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V V ! i , Y< Poge Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, S. C. Thursdoy, July 30, 1942 Pvt. Joseph C. McDaniel Writes From Ireland The Chronicle is in receipt ot the following appreciated letter from one of its friends and subscribers. Pvt. Joseph C. McDaniel, now attached to the U. S. army in Northern Ire land. Northern Ireland, July 2, 1942. Dear Mr. Harris, Publisher The Chronicle: Never was my heart so gladdened when I arrived here and found Average Household Is 3.81 Persons More Two-Person A Private Citixen Speaks His .Mind Spectator Comments On Men^and Things T as » | Two armed men accosted me re- Households In The State; cently in Augusta. To my surpr^e I In 1940 Than Others. ; looked up to see two frowning go- ^ ^ [getters, with big guns on their hips. Washington, July 26.-The average ^^ one to me “Can you jour household in South CaroUna numbers! identity. Weiltoatn*®^ knocked f o oi narcnnc ' me c °ld. My identity? Who am I, ' • anyhow? Still it is a waste of time ^ <45 , !n reporting today the average per-i as k ing philosophical questions of a a copy of The Chronicle awaitmg me.| S ons in a household in the state, it man wh 0 se faith is based on a gun? There was a feeling of loneliness was pointed out that the medium when we landed, realizing we were in a strange country, a long way from home and would probably be some time before we received any mail. My mother had mailed my pape: to rrie at Fort Dix and for some reas- h oids is smaller than the median size ^^‘e TuU orcontention fo’r my on it had been sent here ahead of 'of white households, but the reverse | rights, wl th all the my arrival. It made me feel as If was true in the rural-farm areas , nn ^/ immimitiiHl _ Anrf „„ on There was practically no difference in size between the households of home owners and those of tenants. ROMMEL/mitS TO BE DIOGtNO IN ON DESERT FRONT Axis Commander Seems To Be Preparing for Delay In Expected Push. : i m . ,1 chanced to have a copy of Specta- size of household; in the urban areas . tor with me and out ^ truism was 3.25 persons, in rural-nonfarm j that the is mightier than the 3.60, and in the rural-farm 4.44. ln[ SWOTti by showing that pair of birds the urban and rural-nonfarm areas . _ the medium size of nonwhite house-! . Cairo, July 28.—The Axis armies of Marshall Erwin Rommel, stalled now for four weeks in the Quattara- Mediterranean corridor west of El Alamein, appeared today to be dig- FrW . . f T R TnR\r«;r)N ging in for a defensive of indefinite! 3 wv« u , duration some 80 miles short of their!*™* 6 Spectator in the original. True no- foremost objective, the British naval *£££ SI?!’ body compared a pencil with a gi&- base of Alexandria. ™ ment. When Mrs. Workman saw the impression she exclaimed, “Mother, why didn’t you have his feet turned towards home!’’ Mrs. Duncan also had as he/guest last week Mrs. Ella Todd of Deca tur, Ga., a former teacher, to whom she went to school nearly sixty year* ago, and who pays her a visit each year. ♦ Local friends and acquaintances of Lieut. Leo J. Burrell, formerly sta tioned here as a state highway pa trolman, will be interested to team “We had a regular cloud-burst Mon- he is now an ensign in the navy and day afternoon, one of the heaviest left Columbia Saturday to take /up rains I ever saw in my life.” his duties w ith the armed forces of the nation. Tor the past year Lieut Burrell has been in charge of the AROUND THE TOWN Incidents, Unusual and Ordinary, Gathered On Our Bounds. T. HAMP HOLLAND, a highly re garded. farmer of the Long Branch community and a subscriber to “our favorite newspaper,” Was a visitor at the office Tuesday. When asked about crops and rain in his section, he said: 4th I was being received by a friend. I eagerly look forward to getting it, since it keeps me posted on the folks back home. I like the country over here fine. The people are very nice to the American soldier. We are even be- ing T invited into their homes. They have been deprived of many of the essentials of life here they are so good to share what they have with us. ate revitalized drive on the Nile delta and would be satisfied for the privileges and/immunities—and so on —I don’t feel safe in front of two iguns when 1/have only a couple of [present to hold what he has gained ^ , worn-down Pencils. in the long march across Libya and In connection with the median size “Spectator 1 ’ did the job, I verily [into Egypt. , In the __ __ , j V , __ , who recently sailed for an unknown . T* 16 ™ J 181 J Romn i? 1 destination, will be interested to had abandoned hopes of