meet Aug.
8th and 9th at Emmanuel Luth
eran church, Lincolnton. Around
forty young people will gather to
gether for the purpose of com
pleting the year’s work and lay
ing plans for the new year.
Rev. J. W. Iddings, of Asheville,
will act as the chaplain to this
group and conduct the devotions
before each business session.
Hudson Bay company was form
ed in England long before the
United States bought the Louis
iana territory.
TRENTON. —(IP)— W. Murray
Whitaker of Trenton has been ap
pointed clerk of Jones county Su
perior court to succeed George R.
Hughes, who resigned to become
county attorney.
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