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mimnrrm $2.00 PER YEAR -IN ADVANCE • Pfc. Jacob E. Ingle Is Killed In France Will Preach First Sermon Here Sunday -.J jjßs! It ML I .■ : KK\ . IIRNKY C. ROGERS. NEW PASTOR FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Will Arrive In Lincolnton To day And Assume His Duties. Rev. Henry C. Rogers, of Nashville, Tenn., who has accepted a call to the First Baptist church here, will arrive in Lincolnton today and assume his duties. He will fill the pulpit at both tne morning and evening worshp ser vices next Sunday. The new pastor is widely recognized as one of the leading ministers in the Southern Baptist Convention. H e has been serving a? intermediate worker of Baptist Training Union of the Southern Baptist Convention for sev eral years. Mr. Rogers is a native of Georgia, and attended Howard College of Ala-| bama. He has been studying at Yala University during the past months, j Mr. and Mrs. Rogers will raafte their home in the Baptist nastorium on [ North Cedar street. Hull Says Nazis Seek Peace On Easy Terms Washington, Aug. Hu. Secretary of State Hull paid today that Ger many now U .evidently desirous of u negotiated peace, but that the Allied position for unconditional surrender is too well known to require reitera tion. Hull also declared that the Ameri can government has constantly in mind that Adolf Hitler and some of' his henchmen may try to escape from Germany to neutral countries. Ihe government, he said, is working on that pioblein. Military men have expressed ap prehension that Hitler might find sanctuary in Argentina or Spain. Hull rec itled to his news conference that President Roosevelt appealed to the neutrals a year ago not to furnish refuge to any Nazi leader and that the British made similar overtures. Gen. Dittmar Sees Defeat. The question of a negotiated peace arose when newsmen asked Hull to comment on a broadcast by the tier man central start* spokesman, Lt. Gen. Kurt Dittmar, that hope of victory was past, and that the German armies must fight on now for the best possi ble peace terms. Buy another War Bond today. N. C. To Be Saluted On U. S. Treasury Radio Program Whiteville, N. C., Aug. 28 —Th e U. S. Treasury's radio program, “Youth on Parade,” broadcast on a coast-to coast hook-up of the Columbia Broad casting System, will salute North Carolina Saturday morning, Septem ber 2, at 10:30 a. m., Eastern War Time when Phillip Weaver, ten-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. (1. E. Weaver, of Whiteville, N. C., will be awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Treas ury Department, according to an an nouncement made today by Allison , James, executive manager of the North Carolina War Finance Commit tee. The certificate will be awarded in appreciation for the presentation of a Cocker Spaniel puppy, Philip's bosom companion, to be sold at auction dui ing a war bond auction held in the Whiteville high school auditorium last January for which $50,000 was high bid. Phillip and his mother expect to leave here Wednesday for Boston, Mass., where the program will origi nate. Phillip will appear in person on the program. The situation created an intense hu man interest story which Editor Jas. Rogers, of Whiteville News Reporter, was quick to put into words for his The Lincoln Timeg- ★ ★ ★ Killed August 1; Had Been Re ported Missing By The War Department. Pfc. Jacob Edward Ingle, 25, of i Vale, Route 1, recently listed as miss- I mg, is now reported killed in action j on August 1, in France, according to a message from the War Depatment received by his parents Mr. and Mrs. •S. F. Ingle. Pfc. Ingle, a graduate of the Black turn High school, with the class of 1939, was inducted in the Army Au gust 10, 1941. H e received his boot training at Camp Croft, S. C., then served 18 months in the Panama Ca nal. He was returned to the States and given a year’s training at Camp Carson, Colo., and Camp Roberts, Calif. The latter part of June, 1944, h e sailed from Fort George G. Meade, .Vld., for England. On July 20 he went to France. Ten days later Pfc. Ingle would have celebrated his third year in the service of his country. Pfc. Ingle is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Ingle, of Vale, Route 1; four sisters, Mrs. Hat tit Smith, Mrs. Mary Mathus, of the Vale community; Mrs. Margaret Kir by and Wilhelma, of the home; two brothers, David, of South Carolina; and Ruffin (Bud) of the U. S. Navy; also his grandmother, who makes her hom e with his parents; hi? fiancee. [ Miss Lois Laney, of Lincolnton, Route 3; and a host of relatives and friends. JAMESISCHRUM ! CALLED BY DEATH Died In Presbyterian Hospital In Charlotte Last Sunday After Long Illness. James David Schruni, ten-months old son of James H. Schrum, CM 3/c, and Mrs. Schrum, died in the Presby terian hospital in Charlotte last Sun day after an illness of seven weeks. He was born October 29, 1943. The baby’s father, who is stationed in