Page Four
THE SLATER NEWS
August 9, 1945
Our Servicemen Here And There
Slater Man Now
On Special Job
Mrs. Norma Bowles has re-
ceived word from her brother,
Pfc. Aaron E. Ferguson who is
a member of an A. A. A. Bn. in
the European theater, that he
is now on detached service and
is a member of the "G. I. Joe
Canteens" that the Army has
set up to serve sandwiches,
coffee, fruit, and fruit juices
to all allied soldiers on fur-
loughs, awaiting shipment, etc.
Pfc. Ferguson likes the work
very much, as it is similar to his
line of work during civilian
life. Friends will remember that
he worked at Wild Cat's Sta-
tion for two years.
Before entering service in
December, 1942, he was em-
ployed in Weave Room No. 1
at S. Slater & Sons, Inc.
Jap War Presents
(Con't. from page 1, col. 2)
rea's 85,000 gives a total three
times greater than Germany in
area, comparable to it in both
natural and industrial re-
sources. And, there is China,
vast, almost roadless land
where in the past the Japanese
have been dangerously over ex-
tended, but are now withdraw-
ing to more compact positions
where they will have the maxi-
mum production of country.
Each of these three areas is
garrisoned not by regiments or
divisions or corps but by full
armies, involving millions of
the best men the Japs have.
Each of them has a tremendous
reservoir of supply, maybe not
of heavy guns, or ammunition,
maybe not of tanks or planes
but certainly enough small
arms and mortars and grenades
to do a lot of killing.
In a recent speech, Under
Secretary of War Robert P.
Patterson brought out the fact
that, "The Japanese are fight-
ing a progressively smarter
war. On Okinawa they did not
attempt a defense of the beach-
es where they would be under
point-blank naval gunfire. They
went back to prepared posi-
tions; in other words, picked
their battlefield." The Japs can
be expected to repeat this per-
formance as we near Tokyo.
In the Pacific, for two
reasons, we are only beginning
now to feel the pressure of ur-
gent and huge construction
needs. First, our four ports of
embarkation on the West Coast,
Seattle, Portland, San Franscis-
co and Los Angeles, were not
operating at maximum capacity
KNOX RETURNS TO
STATION IN TEXAS
Pvt. W. K. Knox returned to
Camp Maxey, Texas, on August
6, after spending a 12 day fur-
lough with his mother, Mrs. M.
A. Knox.
Pvt. Knox had previously re-
ceived seven months of military
training at Camp Robinson,
Arkansas, and before entering
service was employed in the
Weaving Department of our
plant.
Hoke Harrill And Family
Visit Friends At Slater
Hoke Harrill, A. M. 3/C , and
his wife and son have returned
to Pensacola, Florida after a
visit with relatives and friends
in Slater and in North Carolina
and Georgia.
Hoke was formerly employed
in our Weaving Department as
a tying machine operator, hav-
ing left here in May, 1943 to
enter the Navy.
while our major effort was di-
rected toward Europe, and
second, the shipments were
scattered to Hawaii, Sydney,
Melbourne and Brisbane in
Austrailia, New Caledonia, New
Zealand, Calcutta, India and
New Guinea where we found
unloading warehousing, and
distributing facilities already
waiting for us. Now we're ship-
ping to islands with no port
facilities.
Every man and every pound
of supply, every soldier and
every carton, crate, tank or
gun shipped out of this coun-
try must be unloaded, housed
and distributed on the other
side of the Pacific. The facili-
ties here must the duplicated
there on an equally tremendous
scale.
Railroad capacity, port load-
ing capacity and port unload-
ing capacity at the destination
are the three big bottlenecks.
We can do it, and we shall do
it. But it is the biggest job we
have ever faced as a people and
it requires the full support of
every man and woman in this
country.
Hot Money
(Con't. from page 1, col. 5)
fact that the cash register,
which is an electric model, had
developed a short circuit and
was becoming terribly over-
heated. As soon as the wire was
disconnected, the cash register
cooled off and since has been
sent to a repair place for a
Make A Hundred
On This Test?
