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BACK UP YOUR BOY | bcrnil yoor payroll savings to yoor family UaUt I lIMEi Invasion Is your Boy GlvmM 100 pmi cmni; How about yoor bond buying? VOLUMN LXXIV $1.50 per year In Advance LOCISBCRG, N. CAROLINA 1UIIHY, JUNE 25, lf?4:t (Eight Pages) Xl'.MHKB M MAKES SPLEN DID PROGRESS STATE GUARD COM PANY COMMENDED BY HIGH OFFICERS Regular Inspection Held{ Tuesday Night With Men And Officers in Full Re galia and Sparkling Equipment Inspection of the 8th Company, North Carolina State Guard was ' made by Lt. Col. John E. Selby, of the Internal Security District No. 2, with Headquarters at Fort . Bragg, on last Tuesday night, June 22nd at the Armory in Louisburg, in compliance with regulations of the United States War Department, requiring at least one annual inspection of each State Guard organization. High ranking State Guard Of ficers present for the inspection were: Brig. Gen. James W. Jen kins, Henderson, N. Q., Com mandfng Officer of the 1st Bri gade, Col. William W. Sharpe, Jr., Greensboro, N. C., Comman ding the 1st Regiment, accom paned by Capt. Virgil L. Chand ler, Commander of the 16th Com pany, Greensboro, and Maj. Jas. ! R. Young, Commanding the 3rd! Battalion. rne memners 01 the company made a special effort to be pres ent for this inspection and with one exception, the entire person nel was on hand, including Pvt. R. J. Murphy with a bandage on an injured foot. The Company made a splendid appearance, all members being dressed in the new summer uni forms, with guns shining and equipment in good order. The inspecting officer commented that he would rather have this Com pany with him in action than any other Company he had in spected. , v The visiting officers were en tertained at a chicken supper by the local officers and C. A. Rag land at Mr. Ragland's cabin on Mitchiner's Pond prior to the inspection at the armory. At a meeting of the officers and non-commissioned officers of the Company held immediate ly after the inspection, Gen. Jenkins stated that the state of training of the Company at this time was tar superior to what it had been a year ago, adding that the Company had made splendid progress and commending the officers and non-conftnissioned officers lor their enthusiasm and work in connection with the ac tivities of the Company. In the 2nd Platoon; command ed by Lt. R. Lee Johnson, assist ed by Platoon Sgt. W. J. Sliearin' and Squad Sgts. James A. John son and W. W. McClure, there were no absences and in the 1st platoon, commanded by Lt. Paul W. Elam, assisted by Platoon Sgt. Hugh R. Mosely and Squad Sgts. Felix H. Allen and Joe A. Pearce, only one man, who It is understood was confined to his home by Illness, was absent. Within the past several months , . the 8th Company, in competition * with other Companys of the 1st Regiment, has made the Honor Roll three times, for attendance at drills. This record indicates to the people of Franklin County a splesdid interest on the part of the members of Its defense ' force, and the men in the Com pany deserve the highest com mendation of the citizens of the County for their unselfish, will ing and patriotic service. The Company is now making plans to attend the first encamp ment of the entire State Guard to be held at Fort Bragg July 18th-28th. On account of a recent call by the Selective Service Board, there are at present a few vacancies in the ranks of the Company. It is expected that these vacancies wilj soon be filled, as several men have sought enlistment. ? o ? The law can never make a man honest- It can only make him very uncomfortable when he is dishonest. ? o PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURG THEATRE The following is the program at the Louisburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday, June 26th: Saturday ? Charles Starrett in 'Frontier Fury' and Henry Steph enson In 'Mantrap' also another chapter of "Daredevils of The West.' Sunday-Monday ? Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea and Charles Coburn in 'The More The Merrier.' Tuesday ? Greer Garson and Walter Pldgeon in 'Blossoms In The Dust.' ? Wednesday ? Lionel Barrymore and Van Johnson in 'Dr. Gilles pie's New Assistant.' Thursday-Friday ? Errol Fly-nn and Ann Sheridan In 'Edge Of Darkness.' - GASOLINE Contrary to the reports In Tuesday's papers, information comes to the Franklin County War Price and Ration Board from both the ODT and OPA in Ral eigh, the State offices, that the gasoline situation is growing more serious each day, says Chairman A. F. Johnson. This information, he says carries the stoppage of delivery trucks except for four deliveries weekly. It is also pinching down of defense de