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.1 * THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE Yoi) Don't Get the News Volume XLIII Clinton, S. C, Thursday, December 9, 1943 Number 49 Marines Win Toughest Fight in 168 Years 31 Selectees Sent To Camp Croft X Three American marhwe pease te irtak water beside e teak trailer dnrlnf their Invasion ef Tarawa, see el the Gilbert Wands. This cam paign is considered te be the meat bloody and dlfflcalt In lit years of marine flahtinr history. Bat despite elaborate Japanese defenses, U. 8. forces pained control ef the Island Within 70 BEEF CATTLE GROUP ORGANIZES S. G. Dillard of This City, Elected President of New Association. At a recent meeting held in Lau rens, the Laurens County Beef Cat tle association was organized, with County Agent C. B. Cannon presid ing. S. G. Dillard, of this city^ was elected president of the new organi- -zation; R. H. Roper* of Laurens, vice- president; and Dwight F. Patterson, of Laurens, secretary and treasurer. Including the officers the board of directors are: E. D. Easterby, Lau rens; A. J. Hughes, Fountain Inn; R. P. Hamer and C. W. Anderson, of this city. Due to a growing interest in beef cattle in the county several growers requested the county agent to sail • meeting of beef growers and discuss the question of organising an associ ation. J. R..Hawkins, Clemson Exten sion animal husbandman, was pres ent and discussed beef production and answered questions asked by various growers. During the meeting colored picture slides were shown of outstanding demonstrations in growing serecia lespedeza and kudzu in the county and adjoining counties by J. B. O’Dell and J. S. Livingston, soil con- SANTA WELCOMED BY BIG CROWD Santa Claus came to town last Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock for his annual’visit and the distinguished guest was greeted by hundreds of children and grown folks too, who crowded the streets to extend him a big welcome. The little folks rushed forward to shake his hhnds and re ceive his “blessing. * , £ Santa arrived by plane at the air port near the city and -eeeupied a large truck as he led the way up Broad street, followed by the college cadets and boy scouts. Music was furnished by the cadet band. The event, which was sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, was considerably abbreviated this year because of war conditions. Spanish Veterans Elect Officers The John J. McSwain Camp No. 20, United Spanish War Veterans of this county, has elected the following of ficers for the coming year: E. C. Conner, commander. M. D. Milam, 'senior vice-com mander. Thomas R. Rowland, junior vice commander. Elmore G. Bramlett, adjutant and quartermaster. ’Rev. Thomas J. Graham, chaplain. Thirty-one white selectees were sent to Camp Croft, Spartanburg, De cember 2 by local draft board No. 50 for physical examinations and pos sible induction into the armed ser vices. Those comprising * the December quota were: Willie/Lee Fuller, Rt. 2, Clinton. J. A. Bledsoe, Goldville. Benjamin Hayward Poore, Rt. 1, Ware Shoals. Clarence Wilbur Killingsworth, Charlotte, N. C. William Grady Adair, Clinton. Jefferson McCuin Ficklin, Rt. 3, Clinton. Dudley Lee Hancock, Union. Vandy Eugene Fallow, Clinton. Newell Brewington, Rt. 1, Clinton. Claud Hill, Ware Shoals. ^ Joseph Benjamin O’Dell, Ware Shoals. Alfred Caridon Farmer, Clinton. Ulysses Davenport, Waterloo. Tracy Woodrow Dees, Clinton. Jack; William Threatt, Clinton. Raymond Edwin Snipes, Waterloo. Loulie Owings, Waterloo. Har^titton Foster, Clinton. Pierce Donnan Hellams, Gray Court. . Charles Onan Tucker, Charleston. William Arthur Phillips, I^aurens. Perry Wesley Barnes, Laurens. Lonnie Berry Tinsley, Clinton. Frank Oliver Deadwyler, Clinton. James LeRoy Moates, Clinton. Joel Allen Simmons, Clinton. Charles Marion Braggs, Goldville. James Paul Weathers, Waterloo. David Donald Boland, Clinton. lOWANIS CLUB TO ACT AS SANTA FOR ORPHANAGE FAMILY Last Rites Held * For P. B. Bailey P. B. Bailey, 81, well