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m ■ ■ y Yt THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy end Reliable (Elintmt (Ehnmtrir If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XIII Clinton, S. C, Thursday, September 10,1942 Number 37 STODDARD AND MOORE ARE WINNERS toomi OPENS MFUUM FBHI • Stabilization of Living Cpsfs Urged Tq Avoid €cdnomk Crisis and Impair War Effort. Washington, Sept 7. — President Roosevelt carried his battle for stab ilization of living costs to the peo ple tonight with a radio address as serting that immediate action was necessary to avoid a “serious domest ic economic crisis,” that “if we wait for two or three or four or six months it may be too late.” During the day he had sent a message to congress demanding leg islation by October 1 to bring farm prices under control. Unless con gress acts by that date he will act himself, he said. Firmly he reiterat ed this statement of his intentions in tonight’s address. With farm prices stabilized, he himself would act to stabalize wages, he promised. The radio address contained also a front-by-front summary of the progress, of the war, which closed with a statement that in Europe the “ai mis an offensive against Ger many,” toward which preparations are in progress in both the United States and Great Britain. “The power of Germany must be broken on the battlefield of Europe,” he said, adding that: “Certain vital decisions have been made. In due time you will know what these decisions are—and so will our enemies. I can say now that all of these decisions are di rected toward taking the offensives.” Paragraph by paragraph he re viewed the war on each front Russia: Hitler is still unable to gain the “smashing victory” which almost a year ago he announced had Russian territory Tiai been captured, but Hitler has hot been able to des troy the Red army. The Russians are “killing more Nazis, and des troying more airplanes and tanka than are ebing smashed on any other front/’ The German army must spend another “cruel and bitter win ter” on the Russian front. “In spite of any. setbacks, Russia will hold out and with the help of her Allies yill ultimately drive every Nazi from her soil” The Pacific area: One major Jap anese offensive has been stopped, but the enemy still possesses great , strength, seeks to retain the initia tive, and will strike hard again. Don’t over-rate the victories in the Solomon islands, which were “local operations,” and don’t under-rate the victory at Midway, for “there we stopped the major Japanese offen sive.” Mediterranean and Middle East: (Continued on page seven) On The News Front ! ROCKY SPRINGS CHURCH TO IE • DEDICATED SUNDAY Dedicatory/ 'Services for Rocky Springs Presbyterian church will be held Sunday beginning at 12 o’clock with a special program planned for the morning and afternoon. Rev. W. D. Ratchford of Sharon, who was pastor of the church when it, was built about 20 years ago, will preach the dedicatory sermon. Rev. J. E. Ratchford, present' pastor, will have charge of the services. At the boon hour dinner will be served on the grounds and those at tending are asked to bring picnic baskets. Afternoon services will begin at 3:30 and will include an address by Rev. F. T. McGill of Greer, also a former pastor. A history of the church, prepared especially for the occasion by Miss Mary Satin, a mem ber of the congregation, will be given. Ttie pastor has issued a cordial invitation to all members, friends and the public to attend the special services. unum moved INTO NEW BmPING The Clinton public library and the Presbyterian college library are be ing moved this week from the college science hall building to the new city 1 library located on the corner of South Broad street and College Plaza. The lighting fixtures, which havei held up the occupancy of the new 1 building for several weeks, have now been installed and the building will be in operation by the first of next weak. It will bouse The college library, the city public library, the library of Dr. William Plumer Jacobs, founder of the college, and the administrative officers of the college. These offices are already being occupied. The transfer of the more. than 23,000 volumes of the two libraries is being done under the supervision of J. Isaac Copeland, acting librarian at the college, who will be in charge of the joint libraries. • ' - / ■ I ' a .. HOW LAURENS COUNTY VOTED SUPERVISOR AND GAME WARDEN Second Primary, Tuesday, September 8 PRECINCTS Supervisor Game Warden Stoddard Teague .Cannon Moore Absentee Ballots .... 