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Lincoln County’s Favorite Family Newspaper $2.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE Baccalaurate Sermon Will Be Delivered By Rev. Yancey C. Elliott Local Pastor to Deliver! Baccalaureate Sermon | M REV. YANCEY C. ELLIOTT To Deliver Literary Address May 27 1)R. RALPH MCDONALD POPPY DAY WIT BE CELEBRATED ON SATURDAY JAY 29 Money Contributed to Be Used For Welfare of Victims of Both Wars and Families Poppies in tribute to America’s battle dead of two wars will be worn in Lincolnton on Saturday, May 29, Mrs. R. S. Reinhardt, president of the local unit of the American Leg ion Auxiliary announced today. The poppies this year will honor the men who have given their lives in the present conflict, as well as those who fell among the poppies of France and Belgium twenty five years ago, she said. The money con tributed for the flowers will be used for the welfare of victims of both wars and their families. More Americans than ever before are expected to wea r poppies this year as a personal tribute to those | who have been killed, and to aid the j disabled, their families and the fam ilies of the dead. Mrs. A. J. Mathiebat, national president of the Legion Auxiliary, has issued the following statement in connection with Poppy Day: “Pick up a poppy. Look at it with your heart as well as your eyes. See how red are its petals—dyed afresh by the lifeblood of young Americans. See how it glistens—not from morn ing dew, but from freshly fallen tears of mothers’ grief. And see how straight it holds its flashing head, waving a message of courage from those who have died so courageous ly. “That is our Poppy this year. That is the little flower entrusted to our hands to carry to the people of America. Did you ever have greater trust Will our hands be strong enough, our hearts devoted enough? “Each of us must answer for her self. The fallen heroes of a thousand battles are listening-heroes who have slept beneath the poppies for twenty five years; those heroes whose life less eyes still stare at the sky today “On Poppy Day, we, the women of the American Legion Auxiliary will carry to all America the undying message of these dead —their last call to the living—the inspiring sym '•>ol of their heroism —the little red ippy which says, ‘lf ye break faith ith us who died, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow' in Flanders Field.’ ” The National 4-H Leadership Con test will be held again this year and L. R. Harrill, State Club Leader at N. C. State College, asks all club members to take part in the contest. The Lincoln Times ★ ★ Class Day Exercises to Be Held Tuesday Evening On High School Lawn Commencement exercises for the ninety seven graduates of the Lin colnton High School will get under way Sunday night with the bacca laureate sermon, which will be de livered by Rev. Yancey C. Elliott, pastor of the First Baptist church. The service will be held in the high school auditorium and following the processional by the class of 1942 prayer will be offered by Rev. A. B. McClure, pastor of the First Presby terian church. The chorus, “Invoca tion” by Moore, will be presented by the High School Glee Club. Class day exercises will be held Tuesday evening, May 25, at 6:30 o’clock on the school lawn. The fol lowing program has been arranged for this occasion: Daisy Chain Procession, Sopho more class; Queen, Edna Smith; Maid of Honor, Barbara Shrum; Attend ants, Frances Bandy, Sue Beattie, Carolyn Buff, Ardis Childs, Hazel Eurey, Martha Moore, Julia McLurd, Lois Rudisill, Betty Stanley, Dorothy Stanley; Train Bearers, Patricia Del linger, David Lohr; Crown Bearer, Mary Lucille Lander; Crowning of the Queen, by Maid of Honor; Ad dress of Welcome, President of Sen ior Class, Joe Henry Hoffman; Class Song, The Senior Class; Induction oi Members into National Honor So ciety, Joe Henry Hoffman, President; Statistics, Kitty Miller; Class Proph ecy, Nellie Knuckles; Distribution of Clifts, Class Giftorian, Betty Jane Cushion; School Song; Recessional. Members of the graduating class are: Franklin Blair Abernethy, Har old Lee Abernethy, L. A. Abernethy, Frances Louise Bandy, Dodson Rum saur