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/ / '/ >* n «»' THE CHRONiaE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable ®bp (!IUttt0n if You' Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLI Clinton, S. C., Thursday, March 13,1941 Number 11 tBUM SIRBSS 1M> QIVOY VISIT a 10 U. S. , Italian Editor Soys Lease-Lend Bill Equiva lent To Entering War. BerUn, March 11—The coming Vis- It to Axis capitals of military ex perts is one of the replies which the United States must expect to the British aid bill, authorized German Spokesmen indicated today. They left it free for anyone to guess what the concrete result will be of this first visit of a Japanese foreign minister to the ,third reich since ld05. * But the synchronization of Matsuo- ka*s deparhire from Tokyo with final stages of passage of the British aid bill, plus the disclosure here that military men will be with him make it certain that America will figure in the discussions. One angle upon which the German press significantly expands is the strength of the Japanese navy. (Italian sources, in Rome, gave the f impression that Hitler and Mussoloni would hold that the Brit^h aid bill * is tantamount to American entrance into the Euroipean conflict; hence, it calls for fulfillment of Japanese obli gations under the 8-power pact. (The Turin Gazetta Del Popolo said: ?Tf we look at it—the bill—in substance ... it must be considered equivalent to entrance into the war.” La Tribuna said: “The quick de- James M. PHts Taken By Death ■■ Popular Young Man Passes At Hospital Fol lowing Brief Illness. Assembly Faced By Old Problem Search for Revenue To Be Continued To Meet Growing Demand. James Milton Pitts, 39, died at} Ck>lumbia, March 10. — Legislators Hays hospital early Tuesday morn- j returning here Tuesday for the ninth ing following an illness of only' a;week of their session will face the few hoxurs, the announ<^ment of his'same problem that plagued them on passing coming as a great shock and, the fi^ day—a search for revenue sorrow to his wide circle of friends , to meet a growing state appropri- here and elsewhere. The fund*al services were conduct ed from the residence yesterday af ternoon at four o’clock, with inter ment following at Rosemont ceme Two Conferences Here In June Plans Completed for Pioneer, Youth Sessions To Be Held At College. Following a custom of several 'Arthur liueen Killed By Train Struck While On Truck Near Cross Hill. Last Rites Yesterday. Arthur H. Queen, resident of the ; years past, the annual pioneer and I Cross Hill section, was struck and youth conferences under the direc-1 killed Monday afternoon by a south- «on of the Presbyterian Synod of,bound Seaboard Air Line freight South Carolina, will be held at Pres-! train about one mile north of Cross byterian college in June, the former'Hill. June 11-17, and the latter June 17-j After hearing testimony at an in BRITISH AID BRL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT. SHIPMENTS START Big Flow of Guns To Europe Begins After Act Becomes Law. Washington, March 11. — In a breath-taking burst of speed, Con gress rushed the lease-lend bill to ation bill. June 11-17, and the latter June i7-j After hearing testimony at an in- the White Hou.se today, President The house last week killed the 24. Plans for the two conferences | quest at Cross Hill Monday night by | Roosevelt signed it, and four minutes only rovonue nwgwUon to come up ?' ‘ W'-- "'•dercd an undisclosed list ot ♦hie war Rv an nvf>rwhe1mins mar-' ® meeting of the cMivmittee on re- i the Jury returned a verdict that he, gin it smothered the senate-approved' Ugious education held in Columbia. | “came to his death by being struck ^ matenaLs- sent to England and tery. The services were in charge of (proposal to increase taxes on in-j Announcement was made that the j by a S. A. L. engine.” Witnesses tes- (Greece, the Rev. L. P. McGee, pastor ofLomes admissions, cigarettes and} ^ev. L. P. Burney, director of reli-(tified that Mr. Queen was on a cross-! Then, he told a press conference he North Broad Street Methodist church min-o’nerated machines. Senators im- «‘uus education (or the Synods of tie with one foot on the inside of the' of YKdiich the deceased was a mem ber. The services both at the home and grave were attended by a large gathering of friends from this city and elsewhere who assembled to pay their last tribute. The many beauti ful floral tributes banked upon his coin-operated machines. Senators im-, mediately threw up their hands and; South Carolina and Georgia, will threatened to hold sessions on locall^wd the young ^ples conference, mofVora until th^ while the Rev. I. M. Bagiial of Honea Path, and the Rev. Raymond