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Lincoln County’s Favorite Family Newspaper $2.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE Reich In War Zone Hitler Tells Nazis In Memorial Day Talk ROUNDUP OF WAR MnaiMmiiiiMiMiimuMfflHiiißiiijUiuaiiiiß Monday. March 22 Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a world-wide broadcast Sunday warns that it might take another two years to beat Hitler. Pledges Japan’s defeat next and proposes postwar bloc of United States, Britain and Russia to insure peace. Reports re ceipt of message from Gen. Mont gomery saying British Eighth army •’on the move” in Tunisia. Hitler, in lb-minute speech broad cast from Berlin said German troops have overcome crisis on Russian front and that, although the Reich itself has become a war zone under Allied bombardment, Nazi mobiliza tion is moving toward final victory. Germans continue to throw reserves against unbroken Soviet, defenses along northern Doniets river, while Red army offensive on central front envelops more towns, including rail station of Vadino, 60 miles east of Smolensk. United States tanks and infantry, advancing 25 miles east of Gafsa, routs Italian garrison to occupy stra tegic heights and town of Sened in push toward important pass along roads and railway leading to coast at Mahares. Friday, March 19 American troops under the new command of tank General George S. Patton, Jr., were restoring their cen tral Tunisian lines last night after an advance of 30 miles over very light Axis opposition, recapturing Gafsa and then thrusting on 12 miles far ther to the southeast. The position of the Russians on the greatest current front of the war —below Kharkov—was manifestly improved. Russian troops breasting one of the most violent series of as saults yet loosed by the Germans re ported yesterday the recapture by counterattack of an important point 22 miles northeast of Kharkov. The principal American action dis closed by the U. S. Navy was a con tinuation of the violent bombing as sault on the Japanese base at Kiska in the Aleutians. Three attacks in a single day were reported. In Europe the Allied air offensive was resumed by a daylight attack by U. S. bombers on the German subma rine yards at Vegesack, near the great port of Bremen. Challeneged by 75 to 100 Nazi planes, the Americans shot down many of them. Two U. S. bombers were lost. British planes based on Malta made heavy over night attacks on southern Italy and Sicily and torpedo planes hit at Axis tanker in the Mediterranean. In the China-Burma theatre, new and apparently exploratory Japanese attacks again Yunnan province, which is at the Burmese frontier, were reported. Pastures Permanent pastures are - being planted in Green county with ten pounds of Dallis grass, 3 pounds of White Dutch Clover, 15 pounds of Common Lespedeza and 12 pounds of Red Top per acre. Caldwell Man Who Wore Dress And Hid In Cellar Promises To Enter Army Shelby, March 20.—Arlie Clinton Coffey, 23, who Caldwell county of ficers said they found hiding in the cellar of his home at Upton in Cald well county and wearing a dress in what was described as an attempt to evade the draft, has promised to go into the army “if they want me.” Coffey, brought before U. S. Dis trict Court in Shelby Wednesday, was allowed to walk out of the court room a free man after he promised to report to his draft board at Le noir. Judge Yates Webb, presiding over the term, ordered Coffey’s case aired immediately after he learned that he had been held in jail two months awaiting trial on failing to report for induction in the army. Could Not Read Or Write “These folks came from a little shack at the foot of Grandfather mountain,” said Judge Webb to Dis trict Attorney Lamar Caudle. “I un derstand that he cannot 'read and write, and did not know that he was supposed to report.” “Will you go to the army if they want you?” the Judge asked, and The Lincoln Times ★ * PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY g g Declares Russian Situation Well In Hand But Reveals Destruction By Bombers Stockholm, Sweden, March 21. Adolf Hiller was guarded by an un usually powerful concentration of po lice at the Zeughaus today when he made his usual Memorial Day speech, the Swedish press reported from Ber lin. All streets leading to the Zeug haus on U liter Den Linden were blocked and the program was ar ranged witli the greatest secrecy. • • • London, March 21. —The destruc tion wrought by British and Ameri can air bombings wrung from Adolf Hitler the admission today that Ger i man soil had become a “war zone,” but he declared the crisis on the east ern front was overcome and that the German nation was moving in a gi gantic mobilization toward “success and final victory.” Emerging from his months-long seclusion while his armies were reel ing back in defeat in southern Rus sia, Hitler addressed a gathering of high officials, army officers, Nazi functionaries and wounded veterans in Berlin’s Zeughaus, or army mu seum, on the fourth wartime observ ance of