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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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HOW LAURENS COUNTY VOTED
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, COMPTROLLER
Second Primary, Tuesday, September 8
Lt Governor
Comptroller
PRECINCTS
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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
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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
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56
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