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Civilian Food Supply To Be Cut Soon
Italians Leave Homes
After Allies Threaten
To Resume Bombing
. Save U-Boat Crew
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*■ After sinking a German subma
rine, a United States coast guard
erew rescued its crew. In this pic
tore coastguardsmen are helping
a Nail sailer along the derk. He
la allll wearing Ihe "lung” which he
uaed while ascending from the
U-boat - * escape hatch.
Food Poison Blamed
For Illness Os 300
Erie, Pa., July 30—Workers
stricken ill after they had eaten at
war plant lunch rooms were being
discharged rapidly from two hospi
tals today and authorities sought to
determine the source of the mild epi
demic.
Only nine persons, none in a Beri
me condition, remained in the city's
I wo hospitals which at the peak of
che wave of illness last night treat
ed 112. Others were treated at their
homes by physicians,
Dr. James R. Smith, city health
officer, said he believed food poison
ing was responsible.
Dr. Smith said as far as he was
able to determine the one food eaten
by all those stricken was corned
beef.
THE VOICE OF PRICE
Contributed by Member of the Local
War Rationing Board
lamaManmai
In an effort to keep clothing prices
down, QPA has formulated many
regulations, a few of which are
called to the public’s attention be
low:
Prices for shoes and lingerie may
pot be higher than they were in
March, 1942. Due to shoe rationing
the majority of people want to buy
better shoes than they did formerly,
ar.d this is a temptation t 8 merchants
to boost their prices in order to Keep
their stocks moving, Consumers |
should remember that prices should
pot have advanced since March, 1942.
Definite prices have been set for
rayon hosiery in Maximum Price
Regulation 339 and for silk hosiery
in Maximum Price Regulation 2i4.
In rayon regular constructions, ceil
ing prices range from SO.BO to -1.81
in .first quality grade A types. This
applies to Class II retail women’s
hosiery outlets, which includes all
stores in this county except Rose’s li
and 10, where prices are lower due
to its being a Class I retail outlet.
Prices established for silk hose range
from 69c per pair for the coarsest
first quality circular knit up to $1.65
for the finest quality of full-fash
ioned stockings. These prices should
be stamped on the hose itself. If, aft
er making a purchase there is a
doubt in the customer’s mind about
the ceiling prices, she may see a copy
of the regulation at the local War
Frice and Rationing Board.
In accordance with the President’s
recent order to ’’hold the line” oil
cost-of-living items, Maximum Price
Regulation 330 states that stores
may not offer for sale women’s nad
children’s dresses, suits, blouses,
skirts anad coats at higher price lines
than formerly. Nor may stores elimi
nate low price lines. When fall ap
parel comes in, no higher price lines
should be offered for sale than those
in the fall of 1942.
Whenever a customer believes that
he or she is paying more than the
ceiling price for an article, he should
ask for a sales slip, if one is not of
fered. This greatly helps the Price
Panel in investigating a complaint.
It is the public s duty to report ali
price violations or all cases which
arc thought to be violations.
The Lincoln Times
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Poised Allied Might Believed
On Verge Os Again Un
leashing War On Italy
London, August I.—Millions of
Italians were reported to have fled
their city homes today in an effort to
escape the rain of bombs which Al
lied radios hour after hour warned
Would fall if the Marshal Pietro Ba
doglio government continues to har
bor Germans.
Swiss-Italian border dispatches j
through Bern said 3,090,000 Italians j
were taking to heart the solemn ad- j
vice of Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower j
to stay away from military object-
I ives if they would escape with their |
1 lives from the impending violent air
offensive.
Meanwhile, fresh evidence of Axis
dissension developed.
British Middle East headquarters j
in Cairo announced that it had con- [
elusive proof that Germans in Crete!
had disarmed some Italian units gar
risoned there. One unit, however, was
said to be standing firm and refusing
to give up its weapons although sur
rounded und fired upon once.
With rested crews and big bomb
ing fleets presumably poised for the
onslaught, the Allies obviously were
applying the Churchillian policy to
“hot up the fire” and let the Italians
“stew in their own juice,”’ hoping to
bring the reaction that would end the
week—long temporizing of Marshal
Pietro Badoglio’s new government.
The fact that, the broadcasts were
being continued late this afternoon,
with no reports yet, either from
North Africa or England, of major
bombings of the Italian mainland, was
taken as an indication that another
24-hour breathing spell had been giv
en for the ominous words tc sink in
In view of Gen. Eisenhower’s dec- j
laration that Badoglio’s hesitation to j
make peace had allowed the Germans j
to strengthen themselves in Italy it
was npt regarded likely the Allies
would long hold their hand, however.
