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Volume XLI
Clinton, S. C., Thursday, December 18, W1
Number 51
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GIVEN PNESBEHI
U. S. Censorship Regu
lations To Be Employed
At Once. Price Named
Censor Chief.
WashingUm, Deo. 16. — Vast new
powers for President Roosevelt to
prosecute the war were voted unani
mously bgr congress today and the
diief executive announced he would
promptly set up a censorship to pre
vent all infonnati(m of valxie frcm
reaching the oiemy.
At the same time Postmaster Gen
eral Walker disclosed that censorship
of foreign mail, both outgoing and
incoming, alrea^ was under way.
He added that no details of its oper
ations would be made public for the
preaent.
Hie president told a press confer-
etjfce tiut he had selected BfTWt
nice, executive editm* of the Associ
ated Press, as director of censorshh;)
and that Price, on leave of absence
from the news organization, would
take over his duties here as soon as
congress completes action.
Both senate and house passed sep
arate bills almost simultaneously.
They authorize the president not
only to establish censorship but to
redistribute government functions,
revise defense contracts and exercise
complete control over ali«i financial
transactions and an estimated $7,-
000,000,000 of alien property in the
United States.
Since the senate added a few. re
strictions to its text, a move was on
foot t(mi^t to have the house sub-1
stitute the senate measure for its!
own tomorrow so final enactment I
miifiit be speeded. The house judici- j
ary committee will meet tomorrow to
study the parliunentary situation. <
Chairman Van Nuys, Democrat, of
Indiana, of the senate judiciary com
mittee, in charge of the senate bill,
told Senator Vandenberg, Republi
can, of Michigan, that only censor
ship of outgoing foreign communica
tions was involved but the president
said the machinery to be created
would cover domestic publicaticm of
ceiti^n information.
The censorship, he said, would be
partly voluntary and partly manda
tory and would apply to the press,
radio, cables, mail and other me
diums. '
He added that the administrative
setup would not be woiked out until
Price took over.
‘'While all Americans abhor c«i-
sor^ip, just at they abhor war,” the*
president said in a formal statement, |
“the experience of this afid of all'
other nations has demonstrated that
8(H»e degree of cenaonfiilp is essen*
tial in war time, and we are at war.
“The impoft^t thing now is that
such forms of Oe^rdi^ tm ut nec
essary shall be admixiistered effec
tively and in hhnnony wttii ttm best
interests ot our fires Institution.
*lt is necessary to tiis national se-
curitir that military information
which ndgbt be of aid to the enemy
be scrupukiisly withheld at the
source.
“It is necessary t^ a watch be
set upon our borders, so that no sudi
information may .readi the enemy,
inadvertently ^or officrwise, tiuough.
f.tiie medhnn 9t fh§ nudls, radio or
;eable trandalssion or any other
LOCAL CITIZENS
URGE) TO REGISTR
FOR DEFENSE DUTY
Every citizen of this community,
men and women, who are willing
and able to serve his or her country
in this period of national emergency
is asked to register immediately with
the H6me Council for Defense at the
Chamber of Coaamerce office in the
hotel lobby. H. L. Eichelberger is the j
llodal chairman, with C. F. Fleming;
I of Laurens, as the general county
chairman.
The response thus far has been
I slow, it was learned yesterday, only
138 persons having registered, 50 of
this number being the employees of
Thomwell orphanage.
The purpose of the registration is
to set-up a defense unit throughout
the county and state to meet any
emergency which may come fn^ the
present war. While there is no im
mediate indicati(m that this will be
needed in South Carolina, there can
be nothing lost by preparing for it,
Mr. Ftoning states. Those who vol
unteer their services do so solely for
local civilian defense, it is pointed
out
There are thirteen different kinds
of woriE that civilians can register
for. They are: auxiliary police, bomb'
squads, auxilia^ firemen, the medi
cal corps, rescue squads, nursing
aides corps, messengers, drivers
corps, emergency food and housing
corps, decontamination corps, demo
lition and clearance crews, and road
repaiTi crews.
All interested citizens are invited
to enroll at once.
Battle Stations of the Pacific
Farmers To Vole
For CommiHeemen
Schedule of Voting
Places Given To Serve
AAA Program for '42.
