Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r xwr* HEIGHT THE NEWBERRY SUN New Moic/ o/ Cotton Named Jennie Erie Cox, 19-year-old West Point, Miss., beauty, is the 1945 Maid of Cotton. Chosen from a group of more than 150 candidates for the title, Miss Cox was notified of her victory and handed a $100 War Bond by Bob Hope, famous funnyman, at the contest finals in Memphis. Later, through arrangements with the Pepsodent Co., she was presented to a nationwide audience on Hope’s broadcast A student at Stephens College, Columbia, Mo., prior to her selection, the new Maid soon will begin a tour of the nation’s principal cities to participate in War Bond campaigns, entertain service men, and serve as the cotton industry’s official goodwill ambassador. NEWBERRY CORPORAL OBJECT OF FRENCH ADORATION A Ninth Air Force P-47 Thunder bolt Base, France—German fear of “Jabo” fighter-bombers is under standable to Corporal Eugene L. Lip scomb, Newberry, South Carolina, communications mechanic at this crack P-47 Thunderbolt fighter- bomber group, “The Maulers,” of the Ninth Air Force. The 21-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lipscomb, 1102 Hunt street, Newberry, is serving his ninth month overseas in this theater. The corporal arrived on the Nor mandy beachheads last August with a Signal Corps Company and was stationed south of St. Lo, stringing v’tal telephone lines to forward com bat areas. Describing those hectic days when he was often fired upon by snipers, Coup. Lipscomb said: “Due to the rapid advance of our soldiers, com munication problems wrere terrific. We often strung wire over fields re ported booby-mined. German para- tropers, wearing civilian clothes, were dropped in our vicinity at nights. We were always on the look out for them. “One afternon I was repairing a damaged line when several shots rang out. I could hear the bullets whiz by over my head,” he explain ed. Corporal Lipscomb remembers well the liberation cf Paris after four years of reigh by the Germans. Re calling the event, he said: “We were installing communications equipment on the outskirts of Paris before the city fell to the Allies. Several buzz bombs fell near us, but no one was hurt. “As our French Allies entered the city, the FFI rounded up all remain ing Germans hiding out in various quarters of Paris. “The following day I went into the city and saw thousands of cheering people thronging the streets for miles as American soldiers passed in review.” The corporal blushed slightly as he related how pretty French girls waved and threw kisses at him from windows of buildings. “As we rode down one street after another, the French girls, dressed, in their Sunday best, waved at us. Those that could get near our Jeep shook our hands and tried to kiss us. They exclaimed, ‘Viva our Lib erators.’ I spotted a row of young children on a street corner and threw them K-rations and candy. I have never seen such happy people in my life.” Corporal Lipscomb later visited the historic sights of Paris . The corporal is now assigned to this group, the 362nd, commanded by 26-year-old Colonel Joseph L. “Uncle Joe” Laughlin, Omaha, Nebraska, who sunk a German light cruiser in Brest harbor last August. The group recently spotted the initial mass withdrawal of hundreds of German armored columns fleeing the Ardennes salient. In a two day attack, pilots destroyed or damaged over 800 vehicles. “Our fighter-bombers flew as fast as the crew chiefs and armorers could load them with 1,000 pound wing bombs, ammunition and rock ets,” explained the former Newberry high school student. “The pilots returned with tales of hundreds of German vehicles, armor ed cars and tanks, pulling out of the Bulge. Each time a squadron of Thunderbolts oame in to land, we knew the Jerries had suffered heavy in equipmefnt. ThoSse 1,000 pound wing bombs make craters 40 feet deep when they explode.” he ended. Corporal Lipscomb met anotKer former Newberry high school stu dent, Private George Sligh, on the same troop ship that left the states for England. “As the ship steamed out to sea, we looked at each other and wonder ed how long it would be before we returned to Newberry,” Corporal Lipscomb said. Prior to entering the Army Air Forces at Fort Jackson, S. C., in August 1942, the corporal was em ployed as a linesman for the Duke Power Company in Charlotte, North Carolina. A brother, Howard, is with a sub marine fleet, somewhere in the South Pacific. Corporal Lipscomb wears two bat tle stars for participation in the lib eration of France and the current offensive