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f 8,000.000 SQUARE MILES RECAPTURED Funeral Service Conducted For Carl Summer Saturday Passed Away Suddenly Thursday Morning Following Heart Attack Suffered A Few Minutes Before. Funeral services were conduct ed for Thomas Carl Summer, Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock from St, John’s Lutheran church of which he was a member. In absence of his pastor, Rev. W. G. Cobh, the services were in charge of a former pastor, Rev. E. H. Kolm, of Mount Holly, assisted by Rev. E. S. Elliott, pastor of the Fiist rtaplist church; Rev. L. P. Barnette, pastor of the Cherry ville Methodist church and Rev. J. VV. Cobb, pastor of the Cherry ville Prtesbyterian church. A combined choir sang, “Jesus Saviour Pilot Me,” “O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go," and “Abide With Me.” Active pall bearers were: Har ry Stroup, T. A. Moss, Carl Ea ker, Dwight Jenks, Lawrence George and Roy Houser. Hon orary pallbearers were: Dr. F. M. Houser, W. B. Rhyne, Matthew A. Stroup, Dr. R. J. Morrison, D. P. McClurd, W. J. Allran, L, C. McDowell, E. E. McDowell, J. W. Kendrick, David P. Dellinger, E. V. Moss, Dr. Joe Pharr, Dr. J. W. Payne, J. W. Blackwelder, S. M. Butler, J. A. Crowder, Dewey F. Beam, Grier Beam, G. C. McGin nis, T. C. Homesley, C. C. Stroup, C. L. Ford, E. C. Sullivan, Steve Stroup, George S. Falls, J. Cliff Stroup, Fred K. Houser, all of Cherryville; Carl Carpenter, Bes semer City; O. M. Vernon, Mt. Holly; Joe R. Nixon, Lincolnton and W. Hunter Huss,- Gastonia. I s Members of the Guild of the Lutheran church had charge of the flowers assisted by members of the Baptist Missionary Society and friends of the family. The body lay in state at the church one hour prior to the fun eral service. Interment was made in the Lutheran cemetery. The large concourse of friends and relatives attending the funer al and the beautiful floral offer ings, attested to the high esteem in which the deceased was held. Mr. Summer died suddenly last Thursday morning about 10:45 o’clock, following a heart attack suffeied shortly before. Although he had been in declining health for several years, he was in his usual health Thursday morning and after eating breakfast went out to his work-shop and later returned to his office which he maintained in his home tnd com plained of having an unusual feel ing and asked that a physician be summoned, shortly after the ar rival of the doctor, the end came. Mr. Summer was born at Peak, South Carolina, May 8, 1889, son of Thomas E. Summer and the loi„ Mm-., Ci-nro-p Summer. He moved with his parents to Cherry ville in 1901 and as a young man he and his father managed a gro cery store and also kept the Post office which was in the same building. Later he accepted a position with the Gaston Mills as book-keeper and after several years with the Gaston he was em ployed with the Kendrick Brothers Mercantile Company. Mr. Sum mer was active in many business activities. He was a member of Hie town council and a director of the First National Bank and also a bookkeeper for the bank He was an organizer of the Cherry ville Building & Loan Associa tion of which organization he was elected Secretary-Treasurer and held this office for many years. Following this he entered the Textile field and was Secretary Treasurer as well as co-owner of the Vivian Spinning Co., of Cher ryville and the George Manufca turing Company of Bessemer City. His last business activity w'as the organization of the Dixie Lumber Company which he owned and operated at the time of his death. In his young manhood he was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Knights of Pythias Lodge, taking active parts in both or ganizations. He was married to Miss Bessie Kendrick, daughter of the late N. Ben Kendrick and Mrs. Kendrick on January.23, 1910. Surviving are his widow and the following children: Carlyle Summer, Cherryville; Mrs. Adrian Wilkinson, Wadesboro; Mrs. Nor man Payne, Bessemer City; Pvt. Ben Summer, Camp Blanding, Blorida; George K. Summer AtS, stationed at Camp Peary, Vir ginia and Miss Betty Jane Sum mer at home; together with the following grand-children: Jerry and Teddy Wilkinson, Wadesboro; (Continued on back page) Sharpshooter AC ROBERT W. HEAVNER Aviation Cadet Robert W. Heavner, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Heavner, Route 4, Lincoln ton, N. C., was