County Agent C. B. Cannon stated
yesterday that AAA regulations call
for the election of 1942 community
and 'countiF coamlttietnsti between
December 15th and Slst.
Any person, white or colored, who
had an interest in cotton production
this year or who expresses his inten
tion to have an interest in cotton pro
duction during ’42^ is eligible to vote
This, Mr. Canfion states
With the efeataif et the Japaaeae bUta oa the Uaited Statea the
■petDaht at aews swaap te this sectlea at the werM. Abeve are sbewa
the battle statlOM at the PaelAe. First Maw, a bembtag attach, was
aimed at the cbtef aaval base at Pearl Barber la the Hawallaa Islands.
Several pelato la the PhOlppiaes were bembed. Gaam was attacked
toy plaaea. The British port at SlapapSM was bombed aad Japanese
troops made a laadlag ea the Malay poalasais aortb of Singapore.
MANGLED BODY
FOUND NEAR
TRACKS AT RENNO
An unknown person (Negro) came
to his death “from causes unknown
to us,” was the verdict of a coroner's
jury Monday in the case of the man
whose mangled body was found Sun
day night along tracks of the Sea
board Air Line railroad near Rmino.
The engineer testified he did not
see any one but detected something
MAY NEVER DRAFT
MEN BEYOND PRESENT
21 TO 35 AGE LIMITS
SANTA WELCOMED
HERE THURSDAY
BY BIG CROWD
Santa Claus came to Clinton last
Thursday afternoon at five o’clock
for his annual visit. The distinguish
ed visitor, seated high on a beautiful
float, was greeted by hundreds of
children and grown folks, too, who
crowded the streets to extend him a
welcome and to view the impressive
parade. .
The parade was headed by city,
Chamber of Commerce and highway
officials, followed by the college, i
Clinton and Laurens high school
bands. Several decorated floats were
entered in the line of march.
In Raping with the power-saving
policy throughout the nation, much
of the street lighting effect was
omitted this year. Three adorned
trees and the monument decorated
in many vari-colored lights, how
ever, furnish a scene of beauty for
the holiday season.
Fanners Vote For
'42 Crop Control .
County Tabulation
Shows 1,942 for Quotas
Program, 24 Against.
Heads Asiatic fleet
Atoilral IWmas C. Bart. cm»-
maader la cMef at tbe United
Statea Aalatio deet since Jaly Z5.
ItW. apen wbem falls maob at tbe
bardea at carrylag tbe war te Japaa
la tbe Far East.
Washington, Dec. 14—War depart-
BUNDS HOID KEY
TO WAN IN PKClfIC
Clashing Fleets Will
Pivot Upon Tiny Specks
Of Land Because of
Vost Seo.
Laurens county’s cotton farmers
voted overwhelmingly Saturday in
favor of cotton marketing quotas for
!1942.
I The vote, according to County
ment officials made clear today thatjxgent C. B. Canncm, ran similar to week on the long-awaited,
it would be a long time — perhaps!referendums in past years. The'historic tragedy of the Pacific war.
never—before any men outside the' pgj.ggQtage in favor of the quotas I'The stage is the surface of the
21-35 age group are drafted for the j follows: 1938—93.5 per cent, 1939—'world’s largest ocean, and upon it
Washington, Dec. 17.--The curtain
army despite the proposal to require pg s per cent, 1940—97.9 per cent,
all aged 18 to 84, inclusive, to regis-jand 1941—97.05 per cent. f
The tabulation by townships fol-
ter
Brig. Gen. Lewis
B. Hershey, se-
wrong when the locomotive passed lective service director, warning
over an unusual object. The train | against any “hysteria,” in connection
was stopped and tbe unidentified
man’s Ix^ was discovered.
Finger prints of the dead man
were sent to the Federal Bureau of
Identification at Wadiington by Chief
L. H. Bagwell in the b<q)e of estab
lishing his identification.
