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Iff CHROMOE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable 3hp (Elittlmt If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIII Clinton, S. C., Thursday, April 15,1943 Number 15 TO THE READERS OF THE CHRONICLE: The thirteen-billion second war loan is the responsibility of every one of us. As Americans, we must lend our government every dol lar we can during these next few weeks. No matter how much or how little our pay checks are, each of us must do his part. The money is urgently needed to back up our armed forces now on the offensive with the weapons they must have to win, and win quickly. We are talked to give up our luxuries, and even our com forts, to match in a small way the sacrifices our men in the armed forces are making on the fighting fronts. Remember: They give their lives—we are only asked to * lend our money. Only you know how much you can lend. Don’t wait for someone to come around and ask you to do your part. Do it today. Do it gladly. Do it to the utmost of your capacity. Clinton’s quota is $200,000. Do it knowing that upon how much you do depends to an extent how quickly we win this war. COMMERCIAL BODY aECTS OFFICERS FOR HEW YEAR Roy Gosque Named President. Report of Ac tivities Given. Officers of Cadet Training Unit Special Guests. The April meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held Tuesday eve ning at Hotel Clinton at which time officers as recommended by a nomi nating committee for the year were elected. The new leaders are: President, Roy Casque. Vice-President, D. B. Smith. Secretary, Miss Iona Blakely. Treasurer, J. Leland Young. Additional directors: C. C. Giles, L. E. Bishop, R. L. Plaxico, Dr. D. O. Rhame, Jr., J. C. Thomas, J. B. Ar nold, Mrs. B. F. Wingard, Mrs. J. H. Stone, Dr. Duncan Felder, W. H. Simpson, J. H. Pitts, Jr., and Dr. W. P. Jacobs. The retiring president, D. B. Smith, expressed his appreciation of the hearty cooperation given him during the year. _ A mimeographed annual report covering the activities for the past year, was put in the hands of all members present. The club had as its guests Captain Carl fJl. Turner, commanding officer of the 39th AAF training detachment at Presbyterian college, and mem bers of his staff, Adjutant B. M. My ers, Lieut J. R. Lutz, Lieut. E. G. A. Barnes, Lieut. Frank A. DiPasa. Each spoke briefly of their duties as the directing personnel of the cadets SENIOR LIEUTENANT Lieut Duncan Workman Killed* In Plane Crash 1 ■ Popular Young Clinton Officer Is Accident Victim In Boise, Idaho. Body To Be Returned and Funeral Arrangements Announced Later. of park, Fla., where he contracted ma- s-! la C. B. CRISP has been promot ed to senior lieutenant at the Coast Guard academy, New London, Conn. Lt Crisp is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Crisp, Sr., of Mountville, and before entering service a year ago held an execu tive position with the Parker House hotel chain, Boston. Mass. Mrs. Nene Duncan Workman Ihis city, received a telegram Tues J day afternoon that her elder son, i Lieut. Duncan Workman, had been killed in a plane crash. The message read: “Regret to inform you that your son, 2nd Lieut. Duncan Workman, was killed in an air plane accident at Gowan Field. Boise, Idaho, at 8:20 am. on April 13 (Tuesday). Request tele graphic reply giving name and address of person to whom re mains should be shipped. Lieut. Workman’s uncle, Joe Dun- 103 WHITE MEN, 60 NEGROES CALLED FOR MAY , .aria and was unable to pursue his training for several weeks. From there he went to Shaw field, Sumter, i to soon be transferred to Turner I field, Albany, Ga., where he was 'commissioned on Dec. 13 past as a 1 second lieutenant. His mother and ; grandmother, Mrs. J. Will Duncan, j were present for his graduation. From | Albany he was transferred to Smyrna air base, Smyrna, Tenn., for special 1 4-engine bomber training. From here he was sent to Salt Lake City, Utah, to receive his assignment and com bat crew, and then to Gowan field. can of Decatur, Ala,, was immedi- j where he; was killed while on routine ately advised and got in touch with j flight. the young man’s captain, who stated Lieut. Workman had a wide circle that an officer would accompany' the of friends in the city who body home The body will be returned here this in me city who were shocked and saddened by the news of his untimely death. He was a week, and announcements concerning young man of the highest integrity, the funeral arrangements will be ideals and principles, and of a kind, made later. His mother received a attractive personality that drew letter from Duncan the same day the friends to him easily. Since entering announcement of his death was re- the air corps service for which he ceived. 