Cotton, short, lb. . i .. 21 Mi c to o I
Cotton, long, lb....... 20c to S ,o I
J PErtiy cloudy with little change
I hi ti mnerature today, tonight and
Cotton Seed, bushel .. .. .. o
Eggs, dozen .. ..... . .. 1 3
Corn, bushel .. .. .. .. (IX)
"ieat, bushel ;. .. .. .. ..
Itlday. ' '
8unset today, 8:40; sunrise Friday.
8:15. ' ' ' ' .
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MONROE, N: C, UNION COUNTY, THURSDAY,- JULY 6, 1944
3-MONTHS, 75cj 6-MONTHS, 1.25 EEMI-WEIiLY, ?2.C3 A
TVENTY-C-COND YEAR
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trjnsH r.iA:rj:;G gaits
American troops have fought' dog
V gedly forwar dto within less'-than 18
' sir lint miles of the big Italian west
coast port of Llvorno (Leghorn) and
are engaged In the preliminaries of
what may provt their hardest, battle
. ' aincfc the Anrio beachhead, Allied
headquarters announced today.
- Front-line reports showed the Oer
' mans were dug In on -high ground
running about W miles Inland from
' Castlglioncello on the coast through
Roslgnano and Volterr and Carole
lTElsa, which isabout 15 miles west
-r of newly captured Siena. '
"It Is Clear that the enemy intends
to hang doggedly to -Roslgnano and
Vol terra In his endeavor to delay our
t advance on Livorno," said an official
Allied communique.
Violent fighting was In progress
i along almost the entire length of this
new enemy defensive line, aprucwariy
around Rosignanq, which alts astride
- the coastal highway to Llvorno. Heavy
Mad guns emplaced on heights dom
inating Roslgnano are throwing a
deadly fire into advancing Yank ar
mor and Infantry, which was report
ed to have reached the outskirts of
the fortress town.
Casole dElsa, upon which Ameri-
' can troops made six. attacks Monday,
wa sthe scene of bitter bouse-to-nouse
fighHng as It changed hands several
tunes. Doughboys at last, report had
penetrated the town -"in some
strength" and were bracing to meet
expected German' counter-attacks.
(. Headquarters warned that only slow
i" progress cod be expected from here
i on Tin the pusht to Llvorno, adding
- that the port Itself Is defended by
thick concrete pillboxes, extensive mine
. fields, and barbed wire. Keconnais-
v sanoe reports said the city would be
"defended v'n s-' Nrnness.-
"Further ii ncaUons of- our , ap
proach to loi.g-prepared enemy de
fense lines is seen with the German
: v mpIoyment again of heavy 170-mm.
- srans. which have --not been - usea
i against the Fifth Army since Rome,
aald a headauartera spokesman.. .
British Eighth Army troops in the
ix tenter - recorded - yesterday's biggest
calna as theV occuDled Castlgllon.and
Fkwntino. nidwve- within lew.Ahan
five miles of the important city of
! LAreczo on the main road to Florence,
Five towns , on the lateral Arezzo
'filena hlehway .also fell to ; Eighth
Army units. Which were reported
"forcing the enemy relentlessly back
, to the Flsss-Rimini une.- ,:
French infantry moved more than
three miles north of Siena despite
- fierce Nasi resistance and many mine
fifiids. The Polish corps, .now ngnung
up the Adriatic coast toward the port
of Ancona, was reportea meeiiun wu-
'aiderable resistance In the Oslmo and
i Fllotirano areas. ,.
' CrUGIIT FUTUT.E SEETI
m.rj:::ss fizlds
BaB And lenes Picture Great Oppor.
. tsmltiea For Frtvate Enterprise.
Th juteretaries of State and Com-
tunM-r!ordell Hull ' and Jessie H.
Jones declared In New York last week
that private businessmen in tne wes-
iVarn Hemlnhni would flhd STeat OP
' portunltles for 'economic 'progress to
the postwar period.- -; . -TtiiKinwis
enterorise "will be conuted
on to carry the ball after the major
Vv nf war nmductlon stb finished.
