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nCCHMMCU Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable (Cbronirb If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIII Clinton, S. C, Thursday, November 18, 1948 Number 46 FATHERS PUT AT BOTTOM OF USI FOR DRAFT CAU. None To Be Inducted So Long As Single Men Found Available, Com mittee Agrees. Washington, Nov. 16. — The con gressional deadlock over legislation to ease the draft's impact on fathers was broken today when a senate- house committee agreed on a com promise embodying the principle that no father anywhere in the natl should be called while a non-fa is available. This was the main point of a mi ure passed by the house Oct. 26, blit rejected by the senate which = earlier had approved a bill to tighten regu lations for deferment of non-fathers. Chairman May, Democrat, of Ken tucky, of the house military com mittee called the compromise worked out with representatives of the sen ate military committee "an even stronger bill than the house passed." The conferees’ agreement is sub ject to senate and house ratification. It is to be submitted to the house first on Thursday. The measure would direct that fathers with children born before September 15, 1942, be placed at the bottom of the draft list and none be inducted if a non-father is available for call by any local draft board anywhere. Non-fathers deferred be cause of employment on vital war work would not, however, be classed as available. One effect of the bill would be to nullify the order of the war man power commission that bartenders, race track employes and other work ers listed by WMC as “non-essential,” be inducted without regafd to wheth er or not they have dependents) This v/ould mean, the senate-house conferees said, no more new “work or fight” orders. Hie measure also would direct the president to withdraw all powers over selective service now held by Manpower Chairman P»ul v Mgr ir.*r 1 Nutt, but if he wished, tne president] could re-delegate them to MaJ. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the selective ser vice director. The conferees dropped a provision in the senate bill whereby deferment of non-fathers in government em- STATE BAPTISTS IN ANNUAL MEET Columbia Nov. 16. — The general board of the South Carolina Baptist state convention moved Tuesday to frte BapUat institutions of $185,548 in 'debts during 1944 by having the convention assume ’responsibility for the debts. Nearly 600 delegates from more than 1,200 churches in the state at tended the opening session of the annual three-day meeting of the OSBORNE GIVEN 3V2 YEARS FOR MANSLAUGHTER Convicted of Slaying Buck Quinton In Beer Parlor Last January. KOHLER RETURNED TO PASTORATE HERE Appointments of ministers to Meth odist churches in the Upper South Carolina conference were read Sun- BRICKER ENTERS FOR PRESIDENCY Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 15.—Gover nor John W. Brieker, saying that "confusion and distrust reign throughout the land,” asserted today the nation needs “a change of phil osophy of government” and an- day afternoon to bring to a close the / nounced formally he was a candidate for the Republican presidential nom ination in 1944. "r The governor’s statement said he would enter the Ohio primaries and Laurens, Nov. 12—Bill Osborne, 28, ... ^ .... year old beer parlor employee ofi put his name before the Repubh- niiry*™ i can national convention.” He told a jtoteconvenUon .t the Pint h.had received Uret^** he had breni ""“h «Koure*ement ■The hoard also recommend*! that ronvlctod o( mans i, ugh ter the day the convention accept the Peake hos pital in Pickens county as a gift from the Twelve Mile River association. ' The debts which the board recom mended that the convention assume were: Baptist hospital $38,000, Fur man university about $90,000, and North Greenville academy and Ju nior college $7,548 before on an indictment for murder in connection with the fatal shoot ing of Buck Quinton last January.. According to testimony at the trial, which lasted all of Tuesday, the kill ing occurred in the “Shack” where Osborne worked and which was de scribed by Solicitor B. V. Chapman The board suggested that $37,500! as a “beer joint, of the Furman university debt be: Testifying in his own defense, Os- assumed by the convention with the j borne, who has a shriveled right arm, understanding that the university 1 told the jury that he escorted Quin- should raise the balance; that the J ton out of the place at the point of Junior college debt be taken over in a pistol after they had had some pre full and that the unused fund for ministerial education totaling about $20,000 be used to pay the debts and that $2,000 be set aside from the general fund for debt payments. The board said the Mother’s day offering