Nearly everyone reads a
daily paper. The following
questions were derived from
the front page of a well-known
newspaper. If you can answer
eight of the following ques-
tions, you are an observant
newspaper reader. If you can
answer six, you read your
paper only casually. A score of
less than five means you prob-
ably buy the newspaper to read
the funies.
1. Formosa is a possession of:
(a) China, (b) Japan, (c)
Great Britain.
2. The Russian diamond and
ruby victory medal is valued
at: (a) $5,000, (b) $100,000,
(c) $12,000.
3. Eleanor Roosevelt writes
a column entitled: (a) My Day,
(b) My Life, (c) Odds and
Ends.
4. Lord Haw Haw was a
propagandist for (a) Germany,
(b) England, (c) Japan.
5. Discharged veterans of
World War II may be identified
by a: (a) Medal, (b) Uniform,
(c) Discharge Button.
6. The second wife of Bel-
gian King Leopold was: (a) A
Duchess, (b) A Commoner, (c)
A Princess.
7. Herman Goering collected:
(a) Works of Art, (b) Stamps,
(c) Match Covers.
8. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt had a dog named:
(a) Rover, (b) Prince, (c)
Falla.
9. When cornered Japs are
inclined to: (a) Fight, (b)
Commit Suicide, (c) Surrender.
10. The Purple Heart is
awarded for: (a) Wounds re-
ceived in battle, (b) Gallantry
in action, (C) Death in Action.
Answers: 1b, 2c, 3a, 4a, 5c,
6b, 7a, 8c, 9b, 10a.
complete overhauling.
Most of the contents of the
register had been emptied. and
only a small amount of money
- mostly change - was in the
drawer at the time, but as the
heat generating from the short
circuit was considerable, this
money was actually far from
cool and literally was hot
money.
Since no harm was done and
everything was taken care of
in a satisfactory manner, the
small crowd that had gathered
soon dispersed and the incident
was forgotten.
Translation of above:
"DON'T
SHARE YOUR CAR!"
SPORTS
Softballers Play
(Con't. from page 1, col. 3)
ron J. is returning this week
and the Medics the following
week, and a tentative game has
been scheduled with Dr. Pep-
per. Games scheduled so far, to
be played at the Slater Ball
Park at 6:30 P. M., are as fol-
lows:
Friday, August 10: Squad-
ron J, GAAB.
Monday, August 13: Dunean.
Friday, August 17: Medics,
GAAB.
The box scores for the games
played are given below:
First Game 7-23-45
SLATER
AB R H E
Drury, sf 3 0 1 0
Summey, 2b 3 1 1 1
Takacy, p 2 0 0 0
McMakin, ss 3 1 0 1
Hembree, 1b 3 0 1 0
Thornton, 1f 3 0 0 0
Cashion, 3b 3 0 1 3
Penland, rf 3 0 1 0
Addington, c 3 0 0 1
Smith, cf 2 0 0 0
TOTAL 26 2 5 6
DR. PEPPER
AB R H E
Boldin, 3b 4 2 1 0
