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f RlLAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1940 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE SEVEN SAVE U P TO 'A V Bargain offer to motorists who get their cars ready for winter at our station! YOUR CHOICE OF Genuine "ROLLS” candid-type camera, streamline design, carrying case free. Usual re tail price $2.49 or more. ELECTRIC heating pad, 12* x 15*. 3-heat switch. Usual re tail price $1.95. when you get any 5 of the 7 Vital Services in Pure Oil’s Bumper-to- Bumper Change-Over. Offer goo<! for a limited time only. C. D. Coleman Co. PHONE 400 [PURE JOHNSTONE H-D CLUB MEETS The Johnstone Home Demonstra tion club met at the school house Monday afternoon with 10 members present and two visitors. The meet ing was called to order by the presi dent, who read scripture after which The Lord’s Prayer was prayed in unison. Mrs. George Abrams planned a very appropriate contest in which Miss Counts was winner. The meet ing was then turned over to IVfcss Counts who discussed “Menu Plan ning for Health”. She urged each member to have plenty of vegetables fruit and milk for the family, point ing out that our bodies are made up of different elements and each ele ment has to be replenished. Bingo was played with Mrs. Kate Wilson as winner, after which the hostess, Mrs. George Mvnick, served fruit and candy carrying out th<- Thanksgiving motif. BETH-EDEN LUTHERAN PARISH Rev. M. L. Kester, Pastor BETH-EDEN: 10:00 A. M.—Sunday School. Mr. Hamilton Folk, Superintendent. 11:00 A. M.—The Service. Installa tion of officers and Holy Communion. 7:00 P. M.—Church Worker’s Con ference. ST. JAMES’: 4:00 P. M.—Council and Women’s Missionary Society will meet. 2:00 P. M.—Sunday School. Mr. Harold Long, Supt. 3:00 P. M.—The Service. COLONY: 10:00 A. M.—Sunday School. Mr. H. B. Cousins, Superintendent. ATTENDS CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE MEETING Mrs. Daisy B. Denning and Mrs. R. C. Neel, Jr., attended the annual meeting of the Christmas Seal Sale organization at the Columbia hotel Wednesday. LAVAL AT CHARLOTTE Coach W. L. Laval of Newberry College was the principal speaker at the meeting of the Quarterback Club in Charlotte, N. C., Monday evening. Some three hundred members-, were present. This is an organization of men interested particularly in foot ball and has members scattered over many states. igggnj| 2Spv£7?fiTy^-~~ —' AS TH' "BLACK. -BACK 6-ROUND THAT ENHANCES PROSPERITY KIHElJ it AbA/N RE TURNS. puff, or the perfumed shower of misty talcum, these Yardley powders will bring you the final exquisite refine ment of bath luxury—and leave you wrapped in silken gauze, fresh and delicately redolent of English lav ender blossoms, so that your clothes slip on with easy daintiness. In our Yardley of London Shop, Floor. YARDLEY LAVENDER DUSTING POWDER WITH PUFF $1.35 YARDLEY LAVENDER TALCUM 55c and $1.10 Yardley products for America are created in England and finished in the U.S.A. from the Original English Formulae, comhining imported and domestic ingredients. Newberry Drug Company Ambulance Driver Given Up As Dead Tells of Blitzkrieg (By Ernest Cutts in The News and • ' Courier) Recipient of a croix de guerre “posthumously”, H. Gregory Wait, thirty-nine-year-old Ameidcan am bulance driver from Shelburne, Vt., has experienced the sensation of riding along with a German Panzer division in the motorized blitzkrieg. After serving more -than five months in the American field ser vice in France, driving an ambu lance, Mr. Wait arrived in Charles ton Sunday aboard his yatch, Malini- hi. He wll sal loinorrow for Sar asota, Fla., where his two sons are now attending school. He is accom panied by his wife and her father, J. P. Cook. While “over there,” Mr. Wait said, he was pessimistic over Eng land’s chances to withstand the fierce onslaught of the Nazis, but since his return to the United States on Aug ust 10, he has grown more optimis tic. Mrs. Wait, who roused her hus band out of bed to tell his story to a reporter said that for seven weeks she was under the impression that Mr. Wait was dead. She received several wires from Cordell Hull and the state department attempting to reassure her that her husband pos sibly might be safe somewhere in France. Message Through Vienna Then the French government awarded him a medal “posthumous ly” and she