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Widow Says Husband Feared
Submarine 0-9 Would Crack
New London, Conn., June 28.—
The widow of one of the thirty-three
men who lost their lives in the sub
marine 0-9 disaster last week, told a
navel board of inquiry today she ov
erheard her husband tell a friend that
if the boat submerged deeper than
200 feet “it would never come up
again.”
Mrs. Angeline Tillery, widow of T.
W. Tillery ^nachinist’s mate, first
class, said that several days before
the 0-9 left for Portsmouth, N. H.,
to begin diving trials, her husband
and another sailor were talking about
the submarine at their home. She said
she was lying on a couch, and her
husband apparently believed she was
asleep. t
Mrs. Tillery said she overheard
Wer husband say there was “a hole
the size of a hand” in the submarine
and that “if it went down more than
200 feet it will never come up again.”
Members of the board of inquiry
pointed out that every witness ex
amined thus far had testified that the
0-9 was in good condition when it
arrived here from Philadelphia af
ter being reconditioned and when it
departed for Portsmouth.
Asked if this information “will
ease your mind,” she replied:
“Well, it’s hard to say how I feel.
My husband was on it and I only
told you what I heard."
March Field, Cal., June 27.—The
army air corps’ $3,500,000 B-19 bomb
er did everything asked of it today on
its maiden test flight from Santa Mo
nica.
Major Stanley M. Umstead, the ar
my’s No. 1 test pilot, nosed the huge
crafe into the air nine seconds after
gunning the four motors at Clover
field. He brought it to a slow, gentle
landing on a long runway of this ar
my air base. Wind velocity at both
fields was eighteeft miles an hour.
More than 5,000 army officers and
men swarmed onto the field as the sky
giant — officially described as the
world’s largest bomber — taxied to
ward a hangar.
Officers appeared highly pleased
at the performance. The plane was
in the air fifty-six minutes.
Major Umstead grinned broadly in
admitting he might have been a little
nervous as he took off. The four-mo
tored bomber, which has a 212-fool
wingapread and a 132-foot fuselage,
wobbled' slightly as it left the ground.
Umstead said the character of the
takeoff was not dangerous, however.
He simply over-controlled the ship,
♦which has afl extremely sensitive re
sponse to manipulation.
Landing characteristics, the major
said, indicate the B-1& can be taken
onto any ordinard first class field.
The brakes, which gave trouble in
preliminary taxiing worked perfectly,
as did the landing gear. Umstead said
that in landing he was not sure at
what speed the ship would continue
to be air-borne, so his landing was
tentative. He came in slowly, set the
plane down on the two rear wheels
of the tricycle landing gear, and the
front wheel of the gear gently touclr-
ed the ground.
The judge advocate, Commander
Allen R. McCann, asked Mrs. Tillery
if she believed any commander would
take out his boat “with such a hole
in it.”
“I only know what I heard,” she
insisted. “I hope it may help the
boys on some other boats.”
Rear Admiral William T. Tarrant,
president of the board, inquired:
“Do you fell that there has been
the least attempt to cover up any
unsatisfactory condition on the 0-9.”
Mrs. Tillery fought to keep her
voice steady, and answered almost
inaudibly:
“I don’t know how I feel,” Mrs.
Tillery replied. “All the boys feel
that the boat was not in condition to
go out so soon.”
The commanders of three sister
ships of the 0-9 testified before the
board that their boats, reconditioned
at Philadelphia when the 0-9 was re
fitted were in excellent condition and
that they had “full confidence” in
them.
Lieutenant John S. McCain, com
mander of the 0-8, said his ship had
been given a “fine overhaul” and he
would “take it down at any time”.
McCain said “in my opinion, after
submergence, something happened”
to the 0-9. “Wrong action, and then
it was too late to rectify the mis
take”.
Aboard were seven men, in place
of the ultimate crew of ten. The
plane carried less than one-fifth of its
11,000 gallons fuel capacity. Build
ers’ statistics rate it as forty-one tons
empty, eighty-two tons fully loaded.