Jones said in a speech read for him
at the first conference of commissions
of inter-American development.
"Upon the experience of business
management and the initiative of free
men will depend the success of the
transition from production for war to
production for peace," the secretary
said. "For business enterprise, it will
be a great opport W'y." '
Hull told tae c ,ates in a mes
sage that the cot :..:rence "with the
etrength and vitality or private initia
tive behind its work, can provide a
- bold and vigorous leadership In dlrect-
lng plans, thoughts and hopes to the
almost unlimited opportunities and
possibilities for economic progress in
the years of peace to come."
Concentration pn complex post-war
economic problems, Hull said, "tends
to create a state of mind whi.'h re
fects an undue caution concerning
tie future,"
..Kelson A.' Rocl;f.:"-r, co-or";" br
of inter-American ..p!rs, -i?t KM
t y cots-" : -.a of r" s of
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PATT-3TIC Cir.VICIS
rL:::z ra f?jday4
Impressive Program Win Be Presentet
At O'clock In Front Of Belk's. y
There will be ft patriotic service Fri
day evening, July 7th, at six , o'clock
in front of Belk Brothers' Store. Tail
program will honor the men and wom
en, whose pictures appear In the store
windows. " The program will be in
charge of the Monroe Ministerial Asso
ciation and the following interesting
program has been planned: v '.' -'
Music by the WAG band of Gamp
Suttoiu s ' ' 4 '
Color Formation, song. "Btar epan
gled Banner."
Prayer. - '
Remarks by Chaplain ,Teagtte of
Camp Button, s . ' - . -
- Hymn. -
' Praver br Chaplain Lowe, followed
by silent prayer for those in Service.
Benediction py nev. . a. atiuwubh.
Taps.
Residents of the city and county are
urged to attend the services and there
by express their appreciation to the
hundreds of union county men ana
women in the armed forces. t
Germans Lose
More Generals
Three High Rankin? Officer!
Are Killed In Russian ,
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i t ' irti 1 pr niranrn ItTMC
21 KILLED DURING JUNfc
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Indirectly admitting -ihe magnitude
of reverses suffered by German arms
in the vast month. A Nasi oommuni-
Lque yesterday reported the death of
three more' generals m tne Kussian
fighting, thus bringing to 31 the num
ber of German, general officers killed
or captured during the Reich's "Black
June," its first month of warfare on
three great fronts. . . '
Deaths or capture of most of .the
generals have been acknowledged by
German communiques, but the Ger
man public probably has not been
told of the other loss eN)ut 394,000
men to date sUre . t e L.ception of
this three-front struge In June, by
official Allied announcements.
, However, the publlo must realize all
too clearly that generals do not die
In action or let themselves be captured
when thing are going well at pie
fronts. . 1 -
YeeteMar's-comuwlq'igd- of the
deaths of Generals Pfelffer and Mar
tlnek of the artillery, traditionally the
weakest branch of service in ihe Get
man army, which counted only re
cently deaths of two others of Its
ablest leaders, Col Gen. ' Friedrlch
Dollman, artillery specialist, and com
mander ot the German Seventh Army
in Francne, and Go. Gen.' Eduard
Dietl, commander of seven divisions in
North Finland, who died in an air
plane crash;- and inspired the first
oration from Adolf Hitler In months.
' The ' communique also told of the
death of Lt. Oen. Schuenemann,
member of a ; prominent . publishing
family which owned ' the Bremen
Nachrichten. - -
. The Russian communique last night
added two-more major generals to the
list of those captured. : The bulletin
said MaJ. Gen. Konredy, commanding
officer of the 36th infantry division,
was captured by Red Army troops on
the First Write Russian front, and
MaJ. Gen. Michael!, commander of
the 95th Infantry division; was taken
on the Third White Russian front,
both along with large batches of pris
oners.
