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^ ^. 7'-/ \ ' ! Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy ond Reliable • ' f Qllmtim (Hbrontrle •If You Don't Read | THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XL Clinton, S. C., Thursdoy, October 24, 1940 Number 43 TWO DKAH BOARDS soon K) ASSKN All MBI NUMBERS Locol Boards To Send Numbers To Washing ton For Nation-Wide Lottery October 29. ELECTION MANAGERS FOR UURENS COUNTY NAMED BY BOARDS .—♦— / Appointment of managers for the 39 precincts of the county for the general election November 5th was completed Monday morning at a {meeting in Laurens attended by the (federal and state election commis- isioners recently appointed by Gov- lemor Maybank. The order of elec- jtion ^nd list of managers appear in (today’s paper. 1940 Red Cross Poster - „ ... j .. w .j-i Senator C. A. Cromer is chairman Laurens county s two draft boards , .. . _ , of the commission on federal ejec-; «‘PP o' der the selective service draft law on October 16. Each registrant is listed by card in his proper draft district. • and Adger Bobo of Princeton as the, I other two members. i I B. H. Boyd of this city, heads thej When the task of shufTling the cards elation commissioner as chalr- Is completed each registrant will be {other two members being . assigned a number, beginning with 1 Springs and and proceeding upward. After thejCook of Youngs. ' job is finished the numbers will be j • i . posted on boards at the draft offices here and in Laurens. lACCIQSm 10131 10 ‘ When the work of serializing the 17,000,000 draftees all over the nation is completed, a national lottery will ' be held' in Washington on October 29. A series of numbers will be en closed in capsule and placed in a large fishbowl with as many num bers as the highest number in any draft district in the nation. The reg istrant in each draft district with a number corresponding to the number drawn from the bowl will be liable Goldvllle Woman Mis. J. D. Harris Killed In Car Crash At New- l^rry Saturday. Mrs. Evelyn Boozer Harris, 23, wife of J. D. Harris of Goldville, died for service—the first 800,000 drawn! at the Newberry hospital late Satur being called for a year’s training in the army. The registrant whose number has day afternoon from injuries received earlier in the afternoon in Newberry. 1 According to reports, Mr. and Mrs. j been called will be presented a ques- i Harris and mother had gone to New- tionnaire. On the basis of that ques-{berry to visit relatives. Mr. Harris! tionnaire he will be placed in-one of j stopped in town while the family the following four classes: 1 went to the home of relative^. A lit- 1 Available for training and service tie later Mrs. Harris, her mother, a in the land and naval forces. {sister and brother were driving back Deferred because the public inter-1 to town when the accident occurred, est is better served if he remains'The Harris car collided with one where he Is. — ~ * 1 driven by Joe Cromer, of near New- Deferred because he has persons dependent upon him for support.* Deferred ^ause of the law itself, because of physical disability or for other reasons. berry, and then struck a' telephone pole, reports stated. Mrs. Harris was rushed- to the Newberry hospital where die lived only a few hours, other members of the family escap- State officials have pointed outf^ng without serious injuries, that t|iere is nothing to bar a regis- j Mrs. Harris was highly regarded trant from voluntarily enlisting in jin the Goldville community, her un- one of the branches of the armed forces. If a registrant desires to en list he should present his registra tion card ta ihe racruitlag-oaicer^ad notify the leeai draft board of his action. VM CaU Kent Maalh Of the 17,000,000 men registered between the ages of 21 and 32. the first codtiagent of 20,000 will be called Novenber 18. Secretary of War Stimson baa announced. Out of the total 800,000 men to be called by July 1, Itoutti Carolina’s quota timely death coming as a great shodc to a wide circle of friends and rela tives. FunacaLaerviees at o’clock Monday morning from Sha- * C^l\ J ▼TV/ltlV ron church, Kinard, with the Rev. T. B. Wilkes in charge, assisted by the Rev. M. K. Medlock and the Rev. M. L. Kester. