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T ,'*;• j, ■ *■ --W": L • I ./ <1 THE CHRONICLE Strives Ts Be m Cl^ Newspsper, CoMpkie, Newsy* ani ReUaUe. fflbrotttrlf If Yoq Dea’t Read THE CHRONICLE Ton Don't Cret tile News jT* VOLUME XL CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY, 16, 1940 NUMBER 20 PLANS GIVEN FOR CLOSING HIGH PROGRAM Seventy-three Members In Class Mrs. Mamie White Dies At Goldville Bdoved Woman Succumbs To Uneas. Faneral At Ninety- Six Tuesday. To Receive Dlplomaa Final Night of Three-Day Program. OVERWHELMING GERMAN POWER CRUSHES RESISTANCE OF DUTCH Mrs. Mamie Tem|;>leton White died at her home in GoldvlUe eaiiy Mon day morning. She had been in de- itNiyer To Give Sermon. ago. She wa* 63 yean of age. Mrs. White was a daughter of the wing, May 24, With Ciassllate Tom Tonpleton and Mrs. Mat- Ptaytet ».d Other Fetures. Connelly 1 Nasi Army and Air Corps Ovemin The Netherlands In Short Time of Five Days. Commander Cenpes Hostilities To Save stmction of Country. Severe Fighting In Belgiam and France.' Finals IHanned Fdr Mountville Scho<4s Series of Exercises Begin Sun day Evening With Baccalan- reate Sermon, and Continue Through Thursday. WOODS RESIGNS PRESBYTERIAN PULPIT SUNDAY Lcmdon, May 14.—The Netherlands command capitulated last night to the smashing fom of German arms while battling l^lglum was at lei^ one-third overrun and the Nazi war machine burst into France and at tacked the Allies in one of history’s greatest battles in the celebrated Se- i t • 1 first husband was John w j Commenc^nt exerc^ who died many years ago. Her sec- dan sector-^ne of French defeat ton high school wUl b^m Fndayj^^ marriage was to Bert White “ evening. May 24, and continue preceded heir to the grave No- After TwentyvTcars Service, Ia>- csl Minister Gives Up Pastor- munition dumps behipd the lines,! Commencement exercises for the' at. Effective End of Year, and the air ministry asserted that | Mountville high school will begin I British planes losses were only one- fourth those they had inflicted on the wasp-like swarms of German air- preached by Rev. J. craft. Sunday evenihg at 8 o’clock, when the baccalaureate sermon will be E. Ratchford. held in the The service will be Congregation To Meet Tenure As Head of Church Marked By Construction of' New IMant Following Fire. Britain nevertheless got set for a Mountville Presbyterian church, possible German invasion by air.' qj^ Wednesday evening at 8:30 War Secretary Anthony Eden called high school class day „ _ for a home corps to aeal with Gcr-j^e held. The program' David Junkin Wcxxls DD m.n parachute gunnera, ‘"d the, , p, ..The j through Sunday and Monday, the 25fb and 26th, it was announc<^ yesterday by school authoriilss. Fri day will feature class d%y exercises, Sunday ‘will bring the baccalaureate seziason, and Monday evening the foitunencem^t season comes to a close with the graduating exercises. ■nie eiiam cowpomd of 73 mem- bem, 3a bow* and 34 girls. C«il Wmte has been namcji \»al^ctorim, and Grace Martin salujiatarttn. White has an average of OT.W per cent, and MV Martin an average of 94.79, which j^rcentage includes work done during three and a half years of high school enrollment. The next five highest ranking members of the class had averages of more than 93 per cent, and are Frances Ruth Ed wards, Florence Ella Blakely, Dor othy Horton, Emily Martin arid Ruth Bouknight. The first of the three programs, class exercises, will be held on Fri vember 14, 1924. Mrs. White was a devoted member of the Methodist denomination. Un til her health failed she was a regu lar attmidant, and was quiet, unas suming consecrated Christian, de- vottag her talents to her home and church. She held a distinctive place in the community and in the hearts and lives of a wide circle of friends In Goldville as well ss in Ninety-Six Y^ere she lived prior to moving to Goldville, where she bad operated the Joanna Inn for several years. She IS survived by one brother. O. F. Templeton, Ninety-Six, and two stetars, Mrs. J. L. Addison, Goldville, Mrs. E. Z. King, Atlanta, Ga., and a number of nieces and nei^iews. Funeral services were held from the home of her brother, G. F. Tem pleton at Ninety-Six on Tuesday af ternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. O. A. Jeffcoat, Rev. J. W. Lewis and Rev. T. B. Wilkes officiated. Interment day evening, the 24th, in Florida | followed in Kinards church cemetery Street school auditorium. The pro-, in the family plot, gram will be in the form of a play-} Serving as active pallbearers were: let, under th^ direction of Miss Rosa i j. l. Delaney, S. G. Dillard, G. N. 4^. M^affey, and will include the his tory of the class, the class statistics, the class poem, and the class proph ecy. The following honorary offi cers have been named: Poet—Leroy Sanders. Historian—Charles Stewart. Pn^ihet—Dorothy Horton. Lawyer—John Sloan. Statistician—Florence Ella Blake ly* The sermon will be preached by tbe Bev. J^ LeGrande Mayer, pastor ol St J^m’s Lutheran of C^iiiftoiL MMiaii wm be Ibe tew- iuie of a service to be held Sunday evening in the auditorium of the First Presbyterian church. Other ministers have been asked to assist, aad the music will be fumishM by the Presbyterian choir. Final night, or graduating exer cises, will be held on Monday eve ning, the 27th, in the auditorium of norida Street school. At this time, three students, Ruth Bouknight, Ce cil White and Grace Martin, will, speak briefly. Superintendent W. E. Monts will deliver diplomas to the graduates. Medals and other awards will be presented to a number of students at this program. Foy, W. B. Jeter, Dr. Jack ivinard, Bosee Pratt, Will , Connelly, Bob Wingard and Hal Sloan. ^ chief cept em province of 2^1and to cease fighting. Gen. Henri Gerard Winkelman said he ordered arms laicf down “to save the civilian population and prevent further bloodi^ed.” He said the west ern seaport of Rottmdam had been bombarded again and that Utrecht on the main water line f^ced annihila tion. * In their last struggling gastp, the Dutd) set Tire to vast petrioleum stores in Amsterdam to prevent their falling into German hands. Although the Belgians announced that their great forts of Leige still were inflicting heavy casualties cm the gray hordes of Germans, the" French acknowledged that the Nazis pushed into northern France along the Meuse river and had “attained" Leige, Namur, Dinant and Sedan. his oft-shouted demand for planes and more planes.” , seventh erade irraduation exer- The British were not forgetting the! ^ wf lesson of the Norwegian campaign, ^he orofiram day exercises on Wednesday evening j the seventh grade graduation exer cises will be held. The program consist of T short play entitled, for failure of which they ** ^^.^‘'presentation of certificates to the seventh grade German air superiority. Nor were they forgetting Norway. A com munique reported new allied land ings in northern Noiway in the rear of the beseiged Germans who hold Narvik. Italy’s poiit£6n on the fringe of the fray continued unchanged, but Italian demonstrations a^inst the allies grew in vigor, and one shouting group of students who burned allied flags on a coffin won three smiling acknowledgements from Pbremier Mussolini himself. The French lodged a diplomatic objection to the campaign, but the demonstrations continued. Some observers said that Italy,, graduates will be by County Super intendent J. Leroy Bums. On Thursday evening. May 23, at 8:30 o’clock, the high school gradua tion exercises will be held. James "Wlnebrenner will deliver the- salu tation and Sara Benjamin will give the valedictory. Professor Bernard H. Boyd of Presbyterian college will make the commencement address. Medals, certificates and awards will be presented at this time. Members of the graduating class are: Elizabeth Bagwell, Sara Benja min, Henry Benjamin, Thelma Bish op, Ruby Boyce, J. W. Coates, Lil- U.SSS'u.e™or 0.™^. pASb-l I? DU- * < NATION TURNS TO DEFENSES Roosevelt Asks For H«ge FiiBd. Get Started At Once, He Says, Washington, Iday 14.—An extraor- diniu7 arins program boosting next fiscal year's qxmding to over $2,- 300,000,000 was reported in the mak ing Umight after President Roose velt had asserted, with the utmost emphasis, that European events dic tated an immediate expansion and modernization of America’s ariiied forces. Coatless, seated behind a desk piled high with papers as the result of long conferences on the subject, Mr. Roosevelt informed reporters that the program may cost a great jd6al of money, but must be under-^ Hm#. of air three nroeramsi^®” event. He said that whether the money was raised by borrowing, increasing the $45,000,- 000,000 legal limit on the netional debt, or by taxation was a minor de tail. The important thing, he said, wu the naticmal defense, and the main thing was to get the money to work msJcing America’s defenses impreg nable against foreign attack A spec ial message to congress, detailing hia recommendatioiLs will go to the capi- tol kmonrow if he caq jfinish it by then, he said, and if n(^~it will be dispatched by Thursday. 