liveries to the point of a new showing of iictual need. The tendency seems to be approach ing nearer and nearer the com plete shut dowi^ for varying per iods of time A'hen it will be pos sible that no gasoline can be bought, regardless of the num ber of coupons you have. Quite a big lot of complaint is being made to the Board that this neighbor and that neighbor and this tenant and that tenant are doing entirely too much rid ing around and not enough work. One instance was where a farm er rode all around by Wilson, [ Rocky MountT Red Oak and oth er sections a recent Sunday just to observe how the crops were progressing, and another neigh bor complains of a young boy in the family keeping his daddy's car on the road so much it takes a lot of gas that should not be granted to the car. A lady re ports a young boy tenant living near her who has no dependents and a small crop gets more gaso-j line than she does when she has two farms to look after and sev eral sick persons in the family! who are needing doctors and| medicine. They complain about the fairness involved. These complaints constitute a condition that the Board cantiot correct without the cooperation and support of the people of the communities within the county. If each community would organ ize its landlords with a few well meaning tenants who would as sume the responsibility to check all such irregularities and make! reports to the Board these con ditions would soon disappear. It I is fully understood you don't i want to report your neighbor and! you may be afraid you will lose' a tenant or hand if you report them. But unless you do the i Board cannot correct these con-' ditions. Chairman Johnson again calls your attention to making your application for supplemental gas oline two weeks before- it is needed and also file your appli cation for tires before they are needed. The Board is not au thorized to furnish either gaso line or tires without full inves tigation and consideration of the necessity. o ! Howard Baggett Receives Eagle Award At the June Court of Honor in the Court House Sunday af ternoon, of Boy Scouts Troop No. 20, Howard Baggett received his Eagle Badge. The badge was! presented to Mrs. Baggett byi Scout Executive, W. C. Webb, of; Henderson, with the request that she have the honor of pinning this highest award in Scout Ad vancement on her son. Ensign Walllam Barrow, Jr. an Eagle Scout and a recent; graduate of Annapolis, and who was at home on furlough, gave a very interesting talk on Scout ing. William told the Scouts how much his training in Scout ing had meant to him, and that' it was something no boy would ever forget. His talk was en joyed by the audience as well as the Souts. Other awards given were: Les lie Tharrlngton, Joe Mills and Robert Mills received Tenderfoot Pins. Recognized for entering as Second Class Scouts were the following four boys: Edgar Owens, Grady Harris, Clifford Joyner and George Davis, Jr. Earle Murphy, Jr. and George R. Murphy were advanced to First Class Scouts. Merit Badges were presented to1 the following: J. M. Grainger,; Jr., Poultry Keeping; Larry Lew-j is, Reptile Study and Swimming;; Edgar Lee Perry, Machinery.; Horsemanship and Electricity; Julian Lewis, Machinery and Swimming; Nick Perry, Machin ery and Electricity; Charles Bass, Farm Home and It's Planning; Joe Barrow, Camping. Joe Barrow has satisfactorily passed all requirements to be come an Eagle Scout and will receive this Award at the July Court of Honor. u COTTON BLOOM The first cotton bloom from the 19.48 .crop In Franklin County wa.s brought to The FRANKLIN TLMES office yes terday about noon, by Ulns Brodie, a tenant of Friday Wil liams, both colored, living near Centerville. The bloom wan a white one, evidencing it opened that morning. RIOTING AT DETROIT EMERGENCY CALLS SOLDIERS AND POLICE Many Killed and Injured In Disorders; Street Fighting Continues i Detroit, June 21. ? Military rule came to riot-ridden Detroit tonight to stop race violence in which 14 persons were killed, and an extensive area of thi3 "arsenal city" was being roamed by bands of marauders 20 hours after the first outbreaks. Governor Harry F. Kelly, pro claiming a state of emergency, announced that thte "armed for ces of the state of Michigan" would "aid and assist" the civil authorities in maintianing law and order. As the death toll mounted to night, the first woman fatality was recorded. That victim was a young Negress, who was killed near her home by a flying brick. Of the 14 dead, 11 were Negroes. Not alone was Detroit covered by the governor's order. All three counties of Wayne, Oak land and Macomb ? the so-called "metropolitan area" with more than 2,000,000 inhabitants? were