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Lincoln County’s 7th War Loan Quota Is $462,000 - Let’s Go Over The Top! Why Wait? Buy A Bond Now! POPULATION (1940 Census) Lincoln County 24,187 Lincolnton 4,526 Crouse - 221 Iron Station 96 Denver 854 $2.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE War Bond Sales Lagging In County Joe A. Leonard Is Home After Long Stay In Nazi Prison Recreational Center Director. J' . _ COACH JACK KISER. SUMMER PROGRAM IS PLANNED FOR LINCOLN YOUTH The Kiwanians and Rotarians of Lincolnton are sponsoring a three months program of recreation under the direction of trained leadership. Coach “Jack” Kiser has been employ ed and he will be given such other helpers as he may need in addition to the volunteer help of the members of the two civic clubs. The school Board has granted the use of the gymnasium and the school grounds. The gym will be used as a kind of club room and hang out for the gang. Ping pong, checkers, chess and other table games will be pro vided. On the grounds provisions will be made for shuffle boards, volley ball courts, horse-shoe courts, bad minton courts, and ball diamonds. Not only will the games be played but instruction will be given for the cor rect manner of playing and the de velopment of individual skill in par ticipation. By the use of lights on the field night programs of fun for groups in all ages can be provided. Community sings and group games for young and old are anticipated. The two civic clubs have raised $1,500 and are giving this to the community. They ask that the town and county co-operate in this new venture to adequately provide for the children and young people of our whole county. Watch the papers for further announcements as to sched ules and information concerning age limits for the various groups. OPA Is Cracking Down On Canning Sugar Chiselers Washington, June 2.—The OPA cracked down hard today on “chisel ing of home canning sugar for other purposes.” , “Some chiselers are stooping to falsify their applications in an ef fort to get sugar that they know they won’t use in canning,” Price Administrator Chester Bowles said in a statement announcing a “drastic program to put an end to this sugar racket.” Bowles said the sugar supply is sufficient for home canning require ments, “but will not be enough if the chiseling x x x continues.” Under OPA’s four-point program, everyone applying for home canning sugar must sign this pledge: “I agree that I‘will use the sugar applied for for home canning pur poses only. If, for any reason, I should not us e i t for canning, 1 will return the equivalent in sugar stamps to my local war price and rationing board. I further agree that I will furnish a report to my board of the number of quarts of food canned with this sugar and the amount of sugar actually used in canning this food. I understand that my report will become a part of my record and will be considered in fu ture issuance of home canning and other sugar rations to me.” Last year, Bowles asserted, many persons who had no intention of using sugar for canning applied for sugar for this purpose and in so do ing “literally robbed our country of The Lincoln Times __ N. C. State ’ ★ ★ ★ PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY W ★ ★ Reluctant To Tell His Experi ences, Particularly of Time Spent in Italy Camps. Joe A. Leonard came home Thurs day night looking none the worse for the fourteen months h e spent as a German prisoner of war. The ex perience, he said, however, was one he would not care to repeat. The Red Cross h e described as a wonderful organization, and had it not been an il he feels that he and many others would not be living today. He was captured by the Germans February 17, 1944, while serving with the 179th Infantry, 45th Divis ion, in Italy, and was liberated by the Americans April 27, this year. Fol lowing his capture he was marched with other prisoners to a town near Rome, known as the “Hollywood of Italy.’ There they spent three months without a bath or a change of cloth ing and very little to cat. “It was there,” said Joe, “that I had my first experience with lice.” From May to June 10 he spent at Moosburg 7A camp, and after that was for a month at Augsburg, where the prisoners spent their time clean ing the streets which had been torn up by Allied bombings- On July 28 he was sent to Stalag 78, which he said was somewhat above the general run of German prison camps. From then until the time of his liberation he spent doing farm work. Asked what kind of work he said: “Making crops and particu larly hay. I never saw so much hay in my life.” The owner of the farm on which he worked was a German around 70 years of age and not too bad a task master, nor was he too strong a fol lower of the Nazi regime. Jo e and his buddies had their own tent quar ters for sleeping and were marched to the farm each morning under guard. The farm owner was respon sible for them during working hours, which began at 6 a. m. and ended at 9 p. m. The subject of German soup Joe dismisseed with a shrug of the shoul der and called the package which they received regularly from the Red Cross veritable life savers. While in th e Italian camp the Lin colnton man said he lost considerable weight but later gained most of it back and he is now at about his nor mal weight. Asked what his reaction was on the day he was liberated he said it was the happiest day he had ever spent and the feeling of freedom was one h e will never forget. Returning home : he sailed from La Havre, France, ami the trip across took 11 days. He has ' been granted a 60 day furlough, at the end of which he will report to Miami, Fla., for reassignment. The following description of the camp in which young Leonard was (Continued on page two) a substantial part of our limited sug ai supply.” The same thing is happening again this year, he said, adding: “The home canning sugar racket must be stopped.” In addition to requiring applicant pledges, Bowles directed: 1. OPA local boards in areas where fruit and vegetable crops are not now available for home canning to suspend issuing home canning ra tion certificates until the canning season starts. This will apply chiefly to -the northern parts of this coun try. 2. Suspension of new certificates in many other areas to give local boards a “breathing spell,” during which they can process more care fully th e applications on file, and to give district offices an opportunity to caculate monthly quotas. 3. A special staff of OPA investi gators to undertake a “vigorous cam paign” against the diversion of home canning sugar into bootleg liquor or illicit bottling. The home canning sugar ration has been reduced from a maximum of 25 pounds a person last year to 15 pounds this year. In addition, however, each local board has been directed to keep its 1945 al lotments tp within 70 per cent of last year’s. This means that many boards will have a maximum far below the 15- pound individual limit. LINCOLNTON. N. C., MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945 Homecoming of Franklin Survivor ’ f | jppfc 4 T—-MI- Minin HI I Xx Yeoman 2/e Robert Charles Blanchard at his home in New York. He had previously been photographed receiving the last rites aboard the carrier, administered by the ship’s chaplain. Family had believed he had died aboard the CSS Franklin, along with 800 naval personnel. His reunion with wife and baby daughter, born while he was in action, was a happy sequel to that harrowing experience at sea. Yank Forces Cut Off Okinawa Peninsula As Planes Hit Kyushu Nimitz Says 26 Enemy Planes Shot Down; Tokyo Admits Situation Is Grave. Guam., Monday, June 4.—Tenth Army infantrymen “effectively cut off and isolated” Chinen peninsula on southeastern Okinawa yesterday in scoring widespread advances against crumbling Japanese defenses, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz reported today. Carrier planes of Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey’s Third fleet meanwhile swept airfields on southern Kyushu, one of Japan’s main islands, yester day for the second straight day, pounding potential enemy suicide plane bases and destroying nine Nip ponese aircraft. Nimitz reported the 184th Infantry regiment of Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arnold’s veteran Seventh Division reached within a third of a mile of Okinawa’s southeastern coastline in a rapid two-mile sweep across the base of the Chinen peninsula. The Doughboys captured Shiklya town, on southeastern coastal plain, and drove swiftly up the pe ninsula. In the central and western sectors, the 96th Infantry Division and the First Marine Division scored substan tial gains in drives southward from the rubbled ruins of Shuri and Naha- Town Is Captured. The 96th captured Kamizato town in advancing 500 to 1,200 yards along its