Wicker- and uncontested matters until the house, which usually originates reve nue suggestions, proposed some source of revenue. Senators explain ed that they could not act on the Cross Hill station as the train round- sham of Walterboro, will lead the ed the sharp curve on which the ac- .... .. . . I would ask Congress tomorrowfor the rail when he was struck. Other tes-, timony was that Engineer J. W. Mar-! * biggest peace-time appro- tin had blown his whistle for the j —$7,000,000,000— to finance the help-BrUain program, and that mound attested the esteem in which t house-approved appropriation bill he was held by many Mdio join with his family in mourning his imtimely death. Active pallbearers were: Hamp Boyd, Hubert Boyd, E. M. Tinuher- man, J. H. Pitts, Jr., J. Roy Craw ford, Irby S. Hipp, S. A. Pitts and until some new revenue was in si^. Many house members said new revenue was necessary but failed generally to point to any source. A few suggested a sales tax was the best resort. Prohibition leaders of the senate pioneer conference for Intermediates. Speakers secured for the confer ences are: Rev. J. K. Roberts, pastor cident occurred. Mr. Queen was a native of Hay- some time within a week he would make a radio talk on the subject. Final congre^ional approval took wood county. North Carolina and the form of a 317 to 71 house vote Jim Pitts Ray. A large number of i hope to bring up an outright dry bill family friends acted as the honorary escort. Mr. Pitts, a popular yoimg business man, was a native of this city, a son of Mrs. Sally Adair Pitts 'and the late J. M. Pitts, who died three yeare parture of Matsuoka for Berlin and 1 ago. After attending the local schools Rome constitutes gh immediate re-1 he entered Wofford college from, ply to the Washingtoh threat.” It which he was graduated. For several added: “If the Axis powers were'years he was employed in Milwau- enemy number one for the United States. That is why Roosevelt blames us for coming to an understanding with Japan.”) Matsuoka ’ is expected to leave Tokyo tomorrow, traveling via Mos cow, and an official Gem^ state ment said his stay in Berlim “is in tended for a personal discussion of all questions arising from co-opera tion, as called for in the three-powers pact between Germany, Italj^and Ja- He will go from here to Rcxne. Rome, Mfbrch ll.“War diplomacy is on the march to make it clear that you cannot intervene in the west without intervening in the Orient,” the newspaper La Tribuna declared today in asserting that the coming visit of Japanese foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka to Berlin and Rome was a ‘¥eply’^ to the newly- enacted U. S. British aid bill. “The iron logic of the tripartite pact (linking Germany, Italy and Japan and with Rtunania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia as junior members) domixutes the whole movement of future history and cov ers the whole globe,” the paper as serted. : i-.-- ■■ - “It is no Israger in the power of the Anglo-Saxon plutocratic nations to , circvunscribe the field of their war.' The paper said President Roosevelt would have preferred to help Brit ain first and deal with Japan after ward, but “unfortunately the tripar tite pact prevented the American plan . . . The tripartite pact says ^at if there has to be a war let it be universal war. “American intervention will auto matically provoke Japan’s interven tion.” La Tribuna designated Japan as for debate in that chamber during the week. Senator LaneV of Chesterfield, said he would mqve that the bill by him and several other senators be brought out of the finance committee for dis cussion. Senator Brown of. Barnwell, who has previously opi^sed the measure, said he would vote for it even though it carried no revenue to replace the estimated $3000,000 that would be lost if the sale of liquor, beer and wine were outlawed. Wet forces staved off repeated ef forts last week to have a pending dry which was operated under his name, j bill in the house set for consideration He was a member of the board of on a particular day. Other bills are trustees of Hunter school district No. 5. The deceased is survived by his kee, Wis)., returning here to be asso ciated wiffx his father in the mer cantile business. Following the death of his father he opened a gents’ fur nishings store in the fall of 1939, of hte First church, Clinton, to be in-, was reported to have been employed accepting amendments attached te at Lydia Cotton Mills at the time of the bill by the senate, and the ac- his death. He was a World war vet- L.Qf{}pgfiyj|^g debate produced bi-par- eran and served in the 631st Air, tisan pledges of national unity, now that a majority of both houses had