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THE CHROWCIE ' Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Coirtplete, Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE * You Don't Get the News Volume XLII Clinton, S. G, Thursday, August 6, 1942 Number 32 RUSSIANS GET U. S. BOMBING RUNES mam mm mwm At » decIfiuUed spot |n the Middle East, V. 8. medium bombers are being ferried from the U. 8. and turned over to Kumlaa fliers who take over from that point on. U. 8. fliers act as Instrnetors and aid the Kna- sUns }n learning the eontrols of the Ametiean planes. Here a group of U. 8. fliers and their Busslan allies are shown talking flight DRAFTEES REPORT TO FORT JACKSON The local draft board sent 15 draftees Monday morning to Fort Jackson, Columbia, for induction into regular army service, the list al ready having appeared in The Chron icle. When this call'was made as of July 18, 28 men were included, with 15 from the group passing the physi cal examinations and being accepted. I Lions Tc| Push Salvage Drive Fullest Aid Asked of Community In Effort To Collect Scrap. MRS. DICK BUYS CASINO BUILDING The attention of The Chronicle’s; readers is called to an advertisement ing the in today’s paper headed, The board sent 16 men yesterday, Needed for War,” which is approved property which has now been pur- will send three today, and one on the, by the conservation division of the; chased by Mrs. Dick will be used for Negotiations were completed dur ing the week by which Mrs. J. M. Dick of Raleigh, N. C., purchased the Casino theatre building from Masonic Temple, Inc. The price paid for the property was not disclosed. TRfe Casino theatre has been rent building for a number of { “Junk years from Masonic Temple, Inc. Thej BRITISH ARE RILED BY GANDHI POSITION REGARDS JAPANESE ■ Contend Proposal With Tokyo Constitutes Invitation to Nippons to Invade. New 11th from the 29 men called for July War Production board as a part of a the same purpose in the future. The British Delhi, India, government Aug. 3. — The charged today 21, a total of 20 from this list pass- nation-wide campaign being launch- sale did not include the two adjoin- that the great majority of the Ail ing the examinations. 1 ed. This message will be followed by ing store rooms which, it is under- India congress working committee It was learned from the draft of-!others. istood, the Masonic corporation is of- are appeasers of Japan and that the fice yesterday that the work of re-! President Roosevelt has made a fering for sale. !Nationalist Leader Mohandas K. classifying registrants is continuing.! general appeal to the American peo-! In speaking of the purchase, Mrs. Gandhi favors prompt negotiations As previously announced by the j pie for the fullest possible cooper- Dick stated that as soon as govern- with Japan for the independent In board, married men with no children 1 ation in the coming scrap salvage I ment building restrictions are lifted dia he seeks to establish now. or dependents other than their wives, are being placed in class 1-A sub ject tP call under the selective service system. drive. j she plans to make improvements and ; The government cited documents The Lions club is serving as the!probable changes in the property.;seized in a raid on the All-India Con- local salvage committee with Clyde, Both the Casino and Broadway thea- gress party’s headquarters at Allaha- S. Lankford as chairman. For sev- Selectees To Be Given Schooling Columbia Selected for Schools for Illiterate Draftees. DRY WEATHER HALTS WEEVIL Columbia, Aug. 3.—Selective Ser vice Director Holmes B. Springs an nounced today that Columbia had been selected as the city in South Carolina for the establishment of training centers for selectees lacking educational qualifications for the na tion’s armed forces. National headquarters of the seled No calls fc>r September, either ‘ eral weeks this organization has been white or colored, had been received - collecting scrap metal in a bin pro vided on the public square. The drive will be continued and the club is asking the cooperation and help of everybody in this section. Families are asked to ransack their cellars, attics and backyards for old metal, rubber and rags, and waste fats to be turned in at meat markets. by the board up to last night. Lost Rifes Held For John Lee Chondler John Lee Chandler, 74, died last Wednesday at his home in Laurens following a period of declining health. Clemaon, Aug. 5.—Hot dry weather of middle and late July has been very important in checking boll wee vils, W. C. Nettles, extension ento mologist, said today. This was es pecially true in the Piedmont section, where the “weed” was small. Even in the coastal plains section, up to 90 per cent o the grubs were exposed j to the sun either on the stalks or on the ground were killed. , „ , ^ _ „ . , . , .. ... age and John Boyd. In the«coastal plains section bolls are beginning to crack open in some fields, and in most fields squares are becoming scarce. Naturally in many of these fields square infestation ap proaching 100 per cent might soon tres are owned by Mrs. Dick and op- j bad, in particular' the original draft erated under the management of J. : of a resolution put forward by Gand- Leland Young. MONTS TO ENTER NEW SCHOOL WORK