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THE CHBONtCLB SirlTct To B« ft Caoift Ntwipaptr, Compiott, Newqr, ud MlftMt. VOLUME XL MANY KILLED IN AIR RAIDS A- . i.*. ^rWr. ■4 Bl I . atm If Tov Dm’I UmA THE CHRONICLE Tm DoB’t M Um News. / CLINTON, a/d., THURSDAY, ^ MARCH 7, 1940 Red Planes Kill 50 la Town Deep In Flnkuid. Hospitals Bombed, Women Abmnic Yie- tinis of Rnsrfan Ahnnen. ' ♦ Noted Lecturer Coming To Clinton Dr. Clia;te E. Barker To Speak Hefs March 11 Under Ana- pkjes of Rotary dob. NUMBER 10 Barkky Praises New Deal ^wrt As-Austui Scoriis Drys Want Vote On Lkiuor Issue Four mbHon addlta, diree Mfh eebod atudents, and ini least 60'^ million edlege r i\ ■ f- pecamw wire kOled and aeorea wound ed in St small south eentral Phmiah town yeateiday when iRitaakn planaa eserated one ^ their arorat borahing ralda of the war. ' Five din^ tdts were scored on^a hoepvtad, «nd one homb drovi>e(Pdn an air raid ahdtar. The raWepa, dhring war " Of "The douda to 1,400 or 1,700 feet,, swept over in two fights 60 mimtea apait. fifteen of the bombs struck in the vkiniity of a snUiitary boepital and one Ug exidoeive missile arent directly down the atanway from the top of the fourHSbory building to the bottom. Twenty-five persona, neaz^y aft of them women, were killed when a bond) hit the top of the air raid shel ter. I Two hundred bombs, ail eflPective, were dropped in the mid by 82 pla iuet after j| party of five newspaper correspoQdentB and pno- tographers arrived in the town, tatry oensorah^ forbdds namy^ the town). ^ The attack, a esunple ^ the warfare whidi Russia /is pressing home, came as the Fims with their own airforce had haahwi and machine gomned Red axmy /detadiments at tempting 4x) croes/use-«ni8ited Viipuri bay. The Finns/^aid they stdl were holding the Ruhaians at the outsknts of that batteri^ port Some Russian troops wero drowned and several tanka sunk in huge fis- . eures of the ice of Viipuri bay, opened . Up when bomba and artillery fir^ on the attackers coming west in an at tempt to encircle the city, unofficial Finnish reports said! The Fii^sh high oomraat^ said fighting wtffl wia ia proftraas' among the rugged inlgts et dm mouth of the hag, and iftta Ffamiah atift waved i)xNa VUpori^ hietnric ^tle. Aftfacugh bmvy ftglftiw niobad the nrined ci7*a oetoWihh Fhsns aa- ‘ had,not en DOM tMpRW Oy tM MOTEMM Charles E. Barber, leetumr er of the princi^es of fwhlth and right Irving, in the quante^^entury he has devoted ho this Dr. Barker ia c to Clinton Seventh Anniversary Marked By Analysla Befwe’ Small Group In Senate Hall. LONDON—Britain seisea five Ital ian jmipM^ in ooal-hlockade o^; an- $1,200,000,000' war hmn, plana develop tra^ in United Stetm and Sooth Aroeridu ^ j HBLSINKI.—Finnish planes bombj Red army foroea oroasing Gulf ofj Washington, March 4.—^The teVentfi Finland ice to endrele Viipuri; battle jaimiveraary of Preaident Rooeevelt’a for ancient port reaebao city’s out-jfhet inaugoral evoked from (Senator akiita. iflaridey (D., KY.) today a speech . With the British in France.-HBrit-,«*toH«ff ^^e adimniatration’a rec^ i«h ExpedHionary fo«a communique!^ • Prefer Straight Wet-Dry Ballot ing Rather Hum On SUte Store Qnestion. HOUSE DIVDES ONROAD Tie Vote Kilh Tax Diversion Propoaal of Thking One Cent Gaa.Tax From Highway De partment. Orangeboigf March 2.