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Lincoln County’s Favorite Family Newspaper $2.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE J. E. Henley Elected Head of Local Bank, Succeeds M. H. Cline CADET KILLED IN AIRPLANE CRASH Conover, May 11.—Cadet Odell Kennimer, age twenty-two, a former employee of the Southern Furniture company here, was killed in an air plane crash at a Jacksonville, Fla., flying field Monday, according to a message received by his uncle, C. F. Kennimer, anl an aunt, Mrs. T. S. Allen, who live in Conover. The young flier, who i s a son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Kennimer of Gainesville, Ga., was employed here before entering the Naval Air Corps last year. Funeial services will be held at Zion church, Leaf Ga., sometime Thursday. Attending from here will be Mr. and Mrs. Kennimer, Mr. and Mi'£. Allen, Miss Rachel Allen, and Mr. and Mrs. Barney Freeman end family. Mrs. Regina Smith, 52, Dies In Local Hospital Mrs. Regina Frances Smith, 52, died Monday morning at the Gordon Crowell Memorial hospital after an illness of several weeks. She was born April 8, 1891 in Cleveland county, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pies Foster. She had been a resident of Lincoln county for twenty-three years. Surviving are her husband, Lee O. Smith of Long Shoals and eleven children: Mrs. John Caldwell, of Lin colnton; Mrs. Leonard Payseur, Mrs. \V. F. Ballard, Mrs. Pearl Abernethy, of the county, and Mis s Ethel Smith of the home; Charles Smith, of Long Shoals; Pfc. Clyde O. Smith, of Fort Bragg; Robert Smith, of Long Shoals; Pvt. Richard R Smith, of Camp Davis and Thurman Smith, of the home. ”wo brothers and two sisters also ’ -vive. Funeral services were conducted uesday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock from Lander’s Chapel Methodist church, with Rev. Walter C. Black, j astor of Long Shoals Wesleyan Methodist church officiating, and intennent followed in the church cemetery. IliHilllHllHßllUßlUßllfliillHMiUlßiilßlHllMlltlß ROUNDUP OF WAR Fighting officially ends in Tunisia, Only minor isolated resistance re maining. Nazi commander-in-chief, Colonel General Von Arnim, captur ed by British. Total Nazis troops : taken in final campaign set officially at 150,000. Holland government in exile ad vises 400,000 Dutch ex-servicemen to defy German registration order and resist arrest. Rebellious unrest re ported throughout rest of occupied Europe. Japs firmly establish forces in Lake Tungting region in offensive aimed at Chinese city of Cangsha. New Russian thrust throws Ger-> mans back on lower Douet s front; heavy guns wreck some of last Nazi defense northwest of Novorossisk. Approximately 80,000 German and Italin troops, the greater part of tire remnant of an army of 200,000, were concentrated on dead-end Cap Bon last (Monday) night where they were being subjected to manifold punish ment from Allied air, sea and land forces. Moscow dispatches said the Red army had broken through outer def ense works at Novorossisk on the Black Sea, and that the Red air fleet was waging its greatest campaign yet against German conrunication centers, homing 19 railway junctions. . Hitler, in an appeal for Germain Red Cros s funds, said his soldiers had endured “super-human suffer ing.” He admited war had been brought to German towns and vil lages, by the Allied bombings, but was mum about Tunisia or the ap parent imminence of a s econd front. Peace feeler —from Spain, was re leased in a speech made on Sunday by Generalissimo Francisco Franco which bore the marks of the second Spanish peace feeler in a month. *1 Far Pacific —New Delhi dispatches Emitted that Japan's jungle fight ers again had scored, forcing the evacuation of Buthedaung, 50 miles north of Akyab in Burma and prob ably foreshadowing a British with drawal all the way to the India bor der. The British had retreated 40 miles in five weeks. The Lincoln Times Has Been Connected With the American Trust Company in Charlotte Since 1921 J. Everette Henley, of Charlotte, assistant vice president of the Amer ican Trust Company, has been elect ed executive vice president of the First National Bank to succeed M. H. Cline, who died May 7. Mr. Hen ley has already entered upon his new duties and will move his resi dence t 0 Lincolnton as soon as ar rangements can be made for obtain ing a home here. He ha s been a di rector of the local institution since last January. The First National Bank has capi tal, surplus and undivided profits of $300,009 and total resources, accord ing to a recent financial statement, of $3,435,683.50. Deposits were shown to total $3,074,569.29. Mr. Henley, a graduate of the Charlotte high school and the Uni versity of North Carolina in the class of 1927, began working with the American Trust company dur ing the summer months in 1921, and in 1927 accepted a permanent position with that institution. He was elected assistant secretary and treasurer in January, 1935, and as sistant vice president in January, 1942. He has served on both the publications and agricultural com mittees of the North