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Besides her husband, the deceased is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Boozer, and the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. A. War- HinER AND UVAl HUD PARLEY ON FLEET SHOWDOWN Vichy Soys France Done With Fighting, War On Britain Out of Question. OSS Pretty Martha Anderson, a Texas girl wbe has made a saccesafnl career as a model for phetographers and artists In New York, poaed for the tfit Red Cross poster, telling to all patrlotle men and women to join the American Red Cross chapter In their communities’from November 11 to 89. Ray Moivan. a dtotWalshed New York portrait and poster artist, created the design,' which emphasises the keynote that the Red Cross “serves hamnaRy.” FARM WOMEN HEAR ‘STATE ROAD MONEY ^ ' WVERSION BARRED The ^ fall meeting of the Laurens j Columbia, Oct. 21. — That part of County Council of Farm Women held I South Carolina’s 1940-’41 general ap- last week at Lanford. was attended i propriation act which appropriated by 135 delegates from every one of j $2,000,000 of highway funds for gen- the 20 clubs in the county. IjESSE ALLEN CRAVENS KILLED IN ACCIDENT IN CALIFORNIA News ha.s been received here of the accidental death' on Oct. 10 ofi' Jesse Allen, 21 year old son of Mrs.! J. C. Cravens of Orangeville. Idaho.' the former Miss Nan Jajcks of thi.s community. Allen who was ei\Usted in the ! government aviation corps had been [on a visit to his home and was re- ■ -* turning on a motorcycle to California Berlin. Oct. 22.- Adolf Hitler rc- ! where he was stationed. His motor- reived Vice Premier Pierre Laval of cycle struck a moving freight train France somewhere in French terri- on a railroad crossing five miles tory today, it was announced offi- .north of Randsburg, California, andicially tonight, climaxing indications *he was killed instantly. The body <>f a developing attempt to mass the 1 was sept back to Orangeville under surviving French war.ships with tlv»se [military escort for burial. .of Germany or Italy for a showd-iwn Mrs. Cravens, mother of thei"’*^^ Briti.sh fleet, young man, is a sister of Mrs. R. P. No details of the Hitler-Laval con- ;Nabors and W. T. Jacks of Clinton. 1 ference were disclosed, save that it and J. D. Jacks of Brooklyn, N. Y. was attended also by German For- ! 'eign Minister Joachim von Riblien- Itrop, already reported assigned to [the job of .seeking to get France to enter the war against her old ally I The meeting presumably was held i in German-occupied France. I.Hival has made several trips to Paris as . _ J emis.sary of the Viclliy govern- Explosives Dropped-Ofi - I meat to the German m*I4ary-autlAor- Port Where German i . (The German wirele.ss, in a report Ibi'oadcast under date of Instabul, : al.so assei'ted that French authori- . London, Oct. 22.-In one of the [ Syria had declared thC French i mightiest attacks yet mijde upon there to be completely in a single Nazi area, the air ministry, Syria, possible Axis-British • reported today, a thousand British ^ ^^® Near East.) . firebombs and va.st loads of explos-] (Observers m the neutral Swiss !ives hhve been dropped upon Ham-i listening post of Bern said that Hit- burg, where German warships are. lev’s audience with Laval was ac- under construction. ceptod in Vichy as meaning a final This violent assault, illustrating the s®«Iement with Germany may be rising tempq of a counter-offensive'f^® price of an which Britain’s leaders expect to French piirticipation in the Imaintain through the winter in theagainst Britain). ‘hope of seizing the initiative next, Before the disclosure of Hitler .s spring, was declared to have left a,mysterious talk with Laval had been , chain of fires which eventually camej*^®*^® officially, there had been rum- 1 together in “one great flaming mass.”,o" negotiations with the French , , • J 4. 