included. Detroit is in Wayne County. Including its suburbs, it has 1,600,000 residents. The governor's proclamation, first reported from his conference with city authorities as declaring "martial law," clamped a lid on places of amusement and estab lished a 10 p. m. curfew. Martial law would have meant that the military would take full control of all governmental func tions. Under military rule, the military serves only in an assist ing capacity. More - righting Fighting continued "meanwhile. A crowd of about 3,000 milled about Cadillac Square in down town Detroit before the City Hall. Police seelned unable to keep control. A number of beatings of Negroes by white persons were reported. Prom time to time in the early evening, when Detroiters are ac customed to promenade on Wash ington Boulevard and window shop, police sirens screamed as squad cars rushed to answer re ports of fresh violence. White mobsters set fire to the homes of two Negro families and in a fight on a street car a negro slashed a white man. A gang of white men, seeking to take two Negoes from the custody of police in a scout car, overturned the car and set it afiire. The two Negroes and the police leaped to safety. The Ne groes fled. LATER ? Wednesday morn ings radio announcement said 30 killed and several hundred were injured, but that quiet was in evidence. ? Falls Off Dam Paul Gupton, miller for Louis burg Milling Co., suffered serious injuries on Sunday afternoon when he fell from the top of the dam at Jackson's pond to the rocks below beyond the pond. He was sent to a hospital at Rocky Mount and later informa tion says he is not doing so well. It seems that Mr. Gupton and his little boy had gone to Jack son's pond for a swim. After his son came out he swam to, the dam and got up on it. In stand ing up his feet slipped and he fell backward off the dam into the race below, striking his head, shoulder and back on the rock bottom of the mill stream, badly bruising And cutting him and fracturing his skull. HAIL AND WIND CAUSE HEAVY CROP DAMAGES Rocky Mount, June 23. ? Many hundreds of dollars damage to crops occurred in this section last night in wind and hall storms, it was reported today. Corn and tobacco suffered the most dam age. Wind caused about as much damage as the hail, local Insur ance men said here today. Heav iest damage was caused in the Dunbar section of Edgecombe County. The Edgecombe County agent's office in Tarboro said that re ports had been received of severe wind and hail damage In various sections in the county. Accord ing to reports the wind and hall did not affect the whole' county, but struck at widely separated points. Damage in Nash Coun was less. At about the same time quite a bit of hail is reported to nave (alien in the Seven Paths- com munity. ? On Pay Day, Boy Bond*? Capt. Ricken backer Bobs Up In Moscow Flier On Undisclosed Mis sion, Apparently As Rep resentative of War De partment U ! Moscow, June 23.? Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, famous American fliej-, arrived in Jtoscow several days ago on an undisclosed mis sion. it was revealed today. The Russian news agency Tass paid Rickenbacker was in the Soviet capital as a "representative of the War Department." Tass disclosed Rickenbacker's presence by including his name among those who attended a pre sentation ceremony yesterday in the office of Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov when 60 American medals were awarded to Russian , Army and Navy men. . , The last official mission in which Rickenbacker was report- ] ed engaged was the South Pacific ; inspection tour conducted for ( Secretary of War Henry L. Stim son in October, 1B42. Ricken- | backer's plane was forced down i and the World War I ace, togeth er with all but one member of , his crew, was rescued after 21 n days adrift on life rafts. The flier was accompanied by his personal physician. Dr. Alex ander Dahl, and two representa tives of the War Department, Col. Williatn Nickols and Maj. A. B. Sherry. The plane was piloted by Capt. W. F. Richmond. <, Growers in jMadison -County have found that! Carala wheat, bred at the Pie&nont Experiment. Station, StatesYiile. withstood the winter and made good yields. When the boss has a brain storm, it upsets the routine of the whole office. Legion Will Open Office In Raleigh Statu Amerlrun I.cgiou Kmls Convention ut < ?lnt i-lot 1 1> ; Slov ens Is Elected Commander Charlotte. June 22. ? A denun ciation of John L. Lewis, the election of Robert E. Stevens, of Goidsboro, as department com mander, and selection of Raleigh as permanent headquarters high lighted the final session of the North Carolina American Legion Convention today. Delegates