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1 THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be $ Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Clinton If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIII Clinton, S. C, Thursday, October 7, 1943 Number 40 HOUSE REVOLTS ON TREASURY'S NEW DRASTIC TAX RIAN Chairman Doughton and Others Term Bill Unreasonable. Not Expected To Pass. Recreation Center To Open At Orphanage The front section of the building on the orphanage campus known as the museum building, has been con verted into a recreational center for the children o< the home. It will pro vide an indoor court for basket and I volley ball and for other activities. The remodeling and painting work is being completed this week and the big family will observe Saturday Washington, Oct. 4. —The treas ury’s mammoth new tax program, Action On Eastern Front Quiets Down 7 London, Oct. 5. —The Red army advanced to within 30 miles of the White Russian stronghold of Vitebsk today, but elsewhere along its 750- mile front the Soviet 1943 offensive had come to a halt. Moscow dispatches said that strong MRS. A. B. BLAKELY CLAIMED BY DEATH Funeral Yesterday - Afternoon. Interment At Rosemont Cemetery. Mrs. Mamie Addy -Blakely, 69, wife of A. B. Blakely, Sr., died early German counter-attacks were in- _ . _ . . . night as “open house” for the in-!creasing over wide sectors, but it'Tuesday morning at her home after spection of the canter. The enlarged’was not clear whether this Nazi ac-! 86 ^?™ months illness. She was a recreational program at the institu-j tion and current rains had caused n at lv ’e Laurens county where she tion is directed by t Miss Martha the Soviet drive to stop, or whether j s P*P t her entire llfe * , Funeral services were held yester- ent at the trial of her husband, a Osborne Cose Continued At September Court Term The September term of general sessions coprt held last week at Lau rens, with Judge Dewey E. Oxner of Greenville presiding, adjourned af ter disposing of three jury trials and fourteen pleas. Other cases on the docket not nol pressed were con tinued until the next term. The case of Bill Osborne of Clin ton, indicted for murder in connec tion with the pistol shooting of Buck Quinton here last January, was con tinued on the ground that Osborne’s wife was sick and unable to be pres- intendedtT raise another $10,500,- Stoner, who is also Bible teacher in it had been ended first by Soviet de-' runeraiservices were nem yesxer-.ent at tne trial or ner ausband a LOCKMAN NAMED NEW chewers, tobacco smokers and drink ers of liquor and soda pop, appar ently died a-boming today. Representative Doughton of North Carolina, took a quick look at the program, which would increase by 40 per cent the government’s overall take from personal incomes, and pro claimed it too big p burden for the taxpayers to bear at this time. Since Doughton is chairman of the house ways and means committee, through which all tax bills must go, it was believed unlikely that this tax bill or anything remotely like it would get to first base. There was speculation that any tax bill passed- this year would raise no more thap half the amount the administration asked. To Doughton, portions of the treas ury plan seemed “utterly indefensi ble.” He told newsmen: “I feel that the secretary’s (Mor- genthau) program is more ambitious and calls for more tax, ih the aggre gate than the taxpayers can reason ably bear at this time, in view of the already heavy tax liability ... I do not see at this time how we can /make the full increases requested, * either in individual, corporate or ex cise taxes.” The effective rate in the lowest income tax bracket would jump from .the present 22 per cent to 27, and increases would be made throughout the other brackets. The effective rate on taxable income over $100,000 would be 96 per cent. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgen- thau, with the approval of President Roosevelt, also asked for sharp in creases in levies on corporations and so-called luxuries, such as liquor and tobacco, and for new taxes on soft drinks and chewing gum. Appearing before the tax-framing house ways and means committee, he proposed that the withholding levy on wages and salaries, now 20 per cent of taxable income, be placed on a graduated basis to cover the gross earnings of all income brackets, with rates that might range from 1 per cent for the small wage Earner up to 90 per cent for a person with a $1,000,000 salary. The withholding rates under the new plan would follow roughly the effective rates of tax liability and would vary according to size of in come and marital status. Effect would be given to the exemptions by vari ations in the withholding rates. The present 20 per cent withhold ing levy, collected after family sta tus deductions, is calculated to cover church, extends an invitation to the the tax obligation only through the people of the community to attend first surtax bracket. 