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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 Residents Os Leyte Led Miserable Life While Under Japs j GAS AND TIRE • I RATIONING GUIDE j j .- - I t GAS—I:3O P. M. every J J Monday, Wednesday and J ! Friday. J J TIRES—I:3O P. M. every* J Tuesday and Thursday. * ! For the benefit of the pub* J ! •ic the Gas and Tire Panels J J will meet on the above spec- J J ified days at 1:30 p. m. NoJ| J applications will be acted * J upon outside of Panel ses- * 0 . 0 J sions, excepting Emergencies * TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE The following real estate transfers have been recorded in the office of W. H. Boring, register of deeds: Gus Hendrix and wife, Dora, to Aaron Mosteller, property in Lincoln county. W. C. Buff and wife, Cora C., to Alonzo M. Church, one lot on State street, Lincolnton. Marcus Blaine Harris and wife, Gladys, to R. C. Caldwell and wife, Grace, lot on Highway No. 150. R. H. McManus and wife, Eunice, to T. N. Janies, lot in Boger City. Ivey Loftin to W. K. Cater and wife, Allie, tract in Lincoln county. ' Paul Yarbrough and wife, Ollie 1 Mae, to Grady Keever, lot in Wam pum Mill village. Miss Eva James to V. M. Ram. seur, tract in I ronton township. Mrs. Ella Crowell Lore to J. Claude ' Carpenter and wife, Ruth, property 1 in Ward 4. /, Gus Hendrix and wife, Dora, to Roy ' Carpenter and wife, Lillie, tract in 1 Lincoln county. C. D. Deaton and wife, Minnie Lee, 1 to I). L. Gregg and wife, Minnie Del- I la, tract in Lincolnton township. 1 Robert A. Bridges to Hal Hoyle and I wife, Marie, property in Ward 1, Lin- ' colnton. S. S. Carpenter and wife Mae, to Gordon I*. Guudson and wife, Betty, ‘ lots in Willis-Jones subdivision. 4 D. P. Abernethy and wife, Flossie, * to Gordon L. (loodson and wife, Betty, i J property in lronton township. 7., B. Ritchie and wife, Florence, to 1 Gordon L. Goodson and wife, Betty, | c property in lronton township. 1 R. O. Mundy and wife, Maggie, to•: W. C. Armstrong and wife, Grace, I * property in Catawba Springs town- 1 ship. t Roy C. Hoyle and wife, Eva, to i Thos. F. Moore and wife, Ethel, prop- c erty in Lincolnton township. Mrs. Mary E. Harrill to Roy C. Hoyle and wife, Eva, property in 1 Ward 3, Lincolnton. c Kate Ballard Hollsted to Mrs. A. A. J Keeveiff property in Catawba Springs t township. s President Extends Political Itinerary Membership Campaign For The Boy Scouts Freed from the restriction which the recent polio epidemic placed upon their activities, the Boy Scouts of this area are joining with enthusiasm in a new membership campaign spon sored by the Piedmont Council. Each of the 221 Troops and Packs in the eleven-county council is aim ing at a goal of at least five new members by December 15. This would make an increase of 1,105 in the coun cil total which stands today at 4,468. To every Troop and Pack attain ing the high standard will be given a special award of merit, to be dis played in its meeting place. Regis trations at the council office in Gas tonia from October 1 to December 15, inclusive, will count. Last autumn, and in the fall of 1942 membership campaigns were a great success in the eleven counties, Alex ander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, McDowell, Polk and Rutherford. Scout Executive R. M. Schiele and local lead ers are calling upon all Troops, Cub Packs and Senior Units to make an even better report this time. Under good management and ade quate fire protection North Carolina farm woods can double their present production, says R. W. Graeber, Ex tension farm forester of State College. Give to the United War Fund - Flow Big Is Your h jrt ? The Lincoln Times ★ ★ ★ » Two And A Half Years Under J Japanese Rule Particularly ! Hard For Americans. < .. j Tacloban, Leyte Island, Philippines, i Oct. 23.—(Delayed)—It has been a j miserable and frightening two and a i half years for the people of Leyte | since the Japanese came and particu > larly so for Tucloban’s three remain , ing citizens of American ancestry. [ Robert Price, 33, is one of the three, i His brother, Joe, is another, and loe ] Mooney, who worked for the Prices is | the third. ! The three were immediately suspec ted of collusion whenever there was an outbreak of guerrilla activity on Leyte or more recently whenever there was ! an American air attack on the island. “On every one of these occasions,” Price said, “we would be routed, and hauled off to jail, not only ourselves but our children and our Filipino wives and mothers. “I guess we had trials if you could call them trials. The Japs would take you upstairs and ask you a few ques tions. If they weren’t satisfied with the answer they would beat you and then tie your hands and feet behind your back and hang you up by the aims from a cross beam.” Scars Are Proof. Price showed scars on his wrists. “Once,” he continued, “1 hung there for an hour and a half. All 1 would I have to do was to kick my feet and spin around like a barbecue.” The Prices and Mooney spent nearly | half their time in jail since the Japa nese arrived on May 26. 