Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, May 13, 1943 • '•I J. Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Pitted. •58 Broad Street Augusta. O* INSURANCE dkidCTiald The W. M. S. of the Baptist Church will meet Monday after noon at 4 o’clock at the church. All members are urged to at tend. Fir« Insurance And A1J Other Rinds of Insurance In cluding Life Insurance. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK. S. C. Mr. and Mrs. John White and Miss Juanita Chamber jun of Washington, Ga., Mrs. G. C. Speck of Lynchburg, Va., were re cent week end visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Chamber- lain of near town. Mr. J. F. White of Troy visitor here Tuesday. was a r Protect Your Valuable FURS Only Certified Cold Storage Vaults For Purs In Augus ta. All furs fully protected by in surance In our vaults. If not convenient to come, ship us your furs. EXPERT REPAIR WORK Fur coats cleaned, repaired, reglazed, restyled. Augusta’s Only Exclusive Furriers. SOUTHEASTERN FUR COMPANY 911 Greene St. Augusta, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bruce, and son, Billy, Mrs. G. . L. Jaynes, Misses Vivian and Barbara Ann Jaynes spent Sunday with rela tives at Seneca. \ the past several months, was here this week on a short visit with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Workman. He left Wednesday for Carlysle Barracks, Penn., tc enter the Medical Field Service School. Rev. and Mrs. Joseph S. Dukes, Jr., and son, Joseph S. Dukes, III, of Antioch, are spending several days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Dukes. . Miss Virginia Wideman of Au gusta, Ga., spent the past week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Wideman. Mr. William Willis, student at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, spent the week end near town with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arch Willis. Miss Irma Arrington of Charles ton spent the week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Arrington. Lt. and Mrs. Jim Edwards of Aberdeen, Md., were here with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. ; Workman, this week end. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Kilgore of ■M> w berry, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford of the college for the year 1943- 44. Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Free man of Sumter announce the birth of a son, Francis B., Jr., born April 24th. She is the for mer Miss Wylene Lee of McCor mick. X Brown-Cooney ABOVE ^HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL \ Sgt. C. W. Bowick of Camp Blanding, Fla., spent several days and M . gs e^hardt of Newberry Of wide interest is the marriage of Miss Thelma Lucile Brown of McCormick and Columbia to First Lieut. Jack Bernard Cooney of Roswell, N. M., and the Colum bia Army Air base, which took i group of laws was drawn up place at 9 o’clock on the evening of April 23 at the air base chapel. Columbia. Chaplain Hugh V. Parry officiated, using the double ring ceremony. Sgt. Arthur Frantz, organist, j have for centuries been customary furnished the wedding music. ! in civilized warfare—if we can Before the ceremony Sergeant' cal i any war f are “civilized” Frantz played “My Heart At Thy 0 ne of the very fundamentals Sweet Voice” and “I Love You which has been observed in war- Truly.” “Bridal Chorus” from fare is the protection and proper “Lohengrin” (Wagner) was used treatment of “prisioners of war.” for the processional and “Wed- The reasons are obvious and Kilgore and daughter, little Miss ding March” from “Midsummer many> but of outstanding signifi- Sybil Kilgore, of Florence, Lt. W.'Nights Dream (Mendelssohn) for cance is the fact that the soldier A. Kilgore of the U. S. Marines! the recessional. jg under orders from his JAPAN RFVriRTS TO ANIMALISM Ever since history records, there have been laws — written and unwritten—to cover the con duct of war. The most recent at Geneva in recent years, and a- mong the signers was Japan. These laws—with a few supple ments—were more or less a resume of the decencies which Miss Natalie Brown of McCor- last week with his parents, Mr. j visite( j friends and relatives and Mrs. J. C. Bowick, of the j and near Mc c orrn i C k Sunday. Buffalo community. in mick and Columbia, sister of bride and maid of honor, su periors. He is not his own mas- Miss Ruby Sanders of Columbia was guest of Mrs. J. C. Bowick of the Buffalo community several days last week. Mr. George Nelson of Spartan burg spent Sunday here with his mother, Mrs. Louise Nelson. Mrs. W. E. Rheney has return ed to her home here, after spend ing several months in Miami, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Ard and Mrs. Hemmingway of Columbia spent the week end here with ! Mrs. E. L. Rogers. Dr. Claude H. Workman, Jr., who has been resident physician at the James Walker Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, N. C., for Tech. Sgt. James