spoken. The speed started at that point. Vice-President Wallace, brushing spirational speaker of the pioneer conference, and Dr. A. W. Wick, Spartanburg, and Dr. J. W. Jackson, Columbia, vesper and Bible hour. Squadron, being stationed at New respectively, in the youth conference, j York. It was stated that with few excep-1 Funeral services were held yester- tions, the entire personnel of the two i ^3y afternoon at three o’clock at conferen^ had been chosen and en-j Liberty Baptist church near (age-old formalities aside, went to gaged. The comimttre elected to Traveiej-g Rgg^ in Greenville county, j the house end of the Capitol and he ha^ oversight of both is composed, interment followed in the adjoining, and Speaker Rayburn signed it. of Dr. Roswell C. Long, Greenwood,f cemetery. j Chairman Kirwan (D.-Ohio) of the chairmaii; Dr. C. H. Nabors, Green-, Surviving are his wife, the former house committee on enrolled bills. Miss Gertrude Moore of Canton, N. slipped the elaborate linen-paper Dr. F. W. Gregg, Rock HiU, com- ^.j t^o sons, Billie and Jimmie document into a brief case, and hail- mittee ehairm^, presided at the .Qne^n, Cross Hill; two sisters, Mrs. ed a taxicab. meeting at which Mr. Burney out-1 Grace Odom, Chapin, and Mrs. Lena At the White House he turned it lined the program for the next sixi Thompson, Cross Hill; five brothers, | over to Clarence Hess, .a iveteran months and u^ed that children s, Fred Queen, Prosperity; Grover clerk in the executive offices, who ^d youth 5 work ^ emphasued. Queen, Greer; Tom Queen, Calhoun, signed a receipt for it. At 3:40 p. mriitute for training workers m, Ga., and Mance and Carl Queen, m. Mr. Roosevelt was waiting at his daily vacation church schools w^j Taylors. ' desk, surrounded by photographers. ^_^up May 2-23 vnth a lumted at-, , 3:51, a White House official sig- tendance of two from each of the ' ahead of the measure, sponsored by Representative Moore of Cherokee, and othei-s, but by special permission widow, Mrs. Isabell Scarborough!®^ ® majority of the house it could Pitts; four small daughters, Carolyn, Ann, Sara and Jacquelin Pitts; his mother, Mrs. J. M. Pitts; two broth ers, Raymond J. Pitts and Hubert J. Pitts; two sisters, Mrs. S, E. Evans of Columbia, and Mrs. Craig Kennedy of Spartanburg. Founder's Day Exercises Saturday be taken up out of order. Moore and Representative Nalley of Sickens, said they would continue their attempts to call up the bill for second .reading consideration. COUNTY FARMERS AVERAGE NEARIY BALE TO ACRE eight presbyteries, the expense of I DaVAIIlia the school to be paid by the com-1 mittee. Miss Atha Bowman, Rich mond, Va., has been secured for the institute to be held in Columbia. Plans also were made for daily vaca tion Bible adioois of the synod under the direction of the various presbytery chairmen of re ligious education. Two graduates of the assembly’s training school will be available for the work and each presbytery will have access to train- Drive Way Clinton-GoldrHIe Area Conducting Campaign To Roise $750 Quota. nailed to newsmen, with a wave of his hand, that the measure which might conceivably shape the whole history of the world had become law. A list of war supplies, the proper ty of the army and navy, had al ready been drawn up, m consulta tion with high officers of the two services. At 3:55 Mr. Roosevelt or dered it on its way to England and Greece, and at 4 o’clock, reporters filed into his office for the regular Columbia, March 10.—Preliminary government estimates based on “the latest available data” indicate a Dr. R. C. Grier or Erskine I '“‘ton crop ot se sso bales (500 pounds gross weight) compared with 29,970 last year. In a bulletin issued by United States Agricuttural Statistician Frank O. Black, the expected yield per planted acre this year in Laurena county was placed at 403 pounds, compared with 334 last year. Acres, in cultivation in Laurens county July 1, 1940, totaled 44,030 compared with 43,800 the year be fore. For the state as a whole, a crop this year of 970,000 bales was esti mated against 871,000 4ast year, with the yield per planted acre this year expected to be 373 pounds compared with 342 last year. Will Be Speaker for' College Program. Services in honor of the founder of Presbyterian college, the late Rev. William Plumer Jacobs, DJ)., LLJ>., will be held in the college chapel Saturday Inommg at 10:30 o’clock, with the general public cordially in vited to attend the memorial exer cises. Dr. R. C. Grier, president of Er- skine college, will be the principaL speaker for the occasion. Special niu- sic will be provided by the college glee club under the direction of Dr. John G. Barden. The Founder’s day exercises are