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%-jL ■.£ J . THE CHRONICLE Strides To Be a Cken Newspaper, CoiBpiele, Newaj, aad RettiMe. 3bp (KUritan Olkomrlp If Too Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don’t Get the Ncwa VOLUME XL CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1940 '^'-^-'525252^ CAMPAIGN TO OPEN TUESDAY Initial Guns To Be Fired At Center Point In Morning and Clinton Mills At Night. To Visit Clinton Wednesday . Morning, Lydia At Night. — ♦ — The opening broadsides of the tiSurens county political campaign as mapped by the executive commit tee, will be fired next Tuesday, Aug ust 13, with Center Point, in Water loo township, providing the forum for the meeti^ beginning at 10 o’clodE. At night the party ^)dll-speak at the Clinton Cotton mills. Wednesday inoming, the 14th, the gagement in Clinton. The meeting will be held in the hi^ school be- liliahtihgt WiU appear at Lydia Cotton milla. The itinerary as arranged for the county follows: Tu^ay, August 13, morning, Can nier Point; night, Clinton mills. Wednesday, August 14, morning, Clinton city; night, Lydia mills. Thursday, August 13, momhag. Cross HiU; night, Goklville. Friday, August 16, morning. Hick ory Tavern; night. Watts mills. Saturday, Aiigust 17, morning. Poplar Springs. Tuesday, August 20, morning, Gray Court; night, Woodville. Wednesday, August 21, morning. Youngs; night, Jones’ store. Thursday, August 22, morning, Laurens city; night, T4> Top Filling ' station, near Renno. Friday niid^t, August 23, closing meeing, Laurens mills. Candidates In Race The official list follows: Cengreas Joseph R. Bryson, Virgil Evans. Clrenit SeUcllor Hugb Beasley, W, T. Bolt. _ ^ Sheriff Tom D. Abrams, C. W. Wier. Clerk ef Cenrt Victor R. Fleming. WAR 8Ul4fETIN BOA^ THE WAR: Italians invade Egypt, push back British troops; Italians also march into British Somaliland, beginning offensive in attempt to break Brit ain’s bold in Africa; British report bomb attacks on'Kiel, Hamburg and German and Holland points; Ger mans rakf British coasts, one Nazi bomber shot down. BLOCKADE—and predicted after math: Germans claim to be smash- State Prohibition Leader Writes Of Liquor, Tax Revenue And Crime The following article pertaining to the wet-dry referendum on August 27, is by Rev. Albert D. Betts, of Or angeburg, executive secretary of the Federated Forces for Prcrfiibition In South Carolina. It is said that if South Carolina votes dry on August 27 our state will lose $3,000,000 in revenue. Let us proximately $25,000,000. Only $3,- 000,000 of that comes to our state in revenue. Why not talk about the $22,000,000 vdiich goes to the liquor tra^, most of it clear out of our i state and so becomes a dead loss toi us. How poor that leaves us! For every 12c revenue we get, 88c goes to the liquor trade. Let us not Conscription Plan Aroum Tempers Legislation To Muster Guards men Marks Time. Epithets Tossed About By Senators. Washington, Aug. 6^—C<mgression- al tempers cracked today imder the strain of the great conscription con troversy while that bill, and legiala- NUMBER 32 HUU. WARNS ABOUT ^ATHY Calls Upon Americans To Be Alert To Dangers. Only Way To Avoid Trouble Is To Con tinue To Arm and Arm. He Counsels In Statement. Washington, Aug. 6.—Secretary of 1. The return of liquor has caused t j an increase of 40 per cent in crime .h ppiy .t fMtw ^ inUitartatetlncethTprohibiUontaw than in unrestricted World war cam- paign; United States ambassador to Be^ium, John Cudahy, says Bel gium **ck>ee to famine” next month unless American shipments get Britidi blockade; Britidi bfifeafnSre^ahy’s' story of food conditions in Euro^, indicates RiitiiihJi’Mnlikriy’! tn allhw any food MUIJiiieuei was repealed. And bootlegging has increased as shown by a 51 per cent increase in convictions for violation of the Irauor law. Much research will be needed to find out exactly how there are many municipalities and counties. But-a big increase it is, and wt. gra ngylpg-it rope. year (closing June 30) was approxi- muster the national ^ard into ac- personal service” to help mately $60,000,000. Alcoholic liquors[tive service, remained at a stand-' ^ paid only 5 per cent of this. t still. Recent surveys fnade in our nation The senate heard a personal ex show that a dollar we now spend for) change between Senator Holt, Demo- liquor, would go three to five timesjerat, of West Virginia, and Senator as fi^ if spent in buying food,] Minton, Democrat, of Indiana, in clothes, shelter, and in