Arrington of Charleston visited his parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Arrington, this week: Cpl. Luther J. Andrews of Jackson, Miss., Air Base spent last week here with his mother, Mrs. A. J. Andrews. Mr. William J. Jennings of the U. 6. Navy is here with his wife, and mother, Mrs. Eva B. Jennings, for a furlough of several days. Judge A. B. Andrews of Willing- ton was a visitor here yesterday/ the ter, and it has never been con- was S idered reasonable that having dressed in navy blue and white j hecn ordered into battle he should Miss Henrietta Gilbert has had the honor of being elected to the Lander College Christian Associ ation cabinet and the Naiad staff Remember — You Always Save At... GALLANT-BELK COMPANY PALMOLIVE 2 For 11c SUPER SUDS Lge. 23c NEW KLEK Lge. 19c OCTAGON SOAP 13 For 25c OCTAGON TOILET SOAP 5 For 21c OCTAGON POWDER 13 For 25c OCTAGON CLEANSER 3 For 12c OCTAGON GRANULATED 5 Coupon Pkg. Lge. 23c 1 OCTAGON FLAKES 2 For 15c NEW PINE TOILET SOAP 3 For 21c FREE! $1.70 VALUE BURPEE FLOWER SEEDS 8 Packets - 98 Varieties For Only 15 Octagon Coupons GALLANT-BELK COMPANY HOME OF BETTER VALUES GREENWOOD, S. C. and she wore a corsage of red roses. The lovely blonde bride was charming in a powder-blue suit with navy-blue and white acces sories. She wore a white orchid on her shoulder. Capt. Harvey G. Monk of the Columbia Army Air base was the bridegroom’s best man. After May 10, the young couple will be at home at 3217 Heyward street, Columbia. Mrs. Cooney attended the Co lumbia Commercial college and since then has been doing secre tarial work in that city. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Nathaniel Brown of McCor mick. Lieutenant Cooney is a gradu ate of New Mexico Military in stitute and the University of Texas. He is the son of Mrs. Pauline B. Cooney of Roswell, N. M. X Evans-Scott En gagement Announced Prominent among the betrothal announcements of the season and one that will attract wide and sincere interest is the following: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dantzler Evans announce the engagement of their daughter, Patricia, to Wallace Whitfield Scott, Jr., United States Army Air Corps. The wedding will take place during the summer. Miss Evans, a lovely blonde, is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Evans of Holly Hill, S. C. She is a graduate, of Lander College, class of 1942, when she was outstanding in music and campus activities. She was the leading contralto of her col lege class and was a member of the Lander Student Government Council. At present she is a mem ber of the faculty of the McCor mick schools. Mr. Scott is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Scott of Ninety Six, S. C., and Knoxville, Tenn. He attended Clemson College and is now an aviation cadet in training at Davidson College, Davidson, N. C. X Brock-Link be executed when and if cap tured. With a spy it has always been a different matter. A spy volun teers for his work and w T hen he is in enemy territory he is fully aware of his fate—if captured— which the recognized laws of war fare decree. War is horrible enough as it is without adding to its frightful ness. Try to imagine the results if every military prisoner was slaughtered. The next step would be the slaughter of every civilian who fell into the hands of an slaughtered — unofficially. Even now Russia and Germany are ac cusing each other of having secretly murdered many thou sands of Polish officers. (Con sidering Germany’s record ii Poland during this war, their case looks pretty weak.) Such of fenses against decency are abou': as low as the human can reach, and now we have the spectacle e? a great—and supposedly civilzed— nation, officially acknowledge" that it has broken, and intends t continue to break, the one law cf decency which even the wild hordes which periodically overran Europe were wont to observ?, These fiendish warriors of a by gone age didn’t hesitate to wip ‘ sut a civilian population, but tho^ usually respected the life of a uni formed soldier. Experience with Germany dur ing the last two wars has taug - us that the life or death of th' enemy civilian doesn’t mean much to that nation; but they have—at least officially—respect ed the laws which protect th> prisoner of war. While it i; doubtful ,if Germany herself would descend to the depths cf military infamy to which Japan has now dedicated herself—it fv shocking to read of her approval of Japan’s execution of the Am erican aviators. As to that deed—no nation at war ever made a greater tactical mistake. That act drove the cold steel of determination deep int > enemy both at the beginning of j the soul of every one of or’' the war and during invasions. It wouldn’t be long before the world reached such a state of bestiality that its human population might cease to exist. There are innumerable cases of hot-blooded savagery towards pris oners, performed during the heat of battle, and there