—Sooth Car-, mpemce taadem want a •SNA-dry” issue adbrniM toj Oohnafcia, Mardh 5. — An evenly- in thc|<i}triK)iri house epeiled defeat today for in a referendum Aqguet Deaaocratic priasazy ratharl She gasaltioo of private or atahe opawsUoB of liquor stores as enec-hound vision for to add to the free-oonfer- approprkstksi bill a pro- one cent of the six- axr reports German captm-e of British^ ^ , . priaonem in raid, British intake post ^ doctrine thst “des^K-i Thla visar was eiqmeased by to Naria.^^ *^!racy will not work any kmger.”^^ [itev. Aftmiri D. BettA axeeotiwa —‘ .— ^ Fed^wted Forees Sfl bf Ooveraor Burnet R. Majdiaak, cent gasoline tax from the highway the New Deal pt m, dqr apokesman eaid today 'FARlS.--P6riih.emigrt:fwiSSi^ accuses Germans of executkms eri,*^ *’1^, •, vajedwitcry” tor w masse in campaign to exterminate **®^*^^*f' Ishould ‘’assume that thia repdbhc ia Jenwalem. — Stones fly in Jewish demonstration against ifew British land law. Sales Tax Is Now Advocated Two Senators Join To Push Fight For Measure At This Session of Legislature. competent to govern itself. ” Barkley reviewed , the New Deal 'record at length while a half doaen Republican eenators, and peihaps twice as many Demoeratp sat lis tening. There was nothing approach ing a give-and-take debate. ’ He de livered his address and then Austin made 1^ reply, each without inter- Columbia, Mardi 4.—Senator John F. Williams of Aiken, an ardent eetles tax advocate, believes that his, long efforts to gA the general assembly , department and using U. for general the,0tate purpoaea. - liVwMa! RcproaentsiSwes voted 55 to~ 5r^ a~" ^ wate Fedgraoed ruTM j pj^opossi of Repreeentative Poag of far to *..rt «« hHrh^r who a«J^ ttntmeae Jeadeta' ^ wbo mgaid euminatHii of liqiaor' whdltaalwa, aa provided in a means rejection. to the geneiwl appropri- atkm hiH. as a “vety damwrous pro- ^ **** “ ^ ^ euhetitate for the i senate plan to --rhe teaqxrance foUts,” Betts said.‘>**» dimina^ am not addng tor md>mission of the.^"*, ^ state or privatrfy operated store tion. ‘^Hkj want a atraight wet-dry vote ant Aapmt, aa is pro^^ded tor in a pending house bill already paas- ription from any one, As on the day of his first inaugu-jed hy the ration, Mr. Roosevelt attended serv- “The growing temperance aenti- Ices at St. John’s Protestant Bpisco-jment in our state wiH not be satis- pal church. There, he heard Dr. ifled with anything lees than an pp- Ehidioott Peabody, his headnuuiter A | postumty to vote upon the questten of Groton sohod, pray for his spirit-Jhe continuanoe af> the legal sale of ual guidance and for delivery fftm ;liiibxidiii^g Hquonr.”' cruelties of irar.” Mr. Roosevelt was! With regand to the appropriation whiskey lax. The whole appropriataon question was reopened f\dl-fledged debate When the house decided to amend sen ate amendments to the general money bUl. First step was to adopt a general amendment mhetituting $13,135,- 792 house bill for the $14,125,922 .measure sent over from the senate, f- The Poag movefflenT W^ offemf as Ian amtvMhnent to the house amend- DR. CHARLES E. BARKER 'A,' \ ued the dty. Though Finns unofficiany admitted that fsJl of the cky was mevitsble, the obdurate defenders said (they had tought off fierce attacks from the southeast, where the Russians had approached doeest, as well as the tnms-hay thrusts. With main iatereA Centered upon this western rim of the KareUsn isth mus the