The Monroe Enquirer from Monroe, North Carolina • Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Mostly cloudy and mild today; partly cloudy and mild tonight and Tuesday. Sunset today; 8:02, p. sunrise Tuesday. 6:3 a. m.

MONROE MARKET v. aiHc to 22tto WT 4a 1 -HU 01V Cotton' i 7io 573 Eras, doieri'vC I Corn, bushel SIM Wheat, bushel $1.70 i PUBLISHED ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS BBVENTY-FISST YEAR MONROE, N. UNION COUNTY, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1944 8-MONTHS, 75c; 6-MONTHS, $1.25 SEMI-WEEKLY, 2.00 A YEAR A. fy 1 i More THE LATEST WAR NEWS IN BRIEF Germany Dealt MRS. 0.

M. SANDERS DIED SUDDENLY SATURDAY 478 To Report Eligibles GRADY PARKER KILLED AT CHERRY POINT, N.C U' -j-. Reds Pressing On Sevastopol Well Known Local Electrician Meets For Examination Crushing Blow Funeral Services Held From The Home Sunday Afternoon At 4 O'clock. for new AERIAL. VarieoT assortment of air raiders continues to batter Nazi Europe with strong attacks from west and soath; great offensive to knock oat German air force declared mooes.

Accidental Death At Naval Base. Funeral services for Mlllen Orady Parker were conducted from the Wesley Chapel Methodist church Sunday Report Capture Of Summit Mrs. Dora Slkes Sanders, 78, one of the city's oldest and most highly esteemed woman, passed away sud Allied Bombers Deliver War's Heaviest Assault On Nari Targets Largest Number To Go From County WiD Leave ThisWeek OPA Extends Eligibility To Include Small Essential Delivery Trucks morning at eleven o'clock by Rev. J. denly at her home on Lancaster Ave Overlooking Fortress As Nazis Await Drive O.

Cox, assisted by Rev. T. J. Hug- gins. Burial was In the church nue, Saturday morning, about 10 INVASION: Germans report Netherlands garrison is at action statlosn; British airborne formations ready for assault, IN 30 HOUR BLASTING Mr.

Parker was accidentally killed MAJORITY ARE 18 TO 26 BOARD GRANTS PERMITS HALFWAY TO BERLIN about noon Thursday, while working o'clock after a long period of declining health. Funeral services were held from the home Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, conducted by Rev. C. C. American, British warplanes have Approximately four hundred and RUSSIAN: Reds take mountain overlooking Sevastopol amid lull on long eastern front.

at the Naval Base at Cherry Point. He was a civilian electrician employed at the base and presumably his death was by electrocution. delivered the greatest sustained aerial assault of the war, rounding out a 30-hour offensive against Germany and He had been working there for seventy-eight white men, registrants of the two local selective service boards will leave this week for camp to take their physical examinations. Most of these men are in the 18 to 26 age class. There are a few older something over a year and his family I Nazi-occupied territories last week, ITALIAN: U.

S. bombers sock Stefano harbor and rail targets; Germans snffffer heavy casualties on eastern sector of front. A Crimean dispatch said yesterday the Red army had captured a summit overlooking besieged Sevastopol, while the conviction grew in Moscow, London and even in Berlin reforming Russian armies oh the Polish-Romanian fronts soon would launch another offensive, perhaps co-ordinated with Allied lunches In the west Burrls of Wingate, with Interment In the Monroe cemetery. Active pallbearers were: Rupert Funderburk, Emmett Griffin, G. M.

Beasley, Ben Shaw, Hayne Baucom and James Morrow. Honorary: W. M. Massey, Dr. J.

W. was wrens witn mm. oeiore going iu durinir which bombs were dimmed al. Chen- Boint he 'worked a 1 uunnB wnicn oomDS were dropped al Cherry Point he 'worked as an elec most continuously at the average rate The Office of Price Administration Monday extended eligibility for new tires to Include small essential delivery trucks and made used tires Available for all such vehicles. Effective tomorrow (Friday) operators of commercial vehicles, delivering essential foods, laundry, drugs and medical supplies and dry-cleaning clothing wil be able 'to obtain new truck tires of eight-ply or less and all of new passenger car tires.

They will continue to be eligible for used tires. ntkM- nnerators. heretofore not eli- of 300 tons an hour, or five tons a trlclan about Monroe. Mr. Parker was 45 years old, and a son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. T. Parker of Wesley Chapel. He is survived by his minute.

