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The Upbuilding Of Aiken And Aiken County—WEDNESDMORE COLOREDMEN CALLEDThe following named colored men were forwarded to the Fort Jackson Induction Station for Preinduction Examination yesterday:Craft Johnson, Ernest Blocker, Tommie Watson, Austin A. Barton, Jr., James Livjngston, Dennie (Ben) Moore, Walter (Hosey) Mack, George Cuthbertson, Jr., Charley Nathal Bolden, Gilbert (Chunk) Williams, B. R. Kimber. Jonie (Buddy) Mitchell, Elijah Duffie, Jr., Abraham Odom, Alvin Settles, George Johnson, Evan Hays, Nathaniel N. Antley, Wallace Glover, Jr., Robert Pete Watson, Jacob Oakman, Lemuel Parker, Haskew Clark, Charlie Vaughn, Tillmon Rhinhart, William Henry Jennings, James Anderson, Joseph Fields, Marvin A. Johnson, Freddie Lee Busch, Reuben Lanham, Johnnie Anderson, David William, James (Shug)Fair, Jr., Carrol Love, Leon Bowers, Walter Holmes, George McCuller, Raymond Jennings, Willie Gantt, Gus Stahvorth, Judson Williams, Abraham Bright, John Henry Boyd, Leon Hammonds, Lugene Livingston, Willie Berry, William Eubanks, Lenwood “Len” Scott, Lewis Permenter, James Edward Thomas, Robert Edwards, Isaiah Roland, Gyles Harrison, Jr., Johnie Jennings, Jr., Ebbie Lee Cobb, Thomas Benjamin Byrd,Thomas Mackey, James “Big Boy 'Googe, Luke Stephen Key, Theara Derrien, Fred Douglas Garrett, Henry Mitchell, Izelle Wade, Guy Quattlebaum, Charles Coleman, Curtis Washington,Joseph Matthews, John Henry Mason, Jule Patterson, Pervis Leggons, William Stroman, Her-mon Millhouse, P. J. Kinard, Jr., Van Buren Quattlebaum, James “Pop” Rowe, Wilbert Mayes, Clarence Byrd, James Frazier, Graddie Williams, Archie Thurmond, James Weaver, Jr., Gradie Jackson.French Buy MasterpiecesTo Hedge Against FrancMADRID.—The new millionairesof France—merchants engaged in the black market—are frantically buying up masterpieces of art at auctions in their eagerness to convert fran?3 into articles of intrinsic value. Paris corespondents of the Spanish press report.It was explained (hat Frenchmen who before the war were unable to f distinguish a Corot from a colored j photograph now are enthusiastic buyers and sellers at the Hotel Du-rot? y/here many French art auctionsare held. - .The “Annual of Public Sales,” which gives the prices paid for works of art sold at public auctions, listed one of Corot’s lesser pictures sold in 1943 for 1,391,000 francs. (The franc was worth $.023 at the time France was occupied.) The picture was last sold in 1875 for 500 francs.A Degas sketch, which brought 2,000 francs in 1934, sold for 288,650 francs in 1943, and the same artist’s portrait, which sold for 16,000 francs in 1908. brought 1,610,000 francs.
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Aiken Standard and Review
Aiken, South Carolina, US
Wed, May 03, 1944
Page 8
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