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ROOSEVELT RETURNS
FROM CONFERENCE
WITH CHURCHILL
Vizit* American Troops in the
Field—Trip to Morroco Is
Made By Airplane
Casablanca, French Morocco, Jan.
28. —President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill, in the most unpre
cedented and momentous meeting of
the century, have reached "complete
agreement” on war plans for 1943
designed to bring about the “uncon
ditional surrender” of Germany,
Italy, and Japan, it was disclosed to
day.
Defying every tradition, the Presi
dent of the United States flew acoss
5,000 miles of the Atlantic ocean, for
a 10-day meeting with Winston
Churchill which saw the leaders of
the two nations bring General Charles
d e Gaulle and Gen. Henri Honore
Giraud together for the first time
in a little villa just outside this city.
Virtually the entire war staff of
both nations participated in day and
night discussions which ended Sun
day afternoon with a press conference
befor e a group of war correspondents
flown secretly from Allied hea,dquar-!
ters halfway across North Africa. I
These are the high spots of tile con- I
ference, which Roosevelt and Church-1
ill agreed was unprecedented in his- ;
tory and may decide the fat e of the I
world for generations to come:
One—The leaders of America and
Britain, both military and civil, have
agreed on a war plan for 194 1 design
ed to maintain the initiative in every
theater of the war; I
Two— Churchill and Roosevelt
agreed that peace can gome only
through “unconditional surrender” of
Germany, Italy, and Japan;
Three—Generals Giraud and de
Gaulle, meeting for the first time
under sponsorship of the President
and the Prime Minister, are negotiat
ing for a united French movement
designed t 0 put French armies, a
navy, and an air force again into the
field against the Axis
Four —Premier Joseph Stalin of
Russia was kept informed of the re
sults of the conferences. In fact,
Churchill and Roosevelt offered to
meet Stalin “very much farther to the
east,” but the Russian chief was un
able to leave the U. S. S. R., because
of th e need of his directing the pre
sent Red army offensives.
The President and the Prime
Minister also have been in communi
cation with Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek and “have apprised him of
the measures which they are taking
to assist in China’s magnificent and
lielaring struggle for the common
cause.” .
Five—-Maximum material aid to
Russia and China will be one of the
prime aims of the United States and
Britain.
Six Roosevelt visited American
troops in the fields in North Africa,
the first American President to visit
an active war theater since Abraham
Lincoln.
The meetings were in a close
guarded, barbed-wire-surrounded in
closure at a hotel in Casablanca un
der the greatest secrecy.
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Leases Held On Double Shoals
Land Actual Wealth Is
Now Being Probed
Shelby.—Oil and mineral rights
and leases have been taken on ap
proximately 6,000 acres of land in
the Double Shoals section of Cleve
land County where a strata of gra
phite has been struck and potential
mineral wealth found, it wag an
nounced yesterday by Norman S.
Poole, mining engineer directing the
operations.
Earl Hamrick, Jean Schcnek, Lloyd
Anthony and Tom Moore, all Cleve
land County industrialists, are asso
ciated in the development, with 0. M.
Mull as counsel.
No drilling for oil has yet been
taken, although there is evidence of
the poossibility of oil being present
Steps taken thus far are merely pre
liminary and investigative and no
stock is for sal e in the firm under
taking the development. The firm
plans at once to map properties under
lease and submit the data to three oil
companies in the Centralia and Ken
tucky fields before actual drilling is
undertaken.
In drilling for a water supply in
the Doubl e Shoals community, a shaft
struck graphite at a depth of 370
feet and analysis showed, Poole said,
Seventeen per cent octane gas with
value as an ingredient for ordinary
gasoline. At 070 feet neither oil nor
water was tapped, but quicksilver,
arsenic and pyrites and nickel indi
cations were present. The well drill
ing operation encountered natural
gas, also an indication of the presence
of oil at some time, now or in the
past.
Approximately 50 landowners sign
ed oil, gas and mineral leases for the
developers on a one-year-basis, with
option for renewal annually for ten
years on a ten per cent royalty basis,
payable monthly. The lessors will re
ceive 25 cents an acre after the first
year and the lessee will have right
of-way over the land and the right to
construct necessary machinery.