and the cooperative program receipts during the year would liqui date the hospital debt. The 35-bed hospital in Pickens county valued at $20,000 would be operated by the convention through the trustees o< the South Carolina Baptist hospital. The board recom mended that the name be changed from Peake hospital to Six Mile Bap tist hospital. Rev. W. S. Brooke, general secie- tary-treasurer of the board, told the convehtiofi in his report that during the first 10 months of 1943 receipts through the cooperative program to taled $515,400, an increase of $134,- 085 compared with $391,955 taken in during the same period of 1942. The general board, he said, was free of debt. The board also recommended: That $1,850 be given for temperance work; that $150 be appropriated during for Oteen hospital in North Car- that the convention give $1,650 to promote the Baptist Radio hour in the Southern Baptist convention in 1944; that $10,000 be appropriated during 1944 for work among men in training camps and for missionary work in defense areas; that $100 be appropriated for work among deaf vious words over his refusal to sell Quinton any more beer. When Quin ton turned on him as if to strike him, he said, he struck him with the pis tol. The pistol fell out of his hand, he said, and the trigger guard was knocked off before it hit the floor. Both of them grabbed for it, he said, but he got his hands on it first. Quin ton, he said, grabbed his hand hold ing the pistol and in the scuffle the pistol went off. One witness for the state testified much encouragement outside Ohio. He renounced any bid foi* re-elec tion to a fourth term and washed his hands of the mixgd Republican OPA FLAYED BY PROBE COMMITTEE IN DIVIDED REPORT Usurping of Powers Is Charged. Congress Urged To Curb Agency, Stop Illegal Practices. five-day twenty-ninth annual meet ing held at Main Street church in Greenwood. The Rev. J. H. Kohler, for the past two yean pastor of North Broad Street Methodist church of this city,,. „ . . . x . was returned to this pastorate for a* , V ^ shin f t ? n ’. N ? v \ 15 ' ^ third year '°* * >r * ce Administration (OPA) was — « ... ^ . 1 roundly assailed today by a congres- R *Y* White was returned s ^ ona ^ committee which accused it at to the Kinards charge for a third promulgated ‘Hllegal. absurd, year, with,his residence in Goldville; use j egs an{ j C onfliclhng” regulations as in the past. - and Of having “construed its power Memben of Broad Street church authorize it to sentence citizens I^ * interested in the assignment^ ing newsmen, iJ i suppose the gover nor’s race is wide open now—it. isn’t my problem any longer.” Brieker was critical of the New Deal in his statement, .saying it had come to “the end of its service to the people.” “We need not alone a change of administration but a change of the philosophy of government held by many New Dealers,” he said. “The playing of one class of our people of several former pqstorsf^The Rev. H. Q. Chambers was returned to St The committee, headed by Repre- Paul church, Greenville, for a second sentative Smith, Democrat, of Vir ginia, and created by the house to cated. that Osborne was standing upwhen'm be encouraged and individual rMcfol flroH on/I tfecr+iHAsi «... • ... ... against another, the building of pres- Greenwood district in which the sure groups by government must! Clinton and Kinards charges are lo come to an end. “There is need lor impartial and just administration as between all ] 943 GRAND JURY classes, groups and individuals m oiir society. The American people must be encouraged to look forward to the day as soon as possible after After making its final presentment victory when government restraint! last week for the year, the 1943 grand will be relieved, rationing with all (jury for Laurens county was. dis its implications will end, business year; Dr. J. C. Roper was returned to York for a second year, and Rev. L. P. McGee of Edgefleld-Trenton, was retired. The Rev. L. E. Wiggins, another former pastor, was returned to the, ..... Anderson district as superintendent. I an <J injustices now apparent The Rev. E. K Mason was re-1 Conceding a need for exti appointed superintendent of the ^ governmental action m time keep a check on activities of execu tive agencies, recommended charts in existing . law to “retain and strengthen inflation control and at the same time eliminate the abuses ‘extraordi- MAKES FINAL REPORT ployment would be forbidden unlere * pp . pn “'f a “ r amo , n « »'* congress received evidence oif their I a f ld 8200 be made avail “indispensability.” able 10 *** Ba P Ust brotherhood for As finally approved, the compro mise provides for appointment of a commission to determine whether army and navy physical standards can be lowered to permit induction of some men now classified