ASIA: Japanese drive fought to standstill In India; Japs reach outskirts of strategto Chenghsien In China. and south. The Allies in more than 6,000 The Soviet high command, in one Ormand, Sidney Stewart, G. M. Beasley, R.

F. Beasley, Dr. E. J. Williams, O.

L. Richardson, Coble Funderburk, George McClellan, J. F. Mil-liken, Roy Brewer, Joel Griffin, 8. H.

Green, W. A. Lane, Claude Wilson and wife, Mrs. Georgia Harris Parker, and mgnts between noon Tuesday and 6 p. m.

Wednesday poured 9.000 tons of their three sons and one daughter, some of them volunteers. The list from Board No. 1 Indicates 240 men who will report and is as follows: Warren Bailey Helms, James Ems-ley Moore, Albert Myers Hlnson, Curtis Woodrow Hargette, New Grier Kil-lough (transfer), Frank Helms, Worth Maxwell Laney Theo Reuben Helms, Henry Craven Baucom, Worth Nash. of its shortest bulletins In a year, again reported no important changes on the eastern front. But both Russian and German dispatches noted all children at home, Orady, bombs on selected German targets, the Americans capping the period with a Oeorge Harris Parker, James Parker A.

M. Secrest. PACIFIC: U. S. bombers lash Ponape In another raid on eastward guardian of Truk; airmen continue attacks on other Japanese targets.

and Patsy Parker. Mrs. Sanders is survived by three rihh. for anv tires, will be able to His brothers are Messrs. Wade daughters, Mrs.

H. H. Wilson of Mon purchase used truck tires of sizes Parker of Charlotte, and Houston Parker of Wesley Chapel, and his sis roe, Mrs. John Beasley of Carthage and Mrs. P.

Y. Adams of High Point; tnan y.ou-au, oosukjw new passenger tires and all sizes of ters, Mrs. W. H. Barrett of Charlotte, two, Walter C.

and J. Slkes Sanders Mrs. Oeorge Perry of Charlotte, and Mrs. James Rogers of Bakers. William Heath Nash, Talmadge Ramsey Elmore, Robert Edward Austin, Amos Garrison Rogers, Hubert Baxter Flowe, Walter Samuel Morse.

Edward Helms, Benjamin Homer Stogner. Jas. Odell Starnes, Ward Belk Grady Watson Mangum, Neal McDonald Simpson, John Travis Doster, John Herman Williams, Claude Robert Holloway. Union County's Men In Service blow by 2,000 heavy bombers and fighters against plane factories and parking fields near Kassel and Hamm in Germany and Installations near Calais in Prance. The U.

S. Air forces communique referred to the offensive as "the air invasion of Germany." The more enthusiastic protagonists of air power in London began speaking of the possibility of breaking the back of the German Air force in two or three weeks if the weather holds out. The German Air force apparently was driven to yesterday. Although conodltlons were ideal for com of Monroe; and two brothers, Judge O. J.

Sikes df Albemarle and V. D. Slkes of Monroe. Two other brothers, John C. Slkes and Dr.

E. W. Sikes, former president of Clemson college died a few years ago. Mrs. Sanders, daughter of John Boost In Tax Increased Soviet aerial activity of a type which usually precedes major ground operations.

The Russians were declared striking at German troop concentrations, key rail Junctions and other rear-line targets. The German-controlled Scandinavian Telegram bureau quoted a Berlin spokesman as saying the Nazi High Command "expects a general offensive which will demand superhuman efforts by German soldiers." Since March 4, Russians have announced the killing or capture of ap-probimately 450.000 Axis troops, and this number probably will exceed when the Crimean tallies are completed. In 10 months the Red army has Pvt Tnpv nf Parri. Tsland. "earn ouuon, jonn wesiey oieveiis, r.

nrrlwri last, nlirht. to snend r.aimiui ouikcss, wuouiii Hit By Group 10-day furlough with his mother, Mrs. 1fwls- "amei used passenger ures. group -ludes vehicles delivering such products as Ice cream, tobacco, and bev- erages. At their weekly meeting Monday, April 17, the tire panel of the local War Prioe and Rationing Board approved the following applications: Truck Tires J.