The resignation of W. E. Monts as superintendent of the Clinton pub lic schools for the past seven years, All are asked to assist in getting to-1 became effective July 31. He is suc- , gether such salvage material as ceeded by Pat H. Hobson, who re- Funeral services were held Thurs day afternoon in Laurens, conducted by Dr. C. Bynum Betts of this city. Interment followed in the Chandler , , ., T .... . cemetery near here, with a number bom * ) Ja P s Wlth J unk of friends assembling for the last might otherwise be overlooked considered of no importance. * You are asked to collect and throw your scrap into the fight — to help Pallbearers were: Rex, Austin, I Carl and Grady Chandler, Gus Ram ie ai Mr. Chandler is survived by his wife, the former Miss Pauline Barks- hi advocating that Indians wage a campaign of civil disobedience to win immediate freedom from British rule. . Gandhi admitted the substance of the charges, but said he had taken his position for bargaining purposes. Such a resolution was eventually adopted by the working committee and is to be voted upon by the party in a momentous meeting this Friday, here with his family | but the approved resolution, sup ported by the more moderate Pandit Wilburn Held For Jennings Slaying Cocoa,’ Fla , and J. Tom Chandler, for months urged the government to I count is still exceedingly low in most who resides near Clinton. create some means of • educating youths sufficiently to meet the mini- (inum requirements for the armed services. He had contended that to fail to do this would be to diacrlmi cases, and the cotton is squaring freely. “Do not waste time now trying to pick up squares,” Nettles says. “If : 7 _T*u uu \ \Iiyou have a dusting machine and feel ^«L ta f t _. th0>e m<! l W,lh ‘ d ^ Ua,e it. your education. United States Commissioner of Ed ucation John W. Studebaker will at tend a conference here tomorrow concerning the forming of the cen-[ ters, Springs, State Superintendent of Education. James H. Hope and Miss Will Lou Gray, adult education supervisor, will also attend. The national office wrote Springs that “the army is interested in pre- induction training and wishes to ex periment in several areas as to what might be accomplished by pre-induc- tiqn training for the illiterate or poorly-educated registrant whose in duction is not imminent.” The three Columbia selective ser vice boards, and the plan, would be ordered by Springs to call up all physically fit but uneducated regis trants for classes conducted by the local school system under war de partment supervision. Upon attain ing the necessary education, they would be classified for potential in duction. couacy ag« sm wui be rflad to advise you regarding your problem.” or cently moved from York. Mr. Monts announced yesterday Jawaharial Nehru omitted references that he has accepted a position with advocating direct cooperation with the state department of education in Japan. the department of soldier and civil-! Gandhi's proposed resolution stat- ian rehabilitation as director of vo- ed in part: cational guidance. In his new work “Japan's quarrel is not with India, he will be associated with six state She is warring against the British supervisors in this department, with empire. India's participation in the A coroner’s jury in Laurens last headquarters in Columbia. A part [war has not been with the consent Wednesday afternoon found that [ °* his time wil1 ** spent in traveling, of representatives of the Indian peo- dale; two sons, O. B. Chandler of .Robert D. Jennings, 35, came to his; he stated. jple. It was a purely British act Spartanburg, and Earle T. Chandler'death from gunshot wounds at the; 1716 Monts Wl11 mov e m the next, “If India were freed, her first step of Richmond, Va; and three brothers,! hands of Austin Wilburh of this clty, ifew d *y s to Newberry where they would probably be to negotiate with Japan . .. “This committee desires to assure the Japanese government and people that India bears no enmity towards Japan or towards any other nation. India only desires freedom from all alien domination. But in this fight for freedom, the Messrs. Wyatt and O. H. Chandler of'an employee of the Clinton Cotton ; wi ]^ resi de in the future. Cobb Appointed As School Trustee Wray Resigns At High School .Joe W. Wray of Cedartown, Ga., instructor at Clinton high school for the past two years, has resigned to accept the position of instructor of mathematics at North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineer ing at Raleigh, for the coming year. Mr. Wray is studying this summer at the University of Georgia. He has a number' of friends in the city who will regret to know he will not re turn here the coming year. Mills, I Mr. and Mrs. Monts and their at- Wilbum, who gave himself up im- tractive daughters Ruth and Juli- mediately after the shooting, at his anne ’ have many friends here who home here on the night of July 24, will regret to learn they are leaving and who had been placed under aiCUnron, and whose best wishes will follow them to their new home. J. R. Cobb, resident of the Lydia "T? ‘ erv ~- . 