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POPULATION (1940 Census) Lincoln County 24,187 Lincolnton 4,526 Crouse 221 Iron Station 96 Denver 854 $2.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE U. S. 9th Army 50 Miles From Berlin Mass Meeting Called For Friday Night To Name Town Ticket YOUTH WEEK ATTHE IST BAPTIST CHURCH The First Baptist church will inau gurate its first Youth Week at the j 11 o’clock worship hour Sunday, April 15. At that time the pastor, Rev.' Henry C.. Rogers, will present the key to the church to Dickie Burris, Youth Week pastor. The purpose of Youth Week is to acquaint young peo ple of the church with the whole program of their church and to give them experience in filling the respon sibilities they will be asked to shoul der as adults. For a whole week, beginning Sun day evening and closing with morning service, April 22, the young people of the church will fill the various offices of the church. They will con duct its complete program, including Sunday school, Training Union, pray er meeting, Board of Deacons, ushers, Woman’s Missionary Society, the choir and treasurer. At the evening worship hour this Sunday the Youth Week pastor will preach on the subject, “Youth and DICKIE BURRIS Youth Week Pastor -Vt The First Baptist Church, Lincolnton., N. C., for the Week of April 15-22. Yokes.” The girls’ choir will be un der the direction of Miss Joyce Ban dy, and the guest soloist will be Johnny Ramseur, of the First Pres byterian church, Lincolnton. Prayer meeting, Wednesday even ing at 8 o’clock, will be under the direction of Miss Marguerite Leath erman, acting president of the Wom an’s Missionary Union. An elaborate garden banquet Sat urday night, April 21, planned for the young people by the adults, will climax the week. Frank Reed, of Laurens, S. C., be the guest speaker of the evening. Mr. Reed will deliver the final sermon on Sun day mdrning, April 22. The young people filling places of leadership for the week, are as fol lows: Pastor, Dickie Burris; Sunday school superintendent, Ed Ramsaur; training union director, Vance Smith; president Woman’s Missionary Un ion, Marguerite Leatherman; organ ist, Marguerite Leatherman; choir director, Joyce Bandy; treasurer, Shasta Buff. Deacons: Chairman, Ed Ramsaur; Vance Smith, Billy Garrison, Max Craig, Lewis Cobb, Paul Peeler, Nel son Schrum, Donald Hovis, Ralph Carpenter, Bill Eaker, James Bum garner, Vernon Schrum, Donald Rob inson, Charles Jolly, Horace Wilson. Ushers: Billy Elliott, Ray Garri son, Ernest Oliver, James Stamey, Billie Roseman, Howard Mathis, Ray mond Graham. Sunday School: Superintendent Adult Department, Max Craig; adult teachers: Dickie Burris, Vance Smith, Billy Elliott, Mrs. Helen Harrfll, Joyce Kendricks, Elizabeth Stamey, Janice iMcLean; supt. intermediate department, Katherine Roseman; teachers, Lewis Cobb, Ray Small, Waltine Goforth; supt. Junior depart ment, Joyce Bandy; teachers, Peggy Conner, Coleen Buff, Loretta Ken dricks, Shasta Buff, Charles Holly, Nelson Schrum, Vernon Schrum; supt. Primary Department, Jessie Eurey; teachers, Nancy Stamey, Joan Mc- Cutcheon, Phyllis Honeycutt; supt. Beginner Department, Sara Heavner; teachers, Helen Knuckles, Barbara Burris, Shirley Parker, Shirley Buff; supt. Cradle Roll, Joan Bondurant; teachers, Joan Allen, Nancy Buff, Lafay Bost; Training Union leaders: Bill Garrison, Ed Ramsaur, Shasta Buff, Marie Hine; editor of Youth Week Herald, Elisabeth Stamey. The Lincoln Times ★ * * PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY W ★ ★ Mayor, Four Aldermen And Member Os (School Board To Be Selected. I A mass meeting has been called by Thos. E. Rhodes, chairman of the Lincoln County Democratic Execu | tive Committee, for tomorrow night at 8 o’clock in the court house for the purpose of nominating candi dates for the town election to be held Tuesday, May 8. A mayor, four aldermen and a member of the school board will be nominated. While there has been some talk of putting out a new ticket, it seems pretty well agreed that the present official board will be renominated. Members of the board are Mayor, E. M. Browne; Aldermen, Ward 1, Bry an L. Dellinger, who was named to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late J. Frank Armstrong; Ward 2, Plato Miller, who was se lected to fill out the unexpired term of Frank Hull Crowell, who resigned to enter the U. S. Armed forces; Ward 3, V. M. Ramseur; Ward 4, Heim Hoover; school board, B. J. Ramsaur. Registration books for the election will open April 21 and remain open