against Germany. U. S. JET FIGHTER’S SPEED 600 MILES HOUR Washington, Feb. 28—The United States is building in volume a jet- propelled fighter credited with fly ing faster than any other plane. This was announced today While from the British came a disclosure that they have a jet plane in action. The new U. S. plane is the Lock heed P-80 Shooting Star. It is a single-engined pursuit with a pres surized cockpit, extreme maneuvera bility, simple design and consider able range. The engine is built by General Electric. The engine requires no warming up and can put the plane into a takeoff run in 30 seconds after the engine is started. Gen. H. H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air forces an nounced the new waiplane, but would permit only a general de scription and banned pictures for the present. The pressurized cabin is the first on a production model fighter. The plane is able to carry “heavy loads of ammunition, photo graphic equipment, bombs and fuel.’' Arnold said in a statement. The British air ministry announc ed that its new plane is the Gloster Meteor, a twin-engined pursuit which first saw action against Nazi robot bombs last August 4. It is powered with Rolls Royce jet en gines. No performance data was given on either of the new planes, al though reports from England indi cated the Meteor would exceed 500 miles an hour at top speed. The claim of the Shooting Star as the world’s fastest, not even excluding the German ME-163 rocket plane, indicates a top in the vicinity of 600 miles an hour. The Shooting Star’s engine, de scribed as the most powerful air craft power plant in use, is located behind the pilot. The nozzle through which the gases escape is in the tail. An undisclosed number of guns i slocated m the nose. As for range—a major problem in some jet models—Lockheed air craft said in a statement that the P-80 could operate “over any of the RITZ THEATRE THURSDAY and FRIDAY William Powell, Myrna Loy Lucile Watson IN “THE THIN MAN GOES HOME” FOX NEWS SATURDAY John Garfield Ann Sheridan, Claude Rains , IN “THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL” SELECTED SHORTS UNIVERSAL NEWS MONDAY and TUESDAY Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, Elissa Landi IN “THE SIGN OF THE CROSS” M.G.M. NEWS WEDNESDAY Philip Dorn, Mary Astor, Felix Bressart IN “BLONDE FEVER” Comedy—SCREWY TRUANT MAYER-SANDERS A marriage of county-wide inter est was that of Mrs. Edna Mayer, of 1 Little Mountain and Newberry, and Richard Sanders, of Silverstreet, which took place Sunday evening, February 25 at seven o’clock at the residence of the officiating minister, the Rev. P. D. Risinger, at Silver- street. The ceremony was witnessed by a group of close friends. The bride wore an attractive two piece spring ensemble in shades of brown and green with luggage ac cessories and her corsage was of white canations and fern. Mrs. Sanders is the daughter of J. L. Shealy and the late Mrs. Shea- ly of Little Mountain and has been employed here as cashier at a local store. Mr. Sanders, the son of Mrs. J. W. Sanders and the late Mr. San ders of Silverstreet, is a farmer of that section. After a wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Sanders will m-'ke their home qt Silverstreet. WELLS THEATRE THURSDAY LOUISIANA HAYRIDE Judy Canova and Ross Hunter Added—CARTOON COMEDY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY BOB STEELE and HOOT GIBSON in “Trigger Law” Added—ZORRO’S BLACK WHIP and HUGH HUBERT Comedy MONDAY and TUESDAY The Screen Drama of the Generation ADDRESS UNKNOWN Paul Lukas and K. T. Stevens Added—PATHE NEWS and SHORT WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY OH, WHAT A NIGHT! Edmund, Loew and Jean Parker Added—COMMUNITY SING Admission 9c - 30c every day OPERA HOUSE SATURDAY CHARLES STARRETT in “Hail to the Rangers” Added—(BRENDA STAR REPORTER and THREE STOOGES Comedy Admission: 9c-25c all day Late Show 10:15 Satruday Night ADDRESS UNKNOWN Paul Lukas and K. T. Stevens ranges” demanded of conventional- type fighters. JUST THINKING Standin’ up here on the fire-step, Lookin’ ahead in the mist, With a tin hat over your ivory And a rifle clutched in your fist; Waitin’ and watchin’ and wonderin’ If the Huns cornin’ over tonight— Say, aren’t the things you thing of Enough to give you a fright? Things you ain’t even heard of For a couple o’ months or more; Things that’ll set you laughin’, Things that will make you sore; Things that you saw in the movies, Things that you saw on the street, Things you’re really not proud of. Things that are—not so