recently awarded a sharpshooter’s medal for pro ficiency in firing the 45. Caliber Automatic Pistol at Maxwell Field, Alabama, an installation of the AAF Training Command. Here he is completing nine weeks of intensive military, phy sical and academic training. Funeral Services For Rev. G. S. Bowden Rev. George Stewart Bowden, Sr., 53, pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Gastonia, died in City Hospital at midnight Sat urday, following an illness of just one week. He was stricken in the pulpit of Emanuel Lutheran Church, Lincolnton, as he was be ginning the service at 11 o’clqek iast Sunday morning. He was removed to a nearby residence, later in the day carried to the hospital in Gustonia and never showed any improvement. Death was due to a stroke of paralysis, bis entire left side being affect ed. Funeral services were held Monday afternopn at 4 o’clock in the church of which he was pas tor. Rev. Dr. J. L. Morgan, of Sal isbury, president of the North Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church officiated, assisted by Rev. L. A. Thomas, of Lincoln ton, pastor of Emanuel Lutheran Church there and president of the Southern Conference of the Synod of North Carolina, Rev. John L. Morgan, pastor of Chap el Lutheran Church, Gastonia, and Rev. Dr. G. W. McClanahan, pastor of Grace Church, Bessemer City. Clyde G. Browne At Bainbridge, Ga. BAINBRIDGE, Ga.—Now re ceiving basic flight training as an aviation cadet at the Bain bridge Army Air Field is Clyde G. Browne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed M. Browne, Cherryville, N. C. He completed pre-flight train ing at Maxwell Field, Ala., and his primary training at one of the many fields throughout the Southeast. The Bainbridge flying school, a unit of the vast Army Air For ces Training Command, is com manded by Colonel Mills S. Sav age, a graduate of Georgia Tech and a veteran in the Army Air ForceR. Cadet Browne, who is a 1942 graduate of Presbyterian Junior College, Maxton, N. C., entered the Air Forces in August of that year. FIRST ’44 COTTON BALE GINNED AT WADESBORO WAPESBORO, Aug. 16.—First bale of 1944 cotton in Anson county was ginned yesterday ev ening for Paul Williams of Gul ledge township by Hightower & Griggs. The bale weighed 516 pounds, stapled 1 1-16, graded middling, and was bought by J. M. Hardison and J. Paul Teal ot Wades boro at 23 sente a pound. I LT. JOHN M AUNEY DIES IN FRANCE LINCOLNTON, Aug. 14.—first Lieutenant John Mauney, 25, member of a prominent Lincoln ton family, was killed in action in France July 26, his family was informed here today by the War Department. Lieutenant Mauney, who had been in service since February, 1942, was a member of a U. S. Army Tank Corps unit. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. D. Hunter Mauney, Sr., two broth ers, Ensign Li. Hunter Mauney, Jr., who is stationed with the U. S. Navy at Princeton, N. J., and William A. Mauney of Lincoln ton and two sisters, Mrs. Jack Ramseur of Lincolnton and Mrs. A. E. Morgan, who is en route to Harlingen Field, Texas, to join her husband, Dr. Morgan, promi nent physician, formerly with a Lincolnton hospital and now in the army. Member of a prominent family of Lincolnton, Lieutenant Mauney had relatives in Kings Mountain and Cherryville and a wide circle of friends, both in this area and elsewhere. He graduated from Lincolnton High School and later graduated in textiles from N. C. State College at Raleigh. Before entering service he held a position with the Washington Mills at Frieze, Va. His father, the late D. Hunter Mauney, Sr., was a prominent Lincolnton textile exec utive. Entering service in February, 1942, he participated in the invas ions of North Africa and Sicily, as well as in the Normandy in vasion. He held the Silver Star, the Distinguished Service Cross and other medals and decorations. He was recentlv decorated by Gen eral Patton. A WORK OF FAITH In Council Bluffs, Igwa, is lo cated a Home for orphan and des titute girls and boys, which is dif ferent from any other organiza tion of its kind in the country. This Home was founded on the Promises of God, more than three score years ago, by Rev. J. G. Lemen, a godly man of gigantic and unwavering faith. This Home, which is the Chris tian Home Orphanage of Coun cil Bluffs, Iowa, is supported by the free will offerings of the lov ers of God and Humanity. Thous ands of children have