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POPULATION (1940 Census) Lincoln County 24,187 Lincolnton 4,525 Crouse 221 Iron Station 96 Denver 854 $2.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE Two Rallies Boost Red + Cross War Fund Campaign Praises Red Cross. jßflp • 4 :> i Pfc. Charles V. JohnSßh (above), who is in a hospital in England re covering from wounds received in action in France, writes his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z. V. Johnson, of Route 1. that he is getting along fine and that the Red Cross was doing a won derful job giving aid, cigarettes, etc., to the boys over there, and that he could not praise the Red Cross too highly. Pfc. Johnson’s wife, the for mer Miss Christine Hipp, of Chase City, Va., is ssending some time with her husband’s parents and relatives. THE LINCOLN COUNTY RED CROSS—SOMEWHERE IN ITALY Sgt. Geo. Whit Tobey, Jr., writes hom e to his mother from Italy, of an interesting experience which he shared second-handed, but all the j same, brought a touch of home to him. It seems that he rarf into James Stroupe, somewhere in Italy. James, j who used to drive a taxi for Blair Carpenter at the Pure Oil Station, is, now in a Medical Detachment over-1 seas. James told the following story, to George Whit: r j One day while packages of surgf-, cal dressings were being unloaded, ’ the C. O. tossed a package to James, who started to send it along with it s mates. The C. 0. called out, “Hey, look at the label on that package.” James did, and to his glad surprise saw that it was from the Lincoln County Chapter, American Red Cross, I Lincolnton, N. C. It must have been! as good as a letter from home. The world is truly a small place when such things happen. When you contribute your money and services you are truly keeping the Red Cross at Hi s Side. Miss Grace Hoke On Honor Roll Mars Hill, February 21. (Special.) —The name of Miss Grace Jeanette Hoke, of Route 1, Iron Station, ap pears on the first honor roll for the first semester at .Mars Hill College. To be eligible for first honor roll a student must average 40 quality points with no grade below “C.” Be prepared to give to the Red Cross War Fund. Churches To Observe Red Cross Sunday On March 4th All of* the churches in Lincoln county will give recognition t 6 the great humanitarian work of the American Red Cross on Sunday, March 4. Rev. C. C. Herbert, Jr., pastor of the First Methodist chuch, is chair man for this observance, and he has requested all pastors to devote a por tion of each church service on that day to some phase of the Red Cross work. Exchanged Prisoners Say Food Conditions In Germany Critical New York, Feb. 22.—American merchant seamen repatriated on the exchange liner Gripsholm declare that food conditions are critical in the Nazi prison camps from which they have just been liberated. The situation, they say, has been rendered acute by the effectiveness of Allied bombing raids on the German trans portation system. One of the repatriated seamen, Capt. Henry Stephenson, of New Ro chelle, New York, describes German rail traffic as completely snarled. Capt. Stephenson spent more than two years in a prison camp near Bre men after his vessel was torpedoed In the Atlantic in 1942. During the period of hiß imprisonment, the cap tain says, there was only one issue The Lincoln Times ★ ★ ★ PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY * * + Plans Perfected For Quick Results Which Begin This Week. Two mighty successful rallies have been held to boost the Red Cross War Fund Drive which begins this week in Lincoln county for a minimum of 814,100.00. At the Lincolnton High School last Friday night, February 22, approxi mately 250 enthusiastic, ready-to-go volunteer workers received their final instructions for the all important job of soliciting and obtaining this year’s financial requirements. In addition to two Red Cross films portraying what service s Red Cross renders, a solicitors training film, giving helpful pointers, was shown. Mr. Waterhouse, Red Cross field director at the Morris Field army air force s base, Charlotte, related many experiences and case services per formed by the Red Cross. Mr. Water house’s enthusiasm instilled every volunteer worker with added zest to put tjie Lincoln county drive across by a substantial margin. The second annual public Red Cross rally was held Sunday afternoon, February 25, in the court house audi torium. A large appreciative audi ence enjoyed a program especially designed to acquaint everyone with the greatest humanitarian organiza tion. Mr. Charles L. Skaren, a native of Beaufort, N. C., and a returned over seas Red Cross field director, was the speaker for the occasion. His rela tions of first-hand experiences, and duties held the