Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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War Ilero Ready To Fight Again Lt. John L. Barkley, 43 of Reserve Corps Wears Medal of Honor. M EH HI AM, KAN. ? John I.ewis Barkley, the man called "the outstanding huro of the World war" by Maj. Gen. James G. Harhold, is a lieutenant in the officers reserve corps and it may be that he will be called from his farm near here to fight again. Barkley is only 43? he was 19 when Gen. John J. Pershing pinned the Congressional Medal of Honor on his breast in France?and he has kept up with military advances since his service in company K, 4th infantry, 3d division. For his exploits in fighting through six of the seven major campaigns of the iA.E.F., Barkley was decorated by almost every Allied country. Besides the Congressional Medal, he holds the British Distinguished Service Cross, the French Medaille Militaire, the French Croix de Guerre with three palms, the Belgian Croix de Guerre, the Belgian War Cross, the Italian War Cross and the Medal do Bravery of Montenegro. Operates Dairy Farm. Barkley is a quiet, hard-working dairy farmer who doesn't like to talk ubout the time he held off two German infuntry attacks singlehanded by manning an abandoned German machine gun in a brokendown French tank. The two-and-uhalf hour gun battle between one American and hundreds of Germans allowed the American forces to reform and capture an important objective. The Kansas farmer?only private to be mentioned in General Pershing's memoirs?has kept up with the new kind of warfare since A.IvF. days and thinks the fast-moving army won't be strange to him. He guessed wrong on the outcome of the French collapse because he believed the French would employ blitzkrieg methods instead of the Germans. The exploit that won Barkley tin* Congressional Medal .caused General Harbord to call him the "outstanding hero." He had been caught far in advance of his lines with the Germans preparing to attack to recover positions they had lost the previous day. Built Gun Nest. Unable to get back to his company, he crawled to an abandoned French tank, found a German machine gun and thousands of rounds of ammunition. lie mounted it in the tank turret. The first wove of attackers were caught by surprise and retreated, leaving many dead? Barkley won't say how many. For 2Vi hours he held off the second attack, at times creeping from his shelter to get water to cool his smoking gun. Once he was knocked unconscious by a German shell explosion. Lat^r. General Pershing, in decorating Barkley, said that his holding off the German attack had allowed American troops to reform and advance to take the strategic position. Back in the United Stales, Barkley returned to his farm near Holdcn, Mo., later worked on the Kansas City police department, and then moved t-1 Kansas. He seldom talks about his exploits and tin? machinegun uiouh t;t ;s nut tin- only <-re tor which In- w.e> i< > -' l 11 eh He once got ' i: v< : w of ! -k- w : itten | t .y | i t .< 'i: m't ki.i w wh at j ll,e> V. i : r. . abo.lt ' lll.lt i.e I \V rot i' > ' n '.:: r It \\ . i I :tic d ' ,Nu => Hard i - ; ' Coffee Sent to War Zone Costs $1S.28 for Pound KANSAS CITY. MO -A birthday gift of a { -'.nil ot i - Hi i' sent by the j tim e Sp hloiu i-rv.m-rs to their fa- ; tiier c.-s t thrin :? 1 a 2o. The 23 cents paid for the eolTee, j and the $lu went for postage. The.r lot: er. Aroti Sjohlom. HO, j lives .n SK'Oii.i, Sweden, and lie i wrote tli.it hr* mi-sod his daily cup | of coffee - :nce lationmg restrictions j were an; i.M-h. The eollee I'.ad to go by i ap; er plane to I.:-h n, and t.'icr. 1 y heat to Sweden. Parking Meter Versatile, ; Tak es Dimes and Note SALT !. \KK Cl'I Y. ? The city ': < .iMiry is i i i : I two d.n'i'- at. t i \ e-1 > 'ei . \ e i te The dam - W. I < : ur.'.i n*. a pa; h .. .g ; . 1- :. i > - a ,< p.-ni .i > , and mck.h ;.p:ai< : t.v :n utternpt j ed pas ii'.i r.t M ; a: rw.ng The note. a. ?o f n.d tt.e puik i ir.g meti: which i. -w takes pen j ii.es. n.vki is. dimes ai..i c. jtes- said j ' Seiid the dunes to t e Led Cross - j for a double cress. And please teii j motorists what these tilings will | take." Wyoming State Patrol Appeals to Tourists ! CHLYENNL. WYO - The State of Wyoming, where ohi-Pmc cowboys still ride the rar. ?e :s doing its best to cap.tnh'i : t: at fact in a touris* way. ; W\..m;.ng ha> changed the name j and uniforms of its highway patrol I In the future, it s the Wyoming Cowboy Courtesy patrol and the 16 officers and Capt. H. H. Clark will wear Western outfits, complete with . cowboy hats | (J. S. /''lour Sticks Clothe the French Ha Heroine (> or incuts for Children of Jobless. VICHY, FRANCE.