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S'KEEP FAITH \withus—\ \by buying l ./war bonds $2.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE American Forces Reach Marne River C. D. (Block) Smith, Former LHS Coach And Teacher, Dies Dies From Injuries. mm ■***■ I.T. CHARLES I). SMITH. DEWEY PRAISES SOLDIER VOTING Says It Was Democrats Who Criticized New York's Serv ice Balloting Law. Albany, N. V., Aug. 28. Express ing a hope that servicemen and their families "will remember it was the Democratic party and its satellites that made false and irresponsible charges” against New York’s soldier voting law, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey issued a report tonight describing the system as a "tremendous success.” Ihe report released through the Governor’s office here during the ab sence in Pawling, was submitted to Dewey by Chairman William T. Simp son of the State War Ballot Commis sion. Estimating that 550,(MM) or 75 per cent of New York’s servicemen ami women of voting age will receive a lull state ballot, Simpson declared that “New York has already estab lished voting contact with twice as many servicemen as the national uv eiage.” Two modern Idlle girls on their way home from Sunday school were solemnly dCvussing the lesson. "Do you believe there a devil?” asked one. "No,’' said the other promptly. "It’s like Santa Claus; it’s your father.” \Henderson Explains Object Os Committee For Economic Development W. t‘. Henderson, county chairman of the Commit She for Economic De velopment. in a well attended meeting at the court house Thursday night, explained th e aims and objects of the committee and the duties of the vari ous divisions. For the benefit of the public the full text us Mr. Hender son’s talk is given here: “Never before in the history of this country have we been faced with such affective problems than those which will need solving when this war is finished. To say critical would he putting it lightly. What tile correct answers will be none of us now know. But, we can lay our plans now so that whatever those problems are we can help lessen the shock of adjustment. “When 1 say lessen the shock 1 say it advisedly, for whatever are the best laid plans there will still be on us all at impact of great magnitude. “You are here tonight because, first, you were especially invited and be cause, secondly, you are vitally inter ested in what we propose should be done in Lincoln county to meet and solv.j these problems which fate will have imposed on us. Don’t think for a minute that we will be immune or an exception. Although our problems may not be as complete as in other places, w e will have our problems and plenty of them. I will attempt to give you 8 slight preview. “The logical methods to approach any problems are to establish the known facts plus a little crystal gaz ing. With that information at hand and with a lot of intelligent planning we can then respectably face the fu turp with a degree of assurance. “Our great country was founded ar.d developed into the greatest na tion on earth through honest-to-good ness down to earth policies of indi vidual and group pioneering—that ' s by doing things for ourselves. “It is true in any complex society of people it is necessary to have .aws, sometimes rigid, so the strong will not trample on the weak; so that jus tice and fair play is meted out tq all. It is also true that ill advised laws, dictates and directives can hamper The Lincoln Times ★ ★ ★ Death Resulted From Injuries Received While Playing Came Os Softball. Charles D. (Block) Smith, for 12 years teacher of science and athletic coach in the Lineolnton high school, and for the past two years first lieu tenant in the United States Army, died in a Naval hospital at Key West, Fla., early Friday morning. His death came as the result of complications which followed an acci dent he sustained three weeks ago. while playing a gam e of softball with fellow officers against an enlisted men’s nine at Fort Taylor, where he was stationed. According to word re ceived here he sustained a leg fracture while sliding to second base. With that indomitable courage which he possesed he continued on to third when he fainted and had to he taken from the game. Complications set in on the fracture, causing infection of the lungs. The end came suddenly at a time when he was believed to be im proved and over the danger period. The body, accompanied by Mrs. Smith, who had spent the summer with her husband at Key West, and an army escort, was brought hack to his old home near Greensboro and fu neral rites were conducted this morn ing at 11 o’clock front the New Gar dens Meeting house at Guilford Col lege, of which he was a member, burial was in the New Garden ceme tery. Lieut. Smith was born February 2, 1901, in Guilford county, the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Smith, of Greens boro, Koute -1. Other survivors are his wife, the former Miss Elizabeth Hoke, of this city, to whom he was married August 