1 the exercises. Representative Robertson of Vir- HILL SUPERINTENDENT Succeeds the Late E. A. Hill at Clinton arid Lydia Mills. It was announced here yesterday by officials of Clinton and Lydia Cotton Mills that Frank D. Lockman had succeeded the late E. A. Hill as superintendent of the tVo plants. Mr. Lockman comes here from Lockhart, where he held a similar position with Monarch Mills. Mr. and Mrs. Lockman will occu py the superintendent’s residence on Sloan street in the mill community when repairs ’and renovations now underway on the building are com pleted, it was stated. Other changes in personnel at the Clinton Mills include the promotion of M. Sanders to the position of as sistant superintendent, and Roy Holtzclaw to overseer of spinning, the position formerly held by Mr. Sanders. There were no other changes of personnel in r positions at Lydia Mills, ! it was saidr 1 W. J. mills. Bailey is president of both To Present Honor Pins At Calvary Church Sunday *_ At a special Victory rally to be held at Calvary Baptist church Sun day afternoon at 3 o’clock,' Senator O. L. Long of Laurens county will present honor pins to mothers who have four or five sons in the armed services of the country. Mrs. S. C. Foster and Mrs. John H. Campbell will receive five-star pins, and Mrs. L. B. Trammell will receive a four-star pin. In connection with the service, Dr. Monroe Parker, evangelist and director of religious activities at Bob Jones college in Tennessee, who is engaged in a re vival campaign at Calvary church, will deliver a sermon. Rev. J. Ollin Watson, pastor of the Ruth Rumph Heads ginia, told Morgenthau the suggested tax increases actually would limit in- ij ■ L C L. id dividual incomes to less than $25,000 Migfl jCnOOl rOper a year, and Representative Knutson,! — Republican, of Minnesota, declared} The first issue of The Sentinel, the new taxes would come as a i Clinton high school student publi- crushing blow” to the taxpayers who fcation for the 1943-44 school term, have not received substantial war- i appeared from the press during the time increases in earnings. jpast week. As outlined by the treasury secre-| The paper, which is published tary, the administration’s program monthly, is headed as editor by Ruth would increase federal annual reve-! Rumph. Other members of the edi- nues to almost $50,000,060,000-—about torlal and business staffs are: g |j n charge of her pastor, Dr. C. B.| courts. In any case, there were indications getts, of the Associate Reformed I that the Red army might be using Presbyterian church, assisted by; the relative lull in preparation for a tRev j H Ko hi ert pastor of Broad smashing resumption of its assault to street - Methodist church. Interment was in Rosemont cemetery. Pallbearers were Wm. Brooks Ow ens, James Addy, Bennie B. Blakely, Broadus H. Suddeth, W. E. Falls, Charles Copeland, J. Roy Crawford and Lynn W. Cooper. The honorary escort consisted of J. Hubert Todd, Lowry M. Wilson, W. Blakely Tribble, Dr. J. W. Davis, R. L. Plaxico, D. E. Tribble, C. A. Dickie^ Dr. J. B. Kennedy and J. Reed Todd. Survivors include her husband; ALLIED ARMIES PUSH NORTHWARD IN DRIVE FOR BATTLE OF ROME _ r-r 60,000 to 75,000 Ger mans Falling Back. Allies Rule the Air. carry it across the great Dneiper river along which the front is now stabilized. For the second day in succession the Moscow communique reported relative inactivity 37 WHITE MEN 00 TO CAMP CROFT FOR SEPTEMBER QUOTA Clinton draft board No. 50 sent 37 white men Thursday, September 30, to Camp Croft, Spartanburg, for final examinations before induction into the armed forces. Those included in the call were: James Taknadge Davenport, Greenwood. , Alvin Daniel Green, Ware Shoals. ^ ^ James Dewitt Martin, Ware Shoals.! wife, mother, neighbor, friend and Carlton Todd Crawford, W a r e ; Christian worker with dignity and Shoals. Walter Morehead Hughs, Clinton FRAMPTON TO PREACH COMMENCEMENT SERMON OlfSIJNDAY Graduation Exercises Friday At College. 15 To Receive Diplomas. The fourth in a series of commence- three sons and four daughters: L. A. ment exercises at Presbyterian col- Blakely, A. B. Blakely, Jr., and John David Blakely of this city; Mrs. J. A. Harker of Atkins, Mrs. H. K. Neely of Avondale Estates, Ga., Mrs. G. B. Harvley of Greenwood, and Mrs. John T. Young of this city; one brother, George W. Addy of this city; eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. lege this year under the accelerated war-time program will begin Sun day morning at the First Presbyte rian church at 11 o’clock when the Rev. W. McLeod Frampton, Jr., will preach the baccalaureate sermon. Mr. Frampton, pastor of Purity Presbyterian church, Chester, is a graduate of the college and Colum Mrs., Blakely was a woman of many i bia Theological seminary, Decatur, virtues, occupying the positions of Ga. Graduating exercises will be held'^^f.