an annual event at the college, March 15 being the birthday of the late Dr. Jacobs. The president |Of the institu- “ttiemy number one of the United States,” saying “that is why Roose-jtion, Dr. W. P. Jacobs, II, is a grand velt blames us for coming to an un derstanding with Japan.” _Priends of Robert Wysor will be glad to know he is improving at the college infirmary after a week’s ill- nefs. son of the founder. Schools To Hove Two Doys Holiday The annual financial drive of the semi-weekly conference. War B®y Scout councll IS un-' Telling the newsmen what he had mnnv hivi district with Mr. Roosevelt made it clear mony p^bytenes have been chosen budget of $13,712 to fill. for the time being, he would as the two in which these trained, ^ headed by disclose either what the list in- vacation IR j. j.„guaon as chairman, with a eluded or the vaiue ot the auppiiea • quota of $750. Mr. Ferguson stated involved. The latter, he said, was school work. Other presb3rteries will receive a small amount of funds for the, pur pose of carrying on the work. TTiere will also be some available funds from the annual birthday offering of the Woman’s Auxiliary, the com mittee reported. NEWS QUIZ 1. The Dardanelles, currently in. the news,' are: (a) a new E®rptian dance step resemb ling the rhumba, (b) strategic straits separating the Black and Mediterranean seas, (c) system of canals linking Greece to Al bania, (d) newly developed va riety of citrus fruits. 2. The United States is defi nitely interested in the fate of the Dutch East Indies. One reason for this interest is that from this source we get sup plies of: (a) sUk; (b) Dutch lunch baskets; (c) aluminum; (d) tin and rubber. 3. According to a current re port of Secretary of War Stim- lon the army air corps now has about this many* planes: (a) 90,1000;-(b) 4,000; (c) 17,500; (d) 8,500. 4. Senators Wheeler, Nye and Hiram J(hnson are leaders of the senate bloc rcH>onsible (or furnishing the most opposition . to the lease-lend bill. What states do they representt (Answers wiU be found on page four) The Clinton city schools will be closed Thursday and Friday, March 20 and 21, in order* to give the teach ers an opportimity to attwd the an- 'nual convention of the l^uth Caro lina Teachers association which will be held at that time in Columbia. Regular class-room work will be re sumed the following Monday morn ing. BUZZARD ROOST BILL HELD UP Columbia, March 10. — Progress of a bill designed to regulate fishing in the lake formed by the Buzzard’s Roost power project was held up last week when the measure was re committed to the house committee on fish, game and forestry for further revision. The bill, introduced by the New berry, Laurens and Greenwood dele gations, which counties comprise SURVEY MADE OF RENTS HERE A recent survey announced by State Labor Conunissioner W. Rhett HarTey, shows that the average monthly rental- for a five-roewn dwelling in CUnton is $18.25. The survey, conducted last month by the labor department, covered three specific areas in Clinton, where the average monthly rentals for a five room house were found to be as follows: j April 10. The Pee Dee division, rep- In the residential area, $24.35; ini resenting 15 counties of«the state, the “near business district, in the “lowest rental” area, $8.53. Because of the fact that vey was the first to be yesterday that a fine start has been.®®^ large, and the total original cost made and it is expected that * the would not necessarily be the billing campaign will be completed today. i price. In preparation for the local drive, t This, he added, was for the rea- workers assembled for breakfast at I son that some of the equipment in- Hotel Clinton Tuesday morning and volved was out of date or was sur- began the campaign immediately Pi’^s or did not have the same mone- thereafter. Team captains for the * value as of the time it was district are R. C. Adair, J. B. Gen-' manufactured years ago. try, J. F. Jacobs, G. N. Foy, J. C.' Much significance attached to the value placed upon the articles, be cause the new law limits transfers of equipment already on hand or previously appropriated for to a to-' U1 value of $1,300,000,000. The question of what formulas would be followed in deciding the value of such things was prominent in the. congressional debates. Foes of the ^ bill argued that Mr. Roosevelt could The South Carolina Conference of! m^asime re- Social Work will meet in Clinton Cannon, W. E. Monts, H. L. Eichel berger, A. L. Shepard and R. L. Plaxico. W. A. Moorhead of Goldville, is chairman of the major gifts division. - '0^^ ' SOCIAL WORKERS TO HOLD MEET HERE trarily low prices for equipment transferred. $21.83; will have a part in the program. The