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1 -• V' t ' * /■ .’.AiS- 'i*' u o p. *. I m THB (SBONlCia^ SUirti Tg Bt a Claaa Kwrifipw, Cflipieta, NlwEr, Mi RiHM4e. ®k fflUntatt If Tm Dw’t BMal THE CHBONICLI Tm IWt CM tlw Nm* VOLUME XL CUNTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940 NUMBER 22 :GE FINALS BEGIN SUNDAY Baccafanratt Birn^ Ify 8cv. A. 6. Banria of Macon, Ga^ AMrcai Bjr Dr. SjFivoator Groan of Coker College. Sixty- Seven To Get Dlploaiao At Cloeiag Bxorciaeo Monday. The 00th PmbTterian coUef^ cfim- mencemeot cu^uvises will begin Sun day wHh the badcalaureate sertbon wten sixty-aeven candidates for bachelor’s degrees assemble in the First Preidiyterian churdi of Clinton to hear Reverend Albert lihridy Htu*- ris, pastcMT of the First Fresbyterian church of Macon, Oa., deliver the baccalaureate sermon. Momiiig ser vices in other churches of the city will be withdrawn to give the people of the community opportunity to unite in this special service. Sunday afternoon will be filled with "open houae" at the Young Men’s Christian Association building on the campus, when parents and friends of the graduat^to-be wfU meet faculty members ahd stSRlents in an hiformal ■ gatherihg ttMt Js schedhiM to fill the afternoon. Monday morning graduation exer cises begin with &e presentation of second lieutenant’s commissions in the Officers’ Reserve corps of the ^United •States" army to members of ALLIES ADMIT PLIGHT GRAVE WAR BULLETIN BOARD Naxig Predict Quick Finidi To Cornered Army. Surrender of Belgiaae Serious Bloiw. French Hurt Might Agsinit Germans In the StMBine Region. Paris, May 29. COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM AT HIGH SCHOOL COMES TO CLOSE PARIS—French report progress in southern offensive to relieve trapped Allim, facing disaster following Bel gian surrender; 300,000 Belgians. Leopold’s army "almost in its entir ety’’ give up; Allied position “very difficult” BERLIN—Hitler swallows up sixth ’The French re-,ginre war begm, st^es ^-j^ltorium at which time seventy re ceived their diplomas. ScTsnty Seniors Receive Diplomas, sad Awards for Year An- nonneed. Baccalaureate Somon Sunday Evening By the Rev. , J. LeGrande Mayer. Exerciaes Largely Attended. The graduating exercises of Clin ton high sdiool were held Monday evening in FroUda Street school au- ported progress last night in a tre- jgive new blows in effort to annihi- mendousdo-or-die offensive from the'late bottled-up Allies; Goering ord- wuth to rMcue AUtel torc« f.cln* r!* imminent disaster as a result of the as retaliatory measure. LONDON—Churchill warns “hard The exercises were attended by a Award af Medals and Prises General scholarship senior medal, Cecil White—awarded to the «nior who has the hi|d^ average in the class during first 3*4 years. Declamatioivprtze, Milton Milam- large gathering of parents, relatives a cash award donated by J. C. Pen- and friends who had gathered for ncy company, and given to the win- thc final chapter in the commence-., ner of the school’s declamation con- T% S f „ a - — **jT.lirLT.«-BwV ^ IlTlml CriMpXP* Ifl Ul“ COIlsITl"lldr"*»j laCa Belgian armys surrender almost ^eavy tidings" might be expect-jprogram The graduates, robed! test, its entirety” to Adolf Hitler. |ed from situation pf "gyievous perU;’ in and gowns, occupied reserved ' Ej In the north the Germans hammer- j Duff Cooper says British Inust with draw in Flanders but “we have not lost the war, assuredly we shall not.” ROME—Italy bans unrestricted de- EEV. A G. RWUS the class who completed four years of military training in the school’s crack R. O. T. C. unit. Following the presentation of com missions, Dr. Marshall W. Brown, dean, will present all medals and awaz^ earned during the year and will announce the honors. Chief con-' tenders for first place honors ac- '*cording jto the cumulative averages of last semester dean’s list are: Du- f ald Hudson, 2.96; Thelma Taylor, .86; and Jane Sturgeon, 2.73, Al- thougflr, there will be no valedictorian for the first time in the history of -the-college, these studente are ip line for. first scholastic honora. Dr» C. Sylvester Gre«a, president of Coker college, Hartsvilte, ^ill de liver the literary address, al^er which bachelor’s degrees will be conferred upon members of the class. The hmiorary degree dootea -ol ^vaHy wtt- br conferred ufon Bev A. Q. Harris, of Masen, Ga., and Rev. Louis C. LaMotte, iMresident of Presbyterian Junior college, Maxton, N. C.; the honorary degree of doctor