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* V- / r« THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete^ Newsy and Reliable Slip (CUntmi Qlbrnmrlp If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume LXV Clinton, S. C., Thursday, February 15, 1945 Number 7 Siegfried Line Used for Bagpipe Clinton Given Quota Of $10,200 In Red Cross Drive The quota for Laurens county in ’ the Red Cross War Fund campaign, j to be conducted in March, ha$ been announced as $29,200 by national headquarters. The quota is to be divided accord ing to population between the upper or Laurens area and the lower or Clinton area. The Clinton quota has been fix£d as $10,200, the Laurens quota $19,000. C. K. Wright, of Laurens, is gen eral chairman for the county. C. W. Anderson will again serve as chair man of the Clinton area and W. A. Moorhead will head the drive in Goldville. Announcement as to the organiza tion will be made later. W. O. Millard Grary plays his bagpipes in the “Dragons Teeth” of the Siegfried line on the 9th army front, while German shelis whine overhead. His buddies refuse to let him practice nearer their foxholes. Kiwanions Adopt Ten Objectives As Theme For 1945 THOMAS H. LINDSAY Field Director American Red Cross Speaks Here Friday TWO GROUPS DRAFTEES GO TO FORT JACKSON The Clinton draft board sent 58 white men to Fort Jackson Monday, i February 12, for final induction and pre-induction examinations. Those , receiving orders were: For Final Induction j . William Luther Boozer, Rt. 1. Ki- nards. . 1 John Paul Farmer, Fairmont. Eugene Davis Madden, Goldville. Arthur Mitchell Pressley, Ware Shoals. | Capers, Gregory, Ware Shoals, i Lewis Eddison Prater, Goldville. Macon Walter Prather, Clinton, i Clarence Eugene Turner, Clinton, j David Patrick Dickson, Rt. 1, Ki- ! nards. 1 Lawrence Lanford, Clinton.^ BATTERED BUDAPEST TAKEN BY RUSSIANS AFTER HARD FIGHTING Greatest Nazi Disaster Since Stalingrad. 159,000 Hun Soldiers v * Lost In Siege/ j London, Feb 13. —The shattered remains of Budapest fell to the Red army today after f9 days of street fighting that cost the enemy 49,000 men killed and 110,000 captured in the greatest individual disaster since Stalingrad, while some 300 miles to the northwest the Russians slashed 10 miles farther westward through BOY SCOUT WEEK OBSERVED HERE WITH SPECIAL SERMON, FATHER-SON BANQUET AHD SEVERAL COURT OF HONOR AWARDS Dewey Rudolph Darby, Clinton. , Milton Warren Burt'on.Gray Court. | G t rman S, ^‘ a toward Dresden For Pre-Induction Carl Andy Allen, Greenville. Robert Beule Duncan, Anderson. Charlie'-Fitzue Thomas, Clinton. J. B. Freeman, Waterloo. __ Lindbergh Oxner, Waterloo. Otis Howard Watts, Waterloo. « George Aaron Howell, Clihton. Ansel Clifford Reid, Clinton. W'illiam Millard Ginn, Clinton. Sam Robert Wells, Rock Hill. Thomas Edward Nelson, Rt. 1, Dr. J. L. Donnan Claimed By Death The Boy Scouts of Clinton district held their annual parent-son banquet Tuesday night in the Thornwell or phanage dining hall, with Chairman j) r j l. Donnan, 77, beloved phy- J. B. Hart as master of ceremonies, sician of the Boyd’s Mill section of The enjoyable event was autnued by Laurens county for more than half a 150 scouts, cubs, scouters and par- century, died last Thursday morning ents. A delightful dinner was served. | at the home of his daughter, Mrs. The invocation was given by Rev., Gallic Culbertson. M. A. Macdonald, president of the| Funeral services were held Satur- orphanage. The group singing was 1 day at the Poplar Springs Baptist led by Scoutmaster Bruce Galloway, church conducted by the Rev. R. M. A court of honor was an interest-! D^, 056 ’ assisted by the Rev. J. L. ing part of the celebration of the I Ashley and the Rev. Harry Granger. 