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r ffl£ CHRONICIE Stmts To St A Otoii Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News =9 Volume XUI Clinton, S. G, Thursday, June 18,1942 Number 25 DURUM) CALLED COSILY TO COHON Thomas Charges That Prices Were Depressed $10 a Bale In Organized Attack. , ^ Washington, June 16. — Senator Thomas, Democrat, Oklahoma, de clared tonight that an organized bear raid upon cotton prices had caused i a decline of approximately $10 a! bale and a loss of $100,000,000 on the 16,000,000 bales in storage. In a statement he said a special senate committee which he heads is investigating an alleged* program to depress farm prices. He said the committee had received a complaint stating that a market forecasting ser vice in New York city had advised clients on May S7 to sell October cotton futures and keep all short po sitions intact until October cotton sold below eighteen cents a pound. “At the time the notice and ad vice was sent out," Thomas said, “October futures were Selling around 19.50 (cents a pound) and immedi ately a short selling wave started and did not end until the advertised ob jective had been reached. ‘This organized bear raid upon cotton farm prices caused a decline of some $10 per bale, and a loss on the 10,000,000 bales in storage of some $100,000,000. The estimated loss on the government stocks of cotton alone amounted to almost one-half that amount" Thomas also said that farmers were complaining that they were be ing discriminated against in that the prices of their products were being kept below parity with wages and the products of Industry. Complaints were general, he declared, that the law regarding price ceilings on com modities was being “disregarded, if not violated.”—11-—* ~ Above la the offMal Father's Day drawn this year by the fa- artist, McClelland Barclay. Next Sunday, Jane *1, Is “HW‘ day. Clarence Fowler Dies Suddenly Esteemed Citizen Passes At Home. Last Rites Here Thursday. He cited one complaint as follows: “Congress by law has" forbidden the price, administrator to place a ceiling on the price of raw cotton be low 21.47 for middling 7-8 inch sta ple at the fpT™, yet for the. . price administrator has had a ceiling I man * Clarence M. Fowler, 63, died sud denly at his home near the city last Wednesday. Funeral rites were held from the residence of his half-sister, Mrs. O. I. Sheely, on Thursday afternoon at 3:30, and attended by a number of friends who gathered hr pay a last tribute. The services were conducted by Rev. W. N. Long and Rev. J. LeGrande Mayer, with interment fol lowing in the Presbyterian ceme tery. Mr. Fowler was a son of the late Rev. and Mrs. Harrison Fowler, a well known Laurens county family. His father was a Baptist minister and served churches in this cofununity for a number of years. Mr. Fowler was a faithful member of the First Baptist church of this cl^r, a man of the highest integrity, who was admired by all who knew him as an upright, Christian gentle- SPANISH WAR VETERANS AND AUXILIARY TO HOLD MNUAL MEET HERE JUNE 21-23 -t-7 State Encampment Opens Sunday and Continues Until Tuesday Afternoon. 200 Delegate! Expected. Plans have been completed for the 20th annual encampment. United Spanish War Veterans and Auxiliary, which opens next Sunday afternoon with headquarters at Hotel Clinton. The convention is being held here upon the invitation pf the John J McSwain Camp No. 19, in cooper ation with the Chamber of Com merce and City of Clinton. Registration of delegates will be made Sunday from 1 to 6 pjn. in the hotel lobby. At 5 p.m. council meet ings for both the Veterans and Aux iliary will be held at the First Bap tist church. In <the evening at 8:15 at the same place, a joint memorial service will be held with the public invited. on the products of raw cotton far be- ' r ^ 8 deceased is ^survived by two low the limitation fixed by congress. : “Fran the time this placed on the products of raw cotton, the ceiling of such products could not be raised until raw cotton itself had advanced 45 points or multiples thereof. The price administrator has now gone even further for he has not united the ceiling on the products of raw cotton from, raw cotton itself by fixing a ceiling on the products based on raw cotton at 20.37 for middling 15-16 inch at the ten designated markets, and which is the equivalent of not more than 19 cents for mid dling 7-8 inch t the farm, or some $12.50 a bale below the limit fixed by congress.” * . Another complaint to the commit tee, he said, was with respect