The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 19, 1941, Image 11
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 19. 1941
THE NEWDcnny amt
Kellys Sad, But Proud of Their Heroic Son
Madison, Fla., Dec. 12.—The.Kel
lys were in mourning. tonight but
their sadness was tempered by pride
in the heroic death of their son and
heir—Captain Colin Kelly, Jr., twen
ty-six-year old army flier who sank
the 29,330-ton Japanese battleship
Haruna to become America’s first
hero of World war II.
“I’m proud that he did his part
for our country,” C. T. Kelly, Sr.,
replied when informed by the Unit
ed Press that his son was killed
after scoring the three direct bomb
hits that sent the Haruna to the
bottom off Luzon.
Dispatches from Manila said his
diving airplane vanished in the roar
ing explosion that sank the Haruna
as the pilot plunged his craft
straight down at the enemy and re
leased a stick of high explosives al
most into the mouths of flaming
Japanese guns.
“He always wanted to be a soldier
—ever since he was about twelve
years old,” the elder Kelly, who is in
the naval stores business, said. “He
always talked about aviation. Some
times I thought he was almost too
crazy about it.
“But I'm proud of him. He was
a fine specimen of manhood and,
I guess, fairly bright. That’s how he
got an appointment to West Point.”
Captain Kelly’s mother had little
to say and received the news brave
ly indicating her relief at knowing
the truth after five days of uncer
tainty.
“You see,” his father explained,
“we’d rather have the bov dead and
know it, than to have 'him held in
some dungeon under torture.”
Kelly’s young wife, a New Jersey
girl, was said to be en route to
Madison from her home at West
Point, N. J., with the couple’s two-
year-old son, Colin, III.
Among the first to arrive at the
Kelly home after the news was re
ceived was elderly Mrs. D. H. Mays,
younger Kelly’s maternal grandmoth
er and widow of a former Florida
congressman, who motored over
from Monticello.
“Well, we all have to die,” Mrs.
Mays commented calmly.
Kelly had no brothers. His only
sister, Emmala Mays Kelly, was
expected home tonght from Camp
Blanding, where she is employed as
a secretary.
The army flier was bom here
July 11, 1915.' He attended schools
here and in Miami, where his fath
er was in the real estate business
during the Florida boom in 1926-27.
After a year at the Marion Military
| academy at Marion, Ala., he entered
' West Point in the fall of 1933.
He was graduated from West
Point four years ago and, after com
pleting the army’s primary flying
course at Randolph and Kelly Fields,
Texas, was assigned to March Field,
California. He went to Hawaii last
March and to the Philippines in Oc
tober.
Lieutenant General Douglas Mac-
Arthur, commander of the Far East
ern army, wrote his epitaph in a
communique issued at Manila today:
“General MaoArthur announced
with great sorrow the death of Cap
tain Colin Kelly, Jr., who so distin
guished himself by scoring three
direct hits on the Japanese capital
ship Haruna, leaving her in flames
and in distress,” it said.
action, a s he did. I know that he is
happy, that it came in that fashion.
“I am happy that he has done
this and has left his imprint be
hind.”
"And didn’t he give those Japs
something to remember him by?”
Mrs. Kelly, the former Marian
Wick, arrived here last month from
Honolulu to visit her parents. She
received three letters from her hus
band on Monday.
Wife Proud of Feat
New York, Dec. 12.—“I am proud
of him,” Mrs. Colin P. Kelly, Jr.,
said simply and then, holding her
year and one-half old son close to her
added: “And ‘Corkey’ will be proud,
too.”
“Is there any word about those
who were with him—the co-pilot, or
anyone?” asked the widow of one of
the United 1 States’ first air heroes of
World war II.
There were no tears in Mrs.
Kelly’s eyes as she talked of the
twenty-six-year old West Point flier
and captain who was credited with
scoring three direct hits on the Jap
anese battleship Haruna, which sank
north of Luzon in the Philippines.
Her eyes glowed 1 , instead, with the
pride of which she spoke.
“He was an officer in every sense
of the word,” she said 1 . “Even I,
his wife, did not know what orders he
had received, the places he was io
go, or the secrets that he knew. He
was a marvelous officer and I know
that he -would want to have died in
Praised by Governor
Tallahassee, Fla., Dec. 12.—Gover
nor Spessard L. Holland, a veteran
of the United States army air corps
in World war I, sent the following
telegram tonight to the father of
Captain Colin Kelly, Jr., at Madison:
“Although your son made the su
preme sacrifice in the splendidly
successful execution of his mission,
it may be of comfort to know that
his exemplary bravery and achieve
ment will serve as an inspiration to
every patriotic American and espe
cially to the men who now defend
our shores in the fight for freedom.
“His deed will endure, inscribed
on the pages of American history.”
