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Volume XLIII
Clinton, S. C., Thursday, June 3, 1943
Number 22
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SECOND CLASS
GRADUATED AT
COLLEGE SUNDAY
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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. All are invited ~
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