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\ V . ^ • ... '■':'■'■/■ ; / ■■ ^ ^ ■ ,/ IHE CHRONKU ' Strives To Be A Cleon Newspoper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable SJiP (Ultntmt fllbrntiitlp If You Don't Read THE CHKOKICIe You Don't Get the NevfS Volume XLI Clinton, S. C., Thursdoy, March 20, 1941 Number 12 'A HOUSE TOSSES DRY ISSUE TO SENATE FOR ACTION Prohibition and Punitive Damages Bill Debated In Lower Body. I. r •4 \i P ' V*’ Columbia, March 18. — The house of representatives handed the bitter-j ly disputed prohibition question to V the senate today and then plunged into debate on another bill which ^ade fair to be contested Just as sharply. After an uneventful third reading passage of the bill to rest^e the state’s pre-1935 dry status, the open ing guns were fired over a proposal to limit the amount of punitive dam ages in civil action to the amoimt of actual damages. Representative Hawkins of .Greenville, a lawyer at Greer, attacked the measure while < Representative Thomas of Beaufort, another lawyer, declared that outside capital hesitated to come into South Carolina because of ’’pernicious puni tive damage suits." The prohibition bill carried the provision, inserted after a hard fight last Thur^ay, that there could be no chai^ in the present liquor, beer and wine law until sufficient reve nue was supplied by ‘‘new taxes" to replace approximately $3,000,000 from taxes and licenses on those bev erages. Because of this condition the bill was referred in the senate to the finance committee, where another dry bill by eight senators already awaited action. Hawkins said “there has been a lot said and published" about puni tive clgmages but that “it has been on one side." I^e added that after many editors had described the pres ent unlimited pimitive damage law as a disadvantage to the state, he wrote to the attorneys general of the 48 states for infcrmation about the law elsewhere. " “Georgia has written into her code our law on punitive damages,” he said. ’’South Carolina’s conforms to the common law, which has been handed down since time immemor ial.” North C.aroUna, he added, .’Ims the same law we have" and most other states had virtually the same. “I do not know what is causing the high rate on automobile casualty in surance in this state but it is p(M- sible that the ^^casualty companies use punitive damages as an argu ment for it," Hawkins asserted. “But when you find that 41 other states have virtually the same law as we have that argument falls through.” Citing “propaganda" he said had WOMEN NAMED ON DEPENSE COUNCIL Governor Maybank has announced the appointment of a woman’s de fense council for Laurens county consisting of Mrs. Robert H. Roper and Miss Jennie Coleman of Laurens, and Mrs. J. F. Jacobs of this city. Three women from each county! are being appointed by the governor! to supplement councils of men id- \ ready appointed. The women will) devote themselves especially to prob lems of consumer interest, it is stated' MRS. D. i. WOODS DIES OF SUFFOCATION WHEN HR HOME IS DESTROYR BY FIRE POSTMASTERS TO MEET HERE TODAY Postmasters of the third and fourth Congressional districts will hold their Wos Unable To Escape Downstoirs When Orercome ?^straHorteg‘Zing'n SVth. By Smoke Funeral Services At/irst Presbyterian in ‘ie ‘th" fd Church This Arternoon At 5 OcIOCK. I district, and 70 in the fourth, of 1^ ! which Laurens county is a part. Founder's Day Al Thornwell Hugh Jacobs Makes Address Honoring Dr. Jacobs' Memory On Birthday. “Founder’s Day” exercises were held Monday morning at ten o’clock in the Thornwell orphanage chapel in honor of the ninety-ninth birthday anniversary of Dr. William Plumer Jacobs who opened the institution for the admission of eight children on October 1, 1875, and served it as president for 42 years imtil his death. Hugh Shockley Jacobs of this city, a great-grandson of the founder and member of the senior class at Pres byterian college, was the speaker for the occasion, and spoke feelingly of the high qualities of Dr. Jacobs, the man who founded the orphanage, Presbyterian college and did much to build the First Presbyterian church of this city to its present excellence. The exercises were attended by the entire orphanage family, the day be ing a full holiday oi^ the campus. Dr. L. R. Lynn, president of the institu tion, and Rev. C. E. Piephoff, assist ant to the president, were seated on the rostrum and took part in the pro- gi^. Mr. Piei^off spoke of his own entrance in the ori^anage at the age of 14, and introduced Mr. Jacobs. In his address the great-grandson of the founder traced the early life of Dr. Jacobs, hu coming to Clinton as a young minister, and told of how he- had thetousufe,m witite ei- opposition, to go forward without mtmey to establish the home on faith. “He heard a knock on the door early one wintry morning, and found outside the door a small boy, about ten, clothed in rags, who asked to be given a home. Another boy, the same age, came over to Im side when he was making a visit to the home of this child’s motoer, and in his hand held something'very tightly. 