1942, and the rest of the time hiding or work ing under duress for the enemy. The Price’s father, Walter Price, a captain in the American Army, and native of Philadelphia, stayed in the Philippines after the war in 1898 and in 1911 founded the Leyte Land Transportation Company which in time became Tacloban’s dominant business and made the Prices the town’s most influential family. The elder Price, 68, was taken to a concentration camp in January, 1943, along with Tadoban’s other full, blooded Americans—Joseph Barber, a ' farmer; Mrs. Haines, the school su- j perintendent (first name unavailable),' and Mr. Radcliffe, a shipping agent, (first name unavailable). Walter Price 1 writes occasionally that they are well, j Garrison Prisoner. Robert Price said most of the small American garrison here at the start oi the war was commanded by a Col. ( Cornell and wa* taken prisoner by the Japanese. The Japanese Untied at Carigara on ■ the north coast of Leyte the morning ot May 26, 1942, commandeered 78 at' the Price family buses and rolled into Tacloban the first night. For the first j seven months the invaders treated the Filipinos in general with decency, al though the Prices were forced to give up their home as a Japanese officers’ : club. Marketing quotas and acreage al lotments for 1944-45 wheat have been , officially ruled out by the War Food , Administration. It points out, how ever, that excess production will re- , suit in burdensome supplies. Roosevelt To Speak In Chicago Next Saturday Night In Ad dition To Appearances In New Jersey, Delaware And Indiana—Raps ‘Misleading’ Quotes. Washington, Oct. 24.—A Chicago speech next Saturday night and ap pearances in New Jersey, Delaware and Indiana were announced officially for President Roosevelt today while the Chief Executive told a news con ference his remark last July about not campaigning “in the usual sense” was being misquoted in a misleading way. Democratic National Chairman R. E. Hannegan announced in New York that the President would speak at Soldier Field, Chicago, Saturday night following his Friday night speech at Shibe baseball park in Philadelphia. He said Mr. Roosevelt would make a rea r platform appearance Friday morning at Wilmington, Del., and during the day would arrive in Cam den, N. J. On the way to Chicago, he will make a rear platform appearance at Fort Wayne, Ind. Hannegan’s announcement came while the President was tellingjthe news conference that a number of newspapers had misquoted him. He also took an obvious dig at what tb” Democrats contend is a practice by ! Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of using a quotation out of its context in a mis , leading manner. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY LINCOLNTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 1944. For the above heart to grow it will require generous contributions to the United War Fund ot Lincoln County, the Community Service League, and the Girl Scouts. A full size heart means your full size help. How Big Is Your Heart? „ Photo By Clyde Cornwell OFFICERS NAMED FOR LINCOLNTON FROZEN FOODS, INC. Stockholders in the Lincolnton Froz en Foods, ]Jc., tjeaently met and elected the following officers: Dr. L. A. Crowell, Jr., president; Dan M. Boyd, vice-president; W. D. Hoyle, secretary-treasurer. Os the 830,000 capital stock 517.000 has been paid in, it was announced. | The proposed Lincolnton unit will have 300 lockers and 60 per cent of these must be sold before priorities for erection of the plant will be granted. The total number sold to date is 150. Persons wishing to purchase one of the lockers -are asked to con- 1 tact either Dr. Crowell, Dr. S. H. I Steelman, L. D. Warlick, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Hoyle or J. A. Polhill. Each locker, it is understood, will contain approximately five and three quarter cubic feet of space and the! price range will b e from sl2 to sl7l per year, depending on location of lockers. Dr. Crowell stated yesterday that the proposed plant will have facili ties for ageing and chilling meat, salt curing meat in cold storage, also a sharp freezing unit for preserving fruits and vegetables. While it is pointed out the plant will have a particular appeal to farmers, there is no restriction on the sale of the lockers, and any person interested can purchase one. Jack I. Dellinger Receives Promotion Xn Eighth Air Force Bomber Sta tion, England.