to the sisters, Misses Mattie and Annie oountyj^ftnd two half- Mrs. O. I. Sheely aad Mrs. O. H. Sheely, both of this city. Lutherans To Hear Kinard Sunday . Monday morning beginning at 9:30, a joint session of the two organiza tions will be held with the meeting called io order by E. G. Bramlett of Laurens, general chaignad for the convention. The invocation will be given by Chaplain H. W. Shulze. The welcome address on behalf of the J. J. McSwain camp will be given by Chairman Bramlett, and on behalf of the Auxiliary by Mrs. C. D. Nance, vice-president, of Cross^Hill. The re sponse for the city will be given by Mayor P. S. Bailey. Greetings from the national de partment will be brought by Chas. Wm. Bernhardt; from the Auxiliary by Eva B. Knox. Responses will be given by A. D. LaRoche, department commander, and Lizzie LaRoche, de partment president. At 2:30 in the afternoon a busi ness session will be held at the local armory, followed by a ride at 5 p.m. to the Laurens Gian Works. At 8 p. m. the annual banquet will be giv en at the armory, followed by a dance. Tuesday morning’s session will be gin at 9:30 with a business session. At 1:30 the delegates will be special guests at a barbecue given by the city of Clinton and Chamber of Corn- will cokne to a dose. Auxiliary Program Monday morning at 6 o’clock reg istration for the Auxiliary will be gin, with a joint session following at the Armory at 9:30. At 2:30 in the afternoon a business session will be held at Florida Street school, with the ladies joining the men in the eve- ning for the banquet and dance. A second business session will be held Tuesday morning, followed by the barbecue at 1:30. Department Off ken Department officers of the U.S.W.V. are: Commander, A. D. LaRoche; senior commander, Walter Hutton; junior commander, CoL A. C. Good man; adjutant and quartermaster, E. T. Porter; chief of staff, L. J. Sha fer; inspector, Jos. L. Chaney; judge advocate, Judge A. L. Gaston; sur-| geon. Dr. J. S. Young; chaplain, H.! W. Shulze; patriotic inspector, R. B. Cheatham; marshall, Elmore G. Bramlett; historian, W. H. Worrel; chief musician, T. E. Lightfoot. 3-YEAR COURSE INAUGURATED AT COLLEGE MONDAY Presbyterian college beg tration Monday for its unp; ed summer achobl, inaugu stepped-up program to gl dard four-year ^urse in The session, it was explained by officials, is not to tie confused with the usual summer school; but is de signed to start freshmen off earlier so they may graduate Within three years. , - Presbyterian was the first college in the state to adopt the full-year program. BRITISH STAND. BEFORE TOBRUK See Nazi Push Stalled But Germans Claim Battle of Africa Won. Summer Camp For Young People s Conference for Presby terian Group Being Held At Riverside Near Here. Resolutions: Walter Hutton, Sr., vice commander; auditing: Col. A. C. Goodwin, Jr., vice commander; cre dentials: E. T. Porter, adjutant and quartermaster; greeting: George H. Ellis; convention: E. G. Bramlett, general chairfhan; E. C A summer camp for intermediate boys and girls of South Carolina j tensive, presbytery Opened Monday at the' Supply Cairo, Egypt, June 16 —The battle- scarred British eighth army stood firmly in a wide desert semi-circle on the outer defenses of Tobruk to night after escaping an Axis trap near Ain El Gazala, and in their stubborn three weeks fight and suc cessful retreat they had inflicted such damage that the German drive in Libya appeared stalled. The Nazi high command broadcast that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had won the Battle of North Africa, but the vital Tobruk stronghold, which Hitler had ordered captured at all costs, remained firmly in British hands. The German announcement seemed to verify the British conten tion that the battle of attrition had so sapped the enemy’s striking power that he now must rest and be rein forced before he can renew his of- tralhs were moving a Thomwell orphanage Riverside cot tages on Enoree river, near here. Camp will break early Saturday morning at which time the delegates will return to their homes in Abbe ville, Greenwood, Newberry and Laurens counties. The camp is under the direction of Rev. and Mrs. C. F. Alien, of T I Goldville. Mr. AUen is .business man- sistantcha.nnanL L.ChamTrGeo. I - ^Mrs. Allen ‘ the dietitian. H^Ellis, J. S. Norris^Guy L. Watson.;^ members 6f toe faculty are; Auxiliary Officers j Rev c A . Calcote of Newberry, Rev. Auxiliary officers and committees j. E Ratchford of Cross Hill, Rev. follow: David Boozer of Laurens, Miss Eu- Department president, Lizzie , S. LaRochej Charleston; senior vice- president, Allie Walden, Columbia; junior vice-president, Marion Scott, Orangeburg; judge advocate. Rosa Tate, Iva; chaplain, Rosa Jackson, Florence; patriotic instructor, Hattie Jenkins, Orangeburg; historian, Amanda Hope, Columbia; conductor, Dorothy Lewis, Florence; assistant conductor, Mae Fetner, Columbia; guard, Nonie Touch tone, Charleston; assistant guard, Mary Louise Schroe- phemia Gordon and Miss Ann Hollo way of Greenwood, and Miss Thelma Hicklin of this city. steady stream of fresh tanks, guns and men to Lieut. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie’s forces in a desperate effort to match the superior armored forces which had survived the severe pun ishment of the six-pound anti-tank shells, the bombs of . the RAF and the famed British 25-pounder howitzers. - The very ferocity of the air-sea battle in' the adjoining Mediterran ean illustrated that the British had determinedly moved supplies to To bruk to reinforce their resert army. Latest battlefront dispatches show ed the British clinging to the strong west of Tobruk, and El Adem, 18 outposts of Acroma, 20 miles south- miles due south. The Axis, however. Those attending the conference controlled the whole littered battie- der, Charleston; reporter, Florence after which the cenventionfSchUUIo, Columbia; musician. Hattie C. Howe, Charleston. Formers Harvesting 'Just Ripe' Grain miyan, from here are Myra Adair, Barbara Anderson, Grace Young, Lillian Dill ard, Cornelia Harris, Anne Ruth King, Edward Pease and El wood Kline, the latter three being Thom well orphanage children. A second conference for seniors will be held at the same place be ginning next Monday, June 22. The presbytery was unable to hold Dr. James C. Kinard, president of Newberry college, will be the guest speaker at the services of St. John’s Lutheran church, Sunday morning, June 21, at 11 o’clock, according to an announcement made by Rev. J. LeGrande Mayer, the pastor. Dr. Kinard is one of the outstand ing Lutheran laymen in the South, and has made a valuable contribution to the life of the Lutheran church purchase by the United States of;.through his work at Newberry col- some 200,000 bales of Peruvian cot- lege. He is a member of the execu- ton “at a time when farmers are be- tive board of the United Lutheran ing urged to reduce their cotton acre- Church In America and has served age.” I on several of the major boards of the Thomas said the information being church. Dr. Kinard is knowfi as an assembled by the committee would be used as the basis of “corrective and protective legislation.” One measure to be offered, he said, would bar the use of communication facili ties for transmission of information “having for its purpose the depress ing or increasing of commodity prices.” OWENS, HEDSPETH WIN COUNCIL SEATS “Uncle Bud” Owens in ward five, and Alderman J. W. Hedspeth in ward six, were named as members attractive and forceful speaker, and the congregation Sunday will hear him with interest. A cordial invitation is extended to the public U> attend the service. Hugh Holman Author Mystery Novel “Death Like Thunder,” a mystery novel by Hugh Holman, director of public relations and radio at Presby terian college, is now off the press^ and will be on sale here at Smith’s Pharmacy in a few days. It is a of city council in a run-over primary^ ress ; held Tuesday. Considerable interest! A was manifested by the voters in the!*^ of a ^ vai ^® copics cf the book outcome which proved close in both f“ d 0 H n « ha * ^ ****> ** co1 ’ wards. ^ Hbranr - Owens defeated J. H. Cranford 198 to ,165 votes, and Hedspeth won over Roy. Trammel 185’ to 170. Mayor P. S. Bailey and four coun- cilmen had beep nominated in the first primary June 9th. There will be only one change in the administration, Owens succeed ing Theodore Queen in ward five. lege library. The book review section of the New York Times, June 14, gives a. In harvesting small grains with reapers and combines Laurens coun ty fanners are paying particular at tention to harvesting grain just ripe where combines are used, according to County Agent C. B. Cannon. “Our barley crop is very good as well as wheat, with oats only fair,” said Mr. Cannon. M. B. Henderson of Owings, Mr. Cannon said, produced 240 bushels of barley on six acres, or 40 bushels per acre. Ware Shoals Manufacturing company averaged 50 bushels per acre on 28 acres. On the farm of J. B. Owings, Gray Court, is a good demonstration in applying lime to land on which wheat was