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- VOLUME 7; NUMBER 38. T Aj. 1- NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROlilNA, FRIDAY, JANUARY t2, 194S - ,<■, i A $1.00 PER ANNUM WITH THE BOYS IN SERVICE CORPORAL JAMES RICHARD THOMASSON writes his aunt, Mrs. F. G. Hartley that he is now station ed in (permany.vO©moral Thompson is in fhe Service toffiitartv of <th* 9th Army. CAPT. TOMMY WEST cables his wife, the former Elizabeth Purcell, that he has landed safely somewhere in England. Captain West is a mem ber of the Transportation Corps. CPL. JAMES S. SANDERS, 20, colored youth, was killed in action in Italy on December 5th. He had been in the service two years, and overseas for 6 months. His mother, Mattie Sanders, lives at 1409 Cald well street. CPL. CHARLES CHILDERS, who has been a patient in the Field hos pital in It^ly for the past several weeks has been transferred to a general hospital in that country. He askc friends to write .him at No. 2628 Section Hospital, APO 698 care Postmaster, New York. PVT. GRADY S. GOGGINS, U. S. Army, reported to. Camp Hood, Tex. Tuesday after spending a 14 day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Goggins., Pripr.to his furlough he was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. FIRST LT. RALPH P. BAKER landed in England the latter part of December according ’ to a cablegram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Baker last week. Lieut. Baker is a surgeon with, the 121st Evacuation hospital unit. SGTfc «PBKY DUNCAN ywa* . r?-J ported wounded in the left shoulder in Germany about the 18th of Dec- emlber,. Sgt. Duncan is a member of the 8th division of infantry and has been overseas a year. He was in the original invasion ^f £ JIM WHEELER S2iC, a patient in the naval- hospital at Portsmouth, Virginia, is. spending a 15 day fur lough with his mother, Mrs. J. D. Wheeler and other relatives here. Seaman Wheeler recently returned to the states after being on duty in the Pacific theatre with the Seabees for the past 19 months. SGT. ERNEST C. LONGSHORE arrived in thfr city JfoUflay^to gcend a 23 day furlough with his mother, Mrs. Ruth Longshore, at 1505 Cald well street, before reporting to Mi ami, Florida for reassignment. Sgt. Longshore landed in the states on December 29 after being on duty in the Southwest Pacific with the Fourth Field Artillery for the past 33 months. MRS. A. C. THOMASSON receiv ed a letter Saturday from her son, T|Sgt. Arthmur Thomasson written from a prison camp in Germany ih September, saying that he “had just gotten his first letter from home af ter being a prisoner of war in Ger many since December 1, 1943, and it made him feel so much better to know that everybody at home was alright.” Number of Draftees Increases Sharply The following white men from Local Draft Board 58 will report to Fort Jackson on Wednesdrfy, Janu ary J.7th for preinduction physical examination‘‘ - * » *» Jesse Preston Bodie Edward Rollins Alva Eugene Werts, Jr. William James Lester Fred Colie Grant Leroy Aiken Benton Oscar Roy Chapman Jacob Oliver Hawkins Culer Levasco Hester Henry Herbert .Lathrop James Albert ^SAber Talmadge Dewitt Timmons ,Tames''-Maurice Bodie Joe Setzler Clamp Earl Ellison Horace Bivens Rayfield Jesse Willard George Alfred Gardin James Earl Micham Loyd Hilton Brazell • * Morgan Osborne Edwin Durant .Reames Jach Hatton Suber, jr. Ernest Heyward Long Harold Esby Smith - - Herbert Thomas Long James Carl Langford Beamon Lominick .Mills Elmer Reid Baker James Roy Felker William ' Jefferson Martin George Hoggin John Lindsey Gjant Thomas Drew Clamp Morgan Henry Bishop Joe Sam Boland Rayford Colie Evans William Edward Cromer Roy Houseal Clary George William Blackwell Bernice Eugene Stockman Callie Ezell Knight Vmmon Vester Aide^ * . Matthew Shelton Adams Harold Osborne Cook Maxie Lee Dixon Wade Ansel Erskine Joby Johnson Betchman WillUn** Oscar Ruff Richard Edward Adams David Scott Rowe Blair Jenkins Rankin Fred Morrell Hestbeck John Ernest Kinard Willie Lester Ellison Judge Ray Tankersley Arlis Huel Womack William Thomas Elsmore Ned Troy Livingston Roy Bryan GalOwell, Jr. Jesse James Tankersley (From The Christian Century) From time immemorial poets have hailed a nd the people have acclaimed the dawn of victory.” Victory meant the beginning of a new day. Thus it has been in the past. But it is not so now. After these long years of conflict, victory is almost in sight. But it brings no promise of a new day. No hearts are lifted exultantly at the first shafts of a new dawn flickering across an ex pectant horizion. Instead, harried man, worn and exhausted by the ter rors of these years of torment, finds himself frying to gather his weak ened powers for a blind adventure Into the unknown. The United States entered this war sustained by a great hope of what it would accomplish. Presi dent Roosevelt painted this in his “four freedoms” which he declared no vision of a distant millennium,” but “a delnite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.” It