Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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******** ****** KEEP i-'AITH \mthus—\ \by buying’-. WAR BONOS Those Boys Need^^ VOLUME 8: NUMBER 21 »•* », , ... . ... ■ '■— r*—J 1 • . » With THE BOYS In Service | SGT. RALPH FELLERS, based at Fort Benning, Ga., spent the past weekend with his mother, Mrs. H. C. Fellers on College street. PPG. CARL J. TAYLOR has ar rived in this country from the Eu ropean theatre of operations, and is expected to arrive at his home here in a few days for a furlough. T-5 GRAiDY F. GRAHAM and PFC. THOMAS L. BROOKS of New berry were among the South Caro lina soldiers due to arrive in New York aboard the Thomas Berry- more Tuesday. MAJOR JULIA E. WHITE. 1005 Caldwell street, T 3 WM. WICKER, 1931 Nance street and SGT. ROBT. L. GALLMAN, 824 Hunter street, were slated to arrive in New York aboard the- Queen Elizabeth Wed nesday from the European theatre. LIEUT. P. G. HILL, JR., USN, and his wife of New York city are spending several days here with his brother, Robert F. Hill and Mrs. Hill at 1934 Johnstone street. Lieut. Hill has been in the sendee for the past three years and has only recent ly been discharged. CLAUDE BUZHARDT S 2!C and Mrs. Buzhardt of the disbursing of fice, Little Creek, Va., are spending this week with Seaman Buzhardt’s mother, Mrs. Epsie Buzhardt, on Boundary street, after which he will report to Great Lak where he will receive further training in finance and discharge. CLARENCE C. DUNCAN, Jr., who received his discharge from the Army on September 11th at Camp Gordon, Augusta, Ga., is now at his home here on Cline street with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Duncan. Mr. Duncan, who rose to the rank of Sergeant, was in service four years, and spent 19 months in the European theater as a member of the 8th Infantry Division, 708th Ordnance. » SGT. MARION (FAT) TARRANT landed in New York last Friday af ter 18 months in the European thea tre as a member of the Field artil lery. Ee was sent to Comp Kilmer, N. J. for processing and will receive his discharge at Fort Bragg, N. C. this week, and after visiting, Mrs. R. L. Tarrant and other relatives in the city, will go to Hickory, N. C. where he will accept a position. Sergeant Tarrant was a member of the; armed forces over 3 years. JAMES D. BROWN who received j his discharge from the army about two weeks ago at Fort Bragg, N. C.. is now visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Folk at their home on Route 1, Newberry. Mr. Brown, who rose to the rank of Staff Sergeant in the Quartermas ter corps, was in the service three years and spent approximately two years overseas in the European thea tre. Before entering the service Mr. Brown was in the teaching pro fession. OPL CHARLES CHILDRESS is now at the home of his sister, Mrs. M. E. Goldsmith in Hejl/ena after receiving an honerable discharge from the ormy at Camp Blanding re cently. Corporal Childress arrived in the States about two weeks ago after being on duty in the European theater for the oast 39 months with the Field Artillery. He was in the service five years. He wears five battle stars, the ETO ribbon and the Good Conduct ribbon. WAYNE MARTIN, who was in the army for over two years, received his discharge at Camp Gordon, in Augusta, Ga. on September 12. Wayne rose to the i-ank of Staff Sergeant and spent over a year overseas with the 10th Air Force stationed in Burma. He wears two Silver Stars, four Oak Leaf Clusters attached to the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Asiatic-Placific ribbon. He is now at his home here on Boundary street with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Martin, and has enrolled in New berry college as a Junior, taking up where he left off when he volunteer ed for the Air Corps. MAX SAM COOK, S. l|c, is serv ing on the aircraft carrier Shangri- La in Toko Bay, which is part of the powerful Pacific Fleet completing the first stages of the occupation of Japan. Under the operational control of Admiral William F. Halsey, USN, the Shangri-La, with 16 other car riers, six escort carriers, 12 battle ships, 20 cruisers and more than 290 other U. S. ships, is helping take over control of the Japs’ big