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The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10
DEATH DECREED
FOR YAMASHITA
Jap General In Philippines
Must Pay For Atrocities
He Permitted

Manila, Dec. 1O-Death on the gal
lows was decreed for 1t. Gen. Tomo-
yuki Yamashita by five-general U.
S. military commission which found
him guilty of permitting monstrous
atrocities by Japanese troops in the
Philippines.
No date was set for the execution,
which in accordance with American
military law must await review OF
the commissions findings by the
commander of Army forces in the
Western Pacific and confirmation by
General Macarthur.
Yamashita's shoulders sagged as
he heard the death sentence, but he
Strengthened quickly and made curt
bow to the commission. He listened
stony-faced but his fingers drummed
the table as Maj. Gen. Russell B.
Reynolds slowly read the findings of
the commission, with the defendants s
interpreter translating word by word
into Japanese.
Before hearing the verdict, the
conqueror of Malaga and one-time
Japanese commander in the Philip
pines stood, visibly nervous, while
the interpreter read this statement
to the court:
81 wish to stand here today with
a clear conscience and swear to God
1 am innocent of these charges. 1
wish to take this opportunity to ex-
press gratitude to the United States
officers of the defense, brilliant and
upright officers. l want to thank
the commission for a fair trial"
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10
l945 COTTON CROP
DROPS SLIGHTLY

Washington, Dec. 10 - The Agri-
culture Department reported the in
dicated production of cotton this
year at 9,195,000 bales of 500 pounds
gross weight.
This estimate compares with g.
368,O00 bales forecast a month ago,
with 12,230,00O bales produced in
1914 and with an average production
of 12,293,0OO bales for the 1934-43
period.
The department reported the acre
age harvested at 17,6S8,0OO acres
compared with 20,0O9,00O last year
and with the 1934-43 average of 25,-
$4,000.
The yield of lint cotton per acre
was estimated at 249.6 pounds COM
pared with 1885 pounds last year
and with the ten-year average of
231.
The production of cottonseed was
indicated at 3,703,00O tons, compared
with 100000 last year and with the
ten year average of 5,175,000.
Cotton ginned from the 1945 crop
prior to December l, was estimated
at 7,384,351 running bales Counting
round as half bales) by the Census
Bureau in a report issued with the
Agriculture Departments production
report.
The acreage harvested, the yield
per acre, and the indicated produ:-
tion, for 1914 and 1915, respectively,
by states, included the following:
North Carolina, 100000 and $4,000;
454 and 371; and 71,O00 and 100000.
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10
Lincolnton G. of G..
Memberships Being
Rapidly Received

Reports from the membership COM
mittee for the Lincolnton Chamber
of Commerce, indicate that more
than the usual interest is being taken
in the new organization by the peo-
pie of Lincolnton and memberships
are coming in at rapid rate.
The drive for members is expected
to end Saturday, December Is, and
those who plan to join and have not
yet done so can contribute to the
success of the campaign by getting
in touch with one of the committee
members without delay.
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10
Felled Tree Injuries
Two Men Seriously

Newton, Dec. 10-David Leather
man of Newton Route l is in the Ca
tawba hospital here with broken
neck and a probable fracture of the
skull and his brother, Clyde, of Vale
Route 2 with fractured skull and
probably a broken neck, which they
suffered on Newton Route l Thurs
lay afternoon when a tree fell on
them while they were chopping
wood.
The condition of each man was
described Friday as serious, though
satisfactory.
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10
Things Lousy In. Japan
Says Gen. Eichelberger

Los Angeles - 1t. Gen. Robert L.
Eichelberger, commander of the Am
erican Eighth Army, en- route yester-
lay to his home in Asheville told re-
porters:
Cleaning up Japan means just
that. We had to de-flea and de-louse
everything. Even around Tokyo. We
have got stoves, roofs, and showers
for the boys"
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10
Gen. Eisenhower's Wife
Now Out Of Hospital

Washington, Dec. 10-Smiling and
seemingly in good spirits, Mrs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived here
on a stretcher from Boone, Ia, where
she was hospitalized in mid-Novem-
Der with bronchial pneumonia.
General Eisenhower was at Union
station to meet his wife's train and
greeted her with his familiar broad
smile. Mrs. Eisenhower plans to
complete her recovery from her ILL
ness at the Eisenhower home here.
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10
NNNNNNNNNNN~ NNNN~NNN~N~~
TAKES TEMPORARY POST

