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THE CHRONICLE Strivas To U ^ Clooo Newspaper, Complete, Newsy oihI Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News tsam Volume XLIIl Clinton, S. C., Thursday, August 5, 1943 Number 31 Soldiers 9 Serenade in Sicily Tsssa Roper To Direct United Campaign DADS BE DRAFTED AFTBt OCTOBER 1 * Boards Instructed To Call Men With Families When Others Are Not Available. Washington, Aug. 2.-*-Local draft Drive In Fall Will Com bine Various War Objec* fives. Comittees Named. Cecil P. Roper, well known Lau rens merchant and citizen, has been named chairman for Laurens county of the National War Fund, recently boards were authorized by selective created organization to coordinate | service today to call up pre-Pearl fund-raising activities of various war j Harbor fathers after October 1, but relief organizations. ionly to the'.extent “absolutely re-: Mr. Roper has accepted the posi- quired” to meet their monthly quotas, i tion and has set up a county wide One authoritative estimate was that committee to have charge of the drive only some 300,000 fathers living with 1m BksUr ef soldiers la HeUy celebrate the Allied successes with The tastrsmeats were probably borrowed from Sicilian aattves. 23WHTEMEN60 10 CAMP CROFT Clinton draft board No. SO sent 23 white selectees Tuesday to Camp Croft, Spartanburg, for examination and possible induction in the armed services. The call is for August. The draftees accepted will receive three-week furloughs before being called into the service. I Those included in the call are: William Houston Crawford, Ware Shoals. Walker Owens, Anderson. Toy Harold Murphy, Goldville. Robert Coleman McGinnis, Clinton. Jackson Pink Morgan, Goldville. Edgar Tafanadge Pressley, Laurens. Alvin Wesley Whelchel, Mountville. William Fred Hellams, Gray Court. Homes Lee Fuller, Clinton. Gerald Edward Morse, Goldville. James Cochran Crane, Moultrie- ville. , Cecil Lawson, Clinton. Thomas Wesley Brown, Clinton. Garland Wilford Clardy, Green ville. Gay Vergle Sellers, Laurens. James P. Workman, Clinton. John Wayles Sharpe, Princeton. Howard Willie Motes, Rt. 2, Clin ton. Ozzie James Allen, Ware Shoals. James Ernest Osborne, Goldville. William Edward Knight, Clinton. Eugene Ledford, Rt. 1, Clinton. Claude Mathew Williams, Rt. Clinton. 1, RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) PUBLIC CANNERY NOW IN OPERATION - f The school cannery is now in op eration and will run each day this week, beginning the week of August 9, according to P. H. Hobson, super intendent of schools. Until further notice, he states, it.will be open Mon day, Wednesday and Friday of each week, or at other times if special arrangements are made with L. E. Reeder, vocational agriculture teach er for the local high school. Mr. Reed-1 ^ and unfortunate persons in ^f_ a _ n person or called at Laurens count y | it is announced by ~’ 1 the county board of public welfare,, (Compiled to date for information of The Chronicle’s readers). COFFEE—No longer rationed. SUGAR—Stamp 13 in war ration book 1 is good for five pounds of su gar until August 15. Stamp 14 be comes valid August 16 for 5 lbs. of sugar and lasts until November 1. Stamps 15 and 16 in book 1 may also be used to get sugar for canning and will be good until October 31. BLUE STAMPS R, S,.and T be came valid July 25. They are good until September 7. Other blue stamps valid are N, P, and Q, which "last until August 7. RED STAMP T became valid July 25 and will be good through August 31. Red Stamp U became valid Aug ust 1, Red Stamp V becomes valid August 8, and Red Stamp W becomes valid August 15. All expire August 31. Also good are Red Stamps P, Q, R, and S, which expired July 31. Red Stamps are good for meats, shorten ing, butter, cheese, canned meats and canned fish. GASOLINE—A-6 coupons are now valid for 3 gallons. SHOES—Stamp No. 18 in war ra tion book 1 now good for oan^oir of shoes until October 31. Stamps are interchangeable among members of the family only. TIRES—Owners of passenger cars and commercial vehicles using tires smaller than 7.50x20 may get their casings recapped with reclaimed rub ber camelback without applying to their local war price and rationing boards. FUEL OIL—Period 5, ten gallons until September 30. Period 1 (new) until January 3. Public Welfare Board Makes Annual Report During the fiscal year ended June 30, a total of $124,688.45 was award ed to the needy^ aged, needy blind, dependent children, and other handi- this fall, the goal to be announced later. M. F. Reid, of Laurens, has been named publicity chairman. The