was convinced he was deadl. Finally word reached home that he was safe. The first message to the outside world was given to a German ambulance driver, who in turn sent it to his wife in Vienna. The German woman opened the letter and then sent it by air-mail to Am erica, but not before she had attach ed a note telling how she came by it and affixing the words “Heil Hitler” to the end of the message. “Many persons have asked why I went over in the first place,” said Mr. Wait. “I guess the reason is that my father was connected with the Red Cross during the first World war and because I had a feeling that sooner or later every one would be in it and I wanted to do my hit as soon as possible. I had spent a period in France on several occasions and had quite a few friends there. I wanted to help them if pos sible. “I left New York on the Yankee Clipper in March and after a period of trainimr in Paris, our section, including twenty ambulances, was dedicated at the Arc de Triomphe and sent into the field. Our first stop was Beauvais, where we evacuated in mates of the hospital. My ambulance was known fondly as ‘Vermont Num ber One’. I was hoping that later on there would be a contingert from my state. “When we were sent to Amiens to carry out the injured,, four of us went back for a second load and became stranded in Amiens when the town was taken by the Germans. Donald Q. Ooster of Montreal; Jack Clement, who was studying in France when the war broke out; George King, an American who lived in England, and myself, found ourselves cut off from any possible escape.” Huddle in Bomb Shelter After several hours in a bomb proof shelter underneath a hospital, along with some 150 townspeople and French army doctors, nurses and others, the four Americans heard the tanks and 1 infantry moving into the strategically located town. Finally they emerged and found the streets swarming with Germans. There had been no French soldiers in the town for several days. “While we were in the shelters Clement heard of a wounded woman in the streets somewhere out in the town,” Wait said. “He rushed out, regardless of the bombs and the shelling, and that was the last we three saw of him for several days. It later turned out that he found the woman, placed her in the ambulance and then ran headon into the leading columns of the panzer division. “He told us that the Germans machine-gunned the ambulance and that he escaped to a nearby farm house and hid in the cellar while watching the motorized units rush- by at forty miles an hour. “In the meantime we came out of the shelter, not knowing whether we would be shot on sight. We had on uniforms resembling the French. However, we presented our cause and were taken before the commander, who immediately put us in harness at the hospital to care for the wound ed. Incidentally, the majority of them were British and French. There must have been a British regiment defending that zone. Later in the day we were sent out onto a nearby battlefield to gather the wounded and we found hundreds of dead and wounded. It was just like the pic tures you see of battlefields.” At the hospital only seven or eight doctors were in service and 1 two nur ses, one of whom developed gangrene in a small wound, he said. Saw War on Wheels Shortly after they emerged from the Shelter, a German officer told them to come along and he would take them to a commander. He piled them into his car and raced along side of the motorized columns for about ten miles, overtook the com mander, and then brought them back to the town. During this wild ride they got a complete picture of the way the blitzkrieg works. “It is the personification of ef ficiency and precision”, Mr. Wait said, “They stop for nothing. Debris, trucks and other obstacles are shoved out of the way by large tanks and the other vehicles roll on unhamp ered. They kept coming through Amiens for days and it seemed that they would never end. Then the French began shelling the town. “Finally we secured permission to go to Brussels with an American Red Cross worker. From there we left with Ambassador Cudahy and his party for Spain. The R. A. F. bombed Cologne, Germany, the night we arrived there and we had to take the shelters again. Finally we reach ed Bern, Switzerland, and saw the street lights on for the first time in almost two months. On the trek we had to carry our