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& THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLII Clinton, S. C., Thursday, October 1/1942 Number 40 Preview of New Nickel-less Nickel nickel tew nickel, cant aa a preview el the new tre-cent piece which will seen replace thane containing the war acopenary nickel. .That metal will ge late, the war effari. The new oein Is maie ap af a sOver, capper and manganese allay—aa alley ttat will click sabway tarns tiles Jest ns well as the aid. bay the same package el Joe L. Chailey Claimed By Deaih Rites Tuesday for Former Commander Spanish ' War Veterans Camp. AMELIA PAYNE EDITOR HIGH PAPER FOR COMING YEAR The first issue of The Sentinel, Clinton high school student publi cation, for the 1942-43 school term, appeared from the press Tuesday. The paper, which is published monthly, is headed as editor by Joe L. Chaney, 63, well-known cit- j Amelia Payne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Horace D. Payne of this city. MSTMCI GOVERNOR ADDRESSES HOMS J. L Gentry, Spartan burg, Calls for Support Of Notion's War Effort. The Lions club at its meeting Fri day evening at the clubhouse near here had as its guest J. L. Gentry of Spartanburg, Lions district governor. Mr. Gentry, principal speaker at the meeting, addressed the club on “Liberty,7 or - “The Six Freedoms,” which was a timely message calling upon citizens for one hundred per cent support of the war effort. Mr. Gentry listed the four “free doms” included in the first amend ment to the Constitution—freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and the right to peace ably assemble—plus two promulgat ed by Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Church ill in the Atlantic charter—freedom from want and freedom from fear. Mr. Gentry said here in the Unit ed States these freedoms have been taken for granted, and asked the question: Are these freedoms worth fighting for? worth working mind and strength to keep? “That question is yours and mine, the same as the izen of the county, died at an early hour Monday morning at his home at Lanford Station. He was a native of this county, where he spent his life. He was a Spanish-American war veteran, and was commander of the local John J. McSwain camp for two years, after having been instrumental in its or ganization. Mr/ Chaney was a son of the late William R. and Amanda Avery Cha ney. He was a member of Langston Baptist church and was a deacon there for a number of years. He also served as superintendent of the Sun day school. Other members of the editorial and business staffs are: Editorial staff: associate editor, Ann Blakely; sports editor, Frank Simpson; feature editor, Roslyn Ca son, society editor, Robbie King; as sistant feature editor, John Pitts; reporters: Betty Taylor, Anne Mc- Millian, Virginia Gray, Virginia Hen- MERCHANTS ASKED TO DISPLAY FUGS The committee on arrange- : ments for the patriotic parade * and rally to be held here tonight has requested that all merchants and business houses having street flags to display them today In observance of the occasion. Boatwright, Mildred Holland, Jean Williams, Jimmie Abbott, Buddy Carr; exchange editor, Norma An derson; typists, Dprothy Pinson, Ed na Earle Workman, Ruth Singley. soldier, sailor, or airman carrying our war effort to the far ends of the earth. The total power, might and resources of the United States are pooled .in this mighty struggle to preserve these six freedoms.” Mr. Gentry contrasted the philoso phies and aims of the Axis countries with those of the United Nations. He stated that “never before has a con queror subdued so much of the world with an idea so utterly sterile and negative as Hitlerism. In fighting Hitlerism we are fighting not merely cil | f*ft||KITY an aggression, but also a negation of rii-l- I I thought. Hitler means to do more than liquidate the values of demo- 'COTTON PICKING' DAY PLANNED FOR THIS COMMUNITY Directors of the Chamber of Com merce met yesterday and recom mended a “cotton picking” day for Clinton. It is suggested that stores and business houses close next Wed nesday, Oct. 7, at noon and employ ers and employes “take to the fields.” The plan is in coperation with a projected program for school chil dren to pick each afternoon begin ning Monday. P. H. Hobson, super intendent of the city school, met with the directors. D. B. Smith, president of the Chamber of Commerce, stated that if the plan is agreed to by business firms, farmers in this section would be contacted and arrangements made for picking the fleecy staple, with payment at prevailing rates to be made for the work. Similar movements have been and are under way in numerous commu nities throughout the state. The ob ject of the undertaking is to assist farmers in gathering their crops be fore fall rains begin. Shortage of farm labor is acute in many areas. 