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4' U F- VOLUME XL CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1940 NUMBER 31 OREAT AHACK STILL EXPECTED Gemaiis and Italiaiis Reported Poised F<h* British Drive. Mnssoliiii Wants Pari In Bat tle To ftinc Nation To Knees. Bern, Switferlaod, July 31.—Ital ian plauiet and German- -itniplM Ita]^ tinoiSt were reputed tedlir to fee maaied akmgside Nazi ’BUtitkrIeg forces lor a part in the in vasion of England. Italian sources in Switzerland said Former Piesidait Lived In Laurens Andrew Johnson, SnecesstHr To Lincoln, Once Operated Tailor Shop In Ndffhborinf Town. that Laurens, Jdly 27.—With the presi dential election year at band, mem bers hi the older generation of Lau rens point out that Andrew J<dinson, a Upion Democrat who was the suc cessor to Abraham Lincoln in the White Rouse following the assassina tion of die “Great Emancipator,’* was le-load after plane-load of,A.nMldent of South Carolina at oxw lUte troops, veterans of battles Ethiopia and Spain, have flown across Fnmce to take-oA bases from the Bay of Biscay to the'low coun tries facing English channel and North sea. Beports have been ciirrent in for eign, diplomatic circtes that Premier Bmiito Mussolini spedficaHy ■ aalred Adolf Hitler to let the Italians share the job of bringing Britain to her knees. 11 Duce was said to have wanted a ytrong part for his troops in a direct invasion of the shores where Cae sar’s legions landed almost 2,00() years ago. Hitler was said to haVe agreed— but to have limited Italy’s part in invasion to “token” land and para- »chute forces, plus large air squad rons for bombing and ferrying troops. Blitskriec Soea? Bern, Switzerland, July 30. — Re ports from France, Germany, Italy and Spain tonight indicated that Germany was making final prepa rations for an attempt to invade Britain. German and Italian travelers from •Spain said the nationalist govern ment there appeared to be preparing to try to grab Gibraltar — a move which it long has been reported may coincide with a German attack op England across the channel. '^ese sources said troops in small armed boats carrying artillery were txmeentrated near La Linea, Spain, b^ind Gibraltar. Reports fn»n France said tite Ital ians were concentrating bombing plaaoes M tbeir Sazdintan bates for an Bhr attack pm Gibridtar—another move expected in a coordinated Ger man attempt to invade Rritain. Italian informants reported that the last of the Italian-made “pocket submarines—about 38 feet long—had pasted throuifo the Brenner past in sections on railway flat cars. These little submarines are expected to be one of the main protecting arms of - the expects German channel at tempt. (In Germany today it was stat^ that any speculation that the move ments of Nazi troops in German-oc cupied parts of France were for spe cific purposes would come under the head of military secrets). time. It was in 1825, at the age of six teen, that Johnson, who was named 0>st Estimates (^en For Com|Jeti(m l^^way System In Lsnirais County $2,216,000 Hard SnrfadiiE Roa# Program Listed To Complete State Syatmn. iS^ojecta In AH Parts of County Described. Cost estimates for completion of the state highway system in\Laurens county, totaling $2,216,000, were made recently by engineers of the state highway dri>ertinent New road and bridge projects, together with reconstruction, widening and general improvement of .existing hard surface roads, were included in 1. Description of the varknis projects, with the cost estimate in honor of General Andrew Jack- son, came to Laurens court house as a'joumcsring tailor and established a shop here. His residence in this vill age, the seat of justice for the Lau rens district, lasted-^HWoxiraately a year. During that period the youth, vdio grew into a stocky man of m^idm height, stnKk up a romance witjb Miss Marjs^ood, whose parents were wealthy. He attempted to win the heart of the