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i / ^7 X ‘ ■■'''-- 7 Wr CMiOlIKU Strives To Be A Cleon Kewspop^tr Complete, New^ ond Relioble If You Don't Read IHECHROMCU You Don't Get the News ■BBB ■a Clinton, S. G., Thursddy, June 26,1941 Number 26 f.itaiiBta. anzM, PUSES Services For Well-Known Clintonian Held From Church He Loved and Served. ' Lon9 Held Acdthiilal Body Recovered When Negro Woman Sees It Rooting Neor Bridge. GUEST MINISTERS HEARD SUNDAY The seaior young people enrolled •I the annual Presbyterian confer ence at the college which closed Tuesday, attended services in a body Sunday morning at the First Presby- NAIKNIAi: GUARD MAY BE KEPT IN SERVICE LONGER Washington, June 21. — Simultan- William McCrae Sumerel, 87, <me of the city’s oldest and most esteemed citizens, died early Sunday morning at Hays hospital where he had been a patient for the past witk. While he had been in declining health for several years past, he was a familiar figure on the streets daily and the Monouncement came as a surprise to many of his friends and aoquaint- WILUAM.BIeCEAE SUMEKEL ances who did not know of his hos pital confinement Funeral services were ctmducted Monday morning at 10:30 from the First Baptist church, with burial fol lowing in the PresbytMu cemetery. The pastor of the church Bev. W. N. Long, was in charge, assisted by Rev. Edward Long of Greenville, a former .ignstor lU9d dose friend at the Sum- The body of James Threatt, 27, Lydia Mills resident, who was drowned in Lake Greenwood near Cothran’s bridge, was recovered Sun day morning about 9 o’clock only a short distance from where the victim wit last seen alive. The body, with only the head and arms visible, was discovered by Fan' nie Shedd, a colored woman of this county, as she rode across the bridge in an automobile. It was floating on t^ stuface about 20 feet above the bridge. The body was brought to shore in a motorboat by W. L. Faulkner and I A, H. Alexander. The discovery end- ed'a week’s search during which time thousands of ^people frmn Laurens, and Greenwood counties visited the scene of the accident The lake was . dragged in vicinity of the bridge for several days and John W. Tan ner of the Charleston Navy Yard, dived Mio the water'uxidCT and be low the bridge Saturday menming and evening but failed to find the drown ed man. He did not make any dives sibove the bridge^ After the coroner’s jury viewed the body it was brought here and funeral services conducted Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock from Bail» Memorial Methodist church by Mfe Rev. M. F. Moorhead, the Rev. C. R. Anderson, and .the Rev. Rab?h D. Hughes. Interment was in Calvary cemetery* The deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ethel Griffin Threat; a sister, Mrs. Gladys .Osboine; and two brothers. Jack and Houston Threatt. Inquest Is Held A coroner’s jury at an inquest held in the Greenwood court house Mon day mcHming found that Threatt came to his death in accidental dfoiwnlng while swimming in Lake Greenwood at Cottqran’s bridge on Sunday afternoon, June 15th. Rob^ Huff, 14-year-old boy terian church and heard a sermon; eously with a war department rec- by the pastor. Rev. J. K. Roberts.Iommendation that the Natioihal Rev. Julian Lake ot Rock Hill, Rev. j Guard be kept in active service be- Leroy P. Burney of Atlanta, and Rev. \ yond the sin^e year originally plan- Jedm J. Hayes of Laurens, all m«n- j ned, the author of the Selective ser- bers of the conference faculty, also'vice act said today that congress had a part in the service. YOUNG PEOPLE CLOSE MEET HERE; OFFICERS NAMED The young people’s conference for Presbyterian boys and girls of the Synod of South Carolina came to a close at Presbyterian college Tues day at noon. The conference, like the intermediate preceding it, was at tended by a record enrollment, more than 800 young delegates being cared for on the college campus. The young people’s league during U.S.W11EXIBD AurasanEAiD TO RUSSU IN WAR Sunday evening the guest speaker! al year’s training for draftees if the the conference, elect^ the following as Dr. F. W. Gregg of Rock Hill, administration requests it. President Roosevelt Plons To Supply Needs. Funds for Soviet Released. was who spoke on “Thirty Years in South would quickly authorize an addition- Washington, June 24, — Carrying « K .RMch’orBishopvilie, president; Miss, forward the policy of favoring Rus- Representative Wadsworth, Repub-■ Waggett of St. Charles, vice-1sia against Germahy, President d Carolina Young People’s Work.” Dr..iican, New York, who introduced the. iAs’,»nhin«» I’inHcav - R. C. Lon, of C^nwood, «.d Samldr.lt bUI, .dd«i lh.t If K U Bwnic. Stroup ot Beaufort, Roach of Bishopville, had a part on the program also. At Thomwell Memorial church'now in the service, should be permit-. .