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I / % THE CHB0N1CLB StriTcB To Be i Cleeii N«wipaper, Complete, Newpp, end BeWeble, inrea l>oa*t Eaid THE chronicle Toe Dea’t Get' 'tke Newe. VOLUME XL CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940 NUMBER 12 nansttAKMEM RAID CRKMAMIi S' 'n \ I I Flyers Rain Bombs On Isle Sylt for Hours. Kpgest Air ActiM of War Is Claimed. London, Mareii 20. — A Britidi Air Arnisda, tHiilins Ho mifiit acminst Muio in ipeihmp* tlie Mnpeat raid in iiiatoiy on one fortiOed point, early LONdXXN. — Chamberlain stiflea peace, talk tells commons “lare intend to figtS,** announces “ready” for whatenrer HiUar and Mussolini decid ed; iBritiidi bombers “severely, dam age” German Noith sea air base in r^tisid nkia. ROME.—I'Vkct^F'inder Wekea Tmisb- es circuit of Europe arkih statement today iras dumpinf tons of bombs on!that be has not received or conveyed! Ibe German iriand seaplane base of *ny peace pj^n; believed to have Syk. The raid began at 8 p.m. and an air ministry communique said it aras still in progress the bombers flying heard inside story of Hitler-Musso-1 Kni meeting. ' j WASHINGTON.—I»residential Sec-| retary Early says peace headlines ap-: in relays at S s.m, seven -hours iater.iP€ar very «npty on basis of reports The first bombers, which led the arave tgwn wave of royal' air force fliers, already bad returned, the min to government; Mr. Roosevelt tells reporters no - one btst- participants know what happened at axis confer- 'Young Petrie Of. Presbytery ’bstnr said, and’reported the “accurate bombing of cbjectivea” *^me searchlight and anti-aircraft grnn opposition was encountered,” the mkiistry said in its terse convmtmique. The laid was Great Britains answer to Germany’s attack Saturday night on her naval base at Scapa flow in wWdi tiM Brkiah said only one bat- tleahip was sligliEIy damaged. <Tlie G^mians reported tiwee of Britain’s mightieat men-o’-war •^ere Iwdieved to have been dwnaged aloog with two other warships). TV> reach the German base at Hor- init, on the Isle of Syk, the armada flew acroM 360 miles of the North "Bea.' Eye-witnesses on the nearby Danish island of Romoe said.82 bomb explo- PARES.—Premier Datodier outlines government’^ plans to increase war against Germany, faces many ques tions at secret session of chamber of deputies., iBERLIN. — Germans mention Rtos- slan oil as immediate reason for bet ter iRmian-Itallan understanding. Mafl Ddivery Elxtmisicm Here To Begin April 1st Official notice'has been received by Postmaster R. L. Plaxico that cky maH delivery will be extended to ap- j j A— j proximately 120 additional homes in Apru i. Th. When Christ Arose . When Christ arose on Easter day. The sunbeams burst through clouds of gray; The violets bloomed their bluest blue. And hyacinths increased in hue While jonquils looked a bit Aiore gay! The hilltop breezes stopped to play With tuli^ blooming the v.'ay; The starry-eyed narcissus' knew When Christ arose. As angels rolled the stone away, A choir of lilies breathed a lay; Wee buds were christened with the dew, And bluebells chimed the anthems through! Each flower rejoiced, and knelt to pray When Christ arose. Hold Meeting! WELLES ON WAY WITH' R^^TS Mias Daratky Ann Hofloway of Greenwood Named President. Many Froai CHuton Atttcnd. Has' Never Conveyed Nor Re ceived Peace Pkuia, He Says. Sta^naent Experted To Allay Rnaiors Here and Abroad. MIm Dorodiy Ann HoUowoy of' ^!.ion inchidM .H «f Ooll«« Vi«,, 21 p.m. last night, and that •one “undoubtecHy blew up an ammunition ; homes on the ijorth end of Musgrove depot.” British news agency reports also said the Hindenburg ^m connecting Gylt with the mainland was bombed; that one British plane was ohot down on the noi^ coast of Sylt. The dam was report^ hft in a previouB British raid. Whether