known resi dent of tins city for a number of years, died Monday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. D. N. Norwood The 5 Clinton Kiwanis club will again this year serve as Santa Claus for the boys and girls of Thomwell j in Laurens, following a brief illness, orphanage. _ |Mr. Bailey had been in-his accus- and attended church Forsseveral WEATHER HAZARDS MAY NOT PREVENT QUICK INVASIONS Allied Blows May Be Struck While Russian Winter_ Drive M6ves On. Sunday. The news of hist Washington Dec. 8 — The agree- years past the clubitomed health has been assuming the responsibility (services on Su of providing the bags at Christmasi h™noM «*Aniiinp ment of the Allied “Big Three" at to add to the happiness of the chit-: une ’“>* ct ' d pa “ mg J br0U8M g ' nUme ' Teheran on a master plan to defeat dren. sorrow to his friends. Germany may mean that Anglo- The bags will contain oranges, ap- 1 Funeral services were conducted American strategists will accept the pies, candy, nuts and raisins. They yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock from hazards of bad weather in order to will bear the greeting, “Merry Christ-I the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ar-; strike hard on new fronts while the mas from the Kiwanis Club’’ and will ; thur P. Little, on North Broad street Red army’s winter offensive is at its go to the^large family on Christmas with the Rev. W. N. Long officiating, peak morning for distribution. TWaVE TO GRADUATE AT COLLEGE SUNDAY Jacobs To Speak At Exercises In First Pres byterian Church. Interment followed in the Presbyte- The official, announcement today rian church cemetery. The last rites' of the conference of President Roose- were attended by a large gathering ■ velt, Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin gave no hint of time or place—the guns and bombs of the invading forces will disclose both. But it promised assaults from the of friends and the many floral offer ; ings banked on his grave were in dicative of the high esteem in which he was held. Active pallbearers were: Pierre south, west and east and gave as- Raihage, Walter Ramage, Ryland F. Isurance that “our attacks will be te- Sumerel, S. W. Sumerel, Joe H. ! lentless and unceasing." Simpson and Tom Cavten. ( In the light of Stalin's repeated Mr. Bailey was a native of tbi* | demands for A new land front in the county, a son of the late Silas and wes t t pi us increasing evidence that Fannie Bolt Bailey, widely connected preparations for opening such a front Twelve seniors will be graduated, anc * highly regarded families of the have gone much further than is gen- next Sunday in Presbyterian college’s ; co *™® u i) ,t y 'erally supposed, this announcement fifth commencement exercises of Mr - Balle y was a lifelong and de- • 0 j th e Teheran agreement focused at- 1943 under its * accelerated program vo * e ^ member of the Baptist church, terition. on the possibility that the of instruction ! was a man of many admirable final three-way assault on the cont.-i 'traits of character, always courteous' nrnt .mminent - and considerate o( others, and made ^ speculatjon l(K , k sudden increase in Allied pressure ”*?■■. P”***? 1 ”. ch ^ widiVSiT'ecra'wriiM Baile'y; ^imt t*. Germans ,n Italy dynn* The exercises,'which will be com bination baccalaureate and com- friends readi , and he , d therrf mbneement ceremonies, w*U be held ^ deceased is survived by with Dr. \V illiam P, Jacobs presi- t hree daughters, Mrs. D. N. Norwood . t dent of the college as principal of LaurenSj Mrs A P Little ot this lon * ^J’ speaker. This is the first tune since, Mrc I lies and thus week, the growing indica tions that Turkey may join the Al- open a direct route into ” , ■ ;speaKer. inre is me nrsi time since jt . M HArhprt Paa-tIpc of 1 ^ ‘ -George Elmer Pitts, Rt. 2, Clinton. Dr _ j aco 5 s became president of the; F . h ’ : L*nnHrhildrnn the Ba ^ ans * the repeated sugges Hugh Richard Pugh, Jr., Spartan burg: „ , . _ , Estill; also by nine grandchildren .gfillcge QJM .yga.rs^MO-.thgl .be ^gs Qnd ^ PO€ —great-gfandohildren;—one- James H. Burns and Claud P. Fin- vs j-rw* €u*u v. u. owu vv»». . rolnr hparf>r>; servationists. During the showing of ^ A m ' et t the same these sUdes, Mr. O’Dell commented on the demonstrations and soil con- time and elected officers as follows, servation work as it related to pro ducing feed for livestock. It was reported at the meeting that there are approximately sixty beef cattle growers in the county. $15,689 RAISED FOR WAR FUND C. P. Roper of Laurens, chairman of the Laurens County War Fund drive, has announced that $15,275 has been raised since the campaign be gan. Of this sum $10,975 was raised in the Laurens area and $4,714 in the Clinton area. The budget for the county was $15,643, divided Laurens $7,643, Clinton $6,890. Mrs. Sarah Mauldin, president. > Mrs. Mamie Chaney, senior vice- president. Mrs. Mary Johns, junior vice-pres ident. Mrs. Louise Rowland, chaplain. Mrs. Belle Conner, secretary-treas urer. A number of state officers, were present as guests. TURKEY READY TO ENTER WAR IN ALLIES’ CAMP Cairo, Dec. 7.—President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill an nounced tonight the conclusion of a three-day conference here with Pres ident Ismet Inonu of Turkey in which they studied the general political sit uation, “examined at length the pol icy to be followed” and found that their nations are bound by “the clos est unity.” * The “firm friendship” between stra tegic Turkey and the Soviet Union, which was represented at most of the sessions, also was attested to in a joint communique on the parley, a significant sequel to the Cairo and Teheran conferences in which Roose velt and Churchill mapped the war around the world with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Premier Stalin. ligmediate reaction in Cairo to night was that a full-scale Allied Balkan campaign now is planned for the future with the assurance that .Turkey would cooperate directly or in some degree facilitate a drive against this back door to Hitler’s Europe. delivered either the sermon or tbe, sister> ^j rs p g 3 0 b 0 0 f this city, address. He was invited by the and ^ wo brothers, George W. Bailey tions that General George C. Mar- shall might not return to the United States from Teheran but go to Lon- church to occupy the pulpit on this| p^th^“city/'and Sam D. Bailey of' don t0 assume command of the in occasion. The baccalaureate and commence- Greenville. ment exercises have been combined ■■ ^ f*A^IIAITIF^ because theXenio.rs have received 1 "* ^* VaAjUALIICj orders to report for military service ! TOTAL 126,969 upon completion of the present quar- ’ ter’s work. This fifth commencement ends the college’s work for the 1943 period, except for examinations scheduled through December 18. Candidates for degrees at Sunday’s exercises are: Jack Manley Adams, Laurens. Leslie Eugene Avery, Augusta, Ga. Florence Ella Blakely, Clinton. Fri ik Edwin Inman, Augusta, Ga. Richard Kaleel, Clinton, N. C. James Charles Kannan, Jr., Golds boro, N. C. 1 Isham J. L. McLaughlin, Jr., Flor ence. Marion Henry Milam, Mountville. Lawrence Smith Reddeck, Jr., Greensboro, N. C. Dorothy Eunice Stutts, Clinton. RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) Christmas Holidays Are Announced The Christmas holiday season for pupils ofathe city schools will begin Friday, December 18, and continue until January 3. The Thomwell orphanage u school will close for the holidays on Decem ber 22 and re-open on January 3. * Presbyterian college will begin their holidays on December 18. Kiwamdns To Htar Scout Executive The regular meeting of the Ki wanis club will be held this evening at 7:30 at Hotel Clinton, with the program in charge of the committee on boys and girls work headed, by R. E. Ferguson as chairman. Horace Williamson of Greenville, executive secretary of Blue Ridge Council, Boy Scouts, will be the guest speaker. ^ Farmers Group To Meet Tuesday The annual dinner-meeting of the Clinton Cotton Improvement asso ciation will be held next Tuesday evening December 14, at 8 o’clock at the Tea Room. All members of the association formed last year, are invited to be present. . The guest speaker will be H. J. BcQrlston of Ckmaon college. (Compiled to date for information of The Chronicle’s readers). MEATS, FATS, ETC.