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U 5 S'-FW READ TdPAyS PAPER AND^THE NEXT THREE ISSUES HEi^FUL CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS! IHECHRONIQE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspoper, Complete, Newsy, ond Reliable ihr OlUnfnn If You Don't Read THE CtiRONiaE You Don't Get the News Volume XLI Clinton, S. C., Thundoy, November 27, 1941 Number 48 With U. S. Patrol Off Greenland COUNTY COTTON. CROP SHORTEST IN MANY YEARS Laurens county’s 1941 cotton crop will be the mallest in many years, it is indicated in the report issued yesterday by Marvin Sanders, de partment of commerce agricultural census agent. The report shows a heavy drop over last year due to bad weather conditions and heavy boll weevil in' testation. Prior td November 14, only 10,510 bales had been ginned compared with 29,130 of the 1940 crop on the same date last year, a decrease of 18,620 bales. THORNWai TEAM CITY CH^jONS The Thomwell orphanage football team won the city championship last Wednesday afternoon in the final game of the season by defeating Clinton high 18-6. *rhomwell turned on a powerful attack in the second hilf to conquer tlM| Red Devils. In the first quarter they scored after recovering a Clin ton fumble on the latter’s ten-yard line. Tucker went over for the six- pointer. Clinton drove 69 yards to a touch down^ in the third p^od to deadlodc the score. Bridges going over from the four-yard line. In Uie same pe riod Thomwell drove fl yards for a touchdown. Gamble scoring from the ten-yard line and pudUng his team fo a lead that was never relinquidied. The fiinal Thomwell score came in the fourth period when McDonald climaxed a 41-yard drive with a three-yard burst through the middle of the line. The game was witnessed by a large crowd including the 300 children of the orphanage family. Score by periods: Thomwell 6 0 6 Clinton 0 0 6 P. C. Captures SIAA Crown 6—18 0— 6 Car Tag Drive To Start Today The enforcement drive against mo torists still without their 1942 license ' plates, will b^(in this morning, it is announced by Director A. W. Bohlen of the motor division of the State Highway department. Patrolmen are expected to be on the alert today to make charges against persons oper ating cars with old tags. The 1941 plates expired October 81 and a 50-cent penal^ cm purchase of the ’42 tags became effective No vember 1. •% County Seal Sole Set At $2,500 Laurens county has set before it a goal of $2,500 in the annual Christ inas Seri Sale which begins this week. The county association is headed by J. Leroy Biums of Lau rens. as president, who has appoint ed chairmen and workers to carry on ttie campaign. Mrs. Robert H. Ropor of Laurens, is coxmty chairman'Of thevseri sale i^ve. K1WANI8 BIBIT TODAY The regular meeting of the Clin ton Kiwanls chib will be held this evening at 7’.M at Hotel Clinton. MAYOR ENDORSES CAMPAIGN FOR CHRISTMAS SEALS Official endorsement of the 1941 Christmas Seal sale was issued yes terday by Mayor P. S. Bailey in a statement given out at his office. The campaign gets under way in Clinton this week to extend throiqto Christ mas. The mayor’s statement said: “Purchase of Christmas Seals by! the citizens of Clinton to aid in the' nationwide fight against tuberciilosis has the unqualified endorsement of myself, not only as srour mayor, but also as a private citizen. ‘To protect homes—all our homes —^from the tragedies caused by the ravages qf tubtfculosis is the com mendable objective of the annual Christmas Seri campaign. The sim ple, direct appeal of the campaign comes to us vrith the approach of ^ holiday season. I trust that we shall be quick in responding, not only to' a civic duty, but to' a nationwide ap- peaL “Let us all buy Christmas Seals Jthis year. Let every greeting card and gift package that goes forth from Clinton bear theM seals, a sign that our commtmity is alive to its respon sibilities and, as in previous years, is doing its part in a great national drive.’’ Good Openings For College Men In Naval Reserve '“College men may become full conunissioned officers within 120 days after entering the service by applying for Class V-7 Naval Re serve,” according to Lt. Comdr. Mc Farland W. Wood, officer in charge of recruiting in the Carolines. “Those who have completed four years col lege work, which included two years mathnnatics, a course in physics and a course in chmnistry, or men hav ing an engineering degree are eligi ble. Young men who have complete at lealt two years college work may obtain flight ^rrinjng This is one of the best classes ofthe Naval Reserve and the pay and chances of promo tion are excellent. “Men who have a trade may en list in the Naval Reserve as petty officers in that particular trade, and men wanting trade training may be come skilled machinists, metal woric- ers, electricians, etc., in Navy trade schools. Equal opportunities for trade