Finns’ high comamuKl said there waa ‘^rMing actrvily by ar- tiliery” on the easterit end of the isthmus front where continoed Soviet pounding has filled to brdak through the Taipsle seoUir. . I Northsjjst of Lake Isuioga flghting “weed up, but Fhmiah Mgh oom- msad said 50<^Roeeiaas had hew ksHed in tha Kuhmo area, mkhray akng the Rueaian-JSnniBh frontier. A cofrespondent tor the newspaper Helsingin Ganomat repotted from the Ladoga front that Ffanuna had ptckied up a wireleae meessge toom a trapped Russian detachnient appealing to Moeeow for help, The appeal,, sent by a pofttical com- mieear, said the detachment was “doomed” imleBs lidp was toithcom- ing at once. The sise of the unit wae not indicated, but the fact that k had a wirslees sender seemed to mean R waa impootant, pbsalily indudfaig a divisional staff. ynoBg Moifts ef the UnRad Skatea next Monday, March 11, to addrees the high school Audents and the peo ple of Canton under the auspices of the Roti^ club. He wHl speak to Clinton high school students in chapel at 9i30 and will address the Rotary cldb A their 12:15 luncheon. His Grind address will be given at the orphan age dwpel A 8 p.m. The public is invited to thb addrees. « Dr. Batker holds unlversRy degraes aa doctor of hygiene and physicA cul ture. While WMam Howi^ Ti^ wga president of the United tat^ Dr. BaHcsr spent on hour a dhy wRh him, fcaaptog Iftm fR tor his job. Then be gan his lecture work devoted to the to enact such a levy may be crowned Vcompanidd by Mrs. RooeeveR and,aanendment cRnMnatii« ftquor' whole- amendnwnt. This with success now thA the state’s' several members of the cabinA andisalerH as a revenue meswure. ®ompucaitecl j^riiainenta^ prooM financial plight has been accentuAedI OongresA Vice iPreskient Gsener said temperanoe leadeta regarded it neceeaary m order^to bring to the by invaESSKn of t^ $2,000,000 high-jwas invited to accompany the paTty,|as “a very dangerous provision,”■ expreesion of the bouse the way diveirSkm and by senate passage of an appropriation Mu short an ee- timated $2,000,000 of revenue. To take advantage of the mtua- bA seA his tegrets. Barkley told the Senate that [whsch a'stores ’'genuine comptimeA” to PreeideA RooeeveR and the New Deal was to tion he has dmged his tomier pro-*be found in the attitude of Republi- poeals come whA and gained a vmlu-jcan presidential candidates and the aHe Aly in the person of Senator j program committee which Geotge K. Lmiey of Chesterfield, a eubmdtted. its report reccAdy. m “the way anrmoorporated for liquor towns, vil lages and even in roiafl diatriets. Vig orous opposition to thoe is expected in 'the house.” j Govetnor Majdwnk^ suggestion was' to subaA the question of state or> vAsraa chauapion ci pdUk school education and the eliminatkm of state property taxes. WURams told newspapermen thA he plaipmd to offer a aalea tax Mil wMA would eamark 'the revamia tor the support of sdoeatton and pid>- Ik ureffare. One-third A the rsvenue from tha Rut would ba turned to the eoustlea on tfie con^tkn Gat Miftkas A high school Audenta and thsir mothers and fathers have lis tened to hk addresses on the prob lems of youth and parenthood. Binoe going on the ketor^ plat form he has delivered ovw 11,000 ad-, drosses. , p Without any edkpt A preaohmg and withoA any orAorioal Oouriahss, Dr. Barker has left a imAound im pression on the livet A these