following committeemen have been announced by Chairman Roper: Laurens: C. K. Wright, L. G. Balle, E. D*. Easterby, R. M. Cushman, A. C. Martin, Jr., R. M. Erwin, T. P. Town send, H. E. Pearson, A. J. Mason, Merle L. Brown, Henry M. Farris, J. W. DunkUn, L. H. Taylor, F. H. Caine, C. B. Cannon, J. C. Todd, L. S. McMillan, D. F. Patterson; Clinton: D. C. Heustess, chairman, R. E Ferguson, W. P. Jacobs, R. L. Plaxico, H. D. Payne, I. M. Adair, Hubert Boyd, Robert Hamer, W. Roy Pitts, Roy Gasque, H. L. Eichelber- ger, Dr. D. O. Rhame, J. Isaac Cope land, Goyne L. Simpson, F. M. Bo land, E. H. Wilkes, J. Leland Young, Pat H. Hobson, D. B. Smith, W. C. Neely, P. S. Bailey, Dorroh Hairston; Goldville: W. A. Moorhead, J. B. Hart, G. N. Foy, Bruce Galloway; Waterloo: N. C. Clark. V Organizations to be included in the National War Fund, according to a publicity release from Columbia, will be the U.S.O., United Seaman’s Ser vice, War Prisoner’s Aid Committee, Russian War Relief, United China Re lief, British War Relief for Occupied' Countries (Greece, Poland, France, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Holland and Norway), Aid for Refu gees, U. S. Committee for the Care of European Children, administrative expense and contingent fund, the net amount to be raised in the nation be ing $125,000,000. Mr. Roper pointed out that the campaign is to be entirely separate from the Red Cross fund gathering campaign which came last year in the spring. phone 140 or 262 The cannery is prepared to can any and all vegetables and meats. The cost to the person canning will be: for No. 3 cans 7c, and No. 2 cans 6c, if the cans are furnished by the can nery; if the individual furnishes cans the price will be 3c per can. Persons desiring canning done must furnish all labor necessary for putting the materials into the cans and sealing them. After then, the manager of the cannery will take charge and com plete the operation. Materials to be canned should be at the cannery not later than 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Vegetables to be canned should not be prepared more than two to three hours before plac ing into cans unless they are kept in a cool place over night, according to those in charge of the project. Betts On Vocation At Bon darken Dr. C. Bynum Betts, pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church, and Mrs. Betts left this week for a month’s vacation stay at Bon darken, the A. R. P. church’s sum mer assembly grounds at Flat Rock, N. C. Preaching services will be suspend ed at the church for the month of August in the absence of the pastor, but Sunday school and other meet ings will be conducted as usual, It has been announced. Special Services At Rocky Springs Church Beginning Sunday, August 8, spe cial evangelistic services will be held at Rocky Springs Presbyterian church near here. 1710 services will be con ducted by Dr* D* J. Woods of this city, supply pastor of the church for the past several months. All members and friends are cordially invited. Hours Monday through Friday will be 11 ajn. and 8:30 pm. composed of James M. Donnan, chair man, L. E. Bishop and M. L. McDan iel. Following, are the amounts used for assistance to each type of needy persons during the year: Needy aged, $96,652.89. Needy blind, $2,097.72. Dependent children: $23,327.23 Other handicapped persons, $2,- 610..81. Mrs. Mabel B. Little, director of the county welfare department, ex plained that one-half of the money for the first three types of assistance is provided by the state and one-half by the federal government. Funds for other handicapped persons are appro priated equally by the county and the state, with no contribution from federal sources. During the year an average of 797 persons each month were given old age assistance, while the average number receiving aid to the needy blind was 18, and the number of children receiving aid averaged 124 monthly. Approximately 22 other handicapped persons received assist ance each month from the county and the state. FEDERAL LEVIES APPROACH LM. GEORGE ASSERTS Little Man To Be Destroyed If Taxes Go To Excessive Levels. JOSEPH F. DIXON and supporting children bom before last September 15 and not engaged in non-defense work would actually be inducted this year. Another 150,000, however, probably will have to be sent to induction sta tions in order to get 300,000 fully qualified men. Since there are 6,559,000 non farming fathers, this would indicate that only about one out of 22 will be put into uniform in 1943. The 744,000 fathers regularly en- Joseph F. Dixon, technical