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Volume XLIII
Clinton, S. C, Thursday, February 25, 1943
Number 8
French Battleship to* Be Refitted Here
RED CROSS DRIVE MARCH 4
POINT RATIONING BEGINS
MONDAY
I of French warships, limped Into New York har
bor with only throe of her fear propellers operating and her hull pierced.
The SS,M* ton battle wagon, shown above, will be repaired and refitted
before going to sea against the Axis. Accompanied by U. 8. and French
REGISTRATION FOR
BOOK 2 NNDffiWAY
Consumption of Canned
PRE-FLIGHT STUDENTS
ARRIVE THIS WEEK
Capt. Turner In Com
mand of Group To Be
Stationed At College.
10.09% of Textile
Payroll In County
Being Put In Bonds
Of the 5,108 textile employes ini
Laurens county, 87.49 per cent are
buying war stamps and bonds, it was
slated this week from the office of
W. P.*Bowers, of Columbia, chairman
of bond sales in South Carolina. Total
p 0 Tn I Men se l ecte d for aviation training amount put into bonds by these em-
V30UUS DC VUT IU t-Cbb at p r esbyterian colllege are expected ployes is 10.09 per cent of the com- .. . T D .
Than Half of Normal. | to begin to arrive on the campus thisjbined payrolls of the five textile CO r-, ^ 0 * dvi ^ e area - Mrs. J. B. Townsend
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SEEK $8,000 FROM
CLINTON SECTION
ie Day's Pay Asked of
ich Person As Effort
Underway. County To
Raise $16,000.
Seeking $8,000, workers will take
to . the field Thursday morning,
March 4, in the Red Cross war cam
paign' fund drive in the Clinton-
week, and the full number of the first! porations in the county.
is chairman of the organization in
MARCH 15 DEADUNE FOR INCOME TAX;
MILLIONS TO FILE RETURNS FOR FIRST TIME
Many Deductions
Allowed; Can Credit
Farm Expense.
March 15 will be a big and busy
day in the United States, for on that
day income tax returns and payments
will be due from millions of Ameri
can citizens, many of whom will be
facing Uncle Sam, as a tax collector,
for the first time.
It is particularly important to re
member that tax returns and pay
ments, in whole or in installment,
must be made March 15 or, if con
venient, before. This fact has been
pretty much confused by all the talk
about putting income taxes on a pay-
as-you-go, or weekly income deduc
tion, basis. No such law has been
passed and there are possibilities that
even if it is passed, it will be passed
in a different form.
But the fact is, no pay-as-you-go
law exists, and an income tax return
must be filed and whole or partial
payments made March 15.
Lower exemptions and increased
employment will bring millions of
new taxpayers into the fold. Figures,
of course, are dry, but they are in
teresting in that government agen
cies estimate that .approximately 58
LIFE SENTENCE
HANDED DAWSON
Residents of Clinton and the sur-J contingent by the 28th. ' I Following are the records of the charge of the effort, it has been an-
rounding community—along with ev- Two officers, Capt. Carl M. Turner i various mills, as furnished by Mr. i nounced by J. Roy Casque, head of
erybody else in the United States— • and First Lieutenant Byron M. My-! Bowers’ office: the Clinton chapter. A total of
(began registering Monday morning at'ers, and two• non-commissioned offi-, Clinton Cotton Mills, 953 employes, 1 nno h _ n , h „ pnHl ft>r
I the various school hooi^ for war ra-jeefs. Staff Sergeant Augustus Ram-[of whom 98.22 per cent put an aver-t.. , * g
age of 10.73 per cent of their earnings th ®^ count y-
in bonds.
Joanna’ Textile Mills, Goldville,
.1,050 employes, 80 per cent put 11.3
Captain Turner is in command ofl j per cent of earnings in bonds,
the aviation school and Lieutenant! Laurens Cotton Mills, 1,013 em-( durin - the vear Mrs Townsend
Myers will serve as adjutant. Ser-i pioyes, 90.02 per cent of wtiom spend d ? „ y ' , „
geant Ramsey will act as sergeant
tion book number two preparatory to
the institution over the entire coun
try of the most severe rationing pro
gram yet faced by thfe people on
March 1.
The program is under the super
vision of the local rationing board,
with teachers bearing the larger part
of the burden of registration, assisted major for
sey and Corporal John W. Wads
worth, have been on the campus for
several days preparing for the arrival
of the trainees.
the outfit and Corporal
by other volunteer workers. j Wadsworth has been placed in charge
Officials state that the issuing of; 0 * military drill.