had been given more precise definition in the Atlan tic Charter. And it had found ex pression in the daily language of our people-^expectations of a world un ion, a world federation, an end of imperialism, a downfall of militar ism, a rebirth of freedom. Has that hope been achieved by the war? Are we, in sober truth; closer to its achievement than before the war? Have we not, indeed, been get im measurably farther from this goal as the direct result of our fighting? What has the war done to .Ameri ca ? Beaving out of account the slaughter and crippling of hundreds of. thousands of. her sops—perhaps a million before the victory is fully- won—and the inconsolable grief of millions thus bereaved, there are other obvious things that the war has done to America. Though it has revealed a power for war mak ing beyond that of any other nation in history, the struggle hAs increas ed internal tensions between races and classes. It has extended ■ , To offset this, Britain is frantically building its bloc—France, Belgium, Holland, Portugal, r; Italy, Greece. There are even sivtis that she may be ready to maintain Franco in power, provided he can give' assur ances against a Communist Spain. In this division Germany will once more find herself the great prize and focus of intrigue and con tention. Will she fall into the Rus sian or the British sphere? While that uncertainty lasts German policy will almost inevitably return to playing off the one interest against the other, just as after the last war it played off England against France. And the result will be equally disastrous for any lasting peace. This post-war Europe will be studded with territorial' and bound ary disputes. Handing Poland not only all East Prussia but all Germ any up to the line of the Oder may satisfy Russian demands for stra tegic frontiers, but it will also sad dle central Europe with another re gion in which men will live for the day of irredentist revenge—an area of always incipient conflict even more freighted with trouble than Alsace-Lorraine ever was. Hungar ian irredentism has already begun to clamor a t the Mate of Transylva nia. Marshal THo is again raising Yugoslavia’s claims to Trieste and the Istrian Peninsula—the same bit terly contested claims on which the peace conference of 1919. was so nearly wrecked. And the only de fense of these arrangements is that this time the wrath of the peoples involved will be guarded against by transferring from ten, to fifteen mil lion people with the shifting of boundaries, a proposal which the London Times on September 20 call ed an operation whose magnitude and brutalitv must appal even imagi nations deadened by the unspeakable horrors of the wfar: . Nor do these political results of the authority of the state until m ^e war begin to suggest the nature penetrates into the most minute de tails of our private life and of the pursuits by which our citizens seek to make a livelihood. It has broken down the monumental tradition un der which the term of the Executive was limited. of the crisis in which-it is leaving Europe. Behind these political ef fects there are the economic and the social effects—and these are likely to prove by far the most powerful. The revolutionary im pulses which the first world war James Allen Glenn / kins (3 4 It has uprofited an im- P uls , es wnlc " Ilrst worm war j portant minority of our citizens and j Jf* ™- se m R u ^ la un ea ^ e< ^ T| SGT. DANIEL H. McHARGUE was recently awarded two bnyize star Medals for “exceptional heroic achievements against the enemy” in Belgium. Sgt. McHargue is the husband of the former Constance Armfield. Mrs. McHargue is mak ing her home in Charleston where she is chief clerk of the enlisted pay section in the U. S. Army Fin ance office. LIEUT. CAM WALLACE was transfered in December from Moore General hospital, Swannanoa, N. C., to Welch Convalescent hospital at Daytona Beach, Florida. Lt. Wal lace is recovering from injuries re ceived in active duty overseas. His mother, Mrs. R. G. Wallace of Col umbia and sister, Frances, Green ville, recently returned from a visit with him. PVT. JOHN H. RAY of Whitmire is a member of a 105 millimeter howitzer crew on the Fifth Army front in Italy, who is helping send another round crashing into German held positions in the Apennines. The gun section is part of the 175th Field Artillery Battalion which re cently fired its 200,000th round and is the first battalion to go into ac tion against the Germans in this war. PVT. LAWRENCE CONNELLY writes his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Connelly, from a hospital in southern Italy saying that the building in which he lived caught fire and he was burned in the face and forehead, but not to worry about him because he was being well taken care of and would soon be alright Private Connelly is a member of the Signal Corps and has been on duty overseas for the past 18 months. Fred Warren Watkins Edward Pearson Yon The following from board 58 will report on January 