The sky monster left Clover field
at 12:01 p. m., after its surprisingly
quick takeoff, which required only
1,500 feet of the 3,800 foot Clover
field) runway, it flew out to sea, circled
back over the Douglas plant at Santa
Monica, where the workers who built
it might see it in the air, and headed
for March field. It landed at 12:57
p. m.
“Boy, what a load off my mind that
was,” chirped an unidentified private
“My heart was in my mouth while it
was landing.”
MARLBORO CROPS
Johnston Herald.
W. G. Hazel, editor and publisher
of the Pee Dee Advocate, of Bennetts-
ville, spent Sunday here and at Sa
luda
Mr. Hazel remarked that crop pros
pects in Marlboro county are the
brightest he has known at this sea
son of any of the thirteen years he
has been in that county. Rains in
April brought up good stands of cot
ton. Corn and other crops have been
favored by weather conditions to the
extent that healthy, vigorous growth
is the rule throughout the section.
Preparations for the army maneuv
ers this fall have brought considerable
activity in towns and county, says Mr.
Hazel, and farmers and other land-
owners have signed, 100 per cent, to
permit use of their lands by Uncle
Sam’s troops. Nearly 151 thousand
acres are involved.
BREEDIN PREDICTS A LASTING
BLOW
Asks Protest to Washington to See
That S. C. Ports Get Equal
Treatment
Discontinuance in July of Charles
ton’s water passenger service and
much of its rem.Viing coastwise
freight service will prove “a lasting
blow to business in South Carolina,”
J. K. Breedin, managing director of
Organized Business, Inc., said in
Charleston recently.
“Approximately 85 per cent of all
South Carolina domestic water borne
commerce and almost 100 per cent of
all South Carolina import and export
commerce is being moved through
ports of other states,” he said. “Pas
senger business has dropped to a
point where it is practically nil. Pos
sibly we South Carolinians have gone
to sleep on the job permitting other
ports to take our trade from us . . ”
“We should all rise up in protest
to the powers that be in Washington
and demand that our ports be given
the same consideration as other
ports.”
Mr. Breedin pointed out that Gov
ernor Burnet R. Maybank has been
active in efforts to have adequate ser
vice through Charleston and is now
at work in the case of the scheduled
Clyde-Mallory curtailments.
In 1940, Mr. Breedin said, the gov
ernor protested to Clyde-Mallory ag
ainst diversion of the Iroquois and
curtailment of sailings here from
three to two weekly. He protested
against discontinuance of the Clyde-
Mallory service from here to the Gulf
coast. He conferred with E. R. Oliver
vice president of the Southern rail
ways on the handling of more ton
nage through Charleston. With a
Clyde-Mallory official he discussed the
matter of service between Charleston
and all ports on the line.
In 1941, the governor’s office pro
tested Clyde-Mallory i-iscontinuance
of Clyde-Mallory service between
Charleston and Boston. He protested
against the withdrawal of the Sem
inole from the Charleston-New York
run.
HOME AGENTS HEAD PROGRAM
BOOSTING COTTON BAG RE-USE
Initiate Nationwide Campaign on Cot
ton Bag Bed Protectors
Memphis, Tenn.—Home demonstra
tion agents in 24 states where Sur
plus Marketing Administration mat
tress projects are under way are do
ing their part to boost the consump
tion of cotton bags by distributing
more than half a million folders giv
ing instructions for making bedding
protectors from cotton bags.
Arrangements concluded between
Mrs. Ola Powell MalcoIr\ head of the
home demonstration service in Wash
ington, and the National Cotton Coun.
cil and Cotton-Textile Institute call
for a distribution of the cotton bag
bedding protector folder in every
state where the federal maittress pro
gram is functioning.