an immedi let of household, the general definition {believe, because I first undertook to of the median as that item or value, establish my identity by showing a which stands at the midpoint of a se- small size check I was carrying. But ries arranged according to size or the check didn’t fill the two armed value must be’qualified somewhat,{men with becoming awe. It was since this figure is presented with a “Spectator” which forced them into decimal which can hardly be taken | a retreat which looked like the flight ■ . literally. For practical purposes, 0 f the Persians at Salamis. How> I realize you people back homeib owev er, one need not be concerned,that Brother Ketchin? Will you » just as big a job as we with ^ theoretical interpreUtion of this median, but may simply accept it as a convenient summary figure, will have just as big a job as have to do. But I know we can de pend oh you and that we won’t be stand by me on that? I don’t ask Bishop Smoak because I can’t pry him loose from his cash register. Per haps Brother Davies will rally round, groups con- while I persuade Deacon Brunson to coordinate. . , last four weeks of touch- and-go fighting, of attacks and counter attacks, neither side has ad vanced appreciably and most of the strategy has been aimed at hammer ing enemy supply lines from the air and, from the British side, by naval units shelling Axis ports of entry. The latest outburst of desert fight ing came yesterday and the battle continued into the night with the Al lied attackers falling back to their positions after having inflicted some losses on the enemy and taking some prisoners. (The Italian communique claimed a second 1,000 British prison ers were taken in battles with two know his mother, Mrs. J. B. Johnson, received a card saying he had ar rived safely—SOMEWHERE. RUFUS SADLER is in Darlington this week to participate in the closed tennis tournament, and from there will go to Hartsvilte for the North and South Carolina tournament down. We want you to feel the representing the size of household in same about us. It was hard for me 1 ^b e various areas and to give up my home and those I love,. cemgd. am cure There were more two-person j Seriously now, what are we com- h g hi£>hf>r P than pvpr households in the state in 1940 than ing to? Those uniformed gun-toters h thrmph man mv nart mav Wp I households 0 f any other size. The said that they were federal men. I Snl t^nn/h thL^ a P p nf two-person households numbered They looked exactly like Stan Wil-j d v^ons' smuth of El Alamein hp g WPU Hnnp ani nnr 84,974 and constituted 19.5 per cent liamson’s martial men, though not so!™* said ** 62 vehicles w6re des “ wil! be well done and our ef-, of the 434 968 households ^ in the j handsome or soldierly. We have *> *<**?•> . ^ person households ar- many armed officers of enforcement. “ apparent that in all the par- 5.8 per cent of the total that if the federal government is ^ .in *1.-* manner , of desultory fighting the British have not driven a permanent wedge into job forts not in vain. Respectfully yours, JOE C. McDANIEL. July 2, 1942. AID TO VICTORY PLEASE RETURN METAL HANGERS FOR RE-USE. We Ask Your Cooperation— Please Don’t Forget. BUCHANAN'S Phone 28 SURE.... I’ve got my furniture INSURED against FIRE . . . with STATE FARM FIRE INSURANCE CO. ROBERT D. LYNN Phone 42 state. One- i counted for 5.8 per and three-person households 19.4 per holding up citizens in that cent. Thus, more than two-fifths of we might just as well not talk all occupied dwelling units in the much about liberty, state were used as the living quar- ] I didn’t find out whom the two of- ters of households with three or fleers sought; nor did I learn what fe\yer persons. the charge was improper proceeding. I say liberately. If people are to be chal lenged in that manner many a man will be carried off to jail. I thought of the friends I might 1,130 people were X-rayed at Jo- call on, you know, beginning with T br ^ anna Textile Mills on Monday and Governor Jefferies, our handsome . Tuesday. Of this group, 980 were state treasurer, Jeff Bates, that safe employes of the mill. Practically 100 and sane pillar of society, Attorney per cent of the employes took ad- General Daniel—and a host of oth- vantage of the clinic. The remaining ers. This being a political year •! 