Carolina Bankers association, is a member of the Charlotte chapter of the American Institute of Banking and vas chapter president in 1933-1934. Mr. Henley is a member of St. John’s Baptist church in Charlotte, was treasurer of the Chi Psi fratern ity, and is a member of the Charlotte Country club. Mrs. Henley is the former Miss Mary Ellen Hearn of Baltimore. Officers of the Lincolnton bank, in addition to Mr. Henley, are E. O. Anderson, president; P. C. Rhyne, vice president; H. W. Rudisill, cash ier, and M. B. Winstead, assistant cashier. Directors in addition to Mr. Anderson and Mr. Henley are Plato Miller, P. C. Rhyne, H. W. Rudisill and M. B. Winstead. The record of Mr. Henley at the American Trust company was praised last night by Word H. Wood, chairman of the board of that institution, who forecast that he would be successful in his new position. Mr. Henley, said Mr. Wood, “has been a valued employe of the American Trust company for the last 16 years, serving in many ca pacities. We regret, of course, that Mr. Henley is leaving us, because he has always been a dependable and capable young man. He has been with the bank continuously since 1927, immediately after ho graduated at the University of North Carolina. While he was still in school, he worked in the bank for a number of summers during his vacations. “Mr. Henley has had splendid ex perience in banking, having fol lowed it since he was old enough to work. At times in the past he has traveled for u s a great deal throughout the country, especially in North and South Carolina, and has many acquaintances, all of whom have the greatest respect and regal’d for him. “1 believe the First National bank of Lincolnton is fortunate in getting hi s service as executive vice presi dent, and 1 believe he will do a suc cessful job for them. He is entirely Honest and dependable in every way and has a splendid knowledge of the banking business. "The First National Bank of Lin colnton is a splendid institution, with fine management and has made an outstanding record and we are therefore, glad that Mr. Henley will have the opportunity of working with this fine vehicle which has al ready been successfully built, but has still a great future.” Homecoming And Memorial Day At Reep’s Grove The Reep’s Grove Methodist church will have a combination homecoming and memorial service this year, on Sunday, May 16. The exercises will begin with the Sunday School at 10:30 A. M. At 11:30 A. M. the pastor, Rev. Iverson M. Brendle will preach. There will be a picnic lunch at 12:30 and at 2:30 in the afternoon the E. F. Drum and Turbyfill quar tette, well known radi 0 singeVs, will render several numbers. The memorial and homecoming address will be delivered at 2:3u o’clock by Eli Houser, a layman of the Vale Methodist charge. A cordial welcome ig extended to all to come and bring a well filled basket. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY LINCOLNTON, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1943 ‘Flying Tiger’ Boss Honored U' ** * /§ ip Eg .. Pi Jgjßß i £ en ' claire Chennault, famed throughout the world as the leader of the erstwhile "Flying Tigers,” Is shown (left! at a banquet gnen in his honor at Chungking, China, when he was appointed com mander of ‘he new 14th U. S. air force. Seated with General Chennault are Dr.H. H. Kung, Chinese minister of finance (center), and Gen Pai Chung-Hsi. Recently, in Washington, General Chennault was Dresented year Bl ** y Mi,clieU * r °Phy for being the outstanding airman of the Churchill’s Visit to America Is Taken Prelude to Invasion Cherryville Merchants Ass’n. Elect Officers Cherryville, May 11. —Members of the Merchant’s Association have el ected the following officers: Ben Boyles, president; James L. Putnam, Jr., vice president. The directors elected are as follows: Lee Sipe, Jesse Van Dyke, Troy C. Homesley, and A. Galloway. Mr. Galloway is the retiring president. ODT Begins Rounding Up Excess T Coupons Raleigh, May 12.—Moving to aid in eliminating a source of black market gasoline, the Office of Df sense Transportation has begun rounding up excess T coupons of motor vehicle operators whose mile age has been cut. North Carolina ODT officials said the entire district will be surveyed as rapidly as possible and all excess T coupons collected and destroyed. Under the new procedure a com mercial vehicle operator whose gaso line allotment is reduced will be re.- quired to surrender his excess T coupons to th e ODT. When his opera tions are reviewed or when hi s re vised certificate of war necessity :s issued, this procedure will eliminate the time lag between the revision of an operator’s certificate and the re call of hi s excess coupons. Formerly, an ODT district office which adjusted an operator’s certifi cate had to notify the state OPA ra tioning administrator of the action and he, in turn, notified the opera tor’s war price and rationing board, and the board notified the operator to surrender his excess T coupons. R ESISTA NCE NOW OVER SAYS ROME Rome, May 10.