voted to hold the 1944 convention in Asheville, the exact date to be decided later. The Legionnaires endorsed Roy L. McMillan, of Raleigh, former; department commander and now State Coordinator of Civilian De fense, for election as one of the national vice-commanders. The atta(Jc against Lewis came frOm Roane Waring, national j commander of the Legion, who, criticized Lewis for his activities in the current. coal miners' strike, saying that only after the UMW leader had been disposed of could the labor question be settled. Commander Waring. looking forward to a victorious peace, told the Legionnaires that "when we write the peace, it will be a iictated peace ? not a negotiated peace." ?a ? ? On Pay Day, Buy Bonds ? -o On Your Knees A civilian visiting the lla t ion Hoard this week and com- i incut ing on the new arrange ment is quoted as saying, "the ( openings for service to custo- i liters are so low one has to get on his knees to see tlirough I them," he said, "but that's all f right, one has to .get 011 his ' knees when he goes to the na tion Board anyway." Umstead Mentioned as Campaign Manager For Gregg Cherry Too Early, Say Candidates To Pick Leaders; John Kerr Also Mentioned: McDonald Would Like Doughton Raleigh, June 22. ? Frequent visits of the (wo avowed candi dates for Governor to Raleigh a? they go about hither and thither over the State making speeches and contacts while waiting the campaign to open (?) have af forded little real information hut much speculation on personnel of headquarters staffs. Usually campaign manager for major State races are not named until after Christmas, and. if that policy is to be observed there is still plenty of time and Immedi ate gossip is out of order. On the other hand, the managers us ually are picked within 30 to 60 days after the candidates an nounce; if that custom is to be observed it's time now to name them. Both Major Cherry and Dr. McDonald are seeking advice from close friends with experi ence In practical politics. and they are getting big globs .of gra tuitous advice from sources where it was neither sought nor desir ed. The standing answer of the candidates when questioned about campaign manager has been that it is entirely too early to discuss that matter. There is no such reticence among politically mind ed habitues of Capitol Square. According to prevailing rumor McDonald's first choice as State manager is Horton Doughton of Statesvllle. son of the Congress man. and one of the backlogs of the McDonald campaign in 1936. The problem there is not one of capacity but of availability. It isn't generally believed that Dou ghton would leave his business interests t>o head the campaign, but it is conceded he will be of powerful help to the candidate in advice and finaiysial assistance. If Doughton* cannot be persua ded to take the pilot's seat, it U Bald the call may go to Pierce Rucker of Greensboro, who is credited with much of the suc cess of Senator Bob Reynolds' past campaigns. Major Cherry, according to the rumor mill, is considering former Congressman W. B. Umstead, of Durham, and John Kerr. Jr.. of Warrenton, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Both have excellent .reputations as political organizers, and perhaps exert larger State-wide influence than any manager of recent cam palghs st the time the organiza tion 1 work started. Conjecture on future managers gives occasion to look briefly at the history o t gubernatirial cam paign leaders since 1912. j 111 that year Major L. P. Mc-| Lendon, then of Durham, now j Li resident of Greensboro, success fully directed the Ehringhaus 1 flsht for the nomination. The l .\lajor could have had State ap-l pointive office, but chose to prac-l tice law ? and hasn't done so bad ly' at it. James L. DeLaney, of Char lotte. who headed the Dick Foun ' tain organization, and Robert ' Ruark of Raleigh, listed as man ager for A. J. Maxwell in his first bid for the Governorship, revert ed to the status of leading local lawyers in their own communi ties. Results ill 1936 may be consid ered an exception that proves the j rule about winner takes all in ! politics. The losing managers that year actually got more out of it than the winner. Hubert E. Olive, of Lexington, pijot for Clyde Hoe?, won the nomination for his candidate and appoint ment as a special Superior Court judge for himself. Willie Lee Lumpkin, manager for McDon ald, got his man in the run-off primary, but failed to cop the prize. However, his. county sent him back to the Legislature every time since then and he is recog nized as one of the leaders in that" body. Currently he is thinking seriously about running for Lieutenant Governor. Real iwinne'r