—Promotion of Jack L Dellinger, 20, of Lincolnton, N. C„ from corporal to sergeant has been announced at this Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress Station. Sgt. Dellinger is waist gunner on a F’ortress that has been bombing Nazi industries and military targets in i support of Allied ground forces. He is the son of Mrs. Ella P. Del linger of 111 West Water street, Lin colnton. Before entering the AAF in June, 1943, he was a student at Lin colnton High School. ! COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS : THEN OPEN YOUR PURSE 5 DIG DEEPER—GIVE MORE. 0 0 0 J HUMANITY IS ON THE MARCH! 0 0 —- 0 ■r-I.JiW 0 TWm , JpT’Wpif 0 V W: WSf 0 , ttte-.JHf 0 Wmm 0 0 0 w 0 0 "-''w \ HOW BIG IS YOUR HEART? 0 0 0 j $ 11,510.00 —Quota, j $ 3,996.50 —Your Gifts Through Oct. 25. 5 $ 7,513.50—8a1ance Needed Bv Oct. 31st. 0 0 0 \ UNITED WAR FUND OF \ LINCOLN COUNTY. 0 0 0 0 * B. C. Lineberger, Jr.) i Frank P. Heavner ) Co-Chairmen. Dewey Urges Peace Power Be Unlimited Now At Infantry Replacement Center Camp Wolters, Texas. Pvt. Joe E. Mull, 2G, husband of Mrs. Ruby Mull, of Route 2, Lincolnton N. C., has ar rived at this Infantry Replacement Center to begin his basic training as an Infantryman. He has been assigned j tc a battalion stressing ritte-heavy weapons-specialist training. SELECTEES TOGO TO CAMP CROFT I Pre-induction physical examination | notices have been mailed to these reg i ist rants to report to local board of fice November 6, at 8 a. m. for trip to Camp Croft, S. C.: Donald Henry Clanton. James Franklin Cline. Homer Lee Ledford. Clement Austin Reynolds. Calvin Richard Morrison. Paul Ray Bumgarner. Jacob Michael Shuford. George Thomas Sisk. Garmon Gaither Schrum. Robert Edward Willis. Eddie Richardson Rhodes, vol. James Harvey Shrum. Bobby Frank Wilson Clarence Dewey Brackett, Jr. Alfred Lester Reinhardt. Keith Junious Beam. George Alexander Robinson, Jr. Connie Clyde Wehunt. Paul Taylor Harkey. Alvin Hershell Canipe, Jr. Harold Ervin Reep. Leroy Tallent, vol. I Frank Benson Heafner. Therman Theodore Hoke. Coley Eugene Hager, j Everette Williams, vol. ! John J. Peeler. Abner Monroe Howard. John Alfred Drum, trans in. It is estimated that domestic air lines will fly 897,000,000 ton miles in ! mail, passenger and cargo by 1950. Says American Participation In World Organization Must Have No Reservations Os Authority By Congress For Action—Matches Roosevelt In Stand. Minneapolis, Oct. 24.—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey declared tonight that Am erican participation in a world peace oiganization “must not be subject to a reservation that would require our representatives to return to Congress for authority every time he had to make a decision.” The New York Governor, matching in general the stand taken by Presi dent Roosevelt in a foreign policy speech in New York Saturday night, threw in the following stipulation, with the added declaration that Mr. Roosevelt has demonstrated he "can not work with a Congress of his own party.” "Obviously Congress, and only Con gress, has the constitutional powe r to determine what quota of force it will make available and what discretion it will give our representatives to use that force.” “I have not the slightest doubt,” Dewey said in a prepared broadcast manuscript, “that a Congress which is working in partnership with the Presi uent will achieve the result we all conside,. essential and grant adequate power for swift action to the Ameri- I can representatives.” The Republican presidential candi date accused Mr. Roosevelt of having permitted the shipment to Japan of “as much as three million barrels a month of oil, the heart’s blood of war, for use against China and for storage against America” up until four months before Pearl Harbor. “Let those who claim to have ex ercised great foresight remember these lessons in history,” he said. “And let us as a nation never forget them.” Moreover, he declared, the first two i administrations of the New Deal sent | ten million tons of scrap iron and steel j to Japan “unchecked by my opponent I until October 16, 1940.” “The weight of that scrap iron alone,” he said, “was ten times the tonnage of the whole Japanese navy.” Dewey discarding the farm speech he had prepared for this Midwest cen ter, replied indirectly to the challenge of Senator Joseph H. Ball, Minnesota Republican, who has switched his sup port to Mr. Roosevelt on the foreign policy issue by declaring: “I have