T. Austin, Marsh-ville- C. B. Smith, Rl Wingate; James Austin, Marshyille; J. L.

Austin, Wineate- J. C. McRorle, Monroe; Moseiey, R2 Waxhaw; Olive Branch Milling Marshvllle; Robert IS Monroe; C. N. Simpson R2 Monroe; Stegall ft MW-rtlle- Parks Alexander, R5 Monroe, Tyler Monroe; Falrley L.

i nth in tw. r. un rooK, oeu W1U.UI1 bat and the American heavies were it, XTl Cuthbertson and Mrs. Jane Austin Slkes was born in the Slkes home near Wingate. She attended Monroe schools and Shelby Female college.

August 18, 1887, she married the late O. M. Sanders, who represented this district in the State Senate and held other offices. He died In 1909. ferreting out some of Germany's most Committee Balks At Increas vice.

Pvt. Boyd Laney is in "CB1 75 vital targets, the Germans mit ud 1-C Clarence Laney Is in the Navy, and Wade H. Laney left last Thursday Zeb Montgomery, is I Billy Grier Squires, Samuel Hilton, only a token resistance ing Burdens On Nation's Taxpayers driven Inside Estonia and Romania The British for their part dropped receiving his "boot" training in the Clarence Lee Aycoth, Ernie Harold and penetrated halfway to Berlin In a record one-night total of 4.400 tons Tate, Charlie Wilson Crook, Codus Navy. or bombs on railroad installations near Warren Melton, Ernest Griffith Cook, its 500-mile overland march from Kursk to the Luck-Kowel sector of old Poland. Paris and elsewhere behind the Nates' SEEK FOR ADJUSTMENT Robert Page Long, Teddy Roosevelt IS'W.

Moseiey, R2 Atlantic wall." Aerial warfare never before has wit The present lull Is the first since Anderson, Coy Marze, James Lloyd Moser, Wriston Lee, Hazel Callie Richard Phillips. Sl-c, who spent several months in England and returned to the States is now on duty in Africa. He is a son of Mr. and Waxhaw: Palrley L. Taylor.

R3 Mon last summer except for a comparative OO UnniVW H. IS. Simpson, William Harrison Mullis nessed a bombardment of such sustained volume and violence, and the end Is nowhere in slant. Those who Walter Campbell Carnes, Grady The tax -devising House Ways and Means committee has balked at Increasing burdens on some classes of taxpayers under the tentatively approved tax simplification program, and Tyler Monroe; Griffin Im- Mrs. Joe Phillips of Rl Monroe.

Planting Test Now At Hand Four Weeks Period WiD Determine How Well U. S. And Allies WiD Eat Wilson Burgess, Robert New Grifnn, have followed the European air war plement aaonruc, tin, Marshvllle; Stegall Henry Charles Hilton Howard Des Lieut. Claude Morrison, son of Mr. closely the last few months feel cer mond Elliott, J.

W. Howard, John decided to see If some adjustments and Mrs. Harvey Morrison, writes his tain that the present pace of the at' Coke Smith, Ray Hubert McAteer. "SJTm Automobile-R. Tarl- lfAniyia parents from "somewhere in England tack can otonly be maintained, but William Martin Medlln, Boyce Gray can be Increased from British bases that he is getting along nicely.

He has recently been made PX Officer and Is Hill, Harold Douglas Crook, Solon Jo Passenger Tlres-J. M. Falrley, Mon augmented further from the Italian seph Walden, Richard Edwin Sims. theater. in charge of a store where he is sta tioned.

Pete F. Williams, Clifford John Stikel roe; M. Burgess, u'' Norwood. R3 Waxhaw; W. W.

Parker, B4 Monroe; Ralph BoWen Monroe The Allied 30-hour offensive cost less ly quiet period Just before the Russians leaded the Dnepr river in the Kiev sector. Russian forces on sectors wrecked 26 German tanks and destroyed 52 planes Saturday, said the brief broadcast bulletin recorded by the Soviet monitor. The Crimean offensive rolled on through its 16th day, and Sevastopol In the southwest corner has been under artillery attack for a week. Soviet naval planes and warships have exacted a toll of enemy troops trying to escape across the Black sea to Romanaia. It was felt both ehre and In Moscow that the lull on other sectors of the front was merely a breathing-spell before the Russians lash out soon, and WEATHER IS BIG FACTOR leather, William Hazel Robinson, Robert Kelly Eubanks, Sanford Nay Mc- than one per cent of the attacking iorce.

S-Sgt. Laney Purser, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. C.