as 4-F (physically, mentally or morally not up to army-navy standards). It also provides that registrants may request and receive a physical examination if they are subject' to a possible early call for induction. Concert Promotes 'This Is the Army' its work during 1944. Junior Class To Sponsor Carnival the pistol fired and ^another testified that he fired one shot which missed after Quinton fell to the floor. Dr. F. K. Shealy, of Clinton, testi fied to blows on Quinton’s head and one pistol wound in his chest. Police officers testified to two cartridges be ing found in the pistol. Church To Install Rev. D. E. Boozer Wattsville, Nov. 11. — On Sunday affternoqn, November 14, Rev. David E. Boozer will be installed as pastor of Friendship Presbyterian church. The installation service will be pre sided over by Rev. J. J. Hayes, pas tor of the First Presbyterian church of Laurens, who will also preach the installation sermon. Rev. D. J. Black- well of Gray Court, retired minister, will propose the questions to the pastor and to the congregation; and Rev. J. A. Wilson, pastor of the Ware Shoals Presbyterian church, will charge the pastor. Elder Pruitt of the Presbyterian church of Ware Shoals,’ will charge the congregation and Elder R. F. Fleming of the First Presbyterian church of Laurens, will complete the commission. Mr. Boozer, is a native of New berry county and attended Newberry liberty and opportunity restored.” He recalled his statement at the Republicans’ Mackinac island confer ence in which he said the next presi solved with thanks by Presiding Judge Dewey E. Oxner of Green ville. Six holdover jurors to serve next year with 12 more to be drawn in February by the jury commission- dent should serve one term without !ers were drawn, as follows: J. War- expectation of re-election, and a con stitutional amendment be submitted to the people fixing a limit on a president’s tenure of office. “The worship of power and the desire to hold perpetually on to pub lic office on the part of the individ ual, especially with the tremendous patronage that goes with the execu- ren Tinsley, H. O. Walker, S. M. Lea- man, W. Fowler Burns, J. M. Babb and G. C. Abercrombie., In its final presentment, the jury stated that all bills had been passed upon and reports received from all standing committees. A parade and band concert will be given this afternoon by cadets of the 39th Army Air Force Training de tachment at Presbyterian college at 4:15 on the square. The rally is be ing held to promote the sale of tickets sponsored by the Clinton . . Chamber of Commerce for the pre- ^ city-wide union Thanksgiving mier showing of “This Is the Army,” i service has been arranged by the the entire proceeds to go to army i Ministerial union to be held at Broad Members of the junior class will sponsor* a carnival in the auditorium of Clinton high school Monday eve ning at 7:30. Miss Eloise Miller, Miss j college. He is also pastor of the Watts Harriett Minus and Miss Floride j Mills Presbyterian church and he and Lipscombe, faculty members, are in | his family reside in the Wattsville charge of arrangements. Entertain- community, men features will be music, amuse ments, auction sale, cake walk and bingo. A small admission charge of. 15c will be made, the proceeds to be used for the junior-senior banquet. Union Thanksgiving Service To Be Held Soldiers To Get Excellent Menu ' Atlanta, Nev. 13.—Soldiers at army posts and camps in the Southeastern states will have ample opportunity to prove their knife-wielding abilities November 2&—not to mention forks. The Fourth Service Command an nounced that Thanksgiving menus provide a pound of turkey per man T. B. Seal Sale Opens This Week The 37th annual nationwide Christ mas Seal sale, in which the Laurens County Tuberculosis association takes part, opens this week and will continue until Christmas. „ The seal sale is the sole support of the year-round tuberculosis con trol work of the national association and its 1700 affiliated associations in the 48 states. Ninety-five per cent of the income from the sale remains in the state where it is raised. This year the goal for Laurens county is $3,850, according to R. L. Plaxico, president of the association. A list of volunteer workers will ap pear in The Chronicle soon. “Buy seals — lick seals — and lick this disease,” is the slogan. Blocking Trophies tive offices of the country, could. easily destroy our free government,” Tn Be Awarded his declaration asserted. The Jacobs blocking trophies will be awarded this year to the football players judged most worthy of the honor who have played with teams that have in the past been eligible for the competition, Dr. William P, Jacobs, president of Presbyterian col lege and donor of the awards, an nounced this week. The trophies are