California, was given an emergency leave and was here when his son died. Ip. addition to his parents, survivors are grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Goodson, of Denver, and IVli*. and Mrs. Edgar S. Schrum, of Lin colnton. Funeral services were conducted I Monday morning at 11 o’clock from the First Methodist church at Den-1 ver, the pastor, Rev. John Green, be-j ing assisted by Rev. C. C. Herbert, Jr., of this city. Burial w r as in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Gorman Huss and Harry Mullen. Honorary pallbearers were Pat Goodson and Datha Dalton. The flowers, which were carried by aunts, cousins and friends, were in charge of Miss Lucille Goodson. Lincolnton Girls To Be Presented In Recital The Lincolnton Music Club will pre sent Miss Mary Lillian Jonas, soprano, and Miss Margaret Anna Winstead, pianist, in recital Thursday evening, September 7, at 8:15 o’clock, in the high school auditorium. Miss Jonas was graduated in voice this spring from Greensboro College. She was the -pupil of Walter VaSsar. Miss Winstead was graduated in I piano this spring from Salem College. 1 She was the pupil of Dr. Charles G. Vardell. Miss Louise Wetmore will be ac companist for Miss Jonas. The public is cordially invited. newspaper. Subsequently t.he story gained national attention and was spotlighted over the radio and in mag azines and leading dalles throughout the nation. When it came to the at tention of the North Carolina War Bond officials, they immediately cited Phillip for his patriotic sacrifice in support of the war effort. Letters came to him as far west as the Pa cific Coast and Pacific war theatre applauding him for his action. The Blue network featured th e story, as did the Coronet Story telling radio hour of Coronet magazine, and Dale Carnegie featured it in one of his columns appearing in the New York Daily Mirror. The high bidder for the puppy v on the night of the auction restored him to Phillip to the great surprise of Phillip and wild applause of th e au dience. It was one of those situation? packed with human emotion which caught and tore at the heart strings of a large and appreciative audience. The CBS program on which the pre sentation will he made will carry over a hookup of 71 stations. Several leading North Carolina stations will carry the program. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY LINCOLNTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUG. 31, 1944 British Soldiers Turn Farmers ■ * ■ iy At. A- " V A 4 r ’ V * .. i •;> .. t , v - '* ,*» #*s* , > ... -: •■■■ c »>.<.♦ >r ■ - ?.A Harvesting Is going an in full swing in Normandy in spite of the war and a good harvest is expected. British soldiers, off duty, are helping French farmers with the harvesting in the midst of all kinds of machines of war. Above is a general view of the reapers at work. Freezer-Locker For Lincoln County Now Practically Assured Program Being Sponsored Jointly By Rotary And Kiwanis Clubs. A modern cold storage ami food processing plant is in the offing for Lincoln county, if plans now being made by a joint Kiwanis-Rotary Com mittee, and other interested parties, materialize. For the past two or more years,, there has been talk in the community for such a plant, hut apparently the present movement ht*s gained mere momentum than any in the past. Present plans call for a combination foot! locker storage plant plus facili ties for processing .and curing and freezing meats. Provision is planned lor future expansion of the plant, should the business demand it, into storage facilities for fruits, vegeta bles and possibly commercial articles. The matter was discussed at the August 14 meeting of the Kiwanis Club, and Dr. S. H. Steelman, W. F. Garrison and J. A. Polhill appointed as a committee to serve with like committees from other organizations to determine the community interest and investigate its feasibility. On August 21 the Rotary Club appoint ed Dr. L. A. Crowell, Jr., Herbert I Miller and Dewey Hoyle on a similar committee. The two committees got together during the past week and elected Dr. L. A. Crowell, Jr., tem porary chairman: Flans are now be ing laid to contact as many farmers as possible in the county and try to ascertain the interest in and demand foi such a plant. The wartime conditions make it necessary to obtain priorities for building material and machinery for such plants, hut the government fav ors the building of such plants where sufficient community interest is shown It has been estimated that a 300- locker plant would fit Lincoln county’s needs, and the Department of Agricul ture requires that 60 pt r cent of that number, or 180, must be subscribed for beforehand by food producers be fore application for priorities may be made. A “food producer” is defined as a person whose principal income comes from production of food. There is abundant proof that fresh food frozen immediately and kept be low freezing (usually at about zero) maintans its freshness, its food value and vitamin content for a long period of time, months or years. Such a plant will make available for our commu nity the means of preserving and thus preventing waste of perishable foods. The food value of frozen foods is far superior to that of foods preserved by Donald M. Nelson’s Eclipse In WPB Seen By Capitol Writers Washington, Aug. 28.