35th anniversary of scouting and was' toterment followed in the church in charge of Scouters L. B. Dillard, ce !? et ?r y- ., , “ and H. L. Eichelberger, assisted by! _ Dr - D ° nnan was the ?°" of th T e late several scouters in making the pre-' i 3 ™ 68 * 1 - Donnan a ? d Mary As sentations. The following awards' 5100 f D , onnan ’ °* Pioneer Laurens were made- . county families. He received his edu cation at Augusta Medical college. Promotion to Second Class: Wal- During the long practice of his pro lace Abrams of troop 75; Everard! fession he gave unstintingly of his Eddie Darnell of Armstrong and troop 76; Billy Cox, Lee Blakely, Earl Pitts Walter Long of troop 111. time and his knowledge to*the ser- McCrayey, George; v j ce comrnun ity. and He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Mary Simmons of Laurens, Mrs. Premier Stalin announced the Bud- lapest victory in an order of the day. The regular nightly communqiue, re- | iterating the announcement, added /hat the First Ukraine army of Mar shal Iv^n S Konev had taken anoth- 1 er 150/owns in Silesia, reached the Queis river at several points and driven within 70 miles'*of Dresden, . capital of Saxony. The communique was silent con cerning operations on the front di rectly east of imperilled Berlin, where the Germans said the Russians had made gains of a mile and a quar ter, but it announced five and six- mile advances in the continued clean up of the Polish corridor some 40 miles northwest of Bydgaszcz. ^ Budapest’s fall, with its staggering loss in manpower to the Germans and Ki- a list of'captured equipment that in- follow l how the American Red Cross is with;"*//?,. Raloh r . lwson R t o Clin ’ cluded such ltems tanl * s » cannon and loiiow. i them ut ail times I w “ liam Kalpn Lawson, Kt. 2, Clin- vast stores of food and ammunition, 1. Hasten total victory-accelerate[^ em ava 11 ton *; was credited by Premier Stalin to club war services. ; A native of Pennsylvania, where! Henry Harrison Whitaker, Clinton. Marshals Rodion Y Malinovsky amt 2. Exert our influence to establish he attended the University of Pitts-1 Charles Dillard Jacks, Mountville. Feodor Tolbrukhin of the Second and and maintain world peace. burgh, Mr. Lindsay gave up his po-| Robert Melvin Mahon, Gray Court. Third Ukraine armies whirh rn- 3. Enlist every Kiwanian in a club sition in business and joined the_Red | Harold ' ~ a ne armies, wnun co ^ rens. Erskine Knight, Gray Court. | .Basing its community service pro-; , The chronic]e ; gtam for the coming year on 10 far- ; reaching objectives, the Kiwanis club Friday afternoon, February 16, at of Clinton has announced that "Win .4 p m., Clinton will have the oppor- thb War—Bulid for Peace’ would be' t un jty of hearing Thomas H. Lindsay, Clinton. its administrative theme for 1945. 1 whQ served Wlth the American Red Julius Oliver Womble, Clinton. Joe Delaney, president of the club, 1 _ _ , . ,i William Alex Simpson, Ware said that Kiwanis International’s Cross m Italy. Mr. Lindsay returned Shoals more than 139,000 members in somej^ ix weeks ago from overseas w-here,, yj a \t er Vincent Lollis, Laurens. 2,250 communities throughout the) for a v Y as atta ched to a bomb | Carroll Simpson Young, Rt. 2, Clin- United States and Canada had pledg- , 8 r0U P He will have many interesting ton ed time and effort to the fulfillment: st ° ries 1°. tell and a great deal of real j £ ze u Hyman, Rt. 1, Clinton. of the objectives which were adopted at a recent wartime meeting of the information about how our men fight, J how they live, how and what they; service organization in Chicago. They eat > h° w an d where they relax, and narc j s Roy Lee Russ, Rt. 1, Clinton. Robert Lee Merchant, Rt. 1, 7. Fulfill citizenship obligations lest we forfeit self-government. 