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./ k ns CHRONIOE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspoper/ Complete, ioWe |;ft. Newsy end Relio / ulhf (Slitttntt Qlbromrlf If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLI Clinton, S. C., Thursday, April 10,1941 Number 15 \\ ■^4 f Vissas MAY BE USED TO HAKDIE: GOODS FOR BMIAM President Renews As> suronce To Yugoslavs Thot U. S. Help Will Be Rushed. BISHOP aECTQ) aUB PRESIDENT FOR SECOND TERM The April meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held Tuesday eve ning at Hotel Clinton at which time officers for the new year, were elect ed and will assume their duties at the May meeting. ^ Upon the recommendation of a , WMhtogton. April Roosevelt today pledged unremitting j iresldent L. E. Bis^p wat aid to Yugoslavia and at the i Yf®* *®"*^*^Z®** ® same time prepared to take over 891 Danish ships in a move to alleviate Shepard, vi^-pr^idmt, I. Great Britain’s shipping crisis. He revealed at a press c<mference that he will ask congress for specific authority to purchase the Danish ves sels which already are in “protective custody” of this govemmrat He also said he has authority under the ex Adair, secretary; Mrs. Clifton Adair, assistant secretary; C. F. Winn, treas urer. Additional directors; D. B. Smith, T. Heath Copeland, J.~ Roy Gasque, R. P. Chapman, Dr. D. O. Rhame, Jr. The committee making the recom mendations which were adopted con is^ limit^ national emergewy to r l. Plaxlco, chairman, ^ over the 28 lUlian and two ^ c. GUes, W. H. Simpson, Dr. D. O. German shipe i^iich were seized 10 days ago along with the Danish mer chantmen. His promlise of help to Yugoslavia was contained in a personal message to Peter II in whic^ he voiced his* earnest hope ttiat the Yugoslav army will smash the “criminal as sault” of Germany and Italy. He told the boy monarch that tiiis country “was profoundly shocked by the ui^jrovoked and ruthless aggres sion” of the Axis powers and said: ' “As I have assured your majestjr’s government, the UnitM States will fximish all material assistance pos sible in accordance with its existing statutes.” Mr. Roosevelt did not delineate his plans relative to the cargo ships but he left no doubt that tttey inter locked with Ms efforts to deliver war supplies to Britain and her allies. There have been widespread re ports that the vessels will be char tered to United States operators, thereby releasing an equal amount of United States n^erdiant tonnage fw tise by Britain. Negotiations have beim going on tor moa^ tor damr- ter oh the immobilized Vanidi ships but they have failed because private tmder writers would not insure them. The PI sekisnt emtmssifnd that di- quisitkm of the Danish riiips and tiie German and Italian vessels. One method of taking over the Axis ships, he~said. would be to ex ercise the right of eminent domain. This, however, pr(^Md>ly would re quire declaratkm of a full national emergency. Another method would involve forfeiture. Mr. Roosevelt apparently referred Rhame, Jr., and R. E. Ferguson. Dr Bishop, who has given liberally of his time during the year to the work of the club, was asked to Serve again, and was thanked for his Itad- enship. A mimeographed annual report covering the varied activities of the organization for the past year, was put in the hands of all members present. EASTER SUNRISE SERVICES SUNDAY AT JOHNSON FIELD The annual Easter sunrise service, sponsored by the Young People’s Al liance of the Clinton churches, will be held Sunday morning at six o’clock on Johnson field at Presby terian college. Rev. C. E. Piephoff of the Thom- well orphanage staff, will make the address. Rev. W. N. Long, pastor of the First Baptist churdi. Rev. C. B. Betts of the A. R. P. church, and Rev. J. K. Roberts of the First Pres byterian church, will assist in the service. Special Eastw music will be offered by the orjmanage dwir. Invitations have bem issued to the liaaple ef-43el#iilj^r~&9^iwiMHMMl Clinton Mills, as well as In tike city gnaerally. i The first sunrise Easter 'service w{^ held in 1938 under the direction of'Powell Fraser. Each year there Has been increased interest and at tendance in these special services. The program will be under the direction of Raymond Johnson, re- cmtly elected president of the AUi- to the old World war espicmage act, I ance, and Miss Made Davis, adult How lovely is East«r, The Queen of the Spring, What gladness and joy Its coming can bring; It holds a rich promise As bright as the flowers That break into beauty And bloom through its hours. 