German Memorial Day. In his 15-minute speech, broadcast from Berlin and recorded here, Hit ler said only 542,000 German soldiers had been killed in the war so far, and he declared the front was being strengthened by millions of men, youths and the wounded who have recovered, while older men and boys manned home defense lines. Precautions Mindful of the long-arm of the RAF, whic hon January 30 disputed celebration of the tenth Nazi anniver sary party by bombing Berlin and delaying the speeches of Reichmar shal Hermann Georing and Propa ganda Minister Paul Joseph Goeb bels, German authorities took elabo rate precautions to avoid a repetition today. It was not until 50 minutes before the scheduled hour that the Berlin radio announced that Hitler would speak at all, and then the actual de livery by Hitler was delayed 20 min utes past the appointed hour, 1 p. m., Berlin time. German radio stations began broadcasting the text of his remarks at the scheduled time, how ever. R. L. GILBERT DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS R. L. Gilbert, 78, prominent Lin coln farmer, died in a local hospital Friday afternoon following an illness of six months. Survivors are the widow and the following children, Fred, Gaston, M. 8., M. J., Guy, Claude, Ed and J. T. Gilbert and Mrs. Evan Wise, 11, of Lincoln county. He leaves also three brothers, Jake Gilbert, of Charlotte; George Gilbert of Conover, anil W. D. Gilbert, of Vale, and one sister, Miss Maggie Gilbert, of Vale. Funeral services we/' conducted Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock from Mount Zion Methodist Church and burial was in the church cemetery. Service at the grave was in charge of the Woodmen of the World. Coffey replied in the affirmative. The judge addressed the defend ant’s wife who had been in the court room during the day awaiting her husband’s trial: “Stand up, Mrs. Cof fey, I want you to take your hus band back home with you and have him report to his draft boar!. If he goes to the army he need not come back to the court. If ho does not I want you to tell me and I will have him back at the Statesville court next fall.” Joyfully Leave Courtroom The couple walked joyfully from the court room. The case in which Glenn Richard Self of Gastonia is charged with evading orders of his selective serv ice board was transferred from the Shelby court to district court in Charlotte. Self claims to be a minister of the Jehovah’s Witness sect and proposed to fight any conviction to the highest court in the land. If he is not ac corded this exemption then, he has said that he is prpared to accept any punishment the court metes out. LINCOLNTON, N. C., MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1943 First Aid for U. S. Troops in Tunisia ■ Sydney Hyman of Gary, Ind., who Is with the U. 8. medical corps gives first aid to Pvt. Manuel Freitas of Oakland, Calif., who suffered wounds about the head and hands during the first day of the battle for the tiny Central Tunisian railroad Junction of Senedr U. 8. forces fought hard to gain control of the railroad station at Sened, which offers a clear view of the tabletop tank country over which the army la possaa blon can send Us forces against the enemy. Butter And Fats Are Banned For Week, Stocks Insufficient “Order of Purple Heart’’ bestowed On Local Hero Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Bradshaw, of the county, have received from the War Department the Order of the Purple Heart, con ferred posthumously on their son, Sgt. Charles Leonard Bradshaw, who died in action on January 3, at Casablanca, French Morocco. The Military Order of the Pur ple Heart was founded by Gen. George Washington in 1782 as a reward for “singularly meritori ous action," and revived by Pres ident Hoover on Feb. 22, 1932, the bi-centennial of Washington's birth. The decoration is a heart shaped medal bearing a bust of Gen. Washington on a field of purple enamel. Rivers Are On Rampage In Four | Southern States, Atlanta, March 21.-—Floods threat ened widespread sections of the south east today as rain-swollen rivers reached dangerous crests and spilled intobordering farming lands in at least four states. Fears of heavy property damage were expressed in some areas, the Atlanta Weather Bureau reported. Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia were hit hardest. The Weather Bureau broadcast a warning of “severe Hoods” along the Chattahoochie, Flint .and Apalachi cola rivers in the Georgia-Alabama- Florida area and added; “All persons and interests involved should take necessary steps for safeguaiding life and property.” The crests of most of the rivers in Mississippi and Louisiana are expect ed to be reached Monday and Tues day, the Weather bureau reported. Says Casualty List In Spring Will Be Large Brig. Gen. Alden H. Waitt of the Chemical Warfare Service of the U. S. Army today cautioned against “smug or self-satisfied” thinking about the war and added that by spring casualty lists “will appall us.” "Before we are finally victorious war