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THE CHROMCIi Strives To Ke A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy, and Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the Newt Volume XUI CIMTON BOi CAUS 90 WHITE MEM EOR OCTOBER i Twenty-eight On list Already Enlisted In Some Branch of Service. Miss Abercrombie Joins High School Faculty Clinton, S* C, Thursday, September 24,1942 ■<ue^mi»'emi»-i-—SP—■ 'L ■ ■■■ I ■"■■—I I T 11 7 '■ 1 ■■■ 1 " 1 ■"-■■■ ■■■1 ■ .B Photo of Jap Officer Wasting His Time Number 39 i Miss Mary Frances Abercrombie of Laurens, has been elected as a mem ber of the high school faculty to re place Miss Katherine Dill in the commercial department. Miss Dill has returned to Smoaks where she holds a similar position. Miss Abercrombie, a graduate of Winthrop college in June past, is 'teaching in Cliftside, N. C., and will . , , . . , ~ 'arrive here Monday to enter upon Local selective service board No.. her work Miss Martharene p ittS) 50 has mailed report °r d ® rs ^ ^ i secretary to the superintendent of white registrants who will goto Fort !tke dty schools is substituting as! Jackson, Columbia, October 2 . comme rcial teacher until the arrival ! FSon;»' Miss Abercrombie. to mi. heaviesl ca “ the board has had ! rdiminAL COURT The last 28 men on the list are a l-1 ready enlisted in some branch of the | pA||IIC||rf LIA|J|\AV service, but the local -board gets VVM V LmEJ Clvlil/Af credit for their enlistment, which is applied on the October quota. The following men compose the October 2 call: David Aron Strickland, Ware Shoals. I m I&, W km tm BOARDS NOT TO INDUCT HARRIED MEN AT PRE5ENT Will Give Time For All Boards To Exhaust Supply of Single Men. •V‘ Heavy Docket Listed, Including Three Cases From Clinton. Ware 1, 1, Thomas Simmons, Clinton. John William Beeks, Greenwood. Willie Lee Grogan, Goldville. Frederick Eugene Davenport, Wat erloo. Mac Bee Hipp, Jr., RFD 1, Clinton. Frank Henry Morgan, Goldville. Thomas Jefferson Milam, RFD 1, Clinton. Andrew Franklin Free, Shoals. •Jim Pitts Ray, Clinton. Wilson Merchant, Kinards. Paul Roe, Ware Shoals. Clarence Russell Downs, RFD Clinton. James Lawrence Fuller, RFD Laurens. Erskine Franklin Mitchell, Ware Shoals. Carter Ashton Wright, Clinton. Ezzie Miller, Clinton. John Asbury Hulsey, Greenwood. Alber Taylor Garmon, RFD Laurens. Emory Estee Moore, Goldville. Doc Hawkins, Goldville. James Randolph Willard, RFD 1, Clinton. Joseph Truman Copeland, Ware Shoals.. John Bearden Willard, RFD 1, Clinton. Thomas Sharp Crawford, Gold ville. . Clifton Balentine, Ware Shoals. William Gilbert Bigham, RFD 2, Clinton. % Albert Thomas, Warren, Clinton. Willis Phillips, Goldville. • William Earle Pinson, RFD Laurens. ‘ , James Jacob Miles, Clinton. Haywood Franfcis King, RFD Clinton. William Leonard Giles, Greer. Rufus Marvin Sullivan, Clinton. Thomas Leroy Sanders, Clinton. Niles Richards, Clinton. Dennis Sidney Shrun, Charleston. Douglas CUnton Byrd, Clinton. James Douglas Davenport, Water loo. 3. 1. The fall term of criminal court for this county will convene in Laurens next Monday morning, the 28th, with Judge Marvin Mann of St. Matthews, presiding, and Solicitor Hugh Beas ley, of Greenwood, representing the state. Six homicide cases are scheduled for hearing, including three from this community. Defendants to be named in the murder charges will include: Jeff Pulley, 60-year-old Negro, who was held by a coroner’s jury in the fatal shooting of Carroll D. Nance, Jr., last June 19 at Cross Hill. Austin Wilburn, white, in connec tion with the death July 24, of his son-in-law, Bob Jennings of Laurens, in Clinton at the home of Wilburn, according to verdict of coroner’s jury. . Aaron Cunningham, for the slay ing of Ulysses Garrett at Waterloo on August 16. Willie Lee Fair, charged with kill ing Buddy Gary in Clinton on Aug ust 1. On the docket brought over from previous court sessions, are two hom icide cases, one being against J. C. Jones in the death of his wife, Lou ise, at Lanford last February 17, and the other against Obie Lowden, prin cipal, and Fate Hill as an accessory, in the killing of Rosa Lee Richey in Clinton last November 10. Sheriff C. W. Wier has stated that his jail book shows a wide variety of other cases. * Court Venire Drawn waa to scare military the mSnji the fan of photsa published la Shanghai la' U. S. That's