South Carolina belle, but she finally rejected him — and thus missed the chance of becoming the first lady of the land. With the elapse of a year or more, the native of North Carolina, who had been apprenticed when he was ten years old to a tailor for a term of eight years, took as his bride Eliza McCardle. And from his wife, whom he found in a mountain hamlet, young Johnson learned to read and write. Numerous South Carolinians of the present day have paid honor to the one-time Laurens tailor by visiting his one-room log house at Greene- ville, Tenn., where he earned his first j TOTAL political office: the pMition of aider- man. This dwelling was used by him as a tailor shop, and it has been pur chased by'the state of Tennessee. You will find on display in the house, which has been enclose^ by a colonial brick structure as a means of protection, nsany of the seven- teenfo president’s personal belong ings, including his inm shears. They the estimates of eadi as released by the South Carolina (^ood Roads association, follows Hard Sarfaatag Iwiahidar of SyalCBi la Coonty Route 30—^Watta Mill to Enoree river, 8.4 miles, including 300 feet of bridge , $ 124,000 Route 39—Ware Shoals to U. S. route 221, 18 miles, inclixling 156 feet of bridge 212,000 Route 56—Clintem to Newberry county line,' 10 miles 33,000 Route 66—Goldville to route 56, 2 miles, including 100 feet of bridge *...y 58,000 Route 101—-Bpartanburg county line via Gray Court to Prince ton, 20A miles, including 362 feet of bridge estimated to cost 829,000 279,000 Route 225—Cross Hill to Waterloo, 4.5 miles, including 100 feet . of bridge 58,000 Route 228—Barksdale to U. S. route 221, 5 miles ....... 60,000 Route 252—Ware Shoals to route 76, 15 miles, including 589 feet Local Battery Off To Fort Mouhrie For Three We^ CONSCRIPTMN MEASURE HIT Compalsory Training LefHala- tkin Bogs Down Fw Time. Senate, Committee Votes To Allow FDR To Call Ont Na tional Guard. Members of Battery G, 263rd Coast Artillery of Clinton, left Sunday morning at 1 o’clock to undergo three weeks of intensive training at Fort Moultrie, in Charleston harbor. The trip from Clinton to Green wood was made via the Seaboard. The special troop train originated fo Anderson and in additkm to Clinton, picked up battei'ies from Greenville. . Belton. Greenwood, Newberry, and army received ^oday the quick Lancaster. j approval of the senate military com- Battery G is composed of seventy- mittee. Washington, July 30. —President Rooaevelt’s appeal for power to call out the National Guard for training —a proposal hacked unstintedly by of bridge estimated to cost $47,0<)0 247,000 Route 306—C: linton to Ora, 10;8 miles, including 100 ft. of bridge Route 396-r-Motuitville to route 39, 1.5 miles — Ro«te-B60 From-TOute7“to vocte^56, 6 miles, including 300 feet ~ 133,000 15,000 of bridge estimated to co8t$2S,000 100,000 Route 705—From route 7 -via Renno to paved county road, 4 . miles, including 100 feet of bridge - 58,000 Route 761—Watts Mill to U. S. route 276, 2.5 miles » 30,000 Route 762—From route 76 to route 7, 2.5 miles 30,000 Route 560—From route 58 to Kinards, 6 miles (V4 cost) includ ing hi cost of 200 feet of bridge 45,0001 six enlisted men from Clinton and Goldville, and three officers. The of ficers are Captain Walter A. John son, First Lieutenant Jack H. Davis, Jr., and Second Lieutenant B. F. Approval came shortly after it had heard General Creorge C. Marshall, the chief of staff, describe such an authorization as urgently necessary and add a strong endorsement of se- Wingard. The personnel of the com- lective conscription^—a proposal ap- pany appeared recently .