sector of the front. Only light re sistance was encountered. In the west, the First Marine Di vision drove through the heavy ma j ehinegun and mortar fire to seize a | hill 200 yards north of Karara village. The Leathernecks advances ranged from 800 to 1,000 yards. Japanese air activity was heavy over Okinawa yesterday, Nimitz re ported 26 Japanese planes were shot TRUMANANDHOOVER CONFER OVER CRISIS Former President Herbert Hoover visited the White House on invita tion Monday to help untangle a vex ing but familiar problem—the light •against hunger in war-ravaged Eu rope. Hoover went to Washington at the request of President Truman. His first return to the executive mansion since he left it 12 years ago at the close of his own administration. Neither the White House nor the former Republican President would say whether there was any discus sion of a new assignment for the man who administered European relief afteer the last war. The White House characterized the call as “a pleasant meeting.” The was sos possible non-partisan discussion was also opened as Chas. Ross, Mr. Truman’s press secretary, announced that th e President has in vited two other presidential nomi nees—former Gov. Alf M. Landon, o ' Kansas, and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, of New York—to drop in on him any time they might be i n Washington.” No subjects were discussed for these discussions. I down but no mention was made of | damage to U. S. fleet units. The Yanks scored their broad j gains on Okinawa as Tokyo radio ad mitted the situation of the Japanese j defenders “is to be regarded as very I grave.” | “The enemy has succeeded in pene | trating into Japanese main positions” J between southern Yonabaru and Naha, the enemy broadcast said, “and are even trying to attack the east coast of the island again.” Tokyo’s Version. Tokyo radio version of the second day of carrier raids on Kyushu said about 170 planes struck airfields in Miyazkki and Kagoshima prefectures in 14 waves. Liberators and Privateers of Fleet Air Wing 18 sank three small cargo ships along the south coast of Hon shu, the main Japanese island. A picket ship, a patrol craft and a lug ger were damaged. Targets in the Palaus were hit by Marine fighters and torpedo planes. To make scratches in mahogany “disappear,” paint them with iodine. Japs Depending On War-Weariness To Defeat U. S., Writes Frank C. Rhyne, Jr. Frank C. Rhyne, Jr,, Rdm, 3/c, who is now with the American fleet in the Pacific, thinks the Jap higher-ups know they can’t lick U. S. fighting men, but they believe they can out last America. They are counting on war weariness to defeat us , he says. Other interesting sidelights on the war in the Pacific are contained in a letter which Leonard A. Wright of the Times received from Rdm. Rhyne. For the benefit of his many friends in this section, the letter is carried here in full: May 20, 1945. Hello, Leonard: And how is every thing in the old home town? By now you should be enjoying some good baseball weather. As for m® I am feeling fine and wishing like the dick ens I could come home for a change. We don’t have much time to write very often as we are usually on the go practically all of the time. Right now I’m enjoying the sunshine and lots of swimming. It makes a fellow feel good to get the home tow n pa per so that he can keep track of his friends and buddies. Mail service isn’t too good out here, but we al ways look forward to all the news from home. Now that the war in the Atlantic is over, maybe we can strike those little yellow Nips down soon. As yet it is not time to slack up on our pro duction lines, becausue it will take all the war material we can get our hands on. Last week all Gl’s in the Pacific drank a toast to our brothers who licked Germany. It is strictly mythical, drunk from a canteen of chlorinated water, but our hearts were in it. On islands like Luzon, Leyte, Iwo Jima and Cebu, 7,000 to 10,000 miles from home, hundreds of thousands J Sgt. Campbell Loses i Life In Plane Crash News of the death of Staff Sergt. Marshall Campbell in a plane crash in England has been received by his wife, the former Miss Janet Bum gardner, of Maiden. Mrs. Campbell, who continues to live i n Maiden, re ceived a telegram from the War department notifying her of her husband’s fatal injuries. His death occurred May 6. Surviving Staff Sergeant Campbell in addition to his wife ar e