why Is era aad read to GRAY PURCHASES D. E. TRIBBLE CO. FUNERAL BUSINESS Local Firm Retires From Field After Serving Community 48 Years. • Announcement was made during the week that D. E. Tribble company had sold their undertaking business to the Gray Funeral Home and that the Tribble company had retired from the undertaking field. AIR POWER CAN BEAT THE GERMANS, GEN. EAKER SAYS College, Orphanage Share In Bequests In the will of the late Mrs. S. M. McNeel of York, filed Monday, Presbyterian college and Thornwell orphanage of this city were given be quests of $2,000 each. Similar gifts were also made to the Foreign Mis sions committee and to the Assemb ly’s Home Missions committee of the 'J' f"*' Southern Presbyterian churchl . „ , . ^ . , , ! Columbia, Sept. 22.—South Caro- A large block of business property, ^ g3 locaJ have been di- n the town of York was bequeathed > , d tQ stay the induction m to the tbe First Presbyterian church planned fbrees bfall married men who .that place by Mrs McNeel, who had, are maintaining ' a bona n d e family re- long been one of its generous bene-, lationshi wj(h their wlves and who factors. Mrs. McNeel, widow of a, were married jor tf) December 8 York banker, died September 13. 1941 H was * nn P ounce . d today at state selective service headquarters. Brig. Gen. Holmes B. Springs, state selective service director, said that the directive sent the local boards was intended to hasten the standard of uniformity** planned in order that no board will be calling one type of registrants with dependents substan tially in advance of other boards. In some cases. General Springs 'Said, menlwho were married prior to (December 8, 1941, and who are A patriotic rally, with Major G.! maintaining a bona fide family rela- Heyward Mahon, of Greenville-, ex- - " tionship in their homes had already PATRIOTIC RALLY HERE THURSDAY ■ ♦ - Major, Mahon To Address Gathering At College Stadium. ecutive director of the South Caro lina Council for National Defense and former congressman from the received orders to report for induc tion in. the October*call. The effect of the directive to the local boards will Rnmhpr Chipf In Ennlnnd Fourth congressional district, as(^ e to Postpone the order to report Domoer V^mer in cn 9 ,ana speaker, is being planned for Thurt- ( for induction for such men until men States No Area of Reich (day night, October 1. The rally will °f similar degrees of dependency are be preceded by a parade which will from all the boards of the leave the monument square at 7:15 and proceed to the Presbyterian col-; The procedure to be followed by ! the boards at present, the general said, will be exhaust the class 1-A Will Be Spared. London, Sept 21.—Maj.’Gen. Ira C. lege stadium. Eaker, chief of the U. S. bomber x be r> ar ade will be led by the . ^ r _ . . command in Britain, said in an inter-1 Presbyterian college band and ROTC| mei \ W ^° *r e f rng e an <l have no de view today that he believed Ger-! an d ^ill includ^Nthe L4urens i P ende " ts ’/ S,ngl f men w,th ^ateral many can be destroyed from the air County and C ii nt0 n Defehse council*,j^^n^are^L^’etr 0 ^^ and that allied air forces will soon | auxiliary firemen and policemen, slir • - > g P , The Gray Funeral Home will con- have enough airdromes in Britain to raid wa r d ens. Boy Scouts, the Red tinue to occupy their present quar ters on East Carolina avenue, it was stated. The sale included all supplies, stock, equipment and good will of the Tribble company, with the-exception of the hearses and ambulance, which were disposed of otherwise. The Tribble concern, which will continue to operate their building supply business, began operation here in 1894 and for forty-eight years has continuously served the public o? Clinton and the surround ing community. The Gray Fyneral Home entered the undertaking field here in 1935, and- since that date has maintained a modern funeral home, serving a wide | territory, including Clinton and near- jby communities. L. Russell Gray is undertake the job Eaker was interviewed by Colin Bednall, air correspondent ci the Daily Mail. He indicated that U. S. day raid ers and RAF night bombers would team in a devastating round-the- clock campaign “and there is not a corner of Germany we yill reach.