training are available in the rsgriar Navy and Naval Reserve. Negroes are accepted for enlistment in the messman branch, which offers fast promotion with good pay.” Blue Hose Bring Fine Season To Close With Victory Over Rollins. With a 14 to 6 victory over Rollins college last Friday night in Orlando, Fla., Presbyterian college’s Blue Stodcings won the Southern Inter collegiate Athletic association cham pionship. In polishing off the Florida Tars, Coach McMillian’s team made it five victories against no defeats in the loop. It also holds a victory over Camp Oroft, Spartanburg, the only game the army team has lost this season. P. C. won during the season over Oglethorpe, Erskine, Newberry, Wof ford and Rollins to capture the SIAA crown. DBnrS CARSimLT SAVE A UFB M> FAB THU TKAB THBU BATU BON FATALITIES ^ ffeou ADTOHokna AOCIDBNTS . hi LAURENS COUNTY Ul’i StrlTg To Mdu 1S41 A Sftfg Ymt Ob the Highwaya. tet jmr, 14 I, .. ~ COUNTY SCHOOL BUS OVERTURNS; CHILDREN BRUISED ’ Laurens, Nov. 25. — The Mount Pleasant-Center Point school bus, carrying 15 difldrcn was overturned Tuesday aftwmooa near Mt Pleasant school when an autcmobile driver in passing around the bus struck a front wheel causing the driver Ed Elmore, to lose controL Several of the children received cuts and bruises and other minor in juries, according to Sheriff C. W. Wier, who investigated. A few of the pupils were treated at Laurens and all were sent to their homes. RED CROSS QUOTA OVERSUBSCRIBED BY LOCAL CHAPTER Incomplete Returns Reveal $1,618.08 Raised Against Goal of $1,500. Incomplete reports late yesterday showed that the Clinton-Goldville chapter annual Red Cross drive, with a set goal of $1,500, had “gone "over the top” with contributions and memberships amounting to $1,618.08. This amount has been turned in to Treasurer W. H. Simpson by the can vassers, with several reports not yet in. It is expected by the end of the campaign that a still further in crease will be reported. The chapter set out with more than 100 men and women canvass ers to reach its quota. From the very start the workers showed an enthu siastic interest in the work and re ceived an enthusiastic response from the public. The mill commimities, Lydia, Clin ton Mills, and Joanna Mills, Gold- ville, have made fine showings in the campaign as the figures indicate. The drive this year is sponsored by the local Kiwanis club, with J. H. Pitts, Jr., as general chairman, aided by a large group of woilcers. Chair man Pitts stated yesterday that the response on the part of citizens has been generous and that with several reports still out, the amount raised has siupassed last year’s by several hundred dollars. The drive continues throurii this week. Chairman Pitts urges all work ers to make special efforts to com plete their canvass at once in order that a final report may be made next week by Treasurer Simpson. Reports through yesterday are as follows: Gtoldville $ 550.00 Clinton Mills L' .L .... MIAO Lydia Mill 123J5 Clinton City _.. .... r679A3 f ^ 14.00 NEW METHODIST PASTOR ARRIVES TO BEGIN WORK ANTI-STRIKE UW IS BEING MAPPED BY HOUSE LEADERS Compulsory Arbitration To Be Included In Bill; Penalties for Both Sides Provided. Washington, Nov. 25.—Legislation to stop defense strikes by invoking compulsory arbitration enforced by the The Rev. L. P. McGee and Mrs. McGee left yesterday for Edgefield where Mr. McGee will assume the pastorate of the Edgefleld-Trenton Methodist churches. Mr, McGee serv ed Broad Street Methodist church for the past two years, having come here from Greer. Mr. McGee’s successor at North Broad Street—Rev. J. H. Kohler, also arrived in the city yesterday and is now occupying the parsonage. He came here from the Mgefleld-Tren- ton charge where he has been sta-' stiff penalties took shape in tioned the past two years. | hou.se today. Mr. Kohler is a naUve of this state j Acting Chairman Ramspeck, of and has been a member of the Meth-.|Georgia, of the house labor commit- odist conference for twelve years. He j tee said he hoped to have such a is a graduate of the University of i measure ready by Friday and dis- South Carolina and Emory univer- closed that it sprang from a confep- fence between President Roosevelt Mr. Kohler’s family consists of his | and 11 house members at the Whit® wife and two children. j House last night. ^ Neither he nor any of the other Mr. Kohler have been announced forl^onferees would say definitely next Sunday, morning and evening, ^^ether the president had recom- I mended or opposed such a far-reach- ' ing step, but Ramspeck, in answer to ja question, predicted that the chle$ executive would sign it. Although details remain to be worked out, Ramspeck outlined the program this way: When a strike or other labor stop page threatened in a defense plant, the dispute would go through the successive steps of normal collective bargaining, conciliation, mediation