UDC Members Asked
To Send In Dues
Members of the Southern Stars
Chapter, U. D. C. are asked to send
their dues promptly to the treasurer,
Mrs. T. B. Smith, 507 South Aspen
street, in order that she may for
ward the chapter’s assessments for
taxes and sinking fund.
There will be no meeting of the
chapter in February and it is neces
sary to send off the assessments now
in order that the chapter may be in
good standing with th e national or
ganization.
Farmers Repay 92%,
Says County Supervisor
’ The U. S. Department of Agricul
ture has announced that repayments
on Farm Security Administration re
habilitation loans jumped to 92 per
cent of maturities on December 1,
1942, compared to 75.4 per cent on
the same date in 1941,
The figures were received from the
Department by FSA Supervisor,
Franklin A. McGoogan of Lincolnton,
and cover loans throughout the coun-
I try.
In addition, since the beginning of
this program $42,527,738 in interest
had been paid up to December 1. The
repayments on principal include $16,-
238,625 paid in advance of maturities.
Exclusive of these prepayments, col
lections on loan maturities were 87.4
percent on December 1, 1942 com
pared to 71.7 per cent on December 1,
1941.
Better incomes resulting from in
creased production to meet war de
mands enabled delinquent borrowers
to repay some of their back debts and
enabled others to maintain and get
ahead on repayment schedules.
| Collections are showing heavy in
crease over the same months a year
ago, when previous records were set.
Collections in November totaled $19,-
644,629, compared to $12,141,194 for
THE LINCOLN TIMES, LINCOLNTON, N. C.,THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 1943
Enemy Tank Facing Allies in Tunisia
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A heavy German tank rolls through the streets of Tunis, according to
caption which accompanied this picture, which was received via neutral
Portugal. This monster with its long snouted gun is part of the Axis force
facing American, British and Free French in the North African fighting.
Vale Couple Placed
Under Bonds For
Aiding Deserter Son
FARM MACHINERY REPAIR
PARTS QUOTA INCREASED
Washington, Jan. 28.—The War
Production board officially today in
creased the quota of farm machinery
repair part s whic may be manu
factured this year. It raised output
to 160 per cent of the average annual
sales in 1940 and 1941. The old figure
was 130 per cent.
South Fork Ass’n
Meets Here Sunday
The union meeting of the South
Fork Association will be held in the
First Baptist church of this city Sun
day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The
general theme of the meeting is
“Christian Literature”.
Th e following program has been
arranged:
2:3o—Praise Service.
2:3s—Rev. W. C. Reed, Maiden.
2:50—Roll Call —Recognition of
Messengers and Visitors.
3:oo—Worship With Offering.
3:lo—Music.
3:ls—Presentation Os Biblical Re
corder.—Rev. Norman Ellis, Maiden.
3:2O—A biblical recorder club in
each church of the South Fork Asso
ciation.
3:4o—.Solo—Dr. W. D. Yelton, Hic
kory,Accompanist—Miss Louise Mil
ler, Hickory.
3:45 —“Give Heed To Thy Read
ing.” Dr. L. L. Carpenter, Editor
Biblical Recorder, Raleigh.
4:2o—Closing Hymn.
Prayer and benediction by Rev. Y.
C. Elliott, Pastor.
the same month tb e year previous.
Not including advance payments,
the collection of 87.4 per cent of ma
turities already exceeds the 80 per
cent which the Farm Security Admin
istration reported to the Congress in
previous years as the amount it ex
pected eventually to collect on re
habilitation loans to farm neople un
able to obtain credit from any other
source. ,
The 12.6 per cent not yet paid on
maturities is not loss but lepresents
current delinquencies, much of which
will later be collected.