8. Further the friendship between Canada and the United States as a world example for international good will. 9. Work to preserve freedom of op portunity for all. Andrew Traynham, Lau Cross for overseas service. He is mar ried and has one child As an overseas Red Cross field di- Gerald rector, he was on the job 24 hours a Shoals, day, seeing that the men in the bomb J Leonard ! group could get hot baths, clean beds, ! Court. William Webb Orr, Mountville. nuts and hot coffee. He ran movies,) George Marion Sherrifleld, Rt. 1, arranged shows, gave out books and Clinton. or community project for service to returning veterans. 4. Cooperate in community post war employment programs. 5. Promote understanding and co operation among social and economic groups as essential to national unity, recreation rooms and games, dough- [ 6. Intensify Kiwanis youth services —build future citizens. Royden Mitchell, Ware Earl Abercrombie, Gray operated in the long operation. The order described Budapest as “a strategically-important German jhad records for the men to listen to. His Job was to bring “us”—the folks back home — to the soldier and to show the soldiers in every way he could that we, back here, are with our men in thought, in spirit, and in! organization. Mr. Lindsay is one of us. He rep- Promotion to Star: W. L. Arthur of Callie Culbertson and Miss Beatrice . .. . . , — „ ^ troop 75; George Cornelson, John. Donnan of near Ware Shoals; two'. s,lress spiruuai values as vital j resents us> f or we are the American brothers, F. L. Donnan of the Tylers-' ^ ^ m ^ n f pr ° t gress and I ! iak ?'] a part j Red Cross. He is our delegate doing Co ^ rt ’ ^ ‘of the district program for 1945. i . . - Joseph Falls Bedenbaugh, Kinards. Cecil Jerue Pftts, Laurens. W. C. Weis, Honea Path. Bobbie Jones, Waterloo. James Robert Culbertson, Laurens. Robert Vernon Smith, Laurens. ' Hilton Wesley Jones, Laurens. Leonard W. Freeman, Ware Shoals. Henry Kohler and Charles Pitts of troop 111. ville section, and G. C. Donnan of the job we want done, and doing it! Service Hours (25): Henry Burton, Wattsville; two sisters, Mrs. J. O.! K ?'y an . is Int *‘ rnatlona l s I 945 ad "' with every ounce of strength, every of troop 111; Billy Stewart of troop Davis of Barksdale, and Mrs. Mollie 1 T" 11 ! 1 ^ at i ve theme and objectives, | bit of j n g enu jt yi an d with skill and «■ |Garrett of Clinton; 12 grandchildren I f^“ te „ d r ° r . ', he , l>*« ,0 P"*- ' Service Hours (50): Charles Pitts Edward Wassori, and two great-grandchildren, of troop 111. j ** Hobson, oehfge "“rneLTcha^ Allen To Speoke Sunday Pitts, John Kohler, aii first-ciass^At Presbyterian Church scouts, of troop 111; W. L. Arthur, first-class, of troop 75; Mark Pitts and Henry Burton, second-class scouts, of trsop 111 — all received The Rev. C. F. Allen, pastor of Smyrna and Little River-Dominick Presbyterian churches, will be the merit badges for proficiency in van- guest minister at the First Presby- ous phases of scouting. terian church here Sunday morning Horace Williamson, scout executive a t n/s. of Blue Ri#ge council, was a guest of! Mr. Allen is chairman of the com- the district and bi ought greetings to: m ittee from South Carolina presby- heartfelt warmth. The talk he will giv^ will be a first-hand report of how men are getting all the things we would want them to have. For that is the other main duty of the Red Cross, to provide the vital link be tween the men overseas and the fam ilies who are back home. All of us know the Red Cross and what ser vices it renders at this end of the line; this will be an opportunity to find out how these services operate ^ | at the other end of the long line— Thomas Cecil Boyd, seaman second overseas. class, has been wounded in action/ »» T ; i n i . ’ 1 Mr. Lindsay will speak at the high lems of the war and post-war pe ! riods, have been the subjects of wide- [ spread comment and commendation by leaders in all walks of life, Presi dent Delaney said. Seaman T. C. Boyd Wounded In Action the scouts. C. W. Anderson spoke for| tery endeavoring to raise $10,000 for according to information received by. schoo , auditorium and all o{ us who the camping and activities committee, needed improvements on the orphan . his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John H.' can will want stating that several outings would be | age River si de ' proRerty on "EnTr^e j ?