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VOLUME 7—NUMBER 5
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1944
WEEKLY—$1 PER YEAR
WITH
THE FLAG
Awarded Oak Leaf Cluster
Headquarters United States Army
Forces in South Pacific.—By the di
rection of the Prisident, the Oak Leaf
Cluster in lieu of an additional Air
medal was awarded by Lieut. Gen
eral Millard F. Harmon, Command
ing: United States Army Forces in
the South Pacific area on 18 April
1944 to Staff Sergeant Ray D. Dart>y
of Newberry, as aerial radio opera
tor from 22 October 1943 to 10 Jan
uary 1944.
A bronze Oak Leaf Cluster is
awarded for meritorious achievement
while participating in sustained
combat operational missions of haz
ardous nature during which enemy
opposition is met, or during which an
area is traversed where enemy anti
aircraft fire is effective or whree
enemy fighter patrols are habitually
encountered. The missions for which
the award was given were with the
13th ASF.
Company M Needs
Few More Members
Six recruits in the past week has
brought the strength of Company M,
State Guard within sight of its au
thorized personnel. However, there
are a few more places open and any
one between 18 amd 55 wishing to en
ter the unit should do so at once.
An airmy officer will conduct in
spection of the unit at the armory
May 9th.
The following six men are the
most recent recruits:
Bickley, Benjamin Tillman
Boutaiight, Marvin Edward
Chandler, Olin Barksdale
Longshore, Fred Bodie
Rinehart, Leroy Brabham
Kinard, James Virgil.
All are from Newberry city, ex
cept James Virgil Kinard whose home
is Pomaria, route 1.
Home For Weekend
Pvt. Charles Smith, stationed at
Fort Jackson, spent the weekend with
his father, Foster Smith and brother,
Robert, at their home near the city.
Spends Weekend Here
Lieut, and Mrs. Gerald Paysinger
of Camp Pickett, Va., spent the past
weekend at their home here on Har
rington street.
TIN CAN AND PAPER MATINEE
At the Opera House and Ritz Theater
Saturday Morning, 10 a. m. for
Children Under 12 Years of Age
Attached v To Commander
Word has been received by Mrs. J.
W. Denning that her son, Lt. (jg)
Paul M. Denning has been attached
to the staff of the Commander in
Chief of the Pacific Fleet. Honolulu.
Lieutenant Denning was one of ten
chosen from the group of Columbia
University. They will fly to their
destination May 8th.
The Opera House and Ritz Thea
ter, cooperating in the Clean-up
Campaign and in aiding the war ef
fort, will have a tin can and paper
matinee, Saturday morning at 10:00
o’clock for boys and girls under
12 years of age.
The admission to either of the
shows will be five pounds (5 lbs.) of
paper or magazines, or cardboard
boxes; or ten (10) or more tin cans
that have had the ends cut out,
labels taken off, washed and mashed
flat. These are minimum amounts
for admission. The children are
urged to bring as much as they can.
School children under twelve years
of age, who do not 'have the above
amount of paper or tin cans in their
own homes, are u'rged to contact oth
er homes, especially any that may
have been overlooked in the recent
drive, and secure enough paper and
cans to attend one of these mati
nees. We want as much of both pa
per and cans as we can get.
Stewart Declares
Will Net Parrot
Pretty Good Rest
Following is a letter Mrs. O. O.
Copeland received last week from her
son, Oswald, written on April 25 in
the Southwest Pacific:
My Dearest Mother,
I have a few minutes, so will drop
you a few lines to let you know I am
o. k. and well. We have had a pretty
good rest after coming back from
Emirau Island. It was a very mild
operation. The Marines always have
the situation well in hand. I think I
told you once about the Raider’s be
ing chosen to form the Fourth Ma
rines. They had great history be
hind them, being all captured or
killed. They were known all over the
world as one of the best U. S. Ma
rine fighting units in history. We
were chosen to bring them back. , , ,
I told you about seeing Harry in :
Buzhardt Sunday. He talked on the
homesick side about wanting to go
home.