Up to December 1, 1942, the Farm
Security Administration had made
loans totaling .$690,133,091. On the
same date, $351,029,321 was due on
principal and $322,973, 484, including
prepayments, had been repaid
“Since the outbreak of th e war, and
lor several months previously, FSA
loan s have been made primarily for
increased production of food and
more efficient use of manpower on
small farms. Advance production re
ports for 1942 indicate that borrowers
have made large percentage increases
in milk, eggs, oil crops and other
foods and fibers for which war goals
are set,” it was pointed out.
Henry Powell and Wife Essie
Bound Over By U. S. Com
missioner W. A. Fair
i Henry Powell and his wife, Essie
■ Powell, of the Vale section were
charged in a Federal Arrant with
harboring a deserter from the Army,
their son, Carl G. Powell, Tuesday.
W. M. Nicholson, assistant district
attorney here, said this was the first
such case on record in the Western
District of North Carolina.
The Powells wer e arranigned Tues
day before U. S. Commissioner Major
W. A. Fair of Lincolnton and held
under bonds of SI,OOO and SSOO, re
spectively, for trial at the Shelby
term of Federal Court in March.—
And with the hearing the story of
the Government’s effort to catch
Carl, by a hairbreadth as he dashed
out the back door of his parents’
home, and reports that he was some
times disguising himself as a woman
came to light.
The case came to a head Sunday.
Federal men, deputy marshals, mili
tary police, deputy sheriffs and civi
lian police have been periodically
making efforts to take Carl Powell in
custody ever since he was declared
a deserter last April, officials said.
Sunday George E. Rudisill, sheriff
decided it would be a good time to
appear suddenly at the Powell home.
He enlisted the aid of State Patrol
man B. C. Nesbit, and called in
several deputies, including O. C. Bost,
R. C. Wilkins, Ben Sain and Pink
Caldwell.
The group drove to a point near
the Powell home. Alighting, they ap
proached th e house on foot—lbut as
in the past they were seen. This time
the elder Powell started toward the
Sheriff’s posse. Mrs. Powell, the of
ficers said, grabbed a handful of
rocks and shouting over the shoulder,
“Run, Carl, Run,” made for the
posse. ,
And Carl ran—out the back door
into underbrush and got away.
Then Mrs. Powell got excited and
told all members of the posse just
what she thought of them.
The posse withdrew—and a Feder
al warrant charging them with har
boring a deserter was issued. It was
served on the elder Powell who sub
mitted without any show of resist
ance, other than, officers said, cer
tain very definite expressions by Mrs.
Powell of her low opinion of men
who would try to take Carl.
“Now they are under bond for trial
at Shelby,” said Mr. Nicholson. “And
Carl is still at large as h e has been
since April whe n he evaded efforts of
officers to take him; some times, we
understand, disguising as a woman in
order to work in the fields of his
parents’ farm.”
Nazis To Mobilize
Youths Os 15 to 19
Bern, Switzerland, Jan. 27.—The
Berlin correspondent of the Italian
newspaper Corriere Della Sera at
Milan reported today that Nazi
authorities will mobilize all boys
from 15 to 19 years old.
The correspondent said the boys
will be assigned tasks of secondary
importance to release older soldiers
for combat service.
American Air
Force In First
Raid On Reich
Lightning Stroke Swiftly Fol
lows Allied Conference In
Casablanca
At A. U. S. Bomber Base In Eng
land, Jan. 28.- In the war’s first
lightning stroke following the Allied
strategy conference in North Africa,
large flights of U. S. Fortress and
Liberator bombers made the first all- 1
American raids on Germany proper
today.
They struck successfully at the
submarine base of Wilhclmshaven
and at the industrial area of Emden,
with a loss of only three palnes in
all.
Yank flyers, most of whom return
ed unscratched, piled out of bombers
and expressed surprise at the little
resistance encountered.
Antiaircraft fire, encountered only
when they were near the targets,
was described by the flyers as light
and inaccurate.
“It was a picnic,” they exclaimed.
“We caught them completely una
wares.”
The raid brought from the R. A. F.
bomber command chief, Air Marshal
Sir Arthur Harris, a special message
of congratulations to the Eighth bom
ber command for “this well planned,
gallantly executed operation which
opens a campaign the Germans have
long dreaded. To them it is yet anoth
er sentence in the writing on the wall.
