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#■ I l. THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy ond Reliable 3bp (Elintmt If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIII Clinton, S. C., Thursday, June 3, 1943 Number 22 4.. i SECOND CLASS GRADUATED AT COLLEGE SUNDAY • Baccalaureate and Graduation Address Combined. Dr. Fuller Stresses Need of Spir itual Values. Twelve seniors, comprising the 1 second graduating class this year at, Presbyterian college, received diplo-1 mas Sunday morning at abbreviated, commencement exercises held at the First Presbyterian church. The combined baccalaureate ser mon and graduation address was de livered by Dr. Ellis A. Fuller, presi dent of the Southern Baiftist Theo logical seminary in Louisville, Ky., and an alumnus of the college. The exercises were presided over by Dr. W. P. Jacobs, president of the institution. The Scripture lesson was read by Dean M. W. Brown of the college. Preceding the sermon Presi dent Jacobs awarded diplomas to the graduates who were seated in the front of the auditorium. A large con- gregatiton was present for the special exercises including a number of out- of-town friends and relatives. The commencement program was an extension of the exercises of March 7th when 44 received degrees under the college’s accelerated pro gram. . . The honor man of the class was Rupert Genair Goodyear of Mullins. Those receiving degrees were: Edgar Reid Boswell, Mildred Ella Bozard, William Davis Burley, Vivian Ross Gall, Jr., Richard Clayton Dent, Rupert Genair Goodyear, Ruth Rhod en Hair, Morris Lincoln King, David Hamilton Martin, Qnily Lucy Mar tin, Emma Julia Milam, William Ca- rothers Walkup. “One of the tragedies of our time is that we listen too often to the dead voices of living men and too seldom to the living voices of dead men,” Dr. Fuller told the graduates as he urged them to find in Chris tianity and its teachings a practical philosophy by which to live. The ultimate meaning of life is found in the teachings of the Man of Galilee, Dr. Fuller said, and be cause of the brevity of life, men and women ought to leam what life is for. The life we are to save or lose, he said, is a human soul. He charged the graduates and large congregation to attain to be made perfect and eternal from the standpoint of qual ity and duration. “You are not spiritual, he said, unless you bear within your breast the image of God and endeavor daily to live like and for Him. He said to the graduates, you are going out into an unsettled world, a world that needs optimism, that needs faith and that must secure spiritual values. If your cause is right that is true great ness. The opportunity is yours, he said, to live for that which is eter nally worthwhile. Citizens Purchases Additional Bonds The board of directors of the Citi* zens Federal Savings and Loan as sociation at their monthly meeting Tuesday night, authorized the pur chase of $25,000 series F war savings bonds. With this new purchase the association now owns a total of $60,000 bonds in this series. The pur chase, the directors stated, was made as an investment of surplus funds. Kohler To Teach At Lander Assembly Rev. J. H. Kohler, pastor of Broad Street Methodist church, will spend the coming week in Greenwood at the Lander Assembly. Mr. Kohler will teach a group of young people June 7 through 11. Each evening this week Mr. Kohler is conducting a class on “Friendship and Marriage” for the young people at the Fountain Ihn Methodist church. CADETS' CENTER TO OPEN THIS WEEK The building on West Main street to be used as a recreational center for the cadet candidates in training at Presbyterian college, will be ready for use either Friday or Saturday, it was stated yesterday. The. plumbing installation has delayed the opening planned for the past week. The store room will be converted into an uptown meeting place for the cadets, with ladies from the churches of the city in charge on weekly schedules. It is planned to open late in the afternoons and remain open until 9 qjelcfck. LadiA who have interested them selves in the undertaking hope to make the building attractive and comfortable. It will be equipped with tables, chairs and other furniture, and all of its facilities will be free to the cadet candidates. MAJOR DILL ELLIS HOME ON FURLOUGH FROM PACIFIC AREA Clinton Officer, Cited { for Meritorious Achieve ment, Lauds B-26 Bomb ers and Colleagues. Major Dill B. Ellis, son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Ellis