naval bases. The Shangri-La had a prominent role in the air strikes against the Jap homeland just prior to the sur render. Cook, is the son of Mr. -&nd Mi-s. Sam Cook, 1508 Thompson street. T-SGT. HARRISON M. HAR MON, JR., son of Mr. and Mrs. Har rison M. Harmon of Pomaria has been honorably discharged from the AAF after nearly four years in the service. He spent 26 months over seas as a crew chief with the 9th Troop Carrier Command. Sergeant Harmon, who flew two combat missions and has approxi mately 400 hours to his credit, wears the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf cluster, the unit citation with one cluster and has seven Bronze Stars in his theater ribbon. TERRELL LEE SEASE, 1908. Vincent street, has been honorably discharged from the Naval Service at the U. S. Naval Personnell Sep aration Center, Naval Air Station, Charleston. He has served eight years in the Navy, and rose to the rank of Boat swain’s Mate First Class. He plans on his return home to reside in New berry. He has participated in these Na val actions: Pearl Harbor, served aboard a repair ship and troop transport in the South West Pacific. CORPORAL HAROLD OSWALD, husband of Mrs. Carol Oswald, 1210 3rd street, has the job of satisfying 3,500 morale-hungry men with news from home. He is the regimental mail clerk of the 422nd Infantry Regiment located near Karlsruhe, Germany. He is responsible for the handling of 12,000 letters and 1,000 packages a week. The regiment re ceives enough mail to satisfy a nor mal city of 10,000 population. Corporal Oswald joined the 106th “Lion’’ Division when it was acti vated in 1943. He was with them in the Battle of the Bulge when the Division bore the brunt of Von Rundstedt’s last bid for victory. He wears the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and three battle participation stars for actions in Northern France, the Ardennes, and the Rhineland. CHIEF W|0 W. E. HENDRIX, USNR, Gunner, whose wife, Susan Erma, lives at 1509 College street, served on the USS Mayfield Victory, one of the first ammunition ships to arrive after troops hit the Okinawa beaches on D-Day. He saw the ship undergo two Jap plane attacks dur ing its three weeks in the Okinawa battle zone. * Ranging off the island, under the constant threat of aerial attack, the Mayfield Victory kept the bombard ing warships supplied with shells. In one attack, she was sprayed from stem to stern with machine gun fire. Another time a Jap suicide bomber made a dive at the ammunition car rier, missed and plunged into another ship. JAMES H. MAFFETT STEW ARD’S MATE, FIRST. CLASS, USNR, husband of Mrs. Anna R. Maffett, Route 3, Newberry, is serv ing on this destroyer-transport, which is part o fthe powerful Pacific Fleet completing the first stages of the occupation of Japan. Under the operational command of Admiral William F. Halsey, USN, the Sims, with 12 battleships, 17 air-f craft carriers, six escort carriers, 20 cruisers and more than 290 other U. S ships, is helping take over con trol of the Japs’ big naval bases. PFC. GRADY H. ADAMS, of the 267th Field Artillery, has received a letter of commendation and has been signally honored for action and judgement displayed in saving the life of one of his fellow buddies, ac cording to word received by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Adams re cently. The letter stated that Pfc. Adams was commended for “conduct dis played on August 8th, administering first aid to J. G. Goens, who was seriously injured on the battlefield.” The letter further stated that it “re flects credit to yourself for the judgement displayed, and the in itiative and ingenuity responsible for saving the life of a soldier.” The letter was signed by his com manding officer, L. D Arnold, and the commendation was awarded Pfc. Adams while his entire company later paying him tribute of march ing in review before him and salut ing MELVIN SYLVESTER BURCH Melvin ^ Burch, aged 51, died at his home in Whitmire early Tuesday afternoon. He was born and rear ed in North Carolina but had made his home in Whitmire for a number of years. Funeral services were held at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon from his late home, 313 Spring street in Whitmire with Rev. Charles Wil liamson and Rev. F. M. Lindler con ducting the service. Mr. Burch is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sophia Gregory Burch; two daughters, Mrs. Vera Bellue and Mrs. Annie Lee Gardin, and the following brothers and sisters, Ad am Burch, Luther Burch, Barnett Burch, Nelson Burch, Mrs. Elkie Jones, Mrs. Lou Jones, Mrs. Las sie Knight, also one grandchild. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1945 $1.00 PER ANNUM LITTLE NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Kerr have re turned to Decatur, Georgia, where Dr. Kerr is a professor in the Pres- byterain seminary, after spending the summer months here with Mrs. Kerr’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fi - ank Wilson on Main street. Mr. and Mrs. David Williams and son, Jimmy, of Hartsville, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Williams and two child ren, DeAnn and Steve, and W. R. Webb of Savannah, Ga., were week end visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Williams on Maver Ave. Weekend business vistors in New berry included: Mrs. David Beden- baugh, Prosperity; Mrs. Henry O. Long, Silverstreet; Mrs. Von Long, Prosperity; Mrs. Annette Brooks, Prosperity; Mrs. Guy R. Webb, Jr., Columbia; Mrs. Katie Shealy, Pelzer; Mrs. Robert Lemon, Mrs. J. W. Gary and daughter Myriam, Whit mire; Misses Fannie Mae Sease, Elizabeth and Katherine Sease, of the St. Philips community; and Mrs. E. J. Avinger, Elloree. Miss Ruby Sterling and Miss Doris Halfacre spent the weekend in Durham, N. C. where they visited Sam Burns, a patient in Duke hospi tal. Mrs. O. H. Dickinson was carried to the Columbia hospital last Thurs day where she is undergoing treat ment. Miss Ruby Dennis recently left for her school at Inman. She has been on the Inman school fr.culty for a number of years. Metts Fant, Jr., of Charleston, spent the weekend at his home here. Miss Marie Moore, superintendent of the Morehead City Hospital, N. C. returned there Thursday after a week’s visit here with relatives. Mrs. Russell Addy left last Wed nesday* for San Antonio, Texas to ba with her husband. Flight Officer Addy, who is stationed there. Mrs. Ernie Waldin returned to her home in Charleston Tuesday after spending a few days in the homo of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Lester. M. E. Goldsmith has returned to Newberry from Panama City, Fla., where he was employed as Supervi sor of tool control at the Wayne- wright Ship Yards, for the past sev eral months. Mr. Herman Diekert, who is a member of the faculty of Georgia Tech in Atlanta, spent the weekend with his family at A. H. Dickert’s on Boundary street. Mr. and Mrs. Leon M. Matthews of Columbia, spent the past weekend with Mr. and Mrs B. F. Hawkins and family on Nance street. Mrs. A. H. Diekert spent the past week with Mr and Mrs. Fred Gnann and family of Stillwell, Georgia. Mr. Diekert also visited the Gnanns dur ing the past weekend. FOR SALE—Two hound dogs, well broken, priced right J. D. BUTLER, 2107 Adelaid street, Newberry. Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Glynn (Estelle Bowers) and their daughter, Jean nette, of Savannah, Ga. and Miss Sadie Bowers, sister of Mrs. Glynn, recently returned from a vacation trip by automobile to Massachusetts and New Hampshire where they visited Dr. Glynn’s relatives. They made the 2000 mile trip without in cident. Their route going up was along the coast and the return was over the inland route. They visited many places of interest on the trip. Mr. and Mrs. R. Brice Waters (Goode Burton) of Washington, D. C. spent last week here with Mrs. Waters’ sister, Mrs. H. M. Bryson on Harrington street. Mr. Waters went on to Rock Hill to take up his posi tion as executive officer of Winthrop college while Mrs. Waters remained here for a longer stay. Mrs. Eula W. Justice who has been the guest of Mrs. John M. Kinard, has gone to Fayetteville, N. C. to visit her sister, before return ing to her home in Atlanta. Ga. FOR SALE—Household furniture: beds, heaters, stove, and living room suite. Apply to Mrs. M. E. Goldsmith, Helena. KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN PARISH J. B. HARMAN, Pastor IBethany: Sunday 10:30 a. m., Sun day school, Mr. E. B. Hite, Supt. 11:30 