{.mai of Lake City, also one of the con ference leaders, was the guest speaker. hiTlerian bluff BklEVED CAUSE rUsso-nazi war fknrilFl YIumw who Ipittiared at^l^dia Mills, who had been swim- the church grave the beau-^h^^tng in the like with Threatt and tiful floral offerings silently spoke of j who was the last to see him, testi- his value to hi* community and'^^ that he' and Threatt were under churdi, and the love and high re gard in u4lch he was held. - Active pallbearers were: Hubert Todd, Jack W: Anderson, J. Clarence Copeland, Grady Adair, C. A. Sulli van and J. Hamp Stone. The honor- ' ary escort consisted of a number of life-long friends of the deceased. » Mr. Sumerel was bom in this county on Nov. 26, 1853, the son of Thomas Sumerel and Matilda Mc- the bridge at the first'pier on the Greenwood side and Threatt said: “Let’s swim||icross the lake. If we get tired we"an hold to the piers.” Robert said he didn’t agree to do this and swam back to the rocky bank on the Greenwood side. Soon after reaching the bank he said Threatt c^led he was about to give out and asked- for help. Robert said he told a number of people on the New Yorit, June 24. — Germany’s attack .on JEUusia luobably was tte result of a bluff that failed, Leon Kay, veteran United Press European correspondent who covered the col lapse of Yugoslavia before Adolf Hitler’s war machine, said tonight when he arrived from Lisbon on the American, steamer Exeter. Many well-informed diplomats were certaiU that a Russo-German break would come; Kay said, because of Germany’s policy of forcing con cessions from Moscow by continued military threats. What happened, ap parently, was that Hitler threatened once too often, was called, and had to back up his policy by inunediate attack to preserve his prestige in the their 12 month training periods. While Wadsworth insisted that 21 to 35-age limits be written into the original law, he said today that ex perience had shown that those from 28 to 30 to 35, althou^ “good men,” haven’t prov^ “so readily train- able.” I young people from Presbyterian church The above dispatch is of local in- t«Fes4 since Clmton’s Battery “B,” 107th Coast Artillery, Anti-Aircraft National Guard unit is undergoing a year’s training at Camp Stewart, Ga., which began last February. The per sonnel of the company is from Clin ton and Goldville. YOUNG MEN ARE registering early Many young South Carolinians v^o will have reached the age of 21 between October 16, 1940, and July 1, 1941, have already taken advan tage of the privilege of registering the Southern to attend the Roosevelt promised all possible American help for the Soviets today and released “frozen” Russian assets to permit the purchase of needed materials in the United States. The president told his press con ference that Russia had not yet sub- Christian Youth Council of North j “"V li»t of items ne^ed by the America which meets in Estes Park,iR*<* forces to hold back the German Colorado, June 23-28. Cotton Program Committee Meets Cotton Stamps To Be Issued Qualified Farmers. onslaught, and until such a request came he did not have the foggiest idea of what the United States should supply. He said also that he did not know whether aid would be given under the lease-lend act or fftrough Russian purchases, and he declined to answer a direct question whether he deem ed the defense of Russia essential to the United States. But the president made it -clear that aid to Russia would be limited only by the productive capacity of American industry and the prior de fense requirements of the United countries he had conquered and mlfarly ^der the natinna hoped evsntually announced yesterday at other nations to controL “Germany never really wanted to take on Russia but she wanted to state headquarters. In other states July 1 has been set aside for registration and all of the keep Russia on tenterhooks,” Kay I young men who attained the age of said. “Germany always believed that 21 during the stipulated period must Stalin would go to any lengffis to register on that date. In South Caro- avoid a break with Hitler. When lina Governor Maybank has made Russia persisted in strengthening her|Bpecial arrangements with national Pro. Ma a,., nn ® drOWnlUg Un» ! der the bridge, but they didn’t pay >3- »««>Uon to hlm^ wm. Sid where he received his early school ing. As a young man Mr. Sum«rel * moved to Clinton on Sept. 1, 1880, to join his broUier, ’Thaddeus C.