rapt attention of ev eryone present. Mr. Skarren rendered actual battle front service from shortly after the invasion in Normandy, France, thence through Paris to Belgium and Germany. He is now temporarily as signed fo r home front duty so as to assist in the War Fund Drive and expects to return to battle duty. “The Southerners,” a local colored male quartette, rendered several ne gro spirituals and songs and gained great favor with a receptive audience. The added feature of the rally was a selection of accordion solos by Mrs. Ruth Shaw, of Charlotte. She is fast gaining a unique reputation for a unique type of music, and her delightful renditions were well re ceived. Mrs. C. C. Herbert, Jr., ably led the group singing. Rev. A. A. Kyles, Boger City, rendered the invocation. Mrs. Caroline D. Hill, Red Cross field representative for the district, which includes Lincoln county, was introduced. Messrs. J. A. Burris and W. C. Henderson, co-chairmen for the Red Cross War Fund Drive, presided over both rallies. Both men were well pleased and have made the following joint statement: “Such genuine en thusiasm by both workers and the public can resuult in only one thing— success—and Lincoln county will as usual, do more than its share to keep the Red Cross at his side.” A DILLAR, A DOLLAR. Irate Teacher —Don’t you come to school to learn things? Smarty—No, teacher. Just to lis ten to you. No solicitation will be made by the churches, although contributions will be accepted by them. It is ex pected that the pastoral endorsement will assist and encourage liberal do nations to the Red Cross through the regular War Fund raising channels. The religious, moral and morale building functions of trained person nel keep our Red Cross at his side — at home and around the world. It costs $7.00 a second. of Red Cross food parcels. And be cause of the transportation tie-up, there appeared to be little chance that any more would be delivered. * A number of the seamen have dis closed that it took their train four to five days to reach the Swiss border, traveling by a round-about route. Normally, the trip would require only about eight hours. There were 46 merchant mariners on the Gripsholm when it docked at Jersey City, N. J., yesterday. Al! of the men had been captured by the Germans when their vessels were tor pedoed. They were among the first to disembark. In addition, there were 463 American soldiers, and 78 Cana-, dian military personnel, all of them ill or wounded. LINCOLNTON, N. C., MONDAY, FEB. 26, 1945. Veteran In Hospital MEDICAL AID MAX. —Technician 4th Grade Horace A. Mauney. 25 of R. F. D. 3, Lincolnton, has betn evacuated from the western front as a result of illness due to exposure to severe weather conditions. Sergeant Mauney was a medical aid man with a rifle company of the 28th infantry division and saw intensive action from the coast to the Sieg fried line. He is pictured at Hallman General hospital, Staten Island. N Y. t with a rug he wove on shipboard, featuring the keystone insignia o: the division with which he served. Mrs. R. H. Delling er, 75, Beloved Citizen, Is Taken By Death Mishaps On Highways Took 31 Lives in Jan. The monthly report of the State highway patrol for January reveals 31 fatalities on the highways of North Carolina during that period, while 195 persons were injured as the patrol investigated a total of 230 accidents. Among other things, the report disclosed the recovery of 69 motor vehicles, the issuance of 2,963 cita tions, the arrest of 2,529 persons of whom 189 were charged with driving while drunk. The patrol reported 2,469 convic tions as against 113 persons found innocent. Sentences aggregated 235 >ears, 15 days. Car s and other property returned to individuals had an estimated value of $58,051. Fines turned over to coun ty school funds amounted to $25,677.- 32. Highway revenues collected for overloading, improper licenses, etc.. amounted to $49,213. WARNS CURFEW GOES IN FORCE AT 12 TONIGHT New York, Feb. 25. Mayor F. H. La Guardia and Regional War Man- Power Commission Director Anna Rosenberg announced jointly today that the midnight curfew o n enter tainment places would become effect ive in New York City at midnight to morrow but adjustments would be provided to meet individual cases during the week. The twi officials said, however, that “full and complete compliance” with War Mobilization Director Jas. Byrnes’ request would be expected by Monday, March 5. “The directives contained in the (WMC) order are so clear as to re quire no amplification,” they said. “Violations will be reported as pro vided for in the order.” Previously La Guardia had told owners of the city’s 12,006 places of amusement to “continue status quo until I make an official announce ment.” Capt. Robt. Rudisill Arrives In Florida - * Miami Beach, Fla.