of this city, is at home for a 15-day furlough be ginning last Saturday. Major Ellis flew from his assignment in the southwest Pacific to San Francisco, Cal., and from there he flew to Washington, D. C., where he re mained ten days in conference with the war department and congression al committees. He and Mrs. Ellis and little daughter, Becky, arrived Sun day night and after a few days here will go to Dillon for a visit to Mrs. Ellis’ parents. Major Ellis, a graduate of West Point, left the states on February 1 of last year, for foreign service. The night after the Pearl Harbor attack he was ordered .from Langley field to the Pacific coast for patrol duty and later to the southwest Pacific for service under the direction of Gen eral Douglas MacArthur. He has been stationed in Australia and New Gui nea where he was serving until he reported to Washington. In reporting to the war department at Washington, Major Ellis gave first hand evidence that the B-26 Marau der medium bombers can “take it,” the department announced. The re turned officer said that Martin B-26s are getting back to their bases after absorbing unbelievable punishment from enemy fire. Major Ellis described how a single group of Marauders shot down 90 Jap Zeros in combat and probably destroyed many others in the last 14 months. His report highly praised the durability, maneuverability and striking power of the Martin version of the medium bomber. The pilots also can “take it” for Ellis cited extraordinary teamwork by an unidentified pilot and co-pilot of one of a flight of three Marauders attacked by a swarm of Zeros. “Bullets plowed through the legs of the pilot, wounding him so severe ly he could not use them,” Ellis re counted. “His co-pilot was hit in both arms. But between them they brought their plane home with the pilot us ing his arms and the co-pilot his legs. It was little short of a miracle.” The ‘two fliers were not named in the re port. Once 30 Zeros jumped five Ma rauders bombing Lae. “My plane was hit in the nose,” Ellis said. “The navigator was spray ed with bullets and the bombardier’s i hand was badly hurt. The bombardier j managed to drop his bombs and then shoot down a Zero. A 20-mm cannon 'knocked a three-foot hole out of the plane’s wing. “More bullets entered our self sealing gas tanks but we kept going. The turret gunner shot down another Zero. I decided to leave the forma tion to get my navigator back for medical aid.” Enroute home they were jumped by two more Zeros but eluded them by ducking behind a cloud. The navi gator died. The other B-26s meantime were having their.troubles. One was shot down when bullets hit its port engine and it caught fire. One engine of an other in the group was shot out, but the plane came in safely after four and a half hours, “something we didn't think possible,” Ellis said. The plane shot down three Zeros during its homeward trip and, in all, the flight shot down eight Zeros to one B-26 lost. Ellis described another occasion when one bomb of a full load just taken on by a pilot exploded and knocked out one motor. Though bad ly damaged, the plane kept on, drop ped the other bombs where they would do no harm, and then landed at an airport two miles away. i Wean Two Medals j Major Ellis wears the Distinguished Flying Cross and a U. S. Air Medal received recently for flying Ameri ca’s swiftest bomber, the Martin B-26, during long months of aerial war fare in the islands north of Austra lia, through at least 25 bombing mis sions with Japanese bullets ripping all about him and the other officers and men who won the citation. In recent months Major Ellis has com manded a squadron of 300 Maraud ers engaged in active combat duty. The many friends of Major Ellis are proud of his outstanding record in the air corps and are delighted to know he is home again for a short stay after an absence of 16 months on foreign soil. First Honor Graduates Thornwell High 62 WHITE MEN LEAVE TODAY FOR ARMY SERVICE Draftees Go To Fort Jackson for Examina tions ond Possible In- duction. The Clinton draft board will send 62 white men today (Thursday) to Fort Jackson for examinations pre- W >11 ushered in next Sunday eve- paratory to army induction. The nin « at 8 O ' clo ? k , wher ) u the ba f a ‘ au - , „ , . ^ reate sermon before the graduating boards June quota is 94. Only 62 (.jassj^jn be preached in Thornwell * j-l.j Memorial church by the Rev. L. Ross Lynn, D.D., pastor of the church and CLOSING PROGRAM AT ORPHANAGE BEGINS SUNDAY Lynn and