1 government of Marshall Petain to —carried out Pmice mte the war on the night along with others on G«r- .Me of the axis, many s industrial Ru^r through a heavy ground haze, the ministry {said, which forced the raiding Brit- ^ himself and bv vesterdav’s ra- ,Uh forraationa to break up into ih- Wm^Mlniater Churchill that the French people do Hamburg Target Of BriTish Blasts Warships Are Built. They had been supported by the absence from Berlin of Von Ribben- nothing to hinder Britain’s prosecu tion of the war even though they dividual hunting crews. For ten minutes, it added, an oil refinery at Reisholz, near Dusacl- XM. b«Mb«i from ft. air «,ming to h«p. iH «parat. Hr., wer. raging as ft. ,chu„hiirsl5«ch wm unaparing- BrUMh h.ad«l tor horn.. , tj^ay by ft. G.rn,in ExplMlons Md fira w.r. declar- Haw” in ed to have been set in the Dussel dorf-Derendorf railway yards and at will be 5,957. Of this number, 1,853Iren, Mrs. Sam Pat Bowers, New- whites and 1,171 Negroes may bejberiy; Ray Boozer, Goldville; W. L. called by March L Clinton; Granville Boozer, The two boards serving Laurens [Kinard; Horace Boozer, Newberry, Branch; Bfrs. J.'G. Roy, Oak Grove; Reports of the biggest accomplish ments for the past year and major objectives were given by club presi dents. Clubs in this section were re ported by Mrs. R> Anderson, Mus- grove; Mrs. Chatlton Benjamin, Long eral state purposes “contravenes”; the airdrome at St^e, Germany, constitutional limitations on the) night bombing campaign had a broadcast picked up in the United States by CBS.) Since ot)servers long have specu lated on Axis reasons fur waiting Tb. cyur. ft. oCA«rrft«'^Sr« w jr'Somi- Mwor O. B. EdwMds, of Darlm^OT. ,5 ..xounty are now open daily -from. 94and. several nieces and nephews, ajn. .to 5 pm. The Clinton office is located upstairs in the Jacobs build ing, with J. D. Jeanes as chief clerk. CIVIL couFt to convene monoay Bin. Downes Monroe, Wadsworth. and others and permanently enjoined diversion of the money. The opinion was written by Associate Justice D. German cargo ships off Dunkerque. A British pilot said his bombs had lifted two vessels almost out of the DELEGATES NAMED TO METHODIST MEET The Rev. William B. Garrett, su- nerint«ident,ianiiotmces that the fol lowing lay delegates will represent the Greenwood district at the annual conference of tha Methodist church which will convene at St John’s church Anderson, on November 7, .with Bishop W. T. Watkins of Co lumbia, pniatdhig: Butler M. J. Yarborough; Broad Street, Clinton, J. B. Gentry; Cambridge, Ninety Six, J. G. McNeil; Edgefield and Triton, S. B. Nichol son; Graniteville, J. W. Rearden; Grendel, Mrs. Clara Hammett; Low ell Street, Greenwood, R. E. Womble; Main Street Greenwood, J. B. Gam- brell; Greenwood circuit, to be elect ed; Honea Path, J. A. Tribble; Ki- naid circuit, J. B. Speake; Langley, J. R. Parker, Sr.; McCormick, J. L. Caudle; Central, Newberry, J. T. Cromer;. Epting and Lewis, New berry, T. B. Grant; O’Neal Street, Newberry, A. E. Boukni^t; New berry circuit, H. L. Boulware; Ninety Six, J. .Perrin Anderson; North Au gusta, Paul Knox; Phoenix, J. J. Maysoh; Plum Branch, Mrs. J. J. Minarik; Saluda, D. M. Zinunennan; Ware Shoals and Hodges, B. S. Hodges; WarrenviUe, Thby Eubanks; Waterloo, J. C. Smith. CUNTON IS WINNER OVER LAURENS HIGH Scoring touchdowns In the first f^nd second periods on steady drives, CUnhm high defeated Laurens high here Thuveday night, 12 to 0, in a 'hard-fouifit game witnessed by a large crowd. Captain Burnett plunged across the last- Wldie stripe in the opening quarter at ttie end of a long march, and John tallied in fiie second quarter. 'The second half was aeorikaii with both sides threatmtng at* timaik^ YHANfiQmifO^OV, 81 ’ CoRgiiliig, Oct. 20.