The men who will attend here are
brought fromeivilian life through the
Enlisted Reserve corps. They have
The annual membership drive is
being combined with the emergency
war relief campaign and there will
be no oilier call from the Red Cross
stated. Because of the increased calls
Laurens, Feb. 18.—After overruling, the books has been proceeding rather
a motion for a new trial, Circuit i slowly and urged those who have
Judge J. Henry Johnson today sen-1 n °t yet registered to do so immedi-
tenced Fred Dawson, 55, to lUe ta Jately nie week is half gone and the received only a few weeks basic
’ ’ . 'rationing program begins Monday training at an induction center and
prisonment, the jury having found morn j n g March 1. Those who regis- will train here as enlisted men, not!
him guilty of murder with mercy iter early will avoid a "last minute as aviation cadets as previously an-i
recommendation late last night in rush, it was pointed out—and Friday nounced.
is the last day for registration. | The course will extend for five
Those who have not yet received months and include military and
_ , war ration book one are urged to physical drill under the supervision
motlon 'y as argued make application at the ration board of the new military department and
10.27 pef cent of earnings for bonds. I
Lydia Cotton Mills, Clinton, 660 being 'made upon the organization
and the extensive program being car
ried out due to the war, the need is
greater this year than ever before.
employes, 74.25 per cent put 8.17 per
cent of eajdfings in bonds.
Mills,
Watts
Laurens, 1,430 em-
general sessions court on charge of
slaying Irvin Jones.
at length, the main point by defense
counsel being that a Juror in the case
had been quoted as saying he thought
the defendant should be convicted.
The juror in question was sent for
and denied under oath that he had
made the statement.
Dawson, proprietor of a store and
sandwich stand, near the city, alleg
edly .totally stabbed Jones, 24, textile
worker with a long meat knife dur
ing an argument last October over
the breaking of a soft drink glass by
the customer while seated in a car
in front of the eating stand.
The defendant testified that during
the scuffle, clones caught him around
the neck and drew him into the car,
and that he was unaware for some-
office on South Broad street. They academic work supervised by the
must have book one before they can ( college faculty.
get book two, it was stated. Upon successful completion of the
♦ ! course, the men will be sent to a clas-
Drastic Scale of Point Values < sification center at Nashville, Tenn.,
Washington, Feb. 21.—The govern- and from there will be assigned to
ment announced tonight how much pre-flight schools as aviation cadets.
TO SEEK FUNDS
FOR SCOUT WORK
Annual Solicitation
Begins This Morning.
Committees Named.
processed food the new ration books
will buy, a drastic scale of point val
ues limiting consumption to less than
half of normal.
The 48 ration points allotted to
each man, woman and child
March will “purchase” two cans
Captain Turner stressed the fact
ployes, 92.3 per cent put 10.6 per cent The slogan behind the intensive ef-
of earnings in bonds. f or ^ j s « a d a y’ s pay from everybody.”
Mrs. Townsend has announced the
personnel of the organization which
will make the local campaign and in-
! eludes the chairmen of the various
Clinton committees as well as chair
men in communities in the Clinton
area. Rev. J. LeGrande Mayer has
been appointed chairman of the pub
licity committee and Rev. W. N. Long
is chairman of the speakers commit
tee.
Chairman of the solicitation com
mittee for the industrial districts is
The Boy Scout drive for funds withij Henderson Pitts, and for the Clin-
which to carry on the work for thei ton busin e ss district, H. L. Eichel-
year began this morning with an 8:30 Merger will head the committee.
, ~ —r -—t,, cnairman oi me unanciai cc
will be entirely separate in both nnli- j will head the drive to seek
tary and academic work.
Members of the Alpha Psi Delta so
rority will conduct the drive for
funds at Presbyterian college and
million people will have earned an;time that Jones had received a
average of almost $1,600 in 1942. • wound. A state witness had testified
Farm income alone has been fig- he was present, heard the dispute
ured at approximately 16 billion dol
lars, giving America’s six million
farmers an average intake of $2,800.
All these figures are average, of
course, and do not specifically apply
to individual cases.
Besides renewed industrial activity
and higher wages, one of the main
reasons more people will pay an in
come tax for 1942 is because of the
lowered exemptions. Single persons,
or married persons not living with
their spouse, do not have to pay any
tax on the first $600 of their income.
A married man and his wife are al
lowed to take off $1,200 for them
selves and $350 for each child under
18.
The “head” of any family support
ing one or more dependent individ
uals closely related to him by blood
relationship, relationship by mar
riage, or by adoption, is allowed the
$1,200 exemption, plus $350 for every
dependent except one.
