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THE CHRONICLE ' Strives To Be A Cleon Newspoper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE ' You Don't Get the News Volume XLJV Clinton, S. C, Thursday, February 3, 1944 Number 5 U. S, ISSUES PROTEST ON BRUTALITIES TO JAP GOVERNMENT Boy Scout Leader Plan Year's Wor WAR BOND DRIVE IN CLINTON TODAY Senator Chavez Calls For Action for Atrocities In South Pacific. i Clintonr'along with thou 1 other towns and cities, will the ’ observance of Boy Scout week, , February 8-14. This organization,! which has now reached its 34th anni versary, has served more than 11,-1 i 400,000 mep and boys. The present 1 active enrollment exceeds 1,575.000 j scouts, cubs and adult volunteer Washington, Feb. 1. — The United i eac j er ’ s States has protested to the Japanese. The clinton distric t has-been government against the brutal atroci re- i . .. .. organized for the new year. J. B. i ties and cruelties inflicted upon-Umt- pj ar ^. j s ^ic district chairman, suc- ^ .^ ates P r ' sc>ners ^ |,ar in ceeding Dr. J. K. Roberts, who has Philippines. moved from the city. W. W. Harris The disclosure was made by the is vice-chairman. An. organization state department today in a state- meeting' was held Monday evening ment detailing numerous protests to at the home of Chairman Hart .at Tokyo against various instances of which the work for the year was out- . mistreatment of United States intern- lined, plans made for the annual fl ees and prisoners contrary to Japan’s nancial drive on the 18th, and com-' promise to abide by the Geneva [ mittee assignments announced, agreement on treatment of prisoners, A district supper-meeting has been of war. ; arranged Id be held at Hotel Clinton Japan is not a party to this but at Monday evening, February 14, at the outset of the war she agreed to I 7:00 to be attended by chairmen and apply its provisions to Americans in mehribers of their committees. Japanese ' hands. The following chairmen have been One of the specific points of pro- ( elected for the new year: test included in the note dispatched, Finance—J: Leland Young, to Tokyo through Swiss diplomatic Leadership—Rev. Walter N. Long, channels last Thursday was the fact Health and Safety — Dr. D. O. that American nationals have been Rhame, Jr. - . punished merely for complaining' Camping Activities—John H. Hun- about conditions of captivity. i ter. There was no amplification of this I Commissioner—G. N. Foy. point, which was listed with 17 oth- 1 Organization and Extension—P. H. ers' in one of two notes sent out Jan,- i Hobson. „ uary 27. The second note dealt with Scouts in every city, village and , .specific instances of the failure of the hamlet will take part in a War Bond government to abide by its commit-1 sale on February 12. ments as outlined in the 18 points. | A’ new trpop in the district has re- ! The department said that since the;cently been organized at*Thomwell; beginning of the war it had “again | orphanage’with 20 members and F. 1 and again called to the Japanese M. Stutts as scoutmaster. The troop committee consists of B. S. Pinson, Dennis Sowers and Walter Dunlap government’s attention failures on the part of Japanese authorities to live up to their government's under takings” in Agreeing to the Geneva convention. i * * k. ^ One protest was registered after, WINS HIGH HONOR the first exchange voyage of the Red Cross Drive Has Quota of $28,500 The American National R^d Cross I has annbilnced its war jfund goal for 1944 amounting to $200,000,000 for ^all of its activities. • Laurens county has been organ ized with C. K. Wright of Laurens, as general chairman. The county ha* been assigned a quota of $28,500, to be raised in the March drive. This j represents the cost of operation in both the Clinton and Laurens areas, as well as the county's share in the,, work with service men and women all over Jhe world. The quota, it will : be noted, for this year is almost double that of 1943. but it is expect- I ed that its goal will be reached if the citizens rally their support to the campaign jn a generous way. LIONS AND KIWANIS COMMITTEES TO. WORK BUSINESS DISTRICT Women's Committee To Convoss Residential Section. Hope, to