“ ,«.U bona fide family relationship in their Cross and others. All school children homes w|th their wivM chil(l „ n who h«» Uf are asked to march calling married men taining homes. COUNTY CITIZENS SEEK HOSPITAL The following jurors, by townships,, manager of the company, have been drawn by the jury com missioners: Hunter: C. E. Boland, James J. Hawkins, W. C. Gamer, B. W. Oxner, W. S. Dunaway, W. H. Gwinn, E. J. Adair, Geo. F. Turner, S. C. Dunlap. Waterloo: R. E. Riser, L. L. Man- ley. ■*»' Cross Hill: L. J. Jacks Dials: Frank Curry, W. C. Weath ers, J, C. Mahaffey, B. G. Taylor, E. in the parade The program at the stadium is scheduled for 8 o’clock. The college band will play and community sing ing will be led by Bruce Galloway of Goldville. Major Mahon will bf in- notitroduced by Dr. William P. Jacobs. IX feature of the program will be a matn- JflThen all single men without de pendents, single men with depend ents, and married men not maintain ing a bona fide family relationship in their homes have been reclassi fied, the local boards will reopen and UBIB! . consider anew the classification of Eaker said that by destroying the military parade by the college ROTC married men without children who enemy’s factories his air force could unit. ..are majntyinirur ^ h^va aay {1-^^ be wiped out while by bombing his that the rally will draw relationship in their homes with thein munitions plants and communica-1 a i ar g e crowd. Relatives of men in wives (registrants who married since tions his armies would be brought servdce are especially invited to at- December 8, 1941, or at a time prior to a halt. (tend. During the program at the ath- “By destroying his shipyards you j et j c ^eld recognition will be made can make it impossible for him to io j those having immediate members build any submarines,” he added ‘ There’s nothing that can be de stroyed by a gun that can’t be de stroyed* by bombs.” There are enough airdromes in Britain built or building “to accom modate all the Allied air forces need for the destruction of Ger many,” Eaker said. “There will be no opportunity for hitting the enemy in depth and strength that will not be investigated and demonstrated by United States bombers in the next few months of their families in service. thereto when their selection was im minent are not considered for de ferred classification). The local boards were instructed. Ralph Wallace Fuller, RFD 2, Lau- *[• Henderson, L. D. Armstrong, W. D. Armstrong. rens. John Griffin "Pitts, Clinton. Roy Alvin Hawkins, Goldville. Earl Edward Ray, Clinton. James Edward Turner, Clinton. - Robert Palmer Edge, Clinton. Thomas Chandler Ramage, Clinton. George Christopher Young, Clin ton. Jennings Furman C^’Dell, Ware Shoals. -r- Robert Clarence Abrams, Ware Shoals. Willis Eugene Small, Gray Court. George Ansel Redden, Ware Franklin Owens, Ware Shoals. Joseph Shoals. Henry William Workman, Jr., RFD 2, Clinton. Kelley Marshall King, Clinton. Aubrey Ledford, RFD 1, Clinton. Howard Edison Simmons, Clinton. James Frank Bell, Honea Path. Clyde Hubert McCrary, Jr., Clin ton. Hubert York Adair, Clinton. Cecil Irvin Bishop, Kinards. John Wesley, Riser, Waterloo. , George Roy DeShields, Sr., Clin ton. Already Enlisted Claude Cromer Foy, Goldville.. Samuel Benjamin Snyder, Ware Shoals. Willie Medlock Cannon, CUnton. Ira Chandler, CUnton. Norman Fey Case, Goldville. Robert Parker Gambrell, Calhoun Falls. * Furman Gwynn Mauldin, Gold ville. Bennie Lee Sumerial, Clinton. James Grady McElhannon, CUn ton. Edward Eugene Hayes, Belton. Samuel Buford Gregory, Clinton. Frank Milner Williamson, Clinton. Fred DeWitt Hill, Jr„ CUnton. Edwin Wylds Marsh, CUnton. Robert Lewis McKittrick, Mount- viUjB. ' ‘ ' JUlian Erwin Gardner, GoldviUe. Marshall Thomas Pack, Clinton. • Gerald Calhoun SGber, CUnton. Ernest Melvin Bowen, Clinton. Janas Brawley Cranford, CUnton. James Eari Jackson, Clinton. Winton Ernest Moore, CUnton. Lafayette South, Ware Laurens: L. O. Hires, F. B. praig, H. I. Causby, M. L. Motes, I. Q. Con nor, J. F. Baker, D D. Harris, J. T. Nix, W. G. Bean, J. P. Crow, Roy Craine. Scuffletown: W. R. Brown. SuUivan: G. C. Abercrombie, R. O. SulUvan. Youngs: J. T. Kennedy, M. Y. Cox, H. C. Garrett. Sunday School Drive Announced By Baptists Rev. W. N. Long, pastor of the First Baptist church, stated yester day that an enlargement campaign for the church Sunday school wiU begin next week. Mrs. J..F. Vagts of GainesviUe, Fla., will