-..inThe (!!hronicler This is the first time that the bat tery IS scheduled to undergo three weeks of training instead of 'two. 45'Boys Sent From County To CCC Camps TOTAL : $1,482,000 RMonstruciinc Portions of System In County Rouie 221—Laurens to Ora, 5.3 miles $ 150,000 Route 276—Laurens to Barksdale, 7 miles 250,000 Widening in towns throughout county 225,000 Route 221—One-half cost of 432-ft. bridge over Enoree river. Route 7—Widening 1,361’feet of bribes between Newberry county line and Greenwood county line Route-39—Widening 108-ft. bridge over Rabim creek Route 76—Widening 605-ft. bridge over South Rabun creek 25,000 j Mrs. Mabel B. Little, director of the Laurens County Welfare depart ment, stated yesterday that the CCC enrollment quota for July was raised to 40 white boys and 5 colored from this county. The figure first an-lout machines were equally value nounced was fixed at 30 but was less. parently- bogged down m cortgres* - sional controversy. • On the latter subject. President Roosevelt declined to be drawn out at a press conference—although the conunTRee earlier had engaged ih an acrimonious dispute over a Republi can demand that he make his views known. When a reporter ask^ his a^ttitude toward the pending Burke-Wads worth bill—requiring all men 18 to 64 inclusive, to register for possible selective training — he said he did not care to go into details. Tn this he added the statement that a lot of machines without men to run them were worthless, and many men with- 55.000 [raised to 40 when ^veral counts j jhis led some to the conclusion I unable to fill their quotas. The president favored conscrip- 25,0001 boys enrolled send an allotment of $22 monthly to their parents or near s?rv« at iTOfoders of the days of povrity privptiop io hi» youth. •nd, 1^ the hum^ apn of ffitiiHWP' romince, made k ftmaway from his tailoring master after six years of slavery and migrated to Tennessee, wfaa« he was destined to rise to the governorship in 1853. Total for hardsurfacing remainder of state highway system in Laurens county — $1,482,000 Total for reconstructing portions of state highway system in Laurens county $ 734,000 relatives, the director states. The 40 white enrollees were sent to the following camps: ' CCC camp. Greenwood: Enrolled on July 23.—Reeder Whitmire, Ray TOTAL FOR LAURENS COUNTY $2,216,000 Jack W. Dillard Dies In Spartanburg Coimty Forestry - Meetings Plaimed Two forestry meetings will be held on the farms of Howard Bramlett of the Greenpond community, and D. T. Andrews of the Fountain Inn com- All rail and road frontier posts -August 6, at 10 a.m. and 2 the Swiss-German frontier, except respectively, by C. B. Cannon, that at Saint Margarenthen in Aus tria, were closed today by the Ger mans, apparently to insure secrecy of troop movements through south- county agent, assisted by M. H. Bru ner, Clemson college exiension for ester. Purpose of the meetings is to d«n- ciunbg To liijiirics Suffered In Full. Funernl and Inter ment H«re Monday. Mrs. ftramlett Dies Of tim of Automobile Near Laurens. Funeral services for Mrs. Lucia Workman Bramlett, 22, Spartanburg graduate nurse who died at the Lau rens county hospital Friday night of | Smith. Elmo Smith, James E. Baker. 4njuri Jack W. Dillard, 79, of Spartan burg, known to many friends in Clin ton as “Uncle Jack,” died early Sun day morning at his home of injuries suffered last May in a fall at his residence from which he had never fully recovered. Fungal services were conducted at 5 o clock Sunday afternoon from here Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock the home of J. W. Ropp of Cross Hill. ■ ’ Wood. Alton Beck, CJharles Hellams, J. C. Wood, Harold Hostetler. Ad olph Coats, Albert Hughes, Arthur Pace, Niley Bishop. CCX! camp, Laurens: Enrolled on July 10.—Edward Blackwell, Re main Barker, Landrum Owens, Har old Lanford, Harold Ervin, Gordon ^Wwfrt. Jack Oietk, Bill Tlxmaas, Beatty Hardin, James Hampton. CCCicamp, Ogden, Utah: Enrolled on July 10.—Cecil Golden, Leroy Bolt, Charles Reid, William Gray Smith, Calvin Boling, Sims Bowers, Roy Riddle, Robert Davis, William Vk- Wredi hjuries suffered last Monday after-1 Harold Pulley, noon in an automobile accident sev-, CCC camp, Walterboro; Enrolled eral miles from Laurens on the Lau-} July 10.