3174,999 Pay Cut Charles E. Wilson, newly appoint ed vice chairman of the War Pro duction board, la ahowu In his New Tork office as he resigned as prcai- deat of the General Electric to de vote foil time to his new Job. The old job paid him |I7S.M« a year. The new one pays one dollar. Business staff: business manager, Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ma- Pe *«y Johnson; assistant _ business mie Cole Chaney; two sons, J. L., Jr., manager, J^a Taylor; circulation and Robert M. Chaney; two brothers manager, Thomas Cox and a sister, H. M., Sr., and W. M.L Facu ^ y K ^ vlsers - edltoria1 ’ Chaney of this city, and Mrs. Thomas Pos a Mahaffey; business, R. M. W. Wesson, and three grandchildren. BurtS- m Funeral services were held Tues day at 3 p.m. at Lanford Baptist PC MILITARY UNIT church, led by the John J. McSwain camp, Spanish war veterans, and as sisting ministers: Rev. Jodie A. Mar tin, Rev. V. A. Dean and Rev. J. T. Gregory. Interment followed in Rose- mont cemetery here. , Pallbearers were E. A. Curry, Tom Harvey, Walter Prince, Thomas Ken nedy, Earl Patterson and Bascomb Hembre. Greenville Youth Pleads Guilty To Robbery In County Court Tuesday •Laurens, Sept 29.—A 15-year-old! Point, Ga., first lieutenant, plans and boy from Greenville was sent to the j training officer; and Tom Clyde, of state reformatory to remain until he i Florence, master sergeant, sergeant is 21 years of age after he pleaded major OFFICERS SELECTED Walker Rivers, of Aiken, has been appointed commander of the Reserve Officers’ Training corps battalion of Presbyterian college, Lieut. Col. Paul D. Strong, professor of military sci ence and tactics, announced this week. Rivers will hold the rank of major. Named to the battalion staff are Joe McNeil, of Timmbnsville, cadet captain, adjutant; George Bryan, of Allendale, first lieutenant, assistant adjutant; William Dean, of West date all values. Hitler,” he said, “ia a composite of all prejudices, hates, lusts, fears and tyranny that democ racy seeks to eliminate. • . “His speeches do not have to make sense, for they appeal to racial hat- re4, class hatred, religious hatred, and international hatred. They do not have to be intellectual, for they promise glittering rewards to the lust for power and conquest. They do not have to win thinkers, for they MISS CULBERTSON AUDITOR POSITION Miss Jennie V. Culbertson, auditor- nominee, wis' recommended Satur day by Senator O. L. Long for ap pointment to fill the unexpired tertn in the auditor’s office of the late Sam R. Dorroh, ending next July. The senator said Mrs. Dorroh, the widow, had declined a proffered rec ommendation for the vacancy, HONORS CLINTON MEN AND WOMEN IN NATION'S SERVICE Parade Beginning At ' Monument To Precede Gathering At College Athletic Field. Clinton’s first community-wide pa triotic demonstration will be staged tonight, sponsored by the Kiwanis club in cooperation with the Civilian Defense corps# The rally will be held in the college stadium at 8 o’clock." Major G. Heyward Mahon, execu tive director of the South Carolina Council for National Defense and former congressman from the Fourth congressional district, will be the principal speaker. Preceding the rally will be a pa rade, originating at the monument on the city square, and proceeding to the athletic field for the scheduled program. The field will .be lighted for the occasion. The parade will be led by the col lege military band and Reserve Offi cers’ Training corps. Included in the parade will be the Laurens County and Clinton Defense councils, auxil iary firemen and policemen, air raid wardens. Boy Scouts, the Red Cross and school children with dags. At the field, the invocation will be by Rev. J. K. Roberts, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. There will be a military parade by the college R.O.T.C. battalion, with approxi mately 350 men taking part. The band will play for a community- led by County Baptists To Hold Annual Meet Two-day Session Oct. ^13-14 at Warrior Creek and Mountville. The annual meeting of the Lau rens Baptist association, composed of 33 churches in the. county, will be held October 13 with the Warrior Creek church and on the following day with the church at Mountville. Each church is entitled to three' s tyie singing of “America, delegates and an additional delegate Bruce Galloway of Goldville. Recog- for every 100 members or a major n jtion will be made of parents and fraction above the first hundred, be sides the pastors, who are represen tatives ex officio. The associations! sermon will be near relatives of men and women in the service, who are especially in vited to. attend. Dr. W. P. Jacobs, president of the college, and chair- tor the full four-year terpi beginning! * a ' m ~ ^ ■ Miss Culbertson, therefore, has be- ;CLINTON HIGH TRIMS fore her a term of approximately GREER; WOODRUFF five years, the unexpired term of Mr. p. a yC uepp CP I HAY Dorroh, and her own four-year term r LAT j rlCKC rMUAT expiring in 1947. Local Draft Board To Call 30 Negroes ' Clinton draft board No. 50 has re ceived a call for 30 Negroes to re October 25 for induction into the army, board officials stated yester day. guilty to a charge of highway rob bery in general sessions court. He is alleged to have held up Mrs. Mary W. Lumpkin of Columbia, af ter she picked him up on the high way. He stole her handbag, auto keys and other valuables, leaving her stranded near Fountain Inn August 17th. Company captains receiving ap pointments are Rex Pennell, of Le noir, N. C., to lead company “A”; Robert McCormick, of Decatur, Ga., company “B”; and Tubby Gibson, of Sumter, company “B.” Seconds in command of the companies are first lieutenants Doc Query, of Lenoir, N. C.; Frank Heidt, of Charleston, and Jim Jones, of Gainesville, Ga., re spectively. Bill Culp, of Rock Hill, is captain of the band, with Tommy Hollis, of Decatur, Ga., serving as director. 