'There was no official word as to what sum it would ask, but est imates in high quarters ranged from $750,000,000 to roughly $1,000,000,- f will be 8 o’clock. Members of the senior class are: Boys William Franklin Bailey. Douglas Clinton Byrd. Robert Clyde Carr. Walter George C(^er, James Darrell Dailey. William Anderson Dious. Lindsey Hallett Dunaway. Valdane James Gause. Doyle J. HalL , Van S. . Jones. Charles Nolan Kelley. William Ril|ih Lawson. James Harold Lewis. Harmon Gallroan Murrah, Jr. Eugene B. Pinson, Jr. Iknest Prince. Arthur John Proebaska. Thomas C. Ramage. Horace Wilbom Riding* David Meredith Riser. Thomas LeRoy Sanders. Talinadge Virl Senders. Joseph E. Shaw. John Lindsay Sloan. Charles Talmadge Stewart. Bill Reedy Snelgrovc. Broadus Inland Suddeth. Joe Terry, Jr. Alvin Earl Trammell. ' Dewey Wilton ,Trammell. Nbnnan Lindsey Turner. • William Silas Weir. Cfcil Eugene White. Am Calvin Workman, Jr.* Andy Bee Young, Jlr. Edgar Mason Young, Jr. Goora* C. Young. Odus Levi Young. Reese Henry Young. Oirli Apiuma Blond^ Attaway. florenee EU* Blakely. Marfiia Luc Blakely. : Mmriaa Ruth Bouknight. Juenite Boyd. ' Miriam EUxabeth Coleman. Mary Sue Copeland. Roth Davis Aaay plXon. PahrtelB Ruth Dixon, j iV all countries” was the way the French decribed this collision on a 100-mile front that described a rough arc from Leige to Sedan. At least 6,000 to 7,000 German warplanes are engaged in a bombing, machine-gunning foray along this front, the French said, while French and British planes engaged in dog fights that all but went unnoticed by the furiously fighting men on the groimd. Great cannon of the French forts around Sedan, part of the “little Maginot line,” of northwestern lYench defenses, thundered death at the invaders, who wheeled up their ovm artUl^ tor volle;^ii^ responses. West bank of the kept •< cotinual croflefire against the pres sure of German armtured divisions and infantry. Flame-throwing German tanks and armored ' machines clanked with death-spiting fury against the allied lines, but the French announced re plies in kind that brought terrific German losses. As the Germans struck with fe rocity the allies fought back with every land and air weapon at their command, announcing they were taking a horrible toll of the enemy. On the southeastern flank, the Germans struck at the comer of the Belgian-French-Luxembourg border, but fro mthere eastward, the main strength of the Maginot line was re^ ported holding fast. The seriousness with which the al lies viewed the situatiem,' however, was indicated when the French call ed back to the colors the men who had been released to tend crops. British bombers pounded at Ger man communication lines and am- ably would remota out of tho war|!“^ Etobeth Madden, Mar at leaat for Another two week,, aince P"'®; the great lulian bner Conte di Sa-' W.nebrenner, voia sailed yesterday for New York. Others pointed out that Germany didn’t^ait for her liner Bremen to come home before starting the war with the invasion of Poland Septem ber 1. Switzerland, wondering whether Germany might perhaps strike at the eastern French flank as well as in the west, prepared as fully as if she already were at war, and decided to demand damages for the German NEW OFFICERS ASSUME DUTIES DR. D. J. WOODS service Sunday morning. The resig nation is to take effect at the end of the year. The session of the church has . -w . called a rongregational meeting to 1^0"41 ^ork Under Presi-ljj^ following the morning ser- dency of |)r. L. E. Bishop. | vice on Sunday, May 26. the purpose Chamber of ConunM’ce Begins bombing of a Swiss railway Iday 10. President Roosevelt planned to sand to the United States congress 4MeBairTavMalkif^e4dHMm- a! funds for natkxial defense. He mentioned no amount, but said it probably would be large. At this time, the important thing is to perfect defense, he said, and the “how” of supplying the millions ,of dollars is a secondary consideration. Objectives Given. Beginning the organization’s work for the 1940-41 year, the Chamber of Cemmscce hekl its MajL. SMatiog Tuesday night