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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
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FATAUTIBS -
AUTOIMBILB
ACCniKNTS
in
LAURENS COUNTY
Ltt*a Sirhrt Td Makt
1940 A SrIi Ob
Um HifiiwRja.
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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.