“The home agents cooperating in
the program are doing double duty
in the campaign to increase cotton
consumption,” a Council - Institute
spokesman said. Not only are they
assisting in the distribution of the
mattresses; they are also teaching the
recipients of the mattresses a lesson
in household thrift through the re-use
of cotton bags as bedding protectors.”
Free Instruction
Persons participating in the mat
tress projects are given instructions
in making cotton bag bedding protec
tors at sewing centers in conjunction
with the mattress distribution. The
bags are furnished by the persons re
ceiving the mattresses, who obtain
them by buying their sugar, flour,
feed, and other items packed in cotton
wrappers. ,
The folders distributed by the
home demonstration agents give de
tailed directions for making protec
tors for springs, mattresses, pillows,
blankets, and mattress pads.
States cooperating in the bedding
protector program thus far are Ala
bama, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kan
sas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nevada,
New Mexico, North Carolina, Okla
homa, South Carolina, South Dako
ta, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Vir
ginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
That IS Diflierent
Mrs. Imski: Now, Henri, don’: go
so far out in the water.
Little Henri: Yes, ma; but yoti let
daddy do it. .
Mrs. Imski: But^ that’s different.
You pa has his life insured.
Knew Him
Amateur Magician: Will the gentle,
man in the front row kindly lend me
his hat?
The Gentleman: Not till you re-
turn the lawnmower you borrowed.
Enjoys the Conversation
Stranger: Are you taking summer
boarders this year”
Farmer: Yep. With better prices
for things we don’t have to, but my
wife likes to hear ’em talk that fun
ny city dialect.
Feared Trade-In
Father (to 4-year-old): Why, what
are you carying for, son?
Junioi: Well, you said you and
mommie was goin’ to get a new
baby, and I’s ’fraid you will trade
me in on it.
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PHONE 197
Maiden Flight of Giant Bomber Successful
REJECTS BILL TO HOLD MEN
FOR FLEET
Washington, June 27.—Despite an
urgent plea from higb navy officers,
the senate naval affairs committee
declined today to approve a bill un
der which the fleet’s sailors and ma
rines could be held in service beyond
their term of enlistment.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massa
chusetts, explained that committee
men felt this would be a breach of
contract with the men. The commit
tee did approve, however, a bill under
which future volunteers would be
placed on notice that they could be
held in service after their enlistment
period if congress so decided.
Rear Admiral C. W. Nimitz, chief
of the bureau of navigation, had said
that because of the rapid expansion
of the navy, its experienced person
nel was being spread out very thinly.
Therefore, he said, the navy ought to
be empowered to retain men if con
gress declared a state of emergency.
Before the committee acted, there
had been reports that the army might
seek similar powers with respect to
its men. It was uncertain, however,
whether such a request would be pres
sed in view of the committee’s atti
tude.
Meantime, a controversy broke out
in the house military committee about
a report which had been prepared by
some members of the comittee and
which leveled sharp criticism at me
thods of obtaining strategic materials
for the defense program.
Representative Faddis, Democrat,
Pennsylvania, headed a sub-committee
which drafted the report after a long
investigation. It was submitted 1 to
the full committee today for approv
al, but administration forces object
ed that less than half of the commit
tee was present and thus publication
of the document was blocked tempor
arily.
THE PUBLIC DEBT NEW
(By Dr. Gus W. Dyer, Vanderbilt U.)
The creation of a huge public debt
is a new experience for this countvy.
The policy 6f borrowing and consum
ing billions of dollars in wealth In
peace times and charging up the in
debtedness to unborn babies is decid
edly questionable if not positively im
moral. We are under a moral obli
gation to make contributions to the
unborn. We certainly have no right
to force babies to come into the world
with big mortgages tied around their
necks.
The amounts of the national debt
in different years were as follows:
1855—$35,588,490.
1865—$2,677,929,012.
1875—$2,156,216,649.
1885—$1,578,561,179.
1895—$1,096,913,120.
1905—$1,132,357,095.
1915—$1,191,26^,068.
