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■/ / I V.. -J' •, ■^.'1 \. / THE CHRONICXE StriTcs To Be a.Qemn Newspaper, Complete, Newsy, and Reliable. Eht QlUntntt /- If Too Don't Read THE CHRONICLE Top Don't Get the News. VOLUME XXXIX CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1939 NUMBER 36 FDR PROCLAIMS U.S. NEUTRALin President Invokes* Law That! St<H[i6 Shipment of Arms Abroad. Government Guards | Ajirninst Propajuranda In U. S. j Was^hingtoTi, Sept. 5.—With an his-l tonne stream of proclamations and j significant hut informal statements, President RooeeveK told the a-orld of' America’s neutrality today, clamped' doTfvn the neutrality act’s tight em bargo on aims shipnH*nt.s to the bel- ligirents and disclost^l that: ^ i (Japs in t;>e national defen.^e are! soon to be fiili*d by increasing the personnel of the navy, now at only j tio per cent of pt'ace tinie strtmgth, i and augmenting the <k‘fensive garri son at the Panama cairal.' A flotilla of World war destroyers will be reconditioned and recommis- aiontnl to take up the dramatic task ‘ of patrollirkg American territorial wa- tsra, presumably to see that they doj not become the scene of violations of i neutral rights by belligerent war ship*. Measures will be taken to combat pTopagainia aim<-<l at the .American form of government, es|M»using com munism, dictatorship and the like, and to prevent the L’niteil .States from becoming a center for the gath ering of information useful to the belligerents. In all, there were three proclama tions, the first, in tcc<»rdance with inteamational law, notifying the in terested nations that America would he officially neutral, the second in voking the arms ban of tihe neutrality law, and the third <lealing with pro tective measures at the l*anama canal. But. the presiilent had a press con ference, too, and, .><eated at his desk <vpp<*sit4* a big map of INdand, on which brown and black lines >how«'d the prog'.^*>> of the fighting there, h*- outline<i the adiiitional things which ths- aiiministration ha* in miml. and on vari«*us aspes'ts of th<‘ war situatem, as it affect* th.* I’nited State.*. One thing he made as plain a* day: That the embargo automattoally au- percedea any or^rs a/ cofitracta fnr' aimaft which American manufactur ers may he filling for the nations at war. There had he«Ti some confusion on that punt, and the president wa- evplicrt. He made it clear, t«s>, that (J.T- tnany’s <ienia! that a Nazi sulmiarine aarik the Hntish liner with many Arm; waits on Ituard. is r».rt yet ac- cept.<d here. Inveatigations are being made, h« -awl, with .ifficials of the American dipkmiatic .conis in Kng- Uuren. county fs-m.-- am g*. to lan,| and Ireland questaming surviv- to vote n a r. fer- « rs and «».herwi>e as.sembling inf«»r- on the .{uestion of organiz-ng mat on. It was plain that a dipk.mat- a separate ■<•11 conser- ic pn-test u* the HiUer government district. C. K. ( annon. county was pt^sible. agent, has announce.1 that ad land In addiUor. the president diarl.MHl entitled to vote m the that one decision had been reached. ^^ich 2« boars will be American nava* veaeeht will mK be Managers have been name.! sent to convoy Amencan passenger p„,i, ^,,j ^ ^p^ y , ^ enrps thruugh the mibmarine i<*ne. i*, d p m Inistead, the ships will have Anw-ncan ' ... fl«r. I.m.