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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-
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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
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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?
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Tlite
SevMilir ppeviMHiy re-
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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.
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