a. m., church worship with sermon; 12:30 p. m., Luther league. Summer Memorial: 10:30 a. m., Sunday school, Mr. M. Eugene shea ly, Supt.; 6 p. m. Luther leagues; 7 p. m., church worship with sermon. Let us begin the week right by going to church on Sunday. Draft Calls More Men To Go Jackson The following white men went to Fort Jackson Thursday (yesterday) for preinduction examinations: From Board no. 58: Warren Rierson Liceson Kelley Manuel Alvin Harrison Isadore Spell Johnnie Eugene Lawson Charles Elton Fields David Richard Ringer Charles Ledford Bouknight Max Edward Smith Richard David Hilley Walter Jesse Crumpton Jack Donald Miller Wilson Parks McKittrick Irwin Matthews Satterwhite, Jr. Elmer Glenn Rimmer Jacob Carroll Amick Richard Lee Perkins Charlie Finney Ralph Otis Johnson, Jr. James Edward Ruff From Board 59: Arnold Powell King Thomas Ralph Morris Thomas Richard Hawkins James Ira Dominick Billy Thomas Williams James Walter Hamm Ervin Gerald Richardson Eugene Craven Henry Lee Taylor Hoyt; Ray Derrick John Yancy Davenport BILLY McSWAIN TAKING EM BALMING COURSE AT UNI VERSITY OF MINNESOTA John J. (“Billy”) McSwain, son of Mrs. H. A. Wallace and the late Mr. McSwain, of McSwain Funeral Home, has gone to Minneapolis, Min nesota, where he will enter the Uni versity of Minnesota school of em balming to study the business of embalming during the ensuing year. Billy was graduated from Newberry High School this year. He went by Chicago, 111., where he stopped for a short visit with his uncles, W. A. McSwain and Prof. T. Eldridge McSwain.- —' -K= v. DRAFT OF YOUNG STUDENTS EASED WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Sel ective service tonight announced a new deferment policy for ’teen-age youths which will permit an estima ted 97 per cent of all high school students to graduate before they are called for induction. At the same time, it announced regulations which will permit any college student who enrolled before he was 18 to finish his current quarter or semester unless he ceases to pursue his studies continuously and ’atisfactorily. Likewise, any high school studant who enrolled before he was eighteen may be deferred until graduation or until he reaches the age of 20, which ever is earlier. Deferment will be withdrawn, however, if he leaves school or fails to make satisfactory progress in his studies. The new regulations answer one of the most persistent congression al arguments for ending the draft. Many members complained that the policy of inducting youths (beflore they finished high school would have unfavorable effects on the nation in the coming years. War Department spokesmen did not think the regulations would necessitate inducting larger groups of older men to fill draft calls. U. S. Office of Education figures show that, in normal years, only slightly more than three per cent of all high school graduates fail to graduate before they are 20. The average age upon graduation is 18. The office estimated that some 2,- 600,000 students will be in high school during the 1945-56 term. The Army and Navy have been depending heavily upon men 18-21 to fill occupational requirements and as replacements for combat vet erans and other high point men. HAYNE VAUGHN, Prosperity, a veteran of more than three years overseas, has been promoted from private first class to T-5. He is a truck driver in Service Battery, 120 Field artillery battalion, a part of the veteran 32nd “Red Arrow” div ision. Gpl. Vaughn has been in the army since April, 1942. He embarked for overseas duty in June, 1942, and was assigned first as a cook at a replacement depot in Melbourne, Australia. He joined the 32nd div ision a year later before it started the long grind up the long "road back to the Philippines. He fought at Sando rand Aitpae in New Gui nea, Morotav in the Netherlands East Indies and Layte and Luzon in the Philippines. He last saw action in the Caraballo mountains of North ern Luzon. His job was to haul supplies and ammunition up the nar row twisting Villa Verde trail to the artillery backing up the doughboys in the mile-high peaks. Cpl Vaughn’s parents, Mr. and M: N. H. Vaughn, live in Prosper ity. He has a brother, Arthur, in the army in Florida. Sease To Erect Business Buildings J. Ellerbe