—Raymond Riddle, William rens-Greenwood highway, were held Bruce, Robert Sherrill, Alason Mor- from Broad gtreet Methodist church by Dr. C. E. Peele and Dr. A. L. Gunter of Spartanburg, and Rev. L. In charge of the services were the Rev. D. W. Keller of Waterloo, and gan, Leonard Starnes, Kenneth Rig gins, Eugene Riddle. The following five cqlored boys the Rev. J. H. Byrd of Cross Hill. In- P. McGee, pastor of the local church. em Germany fo prepffratmn for lonstrate to Laurens county farmers I proper methods of thinning young offensive on England. Even persons traveling on diplo-ir"i^‘ Zt- limber, and of cutting mature timber atic pmsports now we required to .^ij^ively, thereby providing tif quent crops of farm timber. Meth matic pass through only at Saint Margar enthen. Trains from Germany arriv ing at Basel station tonight carried ' only baggage and freight. No passen gers were aboard. Swiss sources pointed out that forcing all travelers into Germnay to take “the long way around” through Austria would prevent out siders from seeing the westward rush of men and war materials. Despite German denials, the French government said flatly in a com- mimique that rail traffic between occupied fuid unoccupied parts of France had been halt^ by German order. The same order freed tor military use the rolling stock required for mass movement of soldiers, guns and supplies to jump-off points along the occupied French coast. From Alsace in occupied France along the old German frontier came reports that German occupational ods of measuring timber also will be demonstrated at the meetings. Mr. Cannon invites farmers of the county to attend these meetings since timber has been one of the most neg lected crops in the county. He states that in a program of diversified agri culture, it is necessary that fanners pay more attention to their timber. “Various points will be discussed at .these demonstrations to enable many fanners to make their own woodlands more profitable,” the agent said. PRAYER BAND MEETS A prayer band meeting was held at Goldville Sunday afternoon at 12:30. Prayer bands were presrat fnxn Ninety-Six, Ware ^oals, Laureni and Waterloo for an old-fashioned testimonial meeting. The services Interment followed in the Presbsrte- rian cemetery. Mr. Dillard Was born May 16, 1861, near Clintom He was the son of the. late Thomas J, and Annie Adair Dill ard. Several years ago, upon retiring frxHn active work, he moved to Spar tanburg where he was a faithful member of Bethel Methodist church which he attended regularly until his accident several months ago. Mr. Dillard was married twice. His first wife, the former Ada Holmes Eliott, died a number of years ago. His second wife, the former Eudora Simpsem Dillard, survives. Mr. Dillard was held in high es teem by a wide circle of friends in Clinton and this section who knew him as a truthful, upright and char itable example of manhood, and who will learn of his death with genuine regret tennent followed in the Cross Hill from the cefunty were sent to the cemetery. Mrs. Bramlett was injured when the car she was jiriving overturned! on pavement made slippery by rain. She was rushed to the Laurens county hospital, where her injuries) were diagnosed as a fractured back, fractured skull, fractured pelvis and numerous severe lacerations. Newberry camp: John E. Bailey, Chasf. Copeland, Jas. Sanders, John R. Sanders, Charles Irby. » Laymen’s Meet At Montreat Aug. 9-11 old £. Bramlett, young Spartanburg business man. She was educated at the Cross Hill high school and at the Spartanburg General Hospital School of Nursing, tion, but at no more^ rapid a rate than the men called up could be pro vided with equipment for their training. Chairman Sheppard, Democrat, of Texas, of the senate military com mittee said that all seven Democrats and four Republicans who were pres ent when the vote on the National Guard was taken approved the bill. They included, besides, Sheppard, Senators Thomas of Utah, Minton of Indiana, Johnson of Colorado, Hill of Alabama, Chandler of Kentucky, and Lee of Oklahoma, Democrats: and Senators Austin of Vermont. Bridges of New Hampshire, Gurney of South Dakota, and Hilman of Ore gon, Republicans. ’ Marshall took the position that conscription and calling out the guard were, in combination, the only method of insuring a sufficient num ber of men for . the. nation’s security. “We must know what tools we have to work with,” he said. “Paper plans will not suffice in this emer gency. In our judgment, the security and safety of this country depend on our having an adequate number of men trained and there is no other way to do it except by this methixi (calling out the guard) followed by^ some form of conscription. “I don't think we can afford in any degree at this" time to speculate on the security of this country.” Marshall's testimony was"th'e cTP'’ mactic event of a day which saw the' committee embroiled in an acrimon ious session, involving Republican demands that President Roosevelt state his views on conscription, Dem- Mrs. Bramlett was the wife of Har-1 ocratic charges of playing politics ri F nrnmiott vmin0 Snnrtnnhortf ® attend the Prcsbytena I defense, arid a decision to post laymen’s convention 'which will be 'held at Montreat, N, C., August 9-11. A carload from every church” is the pone action on the pendirig Burke- Wadsworth conscription bill. Conscription meanwhile was de slogan adopted by those in charge of | l. thP nmaram Rpnrp«.nt«tivp, from "ounced on the house floor by Rep resentative Fish, Republican, of New York, as a prelude to “dictatorship,” where rte tr«iuat«l in the class o( H;' from 1938. She rempleted her training ati^'^™ the nursing school September 25, ,S;?oU,re“l^sMeTn‘'churer« jP" ‘“strvivors include her husband: her'l^—p*'!dXj,'^ parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Work- mav be sent to A R Speaker Bankhead, after he had man, of Cross HiH; five sisters, Mrs.! ^ , .'reminded them that they were guests Jack Livingstone of Cross Hill, Miss Montreat, and additionally, * * * Ofoer survivors include f ou riMargaret Workman of Columbia, and „ io,, p * hit ■ * * ^ daughters. Misses Bessie DilUrd and 1 Misses Willette Workman, Juanita• Nel Dillard and Mrs. SalUe Belle At- Workman, and Grace Workman, all I Oaill LeaHian UUt information may be obtained from of the house. water, all of Spartanburg, and Miss I of Cross Hill; and one brother, W. H., missionaries to China, p np Da r For Treasurer Post trojps hitherto <» guard in the cap- j wen conducted by Rev. Ralph Maginot line have moved out I Hughes of this city, on marching orders to the waet. Received For Wet-Dry Ba$ot Coimty Chainnan R. T. Wilaoa, of Laurens, has received from Coltan- bia the wording to Ik placed en the ao-paUed wet-dry reforeodtan to he ’" 'conducted in the August prlmaiY. Hie wording is as foUoWa: ' ‘TX) you favor discontinuing the legal saJe of intoxicating Uquors, win^ beers, or other intoxicating ' iteeeraM, and th«' imposition of new taxes to replace lost revenues as a result of the repeal of the present liqxior law?” STILL IS DESTROYED Laurens, July 28,—SberifTs/ depu ties reported Saturday the raiding of a distilling outfit hi the Long Branch area and the arrest of two aHeged c^;>erators. One other man at the still got away, the officer said. About 200 j DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A liPB- So Fsr TIdi Tctr Tktrt HrYc Bocn 11 FATALITIES frORI AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let's Strive To Msko 1940 s Sife Yttr On the HigliTriiys. Ihia date last yrer, IS V gallosa of maah wm deatroyed Md.; a sister, Mrs. Corrie Young ©fjC near Clinton; eight grandchildren, V* * a IVCCkUl Robert Earle Dillard of Fort Lee, N. J., Mrs.' John Ryan of Edgewater, N. J., Carroll Dillard of the U. S. navy, Floyd Dillard and Miss Helen Dillard of Norfolk, Va., and Charles Atwater, Harvey Atwater and Jack ^Atwater, all of Spartanburg; and one great-grandson, Charles Finley At water, also of Spartanburg. Omgrres, Solicitor CangMugn Arranged j Presbyterian ministers from all parts lof the Southeast will be heard dur- Sarn M. Leaman, 35-year-old farm- Fort For Training ing the meeting. :er and merchant of Cross Hill, and Highlights of the program wiy be y*^urs connected an address by Dr. Robert E. Speer of acquisition phase of on “Sacrificial Obedi- an address by Dr. Leland I New York Charleston, July 29.