millions of young people. HR meA popular lecture, “flow To^fake the MoA OA A life,’* has been delivered to tluwe miftion boys and glrR A high school the oousRRa wAid hot tet taxes they weulAiH gA the money,” Wftliams eald. “Tm with him on this,” Laney^as- “None A them,” he said “recom mend the repeA or aubstantial modi- privAriy-opersted Hquor stores, a fkatkn A a single .ntajor 1 act nbkh bm been psnaed undsr the BoomvoR adiAniftratkn. The moA they claim RHiA they need kaprova- mcA and tint those twho have noth ing to do with their fahrksition ars better qualified to improve them than their gponsors. serted. “We fight for R.” are going to make a menta hava mt bean mads 4a gairization A our form A goverrareA or the kfeak concerning R which are embedded in the hearts of our pkoirie One A tea aeerAa A A Dr. Barlpsr m a lectmtur to high tehool yoAhs R hR undantending A young people and hR dhwot appaai to theur namtelRy* Ha mafcau Ua talks to youth appaai to the kRalRm A youth. Shows an approcRthm A theR problaina, and from a lifatiine A cx- perRno^ he speaks frankly arithout offending. Dr. Bartter has been a member A the Rotary elUb A Grand Rapids, •fioh., Mnoe October, 1921. He comes to CHnton through tlk courtesy A the Rotary dub as a oontrlbutkn A community mrtdos. Finance Head Of Sjmod Asks Sum Chamber MeeR' Tuesday Night Venire Announced For Court Twrm bA theee advances have been made In the tax, and use of suto- Hbm for general pur- to the peopR in a referandtam Boyd’s To Opoi Clinton Store difficidt quMtions wbkh wdl the kevitsbie free eoAerence com- nrittee when R begins k» work of drafting a oompromise approprRtion measure. Possibdky that the fight for the Fong amendmeA would be renowed tomorrow was seen by the fact OhA the houae adkomed betore a motion to apply tha parhamsAary dindher oouM <ba acted upon. RepnaaAAiva SUmk A oppoaad fist pas tax Aversion meA om tha pweaidB 4hA R should ba cawted in a aupsnate bift. “I don’t !bili R tha propar place to <m tax laattera," aid. ”R wonM ha ail aMR Jurjrmen have be^ drawn for the term A common pwaa court opening in Laurem neA Monday wHh Judge I Bartdey was ^>eaking a ”New Deal BoydR, annaomed yarterdayrT ttMt Mb fim Mb isMod Adsir wb WBBa to do fai tots atote huBdiag on WeA Mate Areet’***** to continue our Irigh- formerty occupted hy Carter’s, M>d I vmy-buftdiBg progimra.” wiM open for busineaa A this loca-; suggeAed s three per cent and these aooompliohments have been {tion on March 16. tax. ”By doing thA you wo^ recorded in order that we might the Boyd’s home ntore R in Greenwood, j ey^ytwq]^ in the ^ state pyng better preserve our governineA by j with ultarea slao in Newberry to mn state’s opesARn^* preserving the respect and affection Chertar. Their Clinton atora wiB,"* in which the pe(H)le hold k.” carry • oeraplete fine A ladies iwady-i ^ Repeatedly empharising the curreA Ito-waar and men’s Nothing A popo- jP™'toaas bad “no place in thR dReua- unoenteinty over Mr. Roosevelt’s po-Jlar prices An snnounoenMA of their!*^ to thw rima^” IRkal plans by prefacing every ree- formal. opening wiU stppear in Tbej “t deny and reftite,’' ommsndation wRh the etstemeA “if” Arthur L. Gsuton, Cbaater, prartd- ihg. By townrtrips the venire list fol- ■fawtr"' Laurens — R. H. Monroe, W. R. Traynham, W. A Mkls, B. A Ropp, T. -B. iMcDanlsI and John lanjteton. Hunter—-S. O. Sutton, E. F. Rowa, Joe W. Leake, J. E. Boy^ £. G. Kay, J. C. DavR and Rofaotd HairRon. Dials—J. E. Henderson, J. W. Pe- den, Jr^ .,Ryan Roper, Harold L. .Chomas FoU^ Brown, M. B. Taylor, A B. Terry and C. M. Curry. Youngs —LearR C. HugiMS, John Barnett, B. F. Parsons, R. G. HarrR and Jaeae DavR. Waterioo — J. C. Moore, Thogms FRnring Otekh and F. G.’ Ckdfray. SAKvan—G. T. Hughes, J. L. Kal- lett and J. F. Vaugtoi. Croas HiB—Fred T. Coleman and E. R. AuB;Un.___ ficufllato^'" — J. C. Bramlett and Oaig Hunter. vaiadictory,” Austin listed s numbsr A things winch he thought “the A'the New Deal” shoAd, undertake. j R UhoUld “adapt itself to the i checks and iimitetkms A repuUkan government,” he said; R shoAd, for the sake A ‘^praaerving ov fona A governtnaA,” find a way te eeonomie recovery, R should have a special eomniRaion study A raonetaiy prob lems end report to Oongrees, R should place the American eoonomk system on a basis which wAid “tha atrafn A war and the poA days,” and assure the statea> thA their “self detemrinAion suid au tonomy” would not be <hmiTifiabed. wwek. jGmrge thA 1 wtmld swteusly The new Ante here wiU be hil<*o^ <» <*i*te* the highway chaige A W. C. DavR A Greenwood, My record will show the Glee Qdb Plans ' For Sp^ Tour way depaitaseA has never had a batr ter friend than L” He eAd the ohe cent wwAd pA $2,000,000 in the treasury. "ThR R a kgioal way A raising Che tneemary money,' The Jterch meeting A the Chamber IA Cominaroe wUl be held neA Tuec- Presbyterians Urgftd To Help day evaning at 7:30 A Hotel ahkon, RaiM $175,000 Bcnevolenet ^ •“ ♦» t» pre.- Bndf^'ln I^Ub I MarA 5. — ^ Greenwood, to all mstrik,_ . church ia tha^fhrnbd A fioOte Caro4 lina was iAuad bice today by Dr. BooweU C. Loot, dhairman A Aog * ardifaip and fhAoea, who Aged oonpl^" Mdsiag next Sunday the IFMpOOD bam Iba caUasa A the ehoiUhR and ayaod. Ha wld 43ia AvWon A tha foods, m pMfed, m agrond npto hy Mn asnod A Ra CtailadbMi oAstlng loA >TopHgli>r» R ’to be B7M0 te ■ynod’i wusl4 sad $8M0ft te tin gan- ami wuric A the'Mfacrti Mtorte- riaa chundt Tha sateas $0 ht nkiad laehida honaa and dosaifu Christian adoeatkin, rdiijlnfi ad tkm, amanbly’s teghdttf dteoel, BIf fate eaaaa, mlaMons in the petebyte^ rite A Pa Daa» Chaiteatod, HteaMay, Piadmont and South OuuifaM, bytertaa eoHagi, Quaam eoEoia, Oo- lunMn Aminary, ThmiawaH orpin- age, young puoito’t tooiR and stndaik aedv^A The nondnnttng committee A thR time R anpaoted to offer rseomnwnda- ttoMi for oditesra and dtrectom for the 4rH0 WORKS WHERE? IDEAL BAKERY W.B.MartoFtop. IhM. W. E. Bahsrta Rsa La Pttts (telorad) Van JanA froterod) $ -h Friends Mr MNMHIRy lumhR. ftiA to Dntenviite fids firm em'dlars Sixty prevteady ra- partto firtns amptejA 53$ TAaL. .144 Miu. R. L. Ooa, A Co- A thR oRy* toM te- rtm..|s .a ptoRto to a| It Pays To Trade : INOiNTON J<dm Y. Benjamin Dies At MountViUe Laurens, March 4.—John Y. fienja- ndn, 40, A the MountvHte aeUtlon, dRd A 4 oVIock Monday aftamoon after a long iBasA. Ha was a deacon A BAverdam JWsDOQMI CMVCfllg AtNB ^ffuQR ral aervioA ware held A 8 oVIoek ToAdsy adteraoon wRh hR pastor, tha Aesr. W. Ray Andaraon, In 24 On College Dean’s RoUi;^ imL Twenty^four Presfaytwnsn bofloge studenia received eignal honors week M they earned places on the dean’s scholaAk roll A honor, ooa- aisting A students whose ratio A quality pokkk earned to semester hours IjakA wap more than 