^ Sum erel, in the ntercantUe business. The two devoted brothers continued suc cessfully in business undqr the firm name of T. C. Sumerel & Bro., for he “would swim out” and they seem ed to believe he wouldn’t drown. Robert also testified that a boat which had been pushed under the bridge had been fixed and two or three mra in it motmred upstream before Threatt went down. He said Threatt had been in the water about 30 minutes before he sank and that 27 years. In 1908 he sold his interest i iiad been swimming for satp* in the firm to his brother and gave his entire time to the handling of real estate and supervising his farm ing interests until 1932 wfaSn ha was forced to retire from active work on account of declining health. Since then he had made his home the greater part of the time with a nephew, S. W. SumereL On June 27, 1894, Mr. Sumarel married Miss Rosa Tihdal of Sumter county, a sister of Mrs. JOhn B. Fer- before Threatt came to the lake. Sev eral had been diving off the bridge, he added, before the drowning, l^t Threat was not one of the divas. Robert continued that nothing was done to notify the riierlff of Green wood county until about 8 o’clock Sunday night He said he stayed at the like imtil 11 o’clock that n^t Dr. J. M. Symmes, coroner’s phy- jsiclan, testified that death was due guson of this place. To this iinion one son, Hubert, was bom, abtl died at the age of three years. His wifir to drowning and that he found no offdefenses, especially in the vital re gion of Beanuabia, then Hitler de cided the time had arrived to threat en an open break. To Germany’s sur prise, the Russians were not im pressed and Hitler was obliged to convert his threat into action. This represents the opinion of almost ev ery diplomat that I talked to in Ser bia, Hungary, Switzerland, France, Spain and Portugal. “l^at seemed to strengthen the opinion that Germany had hoped to bluff Russia were the persistent reports in the Balkins during the past month that a German attack on Russia was in preparation. The principal source of th^ reports was German. German officers and sol diers in Belgrade during the first two weeks in May seemed to be go ing out of their way to tell me that they were leaving Yugoslavia to march on Russia. “Such loose talk was contrary to the German practice of masking t their next moves and was every- vdiere interpreted as deliberate prop aganda to cover a lightning blow in some other quarter of Europe, pos sibly through Spain against Gibral tar or the long-delayed attack on Britain. 'Hardly any close observer of Hitler’s tactics was convinced that, so far as a real attack on Russia was concerned, it was anything but a bluff to keep Russia worried while, at the same time, providing a smoke screen for the de^lald projects of the German general staff. selective service headquarters in Wayriiington to conduct the registra- tfon over a two-week period for the convmience of the individual regis trants and their employers. This state is the only one in which sudi a pro gram is being carried on. copeund reunion SET FOR SUNDAY bruises o4r broken bones on the body. ■% UlV VUV JELJH WUBb ^ * e preceded him to the grave thirty- vlilZOnS M>ing|l three years ago. As a resident of Clinton Mr. Sum erel was brifTin Me highest regard by all who knew him. He always stood for truth and integrity, he was a man of ftrong convictions and kind To Pay Dividend The Citixens Federal Savings and Loan association of this city will pay their regular dividend of 4 per cent personality whose friends were many, j whoJ tine vuiOltlee me 'PI**- dlMctor. re- dated by a host of pe^le. He was 1,- ■■ devoted to his family, his frimds and to duiith. ' 1 'Mr. Sumerel was the last living eharta^mfember of the First Biqitist church of this city, which was <w- S ailed on June 17. 1881, with the V. M. E. Broidus as its first pas tor. C. C. Bailey, the other remain-, ing charter member of the church, passed away two years ago; At the age of 19 rMr. Sumerel joined t^ Langston Baptist dtoch and \ipon ' moving here to enter business he tan- - mediately affiliated qrith the local - church. this long period of 80 yeers he was an ardaot mamber and ’ substantial supporter of to diuxth.' He was Its aihior deacon and served It faithfully for years as treasurer. . He/took an active Interest in aO of . ita work and was regular in the at tendance oi its Sunday school, prayer Vmeeting and'churdi aervices as 1^ . as to strength parmittad. | - A true gentleman in every sense, im was admired by all who knewi him and leaves many frianda who • are saddened by to peaaing. • The deoaMsd is survived by a Buolierof nieees and nephews. | DRIYB CAREFULLY SATE A^UFE SO FAR nm TEAR THERE HAVE BEEN b FAT^JHSS AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS • LAURENS COUNTY * JLtt*g Strivt To Make 194ra Sate Tmt On*^ the Highways. This gale laal year. 18 The Copeland reunion will be held next Sunday, June 29, at the Hurri cane church near here. All Copeland The cotton stamp program meeting held in Spartanburg last week was . « . • well attended by Laurens county, States and Great Br^in. committeemen, according to C. B. the treasury an- Caimon, county agent. jnounc^ the release of ,Rus^an as- i. ... n n.. sets which were “frozen,” alcrhg with •nio* prewnl w.re W P. Putnam, a, , Crmany, IUI7 Mid other chairman and head of the education committee, Laurens; T. Heath Cope land, vice-chairman and head of publicity committee, Clinton; W. T. Owings, Gray Court; J. Y. Martin, Ware Shoals; L. E. Martin, Cross HiU; R A. Stoddard, Owings; R. A. Harris, Gray Court; S. G. Dillard, Goldville, and W. A. Babb, Prince ton. Both county and home demon stration agents* also attended the conference. R. E. Robb, state representative for the simpiwnentary cotton program, explained the operation of the pro gram to the Spartanburg area rep resentatives consisting of Spartan burg, Cherokee, York, Union, Lau rens, and Chester counties. Cc^ton stamps will be issued to farmers holding work sheets and European nations on June 14. The purpose of the freezing order, issued when Germany and Russia were still “friends” was to mdke sure that none of the assets would be used for the benefit of the Axis. It was estimated that today’s de cree would free from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 of Russian funds and other assets for American purchases and the president indicated there would be no difficulty over export Ucenacs for machine tools and other items which could be spared. He explained that Ruaaia ill Jih* past has been able to purchaae cer tain types of machine tools and oth er machinery, but that some larger types were held up and used for American defense purposes. i-fl J . w ^ 0*1 tile broad question of policy, qu«Ufl«i for by pr„ld.nt Mid ther, was nitSng cotton planting acreage. The stamps will be issued from the Laurens A. A. A. office in August and may be used to buy any cotton goods in invasion United States made from American cotton and manufactured in America.' to add to the statement yesterday of Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state. Welles had assailed the Ger- of Russia in scathing terms and had said “any rallying of * . . ... „ * the forces opposing Hitlerism” would Any store handling such cotton goods a defendants are TOrdlally invit^_Md,may qualify for handtog the stamps,IAmerican defense and se- Commorciol Bonk Assets To Be Sold a large crowd is expected. Dinner wilh be served on the grounde. For the occasion a book covering the Copeland family has been pub lished and will be distributed during the day. The book opois with a “His tory of the Copeland Family,” writ ten by NeUe MitcheU McWilliams of Travelers Rest, granddaughter of Sirena Copeland Vaughn of G^c^t. It is followed by the descendants listed in order of Henry Copeland, James Copeland, PoUy Copeland, Mills Copeland and Peggy Copeland. Mrs. Little Selected For Furman Giurse of of Mrs. Mabel B. Little, director the Laurens county department public welfare, was selected last week to join a class of fifty repre- Mr. Cannon said. The committee Statfh it"is anxious for The name of j each merchant to be listed in thej county agent’s office to receive fur ther instructions concerning the pro gram and requests those interested to contact the committee or notify the county* agent’s office at once. LOCAL BOY SCOUTS LEAVE FOR CAMP sentatives of colleges, imiversities A number of Boy Scouts from the Clinton and Goldville troops left ye§- terday for Old Indian Scout camp, located near Greenville, for a vaca tion outing. From Troop No. Ill of the city, the foUowiiNg boys have gone: Ed Sadler, Bobby Plaxico, Bobby Ow ens, Brooks Copeland, John Pitts, Murphy Timmerman and Tedo Free- and welfare associations from four- man. The following Scouts from Troop teen states for a six-weeks course,No. 42 at the Clinton Mills, headed According to a legal advertisement in‘today’s paper, the remaining ju~ sets of ^ The Commercial Bank in liquldatkm, will be sold at public auction on July 15, at the office ct the coofovator,. H. D. Henry. The assets consist of stockholders* t/n r*t lisbitity simI judgments* undisposed-iL* I IT lU VuLV/dC notes and bills recelvsbla, stocks,; CAD TUC PAURTM farm land and a vacant city lot. ' • VJR incrwURin The bank, since In liquidation, has paid depositors’ dividends amounting to 94 per cent now being given at Furman univer sity, Greenville. Mrs. Little was