Sease, owner of the Newberry Recapping company and the Firestone Home and Auto Sup ply store, this week purchased two lots from Ralph B. Baker upon which he will erect buildings. One lot 50 by 100 feet faces Mc- Kibber street at the foot of Boyce street and it is upon this lot that Mr. Sease will erect a building 50 by 100 feet to house his two businesses. Grading on this lot will begin next week and actual construction will get under way in a short time. The second lot purchased from Mr. Baker faces Main street at the cor ner of Victory and is between the building now occupied by the Sease firm and the Greystone Filling sta tion. Upon this lot Mr. Sease will erect a 50 by 80 foot building which will be offered for rent. The Sease firm which began in an humble way at the start of the war has been very successful, culminating in the erection of this modern and permanent quarters. BARBECUED CHICKEN SUPPER Circle No. 2 of St. Pauls Lutheran church will serve a barbecued chicken supper Saturday evening, Sept. 22 at 6 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Fred Dominick in Pros perity — old Bowers home —Price per plate 75c-40c. LISTED AS DEAD SO THAT HE MAY ACT AS SPY Commander Columbus D. Smith was back among the living today after being listed officially dead by the Navy nine months ago as a dis guise to permit him to carry on vi tal intelligence work for a planned Allied landing on the coast of China. Smith, a native of Atlanta, Ga., emerged from the “dead’’ after an amazing series of adventures which began with his capture by the Jap anese included his “derertion” from the Japanese army and reached a climax when even his wife in New York was told he was dead so that he could carry on his espionage. Not until three weeks ago was she told that her husband was alive and by that time he had made five trips into enemy held China and was still working on his “top secret” mission when Japan surrendered. The saga of Columbus Smith be gan in 1940 when he rejoined the United States Navy and was re tained as a veteran river pilot on the Whangpoo. In November 28, 1941 he was made commander of the gunboat Wake, but the only ship he ever skippered was captured by the Japanese 10 days later on Dec. 8. Smith talked his way into Jap anese confidence. They accepted him as one of them and then angrily sentenced him to death when he tried to escape from Shanghai, charging him with “desertion from the Japanese army in wartime.” On top of that he said, they warned him they were having U. S. Navy pay stopped—a peculiar threat the Japs never explained. His sentence was commuted to 10 years and Smith was sent to the infamous “bridgehouse” in Shang hai where he was forced to witness the torture of Allied prisoners. He saw men burned by cigarettes and others were “blown up” with water and then beaten with iron rods until their internal organs burst and they died. Transferred to the Wardroad mu nicipal jail, Smith spent 18 months planning an escape ov jr the 25 foot high walls. He made it with seven other prisoners on October 6, 1944. crossing through Shanghai in prison garb under the very noses of Jap sentries. Five of the eight were recaptured, including Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, the nav. al commander on Wake Island. But SmiA afid two other prisoners reached Nanchang in Kiangsi prov ince after a 200 mile walk. Given aid by Chinese civilians and guer rillas, they established contact with American military forces in China and were picked up at an emergency airstrip by a U. S. plane and taken to Chungking. Smith was whisked by plane to Washington where he turned over important information to the Navy. His commanding officer asked him to volunteer for the espionage as signment and he agreed. To put the Japanese off his trail, it was announced that he had been killed in the escape attempt and his wife was so notified. Smith said the most ironic trick of fate was the navy decision to raise his rank to that of full com mander two years ago while he was in, Japanese custody. But his pay in crease could not become effective until he signed an acceptance of the commission so that he lost out on considerable back pay. 1 “I’ll fix that,” Smith said today’ “I have instructed my wife