at Hotel Clinton when recently-elected officers assumed their duties. of the meeting being to act upon the resignation of the pastor. In presenting his resignation. Or. Woods gave several reasons for his acUcm, among them the following: “The best interests of the church will be served. The year 1940 will mark toe end of twenty years of ser in taking over the reins, the new t vice by the pastor. The pastor be- leaders, headed by Dr. L. E. Bishop, j lieves that a change will be benefi- president, stated objectives of the: cial. commercial body for the ensuing pe- “The pastor has passed his 7 lit iriod and called upon members and j birthday, and the general assembly citizens generally to give their co-1 requests that 70 years be the age operation in getting the efforts un-1 Hmit for active service by a pastor. i "The pastor gives seven months for Other officers, m ^diUon to Dr.^^^^ securing Bish^, are. W. IL Simpson,, vice-j successor and prepare manse president: J. Roy Casque s^retary. other requisites for the incoming pastor. Dr. Woods came to Clinton in 1921 000. Even the lower figure, when Mlded to sums already voted or pending, would raise the total de fense outlay tor the year starting July 1 above $2,500,000,000. In ackUtkm tn the President’s pronouncement, defense questions and^developments linked with war abroad had filled Washington’s day. 1. General Jtton J. Pershing, com mander of American forces in formal statement that “every energy France in the World war, said in a in this country” should be devoted to “preparedness against the possi bility of war.” (Conttaued on page seven) Closing Pr<^am By TlKNmweD Grades Here Improved Effective immediately the postof fice department has authorized an exchange of mail between the local office and Seaboard trains 5 and 6 on Sundays, which means that mail ,, . , ^ j will be received from these trains! Heustess, A. L. Shepard, and W. E. Mrs. Clifton Adair, assistant secre tary; C. F. Winn, treasurer, directors, with the above officers, are: C. C. Giles, Dr: D? 0.-Rhame, Jr:; D. C. Monts. Sundays the same as other days of! Giles, retiring president, ex- and mail dispatched to them on the week Up to this time the office has had only one incoming mail and one out-going mail on Sunday. In the past the incoming mail was at 6 o’clock in the morning and the out going mail at 9 o’clock at night. Un- ! pressed his appreciation for the co- 1 operation extended by members dur- frtun Blacksburg, Va., where he had been the Presbyterian student pas tor for Virginia Polytechnic institute. Prior to that time he had been en gaged in home mission work in Tex as. Dr. Woods succeeded Dr. F. Dud- ing the past year in carrying out!}*^ Jones, who resign^ to accept work of the organization and be- j protoswrship of philiaophy and ethics at Presbyterian College. During Dr. Wo<xls’ pastorate, the present church auditorium and edu- 0^ V. Mwl McKioney Ferguson. Evelyn Jemette Gaskin. Bac^ Marie Harvey. Ma^ EUaabeth Hatton. Annie Dorottiy Horton. Alta Ruth Bufhet. Fredericka Amelia Latbrop. Lucy •’Martin. Grace HartMl Martin. Prances MinBlifrita McMillan. , an Mt afatK DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A UFB- So Far TlUn Yc«r Tl^rt Hm Emb A FATALITY troBh AVTOmWOM ACCOROm Ib* LAUinONB COUNTY Let*! StriTt To Make 4940 A Baft Ymbt Ob the Hifkwaja. TMb Oala IhI yi 11. 'The grammar grades of the Thom- well schools will present their clos ing program on Friday evening, May 17, at eight o’clock in the oritoanage chapel. '!^e public is cordially invit ed to the exercises, which are looked forward to with interest each year. The regular commencement exer cises at Tbomwell will take place the second week in June. Baptist Club To Hold “LacBes Night” Members of the Brothertiood club of the First Baptist chimrh will honor their wives and friends on Tuesday evening, May 21, with a chicken sup- per. The guest q)eaker tor toe occasion will be Hugh R. Brown, American Railway Express agent to Greenville and a graduate ol Wofford college. >A number of music*l selections will be given by ^ Pmek quartet. AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY Dr. D. J. Woods, pastor (4 thej First Presbyterian diureh, is in Chattanooga, Tenn., for a meeting of the GsnerM AsMinbly of the Sotito- em Presbyterian drardi, beginntaig today. Hm senimu ol the highest church court will continue about .week. RBSiGNS