Purser, R2, Marshvllle, Is can De made. Rep. Knutson, Republican of Minnesota, pointed out that the proposed schedules would mean an Increase of about 200 per cent in the tax liability of a married man with no chlldern from $31 to $61 a year. In general. Chairman Doughton, Democrat of North Carolina, explained, the "streamliner" plan maintains burdens at about their present weight, but the committee wants to see if further leveling out can be done before it sends the measure to the House Manus Henry Eudy, Clayton Wod Indian Trail; R.

S. Gamble, Waxhaw: r--u na waxhaw: W. r. All operations cost six bombers and War-time agriculture Is heading into row Helms, Emsley Monroe Moore, Jr. stationed somewhere In England.

His 1JUUUCJ IM two fighters, the American communl Isaac Lee Medlln father was In the Enquirer office Frl que said. This brought total U. Clayton Henry Byrum, Ralph Reld a critical four-weeks' planting period that will determine to a large extent how well civilians will eat in the year ahead and the amount of food the and k. a. losses for the entire Barnette, Sam Stevens Sutton, James day to renew Sgt.

Purser's subscription and said a letter received from him last week stated he was receiving around-the-clock onslaughts to 42 Lee Helms, William Franklin Morris, bombers and seven flshteis. United States wil lbe able to furnish Wade Btariflyler, Carlos Franklin The Enquirer regularly. Ttfrrand'Mra me Americans recently reDorted its Allies. Hobbs, Raymond Edward Whitley, floor. Purser have another son, Pvt.

Chrone they shot down 21 of the small forces War Food administration officials, Bruce Hartwell Griffin, Paul Leonard Members of the congressional tax Purser, who has recently been released of German fighters that rose to meet Gordon, R3 Waxhaw; Veria hee uru-fln, Rl Wingate; J. Charlie Houston. R3 Waxhaw; Wriston Green. IU Monroe: B. F.

Mangum, Rl Marshvllle. George Courtney. Rl Monroe; Joel SercS. R3 Monroe: Lee WllUams. R5 Monroei'W.

C. Tomberlln. R3 Monroe; O. R. Watklns, Rl Indian Trail; Zeb Starnes, R5 Monroe; D.

M. MulUs, R3 Monroe; L. O. Moore, R2 Marshvllle; Byron B. Medlln, R8 Monroe; McRorle, R2 Monroe; Horace Helms, R2 Marshvllle; Leonard B.

Hargett, R2 Monroe; L. R. Nash, R3 it rinrdon. Monroe: Pear- Taylor, Arris Guy Starnes, Tee while recognizing that farmers are beset with many production probblems staff maintain that simplification, con from Camp Sutton hospital, where he tnem. solidating the special treatment vari received treatment for ajeg injury.

He Bruce Walters, James Benjamin Crump, Otho Fred Howey, William The three most recent Dhases of such as shortages of man-power and machinery, express confidence on the has been in the service two years. the invasion offensive sav about 2.000 ous groups of taxpayers get under the present law, cannot be accomplished Luther Helms, Roy Lee Mills, Robert outlook. That confidence has its prac New McNeely, Hilton Osville Aycoth, American and 1,000 British bombers of the heaviest types launched against S-Sgt. Carl S. Braswell, son of Mr.

without some variations In tax bur tical expression in more liberal civilian Jessie Lee Jordan, Erskine Willie dens. and Mrs. C. F. Braswell of Rl Win ration allowances of vital foods.

The uerman broadcasts suggested forthcoming Red army attacks would be synchronized with an Allied invasion in the West. The German High Command said German and Hungarian troops had repulsed numerous Russian counterattacks Saturday and captured a number of localities between the Carpathian mountains and the upper Dnes-ter river in the Stanislawow area of old Poland. Berlin announced Hungarian recapture of the village of Ot-tynia, 12 miles southeast of Wiles, Blake Willie Autry, Jerome Cal Notwithstanding the difficulty, Knut gate, has been spending a 15-day furlough with his parents. His address vin Starnes, Harvey Glenel Kinley vrermanys prunest targets her aircraft Installations and key railroad centers upon which her armies depend to supply hundreds of miles of the nation came through the winter with larger reserves of processed foods than son predicted the committee would re Margie J. Wheeler, James Daniel MlUs, port out the bill probably on Friday, lie M.

Evans, Monroe; Charles k. Noble, Marshvllle; Weldon Helms. R2 was expected last fall. is Station Hospital, Hendrick Field, 34172731, Sebring, Fla. uugene Clayton Helms.