fifth RENNO BOY WINS SILVER STAR MEDAL gaged in agricultural work will con tinue virtually draft-proof for occu pational reasons. Preparatory reclassifications may begin at once, but local boards were forbidden to order fathers to report for induction before October 1 if they i March , 1943, in are maintaining a bona fide home re- Tunisia, assigned lationship with children bom before ( driver for a battalion - aid station, September 15 and are not workers in:T-5 Dixon, with the assistance of his the activities classed an non-deffer- able. Also, the boards were instructed to continue calling single and childless married men first if they have no oc cupational hardship ground for,defer ment and to make reclassifications out of the fathers’ group, 3-A, “only as needed to meet the demands upon Price Panel Asks Support a local board for men for military,He returned them to his battalion aid serv i ce -” j station, and a short while later, evac- The calling of fathers will be ac- uated one to a clearing station over cording to their draft order numbers J a road which was clearly under ene- regardless of their number or age of, my shell fire. His courage and his de- their children, unless they are grant-1 votion to duty merit the highest ed deferment as “essential” in agri-j praise. By command of Brigadier Vienna, Ga., Aug 3.—Senator Wal ter F. George, of Georgia, chairman of the senate finance committee, warned today that further drastic in- ceales of individual income taxes may destroy the nation’s little man, and asserted: “The virility and strength of any civilization depends upon the middle classes. There is no other way to pull together the very poor and the very rich. The middle class is the liaison.” Observing that revenue of the fed eral government has increased 10-fold in the last decade. Senator George said in an interview at his home that new taxes to be enacted at the forth- comixig session of congress may be expected to yield not more than five or six billions of dollars, or scarcely one-half the administration’s estimate of need. Federal income now, he said, is ap proximately 35 billions of dollars an nually, and new taxes would raise this to possibly 40 billions. The mag nitude of the job can be appreciated, he continued, when it is remembered that all federal income. Including tariffs, never exceeded three or four 1 billions annually prior to 1933: j “One of the strong reasons why I believe ,w£» cannot greatly increase individual rates in 1943,” he explain ed, “is that under law, income tax rates must be uniform. Since we have this principle, any drastic increase would be overwhelming for those taxpayers with low or moderate fixed lance which was pierced by shellfire.' incomes, such as wages, salaries, self- owned business, annuities and the grade, medical detachment 178th field artillery, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Dixon of Renno, has been awarded the Silver Star rn^gal for gallantry in action.' The official citation reads: “On El Guettar area, an ambulance as helper, evacuated two ' seriously wounded men from an anti-tank gup position while enemy artillery shells were falling within a few feet of them. Although once knocked from his feet by concussion of an explod ing shell, he coolly aided in remov ing the wounded men in an ambu- culture or industry or unless their induction would mean “extreme hardship and privation to their fami lies. _ The decision in each man’s case wiR be tip to his local board subject to appeal. In deciding whether to grant hard ship deferment, classification 3-D, boards are to take into consideration j f**. e i • provisions for allotments to depend- jCnOOlS -10 General Crane.” T-5 Gr. Dixon entered service in January, 1940, and was stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C., before leaving for foreign service. His wife is the for mer Miss Olive Nabors of this city. ' He is a grandsdn of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Geer of this city. Roberts Gronted Leave Of Absence At a congregational meeting of the First Presbyterian church held Sun day at the conclusion of the morning service, the resignation of the pastor, Dr. J. JC. Roberts, was presented. Dr. Roberts, in presenting his resignation by Jetter, stated that he was taking the action in order to enter the army as q chaplain. The congregatidn refused to accept the resignation and adopted a motion granting the pastor a year’s leave of absence, another congregational meet ing to be held, the motion stated, at the end of one year. Dr. Roberts stated yesterday that he expects to