—1 tis consid ered doubtful here that Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Produc tion Board, on leave for a mission to China, will resume his former status when h e returns. In the resignation of Charles E. W ilson, Executive Vice-Chairman of the Board, who returns to the General Electric Company, and the departure of Mr. Nelson, the major difficulty President Roosevelt has faced since he came to office is again disclosed; his difficulty in handling persohalites, and his unwillingness to fire anybody even when their.views are at swords points with those of others in the same organization. I the usual methods of canning. The preservation of egg, apples, I peaches, sweet potatoes and various 1 perishable vegetables and fruits, as j well as of meats, can be done in such I: a plant better than by any other f means. : Present plans call for a mass meet -! ing in the Lincoln county court room . 1 at 7:30 p. m. on September 133, for all i persons in the county interested in *1 such a plant for our county. Speakers will b* there to explain various de • tails concerning its construction and • j operation. All persons in the county* * who are interested in using the fa i ! cilties of a cold storage plant or of i helping to finance it are urged to he II present. Rev. Beck Called To ' # j Bedside Os Mother Rev. Walter C. Heck was called to Hazelton, Pa., yesterday because of ' the critical illness of his mother, Mrs. | P Jgrßeck. Because of his absence there will be rio preaching service in the Re formed church Sunday. The service which Mr. Beck was to conduct at Daniels Reformed church Sunday : morning has also been cancelled. George Daniels, Lincolnton Negro, Is Killed In Navy I George Daniels, seaman 3/c, U. S. • N., 22, has been killed in the South Pacific, the Navy Department in- I • | formed his mother, Margaret John-! ‘ | son, of Lincolnton. In civilian life Seaman Daniels was j • | employed as a cook. He was a gradu- j ‘ ate of Oaklawn High school of this j ■ city, a very studious young man, and | ’ one of the high school’s outstanding j - athletes, excelling in all sports. j L Seaman Daniels, (Ditty Bo) to most j 1 o! his friends, was one of Lincoln- j - ton’s finest young colored men, and i i Was highly respected by old and j 5 young, white and colored. Prior to en-i -* tering the service Seaman Daniels I had been an active member of Troop ‘ j Ten Boy Scouts of America. He was ' I also a member of A. M. E. Zion ) | church. • | Seaman Daniels is survived by his 1 j mother, stepfather, Sid Johnson; three t ' sisters, Bettie Brooks, Ida Mae John - son and Julia Helms Johnson; four s brothers, Robert Johnson, Shelly 1 Johnson, Sid Junior Johnson, Lionel l* Johnson; grandmother, Bessie Court y ney. A spectacular upset occurred in the love-feast arranged between Messrs. Nelson and Wilson, when the former started for China and the latter was scheduled to take over the organiza tion in Mr. Nelson’s adsence. Instead of that several different of ficial versions were issued as to how long Mr. Nelson would be away, while Mr. Wilson’s pent-up feelings finally burst forth in an attack, which in cluded personal criticism of Mr. Nel son and his own resignation. Upshot of it all is that Lieut. Com mander J. A. Krug, who returned only war theatre, finds himself running three days ago from the European WPB. OPENING OF SCHOOLS OF LINCOLN COUNTY Regular School Work To Be gin Monday Morning September 18. Joe R. Nixon. Superintendent, has issued the following notice regarding the opening Lincoln County schools: School pupils are to enter school and begin their school work Monday, Sept. 18, in following schools: Crouse, Love Memorial, Laboratory, Long Shoals, Asbury, Iron Station anil Hickory Grove. School pupils are to enter and be gin their school work Wednesday, September 2U, in the following schools: North Brook No. 1, North Brook No. 2, North Brook No. 3, Un ion, Howard’s Creek, Rock Springs, Triangle and Machpelah. Oak Grove Pupils: The elementary and high school pupils of this district will he transported to the Union school. The bus for these pupils will start Wednesday, September 20, the opening date of Union school. This will give two extra days this year for cotton picking, and in normal years will give the children of the district a divided term to help their parents in harvesting crops. In all schools the teachers and prin cipals will have a two days’ confer ence prior to the opening of school. All schools which have had divided terms will have half-day sessions un til the cotton is picked. TWO MEN DIE AS PLANE CRASHES AT HICKORY AIRPORT