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Powells Given One
Month To Locate
Army Deserter Son
ROUNDUP OF WAR
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Thursday, March 18
Gen. Henry Giraud issues lecrees
formally lifting Vichy restrictions
against approximately 300,000 Jews
and restores elective municipal as
semblies.
“—•a—
A large German submarine was
rammed and sunk by an American
coast guard cutter, the Campbell, in
the North Atlantic about three weeks
ago, the navy announced today.
Russian troops have gained ground
at one point in the savage Donets
river battle below Kharkov, captured
dozens more hamlets and driven new
holes in Nazi lines near Lake Ilmen,
Moscow announced today.
Allied escort vessels and theß. A.
F. have destroyed at least three ene
my submarines and probably dam
aged many others in a 72-hour run
ning fight with a U-bo watolf pack.
Wednesday, March 17
Tank battle raging in Donets ba
sin. Reds claim 32 Nazi tanks de
stroyed as enemy efforts to cross are
thwarted Soviet troops continue ad
vance to Smolensk and Bryansk.
Japanese destroyer, three other
ships reported sunk in Pacific war
zone by U. S. submarines. Jap posi
tions at Vila and Munda in central
Solomons bombed by U. S. fighters.
Sea and air officers of U. S., Brit
ain and Canada work out master pol
icy of antisubmarine warfare aimed
to prevent Nazi disruption of invas
ion plans.
Allied troops drive enemy back in
iafsa area of Tunisia battlefront.
British first army makes slight ad
vances in north (Sedjenane) sector
despite bad weather. Widespread ae
rial action on airdomes and shipping
takes toll of enemy’s parked air
craft.
Young patriotic movement in
France suffering from lack of food
and other Allied assistance. Many
returning from mountains but mor
ale high among remaining group.
ITuesday, March 16
Russians acknowledge evacuation
ol Kharkov. Red troops cross upper
Dneiper and seize rail town of Sem
levo, less than 80 miles from Smo
lensk.
Chinese (Counterattacks smash
smash eight-column Japanese offen
sive along 100 miles of Yangtze riv
er.
U. S. RAF bombers blast rail lines,
British repulse Japanese attacks in
Burma area where Jap reinforce
ments have forced readjustment of
British lines.
Kiska in Aleutians hit by U. S.
fighters which damage several
grounded Jap planes. Munda also at
tacked—Jap ship sunk in New Geor
gia area.
Allied planes from western desert
batter Mareth line. Ground fighting
subsides due to bad weather, but both
sides readying for greatest clash of
Tunisian campaign apparently in
prospect.
German troops rounding up French
youths for forced labor by house-to-
Colored People Os Lincoln
County Contribute $229.36
To Red Cross War Fund
Colored citizens of Lincolnton and
Lincoln county have contributed a
total of $229.36 to the Red Cross
Wiar Fund, and the amount is expect
ed to go even higher, according to
the report of Sam K. Biggers, who so
efficiently handled the campaign for
his people.
Below are the amounts secured
from the various communities and
the names of the workers:
Lincolnton and Lincoln county
teachers, Annie W. Biggers, canvas
ser, $28.00.
Indian Creek and Mt. Calvary Bap
tist Jthurches, N. Brook, Annie W r .
Biggers, canvasser, $40.05.
Frpedman, Lincolnton, Hattie Lat
timore, Mary E. Finger, Alene Ram
seur,' Cora Carpenter and Leveston,.
canvassers, $70.50.
Presbyterian Missionary Society,
SI.OO.
Adiey Oneil, SI.OO.
West End, Lincolnton, Aubrey
Rhoney, Fannie Weldon and Willie
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Assistant District Attorney
Nicholson Indicates He Will
Nol Pros If Boy Returns
Shelby, March 16.—Another month
to find their son, Carl G. Powell, and
get him to report back to the United
States army, from which he deserted
last April, was given to James Henry
Powell and Essie Lee Powell, of Lin
coln county, who pleaded nolo con
tendere to the charge of harboring a
deserter in United States District
Court this morning. Mr. anl Mrs.