1 had developed unusual talent and Lieut. Workman was 23 years of ability, his advancement had been age, and at the time he was killed rapid and he had shown the same was attached to the 56th Squadron, quality of bravery and readiness for 29th Bombardment Group, at Boise, sacrifice required at the battlefronts. Idaho, as a pilot of a Flying Fortress. Many are saddened by his tragic He had been on this assignment since death and bow in sympathy for his bereaved family. The Clinton draft board has re ceived a call for 103 white selectees for the month of May, The men will March 2 be sent to Camp Jackson, Columbia,! Lieut. Workman Was a graduate of on the 20th where they will undergo Clinton high school in the class of examinations preparatory to indue-11937, and from Clemson college in [[TTj . iMrr[ , tion in ^° the arm^d forces. The May the class of 1941. He immediately I man; a brother, Davis Workman, in Capt. N^W^Ryan physicianln charge Quota is an increase over the 89 fig-j volunteered in the air corps and was defense work at Evansville, Ind.; his * * * * 9 r w ~ » •« T T J V ^1 1 1 nr-i tr\ r* a svm AT» C 1 <4 9 In a m IkMT V172 91 VY_ . Lieut. Workman is survived by his father, Hugh Braxton Workman; his mother, Mrs. Nene Duncan Work- at the Goldville Quarantine center, was also a guest, and spoke briefly of the work of that unit The club afto had as its guests sev eral talented musicians who are members of the cadet school at the college. They gave a program of so los, duets and banjo selections that scored a big hit with the audience. The young men were heartily en cored and thanked for the eninyahl* program they presented and invited to come back again. Mrs. J. G. Bar den was their accompanist. Those in the group were Cadets Andes, Sig- nier, Nicholas, Haney, Shirk and Plank. Capt. Turner, as well as the other ure for April. Under a new ruling called for service on Nov. 5, 1941, the names of those who will be draft-1 fl nd sent to Montgomery, Ala., for his ed cannot be published until after first five weeks of primary training, they have reported and been ac-i|From there he was sent to Avon cepted. grandmother, Mrs. J. Will Duncan; also by an aunt, Mrs. Emma Duncan Adams of Newberry; and an uncle, Joe Duncan of Decatur, Ala. ™LX STL.L fz o^Vv^ mrs/maud elrod yesterday that there are only a veryi «*•**. M . few 18-year-old boys to be used in||5 LAID TO REST filling the May quota. This means,; an official stated, that the call will be made up largely of married men without children. M Negroes Also Colled ONLY 3 CLASSES OF MEN DEFERRED UNDER NEW DRAFT RULES SUGAR FOR CANNING TO BE AVAILABLE WITHOUT POINTS P. C. Graduate Downs Three German Planes Lieut Marion Moore, an alumnus of Presbyterian college, class of ’40, was reported by the Associated Press Monday to have brought down three German transports in the gigantic aerial battle now raging in the North African zone. Lieut. Moore is quoted in the dis patch as saying, “I didn’t even have to shoot one transport. I just forced him down into the water.” Lieut Moore, a native of Rock Hill, is pleasantly remembered here by a number of friends. He was recently reported to have been seriously scald ed and was credited last week with the downing of an Italian plane. guests from the detachment, spoke, n C I J in the highest terms of the reception'TO d6 Enlarged the officers and cadets had received since arriving here and pointed out several ways in which the community can cooperate in providing recreation for the young men. L. E. Bishop, reporting for the club’s recreation committee for the cadets, stated that an effort was un- l- 1 Mrs. Maud Lanier Elrod, of Green ville, widow of Dr. Hugh F. Elrod,; died Monday morning at Hays hos-i .. . pital where she had been ill for sev-l The board at the same -time receiv- . • . -i ed a call for 60 Nevroes for Mav to 1 eral weeks. She had been in declin- ! Washington, April 13. — Selective ed a call lor eo Negroes lor May to i ug-itu # or several months i service revamped draft classes today be sent to the same induction center. ‘“S neaiU1 Ior several momns. | f' . , . ' — 1 The funeral services were held prep?rat017 to mductin * 11140 ine runerai services were neid armed services this year every able- Tuesday atternoon at 3 o clock at the bodlcd ma , e betwe< ,' the ^ ol 1« Mackey mortuary m Greenville, con- , „ , .T~ . „ ducted by Dr. B. Rhett Tumlpseed ?" d 37 ' ,nclus,ve ' exce P* * h ' ,oU ° w - and Dr. John W. Shackford. Inter-. 