to file a claim for $10,000 war insurance. She might be able to collect since the navy lists me as dead.” OLD FIRM QUITS * RETAIL GROCERY Johnson-McCrackin Company, do ing a general merchandise and farm ing supplies business at 1319 Main street for the past 35 years, has an nounced the closing of the grocery department and the removal of the business from the Main street store to their recently remodeled building on Thompson street, at the rear of the Court House. The firm will handle farm machin ery and International trucks and other supplies for farmers, as well as the bagging and ties, as formers and continue to conduct their large farming interests, and operate the Farmers’ Bonded Warehouse. The closing of their Main street grocery store marks the end of one of Newberry’s oldest business firms organized back in 1910 when J. Thad McCrackin and the late P. Duncan Johnson purchased the grocery store from the late Edward R. Hipp. The activities of the firm have broadened during the years of its ex istence and it has become one of the largest and most successful busi nesses in this section of the State. The firm continues under the naan, agement of J. Thad McCrackin and P. Duncan Johnson, Jr. It is understood that the Main street store will be remodeled and rented to a new firm in another line of business^, , v GENERAL WAINWRIGHT WAS SLAPPED BY JAP PRIVATE Washington, Sept. 17. —General Johnathan M. Wainwright disclosed tonight he had been beaten and knocked down by a Japanese gaard while held prisoner of war, that he had been forced to tend goats and that he had been forced to grow food—which the Japs stole. Wainwright, the 62 year old hero of Bataan and Corregidor, said he and other high ranking Allied offi cers and civilian governors were sub jected to indignities by the Japs to show Jap “superiority’’ over West ern races. It was the first time Wainwright gave any details of his treatment. 1 “One night,” he said,“a Jap pri vate struck me five times and then knocked me flat as a pancake by hitting me on the jaw with his fist.” He said he had been struck “maay other times.” He said he would dedicate his life to the purpose of steeling the American nation against ever again relaxing into a defenseless attitude and asserted that Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur was a man who knew hew to handle the Japanese. He recommended that the Japa nese islands be accupied for at least 20 years and said that during that time “we should deprive the Japs of any industry or any business that would make it possible for them to beat their ploughshares in to swords.’ “The Japanese military authorities deliberately practiced all the forms of cruelty they knew or heard about’’ he said. “Their torture was as much mental as physical, and it all had a cunning design behind it. That’s the important thing.” He said he and other military man and civilian governars of large Dutch and English colonies were subjected to the same treatment in violation of ethics and the code of welfare. Once they were told they could raise their own food — and when they did the Japanese took it. “Then they decided to become really generous and magnamious in conquest. Because of our high rank —both the civilian governors and the senior generals in our camp— it was decided to give us an unusual consideration. We were given the jobs of herding goats.” “The Japanese military seemed willing to go to any length to dem onstrate what they regarded as Jap anese ‘superiority.’ At some of the prison camps where I have been con fined during the last three years, officers of the grade of colonel and above. . .were frequently struck in the face by Japanese soldiers.” He said he had been struck in that manner “a number of times,” and said the Japanese “bore down on us, because they felt before the war that we were arrogant. . . .They ordered private soldiers to strike generals because that fits into their pattern of thought. It was their way of showing us they were not arrogant, merely superior.” I think General Douglas MacAr- thur will know how to proceed in Japan,” Wainwright said. “He will ferret out the proper Japanese of ficials. He will know how to require them to perform the orders he gives them. There is nothing soft