Crack-Up Fatal to H. B. Geer And John Bruce, Both Os Rntherford County. Hickory’s first fatal airplane acci dent occurred at 6:35 a. m. Tuesday when an Aeronc a Chief ship occupied by H. B. Geer, 32, and John Bruce, 38, civilian pilots from Rutherford county, crashed at the southeastern! end of the Hickory Municipal airport. | Bruce was almost instantly killed i and Geer who was at the controls of the plane when it took off, died iit a Hickory hospital a t 9:12 p. *n. Physicians at the hospital said Bruce died of a fractured cervical ver tebrae and Geer from th,* shock of a brain concussion, a severe fracture of the skull, and fracture of both bones ot both legs. Both Thrown Clear. Both men wer e thrown from the plane when it crashed into the grass of the field, approximately 250 feet ■ oft’ the southeast runway. One was hurtled out a door of the plane and the other through the bottom of the single-motor craft. The entire nose of the plane was demolished and the right wing was twisted into a cork screw. Observers said the engine began to miss when Geer and Bruce got about 20 feet otl* the ground. They contin ued to rise, however, until the plane was about one hundred feet beyond the edge of the southeast runway, and about 150 feet in the air, it is said, then tried to turn back. As they did so, the ship is reported to have gone into a quarter of a turn of a right spin, and crashed onto its nose and right wing. Ambulances Summoned. Two ambulances were hastily sum moned to the scene but Bruce was be yond all medical aid and Geer was st-en to be critically hurt. Geer and Bruce had tiown to Hic kory to pay for work done on a cub plane owned by the Avondale Flying Club, of which they were members. Trie Aeronca Chief they flew was also owned by the club. First Serious Accident. Previously not even a serious air accident had occurred in this city, al though approximately I,OUU Army and Navy cadets and hundreds of civilian pilots have been trained here. Officials of the local port stated to day that Geer and Bruce had three chances of getting hack onto the field safely, despite the mechanical lault in tire motor of their craft. Probe Being Made. Fred Powell, of the Civil Aeronau tics Authority came to Hickory from Atlanta early this afternoon for an investigation of the crash. Geer, it is understood, had Cracked up a cub plane in Rutherford county about a month ago. Strange Calse of Mumps Hit Charlotte Soldier An Air Transport Command Base in Great Britain. —One of tlie medics at this British base of the American Air Transport Command looked up at Franklyn “Zeke" Hager, Charlotte, N. C., observed a large lump on his jaw, and told him to fall out and be examined for mumps. Half an hour laier when the doe went to examine him the lump was gone. “Twuz just ' chawin’ terbacky," explained Zeke in : his best Carolina manner. t - BUY ANOTHER BOND TODAY! ★ ★ ★ Russians Capture Great Ploesti Oil Fields In Romania Escape From Nazis Ail immigration officer checks the tags of some of the 1,000 refugees from Italy who have just arrived at Hohoken. \. J. They will be housed and cared lor at Fort Ontario, near Oswego, N. Y. ROTARY CLUB HOLDS MEETING B. C. Lineberger, who was in charge of tlie Rotary program at Tuesday’s luncheon meeting, presented Dave Hall, of Belmont, as guest speaker. Mr. Hall’s subject was “Ships,” and h t . made an inspiring talk, pointing out the importance of ships in the shaping of civilization since the be ginning of time. In the second half of his talk he discussed the “good-ship of-peace,” pointing out some of the ships needed tr> bring this about, namely, comrade-ship, fellow-ship, companion-ship, citizen-ship, states man-ship, owner-ship and wor-ship. Dr. L. A. Crowell, Jr., reported on the freezer-locker movement for Lin colnton and Lincoln county, and an nounced a meeting at the court house tor Friday night, September 8, for any who may be interested. President S. Ray Lowder presided. Visitors were Rev. Henry S. Robin son, of Durant, Miss.; James C. Watts, Charlotte; Bill Hall, Belmont; Charlie Bryant, Gastonia; Paul John son. Hendersonville; B. C. Lineberger, Jr., Lt. Robert H. Lineberger, U. S. A., Lt. J. L. Rhnne, U. S. A., and Rev. Grant Folmsby. C. Guy Rudisill, Jr. Receives Proihotion Camp Kohler, Calif.. Aug. 26.—-Pvt. j C. Guy Rudisill, Jr., who is stationed at the Western Signal Corps Train ing Center at ( amp Kohler, Calif., has been promoted to the grade of T-5, according to an announcement by Col. John L. Autrey, commanding of fier. T/5 Guy Rudisill. resident of Lin colnton, N. C., is the husband of Mrs. C. Guy Rudisill, Jr., Lincolnton, N. C., and son of Mrs. C. Guy Rudisill, Sr., Lincolnton, N. C. He entered the Army December 29, 1943. Camp Kohler is one of three main , Signal Corps Training Centers in the United States, the others being loca ted at Camp Crowder, Mo., and Fort Monmouth, N. J. Fear Hitler And Henchmen May Fly To Neutral Country To Seek Refuge From Allies Washington, Aug. 29.