Harold Fun- and send it to the House floor for con fortified western coast. The remainder Official confidence is based largely derburk Baucom, Robert Decator War-lick, John Charles Myers, Cyrus Ma upon reports that farmers Intend to plant 15,000,000 more acres of land to Pvt. Frank English Friday for Camp sideration next week. Chairman Oeorge, Democrat ot Georgia, of the Senate finance committee expects the legislation to be disposed of In about Monroe; Thomas E. sman, Lester Morris, R3 Matthews; Troy Benton, R3 Monroe; W.

L. Walters, R4 Monroe; Benford Webb, Marsh-Ule; A. E. Smith, R4 Monroe: J. O.

rian Rogers, James Woodrow Laney, James Odell Cooke, Raeford various crops than last year. The prospective planting pa tern emphasizes Meade, after spending his furlough here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John English. Kenneth Parker, Albert Zimer Mills, Odell Arant, J.

D. Raeford Helms, food crops of high nutritive values Pvt. B. R. Winchester who has been and livestock feed crops essential for maintenance of necessary supplies of Rotary Speaker Kemp Neal Price, Dowd Henderson Price, Luther Artford Broome, Frank William Knight, Lonnie Kee.

Luke with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Win meats and dairy products. Nevertheless, farm production has Tyson, Jerome (Dock) Baker. Warren chester for several days left the last of the week for the air field at Salina, Kansas.

or tn Invasion sorties were made by fighters, fighter-bombers and medium bombers. The main attacks were in this order: American Fortresses, Liberators and fighters totalling about 2,000 hit Berlin and vicinity in daylight Tuesday. The R. A. unescorted Lancaster and Halifaxes, set out at about 11 p.

m. Tuesday on the comparatively short flight to the aPrls area, permitting a greater weight of bombs because of lower fuel needs. With marers to guide them to the small area of the rail yards and shops at Noisy-le-Sac and Juvisy. Vaires and VUleneuve. St.

Oeorge, they obliterated an four of these main targets with the a rocky road ahead. The weather, Burrls Rogers, Sam Earl Wilson. ways a potential hazard for a loss at Brooks Younts, the very beginning of the season. The Dewey Wood fern Haywood. Albert Pvt.

Aiken Wolfe is spending a few 10 days after it reached that body. Thus the streamliner bill Joined three other major pieces of legislation on the agenda for action before Congress knocks off In June for the Democratic and Republican national conventions. The other measures would: (1) Extend for one year the life of lend-lease; (2) Provide a "QI bill of rights" setting up benefits for returning veterans; and (3) Extend for a year beyond June 80 the laws governing wartime price controls. Numerous appropriations bills, Including one to provide about additional for the Army, must be disposed of before a recess weather bureau reports that persistent unnord Kobblns, William Alice Big. days with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Ben Wolfe before leaving for his camp Simpson, R3 Marsnvme; vuuo w. Helms, R3 Marshvllle; W. Carl Parker B3 Marshvllle; Willie Simpson, R5 Monroe; Whlteford B. Helms, Monroe; Bruce Traywlck.

R3 Marshvllle; SUas Jones, R5 Monroe; Charlie Redfearn, Wingate. Lerby Purser, Marshvllle; Fred Smith, R2 Monroe; Emily R. Hasty, Monroe; Claude E. Davis, Rl Monroe; Floyd Fowler, R3 Monroe; E. T.

Long, JI3 Matthews; J. A. Little, VR3 Monroe; A. C. Cauthen, Marshvllle; Olln Murray.

R8 Monroe; L. A. Nash, Rl Wingate; O. W. R3 Monroe; James Marsh, R2 Marshvllle; W.

R. Mc-Whorter, R3 Waxhaw; H. L. WaddeU R3 Marshvllle; James E. Hudspeth, R3 Monroe; Bertha J.

Freeman. R3 Mon- wet, xxl weather has delayed spring planting operations fully two weeks. gers, Erskine Dale Richardson, James Irby Starnes, James Edward Long, Ell 's of the Ordnance Department in Atlanta, Ga. mint inreatt, Cyrus James Presslev. This delay is not serious but could become so If more favorable conditions Paul Lewis' Stegall, Edison McManus do not develop soon.

John Henry Love. Wlnfred Home, Mr. and Mrs. A. R.

