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JED CROSS AIDS DAVIS SOLDIERS :0ans Totaling $1,690 Is sued To Men Of Post Dur ing The Month Of April _.,,e Red Cross field office at PaTnp Davis was a “good neigh ^ to hundreds of soldiers and !°L relatives during April, as *Ve. g with personal problems and ,lS' ting l°ans amounting to $1,690, 'I?' j,w to the monthly report ,c.c j by Hiram W. Person, field lirecw" ■ loans were made to 67 soldiers I (.'de them through emergencies. fflen when a soldier is called tome unexpectedly he finds him lf without money for transporta Hon and this is where the Red floss loan fund enters the picture. £ loan can usually be arranged in I few hours. In his report. Person cited the benefits to be derived by soldiers Lm the field office’s policy of re gaining on call 24 hours a day, jeven days a week. "An analysis of our telegraph register shows,” Person related, la iarge percentage of emergen cies reach us after 5 p. m. and *e have had a large number of Cases in which it has been possible ♦0 complete furlough papers and loans in order to get a soldier out of camp ten to twelve hours earlier than would have been possible oth erwise.” During April the Red Cross of fice at Davis received 861 letters and sent out 919, which is indica tive of the number of matters brought to its attention. In addi tion there were 176 telegrams re ceived and 168 dispatched by the field director and his staff. The total number of cases open during the month, according to the report, was 1,075, of which 561 were acted upon. In many cases Red Cross chapter offices in home towns of the soldiers help the field office in investigating individual problems. 3 -V Sterilization Law Is Under Attack WASHINGTON, May 6.—(M— Chief Justice Stone questioned whether criminal traits were heredi tary today as the supreme court heard argument on the constitution ality of an Oklahoma law for the sterilization of habitual criminals. Whether chicken - stealing is a violent crime also figured in the colloquy between the chief justice and Attorney General Mac Q. Wil liamson of Oklahoma. “There are elements of violence in stealing chickens,” Williamson said to an inquiry by Justice Byrnes. “Not if done surreptitiously,” Stone observed. Isolationist Issue Is Raised In Texas With 0’Daniel Target AUSTIN, Tex., May 6—Cffl— The alleged isolationism of Senator W. Lee Q’Daniel D-Tex) became the first issue in the forthcoming democratic primaries in Texas to day as two hard-hitting former governors set out to oust O’Daniel from the senate. They were Dan Moody, 48-year old red-headed campaigner who defeated Mrs. Mariam A. (Ma) Ferguson for governor in 1926, and James V. Allred, 43, staunch sup porter of President Roosevelt named to a Federal judgeship in t938. Allred in his statement announc ing his candidacy accused O’Dan iel of lining up with “other isola tionists to oppose the president’s war program.” Both Moody and Allred were as surprised as thousands of other Texans in 1938 when O’Daniel (Pappy - Pas - the - Biscuits) flour merchant known only to a radio audience, jumped into the guber natorial campaign with a hill-billy band and defeated a seasoned field of politicians to succeed Allred. O’Daniel subsequently won re election, then was elected to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Morris Sheppard. T he forthcoming campaign is for the full - term beginning in January, 1943. Wings Over Wilmington With The Air Base Boys MORE ABOUT MAIL Yesterday’s column was devoted entirely to the problem of address ing soldiers’ mail. We suggest that if you have occasion to writ to a boy in Service and didn’t clip the column, that you hurry downstairs and do it right now be fore the Boy Scouts collect it in the paper conservation drive. Then, put it in the desk along with to day’s items where it will be handy, and you shouldn’t have many ques tions on the subject which won’t be answered there. However 11 any douot remain or should arise, your Postmaster or the Office of Government Reports, 1400 Pendleton Street, Columbia, S. C. can settle them for you. If you are writing to a soldier outside the continental limits of the United States, that mail will be subject to censorship. If your letters are to reach him intact, there are definite regulations to which your mail must conform . . . otherwise he will receive a letter with a lot of holes in it where words were cut out. CENSORSHIP DON’TS DON’T forget that your letters may fall into enemy hands. DON’T make it valuable reading for them. Just follow these simple JUDGE IT BY THE MANY QUALITY FEATURES 95 i ggr V % 15 mmmma I 10 NORTH FRONT STREET I rules: 1. DON’T write on both sides of the paper. When letters are censored the prohibited mater ial is actually cut out with a pair of scissors; thus necessari ly destroying harmless inform ation which might be on the reverse side. 2. DON’T include information regarding strength of troops, movement of troops, types of equipment, points or dates of embarkation, data on the pro duction of military equipment or its disposition. If the sol dier mentions any otf these in a letter to you, KEEP IT CONFIDENTIAL. 3. DON’T discuss security measures taken to protect fac tories, local utilities, or trans portation facilities. 4. DON’T include information about the weather. 5. DON’T write about adverse conditions which affect your farm or occupation. 6. DON’T include criticism of the conduct of the War. Your views may not be founded up on facts. 7. DON’T send photographs or other pictures which might have information of a military nature included in their views. 