250 were residents or domestic ser- ( feared that vants in the community. - flush. I wasn X-Ray Clinic Held At Joanna PAUL LEAGUE, sqn of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. League, will complete an officers training course at Northwest ern university, Chicago, August 1. Paul was graduated from the Uni versity of South Carolina and imme diately accepted a position with The Charlotte Observer,, which he held at the time he entered the service. CARROLL BARNES, son of Mr. and Mr$. Eric Barnes, who is in offi- Occident prevention bureau of the South Carolina highway patrol Miss Mary Scott of belongs to the Clinton ily, has been choseh to att Women’s Army Auxiliary cor eers training school and August 24 at Des Moines, enrollment and further Miss Scott, who has visited here a number of times, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Scott of Eas ley. Her mother before marriage was Miss Dorojhy Owens of this city. Her grandfather, W. E. Owens, is a lifelong and revered citizen of this community. The youqg lady is a nieee of Mrs. R. E. Sadler and Rob ert S. Owens. ~ • Of interest to relatives here is the recent marriage of Miss Irene Ben jamin of Hartsville, and Hugh H. Hines of Florence. Miss Benjamin, former superin tendent of a hospital in Gainesville, cers training caiflp with the 59th [Ga., is the eldest daughter of Mr. training battalion, Camp Welters, and Mrs. John C. Benjamin of Harts- Texas, wrote home that he didn’t ville. Her father, who is well known think there was a soul in the whole | in this community, is a native of the outfit from South Carolina, only to Rocky Springs section near here, a nurse 8 K SUB il they mill executives and community lead-') h a d !>*>* "n* to J.il ttat debonair cav ers cooperated in making the X-ray *> “. Norwood Hastie would cer- nroeram a success tainly have sent me flowers from p g ^ beautiful Magnolia gardens. After i The X-raying of workers is a SO . the enemy forces holding the north ern coastal sector. » The important factor favoring the . It was entirely an ^ ? ei ! iding. I say that de- ^ lth South Africa, Austra lian and American squadrons con stantly strking at the Axis sealanes, ground communications and the bat tle forces themselves. The enemy’s supply ports of Ben- and Ratruh have been thp special targets. AUTO STAMPS NECESSARY Motorists who have not purchased K»|the red $5 federal automobile use to; 1^43. Which wen, in use bankers don’t like to advis ^ , to , do f° immediately by J. C. Dial, deputy collector oi internal revenue. Mr. Dial says the stamps should be on; display on automobile windshields by | Saturday, August 1, or the motorist i discover that LT. JOE McMILLAN, son of Mr 1 , and Mrs. Jodie McMillan of this city, was with the 58th train ing battalion, is a very close neigh bor and visits have been exchanged. CADET W. DUNCAN WORKMAN left Monday to resume his work at Shaw field, Sumter, after a sick leave of five weeks spent here with his mother, Mrs. Nene D. Workman, and grandmother, Mrs. W. J. Dun can. Mrs. Duncan said the parting so vividly recalled a time years ago when Duncan was a very little boy, scarcely more than a year old, when she and Mr. Duncan were having the concrete walk and blocks at the end of the walk poured. As the workman finished he insisted that the baby’s footprints be made in thetpoft ce- son of the late Ludie T. and Frances Duval benjamin. A beautiful* baptismal font has been presented the First Presbyte rian church by Mrs. C. M. Bailey in memory of her-husband Cassius Mer cer Bailey, who passed away in 1935. Mr. Bailey at the time of his death was an honored elder Of the church. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE TO CHECK P-‘ all/I was l h.d th^ght ^ to *25 fine or thirty losis .x-T tf- .. .» w..* # a days m jail. of the Laurens County Tuberculosis that j might be “ want ed,” but found associations home defense program..^ ba ^ j was still unwanted. The theme of this and similar cam paigns is health protection and the i conservation of civilian lives. • • «• • • #* CASINO THEATRE THE BROADWAY t MONDAY AND TUESDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, August 3 and 4 August 3 and 4 ■ £291 CAN GET BB "Shanghai Gesture" mT~3 anything With GENE TIERNEY, VICTOR MATURE, WALTER HUSTON, ONA MUNSON, PHYLLIS BROOKS, AL- RLJ 1 WANT... ► BETTI DAVIS oo via de HAVILLAND BERT BASSERMAN, MARIA OUS- ) PENSKAYA, ERIC BLORE and [IVAN LEBEDEFF. ! A story of old Shanghai . . . where I almost anything could happen . . . i and did! plus 6I0R6E BRENT-DENNIS MORGAN NEWS. 10c and 25c ■ ! V n’y 4 p > — ChARLFS COBURN retN* uuvex M.io.i'M amiwJm CARTOON. NEWS. 10c & 30c Feature begins 2:16,4:16,7:16,9:17. ID A. M. Show MONDAY., r P JOE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, August 5 and 6 "Girl From Alaska" With RAY MIDDLETON, JEAN I WHITE PARKER and JEROME COWAN. Feature begins 3:25, 6:02, 8:39. "Adventures of Martin Eden" With CLAIRE TREVOR, GLENN FORD and STUART ERWIN. Feature begins 2:00,4:37,7:14,9:51. 