-Two hundred thousand sacks that contained the | United States gift of Hour to the ( people of unoccupied I* ranee have , been li a??sfo? uuid into sheets, I aprons, bibs, dresses, shirts and uh* j derc loth ing for the children of ^ French unemployed. 1 In an interview with the newspaper Journal a member of the unemployment bureau told how this had come about. "One of our employees who was ut Marseilles when the Hod Cross I was distributing the American flour happened to remark the Hour sacks , and to exclaim on the beautiful cot- j ton muterial of which they weie made," she said. "The Red Cross official present said that if they could be turned to useful purposes for the unemployed he would donate them gladly. The gift was arranged and thousands of French unem- j ployed women received the task of j preparing and making useful things i from the sacks. I "By scraping and beating the j sucks after they bad been emptied . by the Red Cross, these women were able to recover 30 kilograms of Hour from each 5,000 sacks. This flour was distributed among the most needy of the unemployed. "In the. endeavor to remove the trade marks and designs stamped on the sacks the women found that part of the cloth turned to a pale pink. This part has been used in making underwear. The work on all the articles is fine, and they are serviceable. "The string that tied the sacks was sorted, combed and made into yarn, and with it the unemployed women have knitted more than 4,000 suits of rompers." Dried Human Blood Used With: Success in Clinic HOUSTON, TEXAS. ? Dried huniun blood plasma that can save life j for as long as five years after being . taken from the donor's veins was one of the chief chemical develop- | ments on display at the recent Texas . Pharmaceutical association conven- . tion. ) The product, perfected by a lead- j ing pharmaceutical firm, was re- j leased for general hospital use June . 2 after more than 10 years' experimental work in clinics and labora- , tories under the supervision of lead- j ing scientists. Its chief advantage is that it is usable after long periods whereas liquid blood is seldom kept more than four weeks. The product is made by freezing : plasma to over 100 degrees below | zero. With less than 1 per cent , moisture when it is dry, it is scaled j in vacuum containers and dis- j tributed for hospital or other pro- j fessional use. Liquid blood must be kept and transported with refrigeration but | the dried plasma can be handled j under adverse conditions, it was, pointed out. Too, its use is extreme- j ly simple. Secrets Are Safe With Army Women of Britain LONDON ?The recent disclosure of the new air defense system now known as radio-location has exploded one of the "hi, -t (abbs about woni,.n thai they < am.ot k, op a secre.t. . 1 .arge num.! is < war, n's mix iliarv air t roe ra no "peintms foi months j a-t haw U i r, d. ng then part m "radii h>. atm.i 1 neitiv planes. Yet not a word of tins most closely guarded of Britain's weapons has reached the outside woiid. Just how well the \\ .A A I*. kept silent was shown when the story of radiolocation was othciallx told. W.A.A.F. members not directly concerned m its operation were a s surprised as the public. In the past recruiting officers looking for likely radiolocation candidates were able to say only th.it the work would be ' confidential and inti resting." Now. any young woman between IT'j and 35 can askMo be considered tor ra liuloeation work. It she has a nice clear voice, perfect t \ esig!.t. integi ity of \ ..aractcr and an above-average education the j b is lie is. Water Hyacinth Removal In Bayous Costly to U. S. NEW OBI.FANS ? Wat, r I ya oinths. spreading with t; e speed of 11 ujv.i al jungV g t ow th. hhuh more tiian 2.00*) ni lies of Louisiana s swamps. ba>. >us and. inland water-, ways. I'lovernment appropriation ^ for the job ( f clearing ti'.ese He.atir.g . power fields from the water was. $180,000 for the year July 1, 1940.( to July 1. 1941. After 42 years of fighting tins water traffic hazard, victory is in sight, j 'Paralyzed Oath' Is New One to Courtroom !'