'Against this calamltour mortality
rate for German general officers no
since June A was the backdrop of a
less than 11 killed and eight, captured
far greater and more pressing problem
of manpower, accentuated by a fourth
front in the air and a fifth front in
occupied countries presented by rising
patriots. ' '
The Germans have lost oy death or
capture, according to official - Allied
estimates, 219,000 men to the Russians;
75.000 men in Normandy, and between
80,000 and 100,000 in Italy. . These
telling losses are reflected in such
reports as that regarding the use of
Czech policemen In Essen and Dort
mund, to replace German police im
pressed into Army service; or the use
of troops chiefly Impressed 'from the
Baltic states and Scandinavia against
the Russians in Zinland.
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bU..v wLk.il,
(training, this college- campus being
The sehpdule for the second ' week the Navy's basic Indoctrination train
in July of I''ine Demonstration meet-i tag station for newly-enlisted WAVES
ir
i Is as to,.,ism:
7, July. 10, Union, at Union
', Ja'y U. Falrfleld. at Fair-
, J 'y 12, New Salem, at
. i o'-'-e. ' .
. v y 13, Lnea Creek, t
' ( 1 5. 3 ."rd I "ria. ..
.y, Ji..y 13, C..Loa, C ..
11. Tr-
-t, at Frc
k three ' r -.-i
1 e keli. 1. y e e
T n-t-n r '
Soviets Llovc-
Toward Yilno
Ever'Widecs; Russian 05en-
' sive Sweeps Near East
Prussia f
HTTLER CATS' COUNCIL
WhUe overwhelming Soviet forces
lunged toward the Baltics and East
Prussia almost lit win. slaughtering
German defenders - ana caoturlng
towns in incredible numbers, the Most
cow radio broadcast' early today a re
port from Stockholm that Adolf Hitler
had Just reached a decision to throw
all his Nazi reserves Into the gigantic
struggle on the eastern front. : ;
The radio report said "an extra
ordinary meeting has Just been, held
at Hitler's headquarters. Col. 1 Gen.
Kurt Zeltsler. chief of the German
general staff, and Co. Gen. Ernst Von
Busch, -commander in chief of ,(he
eastern front, were present -
"Zeltzler said the German army was
faced with superiority it could not
equal and Hitler was said to have
ordered that all reserves were to' be
flung into the battle at once to stop
the Soviet advance." . ' ' '
Red troops smashed closer to Wllno
(Vilna) in prewar Poland Wednesday
capturing two Important rail Junctions
on the line from Minsk;' Moscow an
nounced, and at the same time a Ger
man broadcast said that Kowel had
been evacuated, indicating a possible
new Russian offensive south of the
PrlDvat marshes.
Premier Stalin personally announced
tne capture oi tne ran center oi
deczno, 40 miles northwest of the
White Russian capital of Minsk, and
the y subsequent Soviet
eommumqus
said that this same drive by Oeen.
Ivan Chemlakhovsky's Third White
Russian army, also had taken Smor-
gonie, 31 miles farther west on tne
same railroad.
" Molodecsno- feu to . the massed as
sault of large Russian tank foram
tlons. cavalry and infantry after two
days of fierce fighting to the streets
and from house to house. ", -'
Other Russian troops, however, al
ready were much farther westward-
some reports said witmn so mues oi
Wllno and also were striking witnin
a few miles of the . Baltic states - of
Latvia and Lithuania con the north
anhd Baranowtase in old Poland ' on
the southenr sector ; of the central
front.
More than 530 places were captured
In the. day's widespread ngnting, m
eluding the; district center of JSaalml
on the Fmnish front "K ." ,
" Tile 'evacuation of Kowel, big Ger
man communications center 100 miles
north of Lwow In central Poland, was
announced by DNB, German official
news aeencv. Moscow made no com'
ment, but the city had been two-thirds
encircles for months and lying open
to conquest whenever .the Russians
decided to resume their advance on
the southern sector of the sprawling
2.000-mile eastern front.
'Although the Russians maintained
their usual reticence about whatever
might be happening around Kowel,
the communioue did announce that
Soviet forces had advanced in the little
reaches Of the Pripyat river to the
north, taking the town of Turov. -six ,
miles west of Morsyr, as well as more
than ' 30 other places in tins direc
tion. Chemlakhovsky's army, pounding
toward Wllno, occupied more than 150
localities and other troops south and
southwest of Minsk took another 100
communities, Including eight described
by Moscow as large, and three railway
stations. i i '
The Russians also continued mop
ping up isolated German pockets east
of Minsk and during the day wiped
out remnants of -the surrounded Nasi
12th and 27th army corps and 39th
tank corps, the communique said.
