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THte CHRONICLE Strives To Be a Clean Newqtaper, Comidete, Newqr, and Reliable. '■ ■' '• 7; V ,, 1. •/ . If You Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don’t Get the News VOLUME XL CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1940 NUMBER 26 GERMANY WINS WAR IN FRANCE Fighting Ceases As France Signs Armistice Terms of Hit ler and Mussolini. Attack On Britain Is Next Task of Axis Powers. Red Cross Fund Reachs $851.29 The drive for funds for Red Cross relief work in Europe continues and Chairman J. B. Townsend, of the local chapter, yesterday announced that a total of $851.29 h€is been col lected. Qf this amount the city of Clinton contributed $434.32, Gold- - ‘ jville $310.97, and Lydia Mill $106. France will be held under German-1 No report has been received from Italian control without any definite! Clinton Mill, it was stated. peace'terms—despite the armistice—j ^ until Germany has settled her score I with Great Britain, the German j ® I news agency Dienst Aus Deutschland j NaIUCC] annoiJhced. “The actual peace negotiations ’ _ . . . . are likely to be ushered in Students At CcMiference HerCj only when the still open German- Select Leaders For Year. the 4> 3 , English conflict is concluded,’ agency reported. The newly-signed armistice terms, it said, were entirely apart from the future peace negotiations. A total of some 5,000,000 French German and Italian soldiers quiet- }y obeyed the “cease firing!” or der Tuesday. I Pert of the French fleet still re mained at the Egyptian port, Brit ain’s main naval bailin’the Mediter ranean. ' Coincidentally, Prime Minister Churchill told the house of commons in London that France’s Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Petain vio lated the “most solemn assurances” to pritain that the French fleet would never fall into German hands. “It is clear that French war ves sels under this armistice pass into German or Italian control fully arm ed.” Churchill did not mention the whereabouts of the French fleet. Students of the 1940 Young Peo ple's conference of the Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina, held an nually at Presbyterian coHege, early this week elected officers to serve the Synod’s Young People’s league for the coming year. Miss Bernice E. Stroup of Sea- brook, was elected as president of the organization. Miss Enid Wag- gett, of -St. Charles, is viGe-pi:esv>: dent; Miss Laura Fleming, of Laur ens, is secretary, and Billy Blake, of Darlington, is treausrer. Miss Carolyn McSween of Chester, will serve as chairman of the High way of Life Enrichment; Miss Jac queline Hills of Orangeburg, is chair man of the Highway Beyond the Seas; Donald Hagan, of Abbeville, is chairman of the Highway Into the Homeland; La whence Jowers, of Co lumbia, will serve as chainnan of the Highway of Enlistment and Training; ! be chairman of the Highway of i Hollingsworth Smith, of Easley, will however, and yiscount Caldecote, Teamine* James Crook of Soartan-I Dominions scretary, told the house ! of lords that Britain would makerj*^|’7f every effort to retain French naval Stewardship, and Miss Ruth And- help. Churchill declared that “We hope to rescue France from the ruins of bondage into which she has been cast.” The cessation of hostilities ton the western front and in the maritime Alps came while the rest of Europe slept.’' ■There were few outbursts of joy —none of the whooping shouts of fraternization that marked the end of hostitities in the World war on Nov. 11, 1918. /nie combined Nazi-Fascist on slaught against France halted at 1:35 a. m. Tuesday. Berlin reported that the conquer ors’ demands comprised 24 para graphs and that they were “hard, but not humiliating” for France. According to best available fig ures, France originally had 2,780,- 000 soldiers engaged in the conflict. Germany sent' some 2,000,000, men into France and Italy about 750,- 000. Casualty figures were still un available, but were expected to be high. The “cease firing” orders that came as scheduled, six hours after France yielded to Italy, created dramas of differing sorts among the conquerors and the conquered. France in sorrow ordained this a day of national mourning. In Germany, there was nqisy ex- uitation. - - ' The