^ Friday, October 15, at 11 am. on the O’Dell Clyde Gregory, Clinton. Charley Brady Griffin, Savannah, Ga, Lee Roy Osborne, Rt. 1, Clinton. Charles Hermon Crawford, Ware Shoals. Cecil Brasington McLendon, Rt. 3, Clinton. Earl Martin Stewart, Clinton. Claude Bennett, Clinton. Marcell Barker, Clinton. Ky Cothran, Ware Shoals. Ralph Abrams Nabors, Clinton. Charles Evans Giles, Clinton. Arthur Claud McElhannon, Clin ton. Jack Scurry Golding, Waterloo. Carroll Louis Davis, Ware Shoals. Marion Wilbur Elledge, Charles ton. Warren Barth Gamble, Miami, Fla. James Bussey Albea, St. Simons Islarid, Ga. Willis Edwards Burkett, Ware Shoals. Winford Earl Puckett, Renno. Eugene Ledford, Rt. 1, Clinton. Robert Lee Jones, Clinton. Hokie Martin Fricks, Honea Path. ■ Roy Ansel Hathcox, Clinton. Robert Samuel Lee White, Clinton. Benjamin L. Martin, Jr., Ware Shoals. Richard Martin O’Dell, Ware Shoals. Marshall Louis Stevens, Clinton. Hurklen Homer Fallaw, Clinton. John Carter Johnson, Clinton. Earl Yates Nelson, Rt. 1, Clinton. Henry Weston Dobbins, Goldville. i Claude Lee Smith, Clinton. Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 5.—The American Fifth and the Brit ish Eighth armies pushed ahead to ward the battle of Rome today against a sharply resisting German force officially estimated tonight to contain from four to five divisions. (Such a force presumably would number from 60,000 to 75,000 men.) On the Italian west coast the Americans, supported by British ar mor, were methodically wiping out Nazi pockets of resistance left tcrim- pede their progress a short distance north of Naples. On the Adiratic coast Gen. Sir. 1 Bernard L. Montgomery’s army, aid- .ed by new landings from the sea at Termoli, was going ahead more rap idly in the direction of Pescara, where the main lateral road from Rome joins with the coastal road. In the central sector the Ameri cans drove into Montesarchio in the mountains southwest of Benevento in extension of a flanking movement designed to threaten any stand the Germans may attempt to make on the banks of the Volturno ‘ river 20 miles north of Naples. The advance north of Naples, while not great in distance covered, has nevertheless resulted in the occupa tion of two of the most important understanding. She leaves many to grieve her death who sympathize g rees w ju be awarded to 15 gradu- | college campus, at which time de- with the family in her loss. X-Ray Clinic Planned For Residents of Lydia And Clinton Mills Officials of Plants and Tuberculosis Association Are Cooperating. ates, and the ^onorary. degrees of doctor of laws will be awarded to Benjamin Brown Gossett, of Char lotte, N. C., Major General Edmund ano D’Arco and Capbdichino, it wa£ announced today. The former is eight miles north east of Naples and adjacent to it is the Alfa Romey aircraft and en gine works, which is a self-contained worked until last May. Capodichino Bristol Gregory, Washington, and town where 12,000 persons lived and Leavelle McCampbell of New York. Maj. Gen. Gregory will be the speaker. Mr. Gossett is president and treas urer of Chadwick-Hoskins Co., Char- is three miles obtside Naples. Both fields have been used by the Ger mans, especially for troop-carrying transport planes. In extensive operations yesterday treasurer of Gossett Mills, Anderson. Maj. Gen. Gregory is the Quarter master General of the United States army. Plans for an intensive educational McCampbell is president of campaign and X-ray clinic for thej®* < ~ am P be11 and company, New employes and residents of Clinton and Lydia Mills have been worked lotte; president of Martinsville (Va.) the North African air forces not Cotton Mill company; president arid only backed up the ground forces by hammering at the enemy in the front area and dealing blows at t|ie rear area of Communications as far away as Pisa and Bolzano near the Bren ner pass, but they also aided in the battle of the Dodecanese by striking at fields in Greece which the Ger- The following seniors will be can- mans have been using for operations out by mill officials and Mrs. Pliney didates for degrees: | against Coo. Whitlock, TB worker of the Laurens Bachelor of Arts Other bombers from the Middle TB association, it has been announc- David Lewis Allen, Darlington. ; East also attacked air fields in ed by W. J. Bailey, president of the Thomas Francis Hollis, Atlanta, Ga. I Greece, and RAF Beaufighters of local mills. | Richard Hall deMontmollin, Le-j that command went at enemy for- The clinic will be held October 20 i an d, Fla. ! mations and vehicles on the island Harry Foxx Parrish, Jr., Augusta, of Coo with cannon fire. Ga. Roberts, one-third of the national income. It provides: Associate editor, Ann McMillian; news editor, Virginia Gray; sports i couples ana neaas oi iam- • x ' ' . _ , . ley; LG, Paul Arnold; C, Joe McGee;; —* $1,200 to $1,100 and reduce; Harters: Betty Ann Boland Nor- R £ po ^ 0xner; RT Carl Windsor; .South Carolina Gamecocks, 13 to 7 fen dent credit from $350 to J’? 