our Indus- j which' such epithets as “liar,” “rat,” ^ words: If we could keep our $25,- A house hearing on the draft bill 000,000 1K)W spent for liquor here at ended, meanwhile, in a charge by home, it would create $100,000,000[Representative Faddis, Democrat, of +peniByRraiimr^rTspi^^ Bepnie B. Blakely, J. A. Guthrie, J. Bcb Hunter, Lander B. Stoddard, R. L. Teague, John H. Whartoq. ■' Stowlee * Chm. A Cromer, O. L. Lcmg, Car- roll D. Nance. Honae ef Repreeentattvee Chas. F. Brooks. PhU D. Huff, Wal ter L. Martin, C. L. Milam, James P. Sloan, James H. Sullivan, Robert C. Wasson. Cevnty Commiaeieiier ' H. Frank AmJersem, Everett W. Brown, Archie F. Cook, J. Y. Mar tin, A. H. Moore, Archie C. .Gwens, J. Herman Power. Ceroner I R. I; (Bob) Burgess. Cteme Warden W. M\ (Bill) Burts. M. A. (Gus) Cannon, J. D. W. Watts. Treaevrer T. Lane Monroe, Frank B. Wal- drep, H. Lawrence Kennedy, Sam M. Leaman. MagBriAea' Magistrate at Clinton—B. R. Full er, R. H. McCrary, J. H. Seay. Magistrate Jacks Township—A. I. Dixon. Magistrate Hunter—J. L. Dickert. Magistrate at Laurens — R .M. Brownlee, George N. Franks.' Magistrate Cross Hill—J. H. Bry son, John W. Ropp, H. M. Turner. Ma^ktrate Scuffletown—W. P. Ab ercrombie, M. M. Poole. Magistrate Youngs — J. H. Aber crombie, Claude A. Patton. Magistrate Dials—R. A. Hellams. Magistrate Sullivan — D. Todd Knight. Magistrate Waterloo — C. Y. Cul bertson. Parthing Urges For OTHER FRONTS: Russia cleans up Baltic states by absorbing Lat via as 16th Soviet republic; Russians renew one-year tra^ treaty with United States; Japanese hold seven leaders of Salvation Army in Japan, all i«ix>rted to 1)6 Tapahese. County Speaking Dates (^voi For Congress, Solicitor The congressional candidates from the Fourth district, and candidates for the solicltorshlp of the eighth Judicial circuit, have been scheduled for three speaking engagements in Laurens county Representativikaloseph R. Bryson of Greenville, and Virgil Evans of Spartanburg, are scheduled to speak at Watts Milb, Laurens, tonight at eight o’clock. Solicitor Hugh Beasley of Greenwood, and W. T. BoH -of Laurens, will be heard at the same time, and at the other two places deii^ated in the Hinerery. Friday morning at 11 o’clock, the candidates will speak in Clinton in the high fchool auditorium. The third and 1^ felly wlU be in the Laurens courthouse Saturday, August 10, at 2. In spite of a recent expansion of facilities including additional build ings, at the State Hospital for the Insane, that institution is crowded to the limit, due chiefly to the increase in the drinking of alcoholic bever ages. And we taxpayers are footing theJ>ilL„. 3. Auto accidents (13 per cent in crease last year) and deaths (545, which was 01 more than the year previous) resulted in an ecmomic loss of over $5,000,000 to our state in 1036. We have good reason to be lieve that fully (me-half all this was due to alcoholic beverages, in cluding beer, ale and wine. And there are some more angles to this question: The retail value of beer, ale, wine what will happen! and hard liquors which are sold in * * ” our state annually amounts to ap-i Orangeburg. abi^usmeSTlgrWt’IRS^^ From such an increase, without raising the tax rate or imposing new taxes, the revenue of our state would soon mmre than balance oUr financial budget. With $100,000,000 more busi ness, our normal tax revenue would increase over $5,000,000, besides gl^atly reducing government ex penses. ' In the light of such considerations, many of us believe that to VOTE DRY on August 27 will be the surest path to better business and lower taxes. In 1933 we were promised lower taxes and less crime. But we got a vast increase in both by voting from “fifth columnists” and Nazi agents. When Faddis went on to say that Republicans were playing poli tics with the issue and “leading us down the same path that France fol lowed—to its death,” members of that party arose to enter swift and emphatic detticda> There were developments also on other fronts. The house tax subcom mittee approved an excess profits tax estimated to yield $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 annually. In the presence of William S. Knudsen, national defense commis sioner, Chairman Cooper, Democrat, of Tennessee, of the subcommittee earlier had assured prospective gov- kcep the nation at peace. ^ Without mentioning specifically the controversial question of con scription, he counselled against com- plaMncy “in the face of terrific prob lems and