seeded last fall. Very marked difference shoWs on the field where lime was used. Wadsworth Formers To Meet Tonight the conference this year at Presby I terian college due to the all-year | round schedule now in effect. The orphanage gladly offered their sum- imer facilities at “Riverside” to be ground in the Knightsbridge area. A furious fight raged in the rock- studded cauldron between jAin El Gazaia, northern anchor of the shat tered first British line, and Acroma, 15 miles from the 'port, throughout Sunday as the British withdrew. When the thundering guns were stilled, Ritchie’s army had effected a withdrawal, thanks to the “mag- Farmers of the Wadsworth com- nlflcent fight” of trooprf around Acro ma and the First Armored division. The communique from Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck’s headquarters thus told the story: “The first South African division used for the two camps. , ., ...... . . Donald Fraser and Frank Dubose an l ‘ he Flftl " h dl “ , »! on . have . b « rl munty have been Invited to attend a of the orphanage, are serving as life meeting this evening (Thursday) at guards for the camp, the schoolhouse at 8:30 to discuss farm plans that have been written c*—*T fM. and to confer with those farmers '0 UDSCrVO who wish to write a plan on their I July 6 As Holiday ooneration with the Lau-1 7 _ ' farms in cooperation with the Lau rens County Soil Conservation dis trict. J. B. O’Dell and County Agent C. withdrawn successfully from their j position south of Ain El Gazala. i “This move was made finder the ' cover of a magnificent fight by troops holding positions around Acroma and the First Armored division who beat 'off enemy attacks throughout the | whole of June 14.” business! In another action in the wild tneiee Baptist School Closed Friday i Clinton merchants and j houses will observe Monday, July 6,1 of fluid battle, three strong Axis at- n , ru - as ^ Ie Fourth of July, according to a tacks on British positions around El Pk, ^ l _ : petition circulated in the city thU Adcm were beaten back with heavy !?ni hi ItSfl.^1 ? : w « k by the Chamber ot Commerce.; losses. Mobile British columns at- wtll be displayed shown the vaiue ^ mercha „, s were UIWiI lin«, « i, tacking the enemy flanks played a Stated, to close on the 4th, which great role in this action, comes on Saturday. ' „ ! The British retreat meant that the Announcement is further made! entire mine-studded front line of soil conservation work. Plans are under way, Mr. Cannon states, to hold similar meetings cst^of^the 1 k ^ inter ’! that because of the closing on the stretched 50 miles southeast through Presbyterian Bible School Closes 6th, the stores will remain open all the hot sands from Ain El Gazala on day on the following Wednesday, the the the Mediterranean to Bir Hacft- 8th. ! eim was in Axis hands. The speed with Which the British Bishop Reappointed Friday morning at 11 o’clock com-iOn Welfare Board mencement exercises for the daily vveirare DOara vacation Bible school of the First' Presbyterian church were h e 1 d J awards for perfect attendance and work completed. During the ten days of the school'the average daily at tendance was 44. ^ i 4 Men-of-the-Church To Give Picnic The daily vacation Bible school of the First Baptist church, which began on June 5, closed Friday with the total enroUrgent reaching 65. An av erage attendance of 54 was main tained. * . The faculty, in addition to Mjas Alethea Barnett, principal, included: Mrs. S. A. Timmons, Mrs. B. H. Sud- deth, Mrs. Lynn Cooper, Misses Fran-, ces Barnette, Annie Lou Boatwright,j I nilreilS Jlllv 27 Mary Ella Bailey, Marcia Galloway, i ^ ^ Virginia Sumerel and Louise Kern. | The re-arranged speaking dates Each day at the recess period the for candidates for the U. S. senate circles of the Womans Missionary and state 1 offices provides an after- favorable review of the detective i llght refreshments to noon meeting in Laurens on July 27 hich is laid in the • could bring up reinforcements ap peared likely to determine whether Ritchie could hold out at Acroma and El Adem., Dr. L. E. Bishop of this city, for! Military experts said Rommel now h®. 