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Volume XLI
Clinton, S. C., Thursdoy, March 20, 1941
Number 12
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HOUSE TOSSES
DRY ISSUE TO
SENATE FOR ACTION
Prohibition and Punitive
Damages Bill Debated
In Lower Body.
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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
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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.
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