«i ». hull. d«rk. .nd .u- . T*"’ h)' .,11 k«T to U. U.U.I t'*'' fol- .h„.p.n» ..II not .hip., "> •■u™** • ..II not folio. . «>ur-. imi '*T will nwh. no of thoir «1.J- ul... I’ndor nurh oreun-Unw, h. <1 <^tod. ..II .*W. it .ould h. hirhiT difficult f..r > *> »•» ""iity NEW YEAR’S WORK TO BEGIN AT PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE TUESDAY EnroUment Expected To Equal That of l^ast Year With All Dor mitory Space Reser^. Two Chanj^es In Faculty. Program of Orientation and WelcofnV Arranged For Freshmen. Prewbyterian college will open its doth .sesBion on next Tue>«biy, Sep tember 12, with its fourth consecutive President’—^I)r. William P. Jacobs. Greek and Frerub—I>r. A. E. Spen cer. ,, .... ,, , I, i G<‘rman and Sfwnis’n—IVof. Both- 1 capacity enrollraent I><*an Marshall W. (j^raham j Brown stakyl yes.tenlay. Improve- English -Dr. M. G. W<KKlworth. jments and rt^paies^-iw-docThit.irTes ami Associate-m Kngh.sh — Prof. Kurt '«t>K‘r campus buildings have Ikkm Weln-r. |compl<‘t<sl in preiwration for the open-j Hjble and Keligion— Dr, 1). J. |ing of tV new year. Ulrinini. I The freshmen will r<>Fw>rt on Tim*s-| iVof. Ih‘rnanl H. Boyd. I day and regi.ster on Wivlnesdlay. Old: FA-onomics-Dr. ,1. H. Kennedy. stii<ierit.s will iviMirt on Thursrlay ami j Business Administration ~ Prof. Ih- matriculated on Friday. i Kenneth N. Baki-r. i The program of orientation for: Chemistry—I*rof. 11. K.'StiirgiHm. i”fn-shnian week” will be usiherttdl in j iI*.sych(dogy and Philosophy—Dr. F, Tiiesdkiy evening when supjH'r will be' D, jMirvdHi in th<‘ dining hall. Following; History Dr. Marshall W. Brown. I the meal hour a program will be pre-; ''sAmtiM in the chapel at which timej wx'lcome luhiruKses will lie fnrni' the dkan of th<‘ c<dl<*ge ami pn'aifbmts j of th<* Y. .M. G. A. ami stuikmt laxly, j This will 'lie followixl by an informal j rtxxirtion for tin* new m<m given by sistant F«x»tl»all ( oach da<k .Nixon th«* Y. M. < . A. j Dinctor of Ikulio—Hugh Holman. W<*<lru«s4lay morning at K::iOth«-first I Dirx-ctor of Physical Efliieation— 'devotional ex<Tei.M*s for freshmen w'lll Walter A. .lohnwm. lx* hi-ld in tb»* chaH. foHowisl by ant Assistant Ihixs-tor of Physieal Edu- iutixxluetkni of tb«‘ fat uity ami phwe- oatHm lAinnie S. MoMillian. men! Uttla. In the afl«»rmx>n confer- <'tices will be Ihdd with the faculty, ajxl ngiNtralHin will take plats*. At F'rench—I>r. S. M. Huntley. Physic.s—Dr. Neill (J. Whitelaw, Biology—I>r. H. S. Fish. Education—Dr. .1. G. Banlen. >Iath<*matics—Dr. H. K. Sptneer. Ass«x*iat4‘ in .Matiamatics and As- Ca.*|HT 7:.'IU in the cha|x‘| th«*re will Iw talks from offksTs of tlx* variouK stutleni orgBJiiuitMmM. DrvulionaJ excncdiMv* at K:30 Thure- day morning will be folKrwed by pxy-! .Assisluiit Ffxrtlxill C<»ach llullman. Bti.sebwll Coach 4’. E. Galloway. Tennis Cdahch —William C. LuGer. Pn»ft“ssor ««f .Military Science and Tactic*—Major Alexamler H. Cum- ming*. AanintAnt ITofetwor of .Military Sci- County Fanners To Vote Friday On Soil Plan WAR BULLETIN BOARD City chitlogHwl bsit*. Tlx* nmairwler <.f ttx*, ,.nop ,nd Tactics .Major lawnnee J. day will lx* given over to «s»nfer»»nce* Fergiaxm. ixvuuning <o the y«wr’* w.