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e ;iy, ,i^'J''i,-,ir.■?.■■■ r-iS-™;'v'-/.-»-.;.v- 'i: "i ■ ^ '"ik y THE CHRONICLE I StriTes T* Be ft Clftfta Newe- pftper, Coftiplete. Newqr* ftftd ReUftble. / If Ton I>M*t Rftfttf THE CHRONICLE Too DoftH Get ,Th« Newft. VOLUME xxxvn CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1937 NUMBER 50 QUICK JAPAN IN OFFERING ITS APOLOGY Offers Compensation for Attack On American Vessels Even Before Receiving President’s Demands. Individual Regret Also Expressed. Clinton Aglow - For Christmas h Royal Welcome Given Santa Claus Upon His Annual Visit. .City Transformed Into Fairy land With Brilliant Lights. Tokyo, Dec. 15.—Japan today of fered apologies and compensation for Clinton’s children, young and old, j and grown-ups' too, flocke<l thei streets Friday at twilight to greet and welcome the city’s most disting-j uished annual visitor—Santa Claus, j The coming of Saint Nick, the her attack on the United Sutes gun-j bearer of gifts, good cheer and hap- boat Panay and three steamers andjpiness, had been awaited for twelve safeguards for foreigners even be- months by hundreds of eager-eyed fore she formally received President children. lx)ng before the hour 5:30 Roosevelt’s demands. , at which time the parade was to In addition to the round of official | start, people begart gathinmUr “afrthgj apologies, Japanese citizens halted'the line of march to greet the North Americans in the streets of Tokyo orlPole guest. As the parade proceeded cafled at American business offices to express their personal sorrow over Sunday’s war plane bombing of the veasel near Nanking. Foreigm Minister Koki Hirota sent a note to the United States ambassa dor, Joseph C. Grew, in which Japan: 1. Presented her “sincere apolo gies” for the attack. 2. Promised to make “indemnifi cation for all losses and deal appro priately with those responsible for the incident.” 3. Announce<l “strict orders” had been issued “to the -authorities on the spot with a view to preventing^^ re currence of a similar incident.” up Broad street, the lovely vari- colort^ Christmas lights sparkled forth to give the city an adde<l bril liance coincident with the coming of the Yuletide saint. The parade, headed by the Pres byterian college R. 0. T. C. band and local National Guard unit, circled the business square and later disbanded. In the line of march were several at tractive floats by business firms, the city .schools and orphanage. Center of attraction in the parade, of course, was Santa Claus mounUnl high on his i^orgeous float, waving cheerily at the boys and girls. ■Dres-sed in his time-honored rtnl cos tume, Saint Nick lookeil hale and George H. Little Is Laid To Rest Well Known YounR Man Passes Twenty-seven Days After Death of His Father. Inter ment Here Monday. Georg\‘ H. Little, 44, died Sunday at his home here after a critical ill- I ness of several weeks. He had re- I cently._ returned fn)m the Veterans j hospital in Colunrhia where he had I been a patient, with little improve- j ment however noted in his condition, i Funeral/ AMERICA ASKS FULL REDRESS BE MADE SOON Roosevelt’s Note To Japanese Emperor Voices “Grace Con cern.” Guarantees Against Repetition of Such Attacks Sought. services were Washington, Dw. 13.—The United States pro.stmUMl Japan three stem i demands tcnlay becau.se of the “in- conducte<l . i v .. ■ • i - . ,, . j HI 1 1-4 Uliscnmmate bombing ’ and sinking of from the residence Monday afternoon!,, . .,4 * t 1. n 1 , , .L • 4 4 /• 11 • „'t/he UniUm States gunboat Panay and at 3 oclock with interment following' . • u- u v- 1 • other American ships above Nanking, ,\t the same time President Roosevelt sent expressions of shockid concern Santa Claus Says: SHOP EARLY And Get Better Selections... And Shop In CLINTON “The Christmas City”- Foreign Minister ILrota presentt^il, hearty and as happy as in past years | a similar note to Sir Robert Craigio, iwhen he has visited the city to offi-! British ambassador to Japan, con-lcially inaugurate the Uhristnias sea- ceming the Sunday bombing of the son. He had a benevolent smile on I British gunhoat.s Bee and I^adybird. j his face and happy words of w’elcome It promistMl .Japan would pay Great for the children who gathere<i clo.se in order that they might not only Britain “any necessary” indemnity. The tmpcTial