20, 1942; three broth ers, Hayes H. Smith, of Greensboro; Sam D. Smith, of Spokane, Washing ton; and Sgt. Hubert Smith, who is in New Guinea; and one sister, Mrs. E. A. Frazier, of High Point. He was connected with the Lincoln ton schools from 1925 to 1937, during v hit'll the school’s athletic department made a steady and rapid advance-; ment. He was held in the highest es teem in the community and was great ly beloved by the hoys who came un der his training. The following well deserved tribute to his coaching ability was written by Floyd Moure, for the Greensboro News; (Continued on pave two) and hamstring initiative and encour age furtive designs and desires to rule and not govern. It is true when we should not seek to those things which were so natural and essential to our pioneer fathers we will have laid aside our right to criticize, condemn and construct. We will have made our selves slaves to a system we condone. “Now and in succeeding months we have our choice —either we do things lor ourselves or we automatically hand over our pioneer prerogatives. And let me add in all fairness it could , happen regardless as to whatever gov ernment we might have for I firmly’ believe it would he absorption of ne- j cessity and not choice. I am not in jecting politics in my remarks as our program deals only in realities amt facts. “Take these facts therefore s 0 as to more clearly understand what 1 mean: “At present some 02 million persons j are gainfully employed ifi the Uni- j ted States, including more than ten | million in the armed forces. This fig- j ure compares with about 40 million j gainfully employed in 1940, including j 000 thousand in the armed forces. At that time, however, somewhere be- i tween six and nine million members | of the working population wer e un-1 employed. That was our pre-war po-! sition of available jobs, “When the war ends the total labor j forc e will not remain at its present level. Older workers will retire. Many young men will return to schools and colleges. Many women will go back to the task of making a home. “Experts of the Department of Commerce estimate that the total number of those that will seek work after the war —assuming 1946 or 1947 as the first postwar year—will be about 59.5 millions and that a satis factory employment goal will be reached if a total of approximately 57.5 millions jobs can be provided. “If we assume that 2.5 million men will remain in the armed services we arrive at a goal of 55 million jobs for total civilian employment, or some nine million mqre than employed in 1940. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY LINCOLNTON, N. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1944 ‘lnvasion Kid" Now Only Fifteen He’s only 15 hut he’s doing a man’s job. This coast guard “In vasion Kid.’’ Gerald W. Haddon. seaman secund class, us Chicago 111 who has been under fire of battle and Is a veteran of 15 landings oil the Normandy beach, granted to he the youngest invader iu Hie Allied forces. He enlisted when he was 11. October 1 Is Army Date To Finish Nazis M iss Mary N. Beal Dies After Illness Miss Mary N. Beal, Gy, died Thurs day afternoon at her home on Maiden, Route 1. She had been in ill health foi some time. She was the daughter of the late George Washington and Susi e Ann Saunders Beal, of Catawba county. One brother, with whom she made hej home, survives. Funeral services were condu .ted Saturday afternoon at La wing's Chap el Baptist church by Rev. Lawrence McClure, assisted L>y Kev. Mask* 11 Sides, and burial followed in the church cemetery. Mrs. A. G. High Dies In Local Hospital j Mrs. A. G. High died in a local hos pital Friday morning after an illness of seven weeks. She was a native of 1 South Carolina but had made her ! home in Hgh Shoals for several years. ' Surviving are her husband, six sons a daughter and several brothers and j sisters, Funeral services wet’e conducted j ] yesterday afternoon from the Mount Zion Baptist church, ten miles from j Spartanburg, and interment was in j the church Cemetery. "On the other hand, if we were to j he satisfied after the war with our 1940 level of production we would have not nin e millions hut 15 millions unemployed. Would out economy stand for that? I think not. They would demand that if business and agriculture could not supply these jobs, then the government must. “There nre approximately two mil lion business employers in the coun try. Os these 3,200 employ more than 1,000 workers; 35,000 employ between 100 and 1,000. The balance—not far from two million—employ less than 100. Small business —with less than 100 workers —-accounts for approxi- i mately 45 per cent of the total of cm-! ployment. Therefore small businesses j may conceivably he the ones that will j need to do the most planning. Their local plans or postwar production and j employment, infiuenced by national economic conditions will determine j the level of business production and j business employment. “Agriculture also provides jobs