*rk with! AwiMtmi in Military .Scienev and faculty nxmlhers ami athlisl rxs*rt- TucticK —.Sergeant St**rlin Young, atHfoal kwturi**. Erxioy will lx* giv«*n, Colb*ge |•hy-K•’mnv Dr. S. C. Hays, over Ut organisation work and the |»r. (». Khaim*. Jr. niM fmg of cla*>*.s. I College Dffkrrx <>fi .Satuniay evening at eight 1 ... „ . . . ^ .. o’cKx k the M. <’. A. and C<dlege ^ resident and Treasun*r-I>r. I taint's will give a re»x<iHH*n in Ixtnttr ’ • P’rirer. of the IH W xlUiJenOt. Sumlay mthming »’r^- the studentx will lx* welrmetl in tht* * " J^urgtxm, U-hurrh.t' of the cKy. foHowtsI by a‘ ' ' * '‘."’^'1*. . ‘xixsiai V. M. C. A. HMs^une in lhe^‘ ' * *'• chatxd in the ev^ing at 7;:iU. 1 . i w ii ii i .Sivcral of the <4d atutleiiU. im-m ' Manager John Holland hwa of tlx Y. M. C. A. ami *lui*ent! ct>urK*iI, will arrive the latter part tif this Week to axMiKt the rolk ge author- itii- in extrmling ;he “giaii hatxl” tti •x-w Ntutk'frie aixl htdp in ailaptmg them Ul their Tx-w enviruninent ft» the m at njtx- mtuvlhs. Twtt change** are niatle in thi* faeui ty for the romiiig yiwr. Hugh Holman a belhgerent submarine to make a area as a whole, with laiurms as mistake. headquarters. It was arxither busy day for the The following vetting place* and chwrf executive, filled with confer-, managers U» serve thia section <tf the encea on the war situation. In early ^umy have been announced: afternoon, he signed the first procla-( ('Imton, Clinton Production ( redrt mation. After his preaa conference he j ^*^”*‘**’^—1^*** Ijinford and Jack signed the otbers. And aJwa3rs he was*^* in touA with the state department on -Aiiderxon s Store, 6 miles north <rf deveiornnents abroad. , Clinton—E. F. Ander.Mm and Gager The reporters, tixxiping into his of- fice, were attracted first of all by a| C-ros* Hill, Martin’^ Store— L. E. huge display of maps-on a standard • •^* ^*^^* fac..')g Mr. Roosevelt’s desk. One was Mountville. .Mitchells .Store—( . F. a map of Europe. Thumbtacked at Mitchell and f*. \l. Finley, the edge of it wa« a large chart of Renno—W. E. B<*II and I>aviJ Cope- , Poland. R.ack lines showed the (Jer- Ibnd. nvan position as of iJeptember 3,! Goldville, Joanna Mercantile Co.— -fbrown lines showed the I^lish forti-,^* R-^Workman and S. G. Ihllard. (fiied lire. It appeart*d*that Mr. Roose-I^ "I _* _ ~ veK’s official information was that j lO alOlU the Nazi had broken through the Pol-j ga a ish line from Slovakia. However, con-j CcOllGfifC a BCUltV trary to the German claims as ofj ” September 3, the <^rt showed that | ” the Nazi armies advancing from East'. Gienn Barden, inatructor Prussia and from Germany propt*T in education at Duke university, will an effort to meet and choke off thei**^'" Presbyterian college faculty Polish Corridor were still 80 to 100 ** professor of education mile* apart sociology, according to an an- • In invoking'the neutrality act, Mr. j Pre.*^ident W. P. Ja- Roosevelt gave effect to a law wk-h,'’’^^ college. The new profes- whioh he i* in outrighc disagreement, su^eeds Dr. Clarence R. Ham- . He wants the arms embargo removed, j accepted the po.'ition of so that ai: belligerents will have ac- educational psyolKiIogy cess to .American markets. In prac-1 ^ Liberty State Teacher? tice this would mean that Great Brit-I^|^^j” West Virginia, ain and her allies could buy here, and is a graduate of the Bl^iAPI>T D iiNmialx- fiom VVx'-aw ^y (;»• =«» ; -ix-lling city ?fi «x| a«iv»'c« rii tigh broken |N». -n dcfc*i'« r* • *iiMH*rit. cm- b«r nand th«tu«aiiii *.f ci’izcn* icav.ng War-aw BERLIN. Polh.*h p>an«-* fail to ap- pMir over dark**n«*«l Keirh capital tlxKigh Ihdixh radx> !»aid cairx**! out. W’A.''H1N<JT0N.