Raise $300,000 City Quota In One Day. ' Committees from the Lions and Kiwanis clubs will go forward today to sell the city’s share "of the $1,253,000 in Fourth War Loan bomls in this county. . ^ The drive is headed by L E. Bish op as general chairman The city’s The following War Fund committee Quota is $300,000. with $150,000 each has been announced for the county: allocated to the two civic clubs. A C. W. Anderson, W. A. Moorhead, campaign will be waged in. the tex- P. S. Bailey, F. D. Lockman, R. M. tile communities to raise the addi- Erwin, R. H. Cushrr^n, A. C. Martin, tional $100,000. The Goldville com- Jr.. C. P. Roper, Fred W. Taylor, rnunity. with W. A. Moorhead as Walter L,. Martin. John Henry Nance, 1 chairman, has a quota of $100,000. Dr. W. T. Pace. S. C. Gambrell, Gro- The canvass is expected to begin ver Roper, C. K. Wright, T. W. Glenn, at 10 a m. and be completed during I Colored: J. W. Mathis, J. T. W. Mims, the day. ™ The biisinc-^ dP^ricts will be can- Last Rites Held vassed by captains and eommittee- For Mac T. Motes men from the two clubs. Captains from the Lions clubss are Dr. D: O. Rhame, Jr., H. L. Eichelberger, Roy Mac T. Motes, 69, died early Sat- Casque, Robert Crooks ;u*d Tom Ad^/ urday at his home on Ferguson street dison. . following a brief illness. The funeral Captains representing the^Kiwams services were held Sunday, afternoon c , ub WI „ be Robert nLynn. D. B. at 3:30 from the home of Mr. and Smith, Ratchford Bi^and. J Leland Mrs. Herbert M. Chaney and attend- Young. P. H. Hpfarfon, J. H. Pitts, Jr, BETTY ANN BOLAND , ed by a large gathering of friends g^l Pitts. MARSHALL SEES MOST CRITICAL WAR PERIOD NEAR CLASSIFICATION OF 2,000,000 MEN CHANGED RECENTLY from here and elsewhere. Interment followed at the Head Springs A R. P. church cemetery'near Mountville, the ^.services being in charge of the lie W. C. Alexander of Ora. and X>r C. Bynum Betts of this city. Many beau tiful flowers, indicative of the high Gripsholm and was based on ac-j B§tty Anh Boland was recently counts of mistreatment given by the named the outstanding senior girl group of repatriates then brought; at Clinton high school for a state 1 . „ . , _ ... back to this country. competition promoted by the Daugh-i Washington, Feb. 1. Gen. George Washington, Feb. 1. Two million ^ esteem in w hich he was held, were Another protest was made over the iters of,the. American Revolution. jC. Marshall, army chief of staff, as-1 [y en j Xv h° ^ bad been deferred from pi ace d upon his mound 1 . execution of American fliers who Betty Ann, the daughter of Mr. and serted tonight that the most critical participated in the Doolittle raid on the TTiaft because of family obliga tions were taken out of class 3-A and The ’w>*tfien’s committees* under the dimttlon of v Mrs. T m Addison a» neral .chairman, will canvass the residential sections by wards. Mem- ' bers of the committees are: ■ No. 1: Mrs. S G. Dillard, captain; Miss Margaret Blakely. Mrs, C. W. Hallman, Mrs. C. W. Cooper, Mrs." Jack W\ Anderson, Miss Ruth Bai ley, Mrs .J. B. Frontis, Mts Pat Hob- was warned at that time “in no^n-f the Beta club and of The Sentinel certain terms.” the department §iaid, staff, and has been named assistant that alt its officers responsible for [editor of the 1944 annual, the execution will be held aceount- Active pallbearers were: Sidney Mrs. R. W. Boland of this qity, is! period of the war is nearing and that ^Bryson, Roy Bryson, Alien Coleman, son, Mrs. J. W. Leake, Mrs. Robert •mociHont rst Q nianac two months a selective s^vicc Harold Coleman, Carl Chaney and. Crooks! official estimated tonight. Tokyo and the Japanese government president of her class, a member of! “enormous stores” of guns, planes and munitions are being assembled For promotion of good citizenship on the world battlefronts. This crucial period, he said in a Hugh Jones. Fnepds of the fapulyj , No, 2: Mrs. T. J. Leake, captaii , .formed the honorary escort. \Trs7^H. Henry, - Mrs. R. L. Plaxic-., Nearly all of them w^rc pre-war Mr Motes ^ , lutlve J f Laurens Mr*. RUS* 11-Cooper, Mrs. J. W. F;. - T H i* ’ j fathers. About'2,500,000 men are still ’ • . , . .. ' ' n ., v -c- Fourth War Loan address, will do-. , . , , ’ ’ • , , , county where his entire lite was niy, br. the United States and wilL among young people, the D. A. R.! mand the “overwhelming support of because of. depend*.my but For several years he had been get “the punishment they deserve for yi;i« nfforoH a smn war fhoLu- * : i- * • this group is rapidly vanishing. L ;J get “the punishment they deserve for lias offered a $100 war bond to the the American people for our'troops their uncivilized and inhuman acts girl of outstanding character in the oversea 4 ! in the great operations now against American prisoners of war.” j senior classes of high schools in the pending ” “When it received from the mili-I state, to be chosen by her school and tary authorities reports of t^e brutal state. cruelties ii ing. a resident of this pity and was a No. 3: Mi Mrs. Austin G. A Burton, captain Chandler, Mrs. Bill.a Just how many of the 2,000.000 Im . mbl ,,. 0 f lbe Training school .McMillan, Mr*. Zee Mi Lees, Mrs. K. went into class 1-A, or how many , , v ,, went on into uniform,, is not known, A v i e n “The ^ifth army in Italy has dis- but new official figtires for Decern- A Y ’ and h ’' ,u Mdls the son of the Late ■ Jones Motes, and an 1 Wo number of senior classes of the ‘located the Nazi strategy by a daring bor ;i i„ne show that: atrocities and depraved Aided by the Japanese upon Afnpri- state were asked' to'choose three MorThallTcfidH-oIIr trlnn*! Flft J y thousand, fathers were in /vjean prisoners .of war in the Philip girls who excel in qualities of de- and J ear ^ AIarsha 1 sdld ' c)ur wto P s ducted. Junes ’* th<> H.nnrirrwnt _ " vi !!: the Pacific are stepping up the pines, the department declared, department again called upon ’the jpendability, the patriotism. service, leadership and' _, . , „ - succession of operations w The School* faculty Was nr ,„. Pnr .iHlv hnrin^ nri Japanese government to honor it? then ^to choose one of.these as a rep- P y D( nn K“ 4n on 3vi c'ixich are 'physically unfit for service and put* !* ,,u . the Japa^: j n 4_f ^ ' by man y W P° will learn with regret elder in the Head .Springs A. R. P. church.in.my fine ch.u- aderiqics. vv # - gentle; kind and om- , . . siderate of others! a-good neighbor Fifty thousand fathers Were found . , , . M . and a good mend, and w ill be missed H. E No. Mrs. C Wilson ivq. Ann Boland, and Mary „„ ^ ‘ ^nese lines of communication. Out of McMillian, BettyA G. W. Th« ..i. Kenneth Bicker", Mrs. /\. km.m, Mrs R. E. Sadler, Mrs. ■iturgenn, Mrs. R S. Owens. 4:' 'Mrs. I M Ad a ir; caplai n; W. Andersc n, Mrs. H. M. Mrs. D. O Rhame, Jr., Mrs. of his passing. undertaking to apply the provisions of the Geneva prisoners of war con vention and to observe in its treat-^ chosen by the^qiinton ment of American nationals held by i and of these the school it the international common law ot'lected Betty Ann W represent s,n,un8 «!>•■»»•. .*>•£ i"; hardship lo their families. _ „ decency.” , ! school. io represent.. me i the China se a and wrecking their t Tuesday was the effective date for Gl lirin - Criticizing war and navy officials' Under the supervision of the state fuclht,es j tw6 importantchanges in selective mumly. for withholding more than a year an! superintendent of education! a selec- 1 C t- service n^. From now on. every- account of the atrocities. Senator! tion from the total number of school 1 ‘‘ u e face cri *cial months when the body gets a pre-induction physical Chevez, Democrat, of New Mexico, ! representatives in the'state will be earnest devotion of the entire nation examination at least 21 days before told'the senate today the parents of made by a drawing from" the name’s "v? be re< l uired to me et the ap- /pdlting on a uniform and youths un- these men “are demanding action in .early in February' i prOuching ordeals and to overcome Me r 22, except farm workers, will.be the South Pacific.” , With the award of the war'bond : the **"$**■" j generally denied occupational defer- Bell, Mr-s. Flddie Slier, “opening g\Hl” of the cam paign was tired last Thursday night with “movie day,” sponsored at the of the Mountville com- ON THE WAR FRONTS Senator Chavez said represent^- the D. A. R. hpp^s to promote the lives of groups and organizations recognition