Powell will report at the first day of
the term of court which is to be held
in Statesville. It was indicated by As
sistant District Attorney W. M. Nich
olson, who handled the prosecution,
that in the event the boy gets back
in the army it would be his disposi
tion to take a nol pros.
‘‘Do you think,” Judge E. Yates
Webb asked the defendant, Henry
Powell, that if your son knew you
were in trouble 0 n his account he
would come up and do the manly
thing, and go back to the army and
save you your punishment?"
“I believe he would," replied Mr.
Powell.
The government offered evidence
tending to show that officers had
gone to the Powell home on several
occasions looking for the deserter
and that the last time they went I
there, January 24, Carl Powell ran
out of the back door of the house
and into the barn and from thence
across a field as he was chased by
officers. Two shots were fired in the
chase, it was stated.
Officers testified that Mrs. Powell
and several of her daughters shout
ed, “Run, Carl, run.” shouted impre
ciations at the officers and threat
ened to stone them. Mrs. Powell had
two rocks in her hand when she made
the threats, officers testified. She did
not take the witness stand.
Her husband, who did take the
stand, said that his wife became ex
cited when she thought the officers
had shot her son. He said that at the
time the officers were chasing his
son, he was finishing his bath and
shaving.
He said that when he came in from
work on last April 2 his son was in
the house and that he told him he
was not going back to the army be
cause they would not fix his glasses
and because they whipped him every
day.
"I told him he would have to go
back,” testified Mr. Powell. “He said
he was not going back and he stayed
with us until May 6 when he left and
did not come back until the last of
July or the first of August. Then he
stayed only a short while. I told him
again that he ought to go back to the
army but he wouldn’t go. He came
back again about the middle of De
cember for a few hours’ stay. On
the Sunday morning that the officers
found him there, he had been at
home only a few hours.”
“Have you seen him since?” asked
Judge Webb.
“I saw him about March 2,” re
plied his father.
“Where was he?” asked the court.
“He was coming out of some woods
above Hickory,” replied the father.
“He said that he was willing to go
back to the army then and asked me
to go tell the sheriff. But we never
found him any more.”
Both Powell and his wife proved
a good character by their neghbors
and also by the prosecuting witness
es.
house raids. Guerilla band, continu
ing to swell, shoots down three Nazi
planes in Haute Savote region.
Bost Jackson, canvasser-a, SIB.OO.
Costner’s Grove School, Lincoln
county, Mrs. M. L. Tunstall, canvass
er, $2.85.
Mt. Vernon Community, Iron Sta
tion, Ida Link, Annie B. Hart and
Mildred Gaither, canvassers, $27.00.
Tucker’s Grove, Iron Station, Pau
line Moore, canvasser, $21.00.
Rockhill community, Stanley, Mag
gie Anderson, canvasser, $6.71.
Denver community, Mrs. Derr Mc-
Cullough, canvasser, $5.00.
Georgetown community, Annie Lo
ritts, Emma Lee Herndon and Lila
Frances Beam, canvassers, $17.25.
Poplar Springs community, Lin
coln county, Elsie Grier, canvasser,
$12.00.
The colored people, said Dr. S. H.
Steelman, general chairman of the
drive, have done an excellent work
and are to be congratulated. They
were well organizel for the drive and
had splendid co-operation.”
LINCOLNTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, MAR. 18, 1943
Thirteen Lucky Number for Sub Crew
Thirteen is the lucky number of the crew of this U. S. submarine
but unlucky for the Nips. The sub's special tally flag, with its own
device in the center, counts ten Jap merchantmen and three Jap war
ships sent to Davy Jones' locker. The submarine, which w’as not named
was commanded by I.ieut. Commander Lucius Henry Chappell, 38, of
Columbus, Ga. Its “bag” was one of the most impressive of the war.