Reports reaching London early to
day said the first response in Italy
had been a fresh wave of angry dem
onstrations for peace, but there were
few details.
The Algiers radio said thousands j
of copies of Eisenhower’s message
offering the return of Italian prison
ers to their homes when peace is
made were being circulated in north
ern Italy and that in one town pro
cessions of women marched in the
streets shouting “set free our pris
oners” and “peace.”
Traffic Death Toll
Cut Nearly One-Half
Chicago, July 30.—The United
States cuit its traffic death toll dur
ing the first six months of 1943 to
almost half of its pre-war figure,
the National Safety Council reported
today.
The half-year drop was forty-one
per cent from the same period in
1941 and 32 per cent from that in
1942. This year’s traffic deaths
through June totaled 10,000, com
pared with 17,028 in the first half of
1941, and 14,690 in the first half of
1942.
Wartime restrictions on speed and
mileage were credited for most of
the good showing, but public co
operation also played a major role,
the council asserted.
For June alone the traffic toll was
48 per cent below June, 1941, the
largest percentage reduction so far
in the war period. It was 24 per cent
below June, 1942. Traffic deaths last
month totaled 1,610, against 3,114
in June, 1941.
VAVAVWVWJWAW.WAS 1
THIS IS OFFICIAL
Mrs. Floyd Corriher, chairman of
the community service committee, to
day made the following announce
ment:
Each Sunday at 1 p. m. eastern
war time, the Blue network broad
casts “This Is Official,” from Wash
ington, D. C. On this program promi
nent government officials answer
questions sent in by listeners. A
large part of the program is used to
answer questions on price control
and rationing. This is one of the best
piograms to date, explaining the
problems and facts of our home
front effort. People are urged to send
in questions, which should be ad
ri'essed to “This Is Official,” Blue
Network, Wahhington. D. C.
LINCOLNTON, N. C- MONDAY. AUGUST 2, 1943
Conquerors Surrounded by Sieilians
Sicilians liberated from Axis oppression by the Invasion of the Allies
gather admiringly around American soldiers. On the heels of the inva
sion came an Allied ultimatum telling Italy to get out of the war
This was soon followed by a bombing of military objectives In Rome.
U. S. Plans Increase
In ’44 Food Output
CURRENT QUOTAS
OF MEAT, CANNED
GOODS SLASHED
More Machinery And More
Fertilizer Will Be Made
Available
While the government announced
plans for increased food production
for 1944, it was also revealed that c
Americans will be eating less meat
and canned goods during the next 12
months.
The picture unfolded as the food
situation remains most critical on
the home front. Despite the record
hog and cattle population on the na
| tion’s farms, the question of feed
! supply and reputed price regulations
are posing diffiicult problems in mar- ,
keting.
In anticipation of continued heavy
demands for food, the War Food ad
ministration announced that the gov
eminent desires 380 million acres of
crops planted in 1944, Against 54
million acres of wheat seeded this '
year, plans call for 88 million acres
next season. Substantial increases
also are sought for dry beans and 1
peas, soybeans, potatoes and pea- '
nuts.
Recognizing the various factors in ;
production, the WFA declared more
machinery and fertilizer will be 1
available, and incentive for increas- 1
mg acreage of certain crops will be , ’
created by government support pri
ces. Earlier, the 85 million dollar a
year farm equipment industry had
revealed that its production would
approximate 80 per cent of the 1941
figure, with manufacture particular- 1
ly centered in the smaller plants. (
Big Drop in Lamb 1
At the time these plans were an- j
nounced, however, the WFA’s allo
cation of meat supplies during the
next 12 months were made public,
showing a decrease in civilian quotas
c< about three billion pounds under
1942, and about one and a half bil
lion under the 1935-’39 average.
Biggest cut for civilians is to come
in lamb and mutton, WFA indicated.
Compared with 931 millio* pounds
available in 1942, only 539 million,
or almost half as much, will be pur
chasable during the next 12 months.
The 1935-’39 average consumption
was 863 million pounds.
Allocations of beef for civilians
have been cut from 7,903,000,000
pounds in 1942 to 5,937,500,000
pounds. The 1935-’39 average was
i around seven billion pounds. Out of
the total production in the next 12
months, civilians will receive 66 out
of every 100 pounds; the army and
navy will get 23 out of 100 pounds,
and lend-lease, etc., will be awarded
2 out of 100 pounds.