I haven’t seen Guy Whitener since
we had our pictures taken together.
He was on Emirau too. I hope he
sends the pictures home. I had some
dirty dungaries, work clothes or
fighting uniform.
I hope Jean and the baby are get
ting along swell, and she is getting
lots of mail from Jim. I hope they
have heard more news from Henry
Baker. Harry told me about June
Wise. I hadn’t heard it before.
Keep the home fires burning.
Well, I had better sign off with all
my love,
Oswald.
OSCAR MARTIN DIES
Oscar Martin, 59, died Friday af
temotfin - at Ids Home -in the Mount
Olivet section of the county after an
illness extending several months.
He was a substantial farmer of his
home section; a member of the coun
cil of Mt. OUvet and superintendent
of the Sunday School for a time.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at four oclock from
the church, the Rev. E. B. Heidt and
Rev. D. M. Shull, assisted by Rev.
Albert Stemmerman. Burial was
Mr. Martin is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Lilly Belle Moore Martin, four
children, Margery, Eula, Rachel and
Floyd, and six brothers and sisters,
Horace, Luther and Yancey Martin,
Mrs. Lula Livingston and Mrs. Corrie
Singley.
WORLD WAR I VETERAN DIES
Receives Promotion
Guy V. Whitener, Jr., son of«Mr.
and Mrs. Guy V. Whitener, was pro
moted to Gunners Mate Third Class
on May 1, in the Pacific Area where
he has been stationed with the Com
bat Demolition Unit of the Navy
far several months. He is now enjoy
ing a rest period in New Zealand, af
ter taking part in two major inva- j
sions in the Asiatic area.
Bunyon Whitmire, 48, and a vet
eran of World War I, died Thursday
afternoon. He was a native of Syl-
vania, N C. but had lived in New
berry for about 20 years.
Funeral services were held from
Epting Memorial church and burial
was in Rosemont cemetery.
The deceased is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Gertrude McCarty Whit
mire and two children, Doris, and
Charles. '
Members of Legion Post No. 24
serving as pallbearers were: Grady
Donaldson, A. J. Beckham, Horace
Reeves, Ben F. Mayes, W. R Reid,
and Frank Sutton.
Commissioned To Rank Of Major
Captain B. R. Pickens was promot
ed to the rank of major it Fort
Bragg, N. C., where he is stationed,
on April 15.
His wife, the former Laura Nance
McCaughrin, and children are making
their home here with Mrs. Pickens’
mother, Mrs. J. N. McCaughrin on
Calhoun tsreet.
Returns To Camp
Pvt. Ed. Serm has returned to
Camp Beale, Calif., after spending
a 17 day furlough with his mother,
Mrs. Annie C. Senn at Pomaria.
Spends Furlough With Parents
Cpl. Evans F. Son, stationed at
Fort Jackson, has returned to his
base after spending a ten-day fur
lough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. R. Son on Nance street.
Arrives In England
Mrs. Estell M. Summer received a
letter from her son, Pvt. Claude
Summer, better known as ‘‘Rass”,
last week saying that he had arrived
safely somewheje in England.
Spending Furlough At Home
Pvt. Billy Chapman, stationed at
Camp Mackall, N. C. is spending a
10 day furlough here with his par
ents, Solicitor and Mrs. B. V. Chap
man at their h me on Main street.
Visiting Parents
Lieut. Powell Way, stationed at
Gamp Davis, N. C., is spending a 12
day leave at his home on Johnstone
street.
Awarded DFC
An Eighth AAF Bomber Station,
England—Staff Sgt. Andrew L. Jen
kins of Johnston and nephew of Mrs.
C. J. McWhirter of this city, tail
gunner on an Eighth AAF Flying
Fortress, has been awarded the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross for “extra
ordinary achievement” in the air over
enemy Europe.
The citation states that “Display
ing great courage and skill, Sergeant
Jenkins fighting from his gun posi
tion has warded off many enemy at
tacks and has materially aided in
the success of each of the missions.”