—South Carottiui hgain observe the pmidcKd’s ThaaksgWing . • Qovumoe Burnet R. lliqrbaink aaid' he Slmha^ to proclaim NovemtMnr 21 aa OM^Stday tor ftk ilale. The October term of common pleas court will, convene In Laurens next Monday, October 28, with Judge G. Duncan Bellinger of Columbia, pre siding. Jurors drawn for Hunter township are: Fim Week E. L. Prather, T. E. Woodruff, W. E. Brown, W. J.’Crews, W. W. Tur ner, J. E. Flow, L. R. O’Dell. -a w«F-^a- J. J. Johnson, John F. Stokes, Richard Buford, J. V. Hunt, Geo. S. Wham, Arthur Allen, J. W. Taylor, M. H. Bums. The council accepted the invitation [ water and that one heeled over on, of the Mt. Bethel and Brewertonjits beam end. A tramp steamer ini clubs to meet with them next year; ^ncurring. Chief J^tice M. L. Bon-, outer harbor of Boulogne also at Harmony Methodist church. The foUowiag coaunittee was ap pointed to nominate officers at the miring meeting lor a two-year term: Mrs. L. C. Taylor, Mrs. Earl Work man, and Mrs. Haskell Gray. Mrs. Earle Workman of this city, voting delegate, gave an interesting report of the hi^Rghts of the state meeting at Winthrop coIlqEc ha July. She stated that Laurens county was among the six hi^iest ranking coun cils in the state and was additionally honored for its leadership work. RITES AT LANGSTON FOR MISS LIU CURK (pects for a turn into a better winter operations sector appear greater. (The British say the Germans did start ah invasion embarkation on Sept. 16, but that the troops were bombed out of their ships before they could start).' Just now the British fleet in the Mediterranean seems eager for a KIWANiS CLUB TO ELECT OFFICERS . 1 Laurens, Oct. 19. — Miss Lila E. Clarkv 48, died suddenly Saturday at the home of her mother, Mrs. Mat- ftie Johnson Clark, after several years of declining health. The regular meeting of the Clinton Kiwahis club will be held this eve ning at 7:80 at Hotel Clinton. The program committee states this is the annual election of officere meeting and Niles C. Clark; two sisters, Mrs and a fuH attendance of the mem- j. l. Cooper and Mrs. J. A. Smoak, bership is requested. F. C. Pinson is I Funeral rites were held from the the retiring president. [Langston Baptist church Sunday at The club’s annual “ladles night” is o’clock with Rev. J. A. Martin and ham concurred in the result The decision left the state treas ury facing a deficit of approximately $5,000,000. The invalidated act would have earmarked the highway money to meet the state deficit, which amounted to $1,856,898 at the end of the last fiscal year, and to meet gen eral state exp«isn. Judge Baker’s ' opinion declared that the 1940-*41 a<^ differed “only in the manner in which the appro priation is phrased” from the 1939- '40 diversion act, which was ruled shoulder-to-shoulder slugfest with {Italy’s main naval forces. But, should ' the Italians’ four battleships and the outer harbor of Boulogne was said to have been hit. During the day the channel .Ur cajM alive yet again in a vio-,„ ^ augmented ‘“i , 1‘k available Fr«»;h naval uSte Ih. ^ ^rnian big guns loosed tml by - ^ dUterent. the Nazis. _____ During the afternoon still anoth-1 er assault on German’ shipping was reported—this time the bombing by a single British plane of a Nazi FUNAGAN GOES TO Denies Any Chance Fighting Brttaln Vichy, France, Oct. 22.—Any talk 1 « .. . «« France joining in the war against HollTnT • 'England-or any Other contry-‘“t the Hook ol Holland. a,, j,. dared emphatically tonight. They acknowledged that important i negotiations, which may. have a ! bearing on the future of the fallen j republic, are under way somewhere unconstitutional last year. po«”r tStM ^tS^ ,s:I WHITMIRE CHURCH lation is to divert part of the pro- —. „ t » xf, . . ceeds of the five cent gasoline tax!. Rev, J, A. Flanagan of Frank-jin France but that they still are not and motor vehicle license revenue I Ilin, N. C., has recently accepted the finished,” fees to"the‘ sta'te deftcTt'ai^d paj^'entiPfthe Presbyterian church, Just what the conferences are all of state expenses” Baker said Whitmire and was received into {about, government quarters declineti In a separate’opinion, the chief {South Caj-oHna presbytery at its fall) to say. A foreign office spokesman justice wrote that “because of the p”®*^*”* held last week at Friendship made it plain, however, that France A native of Laurens county, she vital importance of the -issues .k>i church m the upper part of the j has no idea of taking up ann.s again.st was the daughter of the late .J. M.lvolved” he had tried “to coorainate”!