7TH. WAR BOND BABY CONTEST WARMING UP John T. Sellers Accidentally Killed Funeral Services To Be Conducted At 3:30 P. Mm Today From St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Near Cherryville. Funeral services for John T. Sellers will be held this afternoon at 3:30 at the Saint Marks Lu theran Church. The services will be in charge of the Rev. D. L. Stubbs, Jr., pastor of the Crouse Methodist Church. He will be as sisted by the Rev. Mr. Miller, pas tor of St. Marks Church and Rev. Paul H. Moore, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Mr. Sellers is survived by the following children: Jake Sellers of Tennessee, Mrs. Raymond Brown and Mrs. Dewitt Jenkins, of Cherryville. His wife preceded him to the grave some twenty years ago. Also surviving are three sisters Mrs. Ida Helton, Mrs. Fannie B. Carpenter and Mrs. Margaret Beatty all of Bessemer City, Rt. 1 and two brothers, W. S. Sellers and C. A. iSellers of Cherryville, Route 2. Mr. Sellers met his death Tues day night when a Carolina Freight truck headed toward Cherryville and a car driven by "Mr. Jenkins Harrelson and head ed toward Lineolnton were pass ing near the Wayside Service Station on Highway No. 150. Mr. Sellers was walking in the middle of the road, it was reported, and the lights of the car and truck so blinded the drivers that neither of then saw Mr. Selb -s in time to avoid the accident. He was killed by the car driven by Mr. Harrelson. No inquest was con sidered necessary as evident c seemed to be definite !har the death was the result of on una voidable accident. Cpl. Ruth Sneed In England V-E Day 1ST BASE AIRPORT, WAR rington,England—V-E Day found Cpl. Lola R. Sneed of CRerry ville, N. C., on the job helping to ready more combat planes and equipment for immediate action wherever they might be needed. Cpl. Sneed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Sneed, Cherry ville, N. C.is one of the crack Air Service Command team who pitched in to back up the air as saults that helped knock Germany out of the war. Commending their battle back ing efforts, Brigadier General Morris Berman, Commanding General of the Base Air Depot Area, Air ^Service Command, de clared : “These soldiers of the Base Air Depot have, since their work began, dispatched 415,000 tons of Air Corps supplies, assem bled and modified 12,000 combat planes, and repaired or overhaul ed more than 30,000 aircraft en* gines. “Every soldier, whatever his job, contributed materially in the magnificent, final results. I com mend them, and 1 know that what ever their next task, they will ful fill it with credit to themselves and their country.” Cpl. Sneed has been overseas since June, 1044, and joined the army in February, 1043. She attended Cherryville High I School. .Junior ’Baseball Gets Started This Week It’s in the air! Yes, everywhere (one may turn, baseball is in the ait. it is being played on corner lot^, .hack lots, and even in the etreed^, now that school is out and the youngsters are free to play. But the Baseball News of the community is this: THE JUNIOR BASEBALL SEASON OFFICI ALLY OPENS FRIDAY AT 5:00 P. M. Announcement to this effect was seen Wednesday evening giv comes from Coach Gleason who I ing the fellows a workout at the High School Ball Park. The first game of the season he says will be Friday evening at 5 o’clock, with Cherryville American Leg ion Juniors playing against the Cast, n County Juniors. The game promises fair to be an interesting one. Admission is fifty cents for adullts and twenty-five cents for children. Further tchedules wiU be an pouuced. In SoAth Pacific J. D. CARPENTER J. D. Carpenter, 2-C, of Cherry- | ville, Route 2, sailed in September 1944. He is now serving in the South Pacific. Seaman Carpenter took his basic training at Camp Perry, Ya. He would like to hear | from his friends in and around Cherr.vville. His address is: John IV. Carpenter, F 2-C, USS Uvalde ! A.K.A. SS, c-o Fleet Post Office, i San Francisco, California. i C. H. Carpenter Receives Letter From Navy Dept. Mr. Clayton H. Carpenter re ceived the following letter from! the Navy Department Sunday and enclosed was a picture of the shipboard memorial service, which took l nice the day following the casually. My d 'hat comjdet':,led the I budding. It was rot long afteif he firemen arrived, h. never, un :il the (ire was eNtini: died. Again this morni-ir id out 12:10 he firemen were called to the ;ame location and found that some if the waste cotton that had been hrown outside the building had ■aught up again and was making pnte a blaze. This was extin guished. The extent of damage hw not ret been determined. TWO MADE SUPREME SACRIFICE Reading left to right front row: Robert Franklin, Killed in Action, Ruben Ramsey, Jack Jenkins, J. L. Carroll. Reading left to right, top row: Loyd Hastings, Robert Moss, Max Carpenter, Killed in Action, Fred Neill, and Jimmie Boyles. These nine Cherryville boys all about the same age joined the Navy June 23, 1944 and all entered Boot Training at Bainbridge, Maryland. They were all nine assigned to the same ship and sailed the Pacific. They took part in the invasion of Mundora and Luzon Islands. Robert (Bobby) Franklin and Max Carpenter were killed in Action on Okinawa according to a message received here last week by