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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 Methodist Revival To Begin April 29 And Closes May 4 Visiting Preacher. 9KL i. Hr Ja&L . ,■ • | REV. J. O. SMITH. YANKEE LOSSES ARE NOT HEAVY Rattle For Rhine Crossings During March Cost Only 47,023 Casualties. Washington, April 19. —American troops are driving across Germany without heavy losses in men. Secre tary of War Stimson said loday in re porting. that the March battle for Rhine crossings cost only 47,023 cas ualties. While figures on current casual ties are not yet available, Stimson assured a news conference that they are “not high,’’ and are far below losses inflicted on the German Army. In the last 18 days alone, he said, Al lied troops have captured 900,000 Nazis in addition to killing and wounding a large number. The secretary emphasized, however, that he did not want to give the im pression that Allied forces are having “an easy time of it.” On the contra ry, he said, they have bumped into the “stiffest kind of resistance” in some Reich centers. Ground force losses on the West ern front during March were the lowest for any month since October with the exception of February’s 34,- 468. During Mrach, American Sol diers won the west bank of the Rhine from Cologne to Haguenau, wiped out a large part of the German Ar my and swept across the river in force. The March total, which included 6,214 killed, 35,442 wounded and 5,- 366 missing, boosted the aggregate cf ground force casualties in that area since D-Day to 473,215. Os these 79, 795 are dead, 334,919 wounded and 588,501 missing. The Western front toll represent ed more than a half of Army casual ties in all theaters since Pearl Har bor, a figure which placed at 813,- 870 on the basis of individual names received here through April 7. W’ith the navy’s latest announced losses of 98,608, this pushed to 912,- 478 the over-all losses for the nation since the beginning of the war. $560,000 GOES TO FOUNDATION Warm Springs Is Beneficiary Os Insurance Policy On Franklin D. Roosevelt. New York, April 20.—The Eastern Underwriter, a weekly insurance newspaper, said today the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation was bene ficiary of a $560,000 life insurance policy taken out on President Roose velt in 1930. The magazine said Keith Morgan, a foundation vice-president, con ceived the idea for the policy and ar ranged that premiums be paid by a group interested in Warm Springs. Morgan, associated with Equitable Life Assurance Company, placed the policy with 12 companies when Roosevelt was governor of New York. Get Roster Os Allied Prisoners Paris, April 19.—American Third Army troops have seized Germany’s complete roster of Allied prisoners of war. The list includes an itemized record ol all captives from every Allied na tion taken by the Germans since the outbreak of the war. Incidentally, the seizure of the im portant documents was accomplished by the 12th Corps troops commanded by Major General Manton Eddy—the same corps which recently captured Germany’s hidden gold reserve. The Lincoln Times * * * PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY W ★ ★ Rev. J. O. Smith, Os Columbia, South Carolina, Will Do The Preaching. Revival services will be held next week at the First Methodist Church with Rev. John Owen Smith, pastor of Washington Street Methodist Church, Columbia, S. C. as the visit ing preacher. Mr. Smith will preach at the regular morning and evening services next Sunday, and at 8:00 P. M. each Monday through Friday. There will be special supper meet ings for young people at 6:30 p. m. each w#ek-day evening. Rev. John Owen Smith is a native of Johnston, S. C. and is considered one of the outstanding younger min isters of The Methodist Church. He is a graduate of Wofford College, and received his ministerial training at the Yale Divinity School. His per sonal charm is shown by the fact he is a member of the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity and the Book and Bond Club at Yale. He is also a member of the Phi Beta and Theta Phi honor ary fraternities. Before going to his present pastorate at Columbia, Mr. Smith served Methodist Churches in Leesville, S. C., Clemson College, S. C„ and Laurens, S. C. He is vice chairman of the Upper S. C. Con ference Board of Education, and has been Dean of the Conference Y’oung People’s Assembly for a number of years. Articles from his pen have been published in a number of religi ous periodicals. In announcing the coming of Mr. Smith, Rev. C. C. Herbert, Jr., pas tor of the First Methodist Church, commented, “We are fortunate in being able to secure J. O. Smith for our revival preacher. I am sure that all who hear him will be charmed and helped by his messages. The Meth odists extend a cordial invitation to every citizen of the community to attend our services.” Neighborhood prayer meetings will be held this week in Methodist homes in preparation for the revival next week .Everyone is invited to be present at the meeting most conven ient for him. These services will be held in the following homes: Tues day, April 24, 8:00 P. M. —Mrs. S. M. Roper, Miss Mattie Camp, Mrs. R. J. Sifford; Thursday, April 26, 8:00 P. M. —Mrs. Harlan Heafner, Mrs. L. A. Crowell, Sr., Mrs. M. H. Hoyle; Friday, April 27, 8:00 P. M. iMrs. Bryan Dellinger, Mrs. Lloyd Thompson, Mrs. W. A. Lilly. For each of these meetings, in addition to the hostess, there is a promoter who will help with the arrangements and the invitations, and a leader who will have charge of the meeting. The regular Wednesday evening prayer meeting at the church will give spe cial emphasis to prayer for Revival. Mrs. Roosevelt Given Lifetime Mail Rights Washington, April 20.