hut j the hulk of employment will be in pri vate business. Agriculture will ab sorb just about the number that has! been taken from it —'taking into con-: [ sideration expanded use of mechanical j farm equipment. Agriculture, how i ever, does account for a sizeable share j of national income. Therefore, what i the farmers plan to buy in the post war years will act as an invaluable uplift to industrial production. “Here is the dollars and cents pic ture. In 1940 with 40 million civilian! workers employed by private enter-1 prise and government the gross out- j put of goods and services amounted to 97 billion dollars. With 55 million em ployed after the war—again using I 1946-47 as the first postwar years— j our gross national output of goods j 1 and services could amount to more j j than 140 billion in terms of 1940 pri- 1 j ces—a gain in the physical volume j J production qf about 45 per cent. At I present price levels this figure would j be higher. That is surely big business j —mqre business. It is worth going] after. | “Also at the end of the war there | Washington, Aug, 25.- October 1, 1944, is the Army’s "tentative’’ date [•foi finishing the job against Germany, Chairman Woodrum, Democrat of Vir i gniia, told the House postwar military j policy committee today. J Rear Admiral James H. Irish, in ventory control officer, indicated to the same committee that the Navy expects to be fighting in the Pacific at least through 1945, President Roosevelt, meanwhile, de clined to he drawn into the discussions of when the war may end, telling re porters at his news conference that he is about the only man who hasn’t expressed an opinion. Woodrum gave no amplification. Neither did he say what was the source of his information. He merely interjected into the questioning of Irish the statement that the Army “tentatively*’ looks to October 1 as the date for the end of the war against Germany. Discussing supply needs in the Pa cific, Irish told the committee: “We are assuming that war will proceed on at least until the end of 1945.” Because it is dangerous to build up the Hessian Hy population, wheat ' should not he included in pasture mix tures, planted before October 15 in the Piedmont and October 25 in Coas tal Plains. j ;',e I, HmH W. C, HENDERSON, will he released a tremendous store of individual savings. It is estimated ; that at the end of 1944 individuals j will have over 100 billion dollars—oi about ten times greater than the high est prewar year. That is worth going after too. "Here in Lincoln county our poten tial will in all probability b e in pro portion to the national picture 1 havi ! just drawn —both as to unemploymeni ! and as to income. Our exact figures | oi as close as we can get to the cor. j rect figures that we propose to ob tain, will be explained to you a filth J later in the program of each divisioi j director. Roughly our preliminary pic | ture is this —and remember we ina; | find ourselves considerably wrong, li j 1940 there were employed in the tex i tile mills and furniture plants abqu j 3,0Q0; in 1944, today, it is about 2,70(1 Previous to 1940 it was about 2,500 j We have in the armed services am j war industries out of Lincoln count; ] about 3,000 employed. We do not hi.v j as yet any figure as to what propor | tion of these 3,000 are from industr; BULGARS AWAIT ALLIED TERMS FOR SURRENDER Workers Are Rushed To Tran-, sylvania By Hitler To Help In Holding Country. London, Aug. 37.—Pro-Allied Hun garians called on the last big Axis satellite in Hitler’s collapsing Balkaan front to quit the war today as the Germans strove desperately to keep weakened Hungary in line by rushing defense construction workers to her i imperiled frontiers. With Bulgaria awaiting delivery of j | American-British armistice terms and ' persistent reports that troops of ca ! pitulated Romania already were fight ing the Hungarians in disputed Tran sylvania. The Free Hungarian Council ! in London issued an appeal to all! Hungarians to overthrow their gov-! , eminent and turn their weapons j - against the Germans. | (CBS quoted the London radio as| I saying that Hungarian underground i I stations likewise called on the Hun-| i garian army to “throw the Germans! [ out of their country and quit the j Russian front.’’) . The Free Hungarian Council mani ’ > festo was drafted under the chair manship of Count Michael Karilyi, ' who was briefly president of the Hun- J garian republic in 1918, before that regime was supplanted by Bela Kim’s Communist government. y 1 A Moscow dispatch said the Ger . mails had rushed workers to Hun gary’s borders, particularly in Tran u sylvania, where they are particularly y vulnerable because of Romania’s sud t den capitulation and declaration of j war against Germany. King Mihai’s ! new pro-Ally government in Bucha , rest has announced its intention of re- i gaining Transylvania, ceded to Hun-] t gary in 1940 under Nazi dictation. t l In Bucharest the Romanian gov ( eminent issued a manifesto calling on I troops and civilians to chase the Ger-; '' ] mans out of that country and prevent ‘‘ them “from destroying the wealth of j • our country”—a nation rich in oil and | wheat. v r First Cotton Bale Ginned In Cleveland I Shelby, Aug. 25.