—The Italian high command reported today that Ger man and Italian troops operating in .the Tunisian sector southeast of Bizerte had been “forced to cease their resistance.” Pinned between United States forces driving in from the north and west and British pushing up from Tunis, the Axis troops in this salient were declared in the Italian com munique, broadcat from Rome ami reporded by the Associated Press, to have fought until their ammunition was exhausted. The southern Axis line was de clared to have held against repeated Allied attacks, preceded by a violent artillery barrage. Very heavy damage wa3 acknowl edged in Palermo, the Stcilian port raided Sunday by “massive forma tions of four-engined planes”—more than 400 American aircraft. Memorial Services At Unity Church Sunday X The annual memorial service will be held at Unity Church Sunday, May 16th. The Turbyfill quartet will sing at 10:30, and at 11:00 o’lloek Dr. Walter Lingle of Davidson College, will preach. At the afternoon program Dr. L. ; A. Thomas, of Lincolnton, will speak 1 and special music will be rendered by • a male quartet from Davidson Col l lege. : Everyone is cordially invited to at tend. Swift Trip After Sudden Col lapse of Axis Arms in Tunisia Indicate Invasion Plans Washington, May 11. —Prime Min ister Winston Churchill arrived here tonight against a background of an Allied victory in Tunisia and German jitters over invasion, for more war talks with President Roosevelt. He was accompanied by a staff of military and naval experts. His swift trip to the United States after the sudden collapse of Axis arms in Tunisia led to conjecture that he had come for a final check ing over of plans for hammering open another front on the European continent and perhaps to project Al lied strategy even beyond that point. The White House naturally gave no specific details of the exact pur pose of the fifth Church-Roosevelt parley in 21 months and ie fourth since this country plunged into the conflict. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early issued only this brief announce ment: “Prime Minister Winston Church ill has arrived in Washington. He was met by the President upon ar rival and will be the Pxesident’s guest for the duration of his visit. Mr. Churchill was accompanied by a staff of experts, military and nav al ” The current Anglo-American con ference gave added significance to the secret letter which President Roosevelt entrusted to Joseph E. Davies to deliver to Joseph Stalin in Moscow. The contents of the mes sage have not been revealed, and there was no definite indication that the Russian Premier might join the talks here, or even that he had been invited to do so. Nor was there any way of learn ing whether the conversations would continue long enough for the Russian leader t 0 reach Wash ington in time to participate. It was considered altogether like ly, in any case, that he and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai - Shek would be kept advised of the meet ing as wa s the case when the Amer ican and British war leaders met at Casablanca last January. Piedmont Scout Board To Convene At Shelby The Executive Board of the Pied mont Council, Boy Scouts of America will meet at the Club Dining Room of the Hotel Charles in Shelby on Tuesday night, May 18, at 7:15 o’clock, according to an announce ment made by officials of the Coun cil. This will be the last meeting prio r to the summer camping season and representatives from the coun ties of Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, l incoln, McDowell, Polk and Ruth erford will be present at the meet ing. Plans for the operation of the Piedmont Boy Scout Taining Camp at Lake Lanier; and Camp James, Negro training camp near Crowders Mountain in Gaston County, will be completed. Reports will be received from the eleven county districts of the Council and from the regular committees. A special conference of Field Commissioners from each coun ty will be held under the leadreship of Dr. C. E. Rankin of Morganton, the Council Commissioner. Women are taking men’s places in work all right, but we haven’t any storie s yet about the traveling sales woman. MRS. CLINE NAMED SOLE BENEFICIARY Mrs. Helen Collin s Cline, widow of M. H. Cline wh 0 die*.! May 7, was named sole beneficiary in his will which was filed in the office of the clerk of court this week. Item 2 in the document states, “I will all my property of every sort, kind and de scription, both real and personal, to my wife, Helen Collins Cline, abso lutely and in fee simple.” Mrs. Cline was named executrix j of the will to serve without bond. Witnesses to the will, which was dated January 10, 1942. were M. B. \\ instead and* R. W. Heavner. CANNING SUGAR OBTAINABLE ON. AFTER MAY 15 Procedure Is Explained By Office of Price Administra tion—2s Lb. Limit Raleigh, May 12.