—Capt. Robert S. Rudisill, 23, of Lincolnton, N. C., has arrived at Army Air Forces Re distribution Station No. 2 in Miami Beach for reassignment processing after completing a tour of duty out side the continental United States. Medical examinations and classi fication interviews at this post, pio neer of several redistribution sta tions operated by the AAF Personnel Distribution Command for AAF re turnee officer s a, 'd enlited men, will determine his new assignment. He will remain at the redistribution sta tion about two weeks, much of which will be devoted to rest and recrea tion. Capt. Rudisill flew 65 missions as pilot and flight commander of attack bombers in the European theatre winning the DFC and the Air Medal. He is the son of Mrs. Cora Leola Ru disill, 302 Bonview street, Lincolnton, N. C. Hi 8 wife, Constance Romell Rudisill, resides in Miami City, Fla. Funeral Services To Be Held Tuesday at 4:00 P. M. At First Methodist Church. i . Mrs. Robert H. Dellinger, 75, died at 5:45 o’clock this morning at the Gordon Crowell Memorial Hospital, where she had been a patient for more than sixteen months. For the past ten days she had been critically ill. March 15, 1943, after re turning from a visit to her daughters in Virginia, Mrs. Dellinger suffered a stroke of paralysis from which she never fully recovered. In October, 1943, when she was just beginning to sit up, she fell and broke her hip. It. was then that she was taken to the hospital. Mrs. Dellinger before her marriage was Miss Laura Loftin. She was born near Lowesville, in Lincoln county, December 21, 1869, the daughter of Marion D. and Sarah Beal Loftin. Her marriage to Mr. Dellinger took place March 11, 1891. Had she lived they would have celebrated their fifty fourth anniversary next month. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Dellinger is survived by the follow ing children: Dr. Sam C. Dellinger, ot Fayetteville, Ark,; Robert H. Del linger, Jr., of Crouse; Kenneth Del linger, of Little Rock, Ark.; Mrs. Arnold B. Cochrane and Mrs. R. S. Mullen, of Lincolnton; Mrs. Sinclair Selden, Jr., of Hampton, Va., and Mrs. C. B. Courtney, of Newport News, Va. She leaves also two broth ers, \V. F. Loftin, of Gastonia, and C. M. Hovis, of Iron Station. Mr. and Mrs. Dellinger moved to Lincolnton in 1901 and soon after coming here Mrs. Dellinger brought her membership from the Asbury .Methodist church with which she had united when quite young to the Lin colnton Methodist chuurch where she remained a faithful and devoted member. Her kindly manner and her thoughtfulness of others made her greatly beloved in the community. Funeral services will be conducted from First Methodist church Tues day afternoon at 4 o’clock. The body will be removed today from the Warlick Funeral Home to the Del linger home on South Cedar street, and will be taken to the church at 3 o’clock tomorrow. S-Sgt. J. L. Dellinger Gets Oak Leaif Cluster An Eighth Air Force Bomber Sta tion, England—Staff Sergeant Jack Loyde Delliner, 21, of Lincolnton, waist gunner on a B-17 Flying Fort ress at the 388th Bomb. Group of the Eighth Ai r Force has been awarded the second Oak Leaf Cluster to his Air Medal. The award was for “mei-itorious achievement” during bombing attacks on Nazi war industries and military targets in cooperation with Allied ground forces. He is the son of Mrs. Ella Putnam Dellinger of 111 West Water Street, and had been a recent graduate of Lincolnton High School when he en tered the AAF in June, 1943. Philadelphia!—The “no smokin’’ sign will go up under the big top when the Ringling Brothers, Bam um & Bailey circus opens its annual engagement here this spring, City officials announced today. As an add ed precaution, fire marshals will be stationed at the entrances to watch i for persons carrying lighted ciga -1 rettes, cigars and pipes. YANKS PERISH AT HANDS OF OWN MEN Washington, Feb. 22 —.A naval lieutenant has given the first eye witness account of how a Jap pris on ship loaded with Americans was sunk by American bombs. One of the survivors of the sinkng told a Washington news conference today that 1,600 Americans were on the prison ship. Fewer than half of them survived and all but two of these ap parently recaptured. The sinking oc curred off western Luzon Island last December. GERMANS FORCE BOYS AND GIRLS TO DO WAR JOBS London, Feb. 22.—The Germans conscripted some of their school children today—boys to dig trenches and fight and girls for auxiliary ser vices—as their military commenta tors warned that a Russian frontal assault on Berlin was imminent. The German official news agency DNB announced that the German equivalent of boy and girl scouts had been taken out of school for war ser vice. The Bund Deutekher Maedel (Hitle v girls’ organization) has been “split up in small units which will be employed wherever necessary.