8. DON’T think from these restrictions that the purpose of censorship is to place a hard ship on correspondents. Its job is to collect information from mail coming from foreign countries and to prevent in formation from reaching the enemy. 9. DON’T be discouraged by long delays in receiving replies to your letters. Mail to the sol dier over-seas must travel far, under hazardous circumstances which cannot be predicted; long delays are therefore often unavoidable. BY THE WAY We forgot to mention yesterday that a properly addressed letter sent to a soldier at a post out side the United States will require only three cents postage as domes tic mail. But, it must be travelling to a numbered Army Post Office lAPO). For charges on parcel post and other mail to such destina tions, it is. advised that you con sult your Postmaster. RADIO listeners who were ex pecting to hear the Army Air port boys tonight over WMFD from 8:30 to 9:00 p. m. are asked to make a note of a change in pro gram time. As this time was taken over by a NBC show, the Airport will come on the Air at 10:00 p. m. Friday evening. -V D. A. R. Is Pledged To National Unity CHICAGO, May 6. — UP) — The Daughters of the American Rev olution today pledged themselves to the war-time task of spreading “the gospel of national unity.” A resolution to that effect was approved by delegates to the or ganization’s 51st continental con gress. The members expressed opposi tion to a joint income tax return tax on grounds that it would be “an invasion of the rights of wom en as citizens and owners of prop erty to establish the family as a taxable unit.” -V GOVERMENT MAY TAKE OVER CARS (Continued From Page One) and our enemies know it.” He stressed the fact that this was a military need, adding that civilians could hope to get no new tires from synthetic rubber production. Those who have tires now are going. to be able to keep them in most cases, he said, but there was no hope in sight that they could get new ones. Agreeing with this estimate, Senator Austin (R-VT) said it was his understanding that there would be no new rubber for any civilian use within a year's time. Although Henderson was report ed to have intimated to the com mittee that he had sufficient au thority at present to commandeer autos and tires, he and other wit nesses were said to have urged passage of the authorization bill by Congress for its psychological ef fect. Senator Hill iD-Ala) said it was made plain that the government did not now intend to take away a citizen’s car unless the public fail ed to curb unnecessary driving or failed to maintain the low speeds which would conserve tires. “The necessity of all-out con servation of rubber must be im pressed upon the people and some of the government officials thought this best could be done by the pas sage of legislation by Congress,” Hill said. Two bills now are under con sideration by the committee, but Reynolds said it was likely they would be combined when the group meets Saturday morning to act on the measure. The Downey bill would authorize expenditures, under the direction of the president, of up to $5,000,000, 000 for tM6 acquisition by the gov ernment of a stock pile of auto mobiles and parts. These cars or parts could be acquired by pur chase, donation, exchange or could be requisitioned. -V KILLED IN ACCIDENT UNION, S. C„ May 6.—(if)—Cur tis Burleson, 20, of Clinchfield, N. C., was killed today in a mo torcycle accident near Lockhart, 14 mile* east of here. State Agencies Aid In Subduing Flames In Pisgah Forests RALEIGH, N. C., May &— UP — H. B. Bosworth, forest supervisor in the Pisgah-Croatan areas, wrote Governor Broughton today that state agencies were of great help in fighting forest fires in Western North Carolina recently and “loss es in this part of North Carolina would have been immeasurably greater had it not been for the prompt assistance. The letter specifically praised the work of the state guard, the high way patrol and the State Bureau of Investigation. “I particularly commend to you the work of the state guard under Major Howell of Waynesville,” the letter said. ‘‘Major Howell acted in the most cooperative manner possible and handled the guard in all the details of its work in a very businesslike way. “The state highway patrol under Captain Fisher, with whom I have worked before, handled its share of the work with its usual promptness and efficiency, and I wish to single out Captain Fisher and Lieutenant Lentz and Sergeant Nail of Asheville. "The SBI, through its agents Guy L. Scott and Lewis Tappon, has carried out tha best series of in vestigations that I have ever seen.” One reason for the efficient work Bos worth wrote, “has been due to the prompt and decisive action | taken by your excellency at the start of the fires.” Food Problem Acute In Occupied Lands LONDON, May 6.—(.¥>—'The food situation in Germany and the oc cupied countries is grave now and growing progressively worse, the ministry of economic warfare said tonight. There is a “progressive deter ioration” which Germany will he unable *• check because of a short age of seeds, fertilizer nn<t man power, the ministry said. “The noose is tightening,” a min istry statement asserted. “As the enemy's concentration on the eco nomic effort, the armed forces and the instruments of war has to be increased to avoid defeat, he is weakening his food front and im posing an impossible strain on the people who are living at home.” Sunday, May 10th Mother's Day DRESSES FOR MOTHER / f Lovely new Bemberg sheers, spun rayon, silk and chiffon meshes, smartly tailored and dressy styles, smart prints, dots and large floral designs. 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