10 A. M. Show WED. 10c & 20c | Feature 10:18. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, August 7 and 8 "Torzan's New York Adventure" With JOHNNY WEISSMULLER, MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN, JOHN SHEFFIELD, CHARLES B IC K - FORD, PAUL KELLY, VIRGINIA GREY, CHILL WILLS, and “CHJEE- TA.” 1,000 NEW THRILLS! ... The jungle man lands in civilization! . . . YOU’VE NEVER SEEN ^ANYTHING LIKE IT! _ plus MARCH OF TIME— y “INDIA AT WAR” SELECTED SHORTS. NEWS. 18c and 30c Feature Begins: Friday: 2:40, 4:34, 7:40, 9:38. Saturday: 2:59, 5:08, 7:17, 929. Whither are we drifting O tem pera, o mores. Sic semper tyrannis— and all that. Well, Bfother Tom Wsu:- ing! _ m We wish an outright declaration against bob-tailed bills might be, made by the candidates for governor,! lieutenant-governor and (later) the! speaker of the house. Some of usj ought to speak out now and promise to challenge any bub-tailed bill in court. There are times when bob tailing may seem desirable, but the practice is se bad and so entirely re- pugnant to our Constitution and to correct procedure that the evil over- ^ whelmingly outweighs the. good. A ’ governor should refuse to approve a 1 bob-tailed bill whether state-wide i or local and a lieutenant-governor and a speaker should refuse to sign bob-tails. Years ago Speaker James B. Gib son announced to the ^xouse that he would refuse to sign any bob-tailed j bill. More recently, J. E. Harley, while lieutenant-governor, took the j same stand. Speaker Blatt is substan- itially of the same mind. But let us ; declare agaiqst the practice unequiv ocally. There is another matter which AILEY, JR., DONNA should appropriately evoke a decla- BBY BLAKE. ; ration by the same g^ptlemen: I re fer to the inclusion of new matter into free conference reports. When the^ljpuse adopts a bill for 312,000,000 and the senate bill calls for $12,500,- 1000 the committee on free conference is supposed to reconcile the two houses. The compromise must be on 2:00,4:46,7:32, and a total not exceedingufee higher fig ure. There is ho legal sanction what ever for incorporating a lot of new matter; increasing salaries; creating new offices—or whit not. Such a practice is bad and should be brbught before the courts. Lei’s have government operations open and above board. If the gover nor, the lieutenant-governor and the speaker resolve to stop this practice, ft will be stopped. Otherwise resort should be had to the courts. ~ \ Whotlfou bu^Witk WAR BONDS Feature begins 2:09,4:09,7:09,9:09. Aside from the sixty-mile an hour Mosquito Torpedo Boatp, the Sub Chasers are the speedsters of our Navy. Light and fast, they are the eyes of the Fleet on the water. They displace approximately 1,500 tona ; about $2,400,000 each. ii WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, August 5 and 6 Mokey With DAN , REED and B Feature begins 3:18, 6:04, 8:50. "Come On, Danger With TIM HOLT, RAY WHITLEY, FRANCES NEAL and LEE “Lasses” We need many of these powerful, fast little boats to cope with the treacherous submarine type pf na val warfare fostered by our ene mies.! Everybody can^elp pay for more' Sub Chasers by putting at least ten percent of his incopie into War B6nds. Buy Bonds or Stamps every pay day. Buy them from your bank, your post office, or from your office or factory through the Payroll Savings Plan. J! begins plus “GANG BUSTERS,” Chapter 6. 10c and 20c 10 A. M. Show THURSDAY. ii FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, August 7 and 8 Raiders Of the Range WithL^bB STEELE, TOM TYLER, and RUFE DAVIS. Feature Begins: Friday: 2:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:00. Saturday: 1:47, 3:52, 5:57, 8:02, and 10:07. "Dudes Are Pretty People" With JIMMY ROGERS, NOAH BEERY, JR., MARJORIE WOOD- WORTH and RUSSEL GLEASON. Feature Begins: Friday: 3:12, 5:12, 8:12, 10:12. Saturday: 2:42, 4:47, 6:52, 8:57. ■ - plus r- “DICK TRACY vs CRIME, INC.,” Chapter 11. 166 and 28c 10 A. M. Show SATURDAY. ' HANGERS ARE SCARCE' ... due te so much metal being required fer our war effort. Pleaae return annuity Hang ers ae received with year Cleaning. Pleaae Don’t Forget BUCHANAN'S Phone M WAR STAMPS ON SALE AT BOTH THEATRES HMMMHMMMM If It is a Magaalne that you wish, or phene JAMBS W. CALD WELL, at Clinton Tea Baem. Either straight subscriptions or 84 contract plan. Gray Funeral Home CHuton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS EMBALMERS 41 L. RUSSELL GRAY and Y. FARM NATUROPATH No. 1 National Bank Telephone 97 CUNTON, 8. 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