8 Anderson, Dons Fuller, Laura | RE jedo Freeman; QB, Lonnie Mc- . losers to tbe Infantry of Fort 44 single nerson’s Exemption Frances Hudgens, Anne Owens, Lou- j n h n Hunter: HB. Rob- Benning, Clemson’s Tigers, 19 to 7, exai in LT e ; ax - Raise editor, Haroid Gardner; feature edi- $6,500,000,000 in addiuon to the pres- tor) Johnita asslstantS) V ir- ent collections of about $16,000,000,- j nia jj enry j ean williams; colum- 000; reduce the personal exemption nigt Budd c Mark Padgett of married couples and heads of fam- 1 ilies from the dependent $300, the single person’s Exemption . __ ..., „ , , . remaining at $500; repeal the 5 per Tribble, Barrie Jean Wingard, cent victory tax; and repeal the Albert 3 Baldwin, Jean Rumph, Lucy earned income credit. Repeal of the Thomas, Mary Frances Pinson, Cor- victory tax would reheve about neb ® Harris, Walter Barksdale. 9,000,000 people of any income tax. I Exchange editor, Joy Godfrey; typ- 2. Corporation income levies — In- ists, Betty Taylor, Edna Baldwin, crease surtax rates, the combined Nancy Neal, Novella McCurry. normal and surtax reaching a maxi- Business staff: Business manager, mum of 50 per cent as compared with Marian Pitts; assistants, Lillian Dill- the present maximum of 40 per cent ard, Annell Falls; local circulation on corporations with income in ek- manager, Alvin Bagwell; outside cess oi $50,000. Calculated to yield manager, Mary Padgett. another $1,140,000,000. i Faculty managers: editorial, Miss 3. Excise taxes—Increase all along Rosa Mahaffey; business, R.M. Burts, the line, and add soft drinks and) • c f iew ? n ?L I William C. Byrd Is tional $2,290,000,000. A bottle of pop | . — 7* . would be taxed one cent. Promoted I 0 Captain 4. Estate and gift taxes—Increase *■"— estate tax rates, reduce specific ex-1 Friends and relatives here will be emption from $60,000 to $40,000, and interested in the recent promotion of increase gift tax rates to three-quar- Lt. William C. Byrd of this city to ters of the new higher estate tax the rank of captain. Captain Byrd is rates. * . a company commander in the en- 5. A postwar credit system, to ap- gineers corps stationed at Camp But- ply primarily at the lower levels of ner, N. C. He is a graduate of Clem- income, by which $2,270,000,000 to son college. $3,510,000,000 of the increased take Captain and Mrs. Byrd were guests from individuals would be refunded, of Mrs. Julia Griffin several days Persons who have not had earning this week, leaving on Monday to increases of over 16 per cent since visit relatives in Greenville before (Continued on page eight) returning to Camp Butner. Clinton High Plays Woodruff Friday Night The Clinton high school football team will play Woodruff high here Friday night at 8 o’clock at Johnson This will be the second appearance Presbyterian s Blue Stockings of the local team this season, the first; themselves in a commanding resulting in a 7-0 loss to Ninety-Six !Pp slt t lon top of the Palmetto two weeks ago. 1 states 1943 college football loop fol- at Clinton mill, and on the 21st ati Lydia mill. The entire cost of the X-ray and report will be one dollar per person. The mill officials plan to open the clinic to every person 1 in the villages who desires the test. P. S. Bailey, general chairman of the campaign, will be assisted by J. R. Cobb, Mann Sanders, W. E. John son, and the overseers of both mills i in completing plans for the clinic, j The X-raying of workers is a part Ga - jer range of southern France and the of the Laurens County Tuberculosis ..y >h ® Kin g. Jr-f Summer- Q enoa and Leghorn regions. association’s home defense program v r a \ . , . - • 1 rTh* airman 'r..