WAVES RECRUITER TO
EE IN CITY r.0M)AY
Volunteer! Are Badly Needed; Women
vrged To Investigate.
June, the month that saw Fortress
Europe breached by Allied troops, also
brought a new spurt of enthusiasm in
WAVES enlistments. James E. Meach
am, WAVES and Navy Recruiter for
Union county, said today.
The local recruiter said that June,
with a total of 120 WAVES called to
active duty 'and accepted and placed
on Inactive duty to await further or
ders, stands high in the recruiting rec
ords for North Carolina. OI the 120,
sixty-eight have been sent to Hunter
College In New York City for "boot"
called to active duty. The remaining
fif ty-two, he added, will be sent - to
Hunter either in -July or August.
"Tiie vown cf t..'s ctiiii. he
Cf....,,rn;. 1, "are r"a... niose and
r t t - t ret c- 'y a"e t ry r -r ..'.1
m ' 1 but t. ( t svo t..e l...vy's
,;'s i. rve c i a ' 'i vs-
cf r - -,. ev v ere cf t i
i y a . i v 'i t. e v r
in v1 "i t ry c. ti t
L and exjxr'.we t' fit tj te
cf untoid value to ue n-.a:.r tl.e war
is ' '"r.
": s Is or.'y V't br :!nr'rf, for I
f' ir'v be;u ve mt, ur.ti t e vry
! r t,.it V ace r--' s r i-n, e
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. TII2 LATEST WAX NEWS
" ; ITI ?JEF ' .
' ; Sapreme Headquarters Allied Ex
peditionary . Forces Hard-fighting .
" eolomna of the American First
Army planted soTTthwaM beyond -besieged
Ls Hare Da Falte today
both to the east and: west, oat- -flanking
this wertern anehor of the ;
: enemy's NornuuuSy line while ether
troops battled Inside the town tt
. self after capturing the railway i
' station nearly half .a mile to the :
-'north. s '
Moscow The Bed ' Army an
leashed a great new thrust today
in the direction of Minsk and
; Brest-Lltovsk, while vanguards of t
Gen. Ivan Chenilakhovsky"B Third
'' White Russian Army were reported
? within 45 miles of Wllno, gateway
' to the northern Baltic repabUes.
Like the beginning of the White '
Russian campalgii, the new drive
was launched with terrific artillery
. barrages operatmg with might air
support It was tee early, how
to tell whether it was a general
" offensive. J ;
. London Gei nis ii i flying " bombs
have killed I.75Z h persons ' and
wounded 8.0M ethers since blind
robot attacks, centered en London,
- started three weeks age. Prime
Minister Churchill disclosed to the'
. House of Commons : today. More
than 10,004 ef the casualties were
in London, Churchill caid, an-
nounclng - that children already
'were being sent from the capital
as they were in the Mlts days four
years aaw fi;si:s . .
London Heavy bombers ef the
Royal Air Force stnwk another
Ug blow last night at the meve-
ment ef German eonnter-lnvasion
reinforoementa from ' the east,
blasUnr Dljoin, railroad center
160 miles southeast of Paris, anV
today German radio said Ameri
can heavy bombers again were at
tacking the Reich. . (A German
radio broadcast heard in Now York
said enemy bombers were ap
proaching Southern Germany and '
Austria, indicating Allied ; airmen
from bases In Itaty were Joining
to. the attack en the continent.) ;
1 Chunrklnf Geseralisolmo . Chi
ang Kai-Shek, la a message to the'
- Chinese peopde est the eve of the
beginlng ef China's; eighth year of
war. acknowledged today that the
military situation n his eewntry Is
grave, hat he told patriots in oecu-;'
pled areas that liberation is close
at hand."