one of eight South Carolina women invited to take the course which will include class study, discussions and trips to communitjnTi^Bagwell, Roy Jackson, centers in various states. by Scoutmaster Clark Meadors, also left for the trip: Allred Adams, Earle Wood, Frank Oakley, Neal Harvey, James Simmons, Laurens Campbell, Harold Hughes, Wyman Milam, Al- The immediajte. effect of the Amec=_. lean declarations was expected to be an acceleration of Russian purchases of supplies not strictly of a military character. It was thought, too, that Russia might now also be permitted to obtain aviation gasoline to fuel the Red air forces. The policy heretofore on aviation gasoline has been to per mit its export only to British empire countries and the western hemis phere. Although Russia is a large produc er of oil, she has purchased consider- ' able quantities pf high-grade gaso line in this country in the past. / A decision on the question of sup plying heavy military equipment such as airplanes or tanks was ex pected to await the arrival of Brit ish military and technical missions in Russia and their analysis of So viet needs. Anthony Eden, British foreign sec retary, announced in London that the Soviet government had accepted an offer of such missions “to co-ordinate the common tisk of the defeat of the enemy.” President Roosevelt • emphasized the difficulty of furnishing planes and other types of heavy equipment Miss Htlon Dovis Wins Nurse Award Clinton will observe Friday, July 4th, in celebration of Independence day, with the banks, merchants and 'business firms entering into the ob- f servance. The troops at the State Training immediately. He pointed out that or- school and Goldville will also bdhrep- j ders and delivery schedules for these resented at the camp. had to be made far in advance and Lawrence Ferguson, Clinton’s only' that in any event the American gov- Eagle Scout, left several days ago for emment could do nothing until it Old Indian where he will be a mem-1 learned what Russia wanted and James R. Holland The miial Wednesday afternoon T***51 Registrant ber of the staff work. .....R director of craft- Miss Helm Davis, daughter of Mrs. J. A. Davis of'Dear Clinton, and tha lata Mr. Davis, was a member of the recant graduating class of McLean Hoapltal School of Nursii^ Wavar^ lay, Mim. At commcncament exercises Miss I holiday oi July 2nd, will be omitted i because of the full Friday holiday, | according to an agreement si^^ when the summer closing was inau gurated early in May. ' son of UONS BIEET TOMORROW ’The Lions club will hold its regu- James Rutledge Holland, Mr. and Mrs. Johnny R. Holland of 81 Musgrove street, bears the dls-!. „ tinctlon of being the first Clinton' release of the registrant with the local board un-! * der the new regulation calling tor! Seven NoorOeS Colkd tration of aU men who have needed. Constantine-(Ximansky, the Soviet ambassador, has not called at the state department since the German invasion of his country. It was un derstood that he has waited for defi nite Instructions from Moscow be fore undertaking discussions on American help. He was active, however, in obtain- frozen” assets. the registration J Davis received the WetherUl award.Friday evening at 7:30. which is given each year to tw«|The group wiU gather for the ffrrt membos of ti»e clau who are aeleet- i ot a series oi outdoor meetings, to be jed during their three years in school i held at Young’s spring south of the as “most thoughtful of .others.” city. A friend chkken dinner with * - ■ I “all the trimmings” will be served. attained the age of 21 since the of October last. 18th K1WANI8 MEET TODAY The regular Kiwanis club meeting will be held dto evening at Hotel Clinton. The program will be in rtwrge of the delegates who reeentljr attaitdaA that Kiwania Intamatioagl eoBventioft In Atlanta. SUTERS ENTER TEAININO Misses Madeline and Dorothy Smith, Thomwell orphanage high school graduates,' left this wedc for Columbia where they have entered treiaing et the Baptist hospiteL New Officers To Be Installed Sunday The ordination and installation of the newly elected elders and dea cons of the First Presbyterian church will take place at the Sunday morn ing worship hour. Five elders and eleven deacons were recently elected by the congregation. By Local Board Clinton draft board No. 50 an nounced yesterday that the follow ing seven Negroes will be sent to Fort Jackson on June 28, at 10 am., for induction into the army: Edgar Rice, Rt. 2, Clinton. T. D. Young. Whitmire. O’Dell Richardson. Mountville. Vesley Todd, RFD, Ware Shoals. Robert Walter Hill, Rt 1, Waterloo. Henry CorwUe, Rt. 1, Mountville. Leroy Glenn, Clinton.