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POPULATION (1940 Census) Lincoln County 24,187 Lincolnton 4,525 Crouse 221 Iron Station 96 Denver 354 $2.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE Americans Reported On German Soil Rev. Dr. Stokes To Speak At Methodist Church Wednesday Photo from the Chin-.i-Burma-In dia theater shows Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell wearing the four stars of his new rank. He joins a rank held by only five otiier Americans in ac tive service. The Germans Said To Be Rushing Plans To Use Poison Gas New York, Aug. 31.—The London radio has quoted information received in Switzerland p.s indicating that the Germans are preparing to use poison gas as a last resort. The London broadcast added that according to the information received in Geneva, Ger man factories are working night and day producing gas masks, while chemical works are preparing secret products. The broadcast quoted a comment in tht Swiss newspaper, Gazette He Lahsanne. The newspaper states that since Germany has lost mastery of the air, her efforts will have to be limited to senseless attacks which will not b e able to influence the course of the war in the least. RED CROSS NEWS . Thp surgical dressings room is still open for tht* women who can sacrifice . some of their tinu to make a few' ban-J The response lias been most ! disappointing, and we would like to see more of our old faithful-, back on the job. The need for these bandages has not relaxed for one moment, and the war is still going on over there, men are still dying, and the great ne cessity for bandages goes on just the same. Vacation time is over here, there is no vacation overseas. \V e want to congratulate the wom en of Boger City who have been giv ing one night in a week to the surgical diessin-’s. In less than two hours they made 1,375 dressings. That is excell ent work. The bus will stop at Boger City again Thursday night at 6:*is. Be on hand and bring a friend with you. We cannot praise our knitters enough. You are doing a wonderful job. We know that no other chapter this size excells our knitting depart ment. Thanks again and again for vour cooperation. Your work is ex cellent and needed. Our production corps will receive another quota of kit bags to be made shortly. Plan now to make as many as you can. Just call the office and tell us how many you want and we will see that you get them promptly. This quota has not come i*i Y e C but there will be 400 more to be dore. We are counting on you to help fill this number. Wanderer Returns After Long Absence Given To Traveling Hickory Sept. I.—’Like Enoch Ar-i den of old, Lewis Glenn Knssell has | returned after 13 years’ absence from j Hickory. After a telephone conversation with j his sstei, Mrs. Wayne Houchins, who had traced him to Ogden, Utah, the local man wrote a letter about the places he has roamed since he suc cumbed to a thirst for travel and ad venture. “For the first four or five years,” he said, “1 roamed over the country New Orleans, El I'aso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Portland, Spokane, and across Montana into North Dakota and Montana. 1 worked in the grain haivest for two years. I was also in Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, Tulsa and Oklahoma City, back to Western New York and west again to Oma ha. “I first went to work for Union Pa The Lincoln Times ★ ★ ★ ■ Served As Missionary To Korea And The Isles of Pines Near Cuba. The Rev. Dr. Marion B. Stokes, dis tinguished missiontry to the Isle of Pines, near Cuba, will speak at the First Methodist church on Wednes day evening at 8 o’clock. For mors than thirty years Dr. Stokes was a .missionary to Korea. Because of the war he was withdrawn from Korea and then went to serve the Americans and Spanish-speaking people on the Isle of Pines. H e has thus had first hand contact with two of the most im portant areas of present-day life, and can give authoritative comments on the situation in the Far East and also our relationships with the Latin American nations to the South. A native of South Carolina, Dr. Stokes is a graduate of Wofford Col lege. He did graduate work at Emory University and received the Master of Arts degrees from that institution. Ashury College in Wilmore, Ky., has conferred oil him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He has four sons in the Methodist ministry. One of them, Dr. Charles Stokes, is well known to the people of Lincolnton, since he spent a summer here several years ago serving as assistant to Dr. A. L. Stan ford, then the Methodist pastor. Dr. Stokes is a brother of Mrs. R. J. Sifford, of Lincolnton. He and Mrs. Stokes will he the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sifford while they are here. They are expected to arrive on Monday afternoon. In