®^’''"!^ ^ mstaUed on No-, her former ally. eWk and Mrs. Clark. itherA with those construed by the *^h by a coi^i.ssion^head^ • ville, assisted by the . _, _ thews of Newberry, and Elders J. 3. i FOR DUTY IhJ JANUARY Morse and J. V. Clary of AbbeviUe' ’ JMPiUMM /Surviving are two brothers. Steveicourt in the previous case but there Pi ) GUARDSMEN CAl I FH - - Vas “one ville, assisted by the Rev. C. J. Mat- V^MLLtU celebration will be given on the eve ning of December 12th. DRIVB CARBFtlLLY SAVE A UFB- S« Far This Tear Ultra Have Bten U FATAUTIBS - AUTOIMBILB ACCniKNTS in LAURENS COUNTY Ltt*a Sirhrt Td Makt 1940 A SrIi Ob Um HifiiwRja. Thie tale Inal yeafg U ■II Rev, D. W, Keller officiating. Inter ment followed in the church ceme tery. REVIVAL SERVICES AT LYDIA CHURCH insurmountable obstacle which I could not overcome. That, he said, was the constitu- camp as- 000 expenses of the state” and “suffi cient, with other sources of income, to pay the deficiency of the preced ing year . . ” The act did not “con form” to this requirement, he said. ».v y n «.«, n „ , .k , FI RE DEPARTMENT Rev, J. B. Mitchell, pastor of the'pi IBstside Baptist church of Newberry,|CLkCTj Ur-rtVcIO Will leondoct a ten-day revival at, tke Bydia -Biqitist church beginning | At a meeting x4 the Clinton vol- Friday, October 25 dt 7:00 p. m., [ unteer fire department held Tues- and closing Sunday, Nov. S at the i day Might, the foBowing officers were evenihg service, l^v. M. F. Moor-[elected td s«rve for a two-year term: 'head, the pastor, cordially invites the' Chiefs R. J. Pitts. {people of Clinton and surrounding i Assistant chief, Dennis Q. Sowers, /area ^ hear this young minister.! Ca|>ta!ns, Russell Cooper and Don {Services will be held each evening'Copeland. at 7:00 and beginning Monday there >Secretary-treasurer, T. P. Owens. wiU tional provision requiring the gener- f^*^*^®^®** I Mobilization dates and al assembly to levy'annual taxes) Flanagan is a graduate of approximately 130 sufficient to defray the estimated,®oii«g« and ^^iumbiainational guardsmen — including sev- Mverai years ne ^ served as pas announced Saturday in Wa.sh- wr «*iington by the war department ^he guardsmen included in M. and Harold Flanagan, former res-. the units named by the war depart- idents of thu( ci^, now engaged m,mt,nt will be mobilized in the business m Henderson-1 between Jan. 3-19 and about Feb 3 Mile, N. C. {it was .stated. ; ^ Members of the 178th field artil- Tiailoween Carnival 'lery were assigned to Fort Bragg, At Long Branch [training. ^ Lieut. Col. Ansel B. Godfrey of this the be a morning service at 10:30. Grid Oames This Week ■ ■■II l.p ■■■in If pi,II. ill I I. 11 ClIntM Blgk October 28 — Easky at Easley (ttight). IlMniwkB lUgk October 28—UaieBi «l UnKm. Chaplain, Rev. W. N.'Long. Physlciaa, Dr. F. K. Shealy. Jate Jeanes was elected a fire man to fill a vacancy in the depart- jment. P. C. IDLE HDS WEEK Ckiach Johneop ia drilling hie mm tttte week zgmlhM: Mnrer formations. The Hose meet Mercer Friday. No vember 1, ht Bttmny. Ga. A carnival will be given at Loog Branch school on Hallowe’en night, Oct. 31, beginning at 7:30. The pro gram will consist of songs, recita tions and a playlet, “The Spooks Surprise,” given by the children of the school. Innnediately following several interesting stunts and son-> tests will be enjt^red. The ladies of the Home Demon stration club will offer refreshments for sale. The public is cordially in vited. city, is commanding officer of the battalion with units in Spartan burg, Greer and Lyman. Friends of Mrs. Horace Horton wUl be glad to know she is improv- kig from a week’s illness. County Farmers To Get $207,000 Parity * * Laurens county t?umers this fall will receive approximately $207,140 in 1940 cotton parity payments, dis tribution of which has already begun from the office of County Agent C. B, Cannon. Farmers will be notified by letter by Mr. Cannon from time to time aa the payments are received.