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PAGE FOUR British Youth Trek Back To England With Yank Ideas New York, Aug. 24.—1 f you can imagine 60 youngsters, all teen agers, rampant in a hotel lobby where they alternate as models lor the photographers and grant intei views to the New York press, you can just about picture the scene at the Prince George Hotel here yes terday. The children were of the usual shock-haired, gangly-legged variety, except that these were part of the 870 "war babies" sent over from Great Britain at the start of tile blitz in 1940 under auspices of the United States Committee for the care of European Children. Now that the war is over end the submarine menace licked, they are being returned home as rapidly as passage can be arranged. This group sailed on the Nieu Amster dam. They left five years, almost to a day, after the frist group had arrived here on the S. S. Samaria, August 21. 1940. When they arrived thov were, for the most part, under 11 years old, and 40 pier cent were under nine. Many of the girls were hardiy mare than babies carrying dolls, while the boys were proper British children who actually believed that adage: "Children should be seen ” Today, I don't precisely know how you would have told them from American children of the same age. The girls wore bobby socks and sweaters, and chewed gum. The boys did not look as do the young men of Eton with stiff collars and top hats. For the most oart they had on sports jackets, no collars, no tits and no hats. They spoke Simon pure American and nobody was pushing them around. I don't know ho.w you could got anything more than general im pressions out of 69 boys and girls, so I singled out one likely Jad PREVENT IT! JBllik PROTECT IT! The best protection Is cau * * Arw ll?Jf lion. The next best is insur ante! Don’t risk losing prop- JR AM erty amt other valuables. Be Sure To Insure Wltb WALKER INS. AGENCY BILL WALKER ATTENTION "IN MEMORIAM" NOTICES SI.OO For First 150 Words lc Per Word For Each Word Over 150 Card Os Thanks 50c Each COURIER - TIMES ; v o VE ’* ,K#4\ (. ,fi No symbol speoks so eloquently of love 01 a \ < A genuine registered Keepsake Diamond Engage- Iy\ / - ///j 1 . ment Ring. The Keepsake Certificate of Guaran-j k • 7 1 I fee and Registration is part of your purchase. ( / y* 1 ' See the new Keepsake Matched Sets in a wide ' > ll'lt range of styles and prices, f \ r •** II I (l “Keepsake DIAMOND RI N G i JHMHS x SfiflHV P~ ~~N »k«« Uitlvd* Mmml twm f jwtncmt** ototAicr jnmnr who told me his name was Peter Staples and that he lived in "66 Harrow View, Harrow, in Middle sex, England. He had a badge on her lapel, proclaiming "Kodak," and I asked about it. He explained that a large part of this group liad be sent I to homes of Kodak workers in Rochester, New York, ihe visit having been arranged by Kodak people in England. This Dat'ge was :to identify them and keep them ; together. I asked Peter if he had ever gone to any of the cricket games between Harrow and Eton and he , replied that he had. I asked him whether he preferred has aba 11 to cricket and he said he did and in tended to introduce the sport when he got home. I told him that I had seen the Eton boys playing soit ball on the cricket green a few weeks ago, and he was glad to hear 'the news. I ask him if he thought he would have a hard time adjusting himself to the secondary and repressed position that British children seem ,to occupy at home—at least by American standards—and he said he thought he would have some difficulty. He said he was quite 1 eager to get to see his folks, but hoped one day to return to the United States. He certainly didn’t mean to im i ply and disloyalty to Britain, but i simply his continuing friendship for the United States. Somebody referred to these children as "am bassadors of good will.” These children have had the experience of crossing an ocean jand making a place for themselves lin new homes. That develops a certain self-reliance and resource fulness that should probably offset some of the enforce! loss of living War Time To End Says Truman Washington—President Truman will recommend to Congress when it reconvenes Sept. 5 that war time be abolished. An act of Congress is necessary to restore the clocks to the one-hour earlier time prevalent before the war. The President told his news con- I ference that the matter of regulat ing time should be given back to the States. Time To Kill Hogs Not Ear Off Says Brady It's still summer, but Tar Heel farmers will soon be faced with the man-sized task of butchering and