Newton, Dec. 10--Dr. R. J. Dane
by, assistant surgeon and resident
physician of Catawba hospital, has
agreed to serve as acting health Of
ficer for Catawba county until
permanent officre can be obtained to
replace DR.. H. C. Whims, who re-
signed November 80 to go to Ashe-
vile where he has been elected head
of the Buncombe county health de-
partment.
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10
JUNIOR RED CROSS
DRIVE CONTINUES

The Junior Red Cross drive is en-
tering the second week of its effort
to enroll boys and girls for service.
Although some of the schools have
finished, others will continue until
December 18th.
The results thus far are most
gratifying and a spirit of unselfish-
ness has been rendered. When we
want any campaign done and done
well, we always call On the school
boys and girls of Lincolnton and Lin
coin county, and success is ours.
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10
Eleven Registrants
Leave For Fl. Bragg

The following registrants left to-
day at 10:45 A. NJ. for FIT. Bragg
where they will be inducted into the
U. S. Armed Forces:
David E. Fred Black.
Johnnie Edwin CAN'T.
Robert Lee Hoover.
Robert Gene Blackburn.
Gar Arthur Jordon.
Claude Reed Spencer.
Robert Lewis Huss.
Herman Wilford Ingle.
Joseph Durante Gales.
Nelson Junior Ingle.
Herman Ruth Ingle-Vol.
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10
TRUMAN PLANS TO LIGHT
WHITE HOUSE YULE TREE

Washington, Dec. 6. - President
Truman will light the living Christ
mas tree on the south lawn of the
White House Christmas eve.
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
told a news conference that the
President will observe this annual
custom in his first Christmas in the
White House.
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10

in their parental obligation - or be
named in warrants charging them
with violation of the law"
The law provides for immuniza-
ton of children between and IL
months of age, or, if the child has
not previously been immunized, then
before he or she enters school. Vic.
lation is punishable by a fine of $50
or 80 days Imprisonment.
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10
RAT TICKLED TO DEATH

Portland, Ore, Dec. 10-The rats
at Washington park zoo are tickied
to death, Commissioner Fred Peter
son says an electronic rat trap tickles
the feet of the victims until in their
hilarious rush to escape, they dash
into an Execution chamber"
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10
New Income Tax Law Means
Savings to Men With Families

by next March Is as usual, even if
the 1945 taxpayer isn't paying any
tax in 1916. Many persons who
worked only a few months this year
but had taxes withheld from their
wages will get refunds. Every civil
ian whose income in 1945 was $500
or more must file a return.
Taxpayer, Wife and
The Lincoln times., 1945-12-10

Capt. Robert E. Miller, who re-
Gently returned to this country from
the Pacific area, is spending a leave
with Mrs. Miller and children, who
have been occupying the Leonard
Wright home on East Main street
during his absence.
Mrs. Miller met her husband at
Fort Bragg, N. c., Saturday.
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ing but criticism, it is really hard
to bear. Austin takes the attitude
that a wiser mother would not have
these troubles. and perhaps he is
right. I want to show him every
consideration, but l confess I am a
failure, and stumped, and don't
know what to do"
This is n Of the many postwar
cases that demands the ultimate in
self-control, p~atience-and humor.
Yes. I mean humor, for Margaret
is taking this much too hard. 1t is
impossible to undo in a day or a
week. or even a year, the mischief
done by war conditions and home
compromises.
Let Papa Deal With Son.
Austin will gradually be restored
to normality if all causes Of fric-
ton r removed from the domestic
scene. and the easiest and quickest
way to remove them is to surrender
to his father full responsibility for
David. Reduce yourself to an ami
able onlooker. If David won't eat
and won't 60 to school, don't even
report it to Austin; let your hus-
band see it for himself. Let the child
sit up as late as he likes, always be-
ing amiable and kind, and wait for
the first corrections to come from
the man Of the house. Let him play
hockey until the teacher comes to
complain. Ignore his affection of
not having any appetite at meals,
and reduce your relationship with
him to amusing and affectionate
companionship.
Several other cases Of exactly this
type have come to my notice in the
past few years; the prevalence of
divorce Of course has created many
OF them. In every case which l
have known. this aloof, friendly, un-
concerned attitude taken by the STEP
mother happily solved the problem
for all concerned. In most cases
the right school was found for the
difficult child.
Hes your son. Austin. I only
want him to love me-" is the un-
answerable argument.
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4 ~STEPMOTHER'S Woes