° yd ’ f ° f near Clinton. Detailed soldiers" hl° knew^in hif arranged in the future fbr the troops.!-;.— — j ...;h / I formation as to his wounds were not 1 J ' Hf arr,vpri hv l river and will speak of the campaign, i The address lor the occasion was The property, when reconditioned, I delivered by Dr. R^C. Long of Gjreen- w jn be used by the presbytery as an assembly ground for holding young wood, long a leader of Blue Ridge council. Dr. Long said we want to get the war over as soon as possible, we want to establish af peace that] will last, and we wan^our boys to do -their part to become men. Think clearly, love your fe41owmen, act with honest motives, and trust in God, he told the scouts. He spoke of the 12 golden words of the scout oath and people’s summer. church conferences each given in the message from the war department. Seaman Boyd has been in the ser- more than two years. i ... t> j arrived by plane at Miami, Fla., work with the Red Cross in Italy. j early Sunday morning and from there C. W. Anderson, War Fund chair-j was sent to Fort Bragg. N. C„ where man, will’ preside. The meeting is sea- , ,, , , , . _ he was met Tuesday by Mrs , under the sponsorship ot J. C. Thom-' trf>v vice s.nce last April, and overseas for ias branch chairman( Hubert Boyd ' f y several months. Boy Scout Drive To Be Made Here Presbyterian Men To Hear Kyzar Tonight . i Col. Godfrey has been attached to treasurer, and Mrs. Irby Hipp, case tht , Fifth army in Italy and for meri- 1 * . ' I torious conduct he recently received j the Legion of Merit, third'highest army, decoration. The services---,for ! which he whs decorated were ren dered from May 6 to July 3, 1944. He ; wears, battle stars for campaigning monthly dinner-meeting thisi Gn Monday Colonel F/ed William-jin Tunisia'and Italy, and also served evening at 7:30 in the church, to/on of Greenwood, who has been-!! in England, which all Presbyterian men of the living with the air forces in China.) For six and called to see Mrs. Belle Moorhead Crawford, of Goldville, to advise hei Copt. Alex Crawford Recently Promoted Tv,..- t- i oo v The Men-of-the-Church of the Thursday, February 22, has been u * • u u i / First Presbyterian church will -held law and urged the bovs to stand for desl » na ^ ed as c a nvass day for the Boy; *w e ; r ^tKi^ law ana urgea tne ooys to stand lor Scout financial drive in th e Clinton! ineu positive things. Keep close to God,- d j str j ct t He said, be reverent keep_the faith j ' Thc commiltee named to head the : The celebration of Bo, Scout, week ' ai js com d R L plax .; community are invited. . began Sunday evening with a union • T wr t T he guest speaker will be the Rev , service at the First Baptist church (? a laue ’ R L N Blackwe^’ F J ' H. Kyzar, pastor of the First Bap-j that One week previous he had left in which the -ministers of the city w^Lockman, L R^ Cobb/Roy Holtz-; °^_ t aure, l£ took part. The service was arranged , w d w K w u especially in honor of the scouts whdi The ciinton-Goldviile are‘a has a auSuorTum. m ^'^^a of $2,000. Part of id amount The sermon for the occasion was delivered by Rev. J. S. Gray, a mem ber of the college faculty. He por trayed the Apostle Paul as a,young RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) i her son, Capt. Alex Crawford, in 1 China, and he was fine and enjoying good hfealth. The young officer re will *go