0 glad is the world On this brightest of days, When nature joins mankind In glad songs of praise; For no heart can be heavy. No heart can stay cold. As its sunshine envdopes , Each pathway with gold. How lovely is Eastn*, What dreams it can bring, It holds all the joy ' Of the newly-waked spring. As through its glad music We hear angels say: “The Lord has arisen— Death is conquered today. Piedmont Area Meet Here Today Social Work G>nfereiice To Be Held At College, ond Train- Car Crash Fatal To Young Girl now ip effect, udxidi provides for the forfeiture of foreign vessels sab- otagedin United States ports in such a way that United States shipping is endangered. All but three of the Axis riiips 'were sabotaged before they were seized. None of the Danish ships were harmed. He said the procedure ' whereby this country will take over the Dan- f ish vessels bat the approval of Hen- I rik de Kauffman, Danish minister, wito whma he conferred- eurlier in the day. Dlacussing Yugoslavian aid, the president said that shipments are be ing rushed as fast as pEMible but that he was noti in a position to say whether they would readi their des tination in time to be of help. It was revealed earlier that some materials already are en route probably in cluding 75 mm. guns similar to those recently released to Greece. There were other developments during the day which indicated the jRdministraiion’s growing concern over the international situation and 4ts determinaticm to step up war-aid to Britain and her allies, ^ey in cluded: Secretary of the NaVy Frank Knox ordered Undersecretary James V. Forrestal to London, where he will establlA liais<m between the United States navy and the British admir alty in carrying out naval purchaae and r^Mdr pn^lems updcr the lend- lease act. Mr. Roosevelt cmkferred with Gen.i Wladyslaw Sikorskl, prime minister of the refugee Polish goveminent in London. Sikorsky did not deny that . the “sevoral thi^” diaeusaed might have included direct aid to his gov ernment. Mrs. Dkk Returns To Roleiali Homo Mrs. J. M. Dick retuiued Saturday to her home in Raleigh, N. C., afto tptfwuwg sometime hare on account of the iUnass and death of her par- ants, Dr. and Mrs. JbA H. Yoiasg. The Yourkg resident on South Broad street has been closed but it is under stood Mrs. Dick and' children will return here to spend the summer. Mr. Dick is pastor of the Church of the Owkd Shepherd (Episcopal), Ra leigh. adviser. SPEAKS IN LAURENS The Rev. J. K. Roberts, pestor of the First Presbyterian church, ad- rtrssiiii the Laurciki^iUwatkis Hub on Tuesday evening. YOUNG INTERESTS UNDER SAME HEADS The business interests here and in Laurens of the late Dr. Jack H. Young, will continue to be operated under the same set-up and manage ment as formerly, members of the family state. —Young’s Pharmacy, the city’s old est drug st(M*e, will continue under the management of John W. Finney. Mr. Finney has also taken over the management of Dr. Young’s fanning interests for the year. Hie Young-Copeland Poster Ad vertising Sc^ice will be operated by William Brooks Owoks as man ager. Tbe two theatres here are urrder the management of Lriarrd Young, who recently sticceeded the late O. I. Sheely. ’The two Laurens theatres continue under the management of Gus Mason. Tax Payment Time Limit Extended Extension by legislative act of the time limit for paying 1940 county taxes under a 7 per cent penalty was ordered ratified last Friday by the house of representatives. Until May 1 the 3 per cent penalty, applicable during the past Ammtik, will be charged. After May 1 unpaid taxes will be pUiccd in execution. Boptist Stiidents At P. C. Orgonixa Thirty Baptist students attending PreatartiHlan coUtga, have organized a Baptist Sltident unkm with Billy Fanner, president. Branch Fleming Dit WUbum and Martin Abbott, vice-presidents. The students were assisted in or ganization by the Rev. W. N. Long, pastor of ths First Baptist church of this city. SpMial Services At Bailey Memorial Church Rev. W. R. Quinn, pastor of Center and ’Tabemacto Methodist l^iseopal, Soutik, churches^ near Mullins, will preach at Bailey Memorial Metho- tUst l^iKopal dkurch. South, next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. I The public is cordially invited to attend the servloe. The sixth annual Piedmont Re gional conferaice of Social Work wUl be held here today beginning at 10 a. m. in the college auditorium, with a large attendance expected from the 14 counties included in the district The sessions will be presided over by the director, J. Hertz Brown of Spartanburg. At 12:80 the group will be served a luncheon In the orphan age dining hall with J. Leroy Bums of Laurens, as toastmaster. In the afternoon four round-table discussions will be held at the State Training schooL Speakers at the morning session wUl be Dr, W. P. Jacobs of this city, and Calhoun Mays of Greenwood. At the afternoon meeting Miss Myra Reaga^of Jhe State Board of Hesdth will lead a discussion bn “Nu trition and What Social Workers Should Know About It.” Miss Mary Phelps Wheeler of the School of Social Work, University of South Carolina, will lead a discus sion on “Lay Pedple’s Responsibil ity in Developing a Better Commu nity.” Minn Ethel Shiupe of the South Carolina State hospital will discuss “Mental Hygiene Probl«ns in Rela tion to Social Work\ln South Caro lina.” Miss Norma I^^Uett of the State Training sdkool,\j^ present “Education and Care oi Depewdent Children in Residential Schools, Boarding Homes imd with Parents; Special Reference to Education in the State of South Carolina.” .Participating on this rouikd table also will be L. P. Hollis of the Park er School district of Greenville, and C. K. Wright, superintendent of the Laurens city sdiools. The conference has a membership of socially-minded lay citizens and profeational workers and all inter ested peroms are cordially invited to attend toe sessioi^ A number of Clinton and Laurens citizoss will at tend toe confOnence and take part in the program. Replacement Call For Army Men An extra, or replacwnent call for 487 white selecteea to be inducted into the army at Fwt Jackson on April 28 and 29 has been an nounce from stato headquarters in Columbia. The call will make up shortages of white selecteea trom the first four calls. The Laurens and Clinton boards are not listed in the quota to furnish any moi. KIWAN18 BIEBT ’TODAY The regular Kiwanis club meeting will be held this evening at Hotel Clbkton. A iMTogram of entertainment by a group from the Joanna school, GoldviUe, will be presented. Miss Genet Motte Killed When Auto Leaves Highwoy« Strikes Pole. Miss Genet Motte, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Motte of the LeesvlUe section four miles north of Clinton, was killed shortly after mid night Saturday night when the au tomobile in which she was riding left the highway and crashed into a util ity pole on the Clinton-Laurens road thrro miles out from Laurens. She was rushed to the Laurent hospital where she died a few hours later. Five others were in the car at the time of the accident, all being re moved to the Laurens hospital. The* injured were: Robert Rhodes of the Spartanburg road, listed by State Pa trolman D. E. Reilley as the driver of the car, who suffered slight in juries and was not hospitalized; Mrs. Doris Campbell Tucker of Clinton, minor injuries; George Kellett of Gray Court section, fractured leg; Miss Hester Fully, Enoree, fractured legs; and Dock Price of the Spartan burg road, cuts and bruises. Attaches of the hospital described Miss Puny’s condition as ‘fair” and said that the other occupants of the car were “sat isfactory.” Funeral services for Miss Motte were conducted from Bailey Memo rial church here Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock by the Rev. C. R. An derson and the Rev. R. D. Hughes. Interment followed in Calvary cem etery. Flower girls were from the local NYA home, where the deceased was employed. Besides her parents, the deceased is survived by three sisters. Misses Charlsey, Marion and Jewel Motte. The Rev. James Mitchell (above), has assumed the pastorate of the GoldviUe Baptist church, succeeding the late ReV. C. C. Vaughan. He comes to his new charge from New berry where he has been pastor of the Eastside Baptist church for the past four years. Mr. MitcheU is a graduate of New berry coUegc. PLAXiCO NAMED SCHOOL TRUSTEE TO FILL VACANCY It was learned yesterday from the office of the county superintendent of education in Laurens, that R. L. PlaxicO, CUnton postmaster, has been appointed by the board as a member of the board of trustees of iiunter school district No. 5, to fill a va cancy caused by the recent death of James Pitts. Mr. Plaxico has already qualified for toe office, the record toows. Mr. Plaxico, a native of Blacks burg, came to Clinton in 1928 to be come associated with the firm of D. E. Tribble Co., holding the position of secretary-treasurer. Following the election of Joseito R. Bryson of Greenville In the summer of 1938 as representative from the fourth dis trict, ha reemnmended Mr. Plaxico tor pimiaortif here, and hr'mMreff upon the position in July 1939. He is well known in the city, being active ly identified with the business and civic life of the community. < Inquiry at the office of the county superidtendent also revealed that W. A. Johnson, a member of the local board and now absent from the city for a year’s army service, has not resigned as a trustee. mosmm. HRAUIESFACE DESPEMTE BATUE Nazis Yry To Encircle Greeks Who Fight Bock Despite Broken Lines and Overwhelming Numbers. Athens, April 9.—Greek forces to day abandoned the Salonika region and control of the upper Aegean to the GermjJn blitzkrieg under a tide of German assaults from three sides, unleashed by collapse of the Yugo slavian army in the Vardar valley, it was stated officially. Overwhelming Nazi “panzer” fore-' es swept down the Vardar valley to within about 23 miles of Salonika itself after the Yugoslav collapse on the Greek left flank, and the Greek high command admitted that its forc es east of Salonika had been trapiped. While scattered Greek forces still held out around Rupel pass near the Struma valley frontier of Greece and Bulgaria, Greek shock-troope battled savagely to stem the furioiis German assault around Kilkis, 23 miles north of Salonika, and cover the withdrawal of the main Greek army, it was