Kiwanians Hear
Synthetic Rubber
Program Discussed
Kiwanis Club Speaker
■■■
G. F. BALL
U. S. SUBS SINK
JAP DESTROYER,
3 OTHER SHIPS
Washington, March 17. —A Japa
nese destroyer and three other ships
were sunk by United States subma
rines in recent operations in the Pa
cific war zone, the navy reported to
day. Three others were damaged.
A communique described the ves
sels sunk as a destroyer, a large
cargo ship, a large transport and a
r.iedium-size cargo vessel. Damaged
were a medium-size cargo carrier, a
medium-size tanker and a small car
go ship.
The communique gave no details of
the attacks by the American under
sea raiders, which have been ham
mering Japan’s supply lines steadily
since the Pacific war began. There
was no indication whether the trans
port was loaded.
This raised to 199 the total num
ber of enemy vessels successfully at
tacked by American subs in the Pa
cific to date. The total includes 138
ships sunk, 23 probably sunk and 18
damaged.
The navy also announced that
Dauntless uive bombers with Will
cat fighter escort bombed Japanese
positions at Vila and Munda in the
Central Solomons, but results were
not reported. All American planes
returned from this latest foray
against the Japanese air base area
closest to the American air field on
Guadacanal.
CHURCH LEADER
TAKEN BY DEATH
Lexington, March 17.—Dr. Jacob
Calvin Leonard, Sr., 76, a leader in
the Evangelical and Reformed church
for half a century, died of a heart
attack at the home here today. He
had been pastor emeritus of the First
church here since 1939, when he re
tired from active ministry after serv
ing in the field for 50 years.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Wil
lie Cross Leonard, and a son, Dr. J.
C. Leonard, Jr., local physician.
The body lay in state from 2:30
until 4 p. m. at the First Church,
where funeral was conducted.
Dr. Leonard had served as presi
dent of the general synod in Amer
ica of the Evangelical and Reformed
church. lie was presently serving as
secretary of the Southern synod.
Dr. Leonard was well known in
Lincolnton and had visited here on
a number of occasions.
Standard Oil Co. Representa
tive Explains Synthetic Rub
ber Program To Club
G. F. Ball, o Charlotte, represent
ing the public relations department
of the Standard Oil Co, spoke to the
Kiwanis Club Tuesday evening on
the synthetic rubber program.
“About 1,100,000 tons of synthetic
nibber are the estimated annual mil
itary and minimum civilian require
ments of this country, and an invest
ment of approximately six hundred
and fifty million dollars would be
necessary to produce this amount,"
said he.
Mr. Ball covered in detail the
methods by which natural rubber is
obtained, how Japanese aggression
has virtually stopped the importation
of this commodity, and traced fully
the introduction and development of
synthetic rubber by Standard Oil
Company (N. J.)
lie pointed out that the process ob
tained from Germany in peace time,
and on which Standard Oil spent
512,000,000 of its own money, was
invaluable in this country.
The report of the Baruch commit
tee on the rubber situation has defi
nitely cleared up much confusion ex
istent since Pearl Harbor. The seri
ousness of the rubber situation is
evidenced by the committee’s several
recommendations which have been
pu: into effect by Uncle Sam, said
the speaker.
“Without synthetic rubber,” said
he, “your stocks of new rubber would
be exhausted during 1943. If synthet
ic rubber production now planned
comes through on schedule, we can
get through, but without adequate
leserves against contingencies. The
allotment of a small amount of re
claim and synthetic material will pro
vide a tire replacement and recap
ping program, but only with drastic
restrictions on civilian driving.
“The committee stated that the de
mands now placed upon us are enor
mous. Without any allowance what
soever for civilian passenger car
tires, the estimated requirements for
the year 1943 are 574,000 tons. This
contrasts with the total average over
all consumptino in the United States
before the war of over 600,000 tons.