for the operation' of Blue Ridge council and the remainder held for the employment of a Scout exec- (Compiled to date for information ! utive to .give his full time to the of The Chronicle’s readers). Laurens-Clinton-Newberry districts.' PROCESSED F'OODS: BLUE „ ... „ . . l * j • ., . | Similar amounts will' be raised in stamps- y s vs '7^ A? R‘? ,* r.v ( fin * ^rig^incorpbrated tn the_scout these towns for the work . STAMPS. X5, Y5, Z5, A2. defense center on the road to Vi enna.” It was the seventeenth Euro pean capital lost by the Germans to the Allies. Direct attack on the Hungarian capital began last November 12 af ter the fall of Monor, to the south* I east. .. The Nazis tried to make Budapest ' a Stalingrad (in reverse with a n - lieving counteroffensive launch, i from the northwest January 2, but >t ; failed with a sacrifice estimated b/ the Russians at 16,000 dead German, j ... ^ and more than 800 smashed tank:,. J lhe.se figures were m addition to the enemy losses inside Budapest. tttn The Germans acknowledged, the loss of Budapest, saying it had Jaeen "evacuated”—a patent misuse tfithe j word—and sought to soften the blow •with radio statements that the gar - ri’son had accomplished its mission by j "pinning down enemy armies and ; inflicting the highest possible losses ! on them.” The Russian roll of prisoners taken , was headed by Col. Gen. Peter Wild- (enburch, German commandant, and his staff. While Budapest was collapsing un der the Soviet hammer blows, some 300 miles distant another Red army, the First Ukraine group under Mar- ^hiy Ivan S. Konev, was sweeping like a sickle across southeastern Ger many through the defenses before Dresden and the southern flank of ! Berlin. One of Konev’s columns wat with in 70 miles of Dresden, and according i to, Berlin another was across the Bo- j ber river about 20 miles from a junc- ffio^i: with Marshal Cl. K. Zhukov’s First White Russian . army., on the center of the front in Germany. The Moscow commun.que ^nnounc- . ed Konev had captured Beuthen, in dustrial town on the west bank of the Oder, and had encircled Glogai., traffic center on*"the Oder 55 mile- northwest of Breslau and was fight ing to annihilate its garrison. The ’ Russians in that area captured 345 German planes on the ground. George ville. Leroy Dunaway, Rt. 3, Clinton. William Victor Fulmer, Laurens. Junior Boyd Patterson. Rt. 3, Clin ton. William Henry Fowler. Laurens. Arnold Craine, Rt. 1, Clinton. Ludy Marvin Riser, Waterloo. McDonald Crain, Rt. 1, Clinton. Edward Melvin Huey, Clinton. Col. Ansel Godfrey At Home From Overseas Col. Ansel B. Godfrey arrived home yesterday for a 30-day leave after God- a half months ins group provided artillery support for the F’rench expeditionary fofte in Italy for which he received the Croix de Guerre. During his extended stay overseas he has seen much action. Prior to the war Col. Godfrey was athlete and said he stood for all the oath and law. He urged the scouts to use the opportunities offered through their organizattion to grow into healthy manhood, to develop and gi i n . strengthen their bodies and enrich : NeWDCrry Pastorate Calcote Resigns the Distinguished Flying, is a pilot of a transport plane. He married Miss Ruth’Edwards, daugji- valid. expire March 31; C2, I - -E2. ter 0 f Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Edwards F2, G2 now valid’, expire . A >nl'28;| ol this city, a little more than a cently has been promoted to captain, i captain of the Abbeville coast artil- Capt. Crawford, who is a graduate i ler - v baUer - v of the National Guard, of Clinton high school and completed ! and sown advanced to major and lieu- two years at Clemson before enter- 1 t V nant colonel - u P un mobilization in. ing the servieje, was decently awarded ^ t>bruary be went to Camp Wished Flying, Cross. He! 8lewart ’ Ga - !ur assignment. From H2, J2, K2, L2, M2 now vai. : June 2. M FIATS AND FATS J, expirei ago..while at home on furlough year from R E D ! the European theater. their minds, to render unselfish, ser- STAMPS: Q5, R5,’ S5 now valid, ex- The Rev. C. A; Calcote, pastor of pire March 31; T5, U5, V5, W5;-X5 now valid, expire April 28; Y5, Z5. C2, D2 now valid, expire vice for others, and. to give God first place in their live§ as did Paul, His Aveleigh PresHoyterian church, New address was most appropriate . and' berry, has announced his resignation^^ B2 jnade a fine Impression upon the j to his congregation effective March 1, June 2. large group of scouts,as evidenced by ‘ was learned yesterday: SUGAR: Stamp 34 now good for the"close attention he received. I Mr. Calcote has accepted the posi- five pounds, expires February 28; j ■*»- 1 tion of executive secretary of reli- stamp 35 now good for five pounds, j ton av POLIO FUND TOTALS $3,009.23 igious education, home missions, stew- expires June 2. i today Locker Plant To Open For Business Today there he took an advanced course at Fort Sill, Qkla., and'was also on duty severfl 1 months at F’ort Bragg, N. C.. and Camp Blanding. Kla. Col. Godfrey will spend hi- leave here with Mrs. Godfrey arid daugh ter, Joy, and hi' mothv*. Be v Godfrey. His friends are del gated to see him home again and aid extend ing him a most cordial welcome. Brown Installed At . Oldfields Church Rev. L. VV. Brown, of Goldville, pastor of the Goldvil!’ Presbyterian installed S nday morn ing a- pastor of the rt ’.fieids Pres, byterian ehurch at Or,' Dr. Da J Woods, of this city, presided and charged the pastor, the Rev. F’red J. Harmon of Laurehs, delivered the W. om The Clint n 1 Locker Cooper igious education, home missions, stew- expires Ju 1 ardship and evangelism for Wilming- SHOES: Filer trie Freezer and I iv.t located on Hamp-! me, will open for business j is announced by the board The sum of $3,009.23 was raised in ton, N. C., Pres'bytery, apd will have 3 now good. Airplane stamps 1,*2 and °f diregtprs. Laurens county in the recenf “March: his office and residence in Wilming- of Dimes” campaign to assist in the I ton. fight against infantile paralysis. r I Mr. Calcote is pleasantly known In the Clinton area $1,344.38 was here by a number of friends who will raised and *1,664.85. in the Laurens area be interested in the of his resignation. announcement FUEL OIL: Period ^ and 5 cou pons from last season, period 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 coupons from this season— all valid for '10 gallons each. GASOLINE: A-14 coupons good through March 21. It is is also announced that the plant will observe "open house” next Tuesday, Fcbraury 20, during the hours from 2 to 5 p. m., and 7 to 9 p. m. The publio is invited to call during these hours and inspect the building and refrigeration system. PASSES IN C OL! MBI \ MrsrThornton Whaling, of Colii’n- bia, died Friciay after being an in-i valid for several years She was the 1 widow of Dr. Thornton Whaling.: Presbyterian minister and p esident of Columbia Theological seminary for several years. Mrs. Whaling was the daughter of the ki(e Henry Muller and Ann Sean Muller. She was a sister of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Muller Brimm, first wife of Dr. D. J. Brimm of this city. 'nstaliation sermon, and Elder D. \ Nevi. ic >f N»-.cherry, delnered charge t: > >he i •nT’'••ega: n. , Mr. B, town came to this grout ehngches last S e p t c r i b e i f Ga;nes\ i He, Fla. Tos* ollections GivW For January TAc $r T ’1I44 tax- be i of col- ti i ng i Lane Monroe, es was collected durmj January, leaving a bah !vcted of $40,472.42. Effective February 1 the penalty was raised to two, per cent which will be in effect until March 1 when the penalty will be increased to 3 pec cent.