< >: :'! !.AM) MAIN!-' \ : nr j ' .. .i> r-.it >!.i: : .? :r> I a ' < . :. r * . \: - a - i . r 4 a I . > .11.j 1..;.? .1 . V f. si. r.: ;n tho , . t ... i I !j \.k .1 : .i: n!v/( i .! Tr ; 1: I mp \ i r r.:' k : or " The ie.VrM.nt rx i .. *'; ar.i!.. c i .?!?." :v.oant. "I Wii! ho paralysed by the A! rrsj^i.ty if 1 Jon t toil ihe truth " Jj Lights of New York by L. L. STEVENSON Despite the number of times I've seen ?t, to me, the Buttery, down at the foot of Munhuttun, is still New York's best free show. For one thing, there is the setting. Looking down the bay to the left is the Fast river ending its short journey from Long Island sound. To the right, the Hudson, having flowed from fur upstate, reaches the bay. Beyond the Fast river is the busy Brooklyn water front. Beyond the Hudson is the Jersey shore with huge oil refineries sending skyward heavy clouds of black smoke. In the immediate foreground are three small bodies of land, Governors' island, headquarters of the second corps area of the army; Fllis island with its red brick buildings familiar to thousands of immigrants and Bedloe's island on which stands the Statue of Liberty. Five miles in the distance, is Staten island. Beyond that, the lower bay and then the Atlantic ocean. * The setting of course does not change. Yet what goes on at the I Battery does change with each passing hour.?In Xaet, it is never the I same. It is hke a motion picture I film with neither beginning nor end. ! The life and action are continuous, j Tugs push barges here and there, sometimes their cargoes .are merely sand or bricks, sometimes bawling cattle and then again freight cars; and it still seems queer to me to see freight cars sailing about the bay. At this season there are picnic barges and that trim white hospital ship goes up and down the bay. There are excursion boats. Sound boats and river boats. Trim yachts may have as companions grotesque derricks and grain elevators. In former days, there were great liners putting majestically out to sea or just as majestically coming into port. But now there is war. Warships bound for or from the Brooklyn navy yard may also be seen along with many other government craft. The funny little ferry that plies between Governors' island and th ^"mainland. The somewhat somber Ellis island ferry. Clumsylooking cutters that take customs 1 men, public health officers and j newspaper men out to meet ships, j Lean government patrol boats that slip in and out silently and the crews f of which arc singularly uncommuni cative. The cutters and the patrol boats as well as various other gov- 1 eminent craft, tie up in the shadow . of the Barge office, that big granite building, which, seen from the deck of an incoming, ship, looks very | much like an oversized firehouse. ? At the Battery is a small basin where the boatmen may tie up their craft. In the summer, many tenement youngsters use it as a swimming pool though the water is potluted. The boat basin is really a monument. It was built by the city and turned over to the boatmen in recognition of their heroic conduct July 30, 1871, when the State island j ferry, the Westfield, blow up at her j pier. The boatmen saved many i lives. The boatmen of today carry j on the tradition. Those who fall into i the bay from the sea wall or who \ would seek a remedy for their trou- j blcs by leaping, usually are rescued | by men of the Battery. * I Battery park also interests me. War the tall flagstaff :.s a tablet which marks the S|x>t where the famous Liberty pole stood in the ! !evoh.? .on. When the British ( \ new- | ated t e city in 17J13. they left their | Hag H> ing from the Liberty pole. Furthermore they greased, it thinking it couldn't bo climbed. An American solda r. David Van Arsdale, climbed the pole, took down the British emblem and hoisted Old Glory. From that day to this at dawn on Evacuation day, November 25, some Van Arsdale descendant has raised the United States flag to the top of the staff. White ties and tails seem to be on their way to join the walking stick in oblivion. At least, the present trend is away from formal.ty. A dinner jacket is now acceptable in many places where it was barred in the past. Invitations state cither white or black- tie if the affair :s formal. Many a man goes directly from business to a dinner party and doesn't fee! out of place because there are so many others who are not formally dressed. Also, soft collars and soft-bosomed shirts art worn with tuxedos. So far as I can learn, there are no mourners for the formal days or the past. * * * There are still places that insist on formal attire in the evening during the w inter months. It's different in summer, however. The bars are let down at many smart places, tHoi! Syrul:c.ite? WNL' Service ) Couple Hears Son Is Alive After 30 Years SF.ATTI.lv - An need Sea Uncouple, v.