Beaver of Rl, Agriculture will have to get along Wingate, have three sons and two with fewer skilled workers than ever Neil Aldridge, Harrison Rape, Haron Brown Purser, Miller Gallant Knight, William Thomas Wilson, Charles greatest one-night tonnage of bombs ever dropped. Locomotive shops at before. Tighter draft deferment regulations and movement of additional can be taken for the political Kouen, on tne main line from Dieppe sons-in-law in service. Cpl. Roy J.

Beaver has been in the Army for two years and is stationed at Fort Meade, Maryland. L. C. Beaver, 2-c, has workers to war Jobs has reduced farm uren Honeycutt, Walter Lee Starnes, Paul McLain, Robert Ellis Moser, William Fate Starnes, Charles Rich ana Havre to Paris, also was hit, as were Tergnler and other lesser The Ways and Means rtoud went been In the Navy for six months and roe; Mrs. Edith Pope, Rl Monroe; w.

B. Belk R3 Waxhaw; J. P. King, R2 Monroe; J. Brice Williams, R3 Mon man power three per cent below last year.

This means that greater efforts will be necessary to enlist town and Is stationed at Newport Rhode Island city folk to help with harvests. Tend MONROE TOWN QUINT ing to offset to some extent the loss over the first draft of the tax simplification bill, designed to iplleve persons of having to compute returns after this' year, and to provide simplified procedures for the other 20.000,000 tax-payers. The measure contemplates, effective next January 1, an adjustment Floyd C. Beaver, 2-c, has been In the Navy for seven months and is in the south Pacific. The sons-in-law are Ted Reeder, 82 -c, who has been In the Navy for nine months and Is roe; Wriston Hilton, R2 Matthews; u.

r. Deese, R3 Monroe; Hampton derburk, R2 Monroe; William R. liger, Monroe; 1 H. Price, Monroe; L. E.

Huggina, Marshvllle H. A. Knight, Rl Monroe; H. W. Purser, RS Mon- of workers wil lbe an Increased supply of farm machinery, but not as much as had been hoped for.

WINS ANOTHER VICTORY The Monroe Quint took their final Thus a combination of -factorsun pop at the Wingate Junior College stationed In North Africa, and Cpl. Julian H. Brooks Is in the Army Air Force and is stationed in Nebraska. mo wiumoKungs against wages and salaries to take the total tax liability favorable weather during the planting season and a shortage of man power varsity basketeers Tuesday night of COL. CABXOS ROMULO last week and came out with a 36 to 29 victory.

Wingate's team work was at and machinery might keep the planted acreage from reaching levels intended by farmers. LOCAL R0TARIANS WILL its best but waa not quite good enough oi persons earning up to $5,000. RABIES INSPECTORS FOR COUNTY ARE NAMED ard Simpson, George Ganson Aycoth, Burton Elwyn Ezzelle, Jesse Neal Yarbrough, Wayland Myers McGuirt, Curtis Hilton, Horace Marvin Reedy, Kelly Hazel Griffin, Jack Plyler Baker, Marshall James Crook, Bruce Henry Drake, Zeb Caudle Moser. Walter Helms, John Frank Crane, Charles Herbert Pierce, Norrls Dewitt Helms, Lacy Junior Gaddy, Richard Lee Helms, Archie Alexander Tyson, Oliver Woodrow Yarbrough, Earl Ell Cagle, Jerry Columbus Gulledge, Wylie Smith Pennigar, Samuel Alexander Helms, Prank Walter Hayes, John William Boyce, Jeffrey Luther Black, David Thomas Aycoth, Morris James Cox, David Carlton Long, Reld Junior Starnes, David Thomas Simpson, Henry Vance Starnes, William Gladstone Medlin, Thomas Drake Starnes, David Beemer Carter, Paul Eflrd Price, Hubert Darwin Cox, Roy Edwin Simpson, Boyd Lee Griffin, Heath R. to hold down the Monroe Quint This ATTEND DISTRICT MEET Meanwhile, the production of meat.

is one of the best teams the Monroe Mrs. John A. Bivena, Wingate; J. A. Baucom, R3 Marshvllle; Homer Strawn R3 Monroe; W.

O. Benton, Monroe; R. L. Lemmond, RS Matthews; John Haigler, Rl Monroe; Tony Cousart, R3 Waxhaw; George L. Bart, Monroe; E.

Craig, R5 Monroe; Lee Hargett, Monroe; Howard Mullla, R8 Monroe; Leroy Briscoe, Monroe; R. O. Grable, Monroe; J. M. CHsco, R3 Marshvllle; N.