through April 28 in order to give any who are not already registered a chance to do so. Rev. E. M. Jones To Preach At Bethel Rev. E. M. Jones, superintendent of the Gastonia Methodist district, will preach at Bethel at 10 o’clock Sunday, April 1, and at Ebenezer at 11 o’clock. The Ebeneze r church will provide dinner for the quarterly conference, which will be held after the lunch hour. All members of the quarterly conference are urged to attend. The pastor, Rev. J. E. B. Houser, will preach at Mt. Vernon at 3 o'clock and hold a church conference. The conference will be a very important cne, and every member of the church is urged to be present. TO ENTERTAIN FOR TRUMAN Raleigh-—Governor and Mrs. Cher ry will entertain Vice-President Tru man and a number of other promin ent Democrats at luncheon April 18, when the Vice-President comes here to speak at the Jefferson Day din ner. Guests at the luncheon will include, among others: Robert Hannegan, na tional chairman of the Democratic Party; Leslie Biffle, Senate secre tary; Col. Wade Vaughn, Truman’s military aide; Senators Josiah Bailey and Clyde R. Hoey, and others. The dinner this year is limited to 300 guests. A serious shortage of stove and furnace amoke pipe is apt to develop this year, industry representatives have warned the WPB. Charge Nazis Slew 577,000 In Latvian Concentration Camp London, April 10.—The Nazi gov ernment and the Germans high com mand were charged today by a Soviet investigating committee with the merciless slaughter of 577,000 men, women and children in Latvian con centration camps. A 6,000-word report broadcast by the Moscow radio said an additional 175,000 Latvians were deported as slave laborers, and on explicit orders of Nazi officials and the military a ruthless destruction of factories, pub lic utilities, libraries, museums, hos pitals and homes was carried out during the German occupation. “The German fiends murdered men and women, healthy and sick, children and old people,” the report said. “In the central prison in Riga they mur dered more than 2,000 children whom they had taken away from parents, and in Saiaspils camp they killed more than 3,000 children.” The commission said that in the Saiaspils camp the investigators found nine grave pits covering a to tal area of more than 3,600 square yards. More than 56,000 civilians were tortured to death in the camp, it was charged. Mental defectives were taken from hospitals and shot, the report added. In some instances the victims Includ LINCOLNTON N. O. THURSDAY. APRIL 12 1945 Returning ‘Presents’ to Berlin y ■ 4 v ' V■ V As B-17 Flying Fortresses of the V. S. Bth air force reach the smoke marker over the target, they release a cascade of bombs in unison. This photo was made during the latest attack ou the German capital. LHS Senior Play To Be Presented Apr. 20 MRS. CROWEL’S =1 FATHER DIES AT ! HOME IN SHELBY ; | Shelby, Apr. 9.—. Funeral services ' | for T. P. Deal, 63, who died Satur -1 day afternoon at 5:30 o’clock at his ' home on Lee street, after an illness of two months, will be conducted this ’ afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Knob " Creek Methodist church in Belwood. ; Conducting the services will be Rev. ' J- M. Morgan, pastor of the church, 1 and assisting him will be the pastor of the First Methodist church in Lin colnton. Interment will take place in the church cemetery. Mr. Deal was a harness maker and ' shoe repairman in Shelby for a num ber of years. Mr. Deal was twice married, first to the former Miss Mona Price, of Catawba county, and surviving this union are five sons, Carl, of Lenoir; Alvin, of Waco; Solon, who is in the army serving somewhere in Fiance; Cecil, in the army somewhere in Ger many; and Arnold, who is in the Navy who is stationed at Little Creek; Va.; and one daughter, Mrs. L. A. Crowell, | Jr., of Lincolnton. After the death of | his first wife, 11 years ago, he mar | ried the former Mrs. Mary G. Gibson, | and one son was born to them. Other ' than his second wife and their son, I j Bobby, the children of the second Mrs. Deal, also survive. They are: I Mrs. Louise G. Jackson, Miss Evelyn Gibson, and Don Gibson, of the home; Harry Gibson, in the army, stationed at Cincinnati, Ohio; and Ray Gibson, in the army, serving somewhere in I France. ed 20 healthy children temporarily transferred to a hospital from a chil dren’s home. Residents of Riga and its suburbs wer e taken into nearby forests and massacred, the report asserted. In Bikemek Forest on Riga’s outskirts 46,500 civilians were shot. One wit ness