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/ MCHRONiaE - Strives To Be A Cleon Newspoper, Complete, IkiUe Newsy ond Relkil (Eltntan ffibrntittlf If You Don't Read ns CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLI Clinton, S. C., Thursday, January 9, 1941 Number 2 COUNIY BOMDS TO SEND 22 MEN TO NRMY POST JAN. IT 10 From Clinton and 12 From Lourens Go To Jockson Next Friday. NEW SENATOR / Twenty-two young white men, the lint to be inducted into the United States army through the selective I service plan from Laurens county,} ..will leave by bus next Friday, Janu ary 17, for the induction station at Fort Jackson, near Columbia. Ten of the young men will come from Clintcm Board No. 50. Two of the contingent are volunteers, and ei^t selectees. The ofTicial list as re leased yesterday by the board fol lows; David Aaron Strickland (V), Ware Shoals, Route 1, Order No. 20. Frank Arthur Childress, Ware Shoals, Route 1, Order No. 3. Thomas Simmons, Clinton, Order No. 27. . Johiv William Beeks, Ware Shoals, Route 1, Order No. 40. Jefferson Olin Knight, Ware Shoals Route 1, Order No. 43. Willie Lee Grogan, Clinton, Route 2, Order No. 44. James Leon Craig, Goldville,, Or der No. 57. George Alfred Browning, Clinton, Order No. 62. John Aster Hill, Ware Shoals, Route 1, Order No. 87. . Samuel Fletcher Surratt, Goldville, Order No. 92. Alternates Named In case any of the above selectees are turned down, the following men have been designated for replace ments: Jesse L. Brawley, Goldville, Order No. 127. James Bledsoe, Goldville, Order No. 131. Hillard Jerimiah Hill, Laurens, Route 1, Order^No. 136. The Clinton board will send one Negro, Marvin Burnside, to camp on the 27th. Twelve Prom Laurens Board Laurens Board Missing Sh Hours, r Lad Is Found, Safe Rondolph Holder Res cued After Hunt By Officers. Returns m FINAL CENSUS FIGURES GIVEN FOR TOWNS OF COUNTY 4-Man Body To Direct Defense ere. O. L. LONG New Laurens County Senator Who WIU Take the Oath of Of fice Next Tuesday Upon the Con vening of the General Assembly. Farmers' Group To MeetHere Thursday Annual Meeting Planned At Armory for Production Credit Association. Arrangements have been completed for the annual stockholder meeting of the Clinton Production 'Credit as sociation, to be held at the Clinton (From The Index-Journal, Green wood). Rudolph Holder,. three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Holder, of Clinton, was safe and apparently unharmed Monday after having wan dered around ,in the cold for six hours Sund^ afternoon near the home of his(^rat-grandfather, Mr. McDowell, iri the Friendship church section of Saluda county,- hear the Greenwood county line. The lad disappeared Sunday af ternoon about one o’clock after he had gone to the hog pen with his grandfather and a search for him ended about seven o’clock Sunday night when he was found by J(^ Shannon, of the Pure Oil company here, who headed a party of enrollees of the Negro camp in Saluda county. During the six hours officers in both Greenwood and Saluda counties, state highway patrolmen and many all directions from the country home Mr. Shannon said he and the CCC boys fodnd the little boy cuddled up on a pile of straw about three-quar ters of a mile from the home. He had removed all of his clothing ex cept his undershirt and appeared to be numb from the cold. “I wrapped iwo coats around him,” Mr. Shannon said, “and canned him to the road. He did not whimper and Final statistics covering the 1940 population census of South Carolina, including figures for counties, cities and towns, have been released by the census bureau. I Table 1 presented the figures for' counties and for cities of 10,000 or| more, and table 2 for incorporated! places of less than 10,000. j Yesterday’s release showed the fol- j lowing 1940 and 1930 population for' the incorporated towns of Laurens' county; 1940 CLINTON 5,704 Lauiens 6,894 Cross Hill 525 Kinards (Laurens- Newberry) 234 Gray Court .... 401 Mountville .... 139 Princeton (Greeenville- LaOrens) 167 Waterloo 150 Knudsen and Hillman To Hood Job, With Knox and Stimson. CONGRESS ASKED TO PROVIDE BILLIONS FOR ARMAMENTS Washington, Jan. 7.