—A bill granting Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt life time mail franking privileges passed the Senate Unanimously today. It was introduced by Majority Leader Barkley who explained that similar legislation had been enacted with respect to other presidential widows, including Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Warren Harding and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. President Truman has asked that the privilege be extended to Mrs. Roosevelt, and a bill to that effect was introduced in the House yester day by Majority Leader McCormack, of Massachusetts. Notice Is Required I Os Teacher Leaving; Raleigh, April 20.—Attorney Gen eral Harry McMullan ruled today that under the school machinery act, princials and teachers desiring to re sign must give at least 30 days no tice to the administrative head of the unit prior to the opening of school. A violation of the provision,, Mr. McMullan said, “may deprive the of fender of the right to teach in a pub lic school in North Carolina for a period of one year.” The 30-days no tice must be in writing, he added. In a digest of opinions—the first issued by the attorney general this year—MoMiullan also ruled that “the proper school authorities have the right to exclude from extra-curricu lar activities students who belong to secret societies or organizations pro hibited by school regulations.” Najzis Say Reds Say War Will End Apr. 25 London, April 18.— A German ra dio reporter quoted Russian prison ers today as saying that an order of the day by Marshal Stalin read to them at the start of the new Russian front offensive said the war would end April 26, with Berlin falling to LINCOLNTON N C. MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1945. As Millions Pay Last Homage With the Capitol dome an imposing backdrop, the military proces sion, headed by the caisson bearing Franklin I). Roosevelt's body, winds its way down Delaware avenue toward the White House. The sad jour ney from Union station was viewed by millions. The presidential and U. S. Hags bring up the rear. Nazi ‘Horror Camp’ Hotbed Os Atrocities British Second Army Headquar ters, Germany.—Prisoners in the Bel sen concentration camp, a stinking, filthy horror, were freed Sunday by Gen. Sir Miles Dempsey’s men. The camp contained 39,000 persons still alive and uncounted dead. It contained typhus, typhoid, tu berculosis, nakedness, starvation, dumps of unburied corpses in vast heaps, mounds covering great burial heaps, one cavernous pit half-filled with blackened bodies. There were children—five hun dred of them—in the midst of this. Babies were born here daily. Beyond Words. These were the findings of a sen ior medical officer of the British Se cond Army who has been at the camp three days and says “anything you have seen doesn’t even begin the story.” The living are being moved to the relative luxury of a nearby army barracks. Soon none will be left here except those with communicable dis eases too ill to move. Eventually, says this officer, the only conceivable disposition of this Nazi monument will be destruction by fire. There were 2,000 women in three compounds in this camp and nearly i 12,000 men in two other compounds, j In adjacent barracks in one corner ] Awarded Third Oak Leaf Cluster To His Air Medal An Eighth Air Force Bomber Sta tion, England.—S/Sgt. Jack L. Del linger, 21„ of Lincolnton, N. C., waist gunner on an Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress, has been awarded the third Oak Leaf Cluster to his Air Medal. The award was for “meritorious achievement” during bombing at tacks against Nazi war industries and military targets in cooperation with Allied ground forces. He is the son of Mrs. Ella P. Del linger, of 111 West Water street. Before entering the AAF in June, 1943, he had recently graduated from Lincolnton high school. Have Your Pressure Canner Checked May 1 The Pressure Cannery Clinic for Lincoln County will be held May 1 with Gaston County in Gastonia. Any one desiring to have their can ners checked, please get them to the Home Agent’s Office not later than Saturday Noon, April 28. Be sure your name is securely fastened to the canner and see that it is clean inside and out. This Will probably be the last year that the state will sponsor a clinic so have your canner checked now for safety. ELIZABETH RABY Home Agent The national