was quoted as saying that the bodies of the women and children bore traces of torture. In the first days of the occupation of Latvia, the Germans drove Jews into synagogues, then set the places of worship afire, the report said. In October, 1941, 35,000 Jews were con fined behind bared wire in a Riga ghetto, and the next month “the Ger mans picked out 4,500 ale-bodied men and 300 women, and shot the rest on Nov. 30 and Dec. 12, 1941.” A witness, describing the shooting of the Jews, said: “The streets of the ghetto became red with blood. As people traveled their last road, the road to death, ‘German beasts snatched small children from their mothers’ hands, seized them by the feet and killed them by smashing them against poles and fences.” The commission said 327,000 Soviet prisoners of war were tortured or shot to death in Latvia, many at Sta lag, and 350 in Riga. “Kitty Foyle,” a play version of Christopher Morley’s f a mous novel, will be presented by the Senior class of Lincolnton high school in the au ditorium on Friday night, April 20, a t 8 p. m. The story of “Kitty Foyle” has won wide acclaim by the critics. As a best seller was on the best seller list for months. In the movie version, Ginger Rogers won the Academy Award for her portrayal of “Kitty.” Now, as a play, dramatized by Chris topher Sergei, it is considered one of the outstanding dramatic offerings of recent years. The play had its world premiere August 13, 1942, at the Michiana Shores theatre. The presentation of this outstanding play will be a rare treat to Lincolnton playgoers. JAMES M. WARD CAEED BY DEATH Funeral services for James Monroe Ward, who died at his home at Vale on Saturday, were conducted Monday morning at 11 o’clock from the Rus sell’s Chapel Methodist church by the pastor, Rev. J.E. B. Houser. Mr. Ward was 62 years old and had been in ill health for the past year. He was born in Caswell county, but came to Lincoln county when a boy, and had since made his home here. For the past 36 years he had been a member of Russell’s Chapel church and a regular attendant on its ser vices when his health would permit. He was one of the best knewn farm ers in the Vale community. Survivors are his wife, who was formerly Miss Mary Etta Williams; three daughters, Mrs. C. G. Boyles, of Toluca; Mrs. Broadus Wright, of Lattimore; and Mrs. Z. B. Ritchie, of Boger City; and one son, J. Forest Ward, of Vale. MADE RECORD CROSSING CanadiaiWbuilt Mosquito bombers crossed the Atlantic from Newfound land to Scotland in 5 hours and 38 minutes Friday, averaging 387.6 miles per hour in the 2,194 mile ocean hop. Cherryville Widow’s Child Is Found After Six-Hour Search Newark, N. J., April 10. —The only chill of Mrs. Blythe Ingle, 20, of Cherryville, N. C., widow of a soldier who had never seen their 18-months old girl, was returned to her mother early today after a six-hour police search. Police arrested Mary Florence Russ, 21, of 221 Broad street, on a charge of attempted kidnaping. Miss Russ appeared with the baby, who had been missing from the Penn sylvania railroad station since 3 a. m. today, at the Travelers’ Aid Society desk at 9 a. m. and was taken to po lice headquarters. She told police she was employed in a war plant. No explanation of the alleged attempted kidnaping was available from police. Mrs. Ingle told police the child, 'FUNERAL CONDUCTED ' FOR HAL ABERNETHY I I Held From Home In Iron Sta tion Monday Afternoon At 4:00 O’Clock. Funeral rites for Harold S. Aber nethy, prominent Lincolnton business man, who was killed in a plane crash Sunday afternoon, were conducted from the home at Iron Station Mon- I day afternoon at 4 o’clock. Rev. L. E. Mabry, of Stanley, conducted the ser vice, assisted by Rev. A. B. McClure, pastor of the Lincolnton Presbyterian church. Pallbearers were C. B. Lawing, Dr. F. R. Burris, Harvey Goodson, Dor sey Rhyne, Garland Long, and C. M. Hovis. Members of the David Milo Wright Post, American Legion, formed an honorary escort. Burial was in the Stanley cemetery. The large crowd which attended the final rites and the unusually large and handsome display of koral trib utes bore testimony to the high re gard in which Mr. Abernethy was held in the community. Mr. Abernethy is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jennie Troutman Aber nethy; one daughter Miss Mary Ab ernethy; his mother, Mrs. Joseph Abernethy; one sister, Miss Abernethy, of Iron Station; and 'two brothers, Austin Abernethy, of Gas tonia; and Fred Abernethy, of At lanta. United National Clothing Collection Drive Is