—Prrsxlrflt k4x*e- vel: pr<x-lainw t'nitral State* rx utrmli- ty: AnxTkOin* munt maintain **■»»- lartial neutraJity,” Ixit no l>an on “free eapre.-.jiMtn of opinxm and sym pathy.” BERLIN. —Germarxi anixtunce cap ture of rich imluxtr'al citHw of Kato wice; s*y P<iJe« retnmting “badly shattered” arxl on«;^ entire }\i]ixh di- viekm cru.*vhed. \VAR.^.A\V. — (J«*rTnans advance »outhw’ard to within .Ml miles of War saw, whH’h IS virtu^|Jj^jiyixpt«J af ter numerous air raids; gi*vemnrM*nl off Kern flee; refugees inchide most I Americans «if capital. IX>NIK>.\. Athenia survivirrs, reaching Irish and Scottish fxn-ts, say ve«««‘l was torpe<k(e<i and shelled by submarine, ridicule Reriin denial at tacker was (k-rman; numlx*r of cas- ((onlinued on (age two) Schools To Start New Year MM • tta • t‘J H*«- r-xniii* Jtw. iiUKn ••uiniaii , „. , , This Morning *- ^dx. ssimg,J;- _ _ ^ J<din H. IWi-h.*^. Jr . Ih^. J. <: Bar '»»"' AM-iant t4» Jiiisim*-' Managis* — Mr* <I«s»rge W. Tayj«»r. Libdinan M'illanI I.. Jimi**. .VrixOant labrarMn .Mrs. Eugifie Jtdin^m. K4gi^:ar Mr*, lallian Gross Brown. Ihr«'rt*»r«f IVixmm I Henry Manv- Th. « . ..ton city m Ix-.N. whrt. amL w.li .i-n lb... 4U *4^ \ »»"rx*k a* of Mon thi< nxHming at h 4U. The build ^ Nix.m, m »!. rtxm to <ng- hav. b.*4 n put in firxt-class f.xglall each dit on during th< summer. Sufrt . M..nts saxi yestenlay. arxl everything*'" inaUiem«t«. !•- in rsadim*** for the formal «qxm-! really for i w j The naaplrCr faruRy for the IMH- Thesrh<-.l*ha4l|nevxwisJyixsman-^J" rx.urKe,l by the lna*te«. to <n»«m August 3lst. The delay of «»ne week [ was made by the Ixanl as a health | |mi*cauti«ui, they staUsl. | Mrs. Myi^r Mrs. |inx*H* Me- Matron Hunter Infirmary Matnm .^wam. t <»lk*ge Matron .Mr*. <’arl Brain- 1441. .'w*»rt<ary to the Prvsnk*nt Mias Annie Ism Norman. S^enlary Mrw. Narci.ssa Gray .A«lair. kMias FVmnctw MeKee. Clinton Mills Pushing For Top < linPm .Mills ailvanceil Saturday to within one game of tlx* lUJil* Mid- f’andina l.'Mgue championnhip by trtfuncing Joanna 4 to 2 in a cbxiely- played game. A big third-inning up rising which netbsl thr<*e runs wax tfhe big fnrUtr in thv l.ical t.-am’s triumph. TIh* two rivals m«<l lH*re again al 4:l.’i Knday aftem.xin. If the (Tmton team cafitures the n<*xt game in the series, the vk-iory wHl tarry arith h. the league championship. GREATEST STORY OF GENERATION BROKE QUIETLY AT DAWN SUNDAY that I Germany could not. The British fleet would see to that. The prerident has announced he will oaR a special University of North Carolina and did graduate work on M. A. and Ph.D. de grees at the Teachers College of Co session of congress to revise the law, university. He had teach- but today he still left indefinite theit^ experience in the high s<#iool* of date on which #iat would be done. Carolina, as a tutor . m iin the City College of New York, in- Miaa Helen MiNer d Cneawrood,' structor of education at Ddce univer- ^wae the gueat Friday of (Mr. and Mrs. W. G. King and attended the horse ahow in tlie evening. sity, and as dkectxir of education in the foreign miarlon at Wemho Nyanm, Belgian Congo. IN CLINTON bk; .i-bayi event ...for... THRIFTY SHOITERS i 'Thursday, Fri day, Saturday Sept. 14, 15, 16 Make your plans now to,be in Clinton for thi.s big Dollar Day observance, offering an opportunity to par ticipate in bargains you can’t afford to mis.s. Next week’s fssue of THE CHRONICLE will give all details. And as a climax to the 3-day event, an automobile or $500 in ca.sh is to be given away FREE on the la.st day, Saturday, Sep4. 