—Military leaders here are becoming increas ingly apprehensive over the possibility that Adolf Htler and some of his henchmen may fly from their bat tered inner fortress in tlie next few weeks and seek refuge in a neutral country. Concern has become such that a new appeal may b e issued to th t . neu trals not to give sanctuary to the men who led the world into war and now appear bent upon a final drama of un paralleled bloodlust in Europe. Such an appeal would be directed. particularly to Spain and Argentina, because of their past or present links with the Nazi government of Germany and the strong suspicions current in diplomatic and treasury circles here that German leaders have stored funds in both countries. American officials consider it a foregone conclusion that many of the Nazi hierarchy who are too well known to have any chance of con cealment in Germany by going under ground will try to save themselves from Allied trial and punishment by dramatic airplane escapes. The last hope of escape, it is be- L( . library ‘ * * ! SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS Rich Petroleum Area Falla To Stalin’a Hoats In Lightning Drive Through Romania;. Hitler Now Dependent On Synthetic Supplies. London, Aug. 30. —The Red Army captured the city of Ploesti and all its rich surrounding petroleum fields today and raced on less than 17 miles from Bucharest in the lightning cam paign to annihilate the Germans in Romania. Fall of Ploesti, long the greatest singl e source of oil for the German armies, was hailed as the most signifi cant day’s victory of the entire invas ion of Romania. More than 200 other towns were taken around Ploesti and northeast (.*’ Bucharest, wher e the Romanians have announced they already have freed their capital of ihe Germans since shifting from the Axis to the Allied side a week ago. The nearest announced Soviet approach to Bucha rest was with the capture of Meriuta, 17 miles northeast. Eastward, in cleaning out the big wedge of land between th e Danube and the Black Sea, the Russians an nounced capture of another 100 towns. But it was the drive through Ploesti on Bucharest that brought th e day’s most spectacular success and netted another big bag of German prisoners —15,000 taken Tuesday including Lt. Gen. Weitzer and two other divisional j commanders, th e Soviet midnight j communique disclosed. Premier Stalin announced the Ploe j sti triumph in a special order of the I day addressed to Gen. Rodion Y. Maii | novsky, whose second Ukrainian j Army only Tuesday captured Buzau, 12 miles by road northeast of Ploesti, j and without pause fanned out over the whole oil field area in a day’s time, j The advance put these troops in j good position to cut off any German j escape westward across southern Ro j mania from Gen. Feodor L. Tolbuk | bin’s Third Ukrainian Army. Uncertain. Current production of Ploesti oil is uncertain. Allied headquarters figures in London showed that the refineries | there used to produce 10.000.0u0 tons of petroleum annually. The refineries have been repeated targets of American bombers, with an intensive campaign since May which undoubtedly has reduced pro duction. The wells, however, were de liberately avoided. | Despite mining of the Danube and | olasting of other transport routes to j Germany, the Ploesto oil wells had been Germany’s one source of natural ! oil in any volume, i The Nazi loss was hailed in Moscow I t v a salute of 20 salves iron. 224 can- County’s First Sale Os Cotton Reported The first bale of cotton from the 1944 crop reported in the county was grown by A. M. Kiser and ginned yes terday by J. D. McLurd and Son, of Crouse. The cotton was sold to Lineberger Bros, for 25 cents per pound. j The National W. C. T. U. has is- I sued a call to prayer for September | 3. The local union will observe it Sun | day afternoon at 4 o’clock at the ! home of Mrs. Heim Hoover. Friends ! of the cause are invited. lieved, is on e of the reasons why so many of the top men in Nazidom to day are willing to stick with Hitler while all over Europe their political and military fortress is caving in. What Hitler will do remains the all-consuming speculation in Wash ington and th e convention of officials with whom the subject has been dis cussed is that if he is not killed at the last minute by some of his own henchmen he may very well kill him self. There always remains the chance however that he will quit the coun ■ try. It has been almost exactly a year | since the question of sanctuary was last taken up with the neutrals. At that time Italy was falling and the future of Mussolini was a subject of speculation like that now centered on Hitler. The State Department then in structed its diplomatic representatives in Stockholm, Ankara, Madrid, Lis bon, Bern, Vatican City and Buenos Aires to call attention of the neutral governments to a peace conference statement by President Roosevelt urging against asylum for “Axis leaders or their tools.”