and, finally, at the discretion of the president himself, compulsory arbi tration. That would mean, he said, that both sides would be bound in ad- Wadsworth section $1,618.08 Atlanta Friends Visit Thomwell Clinton Negro Killed By Troin Coron«r Robert L Rurgess held an inquest Tuesday in the death of Rob- eri Sanders, Negro, trito was killed lest Friday night iriten struck by ttie Seaboard Air Lin® railway vestible arriving here shortly after 6 pjn. It was tastUed by witaisiee Oiat Sanders stepped in fitmt at the northbound locomotiv® while walkr Ing between tracks on one of Wridi •tood a frright train. The jury’s vesdict waa that San ders "came to hie death became of own caraleesBi^^Si/L^ Food Stomp Flan To Be Discussed - Jacob A. Austin, district super visor of the United States depart ment of agricultvire, will be in the county tomorrow, November 28, con ducting a food stamp survey. A meeting will be held at Clinton Hotel at 10 o’clock with the coimty delegation, the director and members of the county board of publig wel fare, and Miss Ruth Bradley, district su];>ervisor of the depiai^ent of pub lic welfare, attend!^. At two o’clock in Laurens a meet ing will be held at the community hall with all food merchants, both wholesale and retail, and bank of ficials invited. At this thne the food stamp plan will be discussed as a means of distributing .the surplus food commodities in the county. New Presbyferian Pastor At^Goldville . The Rev. C. F. Allen and Mrs. Allen have arrived in GoldvUle from Zebulon, N. C., and are now occu pying* the Pre^ytMton aua^. Mr. Allen has assumed the pMstorates of the Goldville and Shady Grove Pres byterian churches, succeeding the Rev. L. O. Elmore, .vdio resigned several .months ago. Following a custom of several years, a group of thirty members from the Centrol Presbyterian church, Atlanta, sp>ent Saturday and Sunday here as the guests of Thom well or];>hanage. Friends from this cfaurcfa"Tnake a Bimilar pilgrimage each year to the institution to gain an insight into its work and mingle with the children preparatory to their annual Christmas offering which last year exceeded $3,000. The visitors united with the Thom well Memorial church in worship services Sunday morning. The guest si>eaker was Prof. Paul West, princi- jpal of Atlanta’s largest high school, j who delivered an interesting and I helpful message. Saturday evening in the chapel Rev. Harold Smith presented a clever entertainment program for the "boys and giri^- 21 TROOPS "killed IN WEEK ACTIVITY Monpe, N. C., Nov. 24. — Army general headquarters disclosed today that 21 soldiers had lost their lives since the beginning of the First army training battle on November 15. Six teen of the deaths were accidental, eight of them in motor wrecks since the first week’s simulated warfare ended Friday. Four thousand of the 300,000 men itt-the maneuverr~have been treated for illness and injuries in the last nine days. Another field exercise be tween the First army and the Fourth Army corps began Tuesday, to con tinue all weric. Mrs. H. M. Blakely Dies Suddenly Beloved Woman Passes At Home On Same Day Of Daughter's Marriage. Mrs. Susie S. Blakely, 53, widow of the late Hilery M. Blakely, died sud denly at her home here last Thurs day afternoon, her unexpected death coming as a"'great shock to her fam- vance to accept an arbitration ily and wide circle of friends. ! board’s decision. If the workers re- Funeral services were held from fused, they would lose their rights the residence Friday afternoon at under the Wagner act and if the em ployer were recalcitrant, the govern ment might take over his plant. “It’s pretty drastic, all right,” four o’clock, with interment follow ing in the family plot in the Presby terian cemetery. The services were cotklucted by Dr. Dudley Jones, as-1 Ramspeck commented. “It would sisted by Rev. J. K. Roberts, and at- prevent strikes in defense industries tended by a large gathering of during the emergency, imless man- friends from here and elsewhere. The many beautiful flowers placed upon the grave were indicative of the high esteem in which she was held. Active pallbearers were: W. R. Pitts, S. G. Dillard, Bluford Cope- agement wants to turn over its plant to the government or unless the woi^ers want to surrender their rights under existing legislation.” In the case of the wcH'kers, he said it would mean that their col- land, Lowry Wilson, Hugh Ray andjlective bargaining rights imder the Jo^ Holland. j Wagner act would be cancelled “and Mrs. Blakely was bom in this sec-! it would practically make the union tion of the county, the daughter of ineffective.” the late Samuel Simpson and Mrs. Lou Braddock Simpson. She was a Speaker Rayburn has promised that labor legislation will go before lifelong and devoted member of Dun-' the House as soon as the members can’s Creek Presbyterian church. Her husband preceded her to the grave *!L