8 ‘ Announcement is made by college !ment folowed in the family plot in Men employed full-time in es- officials that Judd dining haU is to! Springfield cemetery. College Dining Hall be enlarged at once in order to ac commodate the student body and 400 cadets who have recently been as signed here for special training. j sential farming. Mrs. Elrod was a native of Texas, 2. Men irreplaceable in essential a daughter of the late John and Mar- non-agricultural jobs, tha Lanier. Her husband preceded j 2. Men whose induction w o u 1 d her to the grave several years ago. mean “extreme hardship and priva- Priorities have been secured from; Mrs. Elrod was a member of the t ion” to dependents, der way to get the USO to provide!the War Production board for the en- Methodist church and by her sweet The changes in classification swept an attendant for a recreation unit in 1 largement of the building and instal- personality and admirable traits of away dependency deferments for the city and that if successful in thejiarion of additional cooking equip- character endeared herself to a wide childless married men, added thou- Housewives of this community who intend to do considerable canning this summer requiring the use of sugar will be able to do so without giving up ration pointr, according to information released by the local War -Price and Ration. board from the OPA. Arrangements have been made to import an extra 200,000 tons of sugar from Cuba, it is understood. Previously OPA had considered re quiring persons who asked for extra canning sugar to surrender 8 to 12 points of their canned goods ration stamps for every extra pound of sugar. The procedure for getting canning sugar this summer will be substan tially the same as it was last year, 4 . „ 4 . . , when housewives applied to local ^ ^ na ] nieetmg for the school ration boards for as much canning f ear of Laurens County Educa tion association held in Laurens last Thursday, E. M. Alewine was elected president of the organization for the coming year. Mr. Alewine is super intendent of *the Mountville school. G. N Foy, superintendent of the Jo anna schools, Goldville, was elected vice-president, and J. Leroy Burns, county superintendent of education, was re-elected secretary-treasurer. The session was presided over by the retiring president, Mrs. J. D. Copeland of Renno. The address was given by the Rev. C. F. Allen, Pres byterian pastor at Goldville. Alewine To. Head County Teachers sugar as they thought they needed, and the ration board reviewed each application on its merits. Presbyterian Men To Meet Tonight The Men-of-the-Church of the First Presbyterian church will meet this evening at 7:30. This is the regu lar monthly meeting and the guest speaker will be Rev. John J. Hayes, pastor of the First Presbterian church of Laurens. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS As already announced, a small ad justment in THE CHRONICLE’S subscription rate will become effec tive May 1. After that date the price will be $2.00 a year instead of $1.50, an increase of less than one cent a week to our subscribers. Subscrip tions may be renewed until this date at the present rate. effort residents of the city will beltnent asked to provide a place. R. L. Plaxico spoke of the possi bility of securing a cold storage locker system for the county with a sub-unit established here. If the sys tem is secured boxes will be avail- Miss Frances Scott To Speak Here able, he said, for the preservation of meats, etc., at an annual rent of ten dollars. He also spoke of the local War Bond drive and asked the hearty cooperation of the community in the effort to reach the goal. Several other matters pertaining Miss Frances Scott of Indiana, will ; speak on narcotics to all denomina tions at the First Baptist church on Monday afternoon, April 19, at 5:15. | Cockerell of Austin, Texas At 7 pm. Miss Scott will address j — the cadets at Presbyterian college i p. ii-fv and will speak to the students on;** DntVgUOWn r U5S6S Tuesday, the 20th, at 1:15. She will, Friday In Charlotte c*4 4Wa mr rt l 11? " circle of friends who are saddened I sands of men to the “fathers fclass,’’ by her passing. * created a special class for men whose The deceased is survived by one induction would mean extreme hard- daughter, Miss Polly Elrod, of this ship and eliminated altogether the j city, who is employed by the Indus- \ 3-B classification established a year trial Supply company. Also by two' ago lor men with dependents and brothers, John Lanier ol Haskell, engaged in essential occupations. Mich., and Sam Lanier of Havilland, .Manpower Commissioner Paul V. Kansas, and one sister, Mrs. J. J.] McNutt, who has general charge of selective service, .told reporters the to the club’s activities during the, also make talks at the various schools year were reported during the eve- J on Tuesday. The public is invited to ning. . hear her. j. revision of regulations is intended to postpone calling fathers “as long as possible,” but