The flyer is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew L Jenkins of route 3,
Johnston. He was an auto mechanic
before enlisting in the AAF in De
cember 1942.
Spending 15 Day Furlough Here
First Sgt. J. C. Lester, of Camp
Tlulen, Texas, is spending a 15 day
furlough with his wife and parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Claude L. Lester, in
the Hartford community.
Visiting Relatives
Sgt. Ishmul Chapman, stationed in
Tennessee, is spending a furlough
with his wife and parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. E. Chapman in the Hartford
community.
Columbia, May 9.—Roach Stewart,
of Lancaster, president of the S. C.
Bar association who has been asked
to keynote the State Democratic con
vention here May 17, told party
leaders today that he would deliver
his “own speech” and not one dictat
ed by members of the party.
Leaders, including Governor Olin
D. Johnston and State Senator Ed
gar A. Brown of Barnwell, favor a
keynote speech that would emphasize
chiefly—and almost exclusively—the
importance of winning the war.
Stewart said the situation in which
South Carolina findS itself in view
of the U. S. Supreme court decision
in the Texas negro-vote case, could
not be “glossed over.”
The Lancaster lawyer outlined his
position to Governor Johnston last
week. Johnston called Stewart in for
a “talk” after he had been told that
Stewart planned to cover the entire
political situation as it affected the
state.
Whether Stewart’s determination
to write his own speech cooled the
invitation as keynoter offered by
the party “regulars” remained to
be seen, but a group of anti-fourth
term democrats called Stewart into
a conference on the keynote speech.
Stewart said he had told them the
same thing he told the governor—
“I won’t read any man’s speech—I
will make my own.”
Meanwhile there was a definite
movement afoot to name an unin
structed delegation to the national
convention — that is “uninstructed
for Roosevelt” as party regulars
termed R.
Until Stewart balked on the type
of speech he was to deliver, this
appeared to be the lineup the state
convention.
Keynoter—.Stewart.
Permarnent president—State Sen
ator J. D. Parler of Dorchester.
Chairman of the state executive
committee — Winchester Smith of
Barnwell.
A majority of the delegates to the
state convention are uninstructedJ
by their county convention and
anti-fourth term men already have
claimed 160 votes of the total of
340 on the convention floor.
Eugene S. Blease, of Newberry,
former chief justice of the state
supreme court, mentioned as a pos
sible successor to Smith as chair
man of the executive committee,
said he had no ambition to fill any
office within the Democratic party.
However, Blease always outspoken
in his views, said that while he had
a “very friendly feeling for Mr.
Smith . . “I do not believe he should
be reelected to the office of state
chairman.”
Blease said he did not believe any
man holding public office should be
named chairman of the executive
committee. Smith is a member of
the public service commission, elect
ed by the general assembly. “The
state chairman should be free of any
political entanglements affecting his
own election to public office,” Blease
said.
"Communist Crew"
Hit By Sen. Bailey
Senator Will If Poll Tax Plank Gets
Into 1944 Platform
Washington, May 9—In a bristling
attack on “pressure groups,” Senator
Bailey (D-NC) served notice in the
Senate today he will bolt the Demo
cratic party if it adopts an anti-poll
tax plank in its 1944 platform.
Joining Senator Connally (D-Tex)
in opposition to a House-approved
bill outlawing the tax as a qualifi
cation for voting for federal offi
cers, Bailey declared:
"I hear that this whole program
is to be followed in an effort at the
Republican convention in June and
the Democratic convention in July
to have each political party join in
this assault on the Constitution.
“I make no threats, but I will
say that when Sidney Hillman and
the communist crew, in the name
of the-CIO, come in the doors or
the ,windows of the party in which
my father and I lived and served,
I will go out.”
Connally led off for southern
democrats in the Senate’s first clash
of the season over poll taxes.
“Give that old instrument, the
Constitution, the benefit of the
doubt,” he pleaded. He argued that
it makes the states sole judges of
voters’ qualifications.