conditions” and declared: “The one and only sure way for our nation to avoid being drawn into serious trouble or actual war . . . is for our people to become thbroqghly ■eenaeious of the pqagtbitiliea’ ’»f■ darr*'" ^1^’ li** ^ I ®n\ment contractors .that legislation ALBERT D. BETTS. County C<MX>ner Twenty Billion , _ 1 rv ' ward with their defense programs on Passes At Home! Budget Seen'^^°^^^“ permitting them to deduct the cost of plant expansions for defense pur- I poses from their taxable earnings lover a five-year period would be en- - ; acted. He urged that they go for- ’nations for continental defense could not be taken too soon if the threat- to make up their minds that we must continue to arm and to arm to such an extent that the forces of conquest and ruin will not dare an attack on us or on any part of this hemisphere. To this end each citizen must be ready and willing for real ^riftce of time and of substance, and” Tor hard persona) service. “In the fqce of terriftc problems and conditions, and until the present serious threats and dangers have dis appeared, we cannot pursue com placently the course of our cu.stom- ary normal life.” Hull’s views were expressed in a statement prepared before he left for a resort to rest from his work at the Havana conference of Americas for eign ministers, which ended last week. At Havana, Hull said, it was agreed that full and adequate prepa- Jfliui To Years la Oflee. During the day Secretary of State Hull issued a .statement, promptly ened’danger from abroad wa.s to be checked and terminated.” There was general agreement also. A. TlKHnlSMI SlMCIUnbs Appropriations and Contracts [and generally constm^ as*^ m en- IHness. Served Twelve son, the inountoent, and Evans, have been invited to appear at the coun ty meetings as arranged by the coun- ^ chairman. They have been unable to agree, it is stated, on any formal itinerary except four week-end meet ings in the four coimty seats of the district which started last Saturday in Union. Laurens, Aug. 4.—Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon for John A. Thomason, 81, Laurens and hmmr of Dials Limis To Honcm County Farmers county fanners. Speaker for the oc casion will be Dr. R. Frank Poole, president of Cl«nson college, a na tive of Laurens county. The affair is an annualy event, and serves as a medium of contact and fellowship be^wmi members of the club and taxvajm^t the covfnty and is locdced to with interest by Lions andSneir guests. home near Owings after an illness of several weeks. He was first elected to the office dt coroner in the'summer of 1928 and was complyeting his third term. He had qualified for renomination in the coming primary to succeed himself: In his first election he re ceived 139 of 140 votes cast at his home precinct and until this year he had not had opposition for reelection. One other candidate entered the race early in the summer. Mr. Thomason, a native of Dials M»y Send Spending Total of eo^ription, in which skI ir “*** arming to the limit was Above AlrReoora Mark. the only sure way of |voiding an attack on this honisi^ere. Conse Washington, Aug. 5. —The budget bureau, adding up pyramiding de- Ugm outlays^ found today that pend ffiocitttioiis mtf pUffi this congress* spenlling total above $2M00,60D. This figure would not tmly be the lari^ in peacetime history, but would be more than doitole the amount actually spent in the last fiscal year. Statisticians found that congress quently, he said, “each citizen must be ready and willing for real sacri fice of time and of substance, and Tfirsfeate^ad the national guard mobilization bill before it through out the day, J)ut spent most of its time discussing the application of the Hatch act to the present presidential campaign, and listening to the Mln- ton-Holt clash. At the close of the day, however, Senator Barkley, of 0S2,I34 .uCiz«i contr.cU for an additional $1,060,487,000 These funds cover all regular gov ernmental costs as well as special defense items. Main pending it«ns are an appro- was a memtar of Dials I priation estimate of $2,237,191,957 Methodist church and had been a highly esteemed citizen of his com munity and of the county for a long period of years. &irviving are his widow, Mrs. Laura Owens Thomason; three sons,' The annual “farmers’ night” of the Clinton Lions club will be held Friday evening at 7:30 at the Game and Fish association lodge, five miles south of here, when the club will be Ttosr W'abdwt'a ^^ena^ga"^aRflS6iS8tC^." Ma* T^^ of