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) > 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. ► Beautify | without massage? Cleveland Drug Ca. ; —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. SHOP WEDNESDAY A. M. CLEARANCE WOMEN’S BETTER DRESSES Sharply Reduced! J.00 2*50 5 00 Broken sizes — some .slightly soiled — every drees an exceptional vahie! 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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. ! I ! R«hm KORf A HONSHU JAPAN Fulunhima KOREA 'Konyam* J Bar* fuun A TOKYO NAGOYA lOSAK. Fukuyama . Sana ■-» ■y AK urunw. SHIKOKU • f? A v Miy*kanO|0| KYUSHU (Voiothllov J HOKKAIDO ( lyud.vouoiiyir - rCJ jTc 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. 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