must become away of life with every one of us,” the General told listeners at Almy-Navy “Ei” award ceremony at the Standard Oil Development Company here. “As yet we have not been hurt se verely, but we are rapidly coming to the period of blood and sweat and tears. Each day our losses grow ev erywhere. Each day we are called upon to give more of ourselves and our goods. “The casualty lists are mounting. Make no mistake about it, and by spring these lists will appall us and we shall begin to realize how seri ous the war has become. Then the entire nation will be ready to go all out for victory and right then we shall start to win. “You may have heard some mili tary genius of the swivel chair varie ty, swivel chair and swivel mind, say that time is on our side, but it is never on the side of the smug and self-satisfied. “Every day we delay gives our enemies a breather and a chance for a lucky punch.” Gen. Waitt said that the Axis had a tremendous advantage in location, which permits them to develop a new (Continued on page two) Meats And Fata To Be Treated As Related Group Under Ralioning March 29 Washington, March 21. —OPA to day banned for a week the retail sales of butter, margarine, lard and other edible fats and oils which go under point rationing March 29. The government order .issued with out any advance warning, forbade re tail buying of these foods between 12:01 a. m. Monday, March 22, (local time), and the same hour March 29, when they will be rationed along with meat, cheese and canned fish. Tlie order was made public today at 3 p. m„ eastern war time. Thus city duellers who heard of it in time could visit delicatessens and other stores open on Sunday to lay in stocks ahead of the midnight dead line. However, many of these stores had no butter on hand and only small quantities of lard , vegetable short enings and salad oils. Necessary Thp Office of Price Administration said the suspension of sales was nec essary because stocks of these foods were insufficient “to support heavy public buying tiie one week remain ing before rationing.” Prentiss M. Brown, OPA administrator, had ex pressed hope, at the time rationing of these goods was first announced, that no “freeze” of sales would be necessary and called on housewives not to hoard. The OPA announcement in full: “Retail sales will resume Monday and oils—including butter, lard, mar garl e and shortening and cooking and rlad oils—that are covered by the new meats-fats rationing pro gram, are suspended at 12:01 a. m. Monday, March 22, by an order of the Office of Price Administration issued today. “Retaail sales will resume Monday morning, March 29, when actual ra tioning begins. “The retail sales ‘freeze’ does not apply to any of the cheeses or meats involved in the new rationing plan and sales of these foods will continue as usual between now and March 29. State Forester Will Visit County Next Wednesday The State Extension Forester will be in this county on Wednesday, Mar. 24. We will hold two meetings on forestry, showing the proper way to do forest thinning and also how to estimate the amount of timber per acre. All farmers are cordially in vited to attend. The first meeting will be at 10 o’clock on the old Berton Wood farm, six miles west of Lincolnton on high way No. 27. The second meeting will be at 2 o’clock on J. H. York’s farm in the Oak Grove section. Lincoln Consistory Elects Two Officers Maiden, March 20. —The annual meeting of the joint Consistory of the Lincoln charge was held in the Memorial Evangelistic and Reformed church Sunday immediately follow ing the morning worship. The pastor’s report of the year was received and approved. S. M. Finger was elected vice-president, and J. Summey Warlick was re elected secretary. John F. Carpenter and George E. Hunsueker were chosen delegates to the annual meeting of the Synod which convenes in the First church, Greensboro, April 6. Rev. John A. Koons is pastor of the Maiden church. NEXT BLACKOUT TO BE SURPRISE Civilian Defense Heads S ay It Will Be Held Between Mar. 20 and April 1 Raleigh, March 20.—A state-wide surprise blackout will be held be tween March 20 and April 1, R. I. j McMillan, state director of civilian defense, said tonight. The drill will be the thi rd since adoption of the new air raid warn-I ing signals February 17. The scheduled blackouts held this week showed marked improvement over the first test, February 23, Mc- Millan said. Confusion over the new signals was "conspicuous by its ab sence,” he added. McMillan expressel appreciation of the press and radio of the state in carrying information about the new warning system, saying that it would have been impossible to have had such nearly perfect tests 83 were held this week without their co-operation. NAVY RECRUITER TO COME TO LINCOLNTON H. S. Lee, U. S. Navy Recruiter an pounced today that he will be in Lin colnton on March 25-26 for the pur pose of enlisting 17-year-old boys and men over 38 in the U. S. Navy. He elso announced that he will accept ap plications for young women who