—in signal units or supply depots or nursing services—wherever gaule tiers (provincial governors) order,” the agency said. “While boys have been called up for digging defenses and are being trained for Volkssturn (people’s army in order to be ready for any eventuality, these girl units will be responsible for preparing food( nurs ing the sick and other duties,” said DNB. “For the time of service girls need not attend schools.” The military commentator for the Transocean News Agency said Rus sian preparation for a frontal as sault on Berlin from the Oder river, less than 40 miles away “are comple ted’.’ U. S. CASUALTY TOTAL 801,162 Washington, Feb. 22.—Army and Navy casualties since Pearl Harbor have reached 801,162, the two ser vices reported today. Secretary of War Stimson set army casualties at 711,497 on the basis of individual names compiled in Washington through February 14. The navy reported its losses as 89,- 655. The aggregate represented an in crease of 18,982 over the previous week's report. Os the rise, the army accounted for all but 827. A breakdown on the army casu alties as reported this week and cor responding figures for last week: Killed 138,723, and 135,510; wound ed 420,465 and 408,553; prisoners 60,086 and 58,556, missing 92,223 and 90,723. Stimson said 207,328 of the wound ed had returned to duty. Similar figures for the navy: Killed 33,862 and 33,536; wounded 40,783 and 40,607; prisoners 4,464 unchanged from the preceding week; missing 10,546 and 12,221. Know Your Red Cross Red Cross Services Such As These: Two billion surgical dressings for military use. Twenty-five million comfort and recreation articles, ping-pong tables, game boards, etc. Overseas clubs which are visited by an average of 8,500,000 service men and women each month. The collection of ten million pints of blood for the armed forces. Aid in solving problem s for more than four million service men, vet erans and their families during the last year. SECONDS <M.t( 6uif? -%• * American Troops Near Cologne In A Gigantic Drive Dies In Service „ £■ Sfel mA LINCOLNTON, Feb. 22.—Cpl. El lis E. Clark, son of Mrs. E. G. Clark, died in New Guinea on January 14 while serving with the 301st Air borne squadron, according to a War department telegram received here. He died as the result of a cerebral concussion, the message stated. Cot. poral Clark was inducted into the Army in March, 1943. He received his training at Miami, Fla., Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mountain Home. Idaho. He went overseas in January, 1944. Before entering the armed forces, he was employed by the Norfolk Navy yard at Ports mouth, Va. He had many friends in Portsmouth, Charlotte, and Lin colnton. Surviving, besides his mother, are one sister, Miss Janice Clark of Lincolnton; one brother,! Pfc. Eugene Clark, now serving in France; two half sisters, Mrs. J. B. Clark of Norfolk, Va„ and Miss Bea- ! trice Clark of El Paso, Texas; and four half brothers, Rone Clark of Asheville, Ralph Clark of Winston- Salem, Roy Clark of Knoxville, Tenn., and Howard Clark of the (United States Navy, PLACES GERMAN LOSSES TO REDS NEAR 10 MILLION London, Feb. 23.—Germany’s loss es in the war with Russia approxi mate 10 million men, a Russian ra dio commentator estimated in a broad -cast from Moscow.today. Speaking on the 27th anniversary of the Red Army, the commentator “analyzer” said the Germans lost an average of nearly 30,000 men a day in killed and captured during the Russians’ 1945 winter offensive. This figure did not include the wounded. I The average for the first three years of the war was somewhere in the vicinity of 7,000 killed or captur ed daily, the commentator said. “The total number of Germans killed or captured for the first three ylears of Sovieti(German hostilities were in excess of 7,800,000,” the re port asserted, adding: “In fighting on White Russian soil last summer, 500,000 German officers and men were wiped out. A battle fought in the south a little later cost Hitler another 25,000 men. “When all of this is summed up one can see that even though the re ports for the past eight months are far from complete, the grand total of Hitlerite losses in killed and cap tured on the Soviet-German front since June 22, 1941, must be at least close to ten million. “Certainly German losses in this war are very much greater than dur ing the First World War. There are Berlin Now Gigantic Fortress Teeming With Helpless People Stockholm, Feb. 22.