F08R1DN Friends ol Miss Vera Cunningham, for several years past a member of the nursing staff of Hays hospital, will be intmestad to know the has resigned her position. Mias Cunning- hairi will return to her home in Lau- rMs. Mi« Helen Hill of Greenville, has been selected to .tncoe<^ Mias Cuimtogham. spoke the continued assistance of the membership for the new officers. Ten new members were announced, , , las having affiliated with the cham-erected to re- der the new arra^ement all firstpast few days, bringing building which burned in class mail and daily new^^rs^j^g membership to 71. Intensive 4f-i»931. The plant, entirely free of from these two trams will be dis-i, - ^ it was stated tniy®W* is one of the handosmest tributed to the boxes_ immediately | m^m^rshT roll to S debt, was dedicated January 14 this after the trains arrive. “This improved arrangement,’ Postmaster R. L. Plaxico states, “al so enables us to dispatch mail to the membership least one hundred. Elntertainment for the evening was furnished by a group of Thomwell| orphanage pupils. Miss Margaret Ba edifices of its type in the state. Local Sea Scouts Attend Rendezvous south and west on train No. 5 atj^er. Miss Polly McCleod, Richard noon on Sundays and mail for thfc deMontmollin/and Glenn McArthur, j north and east will be dispatched who rendered several songs. They I to train No. 6.* By dispatching mail [ were accompanied at the piano by I Under the direction of Skipper on these two trains a day or more Miss Luva McDonald. Harwood Nelson. Sea Scouts Mack is gained in reaching most southern and western points. Likewise a day Objectives For the Year i Stubbs, Fred Wyndham, J. C. Strick- 1. To sell Clinton citizens on the; land, Lindsay Manning and Cornelius is gained in sendings mail to New [advantages of active interest in the , Willard of the State Training school, York and other northern points.” j civic, industrial commercial, and! last week-end attended the Sea Scout —^ i economic welfare of the Clinton com- rendezvous held by this Scout region FILLS THORNWELL PULPIT imunity. j at High Rock lake, twelve miles Professor John G. Barden, of the 2. To unite Clinton people in thel -south of Lexington, N. C. college faculty, occupied the pulpit of Tbomwell Memorial church Sun day morning, in the absence of the pastor, Dr. L. Roas Lynn. WHO WORKS WHERE? BENJAMIN R SONS • A B. ts? Tlite SevMilir ppeviMHiy re- T*taL. ... $ 511 $M It Pays To Trade IN CLINTON bonds of friendship and mutual un- l VVhile there the group enjoyed the derstanding. facilities of the camp and passed 3. To promote the theory and prac- j many tests in which special equip- l tice of the principles of good gov- ment is required. I emment and good citizenship. At the meeting there were approx- 4. County farm agent to give one imately 150 Scouts and 50 Skippers day a week to Clinton to permit Clin- [ from both North and South Carolina. *100 farmers to interview agent with out having to go to county seat. 5. To advertise and bods* Clinton, to the farmers of this area; promote the establishment of a curb market. 6. To work for public rest room. 7. To Mivcrtisc toe advsmtagcs of U. s', route 76 through Clintco s* best route from mountains to sea. A< To so enlarge membership of Chamber of Commerce ae to be able to organize a merchants’ credit asso- McCullough To Run In Ward Five E. D. McCullough announces Ifik candidacy in today's paper from ward five in the approaching elec tion. Mr. McCullou^ has been a resident of thq Clinton Cotton Mills community for a number of years eiatioa in connection with Chamber where he is well known by many to deal solely with merchants’ prob- ‘ friends whp will be interested te lorn*- ; know he is offering for council. { GRADUATES^IN NURSING | TO TRAIN THREE WEEKS j Friends here will be interested to| Captain Walter A. Johnson of the know that Bdiss Pauline Benjamin, j local coast artillery battei^, Na- of tois city, was a member of the gradiMting class of the Spartanburg General Hospital Training School for Nurses which received dipi<xnas at exweises Friday night. Miss Benja min is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Benjamin . tional Guard, has announced that the training period this summer at Fort Moultrie, Charleston, will ex tend from July 28 to August 17. The period will tost for three weeks instead of two weeks heretofore re quired of toe battery. \