this was the opening gun of an intense air -effenaive could only be conjectured,, but there wee an omi nous tone in the warning of IVime Minister Chanft>erlain in 1i^ house of eonanons yesterday afUgmoon that street and a colored section known as White Line, atiout two Mocks <m Car- oltna avenue, one block on Stonewall Former Clinton i i Citizen Passes The churches of the Laurens coun street, three’houses on East Florida j^y Baptirt as«^tion be^ a one- street and N. Jones street, 21 houses county-wide Sunday School cen ion Railroad avenue just below the cky wnter and light plant, three homes on Fifth avenue and S. Jones Sr.—JmMmlOTCM w night’s ndd on Atftain’s Soapa Plow; Sjrk has been irnidsd kg British plaawMon^^ butHMv> OhaSwidn SmV . zekiled #ire^ lass niMages mat SA leadingAokaberiirer fimt Uo fbs house dr Mte kas been street and one home on Woodrow street. At the same time rural route No. 2 which has been serving the Oollsge View seotiQn wiH be wkiuhrawn. ^ the newly ecquired eection will receive dfGvurki d^ on » Saturau^ viiien them anl jm, didy s morning deihreiy. extension, Postmaoter Plaxleo atateg, peoeasitates the eataiUiahroenC •f a uiw auMliary route Jo oovUr all Ika keerkory na^ if lA tUMird jgjiirlP and east of and induling . Thb ,nea rov^ BUS and enlargement campaign Sun day according to J. L. Oonine, state director of Sunday school and B. T. U. -work for this denomination. Approx imately 60 community and outside workers are engaged in the undertak ing, with twenty-five dmrehea of the association participating. A number of church census special ists from tigs stpte, Gamgia, Florida T. Mac Littlefield, 46, former Clin ton citizen, died at his home in Simp- aonvHle Sunday following a brief illness. FHineral services were held in GmnviHe Monday afternoon, wHh interment following there. Rome, March 19. — Sumner Welles was deeted president ofifinisbed torright his swift circuit of the t Carolina Preabjrteryh'war-lashed Europe with the firm dee- youn^^eople's league in the annual > aratkm that he has neither received medniig held in th* First Prediyte- nor conveyed any peace plan whatso- rian church in Greenwood .Saturday, ever during hi.s 24-day tour; yet he ,and -Donald Hagan of AbbeviHe,. sec- wa.-* believed to be in piM.v-wiofi of an I retary. These elections came near inside account of what happene<l in the close of the meeting made unique yesterday’s meeting of dictators in ;by the group discussion of the Chris- the Brenner pass. jtian’s rdwtion race <piestiona Welles, breakiiv th^ silenW which - ,and economic conditions. TTieoe new has maintained throughout the officers succeed Miss I^rothy Simp-j^gy,. which brought him twice to son of Whitmire retiring presideiit, I Berlvn, Pans and John Lekh of Bmkine college, re-jand London, said his task had been tiring seerkary. Other members to gather information “for th* the council include Aiken Tsylor,: president and the secretary of state Clinton, vice president, Doris Arm-^ present conditions in Europe.” . field, treasurer, Newfcerry, and the | statement to the press, issued foUowing highway chairmen: Rnth^ai^rtly before, he left Rome for Ge- Gpesham, Ware Shoals, Harold ,Mc- ggn to‘sail for home tomorrow, said: C<W, Greenwood, Dick deMontmoUin,| .iln order to aUay the flood of ni- Omton, Grace Ntchols, Uih>w Lo^ mors about my mission, 1 wish t» Cane, Emily Odlard, Clinton, Kei^ .