of literature will be conferred upon Rev. Roswell C. Long, D.D., of Gfeenwood; and the honorary degree of doctor of laws upon Jefferson;Advertiser: Choice Evins, of Spartanburg, and J*. E. Sirrine, of Grrenvilla. Weather permitti^, the exercises will be held in the open air, beneath the trees near the administration building. ed away just as furiously to swing shut the door and finish off quickly the 700,000 hapless Britirii and French forces being battered closer to the English channel or encircled within a German trap. Admitting the situatiim to be “very difficult,” but proclaiming unflag ging detenninatlon to fight on, the French hurled ttieir might in the southern fighting against the Ger mans from the r«gj|QiiL.oi Jhe Somlne. German troops have occupied the French port of Dunkerque, a Rome broa^ast picked up by NBC in New Yoric, said last night. Allied Generalissimo M a x i m e Weygand poised another force of up wards of a hall million men along the Aisne to the e^ to Join the con centrated assault upon which de pends the outcome of the battle of Flanders. Backing up the ground forces. parture of Britidi-French nationals in another apparent step toward war. Annuai Dedicated To J(dm H. Hunter Expres.sjon medal, Bobbie Jean seats at the front of the auditorium, i Carr—given by J. B. Frontis to -the Following the proc^ional by the winner of the school expression con- senior class, “America,” was sung i test, who also won the. Laurens by the audience, after which Rev. I county contest this year. Ralph D. Hughes, pastor of Calvary Baptist church, offered the invoca tion. The salutatory address was made by Grace Martin, second honor grad- Athletic medal, Joseph E. Shaw— awarded to the athlete adjudged by Coach R. P. Wilder as the best all round athlete. Spelling prize, Helen Morrison—a uate, and Ruth Bouknight, president; cash award to the best student in of the class reviewed the accompUah- spelling, .given by L. W. Rawl, man ager of Rose’s 10c store. D. A. R. history nii<^al. Florence Blakely—given by the Mary Mus- imaits of the school and clam. An^ OolMgkTTMtte^ Moorhead gave a violllf Idlfi, Honored By Students. Has I “Cavatina,” by Raff, she was ac- n * i?A-icompanied at the piano by Miss t grove dtapter D. A. R to the student in ri^SCni rmsilion Sumerel. tK* mmt ruitsf-nnHin* umrir in DR. StLVESnR GREEN Laurens’ 1940 Populatkm 6,838 VSmtWfSeai Tow» Shows Gain Orer 1980, a- 85.6 Per Cent ^noretae. ' The following ^icle pertaining to the Laurens city census just an nounced, is taken frmn The Laurens The population of Laurens is 6,- 838, an increase of 25.6 per cent over clouds of British and French war planes rained their burdens on the German lines of communications. Both Allied and .^German sources said General Weygand must throw the full force of his power into the Allied offensive within 36 hours or lose not only the trapped forces but risk a German thrust in the Rethel area. Rethel is 95 miles northeast of Par is, and a German drive there might cut under the Maginot line to Reims and Paris. A French war ministry spokesman said that 300,000 Belgian troops, i^p- resenting the main force of the little country’s 18 fighting divisions, quit in respoikse King Let^pld lU’s uneondHional surraider. . \ . This blow, the Allies admitted, was paralleled in severity only by the collapse of the army of General An dre Coraps in the battle of the Meuse, which left the gates open for the German army to streak across north ern France to the channel. The refugee Belgian government in Paris “disowned” Leopold and an- Nineieen Years. The PaC-SaC, Presbyterian col lege yearbook, released the past week, is dedicated to John H. Hunter, business manger of the institution. The dedication announc^ent was withheld until the books were dia-| tributed, and it was.with much pleas ure that Mr. Hunter’s friends re ceived the news that he had been so signally honored. Following is the dedication, as ex pressed in the opening pages of the book: “We honor John Holland Hunter— Regard for his innate modesty sug gests brevity and simplicity of ex pression. His inestimable services to his alma miter during nineteen try ing years as business manager have long been recognized: we are con stantly aware of that which has been accomplished by his Christian influ ence and spirit of unfailing friendli ness. Because we feel that by render ing unselfirii service to others he has laited te life « pkUoaophy oC. pamm and contenfmmft, because we believe that his