Barineau, Mamie Irva Barker, Ruth Bertie Barkley, Robert Sirles ter Beal, Robert Lewis Beal, Sue Ill grid Beattie, Marshal) Haywood Black, Martha Elizabeth Bradshaw, J. M. Broome, Jr., Catherine Carolyn Buff, J. C. Buff, Mary Lee Byers, Gene Shuford Carpenter, Betty Jane fashion, Mary Ardis Childs, Henry Donald Clanton, Jack Eugene Clan ton, Vernon Odell Coley, Vera Jean Craig, Bryan Dellinger, Jr., Mary Catherine Devine, Wade Dellinger Dodgen, Pansy Edith Drum, Guy Thorne Eaker, Lee Elmore, Jr, Louise Elmore, Hazel Bessie Eurey, Betty Hunter Glenn, Ralph Edwin Good man, Robert Anthony Hallman, Edna Vashti Hallman, Walter Ralph Heaf r.er, Marvin Ben Heavner, R. A. Heavner, Charles Ensor Hobbs, Joe Henry Hoffman, John Ray Hoffman. I Mary Helen Houser, Mamie Ethel Hovis, Ailene Elizabeth Hoyle, Ralph lee Hoyle, Jean Merit Huss, J. T. Huss, Fred Elliott Jarrett, Robert Wayne Kiger, Betty Jean Kistler, Clyde Lee Knight, Jr., James Davis Knuckles, Nellie Ann Knuckles, Wil liam Samuel Lander, Claudia Bernice Leonard, Winnie Maude Leonard, Mary Dell Lewis, Marjorie Louise Link, Marion Josephine Lippard, Fred Arthur Lynch, Jewell Elizabeth Lynch, Letha Juanita Martin, George William Michael, Kitty Alice Miller, Martha Fleming Moore. Alda Virginia McAllister, Dorothy Mae McAllister, Julia Carolyn Mc- Lurd, Alice Parker, Lorene Elizabeth Payseur, Ray Wyatte Reinhardt, Pansy Elizabeth Reynolds, Joe Mundy Rhyne, George Alexander Robinson, Jr., Jean DeMotte Robinson, Joyce O’Monnie Robinson, Mary Jane Rob inson, Ruth Ross, Lois Bertha Rudi sill, Thomas Clyde Seagle, Jr., Ethel Jane Sherrill, Sally Mae Sherrill. Barbara Faye Shrum, Eugene Coves Sigmon, Edna Louise Smith, Ruth Smith, Betty Jean Stanley, Dorothy Joe Stamey, Margaret Neal Taylor, Evelyn Nesbit Turner, Eunice Ger tiude Wease, Billy Howard Williams, Ben Austin Wilson, Meidrum B. Win stead, Jr., John Clifton Wise, Essie Pauline Yoder, Jack Chesley Yoder. Commencement marshals are: Girls—Jane Lohr, chief; Marie By num, Georgia Chandler, Joyce Chron ister, Jill Dellinger, Jeannette Fair, Virginia Heavner, Velma McGinnis, Betty Proctor, Lou Rhyne, Frances Tilson and Betty Jane Wise. Boys— Bill Schrum, chief; Buddy Alexander, Elliott Neal, Charles Gabriel, Robert Hallman, Edward Killian, Jack Mc- Quinn and Bob Modlin. maidenmanls NAZI PRISONER Pvt. Paul Lee Williams is a pris oner °f the German government, having been taken during the North African campaign, the U. S. adjut ant general has notified his wife, the former Lola Mae Hester of Newton. Pvt. Williams is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Powell Williams of Maiden. The soldier was reported missing in ac tion February 17. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY LINCOLNTON, N. CL THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1943 z Good Hunting for Allies in Africa r o r \ A few minutes after they had fallen into Allied hands, these Axis soldiers who had fought in the vicinity of Bizerte, Tunisia, are marched to the rear while the hunters go on to bag some more. Many thou sands of prisoners were taken as the triumphant Allied armies drove enemy survivors to a dead end on Cap Bon peninsula. Meat Ration Regulations GoverningFarmsßelaxed The Charlotte district Office of: Pi ice Administration yesterday an-! nounced, effective at once, that Ol’A meat rationing regulations as they j relate to farmers, will be relaxed so that the farmer may use custom slsughtering facilities without sur rendering ration points for the meat acquired. Under the original plan a farmer who brought his own cattle to a custom - slaughtering plant for | slaughter and dressing, had to turn j in led point stamps before his meat I was returned to him, while if lie | killed and dressed the meat him- j self, on his farm, it was “ration free.” This situation will be eliminated ] tomorrow. The Office of Price Ad- j ministration, says the statement, rec- ! ognizes that slaughtering done at \ an abattoir by a person regularly i engaged in the business is generally 1 clone under improved sanitary con- j ditions. Use of these facilities also ] will result in a greater saving of j slaughtering byproducts for which j there is a great demand, and which