Launched Stressing the fact that the United National Clothing Collection is the only authorized clothing drive fkr overseas war relief to be conducted this spring, the President’s War Re lief Board has instructed the more than 80 voluntary war relief agencies to refrain from instituting indivi dual clothing collections throughout April and May. The Board further has urged them to confine their ac tivities exclusively to cooperating with the United National Clothing Collection. A telegram from the office of Joseph E. Davies, chairman of the President’s War Relief Control Board, and addressed to foreign re lief agencies throughout the country, stated that the board is asking sus pension of any current or planned campaigns or public collections for used clothing by registered foreign relief groups except in active col laboration with the United National Clothing Collection Committee. All clothing in the April drive will be distributed to war sufferers over seas with the apparel being appor tioned to various countries accord ing to the seriousness of their dis tress, Board officials said. A large part of the clothing will be distributed through the United Na tions Relief and Rehabilitation Ad ministration, which will make allo cations to war-devastated countries when requested by their govern ments. Another part of the total supply will be apportioned to appropriate voluntary relief agencies registered with the President’s War Relief Con trol Board to be used for the war des titute (1) in countries not eligible for UNRRA allocations, (2) in places where the Government of an eligible country does not desire to requisi tion clothing through UNRRA, or (3) in cases where the Government requisitions do not cover certain types of need that voluntary agen cies would be able to supply. Officials emphasized that reports from liberated European countries alone indicate that there are more than 30,000,000 persons virtually naked while more than four times that number 125,000,000 - are in desperate need of clothing, shoes and (Continued on back page) Ruth, had fallen asleep while she and the child were waiting to catch a bus to return to the home of her sister, Mrs. Palmer Black, of 8 Pesley street, Clifton. They had been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Asher, of North Carolina. She said she left Ruth on a couch in the woman’s lounge to step into the washroom, and that when she came back a wo man was playing with the baby. A while later, 'Mrs. Ingle said, she was persuaded by another woman to go to an all-night coffee stand across the street. She left Ruth in the care of the woman who had played with her. When she came back, Mrs. Ingle said, the child, her suitcase and purse were missing. Elbe River Crossed And Yanks Plunge On Towards Capital Back In France. - Wm-' ' ig- pjfe’ Pvt. James T. Leatherman (above), is back in France after being treated for trench feet in a hospital in Eng land. He writes that he is greatly im proved and expects to be assigned to duty soon. 21 TO REPORT FOR INDUCTION The following men have received induction notices to report at local board office Tuesday morning, April 24, at 8:45 a. m. They will be sent to Fort Bragg, N. C., for induction into the Army, Navy or Marines: Clifford Hugh Cunningham, vol. Bobbie Ralph Heafner, vol. Charles David Sigmon, vol. Jason Columbus Caldwell. Grier Franklin Walker. John Walter Sisk. Ellis Brem Ewing. Calvin Richard Morrison. Ned Lowe Fisher. Erson James Hager. Lonnie Carroll Franklin. John Calvin Coins. Robert Hoyle Modlin. Theodore Satterwythe Royster. Martin Clinton Nix. Selsus Jackson Anderson, trans in. Rodney Ruskin Barker. Floyd Franklin Beal, vol. Alvin Brooks. David Thomas Alexander. Coy Everette Sain. Two Boys Os 15 On State’s Death Row Raleigh, April 10.—William Dunn, Jr., acting paroles commissioner, has announced that two 15-year-old boys are among nine persons on Central prison’s death row awaiting execu tion. The two boys are Ernest Brooks, Jr., a negro, convicted of raping a white woman, and the other is Mar vin L. Matheson, sentenced to death for murder. Brooks is slated to die May 25. Date for Matheson’s execution has not been fixed. Liberated American Soldiers Joyful As They Reach U. S. Boston Port of Embarkation, Apr. 9.