Riddle ro Address Graduates. Twenty-one To Receive Diplomas. The sixty-eighth conjlmencement exercises of Thornwell orphanage PAUL BRADY Valedictorian ANN WESTMORELAND Salutatortan men are being furnished, the chair man of the board stated yesterday, since this was the total number ready to be sent in the call. The state head- THREE TRAINMEN KILLED IN SEABOARD HEAD-ON CRASH AT 6ARLINGT0N Three trainmen were killed, and three slightly injured, in a head-on collision between two Seaboard. Air Line freight trains just this side of Garlington flag station below Renno, at 1:55 am. Tuesday morning. R. F. Seigler, engineer, R. M. Car- roll, brakeman, both of Abbeville, and W. R. Hayes, fireman, of Green wood, were Instantly killed, and it required several hours to recover their bodies after the wrecking crew arrived on the scene. The two engineers and two fire men of the southbound train jumped and escaped with only slight injuries when they faced the crash. The en gineers were Marvin Williams and J. A. Brandt, and John Henry Mun- dy, conductor. All live in AbbeviUe. The terrible accident occurred in a cut, on a curve near the flag sta tion. Eleven cars of the northbound freight were telescoped, and some of them were thrown as much as 20 yards from the tracks. The locomo tive of the northbound train was de molished. The accident apparently was caus ed by “failure to deliver train or ders,” J. C. Worton, general superin tendent of transportation, said in for mal statement in Norfolk, Va., head quarters of the road. The wrecker crew was soon on the scene with a force of several hun dred hands working to clear the tracks. Supt. J. W. Smith of the Georgia division and other officials were here all day Tuesday and yes terday assisting with the work. Passenger trains were routed dur. ing the day (Tuesday) over the C N. & L. road from Columbia to Clin ton. Freight trains were side-tracked until about six o’clock in the eve ning when the track was cleared and the northbound vestibule went through on schedule time. The bodies of Engineer Seigler and Brakeman Carroll were removed to Abbeville, where funeral services were held yesterday afternoon. The body of Firman Hayes was removed to Greenwood, where the last rites were held yesterday afternoon. Seig ler had been connected with the road 20 years, Carroll one year, and Hayes about two years. president of the institution. Dr. Lynn is retiring from the presidency of the orphanage in July and was requested quarters was advised by the board senior 'class to deliver the ser- that they would not be able to sup- i mon. It is noted that the service will ply tho-full quota. | be in the evening this year instead of The draftees will leave at 9:30 by:™" 1 "* as irl th « U ** bus for Columbia. Those who pass the P res ^ ed , ov " b y the cba, ™ an °* ** examinations and are accepted, will board of trustees. Dr. T. Ellison Simpson of Darlington. In the afternoon at 4 o’clock, a be allowed to return home for a week’s stay before reporting for duty. Quite a large number of those in today’s list are married men without children, according to the board, to gether with several young boys who have reached the age of 18. The board states that under the present J an ’‘ u al play- law they are not allowed to induct married men with children. The list, as released by., the board, follows: Boyd Alexander Poteat, Clinton. Ernest Bennie Whitten, Waterloo. Cassie Harris Joyce, Clinton. James Franklin Messick, Trout- ville, N. C. Bearly William Taylor, Goldville. Robert Geater Turner* Clinton. v Willie Alton Babb, Princeton. Louie Hilley, Greenwood. Thomas Liles Spencer, Waterloo. Marcell Barker, Clinton. Thomas Cothran Willis, Donalds. Gerald Edward Morse, Goldville. Warren Munford McCrary, Char leston. Walter Patterson, Belton. at 'special communion service will be held. On Monday evening at 8 o’clock in the chapel, members of the high school senior class will present their On Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock the annual meeting of the board of trustees will be held in the office building, to be presided over by the chairman, Dr. Simpson. Reports from the president, executive, endowment and special committees for the year will be heard at this time. Members of the board will be dinner guests of the children. In the evening at 8 o’clock the graduating exercises proper will be held at which time diplomas will be ! presented and prizes and medals ! awarded. The salutatory will be giv en by Ann Westmoreland, and the