the fall of 1924. -- _ Mrs. Blakely was a woman of strong Christian character, devoted dispose of the pending price control bill. That probably will mean next Monday-or-Tue®day;'" But none would say whether Ram- speck’s bill or a measure sponsored to her home, her church and her by Representative yinson, of Ge6T=' friends. Her sweet, lovely disposition j gia, wouId\be tbg^vehicle for what- made for her many friends who are lever legislation the house might saddened by her death. j agree upon. A sad coincidence in connection | Vinson, who has revamped his with her passing was that she died {original bill which has been on the the afternoon of Thanksgiving day, | house calendar since last spring, following the marriage at 11 o’clock I would arm the national defense me—^ in the morning of her daughter, Mar- ^ diation board with legal authority tha Lue, to W. L. Evans, Jr., of Char- and compel cooling off periods be- lotte. In addition to Mrs. Evans, the de ceased is survived by a second daughter. Miss Eula Gray Blakely of this city, a student it Presbyterian college. fore strikes could begin. New Methodist Pastor At Goldville The Rev. B. S. White, former pas- U S. TROOPS GET HEARTY WELCOME AT DUTCH GUIANA Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, Nov. 25, — United States troops have reached this Netherlands South American colony and have received tor of the Camb'ridge church. Ninety-j welcome.” the Six, has arrived in Goldville to as-' Netherlands Indian news sume the pastorate of the Epworth I reported tonight. Methodist church. He succeeds thei arrival, their / farmers To Vote December 13 Cotton trowers in Laurem county and elsewterc in th® belt, vote December It on whether tney want markoting quotas continuad (m the 1942 crop. Arranfonents tor holding the rri- erendunv-as in the past, are being worked out by County Agent C. B. Cannon. Nt.HBICHAIIT- CHMSmU IS AtMQST HBiEI Christmas is just around the comer. There are thousands of Christ mas Choppers in your trade area iriu> are starting their holiday buy ing, and will be attracted by your messages in THE CHRONICLE every Thursd^ monring. Now is OmI thhe to start and go after your riiare of this Qirlstmas businass. Our advertising department is ready to aarist you with betyful holiday illustrations. Tbe dieapest and most effective advertising known is Newspaper Advertising. Placed in the home newspaper, your store message is rend by all mambdrs of the family. Newspapers from otiMr cities coming into Clinton daily are filled with adverttaamenti aaeking the patronage of your prospective cus tomers. If you don’t get your share of Chriictmas trade' your competi tor wilL Begin now and talk each week to the people of Clinton Mills, Lydia Mills, GoldviUe and the rural sections of this community through— JHE CHRONiaE Iht Papsr YluU Ii lead By Tear Praapaethe Rev. T. B. Wilkes, who was trans ferred by the Conference to Toxa- way-Gluck, Anderson, after serving the charge tl)e past three years. In addition to the Goldville church, Uttte eXCitolnenl, the agency * * Am ^ t - .J a. Mr. W^iite will pastor the Hopewell and Kinards churches. Bible Class Gives To Thomwell numbers and their deployment were kept secret. There was a minimum of cere^ mony and th^ arrival of the trocys The Men’s Bible class of the First Presbyterian church, taught by Dr. A. E. Spencer, made an offering Sun day of $454.00 to Thomwell orphan- “>• of United Sut« troops to Dutch Guiana as “the first said. An order of the day issued by J. C. Kielstra, the governor-general, stressed the cooperation of the Unit ed States “in the struggle of The Netherlands.” The troops are here under an agreement among the United States, The Netherlands government and Brazil, by which the United State* undertakes protection of the bauxite mines. Berlin, Nov. 25.—The authoritative ther subatantiri increase this week, officers state. Special Services Come To Close military attack of the United States on South America” and said the move was aimed at Frmch colonial possessions in the Western Hemis- i phere. i The special servicet conducted last week at the First Prtobyterian chuTch by the Rev. John B. Cun ningham of Cascade, Va., cime to a cloee Stmday evening. Mr. Cunning- I ham, who is an earnest speaker, i made a fine impression on those who jwere privileged to hear his messages I while here. Boy Scouts To Collect Qld Papers UONS TO MEET FRIDAY^ The Lions club will meet Friday evening at 7:30 at the club house on highway 56, it haa been announced by officials. I Boy Scouts of the city have begun la canvass for scrap paper under the direction of their scoutmasters. Old [newspapers, magazines, etc., will be I collected by the Scouts .They ask [that all housewives gather up such I paper and they will call at the homes to collect same. Members of the Clinton Mills and Goldville trooj^ will make similar canvasses in tiietr commimities.