^^te categoricaliy that I have not Purcell, Newberry and Oeswell Flem-1 r«egive|d any peace plan or proposals ling, Laurens. *from any beHigerent or from sny The entire group of 125 present,other government; that I have not was divided into three sectioas, fol- conveyed any such proposals to any lowing the devotional oondocted by belligerent, nor to any other govern- - Miss Emily Dillard of dintoo and a ment; nor am I bringing back to the devtkional talk on the theme “For president any such proposal.” Hunter also of Clinton. Taking the tion was wkh the Italian foreign min- theme for the day the three ^actions ister. Count Galeazzo Ciano, who is discussed: For Christ and His' King- believed to have givs^n President dom in a Wasted Land,” under the Roosevelt’s investigator informatkm leadership of Dr. RosweH C. Long, about yesterday’s “parlor car” meet- member of the council and chairman ing between I^mier Benito Mus.s«>- of religious education in the predby- lini and Reichsfuehrer .\(iolf Hitler at tery; “For Christ and His Kingdom. Brennero. amidst racial antsuironisms,” by Henri-1 Welles dedineiJ to disclose how etta Blackwell of the Laurens schools'much Ciano had told him at a lunch- faculty; and ‘^For Ohriot and His eon arranged by American Ambassa- Kingdom in a Warring World,” led by dor William Phillips shortly before Euphemia Gordon of the First church,'Mussolini left for Brennero. However. Greenwood. The council agreed, fd-Jhe toM correspondents he had of coaaeiom, tacks. The panish account of the raids said the Britiab planes Ikw to the at- Gai ng as for several months. The College View aaotion wiH be added to cky route taek in small lalaya, diving from over-j No- 2 and vriH be served by Oky Osr- hanging douds in the mi^st of nwndous anti-aircraft fire and then • - - -- dodging again-Jato'the chwds. Sliit ia eonaidered the jungiing off plate for German platies sudh as those whish raided 6ca|>a« Flow and which have rq;>eatedly inmiahtd Brit ish and neutnd shipping. The raids on Syk were frankly ki reprisal for the Nazi attack on Scapa Flow whidi resulted in bbe Idlltng of one civilian and the wounding i of -others. * f” 'They were being carried out even as the Labor peer Lord Htrabogh, ar gued in the house of lorda tfiat the Stepe. Flow bombing “removed the abtte-lea to our bombing of German aupMy and naval baaea.” Lord Hali- tlPt^ to Am* the Cooperating churches in this sec tion, together with the names of tim ootaid* woihara who are oondnetiag the naptetfaru casnpaigoi, follow: Chlvaory, Clinton Cotton Mills—Rev. Archie l^ls, Landran. Aliteiai iliii Gligten Fkipt Baptist—4Ekhel How- Nary Averton, Geor- gia. Cross HiH—JRev. Fred Joplin, Lan caster. Lydia 'MHls—Rev. George Bobo, wall street and East Carolina addi-i i i# ^ tions. The new section on Railroad N. Bruce, Cam- avenue will be ad#ed to cHy route No.'^ 1, served by Cky Carrier J. Kiri iMr. Uttlefleid had been employed by the Southern BeH Telephone com-|*f'«C ^ day’s meeting, to make briefly w^ C^o before the lunch pany for more than 26 yesue, being ^ nfterward.” ' raNiee. Foikwing the luncheon, whirii was eerved cafeteria style, the buainaas aMetug waa -held and Al bert Edwarda of Prosbftnrian eoUoge doaad the dMf’a oounected at the time of his death with the Greenville office. 'For sev eral years he was connected with the CXiat^ odfite aa plant nsaintenaace dtesasau, daaiag .whkh -thsM ha. who will regret to kaiSnir^to Informed fsadsts todiy indicated Hitler went to ‘Brennero to check op on hia alliance with Mussolini and found k stS) binding. Thaail iyartOT squashed talk of a fiuai any tsntjA itiswisaare of srhat iaspoitant dedsiens ragardi^ a new balance of power might have hcca present to pat Chriat and fiis Kuig“ dom fiiat. AoaaaaeoaMat was mads March SOlh at 10:30 a. m., and ^ Brennero. <<,h. .prtae TwUmt tor .rfHceiTl. be! .utor, Mr.. Fii« Churrh. Uorm. .n! nie James of Manning. (April 20tli, beginumg at 4 p. m. Johnson. -tei— John A. Pinson Dies In Danville John A. Pinson, 65, former resi dent of this city Greenwood, died in a Danville, Va.