It was recently pointed out that
the American soldier consumes twice
as much beef in the army as he did
in civilian life. Thus, in effect, the
nation is feeding that many more
people than it does normally, it was
said.
Pork Quota Cut
Civilian pork supplies are due for
i a tumble, too. although the alloca-
I tion of 7,310,900,000 pounds is about
25 million pounds above the 1935-’39
, average. However, the allotment is
, below the 1942 figure of 7,740,000,-
II 000 pounds.
I Out of the total production of pork
, i the civilian share has been set at 69
j out of every 100 pounds produced.
, j Lend-lease has been given less than
I half that amount and the services
will receive the rest.
All told, civilians will receive about
63 per cent of the total meat supply
during the next 12 months. The serv
ices will obtain 17 per cent, the Al
lies 14 per cent and the remainder
will be divided between exports and
leserve requirements.
The announcement of this meat
distribution came us farmers were
being asked to market hogs at light
er weights to relieve the corn pinch
and cattle raisers were warning that
the heavy run of grussfed stock to
the slaughter yards instead of the
feed lots would threaten beef pro
duction in the future.
The government is now maintain
ing a support price of $13.75 for
prime 210 to 270 pound porkers, with
heavier weights hovering around the
$11.50 mark. With the year’s total
pig population over 100 million, it is
felt that liquidation of lighter weight
will not only help spread feed sup
plies but also provide adequate meat
stocks.
Various livestock associations have
contended that government regula
tions were hampering the production
of fattened stock, which always
makes its market appearance after
grass fed herds have been slaugh
tered.
According to these organizations,
price regulations make fattening un
profitable, with the result that ani
mals taken off the range are shipped
straight to packers, instead of being
kept for prime fattening. Livestock
interests have been urging the gov
ernment to adopt the industry’s plan, I
as fashioned by the War Meat board,
for orderly marketing in compliance
with demand with full emphasis on
production.
Allocate ( aimed Goods
As a result of WFA allocations,
civilians will receive 70 per cent of
the nation’s prospective supply of
canned vegetables and soups and 53
per cent of the canned fruits and
juices during the next 12 months.
Roughly, domestic consumers will
A Parkin Lincolnton
(By W. E. Garrison)
There is just one thing wrong with
the fellow who says. “What was good
enough for my father is good enough
for me”—he hasn’t had a construct
ive thought since his father did his
thinking for him. If we think our
forefathers enjoyed working fifteen
hours a day and eating molasses and
cornbread, never having time out for
a vacation, or to enjoy the finer
things of life, then we just didn’t
know our forefathers.
Our forefathers did a good job in
the generation in which they lived.
They left a great inheritance for
this generation of which we are a
part. Our forefathers never intend
ed that when they passed off the
scene the world was built and ev
erything finished, leaving nothing
for us to do. They sacrificed much to
build a better place for their children,
whom they loved and valued so much.
We appreciate the things they did,
but it will not suffice for the future.
We love our children today, but I’m
afraid not to the extent that we are
willing to do much sacrificing for
them.
The people of Lincolnton have
! much of which to be proud—good
churches, good schools, a citizenship
| second to none. We cannot boast of
| much wealth, but we can be justly
' proud of the citizenship, made up of
! industrious, patriotic, plain folks.
Since we are all just plain folks,
Polhill Chevrolet Co.
Awards Diplomas
Diplomas have been awaided J. R.
Robinson, Dwight Seagle, Richard
; Costner, Albert Fox and Wilson
Lowe, employes of the service de
partment, of the Polhill Chevrolet Co.,
signifying that they have successful
ly paassed the 1943 annual national
Chevrolet Approved Mechanics ex
aminations. The examinations were
held at Charlotte,
Due to the pressing necessity of
preserving the country’s essential
wartime automotive transportation
! 1 anilities through adequate and effic
ient maintenance service, the annual
examinations of Chevrolet mechan
ics this year were on a more inten
sive and comprehensive scale than
ever before, according to .1. A. Pol
hill, owner of Polhill Chevroett Co.
Keeping the nation’s errs and
trucks in satisfactory operating con
dition for the duration, Mr. Polhill
pointed out, has entailed extensive
revision and expansion of service op
erations and procedure. As an exam
ple:, he declared, in all automotive
service work today emphasis is on
repair rather than replacement of vi
tal parts and units. With no new ve
hicles being produced, he explained,
complete overhauling and rebuilding
o' the entire vehicle on an improved
more up-to-date basis is a vastly
more important and essential part of
maintenance service than when mil j
Lons of new vehicles were coming off
the production lines annually.