MILLS HERE PAY
OUT $30^)00 IN
CHRISTMAS SAVINGS
Approximately $30,000 in Christ
mas club savings checks were dis-
includes I tributed December 11 to employes of
tiiare croppers,’share tenants, stand-‘the Clinton Cotton Mills and Lydia
ing or cash rent tenants and land-1 Cotton Mills, it was stated yesterday
lords. I by the president, W. J. Bailey. The
with the draft extension, said there
was no way of telling when it might
be necessary to tap the reaei
men outside the 21-35 group.
age limits of 21 to 35,” Henfiiey said.
Secretary of War Stimaon request
ed congress laMaiaak ta enact lagia-
lation for the registration of all ^en
from 18 to 64, inclusive, and malting
those from 19 to 44, inclusive, sub
ject to military training and service.
This registration, Hershey said,
would apply to 41,000,000 men, in
cluding the 17,500,000 Who already
have registered.
But the program as of today, Her
lows:
Yes
No
Sullivan —
89
3
Dials
232
7
Youngs
113
3
Waterloo
29
0
Laurens
210
7
Scuffletown
51
1
•••• •••• ••••
38
0
Hunter — — ....
190
3
Cross Hill (white)
40
1
Cross Hill (colored)
29
0
...
1,942
24
NATIONAL GUARD
OFFICERS MOVED
^ It was unofficially reported yester-
shST exilatoSrcalte for thr indue-j Jay a Part .^f (^Unton’s National
ition of the remaining 1,000,000 in
Guard unit, stationed at Camp Stew-
The following schedule has been checks went to a large number oflf^^ 21 to 27 age brackets: then eli-la*'^’ followmg maneuvers, had
announced for holding the election:
Laurens township — Agricultural
building, December 27, at 10 a.m.
Scuffletown—Sandy Springs school,
December 27, at 10 ajn.
Jacks and Hunter townships—Clin
ton high school, December 29, at 10
ajn. ^
'Cross Hill—Cross Hill high school
(white), December 29, at 2:30 pjn.;
and at Cross Hill colored school at
3:30 pjn.
Sullivan—^Hickory Tavern school,
December 30, at 10 ajtn.
Waterloo township—Center Point
school, Dec«nber SO, at 10 azn.
Youngs—Youngs sdiool, December
30, at 3:00 pjn.
Dials—Gray Court-Owings school^
December 30, at 3:00 pjn.
families in the two villages. | gibies in the group from 28 to 35
The savings were made during the i 5^ called up, and next the 1,000,-
lar through cooperation of the miU aqo who become 21 each vear.
year
management, the employes in the
plants setting apart each: week
share of their ea^ngs.
HURRICANE SCHOOL
TO PRESENT FLAT
The public is cordially invited to
attend the musical play, “The Ar
rival of Santa,” and the community
Christmas tree at the Hurricane
school Friday ni^t, December 19, at
7:80.
It was aMo npiBMary. he oootin-
ued. to set HP xigkUy enforced bens
against domaetic publication ot aoine
types of infoinuitidb. Pointing out
that the prtaa end radio already had ‘
^luntarily agreed to abstain from
lonlng tnxv and ship move^
enta, the chief executive aaid tbe
tae to ttto govenonent’s request
_ that line had “Indicated a mti-
versal desire to dooperate.”
In order that the new powers may
be carried forward under a uniform
.poll^, be said, he had made Price
^Mpooslblt diioetly to
Float Winners >
In Santa Parade
A number of floata were en
tered in Clinton’s big Santa
Claus parade celebration last
Thursday evening sponsored by
the Chamber of Commmee.
Prizes aggregating $75.00 were
(^ered for tiM best exhibits.
The following were srisetsd by
the judges as ednnm:
■ State Training
• Clinton hlidi
First place —
schooL 1^00.
Second place
eriiool, I17A0.
Third place—Clinton Btiwan-
is elub.'$iD.M.
Jburth plaie Thomwell or-
pbanaia, MJ)0.
Beil WlhisNir Bxbibllf
Hw judgM made ths follow
ing awards for the most attrac
tively decorated Christmas etin-
dows:
First place — Blakely Bros.
Seed store, $10JK).
Second place — The Ladies’
Ready-to-Waar ffiosqpe, $5.00.
Third place —IfaxweU Bras,
ft Klnard, $2A0.