The second wite's position
-almost always delicate, is
especially difficult when her
,car-weary husband comes
home to stay. Every returned
soldier goes through a period
OF irritability, tault-tinding
and restlessness before he set
ties back into the old ,Uuys
again.
When there is a child by the
first marriage in the situation,
the unhappy %stepmother has q
hard time indeed. Whatever
she does is ,orong. She is too
strict or too lenient, or she
feeds the child improperly, or
sends him to the ,Urong school,,
her neurotic husband COM
plains.
The best ,Uay out of this
problem, Miss Norris advises,
is to let this father take entire
charge Of his son for a ,Uhile.
He wiH then find out ,Uhat a
hard job it is to rear q ,UillfM
little boy. This responsibility
will help the veteran to forget
himself and to recover his
sense of proportion.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1945-06-07
With Ernie Pyle in the Pacific:
With Ernie Pyle in the Poetic:
SWarms of Insects Add to
He'll of War on OkinaWa
Feas and Mosquitoes Vie to Keep
Men Awake Far Into the Night
BY Ernie Pyle

Publication Of this column completes the series urinen by Ernie Pyle betore
he met death the hands i q Jap machine gunner of OkinnIa
of the most miserable damn nights out
of hundreds of miserable nights have spent in this war was
spent out here.
Bird Dog Clayton, and Gross and I, turned into our sacks
just after dark. So did everybody else who wasn't on guard.
and talked. You could hear voices family all over the hillside.
We didn't take off our clothes, of course; nobody does in
theirs on for they had to stand watch on the field telephones
from | till 9 a rn
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This Husband Deserved
n Medal for His Tact

A film actor and his wife were
seated in a secluded corner OF
their club. The wife had a tongue
like a shrew and was berating her
husband in no uncertain terms.
Unnoticed by her, a party Of
acquaintance approached within
earshot, just as she delivered her
self of this: You r nothing
more than a mean skunk! Of all the
low-down, Shiny snakes, I think
you are the worst! Why you are
just a cheap skate!"
Suddenly noticing the people
who had just arrived, the husband,
with great presence of mind, said:
you're quite right, my dear; that
was good. And what else did you
say to him."
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Stacking Eases Strain on BIO Crewmen

sions. And since there's no amuse.
ment or diversion out on these Is.
lands. except homemade ones, they
Just lie and talk and lie some more
Endless talk and arguments 60 on
in every tent and Quonset hut. They
can argue about the damnedest
things. One afternoon several pilots
got into an argument over whether
or not you do everything in reverse
when you're flying upside down.
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Tribute to
FeUoU Writer

4 stOAGC ~
FeUoU Writer
This is a piece about Fred Pain.
ton, the war correspondent who
dropped dead on Guam a short time
ago.
Fred wrote war articles for Read
er's Digest and many other maya.
zines. He even gambled his future
once writing a piece for the Satur.
day Evening Post about me.
Fred was one Of the little group
Of real oldtimers in the European
war. He was past 40 and an YER
seas veteran of the last war. His
son is grown and in the army. Fred
had seen a great deal Of wal for q
nan his age.
He was just about to start back
to America when he died. He had
grown pretty weary of war. He was
anxious to get home to have some
time with his family.
But I'm sure he had no inklins
Of death, for he told me in Guam Of
his postwar plans to take his family
and start on an ideal and easv life
Of six months in Europe. six in
America. He had reached the point
where life was nice.
sss
Fred Painton was n of the mod.
est people; I mean real down.deeu
modest. He had no side whatever.
no ak to grind. no GOV ambition.
He loved to talk and his words
bore the authority of sound com.
mon sense. He had no intellectual.
isms. His philosophy was the nrac.
teal kind. He was too old and ex.
perienced and too wise in the ways
Of human nature to belittle his fel.
low man for the failures that &c
with trying hard.
Fred didn't pretend to literary
genius, but he did pride himself on
get a thousand dollars apiece for
his articles and he wrote a score OF
them a year. And his pieces, like
himself, were always honest. I've
known him to decline to do an as.
signment when he felt the subject
prohibited his doing 1t with COM.
plete honesty.
Fred's balding head and crooked
nose. his loud and friendly nasal
voice, his British army trousers and
short leggins were familiar In every
campaign in Europe.
he took rough life as 1t came and
complained about nothing. except for
an occasional bout with the censors.
Ana even there he made no enemies
1or ne was always sincere.
There we're a lot Of people Fred
didn't like, and being no i~ntrovert
everybody within earshot knew
whom he didn't like and why. And
I have never known him to dislike
anyone who wasn't a phony.
$50
As the war years rolled BY we
have become so indoctrinated into
sudden and %artifcially imposed
death that natural death in a COM.
bat zone seems incongruous, and al.
most as though the one who died
had been cheated.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1945-06-07