—Procedure by which North Carolina housewives will obtain sugar for home canning and freezing of this season’s fruit ciop on and after May 15 was an nounced today by the Office of Price Administration. As previously announced, sugar for home canning is being allotted on substantially the same basi s as last year that is, one pound for each four quarts (or eight pounds) of the finished product, and by es sentially the same procedure— written application to the local board. A top limit of twenty-five pounds of sugar per person is set in the new regulations, which become ef fective May 15. The OPA empha sizes, however, that the 25-pound figure is a maximum, to be grant ed only in the relatively few eases where this large amount of fruit will be canned and preserved. Last year there was no nation wide ceiling over the amount that was allowed each person, but many local boards set individual limits of ten or fifteen pounds, while others granted individual amounts as high a s 45 pounds. The new limit of twenty-five pounds per person assures more uniform treatment although it is not expected that many families will apply for the maximum amount. Within the 25-pound per person limit, any family can apply for sugar to put up jams, jellies, and preserves at the rate of five pounds per individual. This is a more generou s allowance than last year, when sugar for preserves was limit ed to one pound per person. OPA is allowing increased amounts of sugar this year for jams, jellies, and preserves so that these can be used more extensively as a spread to stretch the butter and margarine ration. The method by which housewives will get their home-canning sugar thi s year has been simplified con siderably. Result will be a saving of time and trouble for them as well as for the local boards. Local boards throughout the country will receive written appli cations under the new provisions on and after May 15. No special form is requirred unless it is planned to sell the home product, and appli cation may be made in person or by mail. The applicant must, furnish the following: 1. A copy of war ration book one for each person for whom home canning sugar is sought. 2. The total number of quarts or pounds of finished fruit to be put up, and 3 The amount of sugar to be used for making jams and jellies (not more than five pounds pel person, with'n the 25-pour.d overall maximum.) The board will record the num ber of pounds of sugar granted each person on the cover of his or her war ration book one. MAY MONTH JAPS WILL REMEMBER Australia, May B.—May is fast becoming the month of bombs for the Japs at their bases on the jungle and mountain country of Dutch New Guinea. Ranging by day over distances too great for protection of escorting fighters, Lt. General Kenny’s bomb ers have rained death and devasta tion on the enemy in that area al most daily since May 1. The latest blow was struck Friday by Australian piloted Catalinas against Babo which is more than 700 miles north of Darwin across the Arafura sea—a sea dotted with Jap controlled island airdromes. Fires which could be seen seven miles away raged after the raiders blasted the Babo drome on which were Jap bomber s and fighters. War Comes to End In Tunisia As Axis Gives Up Struggle Who’s Deferred? M njj t I * Tired of hearing angry protests of wives and mothers whose homes have been broken up by the draft while young unmarried men have won deferment after deferment, New Jersey’s largest draft board published a list of names and rea sons for deferment. Here John Mury of Union, N. J., reads the list of deferments. NATIONAL COTTON WEEK APPEAL MADE Governor Broughton Calls For Due Observance in North Carolina May 17-22 Raleigh, May 11. —Governor J. M. Broughton, observing that “thous ands of our citizens are engaged in the cultivation and manufacturing of cotton and many other thousands are indirectly helped by cotton,” called attention today to the fact that the week of May 17-22 has been desig nated North Carolina Cotton Week. “It is hoped,” he said, “that the people of North Carolina will make due observance of this occasion.” Rev. Edwin Moll, D. D. To Address Lutheran Women At Conference The Rev. Edwin Moll, D. D„ gen eral secretary of the board of foreign missions of the United Lutheran church will be the principal speaker at the Southern Conference of the Women’s Missionary Society, Unit ed Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North Carolina. The meeting will bo held on Wed nesday, May 19, 1943, at St. Mark’s Lutheran church, in Charlotte, of which tlie Rev. J. K. Crigler, I). D„ is pastor. The morning session will open at 10 o’clock with Mrs. Hubert Cloninger of Gastonia in charge of the devotions. Mrs. M. O. J. Krepps, Jr., of Lincolnton will lead the after noon devotions, the session begin ning at 1:30. The theme of the con ference is, "The World One Flock — One Shepherd, Jesus Christ.” Dr. Moll is a man well versed in world affairs. A native of Australia, he served as Major with the Aus tralian Imperial Korce s in the Near East in the first World War. He received bis education at St. Peter’s school, the University of Melbourne, Australia, and was graduated from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. He wa s ordained by the Missouri Synod. Later he received his Master of Arts degree from a British Uni versity and the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Carthage College