commenting on the address to he given by l)r. Stokes, Rev. C. C. Her bert, Jr., pastor of the Methodist chureh, said: “It will he a high privi lege for the people of our church and the entire community to hear this able and consecrated world-Christian. Dr Stokes is not only an eloquent, warm hearted preacher of the gospel, he is abio a man of the keenest intellect. One indication of this is the fact that, after he had spent 30 years in Korea and had mastered the language and customs of that nation, when lie was sent to Cuba a few years ago, he was not content to speak only to those who understood English. He immediately set hmself to learn the Spanish lan guage, and in a remakably short time was able to lift up Christ to the people, who spoke Spanish in the language they could understand. Bishop Paul K. Kern, in telling me about this splendid achievement of Dr. Stokes recently, said that it was on e of the most amazing examples of intelligent consecration in present-day Christian missions. We are more than delighted to have this distinguished man speak in our church. Th e Methodists extend a cordial invitation to every interest ed person to come and hear him next Wednesday night.” Consider Leaving Jeeps In Europe London, Aug. 31.—Th e use of jeeps and other military equipment in re storing Europe’s agriculture after the war is being considered by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The proposal has the tentative support of two United j States representatives visiting Lon i don. j Representative Karl Mundt, of South Lakota, and James Richards, of South Carolina, has approved the plan I on the condition that the cost be cred j ited against the American contribu -1 tion to the U. N. R. R. A. treasury. cific Railway Company a t Fremont, Neb., in the summer of 1935. In 1938 1 went to work for the bridge depart ment of the Southern Pacific between Ogden and Reno and helped drive the temporary bridge after the stream liner, San Francisco, plunged into the Humboldt river near Carlin, Nev., in 1939. For the last two and a half years 1 have worked as freight clerk with the Southern Pacific.” Nothing had been heard from Lewis Glenn since he left Hickory 13 years ago at the age of 28, until he wrote a brother, Locke Russell, formerly a Hickory attorney but now in the U. :S. Army in Australia. He has also communicated with his father, Judge D. L. Russell, who is practicng law in Raleigh. He is writing his brother-’, Robert, with the Army in Italy, and John, first class petty officer in the Navy, Portsmouth, Va. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY LINCOLNTON, N. C„ MONDAY, SEPT. 4, 1944 Help F reneli Collaborat ionist This collaborationist seems badly in need of protection as he had lost his pants to the angry group of Parisians, and lie’s shown as he is taken into protective custody by members of the 11 1. GENERAL URGES CITIZEN ARMY Marshall Stresses Reserve Pow- c er Rather Than Large Pro fessional Organization. , Washington, Sept. I.—Gen. George , l. Marshall has told army planners that tlie postwar American arm> t must consist of the smallest possible • professional organization, with citi [ zen-reserves, because the large stand- j ing army “has no place among the in- | stitutions of a modern democrats [ state. ” j His directive, it was learned tonight, i has just been issued as basic policy j for all officers planning the perma- 1 pent postwar army organization. It contains, however, a warning that the s war-time army may be needed long p alter the deteat ot the Axis powers, ( in order to help establish peace-time j conditions agreed upon by the Allies. t Depends On Congress. ?i And it contains also a statement that the policy directive is based on * the assumption that Congress will ap prove a system of universal military » training, under which “every able bodied young American shall be trai ■ ned to defend bis country,” remaining a member of the reserve component < ot the army for a “reasonable period” after his training is completed. Details of the permaneiy organize- ! tion, the directive says, cannot be de termined until the nation’s postwar 1 commitments are known—they change with the changes n the weapons. 1 inodes and transportation and interna tional relations. It adds, however, that the type of organization -the small 1 professional nucleus augmented in emergencies by the citizen army—has ' been the American way since the 1 foundation of the republic and “will j therefore be made the basis for all plans for postwar peace establish- r ment.” Columbo Mother, 78, Dies Unaware of His Death 10 Yeas Ago ;i Hollywood, Aug-. 31.