2Ji. Felton Moore, A Rome, Ga., ttqyped the Itet with the maxtosum average A 4.00, meaning thA he made AAh on every course taken A the Eteaaor Fleming A aeoood on the 4Rt wRh a ratio A8.S0. Clinton stodeniB on Iha HA ma: The cwMaga gtea ofcte, amlar tha di- RapwasAativa Hughs A roetite A ISr. Joha G. Barden, Ins «b}«ted to tha gm te divarsten tek rtuuiged plana for limit 1040 tour, a- called the asaate liqaor piaa “tea eordhgr to Louie Pteter, burinem *»>to haquitoaa, moA damamg sonnd- A the te«up. iteA CDoorivcd in the ligRlatwe ARteva> originally since the days A the barrooai . . . R to make a tour A 4he tower part A toll mean 4ha te commiaaam wiB the sten am now formutetiigr *» ^ve to have am anay A inspcctoro Htery A aaartey FtedmoA section!- • . We w* have the roCteneA iiqiKw tovras and esvsral north GeorgR a- 1 »yAo*o »the United Statee A Aanri g^eseeAs. Ttekative et«agemeAs'«a and will deplete our afeveaae. inSude: Anderaon, Lander ooU<g«,l “R’* turning Aie distniere hioae m EReitoa, Ga., Ateens. Ga., Greenvaie,jft»y can sell not oiiy to the licwisA and Ooaweraa college. If plans foe tee fetoflers bA to the bootteggeru; and ogaeaa, the dub will go donU you think they wont do R.” on tour neA Monday, ending theRi Hughs suggeAed RsuiBg trip wite tee Converse coH^’ «- torra notee to cover tee cunrant oper- gagemeA a fMmch 16. !»ting deficit, and taking Aepe to see -0^ l‘RhA there’s no defieit neA year.” ' LEAVES HOSPITAL Sawyer A Georretown arguad thA -?»T. tTtTT:highway conatructwn program ^ ***• Hria A the home A hR nephew, S. W. He waa teriee married, fhA to Mrs. Mkaw Thelma Taylor, Jane Otosgeon, FannR May IRniaiidu» then to Mrs. Mary lOtoheM, BaeaR Ftekner, and Bette Ka||Rt^Bel0amin. 'Eftdbt daugh B. L Wood and ErneA Hi|q>. tars and flea PiednMmt Dentisto To Meet bslAurens Laurana, March 2. — The spring saeutittg A the. FtodmoA DRtrtet fisAal Boetote toy bp RRd in Imn- fens Mdhday, Marte 11. Tin aearinus wtU ha held in tea oommoirity hriL CUnieRna from' Atianta, OraeervfiR aad-Qehnteia arlH^ndiRAi the Rg. Dr. L. L. Loaf, Laurana, R d«t; DtXr. b. FalR, Woodruff, k vtee pwaaMaA; Dr. T. C. MeOca, Lao- R aamutary, and Dr. J. B. Ow- R 76 Rth mqtected to Q^idand Named On B. & L. Board At thT monitely dhectors aseatlag A tea CMaans Fadaral Savings and Uoan aaeoclettioo held Tuaaday night, TRomaa Haate Cnpsland was ulaAad f asandber A the hoard to IW a m- oaqey cagasd by tee reeeift death A Wift J. Duncan. Mr. Oopdand; a uuB Imoara young bualneaa man of tea dtei R naaoeiatod in bwfaeap with Ids fatecr» T. D. CbpeRnd. Tha hoead adopted resqluUona om tea daate A tha late Mr. Ouneaa and ordered that a copy A eame he ter- wardod hR faanUy. mVE CAREFULLY RAVE A So Fir TldR Ygv Tktro ■ift 1 I FATALITY I ! AUTOMOEDLi AOCIDENTB I LAURENS COUNTY Let*b Strivo TR Mako Sftfe Ywr Or tlteHIflrtvftyte year. 4 it wil ha eo easy to take |3.000,000 neA year,” Sawyer said. The ha^ voted 55 to 47 agaRA Sawyer’s motton te table tee FUag ameirimeA, hA a few mantsa lteer| whenjSa queatlon wsh on passage A tea amenduMA tea' body split U [to’§8. The ho use adopted aa by SanaeOte A $15J)00 to tea eppropriatRa for A CHteen aetMn,R to sanske. voted hy Schools To Have V ' 2-Days. H<diday Chatoa city echoeR wiD aA IRurs^ and Friday ordnr to give tee tnatesm ai tunity W attend the aonual coam.a- A 4ha SoAh CRrefiaa IVaehenf sift ba haU A 4hA « \ . A'.V: