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7 “ i ■ 7' "* , V - i., - ,. _ .,_ J . . . - / • , ■ ■/*• t.,.ft. A- 5fc- 4 ; 4» ij i# J ■ ■■/- / / ■/. 7Ttf.-Av^7TiC'';Vf '■.' THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be a Clesii Newspaper, CoaipleCe, Newsy, ani ReiUile, If Yoa Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don’t €ret ike News VOLUME XL CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1940 BELGRADE—Bumania cal>inet re ported to have persuaded King Carol not to abdicate despite pressure from various factions which blame him for loss* of Bessarabia. LONDON—At least 12 British kiU- ed and 123 wounded in day and .TE Shows GAIN itoi^ikiD No. 1 City of Cttnton Drops From ISirtHsee To 20tlK Only Two In 38 CUiis Fail To Incrcasei /Columbia, July 2.—In the first ranking 38 cities and towns of South in»#ht German air raids; British heav- Carolina the IMO census has shown I battl^ip &ham. , - „ ^ . , ihorst in attack on Kiel naval base; increases for all but two places, a member of parliament tells commons survey yesterday revealed. |it is U. S. duty to send fleet to re- One city, Gaffney,^ which ranked move British women and children. 13th in the 1930 census, has not yet BERLIN—Germany reckons own reported but is expected to show an total casualties in western blitzkrieg \ which crushed low countries and France at 156,492 men. Columbia’s gain of 9,000 iir the preliminary census report (now be ing further increased through sev eral thoiisand names added by the junior chamber of commerce) is the largest for any one city. Sumter, with a. 37 per cent in crease, showed the largest percent age gain for any city in the list of the first 24 municipalities. Conway, with a 63 per cent gain, was chief gainer from a percentage standpoint in the state’s first 38 ranking population centers. Laurens County Pi^Nilation Gains Laurens Townsh^ First, Hunter Second, In Final Fourth Dis trict OMtttt. (Myrtle Beach in Horry county, of which Conway is county seat, in creased from 200 to 1,600—or 800 per cent, a record unapproached by any other place in the state.) Anderson* and Sumter jumped, re spectively, from sixth and seventh cities to fifth and sixth places—both passing Florence. Laurens—which had a 22 per cent gain—went from 19th to 14th city. Chester went from 17th to 15th; Maricm from 22nd to 18th; Conway from 34th to 26th; Eau Claire from I Laurens county’s population^ in creased 2*177 from 1930 to 1940Vac- * cording to final census figures re leased during the week by Director Walter S. Wingo of Spartanburg. The figures are 44,271 against 42,094 ten years ago. Figures By Townships The townships gaining in popula tion during the past 10 years, as shown by the 1940 figures, were Dials, Laurens, Scuffletown, Water loo, Sullivan and Jacks. The largest increase was recorded in Laurens township. The townships losing population 35th to 29th; Woodruff from 31st were Hunt- — -- gj.^ Cross Hill and Youngs. Hunter showed the largest total loss. The 1940 figures announced by Wingo are compared by townships with the 1930 figures, as follows: Township ^ lflf40 1930 Hunter 11,749 Dials 4,826 Laurms 13,175 30th; Mullins from 32nd to 28th and Whitmire from 39th to 34th. Other places whose increased brought them into prominence in Uie 3,000 class—all of which were higher than a decade ago—included Walterboro, Winnsboro, Summer ville and Bamberg. (Bamberg had a 22 per cent gain.) State Census Director Lade L. Bonner reported as early as June 15 tiuit the state as a whole had sur passed its 1930 census figure of I,- 'I36|765. .1. ■ ■ Most of the increase came through the larger populations or in urban areas. Strictly agricultural counties have in general declined. ~ Subuurban areas in such places as Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, etc., also increased. Charleston’s poiiulation of 70,869 retained fcHT that city first pllice in the state. the following list shows how the ranking cities and towns stand with the census practically completed. 1930 1940 1. Charleston 62,265 70,859 2. Columbia 51.581 60,505 3. Greenville 29,154 34,743 4. Spartanburg .... 28,723. 32,521 NUMBER 27 ENTRIES CLOSE COUNTY RACES Large Number of Candidatea Qualify, With Several IjlsI- Mlnute Entries. Seven In Race For House, Three for Senate. Scuffletown Cross Hill Youngs .... Waterloo Suffix . Jacks .... 1,633 2,041 3,111 2,700 2,Mb 2,396 12,544 3,846 11,603 1.452 2,162 3,578 2,681 1,705 Total 44,271 42,094 Jotuma Enq;doyes Given Vacation 5. Anderson 14,385 '6. Sumter 11,780 7. Florence 14,774 19,414 16,166 16J)98 14,868 13,018 10,510 8,181 -.7,511 When the time for the entry of candidates closed Tuesday at noon, a large number had qualified to en ter the August primary. ! Clerk of Court Vic R. Fleming is the only court hou.se official without opposition. Three candidates are qualified for the senate post. j In the race for the hou.se there are ! seven aspirants. The official list follows: I Congress Joseph R. Bryson, Vir>*i'. Evun.^. Circuit Solicitor . Hugh B’easley, W. T. Bolt. Sheriff • Tom D. Abrams, F. L. Riddle. C. W. Wier. Clerk of Court Vic R. FTeming: ~ Supervisor Bennie B. Blakeley, J. A. Guthrie, J. Ben Hunter, Lander B. Stoddard, R. L. Teague, John H. Wharton. Senator Chas. A. Cromer, incumbent. O. L. Long, Carroll D. Nance. ^ House of Rept^esehURIveaT' Chas. F. Brooks. Phil D. Huff. Wal ter L. Martin. C. L. Milam, James P- Sloan James H. Sullivan, Robert C- Was.son. County Commissioner E. F'rank Anderson, Everett W. Brown, Archie F.' Cook, J. Y. Martin, A. H. Moore, Archie C.. Owens. J. Herman Power. Coroner R. I. (Bob) Burgess, J. A. Thoma son, Game Warden W. M. (Bill) Burts. M. A. tGus) Cannon, J. D. W. Watts. Magistrates Magistrate at Laurens—R. M. Brownlee, George N. Franks. New York, July 1.—Wendell L Former Superintendent of Clin-! Magistrate at Clinton—B. R. FuU- Willkie rid himself of busijiess con-, Schools For Five-YeariSeay. WUlkie Resigns jHall Rites Held $75,000 Position At Great Falls Pietdioff Begins Thomw^ Work Son of Institution Takes Up As Gweral^isUnt undoubtedly To Dr, L. R. Lynn* President, j would campaign from one «fhd of I the country to the other and ex- _ Mr. Roosevelt is EUibtt Holmes Hall,' 61, superin- w,, Tif^e to Beattendent of the Greit Falls schools June as assistant to Dr. L. R. Lynn, j him.” in Chester county, died Friday night president of Thomwell orphanage. Republican presidential nom- ^o^o^ing a three mont^ arrived in the city early this week ^eld a press confereBce in the The funeral servic^ was held Period* Passes At Home. Rev. Clartnee E* Piephoff, elecWdj inrcsafd ^ hope “Mr. Roosevelj i by tiie board of trustees early in; re-fl^ln^bd becai2% I*anie to tea to begin his new ^ties ^e- rather plainly decorated board Sunday afternow in the Great Falls diately before accepting the Thom- commonwealth Southern sch^l auditori^. with inter- well position, Mr. Piei^off was pas-' * " ■“ tor of Pryor Street Presbsrterian church in 'Atlanta. Magistrate Jacks Township—A. L Dixon. Magistrate Hunter—J. L. Dickeri. — Magistrj^ Cross Hill—J. HL Bry- • son;"JShn*WT'Ropp,irf. M. Turner. Magistrate Scuffletown—W. P. Ab ercrombie, M. M. Podle. ' Magistrate Youngs—J. H. Aber crombie, Claude A. Patton. Magistrate Dials—R. A. Hellams. corpbraUon at 20 Pine street, in "t;»e ment foltewing in Evergreen ceme- Magistrate Sullivan - D. Todd financial district. jtery m Chester. , .Knight. Mr. Hall is pleasantly remember-j Magistrate Waterloo—C. Y. Cui- ed here by friends and former pu-|bertson. 6. Rock HiU 11,322 9. Greenwood 11,020 10. Orangeburg 8,776 11. Union 7,419 12. Newberry 7,2^ 13. Gaffney JHfill 14. Laurens 5,443 6,838 .15. Chester 5,528 6^83 16. Darlington ...‘ 5,556 6,235 17. Aiken ....>^. 6,033 5,918 18. Marion 4,921 5,749 19. Camden 5,183 5,734 20. CLINTON 5,643 5,680 21. Georgetown 5,082 5,552 22. Hartsville 5,067 5,370 23. Easley 4,846 5,180 24. Cheraw 3,573 5,182 25. Abbeville 4,414 4,927 The 1940 populations for the next 12 ranking towns of the state follow: 26. Conway 4,915 27. Bennettsville 4,861 28. Mullins 4,395 29. Eau Claire 3,499 30. Woodruff 3,478 31. Walterboro 3,372 32. York 3^44 33. ¥fhitmire 3,272 84. Winnsboro 8,174 35. Beaufort 3,163 M. Clover 3,066 87. Bennettsville 3,063 St. Bamberg ; 8,004 (Unreceived are census returns from Gaffney, Pelxer, Ware Shoals, and Batesburg.) Prhicipal points of population as shown by the 1930 censuus (in order) were as foljkiws: ^Charleshm, Colinnbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, Florence. Andersem, f S^ter, Rock HUl, Greenwood* Or- kanpehurg. Union* Newbarry.Gattney, Chaater, Caatdfn, LMurens,'Oeorpe- The Joanna Textile Mills at Gold- ville, are closed down this week to give their several hundred employes a week’s vacation with full pay. W. Monaghan church, Greenville, where A. Moorhead, manager of the mill, he was outstandingly successful. He stated yesterday that the is the Greenville field for Atlanta followed e8<di year'durhog “ttw Jaly^^hout 4wo-yeart agor- Fourth period in appreciation of the services of the people of their com munity, with the usual pay envelope for the week going to all workers who have been in the empldyni^t of the company for the past twelve months. The mills will resume full-time operations on the morning of July 8th. J A Later in the day the corporation Mr. Piephoff, a i^duate of tl» i formally announced Will- Ihomwell schools. P^i^ri^ «>!“ikie had resigned the $75.000-a-year * ^ * * *. ^,. * k i f r directorship of the the Clinton school pits where he served as superin nary, was for fifteen years pastor ofj ^^^n, effective July 10. The an- nouncement said also that Willkie would resign all directorships and Ay cock. For period 1913-1917 ^ ^ ”, Ka tiiQc* AnrrocyAH m rcii*TWkiv«0 nAor offices he holds in other companies Cotton Weigher Cross Hill—Jimmy Coleman. Campaign Opens Aug. IS The county campaign itinerary be gins at Center Point school house he was engaged in farming near in Waterloo township on Tuesda, August ja, and ends with the Laur- dence at the comer of West Centen nial and Thomwell streets, which is to^' Haflivillg, Markm, .—My, Jttiwvttle, Bemictteville, Great Falfab %lliraw* undulR', Ware Sboalik IHMr. Woodruff, Mullins, Clover, ft |!au Claire, Batesburg, York, '^Pkitmiie, Hcmea Path, and Laurens Leads Mid-Carolina Poinant Race Laurens lost its first game last week, but the Admirals still domi nate the Mid-Carolina. Petty was passed for batting honors by B. Cran ford of Clinton but still leads in runs, 18, hits 18, two-base hits seven, triples 4, and home runs, five. Prater of Joanna has fanned 59. How They Stand Won. Lost . PcL Laurens .... 10 1 909 Joanna .... .... 7 1 •36 Mollohon ... .... 6 5 545 Newberry .... 5 6 545 Lydia .... .... 3 8 274 Clinton .... 2 9 181 how oeing" renovated. Mr. Piephoff is a native of Spar tanburg, while Mrs. Piephoff is the former Miss Jean Stenhouse of Greenville. Chambo* Publishes Attractive Map Mr. and Mrs. Piephoff and theirlem systems. Directors said meetings House of Representative from year-old son will occupy the resi-,would be held within a few days Cheter county m 1917-18. He then tn fill th# vnranriM became superintendent of the Great ^Comn..ntia« on hi. move. WiUiua,||H—— "I think I should dtvote all mj “ °"t °! time to the camnaiim ’’ progressive public school Willkie? retreiSXby his week-! end aboard publisher Roy W. How- ard’s yacht, bantered with report- j ers but avoided specific statements'® ' on policy • i college in the class of 1896. , “I exp^t in my acceptance speech! dweas^ is surviv^ by his (in Elwood, Ind.) to give my views Is^lle Shockley Hall. • and interpret the platform as I see‘lister of Mrs. W. P. Jacobs of this it.’’ I ens meeting August 23. on Friday morning. During the past few days Chamber of Commerce published a map of the city, showing all streets, railroads, public buildings, and in corporating other features of inter est. The maps are avai^ble to mem- cated bers of the chamber as a free ser-j vice of the organization, and ^dljC|.j^|.^ be sold to the general public. jkJlCAiC The maps are about two feet; square. The reverse side carries at- j tractive advertisements of Clinton business firms and the Chamber of; Commerce, including^ M. S. Bailey and Co., Martin To Make . Race For House Walter L. Martin, well known ciU- zen of Laurens county, unnoimccs his candidacy for the office of rep resentative in the legislature from Laurens county. In making his announcement in .today’s paper, Mr. Martin issued the city; by three sons, Benjamin Shock-J statement: "In announcing my candidacy for Pay $13,117,313 Gas Tax In Year Summer Union Co. OBlKHJiiaNG ROUSE ' . The two-8t^ frame houM to the rear of the H. D. Payne home which was recently diunaged tqr fire,"is being tom down. It is stated that Mr. Payne, the owner,, wUl replace . it with .