POPULATION
(1940 Census)
Lincoln County 24,187
Lincolnton 4,625
Crouse 221
Iron Station 96
Denver 354
$2.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE
American Troops Headed For Paris
Tentative Figures
On sth War Loan
Drive Here Given
Leader of Plot
Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck has been
identified as the arch conspirator
of the group that planned the assas
sination of Adolf Hitler in the bomb
ing attack. According to a German
radio broadcast, General Beck is
*‘no longer alive.**
STATE REACHES
’ E BOND GOAL
Chairman Reports Last-Minute
Sales Attain Quota,
Maintaining Record.
Winston-Salem, Aug. 3.—State War
Finance Chairman C. T. Leinbaeh
said tonight North Carolina tiad won
its battle to reach its $539,000,000 E
bond goal in the Fifth War Loan.
He said latest tabulations of last
minute sales in the campaign, which
closed last week end, pushed the
state's E bond total to $39,021,800
_and that some additional credits
might be given North Carolina be
fore final tabu ations are made Au
gust 5, but that today’s totals are
not expected to be greatly increased.
Leinbaeh noted that today’s report
enabled Nor h Carolina to maintain
its record of meeting every goal set
for it in war loan drives.
The overall quota of $1 18,000,000
for ail classes of securities was ex
ceeded several week' ago and today’s
report boosted the grand total to
$235,200,000, or 159 per cent of the
objective. The sales to individuals, in
cluding E bond sales, totaled $82,-
221,000, or 115 per cent of the as
signment.
Fred Hawkins
' Receives Promotion
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hawkins, of
Lincolnton, Route 3, have received
word from their son, Fred J. Hawkins,
that he has been promoted from the
rank of sergeant to that of master
sergeant. M Sgt. Hawkins' APO No.
is 637, care Postmaster, New York,
N. Y.
Reynolds Sees German Defeat
By October But Fears ‘Slump’
Washington, Aug. 3. —A few South
ern congressmen foresee a quick end
to the war, but most agree that long,
hard battles lie ahead.
Even those expecting early victory,
however, joined today in warning
against overoptimism and cautioned
that war production must be main
tained at full speed.
They stressed that congressional
work on post war legislation does not
imply that defeat for the Axis is just
around the corner.
Senator Reynolds (D-NC) commen
ted "we are all hoping and praying
the European war is going to end by
October 1, hut if home front produc
tion lags or anything goes wrong the
conflict will be extended.’’
“The way events are breaking, ev
erything could crack up in a hurry
in Europe;” said Rep. Hendricks
(D-Fla.). "However, the enemy could
fool us if we start fooling around.
The people should calm down and
keep working.
Other comments;
Rep. Ramspeek (D-Ga.): “Many
people are being misled by German
propaganda about an early collapse.
The Nazis would like to lull us into
giving them a little breathing space
so they could make a comeback.”
Senator Barkley (D-Ky.): “Much
harm has already resulted from un
wise predictions and unjustified opti
The Lincoln Times
Chairman Gordon L. Goodson
Thanks Public And Commit
tees For Cooperation.
With an overall quota of $510,000
Lincoln county sales for Fifth War
Loan totaled $737,292.50, or approxi
mately 145 per cent of the quota as
signed by the Treasury Department.
With an “E” bond quota of $260,000,
the total sales amounted to $204,859,-
50. Final figures will be publisheu as
soon as received from Federal Reserve
Bank.
The credit for a successful cam
paign belongs to the volunteer work
ers of Lincolnton and Lincoln county.
We cannot call each by name, but we
can say that the Women’s Division in
Lincolnton did an excellent job from
the beginning of the drive until the
last day. The workers of North Brook
and Howard’s Creek Township did
fine jobs in their respective town
ships, May we say that it seemed
that we were doomed for failure un
til the cause was presented before
several of our organizations and civ
ic clubs. These men immediatey went
to work and put us “over the top.”
Too much credit cannot be given the
American Legion, Rotary Club and
the Kiwunis Club. Sales were cred
ited to these organizations as follows
during the last week of the campaign:
- Cash Value.
Rotary Club $14,355.00
Kiwanis Club 14,333.75
American Legion 6,500.00
Every citizen of Lincoln county
should appreciate the fact that we
have such organizations in our town
and county.