DuRANT ACCEPTS
FLOKiDA CALL
--
The Rev. M. A. DuRant, for 11
jrears pastor of Upper Long Cane
Presbyterian church near Abbeville,
has tendered his resignation and ac
cepted a call to the pastorate of the
Pnsbyterian church In Mariana, Fla.
He will go to his new field the first
of the year.
The annoimcement is of interest
here where Mr. DuRant has a num
ber of friends and acquaintances,
having graduated from I^esbyterian
college. Mrs. DuRant, before mar
riage, was Miss Maude Ellis, dauj^-
ter of Bfr. and Mrs. George H. IQlis
of . this city.
CANTATA RENDERED
BY CHURCH CHOIR
The chpir of the First Presbyterian
church gave their annual Christmas
cantata Sunday evening with “Holy
Niitot” as the subject of the rendi
tion
The seating capacity of tha church,
both tite galley and auditorium, was
filled to capacity for the special pro
gram.
,The'choir loft and chancel was
beautiful in a|q>ropriate Christmas
decorations and'MfMtive lighting.
Tha lovely cantata was given un-
I der the direction of Mrs. J. F. Jacobs,
'organist of the church, with perfect
eomdlngtion as p fitting introduction
to the celebraticm of Christmas. •
CITY LICENSES
DUE IN JANUARY ,
According to an ordinance appear
ing in today’s paper, the time for the
payment of ci^ bualnesa licenses for
1941 has bean set on or before Janu
ary 19, wKB a penalty of 10 per cent
applied if not paid on titis date, and
'with Frit>ruary IS set as the flnpl
'paymani date atitbout action being
brought by tiie city imder section 5
of tbe ordinance.
The businesi fee 1942 for all
forma of enterprisas in tiie city will
be anprbxiinat^ tbe same as for
the pa^ year, it was announced re-
c«)it^ folios^ passage by city
ooun^ the new oidinance.
000 who become 21 each year.
“Having done that, you ought to
have a full year’s supply of men,”
Hershey said.
In the meantime, there will be a
continuing re-examination of men
deferred because of dependency, em
ployment in vital defen^ industries 5^4^^.
and minor physical disabilities.
GORMAN LEAVES
SCOUT DISTRICT
ard ur
, Ga.,
received sealed orders to be trans
ferred to an undesignated post. The
remaining members of the company
are expected to be moved elsewhere
at once.
Majors W. A. Johnson, assigned at
Camp Stewart, has been transferred
to Camp Crowder, Missouri.
First Lieut. B. F. Wingard has been
assigned to the new air base, Shaw
Clinton citizens interested in Boy^
Scout work, will regret to learn that Hallman
First Lieut. R. T. Dunlap has been
transferred to the air base at Tampa,
Fla.
Capt. Jack H. Davis, Jr., is on a
ten weeks’ training course at Fort
[Monroe, Va.
First Lieuts. W. L. Jones and C. W.
untold numbers of men will die
fighting for the possession of a few
great bases and thousands of small
islands.
The clashing fleets will pivot upon
these specks of land, because of the
vastness of the watery arena and the
limited radius on which warships can
operate. ’The islands aim are nesting
places for warplanes. Naval strate
gists agree that no major fleet en
gagement should take pUce more
than 2,000 to 3,000 miles from repair
docks, into which crippled vessels
can limp aftn* battle. Yet it is 6,000
miles between Alaska and New 2toa-
land; 8,000 miles between San Fran
cisco and Singapore.
, This country’s Pacific mainland
bases are at San Diego, San Francisco
and Seattle. Its outlying bases are at
Sitka, Kikiak, Anchorage and Dutch
harbor, in Alaska; in Hawaii; in the
Philippines and on a dozen or so is
lands as far south as Samoa.
The home bases of the enemy are
at Yokosuka, Maizuru, Kure and
Sasebo; and his outposts are at For
mosa, Bonin, Camrahh bay in Indo
china, and it is believed on many
of the mandated islands, which lie
between Hawaii and the Philippines.
To the south are the bases of this
country’s allies in New Zealand, Aus
tralia and in the Netherlands East
Indies. At the extreme west is Brit
ain’s mighty island base of Singa
pore, almost touching the southern
tip of the Malay peninsula.
Outside of Japan and the United
States inainland, the only major re
pair bases on the Pacific are at Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii, and Singapore.