their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton 11. Carpenter and Mrs. Lillian Franklin. Their ship poured l,.r>00 pound shells onto Okinawa for six days to deal the way for troops taking pail in the greatest amphibious landing in the Pacific war. Their ship) underwent numerous air at tacks during the last few days before the landings. Two torpedoes launched against her never reached their mark. Before dawn on “Love Day” she was brought, into position to give the beaches a final working over. The men were up at 2:30 A. M. and at their battle stations soon afterward, undaunted by three Jap suicide planes which made futile runs against the ship. This gives some idea of what the battleship these nine Cherry ville men were assigned to was going through. The Franklins and Carpenters each received a letter Sunday from the commanding Captain giving some details and enclosing a photograph of the Memorial service held on the ship the following day. The letter disclosed the boys were killed at their post of duty bn Saturday, May 12. Max Carpenter was the youngest of ten children, eight boys in the family, three in the service, Sgt. Colon Carpenter and S-Sgt. Fred Carpentei both overseas in the European Theatre of War and Corporal Lloyd Carpenter stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C. Bobby Franklin was. the oi ly child. DORA MILL HERE EMPLOYS MRS. HUNTER CARROLL COMMUNITY AID In Germany Sgt. HEMAN H. EAKER AN ADVANCED NINTH AIR FORCE SERVICE UNIT, Germa ny.—General Hoyt S. Vanden- , burg, commanding general of the J Ninth Air Force, has officially commended members of the Ninth Air Force Service Command team i to which Sergeant Herman H. Eaker, Cherryville, N. C., is as signed, for “a remarkably out standing operational status in the maintenance of aircraft..' The commendation further states, “It is my desire -hat the men who are responsible for this excellent effort and accomplish ment should receive my sineerest personal commendation such ze.ious endeavor to ‘keep em nymg’ will help speed the termi nation of this conflict.’’ In passing this letter on to members of his organization, Lt. Col. Henry A. Frese of New Or leans, La., added, “Each of y^u deserve your share of credit for accomplishing the work which (Loatthued on page »i*). Announcement conies from Mr. (;. I,. James of the Dora Yarn Mills to the effect that the Dora has arranged for the services of .\Iis. Hunter CaCrroll as commu nity worker for the entire sum Mrs. Carroll began her work last (Saturday night with a spec ial outing of the Women's Club at the Dora Park. The meeting was attended by a great many of |the Club members and friends, and members of the various'fam ilies. A fealuie of the meeting was the auctioning of a number |of hand-made neckties.. The wom en wore aprons and had made neck ties to match them. The ties were wrapped and sold to the highest bidders. In turn, the nine who bought the ties were entit led to eat lunch with the lady having an apron to match the tie. Mis. Carroll will aid in the relig ious and civic work of the com mi nity. She is now meeting the ye ig folks for a couple hours ea i evening m the Park. B jam Brothers In Service Of Country Dare Reese Beam, who enlisted in he U. S. Navy a few weeks ag is stationed at Bainhridge, M< His address is Dare Reese Be m, aA-S Co. 4105, Bks. 42X l U. S. Navy. N. 'I-. C., Bainhridge, M; ryland. Cpl. Miller Beam, brother to Dt e has been in service almost thi e years with lx months over set s with tiie Air Force. His ad dress is Cpl. Miller Beam, 3403 67'20, 21X8 A Trk Co. (A\.\) AI 635 e-o PM New York, N.t. These hoys are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Beam of Vale, loute 2, and would like to hear from their friends. > Contest To Close Monday, June 11th. Six Of The Highest Contestants Announced Today; Closes 6:00 P. M., Sharp Monday; Buy Bonds Now and Vote. In The Pacific CPL. FRED O. DELLINGER Corporal Fred 0. Dellinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Dellinger, is now in the Philippines. His ad dress is Corporal Fred O. Dellin ger, 34772(532, 3rd Emergency Rescue Sqdn. P. (). 74, c-o P.M., San Francisco, California. He would like to hear from his 1st Methodist to Have Educational Director For same time the First Meth- * odist Church has been consider-] ing the possibility of having a director of religious education, ! and now the official board has i voted to understake the enter prise. Accordingly, an agreement has been reached with Miss Sybil Sisk to take over this work. She comes highly tjceommendeJd by many who know her. Dr.liuymohd Smith, head of religious educa tion at Greensboro College, says this about Miss Sisk: “Sibil has done good work in her courses in religious education. She has been active in the practical pro gram of young people's work in her father’s church and in the ub-district program. She has a definite interest in the Church work. Her home and famih hack ground is excellent in every way." The following is quoted direct front tile Church Bulletin: “This is a new project for the First Methodist Church, and is and will prove to he a great help definitely a forward step. It can to our homes and community if we give wholehearted support.-It will lake money to he sure, but u will take cooperation in addi tion