Reichsfuehrer was extolled as having brought to a grateful Ger many her most glorious victory. Hitler himself. In a brief procla- erson, of Greenville, will be chair man of the Highway of Comradeship. New editor of the official news-, paper of the Synod’s Yeung People’s League, “The Kirksonian,” is Miss Flora McDonald, of Dillon. Presidents of the eight presbyter ies of the synod recently elected at the spring rallies of each pfesbytery are: Bethel presbytery. Miss Attie Camp, of York: Charleston, Hunter Fairies, of Charleston; Congaree, George Ropp, of Columbia; Enoree, Tom Gower, -erf Greenville; Pee Dee, Miss Mary McQueen, of Mullins; Piedmont, Miss Johnnie Mary Prince, of Easley; Harmony, Bradley Jen kins, of St. Charles; and South Caro lina, Miss Ann Holloway, of Green wood. A Bennie Blakely For Supervisor Bennie B. Blakely, well known young farmer of the Etoiley commun ity, between Clinton and Laurens, announced this week his candidacy for coimty supervisor. * Mr. Blakely is 36 years of age and is’engaged in farming with his fath er, B. B. Blakely, since attending Presbyterian college in 1922-1923. Mr. Blakely said that his expe rience in road building with some of the best tbad contractors iri the state qualifies him to oversee the road work of the county. If elected, he promised to give the office his undivided attention and states that he will treat all sections mation, declared: , “In humility we thank Gor for county aMke His blessing.” He ordered that the bells of the greater Reich be nmg for seven days and that the national flag be displayed for 10 days^to mark the triumphal end of the war with France which began Sept. 3 but JOANNA CLUB GO TO new YORK TO ) Nl Approximately 60 members of the Woman’s club of Joanna Cotton Mills, Goldville, will leave Tuesday which broke in all its fury only 46 j for a trip to New York and the fair, days ago. )They will return Saturday after a Italy, Germany’s partner in war i three-day stay in the metropolis, for only two weeks was more sub-1 Headquarters for the group in New dued ni her celebration. ^ York wilj be Hotel Victoria. Far from the scene of Freno^l ca-; ■ tastrophe other nations flexed their fylyisp jjg WINNER dued in her celebration. , f _ VOTERS URGED TO ENaduL . 'Officials of the executive conunit- tee of the City Democratic club yes terday stated that voters were en rolling slowly. The books tor en rollment are. at L. B. Dillard’s store and will be open through July 23. It is necessary foi* all persons dissir- ing to vote in the August prhnaries to enroll dvtrhiug diis period, j$s new books are being used. ATTENDS CONFERENCE W. C. ~ Monts, supeffMendent of city schools, was in Columbia Ftiday and Saturday where he attnidad • sdmoLadndnistnitDrs conference and took part in a panel diacuasion on OF SCHOLARSHIP Bill Crisp, of Mountville, formerly a resident of Clinton, has been awarded a scholarship at the Y. M. C. A. graduate sdiool sumxner quar ter being held at Blue Ridge, N. C. The sdiolarship, made possible through a gift of the Southern Dai^ ries, fffovidea for Mr. Crisp to spend 12 weeks this sunuher at BlueJU^e I iri fee in stiidy, rest and ^recreation mountains. Mr. Oiisp is the son of W. E. Crisp, Sr., Of Mtoodtville, and is a student at eraser Theologfebl seminary, Chester, 5a. ‘ ^ TRI^SCRERf ^ ’Clainginf Trmds In School Admin- News fnsMr Laurgna yesterday stat istrRion and Echication.” IN ACTOMpBlLE ACCIDENT Lee Selfe, 25,' injured In an auto- moWte awident near Lydia MiB Sun- dajr night, is a patient in the Laurens I and his condition Is extremely se- hospitsl. Igr. Selfg, who lives at An- rlous ed that Gonity Tirtasurer -Dr Boy Simpson was “a very sick man.” He has been a patient at the county hospiU^ since efely in the month. He it in ah oyygen tent, it was slated, derson, was said to have been thrown from the automobile when it struck a tree. Other occupants of the car were not injured, it was stated. Joe DoiliKm who holds a position is Columbia, is qiendlng a week’s ^scatioii with his mofeer, Mrs. J. H. Ckmnon. ATTENDS MEETING Dr. Folder fenith of Clinton and cinnati where he attended the Ameri- Ldurens, will return today from Cin- can Optometric association and In ternational Board of Optometry as a delegate from the South Carolina Association of Optometrists. Recently Elected City Officials i ^ ^ J HUGH C. RAY Aidemtan Ward One PET B. ADAIR Alderman Ward Two J. y. JACOBS Aldetinxn Ward TiMlee F. M. BOLA.