farmers are not equipped either to salvage or to market. The farmer, under the new rules, j may consume meat on any farm he | operates and owns, and may trans. [ fer meat from one of his farms to [ another to provide food for mem- j ters of the houshold, without giv- j ing up ration points, even if the meat is not slaughtered on his farm. However, if the farmer does not live on his farm he must give up ration points for any meat he con- [ sumes elsewhere. If he acquires meat from a custom sli’.ughterer without surrendering ration points he must provide the slaughterer with a certificate in tended to establish the fact that the meat he acquires is primarily for food for his family and was pro duced from livestock raised on his farm. A copy of the certificate is filed by the slaughterer with the live stock producer’s ration board with in five days after the meat is trans ferred, and the second copy is re tained by the slaughterer. The cer tification must contain the farmer’s name, address, the address of his local board and the date of the ALLOW NO GAS FOR VACATIONS But If You Can Take a Trip On Your ‘A’ Coupons, It’s O. K. With OPA Washington, May 19. Motorists will not be permitted additional gas oline mileage for vacation travel be cause the extra use of rubber and gasoline in the East cannot be justi fied by present supplies, Price Chief Prentiss M. Brown announced today. Administrator Brown's statement reiterating OPA’s policy to deny mileage, except that in a A books, for vacation trips was made in reply to a number of requests from public officials in the Carolinas and rep resentatives of private groups. These spokesmen emphasized the value of giving war workers some respite from the stress of stepped up pro duction routines. As long as it is necessary to re strict occupational drivers, to grant millions of miles to vacationists would be a “luxury which we can not afford in total war,” Mr. Brown commented. The administrator reminded mot orists that present rationing regula tions give them some mileage which they can use for vacation travel Every car owner has 90 miles of "free” mileage a month in his basic A book even though a B or C book has been issued to him. Since all A transaction. He must also state that the animal was kept at the place where he regularly lives, and show that: 1. He raised the animal from birth to the moment of Slaughter, or 2. He fed it for a period of at least 60 days immediately preceding slaughter, or 3. He was in possession of the animal for a period immediately preceding slaughter during which be increased its weight by at least 35 per cent of the weight it had at the time he acquired it. Copies of the report form will be made available at both the local war price and rationing boards and at tile county war boards of the department of agriculture. It calls to,, information as follow's: 1. The dates covered by the re port. 2. The number of head of cattle slaughtered from Which any meat i r sold, the total live weight of such cattle, the weight of products sold, the number of ration points col lected for sales being turned in with the report. 3. The slaughterer’s or butcher’s permit number, as required and issued by the department of agri culture. In some farm communities it has been the practice for a group of families to take turns in doing their farm slaughtering, and in this way providing each other with a continuous supply of fresh meat. Such “loans” may be continued under the present rationing regula tions. provided that no one farmer lends more than 400 pounds of beef and veal together, and 150 pounds of other meats in any one calendar year. Meat “loaned under this provision need not be returned in kind, but must be replaced by food worth the same number of points and rationed under the meats and fats order. Feeding of employes on farms has also been simplified. The farm er may use meat or othe r rationed foods from his farm’s production on the same basis as employers who feed their employes in the household, OPA officials announced. Program Given For Graduating Exercises The Lincolnton High School grad uating program for the class of 1943, to be given in the High School audi torium on Thursday, May 