way of living is an exempli- fleation of true ‘P. C. spirit,’ and with the earnest hope that some of us will catch his spirit along the way, we dedicate the PaC-SaC of 1940 to John Holland Hunter.” Mr. Hunter has been business manager of the college for nineteen I years, where he comes in daily-con- high school, awarded medals and an nounced winners of other awards. W. E. Monts, superintendent of schools, delivered diplomas to the graduates and made several an- doing the most outstanding work in Cecil White, first honor graduate, | American History, delivered the valedictory address, a Activities medal, Lawrence Fergu- defense of and appeal for preserva- j *on—-awarded to the student who, in tion of democracy. The address will I judgment of the entire faculty, be found in another column of to- been most useful and has made day’s paper. ’ largest contribution to the activi- , o * T 1 # tw.. ties of student life during the year. J. B entry, Jr pr.nc.p.1 ot the ^ junior class, varsity lette^p in fOi>t- ball and track General scholarship medal, Peggy Johnson, 97.75%—given by Clinton . . Kiwanis piub to the student' in the nouncments pertaining to th. years ' j highest average m all eleven grades The singing of the alma mater by for the year, the class, and the benediction by Mr.t Yearly Honor Roll Hughes brought the year’s exercises I i-he following pupils were mem- to a close. j ^^,.5 of the honor roll every month The commencement program be- during the past school year: gan Friday evening when the seniors j Eighth ^rade: Ruth Singley, Amel- presented their class night program, iia Payne, Edna Earle Workman, which included the usual history ofjVirgiBfia Sharpton, Julia Taylor, Ann the class, poem, prof^ecy. statistics, Blakely, Roslyn Cason, Dorothy Pin- aiid will. The program also includ- son, Pringle Copeland, Davis Ellis, ed a playlet, “A Southern Rosary,” John Morris, Anita Cassanova, Jean under the direction of Miss floMi Ninth grade: Richard Foster, Mar-'^ Mahaffey. garet Adair, Ruby Anderstm, Bobbie Copeland, Carolyn Murphy. Jean Carr, Marcia Galloway, Milton Milam, Carolyn Henry, Ame Jacobs, the 5,443 retorded here 10 years^ago^^^^ jjjg prospects were slim, how- Owens, Announces For Cmwnissioner Archie C. Owens of the Hickory Tavern section of LauroM county i has announced his candidacy for county commissioner in the Demo cratic primary next August. Mr. Owens is the present foreman of the grand jury and a former mag istrate'of Sullivan township for four years. He has been a resident of this township all his life, having served in the World War witi^ eleven months service, mostly in Prance. Mr. Owens is a deac<m and Sunday school superintendent of the Rabun Cre^ Baptist church; secretly of ^ Reedy River Council, Junior Or der U. A. M., and a member of the W. O. W. and the Masonic order. “I realize 'that the times demaiul more and better roads,” said Mr. Owens yesterday. “It would be my aim and desire to give the people all over the county the best roads possible. I would like to make the county home as nearly self-sup porting as possible. I believe in buying county supplies on omipetl- tive bids and giving all ’ n^rdtents end companies Interested a chance to bid. ' “I would giTfe the coiaify an hon est, sffieient ahd husinsst-Uke term of office if the voters could see fit to elect me to this position,” said Mr. Owens. NAMES OMITTED FROM HIGH SCHOLARSHIP LIST At eommenecmsnt cxerciaea Mon day nt9ht when names of scholaMUp leallara Isi each sehod weie read, % tww Bamea were omifted. Margaret .j.'m <■ Adair ahould have bean includad in ' a tie wifli Anita Casaaaova for ttilrd ‘ place in the high adteot, with an avnaM for tbejr^ of 97 par cent In norkla Bbeet acbood, Louiae Sfegfey Rteukl have been iheiudad in a lit erMi BObl^ Owens for find place with an |verage of 95 par c«Bt. according to information furnished The Advertiser from the office of W. S. Wingo, of Spartanburg, dis trict censwS-supervisor. The final work in the municipal enumeration was completed Tuesday afternoon by Ross D. Young who was doing the work in Ward 3, the dis trict office reported. Five of the city’s six wards show ed decided increases over the 1930 figures. Ward 1 almost tripled its population in the 10 years. Ward 2 showed a decrease. Wards 1 and 5 showed the largest and almost the same total increases, the growth in the former being 405 and the latter, 404. During the past 10 years. Wards 3 and 4 have ex changed I places with respect to top and second high honors in the total count. Ward 4, nearly 100 behind Ward 3 in the 1980 census, was recorded in the 1940 count with a total of 1,698, or 10 more than Ward 3, second highest The population by wards, for both the 1930-and the 1940 census, was released by Wingo’s office as fellows: Census 1930 1940 Ward 1 219 624 Ward 2 748 683 Ward 3 .... 