\D Alderman Ward Four TBEODORB QUEEN AManaan Ward Five /llWvMIV wwWmW oK - --t ■ ’if Election Protest Does Not Develop HOOVER HITS THE NEW DEAL I A meeting of the executive com- mitttee of the Clinton City Demo cratic club, scheduled to be held last* Thursday night to hear a protest [ on the second primary election the previous - Tuesday, was cancelled' when the protest was withdrawn, itj was stated by J. J. Cornwall, sec- i retary of the club. The notice of protest, lodged with, club officials by John H. Cranford,' defeated candidate for alderman in Delegates At Republican Con vention Roar Approval When Former President Calls For Change In National Adminis tration. Sober Preparation for Defense Is Urged. S. C. FOR DEWEY Philadelphia, June 2b. South' ward five, wa.s withdrawn Thursday ^^•*^*‘^^ ** delegates to the Repvibft- 1 afternoon. The basis for the prole, t can national convention decided to- t was not announced. ca.'.t JO votes fur Thomas E. ! Theodore Queen was the successful on the first presidential i candidate in ward five, being nomi- _ ■ nated over Mr. Cranford by a vote of 246 to 231. i TOIBERT CHUNKED OUT j Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.. June 25.—“Tiele.ss” Joe Tolbert of i Ninety-Six, who ruled the Republi- ^ - jlcan party in South Carolina w'ith IxCStCnCd hand the last 52 years, was d< Flying School throned early today when the nation- .... al convention cr^entials committee ClaM Room and Flight Instruc-jconfirmed the seating of the George tion To« Be Conducted From | Norwood faction of Greenville. Now Until September 1. | ^ Convention - Hall, Philadelphia, The quota of 30 students allotted the Barksdale field airport in the June 25.—Herbert Hoover demand ed the abolishment of the New Deal Civilian Pilot Training summer!and a scrupulous avoidance of war school program, which began last! ^o^‘8ht before an excited Republi- week and will end by September Lj^^an national convention which shout- had been filled, it has been learned, back its approval and burst fin- jfrom L. P. Speth, flight instructor.;ally into the noisiest demonstration Hiers Furtick, another instructors^ ‘ recently brought here to assisf in the government-financed program, re- OutbursLs of applau.se brief and occasional, yet of a roaring lustiness. turned during the week from Lock ■ P'^*^<^^^*ated a very section of the ad- ' Haven, Pa., with one of the two ^ress. But the last sentence, which !training planes assigned to the locali'^'as also a question, brought the field j climax. Referring to the party bat- Night cla..scs are being c.mduct- 'I'" ed at Presbyterian college. Speth ' said, and flight instruction during "Republicans, are you prepared to the day. i ^his fight”” : Enrollees wore named as follows;’ ' ‘James Booth. Joe Clements, Harold iCobb, Ledn Crump. I.loyd R. Foster, ^ drowned out the response*. Robert C. McLees. Walker Nixon, demon.strat.on was in the making. Fred Oxley. Phillip Rogers, Eugene (Continued on page six) ! B. Sloan, John M. Sturgeon, Charles: ~ ^ “ T. Trammell and Samuel L. Castle-i NJr* 1-1 a berry, all of Clinton; Paul Culbert- /ALilUfl Iiere son, Woodruff; John Hipp, Herbert L. Little and James' R. Crook, all of ; Spartanburg: Marion Moore, Rock Hill; John C. Neel, Newberry; John On Store Closing Up to the time of going to press I^ilgo, George F. Little, Frank O’- .last night. The Qmxucfe re- fBfeen, Henry'Oo<!n-ey Parri*B, D4rv4diceived no information ’ on whether Roper, Joe F. Smith, Wm. Watt Vin-(the local stores would remain ope* cent, John H. Washington and Cald- i next Wednesday afternoon. Thurs- well W. Wier, Jr., of Laurens. day, July 4, of course, will be ob- ♦ 1 served as a holiday. Local m^an- Q. ■ J J J D houses have been closing each OtOClCl&irCt IxUHS Wednesday afternoon for several o • ’ weeks. ——t* OF dliPd*VlSCNrf~"^^ expected that action wull be- ^ * i taken one way or the other during T D 7he coming week on whether stores Lander B. Stoddard, county com- i here will remain open or close as missioner for the past four years, .. * ,.7 j r 1 ^ . . u- < 1 usual next Wednesday, July 3. today enters his formal announce- ^ l^far'rcandrda‘te';or'c;,untysu-SrZ’T'i?