among 1936 managers was A. D. (Lon) Folger of Mount | Airy, chief pilot for Sandy Gra ham. Although Folger's candidate was eliminated in the first pri mary, the Graham forces were strong enough in the State con vention to get him endorsed for national committemen, a post he held until he died three years ago. Later in the same year he also was appointed as a special j judge, resigning to enter the race for Congress in 1938, and was ! elected. There were four State head quarters in Raleigh in 1940 with Emery B. Denny of Gastonia in charge of the Broughton cam paign. He won and was named ' to the State Supreme Court. Dan- ' iel Bell of Pittsboro headed the Horton forces, subsequently go ing to the State OPA offices and 1 is now a regional OPA attorney , in Atlanta. Btirg'.n Pennell. chief ot the Maxwell group, re- ! 'turned to Asheville and resumed ? the practice of law. Grayon , lEfird, campaign leader for i Gravely, landed as assistant di rector of the State division of purchase and contract. This record shows that ? the post as State manager for a gu bernatorial candidate is worth taking a gamble on. The fact that a man Is a good political or ganizer doesn't necessarily mean he will make a good judge; but i it shows if he Is good enough he very likely will get a Judicial ap- : pointment. I ' WAR NEWS London. Thursday, June 24. ? Berlin and Rome showed signs of increasing fear early today that an Allied invasion of Europe from the south might he imminent and that the eastern Mediterranean, as well as Italy, were being watch ed closfely for signs of the first offensive move. The German Transocean Agency quoted Turkish advices that the Allied armies in Syria were pre paring to attack the Dodecanese Islands off the Turkish coast, stepping stones toward Crete and Greece. "There are no reports regard ing the evacuation of Castel Grosso." Transocean said, intim atipg that the easternmost poin thf Dodecanese might have been abandoned. Th^ Vichy radio reported that 10 Allied warship's, including two large vessels built especially for landing operations, had entered the Mediterranean from Gibral tar. Advices from La Linea, the Spanish town on the border of Gibraltar territory, said that sev eral merchantmen were at Gibral tar with planes to be assembled and flown to Africa. It was added that 12 war material and food ships and two troop ships had sailed for Africa and that a bat tleship and several destroyers were off Gibraltar. Italy's Needs A konaon Daily Sketch colum nist, without citing authority, said that Count Galeazzo Ciano of Italy would leave tor Germany within two days, taking a state ment of Italy's most urgent needs as drafted by Benito Mussolini and Italian service chiefs for pre sentation to Adolf Hitler. German broadcasts . reported a big, new shake-up in the Italian Fascist party involving the ap pointment of new party secre taries , in 18 Italian provinces. The German Transocean Agency reporting increasing signs that the .Mediterranean lull would sooli end, promised Italy full support "to ward off enemy attack." London. Thursday, June 24. ? Russian troops have intensified sharply their reconnaissance oper ations on the Eastern front and the lied Air Force .has raided heavily the important Pskov junc tion on the' Riga-Staraya Russa Railroad which feeds German forces on the Lake Ilman front. Russia revealed today. The Russian midnight com munique. recorded here, report ed that more than 300 Germans had been killed in Russian re connaissance raids in force on the Staraya Russa-Lake Ilmen front, the Smolensk front and the Belgorod sector at the lower end of the Kursk salient. A special Russian communique broadcast from Moscow reported the air raid on Pskov. Russian planes bombed the rail junction and German airdromes in the viciny, it was said, destroying a considerable number of German planes and leaving many trains and the entire main station ablaze. Many fires and explosions were observed, the communique said. Two Russian planes were reported missing. Offensive Opens German-dominated Radio Vichy reported that Russian troops had started offensive operations north of Moscow. The front lies far west of the area north of Moscow, but it was believed that Vichy might have meant the Staraya Russa-Lake Ilmen area. Allied Headquarters, North Af rica, June 23. ? For the fourth time in 24 hours, Allied bombers have lashed the Neapolitan indus trial area, striking at railway targets around Salerno while fires from earlier raids still smoldered amid the gaping ruins of war works in Naples itself, it was an nounced today. (A German Tiansdcean "News Agency broadcast, reporting "in creasing signs that the lull in the Mediterranean