—Mrs. Julia | Colombo’s lif e ended last night- and I with i( one of the tenderest deeept- j I ions ever enacted in this capital of j make-believe. She was the 78-year-old mother of j Russ Colombo, handsome crooner and movie star. She died still happy in the belief that he was winning even more ! fame abroad —mercifully unaware that actually he himself had died a | decade ago. Russ was killed September 2, 1934, then 26 and at the crest of a career as a night club singer and film actor. He and friends were examining an old j Civil War cap-and-ball pistol, heliev-] ing it unloaded. The weapon dischar ged .and the bullet struck him in the . brain. His mother was too ill from a hear, j ailment to he told of his death. So each week she received a letter i from “Russ.” Actually it was written j by her husband, Nicholas, or one of the other four children —Tony, in Philadelphia; Albert, John and Mrs. C'armela Tempest here. The msssive would he filled with newsy accounts, tender sentiments, | reports of his successes abroad, and i regrets that he was still too busy to return for a visit. Once a month the letter contained a check for $398, supposedly fiom Russ. It was the payment to her from his insuranc g policy. T-5 J. P. Canipe, Maiden, Killed In France August 8 Maiden, Aug. 31. —Technician Fifth Grade Jolly P. Canipe was killed in action in France on August 8, accord ing tu a message received here Wed nesday by his wife, Mrs. Nancy Wa sham Canipe, from the War Depart ment. He volunteered for service on Sep tember 7, 1942, and took his training at Fort Knox, Ky.. and Camp Camp bell, Ky. lie had been overseas for 18 months serving with the tank forces in th»* North African campaign and the invasion of Sicily. Later he was taken to England. He was with the I IJ. S. forces on D-Day that invaded * France and fought with the tank lorces until his death. Surviving besides his wife is one son, Michael; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Canipe; two brothers, Geo. Canipe, of the Merchant Marines, and Morris Canipe, of Atlanta, Ga.; and two sisters, Miss Bonnie Canipe, and Mil. James Roberston, of Portsmouth. JWWWV\VWYVYWVVYWYWVV^VYV Soil Conservation News (By S /. POLLOCK) ■.W,W.\\\W.VAW.W.Y F. A. Shuford, who lives on the Startown road, is planning on seed ing approximately five acres to per manent pasture this fall. Now that we have had rain, it is an ideal time to get the land in shape for seeding. Lime and fertilizer can be applied at the time th e land is prepared. I>. A. Logan, of the Daniels cont inuity, had approximately 50 acres staked by the district. The terraces will be constructed by the county, unit. There will b e a one-day training class in staking and checking terraces Tuesday at 9 a. m. All who are inter ested in staking- m checking terraces should be present. These men are be ing trained by the district to assist the AAA m their new terracing program. Kush Beam, of the North Brook No. 3 school, had a fish pond staked by the district. O. V. Hauss, of the Salem neigh borhood, had approximately 12 acres staked by the district. Mr. Hauss plans to construct the terraces with his farm equipment. 19 SELECTEES TO GO TO CAMP CROFT —*: —* i Pre-induction notices have been mailed to the following men who will ; report to the local hoard off ice rMon ! day, September 11. at 8:45 a. m. for I trip to Camp Croft, S. C,; | Charles David Sigmon. | Charley Hoover Seagle. Bonnie Melvin Wilson, j Donald Lagary Fisher, j Robert Alexander Cobb. I Robert Lewis Denton, trans out. Daniel Morgan Scronce. Robert Lewis Beal. Charles Ensor Hobbs. Glenn Lee Parker. James Samuel Stowe, Jr. J Calvin Henry Burrell. I Luther Yarbrough, Jr. Bryan Lewis Dellinger, Jr., vol. Reese Daniel Abernethy. For immediate induction: Claude (NMN) Hoyle, vol. Arnold Ernest Tarr. William Ralph Eaker, vol. 11 SELECTEES TO GO TO CAMP CROFT Induction notices have been mailed to the following registrants who are scheduled to report to the local hoard office at 8:45 a. m„ Thursday, Sept. 14, for trip to Camp Croft, S. C., where they will be assigned to either the Army or Navy for induction: Robert Jame s Beal. I Thomas Woodrow Roach. Herbert Neale Roach. Julius Monroe Clark, vol. Sidney Perry Hoyle, vol. Ralph Herbert Hudson, vol. Wade Lawrence Beal, vol. Eli David Helms. Ralph Hoyt Wise. James Luther Hoyle. Lewis Neil Grant, trans in. DR. L. H. COFFEY PASSES AWAY Died In Local Hospital Sunday Afternoon After Suffering Stroke Saturday. Dr. Lawrence H. Coffey, of Wax haw, tiieil in a local hospital yester day afternoon at 2 o’clock. He was spending some time with his family in the mountains w'hen he suffered a stroke of paralysis Saturday and was removed to the Lincolnton hospital, j Previously he had had several minor strokes. He was 68 years old. Surviving are his widow, who was formerly Miss Ada Costner, oi this city; two sons, Capt. Jack Coffey, who , j is stationed in Texas; and William Coffey, of Charlotte; and three grand- children. He also leaves a daughter by a former