—To hasten the production of war materials for both the United States and Great Britain,} President Roosevelt today formally President Soys Americo Threatened By Foreign Peril. Speed Urged. Wa.shington, Jan. 6. — President established the new four-man “office i congresa Monday the of production management” with I States faced an unprecedent- 19301 5,643 5,443 678 273 360 152' 183 204 broad authority, including the power to take over any industrial plants considered non-cooperative. As working heads of the new agency, he appointed William S. Knudsen, former president of Gen eral Motors, and Sidney Hillman, CIO vice-president. Both were mem bers of the old advisory defense com mission. Knudsen will be director 'general and Hillman associate direc tor general, and they will act, Mr. I ed “foreign peril” and demanded a “swift and driving increase in our armaments" both for defen.se and the use of fighting “democracies” abroad. “'17)6 need of the moment," Mr. Roosevelt said in his annual mes sage on the state of the union, “is that our action.s- and our policy should be devoted primarily—almost exclusively—to meeting this foreign peril. For all our domestic problems are now a pi^rt of the great emer gency.” Goldville, which is unincorporated, was not listed in the census report but is included in the Hunter town ship figure of 12,544. The final figure for the county is 44,185 against 42,094 in 1930, an in- Roosevelt said, as a team or partner-, . ■ , ship in wielding the tremendous . ^PP^^rmg before a joint session of powers at their disposal. Secretaries ; ^eat house Stimson and Knox of the war and chief executive said he navy departments, respectively, are congress for “greatly in crease of 2,091, The percent of in- volqnteer*, niliO were searching to] crease for IWtMO-rwas 5:^ compa^ members ex-officio. After Mr. Roosevelt had explained his orders at his regular Tuesday creased new appropriations” to carry on the defense program and recom mended that “a greater portion of this great defense program be paid with a decrease of 1.1 for the period 1920-30. armory on next Thu^ay morning, j motionless. I placed him in State January 16th, at 10:30 o clock, ac- Patrolman Joe Hinton’s car which cording to Rex Lanford, secretary M son on the same date; Lewis Lawson, Laurens, route 1; Jack Williams Harris, Gray Court; Elbert Marbin Boy ter. Ora; James Hallie Workman, Laurens route 1; Albert Carl Smith, Laurens; William Leroy Brown, aurens; Fletcher Boyd Poole, Jr., Lauivns; Albert Leon Tur ner, Gray Court < route 2; Bartow Braxton Brown, Owings; ,tohn Lewis Ball, Laui«ns route 1; Claud Leonard Lawson, aurens route 1, and James Robert Bobo, Laurens. Ten days later, January 27, two Negro selectees will be sent to camp fro mthe same board; Henry Watts and Hugh Fleming, Laurens. 1491 Ftmm Slate Officials of Fort Jackson have re- treasuivr of the association. Mr. Lan ford said .yesterday that a record- _ _ breaking attendance of members iai^ine’Tn'the'wiistebleVcM. expected. This will be the sixth annual meet ing of this farmers’ cooperative short term credit organization, which makes short-term loans for agiicul- tural and livestock purposes to farm ers of Laurens and Newberry coun- was nearby and he was brought to the hospital. Shenff Gary Davis of Saluda county and Luther King also County Officials Sworn In Tuesday New Senotor and Two New House Members In Legislative Delegation. Laurens county officers were in ducted into their respective offices secretary states it is hoped that every member will at tend the meeting. Complete and detailed report on the operations of the association will be made to the stockholders, Mr. Lanford said. “This being a cooper ative organization, we feel that the On the way to Greenwood Mr. j Tuesday. Shannon said he held the boy in his Sheriff Caldwell W. Wier entered lap and one time the youth squeezed' upon his second four-year tenure, his hand, indicating that he was be-' Mr. Weir before election in 1936 was ing “thawed out” from the heater in a member of the Clinton city police the car. ‘After he had been placed on the force. Vic R. Fleming, clerk of court, en- the boy opened his eyes and looked at me,’' Mr. Shannon stated, “and he seemed to realize that I was the oneltjQp who had held him in my arms on the 15-miIe ride, and he threw his aims around my neck and hugged me having been re-elected in the past summer’s primary without opposi- Robert L. Teague, elected to fill out an unexpired term in the office of county supervisor, took over his tight.—Then a nurse offered him milk ie*u « xr u w . .t. S bread but he refused to take it ^*15 members are entited to Icnow every-, until I had offered it to him.” ' commiMioners, E. thing about its operations and we .Examination showed that the boy j j “'j .