We must supply not only the needs
of our own armed forces but much
of those of the military machines of
our Allies as well. We must equip
our busses and trucks and other com
mercial vehicles and provide on a
large scale speciality items for such
purposes as factory belting, surgi
cal, hospital and health supplies. And
in addition to all these we must main
tain the tires on at least a substan
tial proportion of our 27,000,000 civ
ilian passenger automobiles. Other
wise an economy geared to rubber
borne motor transport to an extent
not approached elsewhere in the
world will break down.”
The Esso representative pointed
cut that if the tires now on a car
are good for one year’s use at 60
miles an hour, you can add another
year by driving at an average of 30
miles per hour and never exceeding
35 miles per hour. The second year of
additional use can be obtained by
keeping tires properly inflated at all
times, by never stopping or starting
the car in leaps and bucks, and by
rotating all tires, including the spare,
every 2,500 miles or every six
months.
At Bethel Temple in Dak Cliff,
Dorothy Kunzinan, young California
evangelist, will close a series of spe
cial services Sunday night with a
discourse on how to evade your in
i come tax, it was announced Friday
i by the pastor, the Rev. Albert Ott.—
Dallas News.
Easter Comes On The
Latest Date Possible
Lent and Easter this year fall as
late as the calendar allows—a onee
in-a-lifetime circumstance.
Lent began on March 10 (Ash
Wednesday) and comes annually 40
days (not counting Sundays) before
Easter. Originally, Lent was a Teu
tonic word meaning Spring. The
Latin and Greek equivalents, how
ever, are literally translated “forty
days,” signifying the pre-Easter fast
period.
Easter on April 25, can be dated
no later, but can occur as early as
March 22. It is the first Sunday after
the first full moon following March
21-
In 1946 and in 1957, Lent will be
gin on March 6; in 1962, on March 8,
being the first other “springtime”
Easter seasons in prospect for the
next score of years.
48 RATION POINTS
FOR NEXT SERIES
Washington, March 17$—House
wives will have 48 ration coupons on
blue stamps lettered D, E and F in
war ration Book No. 2 for canned
goods from March 25 through April
30, the Office of Price Administra
tion announced today.
The blue stamps now in use, let
tered A, B and C, will be good until
March 31. This provides one week of
overlap at the end of March in which
stamps for either period will be valid
but OPA urged consumers to budget
their 48 ration points for April.
GIVESIIGESTOF
LOCAL LEGISLATION
A digest of local legislation intro
duced or acted upon by the General
Assembly during the final ten lays
of the session of 1943 has been fur
nished this paper by the Institute of
Government, as follows;
SB 111—Introduced by Graham,
February 4 (intoxicants near schools
and churches). March 3, reported un
favorably by House committee.
HB 72 —Introduced by Abernethy,
January 18 (beer and wine sales).
March 3, reported unfavorably by
House committee.
HB 747 —Introduced by Abernethy,
March 1. “Governing the registration
and preservation of maps, plats, or
other drawings of lands in Lincoln
county.” (Sets out regulations as to
size of maps, plats or drawings, ami
as to the binder. Register of Deeds
not required to accept plats not in
conformity. Fee of $2 to be charged
for each plat or sheet if more than
one sheet required.) Sent to Calendar
committee. March 2, reported favor
ably by House committee; March 3,
passed second and third readings in
House; passed first reading in Senate
and sent to Calendar Committee;
March 3, reported favorably; March
4, passed second and third readings;
March 6, ratified.
HB 748 —-Introduced by Abernethy.
March 1. “To fix the compensation of
the members of the Board of County
Commissioners of Lincoln County.”
(Chairman of board to receive S3O
per month, and members to receive a
per diem of $lO plus live cents mile
age, but per diem not to exceed two
days per month. Limitations not to
apply while board sits as Board of
Equalization and Review, when regu
lar per diem and expenses are allow
able.) Sent to Calendar Committee.