* '’'n , j, i that Laurens stores will not close I Mr! Stoddard said that he had been|T.^-ji!!!lL.holiday next urged very strongly by friends 'all I } over the county to make the race Wednesday. j and said that he feels that his ex- ' perience for the past four years •qualifies him to fill the job effi-j ' cjently. He is running on his record, ! he stated. t -If elected, he said, hb-^expects to j continue his policy of being fair and Power Announces For Commissioner .Herman-- Bo wee-- wellknow* farmer of the Barksdale-Narnie sec- ^ loyal to all sections of the county announced^ this we^ his candi in carrying on the road work, and for county commissioner of will continue to cooperate with oth er county officials and government i agencies. He promises to be on the Laurens county. Mr. Power served two terms as county commissioner from 1932 to job from “Monday morning until from the commission- Saturday night.” office in 1936. , Mr. Stoddard said that he appre-| , j ciates the confidence of the people ■ first ballot and led I who elected'him county commission-1 ticket again in his second race er for two terms and asks thenkj’*’ ^ f>eld of seven. He recalled for their continued support. I • that he did not miss a I ^ ^ board meeting in'four years. * 1*1? /^ II He said that he appreciated the ArCnl^ n ^OOK In ; support and cooperation given him ' by the people of the“county in the Commissioner Racek®''^ y**'**' ! give the county a fair and impartial I ^ ' i administration, treating all section.-* 1 Archie F Oxik of Owings an-; the county alike. , nounced that he is a candidate forj ^ county commissioner of Laurenst.^p i>iDU'c no kt''vu'v‘ i county. Mr. Cook is 36 years of ‘ AKKb 10 I RAC Tit L I age and lives near Owings where. MEDICINE AT CROSS HILL I he wa.s born and reared. He is a; I farmer and is also engaged in hand-| ling seed and fertilizer. Dr. Richard H. Parks, formerly He is anh’* Warren, Pe., has located for gen- active memberjjif Friendship Baptist practice in Cross Hill, church of tha Owings community.! is a graduate of the if elect He promises iF elected to this office,, PennsylviUiia Medical to serve Laurens county honestly and I and served a two-year in- fairly. temship at the Pennsylvartia stale hospital. THREE COUNTY 4-H NMnlnafed In primaries held Jane 11 and t8». Ufe xbofe fiiecessful ondtdates will be formally elected xt ihe dendrat eleetien In August and wiR take ofTIce SepMnher 1. Mxjfxr Butler waa newinuted fer his fourth consecutive term. Aldermen Adulf. Ikeottu. Beluad and Hods- peth are hold-over members of couneil, while Ruy and Queen are new Photos Coprtesy The Greenville Piedmont. members. IN CROSS HILL I - KIWANIS CLUB MEETS Miss Eve Wells, Milton and Mi-! lYhe Kiwanis club will meet thU riam Be^ll of Washington. D. C.. ar-!e>^wd Hotel Clinton at 7:30., rived the pavt week to spend the’. ■ • — summer with their father and grand-' KUcn Jacobs and Garrard Johnson father, J. C. Welh, :n Cross Hill, i sprat the week-end in Charleston. Dr. Parks Mrs. Parks and tbeir BOYS WIN PRIZES' Three Laurens county 4-H club members won cash prizes in the sixth annual 4-H farm and home accounting contest for the. 1939-40 farm year conducted by the state extension service, it has been an nounced. Laurens county winners, with the amount of their prizes, were announced as Silas Knight, Gray Court, $3.00; J. P, Keilett, Gray Court, $1.50; and Carroll ThompSonj Mouutville, $L50. DR. M. H. MOORHEAD AT GOLDVILLE FOR MONTH UONS OITTING FRIDAY The Lions club will have an out door meeting Friday evenirrg at 7:30 at the Laurens Coupty Fish and Game association lodge, near here. A chicken stew wdll be served, and members will have their «vives and friends as guests. Durinjg the absence of Dr W. T. Martin, who is away on vacation, hi* practice at Goldville is being cared for by Dr. William H. Moorhead, who is spending month with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mtx>r- head. IN MONTREAT Dr. and Mrs. L. Ross Lynn left Tuesday for Montreal to attend the Presbyterian orpnanage conference which began there yesterday and will continue through July' 2. Dr. Lynn will return to the city early next week. Mrs. Lynn will romaia in Jdontreat fur the svanmer. \ V - • ... . - .. \