36 ’ 13 1 48 Esoilcjr 8 «••• ••••■ •••• •— — *• 60 21 2? 53 Brewington 66 5 17 54 Barksdale-Narnie 25 114 36 103 Clinton City' 223 219 353 87 Clinton Mill 126' 126 . 205 48 Cook’s Store jl 33 30 43 20 Cross Hill .... - 73 44 82 36 Daniels’ Stpre . 38 10 11 37 Dials ••• • • *• »••• 38 20 11 46 Ekom ...... •••• -•*- •••« •••* »-»«. 39 48 33 56 Goldville .... .... .... 199 158 195 159 Cjlrjljr 8 • - • • —••• • —*• • mmmm • — • •<« —• 11 . 7 11 8 Gray Court 158 42 78 123 Hopewell 34 31 61 4 Hickory Tavern .... 50 62 58 55 Jones’ Store 139 8 71 76 Lanford 15 15 9 21 Langston 41 39 45 34 Laurens City 496 349 132 710 Laurens Mills 129 104 52 182 Lydia Mill 117 . 89 173 32 Long Branch 39 43 46 37 Merna ■...: - 37 3 16 24 Mt. Olive .... • 21 29 36 14 Mountville ’ 36 31 52 18 Mt. Pleasant :.. 4 44 12 36 Ora 17 31 20 28 ingS •••• a•. • a*-aa aaaa aaaa aaaa 123 6 48 80 Pleasant Mound 14 26 36 5 Poplar Springs 75 18 33 60 Princeton .?. 43 22 31 34 Renno 19 25 42 2 ShllOh aaaa Oaaa aaaa aaaa • —. • a*aa 16 29 17 29 Shady Grove 5 13 15 3 Stewart’s Store 48 16 42 21 Tip-Top — — 35 11 23 23 Trinity Ridge .... 31 37 \ 4 54 Waterloo 38 32 23 47 Watts Mills «r. .... 154 163 75 240 Woodville 158 12 56 ’ 112 Youngs .... .... — — .... ’.... 53 . M J 86 41 TOTALS .... | 8071 | 2188 2860 2897 Wasson Accepts . School Position Robert C. Wasson of the Hickory Tavern section of this county 1 ; has been elected principal of the gram mar school at Fountain Inn for the coming year. Mr. Wasson is a former member of the legislature from this county and was a candidate for county auditor in the recent primary. He has a num ber of friends in the city who will be interested in the announcement of his new position. NEW SUPERVISOR LANDER a STODDARD, ol Ow- ings, winner in the supervisor’s race Tuesday over the incumbent, Robert L. Teague. . LANEY AND RHODES LEAD IN STATE VOTE Allied Bbmbings Portend Bad Days Ahead For Nazis With terrible vengeance. Allied wings of destrujction-bearing fury are unloading tons and tons of bomba on vital Nazi war production centers. Not only has Goering — Hitler’s medal bearing, pompous luftwaffe commander — seen how wrong he was in boasting, shortly after Dun kerque, that never would a single bomb Jbt dropped on Germany’s vital Ruhr district, but also the people of Germany are learning how it feels to have the war carried into their own backyards, their homes. When the Nazi air force moaned oyer London on September 15, 1340, 1,200,000 pounds of bombs were un loaded. A month later to the day Coventry was destroyed with 180,000 pounds of Nazi bomba. As a result of the terrible destruction inflicted on that town, “coventrize” was a Word coined to describe almost complete annihilation. Those Attacks seemed to be the climax of all Out Hitler Mid would happen. Thai came the RAT’S turn. Then came the time for the Nasi war industries to be smashed, blast ed, destroyed in town after town. On March 28, this year, Lubeck, In north Germany, a town of dose to 180,000 people, was almost complete ly leveled by the RAF. In tills raid 700,000 pounds of leased. Two months later, May SO, Co logne was “visited.” In tills attack over five times the amount of bomba dropped an London wine sown over Cologne. When the last British plane had departed over 8*100,000 pounds of Incendiaries and explosives With American planes flying in formation with the British, the words of Winston Churchill, “Now it is the other way round,” have an ominous portent for those industrial and arm ament producing centers of Naziland. Of course the above mentioned super-raids on the Reich are out standing because of their enormity. But time and time again heavy bombings of important Nazi naval, armament, and raw war material centers have taken place. Today the Ruhr district has been bombed hun dreds of times. There seems to be no probability of any letup. In fact the aecumulating air might of the ynited Nations points the way to’ the 11,000,000 pound, or more, raids which have been hinted at re peatedly by those carrying the war to the greater Reich. With the German air force being continually