Again, thanks to each and every
persou that had a part in a success
ful campaign.
CORDON L. GOODSON,
Campaign Chairman Fifth War Loan
Drive, Lincoln county.
DR. MORRISON
TO AID WHIMS
Newton, Aug. 3.—Dr. Reid R. Mor
rison, of Raleigh, is joining the staff
of the Iredell county health depart
ment as assistant health officer, Dr.
H. C. Whims, of Newton, chief health
officer for the Iredell department as
well as the Catawba-Lincoln depart
ment announced today.
Dr. Morrison will assist in the rou
tine work of the department and aid
Dr. Whims as health officer, it is said.
He was formerly connected with the
U. S. Department of Labor, Raleigh.
Jack Wildely, follow-up-worker for
the Catawba-Lincoln department, will
carry on venereal disease follow-up
work in Iredell, it was announced, and
Julian R. Taylor, sanitarian for the
Catawba-Lincoln department, will
have the capacity of consultant sani
tarian in the Iredell department. J.
11. Ceichrist is the active sanitarian
in the Iredell department.
mism on the part of many of our peo
ple because of the belief that the war
is almost over.”
“Long, Hard Row,” Says Bonner.
Rep. Bonner (D-NC): “I don’t think
Europe will collapse as soon as some
people say. There is a long, hard row
to travel yet.. I think the South real
izes that, too, and isn’t as optimistic
as the rest of the country.”
Rep. Woodrum (D-Va.): “The peo
ple should not get any idea that the
war is nearly over because Congress
is rushing postwar plans. Such a feel
ing is a severe blow at morale.”
German Doctors
Are Under Fire
Moscow, Aug. 3. —The Ukraine
States Atrocities Committee charges
that 150,000 patients died in a Ger
man hospital in Russia during the two
years of Nazi occupation. The com
mittee says the hospital was situated
in the town of Slavuta, about 100
miles west of Kiev.
German doctors are charged with
intentially spreading disease by herd
ing new patient® into a room where
1,800 already were dying of infectious
ailments. And it is claimed that pa
tients starved tv' death on a mea
ger diet of eratz flour.
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
LINCOLNTON, N. C„ MONDAY; AUGUST 7, 1944
Crew of Liberator Saved in Crash
Ground crewmen rushed up to this burning F-24 Liberator bomber
of the 15th air force after it had crashed in southern Italy, and pulled
the plane’s crew to safety. The result of their swift action saved tlie
entire crew before the plane's gas tanks exploded. The bomber was
completely destroyed.
Pvt. Wilson Byers
Killed In France
Pvt. Marshall Wilson Byers was |
killed in action in France on July 1-1,1
according to a message. received Sat
urday morning from the War Depart-i
meat by his wife, Mrs. Wilma Shu- j
ford Byers, who has been making her
home in Cherryville. No details of his
death were given in the message.
Pvt. Byers celebrated his 30th
birthday last October 3. When the
United States entered the war in De
cember, 1941, lie held an honorable i
discharge after four years service i' l
the U. S. Navy. The urge to get back I
in uniform was strong, and after sev
eral attempts to volunteer had failed !
lie finally was accepted last January j
and placed in an infantry division.
Seven Big Firms To
Seek Labor In N. C.
Seven big firms which are engaged
in producing equipment and materi
als which are used up every day by
the armed forces on land, sea and in
the air, are coming to North Carolina
to recruit workers to man the war
plnats which are on the national
“must” list, it is announced by Dr. J.
S. Dorton, state WMC director.
These firms, all nationally known,
are Kaiser, Dupont, Carbon & Car
bide, Atlas Powder, Consolidated Vul
tee (California), Terro Machine and
Hanford Engineering, all of whose
products are expendable and are be
ing expended in huge quantities daily,
as the armed forces storm and take
beachheads, strafe the enemy, sink
their ships or shoot down their air
planes, Dr. Dorton points out.
“While we in North Carolina are
struggling to keep our high priority
plants in full operation, these indus
tries have a much higher piiority rat
ing and their products are more vital
and more timely, and they are being
used up in such vast quantities each
day that it is absolutely essential that
we help supply the workers to pro
duce them.