The income tax payer is allowed to
deduct other sums, either as personal
or business expenses, from his in
come. For every $1 that the taxpayer
can legitimately take off his income,
he chops 18.4 cents from his tax. On
large incomes, such savings can be
impressive.
But what can the taxpayer deduct?
Below appears a formidable list of
exemptions:
Taxes
Deductible federal taxes include
admissions, dues, telephone, tele
graph, transportation, auto use and
safety deposit boxes. State levies de-
and saw Dawson “lunge into the open
car door’ and cut Jones as the quar
rel raged.
Dawson, formerly of another coun
ty, had lived here about three years.
He has a family. Jones was also mar
ried.
breakfast at Hotel Clinton for vol-
^ _ , .. unteer workers. J. Leland Young,
, chairman of the financial committee,
a per[j h. Hunter at the State Training
cent increase in tlie former Quota. i school Mrs Dennis Sowers will
for Ik Sm *i d0rm “°?' "i! 1 ^ ^ l “ Horace Williamson, of Grwrw.llo, kad the M i iclta Uon on the Thorr-
lOT; house the men when they amve and Scout executive for the Blue Ridge i well orphana „ can)pus
sliced DineaoDie or three cans olT , in Judd 1 council, will be a special guest. Oth-1 Ward chairmen „( ihe city are :
oeas o? 48 caSs of baby to>d ^ | hal on a schedule that wiU not con- er workers attending with jnembers; Ward ond Mrs Julian Coleman and
P ^.1’ ao 4 1 ° U d ' 4 - fl‘ct with the college program. If nec- of their committees follow: . Mrs Hubert Todd- ward two. Mr,
couJS on a" variety ^f 'different l K he l»T nasium , als0 D. B. Smith, captain. White Bui- Roy Pitta ward three Mrs!
foods*'Here ta w^t mme SSL"*£ “ ^ I R? w P m,rt - J ' C Th0 ~*- a " d Copeland; ward four, Mrs. B.
will “cost” in the most nooular can Head Q uar t er s for the military de- L. W. Rawl. _ O. Whitten: ward five, Mrs. C. W.
wm , cost, tne ost pop jpartment have been set up in an of-1 Heath Copeland, captain, Brooks cooper.
'flee on the second floor of the libra-| Owens, B. Hubert Boyd. | For Goldville, the solicitation com-
ry building.
Peas 16 points, com 14, tomatoes
16, green beans 14, pears 21, peaches
21, grapefruit juice 23, tomato juice
32, soup 6, baby food 1.
a ^““o^rmost^tl MRS. NANNIE NORMAN
Adair, captain, William R. mitte will be headed by Joe L. De-
LAST RITES HERE FOR
points a pound.
- The office of price administration _ ... ...
rmx NkiTSNXi 1 issued a detailed tabulation of nearly c ^ aslan Norman held
SEEK CLINTON WOMEN j900 different point values which will| Friday m< a rnil } g from the
[ I. M.
Pitts. laney.
R. L. Plaxico, captain, D. C. Heus- The following have been named as
tess, J. H. Hunter, Harry Wilkes, cba irmen to serve in nearby com-
and J. F. Jacobs. munities: Mountville, Mrs. Ella D.
J. Henderson Pitts, captain, R. M. N a nce; Renno, Mrs. Tan Ray and
Funeral services for Mrs. Nannie |Crooks, J. Hubert Todd, H. L. Nettles, Mrs. J. David Copeland; Shady
McCaslan Norman were held here a °d W. M. Walker. I Grove,, Mrs. David Pitts; Oak Grove,
be at the local post
(Thursday) to interview Clinton
women who are interested in becom
ing members of the WAVES or
SPARS, it has been announced.
The WAVES is an organization of
women whose job is to replace navy
men at shore stations. The SPARS,
likewise, is a woman’s organization
to replace coast guard men at shore
(determine how much canned and 1 ^ ravesi d 0 the Pre f l> ^ er i ar ? ^? me " i am k h
frozen fruits and vegetables dried '■?** *'“ h , lhe Rev , J K - Robcrts “ L? ? I ^ M ?° r ,^ ad ’ cap :
the officiating minister. ! * ain . «L B. Hart, Bruce Galloway, and
Pallbearers were J. J. .Cornwall, 1 Q- N. Foy.
College—J. Isaac Copeland.
West Clinton—William D. Terry.
Special gifts, H. L. Eichelberger, Mrs. J. G. Roy; Musgrove, Mrs. J.