'The lit- Mrs. D. J. Woods, wife of Dr. Da vid J. Woods of this city, met a tragic death early yesterday morning when her home on North Adair street was practically destroyed by fire of un determined origin. Mrs. Woods, who was sleeping on the, second floor, was a victim of smoke suffocation and was dead when rescued from the building. The alarm was sounded about 4 am. when the fire was discovered by a passing truck driver, who im- QUICK PASSAGE OF SEVEN-BILLION AID FUND IS FORECAST Early Approval Seen As Call for Quick Action. Cal for Quick Action. Wa.«:hington. March 18.—With les.<? removed the body down a ladder.i Practically the entire group is ex-, Apparently blocked in the room, i pected to be present. ■ Mrs. Woods had already been over-j Following the morning session, the' come by smoke and was dead when; l^mcheori program speaker will be of the membership rescued, though she suffered no Napoleon HiU of this city, who wiU ^ ^ foregone con- bums or injuries. Dr. Woods escaped speak on “Americanism. ^^e hou.se today heard the with onOr a slight foot bum received! other speakers of the day will be,ranking Republican and Democratic in attempting to get back into thejgu^igj. 3 Hare and Joseph R. Bry-,members of it sappropriations com- hoi^ when he found Mrs. Woods ^ son, representatives of the third and mittee urge prompt approval of the had been trapped. Funeral This Afternoon Fimeral services will be held this afternoon (Thursday) at 3 o’clock mediately gave the alarm at a near-1 from the First Presbyterian church,! by residence. The fire whistle which Dr. Woods served as pastor! brought the department, the house for 20 years until his resignation the j being in a heavy blaze when they first of this year. The services will' arrived and began battling the be in charge of the pastor. Rev. J. K. | flames. All furniture and household I Roberts, assisted by Dr. L. R. Lynn belongings were destroyed. When the fire was discovered Dr. Woods attempted to turn on the lights but found that the fire had put them out of commission. He then tried to phone and found it also out The deacons of the church will serve; as active pallbearers, with the elders forming the honorary escort. Inter ment will follow in the church ceme tery. Mrs. Woods, before her recent of order due to the spreading marriage Miss Julia Amelia Fergu- He then ran into the yard in his night clothes to give an alarm and cry for help, thinking that Mrs. son, was one of Clinton’s most be loved women. She belonged to one of the community’s pioneer families. tie boy gave to Dr. Jacobs what he been sirculate<LJn_an. eflprt to show! had—it was 50 cents, and his request that the SoudR Carolina law was un usual, Hawkink said he thought “it is a colossal mistake to misrepresent our state in any such fashiem.” He contended the law was “fair” because a trial pudge had the authority, he said, to reduce punitive damage ver dicts or even order a new trial if he thouj^t them excessive. “I think it would,be very tmwise was that it be used to start the or phanage which the older folks were now talking of. ’*For nearly a month, this 50 cents was the only contribution and an swer to his prayer until his own lit tle daughter, gave to him her small hoard, which made the first dollar. Given by children, this dollar, like the five loaves and the few fish, was Woods had followed him dovm thcjj^gj. jjargntg being W. LoAvndes Fer steps. Turning ^d not seemg^her he, gujon and Nannie Clary Ferguson, ran back into the hoi^ and attempt- jjgj. father for many years seized ed to ascend the stairway to rescue | county as auditor, her but was knocked back by the fourth districts, and postal inspector nation’s biggest peacetime appropri- Garland McGregor^of Greenville. 'ation bill — $7,000,000,000 for help to j England, Greece and other nations which resist the Axis powers. “This act will be a transfusion of new life to the beleaguered democra cies of the world,’’ said Representa tive Woodrum, Democrat of Virginia. •‘The world will see America with its I unconquerable spirit, its vast and I limitless resources turn on its great j industrial power in a 100 per cent capacity effort to supply effective material aid to the defenders of free dom in the world. With this all-out American effort there can and there . will be only one result and that is buildingsatacMtof al^ut$6^00 M0!the ultimate downfall of the dicta- will be completed by March 31, Ma- .. jor M, T. Whitmore, construction ... _ . _ quartermaster, stated today. J ..A. A „ A.