stated. The Greek high command blamed the Serbian army’s collapse along the Vardar in southern Yugoslavia for the Salonika break-through of the Germans, but few details of thesis- aster were revealed. However, at least one entire Ser bian division was known to have been encircled, so swift did the Ger- n.an armored forces sweep westward from the Btilgarian border in a 50- mile drive. The German drive on Salonika was a three-pronged affair — down the Vardar, from Lake Doran at the Yugoslav frontier directly north and from Rupel pass to the northeast, it was stated by the Greek high com mand. Greek resistance was engulfed by the overwhelming numbers and wea pons of the Germans, it waa said. Early today the Greek army ot Mjuredonia waa aakl to be xmpidly coilecting its war materials and sup- r'Ues and falling back to form a new defensive line west of Salonika and the Vardar. The withdrawal was or dered to escape entrapment in the narrow “finger” of Greece stretch ing 200 or more miles eastwartl from Salonika to the Turkish frontier. Calling the Salonika situation “dangerous,” the Greek high com mand said a German mechanized di vision (about 11,00 troops, 350 tanks DID YOU KNOW? A. N. Bramlett Dies At Laurens Laurens, April 5.—Funeral services! were held here Saturday for Alex N. Bramlett, 72, retired Laurens busi ness man, who died unexpectedly Friday nijtot acHnetime after return ing from church. Last rites were conducted by his pastor. Rev. John J. Hayes of the First Presbyterian church to which Mr. Braml^ had bem an elder many years. Burial was to Chestnut Ridge Baptist riiurch, copetery be side the grave ot his wife, Mrs. Dora Franks Bramlett. > Mr. Bramlett is survived by a son, Doran Bramlett, of Hartsville; two sisters, Mrs. D. W. Copeland of Clin ton^ and Miss Bettle Bramlett of Laurens. THAT—The following are the old est citizens of this community: Mrs. Mary E. Nash. ^ W. M. Sumerel. Harrison Copeland. “Uncle Tommy” Owens. W. M. McMillan. W. E. Owens. O. A. Sowers. George M. Nabors. J. H. Pitts, Sr. Mrs. A. P. Young. Mr. and Mrs. John Griffith. Mrs. Nannie Finney. Mrs. W. H. Workman. P. B. Bailey. Mrs. J. C. McMillan. A B. Blakely. B. B. Blakely. George W. Bailey. L. W. C. Blalock, GoldviUe. A. M. Ramage. These highly esteemed and be loved men and women, "First Citi zens” of the community, have a wide host of friends who appreciate them for their true worth and unite in wishing for them many more happy returns. Other members of the board are ney and C. E. GaUoway. | frontier through Yugoslavia Monday evening and occupied Do rian. At dawn Tuesday the Germanx. struck, sweeping down mountain cor ridors near the Vardar and over whelming “velry small Greek mech anized formations which fought an unequal battle against an enemy su perior both in quantity and quality.” “This effort to slow down the ene my advance lasted '^Veral hours," It was stated. Indicating that it places full re sponsibility on the break-through in Yugoslavia, the Greek high conunand pointed out that small Greek forces in the Struma valley to the east had "foiled all attempts of the attacking forces” and even re-captured one fort and several other positions from the Germans. WAR BULLETIN BOARD Germans press down Vardar valley “dangerously in the dir’^tion of Sal onika,” Greeks acknowledge, threat en to encircle Greeks! holding Nazi onslaughts in Struma river passes to the east; Greeks, claim recapture of Fort Davtavil, say they continue to hold other bastions in fierce fighting P. C. 8PK1NO HOLIDAYS on the Nevrokop plateau in eastern Spring holidays at Presbyterian i Macedonia; Yugoslav withdrawal m pollege began yesterday and will close next Tuesday, April 15. ~ ADDITIONAL CHECKS COME TO FARMERS County Agent C. ‘B. Cannon said yesterday that 495 AAA checks amounting to ^5,942.89 were receiv ed at his office during the past week for distfibution to Laurens county farmers. The amount received to date represents 4,103 checks totaling $225,911, Cannon stated. I DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE 80 FAX TH18 TEAR THIRB HAVE BEEN 5 FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS la LAURENS COUNTY Let's Strive To Make 1941 a Safe Year On the Highways. This dato last year. 4 the southeast lays Greek flank open above Salonika; Nazis seek to make a junction with the Italians to Al bania and cut Yugoslavia apart. Axis African forces strike on be yond Derna in Libya; Italians claun Tobruk is threatened; British seen as abandoning African campaign to concentrate forces in the Balkans. British and Germans trade heavy air raids on the western front Coventry has brief but intense raid during night of widespread air raids on Britain. m Mexico by presidential decree ex propriates 12 Axis ships seized Mexican harbors. Supper At Renno Friday Night I A barbecue hash, pig-foot and 'chicken stew supper will be served at the Renno schoolhouse Friday night beginning at 7 o’clock by the ladies of the c<3knmunity. The public is cordially invited.