. "'j..... ir
Union i
Men In Service
6gt Philip O. Whltaker, who is sta
tioned at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City,
Okla, arrived this morning to spend a
20 day furlough with his mother, Mrs.
Margaret B. Whltaker and other rel
atives,. Before altering the Air Force
he was employed by The Monroe En
qulrer. , ,
Cpl. Harold D. 8taton of Camp Mo
Coy, Wis, returned to camp after
spending a ten-day furiuougn with his
parents Mr. .and Mrs. Fred O, Btaton
of Olive Branch. -, f
Cpl. J. B. Stewart of Camp McCoy,
Wis., returned to camp after spending
a, ten-day furlough with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Stewart of New
Salem., -
Pvt. Fatrley Roy. Autry of Camp
Jackson and wife, Magdeline Autry of
Lancaster,. S. C- visited lu parents
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Autry of Monroe
over the week-end. Pvt. Hoy Autry
was an employee of the Springs mill
at Lancaster, before entering the ser-
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PTC WllUam B. Godfrey left Wed
nesday for .Camp Bowie, Texas, after
spending a 15-day furlough with his
wife and mother, Mrs. w. B. Oodirey
of Monroe. , v " .
.CpL Love ,In New Caledonia
-Cpl. Charlie F. Love of the1 U. S.
Army has been serving overseas for
the past twenty-one months m the
Southwest Pacific. He entered the
Army February 14, 1942. V CpL Love
has seen a great deal of action. He
was wounded last July 13, 1943, on
New Georgia Island and has been
awarded the Purple Heart and service
ribbon. After recovering from- his
wounds he was evacuated from the
theatre of action, and was sent to New
Caledonia Island, where he is still
stationed. --- '
CpL Love was recently promoted to
his present rank. . He has a little
daughter nineteen months old,' whom
he has never seen. Mrs. Love and
little daughter. Judy Diane, are mak
ing their home with Mrs. Love's par
ents, 1 r. snd Mrs. Roy V.'iUlams on
rtouie 3, l. jnroe, for the duration.,
Lieut V'.":am Brewer who Is
t'oej in c laha, Neb., wlU come the
if t cf t a k for a f w days leave
v i ? ? v A spend .h his family
st t el e of fcer mcr, Mrs. V. H.
- i - i Ji his parens, Mr. and
I.:, s. J m T. Brewer. l.;rs. Brewer
i t .' y will return to Ginaha with
him. .
C;-l. Andrew Lee (T'n) r--nderson
It :t t ' .i
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'j for Flart, I :
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Fire Traps 75
IJen In Mine
Hundred Rescue Workers Aid
In Effort To Save .
. Elmers , -
FIRE WALL IS ERECTED
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' Seventy-five miners were ' reported
tyapped last night by fire in the Pow
hatan mine of the Powhatan Mining
company, 15 miles south of Bellalre,
Ohio, and 100 men were fighting the
flames.
The information came from two men
IL"16 J!SaMl& fhttmw. 6.
Mi;i HIQAlim VA 0CUUWI WU11.J
Henry Aby of Clarlngton, a member
of the rescue crew.
Earlier, the office of the mine su
perintendent had said that only 12
were in the burning section of the
shaft and that their liberation was
expected soon. ' - . ,r 7
Boy Fox; the superintendent, has
been in' the mine since the fire was
discovered at 1 p. m. ' .
Rescue worker Aby said fires were
burning at three entries. .
He reported that 199 men were in
the shaft when the flames broke out,
but all but 75 made their way to
safety. ..
The fire started, he said, when fall
ing slate struck a trolley wire.
Aby said the fire was about four
miles from the mine entrance, and
that the trapped men had erected A
barricade to close the section front I
flames. " ' .-
He expressed the opinion that it
would be "some time" before the men
could be rescued. ? ? ;
Observers at the mine, the largest
soft coat pit In Ohio, said, originally
74 men had been caught behind the
slate fall, but that George Emery, a
foreman, had made his way back to
the men, and that he had probably
helped them erect the barricade.
Aby said he did not know or any
communication between the men and
the rescue crews.