Davenport, 1f 4 2 3 0
Baird, sf 4 1 0 0
Bsharah, 1b 4 1 2 1
Neiss, 2b 4 0 0 1
Lauresdon, cf 4 1 0 0
Abbott, p 4 1 3 0
Harsh, ss 4 0 0 0
Sikes, rf 4 0 0 0
Hambrick, c 3 2 2 0
TOTAL 39 10 11 2
Dr. Pepper 321 200 2-10
Slater 000 200 0-2
Second Game 7-23-45
SLATER
AB R H E
Buchanan, cf 3 0 1 0
Summey, 2b 0 0 0 1
Shirley, 2b 2 0 0 0
Takacy, p 1 0 0 2
Cox, p 1 0 0 2
McMakin, ss 3 0 1 0
Hembree, 1b 3 0 0 0
Cashion, 3b 3 0 0 1
Smith, sf 2 0 0 0
Lybrand, c 3 0 0 0
Thornton, 1f 0 0 0 0
Penland, rf 2 0 0 0
Addington, rf 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 23 0 2 6
DR. PEPPER
AB R H E
Boldin, 3b 3 3 2 0
Davenport, p-1f 4 1 1 0
Baired, c 4 2 1 0
Bsharah, 1b 4 0 1 0
Neiss, 2b 4 0 1 0
Lauresdon, cf-p 4 0 0 0
Abbott, 1f-cf 4 1 1 0
Harsh, ss 2 1 0 1
Sikes, rf 2 2 1 0
Hambrick, sf 3 3 1 0
TOTAL 34 13 9 1
Dr. Pepper 004 045 0-13
Slater 000 000 0-0
7-25-45
SLATER
AB R H E
Drury, 3b 2 0 0 0
Summey, 2b 3 0 1 0
Takacy, p 3 0 0 0
McMakin, ss 2 0 0 2
Hembree, 1b 3 0 0 0
Thornton, 1f 2 0 0 0
*Penland 1 0 0 0
Cashion, cf 1 0 0 0
Buchanan, rf 2 0 0 0
Addington, c 2 0 0 1
Smith, sf 1 0 0 0
Cox, sf 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 22 0 1 3
*Batted for Thornton in 7th.
SQUADRON J
AB R H E
Shook, ss 4 0 2 0
Koenig, 3b 4 1 1 0
Vanatta, sf 3 0 0 0
Boynton, c 2 0 0 0
Munce, 1f 3 1 1 0
Oakleaf, 1b 3 0 0 0
Hergert, cf 3 1 1 0
Bane, 2b 3 1 1 1
Lucas, rf 2 0 0 0
Beddingfield, p 3 0 1 0
TOTAL 30 4 7 1
Squadron J. 000 200 2-4
Slater 000 000 0-0
7-30-45
SLATER
AB R H E
Drury, 3b 3 1 1 2
Summey, 2b 3 0 1 0
Takacy, p 3 1 2 1
McMakin, ss 3 0 1 0
Hembree, 1b 3 0 0 0
Cook, rf 3 0 1 0
Smith,sf 3 0 0 0
Thornton, 1f 3 0 1 0
Cashion, cf 3 0 1 0
Addington, c 2 0 0 2
TOTAL 29 2 8 5
COCA-COLA
AB R H E
Fair, c 4 1 1 0
Hodge, 2b 4 0 1 0
Reid, 1f 4 1 1 0
Ragsdale, 1b 4 2 3 0
McCarson, 3b 4 1 2 0
McCall, cf 2 0 0 0
Carson, sf 2 0 0 0
Glazener, rf 3 0 1 0
Landreth, ss 3 0 0 0
Perry, p 2 1 1 0
Patterson, p 1 0 0 0
TOTAL 33 6 10 0
Coca-Cola 000 330 0-6
Slater 200 000 0-2
8-3-45
MEDICS
AB R H E
Colanzi, 1f 3 0 1 0
French, ss 3 1 1 0
Klawien, 1b 3 2 0 0
Labach, c 2 1 0 0
Pollina, rf 3 1 1 0
Huffman, p 2 1 1 1
Burmeistr, p 1 0 0 0
Tauber, 2b 3 0 0 2
Wolf, sf 1 1 0 0
Swedenburg, sf 1 0 0 0
Bogen, 3b 2 0 0 0
Jamrozy, cf 3 0 1 0
TOTAL 27 7 5 3
SLATER
AB R H E
Drury, 3b 2 0 1 0
Summey, 2b 3 0 0 1
Takacy, p 1 1 0 1
McMakin, ss 3 0 1 0
Hembree, 1b 3 0 0 0
Taylor, sf-c 2 0 0 0
Thornton, 1f 2 1 0 0
Cashion, cf 3 1 1 0
Buchanan, rf 3 1 0 0
Addington, c 1 0 0 1
Smith, sf 2 0 0 1
TOTAL 25 4 3 4
Medics 410 002 0-7
Slater 000 120 1-4
EN