^ hospital last Tues day night foHowing a eritioa! Bhieaa and ogierstion. ^te Selected For CCC Camp Fbllawiag raaeat official ordere from Wastringten calling for the re- amvsl of the lamiwns COC Camp unk to a now locttion in the lower paii df the eounty, a she two miles east of G<ddvi)ie on the GoldviHe-Whitmire Easter Sunrise jCdnferees Busy Services Sundayl Qn Supply BUI Senators Pass New Hatch BiD h... h^n for .n Mvrh I9.-Th. (n.rd M “ on Ml. q>,ra|>tutioa biU r« A. Senator S. M. Ward. 'This service, patterned after thei,. _ ^ iwUri ^ chairman, repofting some pro- McMMire To Linii Poiilical Ae- tivHy of Agy Eaiploye Phii In Part By Fedc^ 500,000 AOM To List. Washington, March lA—The new Hatch hill, bannag some 500,000 stete igress and a “harmouiouB seesion. employees from polkics, was .surface treated road has been selected The body was brought to Green-jdurhir the past wsde. wood where the funeral service was C. 8. Gannon, aounty agent, states fax, the foreign secretary, said 'Row attack. could not disairrae as'to the “verv le-l'^F ^ Wiggins, pastoa of acre tract of land from the CopeUnd- ri^Lte cJSS^nces” of the Sana >“*»»» 'Methodist chuteh of that'Stone company, of this city, at a folkrmd in of « doll«- . ywr. with tk. op very suocesafid one held last year.j S' ii **’'1.^ *Ur It w« tfw fir* tim. th. ..omniittw'hy th. ««t. today with .n th. ThorawoH orptanar- rt«,r. Itl.^, *to to r* toc*har aUw. it or-,P«dad,.^t«-o.H. majority and tors Ward and L, M. Gressette of Cai-I<»riain future lay before it. houn having been HI last week. The, The vote, 58 to 28, surprised even .11 • J a. 1 .• I a ..A w»a auiis W WMlCe U Ultejvsi Ikj teiiu avM w«h h*«„ Mat. h** dm' Bmm.. a hi,h.y oa- college, as the prnicipsd speaker. The meeting is being sponeored by the Young People’s Alliance of Clin ton composed ^ all the young peo ple’s groups of the city churches. The seesion lasted only an hour and minutee, however. I Other meobera are Senator C. S. piMk is most cordiaHy invked to at- R**w««ka- tend. In case of inclement weather, WinrtoMer Smith of Barnweii, the service will be held at the First T. McDonald of Florence, Baptist chureh. R- Hughs of Oconee Morning ne-i«papers, under hugej^^ cej^tery. aaw !^<»** ®f continuing the lease for four headlines, proudly displayed the stotyl Mr. Ptofon as “R. A F.’s biggest boiub raid," or tractor ai^had enwed m that'b«i-,jJ^l 1 tb*. "swift ven«««!e far Seana Flow'”**® Danville for the past few,**** work of preparing the grounds for bap. ^ buildiw wffl l»r” thi. w«k. A ter«w! ah- ministry announcement ^ '• of friends who w«H, N ** understood that the Laurens that the German shore bate at .camp buildings and equipment will be ^ ™ IDj tr„rf.rr«. to th. .ito. Imd ban “*.M*y by roy-i^- ®- “-I Lu*®- <rf Blaster Cantata By IS the weaaure’s principal sponsors. The repdblkan members^ lined up sol- kiy behind the measure, as had beea expected, while numerous democrats who had voted with the opposition on various preliminary tesu turned on the final roll call to the biil’t support. Most members from the 'South persisted in their opp^tsitios to the last. ThehiH is an extension of the ong- and On Sunday evening at 7:30, the choir of Broad Street Methodist church wider the direction of Miu %hil Burdette, organist, will present imn Eaeter Cantata, entkied “Hail Re al air force planes was corroborated! PwMlhvf'f^iriAIlE PI All —Willtrie. The paUk in an announcement by Prime Minis-^ 2| <R*My invited to attend Ihk i -Ur Cihamberlain: Who told .the housei”®®®** 'wJ J- 'W. and J. E.[ WMi|||i^yf^| ter Ohamberlainrirbo told ,the house,_ of commons si 10:28 tonight: ‘ThelS«®>^ Green^, and attach still is coirtimUng.” ®*'*® 'P*nw® Pingon, also of this cky. “This report is beadd on a wirriess munycrr already received from a lead ang aircraft,” Cham^torlam told the house. French Slay Allies Not Cempromise iBsris, March 18.