P<Jll taxes place democracy “on
a basis of wealth alone,” Chairman
McCarren (D-Nev) of the Judiciary
committee asserted in calling up the
bill.
“A dollar to one man may mean
as much a s a million dollars to an
other,” he declared.
Majority Leader Barkley (Ky.)
said he would file tomorrow a pe
tition to limit debate to 96 hours;
the fate of the bill hinges on a vote
Monday on that petition.
TWO BIRTHS AT HOSPITAL
Georgia Negroes -
Enrolling To Vote
2,000 Add Names To Registration
List For Coming Primary
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Welts
of Newberry, a son, Tuesday May 9.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Carl
ton, Nance street, a son, Robert
Havird, Friday, May 5.
Other patients at the hospital in-
clude: Mrs. George Thrift and daugh-
Shelly Jean of Whitmire; Ray
mond Adams, Knoxville, Tenn.; John
T. Oxner, 2016 Eleanor street; Harry
Kyzer, route one, Prosperity; Mrs.
Jack Mare, Whitmire; Mrs. J. C.
Counts, 613 South street; Pink Bow
ers, Silverstreet; Allen Hipp, 1607
Nance street; Miss Pauline Counts,
2707 Fair avenue; Prof. P. D. Mil
ler, route three, Newberry; Mrs. S.
F. Freeman, Whitmire ■ Baby Ray
mond Adams, Prosperity, and Mrs.
Charlie Yarbrough, Whitmi^-?.
KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN
PARISH
J. B. Harman, pastor.
Summer Memorial—10:30 a. m.,
church worship with sermon.
11:30 a- m., Sunday school, Mr. M.
E. Shealy, supt.
6 p. m., Luther League.
Bethany—.Sunday, 10:30 a. m.,
Sunday school, Mr. E. B. H' f '. ?"
11:30 a. m., church worship with
sermon. .
Wednesday, 4:30 p. m., Womens
M. Society at the parsonage.
Atlanta, May 9.—Two thousand ne
groes added their names to the vot
ing lists in Atlanta this year but reg
istrars in other Georgia cities said
it would be several days before the
num/ber of potential new negro vot
ers would be known.
Bath negro and white registration
increased sharply in the capital city
with approximately 15,000 more vot
ers on the lists than in previous
years. White registration was ap
proximately 60,000 and negro about
5,000. Two years ago the registra
tion totalled 46,482 whites and 2,914
negroes.
A campaign to increase negro
registration was started in the state
after the United States Supreme
court ruled that negroes could vote
in the democratic primary in Texas.
Negro leaders said they expected to
vote in Georgia’s primary on July
4 despite a statement by J. Lon
Duckworth, chairman of the state
democratic executive committee,
that they would not be eligible to
participate. ,
Democratic party spokesmen in
two cities, Macon and Augusta,
have indicated negroes would be
excluded from, voting in local prim-
ariesi C. J. Bloch, Bibb county party
leader, said they would not be per
mitted to vote in the county prim
aries on May 26. He said rules of
the party would be followed in the
Bibb voting despite the recent Sup
reme court ruling.
In Augusta C. Wesley Killebrew,
executive committee chairman of
the party, said officials would ask
registrars there for a list of White
voters only.
Registrars in Albany a nd some
other cities said it would be at
least a week before the figures on
registration for the July 4 primary
and November general election are
known. The deadline for register
ing was yesterday but registrars
usually purge the list, removing
those who have not paid, poll taxes
or otherwise fail to qualify, before
announcing the number registered.
Some increase in the number of
negroes registering was reported in
Brunswick but the number was des
cribed as not large.
DOWN
MEMORY LANE
20 YEARS AGO
Dr. Carson Declines Call To
Become College Head
It will be pleasing news to the en
tire town that Dr. J. W. Carson has
decided not to accept the call tender
ed him to become president of Bryson
college, Fayetteville, Tenn.