FOR WAVES, SPARS
T _ _ „ ... _. fruits, canned soups and baby foods
J. L. Bagwell, navy recruiting offi- may be bought when the rationing T ^ : V u ™ wa “’
cer from the Spartanburg office wiU starts March j Sale of items iS i J. F. Jacobs, John Little, T. H.
office today
stations.
The navy is still enlisting on a vol-
branches of the service.
frozen until then.
The point values for dried beans,
peas and lentils which were bought
under the raitoning only last night
will be announced later.
The values announced today are
expected to remain in effect through
out March, although they could be
raised or lowered at any time. At the
end of the month the OPA will an-
Rev. J. LeGrande Mayer.
nounce the values for April. . .
The first 48 points provided by the ,or a n T ber o[ ,ears
Copeland, Augustus Blakely, C. W
Cooper, R. E. Sadler and R. S. Ow
ens.
Mrs. Norman died Wednesday at
her home in Chattanooga, Tenn, Police Ask Recipients
where she had resided the past 40 r
years.
Mrs. Norman was a native of Ab
beville county, a daughter of the late
K. Haselden; Long Branch, Mrs. W.
R. Brown; Hurricane, Mrs. A. C.
Young ;
It has been suggested that prior
to the day of solicitation business
_ concerns have someone in their or-
Special Gifts R. E. Ferguson, and ganization contact employes and se-
“ITo Be Careful With
Allotment Checks
cure their contributions in order to
eliminate confusion and save the time
of the solocitors and employes. Firms
'< will be asked for contributions in ad-
! dition to their personnel, it was stat-
I ed.
V
William Miller and Seppie Jordan *r l
McCaslan, beloved Clinton residents Tho .P 0 ^ 0 department, in co-j Will 10m T. NoborS
Posses At Home
William T Nabors. 73, died sud-
operation with the secret service di-
unteer basis boys 17 years of age and " ew rat “> n bo ° ks b f* n f distributed f p resbytcrian irti a ment > r ^ uests that recipients of
men 38 to 50 years. j 0118 week are designed to cover Pur-; woman “J sironeChSan character army and navy allotment checks ex-,
Clinton residents in any of the!.Sjj ases for the entire month of March. h d many g friends by h swee t' ercise care in handling and endorsing denly Sunday night at his home n at
above classifications are invited to^mg the last week of March, how-! ^ rson m a a / a ^ here fellow mg an illness of several
interview the recruiting officer if ever * some °f the April ration cou- £ ag pleasantly remembered here by: they are urged not to endorse the weeks. He was a.native of Laurens
they are interested in joining these P °£ S v” 1 ? y . be Used lf n ® cessary - a number of friends, all of whom will checksi until presented * for payment county and spenLhis entire life m the
It had been announced previously r e ^ ^ j {now l nassine and to take them to the same place county. He/was a son of the late
that the individual allotment for; Survivors include a son Set Edwin eac h time to avoid confusion in iden- Thomas R. and Lizzie Hutcherson
March would be 48 points but the ^ Norman of Fort Oglethoroe Qa • I ^cation. Delivery of checks will be Nabors and was a member of Hurri-
! value of these pomts was a closely . three 4!icter<! Mrs w n rw/oyxc’ facilitated if postal authorities are cane Baptist church. His wife, Mrs.
Clinton Boy
Reported Missing
„__„4 , 4_j-„»„ and three sisters, Mrs. W. B. Owens,
ment romtitutad a ivere blow to' Sr ' ^ this Mrs H - L - Scaife of n “' lfled ‘ >r “ m P U * , ot any change in
^^0 Ue^eTying,Haverfo*. Pa., and Mn, J, T An- ."*** and «*• »«“»* •» " am «
This means we will be eating less 176,000 In the State
than half as much canned and .pro-ip llW XA/nr Rnn/Jc Ow
cessed foods as we ate the previous ] ' i Vn
year,”' commented Prentiss Brown, Payroll Savings
The navy department has announc-J mostly on canned foods for theirl derson of ^ ristol » J enn
ductible include gasoline, real estate ®d that Seaman Andrew Clyde Ad- tables,
and personal property, use taxes, amR ’ son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
auto license fees, and unemployment. Arthur Adams, of North Broad street,
Interest this city, is missing in action.