Between us we can and will bust Ger
many wide open.”
The commander of one group of
Flying Fortresses, Colonel Curtis
Lemay of Columbus, Ohio, said: “It
went pretty well except that it was
rather dull compared with some we’ve
had. Given a bit of better weather,
we’ll give ’em a show next time that
will really mean something. As it
was, we managed to get a large num
ber of bombs on the target and near
the vicinity.”
Th e flyers included the first British
soldier to go on an American raid,
Maj. Errol R. T. Holmes, Royal artil
lery flak expert doing liaison with the
U. S. Eight air force. He said was
astonished by the precision of Ameri
can formation flying. “It was abso
lutely tip-top. The Hun wouldn’t come
near us.”
The main hindrance the crews en
countered was extreme cold at high
altitude over Germany, running to
an estimated 35 below zero. One
waist gunner froze his face so badly
that his lips were bleeding.
A pilot and a copilot in one plane,
alternating at the controls, sat on
their hands to keep warm. I
No official estimate of German
Sellers Edwards Tells
Os Great Naval Battle
Friends here of D. Sellers Edwards,
former Boger—Crawford baseball
star, will be interested in his account
of the naval battle of Guadalcanal as
told to an Asheville Citizen reporter.
Seaman Edwards, whose home is in
Columbus, N. C., spent thre e years
in Lincolnton as a member of the
Boger-Crawford team. Three weeks
ago he spent several days visiting
friends in Boger City.
His interview with the Citizen re
porter follows;
“A flaming enemy plane crashing
on the deck of his ship ... a Jap flier,
standing on the wing of his sinking
plane firing a machine gun at
Americans trying to rescue him . . .
men, holding their hands over their
wounds, fighting on till they fell over
dead . . . the beauty of the vari-color
ed fire a s a Japanese cruiser explod
ed .. . men everywhere “calling on
the Lord” . . .
“These are some the impressions
brought back from the naval battl e of
Guadalcanal, November 12-13, by D.
Sellers Edwards of Columbus, N. C„
26-year-old seaman first class who
was aboard the flagship San Fran
cisco—the vessel on which Adm. Cal
lahan was killed during the engage
ment.
Steelman Will Head
Local Campaign To
Be Held In March
WILL HEAD DRIVE
I)R. S. H. STEELMAN
Lincolnton Yarn
Mill Incorporated
Raleigh, Jan. 28.—Whitener Spin
ning Mills of Lincolnton was incor
porated today to manufacture, finish,
buy and sell combed and carded
yarns. It ha s authorized capital stock
of four hundred shares and subscrib
ed stock of 150 share. Incorporators
were Howard R. Whitener of L.ncoln
ton, Joseph Busch of Brooklyn, N.
Y., and Sam Bayer of Far Rockaway,
L. I.
Methodist Pastors,
Wives To Meet Here
The quarterly meeting of the
ministers and their wives of th e Gas
tonia district will be held in the
first Methodist church next Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock.
E. M. Jones, of Gastonia, district
superintendent, will preside over the
meeting of the ministers when plans
for the work of the district will be
formulated and important matters
discussed.
The meeting of the Ministers’
Wives Association will be presided
ever by the president, Mrs. J. S.
Gibbs, of Shelby. They will also plan
for the work in their respective or
ganizations.
losses can be made, hut at least two
Fortress crews believed they each
shot three German planes. Two more
crews were sure they each got two
enemy planes.
It was not Seaman Edwards’ first
engagement. He has been in the navy
18 months, and he has seen a lot dur
ing the last 13 of them. He saw the
Wasp go down. He saw famed Navy
Flier O’Hare shoot down five Jap
planes in six minutes. He watched
the Juneau disappear beneath the
waters off the Santa Cruz islands.
He was in the battle of Savo island
in October when the Boise was hit;
“that fight lasted about 26 minutes,
and we came out without a scratch.”
“And he has been in “several suc
cessful engagements where we didn’t
lose anything.” “Nothing, that is, but
some ammunition,” he grinned, as he
recited some of his experiences.