marriage. Funeral services will be held in Waxhaw Tuesday morning and the body will be taken to the Coffey burial ' t ground, near Lenoir, for interment. Dr. Coffey wa s one of Waxhaw’s most prominent and best liked citi zens. He was also well known here. Representative To Be In Lincolnton • • i A representative of the Social Se- j curity Board at Gastonia will be in , Lincolnton on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month in the fu ture. Heretofore the schedule in Lin- t coin tun has been on the second and ( fourth Tuesdays. This change in schedule has been necessary in order to allow more time for serving Lin- | coin county claimants. While in Lincolnton Allen T Boger, Jr.., manager us the Gastonia office, stops in the court room of the county . court house for the convenience of Lincoln county people. Mr. Boger will be glad to discuss possible claims for old age and survivors insuiance with survivors of deceased wage earners, , 01 wit ti letiring wage earners aged 65 , oi over, llis next trip to Lincolnton • will be on Thursday, Septembei 14, at | 2 p. m., in the court room of the coun- ( ty court house. j Persons who believe they may be entitled to benefits should see him on j the above date. Union Club To Hold Family Picnic —■ . ! The Union Home Demonstration Club w-ill hold its annual family night picnic at the club house Thursday night, September 7, at 8 o’clock. The picnic is being given in honor of Mi. and Mrs. J. F. Turner, who are leav ing the community. Friend;-, of Mr. and Mrs. Turner also are invited. Those who attend ar e asked not to forget a basket lunch. ROUNDUP OF WAT WESTERN FRONT Americans speed to Namur, 35 miles inside Bel gium; British close on Brussels; Eis enhower calls on Belgians to assist liberation; other forces driving to ward Germany push through Metz and Nancy; FFI radio ut Paris says] Americans fighting in Germany;, bombers blast Brest. EASTERN FRONT Russians! smashing toward Yugoslavia and | Transylvania capture 40 towns, strengthen hold along Bulgarian bor der; Finland moves toward complete rupture with Germany. SOUTHERN FRONT Lyons, France’s third largest city, seized by Allied forces chasing German rem nants up Rhone valley; Allies in Italy surge forward through widening gaps in German Gothic line. PACIFIC—Davao, in southern Phil ippines, again hit by bombers. Japa nese lost ground in northern Burma and southwest China but start new drivei from Hengyang in Hunan prov ince. ★ ★ ★ Stockholm Report Says Yanks Have Taken Reich City Capt. Robert Miller i To Arrive Home Today JET C Capt. Robert P. Miller (above) is expected to reach Lincolnton some " t*nie today after 2(» months spent with the 38th Evacuation Hospital Unit l 1 overseas. He reached Fort Bragg this *' morning and was met there by Mrs. s Miller and their son, Robert, Jr., and 11 his father, Plato Miller. Capt. Miller is coming home on ® leave and it is understood he will re- f join his unit at the expiration of his visit. i Seriously Wounded In * Action In France 1 Mr. and Mrs. John H. Avery, of Lin- j 1 colnton, Route 3, hare been notified.' that their son Pfc. Johnny Avery, has been seriously wounded in action in ! France. The telegram, signed by Adjutant 1 General J. A. Ulio, read: “Regret to “ inform you your son was* seriously v wounded in action thirteen August in 1 Fiance. Until new address i s received J address mail for him, Pfc. Johnny Av ery, Jr., serial number (hospitalized) e Central Po*tal Directory, APO fi4o, cure Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Pfc. .Avery was in the infantry branch of the service. He enlisted in li#39 and hail been overseas for some time. | I Get Cotton Ready ] For Smooth Ginning 1 With cotton picking and ginning e now underway, it is a good time to re-j I member that neither "green” nor! "damp” cotton can he ginned without j ' lowering the quality of the lint, says | 1 C. L. McCaslon, extension gin special- j 1 ist at State College. Every year North Carolina growers ' los e many thousands of dollars early t in the season by not allowing their * cotton to “ripen” before it is carried 1 to tile gin. "It’s poor policy to raise good cotton and then have it damaged L in the ginning process, because it has i not been allowed to thoroughly dry I out and get in condition for the best I job of ginning,” McCaslon points out. There will he a shortage of labor I during the cotton picking season and < there will be a tendency to go into the 1 fields too early in the morning. Al though many gin are now equipped 1 with huller s and dryers, the host g.n in the country cannot produce high ' quality lint from dirty, trashy, and ' damp cotton. With cotton at relatively high pri ces, the grower has the opportunity i ot getting some mighty good prem- 1 iums for cotton of normal to high quality. Slight differences in grade l will make big dift'erences in profits. Cotton should be picked as early as j possible after it opens because the I longer it is left in the field, exposed to the sun and rain, the lower the ' quality. In storing cotton, it is good policy to put it just in front of th e door of the cotton house. The next afternoon the cotton can he moved back just far enough to make room for the day's picking. Then, on the third day, it can be moved back still farther. Turning the cotton in this way several times allows it to dry out properly and get in good condition for ginning. Jap Air Force Forced To Quit S. Mindanao General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Monday, Sept. 4.