oficharacter among high “from all over the country” will meet school students, officers state, here February 10 to “get tjie true facts’^ i 10 to about the atrocities. U. S. CASUALTIES ARE 146,186 Further Decline In Cotton Ginnings U. S. FORCES INVADE MARSHALL ISLANDS ' ments. Seven Negroes Report For Examination LONDON, F’eb. 1 The,Red army has captuicd Kingisepp, Moscow an- l nounced tonight. turn .Tokyo” and to attend and take part in the bond auction -ale. More to prizes of*sea ■ - .vtfre „iven away to the highest bidders m war iiond-. The nt t pO'Ct* ds m ad- nil -. n .t.i - jiiid ix nds au$tii bed tmounted tn $53,.liM) Of !h. uni’unt $44,725 Xc; . e-enU tl fc lmtuii sales and $8,775 from Goldvdle. The bids ■ aingi d im $2,000 aa to the highest to $100. z. X Washington, Feb. 1. Casualties for all of the nation's armed forces since the start of the war total 146,186, in- 1 Marvin Pearl Harbor, Feb. 1.— Cotton gijjjaings in Laurens county amphibious forces have inv from the 1943 crop pfior to January '‘fT heart -of Japan’s fiercely-de-; 16 amounted to 18,869 bales, 1 accord-! fended mid-Paciflc Marshall islands, ing to the semi-monthly report by! Marines and soldiers landed on! M. Sanders, special agent, Kwajalcin ,a*toll, establishing beach- yesterday. For the same heads near the powerful Japanese American ser , v ' co , boa zaded the d ‘Jekson on Monday PACIFIC: U. S. forces have at- The canvassers auD< linte d r ’n tacked the Marshall island s, athwart the w h ; lw iitl c irive are f < M in./. Japan’s first line of defensi e.. bases as ii ach the .t! if ui ing .the May.. S probably the greatest task force over cial gt •mmittees have a Iso been sent a gainst the , enemy thunders , i to make solic data ms in ap- the in eluding 33,153 dead, 49,518 wounded, j re i ease d 33,617 missing and 29,898 taken pris-; p er j 0 d i as t ypar 22,083 bales had been bases on Roi and .Kwajalein islets, oner, the Office of War Information | gi nne d.-The report inckcates a de- The invasion units struck yester- physical examination. They welc: Horace Smith, Waterloo. C1 int Johnson, Goldville. Edgar B. Watson, Rt. 2, Clinton. Leroy F'erguson, Philadelphia. Colier Ri,vers^ Washington, D.-C. Osie Aiken, Ware Shoals. for pre-induction. BattU'shrips and carriers lead_Jorce. ui al aica- ITALY: bursting forward from their invasion bridgehead, Allied troops strike to outskirts of Campol- gpne, 16 miles from Rome, German fenses 'in Corridor, abitve Cassino, eported crumbling U. S. troops State Tax Man Coming February 18 19 reported tonight on the basis of the latest tabulations by • the war and na.vy departments. OWI said that 1.933 of the prison ers ha<^ been reported officially by crease of 3,224 bales. OSMAN TO PREACH Rev. John E. Osman of the Pres- wl - ... byterian college faculty, will be the the CTierrty as having died in prison g ue st minister on Sunday morning, day, two years to the day after the first American offensive action in the Pacific—a hit and run raid on the si/Tne islands, 1 Arthur BennefTBrown, Mountville. ^ RUSSIA: Soviet troop, drive to --v ... , „ within eight miles of Estonia. Ger- Mrs. Arthur Little and Mrs. P. B.j mans claim heavy H cd -forces hard Badey are spending several days in , hlt in wesU , tn Ukrame ; Agent of 'the rion v^ii the st.ltt income of their of the income tax division South. Carolina Tax commis- - ; ’. it 1 r .>\or i tuc |ioi |.) -c t. . tmi* • • 'P.jyi t in the. pi ep.iration 1943 returns on February 7. ^fending* forces, described by carpps,' mostly in Japanese-occupied i February e^ at the FinsrPresbyterian Toky ?, radio as ,. " th i° best im P enal units, were Dutting' Estill- with the former‘s daughter, Mrs. Wilson Tison, *and Mr. Tison H M. Dunn 'vvijlT)*.