27, at 8 P. M., is given as follows: Processional, Class of 1943; Pray er, Dr. L. A. Thomas, pastor of Em manuel Lutheran Church, Lincolnton; Salutatory, by Betty Hunter Glenn; Commencement Address, Dr. Ralph McDonald, Vice-President, of North Carolina Education Association; Presentation of Awards, Prof. S. Ray Louder, Superintendent of Lincolnton City Schools, and Joe Henry Hoff man, President, National Honor So ciety; Presentation of Diplomas, by M. B. Winstead, Chairman, Lincoln ton City School Board; Valedictory, Meidrum B. Winstead, Jr.; Farewell Song, Class of 1943. HOGS The Bureau of Agricultural Eco nomics has advised hog producers not to increase breeding for the 1943 fall pig crop more than 15 per cent over the number of fall pigs raised in 1942. coupons are valid for at least two months, when new coupons become valid a motorist can save enough of such coupons in two months to pro vide up to 180 miles of vacation trav el. The motorist can carry ove r in his tank A coupon gasoline from the prior valid period and have up to 560 miles for his trip. HIGHWAY PATROL TO COLLECT QUININE The State Highway Patrol, at the request of the Pharmaceutical Asso ciation, will assist in the collection of quinine of which the government is in such dire need, according to announcement made today by J. T. Armstrong, Major Commanding, N. C. State Highway Patrol. B. C. Nesbitt, local member of.the Highway Patrol, has been notified to contact all drug stores and hospitals in his area on May 2. r >, 2d and 27, for the purpose of securing their idle supplies of quinine and sending it in to the government. According to Major Armstrong, a large number of the some 800 drug stores in the state have already turn ed in their extra supplies. Plans have already been made by the High way Patrol system for packing the quinine and sending it in to the proper authorities. TWO WILLS FILED DURING WEEK Two wills filed this week in the office of Thos. E. Rhodes, clerk of court, will be of interest. Miss Anna M. Lloyd, a sister, was named principal beneficiary in the will of Killian Lloyd. She receive for her life time all real estate, in- ' eluding an undivided interest in the! Home place. At her death the prop- | erty goes to Robert Lloyd, a son of Mr. Lloyd. Miss Lloyd is also to re- ] ceive all rents, interest, cash on hand and all loose personal property, which at he,, death goes to the foi lowing nephews and nieces, John Lloyd, Atlee Lloyd, Pansy Lloyd, Joyce Lloyd and Mrs. Louise Schrum, share and share alike. To the Salem Lutheran church where his father and mother are buried, and to Em manuel Lutheran church of Lincoln ton, Mr. Lloyd bequeathed Slot) each. Kemp B. Nixon was named executor of the estate. Mrs. Dovie Baker Jetton was nam ed as executrix of the will of J. M. Jetton, which names her the sole beneficiary. At he v death the estat. is to be divided among the children, as follows, William Carlton Jetton, Joseph Charles Jetton, James Baker Jetton and Mrs. Jean Inez Jetton Carpenter. ROTARIANS HEAR MISS JANE LOHR Members of the Rotary club were entertained at their meeting Tuesday by Miss Jane Lohr, who gave for them the oration on the freedom of the Constitution, which won for her several honors in the recent Ameri can Legion oratorical contest. T. F. Corriher was in charge of the pro gram and after Miss Lohr’s speech he introduced Rev. R. B. Gutmann, assistant rector of St. Luke’s Epis copal church, who gave an excep tionally interesting account of Ger man air raids over London while he was making his home there. The business session of the club was presided over by the president, ! W. M. Lentz. Visitors were T. E. Henley and K. j B. Nixon, of Lincolnton, and Rotar ians W. L. Balthis and J. T. Comer, of Gastonia. RULE LIFTED ON SOLDIER’S MAIL I Washington, May 19.