March 2, reported favorably by
House Committee; March 3, passed
second and third readings in House;
passed first reading in Senate and
sent to Calendar Committee; March
4. reported favorably; passed second
and third readings; March 6, rati
fied.
Meat, Fat, Cheese,
Butter, Fish Point
Values Next Week
Washington, March 17.—OPA will
announce next week the point values
for meats, fats and oils, butter,
cheese and canned fish, officials said
today.
They emphasized that all these
products will be rationed on the same
coupons, beginning March 20. They
will be obtainable with use of the
red stamps from War Ration Book
2, already used for processed and
canned fruits and vegetables.
In the first month, each holder of
War Ration Book No. 2, regardless
of age, will have a basic allotment
of 36 points a week. These points
can be used by the consumer in any
way he chooses. For example, the
consumer could use all of his points
for meats, by making no purchases
of fats and oils, cheese and canned
fish. Likewise, the consumer could
use all his points to purchase butter,
but if he did this he could purchase
none of the other products. While
changes in point values will be made
, from time to time, to reflect changes
in supplies and consumer demands,
OPA said these changes probably
■ will not be made more often than
once a month.
OPA Cuts ‘A’ Gas
Coupon Values In
Half After Mar. 22
His Honor Does K. P.
The gentleman doing the job on
the pail of spuds at Fort Knox, Ky. #
is Pvt. Cecil R. Middleton, living
proof that democracy plays no fa
vorites. Pvt. Middleton is mayor
of Deridder, La. Before entering
the army he was re-elected for an
other four-year term. One of the
city commissioners is filling his
term tor the duration.
Small Packages May
Now Be Sent To Men
On Overseas Duty
You may now send packages to
the soldiers overseas, but they may
not weigh more than eight ounces,
and they must be sealed and cany
first class postage. This is a new or
der from the postoffice department
modifying its order of January 7,
which prohibited the sending of any
packages to men on overseas duty
unless by direct permission of the
commanding officer.
Under the new order, said Post
master V. N. Fair, packages weigh
ing not more than eight ounces,
sealed and carrying first class post
age may be mailed to soldiers over
seas without approved request. This
order was modified to permit the
sending of small packages of essen
tial items.
The current order also provides
that employes’ publications, church
bulletins and similar publications
may be sent under the same weight
and postage restrictions.
Renewals of subscriptions to pa
pers, magazines and other periodi
cals for overseas soldiers is to be
considered in conformity with the
January 7 order, regardless of
whether requested by the soldier or
icot. This means, it was explained,
that the subscription may be paid
for by persons other than the sol
dier, though no complimentary sub
scriptions may be sent by publish
ers.
Postmaster Fair said postal au
thorities felt that the modified order
would be welcomed by friends and
relatives of soldiers overseas, be
cause it would enable them to send
small items, thereby letting the men
know that the folks at home were
thinking of them.
MARCHSALEOF
WAR BONDS SHORT
With war bond sales amount
ing to $37,438.50 already ac
counted for Lincoln county is
still 513.951.50 short of her
March quota, it was announced
today by Chairman H. W. Rudi
sill. '
Sales for the month are con
sidered go..d, however, when it
is considered that due to the
Red Cross War Fund campaign
there has been no intensive war
bond drive during March.
Chairman Rudisill is particu
larly anxious that the county
shall meet her quota for the
month, and urges more buying
of bonds do ig the remaining
days.
Sailor Greets ‘Parents’ Then
Vanishes; Real Son At Sea
Port Washington, Wis., March 17.1
—The strange story of a young sail
or who came to their home and posed
as their son for two days and then
disappeared was told today by Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Meisnest.
The youth was picked up by
friends of the Meinests as he hitch
hiked toward Port Washington. They
thought he was Johnny -Meisnest, 19,
who has been in the navy since De
cember 10, 1940. The friends took
him to the Heisnest home.
The parents greeted the boy with
mixed emotions. They didn’t think it
was their son, but didn’t know just
what to do.