sweet. Debts that are past collectin’, Stories you hear and forget, Ball games and birthday parties. Hours of drill in the wet; Headlines, recruitin’ posters, Sunsets ’way out to sea, Evenings of pay day—Golly— It’s a queer thing, this memory. Faces of pals in Homeburg, Voices of womenfolk, Verses you learned in schooldays Pop up in the midst and the smoke As you stand there grippin’ that rifle, A-starin’ and chilled to the bone, Wonderin’ and wonderin’ an wonder in’ Just thinkin’ there—all alone! When will the war be over? When will the gang break thru? What will the U. S look like? What will there be to do? Where will the Boches be then? Who will have married Nell? When’s that relief a-comin’ up? Gosh; But this thinkin’s hell! MRS. MARY LONG METTS Mrs. Mary Long Metts, 69, widow of Henry W. Metts, died early last Friday morning at her home near Little Mountain. She was bom July 13, 1879, a daughter of- the late Drayton I. and Katheirne Shealy Long of Little Mountain community, where she lived her entire life. Funeral services were held Satur day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from Mt. Tabor Lutheran church with the pasrtnr, the Rev. E. B. Hite, officiat ing, and the Rev. D. M. Shull as sisting. Interment was in Holy Trinity Lutheran church yard at Little Mountain. Smvivors are four sons, Forrest E. Long, Ernest L. Long, Colie S. Long and H. L. Long, all of Little Moun tain; two daughters, Miss Ether May Metts, Little Mountain, and Mrs. Elton Lindler, Spartanburg; two brothers and three sisters, Jacob W. Long, Little Mountain; James A. Long, Prosperity; Mrs. S .Y. Ful mer, Columbia; Mrs. John A. Rid dle, Little Mountain; Mrs. G. T. Ep- ting, Newberry, and ten grand children. $1.58 FOR LAUNDRY DEDUCTED FROM LAST CHECK OF AN ONLY SON SLAIN IN NOR MANDY BATTLE, MOTHER SAYS Norwood, Mass., Feb. 28—One dollar and fifty-eight cents “for laundry’’ was deducte from the final paycheck of an only son killed in action in the Normandy invasion, his bereaved mother said today. Mrs. Anna McDonough said she was “shocked” when the check ar rived recently and that she planned to write to President Roosevelt “and demand that he see to it that no other mother shall receive the same kind of a letter.” The letter accompanying the check, she added noted simply that the deduction was “for laundry.” Mrs. McDonough said her hus band, Thomas, died 16 years ago from wounds received in World war I and that her son, Sgt. Thomas McDonough, was killed in action on his 23rd birthday. She has two grown daughters. “It is a terrible shock,” she said, “to discover that after I gave my only son to my country, his gov ernment is so small as to make such a deduction from the money they sent me.” At Washington, officials said Army regulations covering laundry service provide that a charge must be made when it is performed at a fixed or permanent laundry installa tion. No charge is made at a mobile laundry unit which usually serves front line troops. SILVER PLATED TABLEWARE KHIVES FORKS SPOOKS 12.50 GET YOUR SET WHILE WE HAVE A SUPPLY W. E. TURHER JEWELER SPRING is in the air . . . and "on the Calender, too! You’ll want a little some thing new for the sunshine days just ahead and we are pleased to tell you we have considerable new stocks. Boys Slack Suits Slack Pants Sport Shirts Palm Beaches Sweaters and Loafer Coats tor Man and Boy A new shipment of Edwin Clapp shoes for men Buy Your Spring Clothing at Clary’s But Give to The Red Cross First Clary Clothing Co. Styles of Today With a Touch of Tomorrow FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1945 A uc« look! See it first in these abbreviated boaters . . . buoyant bits of felt and straw a-sailing in from the Knox de Luxe* collection to greet spring. TO FARMERS SINCLAIR TRACTOR CHARTS AND TIME- SAVERS BOOKLET FA9M TIMM JMVfJtf-New 64-page booklet gives practical ideas, fully illustrated, for sav ing time and labor on the farm. Big help in wartime. Get your free copy. Use the handy coupon below. TMACTOK LU8HICA- T/O M CHART shows where, when and how to lubricate your trac tor to get more work at lowest cost. Tell us make, model and year of tractor you operate and we’ll send you one of these charts free. Use coupon below. YOU It NEARBY SINCLAIR A9MNT will gladly advise you about correct lubricants and fuels for your farm equipment. He offers a complete line of Sinclair petroleum products and specialties that will help your machinery to operate longer without breakdown. Phone the Sinclair Agent about your farm needs. S. C. Paysinger, Agent NEWBERRY, S. C.