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PAGE EIGHT THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT, ORANGEBURG, S. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1944 FIVE LOCAL BOYS WITH 7TH ARMY Members of 397th Regiment Now Fighting With Allies In France SIXTH ARMY GROUP. France -The 397th Infantry Regiment of the 100th (Century) Division is one of the units fighting on the U. S. 7th Army front in Eastern France-- but its members have, the satisfaction of knowing they played an important in the "squeeze so thoroughly applied to the German 19th Army.

While French troops speardrives through the Sav-80 headed, Pass in the north and Belfort Gap in the south, both routes leading to Strasbourg and Rhine, the Pr principal part of the 7th Army fought relentlessly against the thousands of Nazis caught in the middle. With the French holding the enemy in on the sides, the 387th -and other units of the 7th Army -drove pistol-like against the middle. 397th began its push, and its baptism of fire, in the dense forests of the Vosges Mountains in the vicinity of Baccarat. The fighting conditions were as tough as any that any troops faced along the extended Sixth Army Group front the Group consisting of the American 7th and the French 1st Armies. In addition to a enemy who fought with the ferocity of a trapped rat, the 397th faced innumerable land-mines, boobytraps, and well prepared defense installations.

weather was cold, it rained frequently and mud was ankle deep. The forest, covered with a heavy undergrowth, provided cover for; Nazi snipers. But stubborn slugging and skillful maneuvering enabled the 397th to push through Raon 1 'Etape, Senones and other key towns leading toward the and the eventual defeat of the last Germans in France, Among members of the 379th are the following four from OrOrangeburg county: Pfc. Milton K. Jeffords, 7 Whitman Street, Orangeburg.

Pic. James D. Rembert, 37 E. Glover, Orangeburg. Pvt.

Lewis A. Wise, Route 3, Orangeburg. Cpl. Clinton M. Hebrard, Rt.

1, Norway. Cpl. John W. Fogle, Cope. Call Is Issued For Blood Donors Type 1 blood urgently needed by J.

L. Onley of Norway, who is seriously ill at the Tri-County Hospital. Type 1 donors are requested to report to Mrs. Acree in the hospital laboratory to give blood. WAR TIME RATION GUIDE (By The Associated Press) Meats, Fats, Etc.

Book Four Red stamps Q5, R5 and S5 valid indefinitely. Five new red stamps will become valid Sunday, Dec. 31, on which date new point values for meat become effective and many cuts will be returned to rationing. Butter point value was increased from 20 to 24 points a pound on Dec. 26.

Processed Foods Book Four Blue stamps X5, Z5, and A2 and B2 valid indefinitely. On Jan. 1 five new Blue stamps will be validated. Changes in vegetable became effective Dec. 26.

when canned peas, corn, green and wax beans, asparagus and spinach, were changes added to in the processed ration food ponit values will take effect Dec. 31. Sugar Book Four stamp No. 34 good indefinitely for five lbs. and all other coupons have been cancelled.

Another sugar stamp will be validated Feb. 1. Shoes Book Three airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3 valid indefinitely, Gasoline 14A coupons good everywhere for four each gallons through March 21. B5 and C5 coupons good everywhere for 5 gallons: B4 and C4 coupons will expire Dec. 31.

Fuel Oil Old period four and live coupons and new period one and two coupons good throughout the current heating year. In the Midwest and South period three coupons also good now and valid throughout heating season. Couple Married By Cable Renewed Vows Last Week COLUMBIA, Dec. Newton Culler came back from the other side of the world last week to join his bride he had not seen since they Where married by cablegram nearly three years ago. The former South Carolina agriculture teacher returned as unexpectedly as he was suddenly whisked away from Florida to India in January, 1942, wife, the Miss Ida West, dietitian Byerly former, hospital at thought he was still in India when her teleMonday night.

It was phonsusanna calling. He had just flown back by way of the Atlantic and was at Fort Bragg only miles distant. He would see her the next morning. The news did not sweep her off her feet. She was prepared for just such a happy moment and had only to attend to a few lastminute details, One was to notify the Rev.