-a wad ' servants* (luartafi. j* " ■ - , ' . • ’ p ; DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A UFB- &• Fir Ti«r Hun Hm Btm so FAtAumr AimmoBiLi AOaUBNTB te LAURENS COUNTY Ltl’ii Striri T» Mifc^ 1S40 a Safe Year Or ilM Hitkwaja. mo «a4a 1M$ year. iZ The acceptance probably will be Nfv Ch-leans^., El-i after the democratic convention Hnlh Hail^i House of Representatives from 'Sh co'^nty I do so fully realiz- Ch.r>«.o„ snd . sis. , MrsJ., R-1 Groce of Hendersonville, N. C. , "I have lived in Laurens county a.s a farmer and business man al of|my life. I am aware of the stren- Q • >,, J ‘ uous economic and social conditiuss services iMrIlllilOCI! which now exist. In offering for a j representative position it is my desire Th- . to be of moi'c service to my county merce, inciuaing. m. a. aaueyi ; The usual Sunday eveni^ *®r~* -md mv state Son, Bankers, Industrial Supply Columbia June 29 The tax com- churches of the city held , a r w * a w>d The Chronicle PubllAing,today th« mission annuuncea luaay inai i gust, will be omitted this summer theicommon sense business methods of local ministerial association has an-J handling county and state business, nounced. Regular services will be . "I believe in the open door hand- amount for the same previous period J" respective churches at. ling of county affairs The public was SI 1965 000 ^ jtp. m. I has a right and should know what * ’ ' »• I jjj going on in the county. City To Have - A Quiet Fourth Clinton will observe today, Julyj 4th, as a holiday in celebration of! Independence Day. The banks, (^tton mills, post- office, meit^iants imd business hous es will enter into the obaervmice. While no ^iegcial cekA>ration in ti^e dtr^has bc^ planned, it is exfiaeted that large ermi^ will spend the oh itohint trlih aiM other recrea- tfcmal ouimes. * Laurens County Has 6*048 Cars Thw were 6,048 ngistered cars in Laurens county on Apri) 1 of this year, according to records of the state highway Apartment. This number compares with 5,401 at the same date in 1939, or an increaae of over 600 fbr the year’s pmtod. Total registrationi in the state were ViiJtf, m compared with 388,387 laal year. nue from the state six-cent gasoline tax totaled $13,117313.31 during the fiscal year ending tomorrow. The The revenue this month was $1,-; 152.207. Eickdberger Heads The Country Ckdb Hugh ElcbelhcniBi’i Clintoq, was elected preiditeQt of die Lai^ side couotyy club at the annual meet ing hold lityt Wedineeday evening in the club ho^ betwem Laurens and Clinton. Chas. F. Fleming of Laur> MU, was dected vice president The board of dilators will bej composed of the two major officers) and the following: C. P. lUvar, R. | H. Roper and M. S. Boyd, all of| Laurens, and R. C. Adair and H. D. Payne of Clinton. At a subsequent meeting of the| board of directors Carl. Davis of; Latirens, was re-elected secretary and treasurer of the club. |' Nuel McDaniel of Augusta, is spmid- ing some tiaie with his grandpaients, Mr. and Mrs. N. W. McDaniel. WHO WORKS WHERE? CITY SALES CO. F. m, ABlAlR. M W. T. ADAIR M. R. CMHUOa Thtofim easployeg .... Ml Telal It Pays To Trade IN CLINTON “I favor making an adequate pro vision for the aged, blind and other physically handicapped groups. “If elected I can only promise the pepole that I will use the best of my ability to give Laurens county and th^ state an economical administrsh tion of state and county affairs, with a balanced budget in both. New fields of taxation must not be invad' ed at tids time of danger to the na tion, because I believe the field of taxation must be left open to our national government fur defease. “It is not my desire to nuke new issues in this coming'campaign, hnt !if they arise 1 shall meet them om the stump, frankly, as the campaugn progiesses. “Again, if elected, I shall do ail in my power to perform the dutka of this office and to serve the peo ple of Laurens county in such a manner as to merit the esteem and confidence placed in me by the peo ple. “On this basis I solicit yc»ur,vo4^ your influeiKre and g(,<>d will,” -4 J 1