direct the work, holding conferences each eve ning at 8 o’clock. All Sunday school workers and other interested mem bers are invited by the pastor to attend. Revival Services At Renno Begin Monday ♦ ' ■' Revival services will be held at Renno in the school auditorium be ginning Monday evening, September 28, at 8 o’clock and will continue through October 4. The pastor, Rev. W. R. Quinn, of this city, will de- liver the sermons. Spirituals and hymns, both old and new, will be sung by the congrega tion and by a group of singers, who also wiU render special numbers. Mr. Quinn stated yesterday that A news dispatch under a Wash ington date line appeared in the daily papers of the state Tuesday, stating that several citizens of Lau rens county were in Washington seeking to secure in army base hos-1 some , phases of the program pital for the county. Efforts have |, equire bigger forces than are pres- been underway for some time to se- ently available but they will be rap- cure the hospitaU■ I idly assembled. The news story stated: ! “. . . It is a very happy coinci— Washington, Sept. 21:—The fight | dence t ba t the RAF bombers ha- to secure an Army base hospital, b jt ua iiy attack'by night. The com- for Laurens county, S. C., was reop- j b i n ed operations of the two air forces ened here today with the arrival of {add up t 0 a da y and n ight offensive.” Eaker said air power should be j recognized as one of the most pow erful means the Allies have to win! the war. We should of course, use every Admission is free, but all persons j | ,owever ' not ^ or der to report for attending are asked to bring at least j l ^ i u i ctlon an y married man ^ with one pound of junk—metal or rubber < ‘*V^ r ® n w ho are maintaining a bona -r—for the junk pen of the local Lions * IC * e f ami ly relationship in their club. Provision will be made at thei*] omes u btil such tuns as » they are stadium to receive the junk or scrap ] “ irecte{ * *° 80 memoranda em- which is brought there. * janating from the national director of _. . . j selective service. The parade and program are be ing sponsored by the Clinton Kiwanisi /■* » C *1 club cooperating with the Civilian; orOiiOITl rOfTtlly Defense corps. The committee on ar- Tn Aimiicfo rangements from the club is com-1 IO posed of J. LeGrande Mayer, chair man, J. Hubert Todd, Dennis Q. Sowers, and J. Isaac Copeland. "The complete program follows: “^Selection by band. - Invocation—Rev. J. K. Roberts. Battalion parade college ROTC unit. on a delegation to press for action the proposal. Here for conferences with the sur geon gene'ral of the army, Senator Burnett R. Maybank and Representa tive Joseph R. Bryson are Postmaster weapon—not just one—but the win- R. L. Plaxico and Mayor P. S. Bailey of Clinton and State Senator O. L. Long and H. Douglas Gray of Lau rens. The visitors will meet again to night with Senator Maybank and ning side in this war will be the one that has th$ biggest and most ef fective air force.” Dr. Burney To Speak Mr. Bryson and have a conference Presbyterians Sept. 30 scheduled for tomorrow with the *.« •• r At Loyalty Meeting Community singing - led by Bruce Galloway. Recognition of relatives of men in service. Introduction of speaker—Dr. Wil liam P. Jacobs. - Prof. Bothwell Graham, Mrs. Gra ham and daughters. Misses Kather ine and Elizabeth, left’ Sunday for Augusta, Gat, where they will make their home for the present. Prof. Graham is a member of the Augusta Presbyterian 1 Junior college faculty. Miss Kather ine is librarian at Tubman, high “America," j school, and Miss Elizabeth has ac- jeepted a* secretarial position in the city. Mrs. Graham’s mother, Mrs. W. S/ Bean, for the present is with her daughter. Mrs. D. W. A. Neville, Jn Newberry. Address—Major G. Heyward Ma hon. Singing of “The Star Spangled 1 Banner.” " Business firms ht the city that have street flags are asked to display them all day Thursday. surgeon general. Miss McIntyre Resigns Orphanage Position T—- Dr. Leroy P. Burney of Augusta, Ga., regional director of religious education in the Synods of South Carolina and Georgia, will be the guest speaker at a loyalty meeting of Miss Leta - McIntyre, head of the commercial department in the Thorn-; members of the First Presbyterian well orphanage schools, left Monday 1 church on Wednesday, September 30. for Red Springs, N. C., to become a | Tne