emphasized, as my oppon ent has Hot, that we must make cer tain that our participation in this world organization is not subjected to reservations that would nullify the power of that organization to main tain peace and to halt future aggres sion.” “That means, of course, that it must not be subject to a reservation that would require our representative to return to Congress for action.” Lincolnton Wolves To Battle NCSD Team We should have a close game, filled with excitement and thrills Fri day night, when the Lincolnton Wolves battle the NCSD team. You would like to see the Wolves win the conference, would you not? Well, at the present, they are leading the Western Conference with a record of so wins and one tie. Coach Kiser has been holding long practice sessions this week preparing for the game. The boys are showing a fine spirit and are striving to give the fans a fine and clean athletic pro gram. The NCSD team of Morganton is next in line for top honors, losing only one game, to Marion. The winning of the game will greatly determine who will be the champion of the Confer- ★ ★ ★ Jap Fleet Staggers Under Mighty Blow In Philippine Battle Lincolnton High School Honor Roll Below is the hono r roll for the first month for the Lincolnton High school: Eighth Grade—Martin Burg-in, Ma lic Heavner, Patricia Lawing, Shirley Lewis, Patsy Lineberger, Berlene Mc- Allister, Howard Wehunt, Martin • Turner, Shirley Drum, Dorothy Tuc ker, Mildred Smith, Gloria Hunt, Sara Heavner, Helen Forrester, Ruth Delk, Martha Delk, Joan Bondurant. Ninth Grade—Jimmy Babb, Glenda Lewis, Elsie Hoffman, Joanna Ballard, Phyllis Byers, Irvin Cohen, David Ki ser, Edgar Love, Lewis Ruth, Ran dolph Slaves, Vance Smith, Gladys Beaver, Judith Boyes, Jessie Eurey, Ann Goode, Ruth Grigg, Laura Hoff man, Mary Lola-, Marjorie Perry, Su san Pickens, Gertrude Thornbury. Tenth Grade —Elizabeth Beam, Wil ma Devine, Marguerite Leatherman, Sybil Lineberger, Betty Rhyne, Joyce Sigmon, Edgar Mauney, Ed Ramsaur, Jane Grigg, Dorothy Whitesides, Joyce Bandy, Betty Jean Conner, Ja nice Mac Lean, Sue McGinnis, Bonnie Mauney, Amelia Schrum, Will Dean Smith, Miles Beam, Bill Nicholson, Colleen Buff, Phyllis Costner, Doris Crowell, Polly Dellinger, Loretta Ken drick, Betty Kincaid, Mary Miller, Nancy Steelman, Patsy Ford, Betty Heafner, Phyllis Robinson, Rachel Whitesides, Edga,. Rudisill, Helen Knuckles. Twelfth Grade—Virginia Shuford, Ann Stuart Davis, Jill Dellinger, Bet ty Sue Elmore, Carolyn Roper, Lizzie Bell Beaver, Peggy Ann Costner, Aileen Huss, Ruby Lemmond, Janette I McGinnis, Betty Jean Mullen, Bobby Jean Padgett, Celia Pickens, Louise Warlick, Ryan Shelton, Jim Sigmon, Latham Summey, Anna Morrison, Peggy Martin Rhodes, Kemp Nixon, Shelley Roper, Betty Carol McAllis ter, Mary Nell Shidal, Janice Seagle. DEAN rTb.IoUSE ADDRESSES ROTARY Dean R. B. House, of Chapel Hill, who came to Lincolnton to speak be fore the Methodist Brotherhood Mon day night, remained over and was guest speaker at the Rotary luncheon meeting Tuesday. He was introduced by Rotarian Charles A, Jonas. The program was in charge of Rotarian Joe R. Nixon. President S. Ray Lowder announ ced to the club that next week’s meet ing will be held Thursday night at 7 o’clock at the Woman’s Club building, when the guest speake r will be Ed mund H. Harding, Tar Heel humor ist, of Washington, D. C. All Rotari ans are invited to bring thei r wives or sweethearts to the meeting, which will be informal. Visitors at Tuesday’s meeting were Capt, R. L. McCarty, of the U. S. Medical Corps, San Francisco, Calif.; Richard C. Boyd, Hickory; Charlie Bryant, Gastonia; Rev, Miles McLean, Lake Junaluska; Rev. Ivon L. Rob erts, Granite Falls; J. R. Dover, Jr., J, Frank Love. Dr. Sam Schenck, and Chas. P. Roberts, of Shelby; J. M. Saunders, of Chapel Hill; Rev. W. W. Rimmer, J. E, Kale, Jr., Joe A. Pol hill, S. M. Roper. R. J. Lewellyn, Lt. William F. Hoffman, Jr., and J. G. Morrison. The Kennedy Memorial Home in Lenoir county is using temporary grazing crops of soy be , arid velvet beans to produce beef at a much cheaper cost per pound. ence. This is the last home game sched uled at present. Come on over Friday night, Octobe,. 