“North Carolina’s quota for the
month of August is 816 workers for
these plants,” said Mr. Dorton. “We
in this state are not being singled
out, but our quota is very reasonable,
when compared with the quotas of I
other states and other regions. The
Region IV quota is 5.419 for August,
and only four of the twelve regions
have lower quotas, including Region
XII, the Pacific Coast states.
“We in this state might as well
make up our minds to accept the in
evitable and to figure to get along
after sending to these vital plants
the workers they need. This is only
the beginning. As our boys go further!
into France, up Italy’s bootleg, into
the Pacific islands, and a s our ships
lambast nearby islands and our planes
pave the w r ay for our ground forces,
more and more of the material these
plants produce is going to be used up,
and more and more workers will be
needed to produce it.
“When one of our ships limp into a
repair dock, with parts shot off and
scarred from sea battles,” said Dr.
Dorton, “and when the sailors pile off
Before going overseas the latter part
of April he trained at Fort Lewis,
Washington: Fort Benning, Georgia,
and Fort Jackson, South Carolina,
In addition to his wife, Pvt. Byers
is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mat
tie Kizer Byers; two sisters, Mrs. Al
bert Fox and Mrs. E. C. Smith; and
one brother, A. C. Byers, all of this
city.
He was a member of St. Luke’s
Episcopal church and the first mem
ber of that congregation to make the
supreme sacrifice in the present war.
He was one of the community’s fin
est young men and since news of his
death reached Lincolnton many ex
pressions of regret have been heard.
such ships and urge workers to get it
seaworthy and battle worthy again,
just as soon as possible, that they
may avenge the deaths of scores of (
their mates, then the workers show '
the stuff of which they are made and
get those ships back into action in a
fraction of the usual time.”
“That,” said Ur. Dorton, “is just
one of the many reasons why we in
North Carolina will he able to accept
our lot and allow our workers, badly
needed in our own industries, to go to
the shipyards, powder plants, gun fac
tories and other of these industries
which are trying desperotely to pro
vide materials of war as rapidly as
they are used up.”
HOMECOMING S! NDAY AT
GAINESVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH
The annual homecoming will be
held at Gainesville Baptist church
next Sunday, August 13. Rev. R. G.
Black will deliver the 11 o’clock ser
mon and other former pastors will
speak during the day. There will also
bt special music.
The pastor. Rev. Bruce Littleton,
announced that the revival meeting
will also begin on that date and that
the music for the services will be in i
charge of Mrs. Laura Adams.
RED CROSS NEWS
The new knitting quota is here.
Come for the yarn at any time. The
quota this time is only for the army
and the color is olive drab.
We have the notice of a shipment of
our new quota of surgical dressings.
This will be a big one and the need is
great Make your plans now to come
to the Red Cross work room when
l you read the notice in this paper that
j the quota has arrived.
| Four hundred kit bags are in the
[ process of being made. The army
j needs these, and we need you. Please
i come here to sew or take them home
with you for completion. This is an
urgent need that must not lie neglect
ed even while working on our knit
ting and surgical dressings.
The work room is open every day
from 9 to 6 and several nights a week.
U. S. CASUALTY
TOTALS RAISED ’
Washington, Aug. 3.—Army casu-
alties of 11,1110 fur the week of July
0 to 13 were announced today by Sec
retary of War Stimson.
This brings the total of army casu- 4
alties which have been reported to the
next of kin to 218,473. At the same *
time the officially announced navy,
marines and coast guard was given a
51,817, with an overall total for all
service branches of 270,344.
The navy’s latest official total of
51,871 casualties as of today consist
ed of 21,810 killed, 15,883 wounded.
0,702 missing and 4,469 prisoners.
The casualties were distributed as fol
lows: Navy, 33,673; marines, 17,440,
and coast guard, 751.
The July 27 navy overall total of
50,490 embraced 21,433 killed. 14,939
wounded, 9,655 missing and 4,409
prisoners.
D. S. NAVY TWICE
SIZE OF OTHERS
Chicago, Aug. 3.—Joseph 11. Liston,
special assistant to Donald M. Nel
son, chairman of the War Production
Board, said the American Navy has
fourteen thousand ships, “more than
double the size of all the navies in the
world,” and declared that after the
war “it must he dispensed with by a
round table discussion.’’