his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Campbell, Route 3, Lincolnton; six brothers', Aubrey Campbell, of Route 3, Lin colnton; Yates Campbell, of Cramer ten; Sergt. Russell Campbell, station ed in England; Boyce Campbell, of Charlotte; Private First Class Joe Campbell, of Camp Butner, and Sea man Second Class Everette Camp bell, of Maxwell Field, Alabama; and three sisters, Mrs. Lucy Mcßee, of Route 3, Lincolnton; Mrs. Kathleen Spencer, of Charlotte, and Mrs. Rose Marlowe, of Hickory. Staff Sergeant Campbell received his basic training at St. Petersburg, Fia., and several other fields in this country. Before he went overseas he was stationed at Pope Field, Fort Bragg. Overseas only six weeks before he was mortally in jured, he was crew chief on a C-46 transport plane. Recently, while overseas, he had been visited by hi s brother, Sergt. Russell Campbell of Charlotte, now in the European theater, and they had flown together from England to France. Sergt. Russell Camp bell, who has been in the Army several years, was stationed at Morris Field 32 months, and Mrs. Campbell is living a t 701 East Worthington avenue, Charlotte. Private First Class Joe Campbell, who was in the First Army in Bel gium, and Seaman Second Class Ev erette Campbell, another brother, who has been serving in the Eighth Army Air force in Europe, have returned from overseas. C. E. D. Picture At Century Theatre Friday And Saturday “Jobs After the War” is an added short picture feature everyone should see at the Century Theatre Friday and Saturday, June 8 and 9. The presentation is being made by A. E. Miller, owner-manager, in co operation with the Lincoln County Committee for Economic Develop ment to help stimulate postwar bus iness and job planning. Dr. Palmer Appointed To Examiners Board Raleigh, June 2. —Dr. James A. Palmer of Charlotte has been ap- j pointed by Governor Cherry to a five IF Hr JH FRANK C. RHYNE, JR., RDM. 3/c. of fighting men can’t take time even to let out a few whoops or fire a cou ple of rounds in the air. But for every shot they would have liked to fire skyward, a thousand are aimed at the Japs. For every unuttered yelp of joy, there are ten cusses as Nip lead tears into Yank flesh. And for every mainland sigh of relief that the war is practically over there conies the groan of a home sick man in a water-filled fox hole the thought of a wife, or girl, or fam ily he may not see for another year— oi two —or three. The Jap higher-ups know they can’t lick U. S. fighting men, but they believe they can outlast America. They are counting on war weariness to defeat us. Chairman Dan Boyd Urges Everyone To Do Their Very Best Newly Appointed Davidsonian Heads f MELDRUM WINSTEAD. 311 l % Ajk r JACK LAZENBY. Davidson, N. C., June 2.—Shown above ale the newly appointed heads of the Davidsonian, Davidson College campus newspaper for the summer months. From left to right they are Jack Lazenby, of Statesville, busi ness manager; and Meldrum Win stead, of Lincolnton, editor-in-chief. Th e new staff will begin their work after the opening of the summer ses sion on Tuesday, June 5. year term on the State Board of Ex aminess in Optometry. Dr. Palmer j has an office in Charlotte and Lin colnton. Bleats about the curfew and the lack of horse racing, complaints about increased meat rationing, not men tioning the many other items such as gas, smoking tobacco’s, etc., brings toothy grins in Tokyo and a decision to fight on for another few years. Reports of frantic efforts to beat competito J; in postwar production or to grab jobs with postwar futures now that Germany is whipped in crease Jap determination to hold out longer. The guy in the fox hole is weary, but he is not “war weary.” Ask the dead Japs in the Philippines, China; and Burma. In spirit the Pacific GI is at the elbow of every man and woman from Boston to Seattle who drinks a “well done” to our Allied Armies. But he’d like these celebrants to remember a few names like Pearl Harbor, Ba taan, Corregidor and Santo Tomas. He’d like them to remember, as they drain their glasses, at that instant the blood of a lad from Virginia, North Carolina, lowa or many other states is tinting the sands of some unpronounceable Pacific battle ground. He’d like them to know that he doesn’t want to fight another war or \ have his sons fight one—ever. And | that he feels acute nausea whenever j some alleged statesman starts choos- I ing up sides for