HeadquarterfT higlFdypp, but hear wl est Japam-se military and naval or gan, issuwl a lengthy statement on Sunday’.s incident in which it charged three gunboats among the vessels at tacked on the Y'angtze firisl on the Japanese w’ar planes when the Panay was sunk. Clinton Kiwanis Club To Serve As Santa Claus For Orphanage Family to yell wit)i enthusiasm as the pro- ce.ssion advance<l, “Hello, Santa.” The city now presents the picture of a beautiful vari-colorinl Fairylaml, the di*coratlons buing similar to those of last year. Streamers heavily laden with' re<l, yellow’, blue and green L^al OrRanizalion, With “Merry“Cfinstma.s (ireeliuRsr vide ,’150 BaRs of FYuit and Gifts for Children and Officers of Thorn well Family. It declared the Japanese fliers said i bulbs shine in the entire busininsj that the steamers “carried no flags,”! district in festoons of lights. .Sev-| but that “many soldiers, apparently Chinese, were sighted aboard them.” The note met the major demands of President Roosevelt even as Am- baasador Grew arranged ho For eign Minister Hirota to present a note from the United States over the bombing incident. Emperor Hirohito already had re ceived the essence of the American executive’s point ■of view as given in a memorandum in Washington Mon day, a high government official said. 'This official asserted he was un able to say whether any direct reply from the emperor could be exjiected. The Japanese note declared Japa- eral trees brilliantly illuminateil, add to the Christmas setting. The adorn- e<l trees, and the thousands of lights of many colors^ complete the Christ mas piciura, and provide a fitting climax to a scene of beauty and splen dor. P’ew towns anywhere this year will be more CThristmas-like, more lovely, than Clinton. < • Safest Driving - Age Is 32-37 Ames, Iowa.—Dr. A. R. Lauer, Iowa State college psychologist and traffic nese war planes bombed the Ameri- research worker, de.scribes the can vessels in the -Yangtze river Sun day after it had been reported Chi- safe” driver a.s: — A man without domestic troubles. nese troops were fleeing up the river 1 betwwn 32 and 37; above five feet The ('linton Kiwanis club will again this year a^'t as Santa Claus for the 310 hoy and girls at Thorn- well orphanage. ~ The club last year accepted the res ponsibility of bringing Christmas cheer and happiness to the children of the homo. Funds have been pro vided, and all plans completed for furnishing the Santa bags which will contain orange.s, apples, candy, nuts and raisins. In addition each child will be given a Chri.stiiias * pre.sent selected according tt) their age, by a group of lailies representipg the club. The hags and gifts will go to the recijiients early Christmas morning with the In-st wishi-s of Santa ('laus and the Kiwanians. The membership of the club, their (^hristmas commit tee s'tate<l yesterday, derives great pleasure gnd satisfaction in serving as Thornwell’s .Santa from year to year. in the Presliytorian church ceme tery. 'The jservice.s were in cliargji^ Dr. D. J. Woods, pa.stof of the First Presbyterian church, assisted by ReVr D. E. Boozer, Presbyterian minister of Goldville. Both at the home and graveside a large number of friends assembliMl to pay a final tribute and the many floral tributes bankeil upon the grave gave addtnl evidence of the esteem in which he wa.s held by those who know him. Pallbearers were: Augustus Mason of l^aurens, John \V. Finney, P. S. Bailey, K. F. Sumerel, Alex and Wil liam .1. Henry, K. J. I’ilts and Henry M. Yoiing. Mr. Little was a son oif the late Thomas Holland Little and Ella Hen ry Little. It was a sa<l coincidence that his father, with whom he hml always livtsl, precedisl him to the grave just tw<‘iity-seven days ago. Mr. Littb' was a WorbI War veteran ami served ov<“rseas with the EifriRy- first iiivision; He was a member of the Presbyterian church, an<l Ma-sopic order, A young man square and up right with his fellow men, he jiossesw- ed many friemis who are saddemnl by his passijig ami who join, with the iimlTyTii riigretting hi.s death. ' The <lecease<l is .surviv<*<l by two brothers, John W. Little' and E. P. Little, and two sisters, .Mrs. I4. 