j valedictory by Paul Wallace Brady. The address before the graduates will i be delivered by Rev. F. Ray Riddle, D.D., pastor of Shandon Presbyte- Citizens Federal To Pay Dividend Local Association To Make Usual Distribution To Shareholders. DuPre Rhame Is ’ Speaker Division Lieutenant * Governor of Greenville, Addresses Local Club. DuPre Rhame, of Greenville, lieu tenant governor of the ninth divis ion of Carolinas Kiwanis, was guest speaker Thursday evening at the reg ular meeting of the local club held at Hotel Clinton. The lieutenant governor, who was | iy meeting Tuesday night, and is an- visiting the club in his official ca-jnounced in the advertising columns parity, was introduced by a former j of today’s paper. The dividend ap- lieutenant governor of Jhn divsion plies on all classes of shares, invest- Edward Rudolph Prater, Goldville. i ‘‘an church, Columbia, who was John Bailey Arnold, Clinton. elected last fall by the South Caro- Jessie Napoleon Harmon, Clinton, iina synod to fill a vacancy on the Willie Baxter Quinton, Clinton. orphanage board of trustees. George William Bell, Clinton. To all of the closing exercises the Thomas Roseborough Branson, public is cordially invited. Savannah, Ga. _ Twenty-one to Graduate Larry William Hedspeth, Clinton. John David Word. Jr., Clinton. ^duatmg class is composed ' Albert Randolph Fields, Laurens. ° f K 2 ! members ’ « ^ and “ ^ Jerome Christopher Williams, W a - ^ b ^,. nanies and home addresses terloo. , Carroll Pinkney Reid, Clinton. Thomas Wesley Brown, Clinton. Jack Wehunt, Clinton. Charles Hubert Godfrey, Goldville David Eugene Walker, Waterloo. Furman Edward Hplcombe, Cam- ville, Texas, den. Albert Harlen follow: Betty Jean Idol, Florence. Effie Ellen McCown, Atlanta, Ga. Esther Lucile Baker, Great Falls. Alma Ruth Kennedy, Atlanta, Ga. Joseph Franklin Price, Browns- Wallace, Bristol, John Gamer Gatlin, Laurens. ' Tenn. Frank Conward Scott, Clinton. , Wilma Jeanette Owens. Laurens. A dividend for the six months^ii^ Donald Brooks Smith, Clinton. Mildred Louise Higgins, Atlanta, riod, January 1 to June 30, 1943, orT| Cleveland Alexander Campbell, Ga. the basis of 4 per cent per annum,, Clinton. j Dorothy Lina Williams, Laurens, was authorized by the board of direc-1 Walter Clark Meadors, Ware Benjamin Franklin DuBose, Fur- tors of the Citizens Federal Savings and Loan association at their month 1 man, S. C. Norma Ann Westmoreland, Perry, and member of the cltlb. Ae based his talk around the Arabian proverb, “I had no shoes and complained un-^ til I met a man who had no feet.” ' He began by asking Kiwanians to recall their boyhood days. He asked them whether they appreciated the opportunities offered them then or did they waste their time and energy worrying about what they didn’t have. He read “Old Aunt Mary,” by James Whitcomb Riley, and compar- ment and savings. The Citizens, the oldest building and loan association in the county, is a home-owned and operated associ ation with all accounts insured up to $5,000. It is headed by the following officers and directors: B. H. Boyd, president; J. P. Pra ther, vice-president; B. Hubert Boyd, secretary-treasurer. Directors: B. H. Boyd, B. Hubert Boyd, J. P. Prather, S. W. Sumerel, W. W. Harris, W. A. Shoals. Edward Robert Lane, Rock Hill. Gay Vergle Sellers, Laurens. Fla. Cecil Brantley Bishop, Goldville. | Evelyn Eulala Hamilton, Abbeville. James Edgar Gambrell, Honea Edith Winifred Gibney, Florence. Path. , | Florence Lavonia Ginn, Seffner, Carroll Workman Johnson, Ki-1 Fla. nards. Daisy Edna Woodside, St. Peters- John Wilkie Minnick, Clinton. , burg, Fla. and the privilege of being a Kiwan- j Moorhead, D. C. Heustess, T. D. ian. Copeland and T. H. Copeland. Rev. 0. M. Abney Banks To Observe Holiday Today • M. S. Bailey St Son, Bankers, and The Commercial Depository will ob serve tod Ay (Thursday) as a holiday in observance of Jefferson Davis' birthday. The speaker asked the Kiwanians to take an inventory of their attitudes toward the present time when war conditions are imposing new prob- Claimed By Death lems and living standards upon thej — people. He emphasized that in spite, The Rev 0 M Abney a f ormer of present disturbed world conditions pastor o£ North Broad Street Metho _ there are many blessings around us c jj Urcb o£ suddenly and enumerated thern as the oppor- on M ay 24th at his home in Orange- tunity to worship God as we desire, bur g The funeral services were held the privilege of being an American, afternoon at St and the