—The first bale of '' Cleveland county’s 1944 cotton crop * came from the gin late Wednesday. | It was raised on the Jimmy Bridges I farm near Boiling Springs hy Hoyle j i Blalock, who has made something of i •a specialty this season, reporting the | first bloom and one of the first bolls, j i It is Coker No. 6. The cotton was ginned hy the C. J. ] j Hamrick and Sons gin at Boiling I and from the farms, nor of the total who are of school age or retirement age °r normally homemakers. But ad justing our total figures to the nation al average in industry we will have after the war, here in Lincoln county, an estimated 500 to 1,000 unemployed, j Think of that possibility. Think o' the j problems we could have with that many dissatisfied but willing to work citizens. Remember, too. most of those unemployed will he ex-servic.. men — can w e think we can get hy safely should we fail tq find jobs for them. Such failure on our part would he our regret am( shame, “Lincoln county’s annual income — not gross worth of goods produced, is ] approximately seven million dollars divided fur industry at abou four million dollars and for agriculture at ' about three million dollars. Our hank deposits in the county are about 3.5 millions dollars per year which means that about the same or 3.5 million - dollars are deposited outside of Lin coin county or not deposited at all. Adjusting this to th e national aver -41 age of possible increase in the out s' put of goods and services, Lincoln ir county could and should have an an nual income of between ten and elev en million dollars. “It is easy to see that if such an income could be had what expansions 1 in industry and agriculture ar e need ed—what plans the merchants wholesalers and retailers, would have to make to adequately handle the vol ’ unie of business that would he coming ~ their way. And that program would automatically provide jobs. )n “Our inspiration and sources of free material comes from the nation ,y al organization which Is sponsored by [ n leading business men and individuals —and financed by them. We, however, at must finance what little expense we ,q will have, 0. “The national office is in New York id and is governed by a board of trus ty tees. The nation is divided into twelve v P regions corrsponding roughly to the r- twelve Federal Reserve regions. Each ry region is divided into districts and ★ ★ ★ Yanks In Lightning Move To Head Off Retreating Enemy Appointed Chairman Os Lincoln County Salvage Committee fe* -■ **» \Y. M. Glenn has received his of ficial appointment as chairman of the Lincoln County Salvage Committee. The appointment, which was made by \ \Y. E. Garrison, chairman of the Lin coln County Council of Defense, was ; confirmed by George K. Snow, execu tive secretary for North Carolina of the general salvage branch WPB. In acknowledging the appointment I Secretary Snow said: "I congratulate your county upon securing your ser vices for the highly important work. I know that you have already been engaged in scrap paper drives in your county and your fine work has been sincerely appreciated.” GRANDPA, DADDY, SAME DAY. Manhattan Beach, Calif., Aug. 25. A new father and grandfather—and on the same day. That’s what happen ed to grandpa-daddy Harry L. White, whose son-in-law, C. D. O’Dell, of Fiesno. Calif., telegraphed “Ruth in hospital. Baby boy born last night.” White promptly wired: "Mom in hos pital, too. Baby boy born last night.” ! Springs and was purchased at thirty I cents a pound by Harry Cohen, pro- ! prietor of Cohen’s store which each [ season buy s the first bale. we are in th e North Carolina district, i Our district chairman is Mr. Robert i Hanes, of Winston-Salem, president ol the Wachovia National Bank. { "The principles* for which the C. E. i D. stand are approved by the United s i States Chamber of Commerce, the Na- i tional Association of Manufacturers, i > the National Retail Dry Goods Asso- t ciation, the United State Department 1 of Commerce and others. The C. E. D. j in every phase is non-profit, non- - political, non-partisan; neither an of- : ficial oi- semiofficial part of the gov- i eminent. It is 100 per cent independ- J ent. j " There are tw 0 main divisions of * j the (\ K. D.