- ! Of New York, who voted against the Major Whitmore said that all the n^ase-lend bill, said: buildings necessary for the main tenance of troops were in order for Camp Stewart Almost Completed 525 Buildings Rise in Area At Cost of About $6,500,000. Camp Stewart, Ga., March 17.- Construction of Camp Stewart’s 525 “Regardless of what anyone’s atti- . ♦Ko r-eacTevaeanto a.rKie.k a.rill Kea ! tudC might haVC bCCn 33 tO Cmbark- keaotrv em/airda Tjiiw cntirc comitmnity was shocked .*** regim^ts which will be in upon a orogram of aid to Great heavy flow of smoke. Billy Pitts -ri^vpd hv thP tracir dpath' oflxa^rison here. The last of these regi-1 „ ® program or aia lo i^reai made his way into the room ! Jirg. tactically a uf^png' Feb-1 brought Mrs. Woods to the sleeping porch, eaa^ied by BiUy Ring end Platt Prather. Firemen and others W. T. Crews, Of Laurens, P«ses Well-Known Former Newspaper Publisher Dies In Greenville. vices for William Thomas Crews, 84, retired newspaper publisher, who died early Monday morning at the home of a son, S. W. Crews of Green ville, after a serious Illness of four days, were held at the Kennedy mor tuary Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock. The Rev. A. C. Holler, pastor of the First Methodist church of which endeared herself to an unusually I large circle of friends. Sweet and j gentle and kind, she was ever i thoughtful of others and her influ- lence for good was widespread. She was a devoted Christian, a consistent {and valuable member of the First Presbjrterian church with which she united as a small girl. She contrib uted simply but genuinely to life wherever she touched it. Mrs. Woods was a member of the U. D. C. and Eastern Star chapters, and gave liberally of her time in promoting their work. Besides her husband, the deceased is survived by one sister, Mrs.. Emma Archer'Of Atlanta. FARMERS' AAA CHECKS ARRIVE completed ruary 10 when the 207th Coa.st Ar question but what we have embarked ■tiUery, the 209th Coast Artillery of ] J*'® program and that we must Buffalo, and the 212th Coast Artil lery of New York, moved into the cantonment. Workers are completing ordnance warehouses, storage buildings, and an ordnance repair shop, which is the only structural steel building here. Construction of this encampment was started on October 1 and has continued according to schedule without any labor difficulties. Major Whitmore said. In addition to the 525 buildings here, 4,000 tent frames were con structed by the civilian workers, us ing for both about 17 million board feet of lumber. Two guest houses, for use by friends and families of the enlisted personnel were opened last night. Post authorities are hopeful that parents will take advantage of these facilities. Overnight guests will be accommodated for 50 cents each. for South Carolina to become the'to multiply into thousands and was only state” to limit the amount of punitive damages,” Hawkins said. . ‘‘The only, way to try a case is to eJ- low a man to go into court and. let the^jury give him what they think he ought to have.” The law, he argued, should per^t anyone “to vindicate himself against a fraudulent act.” He held that ptmi- tive damages were justified in many instances in order to penalize “wilful violation” of the “civil rights” of others. Thomas, chairman of the judiciary committee, declared that punitive damage suits had “grown into a to furnish a home and protection for hundreds of other little children.” From here, the jsemainder of DTa Jacobs’ Ufe was traced—interesting ly and accurately — until his death September 10, 1917. 22,000 Income Tax Returns Received Columbia, March 17. — State tax commission officials estimated today they had received approximately 22,000 individual income tax returns, , ^ . .. J Au *. or about 4,000 ahead of the same racket in some counties and that’s to 0^“^’ Total receipts were indefinite, al- ^Ueved pas^e of tto bill, which were certain to be above Checks of the 1940 agricultural soil Mr. Crews was a member, assistediconservation payments to Laurens! Th' Clinton National Guard unit, officjated and lntenn,nt follow«i C- B- Cmn^ ,.g„ Artiltery, the Lautens cemetery. *^^1 Anti-alrcratt, la in training at Camp Mr. Crews was the son of the late I amounting to $73,143.00 has Colonel Thomas B. Crews and Eu - i distriputed. Additional checks arei ^ genia Hance Crews of Lauiipns coun- j expected on any mail, Mr. Cannon ty. His father, a Confederate war states and notices will be forwarded veteran, was editor and publisher of jto farmers immediately, the Laurens Herald for over 50 years. had a majority favorable report from his committee, would “show to out side capital that we want them to come into our state.” The debate on the bill, of which Representatives Craig and Gantt of Aiken were the authors, was inter rupted by adjournment. The only other house action .was to give sec ond reading to a bill which would authorize a $150,000 bond Issue by Clemson college for a new athletic stadium and a $70,000 issue by the University of South Carolina for a new infirmary. Rites Saturday For W. A. McDowell Friends here of Miss Evelyn Mc Dowell will sympathize with her in toe death of her father, Walter Alex ander McDowell, who died at a Spartanburg hotqiital Friday morning follow^ a brief Illness. Mr. Mc Dowell was .a prominent business man and highly regarded citizen of Paoolet where he had made his home for many years. The funeral services wei« held Saturday afternoon from toe Pacolet Presbyterian churtto of which he was an officer. The deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ama Barnett McDowell; two doubters, Mrs. John C. William of Odumbia, and Mist Evelyn Me- DjvwpU, member of toe Thornwell orphtnage school faculty* I the 1940 collections, as a last minute flood of returns deluged the office. Officials said payments ranged as low as two cents in a few instances. NEWS QUIZ 1. Gutzon Borglum died re cently. If you’re up on the news you know his most fa mous work was: (a) designing toe Atlantic clipper planes; (b) sculptoring a memotdal in the Black Hills of South Dakoto; (c) writing toe song hit, “Jean- nie With toe Li^t Brown Hair”; (d) aiding In discovery of radium. j 2. Since the rise'of Hitler, Sofia, Bulgaria, was No. 11 on the list of national capitals to be occupied by the Nazis. Can you name seven of the other ten nations whose capitals have tou^ been occupied? 3. When toe lease-lend bill passed toejMnate it w«it next: (a) to toe president for signa-** ture; (b) to the supreme court for approval; (c) to the house for agreement on amendments; (d) to J. P. Morgan for final autoting. (Answers will be found cm page four) The younger Crews grew up in theipysk^ir klA WCn business and became reporter editorial writer for his father’s news paper. He edited and published weekly newspaper at many towns in toe state including Clinton, Greenwood smd Woodi^. He held the office of magistrate here and at toe time of his death was chairman of the Lau rens county registratiem board. His wife, toe former Miss Elizabeth Wolf of Laurens, died about eight years ago. He is survived by five sons, Hanse Crews of Laurens, Stanley Crews of Greenville, Dr. Tlieodore Crews of Atlanta, John W. Crews of Columbia, BASKETBALL CAPTAIN At a meeting on Tuesday evening Lloyd Evans, of High Point, N. C., rising senior, was elected captain of the- basketball team of Presbyterian college for next season. Frank Heidt, of Charleston, rising junior, was se lected as alternate captain. MEN'S SUPPER POSTPONED APRIL CALL FOR 13 NEGROES furnish enough aid to Great Britain to permit Great Britain to win. Oth erwise, we are in trouble.’’ The bill went to the house at noon from its appropriations committee, which after approving it, submitted a report saying that the United States must give full support in its British aid program or “become a faltering welcher” on its pledges. Parts of the testimony given to the committee in secret session by rank ing ^ulministration and army and navy officials were made public. Mueh was wttohek), however. Secretary Hull told the committee that the country should “go full out” in its assistance to Britain to keep ‘■‘would-be-conquerors’’ from dealing with the United States as they have . dealt with other nations. General Geofge C. Marshall, chief of staff of the army, testified that “the result will be to our advantage,” adding that the appropiiation would have a “very disturbing effect” on Britain’s enemies and show the na tions of this hemisphere “t^at we mean business.” Secretary Stimson asserted that the $7,000,000,000 would fill the nuKds of England so far as they are now known. ^. William S. Knudsen of the office The supper-meeting of the Men- of-the-Church of the Firsf Presby- and Tom B. Crews of Spartanburg;. terian church, scheduled for tonight, e’^K^“''*Prul‘^ward'''wanar'r^nd five daughter. Mrs^Claudia C. Todd has been postponed until next week, it was announced yesterday by Rev. J. K. Roberts, pastor of the church. Local board quotas and schedules production management revealed of arrival for the state’s sixth selec-1 that the nation has a total of 78 tive call for 300 Negro selectees to' plants available or in preparation for report for induction at Fort .Tarksnn I the production of military and naval on April 1, 2 and 3, have been an-j materials. A total of 1,574,000,000 is nounced. being spent by the government on