passed through its portals during the long years of its existence. Chil dren, who were in the Home, years ago, are now outstanding men and women of today; many have won fame and fortune, due to the teachings received while they were children at the Home. These same cnildren had they been left in their original pitiful surroundings, might have helped to fill the pen itentiaries of today. The Christian Home Orphanage is a National Home for children, it is located in Iowa, but it is supported by the voluntary con tributions of charitable people from all sections of the country. It receives no appropriations of any kind, and employs no travel ing agents, but depends entirely upon God, through you His earth ly agents for its support. The Christian Home conducts its own Church and Sunday School also its day school up to and in cluding the seventh grade. After the children of the Home have completed the sevnth grade, they enter the Public Schools of Coun cil Bluffs, Iowa. Many have been graduated with honors from the local High Schools, and then have entered higher schools of learning. The work of caring for home less children, and training them to become Christian men and wo men, is the most outstanding work of today. The Christian Home Orphanage is doing this work, but it cannot do it without your gifts and co-operation. For information in regard to this remarkable Home, write to the Christian Home Orphanage, Council Bluffs, Iowa, and litera ture will be sent to you. All contributions sent to the Christian Home Orphanage, Coun cil Bluffs, Iowa, are duly acknow ledged and credited in the offi cial publication ‘Christian Home” a sample copy of which will be sent to you upon request. CORRECTION In last weeks issue we made the statement that the Polio ease in Cherryville the week before was sent to the Lincolnton Hospi tal by a local physician. We wish to correct this statement, the ease was given a written note direct to the Emergency Hospital in Hickory by the local physician and urged to go immediately, | whereby, the stop was made in . Lincolnton of the patients own accord. _ . _ i A Traitor Gets His Just Deserts He Decked the wrong horse. A Frenchman who “collaborated” with he German occupation forces, hoping to benefit personally by a total V iVlft0ry* tods hin,se,f ,n * w*ht spot- Angry citizens of Rennes one if the towns captured by swift driving American units, vigorously ex cess their feelings. CHERRYVILLE CONTRIBUTING TO NEEDS OF EMERGENCY HOSPITAL Canvas Being Made Today; Leave Your Funds At 'Bank Or Eagle Office. Last week the Men’s Class of the Cherryville Methodist Church sent Mr. C. C. Dalton to Hickory to inquire of the Folio Hospital, if there was anything that Crer ryvilie as a community could do to help in the fight against Polio. The report made by Mr. Dalton on completion of his trip result ed in the following facts: There is approximately 167 pa tients in the hospital at the pre sent time. Cherryville has one patient, Mrs. Lawrence Stroupe. formerly Miss Ruth Randall. One of the supervisors inform ed Mr. Dalton that in the past that the labor situation had been a problem but that the Governor of North Carolina has sent pris oners from four counties to han dle the labor situation around the hospital. The one shortage that is now confronting the hospital is the matter of funds. It is estimated that the cost per day per patient is right at $17.00, thus making an operating cost for the 167 pa tients very nearly three thousand dollars per day. Some of the local citizens are staging a drive to collect con tributions for the hospital just as has been done in many of the oth er towns that have patients and each church in Cherryville on this Sunday will bring the problem be fore the congregation and an of fering will be taken at all the churches. The business estab lishments will be contacted just as the mills and the clubs of the town. Anyone having a contri bution is urged to turn same in at the EAGLE OFFICE, or to the CHERRYVILLE NAT’L BANK. All sums will be turned over to Mr. E. V. Moss and will be sent to Hickory on Monday, August 21st as a Cherryville gift and all contributors names will appear in the EAGLE. Let's back this worthy cause and show that Cherryville is proud of the great work that Hickory is •doing for our stricken young. Remember make your contribu tion to the EAGLE or CHERRY VILLE NATIONAL BANK this week, so that