J. Carlisle Smiley, pastor of the Methodist church at Bishopville, the who marriage received contract her vows was completed over a route in March, 1942. Another was to place her resignation with the hospital, effective immediately. Capt. Culler arrived at Hartsville Tuesday morning and the couple confirmed their vows that evening in a ceremony conducted in the Bishopville Methodist parsonage by the Rev.

Mr. Smiley in the presence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. D.

West, of Bowman, and a few close friends of the couple. Those attending included Mrs. C. Loyce Davis, Miss Ruth A. Parker and Miss Anne Cureton of Bishopville; Mrs.

Jean B. Wilhelm, Miss Sue Black, Mrs. J. Watson, Pvt. John G.

Gillam, and Mrs. Ralph C. Berof Hartsville, and Mrs. Esther E. Patrick of Bowman.

The bride wore a moss green coat and a dress of dusty rose. Her accessories were brown and she wore an orchid corsage. The orchid, Capt. Culler said, was the reminder of the India he had left a few days before. Orchids grow wild over there.

After waiting nearly three years for a honeymoon, the couple will wait three weeks more for Officer Collins Chases Car Thief A would-be automobile thief gave Officer, B. M. Collins, of local police force, an excitthe ing chase Monday night. The offender made his get-away, but car was recovered, but not until the officer had engaged in a the chase which took him up the St. Matthews road for a considerable distance.

It was rather a bold attempt to steal the car, according to the report made by Officer Collins. He and the owner of the car were standing near the corner of East Russell and Boulevard. The car was parked a short distance away. Officer Collins said he saw a soldier get into the machine, and drive off. He got in behind the car tried to make the soldier stop.

Instead, the driver stepped on the gas and left the city along College Avenue and on up the St. Matthews road, with Officer Collins in hot pursuit." Several shots were fired in an effort to stop the soldier, but he continued to go. Officer Colins began to gain on the fleeing machine, when the soldier left the highway and to a field. He went some distance into the field, when the car stopped, and the soldier jumped out and made his escape, FOUR HOLES Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Bozard and children and Mrs. Ben Walling are leaving this week for a visit to Mrs. Walter Walling at Lake Butler, Fla. Lt. Walter Walling is overseas.

Lt. Jim Evans and Mrs. Evans spent Sunday here with, the latter's parents, the F. N. Rickenbakers.

Misses Annie and Ruby Hungerpiller spent Christmas day and night with their sister, Mrs. C. R. Zeigler. Friends were glad to see Wells Riley home for the week-end.

Miss Margaret Hungerpiller. student. nurse at Tri-County, was home Christmas day. NOT PARTISAN. Walla Walla.

Mrs. Emma Fisher certainly can't be accused of partisanship. She has been elected both Republican and Democratic precinct committeewoman. Mrs. Fisher officially sought election as Republican committeewoman, but someone wrote in her name on the Democratic side of the ticket and, as the Democrats had no candidate for that precinct, the single vote gave her the official election.

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TO PRINT BOOK IN PORTUGUESE Written And Published By Dr. Brewton Berry Of This City "You and Your Superstitions," written and published some time ago by Dr. Brewton Berry, is now to have an adition in a foreign language. This is revealed in a story which recently appeared in "The Columbia Missourian," and which is as follows: A Portuguese edition of "You and Your Superstitions," by Dr. Brewton Berry, of the University sociology department, is being prepared for South America, according to a statement by R.

E. Lucas, president of Lucas Brothers, publishers. Several weeks ago Mr. Lucas received a letter from the head of Editoria Universitaria, a publishing house in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which wants to issue Dr. Berry's book in Portuguese in a popular science series.

A conhas been signed, the transLation" is in progress, and publication is expected early in 1945. "You and Your Superstitions" was published in 1940, and was favorably reviewed in many newspapers, religious, and sociological journals, and in the professional folklore publications. Dr. Berry is author of several monographs on Missouri archaelogy, and of fifty short stories and magazine articles. NEESES NEESES, Dec.

Corporal Will Fogle has returned to his base in Great Falls, Montana, after spending a 22-day furlough with his mother, Mrs. Hattie Fogle. Mr. and Mrs. Manning Fogle had as their dinner guests Sunday, Mr.

and Mrs. Boozer Hutto, Mrs. Hattie Fogle, Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne little son of Neeses! and Mrs.