Benton, Rl Monroe; milk, eggs and poultry Is holding up PFC Artls J. Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Adams of R2, Waxhaw, Is stationed somewhere In England and would like to hear from his friends. He writes that the people over there are nice to all the boys.

His address may be secured -from his parent or his wife. Quint ha met this season. weu despite labor difficulties and a Howard WUliama Will Head Deleg. Appointments Annaanced Bv Dr. Ham tightening supply of feed.

Official ex The Monroe Quint startled the crowd with a lead during the entire game. Charles Thomas, one of the And Territory Assigned, College students acted as referee. The apoodnttnent of Olln Biimra; Scorers, for the Monroe Quint were -Bundy Williams, H. Rushing, and Bennle Heath, Rl Monroe. Passenger Tubes Lester Morris, R3 pect milk output this spring and early summer to reach record levels.

But when pastures dry up and It becomes necessary to shift dairy cows to grain, production may drop below last year's levels because of short feed supplies. On the other hand, farmer are learning how to use feed grains more effi MUton Trull, nigh with 14 points, u. f. Minaon as rabies Inspectors for Union county for the year 1944 is an Matthews; Benford Webb, RS Marsh-Tine; Charles K. Noble, R3 MarshvlUe; Robert Deese with eight points and the remaining 14 point were scored nounced by Dr, Clem Ham, Health.

Officer, CpL Thomas L. Helm, eon of Mr. Ervln Helm of Monroe, ha returned to Camp Forrest, Tenn, after spending twelve days with hi wife In Albemarle. Cpl Helm was with the 513th Parachute Infantry of Camp Mackall, before going to Tennessee. PFC Braxton C.

Belk, son of Mr. and Mr. Baaa Belk. R3. Unnma i ciently, v.

O. A. Huggins, Rl Marshvllle; H. Ware Broome, RS Monroe; J. Brice Williams, Rl Monroe; Wriston Hilton, R3 Matthews; O.

E. Baucom. Marshvllle; L. wai Uakm- t. nrMii Helms, Herman John Thomas Parker, Marvin Turner, Horace Woodrow Officials antklnate a record run of beef cattle to market next falL Mar uon uouig men-rat, May A large representation of Monroe Rotarians will go to Plnehurst May 4th and 5th for the 188th District Conference for which Howard Wil" liam 1 the On-To- Plnehurst Chair- -man, it was announced today by Pre- Went George W.

Davis of the Monro Rotary Colonel Carlo P. Romulo, Manila publisher who served as a member of the staff of -General Douglas Mao- Arthur and last man of Bataan and la now adviser to President Manuel 4uoo, win be principal speaker of the occasion with a message for the American people. Governor William. H. Chambers; ha announced.

"This war-time conferences will tress civilian defense, moral and post-war planning matters," Governor Crump, Jack Alfred Punderburk, Joe keting of hogs, on the other hand. R3 Monroe; Steve H. Melton, R4 Tyson Punderburk, Albert Eugene Privets, Johnny Fitzgerald Stamee, A to be somewhat below expected ''Monroe: D. M. Mullla, RS Monroe: by Richard Edge worth and Eugene Derrick, coming up with seven points each.

The line-up was a follows: Center, Leslie Blank enship; Guards, Richard Idgeworth and Eugene Derrick; Forward, MUton Trull and Robert Deese. There were no substitution during the entire game. This game was played at the Wingate Junior College gym-nasiunvReported, i '7 BAKES NEEDED DOUGH getting along fina, and says he likes the Marines fine. His adores la; PFC W. Price, Daniel Wayne Rushing, of the past faQ and winter.

Egg William Donald Glenn, John Junior Prduoction I at veoord elvela and fu-Broom. Clarence Hudson Laney, Hilas tore prospects continue good despite wm mam Braxton O. Belk, Box 85, Parris Island, Matthews; Worth Helms, RS Monroe; South Carolina. inxub imue OUXiCuiues. --v Patterson Pressley, Lee Allen Came.

ThMnu timttA VTall WU Jmjia PFC Carl A. Belt son of and i- b.i-i, urn HOUDAT OF MTJBSDrO Mr. Baas Belk. write hi wife that Daniel Whitley. Clyde Foster Price.

H. w. vwnneu, ki uxuaa itsoi; u. Crane, RS Waxhaw; J. Fair-.

ley. Monroe; Harry M. Guilty, Indian Trail. W. H.