18th for induc tion: John William Leavell Thermon Benrv Smith „ .. _ . RolShd* WWpnran WRliams “ * * R Jesse Caldwell Odell Charles Edward Bedenbaugh Thomas Horace Bouknight James William Hunnicutt Fred Sehpmpert j • Luther Lee Jones Edward Myers Thomas Melvin Wicker Victor Ray Smith , Ernest -Fleetwood MtCutcheorr Wallace Nat Meggs Owens David Eargle James Washington Cranford Roy Jackson Bledsoe Edward Virgil Miller „ , ( Albert Mars Thomas Earl Stroud Board 59 is sending the following white men for induction at Fort Jackson on January 18: Jones Edward Bedenbaugh James David Luther, Jr. Daniel Houch Sandel Marion Everette Pitts Claude William Riddle John Carey Fulmer Jr Lewie Verbee Shealy The following from board 59 for preiridiiction physical examination on January 18: Jessie Heyward Bush William Perry Kinard • • ( » « «. David Bundrick Ringer Forest Paul Brannon James Harvey Berley Forest Lee Graham Thomas Edward Scase Thomas Adam Harmon Hugh Ellis Fellers Hermon Garrett Stockman Olin Everett Graham Gary Lee Ringer Sam Pat Boland William Herbert Ruff Robert Herbert Ruff Robert Leitzsey Long Virgril Furman Kinard William Henry Ringer Joseph Harold Ruff . ., . James Everett Morris thrown then*.'into (j concentrati 0 ni b >\ this , wa r ^ “j, 1 , Europe clear camps without charges 'solely npwtoi* the Btrglis-h Channel. At this cause of their racial origins. ‘ | moment it is impossible to say with The war has placed a load of debt ^pnfidence that there will not be on the shoulders of our people which will impose staggering taxes on generations yet unborn. It has filled^ our civilian workets and our returhinf 4etdbadfe Witjf fear of a coming economic collapse. It has Communist governments in every state in Europe, save perhaps the Scandanavian nations, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, before a decade has passed. Indeed, the war has so torn up European life by the sent thousands of our choicest ; roots that in much of the continent youth to prison for conscience’s choice may quickly come to lie sake. It has given tongue to other between a Communist regime backed thousands clamoring to fasten per manent militarism ort the' Republic/ It has left our colleges dependent on by the power of Russia, and chaos. Tp perceive the revolutionary nature of the internal situation which the the whim of departments of Govern- 1 war has brought to pass in Europe, ment—and these in the main the | °. ne need only study the consterna- departmet of >Wat and Navy. It has * 10n °r tne Vatican. JOHN REXFORD NORTH III Lieut, and Mrs. J. R.-North, Jr. announce the arrival of a son, John Rexford North III, at the Newberry County Hospital on Sunday, Janu ary 7th. Mrs. North is the former Dot Ruff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Ruff. Lieutenant North is on duty in the Pacific theater of war. delivered us over to the false gods of imperialism, instead of ending colonial exploitation throughout the world, we seem about to embark on a, career of empire building. The above sentences state only a few of the domestic effects of the war. They are selected at random and suggest profounler effects which time will disclose. Yet they are sufficient in themselves, and more than sufficient, to cast dark shadows over the future of this nation. But these only begin to suggest the' po sition in which the war is leaving us. What of the rest of the world with whose fate Our own destiny is inexorably bound ? Who is not sob- erd by the unfathomable charafcter of the future which the war has created for Europe, for Africa, for Asia, and for all intenational rela tionships ? • i r What will be the Europe with which we must deal after the war? A continent freed from naz-ism, no longer compelled to live under , the shadow of the madman Hitler and the vicious crew that surrounded him and his satellite Mussolini. Yes; Europe will be free from fear, from want, from savagery, from other tyrannies or from the misery of de spair. Politically, all signs now in dicate that Europe will be divided into two great spheres of influence, with Britain and Russia locked in a precarious balance of power (whose j nothing to solve the problems scales are heavily loaded in favor of Russia), each watching the other with never-ceasing anxiety, each proclaiming a confidence in the other which is denied by every move. Instead of being unified by the war, Europe is being divided a!? a ? n - In the east, Russia is using her mil itary power to build her bloc of sat ellite states—Finland, Poland, Bul- Where is the war leaving Africa? Less affected, perhaps, than any other of the continents on which there has been fighting, but never theless facing new problems. The transfer of the Italian colonies to British rule will probably be arrang ed without serious difficulty—and never mind what the Atlantic Chat ter said about “no aggrandizement, territorial or other”—but there are other problems arising out of the war not to be so lightly disposed of. There is, for example, the develop