—the Field Development I Division which is as the title indi- 1 | cates. It furnishes materials and ; ' causes local organzations, such as; ours, to he formed. The Research Di- j ' vision in which the best minds among : economists, scientists and business!' I men team up to work on problems of j national policy. They also study and j analyze federal laws of all types in j eluding the complexities of taxation. I "Our Lincoln county set up is pat -11 terned after the national plan of or , ganization. Your county chairman re | ceived his appointment from state ; and national officials after first be -11 ing recommended by responsible town j ' | and county citizens. He in turn ap • pointed a vice-chairman, division di rectors and an executive planning board. He has charged the executive planning board with full powers of ; responsibility for the general opera ‘ tions, planning and governing our j county program. The division direct s i ors have been given free choice in the - ( selection and appointment of their ►’ 1 staff The chairman has appointed sj several leading and (Representative \ j citizens as members 0 f the advisory e board and asks each division to select two or three of its personnel to he k their representatives on that board, ,- and suggests the full board select its el own chairman. e "The two local newspapers have h published the executive personnel of Lincoln county C. E. D. A com- "i rrfTA BONOS \Jb IMEAN MORE. THAN A (good INVESTMENT SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS All Germans Cleared From Seine Between Paris And Troyes As Americans Stab Close To Battlegrounds Os First World War And 118 Miles From Reich. Supreme Headquarters Allied Ex peditionary Force, Monday, Aug. 28 —After virtually clearing all Ger mans from the Seine between Paris and Troyes, U. S. armored spearheads wheeled northward today in a move taking- shap e as a flanking drive against til,, retreat route of the bat tered German Fifteenth army from the channel coast to Belgium and the Reich. One of the probing spearheads reached the Marne in the vicinity of Lagny, 15 miles east of Paris and within 10 miles of Meaux, where the Kaiser’s armies were halted 30 years ago. Far to the southeast, forces which reached Troyes last week, thrust a column northward 12 miles toward Arcis-sur-Aube, encountering stif fened Nazi resistance. This force was but 118 miles from the Reich border (The Algiers radio said U. S. spearheads had crossed the Marne at Vitry, 45 miles southwest of Verdun.) Between Paris and Troyes ground troops mopped up small German pockets by-passed in the armored ad vance. Tank forces also reached Pecy, Nangis and Provina—all southeast of Paris between the Seine and the Marne —and farther east drove to Romilly. Between Paris and the mouth of the Seine there was activity of three types—the British building up a bridgehead at Vernon to strike out probably in the direction of Beauvis, the Canadians, and Belgians and Dutch engaging in what one observer called a “fair-sized slaughter” of Nazi Seventh army remnants and the Americans cleaning out German stragglers between Mantes and Paris. In Paris itself, where Gen. Dwight Eisenhower was a Sunday visitor, the Germans have been eliminated from all but a few isolated strong points. As Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ar rived in Paris, his armies on the northwest and southeast streamed across the Seine in great strength, driving the Germans pell mell from below the rocket coast toward Ger many, now only about 118 miles ahead ol the rumbling U. S. tank columns. plete chart of all members will be published next week. “Business and agriculture through the C. E. D. is taking the leadership in th e battle for some jobs, the re sultant increased income, and an ade quately balanced economy after the war. If private business and agricul ture do not provide the desired results then the government will have to, and government employment, the W. P. A.’s etc., might conceivably be almost as disastrous to our free society as mass unemployment. But business and agriculture cannot do the whole job alone—it must work with the cooper ation of the government if America’s goal of opportunity for nine million more peacetime job than ever existed before is to become a reality. “It is known by all of us that to tal reconversion from war to peace time strides cannot take place all at once. Therefore, the federal govern ment and our local and county gov ernments will have to help take up the slack in unemployment through the sponsoring of needed and worth while public projects. In Lincolnton and Lincoln county we have several such needs. The C. E. D. i s interested and for that reason has established a public works division. | “We must add here, however, that we as a committee will be appraised as to what those projects might be, but we will take no active part in planning for such. That is too con troversial. Our committee must re main free of any possible issues of that nature. To other civic organiza tions and our governing bodies is left that job if they so choose. Gentlemen, this has been a lengthy discussion, but I believe you will agree that it has been necessary in order to explain to you fully what your C. E. D. program is about. May 1 urgently request that you read thoroughly the material that has been handed to you. May I also ask that you cooperate with your division di | rector and do the job he asks of you. It is vital for you to plan and plan now for the future.”
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