Sack time" Is one of the most
used expressions in the B-zs outfits
IN the Pacific. 1t means simply "
ing on your cot doing nothing.
Combat hiers everywhere have
lots OF spare time. because they
are under a terrific nervous strain
when they work, and must rest.
There's really nothing else b do
except lie on your cot. Combat
crews have few duties between mis-.
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night to describe. but I tell it just
SO you'll know there are lots Of
things besides bullets that make war
hell.
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The three Of us lay damned up
against each other. with Bird Dog in
the middle. We smoked one ciga-
rette after another. We didn't have
to hide them under the blanket for
we were in a protected position
where a cigarette couldn't be seen
very far.
Right after dark the mosquitoes
started buzzing around our heads.
These Okinawa mosquitoes sound
like a fame thrower. They can't
be driven off or brushed away.
I got a little bottle Of mosquito
lotion out Of my pocket and doused
my face and neck. though I knew it
would do no good. The other boys
didn't even bother.
After a while the hillside grew
silent. The hours went past. BY an
occasional slap at the mosquitoes
each Of us knew the others weren't
asleep.
Suddenly Bird Dog sat up and
pulled down his socks and started
scratching. Fleas were after him.
Even the grass has leas in 1t over
here.
For some strange reason I am
immune to feas. Halt the boys are
red welted with hundreds Of itchy
little flea bites. but I have never had
one.
But I'm the worlds choicest NOR
sci for mosquitoes. And mosquito
bites poison me. Every morning I
wake up with at least one eye swol-
len shut.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1945-06-07
Banana Oddity

Unlike other banana plants
which produce their fruit in
punches of from so to $50, a banana
plant cultivated in the Far East
produces only one fruit. But this
banana is as long and thick as a
mans arm and contains sufficient
food to make an adequate meal for
three hungry persons.
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By X

"N EY HUSBAND came
MI back from air serv-
" ice in England three
months ago." writes Marga-
ret Jones from Canada. HE
was four years in active duty
and eleven months in a hos
pital. His injury was cranial,
and is entirely cured. When
he left, his son by a previous
marriage, David, was two
years old, and I was expect
ing my first baby.
Il was my husbands Office nurse.
at the time Of his first wife's death,
and we had discovered a deep az
lection for each other. This was,
however, kept completely under con-
troll. I am telling you the exact
truth when I say that, after the one
first talk when we admitted our feel
ings. not one word or look passed be-
tween us that could be criticized.
His wife was a delicate and nervous
woman, and whether she actually
took an overdose Of sleeping tablets,
or whether a normal dose was too
much for a weak heart, never was
ascertained. The coroner called it
death from accidental causes. A few
months later Austin and I were mar
ried. little David accepting his new
mother very placid1y.
Then Austin went off to war and
Deirdre was born-a lovely, sweet
tempered little girl and I lived very
quietly during the first war years,
I managing to do part-time work,
and to clear the mortgage from our
little home and Austin's mother liv-
ing with us and managing house
and children. She has now gone to
live with a daughter.
UnmanageabIe David.
There was the usual rejoicing
when Austin returned. and he was
fortunately able to assume his old
work at an eve higher salary, so
that we could be quite comfortable
If it were not for David, now nearly
seven. He is a strange, unmanage-
able little boy. with something un-
canny in his instinct for annoying
and outwitting his teachers and my
self. I seem to be eternally cor
recting him. or complaining Of him,
a position in which I hate to find
myself. I've always liked children,
and for our two I've always tried
to plan intelligently. forgiving much,
not hearing impudence, not forcing
issues. substituting the pleasant pos
tive for the disagreeable negative
when I could.
Austin criticizes my attitude to-
ward David. Austin has come back
IN a nervous. irritable mood hard
to endure, but it is mostly where
David is concerned that the trouble
arises. David will not eat his din
ner. do his homework. go to bed, take
his bath when I ask him to. 1 try
good-natured coaxing, give him five
more minutes, remind that he can
hoat his submarine in the bath. cook
what he likes. He will v CO.
operate. and Austin blames me. and
sides with the child. To make it
worse, my husband reverts to the
past. thinks that perhaps Elsie did
kill herself, perhaps she discovered
the affection between us, perhaps
he was the real cause of her death.
All this has turned our home into
a place of discomfort. petty quar-
rels, carping. nerves. I want to do
my duty by all three, but when I
Bee Austin spoiled and good little
Delrdre ignored. when I hear moth
N NA,
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Get the Best
OF Ledfherneck