Dr. Carson has served the A. R. P.
church in Newberry 1 * * * 5 * 7 acceptably for
the past fourteen years ,and during
this time he has been identified with
all movements that have made for
the upbuilding of the town, and it
would have been a distinct loss to
the town to give him up.
New Plate Glass Windows For
Main Street Stores
George W. Summer, Sr., owner of
the Newberry hotel building, a part
of which are five stores facing
Main street, has made arrangements
to have new plate glass fronts for
these stores, and work has already
commenced. This will greatly im
prove these stores and will add to
the appearance of Main street as a
whole. The stores referred to are oc
cupied by the following firms: Gil
der & Weeks Drug Store, The Bul
lock Company, Mrs. J. W. White,
The New Book Store, and The Out
let Company.
Johnnie Werts left yesterday for
Winston-Salem to join the Piedmont
League team. He took the farming
out process very hard, but said he is
going to settle down to the grind,
acquire more experience and return
here a full-fledged pitcher.—Sport
Column in Greenville News.
Mr. and Mrs. Shelton Alewine and
little Mary went to Greenville for
the weekend to visit Mrs. Alewine’s
sister.
Mrs. Reed Boylston and children
and little Miss Emily Aull spent £he
weekend with relatives in Blacks-
ville.
Mrs. W. W. Daniel .stopped over in
Newberry Sunday enroute from a
visit to her daughter in Jesup, Ga.,
to Dyson.
TROOP ONE CONQUERS TROOP
TWO IN BASEBALL
CEILING UPPED ON NATIONAL
DEBT
THE WAY OF THE NEW DEAL
My father, poor, misguided gent.
Wasted his life; a life misspent
In working hard, and working late.
From six A. M. ’til way past eight.
Poor Dad! He’d fuss and fret and toil,
And burn the sooty midnight oil.
For nothing but a little cash
To buy the daily beans and hash.
Poor Dad! He was so mild and meek
He’d work six days in every week.
And fourteen hours of every day,
To try and keep the wolf away.
Thus father, meaning well, but dumb,
Amassed a rather tidy sum
With which he planned to buy some beers
To brighten his declining years.
The New Deal came, and simple Dad
Who worked so hard for all he had,
Awoke one morn to find that he
Was now a public enemy;
A scrooge, a louse, a Social cyst.
An Economic Royalist!
So, Dad, industrious but dumb,
Is now the source from which will come
The coin to buy the gasoline
For some poor underdog’s machine.
And bring the more abundant life
To every loafer and his wife.
From Dad will be extracted sums
For radios to cheer the bums.
And furnish booze for the ne’er-do-wells
Who help to raise imported hells.
Poor Dad, the faithful and trusted goon.
Was born just thirty years too soon.
Now any guy is just a cheat
Who says men ought to work to eat.
He’s simply nuts! Out of his head!
t5 it in vour chair, or stay in bed:
The Government will see, by gad,
That you get yours from chumps like Dad!
Washington, May 8.—Legislation
to boost the nation’s public debt
ceiling to a new record high, from
two hundred and ten billions to two
hundred and forty billions was ap
proved today by the House Ways and
Means committee, preliminary to the
sixteen billion fifth war loan drive
in June. The public debt now
stands at $187,212,467,081.92.
The administration asked a $260,-
000,000,000 ceiling but, in the face
of Republican opposition, agreed to
the lower figure.
However, Daniel W. Bell, treasury
undersecretary, told the committee
the government would be back next
January for a new top if the war
continues. He said the $30,000,000,-
000 additional debt authorization
would care for war expenditures un
til early 1945.
Troop II was firet to bat and made
5 runs in the first inning. Troop I
had no score until in the 2nd inning
they scored four runs. John Davis
went in to pitch at the first of the
Sid inning for Troop I. In the 3rd
inning Troop II made 1 run and
j Troop I made 3. Neither scored in
I the 4th. In the 5th inning, Troop II
| scored 1 run and Troop I 3. This
, made the score 10-10. In the last
j of the 6th inning Troop I went ahead
; 18-10. Then Troop II came in to
j score 3 more runs making the final
•score 18-13. Davis of Troop I
(struck out 11 players in 5 innings
| while Haile of Troop II struck out
7 in 7 innings. There will be return
game Wednesday at Speer Street.