curing pork for use during the long winter months and the re mainder of the year. | Dr. D. E. Brady, professor of an imal husbandry at State College, is a firm believer in producing enough meats for home use pro vided such an undertaking is pos sible, and he makes the following comment on the subect. An adequate supply of home raised meats on the farm is es sential for a well balanced diet increased happiness for the farm ; family. Certainly it is desirable ■I that most North Carolina farms be | self sufficient from the stand | point of furnishing and preparing Their own meat supplies. r ' By proper handling of meats it is j'easily possible to have some cured, j canned, and frozen meats avail able throughout the whole year and at a very substantial saving over what these products might be purchased for on the market. There is nothing so complex about the proper care and handling of meat that cannot be readily mas tered. , In North Carolina more pork, j both fresh and cured, is probabl consumed by farm folks than all a other types of meat combined. i While it is true that hogs can be killed over a wide range of weights, nevertheless, hogs weighing trom 1 200 to 300 pounds will generally a prove most satisfactory for use on the farm. Heavy hogs general'.! yield a higher percentage of lard. Care should be taken ,'.o select hogs that are well fattened out end that are free from disease. with their own families. They have, of course, been | spared the hardships of bombings that some children who remained in England, especially in the Lon don area, experienced. Their diets have been good, and yet in all hon esty I couldn't say that they looked much better physically than ; the youngsters I saw romping in i Hyde Park in May. ! j If there has been a great ad- I I vantage I should say that it will i prove in the end to have been an | ! imbibing of the peculiar brand '; of American democracy. A brand ! in which a boy can earn his way ' \ through college and be looked up i! .to as Presidential timber. I re [ i member the surprise on an Eton ' i boy’s face when I told him that. 11 Most of the children I spoke to j j seemed scornful of the “Tories" i! and quite glad, though surprised, over the Labor Party vistory. I ; j suspect most of them are return i ing with the idea of continuing j j their American ways of life and 11 sompelling some reforms in | Britain. [ The reaction should be inter esting.—R. R. M. THE CQURIRK-TIMES Sugar Cana Mil! on* la* Shfmo (U. S. Marine Corp* Photo) Nearly every farm on Ie Shlma. backdoor to Okinawa, ha* one of these primitive sugar cane mills, ior which horses furnished the motive power. The surar cane, crushed between the rocks, was used for making sake, among other things. Wreckage of some of the natives’ coral buildings can be seen in the background. Ivy Division's Men Come Here For Days Off Men Os Famous Fourth Ar rive At Camp Butner For Training. In Roxboro last week were Lt. Smathers and Lt. Milton, of the Public Relations staff of the famous “Fourth, Ivy Division, now located at Camp Butner, the lieutenants coming here especially to discuss the history and work and training of the Division, an officer of which was the late Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who died in July 1944, in Normandy, from nat ural causes, and who was posthum ously honored by awarding of the Medal of Honor. Men of the Ivy Division are to be at Butner for some time and al ready are coming in numbers to both Roxboro and Durham. Now commanded by Major Gen eral Harold W. Blakeley, of Wash ington, the Fourth Division trained for more than three years, chiefly in Southern camps, before going ov erseas in January, 1944. Following further training in Southern Eng land, the division became one of the Allies’ principal striking forces in the invasion of Western Europe. In five campaigns which carried the “Ivy Leaf” Division from Nor mandy, France, deep into the heart of Germany, the Fourth captured" more than 77,000 Germans and kill ed or wounded a total impossible even to estimate. From D-Day- to VE Day, the Fourth saw more ac tion than any other -American div ision and, consequently, suffered more battle casualties than any oth er (more than 21,500). The Fourth set a record by maintaining contact* with the enemy for 199 consecutive days and accomplished a record of “firsts" second to no unit in the European Theatre of Operations. On D-Day in Normandy, the Ivy Division was the first to come a shore on Utah Beach. Later, it was the first division to enter Cher bourg. Doughs of the Fourth help ed to spearhead the all-important Th e LONE RANGER.. ulvl R A^ffv T, y^!i L L [not if they follow)f Indian? the same ind/an vvmo 'CI LAWYER TATE MIGHT HAVE BUT ' FRIENDS WHO J AND HER SOME SPECIAL FRIENDS HOW'D COULD BEAT Jj GRAND- BACK TRAILS. J I ABOUT " VOL)' LATERADIOS SE iJfI UW6 j«o6£ _ . i»S!US?K!SH I SSoSfeJSmSe at™eaJ?