-J ni « Herman Power of the Gray Court press conlerfince. a reporter aaked: •Mr. President, why is it that you do f™"' taxation than we are pay- net want to appoint a single respon-1 today. sible head for the defense program?”! ‘‘1 also asx mis congress,” he said. The inquiry ipointedly recalled re-* “for authority and for funds suffi- cent charges that the defense pro-1 cient to manufacture additional mu- gram was bogging down for the lack nitions and war supplies of many of a single responsible administrator, kinds, to be turned over to tho.se na- The president, in obvious gooditions which are now in actual war spirits, anyway, laughingly answered that he had appointed a single head with aggressor nations.” Mr. Roosevelt did not list the na- The name of the new official, he said, | tions to receive help through hia was Knudsen Hillman. The two were' ease-lend plan, but in hi.s recent fire- in absolute agreement, he added, as to what was to be done. He empha sized that neither had been given more authority than the other, and side talk on defense he referred spe cifically to Britain, China and Greece. “Such aid is not an act of war,” Mr. Roosevelt asserted, “even if a referred to them again and again as"} dictator should unilaterally proclaim a partnership Previously a reporter had asked: “Suppose the question of a contract for the Ford Motor company came up and Knudsejn believed it should it so to be." In fulfillment of the purpose of extending aid, the president also de clared the nation “will not be intimi dated by the threats of dictators that get it for the sa/ke of speed and Hill-1 fbey will regard as a breach of in- man believed it should not for labor i ternational law and as an act of war hope that every member will feel It a duty to be present.” A representative of the Production Credit corporation of Columbia will make an address gt the close of the business s^sion. A number of mw features will be introduced into the program this year. deicers of the association are: C. W. Stone, Clinton, president; J. T. had suffered no ill effects from ox~ i i POSUK uid he was returned to his «° mto oBice until home Mond.y momin*. Tuesday. They succeed Commission- vealed that b^wwn Januair 6 and McCrackin, Newberry, vice-presi- 23, inchMJve, 1,391 yo^ white men Lanford, secretery- will ^ inducted toto the ^ from treasurer. Directors in addition to the Soi^ Carolina cities and toi^. president and vice-president, are J. These selectees, the first of the 1941 South Carolina crop, will be given their oaffi of enlistment, their physical examination and will have their personnel records started at Fort Jackson. After passing throuj^ Uiis process, which vdll be a matter ol a few hours, these selectees will be sent by .train to Fort Bragg, N. C., where they will go through the sec ond step of their military service. The second step is the reception center where unifoitns and equip ment are issued, the personnel rec(^ continued, classifications made and assignments completed as to the F. Hawkins, Newberry; Jack H. Dg vi8,_Sr,. Clinton, and E. J. Slq^ Fountamlim.' The association during the year just ended made loans to 816 mem bers totaling $320,000, officers state. SCOUT MEET IN GREENWOOD JAN. 16 The annual meeting of Blue Ridge leld Council of Boy Scouts will be he in Greenwood on Thursday, January _ . _ ^9* announced by Scout bra^dT'of the”iii^ic^ to which the 1 Executive O. B. Gorman of Green- selectees will be smt. KIWAiaS MEETING TODAY The first Kiwanis meeting of thejbyterian viUe. Afternoon sessions will begin at 4 o’clock with an executive board Mr. and Mrs. Holder were spend ing the day with their relatives when their little boy disappeared. reasons. Who would dominate?” supposition that such a case would not arise. The four members of the new agency issued a joint statement which Mr. Roosevelt said was of great importance. In it they stressed the urgency of the defense problem, assured labor that it would not be called upon for sacrifices nut de manded of capital as well, and re quested the cooperation of all. our aid to the democracies which dar* to jpasist Uiakr aarr*ssian.” “When the dictators are ready to make war upon us, they will not wait for an act of war on our part,” he continued. “They did not wait for Norway or Belgium or, The Nether lands to commit an act of war.” Mr. Roosevelt set forward