“But the battle of Guadalcanal was
different.
“I always liked fireworks; used to
save my money as a kid to go to the
fair so I could see the fireworks.
Well, at Guadalcanal we really had
them.” And he added: “I used to
say that was sport Now I say it is
sport—at times.”
“It was about 5 p. m. on November
12, he said, that 31 Japanese torpedo
planes attacked. “We shot down 30
of them, but,” and he grinned rueful
ly, “one got away. One of the 30,
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POPULATION
(1940 Census)
Lineolnton 4,626
Lincoln County 24,187
Denver 264
Crouse 221
Iron Station eg
SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS
C. Rhyne Little, Chairman Os
Local Red Cross Chapter
Gives Plans For Drive
0. Rhyne Little, chairman of the
Lincoln county chapter of the Ameri
can Red Cross, today gave Lincoln
lounty’s quota in the 1943 War Fund
at SII,OOO and at the same time an
nounced plans for the drive which is
t 0 be h*ld in March. Dr. S. H. Steel
man, who has suscessfully conducted
the last two Red Cross Roll Calls,
will head the War Fund drive in this
county.
Th e people of Lincoln County are
being called upon to share in the
greatest war effort that has ever
been undertaken by any American
organization. Those of us who remain
on th e home front and have not been
drawn into the Armed forces are
anxious to share with those men on
the fighting fronts the prosperity we
have experienced her e at home. Our
boys are depending on the American
Red Cross to bring the comforts of
home to the battle front are counting
on us to support this great organiza
tion that administers to their welfare
in all parts of the world.
Mr. Little said, in discussing the
world wide functions of the American
Red CrossHhattit acts as the medium
of communication between the peo
ples at home and the men in the
foreign forces in all parts of the
world, it is one of the few agencies
that can make contact with and
render aid to the soldiers who are
held as prisoners of war, it is the
welfare agency permitted to operate
within camps or with forces in the
field, it conducts programs of enter
tainment and recreation at th e re
quest of th e Army and Navy, it has
established service clubs for the bene
fit. of American soldiers through out
the world, and it spend millions of
dollars for the relief of men, women
and children made destitute and
homeless by aggression or hostilities,
Every man in the service has access
to a Red Cross field director with
whom he can take up any personal
problems, he continued.
Other Red Cross services include
making 0 f sergical dressings, which
are now- being produced at the rate
of one-half million an hour, produc
tion of garments and knitted articles
for soldiers, recruiting Red Cross
nurses, conducting First-Aid courses
and the blood donor program giving
canteen corps and nutritioal courses,
work of the hospital and recreation
corps, conducting home nursing
courses, operating a motor corps, ob
taining volunteer nurses aides, and
giving disaster relief t 0 combat
nature’s sabotage.
Mr. Little announces the re-ap
pointment of Dr. S. H. Steelman as
War Fund Planning Chairman. Lin
coln County has rallied to th e Direc
torship of Dr. Steelman in th e past
tw 0 War Fund drives and has whole
heartedly and enthusiastically con
tributed to the American Red Cross
through the channels of the Local
quotas. Mr. Little conmmended Dr.
Steelman’s excellent leadership and
Lincoln County’s splendid co-opera
tion in the work of the American Red
Cross. He says he is confident that
our War Fund will be exceeded as
in the past two years where we have
almost broken National records speed
in exceeding our appointed quotas.
Calverts Returning
To United States
Word has been received in Lincoln
ton that John S. Calvert, who has
been i n diplomatic service in Barce
lona, Spain, for a number of years
past, has been ordered to return to
Washington and he and Mrs. Calvert
are expected to retar n t 0 this coun
try at an early date.
Mrs. Calvert is th e former Miss
Ellen Graham, a daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Graham and a
sister, of State Senator William A.
Graham, of this county.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY TO MEET
The Women’s Missionary Society
of the Mt. Vernon Baptist church will
meet Saturday, February 6 at the
home of Mrs. D. C. Upton, at Vale.
The hour for the meeting is 2 o’clock.