—Jf the surprise j ^ ^ - —.. • • .J t meeting between Reidwfoehrer Hitler and Premier Musaolnd* ia fink act ' of an Easter /week peace offensive, ' the play ia doomed to failure, aooord- hV to the French view. r Gov«*mnent eouices said today, in. . ^ieaauDenting on the Brennero confer- eaoa, tost the aUks could not accept I •n hapediate <»mpromiae peace bat! -erooiS Mfjht on ontH they bhd won' vktoiT and guarantees of seeurhgr. | Meamtofia, Premier Daladkr, upon i whom pMHamentaiy preaeure haa ‘ Been phmad (to .axt^ him /eahlnto, easlcrte*! for w hour wito PreakUn* AJhait Ltoniiv eeosant on mw appoigtoH M mmmn> I WHO Works WHERE? COLOf^lkL ICE CO. W. J. CNws, Manager Frank (|ialey Ratledto Halbnd Blaka gtodmaa (eolored> Collier ffiivers (colored) This firm oMptoys Sixty.^wa proviowsly re port^ firme employed Total. 5 . 547» ..A52 It Pays To Trade IN CLINTON i Dr. D. J. Woods, pastor of the First Presbyterian churoh, has announced : REDUCTION ANNOUNCED f DIRE^R FOR CCC| ^ ‘inal Hatch act which applu'5 to fed- IVlCUlOaiBi V./nOir Washington, March 17.—The avH.,eral workers. It would forbid staU lan Conservation corpe today an-; employes, paid in abide or m part nounced the first nmjor reductioh in federal fund*,'to engage in politi- enrollment since it was started mien) activities. I In addition, written into the bil James J. Mcl-.ntee, director, sakl,)^ opposKion is a provision that the corps would enroll only 65,0IW"|^ individual may make cainpaign is cor- young merf and war veterans m the I contributions of more than lo.OOO musical 120-day replacement program to start in any year. 'April 1. 'This will be 2,000 less ttom — jthe last quarterly enrollment in Jan- TAYLOR IS ORA’TOR uary. George Aiken Taylor, eon of lira. Muit . WMk .V.IwMMic MTViM. ft"*** Iwill b. fxM (b.«inm,;r»«I.T. htowhl'T” 'Th. m«Ul Mryte.. will to . T.it of dKtod thro.«t»ot th. Soat)»rn Pr...iry« «>..h on “JuwoH. brterin, ,DM.iK|0«qr." ^ _ | I Th. pM4k j. <»nlUlly invit«l to 1 aioMnw HMTPnNBn tend the services. •' SUPPER POSTPONED ' The supper acheoutea tor tonight. ! ANDERSON NAMED ^ 1 SCHOOL DELEGATE ^ ****) Metho^ ehu^ !haa been pootponed until Wednesday At the annual meeting of the stats Mai^ 27, on aoco^^ other teachera’ association held last 'aeek!®*»^'^,V^™«**« in Greenville, W. R. Andarson, auparwfPf at 7:46 by the la-! i«6to«i^of the Woodruff cky sdhooU,|<**“ ^ churto and ^ conunktoe waa elected driegwte from the Fourth .•*^® members be present. - } district to the meeting of toeNabkmai Education association to be held 'summer in MHvraukte, Wis. Mr. Aa- HOLIDAYS AT COLLEGE Spring holidaya at Presbyterian denson, known hare by a wide- eirsia jeoHsga wRl begin today at 1 oVkwk of friends aa “Ned,” waa principal of .and atoond untfl 6 pun. on iUnto 27. ;GlintMi high atoooi for a manhsr of iraars b«Cote going to Woodruff 1m* iyaar to hoMi ^ aelMola. tha arsak^ pwtod *he glaa oftnb and aswaral atUstk taaam wfll DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LffB- So Far Thb Year IVrt Haa Been 1 FATALITY AUTOMOBILB ACCIDENTS LAURENS COUNTY Let** Strhre To Maka, J940 a Safe YiU> 08 v tito HifkwayR. .« Summer School To Open June 10 Announcement is nuuK- that the an nual sonuner school held st 'Presby terian college will o{M->r on June 1* for a six vreeks period. The sehool wt& again be heatieii hy li-. S. M. Hundey as dean ami .it5irik.'U>r Fkeneh and History. r mem of toe faruKy wiH be l>r. \I. Woodworth, Prof. H. K. Sturg Prof. Bothwell Graham. P-of. I neth Baker, and Dr. John li Har IB r* n. WVA TO CUT 22H,000 OFF ROLlii IN APlUL ^ WaAhington, Man-h 15 The WPA .announced tooight that the quota of ' project workers woukl be reduced 228,000 hi April - Cal F. C. Haurrinirieii, coauniMuoaer of work projeeta, said toe antooriaed amgloymeat for April, would he l^tRr smpMad wfth-d.348.d0h hr tola assato. Actual Mif Muto i - \ i