Deputy McLaughlin, who-had been
at the scene since the fire was report
ed, gave information to O. C. Mackey.
a newspaperman, who relayed it to
the Associated Press by police radio
and by telephone.
The officer said the nre was in sec
tion C, north, 200 yards from the sec
tion where two men died in a fire two
years ago. The ' section " had - been
sealed oft until a few months ago, ne
added. - .-,
He said - ambulances, , nurses, and
families of the miners were clustered
around the shaft awaiting for rescue
workers to bring xbe-men ouv ;
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DI0NNES VICTIMS
" OF, FALSE REPORTS
Now that the Dionne quintuplets
have passed their tenth birthday, it
is time to correct some of the raise
reports and rumors that keep circulat
ing about them. . . - -. . -.
One of these rumors -is'that the
quints are not bright and that one of
them, Marie, Is . actually backward.
This is not true. All of them are en
dowed with Intelligence slightly above
average for their age. . .
Like all children they have thelrf
individual differences, but not any one
of them is brighter in everything than
the others. Marine is not backward.
The other four give her more atten
tion, however, for being smallest at
birth she is acknowedged the "baby."
It has been rumored that the quints
canot speak English. They have Eng
lish lessons every day and. sing In
English without trace of an accent
Their schoolwork Is done in French.
Another report is that the little girls
no longer earn as much money as
they once did. They are still doing
very well, although some of their ori
glnal Income has-been allowed to go
Into war funds. They have contracts
that bring In from $25,000 to $30,000
a year. Besides this, they have a
reserve of $1,000,000 put aside until
they are grown. Not bad is lt? :
Many problems have come to poul-
trymen but Paul Hlnson, a nine-year
old boy: son of Mr. and Mrs. B. B.
Hlnson of R2, Monroe, has one that
Is rather peculiar. Paul has a cross
bred pullet 14 weeks old with an
extra leg and foot that has grown off
the left posture of the back bone.
The extra leg sticks out on rear and
is not used by the bird to walk or
scratch.
.Return to rationoing of meats fore
cast as result of scarcity.
'this week for Raleigh to be with his
mother, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Nance,
the rest of the week, then he will go
to Jacksonville, Fla, where he will
be assigned his duties. :
. : .'...:'.-' ' hi - ....
Lt T. O. Horton, Jr, who has been
stationed at Fort Washington, Md..
has recently been transferred to New
York. - . - O.
Pvt WBllam H. Laney has returned
to his base at New River, N. C, after
spending a nine day furlough with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hurley Laney
and his wife formerly Miss Georgie
Yow, both of Monroe.
rn1 Chan R Knieht is on ll-days
Hurloireh and is visiUng his mother,
Mrs. H. L. Brooks, and Dr. Brooks. lie
is stationed wiai the Medical Detach
ment Base Hospital, Municipal Air
port, Memphis, Tenn.
f ' '- -rs of t-J-o sons of Tr. snd
iT'rs. h C"ile now in ? ere
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v ! - a r 7 r i i si i.
S. C. i ,4 C .1. w. '
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U0:iS WILL INSTALL
. fOT OFFICERS TOMGIfF
Lien Homer O. Wilson of Winston.
, Balens Win Be The Goes Speaker.
i Lion Homer O. Wilson, pastor of the
Fourth Street Church of ' Christ of
Winston-Salem, will be the principal
speaker at the Monroe Lions 'Club an
nual Ladies night and installation of
officers this evening at 8 o'clock at
the Americana GriU. He will be ac
companied by Lion Oakie Allison, song
leader of the Winston Club. -
lion Wilson is one of the outstand
ing Lions of North Carolina, baring
served --as ' president of many of the
leading clubs hv various parts of the
United States. -Immediately
following Mr. Wilson's
address, newly elected officers for the
ensuing year will be Installed. They
"re M XoUowa: w. T. WaU president;
Henry Smith, 1st vice-president; Hen'
ry Ellis Copple, second vice-president;
Ray House, third vice-president; Roy
Curry, secretary-treasurer: Rev. Harry
Hawthorne, Lion Tamer and Carl
Wells, Tail Twister.1 '
has served since January lT having
(Roy Moore, the retiring president
succeeded Carter Preslar, who moved,"" , ": iu zrr:
to Charlotte. V Both of these Uons, i fifttudT. W .marks the. official
with the able assistance of Henry Ellis
Copple, as secretary-treasurer, have
accomplished much during the year.