own gasoline and 1 drove a station wagon loaded down with the motor fuel.” Mr. Wait said he had little hope for the Germans starving during the war. He said that in their trip across Germany he saw French and Bel gian soldiers, prisoners of war and still in their uniforms, working in the German fields and repairing the roads of the Nazi empire. “The Germans are putting these prisoners to work to take the place o fNazi soldiers called to the front/ Mr. Wait said. Finally they reached Lisbon, Por tugal, and Mr. Wait sailed for home aboard the Yankee Clipper. Clement is still driving an ambulance in France, and King is in London. Although the American field ser vice is entirely disorganized now, Mr. Wait said that he later learned that the twenty ambulances in his CITY BARBER SHOP Takes A Step FORWARD . . . In the remodeling of our shop we have taken pains to make all arrangements suitable to bettering our service to the public. We have always done all in our power to serve you well, and thru the use of every sanitary precaution, the public is assured of the BEST service here. We follow all state board requirements implicitly and have one of the best ratings with the board to be had. Our personnel is as follows: Roy Felker, Charlie Zobel, Jobie Betchman, Claud Allen and Roland Felker. We will be glad'to serve you In any way, and we strive to serve you as you would be served. Bring The Entire Family To The City Barber Shop ^ Y-A-A-S, MR AND MR? STRAIT LACE, H/E AREN'T SURPRISED AT YOU P NOTICING OUR LITTLE BOYS MANNERS f.... MRS HAZARD AND I UNBLUSHINGLY ADMIT INC HAVE BEEN S HIGHLY SyCCESSFUL IN L TRAINING OUR SON TO BE section had moved some 12,000 wounded men, women and children within the space of one month. “I am just beginning to rest in peace now,” the ambulance driver said, “but I still wonder if England can hold out against the Nazis. We must remeber that the British are our last frontier.” While Mr. Wait was recounting his ride with the Panzer division and the thoughts which raced tlirough his mind as be and the others in the Amiens bomb-proof shelter were eat ing and tearing up incriminating pa pers that they did not wish to be found on them by the Germans, mem bers of the naval reserve were drill ing at their base just across the water from the municipal yatch basin. The “one-two-three-four” of the officers were clearly heard. Several times Mr. Wait turned to glance question- ingly in that direction. Mrs. D. L. Beecham amd niece, Miss Carter Wells, left Tuesday for Boyd- enton, Va., where they will visit for several weeks. INFANT MORTALITY RATE IN COUNTY LOW Newberry county Health Depart ment has received a communication from Dr. R. W. Ball, Director of Mat ernal and Child Health, State Board of Health, in which he stated that there were no maternity deaths in this county for the fiscal year 1939. Only one other county in the State has this record, and that is Oconee. For the same period (fiscal year 1939) infamt mortality rates in New berry County was 54.1 per 100 births and Oconee 61.2 per 1000 liv» births. The infant mortality rates for the State is 68.2 per 100 live births. Health officials in Newberry are very proud of this record for Newberry County. APARTMENT FOR RENT—Three rooms with kitchenette and private bath. Garage, shades, lights, water, telephone and furnace. Price reason able. Reference required. Telephone 165-W, Mrs. LeRoy Bradley. 8-3tp 2ND DRAFT CALL FOR THIS STATE MAY BE DELAYED Washington, Nov. 4.—There Is a strong possibility that the second in duction of men in South Carolina un der the selective service act, tenta tively placed about December 2, may be postponed beyond the Christmas season. Officials at selective service head quarters here indicated that because of the brief four-day lapse between the date of first induction—^Novem ber 27-28—and the proposed second induction date, a postponement is probable. Final decision in the matter, now- ever, lies with Major General John P. Smith, commanding general of the fourth corps area, officials stat ed. But the factor of the Christmas season is expected to be taken into consideration. Man power require ments are still fluctuating because of extensive volunteering in South Car olina, so that no estimates could be given of the number of men likely to be summoned in second call. 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