be called into the ser vice at an early date. / The local price panel of the war price and rationing board asks the co operation of every citizen in the board area, which >includes Clinton, Cross HiU, Goldville, Kinards and Mountville, in helping to hold prices in line. The duties of the price panel are three-fold: educational, con\pliance and collection of data. They assist the merchant with their problems rela tive to old and new regulations, ex plain the correct way to post ceiling prices and clarify other individual problems of the merchants and cus tomers. Other duties of the panel are: peri odic check-ups on those businessmen who fail to comply with price con trol rules, receive and investigate complaints regarding local price ceil ing violations, help local merchants work out correct compliance pro cedures and to provide die Columbia district office with information re garding the price problems and diffi culties faced by the merchants. The price panel is a unit of tha lo cal war price and rationing .Board, located on South Broad street. The panel meets on Tuesdays at the office to consider routine problems. Mer chants and consumers are invited to attend these meetings. - 1 ■ ■■ i^i Weevil Infestation Showing Increase Boll weevil infestation during the past week showed an increase over that of the previous week, according to County Agent C. B. Cannon. Checking for the week showed an average of 33 2-3 per cent punctured squares where some form of poison ing was used as compared with 12 ft the week before. Where no poison was used last week’s check showed 83 per cent punctured squares as compared with 65 per cent the week before. The report, Mr. Cannon states, is based on punctured squares and does not take into consideration the grown bolls. ~ : JEANES LOSES SISTER Friends of J. D. Jeanes will sym pathize with him in the death ot his sister, Mrs. M. H. Hunter, Sr., of Laurens. Among Clinton relatives and friends attending the funeral Monday were Mr. and Mrs. Jeanes, Mrs. C. P. Robinson, Mrs. A. B. Blakely, Jr., Mrs. Ansel Godfrey, Mrs. John T. Young, Mrs. N. Reese Young, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Dillard, Mrs. George W. Bailey, Mrs. A. P. Little, and Mrs. Fleming Smith. Open September 6 ents of service men and “other means by which the registrant could con tribute to his family’s support in event of induction. Currently wives get $50 monthly, $22 taken from the husband’s pay and $28 as an outright government grant —while the government gives $12 for the first child and $10 more monthly^ for each additional child Wl11 56 held on Saturda y The 1943-44 session of the Clinton public schools will open on Monday, September 6, at 8:30, it was an nounced yesterday by Supt. Pat H. Hobson. The first faculty meetings he stated, will be held on Saturday morning, the 4th, at 10 o’clock in the high school building. It is understood that the faculty for the year has not yet been com pleted by the board of trustees. SICILY—All-out attack hurls back Axis defenders in Sicily’s “coffin cor- ( Laurens Child ner. Allies burst into western end I * of Catania plain, while other forces UICS VJT I FI JUNGS take Regalbuto and Centuripe, al- ♦ most in shadow of Axis anchor,' Laurens, Aug. 1.—Funeral services Mount Etna. Aifierican Seventh army for Henry Edward Bass, 2 years and rushes ahead along northern coast. 8 months, were held from the home ON THE WAR FRONTS ITALY — Badoglio ignore. Allied ultimatum, amid reports that anti- Fascists stand ready to aid Allies when invasion comes. Axis radio re ports seven-point armistic proposal sent to Rome by Roosevelt. Naples, meanwhile, raided by Allied bomb ers, while Germans rush defenses along Po river in north Italy. WESTERN EUROPE—Reeling port of Hamburg, already reported mass of rubble, pounded for eighth time in 10 days by RAF heavy bombers. Duncan Fresh destruction breaks all* records , for sustained attack, with once-im- portant city virtually wiped out by 16,000,000 pounds of explosives. Stockholm reports more than 30,000 killed in the first seven raids. of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bass Monday morning at 11 o’clock by the Rev. D. E. Boozer and the Rev. L. M. Smith. Interment followed at Watts Mill cemetery. The little boy died Saturday night in the Laurens County hospital short-, ly after being hit by an automobile in front of his home. Besides his parents, he is survived by his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bass, and his pater nal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Vance PICTURE AT BAILEY MEMORIAL A moving picture, “From Eden to Calvary,” will be shown Sunday eve- RUSSIA—Soviet forces lunge for- August 8, at 8 o’clock at Bailey ward for final-kill at Orel. Seventy ’ Memori a l M. E. Church, South, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Lypn leave today for Montreat, N. C., to spend a few' days with the former’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. L. Ross Lynn. more villages fall to Russians in vast encircling actions which also cut Nazi communications. BALKANS — German and Ruman ian fire fighters battle vainly to stem conflagration, reported raging through entire petroleum area of Ploesti after Allied air aid. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC — Munda offensive nears climax as U. S. troops 1 inch closer to vital Jap air base with howitzers, tanks and flame-throwers. Other forces on New Guinea bring Japs’ Salam&ua base undec^grtiilery fire for first time. which the public is invited.: Local Business Men Rejected William Brooks Owens and Thomas Eldred Addison, who were in the July "quota sent last week to Camp Croft for possible induction into the armed forces, were rejected and have 1 returned to their homes here. Mr. Owens is manager of the j Young-Copeland Poster Advertising Service. Mr. Addison is proprietor of Dixie Beverage company. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! SO FAR THIS TEAR THERE HAVE BEEN a FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let's Strive To Make 1943 a Safe Year On the Highways. This date last year, 1 like.’ Because rates must be uniform, George explained, the government cannot levy a heavier tax on persons with war-boomed pay, except as such pay places them in the higher brack ets. “Few people realize it, but the present income tax on persons mak ing $150,000 a year or more is right at 90 per cent. Obviously, we cannot expect to get much more from thd relatively few Americans with in comes over $150,000. “Any large increase must fall on the middle income brackets and down to $2,500 and $3,000. The truth is that of our national income (now at 140 billions) some 91 billion goes to people in the lower brackets—people whose income is $3,000 or less. “When we realize that taxes must be uniform, it is clear that further drastic increase would be back-break ing and destructive to the middle class and to the lower upper-class. "I would be greatly surprised if the ways and means committee of the house undertook to raise any specific sum of additional revenue, and I would be still more surprised if, at the end of the work of the two com mittees (house and senate), we suc ceed in raising more than five* or six billions in new revenue. “Some five or six billions can be raised without destroying our tax payers. “In order to get five or six billions, the corporate normal and surtax rate must be raised from 40 to 50 per cent. This is drastic. Many businesses have not made more money as re- J suit of the war. Many are making less ) because of government restrictions and lack of materials. Many have gone out of business entirely. “Since corporate normal and sur tax rates must be uniform, a 50 per cent normal and surtax, coupled with 90 per cent excess profit tax, is the upper limit of what taxes can be imposed without destroying business. “I question whether the ways and means committee would be disposed to carry the corporate normal and surtax rates to more than 45 per cent. But it would have to go to 50 per cent to raise even one and one-half billions of new revenue. “Extension of excise taxes and in crease in rates of some items now subject to excise taxes might produce another one and one-l)alf billions. But some increases are theoretical, such as the proposal for advancing the whiskey tax from $6 to $8 a gallon. We may induce bootlegging by in creasing rates too drastically on li quor, beer and many luxury items. Human nature naturally tries to avoid taxes when they seem too high. “We will have to get three billions in additional revenue, then, from the individual taxpayer. I believe the individual taxpayer can stahd an ad ditional three to four billions without disastrous results, if the tax is an equitably-distributed burden. It will be a difficult job, but we must dis tribute it where it can best be borne.” The senate finance committee’s chairman said slight changes might (Continued on page four) ATTENDING ASHEVILLE MEET Hugh L. Eichelberger is attending the “Top Club” meeting of the New York Life Insurance company at Grove Park inn, Asheville, N. C., this week. Mr. Eichelberger will be one of the speakers on the program. '