AV tonight's meeting, Paul Gamble
will receive the Attendance Award for
the year and Roy Currie and Henry
Smith Key Membership awards.
During the ensuing club year, the
dub has pledged Its self to take a
more active Interest in the civic, oom
meerclal, social and moral welfare of
commumtiny, and looks forward to
a banner year in things to be ac
complished. Chinese Slay
6,000 Nippons
Ten Days Of Heavy Ffehtin
Proves Costly To The
' ' Japanese
THE AKl FORCE IS ACTIVE
The Japanese attacking the strate
gic Hunan province railway town of
Hengyang have lost more than 6.000
men killed in 10 days of heavy fight
ing, the Chinese high command said
Wednesday, and the . Chinese defend
ers are striking .hard with air and
artillery -support -
P. H. Chang, a Government spokes
man,, toll 'prsa conference that the'
bitterness of the fighting should dis
solve, "suspicions and rumors'' that the
Chinese were not holding up their
end of the resistance to the Japan
ese..
An American 14th Air Force com
munique said the Chinese in Teng
yang had received many tons of am
munition dropped to them by low-fly-
f lng B-25 Mitchell i bombers. - Indicat
ing close support of the Hengyang de
fenders, the communique reported
widespread fighter and bomber sweeps
over Hunan province battle areas and
said heavy damage was done July S
In s raid on Hengshan. north of
Henyyang. I
The Chinese command aald Chinese
troops had routed the Japanese from
a town S miles south-southeast of
Hengyang, where the Invaders had cut
the Hangkow-Canton railway by an
outflanking maneuver, and that the
Chinese had taken "a large number"
of enemy strong points on both sides
ef the Slang river in that area. -
There also was severe fighting in
nere auo was severe ngnung m
'5 ?T SL'JS!
where the Japanese are staging a
general northward drive in their cam
paign to wrest all of the Canton
Hankow line from the Chinese.
In that sector, the Chinese an
nounced recapture of Lungmoon, 70
miles northeast of Canton, and said
they were pursuing the Japanese back
towards the south. The Chinese also
reported they had beaten off Japanese
attempts to occupy Thlngyun, 40 miles
north-northwest of Canton, . and were
annihilating Japanese troops who had
gotten Into the western suburbs.
UXRALN'S CEGir;L"G
:to FuOduce again
' With the Germans driven out of the
Russian Ukraine, leaving behind a
wreckage and a desolation that would
fa ftCTMilr imrmff a Ipo hairiv neo-
ple, the countryside is beginning once
Although approximately' 1,000,000
families still have - no homes other
than dugouts, and lack two-thirds of
their horses and oxen and most of
their tractors, married middle-aged
women are working hard to bring the
scorched earth back to life again.
Winter wheat and rye are ripening
and even thourh the fertile L,nd Is
poexmarxeo wiun sneu craters ana j
trenches the earth has been p'.owed
and is feeing cultivated. Collective '
farms, pooling their few resources, are
agnin flourk.ijirar in the Ukraine, and
indications poi::t to the area once
more ti-con:.. j C.e tread tt let cf
KuKsSa. !
Iew mm a- . e bee!!- f ry'
are e...ier c
and even y
has teen e
nearly. l.C
Germany. I .
tion. old men
.1 r i i t e f - t r
3
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V
dren, are t.
grain than f v
Cected of tie. a.
Cc::::ly I
in
OverAn Qcla Of $317,CC3
May De RcicLed ly EsJ
' v OiVeck -
DRIVE CLOSES JULY 8
Union county is lagging behind by
approximately $75,000.00 on its X
bond quota of $372,000.00 according to '
figures - releaved . this morning by
Claude : Eubanks; chairman of the ,
county war finance committee.; At
the same time it appears that Union .
county is near the over-all quota of
$817,000.00. i
"There have hot been enough in .
dividual buyers of V bonds,' Mr. Eu-
banks stated, and their failure to .
purchase these bonds In the' current .
drive has been discouraging to bond
selling leaders, and they are urging
u cltliensto buy every single bond
close of the campaign.