0 JoantlQ Mills CytS P IL i Mills community, has been appointed was h *i“ by K C ® n ? ner by the county board of education as Robert L Burgess, assisted by Solid- Working HOUfS pathy does not stand in need of for- a trustee of Hunter school district ^ ve L ^ u u T h ^ No. 5. Confirmation of the new ap- ^ at heard ^ and ^ thl * ”*** the Joanna ' k , h ! r IT* 0 ™ nointment was made vesterdav bv went U P the street and met Wilburn, Textile Mills, Goldville, are operat- through her non-violent strength, and R. E. Sadler of this city, member of ^ ho * aid ^ h * had „ s J ot his son ' i ": ! n ® °!J a * 0 : hour weekly ^ n ^ the county board in response to an' 13 ^ 1 had to do it » he was Quoted instead of 55 hours as previously. The committee hopes that Japan will not inquiry by The Chronicle. “J?* 1 ?* ^ ? a ? ge ,^ ade for August and . Mr Cobb succeeds C N Mauney The occurred, iLis alleged September, the management stated, But u Japan attacks India and whose term expired on July 1. Mr! ^ hen Jennings went to Wilburn’s on account of the hot weather. ^Britain makes no response to its ap- Mnnnpv was tha nlrW mamh*r on 1 house in an effort to see the former s Under the new schedule one hour Peal, the,committee would expect all the board in point of service having| wife ’ who had leit her home in Lau-, 18 cut off the night shift and thej 1 * 108 * who look to the congress for been elected in a “preferential pri- ™ and "^ned • to her father’s five hours heretofore worked on Sat-^u'dance to offer complete non-vio- home here. Officers stated that Wil- urday morning eliminated. j ‘ent non-cooperation to the Japanese bum had warned Jennings to stay ^ : forces, and not to render any assist- Florida Synod Cancels Meet Here Official notice has been received by Thornw^ll orphanage that the meeting of the Synod of Florida, scheduled to be held with the insti tution in October, has been cancelled. The action was taken because of the gas and tire situation. The annual meeting of the Synod of South Carolina is expected to be held here in October with the First Presbyterian church as host. The pr- Kiwanians To Hold Picnic At Orphanage The annual picnic for the Kiwanis club members, their families and friends, will be held on the orphan age campus Thursday evening, .Aug ust 13. All families are asked to bring • baskets and lunch will be served on the lawn. The group has been invited by the institution to take a dip in the McKay swimming' pool later in the evening. in a “preferential pri mary” in 1935. Trustees of the Ibcal schools are! appointed by the county board for a, away ' term of five years. The records show that the term of W. C. Baldwin ex pires in 1943, R. L. Plaxico, 1944, G. A. Burton, 1945, and C. E. Gallo way, 1946. Hobson Assumes School Position Clinton Negro Charged With Murder City Schools To • Open August 31 InvUlng Jape In London. Aug. 4.—Informed British The 1942-43 session of the Clinton sources today described .Mohandas K. public schools will open on Monday,; G and *n’ s desire to negotiate with Ja- Timothy Gary, colored, was shot August 31, it was announced yester-'P® 11 48 “merely an invitation to Ja- ance to them pan to invade India.” Those who are well-posted on In dian policies said, however, there Wright Named As Mill Superintendent and killed by another Negro, Willie day by Supt. Pat H. Hobson. Lee Fair, shortly after midnight last The first faculty meeting, he stat- Friday night. The shooting took place ed, will be held on Saturday mom- on Railroad avenue at the home of ing, the 29th, at 10 o’clock. j was r * a - son to assume that the Pat H. Hobson has arrived in the Duffy Dunlap. Fair left the scene im- It was learned yesterday that the! disclosur * of Gandhi’s frame of mind city and on August first entered up- mediately after the. trouble but was faculty for the year has not yet been wou ld “substantially weaken Gand- on his work as superintendent of the apprehended about three hours later completed by the board of trustees. h ‘! s . following ifi India, although it Clinton public schools, succeeding at his father’s home three miles from ^ Supt. W. E. Monts, whose |erm ex- the city, and lodged in the county B (jr Purchases The coroner’s inquest was held $7,000 War Bonds pired on July 31. Mr. Hobson, who is a graduate of Clemson s college, taught in the Me- , here Saturday morning, after which Cormick schools and from that posi-i Coroner Robert I. Burgess issued a tion went to Clover where he headed warrant charging Fair with murder, the schools as superintendent for 14, As far as could be ascertained, no The board of directors of the Citi zens Federal Savings and Loan as sociation at their monthly meeting might influence many moderates and possibly small groups within the con gress party itself.” • ' 1 Sugar Allotted For Canning Purposes ap- Re- Joseph L. Wright has been pointed superintendent of the "ciVmT the £ ubu f Cotton mill. Nd. 1 end 2 et Sum* in enterteinln* the deU(^, Greet I^iucceedlnt hU brother, since the Joint meeting of the two,®* 0 ^** h** bright, Jr. who has en- synods is not to be held here as had . 