In an address before the Interna
tional Association of Lions Clubs,
Liston gave the following war pro- ‘
duction figures:
Ships: Three and one-half daily in
1942; five and one-half daily in 1943;
eleven and one-half today.
Eighty thousand landing craft for
the invasion of France:
1,100,000,060 rounds of artillery
ammunition in the last two years.
One ritte every thirty-two seconds.
$250,000,000 monthly for radio and
radar; more radios produced in one
month today than were produced in
one year at peace production peak. |
148,000 tanks in the last two years. 1
1,200,000 military trucks in the last]
year.
185,000 airplanes since Pearl Har
bor, with 1944 schedule calling for
100,000.
Total 1944 war production schedule,
$69,000,000,000, twenty per cent above
1943 schedule.
SOVIETS STORM
GREAT POLISH
PETROL CENTER
Stalin’s L.egions Comprise 11
Armies On 1,200-Mile Front,
More In Balkans.
London, Aug. 6.—'Russian troops
dealt another severe blow to Germa
ny’s dwindling oil supplies today by
capturing Drohobycz, prewar Poland’s
largest petroleum center and fortress
city guarding the approaches to the
Carpathian mountain passes leading
into Czechoslovakia.
Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin’s
order of the day announcing the suc
cessful storming of Drohobcz, in the
portion of Galacia annexed by Russia
in the 1939 partition of Poland, dis
closed the emergence of a new Soviet
army in the summer offensive —the
Fourth Ukraine—led by Col. Gen.
Ivan Petrov, defender of Sevastopol
in the 1941-43 German siege.
There are now 11 Soviet armies hit
ting the enemy on a 1,200-mile front
from Finland down to the Carpathian
mountains. Other Russian armies still
are poised in Romania for a possible
i resumption soon of the drive on the j
' Ploesti oil fields in that country. Ger
man broadcasts again told of Nazi at
tacks on Odessa, important Soviet
Black Sea supply port in the south.
The Soviet daily communique said
the Russians had captured 30 more
localities west of the Dubissa river,
northwest of Kaunas, and Berlin
broadcasts acknowledged that German
lines had been hurled buck several
miles in that area, where the Rus
sians were aiming toward the East
Prussian rail center of Tilsit.
Places Captured.
Russian troops in the San Vistula
triangle below besieged Warsaw in
Poland also cleared the enemy from
h 14-mile stretch of the Vistula's east
, ba i k between the mouth of the San
river and Tarnobrzeg, the bulletin
said. The Soviets hitting in this area
also captured Mielec, rail junction 20
miles northeast of Tarnow, crossed
, the nearby Wisloka river and captured
localities is on the west bank of the
I Wisloka, a tributary of the Vistula.
Roaring Allied Drive
Smash Nazi Lines In
Mighty Armor Battle
Leads Guam Marines
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lllpx
nw n y
MaJ. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, 11. S.
marine corps, commanding general
of the Third Amphibious corps, who
led the |J. S. forces that landed on
the Jap-held former IT.l T . S. posses
kion of Guam. This was the first
thrust at former American terri
tory.
PLAN REVIEW
OF 18-25 4-FS
Local Draft Board Ordered To
Ke-Examine Men Under
New Test Program.
Washington, Aug. 3.—Selective ser
vice today instructed local draft
boards to review 'h , ■ •d‘ all veg
istrants 18 through 25 found unfit for
military service prior to June 1 be
cause of educational or mental defic
iencies.
The review was ordered because
army induction centers for the last
two months have been using new tests
designed to determine more accurately
the educational and mental qualifica
tions of registrants.
Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey,
in a memorandum to local boards,
said that previous tests had been
"least accurate in borderline cases.”
Under the new tests, it was under
stood registrants are accepted foi
service if they are found to have de
ficiencies which may be eliminated in
training.
As of June 1, selective service rec
ords showed 582,100 registrants in
4-F because of educational or mental
deficiencies.
Rev. George S. Bowden, Os
Gastonia, Suffers Stroke Os
Paralysis In Local Church
Rev. George S. Bowden, pastor of
Holy Trinity Lutheran church in (las
tonia, suffered a stroke of paralysis
yesterday morning while serving as
guest minister in the Emmanuel Lu
theran church in this city.