Funds can be sent in by next Monday. Contributions Already Given to Polio Hospital are given below. Another list will be published in next weeks issue of the Eagle. RHYNE-HOUSER Mfg. Co. $25 Carlton Yarn Mills . $25 Nuway Spinning Co. . $25 Woman’s Club ....... $10 LIONS CLUB $25 Putnam Hardware Co. $20 McGinis Grocery $10 Galloways Dept. Store ... $1 Dellingers Jewel Shop $15 Con Carpenter—Two High Chairs Modern Dry Cleaners $1 Coleys Shoe Shop . $1 Eakers Dairy . $1 Rita Cafe . $2 Eagle Publishing Company $10 Elite Beauty SaTon $4 Mrs. Fred Hudson . $1 Mrs. Clarence Dixon . .50 Beam’s Inn . $1 City Market . $2 Ed Ramsey . $5 Farmers Union Supply Co. $25 Houser Grocery . $2 R. T. McGinnis $2 Mrs. Kenneth 'Dellinger $5 (Continued on back page) Holding Meeting REV. EZRA WEATHERLY CAMP MEETING AT RHYNE’S HEIGHTS A Camp meeting will begin Friday night, August 18th, in Lincolnton at Rhyne's Heights, near the Saxton Mill. Services will be held each evening at 8 o'clock. Rev. Ezra Weatherly of Cher ryville will be in charge, assisted by other ministers and church workers. The public is cordially invited to attend any or all of these ser vices. KARR BEAM ACCEPTS POSITION WITH BANK Mr. Karr Beam, popular teach er of the North Brook Schools has accepted a positon with the Cher ryville National Bank and entered upon his new duties last Monday. Mr. Beam is a son of Mrs. Essie Beam of the North Brook section. He is a graduate of the North Brook High School and Appala chian State Teachers College, Boone. After completing his ed ucation he was elected a teacher in the North Brook No. 3 school where he made a success and was principal of the schools the last three years there. Mr. and Mrs. Beam are well known in Cherryville and their many friends wish for him much success in his new field. missionary to speak AT METHODIST CHURCH Miss Ethel Bost, for eighteen years a missionary to China will speak at the Methodist church here Friday night, August 18th, at 8:15. Miss Bost came to America last Deecmber on the Gripholm, after having spent seven months in a Japanese concentration camp. The experiences of Migs Bost should be quite interesting and will give a clearer insight into the work of the church in the foreign field. The public is cordially invited to hear Miss Bost. Each day, some 16,000 persons are examined for life insurance and nearly 900 are found to be uninsurable because of health, this discovery enabling many of them to take steps to improve their physical condition. Formosa Base Is Blasted By Yankee Flyers Southwest Pacific Bombers Strike Wharf Area At Davao Southern Philippines; Tokyo Cabinet Worried. At Camp Robinson CPL. JOE L. BRIDGES I Corporal Joe L. Bridges, son of Mrs. June Bridges entered the service July 28th, 1943, and took his special training at Fort Jack son, completing his basic train ing at Fort Bragg. He was trans ferred from Fort Bragg to Camp Bowie, Texas, and then on to Lit | tie Rock, where he was promoted to Corporal. His address is: Cpl. Joe L. Bridges, 34778871, Btry. A 566th Fa Bn., Camp Robinson, Ark. SCHOOLBOARD TO FIX DATES RALEIGH, Aug. 16.—The State School Board will hold a special meeting tomorrow to consider recommendations for uniform de layed opening dates for schools as the reported cases of infantile paralysis in North Carolina mount ed to 531 since June 1. The State Board of Health and Governor Broughton urged a uni form delay until Sept, is at least after the board of education had moved to leave the opening dales n the hands of local authorities. Some local units decided against postponement of original opening dates. Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, state health officer, said that the op ening of the schools "would cause immediate danger to neat ly 1,000, 000 school teachers and children, even in counties where there have been no reported cases of polio," he advised parent? to keep then children out of school "despite the compulsory school attendance The outbreak is chiefly in the Piedmont and upper Piedmont, section of the state. The death toll is 23. Labor Shortage May Endanger Essential Production Raleigh, Aug. 10.