occupied by the hard- fighting Rmsaians on the eastern front (Where many of. Hitler’s reserve planes presumably are being saved for later offensives hafva been used 'and dsrtroyd) the bsdaace of air power fc clearly swln^g aiway from from the Nazis in the Wist. Gradually the zone of air initiative by Allied airmen is .moving inland from the coast, eastward across Ger- bombs were re- many toward the heart of that land. The possibilities of a complete air mastery over ell of Germany by the Allies is definitely not as phantastic as it (formerly sounded. Such a complete control of the air is one of the necessary steps which must be achieved and used to com plete advantage before the actual in vasion of the ooattnept takes place. BOARD CALLS THIRTY NEGROES FOR ARMY Clinton draft board received a call recently for thirty Negroes to be sent to Fort Jackson, Columbia, on September 85 for examination and possible induction into the army un der the selective service system. The board yesterday announced the fol lowing draftees to fill the quota: Frank Young, RFD 1, Gray Court. Clarence Calhoun, Jr., RFD 3, Laurens. Tom Dean, Jr., RFD 1, Lexington, N. C. George Miller, Jr., RFD 2, Kinards. Curtis Ray, Cleveland, Ohio. Vemis C. Humbert, RFD 1, Honea Path. Chester Henderson, RFD, Ware Shoals. Walter Harold Graydon, Laurens. Gassaway Rodgers, RFD 1, Ware Shoals. W. C. Copeland; RFD, Clinton. Joe Easter Jenkins, Charlotte, N. C. Mance Gary, Clinton. Willie Lee Rice, RFD 1, Clinton. John Henry Bobo, RFD 2, Clinton. Tommie Carl Carter, RFD 3, Lau rens. Samuel L. Jones, RFD 2, Clinton. Munroe Robinson, RFD 1, Mount- ville. Willie James Jurdon, RFD 1, Gray Court. Evans (Shortie) Turner, RFD 2, Laurens. *. Willie Lee Pitts, Mountville. Ervin Young, RFD 3, Laurens. / Elwood Wagner Cunningham, Washington, D. C, Millage Kinard, Kinards. William James Young, RFD 1, Clinton. Homer Henry Weir, RFD 1, Clin ton. Johnnie B. Goodman, C\inton. William Louis Bowman, Green ville. Loyd Watts, RFD 1, Waterloo. David Jones, Clinton. Janie Wowhard Bobo, RFD 2, Clinton. , FMpM&Told ” Must Gst Seattle, Sept 7. — Representative Warren C. Magmiaon, Democrat of Washington* assured a throng at b war bond rally today that “in the next few weeks, you’ll be reading something about the Aleutians, and It will be the seme kind of develop ment you’re reeding about in the Solomons.” i Recently returned from an Alas kan inspection trip, the naval affairs committeeman and naval reserve of ficer said the American people muai “get tougher.” COLLEGE BEGINS NEW YEAR’S WORK The largest freshman class in the history of Presbyterian college be- vows atcr NEW SUPERVISOR AND GAME WiRPEN • Stoddard Has 883 Ma jority Over Incumbent. Moore Leads Cannon By 537 Votes. Loney and Rhodes Carry County. Unofficial returns from Laurens county’s 41 voting precincts tabulat ed by The Chronicle in Tuesday's second primary showed Lander B. Stoddard elected supervisor over the ; incumbent, Robert L. Teague, and j that W. R. Moore, of Laurens, defeat ed M. A. Cannon, seeking re-election* (as game warden. In the compiled returns, Stoddard received 3,071 votes, Teague received 2,188. Moore had 2,897 votes in his favor, Cannon 2,360. The tabulation by precincts for both races will be found in today’s paper. Slate Race In the two state-wide races,, Lau rens county voters gave George K. Laney 3,255 votes for lieutenant gov ernor, to 2,012 for Ransome J. Wil liams. . For comptroller general, Rhodes Atlanta Visitor At Thornweli Reports last night gave State Sena- led Smith 2,985 to 2,288. tor George K. Laney, of Chesterfield, a narrow'lead for lieutenant gover nor in a neck-and-neck race. The latest figures, incomplete, gave Laney 70,416 votes against 70,011 for his opponent, Ransome J. Williams, Mullins druggist. From returns available, E. C. Rhodes, of Columbia, has a Miss Deedie May Austin, Publicity Director of Presbyterian Stewardship Office of Atlanta, Ga., was a guest at Thornweli Orphanage for a few days com-1 this week and relumed to Atlanta yesterday. Miss Austin was here to prepare a news story of the orphan age for the press. contests Tuesday, all other races having been decided in the first pri mary August 25. Nomination is equivalent to election. gan arriving on the campus yester- day morning, met at an informal re ception at the YMCA