Inaugurated seven years ago on a
nation-wide scope, the annual exami
nations in which Chevrolet mechanics
qualify as “Approved Mechanics” has
proved eminently successful, he said,
in maintaining high standards of
maintenance service, through keep
ing mechanical personnel thoroughly
and continually posted on both basic
and special service operations and
developments.
Only through thorough instruction
and grooming of mechanics and utili
zation of perfected maintenance ser
vice methods and facilities can the
cars and trucks now in operation
continue to play their vital part in
getting workers to and from war pro
duction plants and in transporting
the raw materials, finished products,
food and supplies essential to victory
for the Allied nations, he said.
One cure for absenteeism among
the feminie defense workers might
be a combination permanent wave
machine and welder’s mask.
We look forward to the day when
Herr Hitler is ready to settle his
demand for square miles for a few
square meals.
be awarded about 180 million cases
cf vegetables and soups and about 30
million cases of fruits and juices.
These supplies are expected to be
augmented by substantial stocks of
home preserved produce.
Under the present rationing pro
gram, canned fruits and vegetables
will have higher point values in sum
mer than in winter, to encourage
maximum cons ’motion of fresh pro
ducts. According to an estimate of
the department of agriculture, mar
keting of truck produce will be down
10 per cent under last year.
glad to call our neighbors by their
first names, we plan to provide the
things that plain people like. Who
of us would not like to see a nice
park in Lincolnton, equipped with
a recreational center, swimming pool,
play grounds for the kids, games and
amusements for the older ones, and
many other things that just plain
people enj-oy ? We can have all of
this if we are willing to pay the
price, which will not be burdensome
to any one.
We cannot expect to enjoy the goo-lj
things of life unless we are willing
as individuals to put our shoulders to
the wheel and work together to get!
these things done. A movement has |
been started, and is well under way, j
ti coordinate our efforts to the end I
that the people of Lincolnton can j
enjoy a park. In a mass meeting of,
citizens, called together a few days
ago, much enthusiasm was shown in
favor of a park. A committee was I
elected in this meeting, consisting of
W. E. Garrison, chairman; Dr. L. A.
Qrowell. Sr., R. P. Hinson, S. M.
Roper, Joe A. Polhill, Mrs. Mattie
Lou Alexander and Miss Maude Mul
len, secretary. Their duty as a com
mittee is to lead in establishing a
park for Lincolnton.. We. as a com
mittee, solicit the co-operation of ev
ery citizen. Contact the above com
mittee and feel free to express your
self at any time.
Military, Lend-Lease
Needs Must Be First
To Be Provided For
V/oiinded Yank
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An unidentified American soldiei
receives first aid from comrades
after he had been wounded during
the landing of United States troops
on Rendova, in the Central Solomon
Islands.
NO MARKETING _
QUOTOS FOR 1943
COTTON CROP
Based on recommendations of the
Agricultural Adjustment Agency,
the War Food Administration today
announced termination of cotton mar
keting quotas for the 1143 crop and
indicated that no quotas would be in
effect for the 1944 crop.
The action followed the announce
ment of the July 8 cotton crop esti
mate by the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, which indicated farmers
had in cultivation on July 1 only
21,995,000 acres, about eight million
acres under the 1943 permitted acre
age.
More than half of the underplant
ing of permitted acreage occurred in
Texas. Georgia and Oklahoma.
Tne 1943 AAA cotton allotment
was about 27,200,900 acres. A later
piovision permitting ten per cent ad
ditional planting increased this year’s
permitted acreage to about thirty
million acres. In only one state, Mis
sissippi, is the cotton acreage in 1943
larger than in 1942.
The cotton acreage estimate for
this year not only is eight million
below the permitted acreage but is
also nearly a million and a half acres
under the acreage in cultivation on 1
July 1, 1942.
Officials said the cotton loan pro
gram will remain in effect without
charge f-w the 1913 44 marketing
. euaon. Also, te. minaaoa of market- -
mg quotas will not affect the basis 1
oil which payments will be made to
farmers under the 1943 Agricultural
Conservation Program.
The V\ FA said prospects are that |
the carry-over of American cotton in
the United States on August 1 of
this year will be about the same as
the 10,500,000 bales carried over on
August 1 last year.
State Adds 40,000
Acres To U. S. Park
Raleigh, July 30. —The Council of
State today authorized the expendi
ture of SIOO,OOO for the purchase of
Smoky Mountains National Park and
lands between the border of the Great
the Fontana Dam in Swain county.