EMHiy,““Wnr Ships MRS. BOOZER IH HOSPITAL Friends of Mrs. A. C. Booier, of Hollins college, Hollins, Va., will be interested to know the is a patient at Hays hospital. Mrs. Boozer, ac- compaiiied by her sister, Mrs. Myr tle Hunter, her nei^ew, John H. Hunter, and a nurse, was brouitof here Sunday by .unbulance from a Roanoke, Va., hospital where she had been ill for several weeks. and George Thomason; three daugh ters, Mrs. Calvin Putnam, Miss Sue Thomason and Miss Lillie Thomason, all of the Owings section. Coroner Thomason’s death is the second among county officials within the last month, County Treasurer D. Roy Simpson having passed away here July 9. Given 263rd Officers and a contract authorization request of $2,732,000,000, both in the latest defense bill. Altogether completed and pending expenditure proposals totol $10,920.783.0»0 bate, through which he hoped a final vote could be had tomorrow. Holt, opposing the conscription legislation—under which men from 21 to 30 inclusive, would be subject to compulsory military training — said the bill originated at a series of meetings at the Harvard club in New York, and that those behind it were willing to draft boys but not wealth. tions of Europe had thus promptly organized themselves for self-defenssf on the most effective cooperative ba sis, the chances are that toeir situ ation and that of Europe would be vastly different today.” “The vast forces of lawlessness, conquest and destruction are still nwsBiff eeiTM'the earth like a sav age and dangerous animal at large,” Hull’s statement continued. “By their very nature, those forces will not stop unless and until they recognize that there exists unbreakable resist ance. “At Havana we forged new instru- m^telities of continental defense. These will be of va-sti importance to our nation and to every American nation.” nary training of the national guard i _ .u k i. and lor conacription would be re-1‘"‘"Jj’*'”*,'" ''™“ QUired il eongriaa approved those h« shouted. ^ would put the total over the »20,000.- n ii ‘“’‘’"’y ■’, S'”''’ 000 000 mark I Russell, Democrat, of Geor- •rile revenue ledier ol the govern-,'’•"r a huge deficit is taken for granted. Taxes already enacted, including the Gun Wound Fatal To Laurens Man Doland LawsoOo 47, Killed At Home of Neighbor, Sheriff Wler Reports. _ “I’m getting weary of being lec tured on patriotism by the senator from West Virginia,” he said, clench- new defense levies, are expected to “ 5,«iu, tiencn- bring In this Wal yaar (ending! *•''*"* ‘ t" *«- Laurens, Aug. 4.—Doland Lawson, 47, a carpenter, was shot and kill^ here early Sunday morning at the home of Robert W. Gilliland, 48, a neighbor. Sheriff C. W. Wier report ed. Lawson wa.s fatally wounded in the head. Sheriff Wier quoted Gilliland as declaring he fired at some one who was disturbing his chickens in the pountry yard. The sheriff further Washington, Aug. 4.-^-General John J. Pershing urged tonight that the United States send a mtobnum of 50 destroyers to aid Great Britain, as serting that “we shall be failing in our duty to America if we do not do it.” The World y/w commander of thf American expeditkmary Imrcqa now in his 80th year, said in a broadcast address that “by sending help to the British, we cah still hope with con fidence to keqp the war on the oth er side of the Atlantic oeeu where the enemies of. liberty, if possible, should be defeated.” ~ Uigiog immediate aetkm, he de clared: “I say to you soloimly that to morrow may be forever too late to keep war from the Americas, l^idagr may be the last time whan by meas ures diort of war we can still pre vent war.” SERVICES AT MOUNTVILLE The annual summer meeting of the Mountville Baptist and Presby terian churches began Sunday and will continue this week. The Rev. W. L. Cok«r, of Greenwood, h doing the preadiing. raiVE CAREFULLY SAVE A UFE- So Fir Wr Tctr Tlctf Have Been HOTD IN GREENWOOD Prof. Bernard H. Boyd of the col lege faculty, is the supply preacher at the First Presbyterian diurch of Qreenamod during the absence of the pastor for toe month of August Prof. Bqfd«. imttl gotog to Gre«i- wood off'-'tor first, has ba«i spend- Bimrgjr at his hoeaa at FATALITIES AUTOMOBILB ACX31IKNTB Ir LAURENS pDUNTY Lei*e Strive Te Mike 1940 R Safe Ttar On ike Hifiiwaya. Promotions of officers of the 263rd coast artillery. South Carolina na tional guard, now in training at Fort Moultrie, Charleston, have been an nounced by Adjutant General James i f7 m-x, mira Da C. Dozier, effective July 31. j * RrillCrS 1 O DC In the Clinton unit. Battery G, Captain Walter A. Johnstm was pro moted to major, headquarters T^ird battalian; First Lieutenant Jack H. Davis, Jr., was raised to captain, as commander of Company G; Itorrin- ger F. Wmgard was promoted from second to first lieutenant. Ansel B. Godfrey, member of the 178th field artillery unit, Abbeville, was promoted from major to lieuten ant cqkmeL He left Sunday for three weriu’ training at Camp Shelby, Miss., and the Sabine area in Texas. t«, now being Ironed b, the house BoOSt ways and means committee. Yield of this levy has been estimated at from t $500,000,000 to $750,000,000 a year. 1 On Dixie Cotton June 30, 1941) about $6,367,000,000. I u”’* with being lectured j quoted Gilliland as saying he and To this may be added a substantial 1 ** family. | Lawson were on friendly terms, and sum from the proposed excess profits l"'®' “ - neighborly favor Sunday. The sheriff said Gilliland told of firing from his back porch after be ing aroused by the disturbance in the poultry yard. S A '4 1 Gilliland surrendered after the fa- Washmgton. Aug. 5. - A commit-' shooting. Sheriff Wier said. An ;'^«tors urged S^-ii„q^,est was set for Tuesday. iCllA7A.nilI today to bi^t thCj Lawson, who wa.s a former WPA lyiWaniB Vjuesis commodity Iban rate on cotton $10 .^^^ker, is survived by his wife and w ,ji ! three-children. The Clinton Kiwanis club will hold 1 They said the secretary’s onlyi Pr^A^gi Rv i..rv it, «.nu.l night" mating,promlt* was that he and other de-| Aug. eZA torooer’s Jury Thi, Mi lul nit, U A, '-iW'.'i'!' '■ 12,332 Enrolled On C^b Books The 36 precinct club rolls of Lau rent county thow a total enrollment for toe Auguat and early Sbp- terohaor primary elections of 124>2, it was tomoimccd Monday after a tabulation by a sitocommittee of toe executive comaaittoe. The Hgure r^reeents a slight dc- creete over toe 1838 Murolbnent. CLUB MEETC TUE8DAT The August meeting ef the (nuun- ber of Commerce will be held Tuee- day evening at 7:30 at Hotel Clinton with Pioeident L. E. Bitoop in c)iatgi. .AU members ere invited to be pvefsat. :S.‘r‘]l‘nSit’t^i"j‘n\"i?rc‘ulf^t;S!rn™'’‘ ~ n.,H.^,o„e?at^ Sr^^. ''iSt' guwt sp«dt.r will b. R. W.lnewrotton'i^wouwS^lo'^SwlIS.^ung ‘SunTFol" HamUton, sUte AAA administrator, j a pound, approximately 85 per cent ^ ^ ^ neighbor, of Columbia, who will address the | of “parity” or fair price. ’nTe 1840 that riUii«nH *!2!*S* problems pertaining tojl^ program, to be handled by the m^fen^of Ids ^roD^rty *Mrriculture. * [Commodity Credit corporation, is to iiri tk.t k Invitations have been extended by|be announced soon. k the club to a number of farmers' aroused by a noiSe m his chicken from this aecUon. These meetings, 'nvwtigation revealed a held for several years past, have* WILDERS RETORN TO CITY iout, with a beg on his proven a source of pleasure to mem-1 - - _ _ * _ I shoulder. He ordered the man to bers of the chib and their guests. Cmoner Entries Are Re*opened Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Wilder and 1 stop but the order was disobeyed and son, Dcmnie, have returned to the city after a two montha’ absence and are now occupying the F. W. Oxley residence on West Centennial street. Mr. Wilder, who is athletic coach at Clinton high school, mmt six weeks at Durham, N. C., attending Dube uxdversity summer schooL Mrs. Wilder and son, Donnie, have been Gilliland said he firvd. He called police and Lawson’s body was found. Officers corroborated the testi mony and said that several chickens were found in toe bag. County Chairman R. T. Wilson, of Laurens, announced Monday the re- opening of the entry Hat lor county! with her parents, Mr. a^ M« Jota coroner by reason of the death last!a. Skinner, and other relatives in Saturday of John A. Thomason, who Woodruff, was a candidate for renomination inj ^ the August primary, with only onej ’ ■ opponrat. GENERAL DROUGHT ENDS Entries in the race Ynay be made | Laurens, Aug. 5.—Thundershowers His friends here—and they are many until Monday night, August 12, the .Monday afternoon here and over [—join in wishing him many happy day before the official i^tlcal pri- other sections of the county partial-1 returns and continued improvement mary eaippaign is scheduled to ly broke a damaging droqi^t to all in health. Dr. Bailey’s address is Dr. Bailey To Have Friday Dr. T. L, W. Bailey, of this city, a patient at State Park, will observe 'his 70th birthday Friday, August 6. begin. growmg crops. State Park, S, C.