That was the way it was all night,
with all Of us-me with a double
dose Of mosquitoes. all the rest with
a mixture Of mosquitoes and Heas.
You could hear marines hushfully
cussing all night long around the
hillside. Suddenly there was a ter
rible outburst just downhill from US
and a marine came jumping out into
the moonlight, cussing and jerking
at his clothes.
II can't stand these damn
things any longer" he cried. I've
got to take my clothes off,"
We all laughed under our ponchos
while he stood there in the NOON
light and stripped of every stitch.
even though it was very chilly. He
shook and brushed his clothes,
doused them with insect powder and
then put them back on.
This unfortunate soul was Cpl.
Leland Taylor Of Jackson. Mich. His
nickname Is Pop. since he is 50
years old.
Pop is a character" He has a
black beard and even in the front
lines he wear a khaki overseas
dress cap which makes him stand
out.
After Pop went back to bed every
thing became quiet for several
hours, but hardly anybody was
asleep. The next morning the boys
on guard said that Pop must have
smoked three packs of cigarettes
that night. 1t was the same way
with Bird Dog. Gross and me.
Once there was a distinct rustling
Of the bushes in front Of us. OF
course the first thing I thought of
vas a Jap.
But then I figured a Jap wouldn't
make that much noise and finally I
decided it was n Of the horses the
mortar boys had commandeered.
crashing through the bushes. And
that's what 1t turned out to be.
Pop Taylor also had the Jap idea,
al nrSt. Inc next morning 'Brady
Bradshaw. who was sleeping with
Pop. said Pop shook him violently
during the night to wake him up
and borrow a AS just in case. Brady
laughed and laughed about it. for
lying on the ground between them
all the time was an arsenal of two
carbines, two shotguns and Pops
own As.
Along about 4:3O I guess we did
sleep a little from sheer exhaustion.
That gave the mosquitoes a clear
field. When we woke up at dawn
and crawled stifhy out into the day
light my right eye was swollen shut.
as usual
All Of which isn't a very war-like
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1945-06-07
Europe Needs Our Old Clothes

MILLIONS OF people IN war-devastat-
ed areas are in urgent need not
only Of food but of clothing. Until
factories a be set up in these ma
tons. we in this one country that has
not suffered devastation must give
Of Dali surplus. Infants garments,
particularly knit goods are urgently
needed, as well as serviceable
blankets and quilts. It is suggested
that pieces Of matching cloth and
a spool Of thread be included with
garments whenever possible. Usa-
bic remnants are also wanted.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1945-06-07
Smart HouSefrock

a SMART button = front house
frock with a crisp clean-cut
air. Easy to wear-easy to take
care of. Slip it on in a jiffy with
out disturbing a single hair! It
will be pretty in gay checked fab
RIGS, stripes or dots.
Pattern No. $3.50 is designed for sizes Il,
16. 10, 20: 40. AZ. a and 46. Size 10,
short sleeves. requires 3'A yards of 39.inch
material.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions. Slightly more time
is required in filling orders for a lew Of
the most popular pattern numbers.
send your order to:
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"N [Y HUSBAND came
MI back from air serv-
" l. ice in England three
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