Between 1881 arid 1916, the national
debt was nearly as much as two bil r
lion dollars. In 1919 it was $25 432,-
034,419. This increase was dde to
the world war. But under the admin
istration of President Coolidge the
debt had been reduced to $16,931,068,
484 in 1929.
We went through the very serious
world depressions of 1873 and 1893
without any appreciable increase in
the national debt. Before the present
preiparedness policy was inaugurated,
the national debt had been inceased
to nearly 50 billion dollars. It will,
perhaps, reach one hundred billion
within a short time. This will mead
an average indebtedness of about
$3,333 on each American family.
Are we true to the trust that we
hold for those who are to come after
us?
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION
SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE
It is the desi/e of the Federal
Government and of local authorities
that every able citizen in the United
States participate in an effort to raise
funds for the operation of recreation
clubs for military men throughout
the nation. Teams are now working
in Newberry and in the three mill
villages adjacent to the community.
However, it is possible that many cit
izens who would like to donate to this
worthy cause may not be contacted by
the teams. In view of this fact, the
following subscription blank is offered
and it is the hope of the local U. S.
O. Committee that these coupons will
be used by any interested citizen who
wishes to have a part in this work.
Subscription to:—
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION
FUND.
Name
Address
Amount
Did “Diamond Jim” Have
Stomach or Ulcer Pains?
It is hardly likely that Diamond Jim
Brady could have eaten so vora
ciously if he suffered after-eating
f iains. Sufferers who have to pay
he penalty of stomach or ulcer
S ains, indigestion, gas pains, heart-
urn, burning sensation, bloat and
other conditions caused by excess
acid should try a 25c box of Udga
Tablets. They must help or money
refunded.
FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1941
The Liberties We Enjoy Today Were Earned
On Battlefields and in Prisons, Says Spectator
pay a few taxes to help cover the
cost of defending ourselves against
the French and Indians. Our people
resisted because the tax was imposed
without their consent. But today a
mighty force is loose in the world
which respects neither God nor man;
which makes all men the property of
the State; which despoils and diahon-
ors womanhood; which erects a mon
ster in the form of government before
which all must bow in homage. But
bending in homage is only a cere
monial act. What this new order
would require is the complete sub
servience of the individual to the
State in all his relations. In very
truth it is the negation of all for
which men have fought for centuries.
The human spirit is not seeking
power or force or efficiency, primarily,
but liberty of thought, freedom of
speech, independence of movement—
the opportunity of the inidvidual to
develop all his powers and to live the
abundant life' of unfettered oppor
tunity.
One of the commonest expressions
of today is “I won’t stick my neck
out.” Pevhaps every good thing we
enjoy came to us because somebody
stuck his neck out. Old John Hamp
den stuck his neck out and lit a
torch in England 'which even we in
America carry proudly today. That
handful of men in Philadelphia in
1776 decidedly stuck their necks out
and risked the gallows, but a glorious
country of free men recalls with gra
titude the audacity of those patriots.
Our fathers may have looked ragged
and starved at Appamatox; they may
have endured beyond the limit for
their cause; and) they sank their all
in defeat; but the Confederate soldier
lives imperishable not only for his
bravery in the flash and roar of the
cannons, but because he gave himself
The Fourth of July is with us again.
In 1776 our people fought the British
to earn our freedom; today we are
strongly determined to defend the
freedom of Britain. At both times
our national purpose is interpreted
as a love for freedom and as a defi
ance of injustice and tyranny.
Looking back to 1776 we must con
clude that our forefathers were a very
sensitive lot of men. In this day al
most nobody but a few editors would
be so relentless against the violation
of a principle. As a matter of fact,
we submit to many violations of our
Constitutions, State and National, and
do not fight. But the men of VK6
and the Southerners of 1860 were men
who fought for their political princi
ples. They were not “SAJ'ETY
FIRST” men T>y any means, but red-
blooded and contentious o^er even
small things, if a principle was
vohred. They livea under the Inspira
tion of such men as John Hampden
of England, who defied the King in
his majesty and refused to pay an un
just tax. Those men took life serious,
ly and regarded their rights and li
berties as something worth fighting
for. Our liberties today were earned
for us, were indeed achieved for us
on battlefields and in prisons, in suf
fering, privation and sorrow by those
who counted honor and principle most
and stood ready to battle for them.