are interested in the WAVES. The Navy has opened its trade schools to North Carolina’s 17-year olds, the fighting Bluejackets of to morrow. This state leads the nation in the enlistment of 17-year-old boys, it has been announced by Lieutenant Commanader, C. B. Neely, head of the State’s Navy Recruiting. You don’t need experience. If you show the right qualifications the navy is ready and wliling to send you to a trade school and give you training worth $1,500 the first year alone, teaching you to be an expert in the trade for which you qualified, helping you to develop all the skill and tal ent which you always know you had. If you are handy with tools—or if you like radio, photography, welding or any of nearly 50 other skilled oc cupations, here’s your chance to get the finest training, to use the finest equipment the world has to offer. Costly metal lathes, marvelous tele scopic cameras, vast power and tool plants—they’re all part of navy equipment, all part of the workshop you can call your own. You draw pay while you learn. And you can win promotion rapidly, as fast as your own skill permits. Enlisting as an apprentice seaman, you’re automatically advanced after your two mouths’ training period to Seaman, Second Class, and given an increase in pay. From there you can go up to Seaman, First Class, and then on to the various petty officer ratings. And, remember, every pro motion means a raise in your pay! The prime requisite of a first-class navy man is a sound, healthy body. That doesn’t mean that you have to be a perfect physical specimen to get in the navy. In fact, physical re quirements have recently been modi fied. Normal good health is now suf ficient. But you will be in top-notch physical trim after just a few short weeks of navy life. s. s. mtchelT GOES IN WATER Vessel Honoring Mount Mitch ell Explorer Is Launched At Wilmington Wilmington, March 18. —Honoring the man for whom North Carolina's famous Mount Mitchell is named, the S. S. Elisha Mitchell was launched here Thursday at 9 o’clock. (The vessel, 77th to near completion at the yard of the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, was spon sored by Mrs. James T. Monk, wife of the foreman of the Shipshed de partment. Her attendants were Miss Estelle Monk, of Richmond, Va., and Mrs. E. S. Slopes, of Wilmington. Elisha Mitchell, an outstanding educator and geologist, was born in Washington, Conn., on August 19, 1793, and died at Black Mountain, N. C., June 27, 1847. While a professor at the Univer sity of North Carolina, he also held the office of state surveyor and in that capacity visited the principal mountains of the state. His observa tions showed that the highest moun tain in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains are those of North Carolina. Black Dome, or Mitchell’s High Peak, he found to be the high est of the group. While surveying to ascertain its exact altitude he was overtaken by a storm and fell over a precipice into a pool where he was drowned. The Elisha Mitchell Scientific So ciety of the University of North Carolina was established at Chapel Hill in his honor. Italian Troops Flee As American Forces Move On In Tunisia Princesses „ C Visiting the Girl Guide headquar ters on the occasion ot "Thinking Day." which marks the birthday of the late Lord Baden-Powell. found er of the Boy Scouts, Princess Elis abeth (left), heiress to the British throne, and her sister, 'Princess Margaret, prepare a carrier pig eon to carry a message of greet ing to Lady Baden-PowelL LINCOLNTON HIGH SCHOOL HONOR ROLL Below is the sixth month honor roll for the Lincolnton High School: Eighth Grade—Bandy, Joyce; Bax ter, Hugh; Beam, Elizabeth, Byrd, Alvin; Cloer, Evelyn; Conner Betty Jean; Ford, Patsy; Crigg, Jane; Humphries, Helen; Knuckles, Helen; Eeathermaii, Marguerite; McGinnis, Sue; McLean, Janice; Ramseur, Ed; Robinson, Phyllis; Schrum, Amelia; Sigmon, Joyce. Ninth Grade —None. Tenth Grade—Ozell Baker, Lizzie Belle Beaver, Bonnie Devine, Mary Lee Goodson, Faye Houser, Billy Keever, Betty Carol McAllister, Betty McLean, Jane Michum, Anna Morri son, Bobby J. Padgett, Celia Pickens, Peggy Martin Rhodes, Carolyn Ro per, Shelly Roper, Janice Seagle,, Mary Nell Shidal, Virginia Shuford, James Sigmon, Louise Warlick. Eleventh Grade—<Marie Bynum, Jill Dellinger, Jeanette Fair, Chas. Gabriel, Betty Jean Goodman, Jane Lohr, Velma McGinnis, Betty J. Mul len, Dorothy Payseur, Betty Proctor, Faith Rhyne, Lou Rhyne, Inez Thorn burg, Betty J. Wise. Twelfth Gratia—‘Frances Bandy*, Katherine Beam, Martha Bradshaw, Mary Lee Byers, Betty Jane fashion, Ardis Childs, Jean Craig, Betty Hun ter Glenn, Ralph Goodman, Joe Hen ry Hoffman, Mary Houser, Jean Huss, Betty Wood Kizer, Nellie Knuckles, Billy Lander, Winnie Leonard, Mary Dell Lewis, Letha Martin, Alda McAllister, Julia Mc- I.urd, Kitty Miller, Martha Moore, Lorene Payseur, Jean Robinson, Lois Rudisill, Barbara Shrum, Edna Smith, Betty Stanley, Dorothy Sta nley, Meldrum Winstead. Vale Driver Escapes Injury In Accident Elkin, Marcn 20.