ment which lately took Mr. Eden from Moscow to Cairo—the emerg ence of a pan-Arab federation. That will have Hs repercussions all the way from India to the Straits of Gibraltar, and nowhere more omi nously than in strategic Palestine. There is also the demand of the Union of South Africa, voiced by Marshal Smuts, that hereafter poli cies for the control of the native population jn the colonies of Negro Africa shall be turned over to the dominion. To those who know the ruthlessness of South African treat ment of the natives it will seem that there could be no more certain way of driving that continent toward fu ture race war. And what of past-war Asia? Who can offer even a hesitant guess as to what will happen in Asia within the next 25 years? But some things are certain. The war will have done of non-white empire which the age of imperialism had produced only to restore the white empires which a colored people had overthrown, the war is turning the Pacific into an American lake and our nation is probably about to plunge into the greatest imperialistic adventure of all time. Within Asia the efid of the war will leave the continent in political and social chaos. Recent dispatches from competent American observers in China seem to take it for granted that all moves in that harassed land are now being- made in preparation for a. civil war a s soon as the Japa nese have been driven . out.- The American victory over Japan may open the way for the return of In donesia to Dutch rule, of Cambodia to France, of Malaya and Hong Kong to Britian* even of Timor and Macao to Portugal. But the sullen inhabi tants will take no joy in seeing the European Flags go up again, or the European rulers, with, their insuffer able pride of race, return to their former abodes. They..-will submit if they must, but their submission will scarcely cloak their determination to seize the first opportunity to strike for freedom. And this, we believe, is true for India as for the colonies which the Japanese so easily over ran. Space will not permit extended reference to South America, but there, also the war is leaving height ened rather than lessened tensions. And what is there to offset these tragic realities of the worRb which the war has created? Dumbarton Oaks? This is not the place for an extended discussion of that proposed plan of post-war world organization.' But it is necessary to make at least three observations. First. Its most stalwart propon ents present it apologetically. Take it, they say, not because it is what the United -States wants or what the world needs to insure a lasting peace, but take it because we can’t get anything better. Second. Indications multiply that Russia has no more than a token interest in Dumbarton Oaks. Russia is primarily interested in protecting her own future freedom of action, and she does not intend tp bind her self by covenant to any organization upon whose unhesitating approval of Russian policy she cannot count or to which her own wjll must be subordinated. So Russia intends to make sure that if she goes into the Dumbarton Oaks organization it will be stripped of any possibility of ever acting except when she wants it to act. Third. In the Dumbarton Oaks or ganization 'the United States will occupy the most exposed position in all the history of our foreign rela tions. For this organization is to be based on the concept of a Big Four pact to police the world. Yet of the four nations thus ehosen to rule, one' (China) is- obviously no stable great power and can be propped up in its- place only by the continued support of this country, while another -(-Great Britian) is commit- tod to the preservation of a globe- circling empire which the war has demonstrated - it cannot defend with out American help. And in the e- Vent that the uneasy balance be tween Britain and Russia is upset, Britain will be utterly unable to maintain her empire in ■ a war against the Russian colossus without the • support of the United States. Can any American envisage such a prospect without grave forebodings? In a word, to make Dumbarton Oaks function as a protector of world peace—a moral responsibili ty which lies heavily upon the con sciences of the American people— the United States may find itself obliged to support the policies of regimes in Asia and in Europe in which Americans have no confi dence and for which they have no heart. Dumbarton Oaks, also, con stitutes for the United States a plunge into the unknown! .Morale High; Morals Low colonialism and imperialism; in Asia it has already exacerbated those problems. It has done nothing to improve the relations between whites and the colored peoples; in Asia it has made those relations more tense. The United States, which regards itself a s the champ ion of democracy, which has fought in the Pacific to protect the Asiatic garia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Hun- | peoples against the spread of an gary, Czechoslovakia, perhaps even | oriental tyranny, is in fact coming