George Fogle, Wilson of Charleston. Mrs. Hattie Fogle had as her dinner guests Christmas day, Mr. and Mrs. George Jackson, Mrs.

Haywood Smoak of Charleston; Mr. and Mrs. Jim Berry, of Neeses; also Mr. and Mrs. Manning Fogle and family of Neeses.

For many years every work of reference said that Stephen Crane, author, was buried in Elizabeth, N. J. A searcher finally checked and found he was buried in neighboring town of Hillside. DAILY CROSSWORD SACS WARP TULE AGUE ACROSS 5. Fuel 25.

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Woody perennial 12-27 CRYPTOQUOTE-A cryptogram quotation YU MIGOSDT CM AUDS BCMFDGJSNPI ERGY OUIPYEGDT MIGOSDT -MSYSJ Yesterday's Cryptoquote: AN OLD SAYING, SANCTIONED BY TIME, BECOMES LIKE AN ORDINANCE-PLAUTUS. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc. a wedding trip. During that time, they will visit relatives in the state. "The real honeymoon starts Jan.

17," said Mrs. Culler, an attractive, blue-eyed blonde, "when we go to Miami Beach." Capt. Culler will report there to the Army redistribution center. He has no idea where his next assignment will be, but as long as it is not overseas duty Mrs. Culler plans to go with him.

Capt. Culler is a native of the son of Mr. and Mrs. Swansea, Culler. Mrs.

Culler is a native of Bowman. Their romance began were on the faculty Baron De Kalb high when, school at Westville, near Camden, in 1939-40. She was a home economics teacher with a new 1939 diploma from Winthrop College. A 1926 graduate of Clemson College, he had taught at Westminster and Prosperity before going to Baron De Kalb, where he remained until he went on active duty as an administrative officer in the Army Air Forces in March, 1941, commissioned a captain. Miss West left the public school field and went to work as home management supervisor for the Security Administration.

She was employed at St. George, Orangeburg, Walterboro and at Bishopville. After her cablegram marriage she became dietitian at the Byerly hospital. In December, 1941, she and Capt. Culler set their wedding date for March, 1942.

He was then at Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, Fla. But the first week in January, 1942, she got a long distance call from San Francisco. It was Capt. Culler. He had been shipped out of Florida secretly and unexpectedly and was on his way to foreign duty.

By slow mail communications they corresponded regarding a marriage by proxy. There were legal details to be considered and Miss West employed a lawyer. we received Then on the cablegram, 17, Miss Fran- West Newton Culler, take Ida West as my lawfully wedded wife." She replied in kind immediately by cable and they were legally recorded as married under the laws of South Carolina. The marriage was 'recognized by the Army, which four months later discontinued recognition of long distance weddings. It is said that only seven states in the Union allow marriages of this kind.

Miss West took her church vows before the Rev. Mr. Smiley, Capt. Culler took his before Army Chaplain T. G.

Vickers in New Delhi, India. They confirmed these vows Tuesday night in the Methodist ceremony at Bishopville. "ENLIGHTEN Teen Age THY Girls On DAUGHTER" Rampage FRANK! TRUE! Modern Streamlined Youth! Youth With in a Speed to Spare Startling Drama ADULTS ONLY Late Show Only Admitted 31 P.M., Thursday Adm: 44 Cents CAROLINA I BOLD! Negro Dies At Hospital Thinking He By Georgia Authorities Lewis Knight, negro, who died at the Tri-County Hospital Christmas Eve from natural caus-1 es, had been a resident of this city for 19 years and all the time was under the impression that he was wanted in Warrenton, for a murder which hie never committed. Knight had been employed at the Hamilton Veneer Company as a foreman at their plant here, and during his residence in burg he had been a model citizen. He was active in church work and was serving as a deacon in his church.