Let me repeat. All that irritated
our forefathers of 1776 was small in
comparison with the threat which
hangs over mankind today. We fought
England because she wanted u» to
and everything for a cause.
In this country were many men who
would heve prospered more if there
had been no revolution; many indeed
there were who would have been more
prosperous if there had been- no Civil
War, but today we revere the memory
of those who regarded freedom as
worth more than prosperity and who
became impoverished that we today
might have what Lincoln called a
“government of the people, for the
people, and by the people” and that
such a government should not per
ish from the earth.
We have many likable, genial spir
its in our State. Life isn’t always
easy; sometimes it is hard and drear
and full of discouragements, but go
to a service club luncheon or a trade
convention or even a religious con
vention and observe the warmth of
good fellowship and the general well
being of all present. Is there any
other country in the world so happy
as ours? Well, that’s why it is worth
saving.
The National Government used to
seem far off. The World War (No.l)
acustomed us to Uncle Sam. Then a
new generation came on who knew
neither war nor Uncle Sam. But the
United 1 States, the President, the Con
gress, the Supreme Court, the Armed
Forces, Europe—all are close to us
again.
Sundlay I went out to El Recuerdo.
The Manager of the farm and I walk,
ed around looking at cotton, corn, and
tobacco. The little boy and' his little
sistar went with us. We tarried at
the peach and plum trees for a “spell”
and “ate our fill,” as somebody said.
As we walked down the rows of to
bacco my partner called attention to
a barefoot track in the “middles.” It
was made by a lad a few days ago
while poisoning the tobacco. That
lad is today in Norfolk in the Navy.
Two years ago another lad walked
up and down those fields. Today he
is in the Marine Corps, somewhere up
North or on the broad Atlantic, ab
oard! a ship of war. A few more
years ago there was another one of
those brothers who knew about the
broiling sun and the steam of the
corn middles. Today he is in the
army. Three brothers—just a little
while ago boys on the farm; today
members of Uncle Sam’s three fight
ing services—all volunteers.
The operation of the National
Wage-Hour Law is being extended. A
store engaged in retail trade within
the State would not be under the
Federal law because its transactions
are entirely intra-State and not in-
ter-State. But whi>i of wholesalers?
That question at once raised the Issue
of bringing into the State goods man
ufactured or processed elsewhere.
Then another problem arose: What is
the diffeence between a wholesaler
and a retailer? Some stores are
thought of as retailers, but sell in
case lots or such other quantities as
would not ordinarily be regarded as
retail. The Administrator of the Law
has decided that hereafter unless 75
per cent of the sales are at retail
the store must come under the Federal
Wage-Hour regulation. Until this
new order the test was 50 per eent.
If, then, more than 25 per cent of -the
sales are not retail the rule of forty
hour law and thirty cent minimum
will prevail.
What is a sale at retail? Well, a
retail place of business is- one charac
terized by numerous small sales or
such as are patronized by the general
consuming public. They sell goods
I for direct consumption and not for
re-sale or redistribution.
With regard to chain stores, each
physically separate store will be judg
ed sepaately, not as a part of a chain,
but a warehouse serving the chain
would stand as a wholesaler.
A lumber camp and bunk house
are regarded as part of the main op
eration and will be under the same
regulation.
After any exertion, a pause is always
welcome. Doubly so if you enjoy ice-cold
Coca-Cola with it. Ice-cold Coca-Cola is
pure and wholesome. You taste its quality
. . . fee/ its refreshment. So when you
pause throughout the day, make it t/io pause
that refreshes with ice-cold Coca-Cola.
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