—A Swedish newspaper correspondent who has just returned to Stockholm from Ber lin declares in a copyrighted article for the Associated Press that the German capital is being turned into a gigantic fortress. But it is a for tress teeming with helpless, bomb dulled inhabitants who pack the city to overflowing and who have almost no chance of escaping. Refugee s from the east and deserters from the Ger man army swell the struggling mass of humanity in Berlin and add to the confusion. The population of the city now is eetimated at five and one-half million. The correspondent says that with the approach of the Russian armies, r'ore and more deserters from the German ranks slipped into Berlin. He overheard one mother telling a friend that her son and 37 comrades had just arrived from the front as deser ters. Later, Nazi officials warned the populace that all deserters must be reported immeiately. But the reporter does not believe Tf -coln Comity's ry - - Favorite Family Newspaper SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS Tanks, Artillery and Fresh In fantry Pour Over Roer Riv er in Endless Stream. Paris, Monday, Feb. 26.—A steam roller American offensive rumbled several miles beyond the Roer river to within 15 mile s of Cologne yester- J day, knocking out Dueren—keystone of the Rhineland’s outer defense — and 24 other German towns against faltering enemy resistance. In all, three American armies had hurdled all major water barriers west of the Rhine after shattering the Siegfr.ied linq, for the United States Third Army, 60 miles south of the Rhine-bound offensive had smashed across the Pruem river and was driving the Germans before it in disorder. Tanks, heqvy artillery and fresh infantry units poured across the Roer in endless streams, broadening the breach in the river line to 28 miles and slashing with gathering momentum to within five miles of the Erst river, last enemy line of defense short of the Rhine. A German broadcast declared Gen. Eisenhower had hurled perhaps 600,- 000 men into the United States First and Ninth Army offensive on the Roer, and Berlin said the Germans had blown a dam and flooded the Roer once more in a desperate at tempt to stem the onslaught. The menace to Cologne— Rhine city of 800,000 and a symbol of Ger man war might in the industrial Ruhr and Rhineland—wa s growing hourly as spearheads of both the First and Ninth Armies drove east ward along the broad highways Hit ler built for offense, not for defense. The First Army’s 104th Timber wolf division was fighting on east of fallen Dueren-—second largest Ger man city to fall to American arms— along the Dueren-Cologne highway 15 miles from Cologne. Eight mile 8 to the north, the Ninth Army’s 29th division, driving along the Juelich-Cologne highway, seized Steinstrass, 17 miles from Co logne. Steinstrass was a rich prize, for there the Germans had refitted thei r armored divisions. Hundreds of United States medium, light and fighter bombers heaped fresh destruction on German defen ses all the way to the Rhine. The Germans said the two American ar mies were supported by tremendous artillery barrages that shook the earth for miles around. GERMANY CUTS FOOD RATIONS London—The German radio has announced that food rations for all Germans will be cut 12 and onehalf per cent. The broadcast said the re duction was an emergency measure to help set up food reserves. And German farmers have been asked to step up their deliveries of food stuffs as much as possible to help bridge the gap between Germany’s mt wr ing periods. COMPLETES 100 MISSIONS. Mr and Mrs. L. A. Keever have been notified by their son, First Lt. David E. Keever, of the Army Air Corps, that he has completed his hundredth mission as a pilot on a Thunderbolt. He is with the Ninth Air Corps. Before entering the service Lt. Keever had just completed his second year at Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory. no new man power reserves for Hit ler to draw upon now. . . that Berlin will fall quickly to the Red army. For countless barricades and fortification s are being built, and soon it is expected that the city will be declared a fortress. Should the Russians decide on a frontal assault, they will face tens of thousands of barricades, thrown together from the debris left by the bombing, barri cades which stretch from the sub urbs all the way into the heart of the city. These defenses, the correspond ent sayß, are being organized syste matically, and he believes they will be difficult to breach. There i s no transportation avail able to evacuate the population, and no place for the population to go even if escape were possible. Constant air raids add to the mis eries of the Berliners, but despite all, life continues, people still go to work and traffic makes its way through the barricaded streets. But the news man says there is silence over every thing, a breathless tenseness as the city awaits its doom.
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