awarded the men adjudged by a balloting of sports writers, coaches and officials as the best interference runner and exem- plifter of unselfish sportsmanship in the state of South Carolina, in the Southern conference and in the Southeastern conference. Due to transportation difficulties, the banquet usually held at Presby terian college for the awarding of the trophies will not be held. Thornwell Children Go To Greenwood Kohler Named Pastor At Training School Announcement was made yester-1 Fourteen bpys and girls from the orphanage were week-end guests of friends of the First Presbyterian church in Greenwood, of which Dr. day by Dr. B. O. Whitten, superin-1 tendent of the State Training school, j ^ attended tbe var^us that the Rev. J. H. Kohler of this, * n citv has been named nastor at the i de P ar ^ men ts °f the Sunday school city, nas been named pastor at the Sunday morningi returning in the af ternoon. The Greenwood Presbyte- school, succeeding the Rev. J. Le- Grande Mayer, who moved this week emergency relief. Two shows of the famous movie will be given at the Casino theatre Tuesday evening, No vember 23, one at 6:30 and one at 9, Street Method giving morn xlist ch church on Thanks- 10 o’clock. The speaker will be the Rev. J. H. Koh ^ pastor of the church, with the with a 30-minute floor show by the I P ublic cordially invited to attend the tor the main event plus dressing. t0 charleston’to enter upon a new gravy, cranberry sauce, mashed P°-! pastorate. Mr Mayer held.Jus clos- tatoes, buttered peas, corn, - tomato cadets. special service. Reese Young Gets Army Discharge Frien<(s of N. Reese Young, son of Mrs. N. R. Young of this city, will be interested to know he has received an honorable discharge from the army. He was given a certified disa bility discharge because of a back injury received in service. A student at Clemson, he was called for active service several months ago as a mem ber of the enlisted reserve and sta tioned at Fort Knox, Ky., with a tank corps. Mr. Young expects to resume his studies at Clemson around the first of the year. • „ r Captain Mcllwaine Reported Dead • Word was received' here Tuesday by Mrs. George Harmon Mcllwain that her husband, Captain Mcllwaine, who was reported missing in action recently had died at sea October 20 enroute from Hawaii to Funafuti island. The 'telegram stated a letter would follow. ^ Mrs. Mcllwaine, a member of the Florida Street school faculty, is spending some time at her home in Donalds. ATTEND CONVENTION Rev. W. N. Long, pastor of the First Baptist church, is attending the annual state Baptist' convention in Columbia this week. S. W. Sumerel attended the meeting yesterday as a delegate from the local church. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A UFkl SO FAR THIS TEAR THERE HAVE BEEN 3 FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Make 1943 a Safe Year On the Highways. This date last year, 8 and lettuce, celery, pickles, hot rollsr^j^y and butter, pumpkin pie, apples/ grapes, candies nuts and coffee. And n6 ration points are needed. Osman To Speak For Presbyterians ing service at the institution last Mr. Kohler, the newly appointed ^ ~ pastor at the school, was returned i Cotton Ginned to Broad Street Methodist church | fn this week by the Upper conference 3n0WS UeCline for a third year, and will enter upon his additional duties, next Sunday. Dr. Whitten states that the institu tion feels fortunate in securing his rians are devoted friends of Thornwell family and will take their during the special.Thanksgiving offering for the! added, home next Sunday. of war to mobilize the nation’s eco nomic as well as military resources, the committee said “there are right and wrong ways to accomplish these purposes,” the wrong way being by usurpation of power by executive agencies through misinterpretation and abuse of powers granted by con gress “and the assumption of powers not granted.” Against the OPA it made this charge: • “The Office of Price Administra tion has assumed unauthorized pow ers to legislate by regulation and has by misinterpretation of acts of con gress, set up a nation-wide system at judicial tribunals through which this executive agency judges the actions of American citizens relative to its own regulations and orders and im poses drastic and unconstitutional penalties upon those citizens, depriv ing them m certain instances of vital rights and liberties without due pro cess of law.” The OPA was not alone in seizing legislative and judicial functions, the committee said, promising to expose in future reports “other executive agwicm. ^ The committee said documents found in the files of Divid Ginsburg. former OPA general counsel who was inducted into the army last April, proved that “a paramount purpose” of legislation drafted by Ginsburg