2,945 Bales Ginned Prior To Sept. 16 A report by M. W. Sanders, special agent of the census bureau, shows | J •|i_ «j^ w . that 2,945 bales of cotton were gin- r® rmer V30ldVllle DOy ned in Laurens county from the crop Cited For Golloiltrv - of .1942 prior to September 16, as * compared with 1,171 bales for the crop of 1941. threaten the concentration camp, the majority vote” in the August primary lash, and the firing squad for all who disagree with him. “A victory for Hitler means a re turn to the dark ages, darker than ever. If this happens our generation will be marked in history as the pro fligate generation that threw away its inheritance, that prostituted its intellect to the most infamous mon ster of treachery the world has ever known.” Fascism, Mr. Gentry said, is little different from Hitlerism or Naziism. Turning to Japan, he said “we have a wily and vicious enemy, one who long has been trained in a philosophy, in a fanatical, desperate purpose, identified with his religion —Shinto—a religion of conquest.” He quoted a Japanese writer, Dr. Kake- hi, of the law department of the Jap anese Imperial university, who said, “Shinto is the faith at the basis of all^reUgiePsfi,...it is the religion of 're ligion*. The emperors of our country are persons equipped without paral lel in the world. They are both cen ters of religious faith and temporal power. The center of this phenome- ! nal world is the Imperial country,' Japan, and from this country we | must expand the Great Spirit throughout the world. The expansion df Great Japan throughout the world, 1 and the elevation of the entire world into the Land of the Gods, is the ur gent business of the present, and! again, it is our eternal and unchang ing object.” “The whole idea,” said Mr. Gentry, j “would be absCird were it not for the fact that the Japanese soldier ac- delivered on the first day by Rev. ^ man of the South Carolina Council Lewis M. Smith and the doctrinal: f or National Defense, will introduce sermon on the second day by Rev. Major Mahon. J. H. Byrd. Reports and discussions; The rally will close with the sing- also will be heard during the two days i ng 0 f “The Star Spangled Banner” on the various causes and institu- by the gathering, tions fostered by the denomination Clinton has given many men and , ..as outlined in the program, printed women to the military service of the whereupon Miss Culbertson s avail- in the minutes of the last session. nation and the gathering has been Delegates are asked and expected planned as a tribute to them, to carry lunches for the picnic din- 1 Admission is free, but those atr ner each day. The meeting begin at tending are requested to bring least a pound of scrap metal or rub ber as a contribution' < tb the alarm- ability was considered because of her experience as office assistant and the fact that she received an “impressive ingly dwindling supply of the coun try. , The committee in charge of the ! rally, composed of J. LeGrande May- ' er, J. Hubert Todd. J. Isaac Cope- Clinton high school won a 15-0 land and Dennis Q. Sowers, has had victory over Greer high school here/h* assistance and cooperation off last Friday afternoon on Johnson I many individuals and it is hoped field the entire community will witness Outstanding for Clinton were Daw kins, Martin and Ellis. Dawkins ran 35 yards for a touchdown, and gain- the parade and participate in the rally at the stadium. * # Vt; r V r?. J imore than 100 yards in play. Martin PC-CITADFL MFFT ^ Fort Jackson. Columbia, on and ElUs broke lhr „ ueh Greer s lino ^ . . FIGHTING JAPS JffiMffiffiHnffiHffiffij M CLOSING ? NOTICE Effective October 3, our busi ness office will'close on Satur day at 1:00 p.m. The mechanical plant will continue to close at 12 noon as in the past. We ask our customers and the general public to bear the new closing hour in mind. Your cooperation will be appreci ated. : ■ „ .»