—The Army ] said today' that most local postmas-1 ters have now received official noti-! fication permitting them to accept j packages for mailing to soldiers overseas without the approval of the. soldiers’ commanding officers. This modification of overseas mailing restrictions was announced by the Army May 10, to he effective as soon as local postmasters re ceived the formal notice from the Post Office department. These notices were in the mail before the army announcement, and most, if not all, of them have been delivered by this time. Packages can be mailed to soldiers overseas on the basis of requests received from them, pro vided the envelope with the Army post office cancellation enclosing the request is presented at the time of mailing the package. Other restrictions, however, re main in effect. Packages may weigh not more than five pounds, and must be no more than 15 inches long, and no more than 36 inches in length and girth combined. Not more than one package will be accepted in any one week from the same person or organization to the same soldier. COMBINE | Now is the tune to take the com bine out of storage and give it a pre-harvest check, say s J. D. Bickle, Agricultural Engineering Extension Specialist at N. C. State College. fc a Churchill Promises Downfall Os Japan In Momentous Talk Army 1 raining r me ' Horton Smith, former golf pro fessional, now undergoing training in the army air forees officer can didate school at Miami Beach, Fla., feels that the physical titness pro gram will prolong his brilliant ca reer another 10 years. Smith, j shown above, is a candidate for a commission as second lieutenant. CONDEMNS HOSPITAL SHIP SINKING BY JAPS Gen. MacArlhur Termed Act Unwarranted Cruelty And Savagery Allied Headquarters in Australia, May 18. —General Douglas MacArtlnir declared today that the Japanese torpedoing of the brilliantly illumi nated Australian hospital ship Cen taur, with the loss of 299 lives, was an unnecessary act of cruelty and savagery, following the Japanese | pattern of barbarity. The Red Cross ship was lighted brightly when a Japanese submar ine sank her without warning a few miles off the Queensland coast early Friday morning. Eleven women nurses wove among | the Australian and English medi | cal personnel who perished. ! ‘I cannot express the revulsion 1 feel at this unnecessary act of cruel ty," General MacArthur declared. "It’s limitless savagery represents a continuation of the calculated at tempt to create a sense of trepida tion through the practice of horrors designed to shock normal sensibili ties. “Brutal excuses of the Philippine campaign, execution of our captured j airmen, the barbarity in Papua, are | all of a pattern. The enemy does not understand. He apparently can- I not understand that our invincible | strength is not so much of body as it is of soul rises with adversity. I The Red Cross will not falter un dei this foul blow, its light of mercy i will but shine the brighter on our | way to inevitable victory.” : At Canberra, Prime Minister John | Curtin said the act “hears all the marks of wanton deliberation.” Not only will it stir our people into a more acute realization of the type of enemy we are fighting, but it will shock the whole con science of the civilized world. An Allied announcement said the flaming hospital ship sank within I three minutes. Only 64 persons were saved, including only one of the j dozen nurses aboard. The Centaur j did not carry any patients. There were no Americans aboard, j Curtin said the Japanese were ; | notified February 5 that the Cen ' j taur would be used as a hospital ship, and it was traveling unescort ; I ed from Sidney to New Guinea. 11 Tlte 64 survivors spent 36 hours ’ on four rafts and aside of the wheelhouse before they were res cued. They said they saw the sub ‘ marine surface after the attack. ' “An immediate strong protest .. . f is being addressed to the Japanese,” i Curtin declared, “and the govern ment will do its utmost to establish ’| the right of redress to ensure the l war criminals responsible for this - dastardly act will be brought to f justice.” Cadet Childs Among Citadel Graduates i ; . 1 Charleston, S. C., May 19.—Cadet s James Eben Childs, son of Mr. and s Mrs. E. T. Childs, Jr., of 204 North Cedar Street, Lincolnton, N. C., is I among tire 225 candidates for grad- II nation at The Citadel, the Military o College of South Carolina, on Mav 29th. Majoring in civil engineering, Ca det Childs is a candidate for the - bachelor of science degree. He is a a member of the Citadel student chap ■, ter of the American Society of Civil n Engineers. He has also been active in intramurals at the college. C SUU ’ «*t»* ~ TUr es - 'i»■- Jd (1940 Census) Lincolnton 4,525 Lincoln County 24,187 Denver 254 Crouse 221 Iron Station 95 SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS Gifted Speaker at His Best In Memorable Survey of Con ditions to Congress Washington, May 19.