All interest paid on personal debts Young Adams was a member of an
can be written off. For the farmer armed guard crew aboard a merchant
these take in mortgages, notes and vesse * which -was sunk on August
other obligations incurred to finance 20, 1942, as the result of enemy ac-
oDeration i tion the war department communique
P Expenses 1 revealed. No report from any of the
All expenses connected with con-! c ™w has been received since that
duct of a business or farm are de-! time. - *
ductible. Business expenses include
OPA administrator. “We’ll do on this
scant ration so that our fighting forc
es and the fighting forces of our al
mail boxes.
Merchants should insist upon posi
tive identification of holders before
cashing the checks, it was stated.
New Grand Jury
1 Names Committees
Simmie E. Nabors, died 19 years ago.
Surviving are nine children: L. G.,
Hugh, R. W., Charlie and*^ Thomas
Nabors, Mrs. Ed Prince, Mrs. Charlie
M. Fowler, Mrs. John P. Benjamin,
and Miss Nora Nabors; one sister.
Miss Maggie Nabors; one brother,
N. H. Nabors; seven grandchildren,
and three great-grandchildren.
. Fpnei'-al services were -conductedr*
Tuesday at 11 a. m. at Hurricane
South Carolinians buying war,
^ bonds under the payroll savings plan 1 The 1943 grand jury was organized Ba P tist church graveside by Rev. W
lies may have the food they need to (have now reached a total of 176,000, at last week’s term of coiirt in Lau- N Long-
carry on. ' | it was announced this week by W. P.
, He estimated that civilians will Bowers, state war bond administra-
; have from March 1 to September,! tor. They are employes of approxi-
11944, a total of 254,000,000 cases of ~
office rent, light .heat and phone LorCCny Is Charged
bills, salary of office assistants, train lT ’ k . * .
fares, hotel and restaurant costs for! lO VjintOn IN eg TO
which the party is not reimbursed,' ■-
and charges for operating an auto- Lizzie Mae Williams, former ser-
mobile and its depreciation. ! vant in a Clinton home, has been re
in the expenses of operating their turned from Sarasota, Fla., and is be-
farms, farmers can include gasoline i ing held in the county jail at Laurens
repairs and upkeep of vehicles, cost 1 on a charge of grand larceny in con-
of ordinary small tools, livestock and nection with the alleged theft of
seed, pay of hired hands and food for $100 from her employers, Dr. and
them bought off the farm. Insurance Miy. F. K. Shealy. Deputy Sheriffs
on farm property, such as buildings J. Wesley Fowler and R. S. Wier, who
and crops, are also deductible as is made the trip to Florida, reported
(Continued on page two) that $30 of the money was recovered.
canned fruits and vegetables—an av
erage of little more than 13,000,000
cases a month compared with 30,000,-
000 a month in 1941-42.
$23,548.75 Bonds
Sold First Quarter
mately 500 concerns in the state.
Of these 500 firms, a total of 196
have reached the treasury depart- serve for the year:
ment’s goal of having at least 90 per
cent of their employes buying bonds,
and have received the awards of rec-
rens with S. M. Leaman of Cross Hill, Pallbearers were Johnnie, Furman,
as foreman, and M. S. Boyd, of Lau- Wre ff° rd - “d Henry Lewis Nabors,
rens, as foreman pro tern. an d Carroll Young. A
In its final presentment the follow- 1 —7
ing committees were appointed t°iSoWGrS AoCCptS
I ognition issued by the department.
! GUEST SPEAKER
| Dr. William P. Jacobs, president
A total of $23,548.75 in “E“ bonds;of Presbyterian college, and chair-
were sold in Laurens county during j man of the South Carolina Defense
the first quarter of February ending' council, addressed members of the
Feb. 8, according to figures released | Transportation club in Atlanta, Ga.,
from the office of H. D. Gray, bond on Tuesday evening. His subject
chairman. was, “Equipped For Action.”
Jail and court house: J. V. Lowe, Orphanage Position
Joe Campbell and W. E. Bragg.
Education: J. N. Jones, G. C. Aber
crombie and S. M. Leaman.
Auditing: Sam Fleming, L. O. Hiers
and B. G. Taylor.
County home: D. C. Smith, J. M.
Babb and Conway W. Gray. -
Chaing gang:f E. P. Patton, H. O.
Walker and M. S. Boyd.
Roads and bridges: Louie Lott, J.
Warren Tinsley and Fowler
Burns.
Dennis Q. Sowers, operator of
Sowers Garage of this city for several
years, has accepted a position with
Thornwell orphanage as head of the
shop department, succeeding Robert
A. Mann, recently resigned.
Mr. Sowers stated yesterday that
he will close his garage on Gary
street on the first of March. He pirns
to enter Upon his new work a few
days thereafter.^'