1). McCrary ami .Mrs. Mac B. Hifip, all of this place. College Unveils ^ven Portraits Founder, Former Presidents and Friends of Presbyterian Hon ored At Interesting Exercises Monday. Experts Discuss Mrs. J. W. Earhardt Passes In Newberry Funei'al .services for Mrs. .1. W. Fiarhanlt, Sr., 72, of Newlx'rry, were hebl last WiMliu*fHlay from the resi- (leiK’e with her pastor. Rev. E. B. Keisler, officiating. Interment was in Rosemont cemetery. Mrs. Earhardt diisl suddenly at her home following a brief illness. Lfitnd Tcrrsicin^' *^^^*"* marriage she was Miss Je.ssie liee (bipelaml, <laughter otf the late , , ^ • I Elbert T. CopelamI and (Charlotte Jack H. Davis of C.linton, ALainj (’opciaml of t'linton. by steamers from Nanking. It asserted the aviators “were un able to discern any mark showing any of them was an American ship or man-of-war. “Consequently the United Stales gunboat Panay and the vessels of the Standard Oil company, being taken for Chinese carrying fleeing Chinese tro<^8, were bombed and sunk.” ten inches in height and weighing between 170 and 180 pounds. Dr/ Lauer, who has tested 15,000 drivers in several states, says the person “who is above the average in mentality, physique and personality, or at least is neither brute nor shrimp, Ph.D. nor ij^oramus, rou tine bookkeeper or scientific genius,” has a pretty good chance of being a The unofficial desire to make I good driver amends was reflected in the actional of Japanese citizens who stopped CHRISTMAS OPERETTA Americans in the streets, doffed their hats and expressed their personal sorrow over Sunday’s events. Waitresses and taxi drivers were AT HURRICANE SCHOOL The primary and grammar grade pupils of Hurricane school will pre- *nipng„Ubje__dYJllans wjio emrMS^^ an oneretU. “One Christmas Eve,” on next Wednesday night, i)e- cember 22, at 7:30 o’clock. The pub- apologies. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, premier, Issued a statement in connection with lie is cordially invited the fall of Nanking in which he de- clTa<L “tha birth of a new China will aerge-4a safeguard foreign- intereata in the Far East.” He pledged Japan’s cooperation “with whatever administration comes into existence in China” and declared the fain of the evacuated capital marked “the beginning of real, pro tracted hostilities against China ’The formal occupation of Nanking was celebMited by an estimated 1,000,- 000 persona—^mostly school children —in a parade through Tokyo. unemployment MONEY MOUNTS Columbia, Dec. 11.—R. Brice Wa ters, administrator for the state un employment compensation commis sion, said today contributions from South Carolina employers to the un employment compensation fund amounted to $274,966 in November, an increase of 13 per cent over the total for the previous month. MORGAN TODD ILL Friends in the city of F. Morgan Todd of Simpsonville, and a former Clinton resident, will regret to know that he suffered a stroke last week and is now a patient in the Greenville city hospital. Reports from his bed side yesterday stat^ that his condi tion is improving. Mr. Todd, who is weH known here, married Mrs. j Hayme Little Copeland. i Float, Window Winners A number of attractive floats were entered in Clinton’s big Santa Claus parade celebration last Friday night, prizes aggre gating $25 beisg offered for the four exhibits selected by the judges as the most outstanding. The winners were: First place — Clinton Flower Shop. Second place—Thomwell Or phanage. Third place—Clinton Schools. Fourth place—G. A. Copeland & Son. Window Winners Three prizes for $9.00 were offered for the be.st decorated store windows in the city. The judges made their awards to the following: First place — Blakely Bros. Seed Store. Second place—Clinton Flow er Shop. Third place—G. Av Copeland & Son. The celebration was staged and the prizes awarded by the Chamber of Commerce. Presbyterian college in a special chap<*l ceremony at noon Monday, un- veiltHl seven large portraits which came to the institution recently as a gift from a friend who requeste<l that he remain unknown, even to the col- lege. The paintings were done by M. Rae, noted portrait paTnteT of New York city. The exercises were held in the chapel and attended by the student body, faculty and a number of as sembled friends from here and other parts of the state, with President W. P. Jacobs, presiding. The paintings are of Dr. William Plumer Jacob.s, founder of the college, C. M. Bailey, for many years a mem ber of the college board of trustees and uhtiTTiis Teath~ prwldi^'df Lydia Cotton Mills of' this city, Capt. El lison Smyth of Hendersonville, N. C., who has contributed much to the President of County Soil Con servation Association. Laurens, Dec. 11.