Auxiliary and Men’s club will member of the Flora McDonald!be tTo: (Presbyterian) college faculty. The (members and their families at a pic- unsought position was offered Miss^nic supper tit the church at 7:00 McIntyre a few days ago and accept- o’clock. Theme of the loyalty meet- ed after considerable hesitancy be- ing will be “Religious Education Ad- cause of her devotion to the institu- vance.” tion. j • , • : “ Miss McIntyre is a native of Clio, E. B. Abrams, Of in Marlboro county. Twelve years' ago she joined th'e orphanage faculty as commercial instructor, a position she has most capably filled. Both by the boys and girls and staff workers Casino Offers Bond Buyers Free Passes ''Ministering Men' To Be Shown At Baptist Church The Casino theatyt* will give twh free passes to “Wings For The Eagle” Friday dr Saturday to each individ- jual purchasing one ’ or more war bonds. Bonds must be purchased at the theatre either Friday or Sat urday. J. Lekind Young, manager of the theatre, stated that B. H. Boyd, of the county bond sales committee, will appoint someone to sell the bonds. Lt. Thornwell Dunlap. Announcement was made yester day by Rev. W. N. Long, pastor of the First Baptist church, that on Sunday evening. Sept. 27, at the 8 sts and hostesses to church ocloch service, a sound motion pic ture entitled “Ministering Men” be shown at the church. The picture 1 Spends LeOVe Here portrays the call, preparation, and work of the minister, with the setting on the spacious campus of the South ern Baptist Theological seminary in Louisville, Ky. The photography is in technicolor. The public is invited to attend. Whitmire, Killed Navy Recruiters To Newberry, Sept. 22—E. B. Ab- ■»*»• '-■*»“» —*“• uic u\jjs auu (uis cuiu siau wuiivcio ramS, 60, was fatally wounded about| D j, . the public is dordially invited to at- she is highly esteemed, the children 9 o'clock this morning at his home DC Here Thursday tend the services. 8GT. OWENS HERE Sgt. J. D. Owens'of the quarter-) master corps, Camp Stewart, Ga., is spending a five-day leave here with his mother. Mrs. Mary Owens. holding for her a loving gratitude near Whitmire by what investigating i and appreciation for her personal in- i authorities said was a self-inflicted J Franklin Bishop,. chief machinists terest in their welfare and happiness.! pistol shot wound. Shoals. Dick Lansden Johnsdn, Clinton. George Franklin Westmoreland, Clinton. & E. Leopard, CUnton. Carl M>tndy Hill, CUnton. Frad Putman, RFD S, CUnton. The institution has secured Mrs. Ansel Smith, the former Miss Eliza beth Tucker of this city, to succeed Miss McIntyre on the school faculty. Mrs. Smith, a former student of Miss McIntyre, is a graduate of Thornwell high and Presbyterian college. Since her graduation in 1941 she has held a secretarial position at the college which she resigned a few days ago to enter upon the new work at the orphanage. He had been in ill health for some time, it was said. Mr. Abrams was a special, deputy sheriff of Newberry county, serving as a guard at the Aragonn-Baldwin mill of Whitmire, and made his home with his brothers, L. D. Abrams and J. T. Abrams. Sheriff Tom Fellers and Coroner Holland Wilson, who investigated, said that an inquest would not be mate, and George S. Betsill, yeoman, third class, of the Spartanburg navy recruiting station, will be in the city Thursday, October 1, and in Lau rens on Saturday, October 3, for the purpose of interviewing, examining, and taking applications for the U. S. navy and naval reserve. All single or married men who are planning to enter sorpe branch of tha military service are asked to apply at the post office between 9 a. m. and 5 pjn. Lt. Thornwell Dunlap leaves today for Jackson. Miss... where he is sta tioned ip army service, after a few days leave of absence spent with his mother. Mrs. Annie ’Dunlap, at Mpuntville and friends in the city Friends of Mrs. Dunlap and chil-’ dren, Mildred and Thornwell, will be interested to know they have joined Lt. Dunlap and will spend the win ter, the children entering -school there. Kohler To Conduct Vesper Services Rev. J. H. Kohler, pastor of Broad Street Methodist church, will conduct the closing vesper service at the col lege Sunday evening. Services have been held' in the ‘outdoor chapel each Sunday during the summer and toe September 37 service will conclude the meetii^a