“We doubted that he was Johnny,”
Mrs. Meisnest said. “But after all.
Johnny had been hurt at Pearl Har
bor and he had been in several ac
POPULATION
(1940 Census)
Lincoln ton 4,626
Lincoln County 24,187
Denver 264
Crouse 221
Iron Station M
SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS
Supplemental Rations Planned
For Those Using Allotments
For Driving To Work
Washington, March 17. —The gaso
eastern states tonight was cut to ap
eastern states tonight was ct to ap
proximately one and one-half gallons
a week effective March 22, but they
can use it as they please—the ban on
pleasure driving is out effective on
that date.
Announcing the reduction from the
present ration of about three gallons
a week, the Office of Price Adminis
tration said those with “A” books
who drive to work would be allowed
supplemental gasoline under revised
regulations to be announced in a few
days. OPA once estimated 40 per cent
of industrial workers who motor to
their jobs hold only “A” books, so it
appeared there is a big job ahead in
issuing the additional rations.
The cut was effected by extending
the time in which period 5 coupons,
good March 22, are to be used. The
driver must make them last for four
months whereas heretofore each cou
pon period has been two months.
Severe Effect
The action which will probably
have a more severe effect on the or
dinary motorist than the pleasure
motoring prohibition itself, was tak
en after Petroleum Administrator
Harold L. Ickes had certified that
only 333,000 barrels of gasoline daily
could be made available for East
Coast civilian and industrial use dur
ing April.
The halving of the basic ration ap
plies only in the East Coast area
where the “A” ration books have had
a three-gallon value, as compared
with four gallons in the rest of the
country. The value of each individual
eastern coupon is unchanged—that is
it remains at three gallons—but the
doubling of the period of validity has
the same effect as a cut in coupon
value to one and one-half gallons.
The curtailment of the basic ration
will retain the savings effected by the
pleasure driving ban, OPA said, by
limiting motorists who have no oc
cupational use for their cars to 30
miles a month.
Demand Greater
The 333,000 barrels of gasoline
daily for civilians on the Atlantic
seaboard is 15,000 barrels a day more
than was available in March, OPA
said, but the increase is absorbed in
the seasonal upturn of demand, es
pecially for spring plowing and plant
ing.
A statement under the signatures
of Ickes and Price Administrator
Prentiss M. Brown expressed regret
of the necessity of imposing the new
slash upon the A-card motorists.
“It would be pleasant to be able
to announce that additional supplies
of motor fuel, necessary to maintain
the present basic ration, could be
made available, and such an an
nouncement would undoubtedly be
received with wide acclaim,” the
statement said.
“Unfortunately we can’t make that
announcement for the simple reason
that the supply and transportation
situation just will not permit, espe
cially in the face of military require
ments, present and future. If there
must be a shortage of gasoline, it
should be at home, and not on the
fighting fronts.
“We feel that there is no room for
choice between unlimited motoifing
now and warm homes next winter.
With the present heating season
about o\er, we hope by holding con
sumption now to minimum essential
needs that we may be able to stop
drawing upon our stocks, and may
start in April toward building back
our heating oil supplies in prepara
tion for next winter. That—and the
supplying of military and war indus
trial requirements—is our first re
sponsibility.
tions afterward. That could do some
thing to a boy.”
“Are you really Johnny?” Meis
nest said he asked the boy.
“Sure, dad,” the boy answered, and
laughed off the question, Meisnester
declared.
“We just couldn’t bring ourselves
to deny to his face that he was John
ny,” Mrs. Meisnest said, “because—
well, what if something had hap
pened to change him?”
The youth lived with the Meisnest*
for two days and then left.
iMrs. Meisnest told the story to
her employer and he told a Red
Cross worker who telegraphed Wash
ington. Rear Admiral Randall Ja
cobs, chief of navy personnel in
Washington, advised that Meisnest
is at sea in a submarine.