IRATE MAN’S AIM GOOD
NEWBERRIES...
. . . Overheard talking in a local gro
cery store the other day were two
coloreds. Their version of being lit
erally “taken” to the army was a lit
tle different from the way we always
heard it. The talkative one said to
the other—“Yes, siree, I know of two
more going to be in thv army soon—
me and the fellow that comes after
me.” I guess that’s accepting fate.
. . . Saturday’s darkness saw Christ
mas decorations in the business sec
tion turned on for the first time this
season. And the decorations don’t
look bad at all. It is true they could
have been more elaborate, but few
realize the cost of such. And the
money just wasn’t there this time,
i The lights are sufficient to create a
seasonal motif and in this day and
[time we are thinking a great deal
I about more important ways of spend
ing money than tor our own pleasures
—the Red Cross and Defense bonds
and stamps being the main calls just
now.
Throws Bottle at Picture of Hitler
on Screen
For Factory Wear i
Pittsburgh, Dec. 13.—The penalty
for socking Adolph Hitler with a
bottle—in America—was set today at
f2 or five days in jail.
That was the sentence handed out
to Louis Koket, thirty, of Meadville,
Pa., by Magistrate Anthony Lucas
when Koket admitted he threw a
wine bottle at the Nazi dictator’s
likeness when it was flashed on the
screen at a movie here Thursday
night.
Koket came to Pittsburgh to en
list in the navy, but found the
“waiting list” so long he decided to
take in a movie. When Hitler’s pic
ture came on the screen, Koket said,
“I got so mad I couldn’t help throw
ing the bottle.” His aim was good.
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the legal sale of beer. ^ ,
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This large sum—$5,000,000 since beer has been legal—is
used to support the School Aid Fund, and helps pay the
costs of government in cities and towns in 46 counties in
South Carolina.
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3,500 people have honest, stable jobs because of legal beer
in South Carolina; beer helps them take care of the 10,000
people in their families.
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for people who buy food, clothing, homes, right here in
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of Home Economics for factory
wear, this blue cotton denim mech-j
anirs overall outfit can be worn'
by women engaged in farm work,
the National Cotton Council and
Cotton-Textixle Institute point
out. The cotton denim will with
stand countless washings and is.
designed for hard wear.
... A very small lad was seen in a
five and ten one morning this week
doing his shopping and with him was
his mother. He was undecided
whether to 'put a certain amount of
money into his sister’s present until
mother assured him that the sister
had already purchased something
equally nice for him.
... So soon in the war a number of
sayings or by-words have sprung to
the front that shall probably be on
the lips of millions of Americans for
sometime to come. Winchell says
“Join the Navy and free the world.”
Others we hear sound something like
“Don’t shoot until you see the stent
of their eyes” and “We’re going to
slap the Japs off the map.” Many
radio programs close with “Remem
ber Pearl Harbor” and perhaps you've
heard one of the newer popular tunes
that suggests putting the Japs on
their “Japan-knees.”
. . . Those in charge of Civilian De
fense registration in Newberry
county report Newberrians are res
ponding nicely. Although the age
limit for registration was set at 45,
quite a few over that age have ex
pressed wilingness and even eager
ness to assist and so have been allow
ed to register for the service they de
sire. The time may never come
when the file of names may be drawn
from and yet we know there’s noth
ing like preparedness now. The
very things we have Insisted can’t
happen here are happening daily.
The Boy Stout motto “Be Prepared”
is a gwxl by-word for Americans
during the “duration”.
. . . An exciting story on patriotism
could be written about Newberry
county’s second largest town, Whit
mire, were all the facts known. Since
declaration of war the cry to volun
teer seems to have gone over that
section. Newspaper articles tell of
many enlistments in the Navy as
well as in the Marines and Army
from, that section. Since Monday of
last week local draft boards have had
quite a few volunteers and everyone
lived or worked at Whitmire. One
fellow who rated an occupational de
ferment and drew a really good sal
ary expressed to the board his inten
tions of volunteering. Four or five
would-be-volunteers were only 17
years of age and had to be turned
away. But such didn’t stop them—
the Navy needed men as well as the
Army they figured so they made their
way to the nearest Navy recruiting
center. Additional questionnaires
have been ordered by one of the lo
cal draft board's to handle those
Whitmire volunteers. Eventually
Newberry county gets credit for all
Volunteering so that means smaller
calls through Selective service.
. . . Unusually attractive decorations
will be seen in homes of the city
this year. Many Newberrians are
quite artistic in arranging such, and
a ride over town one night very soon
will be a treat for everyone.
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CARPENTER’S
Open Evenings till Christmas
College Professors Astounded
By Ten-Year-Old Prodigy
Ten-Year Old Boy Turns to Chemis
try, Plays on Many
Instruments
CLEVELAND, Dec. 13. — A ten-
year-old boy wonder who has to
perch on his knees on a high labora
tory stool to do chemistry experi
ments is astounding his instructors
at Western Reserve university.
After his first three months of for
mal schooling, Kenneth Wolf—a pro
digy who could read before he could
walk and composed music at the age
of six—seemingly knows all the an
swers in the first semester chemistry
course.
Kenneth has been studying chem
istry for five years—ever since he
picked up one of his father’s old
college textbooks on the subject.
Before he was accepted by Western
Reserve as a special student in
September, he twice had read through
the text used in the freshman cnem-
istry course.
Even so, Dr. Oliver J. Grummitt,
his instructor, finds himself staring
at the college student in shorts and
knee socks as he gives lengthy and
precise answers in oral quizzes. Ken
neth always is one of the first to vol
unteer in recitation, and he knows
his grades before his teachers mark
his papers.
Stimulates Freshmen
After one test, he remarked to
his mother that he had done “fairly
well” and he would get “90 or bet
ter”. He got a 92.
A report from his instructors
shows that Kenneth is a B student in
the upper third of his class. His
vocabulary generally is far better
than that of the average college
student. He has only average know
ledge of sports, but has the edge in
French and English grammar, geo
logy, zoology, botany and orinth-
ology.
In short, says Assistant Dean
George W. Srail of the university’s
Adelbert college, he’s a genius with
one of the highest intelligence quo
tients—if not the highest—yet found
among the university’s students.
He’s also a club for chemistry in
structors to hold over lackadaisical
freshmen.
“Kenneth is a good incentive for
other students in his class,” Srail
find's. “They are a little embarrass
ed if their grades are lower than
those of a boy half their age, and
they work harder.
Voracious Reader
The only child of Mr. and Mrs.
Morris H. Wolf—both lawyers—
Kenneth started speaking complete
sentences at four months, reading
at one year and playing piano by
ear at fifteen months. He's a vora
cious reader. His parents never
-know what book he’ll be into next
and make no attempt to restrict his
choice.
One day he started discussing
anatomy with his proud but no long
er surprised father. Asked when he
learned so much about the subject,
the child replied: “Don’t you remem
ber that hygiene magazine that was
in the hotel room at Syracuse about
a year ago?”
Too advanced through self-educa
tion to enter grade or high school.
Kenneth was admitted as a special
student at Western Reserve after
stiff aptitude tests. Several months
earlier he amazed instructors by per-
ormmg a few difficult experiments
while visiting the chemistry lab dur
ing a university “open house” for
the public.
When Kenneth started college
work, his parents moved' within a
block of the school. His mother us
ually meets him after classes and
takes him home. This is the bane of
Kenneth’s life.
Music First Interest
“He thinks I baby him too much
and doesn’t want me to call for him
at college,” Mrs. Wolf said. “Maybe
I do—but after all, he’s only ten.”
Music is Kenneth’s first interest,
although he expects to complete a
four-year course in chemistry Al
ready he’s studying music composi
tion and as soon as his hands grow
enough to reach an octave—r.mybe by
next year—he will make his debut
as a concert pianist and study sum
mers under Composer Paul Hinde-
mith and Conductor Sergi Kousse-
vitzky of the Boston Symphony
orchestra.
He’s working now on the orches
tration of a piano concerto in which
Hindemith has expressed interest.
Compared with this work, Kenneth
rates some of his earlier composi
tions as pretty juvenile, and soberly
tells you:
“I’ve scrapped several of them as
absolute junk.”
Laboratory Worker
After the first few days of ogling
the youngster, his classmates quit
treating him like a kid brother.
Now they carry on serious discus
sions with him and seek his help
in laboratory. In exchange, they
put away laboratory equipment too
heavy for him to lift.
Dark-haired and dark-eyed, rath
er pallid a ndl inclined toward what he
calls “obesity”, Kenneth is extraord
inarily poised and serious. He works
quietly and deliberately in ti.e_lab-
oratory, getting on his knees atop a
high stool to reach spigots, burners
and other equipment.
While conversing, his eyes rove
until he’s finished talking. Then he
fixes you with a look of complete
self-confidence that says: “Maybe
you don’t follow me, but it’s all
true”.
His talk sounds like something
memorized from a textbook. In fact
university officials at first thought
his brilliance was mainly a photo
graphic mind, after hearing him re-
ipeat almost word for word the print
ing on a student personal history
card at which he had only glanced.
But officials changed their minds af
ter learning that he could apply his
knowledge.
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Leghorn Hens, lb ... .
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Roosters, lb
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Turkey Hens, lb ....
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Young Turkey Toms, lb . . .
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Old Toms, lb
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Ducks and Geese, lb . . .
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Capons, lb
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