pig goal has been set at 37 million head, 18 per cent more than the number raised last fall. * I the Red army. No order of the day broadcast from Moscow has mentioned a spe cific date for the collapse of Ger many and such a forecast would be contrary to Stalin’s previous policies. In the months prior to the inva sion of Normandy, German propa gandists several times broadcast an nouncements that Allied landings would be attempted at specific pe riods and exulted when each of these passed without incident. of the vast Nazi camp are 15,000 more prisoners who are fairly re cent arrivals. “Horror camp” is what the med ical officer calls it. After his arrival at the camp SS guards under the direction of their commander were still shooting pris oners who were trying to steal po tatoes. The SS had failed to abide by the surrender terms to turn in their arms because they feared the ven geance of the emaciated victims of their inhumanity. The SS men were promptly dis armed when discovered and are now assigned to cleaning up the camp as a slight measure of retribution. How many died here there is no way of knowing. Indefinite reports say 30,000 died in the last few months. Mound Os Bodies In the middle of the camp, there is a mound eighty yards by thirty yards of the naked bodies of women piled table-high. While the medical officer was in specting the camp, he saw four girls carry another corpse from the hut and add it to this fearful stack of death, which was in plain view of the children’s compound, A woman laid the body of her own child on the heap. GOEBBELS QUITS CAPITAL; TELLS OTHERS TO STAY London, April 22. —Dispatches from Stockholm, qoting the German-con trolled Swedish Telegraph Bureau, said today that Gauletier Paul Joseph Goebbels had fled Berlin to Mecklen burg after promising its panic stricken residents to stay in the burning capital and appealing to men, women and children to mount its de fenses. Communication between Berlin and Stockholm were broken just after that report was received, the dispatch said. Rumors, some fantastic, fed on an atmosphere of panic in the German capital. One of these rumors, the German-' controlled STB said, spread word of “capitulation negotiations.” But this, like the report concerning Goebbels, could not be checked, the agency ad ded. It was clear, the Berlin dispatch quoted, that “the great part of the Berlin population” was not going to follow the authorities’ appeal and take up arms,” and the civilian popu lation was said to be “mostly remain ing passive.” A report from Switzerland said that Nazi party leaders, Gestapo men and collaborationists of all nationali ties who had swarmed recently into the Lake Constance area from Berlin were fleeing there now, plodding eastward as French tanks thundered I toward the Swiss border. FORTYAND EIGHT MEETING Lincoln County Voiture 1180. LA SOCIETE DES JUARANTE HOM ! MES ET HUIT CHEVAUX will j meet Tuesday night at 8 o’clock on April 24th at Legion Hut. This will be on e of the most important meet i ings of the year. A large attendance 1 is desired . TRUMAN MEETS FOREIGN CORPS President Takes Time Out To Greet Diplomats, Stress Good Neighbor Policy Washington, April 20. —President Truman, greeting the foreign diplo matic corps in the midsf of a work packed day, today expressed hope j for an era of cordial good feeling a mong nations. It was a day in which the Presi dent shouldered many problems, for eign and domestic. For one thing, he got a direct fill-in on tangled Rus sian affairs from W. Averell Harri man, ambassador to Moscow. In the afternoon, at a reception ar ranged by the State department, Mr. Truman shook hands with 59 diplo mats from abroad. He managed to give the occasion the air of a good neighbor welcoming the folks from across the street. “I met many of you when I was Vice President and our relationship was very good,” he said in a brief speech. "I hope that our relationship will continue to be just as cordial as it was when I was Vice President. “ I hope our relationship will con tinue to be on the same cordial plane nationally and with the world as it is between you and me.” Harriman, home for consultation, went to the White House with Sec retary of State Stettinius and Un dersecretary Grew. Leaving the ex ecutive offices, he had nothing to re port on the conference except that the talk was “about Russia.” Obviously, however, it was con cerned with such pressing matters as the impending visit of Soviet For eign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotqv, and the impasse over Russian de mands for representation of the Mos cow-sponsored Warsaw provisional government of Poland atthe San Francisco United Nations conference. The pressure of international af fairs, increasing in urgency with the approach of the San Francisco con ference next week, was reflected in a White House visit by Senator Con nally, Democrat of Texas. It was Connally’s last conference with the President before his startto the west coast tonight as a memberof the American delegation. The President’s schedule for the day