Rev. Mr. Bowden had just announ
ced his text and launched into his
sermon when he was seen to slump
forward in the pulpit. Mrs. Bowden
and their daughter, Miss Katherine
Bowden, who were in the church and
several members of the congregation
reached his side immediately and he
To Hold Memorial Service
For Pvt. Clyde Abernethy
A memorial service for Pvt. Thom-1
as Clyde Abernethy. who was killed
in action in Italy on June 3, will be J
held next Sunday afternoon at 4;
o’clock from the Wayside Christian j
church on the Buffalo Shoals road.
The pastor, Rev. T. J. Morris, will be j
assisted in the service by Chaplain
Scott, of Morris Field, Charlotte, and |
Rev. A. B. MdCure, H. E. Stimson,
and 11. B. Jones.
Harold Houser Sends
Home German Rifle
Harold Houser, Cox., U. S. Navy,
has sent bis father, M. A. Houser, a
German "O'e which he recently cap
tured. In a letter to his father he
told him that he prized the rifle
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Great New Arc, Unchecked By
Enemy, Bulges Into Interior
Os France.
Supreme Headquarters Allied Ex
peditionary Force, Monday, Aug. 7.
American armor and infantry, having
ovrrun the Brittany peninsula, roared
toward Paris today in a full-force at
tack which captured the towns of
Mayenne, Laval and Chateau Gontier,
180 miles inland from the embattled
peninsula port of Brest.
The great new arc of the unchecked
assault was bulging into the interior
of France a full 5U miles west of Ren
nes and within 140 miles of Paris, at
a speed which, a spokesman said, has
brought the invasion virtually up to
its time table after seven weeks of
hard slogging during vile weather in
Normandy.
The line of the American advance
ran from Barentan through Mayenne
and towns along and across the May
enne river to within 25 miles of An
gers, which is 75 miles up the Loire
river.
Consolidated.
Swift capture of the towns was be
ing consolidated by infantry which
sped up fn trucks as fast as the ar
mored spearheads shot forward.
The whole American grip on and
around the sliced-off Brittany penin
sula was regarded as firm.
The Americans were fighting their
way in the outlying streets of Brest,
where on the approaches of by-passed
St. Malo, had dug into the last crusts
of resistance at the suburbs of Lor
ient and St. Nazaire, and were thrust
ing down the last 14 miles toward
Nantes for the cleanup of those five
I most important ports' of Brittany.
The Germans were believed to be
putting up desperate backstto-the-sea
resistance at those points if nowhere
else in the peninsula. Their first at
tempt at a miniature “Dunkerque”
flight by sea was smashed when the
British and Canadian warships sank
all seven ships of one German convoy
attempting to flee from St. Nazaire
and shelled a second convoy back into
the isolated port.
The Americans completed the mop
up of La Glaeilly, eight miles north of
Redon and .'l4 miles north of St. Na
zaire, captured Gourin, 44 miles south
east of Brest; crushed fierce German
resistance south of St. Sever foiest
by capturing St. Michel de Montjoi on
their left flank in Normandy, and en
veloped Amhriers le Grand, three and
one-half miles north of Mayeenne, in
boadening t'lei. eastward salient.
was removed to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Corriher, next door to the
church, where it was seen that his
left arm and leg were almost com
pletely paralyzed. His speech organs
were also affected. Later in the day
the stricken minister was removed to
the City hospital in Gastonia.
Dr. L. A. Thomas, pastor of the lo
cal church, Was at the time filling the
pulpit at Holy Trinity church as guest
minister, it bing the custom for the
two ministers to exchange pulpits on
occasion.
I Pvt. Abernethy lacked but 12 days
of reaching his 29th birthday whan
| he was killed. He was inducted into
1 the army Sept. 3, 1943, and took his
! basic training at Ft. McClellan, Ala.
! He was in an infantry division.
| His parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
| Abernethy and his widow is Mrs.
Pauline Ewing Abernethy, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Ewing, of East
| Lincoln.
greatly and asked him to take care
of it for him until he returned home,
when he intended to use it to shoot
deer
As far as is known this is the first
. German rifle to be sent from “over
1 there” to this country. Those who
have seen the rifle say it is not as
• good or modern a weapon as Ameri
' can boys have to fight with.