—Prime Min ister Churchill today promised that Britain would stick with the Unitted States in an unrelenting campaign to pulverize Japan, and disclosed that the Allies are now embarked on the greatest military experiment in his tory—to determine whether aid bom bardment can bring Germany and Italy to their knees. In a momentous war review before a joint meeting of the Senate and House, Britain’s war leader took note of the outcry in this country that Japan is the No. 1 enemy and tolii the cheering legislators: “Let no one suggest that we Brit ish have not at least as great an in terest as the United States in the unflinching and relentless waging of war against Japan. I am here to tell you that we will wage that war side by side with you in accordance with the best strategic employment of our forces while there is breath ii: our bodies and while blood flows in our veins.” The cities and munitions cen ters of Nippon must lie “in ashes," he said, before peace conies back to the world. On the point of bombing the Euro pean Axis members into collapse, Churchill did not rule out the possi bility of an early land invasion also. In fact, he indicated that this would come by predicting that Hit lti is reserving “his supreme gamb ler’s throw” for a third offensive against Russia, and asserting that the Allies will act to “take more of the weight off Russia” this year. But he said the use of air power by itself to bring about collapse of Germany and Italy is an “experi ment well worth trying so long as other measures are not excluded.” “There is certainly no harm in finding out.” he added. Otherwise, some of the major points of the 50-minute address which was broadcast to all parts of the world, were: 1. The “supreme objective” of all Allied planning is to come to grips with the enemy on the largest pos sible scale at the earliest possible moment “wherever that is profitable and—l may say—whenever it is pos sible.” 2. He and President Roosevelt hope fo r a meeting with Premier Stalin of Russia and with Gen eralissimo Chiank-Kai-shek of China in the near future. “>. Allied air forces vastly outnum ber those of Germany, Italy and Ja pan. 4. “While the U-boat danger is still the greatest we face, 1 have confidence it will be met, contained and overcome.” 5. American and British air at tacks on Germany have forced that country to withdraw “more and more” planes from the fighting fronts with a resultant loss in ini tiative. 6. The Allied victory in North Af rica was worth “several hundred planes;” the enemy suffered there a blow equal to that of Stalingrad, losing a quarter-million of its best troops and “vast masses of ma terial." Pops Question Over Telephone 140 Times And Wins A Bride New York, May 19.—An 11-houi telephone offensive during which he popped the question unsuccessfully 139 times ended victoriously today for Pvt. Marvin Rubin, 22, of Brook lyn. The soldier romeo will be married in July to 19-year-old Beatrice Brown also of Brooklyn, hut that's only a part of the story. Armed with $7 worth of nickels Rubin climbed into the confines of a candy store telephone booth yes terday and began what probably was the most dogged dialing spree in telephone annals. Every five minutes he rang up Miss Brown and posed this question: “Will you marry me now?” At the end of $6.95 the answer was still “No.” But on the 140th call Rubin says he lost five pounds during the ordeal by phone—his lady love broke down and consented. The historic words were these: “All right, Mar vin, I’ll marry you. There’s nothing ■ else I can do. I’ m worn out.” The couple became engaged jin April but Miss Brown had ■ thought it better to postpone thq l nuptials until after the war. Rubin is stationed at New Rochelle, N. Y. ■ SI HE AND READ our want ads today. They pay big dividends.
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