—The Japa • nese air force has been driven from ■ the airfields of southern Mindanao, 1 Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced i today in reporting a record 130-ton - raid on Davao, principal city of that] south Phliupine island. Lincoln County's ii favorite Family Newspaper SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS —st- Allied Troops Said To Have Captured Village Inside Os Germany, Near Junction Os Nazi, French And Luxem burg Frontiers. Supreme Headquarters, Allied Ex peditionary Force, Sept. 4.—(Mon day)—American troop s stormed into Germany and captured their first town, neutral reports said today, as other Allied armies ripped through Belgium and into Holland, crushing remnants of the broken German, army. While a Stockholm report said Am erican tankmen had captured Perl just inside the Germoti a frontier near the junction of Germany, France and Luxembourg, farther to the north in a sweep through the low countries U. S. First Army units took Moris, 30 miles from Brussels. There was no confirmation at Su preme headquarters that the Ameri cans had crossed into Germany or of a German report that they were now fighting in Holland. Armored columns of Americans plunging up the broad valley of the Meuse reaced Namur, 35 miles in side Belgium yesterlay while 125 miles to the south Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army pushed through Metz and Nancy toward the German frontier 35 miles away. According to latest reports both American and British troops were closing in on Brussels, capital of Bel gium. The Germans, nowhere on the scat tered battlelines, were making any determined effort to stem the racing armor and there was no indication they were planning to use the French built, German-dismantled Maginot line as a defense. British and Canadian forces swung two more bridgeheads across the Somme, east and west of Abbevilie, which was being mopped up, and reached Ailly Le Haut and Clocher, four miles beyond the river, and Grand Laviers, but two miles north east of Abbeville. Report Not Confirmed. Supreme headquarters had no of ficial confirmation of reports that Al lied forces had captured Le Tounet, Boulogne, Calais and Dunkerque. Axis reports said American troops had reach the Maas (Julian canal) which is actually inside Holland in the Maasticht appendix jutting down be tween Germany and Belgium. A s the battle for France apparently ended and the fight for Belgium ap peared nearing its end the BBC in London broadcast recorded by the FFC said "the Belgian government, now in London, is to return to Bel gium in a few days.” (Supreme headquarters generally was silent for “security reasons on the rapid advances of Allied forces, but it appeared the showdown battle for Germany was on.) With the Allied armies drawing coser to the Reich the Germans were reported pouring troops into the Seig friend line for the showdown battle for Germany.. The speed with which Patton’s forces were rolling and the insignifi cant opposition the enemy was offer ing probably means the American Third Army will reach the German frontier today. Th e battle for Germany was draw ing nearer hourly—with no strong opposition in sight short of the Reich itself —even as shots of by-passed German rearguards punctuated the dying hours of the battle of France ■ on the fifth anniversary of Britain’s declaration of war. i He Makes Hay In The Wrong Field Newton, Aug. 29.—A Catawba far mer recently agreed to cut a neigh bor’s hay field for a share of the crop Two days later he returned to rake and bal P th e hay. In the field he was greeted by another man who thanked him for his efforts. The helpful far mer, it appears, had cut the wrong field. NOTICE. Attention Juniors! Let Virtue, Lib erty and Patriotism be first! There will be a county-wide meet ing of the Jr. O. U. A. M. Saturday night, September 9, at 8 o’clock, with Vale Council 128, at Vale, N. C. (Cat Square). D. F. Milwood, of Shelby, will be present, also E. W. Dixon, trustee of the Children’s Home at Lexington will make a report. EveTy Junior is in- I vited.
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