-no f r nearly JO years I bo!:ovi d that th.-:r son had d.cd at si'rt, iear ?1:<*t he i^ living in Melbourne. Australia. Mr and Mrs. John M Pearson recently received a letter from their rr.issin<j son. John, whom they last saw in 1905 before he "snipped out" for the Orient on a vessel. 1 Fuelwood Important Farm Woodland Crop Clemson, Nov. 24.?Fuelwood, worth four million dollars annually, ranks next to lumber In being the most valuable limber crop taken from the farm woodlands of South Carolina, M. H. Brunei*, forester of the Clemson Extension service stated here today. "This fuelwood crop appears to be increasing in value continually as our National Defense Program Is drawing more heavily on coal and oil, and .is many more of our citizens are bec.nning acquainted with the comforts < !' improved wood-burning stoves", -aid Mr. limner. "These two factors, i' is believed, will return fuelwood to a more important place in the heating of the homes of South Carolina. "Thia is a healthy sign for the woodlands of the state. There are fully fivk million acres of woodland In the state from which some fuelwood should be cut for Improvement thinnings. This would Include removing the crooked, deformed, llmby, rough and defective trees; also the worthless tree species such as blackjack and scarlet oaks, scrub pine, .hickory, gums, and others." Fuelwood, the forester explained, is not generally considered as a final woodland crop, but as an essentialj by-product of successful forestry operations. The woodland brings the highest returns when producing saw logs and poles of high grade, to strip off a young stand of trees by clearcutting, or to cut the better trees as soon as they are big enough for fuel, is a losing proposition. Accordingly, \tlte farmer will make more money by proper thinning, leaving his good timber stand for increased growth. "As more fuelwood is boing used in the state, a. greater opportunity is afforded to thin out the worthless trees at a profit, and put the remaining stand in better growing condition", Mr. Bruner concluded. Treated Posts For Scuppernong Arbors Hampton, Nov. 24. ? Pine posts treated with Milestone are making suitable jp up porta for scuppernong arbors on the farm of W. L. Mikoll at Kstill, according to report of county agont, J. C, Anthony. "In 1939 when the original posts had to bo replaced", the county agent relates, "durable woods were difficult to obtain so Mr. Mikoll treated some eight-foot green pine poles. The only equipment ho used was a wooden tub with bluestone dissolved in the water." Mr, Mikell does tu* know how long these treated polos will last, but recent observation by the county agent indicated that they are still sound, and they both know that untrouted posts rarely last two years. In connection with the better farm living work several other farmers in Hampton and Allendale are treating pine posts to support scuppernong vines. Formerly an abundant supply of durable woods for posts was available, but with some vines now sagging and further plantings indicated, increased interests in treating sat) pine to support scuppernong vinos is expected, says Mr. Anthony. Where durable woods, such ns black locust, cedar, cypress, and fat pine are available, those materials will bo used without preservative treatment, but otherwise farmers will want to treat sap pine. The purpose of treating posts Is to prevent insects, especially termites, and decays. With durable or treated posts tho agencies of disintegration do pot get In their destructive work. Where metal Is not used, bluestono Is a suitablo preservative for posts to support scuppernong arbors. Where the vines are supported on wire, zinc chloride should be used as the preservative, to prevent corrosion. The posts should be Impregnated with a solution of bluestone or zinc chloride while they are still green. 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