1,490 1,688 Ward 4 1,394 1,698 Ward 5 880 1,284 Ward 6 712 861 Totals .... 5.‘443 6,888 LOCAL MEN ELECTED At ttte annual convention of thf South CareUite Cotton Menuafnetur-; ers association bald Saturday at Cashfers, iCCn WUham P. Jacobs of this dre wns radaetad axceutiva vice-pccsiqimtr.jndi Shuler Love^ al> so of this cthr« ^ WHO WORKS WHERE? L C BOLAND GROCERY t C. ROLAND, Prep. W1LL,L.LTNN . lOGIS MaOOT <€alired) nounc^ it would orgimize its o^ students. He has eam- army to fight at the side of the Al- ^ their respect and friendship by his unfailing courtesy and tact and ready smile. He numbers his friends among students and alumni by the hundreds. He is a graduate of the college and during his student ^ays was a member of athletic teams of the school, being principally remem bered as. one of the bret basketball players ever to appear on the Presby terian courts. ever, for the- Belgian government has only a mass of refugees, mostly wom en and children and But little man- powst to draw from. V King Leopold, whoee father. King Albert, fought with the Allies throui^out the World war, was- in effect deposed by the action of the Belgian government in Paris, which declared: “The guilt of one man cannot be imputed to the entire nation. The king has broken the constitution and placed himself under. (he power of the invader . . . consequently he is no longer able to govern.” The immediate objective of the projected Allied attSKde from the river Aisne, it was reported, would be to smash through the 35-mile- wide German corridor to the EngUah channel and rescue iqiinroximately 700,000 British and French troops tram>^ in Flanders. While (he streets of Paris rang with the cry of “treason!” at the news of Ki^ Leopold’s capitulation. Prime Minister Winston Churchill told .a cheering House of Commons in Lo9d<m that the Allies will press their fifflit with “full vigor.” Allied generals, he said, have been instructed to (xmtlnue their cam paigns and “ignore” the Belgian monarch’s surrender. Nevertheless, Churchill acknowl edged that the sudden capitulation of Belgian troops came as a cnahing hlow'^-placing'thc encircled Britiah and Ffench troops in even more dire College To Honor, ■? /‘'aa Layton, Byrd McMillan, Omega romicr VjraaUftlcSl Monroe, Betty Tribble. Rufus Sadler. j Tenth grade: Betty Hunter, Jane Presbyterian Invites Seven ^“thiera Howard, Mary Lof- Attended Institution Fify Virginia Sumerel, Banna Piester More Years Ago To Partici-: Martin, Marjorie Miller, Mary Bailey pate in Exercises. ! Owens, Bernice Whelchel, ^ Eleventh grade: Cecil White, Flor- Seven Presbyterian college • grad- uates who received their degrees Martm. Helen from the institution fifty or more Morn^. Ruth BL>uknighL years ago will be honored partici- ®*®^**“^**** Sermon pants in. the institution’s sixtieth' Tht ba^alaureate sermon commencement exercises. Dr. Mar-' ^ shall W Brown, dean of the college. ^ Pre^yterian church by the announced this .week, as he stated i that these graduates will attend Xhe]^^- John s Lutheian rhurch. iTie scr- exercises on June 3 and will be given; Mr. Hunter is a native of Clinton, 1 certificates emblematic of the col- a s(m of Mrs. Myrtle Hunter, herself a member of the college staff, serving Xs dietitian. From the dedication through its breezy faculty sections, pictured with candid shots and told in a respect ful disregard of professorial dig nity, through the intimate class sec tions, the pageant of beauties select ed by famed artist McClelland Bar clay, and on to the closing grouping of feature photographs, the book fol lows out Editor Biilton Norton’s seat ed intention to capture on paper the life of the campus and mirror it for the. memories of graduates. Seay Announces For Magistrate J. Henry Seay, a resident of the Cilnton cotton mills community, this week announces himself a candidate for magistrate of Hunter township. Mr. Seay, adio has lived in ClUitcm for the past fifteen years, is well kixiwn here, having bien connected appreciation and esteem of Tlda flwai saagilaya -m....... gevaany-twa pwvlanaly va- Tatal. .593 It Pays To Trade IN CUNTON tennarrtv hv •vnnaina .iinnw insurance snd fumlture com- al channel ports, to German capture. IMTliunenUnr chtel.. W thTTS by Pronier Hubert Pierlot, met in Paris to lay cbaiges agidnst King Lipoid and reorganiae Ibe Belgian In Lon<to, authoriaed military soureea dteola^ 4touUy Uut file BritUi EifilWKIonaiT fttfoe in F|an- dera “la not beaten, has never wav-j Rev. C. Darby Fultoa, DJ5, ered” and will -continut to fight raceive the ahimnua gold “F’ candidate to formally announce him* self for this office. TO RECEIVE AWARD AS OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS tteir Freodi AIUm. itiSdz naval spokennen, however, wlfii Bril hinted that the BSF was preparinf to withdraw from flie bkiod-aoaked fwders battlefield. There were two hazardous .^tes of aeeape open: 1. Embarkation at still-held chan nel ports, ttriain to be subjected to flightful bombing and machine- gun strafing by the German air force: * 2. A desperatioo-drivm break through the Qertnan trap to join th4 Allied army along tl^ 200-mUe Bommt river front. arUl award vice was attended by a largt: uni«tn congregation, with members 01 the graduating class occupying seats in front of the auditorium. Mr. Mayer chose of his text Phil- ippians 4:8: “Finally, brethren, what soever things are true, whatsover things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever, things arc pure, whatsoever things are lovely, what- ! soever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Tho subject' of the sermon was. “Some Things To Think About," and follows in full: lege’s them. Receiving the certificates will be the following; Mra. R. S. (Rebecca Boozer) Thompson of Walhalla. who graduated in the class of 1883 and is the only living person holding a di ploma from^the college which was issued prior to 1885; Joshua L. Young, of Mfere Shoals, who is the only living person who received a de gree from the college in 1885. Mrs. B. L. CMoorer Adams) King, of Clinton, who is the only living graduate of the class of 1887; S. C.j Someone has m.ade the statement Byrd, B. A., M. A., B. D., D. D.,; that "Of making of books there is no LL. D., president emeritus of Queens end." Those of us who spend much college, Charlotte, N. C.; and. Missitime with books know that it is lit- Henri Etta Lee, of the arts depart- erally true that today there is no end ment of the Greensboro (N. C.) pub- to the making of books. Now I want lie schools, who are the only living to propose a statement in which there graduates of the class of 1889. : is an even larger element of truth Dr. James W. Davis, physician of'. . . a statement about our thinking- Clinton, and William States Jacobs, B. A., M. A., B. D., LL. D., Ph. D., D. D., of Houston, Texas, the only living members of the class of 1890, whose fiftieth anniversary this year’s commencement is. of the Presbyterian college alufeni association given annuMly to the ahOBDuif of tike college eaketed as tiie “outstanding ahonnua of the year.” Dr. FtiHon is executive secretary of the fortign missions cmnmittae of the Southern Presbyterian church, with headquarters in Nashville, T«m. A——— —— ■ ■■ ■ ■ CAPTAINS ELECTED Bob Kerdaaha was elected captain of the Presbyterian coll^ tennis team during tiie past wew. Alton.Jacobs, participant In five events, was -naiiked captain of the track aquad for next year. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A UFB- So Far TUa Yflar TWrt 9 FATAUTY AUTOIKNHLB AOCmENTS M LAURENS COUNTY Lft*9 Striva 1V> Mak« 1940 a Safo Year On tlw Higliwaya. r. IL “Of the thinking of thoughts, there is no end.” After all. the books that are made are the i-onscious results of somebody’s thinking. And the greater (Continued on page six) ■ ■ ■ ■ ——— nil ■ Bryson Announces For Congress Race Joseph R. Bryson, of Greenville, yesterday announced his candidacy for retoetkm as a member ol congn -x from the Fourth Congressional d;>- trtet, comprising the counties of Graanvilto, ^pdHaaburg. Laurens and Union. Mr. Bryson first made the con gretskmal race In 1936 when G. Hey ward Mahon, Jr^ of GreenvUto, was elected, and In the 1936 race Brys> - (defeated Mahon. I Congressman Bryson, in filing his application wrlth the state secretary, i^ued a statement in which he said he would not speak at the present time of “ . . . my efforts toward greater public service as represen tative of the Fourth ci>ngre>sioBal district. For the present, suffice it to ,say, 1 am conceimed not with what the future holds for me, but with what the futiire holds for the nation.”