kept up the high-speed pace he has maintained since he took office a week ago last night. Another item worked into the al ready-crowded presidential schedule was a discussion of masonic activi ties with Carl H. Claudy, executive secretary, and John D. Cunningham, director of welfare, of the Masonic Service association of the United States. The President is a Shriner and a past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri. He saw the three survivors of the six Marines who hoisted the Ameri can flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, and accepted from them the first copy off the press of the 7th war loan poster made from AP Photographer Joe Rosenthal’s fam ous photo of the event. The new Chief Executive kept to his 8:30 a. m. starting schedule, walk ing across the street from the Blair House as he did yesterday. Any time after today, however, he can be closer at hand if he wants to. The RoUsevelt family arranged to move out during the day, though An na Roosevelt Boettiger, the late Pres ident’s daughter, still will have some packing there to do. Mrs. Boettiger has been delayed by the illness of her young son, under treatment at Walt er Reed hospital. The day’s first caller was Col. James Roosevelt, USMC, eldest son of the late President. After that, the pressure never let up. 365 Days Os Combat In Europe Is Record Os Pfc. Jas. Leatherman 194th Field Artillery Battalion Seventh Army In France, April 19. —Pfc. James D. Leatherman, 23, of Route One, Vale, has recently com pleted his 365th day of combat in the European theatre. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Leatherman. He has been in the Army since De cember 5, 1942, and came overseas in August, 1943, and is currently serv ing with 194th Field Artillery Bat talion in France. He landed in North Africa in 1943 and has since seen ac tion in the battle for Cassino, and Anzio Beachhead operation, the Ar no river crossing, and the German Gothic Line in Italy. He later par ticipated in the liberation of South ern France. He has been awarded three bronze service stars for battle participation and German campaigns. Prior to Pfc. Leatherman’s entry into the Ar ny, he was employed by John E. Ballinger, contractor, Lake land, Fla. Pfc. Leatherman’s wife, 'Marie K. Leatherman, resides in the Vale community. Now is the time to plan to harvest crimson clover seed, vetch, or rye grass seed for a payment of $3.50 an acre, but not to exceed $87.50 per farm. Berlin Being Smashed As Red Shock Troops Reach Heart Os City Enters White House Pres. Harry S. Truman arriving at the White House on his first day as chief executive. Advancing hours of conferences, the new President has Indicated that he will set a record for long and hard work. U. S. CASUALTY TOTAL 912,478 Washington, April 19.—The battle for the Rhine and crossing of the river in March cost U. S. Army ground forces 47,023 casualties, Sec retary of War Stimson reported to day. W r hile this total was larger than in February, when there were 34,- 468 losses, Stimson pointed out that it was smaller than for any month since October. The March casualty figure includ ed 6,214 killed, 35,443 wounded and 5,366 missing. Since D-Day last June Stimson dis closed, American ground casualties on the Western front totaled 473,215 up to the end of March. Included are 79,795 killed, 334,919 wounded and 58,501 missing. At the same time, Stimson dis closed that army casualties in all theaters have reached 813,870 on the basis of names compiled in Washing ton through April 7. Added to the navy’s losses of 98, 608, this put ag gregate casualties since Pearl Har bor at 912,478, an increase of 13,088 since last week’s report. I Losses Not High Stimson said that while current casualties on the Western front are not yet available, they are “not high.” In contrast, he said, more than 900,- 000 Germans were captured in April and the number of enemy killed and wounded has been high. Since the landings in France last June, he added, Allied forces have taken well over 2,100,000 prisoners. A breakdown on army casualties in all theaters and corresponding fig ures for the preceding week follows: Killed 162,505 and 159,267; wound ed, 496,803 and 489,256; missing, 38,- 926 and 86,648; prisoners 70,636 and 67,514. Os the wounded, 261,596 have returned to duty. Similar figures on navy losses: Killed 38,035 and 37,402; wounded 45,725 and 44,444; missing 10,589 and 10,605; prisoners, 4,259 and 4,254. German Army That Held Siegfried Line Has Been Wiped Out Paris, April 19. —General Omar Bradley declared today that virtually every German soldier that faced Al lied forces on the Siegfried line on February 23, has been killed, wound ed or is a prisoner of war. General Bradley estimated that Al lied troops now occupy about 36 per cent of the territory of the greater Reich that includes Austria. Prisoners taken from the Ruhr trap number 316,000, and the total bag of prisoners is well over a mil lion. Speed Contacts With Navy Man In Pacific Got a boy in the Pacific? If you have, here’s some news of interest to you about getting mail to him. The Navy mail service sug gests: 1. Since newspapers will be months old before they arrive (Okinawa is 5,280 miles from Fleet Post Office, San Francisco), families should clip items of news interest and enclose them in letter mail, rather than send the whole newspaper. 