Pierce, RS Waxhaw; R. W. Richardson, R4 Monaroe; Mrs. BetUe 8taton, R3 Marshvllle; Oaskalo Belk, R4 Monroe; George H. May, Marshvllle: W.

M. Richardson RS Waxhaw; J. Mullla. RS Monroe, he ha been promoted to corporal and gt-Ka Simpson. jl On" vacation from her Job as super.

I getting along nicely. Cpi Belk eys, William Howard Helm. Worth Blair Jntendent of a Memphis hospital. Mrs. Arriving home from the baker's Mrs.

Selma Carlson, of Stratford. Conn. unamoer said today tn urging Presl- Is brn." Pascal Hayne Tyson, Howard Clariee Corbet went to Barlow. dent Davis to bare the togS dS In New Guinea. HI ad Tne North Carolina state taw require that all dogs be inoculated against Tables during the' month of ApriL May and June of each year.

Mr. Bigger ha been assigned that part of Union county lying west of the Concord highway- and north of the Waxhaw highway to the county line. Mr. Hlnson has been assigned that section of the county lying south of the Waxhaw highway and west of the Pageland highway extending to the South Carolina line. That section of the county lying east of the Concord Highway and east of the Pageland highway will be covered by Mr.

Williams and Mr. Rushing Jointly. The Inspectors wQL la AQ probability establish clinic centers at various points within their territory, and the dates and clinic sites wU be announced by them through the local paper, a fee of aeventy-flve cents will be charged. Black marVt dotations for the tTnlted ir China decently rw--vi hlchest rate ever r'jwicd, i y-l. opened what ahe thought was a bag of somewhere wuumu UN im xywu.

i oon irom nere ever to attend a dia- Thomaa Wade Broome, Errta Guton, She found the town in the throe of) trict conference to go to the pine- dress, may be obtained from hi wife, Mrs. Carl A. Belk, R2, Monroe. bread. Instead abe found $1390 eash.

She. called up the worried baker, Leon A. MacDonald, and he told her that he had mixed two parcel on ngi ni Win mw-w wiim WtWl MF WWMM 1 1AIUO Carl Clayton Belk, Sammle PhO- to treat the victim. She rolled up her more Morris, Alfred Napollon Price, sleeves and went to work, attending Pvt. T.

Simpson of the TJ. the counter near the cash Army air Corps, recently spent a lf- Olln Smith. Krskine Baxter Crowell, 100 persons before the outbreak sub- The Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, says that the submarine menace has been beaten, reporting that tn March "we sank more submarines than they tank of our ships." A a reward MacDonald gave Mr. Fred McCain, Billy Price Yarbrough, ed. Carlson $100 and a free load of bread Then she returned to Memphis.

Many local Rotary-Annes are planning to attend also the sessions, special entertainment feature being arranged for them. At the regular meeting of the club Tuesday at the A rim "a Or: 11, the program will fca -e of v. Robert Turner, who 1 ore p1? 1 guests, Rev. he; i tonla and I r. I.

at the 1 il W. H. Goodman of Landls, formerly day leave with hi parent, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Simpson of Union villa Having successfully completed an administrative and technical clerks' course at the Army Air Force Technical School at Fort Logan, Colorado.

He was assigned to Avon Park Army Air Field. Avon Park, Ill new (Kara Beeial Pare 4) of Union county ha received a letter Lester Norman Fundeiburk, Floyd Calvin Purr, Jr, Billy Delaney Gordon, Samuel John Thoma. Joe Lee Smith. Joe Neal Anderson, Dwight Carl Helms, Jessie Hargett, Jr, Olln Hug-tin Gordon, Edgar Clayton Whi taker, Thoma Franklin Orifiln, Robert Wal- Franklin Moser. Ward Tow, Charloe Edward 81mpson, B.

A. Price, Bldeny Charles Crump, Houston Leroy Haw-field, Horaoe Greley Blanchard, Clifford Clinton Fowler, Hugh WUson Mator-OnersJ J. A. Ullo, Adjutant-Owral of the Army, defends the tr'- parachute brart, It more prowcuon to Tptn-trr-r- from planes Caa -t t. pe.

from hi aon Hoyle Goodman, 1-c. He says be la getting sWt fine. He ha been in the South 18 Bxmiha ters, Raymond Franklin Parker, James Norwood..