and Leon Henderson, first OPA head, was to place, “so far as possible, final and non-reviewable power and authority in the hands of the admin istrator.” Beyond that, the report dealt gen erally with OPA as a whole, rather than with an individuals. The committee said it found that OPA “has developed an unauthorized and illegal judicial system and that through the mass of rules and regu lations daily enacted by that agency it hlfs also developed such intricate and involved administrative review machinery that litigants are com pletely bewildered by the maze of procedure through which they must wander to eventually arrive at a court which will grant them only the crumbs of judicial relief.” “This situation must be changed and changed immediately,” it de clared. In a period of less than 19 months, the committee said, 3,196 regulations, amendments and orders were issued by OPA, many of them having been drafted by “obscure officials having little business experience.” Only 552 | public laws were enacted by con sume--period,—U- Rev. John E. Osman of the Pres-; services, byterian college faculty will be thej “Notwithstanding the plain pro visions of the act,’’ the report said, “your committee has found, in ex amining the files of the former gen eral counsel , . . a well devised and planned scheme to control the profits Cotton ginnings in Laurens county i of American industry by freezing from the 1943 crop reached a total them at the level earned by such in- of 16,131 bales, it was reported here.dustry during the period 1936-1939,’’ yesterday by W. M. Sanders, special] irrespective of increased production of agent of the U. S. department commerce’s census bureau. The total compared with 19,204 for 1942, a decrease of 3,073 bales. guest Speaker at the First Presby-j LaurenS FllCf Is terian Church Sunday morning. On , I Sunday, November 28, Dr. Ben R. In MlSSing v-TCW Lacy, president of Union Theological, seminary, Richmond, Va., will oc- West Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 16.—. ^ cupy the pulpit. A four-engined Army bomber which' RATIONING BOARD Dr. Robert Price Richardson, of took off from Morrison field October BULLETIN (OPA) costs. To Unveil Flog For Thornwell Service Men Augusta, Ga., recently called as sup- 29,with 14 persons aboard is missing ply pastor, is expected to begin his at sea and search for it had been ministry here the first Sunday in abandoned, the field’s public-rela- December, officers of the church tkms office announced today. have announced. New Pastor For Bailey Memorial Ten of those aboard were crew- : men and four were passengers. The crewmen included: Sgt. Rums- ley T. Bennett, Laurens. I - Wednesday Closing (Compiled to date for information of The Chronicle’s readers). MEATS. FATS, ETC. — brown stamps G, H, J and through December 4. A memorial service in honor of the nearly 200 Thornwell boys and girls in the service in all parts of the world will be held at -Thornwell Me morial church Sunday afternoon at 3:30 with the public cordially in- Book 3 \ K valid A beautiful service flag has been purchased by the alumni and will be unveiled at this service. It will con- At the annual conference in Flor- r P k ence the past week of the Methodist CndS lOf PrCSdli PROCESSED FOODS — Book 2 . blue stamps X, Y and Z good through ^ „*£ November 20;’ book 4 green stamps * ome '; “ rm ' d tor ^’ “"d stars for the three young men who have made the supreme sacrifice. A, B and C valid through Decern- 20 SUGAR-Book 4 stamps 29 valid s0 ”* s wiU hav * a plac * on tor Bve pounds through January 15 the rn.pr.ss.ve program. SHOES — Book 1 stamp 18 and. ~ 1 * airplane” sheet MEN-OF-CHl RCH TO MEET first of the new year, according to a good indefinitely. j The Men-of-the-Church of the recommendation made some time GASOLINE—8-A coupons good for First Presbyterian church will hold Episcopal Church, South, appoint ments for the year were read. The usual Wednesday afternoon The Rev. W. R. Quinn, who has closing of business houses of the city served the Bailey Memorial and came to an end yesterday until the book 3 stamp 1 on Lydia churches for the past two and a half years, was transferred to Bow man in Orangeburg county. He will ago by the Merchants committee of 3 gallons until February 8. their November ^upper-meeting this be succeeded here by the Rev. D. C. thea Chamber of Commerce. J FUEL OIL — Period one coupons evening at 7:30. Major Wiley R. Deal, Gregory, who comes from Bowman. The interruption in the closing valid through January 3, worth 10 chief of the chaplain’s branch *t Fort •The Clinton.circuit will be served by schedule was made for the Thanks- gallons a unit, with most coupons Jackson, Columbia, will be the guest Rev. J. M. Mason of Winnsboro. giving and Christmas season. worth several unit* each. speaker.