1 1; 1 several years « member of the Lau- a PP arentl y had definite tank superi- Thirty-one boys and girls received rens county Board of Public Wei- ont y because his 88-millimeter gun^ fare, has received official notification bad taken a heavy toll of British from Thomas H. Daniel, state direq- armored ^i rces - He used 300 tanks tor, of his reappointment upon the ‘ n bis flnjfPthrust. recommendation of the Laurens county delegation, for a three-year term ending June 10, 1945. State Campoign In story, the scene of a South Carolina f wl colh ege. 1 The annual picnic of the Men-of- the-CHurch of ffiTTIIir Fre<*3fte?Sh church will be held this evening at 7:30 at file Fish and Game lodge near here. A barbecued chicken sup per wOl be eervefi. All men of the church and their wives are invited to attend. 4- TRAFFIC DEATHS DEOP Columbia, June 17.—Fewer deaths from traffic accidents in South Caro lina were reported last month -than for any month since June, 1938, the state highway, department reported today. Twenty-five died in May, a 43 par cent-drop below May, 1941. -Twenty-nine counties reported no traffic fatalities, including Lauraas. j i" Vi. r , .. . - -a*r-**-«j* -** DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE ! PAR THIS YEAR HAS BEEN 1 wu FATALITY from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Lti's Strivt To Make 1942 s Safe Year On Ue Blfhwsjs. r: This dart last year. • Cannon Announces For Re-election at 4 p.m. In the morning the candi dates will speak at Union Merchants Asked To Decorate Windows * Board To Register 18-19 Year Group The Chamber of Commerce is ask ing merchants and business houses of the city tp decorate their windows i,.*, , x ,, this week especially in honor of the Hft.nd^CinColumbror Aui^ V.ter.n, and Auxiliary list 21. Th. new schedule calls (or : annua |, T" 1 ?* h ?f* Sl f" two meetings a day. M. A. “Gus” Cannon, well known resident of the Belfast community aa.i**. t-. U-i j and Hunter township, fonn»Uy an- •VlOulOdlStS 10 mOIu nounces tyiay that he will stand for Q UQr t er |y Conference reelection as county game warden in: ^ 7 - this-summer’s primary. “I have faithfully discharge the duties of the office,” Rev. J. H. Kohler, pastor of Broad churc day, Monday and Tuesday. It is also suggested that appropriate welcome signs be placed in the windows. The local dra(t board announced yesterday that the Red Cross room on South Broad street will be open beginning next Wednesday, the 24th,. for the registration of young men of 18 and 19 years and those who have reached 20 years of age since the last registration. The headquarters will be open daily through the officially designated date of June 30th. Other places of registration in .this section will be announced next week. nOunced the third quarterly confer-; LAURENS COUNTY COTTON MILLS HAD MYROLUAST YEAR Of 14303,582 Z d ^ d ^ 1 £ i encc wil1 b* h «W * the Sunday eve-] * wc( j ning service at 8 o’clock. The Rev. ooctinue to serve the public efficient- E r Mason, of Greenwood, distict ly in the future.” Rev. J. H. Kohler At Assembly School Rev. J. H. Kohler, pastor of Broad Street Methodist church, is spending the week in Columbia at the annual assembly of the ycking people of the South Carolina conference ot- the Methodist church being held at Co lumbia college. Mr. Kohler is in structing one of the courses of study being offered. ^ . of- coal 17,168, The five cotton mills of Laurens .ton consumed 60,714, tons county at Laurens, CUnton and Gold- i 9 > 811 . horsepower consumed superintendent, will deliver the ser- ville, employed 4,650 workers and estunated viU> *® population mon. Mr. Kohler requests all officers paid them $4,303,582 in wages last; ’ The cotton mills of the state, the to have their reports ready to pre sent at this time. year, according- to figures released | report shows, have $209,157,357 in- LOSES BROTHER Friends of J. R. Boyd will sym pathize with him in the death of his brother, J. W. Boyd, of Los Angelas, California, which occurred lata Mon day following an appendix operation a few days ago. The body is being shipped to the home of hit parents in Greenwood and burial will take place Saturday or Sunday. T yesterday from the executive offices of the South Carolina Cotton Manu facturers association. In 1940, 4,428 persons were em ployed with a payroll of $3,852,837, the report revealed. The manufacturing plans have a capita) investment of $7,685,804 against $8,0$1,113 in 1$40. The value of their annual product last year was $17,9I9,1C2. Total spindles are listed at 16M16t looms 7,813, bales of cot- vested, 110,466 workers employed, and a total paid them in wages of $87,078,249. The remarkable growth of the textile industry throughout this sec tion is shown by the fact that in 1912 the state’s textile payroll was only $13 / 663,988, distributed to 47,757 employee. In this county in 1912* the total payroll amounted to $477,194, with 1,538 persons employed. .