Austria. The Baltic republics, des- i out of the war in a terribly equivo- pite her pledges in the Atlantic j cal position—as viewed by oriental charter, she has forcibly absorbed, eyes. Having destoyed the j single Who can see ahead into such a future? The man who claims he can is the man to fear All that hu man intelligence can see with any certainty is that the war, instead of fulfilling the promises which ro mantic proponents of American in tervention were scattering about so freely three and four years ago, is producing a world whose political structures have been shaken to their foundations, leaving hardly more than chaos and upstart power out of which to build a new world order. Post-war stability cannot be counted upon even in the United States; not if the economic after- math of the war brings the mass ' nemployment that some sober anal ysts now prophesy. Sometimes it is said by those who sense some of the foreboding reali ties of the days after organized fighting has ceased, that revolution is in the air. Perhaps. But more (Continued on page 8) HOSPITAL NEWS- (The following is part of a letter from Franklin Armfield recently arrived in England.) “They have finally let us tell where we gre. And this is England! The country is very much as I expected to find’it. The English countryside I had heard so mrtch about and seen pictures of, is just like a picutre. It is all hills and valleys and every thing is green. I was surprised to j see this since it is also winter here. J It has been pretty cold since we came here and very, very damp. Most of the time it is foggy. We had sunshine for part of two days since we came. Today it is beautiful outside, but- it is still cold. The day after Christmas, the frost was so heavy it looked like snow on the trees. Maybe that is whet they call a “White Christmas” in this country. They don’t have much daylight here either. It gets light about 9 'O’clock "and dark about 5. Most of the rest of the time it is foggy. It is always foggy at night, and with the dim-Out you cant see a thing. I don’t know what they did when they had a complete blackout. Naturally the buildings are typi cally English; very much like Wil- liaipsburg, Virginia. The town near by doesn't' seem to’ be 'laid out in any particular pattern. The streets just wind in and out and go everywhere. The roads are very ..arrow and the autos are. -small,- but you don’t see ' too. many of them. The gas ration ing must be very strict. It seems funny to see people drive from the right side of the car. The most amusing thing I have seen .though, are the railroad cars. Each coach is divided into three compartments. The box cars look like playthings. They a re about one third the size of the ones in the states. They are all of the narrow guage type. I noticed the name of one of the railroad companies is the Southern railway, but I don’t suppose it has any con nection with the SR in the States. The steam engines are evon. smaller than the switch engines at home. The passenger trains are rather slow, but they ride pretty good. I noticed that all the freight cars are hooked together by chain and there are no brakes- at all on them. Once they get going I don’t see how they stop them. I guess the passenger trains do have brakes, tho. We are in the southeastern part of the country, and not too far from Bristol. I haven’t been there yet, but hope to go before we leave here. London, I understand, is a little over 100 miles. The only city I have seen except the one we are near is Southhampton.' It -seems to be a rather Targe city. We passed thru thee but didn’t stop. The morale of the people I have seen seems to be pretty high, but as far a s morals are concerned, that is another story. They just don’t seem to give a darn what they do or where they do it. I thought we had a problem in the states, but it is nothing compared with conditions here.The town and streets are over run with teen-age girls and they are pick-ups for anyone who will take them. It seeats. that the people here go for the negroes the samp as for, the whites. There is no race discrimina tion at all. I have seen a few ne- groe's in British uniforms. They live Here Now Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson are now living in the Leavell Apart ments at 515 Boundary street. They formerly lived at the County Jail where Mr. Wilson was jailor. He is now Deputy to Lonnie Graham in the magistrate’s office. Mr. and Mrs. Emest Oxner have moved from the Davis home on Wardlaw street to the Leavell Apartments, 515 V6 Boundary street. Mrs. E. S. Boozer has moved to 1132 Douglas street in the Leroy Anderson home which she recently purchased. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Anderson are now -living in the Baker Apart ments on Walnut street. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilson, new comers to the city, are making their home at 1312 Glenn street. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. O’Dell moved from 2018 to 2016 Eleanor street. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fellers and family are now making their home at 1613 Nance street. Mr. and Mrs. James B. Hall are living at 931 Cornelia street. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Force moved to 105 Harrington street. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Moore have moved from the county to 1501 Caldwell street. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Derrick mooted from Cline street to 1728 Harris street. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Moates have moved to 1401 Nance street from 1728 Harris street. M-r. and Mrs. A. C. Quattlebaum are now living with the T. M. Rog ers on Friend street, having moved from 1401 Nance street. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morris of Pomaria, a son on Monday, Jan uary 8 th. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Noland Myers of route 2, Newberry, a daughter on Tuesday, January 9th. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnny T. Yarborough of Whitmire, a daugh ter on Wednesday, January 10th. Other patients: Baby girl Tuck er, 209 Glenn street; Baby boy Hooper, 800 Pope street; M. Duke Sheppard, Silverstreet; Mrs. Ralph Kirby, 1306 2nd street; Tom Can non, Little Mountain; Mrs. Alice Livingston, Brown street; Mrs. James Cromer, route 3, Newberry; James W. Johnson, Wiseman Hotel; Mrs. B. R. Phillips, 2601 Fair Ave; Miss Frances Boozer, Hunt street; Wesley Von, Whitmire; Mrs. Bern ice Gregory, 1305 Jefforson street; Mrs. A. P. Morris, 1206 Jones St.; Baby Jackline Gregory, 1305 Jeffer son street; and Mrs. J. W. Roberts, Whitmire. «, — - ,. -- E. B. LOWERY E. B. Lowery, 57, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Shuler in Eutawville Saturday, January 6th, and funeral services were held in Sumter Monday afteraon where in- tement followed in the Sumter cem etery. Mr. Lowery was business mana ger of Fmnk Lominack’s Hard ware for 14 years. He resigned his position with Lominack’s about fewm years ago on account' otf ill health. Mr. Lowery had many friends in Newberry who will regret to hear of his passing. PFC. MACBEE HIPP, son of M. B. Hipp, of Clinton and nephew of Mrs. Q, O. Copeland of this city, has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action in France. Private Hipp is in the infantry." MR. AND MRS. JOHN BOOZER, of Chappells, received a telegram from the War Department Sunday, stating that their son Pressley N. iBoozer was wounded in action in Belgium on December 20th. Private Boozer, only son of Mr. and 1" Boozer, has been in the service o since last May. He had been in France only a short time. His wife, the former Miss Beck Sherard, a teacher in the Greenwood county schools, makes her home in Ninety Six with her parents. MAJOR OLIVER W. HOLMES, who recently spent a 21-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 0. W. Holmes (Sarah Fant) in Fayette ville, N. C. after being on duty in the European theater of operation for the past 30 months with the 15th Air Force, spent the past weekend here with his aunts, Mrs. Seth Meek and Mrs. Butler Holmes, prior to re porting to Miami, Florida on Janu ary 9, for reassignment. PFC. MARVIN E. WILSON, JR. writes his mother, Mrs. M. E. Wil son, from Germany, where hje has been stationed with the First Army since November, saying “the part of the country where he is located is beautiful with pine trees covered with snow.”' MAX S. COOK S 2!c and MRS. COOK of Norfolk, Va., recently spent a few days in the home of Seaman Cook’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam A. Cook on Thompson street. Miss Margaret Kibler of Columbia, was the guest of her parents and other relatives during the past week end. MRS. MARVIN WILSON patient ly waiting for her “turn” to get her income tax made out. . . . MRS. J. D. WICKER fussing about the laun dry losing her extra pair of paja mas. . . . BILL HATTON, Pomaria, in the city Wednesday looking fine after a recent illness, and saying he had gained 15 pounds. . . . P. M. GEORGE K. DOMINICK spending his last dollar and wondering what he was to do until pay-day. . . . The tale is being told around town about a boy overseas writing jiis mother to send him some cotton underwear be cause he was allegoric to woolen ones, and his dad afraid if his wife didn’t soon find them she would un dress someone on the street and take theirs. . . . JIM WHEELER being greeted by friends in the Rationing Board. . . . Clerks busy in the stores taking inventory. . . . MRS. L. F. FISCHER shopping. . . . Birthday anniversaries: Mrs. Frank McCon nell, Jan. 6; J. D. French, Jan. 7; Emory H. Bowman, Jan. 8; Mrs. J. D. Kinard, Jan. 9; Miss Grace Wil bur, Jan. 10; Mrs. Van Price, Mrs. Sadie Ringer and Mrs. Tom Suber (Helen Mower), Jan. 11; Paul B. Ezell, Jan. 14; Mrs. Edna H. Feagle and Edna Hite Paysinger, Jan. 15; Miss Mary Burton and Miss Jeane Johnstone, Jan. 16; Mrs. E. L. Hart, Sgt. Wilbur Long and Mary Eletse Paysinger, Jan. 17; Mrs. Steve Grif fith and Mrs. L. C. McCullough, Jan; 18.