« Chronicle Publishing Company Phone 74 Lacey A. .Whitley, formerly of tually believes in this purpose. He i Goldville, was one of three Carolin-' believes he is obeying divine will, > ians in the Middle East to get deco- j that he fights for a divine purpose,' rations recently. Whitley, acting as a that failure means disgrace in divine radio gunner won an award as a' eyes, that death is preferable to fail- result .of gallantry June 15 oyer the i Mediterranean,. protecting a Malta- bound convoy. , ure, and suicide the only honorable escape from the disgrace of failure. continually to smear plays. iIN TILT SATURDAY In the first quarter Captain San- ■♦■ ■■■ ders kicked to Greer and Martin Seeking to break into the win col- rushed down to recover a fumble for umn after a disappointing loss to Clinton, losing the ball on downs. Rollins last Saturday night in Or- Greer punted to Clinton, Cox return- lando Fla., Coach Lonnie McMillian’s ing 25 yards. After two plays Cox Blue Stockings will take on The Cit- scooped up the ball on a fumble and adel in Charleston Saturday after- ran 15 yards for the first score. Shea-; noon, ly plowed through the line for the extra point. In the second quarter Clinton made a drive to Greer’s 35-yard line, cul minating when Dawkins swept round left end for the second touchdown^ Clinton failed to make the point. In the third quarter Dailey tackled Harvey behind his line on an at tempted punt for a safety. A triumph over the Bulldogs would be particularly sweet to P. C. sup porters, for they consider the Citadel contest a key game on the Blue Stockings’ schedule.. In the past few years a certain amount of rivalry has sprung up between the two elevens, and each team points to the annual meeting with particular emphasis. Coach Lonnie McMiilian was not Clinton made 11 first downs to 4 at all pleased with the showing of for Greer. ; his charges against ,the Rollins Tars, The Clinton Red Devils will meet and he’s taking thifs week to put Woodruff here Friday night at 8:00 them through a senes of stiff work- o’clock on Johnson field. Holders of B and C Gas Books Urged To ' Renew Application Early outs in order to iron out the kinks that came to light Saturday. Passing offense and defense against aerials and blocking and tackling drills are being included, on the rigid menu for the week. The Slue Hose offer no excuse for the 21-0 defeat at the hands of Rol- We are accustomed to linking re- The Clinton rationing board bas^^ om i nous was the issued the following bulletin on “B” f a ,i ure 0 / t h e R C. passmg attack to WILLIAM A. DICIT 8, JR. First Class Private William A. Di- snd “C” gas books: (click up to its usual form. A slippery I Whitley, a native of Rockingham, li * ion with a moral code,” said Mr. cus, Jr., landed with a contingent of: “Persons who hold supplemental;ball in the wet weather game served N. C., made his home in Goldville G*otry, “with patterns of relation- the Marines on Guadalcanal Island, “B” and “C . books should note the successful procedure. ship between man and God, and be- j one of the Solomons group, in the expiration date on same arid go to t m tween man and man. But Shinto has Pacific, early in August and has been the office where it was issued and D * J T * ki * no moral code. Obedience to the will! actively engaged in combat service sign a renewal certificate about ten rromOtCd 10 MOJOf of the emperor ’is the supreme justi-! since that time. days previous to that expiration date. ' Thomas A. Howell, post adjutant fleation. Every ritual, every teaching i The last letter received by his The earliest expiration date on any at the army air force gunnery school. for a year prior to entering service two years ago. mj Six O'clock Bell Is Signal For Prayer Each evening at 6 o’clock the bell of the First Baptist church is rung for prayer. Citizens are asked to pause for a few minutes to pray for boys in service and for world peace. The movement Is sponsored by the local Woman’s Christian Temperance imton of Shinto is toward this end—fanati- d< cal devotion and adherence to Jap- nese purposes. “Such fanaticism is difficult for the democratic mind to understand, even more difficult to take seriously. And that is our great danger—not realiz ing the striking power of fanaticism. “In Germany everything bar been done to make a god of Hitkr; in Ja- (Continued on page three) parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dicus,.of these books-U Oct, 21, 1942. Re- Panama City, Fla., has been promot- was written August 20. In his char-, newal for books bearing -that date ed to the rank o( major. The promo- acteristic humor, Billy told of being | should be signed by Oct. 10. Due to lion was announced this week by well and happ? and of having plenty, the number of renewals to be ban- [ post headquarters at Tyndall field, of cocoamits. ^ ! died it will take ten days to get one Major Howell, originally from Ala^. Billy enlisted in the Marines in passed on and issued.” bama, attended Presbyterian college December- and received his initial ■ i and married Miss Elizabeth Adair, training at Parris Island, later being sent to the Marine base at New Riv er, N. C., for training as a gunner with a special weapon battery. MRS. ORFFIN IN HOSPITAL (daughter of Mrs. H. D Rantin, of Friends of Mrs. Julia Griffin will this city. They made their home here regret to know she is a patient at the for a number of years before Major local hospital. * 1 Howell entered military service.