in 1935. He has visited prac tically all of the foreign mission fields. His wide knowledge of mis sions, bis magnetic personality and 1 is fluency of speech blend to make him a nian of power—a speaker who portrays much to his hearers. Mrs. L. A. Thomas, conference president, urges that every member % every society of the Southern Conference make a special effort to be present to hear the address of Dr. Moll, as well as to participate in other important activities of the day. Mrs. Thomas states further that delegates and visitors may car ry their lunch if they so desire and arrangements will be made for their comfort in the Sunday school rooms, or if they prefer they may buy lunch since the church is only two blocks from the up-town cafaterias. Shell-Shocked Soldier Now In N. Y. Hospital Newton, May 12.—Private Horace 1 Rowe of Newton, who was injured on ■ the North African front last month, i has been brought to Holloran Gen i oral hospital, Staten Island, N. Y., it was learned here today by his rel “ atives. i The soldier said in a letter that he wa s shell-shocked during a bat- POPULATION (1940 Census) vy 4,526 Lincoln County 24,187 Denver 264 Crouse 221 Iron Station M SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS Twelve Generals and 150,000 Enemy Troops Captured As Axis Cease Fighting Allied Headquarters in North Af rica, May 12.—A1l organized Axis resistance in Tunisia ceased at 8:15 | p. m. tonight after the capture of j the German commander in chief, Col. Cen. Jurgen von Arnim, 11 other generals, and 150,000 enemy troops. A special communique declared that isolated pockets of resistance still were active, but the battle of ficially was considered ended. Captured today with Von Arnim, 54-year-old tank expert who suc ceeded Marshal Erwin Rommel, were Maj. Gen. Graf von Sponeck, com mander of the 90th light division, I and Major General P. Roieh, com | mander of the 10th panzer division. Von Arnim and most of his staff ' were taken by British armored 1 units in a quick clean-up of the Cap Bon peninsula. “It is estimated that the total of prisoners captured since May 5 is about 150,000,” said the special bul letin announcing Von Arnim’s seiz ure. “Vast qaritities of guns and war material of all kinds have been cap tured, including guns and aircraft in a serviceable condition.” Thus six months and four days after the Allied landing in North Africa, the Battle of Tunisia had ended in a complete triumph clearing the way for an Allied in vasion of Europe. A nine-mile-wide circle of Axis resistance was reported holding out in the Zaghounan mountains south west of Cap Bon peninsula, but the enemy was in a hopeless spot there and was expected to surrender or be wiped out quickly. Arnim and most of his staff were taken by British armored columns sweeping through Cap Bon penin sula. The capture of 150,000 prisoners in the final eight days of the cam paign brought to 400,000 the num ber of Axi s soldiers taken since the fighting began in Africa nearly three year s ago. This represents 11 German and 20 Italian divisions, and does not include dead and wounded. In addition to Von Arnim, Von Sponeck, and Roich, the French re ported the capture today of two other German generals, one named \ elich, who had taken over com mand of the Italian Superba divi sion and other Italian remnants, and the other named Pfeiffer, com manding a group bearing his own name. Another Mine Is Closed By Strike Pittsburgh, Pa., May 12.—Four teen hundred striking coal miners went back to work today near Cali fornia, Pa., but 50U men at another Pennsylvania mine quit, leaving more than 2,ti(J(J workers in three states still idle in the face of President Roosevelt’s assertion that since min ers now are government employes they are not fi-ae to strike. A spokesman for the Jones and Laughlin steel corporation said work, ers at it s Shannopin mine at Bob town, Pa., failed to report for the 7 a. m. shift. Employes of the Vesta No. 4 mine at California returned to their jobs early today after a meeting last night with district five officials of the United Mine Workers. Roberts Files New Protest On Gasoline Charlotte, May 9.—Coleman W. Roberts, president of the Carolina Motor Club, filed another protest against the operation of the gasoline rationing program in the states of the eastern seaboard. In a telegram to OPA Director Prentiss Brown he took issue with a statement attributed to Brown that the gasoline supply in this area was “shorter now than at any time since the war began.” On the contrary, Roberts assert ed, the Carolinas cannot take care of the output of the pipelines for lack of storage space. He renewed a complaint he made several days ago that gasoline was being shipped from the Carolinas to Tennessee where the severe restric tions of the seaboard zone do not ap ply. He asked Brown to order an inves tigation of the situation in the south eastern states and to have at least one “private citizen” participate in the inquiry. tie and up until the time of writing - he had been unable to walk. 1
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