in three points what he described as “our na tional policy” in this time of "seri ous danger ” and he also proclaimed the principles of “four essential hu- Mr. and Mrs. Holder are residents of the Clinton Cotton Mills commu nity. ROBERTS BEGINS PASTORATE HERE ers John H. Wharton of Waterloo, and Lander B. Stoddard of Owings. Robert I. Burgess, currently filling j the office of county coroner by ap- pointment to complete the term of the late John A. Thomason, enters upon a four-year term to which he was elected last August. Other officers nominated in the last primary, including M. A. (Gus) Cannon of near Clinton, and town ship magistrates, will not start their terms until later all being appointive. - The county delegation wm take Oie oath of office next Tuesday when the general assembly convenes. The dele gation is headed by Senator O. L. i Long, Laurens attorney, who sue-' ceeds C. A. Cromer of Laurens. Rep- Charies L. Milam, of To achieve the results which the i **^8” freedoms” to which “we look country expects from the office of forward” in “the future days. Large congregations Sunday, both morning and evening, greeted the Rev. John K. Roberts, new pastor of the First Presbyterian church who came here the first of the year from Greensboro, N. C. At the morning worship hour thO i resentative Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper was j Mountville, returned for a third term, administered. At the evening service {is the only hold-over member. James the new pastor delivered his first jp. Sloan of this city, and Walter L. sermon which was most favorably' Martin of the Ware Shoals section, received by the congregation. Mr.! are the two new members of the Roberts and Mrs. Roberts have been {lower house delegation. cordially welcomed by the officers j and membership of the church since their aprival in the city. production management,’ the state ment said, “we expect and must have the kind of cooperation from every body that counts no sacrifice too The “national policy” the president stated as; “First, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard great to make if it will contribute to|to partisanship, we are committed a more successful and more efficient! to all inclusive national defense. defense.” WELCOME SERVICE FOR NEW PASTOR meeting to be held in the First Pres- Hoddoil LOOVCS For new year will be held at Hotel Clin ton this evening at 7:30 with the church. Business mattm for the year will then be considered, with Dr. Roswell C. Long, council newly elMted officers in charge. The > president, presiding. Various groups new prognm committee for the year is composed of F. M. Boland, chair man, G. N. Foy, Dr. John G. Barden and Rev. LeOrvui« Mayer. V ¥ DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE So Far Tbia Year There Have Been FATAIJTIES tnm AUTOMOBILE ACCIBENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Lei*a Strive Th Make 1041 a Safe Year On tke Hifhwasrs. rear. •. will meet at 5 o’clock to organize into discussion units. The aimual banquet will be held at 7 o’clock in the dining hall'of Lander college. At this tinw new officejrs will be elect ed, aimual reports heard and the presentation made of' Silver Beaver awards to scouters in the council whose woiic in behalf of scouting is ccNuidered especially meritorious. The principal speaker for the occa sion will be aimouiiced later. Mr. Ctorman said. The three scout troops 'in Clinton are members of the Blue Ridge coun cil and will be represented at th ap- proadiing meeting. Hottiesburg, Miss. STEWART ELECTED TO POLICE FORCE -A tmion-welcome service for the Rev. John K. Roberts, new pastor of the First Presbyterian church, has i press been anahged by the city ministerial i ^®*”®<^*‘atic cause shall prevail; and union to be held at the church Sun-1 strengthen the defense and se- Second, by an impressive expres sion of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are com mitted to full support of all those resolute peoples, everywhere, who are* resisting aggression and are thereby hoping war «way from ouT' hemisphere. By this support, we ex- our determination that the day evening at 7:30. A cordial invitation is extended all churches of the city to unite in this special service to hear and welcome Mr. Roberts who succeeds Dr, D. J. Woods who resigned this pastorate the first of the year after twenty yean service. Pastors who will take part in the service are Rev, C. Bynum