The lands, purchase of which will
be aided by the Tennessee Valley Au
thirty, will be turned over to the
j park. Approximately 40,000 acres are
involved.
Purchase of the privately owned
; property was authorized by the 1943
| legislature.
RETURNS TO CAMP
] Pvt. James Hoffman has returned
,to Camp Edwards, Mass., after a
nine-day furlough spent with his pa
icnts and friends at Long Shoals.
! Honoring Pvt. Hoffman, Mrs. Crow
ley Rhyne gave a party Saturday
night and Monday night he was guest
of honor at a dinner given at his
home. Pvt. Earl Hoffman, of Greens-|
boro, was also present for the din
ner Pvt. James Hoffman has the dis
tinction of not having missed Sunday
School in almost eleven years. His ad
dress is Pvt. James B. Hoffman, 2nd
school in almost 11 years. His ad-
Plat. Btry D. 551st A A A Bn. (AW),
Camp Edwards, Mass.
POPULATION
(1940 Census)
Lincoln County 24,187
Lincoln ton 4,625
Crouse 221
Iron Station M
Denver 254
SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS
U. !S. To Produce About Four
Per Cent More Than In 1942
Consumption Will Be Less
Washington. August I.—The Ag
riculture Department said today that
total food production this year prob
ably would exceed last year’s record
output by four per cent, but estima
ted per capita per consumption would
fall about 3.7 per cent below 1942.
This forecast on production was
based on the July report of the Fed
eral Crop Reporting Board, the as
sumption of average weather for the
remainder of the year and a continu
ation of the present trend in live
stock production.
Civilians will get less principally
because military', lend-lease and other
war requirememnts are about double
those of 1942. Seventy-five per cent
of the total 143 food production has
been allocated to civilians, about 13
per cent to this country’s armed ser
vices, 10 per cent to lend-lease and
the remaining two per cent for ship
ment to United States territories and
for reserves for war relief needs.
The department in the first official
forecast of 1943 production in rela
tion to last year’s output, said food
crops were expected to be about 10
per cent below 1942, but 11 per cent
above the 1935-39 average. The indi
cated drop in food crops will be more
than offet, it said, by an increase in
meat, dairy and poultry production.
In another report, the depuitment
said the government planned to pur
chase during the next five months
an extra billion pounds of meat for
unexpected war requirements and for
reserves for military and lend—lease
use.
This would be in addition to pur
chases to meet military aid lend
lease requirements during this pe
riod.
The department forecast a 10 per
cent increase in all food livestock
production, principally of pork pro
ducts, poultry and eggs. The total net
output was forecast at 23,250,000,000
pounds, or eight per cent more than
tiie average produced in tile 1935-39
period.
It was added, however, that civil
ian meat ration allotments were not
expected to be much different during
the remainder of the year than those
of the last three months.
Compared with 1942, civilians in
1943 will get, the department said,
a larger per capita supply of pork,
eggs, chickens, fluid milk, fats and
oils, fresh citrus fruits, canned
juices, dried fruits, potatoes and dry
edible beans. However, the supply
will be less, it said, for beef and veal,
lamb and mutton, fish, most dairy
products other than fluid milk, fresh
and canned fruits, fresh and canned
vegetables, sugar, rice, tea and co
coa.
The production of food crops would
| nave been much greater the depart
ment said, had weather conditions
been more favorable. The indicated
decline in food crop production will
be the result, it said, of a decrease
in yield per acre and not a decrease
in acreage planted. The total food
crop acreage under cultivation was
said to be three per cent greater than
(last year.
Navy Wants Seventeen-
Year-Old Boys For N R.
The Navy is seeking an unlimited
number of 17-year-old boys for en
listment into the naval reserve, it
was announced by Chief C. R.
Rhodes, officer-in—charge of the Navy
Recruiting Station, Charlotte.
Chief Lmcolnton will be in Lin
colnton on Friday and Saturday, Au
' gust 6 and 7, to interview and accept
applications from 17-year-old boys.
He stated that trade schools are still
open to those boys that are interested
in the Navy as a career. Base pay
begins at SSO per month and increas
es as their ratings increase. Clothes,
board and room are also furnished.
Men between the ages of 38 and
50 may also apply for Navy Shore
Patrol. These men must have had po
lice training to qualify for this duty.
I A petty officer’s rating will be given
j these men accepted.
Women between the ages of 20
and 46 may apply for enlistment into
the WAVES. Applications for the
WAVES may be obtained from the
Navy Recruiting Station located in
the post office building here in Lin.
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