Increasingly widespread purchase or
"E" bonds is necessary on the part of 1
every individual in order to assure at
tainment of the quota set for the -
county, and much effort is -expected to
be exerted today and throughout the
remaining days to increase the sale or ;
these bonds. 0
In cooperation with the County War
Finance Committee and thousands of '
other theaters throughout the nation, .'
the Center and State theaters are of
fering free admission tomorrow, Fri- '
day, July 7, to every one who buys an .
"E" bond, from any of the regular .
Issuing agencies in the city. When
making the purchase the buyer, merely ,
has to ask for .the free movie ticket
which will entitle him to see either of
the shows at the Center or State '
theaters. ' -
Continuing the advertising campaign,-
which has been so enthustas- -tically
supported by various merchants ;
and patriotic cltlsens of the city, The
Enquirer is today carrying a page ad- ,
vertisement sponsored by J. O. Penney
Company, and The Enquirer in con
nection with the campaign.
NEWS AKD EVrT3 Cr --
WEEK FHC..1 wL.CATE
.(Br Mrgf B, E. Blvens) - y
Friends of Mr. and Vrs. Volger
Perry t will regret to learn that they
have moved to Monroe. ;
Mrs. W. W.-Wilson and daughter,
Marie.Wllson, hy returned to Foston
after visit intr Mr. and - Mrs. iTonUs .
Williams.
'Among the Sunday school workers
from the Baptist church Who have
gone to Ridgecrest for the Sunday
school conference are: Mrs. Carlton
Blvens) Miss Kate Griffin, Miss Mary
Lee Baker, Mrs. J. .W. Stokes. -
Master Roy Bivens, son of Mr.'-and
Mrs. Douglas. Bivens is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. R. C. Bivens. , "
Miss Edith Bivens has returned to
the home of her parents, here after
spending a, few weeks in Washington,
D. C. '
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bivens spent
last week-end in Goldsboro with Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Plnyatello.
Little Miss Patricia Ann. Plnyatello
has returned to her home in Golds-:
bodo after visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Bivens. - '
Mr. and Mrs. Broughton Bivens and
son of Maryland are visiting Mr, and
Mrs. R. C. Bivens.
Misses Edith and Jewell May, Mr.
and Mrs. B. J. May, Jr, and Coy
M f c recently visited
Mr' and Mrs. B. J. May. Sr.
Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Link, Jr., have '
returned from Ridgecrest where they
attended some conferences there.
Ralph Smith spent last weekend
in Concord With Mrs. Smith.
Friends Of Woodrow Griffin will be
glad to learn that he Is recuperating
nicely from his operation and has re-
truned to the home of his mother, Mrs.
J. B. Griffin.
Mr. . and Mrs. Clyde Thornburg of
Dallas, N. C, visited her mother, 1 s.
J. B. Griffin during the week-r ' 1.
Mrs. Aubrey Benton and chl. en
of Monroe and Miss Elsie ;nl'.h f X
last week-end with their parents, l.-r.
and Mrs. O. C Smith. .
Master Tommy Brewer GrL""n of
Charlotte and Miss Mary Kemp C- "".ri
of Florence, S. C, are visiting t .tir
grandmother, Mrs. J. B. Gri:? .t.
Mrs. W. J. Douglas, Sr., of C r
fleld, S. C Is Visiting Mr. and I is.
J. B. Gaddy.
J Mrs. George F. Kahn and cl.r 'n
of ; Mt Pleasant are visit5 -t I s.
Hahn's mother, Mrs. C. 1.1. 1
The Business Woman's r' t
on Monday night with I. . s. I 1
Braswell.
Mrs. L. L. Helms t.' ' t t t .
ters In the Kr-.!.m l
"The Levels cf Tr r." I
gave te Cfv . 1. "
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