about him. If General MacArthur is left alone, the Japanese won’t have a Japanese chance to start war again —certainly not in this generation.” GUARD MANEUVERS Company M, 2nd Regiment of the South Carolina Guard will partici pate in maneuvers which will be held this week in Laurens. N Looking Down MEMORY Lane TWENTY YEARS AGO Mr. a nd Mrs. Dave Caldwell return ed Monday to Columbia after a visit to relatives in Newberry. Miss Ruby Morris leaves this week for Anderson college where she will be a student thi syear. Miss Clara Stewart left Wednesday for the Charleston Medical college to resume her studies. Dr E. H. Kerr left Wednesday,to take upl his work at seminary in Co lumbia. Frank DeVore Jr., leaves this weak for Columbia to assume the manage ment of one of the Rogers’ stores in that city. Misses Troxelle Wright and Benet- ta Buzhardt left Wednesday te re sume their studies at Randolph- Macon college at Lynchburg, Va. News from Mr. Frank Bynum, wha is at a sanitarium near Asheville, is that he is improving. Miss Lucy McCaughrin leave this week to resume her teaching duties in Cleveland, Ohio. Still Hot In Newberry The heat has not been quite sa intense in Newberry the past week, but it has been too hot to be com fortable. The thermometer on Sat urday and Sunday registered 102 de grees. according to J.i H. gaiter, the official observer. OCCUPATION OF JAPAN MAY END WITHIN YEAR TOKYO, Sept. 15.—Japan was told today occupation may end within a year but in the harsh realities of the present her only news agency was suspended, her suspected war crimin als were held or hunted, and three more high militarists were dead by their own hands. Lt Gen. Robert L. Eichelburger,- whose U. S. Eighth army led the oc cupation forces itno Japan, declared, “If the Japs continue acting as they are now, within a year this thing should be washed up.” Japs Thoroughly Licked “When an insular country loses its land, sea and air power and is without raw materials and has big countries sitting on its flanks it can’t be mueh of a threat,” he told a press conference. General MacArthur in another statemetn agreed with the view of Japan's thoroughly beaten position, but said nothing about such an early termination of the oecupation—far earlier than most previous reports had calculated. MacArthur declared the first phase of the Occupation—which some cri tics have called “soft”—was based en military considerations of “safety and internees were being liquidated. ABOUT TOWN ROLAND FELKER hard at work mowing his lawn Wednesday after noon — TOMMY McCRACKIN at heme from New York and preparing to get into the Merchant Marines— E. B. FEAGLE walking about the street Saturday with his daughter, MISS RUTH FEAGLE—FORREST CARPENTER in the city and looking neat and attractive in his white uni form — Lawyer C. E. SAINT AMAND Walking dowm College street reading a paper unmindful of folks speaking to him—DR. E. H. KIBLER standing on College street with his arm around DR. Y. M. BROWN talking -- MRS. B. M. SCURRY seeing her husband, “BOO” off on bus—MRS. JOE FEAGLE busy Tuesday morning cleaning off her lawn after the winds Monday— PETE COLEMAN expecting to be discharged from the Navy and back to Newberry to stay by the 15th of October—MRS. F. J. HARMON ex pecting her husband, SGT. HARMON home from Panama most any time —DAVE WALDROP and PM GEO. K. DOMINICK sitting on railing in front of Court House conversing— MRS. “RUTHIE” DICKERT saying she was about to get use to loafing —A. P. i’ARRIS looking neat and trim in a double-breasted grey suit —LONNIE GRAHAM walking up street puffing away on a cigar as usual and flickering the ashes off at intervals—BUD MOORE back with WHITE FA\ T T after several years absence—MRS. CLEM YOU- MANS and sister, MRS. E. W. YATES, going irrto thfcater—Side walk Superintendents watching Con tractor LIVINGSTON tear down front of building on Caldwell street. PINCKNEY ABRAMS busy making plans for Home Guards’ encamp ment this weekend. Birthday anniversaries through Friday, September 28th: Fay Har mon, Sept. 22; White Fant, Mrs. W. O. Miller, Sept. 23; George Rodel- sperger, Sept. 24; Strother Paysin- ger and Pinckney Abrams, Sept. 25; J. Irvin Wilson, Sept. 26; Miss Fran ces Jones and Henry C. Holloway, Sept. 28th.