27, at 8 o’clock, and see the best game of the season. The line-up: Valentine, re.; Bynum, rt.; G. Schrum, lg.; Elmore, c.; Connor, rg.; Stamey, It.; Crowell, le.; Clanton, qb.; Hudspeth, rh.; Finger, Weaver, fb. Rev. W. L. Sherrill Topic Os Newspaper Biography Rev, W. L. Sherrill, of Charlotte, native of Lincolnton, is the subject of an article by Mrs. J. A. Yarbrough in Sunday’s Charlotte Observer. In part, it follows: In the person of the Reverend William Lander Sherrill, of Charlotte, is found the four-fold combination of a preacher, a writer, historian and a genealogist. And yet this man so singularly tal ented in the use of words, started out at seventeen years of age with the in tention of becoming a druggist. After attending the Lincolnton Academy, which then was an institu tion of collegiate standards, he went into the drugstore of his home town, Lincolnton, at no salary but the op Lincoln County’s Favorite Family Newspaper SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS MacArthur Says Future Enemy Navy Operations Can Be Only On Dwindling Scale. Sea Dogs Exultant Over At Last Coming To Grips With Adversary And Routing Him. Washington, Oct. 25.—The Impe rial Japanese fleet, which raced out of its hiding place to present a massive challenge to American liberation of the Phiippines, has been defeated, heavily damaged, and put to flight in what may be one of the decisive naval battles of all time, a series of historic announcements declared tonight. A message from Admiral William F. Halsey to President Roosevelt said that the enemy has been "defeated, seriously damaged and routed.” Frag mentary reports filtering in from oth er sources presented this picture: Five Japanese battleships damaged, with some possibly sunk. An aircraft carrie r sunk. Several cruisers and de stroyers sunk and others badly dam aged. American losses so far made pub lic were the light carrier Princeton, an escort carrier, and several P. T. boats sunk and a number of planes lost. Several escort carriers and de stroyers damaged. It was obvious, however, that so much of the full story remained to be told that these tabulations would un dergo extensive revision. MacArthur’s Message. The OWI picked up a special state ment from Gen. Douglas MacArthur, as transmitted by the signal corps, which said: “The Japanese navy has received its most crushing defeat of the war. Its future efforts can only be on a dwindling scale.” If so, the Battle of the Philippines may be ranked in this war, as was the Battle of Jutland in World Wa r I, as the decisive naval engagement of the conflict. Immediate results for the United States certainly were an easing of the problem of maintaining and supply ing the ground forces in the Philip pines^—and perhaps the opening of the way, without any serious enemy naval challenge, to the east coast of China. As first word of the American dis aster at Pearl Harbor came from the White House, so also came an an nouncement of the Japanese defeat. President Roosevelt called report ers to his office at 5:18 p. m. and read this announcement: "The President received today a re port from Admiral Halsey that the Japanese navy in the Philippine area has been defeated, seriously damaged and routed by the United States navy in that area.” King’s Optimistic Tone. Although Admiral Halsey referred to the enemy navy in “the Philippine area,” Admiral Ernest J. King, com mander in chief of the fleet, already had told reporters that this appar ently included “practically all of the Japanese fleet.” Obviously elated, the President told the reporters the news of the Japanese defeat had just reached him through the department and his military chief of staff, Admiral William D. Leahy. Sitting in shirt sleeves before a desk piled with work, Mr. Roosevelt first said he had called them in be cause he wanted to give them a flash. And it is a flash, he added. Six reporters were on duty in the White House news room when Presi dential Secretary Stephen Early shouted for them to hustle into the presidential office. First indications were the engage ment did not bring heavy surface ships into a slugging match with their big guns but was brought entirely by air blows and light vessels. The Japanese units approached in two major elements w'ith a third large enemy force of land-based planes at tacking the American fleet. It was the enemy land-based planes which mortally wounded the Prince ton, a communique from Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said. portunity of learning the business. He lived with his parents, Samuel Pinck ney Sherrill and Catherine Lander Sherrill. When Mr. Sherrill was 19 years old he ventured into business with a phar macy in Dallas, then the county seat of Gaston county. He is a charter member of the North Carolina Phar maceutical Association which was or ganized in Raleigh in 1880. He was then just 20 years of age. Mayor of Dallas. In 1884, when but 24, he was mayor of Dallas. That year he was married to Luetta Conner, daughter of the gallant Lt. Charles T. Conner, who met a tragic (Continued on page two)
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