He had married and prior to his death he made a will in which hie left everything he owned to his wife, Recognizing the seriousness of his condition, Knight called in a friend shortly before he died and related a rather unusual story. He said that he was a native of Warrenton, where he lived until he was about 20 years of age. In 1925 he became involved in a difficulty, so he told his friend, in which a man was seriously cut, and whom he had learned, had died of his wounds. I Norway Pleading For Allied Blow To Save Country LONDON, Dec. immediate Allied invasion of Norway from the West as a means of breaking Hitler's power in the north and saving the country from total destruction was urged tonight by Norwegian Prime ter Johan Nygaardsvold.

to Calling upon every Norwegian hamper in some way the Nazis' northern garrison, he warned that every German soldier who escaped to the south would help lengthen the war. Nygaardsvold, broadcasting a Christmas message to his homeland, declared that the Germans may attempt to transfer some divisions from the north other fronts where they are sorely needed. TREASURE IN ASHES. lodenver, Spying paper an protruding interesting from a truckload of ashes, Harold and Fred Olin, ash haulers, investigated and found it to be a $25 War Bond. Sifting the ashes, they found 16 more.

The bonds had been stolen from Glee Christina Madden, who hadn't missed them. Knight immediately fled and had been a fugitive ever since. It SO happened that the wounded negro recovered, but, this fact was never revealed Knight. He also told his friend the name of his father, who he said was minister, and also he gave the names of others of his relatives. This information reached Chief T.

E. Salley, of the local police department, who immediately conducted an investigation, Chief Salley got in touch the Chief of Police at Warrenton, Ga. After checking the records there, the local authorities were informed that Knight was not wanted for murder. None of his relatives are now living except one who it was stated, is feeble minded and could not give much information regarding her people, or her brother. The facts in the case were not learned by local authorities until after Knight had passed away, and he died believing that he was a fugitive from justice.

He said that to his homeban Georgia, been, back, had never written to anyone in Warrenton since he left. Mrs. A. H. Bowman Is Taken By Death Mrs.

Ada Hutchins Bowman. 52, died at her home at No. 18 Maple Street yesterday afternoon after a long illness. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. The body will be at No.

16 East Calhoun Street until the hour of the service, Mrs. Bowman is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Herbert Hughes, and one adopted daughter, Mrs. Elred Bair, both of this city, and two brothers, Add Hutchins, of this city Henry Hutchins, of Columbia. Pvt.

Williamson Is Now Back On Duty J. W. Williamson of Norway, has received a wire stating that his son, Pvt. Harry Williamson, who was reported missing, has been returned to duty in France. SCHOOL BURNING NO HELP.

Las Vegas, N. pupils thought they would profit from the burning of the San Jose Junior High School, they missed their guess. School authorities rented four rooms in private homes and announced classwork would continue until an abandonled building could be remodeled. EDISTO TO TODAY, WEDNESDAY IT'S SHEER DELIGHTFUL GAYEST, MERRIEST FUN-FEST OF THE YEAR! OUR HEARTS, WERE YOUNG and GAY GAIL RUSSELL with HILARIOUS DIANA LYNN CORNELIA by OTIS CHARLES RUGGLES I SKINNER DOROTHY GISH BEULAH BONDI and KIMEROLIGH EXTRA-Two Shorts STARTING THURSDAY THE THRILL OF A LIFETIME FROM A LIFETIME OF THRILLS! Maria MONTEZ Susanna FOSTER Mack OAKIE Turhan BEY in A BOWERY TO BROADWAY Louise Frank Ann Donald with BLYTH ALLBRITTON McHUGH COOK DEATH CLAIMS MIKE GLEATON Dies At Columbia Hospital of Injuries Received Last Week SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 26.

Mike Gleaton, 67, prominent resident of this place, died at the Columbia Hospital late today from injuries suffered last week when his car was struck by a train at a crossing here. Funeral services will be conducted from the late residence at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon by the Rev. Payne, of Columbia. Mr. Gleaton is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Ellie Mae Redd Gleaton, of Springfield, and one son, Rudolph Gleaton, of Columbia, and two grandchildren. He also leaves one brother, C. S. Gleaton, of Springtield and three sisters, Mrs. W.

W. Barr, Mrs. Carrie Salley and Mrs. O. Busbee, all of Springfield.

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