There the largest capital ships can
be docked and put in order. Some of
O. B. Gorman of Greenville, execu
tive of the Blue Ridge Scout council
with headquarters ih Greenville, has
been appointed executive of the Wy
oming Valley coimcll of Boy Scouts
with headquarters at Wilkes-Barre,
Pa.
The announcement was made in
were expected to leave other bases have repair facilities.
Stewart this week for new posts.
MILLS TO CLOSE
FOR CHRISTMAS
but their capacity is limited.
Pearl Harbor is at the apex of the
United States’ inner defense line in
the Pacific, which runs from the
Aleutian islands to Hawaii to Samoa
to Panama. Within this “area of pre-
The lydia Cotton Mills and Clin- dominance” the American forces are
ton Cotton Mills will close next Wed- reasonably free to operate.
Is
Wilkes-Barre by E. B. Wagner, pres-1 nesday, Decemb^ 24th, at 2:30 pjn.,1 Pearl Harbor, 2,400 miles from San
idmt of the Boy Scout council there,jfM* Christmas. Operation of the mills Francisco, is a constant, menace to
who said Mr. Gorman would assume will be resumed on regular schedules any force seeking to make raids on
his new post about Janukry 5th.
R. E. Ferguson of this city, presi
dent of the Blue Ridge counjcil, stat
ed yesterday that the appointment of
Mr. Gorman’s successor will be a
matter for the national Boy S^ut
personnel department, subject to the
approval of the council’s executive
committee.
COUNTY GINNINGS
DROP 20,4(B BALES
The report of the special agent of
the Department of Cmnmerce, bu
reau of the census, Bioars that 11,064
bales of cotton wwe ginned in Lah-
raos^oounty’prior to December Ist,
compared adth 31,467 for the 1940
crop of the same data. This heavy
drop of 20,403 bales shows that tha
county’s crop this,year will be the
smallest Ih many jraars.
Ex-Servico Men To
Meet Friday Night
the following Monday morning. the west coast or the Panama canal;
The Joanna Textile Mills, Gold- and it is unlikely that the Japanese
ville, will close at noon on the same will attempt a large-scale attack on
date, to resume work Monday mom-. the American mainland as long as
ing. 'the fleet in Pearl Harbor is at its
' • back.
Chrkfmos Pronram - ^ I The history of United States mili-
^nrisrmas rr^rom acUviues in the phii-
At LOOSVillO CnilCCn llpplnes epitomizes this nation’s atti-
♦ ■■ tude toward the whole western Pa-
A Christmas program will be pre-'cific defense problem: Repeated de-
sented at the.LeesviUe M. E. Church, I termination to fortify them as strong
South, on Sunday evening at 7:30.
The pastor. Rev. Joseph Caldwell,
extends a cordial invitation to the
public to be preaent for-the special
aervice.
Pacific outposts; then, with the
growth of pacifism and isolationism
in the 1920’s,and lEIO’s, a tendency
to relinquish all thought of taking a
(Continued on i»ge seven)
ns CHRONiaE wiu BE miao
NEXT WEEK ON WHINEgAYFOR CHRISIMAS
THE CHRONICLE will go to our large family of readers next Wednes
day morning instead of Thursday as usual. The paper arill be printed Tues
day night for distribution early Wednesday morning in the dty, mill vill
ages and rural sections. The change is made in order that all subscribers
may have the paper in their homes for Christmas Day.
This will be an appropriate Christmas Edition to be read in hundreds of
homes on the glad day. Its advertising columns will be filled with “Merry
There will be an emergency meet-1
ing of all ex-service men and all;
others interested in the defense of i ^ „
our country, at the Clinton armory j Christmas and Happy New Year Greetings” from local merchants and busi-
Friday night, December 19, at fitness firms as a means of publicly expressing their thanks to their friends
o’clock. j and customers for the patronage given them during the year now drawing
We have emergency instructions , close, and to pledge their best efforts to please during 1942.
and urge a full attendance.
G. W. Hollingsworth,
Comnander Local American
Legioa Post
ReeervaUons for space have already been made by a number of firms.
All adio desire a Christmas message in the Edition are urged to notify us
at once because of the change in the day of publication.