Clinton Board No. 5Q has been giv- i 302 of these plants, he said, * eh a quota of l3 for this call to be announced later. The local board has announced the following Negro selectees' to be in ducted into service at Fort Jackson on March 28 at 10 a.m.: Johnnie Marshall Fair, Jimmie Miller, John Henry Pitts, Law W. Foster and Robert Lee Gary. Replacement men named are: Hen ry 'Thomas Leake, Stewart Dorsey bf Laurens, Mrs. Thomas White of Greenville, Mrs. J. C. Godsey of Lau rens, Miss Allene Crews of Laurens, and Mias Catherine Crews of Atluita; one brother, J. T. Crews, Sr., of Lau rens; one sister, Mrs. J(ton F. Bolt, of (Columbia; ^veral grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Godfrey Given Federal Status Lieutenant-Colcmel Ansel B. God frey of this city^ has been announced by toe war depcirtment. The officers included have been determined qualified after success fully passing fitness tests condiKted by boards of toe regular army and the National Guard. They will now hold dual status as commissioned of ficers in toe military forces of South Carolina and as officers of the Na- jtional Guard of the United States. Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey is 'with toe 178to Field Artillery, sta tioned at Fort Bragg, N. C. Goldville Chapter To Hold Meet Here , ♦ The Goldville chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will hold its monthly meeting here Friday evening at 7:30 in the Masonic Tonple buildihg. of ficers have announced. Members of both toe Goldville and Clinton chap ters are invited to attend toe special meeting. Five Negro selectees were sent by the board to Fort Jackson yesterday Gosque Is Lions Secretary in toq call of March 19. Roy Gasque has been named sec-1 SCHOOLS TAKE HOLIDATS retary of the Lions club, succeeding | The city schools will close today Tom Plaxico, who recently left the and Friday in order to give the city for a year’s duty with the army, i teaching staffs an opportunity to at- Mr. Gasque assumed his new du- |tend the annual convention of. the ties at Friday’s meeting of the club state Teachers’ association to be held at Hotel Clinton. , in Columbia. Regular class work will Extensi<m of federal recognition to AttCnOS \JO\Ty 13 South Carolina officers, includingand Mrs. G C. Brannon have Attends Dairy School be resumed Monday morning. returned from a twelve-day trip toj Nashville, Tenh., where Mr. Bran-, non attended the Graham Breeding' ^school for dairymen. On the return | trip through Atlanta several out-1 standing dairy herds of the country were visited. Mr. Braimon has charge' of the Thornwell orphanage dairy | farm. I Coach McMilliarv Fetes Basketball Squad On Tuesday evening Coach Lonnie. S. McMillian eiltertained the varsity basketball boys of Presbyterian col lege with a spaghetti supper at his home. i A delightful supper was served! sixteen guests, after which informal | conversation was enjoyed and pic-j tures of foimer ba^toetball squads; viewed in past Issues of toe PaC-j SaC. Rev. and Mrs. M. K. Medlock of JoMsviUe, were hare last Tuesday for the funeral of James Pitta. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE so FAR THIS TEAR THERE HAS BEEN 1 FATALITY i ^ ■ from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LATJRENS COUNTY Let's Strive To Make 1941 R Safe Year On the Highways. This iMfm laal year. 1 SHIPS NOW SUNK FASTER THAN IN WORLD WAR DAYS London, March 17. — The world’s authority on shipping, Lloyd’s of London, declared today that British, allied and neutral maritime losses in the first 18 months of the war were one-seventh greater tban^ those of the first 30 months of the World war. Confirming with figures previous reports that Germany’s destruction of shipping was running ahead of the World war pace, Lloyd’s and the Shipping Gazette said British, allied and merchant tonnage sent to the bottom was 4,962,257, over 500,000 tons greater than in the first two and a half years of the World war. On the other side, German, Italian and Axis-6ontrolled shipping losses were placed at 2,028,140 tons. ' The losses represented to the Brit- I ish, her allies and neutrals 1,245 j ships; to the Axis. 422 ships. To Speak Sunday At I Presbyterian Church ! Dr. L. O. McCutehen, moderator of the Synod of South Carolina and a former missionary to China, wHl preach at the First Presbyterian church Sunday morning at 11:15. 'The public is invited to hear Dr. Mc- Cutchen. Barbecue Supper For Men's Bible Class The Men’s Wesley Bible class of Broad Street Methodist church will hold their regular meeting on Wed nesday evening, March 26. A barbe cue sapper will be served by mem ber of circle No. 3, under toe leader ship of Mrs. W. H. Simpson. The pro ceeds will go to a fimd to be uaad for painting toe church. \. >* L