—‘Farm lan<l ter racing an<l other activities i»ertaining to soil building were discussed by experts in this line of work, and of ficers for another year were eU*cted at the annual meeting of the I^au- rens • County Soil Conservation as sociation held here Thursday. The principal speakers were: Thomas W. Morgan, assistant ex tension service, Clemson college; J. T. McAllister, chief engineer soil and A. A. McKeown, district farm agent, also of .Spartanburg. F^ach one spoke of the progress that has been' made this year in theii' respective fields o»f endeavor and commended the work of local agencies in carrying forward dif ferent agricultural programs. Mrs. Earhardt is surviveni by her to ,the .Emperor of Japan. While Capitol Hill reverberated to the sinking and a heate<l discus.sion rose on the floor of the senate, this government demanded: Full compensation to the govern ment. .and victims. (Dispatches to the navy ilepartment place them at one sailor killed, six missing and' fifteen persons woundinD. Apologies for the incident. Guarantees against a repetition of such an attack. Tile preshient’.s personal expre.ssion, hainhsi to .Japanese AnilKissador Hi- rosi SaiU) by Secretary of State Hull for transmission to the emperor, was a message from om' head of state to anothiT and therefore regarded as of greater importanee than the series of |)rotests that have betm nia.ie by the state depa-rtment Lr the Japane;-e government and Chinese government as well, since the Sino-.Iapanese un- deelar(*<i war lK*gan. lit inforrntMl the enipon>r that the president “was deeply .<luK‘ktHl and concerru'd by (be news <if the indis- criminato bonLbing_L'f Amiyi^-nn aiol ()ther non-Chinese ves>(«]s on the Y'angtze.” Even before the president could a<'t, the Japanese government press- (sl every effort to allay the indigna tion that .stHimi'*! rising in the capi tal. Aniha.ssa«lor .Saili> calleil early on Secretary Hull to inform him that hi.H government accepU“<l full respon sibility for the incident which he charac.teriziHl as “a great mistake, a great blunder.” He expressed hts" “deep regret.” About the same time the United States ambaKslMlor to Tokio, Joseph (’. Grew, was rweiving the formal aiM)logies of th«* Japanese govern ment. A dispatch from Admiral Y'arTiell, commanding American shijm in China, that Uhat the Japane.se eommander- in-chief had or<lert*<l the Japanese guntmat Hozu to pr(K-e«*<l from Nan king to help care for .American sur- hu-sharMl, J. W. Earhardt, publisher vivors of the Panay and two Standanl of The Newberry Observer, ami may or of Newberry; by four daughters, Mrs. Glenn K. Klutts, Mr.s. H. L. Huffman, Mrs. 1. M. Satlerwhite and Miss Eloi.se Earhardt, all of New berry; by two Hon.s, George B. Ear hardt and J. W. Earhardt, Jr., both of Newberry; one sister, Mrs. Emma McOary of this city, and by aeveral grandchildren. City Schools Close Tuesday A repoit .submitted by -Thompson^—engine**^—with rens ('ivilian t'onservation The Christmaa holiday sea-son for pupils of the city .schools will begin next Tue.sday and continue until Jan uary 3rd, the vacation period being .shorter than in recent years. The Thomwell orphanage schools will close for the Christmas season camp, I Class work will terminate tomorrow showed that 248.9 miles of tractor j at Presbyterian college for the holi- terraces had been built this yearj<Jays. Classes will be nfsumed on the BChooP in moncy"and support and -on—42_farnis aL^^ average cost _of | moriung of January 4th. made the initial gift towai^ hutWmg-42~4t rnile4-ahat 188 farma'with 2,-1 a . Smyth dormitory; Dr. A. E. Spencer, four times president of the coWege, dean*of the faculty, and now vice- president and treasurer; Dr. W. G. Neville, under whose presidency the administration building was erected; Dr. D. M. Douglas, who as president saw the ddllege enter upon its great est period of growth; and James Ferdinand Jacobs, son of the founder, once a professor of the school, and of ficially connected with it for many years. At the unveiling, sketches of the seven honored men, prepared by Dr. Dudley Jones, were read. The handsome portraits are hung in the chapel, with the exception of that of J. F. Jacobs, which hangs in the forum room furnished in his honor by his son, W. P. Jacobs, now president of the institution. 