- \(T »©VSfc!S& SfiPfISSTLSSS* SBaßß&SffiSffiF® — ; American break-through at St. Lo ; and a month later became the first j American troops to enter Paris. | Driving across Northern France | and Belgium in hot pursuit of re ; treating Germans, the Fourth, on ! September 11, became the first div ision to cross the border into Ger many. Within a few weeks it had f become the first division to drive a wedge through the vaunted Sieg | fried Line. In later fighting, the division was the principal American i assault force in the bloody Hurtgen j Forest Battle. I The Fourth is one of the very few ;U. S. divisions in which all three | regiments have been awarded the j coveted Presidential Unit Citation. o *1 v •: y\ j Civilians will receive more fluid milk, light cream, buttermilk, and j chocolate drinks, it has been an | nounced by Secretary of Agricul ture Clinton P. Anderson. ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR And ELECTRIC STOVE REPAIR • Call Us For Your Refrigerator Or Electric Stove Repair Work—ls It Can Be Fixed We Can Do TU • Job If Your Units Can’t Be Repaired We Can Get You New Ones. We Repair Electric Irons • CLAYTON'S ELECTRIC SERVICE DEPOT STREET MARVIN CLAYTON PHONE 4794 Tokyo Claims Atomic (tomb Killed 70^000 San Francisco.—Japan gave Its first detailed report on the atomic bomb today—7o,ooo persons killed outright, 120,000 wounded, 290,000 made homeless, and an unknown number missing from the two dropped by Superfortresses on two of her cities. These casualty figures were sup plemented by the report of a Japa nese scientist sent to the soene of one of the blasts, to make a detailed investigation. Radio Tokyo quoted his estimation of the explosions— ■ “Monstrous —spectacular.” A Domei dispatch recorded by United Press here, said killed,; wounded and homeless in Hiroshima 1 and Nagasaki totaled 480.000 and \ ed that it was impossible yet to es- j timate the number of missing. ] Bodies buried in collapsed buildings ; are still uncounted. Many Dying Daily “Many, persons are dying daily from burns sustained during the j raids,” the broadcast said. "Many of those who received burns cannot 1 survive the wounds because of the WE BUILD FOR Roxboro and Person Comity With All Work Guaranteed No Job Too Large and None Too Small George W. Kane Roxboro, N. C. uncanny effects which the atomic i bomb produces on the human body, ; Even those who received minor i burns and looked quite healthy at first weakened after a few days for some unknown reaaon.” Domei said 60,000 were killed, 100,000 were wounded and 200,000 were homeless in Hiroshima while 10,000 were killed, 20,000 wounded and 90,000 homeless in Nagaski. The first atomic bomb exploded in a shattering heat flash as it dan gled from a parachute a quarter of a mile above Hiroshima, releasing mighty whirlpools of energy whose terrific pressure . continued for “a considerable length of time;” Sutezo Torii, identified as a scientist by Tokyo radio, reported. • Detailed Survey Torii, technician for Japanese Im perial defense general headquarters, PROFESSIONAL SKILL PROTECTS YOUR HEALTH, YOUR LIFE! Your druggist is a skilled medical man, trained to follow the directions of your doctor in the accurate compound ing of prescriptions. Every prescription which enters our demands. Trust our judgment... depend upon our knowl edge..: .follow the example of your physician who patro store is given the immediate and, full attention which it nizes our services. Bring your • prescription to us. • Registered Pharmacists No Unnecessary Waiting Fresh, Potent Stock ★ Roxboro Drug Co. Main Street Phone 3141 MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1945 returned- to Tokyo yesterday from Hiroshima where he made a detail ed survey. a I ekes To Stay In Cabinet Jbb ————— • • Washington, President Tru man said today that Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, will continue in his Cabinet. The President told a news con ference he had discussed with Ickes, sole remaining member of the or iginal Roosevelt Cabinet still on the Job, that Ickes will serve in the official family as long as he wants to stay. They discussed Ickes’ fu- yesterday, the President said.
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