16th. - *— New York, Sept. 3.—The grmlesi xt(wy this generation « new war in FXirope- unfnliied swiftly, diamat- kaMy, and y*< aJrmx-t quietly at dawn Sufxlay in the new* room of Itx* A*- *oria(t4^ iVe** in Rockef<*ller Cumtee. Outxide thi* f*t)m<s were gray ami ♦firpty, aave for a f.-w worshipper* hurryirgr t»» St. Patrick’s cathe<ir»I. • hkirk away <m Fifth avxTiue, for ^Hy mass. Wi the brilliantly-Iighti**! AP tx-ail- quartor* it might have been just an- <jtheT Sunday nximing except that men, akwl for w«**ks for tlx* nxmien- tous woixl* from aJtroad, w«*n* waiting . . . waking. Everything was ready to flash aero?? 1’hi* contim*nt on m*ws ami wrr<-ph<k4» wire* the black ami white nxTonJ <rf hbetory in the making. In citk« throughout the* country other rm<n w<‘r«* waiting, watching AP wirtw. At 2:28 a. m. a l*aris litory went over the wirua. TIh* telegraphic print- <fl's clicked out th«* m*w.s that tlx* Duke iff Wimltxir was imixvtk'n-t to n*- tum to' England. Amkdier story from Bu<*nos Ain*s . . . the Argenthx* government wa* nr- p<Mt4'd intefxling to n*main mnitraJ in the event of an Eun^pisin war. 3:2-1 a. m. ... a fiUiry fr<»m War saw ... the guvt<rr>nx*nt ha4l an- mmnred that m-Ixm>Lr, nave for thoar cimvertixl into Ixxqdtai?, would reopen Si-pt ember 11. f’««ci*ful enough, hut ixhtor* and writer* were mk to be taken off guard hy them* thing*. Th*ui It canrx* with a jolt ... a hid- Itdin time at 4:214 a. m. . . . Britain ha4i given (Js-rmany until r> a. m. to answer h«T uKimatum. Otherwise ■ stat<‘ of war w<*uJd exist. Still, th«* m'ws clH-k^sl off prowairal- ly . stoi-^** from lk*rlin, Dindon, Paris . . . <xld fragnx'iits of m*ws on tht* tnuihkxl ^ualxin. Anil th«>n the s<*xtnd jolt again from liomlon . . . tht* time limit had lM*eri F>as.*ii-d. .M**n wait«*«l a little more t«*ns4‘ly. A Irttlf* after h o’cl<x*k it came: F-l-a-s-h; liorxion — Ohani'lx'rlain {)r<x*laime<l Britain at war with Gs*rmany. Tht* wire* dickwl out tht* news acrteiS the courrtJ'y—war I First World War As Reported In 1914 Twenty-five years ago Ia.st Sunday j ish war vesst*l. Tht* British aon-haasa- moming, citizen* of this community jdor was seeking to swing Amerk‘an and eloewhere rt«d from 1.|h* m'w.s-1 sentiment to the* allktl cause. Planes papers the reports of the Grst World! battled over I*aris, and the Frunch war, then well umier way. Gtjrmany i government planned to move to Bpr- jwas invmling France ami Belgium, ideaux. ' English Tommies were f’lghlirff? in de-1 The, United States and Panama Ifense of Paris, Ru.'isia was an ally j agreed to U. S. control of two'har- and Turkey was planning to join thejbors near the Pananiia canal, atrate- Germana. There were echoes of war gical in case of war in this hemis- in all parts of the world. 1 phere. A-n American cruiser stood The newspaper reader of September j ready to evacuate Americans from 3, 1914, read that tbe German liner, j France to Bnglafxi. Kronprinz Welhehn, an Atlantic wan derer einee leaving New York after the deda-ration of European war, had been waylaid and captioed 'by a Brit- In the South Garolma news was a report that eentimarrt for Richard L .Manning for governor of South iina wae ruiaiing strong.