have un doubtedly been many instances where large numbers of prisoners of war have been ruthlessly hundred and thirty million Amer icans. If it takes us twenty yea^.s we will make that nation pay fo r the lives of those aviators, and th spirit of friendship which wt once felt for Japan, and which would have returned in the dourso of normal events, is dead. Th -s act will create dislike in the mir»d of every child who reads his Am erican history for just as Ion 7 as it is recorded in that history. Of interest to many friends is the marriage of Annie Elizabeth Brock of Troy, South Carolina, to Pvt. Wilbur H. Link of Swan- nanoa, N. C., on May 7, 1943, at the home of the Rev. G. M. Tel ford of Abbeville, S. C. Mrs. Link is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Brock of Troy, South Carolina. Pvt. Link is the son of Mrs. J. J. Link of Bordeaux, S. C. X Town And Farm In Wartime Insurance For Soldiers All soldiers can get financial protection through the National Service Life Insurance program, if they act before midnight of August 10, the* War Department monthly installments. Tobacco Can Be Sent To Prisoners U. S. War Prisoners and civilian internees held by Germany and Italy can receive cigarettes, cigars, smoking tobacco, or chewing to bacco sent by relatives and friends under a program worked out by several Government A- gencies and the American Red Cross. The plan will be extended to include persons held by Japan whenever facilities are available for routing the products to them. Under the program, the next-of-kin of each identified United States War Prisoner and civilian internee will receive (without asking for it) two tobac co labels every sixty days. These are to be forwarded, with a mon ey order, to a tobacco manufac turer, who will send the tobacco. No postage or Federal excise tax need be paid. Each label is good for three cartons of cigarettes, or twelve packages or one. carton of two-ounce packages of smoking tobacco, 100 cigars, or approxi mately 4 ounces of chewing to-' bacco. Smaller amounts or mixed packages cannot be ordered. Crop Corps Certificates Certificates of service will be awarded to the 3,500,000 persons who work on farms this year in vacuation Service. More Cotton Cloth Cotton fabric prduction will b:> increased by about 220 milliot yards annually without the use c? additional facailities or raw ma terials, as the result of a recen' WPB order. Fabrics will be light er and less tightly woven, but ser viceable and. capable of meetin/j all military and essential civilia 1 needs. Rural Phone Batteries A few dry-cell batteries maintaining telephone service in rural areas have been provided f :r distribution through hardwar ? stores and other distributors, ac cording to the Cotflmunication; Division of the Office of War Util ities. Distributors can get thesY batteries by submitting Form PD- IX to the wholesale and Reta 1 Trade Division of the War Pro duction Board. Soldiers Get Lots Of Mail United States soldiers overseas receive over 20,000,000 pieces cf mail a week, or an average cf fourteen pieces per soldier. ThU is four times as much as the A. E. F. got at the peak of the World War. Twenty per cent of the mail sent overseas is V-Mail. WFA To Purchase Seed Pasture and legume seeds in- the U. S. Crop Corps, and to eluding blue lupine, white clove:, those who work in canning and wild winter peas, kobe lespedeza, other food processing plants, the War Food Administration has an nounced. The certificates will be presented, “for patriotic service on a farm or in a food processing factory” and will bear the signa tures of Chester C. Davis, War Food Administrator; Paul V. Mc Nutt, Chairman of the War Man power Commission, and the State Director of Agricultural Extension in each state. Service Bars For Civilians For the first time, civilians may earn an official service bar sim ilar to the campaign bars of the Armed Services, according to a re cent announcement of the Civil ian Defense Director. Six distinc tive bars for service ranging from 500 to 5,000 hours will be given to Civilian Defense Volunteers. All Civilian Defense Volunteers may qualify for the awards—members of the Citizens Defense Corps, the has announced. Maximum policy is $10,000. The payments will be j Citizens Service Corps, Forest Fire made to beneficiaries only in Fighters Service, and Civilian E- and common lespedeza, Tennessee 76 lespedeza. serigea lespedeza, and yellow hop clover, will be pur chased from farmers by the Com modity Credit Corporation, unci', r a new program just announced by the War Food Administration. Sewage Facilities For Homes Home owners can now obtain sewage facilities by having the.:* Municipal Authority write a lette: to WPB. The letter must certify that the work is properly author ized; that it will require less tha : $1,500 for underground, and la^i than $500 for above-ground con struction. The letter itself con stitutes an authorization to con nect sewage facilities.