the next one. The Pacific GI doesn’t ask for much. All he wants is continued all out help from home, not strikes, to end this war and to prevent the next one. Will close for now as there isn’t anything else to say at present. Be good, tell all hello and keep the home fires burning. Your friend, FRANK. Lincoln County's Favorite .ibrary family Newspaper SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS Total Sale* To May 29 Only $122,116.75; E Bond* Sold To Same Date $80,568.75. The 7th War Loan Drive is lagging in Lincoln county and unless some real effort is put forth in the next few weeks the county’s splendid rec ord of meeting its quota in each of the six previous drives will be brok en. According to figures released by Chairman Dan Boyd, the sale of E bonds through May 29 was $80,568.75, against a quota of $275,000. The total of all bonds sold up to that date is $122,116.75 and the over all quota is $462,000. In releasing the figures, Chairman Boyd urges everyone to put his “shoulder to the wheel” and push hard in order that Lincoln county may again fulfill her obliga tion to her fighting men. For the convenience of bond buy ers we are reprinting the list of workers in the current campaign, any one of whom will be glad to serve you. If you have not yet been seen by one of these workers, it is sug gested you call on them and buy just as many bonds as you can. Woman’s Division—Mrs. W. V. Costner, Mrs. C. H. Hinson, co-chair men. Mrs. Wiley M. Pickens, publicity chairman. Ward I—Mrs. Ralph Cochrane, chairman; Mrs. Zeb Keever, Mrs. B. Chapman, Mrs. Everett Mullen, Mrs. T. Frank Huguenin, Mrs. Tom James, Mrs. Randolph Zimtbaum. Mrs. Sam Robinson, Mrs. Chilton Rose, Mrs. Winford Willis, Mrs. Chas. Byers, Mrs. B. M. Modlin. Ward 2—Mrs. J. L. Lineberger, chairman; Mrs. Sol Cohen, Mrs. M. L. Huggins, Mrs. Paul Mullen, Mrs. W. A. Lilly, Mrs. Kilgo Rogers, Mrs. W. D. Hoyle, Mrs. R. C. Goode, Jr. Ward 3—Mrs. Wm. Hoffman, chair man; Mrs. L. D. Warlick, Mrs. Chas. Hoover, Mrs. Nick Sappenfield. Ward 4 Mrs. Russell Jolly, chair man; Mrs. Guy Cline, Mrs. Lola Van Story, Mrs. H. A. Jonas, Mrs. Lena Reinhardt, Miss Alice Robinson. Boger City—'Mrs. Bennett Allen, chairman; Mrs. Ernest Lipe, Mrs. Weaver Cagle, Mrs. W. L. Turner, Mrs. Carl Hartman, Mrs. Cleo Finger, Mrs. Paul Gabriel, Mrs. Ralph Ab ernethy, Miss Harry Lee Lowe, Miss Alice Jean Hartman. Laboratory—Mrs. Evan Carswell. Long Shoals—Mrs. C. G. Rhyne. Lincolnton Township—T. F. Corri her, chairman; Jno. R. Shrum, Hal Hoyle, Lex Ramseur, Hugh Holly, Lee Cline, R. U. Shuford, O. C. Carpenter, Jack Kiser, R. B. Gates, Thos. E. Rhodes, M. L. Sipe Herbert Miller, Mrs. Ernest Ritchie, Route 2; Mrs. Clyde Knight, S. A. Rhodes, Route 4. Ironton Township—Mrs. R. B. Cronland, chairman; Dorsey Rhyne Mrs. Ida Waters, Claude Keener, D. A Troutman, W. B. Abernethy. Flay Houser, W. A. Abernethy, Rev. L. A. McClure, L. D, Richard, Miss Lettie Shrum, Mrs, Harry Arthur. Catawba Springs—Joe Graham, chairman; J. E. Ramsey, Mrs. Lewis Ballard, Pat Goodson, Miss Ethel Whitemer, W. R. Cherry, Mrs. Deck Hager, Mrs. Vick Rhyne, Mrs. John Reinhardt, E. C. Mclntosh, Don Cher ry. North Brook No. I—Mrs. Woodrow Beam, chairman; B. L. Heavner, Mrs. Kenneth Beam, Mrs. Annie H. Falls, Miss Edna Sorrells, Mrs. Marvin Beam, Mrs. Alton Carpenter, Miss Mildred Fish, Troy Lackey, Mrs. Lee Bess, Mrs. J. C. Lansing, Mrs. Lon nie Lingerfelt, Mrs. Stowe Carpen ter. North Brook No. 2 —Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Beam, co-chairmen; Mrs. Hugh Beam, Ervin Bess, Mrs. Burgin Lac key, France Boyles, Mim Houser, O. H. Venters, Mrs. Cone Bess. North Brook No. 3—Eli Houser, chairman; C. E. Boyles, Mrs. Vertie Mull, Miss Ruth Hoyle, Mrs. Nan nie Rhyne, Mrs. Carrie Sain, Mrs. Mo selle Jarrett, Mrs. Eula Pendeleton. Howard’s Creek—Mrs. Ruth W. Leonard, chairman; Mrs. John N. Bangle, Mrs. Ransom Killian, Rev. B. S. Brown, Mrs. R. S. Mullen, Mrs. W. C. Jetton, Guy Robinson, Paul Heafner, Ira Sain, Miss Edna Wise, Mrs. James McClurd, Miss Jessie Wood, Earl Sigmon, Mrs. Webb Har mon, Mrs. E. K. Sain, Mrs. E. W. Reinhardt, Mrs. M. S. Goins, Mrs. T. C. Falls, Dan Mosteller. Home Demonstration Clubs—Mia* Elizabeth Raby, chairman; Ann* Priest Club, Mrs. T. E. Hovis and Mrs. John Ritchie, County Line Club, Mrs. Lester Keever; Denver Club, Mrs. Loy Howard; Hickory Grove (Continued on back page}
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