-—The War Manpower Commission's August classification of labor market clanger essential production. In Group II are Ashevtile, Char lotte, Elizabeth City and Winston Sulem-Greensboro, areas in which labor shortages exist that may en danger essenl ial production, or areas that are approaching- a areas 'on the basis of available corkers leaves all of the North •Carolina areas in the same class they occupied last month. Dr. J. S. Horton, State WMC director, an nounces. New Bern and Wilmington areas remain in Group I, areas in which acute labor shortages exist, or are anticipated, that will en halanccl cb maud-supply situation Group III areas include Bur lington aim Durham-Ki.leigh, area in which labor supply substantial ly balance demanl fot essential production or a moderate labor surplus exists or is anticipated. Only one area is listed in Group IV, Rocky Mount-Wilson, but all other areas are in this classifi cation, areas in which a substan tial labor surplus exists or is ex pected to develop. The lashing of a Japanese nav al base by night-flying American bombers and a simultaneous smash against a strategic Formo san harbor were officially report ed yesterday (Wednesday) while U. S. airmen pressed their at tacks close the Nippon home land. Per tie first time since the Pa cific war started Yank flyere struck the Pescadores islands be tween Formosa and the China coast. Their target was the Mako naval base, only 400 miles north of the Philippines and about 1, 700 miles south west of Tokyo. Some of the raiding Liberators, flying from bases in China, drop ped explosives on Takae harbor, south-western Formosa. No da tails were given on the attacks, which followed widespread aerial assaults earlier this week on Ja pan's island bastions reaching some 3,500 miles from the Kuril es down through the central Pa cific to the far Southwest Pacif ic. Apparently tha Keise cab inet was worried about Nip pon’s air power. The Tokyo radio said an extraordinary cabinet session wa*-|fold to re ceive a report on shipments of planes and plane parts. Commenting oi»,progress of tha Pacific war, Actftg Navy Secre tary Bard declaraifAmerican nav al forces now virtually control 8,000,000 square^ miles of that vast ocean and iatsgHla once held by the enemy. American SouflWeat *’ Pacific bombers again struck’thesouth ern Philippines, hitting the wharf area at Davao city. Other Libera tors raided Lolobata airdrome on Halmahere island, west of IVutch New Guinea, destroying eleven grounded Japanese planes. They also attacked coastal installations and small shipping and knocked out a 3,000-ton Nippon freighter near Boeroe island, south of Hal mahera. Radio Tokyo said JsptBM* forces in northeast India "have been transferred into Burmese territory, where they are prepared for further bat tles.” This was in sharp contrast with an official British report of Au gust. 8 on the disastrous Japanese attempt to invade India. The re port asserted the 15th and 81et Japanese divisions had been “writ ten off” and that actual count of Nippon dead was 16,693. In Burma the road to Manda lay was crowded with Aliled for ces advancing southeastward to ward strategic Japanese bases. The guerrilla situation in the Philippines was the subject of a study by the Foreign Policy as sociation, a nonpartisan research group in the U. S. The report said the Japanese have no hold what ever on large parts of the islands (and that local governments, head led by Filipino and American guar ! rilias, are functioning in many I provinces. Native patriots were I said to well equipped with fire I AIR RAID ON HALMAHERA DESTROYS 11 JAP PLANES i GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, i Southwest Pacific, Thursday, Aug. j 1 7.—Eleven parked Japanese air i planes were destroyed in a bomb ing raid upon Halmahera island west of New Guinea, headquar- , ters announced today. The planes blasted Lolobata airdrome on Halmahera Tuesday and also attacked coastal installa tions and small shipping. Supporting Gen. Douglas Mae* Arthur's claim that Halamahara has been virtually neutralized, there was no interception. Headquarters also announced another raid on the Philippines Sunday night. Liberators bombed the wharf area of Davao, capital of Mindanao, largest island in the southern Philippine/ Another Liberate/ knocked out a 3,000-ton near Boeroe mahera. card of thanks We wish to express our many thanks and appreciation to our neighbors and friends for tho many deeds of kindness and ayuu pathy shown us at the death of our dear husband aRd father. MRS. T. C. SUMMER ANI* l‘ CHILDREN j Japar se freighter island south of Hal
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