- m Clinton Feb- tenfitory. “The recent army-navy joint re port on Japanese atrocities makes the actual figures of those who have died substantially lauger,” the agency commented. Army casualties totaled 1^9,434, of which number 17,480 were killed, 41,53p were wounded, 24,806 Were missing, and 25,615 were prisoners in church. RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) units,” were putting'up fierce oppo sition, • Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced in a brief communique today. But indication were that American casualties so'far have been modecate. This first bold rqove into pre-war of The Chronicle’s readers; , PROCESSED FOODS: Green G, enemy h^nds. Of the wounded, 21,199 h and J stamps (book four) expire have returned to active duty or been, February 20. Green K, L and M (Compiled to date for information Japanese-territory was preceded by heavy air attacks and ship bombard ment. For three days carier and land- released from the hospital. based planes rained hundreds of e*- ;es on enemy air fields and The navy report lists casualties, up to January 29, at 36,752. These in clude 15,673 dead, 7,985 wounded, 8,811 missing, ancp|,283 prisoners. stamps (book.four) expire March 20. ground defenses. MEATS AND FATS: Brown V and Our -carrier-based planes which W, stamps (book three) expir£ Peb- smashed at key bases in the Marshall ruary 26. f ftrown X stamp (book islands last 'Saturday and Sunday three) becomes valid February 6, ex-| probably destroyed 113 Japanese pires F'ebruary 26 . planes. Admiral Nimitz saitV in a SUGAR: Sugar stamp 30 (book press release. The biggest enemy loss four) good for five pounds. Expires was at ftoi island in Kwajalein atoll, March 31.‘ . ' where 18 planes were shot down and SHOES: Stamp 18 (book one) valid 51 were bombed and machine gun- At a congregational meeting of the indefinitely, ' ned on the ground. Army and navy First Presbyterian church held Sun-j FUEL OIL: Period 3 coupons (10 planes had struck ift the Marshalls day morning the following addition- gallons)» expire Februay 21. Period daily since January 5, and almost al six deacons were elected: J. Isaac 4 and 5 Coupons (10 gallons, expire" daily since mid-November. Presbyterians Elect Additional Deacons Copeland, Bill Pitts, Robert D. Lynn, September 30. Horace D. .Payne, Harry Nettles and GASOLINE: A-8 coupons (3 gal- W. C. Baldwin, Jr. 1 Ions) nfow valid, expire February 8. Battleships, cruisers and destroy ers, forming history’s greatest sea armada, joined in the battle Sunday. DRIVE CAREFULLY S^VE A LIFE! SO FAR THIS YEAR T^ERE HAVE BEEN O FATALITIES ^ firom AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS f in LAURENS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Make 1914 a Safe Y v ^ar On the Highways. This 'date last year, 0 DRAFT BOARDS FACE PROBLEMS | r iary 18-19 with headquarters at the C ‘unmei.t iitl Depository. His services will be free. Every individual receiving an in ♦ ^ conic of $1,000 net, if single, or Washington, Jan. 29. — Local draft $1,800 net/if married, is required to boards grappled today wi.th the doub- tile a return. '* ly difficult task of overhauling thmr lu addition to the returns of selective service machiuggy without* .ncoine, every person, firm, of^cut* slowing* the flow of about 600,0001 poration mdkuig payments of spla- men into the armed services in^Janu ary and February. m Major changes effective Tuesday dividend-, oi bwth, in excess of $100 provide that: ' , is Required to make returns of in- 1. No registrant shall be inducted/formation thereon, giving the hartley until he has-passed a thorough phy* and addie ,>es <jf tho>e to whom pay- :>* ries. wages, rents, commissions, etc excess of $1,000.' or interest or , sicai examination by array-navy doc- " tors at Jea.d 21 days previously. Under the old -ystehT me exammaticn'was given at induction.- Pre-induction physicals were ordered by ongre-" 2. Registrants 18 through 21 years Hid no longer will be granted occu- |pational deferments unless engaged in farming, or unless a state selective ment* sre made and the am wnts’so and by w/u in paid — V Citizens Purchases Additional War Bonds service director certifies that a man Tue-- The di et ings and Li • 'ithly, n authorized war bonds toi 'an ;ht is necessary In industry. I Defermems in effect before ! day : be (determent more difficult under the ment in bands :u j of $1601^00. F’t*deial Sav- 'lation in regular fue-day evening, thq /icha-e of $33,000 m the fourth bond drive ni w’lll run th.eir course but will not rmw 'iuuter.v.«y. l it " latest purchase renewed; College students will ’find, will fbring thecas.-oo^Uaii’s mvest- erment mon new regulations », purchasing price