—Book three brown stamps L, M, N valid through January 1. PROCESSED FOODS—Book four green stamps A, B and C valid through December 20; stamps D, E and F good through January 20. SUGAR—Book 4 stamps 29 valid for five pounds through January 15. SHOES — Book 1 stamp 18 and book 3 stamp 1 on “airplane” sheet good indefinitely. GASOLINE—8-A coupons good for 3 gallons until February 8. * FUEL OIL — Period one coupons valid through January 3, worth 10 gallons a unit, with most coupons worth several units each. NITECT YOU MME FIOM TUBERCULOSIS TO NOVEMBER IS Washington, Dec. 8. — The war to date has cost the United States 126,- 969 military casualties, 27,481 of them killed in action. . Secretary of War Stimson an nounced today that army casualties from the start of the war to Novem- ber 15, totaled 94,918, while figures compiled by the navy reported 32,051 casualties for the navy, marine corps and coast guard through last week. The navy figures did not include losses in the Gilbert Islands where 1,092 men were killed and 2,680 wounded, all but a few being ma rines shot down on Tarawa. The army total apparently included only part of the casualties suffered by American units of the Fifth Army in Italy—Stimson said these units from Anne Mae Whitman, Clinton. _„ t Norman Lloyd Williamson, LancSPt^ beg^nTng of‘ot^ re tions ter. vasion ‘forces. 1 If winter invasions have been agreed upon, it means that the Anglo-American high command has concluded ( that winter weather in western and southern Europe, while I presenting serious obstacles, offers no disadvantages that are not heavi ly outweighed by the desirability of launching one or more major attacks on Europe while the bulk of Hitler's grotypd forces are pinned down in Russia. In London, British observers fig ured the Teheran tidings seem to justify this broad outline of things to come: 1 — The Red army will continue through the winter the offensives that have almost driven the invaders from old Russia. ^ 2—Allied bombers from British and Italian bases will tear harder at the Nazis’ means and Will to stave off inevitable defeat. The Red air force, heretofore largely tied to the army and limited to occasional deep at tacks with only 50 to 75 planes, may on the. a bie to join in with greatly'in- Speaks At Club Meeting Brown Stamps For Fats Is New Plan Washington, Dec. 5.—The Office of Price Administration’s new program of paying brown ration stamps for salvaged kitchen fats will start De cember 13. Retailers will give housewives one ration point for each half pound of used fats turned in,- and will also continue payment of four cents a pound for the salvage. The points-for-fats program is in tended to spur collection of fats needed for manufacture of glycerine and sulfa drugs. Kiwanians Hold Efficiency School Division number nine of the Caro- linas Kiwanis district held a school of efficiency in Laurens Monday eve ning for newly elected officers. The meeting was in charge of Rev. John J. Hayes of Laurens, incoming lieu tenant governor of the division. The ninth division is composed of clubs in Clinton, Anderson, Green ville, Greenwood, Greer, Laurens, Newberry, Rock Hill and Spartan burg. The local club was represented by John G. Barden, president-elect; F. M. Boland, retiring president; Ratchford W. Boland, secretary-elect, Italian mainland have lost 1,811 kill-; distance bombings by hun- ed, 7,091 wounded and 2,670 missing, dreds of planes. Stimson also reported that 1,610, 3—Th e A njed armies in Italy will American soldiers taken prisonermaintain strong pressure on the Ger- have died in enemy prison camps, mans, forcing them up the peninsula, most of them in Japanese-occupied a nd will be read to take advantage territory. So far