—Fifteen hundred American sol diers came back to their homeland tonight with tales of hungry months in German prison camps. Advancing Russian troops libera ted them as the Nazis fell back in Poland last January too rapidly to move the prisoners. The returning men were the first large group of liberated American troops to come home from the Eu ropean theatre. Soldier after soldier enthused about “those Red Cross packages that kept up alive.” They said of the Poles—“ They did not have much, but they shared with us what they had.” They were ready with questions, too. “Got a paper,” many asked. “What is this curfew all about,” many oth rs wanted to know. And there were a couple who were interested in when he circus was coming up this way. A n Army transport brought them into port just after dark last night. There was a bit of chill in the air and the waterfront was deserted. An Army band stood on the dock. There were a few port officials around and a gathering of newspapermen. The band whooped it up with the | County's favorite Family Newspaper SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS Tanks Plunge To Magdeburg And Last Water Barrier Be fore Capital Through De moralized German Resist ance—Russians Along Oder Only 100 Miles Away—Es sen Falls. Paris, April 11.—American Ninth Army tanks plunged 50 miles east ward today through demoralized Ger man resistance and crossed the Elbe river, last water barrier before Ber lin, at Magdeburg, only 57 miles by superhighway from the blackened German capital and 115 miles from Russian troops massed along the Oder. Ninth Army engineers threw a bridge across the stream so Lt. Gen. W illiam H. Simpson’s powerful for ces could continue the onslaught, which the Nazis seemed powerless to check. A field dispatch said a juncture with the Red Army in the east was expected within the next week. Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson’s Ninth Army troops were 57 miles away from the southwestern limits of Greater Berlin, which includes Potsdam, and the Russians were 32 miles from the capital on the east with the city itself stretching some 25 miles between these two points. Essen and Boschum, great arma ment cities in the Ruhr trap, fell to other Ninth Army troops, and tonight the Paris radio said Dortmund also had been cleared in the crumbling pocket. First Army forces to the south sped within 100 miles of a juncture with Russian troops while the Third Army, springing to the attack again after 5 days of comparative inactiv ity, blazed ahead along a 60-mile front, capturing Coburg and encirc ling Erfurt. Near Nuernberg. On the southern end of the front the U. S. Seventh Army lost some ground but at the same time stormed to a point 29 miles northwest of the big Nazi convention city of Nuern berg. British troops in the north punched to within 40 miles of Hamburg, but were still held four miles outside the port of Bremen; to their west the Canadians crossed the Issel river deeper into Holland, where scores of thousands of Germans were trapped. In making its spectacular dash to Magdeburg the Second (Hell on Wheels) armored division bypassed on the south the big aircraft center of Brunswick and plunged eastward on a solid ten-mile front, meeting only scattered opposition throughout the remarkable day. The Nazi Bruns wick garrison was still fighting bit terly through the streets against doughboys of the Thirtieth division. Further south the Eighty-third di vision stormed ahead 20 miles and reached Halberstadt, 24 miles south west of Magdeburg. A huge airplane factory at Halberstadt was overrun. The Germans lacked the manpow er even to slow Gen. Simpson’s wave (Continued on back page) airs of about every state that the bandsmen could think of and were almost drowned out by the cheering of the yelling soldiers. A soldier’s head stuck out of every porthole. They jammed the docks. They crowded the superstructure. There were heads and shoulders even popping through the narrow spaces that divided life rafts. Clad to be home?—the question was too silly to even ask. Some of the men had been in pris on camp for two years. Several of the men knew the AP’s Larry Allen, who was recently re turned to this country on the ex change ship Gripsholm. A lot of the boys had been at Lim burg, German prison camp recently taken by the First Army in their earlier days as prisoners of war. Limburg was a transient camp at that time, they said and the fare was as near a starvation diet even, then as it was in recent weeks. Pfc. Paul Thompson, of Marysville, Ohio, was one of those who spent some time at Limburg. The diet while he was there was soup made of sugar beet tops, some greens, a loaf of bread for six meals, he said. Thompson had been 43 months over (Continued on back page^
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