—Approx imate-.^j^p^,,. ly 400 troops, members of the third y, ry^uy... , KoWAlirvM n# 4Ka Arvoai ov^sllaiv^ ! FOOCHOW, OhlURy B fOriXlD , D&txfilion Oi triR 2v3tcI const x *tv treasurer ' missionaries from various parts irrasLLrrr. of tlM-^orld participating: an ad-i Lehman is the Buzzard Roost development in this county, formally announces hi^ candidacy in today’s paper for coun- South Carolina national guard, ar- y- _ riv«l .t the oM CMUiU «y«?P°»«t!dre^; Dr. J. P. Mjcai!if’o(“ch« a son of J. Ed Lea- man and Alliene Miller Leaman, a • "o™* ‘•W* rejard^J famii, of the Croaa three weeks training at Fort Moul-1 „„ “What Can We Do About community. trie. A three^dgy speaking itinerary in thfa county for Democratic candidates for congress and solicitor has been announced'by R. T. Wilson, of Lau rens, county chainnan During the encamixnent the men I will fire twelve-inch mortars, two- inch coast defense rifles, three-inch anti-aircraft guns and other coast de fense weapons. Battery F, which has been mad^ a searchlight unit, will join the Seventieth coast artillery at the encampment for training with the 8,000,000 candlepower seardi- |inen on It?” and Bible study hours. Stetson, Rollins In N^kiay Buzzard Roost development. V^IlICrxSIlVCi “I have had considerable experi- After taking a business course in bookkeeping and accounting. Mr. Leaman went into business as a mer chant in Cross Hill in HQ4 and con tinued there actively until employed ’ experi- , ence in public work and in the keep- Prof. Harry E. Sturgeon, of Pres- ing of financial records all my life ibyterian college, president of the and feel that I can capably conduct The first meeting wiU be held lights and sound equipment now at j South Atlantic conference, announc- the office of county treasurer” Mr Thursday night, August 8, at 8 o’clock (the reservation. led this week that RoUins college and'Leaman declared, adding that if (at Watts Mills, Laurens. The second The regiment is commanded by,Stetson university, both of Florida, elected, he would give an honest meeting wttl be.held at 11 o’clock,Colonel Claud C. Smith, of Columbia.;had joined the list of schools in the fair, efficient and coiu-teous adminis- the following day in Clinton, and the who arrived prior to the main troop | newly formed conference of smaller tration. body to make preparations for the institutions. training. 1 The present members of the con- Majority of the guardsmen are ference are Presbyterian college,: third on Saturday at 11 o’clock at Laurens. Speakers will J)e Joseph R. Bryson, LAURENS ENROLLS 2.195 - . - X, ... . .r, I . - .. .. Enrollment In the city of Laurens incumbent, of Greenville, and Virgil, from Newberry, Anderson, Green- which won the football championship for the Democratic primary in Aug- Evans of Spartanburg, candidates forjyille, Clinton, Dillon, Greenwood and in 1939, the first year of active par-just was announced as 2,195 when the congress; Hugh Beasley, of Green-1 Lancaster. Approximately sixty-five wo^ incumbent, and W. T. Bolt, of persons from each of the cities are Laurens, candidates for solicitor. 'members of the 283ird coast artillery. lege and Oglethorpe. ticipation of the circuit, Erskine col-1 books closed. Two years ago ^here lege, Wofford college, Newberry col- were 2.240 enrolled, the new ! showing a small decreese of 45. \ H8.- T--