2. If a man is “guessed” to be in an invasion area, his family and friends should wait for some time before sending any parcel post pack ages. And, if he is known to be in the far Pacific, packages with food or Lincoln County's Favorite Family Newspaper SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS Fanatical j Nazis Putting Up Block-By-Block Defense As Thousands Perish; 21 Os City’s Districts Now in Rus sian Hands; 3,000)000 Frightened Civilians Jam med Underground. London, Monday, April 23.—Red Army shock troops were reported fighting in the very heart of Berlin today against fanatical Nazis who lost at least 8,000 dead Sunday in a desolating block-by-block defense of the German capital. Twenty-one of the city’s districts, comprising one-sixth of its area, al ready were in Russian hands, the Soviet communique said Sunday night and an early morning Moscow offic ial bulletin said the fighting was “raging day and night without dy ing down a single moment.” The Russians were back in Berlin foi the first time since they occu pied Ithe 4ity in 1796 during |the Seven Years war. The Germans themselves said, through the Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau which they control, that Rus sian tanks and infantry reached the center of Berlin Sunday, and related a frank tale of the horror of 3,000,- 000 civilians packed so closely in un derground shelters that they could not sit down and dared not go out side even momentarily while the tre mendous and destructive battle raged over their heads. Take In Inner Districts. The Soviet communique, more con servative than the German accounts, said nevertheless that 18 of Berlin’s inner districts and three outer sub urbs had been taken and that fight ing now- was in progress in the area of the Berlin belt railway after the crushing of suburban resistance cen tered around street car stations. The Berlin radio was silent and the huddling millions in the shelters followed the course of the battle from wall maps. These showed, the Germans themselves said, that by Sunday morning the Russians were within a mile of the famous inter section of Unter Den Linden and the Friedrichstrasse. As whole acres of the once proud center of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich were churned into a smouldering tangle of wreckage, victory-flushed Russian troops by Moscow’s account were within 34 miles of a juncture with American troops. But reports from Allied headquarters indicated 30 miles or less separated the west ern and eastern allies. Begrimed, dust-laden Russian fight ers who have fought their war from Moscow and Stalingrad swarmed through Berlin’s streets as 23,- 000 Nazi soldiers gave up one of his tory’s greatest struggles and were roped into Red army prisoner cages during the five days. Wreck 945 Tanks. By Moscow’s account since the great offensive began a week ago more than 945 Nazi tanks have been destroyed or captured and 750 of the Luftwaffe’s last planes have been shot down or seized. Smashing forward under a hail of fire from the heaviest concentration of artillery employed in this war, the Soviet wall of steel swept into Ber lin’s northern and eastern districts on a twisting 30-mile front from the northwestern district of Glienicke to Wilhelmshagen and Freiedrichagen on the east, Moscow revealed. While the Soviets pushed as much as seven miles inside the city by Moscow’s official reports, a dispatch from the blazing capital to the Scan dinavian Telegraph Bureau said the escape gap to the west had been nar rowed to nine miles. There was no confirmation from Berlin’s radio transmitters, but the the Soviet High Command or from dispatch said the Russians had swept beyond the southwestern suburb of Potsdam and that “it is not impossi ble that the capital will be entirely encircled within the next 24 hours." The center of the three-quarters encircled capital was outflanked by the capture of Luebars, Blankenfelde and Rosenthal, taken in a seven-mile sweep into the city in a 12-mile ad vance from Bernau, Moscow revealed. At Rosenthal Premier Stalin’s tankmen were five and ahalf miles north of the burning city center. The STB’s Berlin correspondent, Edward Sandeberg, relaying this dispatch through Copenhagen, aaid Russian tank-riding tommygunners had push ed down through the city to its built up center. perishables should not be sent at all. 3. Send photographs, snapshots and newspaper items to your Blue jacket overseas, and send them in first class mail. Enclosures cannot be sent in V-Mail letters. 1 4. Use V-Mail as often as possible. 1 Write short, frequent letters. Re • member V-Mail has air priority over ! all other classes of mail in an effort ■ tc increase the volume.
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