Betts, Dr. L. R. Lynn, Rev. L. P. McGee, Rev curity of our own nation. “Third, by an impressive expres sion of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are com mitted to the proposition that prin ciples of morality and considerations for our own security will never per mit us \o acquiesce in a peace dic tated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers. We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at tke cost LeGrande Mayer and Rev. Walter i®* the other i>eople’s freedom. N. Long. The “four essential human free- City council in session Monday I night elected M. C. SteWart as h member of the police force, succeed- J. C. Hedden of Laurens, sanitari-! ing' the late Ed King, who pass^ j an with the county health depart-j away a few weeks ago. Mr. Stewart, TWO CHANGES IN HI-SCHOOL FACULTY |doms” were described by the presi- ment for the past several years, left last Friday to enter army service at Hattiesburg, Miss. Mrs. Hedden, Miss who is a resident of the Clinton Cot ton Mills community, has been serv-; Jean McKee of this city before mar riage, is with her mother, Mrs. Alma McKee until the first of Febiruary at ing the city for some time as substi' tute policeman and fire truck driver. Horace Horton of this city, was elected at the same time to fill the which time she will join Mr. Hedden j position formerly held ky Mr. Stew- at Hattiesburg. art. Write A Letter, Win $5;00 Collega Gels Hill For L^ture Course Dr. Marshall W, Brown, dean, has * announced Ukat the coUege has ar- rangad for Napoleon Hill, noted au- llkor, to become a resident lecturer In psychology on the theme of ‘The’ FliUoeophy of American Achiisve- mant” Mr. HiU will meet lecture and infomsl for-»p- sCitaMieftts to eaqMMakd, <UMuae and apply his Sevaptaen Prineiidaa <d! Achiavament, the announpainaiit THE CHRONICLE will award $3.00 Free to the man or woman, boy or. girl, who writes us the best letter during the month of Janu ary on this subject: "Why 1 Read The Chronicle” Send your letter in before the last day of the aiionth setting forth ediy you are a reader of The Chronicle. The publisher will select what is considMCd the best letter, award $3.00 to Uie author, and publish the yinning communication. Get busy today. Send your letter in any time during the month. THE CHRONICLE, from time to time during the year, will offer similar prizes. For February another sifoject will be announced and a prize awarded. Two changes were announced yes terday in the Clinton high school fac ulty by Supt. W. E. Monts. James W. Younginer, instructor ia bookkeeping and biology, resigned the first of the year to accept the position of educational advisor in a CCC camp at Dothan, Ala. Mr. Younginer is succeeded by Miss Clara Bowers of Newberry. James P. Sloan, history instructor, has resigned his work effective Fri day to enter upon his duties next week in Columbia as a member of the Laurens county house delegation. Mr. Sloan is succeeded by Robert M. Burts, Jr., of Honea Path. SUMEREL'S MOVES TO NEW LOCATION Sumcrel’s Dei)artment Store, of which R. F. Sumerel is owner, has been busy moving this week into one of the storeroonas of Copeland-Stone company adjoining the Natkmal Bank building* The moving job Is expect ed to be completed today, Mr. Sum erel states. The new home of Sumerel’s has been remodeled inside and outside and is now one of the most attractive store buildings in the city. — ; dent as “the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.” He described these “freedoms” as: “The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world. “The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere la the world. “The third is freedom from want —^^which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every natitm a healthy peace time life for its in habitants—everywhere in the world. “The fourth is freedom from war —which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no na tion will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere m the world. “I have called for personal sacri fice. I am assured of the willingness < of almost *811 Americans to respond to that call. “A part of the sacrifice means the payment of nx>re money in taxes. In nxy budget mes^e 1 recommend that a greater portkm of this great defense program be pakl for in tax ation than we are paying today. No person should try, or be allowed, to (OontmaiHl on page two) • ■ ' •'i-’ - .i.A' -k' iTktV : •? '