it was indicated that the job of raising the armed forces to a total of 10,800,000 men by the year's end would necessitate lilting the present ban on the induction of faih- Local Workers Open Big War Loan Drive J. E. McQuown, a former Clinton resident, died suddenly Friday in Charlotte,. N. C., where he had made ers by about July 1. his home for the past three years. Mr. McQuown was the son of the late E. Y. and Amanda Senn Mc Quown and his early years were spent in this section. He operated a grocery store here for several years prior to moving to Charlotte. Surviving are one son Otis Mc- Kiwanians Hear Talk By Prince Members of the Kiwanis efub heard an interesting address at their regu lar meeting Thursday evening on Quown, of Winston-Salem, N. C.; a, “V’ocational Guidance” by Haynie G. Clinton is joining the nation this dom that are sacred to us all,” he sister, Mrs. J. E. Benjamin, of this Prince, member of the. college fac- week in an effort to raise its quota said - “ We are onl y asked to lend our c ity; two granddaughters and several ulty. . o—rtr.,! w..- t -amnaiffn mone y to belp them, and we must nieces and nephews. His wife, the William R. Pitts was received and in the Second War Loan can.p«i*n nol jtomer Lucia UUm passed away five welcomed a< a new member o* the Chairman Bishop appealed to the years ago. Observers To Hold Meeting In City The ground observer section of the Columbia filter center will hold an informational meeting at the Clinton high school auditorium on Friday, April 16, at 8:45 p.m. All observers, from Renno, Clinton and Goldville observation posts are invited to be present at the meeting. The program will be put on by military representatives from Co lumbia. with its national goal of 13 billion dollars to be loaned Uncle Sam for the successful prosecution of the war. Termed the greatest war financing effort in history, the campaign will continue through the 30th of this month. Laurehs county has a quota of $410,000, divided Laurens area $210,000, Clinton area $200,000. Local arrangements for the cam paign were completed Monday night at a meeting of captains and workers at the high school. The meeting was presided over by the local chairman, L. E. Bishop, who introduced D. F. Patterson of Laurens, county chair man. Mr. Patterson explained the state and county set-ups for the cam paign and types of securities to be offered during the campaign. workers in the city and industrial areas to make a determined effort to raise the local quota and go “over the top.” | urday. R. L. Plaxico, chairman of the so- 1 licitation committee, stated that a 1 list had been compiled by the pros pects committee and cards provided.; These prospects were divided be-; tween the captains and their work-; ers. Captains in the drive are: H. L. Eichelberger, D. C. Heustess, W. H. Simpson, D. B. Smith, J. C. Cannon, J Russell Cobb, and Joe Delaney of Goldville. The campaign will push the sale of seven types of federal securities: Se ries E bonds for the small investor: Series F bonds for those investing Services were held Friday after noon in Charlotte and burial was in Mountain View cemetery, Greer, Sat- club during the evening. — — — — L. W Davis of Shelby, N. C., wai a recent guest of his sister. Mrs. A. Ross Blakely. J. H. Sullivan, Laurens attorney, J up to $3,750 a year; Series G bonds, delivered ah inspiriitional address to!bought at par value; 1952 (optional the group in which he called for a 11950) bonds for fraternal organiza- strong, united effort on the part of all tions and trust funds; two and a half the people to support the young men per cent Treasury certificates, nqgo- from the county who are but on the tiable in sales or collateral agree- flghting fronts. “They are making ments; Treasury 7-8 per cent certifi- sacriflces, offering their lives if nec-| cates of indebtedness for banks, and for those principles of free-'tax anticipation notes. GENERAL MARSHALL SAYS: B)f GENERAL GEOEGE C. MARSHALL. Chief of Staff, United States Army (Written for the Associated Press) “On many fronts the American soldier is now doing his job, endur ing privations, suffering hardships, fighting and dying. He can do no more. “He is in constant need of planes and tanks, guns, ships, and a thousand other items of war material, all of which wear out, are lost at sea or destroyed on the battlefield. . “War is always wasteful and this war more so than ever before due to the bomber and the submarine. “All this costs money—vast sums of money. We must not quibble over the amount. It is a price of the victory that America demands. “We must do our part at home as the soldier does his overseas, and we must do it to the full as the soldier does who lays down his life. “Buy your share of war bonds.”