the war department 0 f an y withdrawals. Meanwhile, all has published the names of 1,555 who died in Japanese prison camps TWO PLEAD GUILTY IN BANK CASE Allied forces in the Mediterranean will be shaped into a single weapon to attack from the south, timed with wallops from the west and east. 4^—Preparations for a main inva sion from the west, already proceed ing apace will be stepped up even Miss Bernice Dula, of Laurens, and more w appointment and arrival Robert Marion Dantzler, of Orange- | a comman der in chief for western burg county, pleaded guilty in An- Buro P e - ^ derson federal court last week on two » of 12 counts in joint indictments in- | AljCTC LI Air C fllCT volving conspiracy and embezzlement i IJ rlMI\L vll I in connection with the shortage of TLI/M\EllAin I approximately $80,000 at the Pal met- III IHIJIrNWrl I to bank of Laurens. Sentence was! w Wilt bbb j postponed by the judge until Decem ber 15. The shortage was discovered sev- j square. Thursday afternoon HENRY C, SCHATZ DISTRICT GOVERNOR VISITS UQNS CLUB Henry C. Schatz, of Parr, a mem ber of the Winns boro club and dis trict governor of Lions club district 32-C, paid an official ^visit to the local club Friday evening. District Governor Schatz was ac companied by President Powers of Following the \yelcome exercises at in eral months ago. Miss Dula confessed ^ onor Santa Claus, Aviation Stu- to the entire shortage Soon after its! de ^ MUler, in behalf of the 39th discovery, and later implicated Dantz ler, who had never had any connec tion as an officer or employee of the bank. the Winnsboro club, who brought and wr w. HarTiT. Torme" lieutenant JlT his ,roup ,0 th ' governor of the division. MYafKE BUY EARLY C. C. Giles Patient At St. Louis Hospital Clinton Lions. Mr. Schatz, who is superintendent and engineer of the properties of the South Carolina Gas and Electric com pany properties at Parr, reviewed ac tivities of the club in the district ‘ during the past year, and enumerated Friends of C. C. Giles of this city, the heavy responsibilities that will will regret to know he is a patient, rest upon Lions as individuals and in the Missouri Baptist hospital, St. as groups in the post war period Louis. Mr. Giles was attending a National Aviation Association meetifig there last week when taken ill with influ enza. Mrs. Giles and Mrs. Thurs ton Giles left Sunday for St. Louis to be with him. Yesterday he was reported improving and expected to be able to return home next week. from local, national and interna tional viewpoints. The club had as its guest Lt. Both- well Graham, of the navy medical corps, who recently returned from the Pacific area after serving with the marines.. He told of life on the islands and conditions among the the troops stationed in the area. DRIVE.CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE!, SO FAR THIS YEAR THERE HAVE BEEN 3 FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Make 194S a Safe Year On . the Highways. This date last year, 3 Co.llege Training detachment, pre sented‘a cash contribution of $120.00 to Thomwell orphanage as a Christ mas gift for the children of the home. W. W. Harris acting president of the institution, received the contribu tion in behalf of the boys and girls and thankld the cadets for the gra cious and kind thing they had done. It will be used in a special way, he said, to add to the family's happiness during; the Christmas season Mills Here To Pay Out Christmas Savings 'Approximately $25,000 in Christ mas club savings checks will be dis tributed Friday. December 10. to a group of employes of the Clinton ! Cotton Mills and Lydia Cotton Mills. ! it was stated yesterday by W. J. Bai- ] ley, president of the two '.corpor ations. The amount is not as large this year as usual. Mr.. Bailey said, on account of the substantial amount being invested weekly by employes in war bonds. The savings were made during the year through cooperation of the mill management, the employes in the plants setting apart each week a share of their earnings.