region short ly will come to an end," said that "German troops naturally are standing shoulder to shoulder with the Italians in readiness to ward off an enemy attack.") A powerful fleet of RAF Wel lingtons attacked Salerno, 39 miles southeast of Naples, Mon day night and Tuesday morning and unleashed two-ton blockbust ers on the switchyards near mili tary barracks, setting many large tires, Allied headquarters report si All Return They met only light anti-air craft opposition and no enemy fighters with ttie result that all the Wellingtons returned to base safely. The new attack rounded out a pulverizing 24-hour bombardment of the industrial Naples area as the Allies' pre-invasion bombing pattern spread out steadily over Benito Mussolini's shaky domain. Drunk (to officer) ? Misten Lister! You may think I'm under the affluence of nncohol, but I'm not as drunk aa some thinks may peep I am. The drunker I stand the longet I get. THREATENS MINERS WITH INDUCTION Washington, June 23. ? Presi dent Roosevelt tonight raised the threat o f Army induction over coal miners and all other work ingmen who take part in future strikes in government-operated industries, but his drastic' plan encountered immediate and stren uous Congressional opposition on the ground that the Army 19 "not a penitentiary." Severely castigating the action of the United Mine Workers' lea dership in the recently termina ted mine strike, he announced in a statement that he will ask Con gress to boost the maximum draft-age limit to 65 to permit induction of future strikers. This proposal, by far the most severe measure thus far contem plated as a weapon against war time strikes, drew intense fire from those legislators who gave early comment. But there was no immediate statement froi)i the UMW or its chieftain, John L. Lewis, for I whom the legislation plainly was ! marked. Other leaders of labor were not available for comment. Chairman Harry S. Truman, D., Jlo.. of the Senate war investigat ing committee declared his op position to "using the Army as a form of punishment. It is no peni tentiary, and a man should be honored to be a soldier." Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, D., Colo.. Rep. Forest A. Harness, R., |Ind., were among legislators who Joined in similar vehement de nunciation of the proposal. The protests, however, were not unanimous. sen. tiarry r . tsyra, u., va,. recalled that he introduced legist llation March 1 to accomplish pur ! poses similar to the President's, hut that it then was "opposed | vigorously by -both the Army and [the Navy." Rep. William Coliner, D., Miss., jsaid he would strive for quick I action on a bill he introduced which follows the lines suggested j by Mr. Roosevelt. o Adds New Trip Schedule Huns From Rocky j Mount to Oxford Twice Daily Colonial Bus Lines announces (an extra trip through Louisburg both ways daily. The new sched ule leaves Rocky Mount at 7 a. jm and 3:30 p. m. goes through j to Oxford at 9:45 a. m. and 5:45 !p. m. Returning arrives at Rocky Mount at 12:35 and 8:15 ! p. m. The other schedule leaves [Camp Butner at 12:15 and ar rives at Rocky Mount at 10:25, returning leaves Rocky Mount ! at 1:15 and arrives at Camp But ter at 3:40 p. m. This gives people in Louisburg vicinity three 'trips to Rocky Mount daily except Sunday with, [two on Sunday, two trips to Ox 'ford daily, and one trip to Camp Butner daily except Sunday. This is an added convenience, iboth in number of trips and in I new places to go. Louisburg welcomes this new service. LOUISBURG METHODIST CHURCH "The Inescapable Voice" is the sermon subject for the 11:00 o'clock service Sunday morning at the Methodist Church by pas tor Forrest D. Hedden. The Union Vesper Service will be held on the College campus at 8:00 o'clock Dr. A. Paul Bagby will preach. Church School convenes at 9:45 led by Prof. I. D. Moon. You are welcomed. L OUISBURG BAPTIST CHURCH | The pastor will preach Sunday [in the morning on the subject, "A Pseudo Religion." In the evening the Vesper Service will be on the College campus at 8 o'clock. Every one is invited. 9:45 a. m. Bible School. 11:00 a. m. Morning worship. 7:00 p. m. B. T. U. 8:00 p. m. Vespers on College campus. _ ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Church School will begin promptly at 9:45 A. M., Sunday, and will last for one hour. Ur. Will Yarborough, Bible Class teacher. These services .will close In ample time for members to at tend church services elsewhere. o PROMOTED Cpl. Lloyd A. West, of neap Louisburg. who is stationed at Camp Stewart, Qa., has recently received his promotion. Cpl. West has been stationed at Camp Stewart since hla induction In the Armed Forces in February, 1943.