privilege of being an Amen-, c h urc h, conducted by Rev. George c® 11 * . iK. Way, Orangeburg district super- He urged members to keep their i n£e ndent, assisted by several minis- eyes open and find things to do and £ers do them with a willing spirit. He saidj Mr Abney was in the Dutch he knew of no surer road than the p or h section near Columbia, March road of service and emphasized the, 8 1872 the ^ of Dr Sidney chaUenge and opportunities before Abney wd Mrs Mary Jane HoUe- Kiwanis to utilize these privilege* | man Abney j|e was graduated from James Thomas Smith, Columbia. Roy Fuller Dellinger, Greenwood. Vivian Orelle Collins, Greenville. Paul Wallace Brady, Atlanta, Ga. Rosa Jean Graham, -Donalds. ' Lucille Harp, Palatka, Fla. John Horace Osborne, Clinton. Benjamin Franklin Ridgeway, | Ware Shoals. William Walker Bishop, Clinton. Thomas Heath Copeland, Clihton. j Thomas Pedro Green, Woodruff. Johnnie Daniel Butler, Clinton. Eunice Murry Riser, Waterloo. Eugene Jackson Brunson, Waterloo. Jack Franklirt Holland, Clinton. William Mitchell Perdue, New- Rev. W. N. Long, pastor of the Hubert Watson. Graydon, Gray First Baptist church, will leave Mon- Long To Conduct Special Services Court. James Thomas Smith, Clinton. Joseph Franklin Price, Clinton. James Bell Dorn, Ware Shoals. Leo Taylor Young, Kinards. Ellis Backer Evans, Goldville. James Edmunds Young, Clinton. Thomas Watland Henderson, Clin ton. John Ralph Knight, Laurens. Marion Grayson Smith, Goldville. Joseph Samuel Isgett, Atlanta, Ga. day for Ashbum, Ga., where he will conduct a week’s series of special services at the First Baptist church. Mr. Long announces that services at his church Sunday evening have been omitted to give members of his congregation an opportunity to at tend the Thornwell orphanage com- mencemen exercises. He also stated that his pulpit on the morning of June 13th will be occupied by the Rev. C. E. Piephoff of this city. and responsibilities for the better- men of man. In closing, Lieut. Gov. Rhame re ferred to the chapter in the Book of Genesis describing when the world was created and light was made to shine. He verged his hearers to do their partln keeping the light shin ing in a dark world today. At the conclusion of the evening’s program, the board of directors of ficially met with the lieutenant gov ernor. Dr. John K. Roberts and F. M. Stutts returned yesterday from Mon- treat,' N. C., where they spent the past week attending the 83rd session of the Gener'. Assembly of the Southern PresMyterian church. Wofford college in 1894 and Vander bilt university in 1898, being admit ted that fall to the South Carolina conference. Mr. Abney during his long life in the ministry, served a number of CADETS GRADUATION EXERCISES AT COUEGE THIS AFTERNOON AT 3:30 An invitaticm has been extended to colorful ceremonies will take place, the people of Clinton to attend the the new cadet officers will be an- graduation exercises of the 39th col-' nounce d to the unit and will then lege ,r *' nin ‘ d«l»chment 'o' ‘he “E" 'L^r^u'ta ,r l h7Ta™al t, r°e n v,ew 0 o( churches including Broad Street of Q uin t l te which will leave the Presby- the whole detachment, behind the this city for four years, 1926-1930, terian colle 8 e campus in the near newly formed 39th CTD band, at and is pleasantly remembered here. | f u tur*- which time Captain Turner will re- He is survived by his widow, two 1 ’^ be ex * r pises will be held in the view the cadets. The graduating class brothers and five sisters. stadium this afternoon (Thursday) 1 will assemble in front of the stand — jat 3:30 o’clock, at„ which time Cap- to review the rest of the wing GOES TO OKI AHOMA «l ain Ca r 1 ^ Turner, commanding of-! Many relatives and friends of the GOES TO OKLAHOMA | ficer of the detachfnent> will make cadets are expected to attend ^ Miss Emily Dillard, daughter of his farewell remarks to the class, and ceremonies in addition to many CUn- Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Dillard, left Mon- introduce the guest speaker, who will ton citizens who have shown such day for Oklahoma City, Qkla., where be a flying officer from the Haw- great interest in the cadet activities she will be engaged in religious thorne School of Aeronautics, located at the college. The south stand of the work for the Central Presbyterian in Orangeburg. stadium will be open for those who church for the summer months. • Following the address, the usual .wish to attend. 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