'years. For the past two years he was words passed between the two Ne- Tuesday evening, authorized the pur-i Issuance of sugar canning certifi- superintendent of the York schools. Jgroes prior to the killing and no tes-i chasing of $7,000 series F War Sav- cates was resumed August first, ac- Mr. Hobson and fahuly have ar- timony was offered at the inquest ings bonds. The purchase, the direc- cording to the Laurens county war rived in the city and are occupying a establishing a motive or cause for tors stated, is for the remaining five price and rationing board. Those residence on South Broad street. been planned. Homecoming Sunday At Leesville Church Mr. Wright is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Wright, former Clin ton residents, who are pleasantly re- j w. mem be red here. Mr. Wright is presi dent of the mills. ' Baldwin Building Is Completed c> Fair’s action. The handsome new home of the C. Baldwin Motor company on daughters, Lana Copeland and Mar- |months of the year and was made to making applications for certificates I cooperate with the U. S. Treasury in will be allotted sugar at the rate of j its present sales campaign. , one pound for each four quarts of J _* . (Canned fruit to be put up. the board iCampaign Opens ; states ^ — |U A- a 1A 1 According to Chairman W. R. Mc- The Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Dick and n ® r ® AUgUST IT . jCuen, a total of 24,198 pounds of The Dicks Leave After Stay Here Homecoming day will be observed Sunday at Leesville M. E. Church, South, near here. Regular church school service at 18:30, preaching at 11:30, afternooir service at 2 JO. Din-, ner will be served on the grounds. Everyone is asked to bring a well- filled basket, officers of the church state. The Rev. J. M. Mason of Winns- boro, . is assisting the pastor, Rev., Joseph Caldwell, in the meeting which is now la progress. The pubbe is emtttally invited to attend all services. ♦, * i i mm** m,mm ^ WOODS TO PREACH The pulpit of the first Presbyte rian church will be occupied Sunday morning by Dr. D. J. Woods in the , absence of the pastor, Rev. J. K. Roberts. No evenfhg services will be held at the ohurch during August. GONE TO MONTREAT Rev. and Mrs, C. E. Piephoff and children have gone to Montreat, 19. C, whore they have taken a.cottage lor the month of August ' ~ DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE 80 PAR THIS TEAR THERE HAS BEEN 1 FATALITY AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS ^ in LAURENS COUNTY Let'* Strive To Make 1942 a Safe Year On tke Hifhways. This dale last year, I ^ sugar had been allotted to residents North Broad street has been com- garet MacDowell, left Tuesday after The abbreviated Laurens, county of the county for home canning pur- pleted and the firm is moving into spending a vacation at their apart- political campaign will open in Clin- poses up until July 1. During this the building this week from their, ment on South Broad street. From ton on Friday night, August 14. period there had been a total of former location on West Main street.,here the Dicks went to Columbia to The second and last meeting of the 2,996 applications for canning -sugar, The building, of concrete construe- Attend the Copeland-Gilland wed- campaign will be held a week later of which 970 were granted, tion with steel reinforcements, is a ding last evening, and from there in Laurens on August 21. modern automobile plant in every they will go to Pawley’s Island for a All candidates with opponents will detjaiL The front is arranged for dis- stay of several days before return- he heard at the two meetings, play space and offices, while the rear ing to their home in Raleigh, N. C. { will be used for their repair depart-j Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Dick en-i ment. ! tertained for their cousin. Miss Linda i The building was erected under the Copeland, with a luncheon in the supervision of J. Roy Crawford, well Crystal room of the Hotel Columbia, known local contractor. League To Stop School Activities McSween Transferred To Chaplain Division Rev. Allen McSween, who has been The South Carolina High School in army service for the past six league will discontinue sponsorship months with the rank of second lieu-] of high school athletic championship! tenant, has been transferred to the, competition for the duration of the chaplain division and left Monday the league’s executive commit- ‘‘for Boston, Mass., where he will pur sue a special course for the next sev-, eral weeks. He was accompanied by J Mrs. McSween, the*" former Miss Be be Dillard of this city. ‘ Lieut. McSween was inducted into service at Camp Croft, Spartanburg, competi- 1 For the past four months he has been stationed at Fort Jackson, Columbia. war, tfe decided at a meeting here in Co lumbia Tuesday. The scholastic program of the league will also be curtailed by can- eaUation of tha annual high school week held at the University of South Cf»x>Mtia- Other scholastic tions will be held. /• More Conning At The Orphanage The Thornwell orphanage during the week was given a large truck of fine quality Elberta peaches from the ! Craig orchards at Ora. From this fruit and the gift of two truck loads i last week by Jack H. Davis. Sr., more than - a thousand gallons have been canned for the children’s use this winter. Boyd Supplying Laurens Church Prof. B. H. Boyd of the college fac ulty, is occupying the pvlpit of the First Presbyterian church of Lau rens duririg August while the pastor. Rev. J. J. Hayes, is on his vacation. Only morning services will be held during the month, officers have an nounced.