-- Hydnck Linder Kirby, Jr., Union. ' . ' rr !f ' J ® rman command said Tuea- John Daniel McLaurin, Bethune , ay that Cors,ca has ***" complete- Luke Loama Rushton, Augusta, Ga.! y equated by German troops af- Charles Carlton Williams, Cordele, lter destructlon ot all military im- Daniel McDonald thage, N. C. Bachelor of Science Walter George Coker, Jr., Clinton. Branch Robuck Fleming, Cordele, Ga. Joseph Barrien Ga. Fuller, Augusta, I Gen. Henri Giraud tonight for- C ar- mally announced the liberation of Corsica, issuing an order of the day to troops participating in the suc cess and declaring it was a prelude to tomorrow’s victory in France. Corsica gives the Allies a new po tential air bafse closer to vital tar- . _ v. t • •„ i6 ets in Eastern Germany than any Joseph Henry James, Gainesville,, yet taken in Italy . within fight- and the theme of the campaign is health protection, it was stated. P. C. To Shoot For Football Title In Columbia Saturday The Clinton line-up for tomorrow’s game has been announced as follows: lowing their hair’s breadth victory here Friday over the Newberry In- LE, Billy Cooper; LT, Bobby Dai-,* 1 *?? 3, , ^ ley; LG, Paul Arnold; C, Joe McGee; ®* ue Stockings left behind the Ga. William Robin Zemp, Camden. S. C. Car License Tags Are Now Due Millian; HB, John Hunter; HB, Rob ert McCrary; FB, Luther Brock. r , RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) portant establishments.) From the airmen’s point of view that all land operations consist of a i“battle for airfields,” the Allied gains since the start of the Italian cam paign have been extremely effective, as they have brought Allied air strik- Columbia, Oct. 2.—The state high- in 6 power ever nearer vital Axis way department placed 1944 motor 1 tar 8 ets which up to now have been vehicle license strips on sale today,, a l mos t inaccessible, and mailed application forms to mo- Among the wrecked planes, found torists on record. The metal strips Jon the Pomigliano airfield was one stamped with vehicle classification, a which had been ready to take off serial number, South Carolina, and with a German colonel and his staff are 1 5-8 inches deep and the in command of the areas as the Allies exact length of the current plates approached. According to Italian conquerors of N. C. State, and New-' across the bottom of which they are berry in that order. The precarious perch on which Presbyterian found itself in the four- team league will be challenged in Columbia Saturday by the Game cocks. A victory for the Stockings would clinch for them the state champion- to be attached. (Compiled to date for information of The Chronicle’s readers). MEATS, FATS, ETC. — Book 3 ship by virtue of their previous wins brown stamps C and D valid through 1 over Clemson and Newberry, each October 30. by 13 to 12 scores made possible by PROCESSED FOODS—Book 2 blue stamps U, V and W valid through October 20; stamps X, Y and Z valid through November 20. SUGAR—Book 1 stamp 14 good through October for five pounds; the accurate place-kicking after touchdowns of Joney Gilliland. A P. C. loss to the Gamecocks might throw the decision on a return engagement the Stockings have scheduled with the Indians Novem- stamps 15 and 16 each good for five6. pounds for home canning. Clemson can hope to do no better SHOES — Book 1 stamp 18 good than break even by defeating South indefinitely; stamp 1 on the “air-j Carolina October 21 in its only re plane” sheet of Book 3 valid Novem-, maining intra-state encounter, ber 1 and good indefinitely. | . — '■ ^ GASOLINE—A-6 coupons are now RETURNS TO HOME HERE valid for 3 gallons and expire No vember 8. FUEL OIL—New season’s Period 1 Friends of Perry M. Moore will be interested to know he has received an honorable discharge from the coupons-Hood through January 3,'army and has returned to his home 1944, worth 10 gallons per unit, with 1 here. He was stationed at Fort Ben- most coupons worth several units jamin Harrison, Ind., in the finance each. n department DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! SO FAR THIS TEAR THERE HAVE BEEN 2 FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE , ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let's Strive To Make 1943 a Safe Year On the Hifhways. This date last year, 1 caribinieri, the party was just about to board the plane when Allied fighters swooped down machine-gun ning and set it afire. .Many other wrecked German craft and their crews were found on both airfields. On the Adiratic coast, Montgom ery’s vanguard was reported only 40 miles from the imporant coastal city of Pescara, which is at the east ern end of a main lateral road run ning southwestward across Italy to Rome. There were indications the Germans were throwing reinforce ments into Montgomery’s path. (Radio France in Algiers reported that an Allied spearhead was with in 85 miles of Rome at one point and that the Germans were falling back steadily toward the capital. This was not borne out by any official an nouncement. Chamber of Commerce To Hold Quarterly Meet The regular quarterly dinner meet ing of the Chamber of Commerce will be held Tuesday evening, Oc tober 12, at 7:30 at Hotel Clinton. All members are invited to attend.