object of the conference is to initiate details of the tra^- it this sur-1' and. foster movements for social pro-1 f^ u ^ wpuld urge the iSade here,jgress in the state and to coordinate houses to ap^int a jomt sub- no comparable figures for previous the activities of social workers, pub-1 periods were available. TAX COLLECTIONS SHOW INCREASE lie officials and other interested citi zens. Co-chairmen are Mrs. T. P. Ken- jdrick of Laurens, and Mrs. D. O. Rhame of this city. ijighty-cme per cent collection of state game zone No. 2, received a fa-j the 1940 county taxes by March 1 committee, to visit the White Hoase from time to time and receive all in- formahon on the progress of the pr>- gram. The request for $7,600,000,000 will go to Congress tomorrow in the form of a letter to Speaker Ray burn, he said, disclosing at the same time that the leadership at the cap- itol had arranged to have Congress KIWANIS MEET TODAY , _ . , The Kiwanis club will hold its reg- vorable report from the committee,was reported last week by County,ular meeting this evening at 7:30 at go to work on it immediately Hear se wrok before with, however, a Treasurer T. Lane Monroe, who said j Hotel Clinton. The program will be ings before a house appropriations that of the county’s $389,306.71 tax in charge of the club’s three young- bill, a total of $316,534.71 already test members, Ratchford W. Boland, has been paid in. Mr. Monroe said [James P. Sloan and Hubert J. Todd. few minor amendments. Rally Day Sunday At Methodist Church The annual church school rally day will be obs»ved by Broad Street Methodist church Sunday morning, March 16, at 11 o’clock, it has been announced. An impressive program has been prepared, and representa tives from eadi department of the church school will participate. The public is cordially inrited to attend. J - mt 'laubins woman RSnUM I Laurens, March 10. — Having achieved a service record of 35 years [With the Western Union Telegraph company, Miss Susan Dean, manager I td the {^auruis oWet since February 126, 1938, has been granted full re- 'tii^ent by die eompany. Pending the preparatkm of die papers on her application, Mist Dean was given a iMve of abeooce shortly bMore Christmas. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE so FAB Tms TEAB THEBE HAS BEEN 1 FATALITY frpBi AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let's Strive To Make 1941 a Safe Year On the Highways. This date last year, 1 that collections through February were nearly $9,000 ahead of the col lections at the same time last year. Collections (or the past five months iiKluded in the total figure an nounced were listed as follows: Oc tober, $9^40.87; November, $18,- 406.59; December, $255,426.06; Jan uary, $17,859.54; and February, $14,- 601.65. subcommittee were scheduled to be gin on Thursday. There would be, the president said, no waste of time. HIGHWAY REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENTS OT UUIRENS COUNTY NEARLY PAID OFF Postmasters To Hold Meet In Clinton Columbia, March 10. — The state highway department owes Laurens county a total of $3,974.44 under re imbursement agremnents, of which sum the amount of $1,987.22—or ex actly half—is maturing between last July 1 and this coming June 30, with $198.72 interest. One more similar payment will clear up all the outstanding reim- Postmasters of the third and fourth } Codgressicmal districts will hold their annual convention in Clinton Thurs-! bursement obligations between the day, March 20, it has been an-[highway department and Laurens nounced. | county. The original principal amount It is expected that a large-number was nearly $200,000. of postmasters will attend the con vention, the districts including the counties of Greenville, Spartanburg, Laurens, Union, Abbeville, Anderson, Edgefield, Greenwood, McCoraxick, Newberry, Oconee, Pickwis and Sa luda. Reimbursement agreements are those in which the highway depart ment agrees to reimburse the county for principal and interest payments on bonds issued by the county for certain road and bridge construction projects. The bonds themselves remain ia the name of the county, but when the principal and interest payments on them come due, the highway de partment provides the county with the money with which to pay them off. The aiuiual report of the highway department showed that Laurens county is being reimbursed by the department on two road and bridge bond issues, with the status of ac counts as of last June 30 being as follows: An issue of $174,796.71, a( 5 per cent; $174,157.is paid on the princi pal, $639.56 still outstanding. An issue of $25,001.63, at 5 per cent; $21,676.75 paid on the princi pal, $3,334.88 still outstanding.