recreation cen ter last evening, and will begin the three-day orientation period this morning. Upperclassmen will arrive on Fri day, and all registration and prelim inary work will be completed by Saturday evening when the College Dames will entertain the new stu dents at a reception in the recreation center. -~ Formal classroom work will begin en Monday momingi Although no accurate figures were j available last night as The Chronicle went to press, the College authorities j state that they expect more than 170 new students to enroll during the week. This is an all-time record, the highest previous enrollment of new students being 142 in 1938. New members of this year’s facul ty are Dr. J. R. Nielson of Atchinson, Kansas, graduate of Iowa State uni versity, in the department of ro mance languages; Dr. E. F. Nolan, Princeton graduate and former mem ber of Presbyterian Junior college faculty, Maxton, N. C., in the Eng-j lish department, and Prof. Harold i Seymour of Ithaca, N. Y., graduate! of Cornell, in the department of his-' tory. B. E. Park, Auburn graduate,; is the hew assistant football coach. A complete list of the faculty and * officers for the year appeared in last week’s Chronicle. Holman Listed In "Who’s Who” manding lead over D. A. Smith, of Columbia and Walhalla, for comp troller general. Incomplete figure* give Rhode* 75,710, Smith 50,959. |, ^ °.r;,sr-^: r w irt ! <r,poon Heods Blockstock Schools J. Harvey Witherspoon of Cross Hill, has accepted the position of Laney and Williams were surviv-, superintendent of the Blackstock ors of a three-man race in the first schools in Chester county for the primary.' ; coming year and entered upon his Rhodes, an employe of the comp- work this week, troller general’s office for 25 years Mr. Witherspoon is well known and deputy comptroller for the past here^ having headed the Clinton city 17, and Smith were high men in a schools for the 15-year period 1920- field of four which sought the office 1935. which A. J. Beattie, incumbent for • many years, did not ask again. JONES MANAGER OF ROGERS Van Jones, who has been connect- KIWANIS MEETS TODAY ed with Roger* store* here for sev- The regular meeting of the Ki- eral years past, has been appointed wanis club will be held this evening manager succeeding 1 James F. Elli- at Hotel Clinton at 7:30, with all; son, resigned. Mr. Jones is the. son members invited to be present. of Mr. and Mrs. H. R Jones. Hugh Holman, editor of Jacobs Press and • member of the Presbyte rian college faculty, was mentioned in the ’ September monthly supple-1 ment to “Who’s Who In America.” i “Who’s Who” is published every two years and the supplement carries the names of prominent men in vari- ! oua fields of work who are to be listed in the coming edition. Mr. Holman recently published a mystery novel, “Death Like Thun der,” and has gained recognition fori his outstanding radio work for Co lumbia Workshop. BETTS RETURN Dr. C. ■ Bynum ^nd Mrs. •gain at CUnton, 8. C. street i i i , . . m ■■■■■■ lar ser ed P HOW LAURENS COUNTY VOTED LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, COMPTROLLER Second Primary, Tuesday, September 8 Lt Governor Comptroller PRECINCTS >» e to x 8 s —• 0 <0 5 5 3. * JC 2 i Bailey’s 29 52 51 30 Brewington 34 37 22 ’49 Barksdale-Narnie 103 36 87 50 Clinton City 256 179 224 209 Clinton Mill 138 107 132 113 Cook’s Store 48 15 22 41 Cross Hill 87 31 69 49 Daniels’ Store 45 3 ,j 26 36 i 30 22 Dials 22 28 Ekom .... i 42 46 56 34 Goldville ♦ 190 168 202 155 Gray’s .... 15 3 15 3 Gray Court ....• 117 80 98 101 Hopewell 59 6 43 22 Hickory Tavern Jones’ Store .... 61 52 60 52 98 49 72 75 19 — 12 17 14 Langston .... 54 26 52 28 Laurens City 558 322 575 296 Laurens Mills 107 125 121 111 Lydia Mills 93 113 97 iro Long Branch 49 34 40 43 Merna 37 3 29 11 Mt. Olive .... 32 17 27 32 Mountville .... 52 15. 33 34 Mt. Pleasant 35 13 . 19 39 • •••• — • • • • • • •••• •••• m.mmm 29 19 32 16 Owings 76 52 88 39 Pleasant Mound .... 35 * 4 32 8 Poplar Springs Princeton .... 56 54 36 11 86 34 26 32 Renno •.... 28 16 15 29 Shiloh .... .... ..._ 28 19 17 29 Shady Grove 14 4 4 14 Stewart’s Store 58 6 27 37 Tip-Top ... 21 24 33 13 Trinity Ridge 36 22 30 28 Waterloo ;... .... 49 20 49 21 Watts Milfe • 220 96 149 165 •Woodvtite C YdungTOM, » 101 56 67 U 126 35 •• 44 32 TOTi (j 3811' | 2012 || 2288