—Robert Artice Phillips, 33, of Elkin, Route 1, near Dobson, is being treated in Elkin hospital for a scalp wound, fractured bone of an arm and bruises as the result of a collision Thursday night at 11 o’clock on the Dobson highway three miles east of Elkin, when the car which he was operating collided with a truck headed in the opposite direction, operated by Walter Scronce, of Vale. Scronce was not in jured. BUY MORE WAR BONDS TODAYI Co-operative Advertising, Solicitations Must Be OK’d By Merchants Association The Lincolnton Merchants Asso ciation, at its meeting last Tuesday night, adopted a ruling barring all co-operative advertising by the mem bers unless approved by a committee from the Association. It is understood the ruling, which becomes effective at once, applies to newspaper’s, schools, churches or any out-of-town co-operative* advertis ing. It also applies to solicitations by individuals for needy cases, such as persons losing their homes by fire and so forth. It is pointed out that such cases as these should be refer red first to the Red Cross. The action, the merchants feel, will cover a long felt need and will give them opportunity to disburse their advertising budget in what they be lieve will be a more advantageous manner. At the same time they stand ready as before to take part in any POPULATION (1940 Census) Lincolnton 4,625 Lincoln County 24,187 Denver 264 Crouse 221 Iron Station M SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS U. S. Bombers And Fighter Planes In Complete Com mand of Air With U. S. Forces On the Tunisian Front, March 21.—American troops seized Sened in an early morning at tack today and advanced elements pushed eastward toward Maknassy, 20 miles farther along the Gafsa- Mahares railway. Italian troops stationed in the Se nea area offered only slight resist ance. U. S. infantry, armored units and irtillery routed Facist detachments yesterday from the heights and a strategic pass overlooking Sened in a day-long advance which met. with only scattered opposition. The attack, preceded by a remark ably accurate artillery bombardment of Italian outposts, put the Ameri cans in a commanding position more than halfway along the route from Gafsa to Maknassy—a key point guarding the southern hinge of the north-south mountain range which forms the only good natural barrier against a further advance to the Gulf of Gabes. It was a surprisingly easy gain. The Italians had two forward ob servation posts in plain view of American armored forces. The artil lery wiped out both, scoring three di rect hits on each. Then the infantry swarmed to attack up the slopes of the Djebel Goussa, a ricky height at the western end of the low range of hills guarding Sened. Mine Fields The remainder of the advance was slowed by elaborate mine fields, but late in the day advanced elements reported they had taken the pass two miles north of the station of Sened. From this and adjoining heigths, American guns commanded the whole broad valley in that area, and the Axis was confronted with the neces sity either of continuing the retreat eastward or risking a showdown bat tle from unfavorable positions. The first enemy mines encountered were in four belts each 160 yards wide. Some of the large German mines which the enemy lacked time to place also were captured. German uniforms were seen in the area yes terday for the first time, and it was believed they were engineers sent to supervise the mine-laying. The Italians apparently were charged with the task of hampering the American advance. W. S. C. Society Meets In Winston-Salem Annual meeting of the Western North Carolina Conference Wom an’s Society of Christian Service of the Methodist church will be held in Centenary Church, Winston-Salem, March 30-April 1. Delegates from this section are planning to attend. Featured on tile program will be Bishop Arthur J. Moore, of Atlanta, Bishop Clare Purcell, of Charlotte; Mias Jean Craig, of China, and Dr. Ralph Mellons, of India, Mrs. C. C. Weaver, Winston-Salem, president of the society, will preside. The conference has t!76 societies with 21,024 members and 72 Wes leyan Service Guilds for employed women with 1,724 members. They contributed to the home and world work of the church $137,985 last year. College scholarships were giv en seven young women this year to train for Christian service. In 1,145 classes 19,385 persons studied about conditions at home and abroad. A full-time war worker in rural church es is employed for the western part of the state. worth-4while proposition which re ceives the approval of their commit tee. saysl^oomoo REQUIRED TO WIN Washington, March 20. —Capt. Ed die Rickenbacker predicted tod|ay that an armed force of 15,000,000 men would be needed to win the war. “You hear talk about an 11,000,- 000-man army,” he told a Red Cross rally. "I say it will take 15,000,000 Americans in uniform to do the job that needs to be done, for we have the only man power left. It will take thousands of victories like we have had to date to -yviri the war.”