ABOUT TOWN
GEORGE WISE, JR., DIES
George Herman Wise, Jr., six and
one half years old, son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. Herman Wise, died early
Monday morning at the Newberry
County hospital.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon a t 4 o’clock from St. James
Lutheran church with the Rev. G. J.
Rice in charge, assisted by the Rev.
V. L. Fulmer. Interment followed
in the church cemetery.
He is survived by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Wise and the fol
lowing brothers and sisters: Darr
Wise, Glenda Wise, Becky Wise, all
of Newberry, also his maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Will
Shealy and paternal grandmother,
Mrs. Ida Wise and an aunt, Mrs.
Cor a Shealy, who was very devoted
to him.
HENRY P. POWELL
Henry P. Powell, 67, died late Mon
day night at his home on Silas street
after an illness of several weeks. He
was twice married. First to Miss
Hattie Wells of Laurens, second to
Miss Susie Reeves of Georgia. Fun
eral services were held Wednesday
morning at 10 o’clock from the resi
dence of his son, Claude Powell,
N. Silas street, with Rev. O. H.
Hatchett in charge, assisted by Rev.
J. B. Hannon. Rev. Furman Rivers
and Rev. J. W. Spain.
Interment followed in Rosemont
cemetery. He is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Susie Reeves Powell, and
the following children, Claude O.
Powell; Mrs. Joe Bell, Mrs. Marie
Blytfhe; also the following sisters;
Mrs. Fannie McOary, Mrs. Jannie
Weathers, Mrs. Carrie Templeton,
Mrs. Geneva Wheat. Twentv grand
children and 11 great-grandchildren
survive.
Seen by a Southerner on visit from
[the North . . . Mr. Joe Wilson in the
[Post Office not recognizing this writ-
ler . . . Julia Smith Randall in Car-
Ipenters, and upstairs her mother,
| Mrs. Derrill Smith . . . Mr. and Mrs.
i Marvin Summer and Polly en route
| for a fishing trip Wednesday after
noon; and Polly saying that even
after all these years of fishing, her
Mother and Dad stili weren’t good
fishermen . . . “Hub” Quattlebaum,
answering my question as to whether
all was quiet in Newberry, with the
remark that everything was too
quiet for comfort—that nothing ever
happened in Newben-y anymore . . .
J. Neel passing the Sun office, glanc
ing in and walking on, then on recog
nition of your writer, coming in to
say hello . . . Dorothy Weir, who we
remember as a “red headed kid’’ sur
prising us with the fact that she has
grown up to be a very attractive
young lady, and that she is now
working in a n office in Newberry;
seems only a few weeks ago that she
and the others her age were just en
tering high school . . . Lt. Powell
Way in a local drug store looking
very nice in his officer’s uniform . . .
“Uncle Gene” Blease presenting let
tuce, beets and onions from his gar
den as a “welcome home gift” to us
. . . my appreciation to those who
have told me how much they enjoy
the occasional columns I write from
Yankeeland". . . Steve Griffith stop
ping in to greet us . . . Newberry
looking familiar with all the stores
closed on Wednesday afternoon . . .
Roland Feiker driving a horse and
wagon down College street—the wa
gon filled with Boy Scouts . . . Mr.
J. H. Clary walking home to dinner
. . . and seen all over town was your
writer who is ever so glad to be back
in Newberry, even if for such a short
visit. . . . Birthday anniversaries
through May 19: Mrs. Leila B. Wil
liams, May 13; Walter Gustave Hou-
seal, May 14; Miss Pearl Amick, May
16; Mrs. Olgie Shealy, May 18;
Charles Smith, E. L. Hart, and Mrs.
J. E. Stevens, May 19.
—M