961-acreage area are under agree ment for terracing through the as- ROAD WORK BEGINS The state highway department be- sociation; that a total of 955,000 igan work Thursday morning on the trees had been planted during the lower end of Route 66, beginning at in the early last season, ending spring. Soon the planting of more than 900,000 seedlings'will get under way Trom Clinton to Chappells five ami a in the county. The association members present at the meeting and visitors for the day were dinner guests of the local civilian camp officers. All officers of the as.'iociation were elected for another year, with Jack H, Davis, Sr., Clinton presi dent; F. P, Childress, Laurens, vice- president; J. G. Roy, Laurens, trea.s- urer, and C. B. Cannon, county agent, as secretary. Tom Davenport’s store, in the direc- Oil vessels. It was believi*<l “regret.s” may come dirtH-'tly from the Japanese emperor, in view of the president’s message to him. IHpIomatic circles coupled the vis it of Briti.sih Ambas.sa<lor Sir Ron- aUi Lindsay to Secretary Hull ami the President’s mention of “other mm-Chiriese vessels” in his message to the emperor. They took this to mean that a state of consultation, if not of co- op<*ration, exi.sted Indween the Unit ed States and Great Britain with resptHTt to the incident. Japane.se planes, besides sinking the American boats, al.so hit a Briti.s>h gunboat. A majority of members of the two •houses of congress' who expressed their opinion of the incident cither on or off the floor said the sinking was proof that the United States should have withdrawn- its men-from- the scene of conflict, and that, at any rate, the inci<lent should not germinate into a struggle between tlre'lwtr“p?5wr5r t— ,T.here wa.s some strong condem- Senator of nation of Jaiianc'se actions. Key Pitman, who, as chairman the foreign relations committee of the senate, is the most authoritative member of both houses on foreign tion of Chappells. 'Phe road when ^^tters, declared in a statement that complete<l will shorten the distance half miles. Cotton Ginnings StiU Climb Up Christmas Cantata At Training School Cotton ginning.s in Laurens county prior to December 1st, amounted to 28,408 baJes as compared with 17,713 to the same date last year, according to the report of the county cotton statistician. This is an increase for the year of 10,695 bales. On Sunday afternoon, December 19, at 5 o’clock, the boys’ and girls’ choir of the State Training .school will pre sent a Christmas cantata, “Music of Bethlehem,” in four parts, by Holton, j Forty voices, trained by Mrs. William , Brooks Owens, will take part in the dantata. The public is cordially invit ed for this special Christmas pro gram. ’ We Say, Thanks’ One of our valued and con sistent 01 i n t o n advertisers writes THE CHRONICLE: “I just want to say after looking over your paper of last week, and judging from so many adverti.sements appearing together, and the huge space given to Santa’s arrival and the clear type used, that I think it’s the best paper you have produced during the past five years.” “As a mercantile establwh- ment of the city, we wish to thank you for your cooperation and effo^ tb get customers to trade in Clinton.” -“Uiese cries of accidents-to neutrals and neutral ’vwtsejs an* becoming in- tolenable.” He said it was “little sati.sfaction” to receive Japanese “regn‘t.s,” de manded that “Borne high Japanese of ficers” 1m* punishwl, an<l hinted the incklents might have bwn <k*liberate for the pur{>bse of frightening neutral countries into withdrawing complete ly fpoin China. •Senator .Smathers (Democrat), of New Jersey, sent S<*cretary Hull an open letter urging withdrawal of all American .ships from the danger zone and asking that American citizens be advi.sed to leave. Senator Borah (Ri'publican), of Idaho, threw a new note into the dis- cu.ssiun on the flot»r by intimating that the gunUiat I’anay was on the Yangtze to protect the Standard Oil tank era. Secretary of State Hull, who spent one of th^ busiest days of his life 4 a result of the Panay sinking, clcariy expressed his grave view in one of bis dispatches to Ambassador Grew in Tokyo. I V-ftfffcM itoVi-Haiihi t'