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r •. N T 4, V F i ■/ * THE CHRONICLE ’ Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHRONICIE , You Don'f Get tbe News Volume XUV Clinton, S. C., Thursday, March 23, 1944 Number 12 Watched Los Negros Invasion Presbyterian College Now Out ot Debt - / Presbyterian college is now entire ly free of debt, according to a state- I ment issued the past week by W. P. | Jacobs, president of the institution. In writing friends of the college, Presideht Jacobs said:/ “We are deeply grateful for the . .ifact that at last, after more than 1 forty years of debt, our college is COUNTY SUPHY Bill TOTAtS $151,799 $56,000 To Be Raised By Taxation. Measure Ratified Past Week. Captain. Frazier Now Heads Unit Men of the 39th College Training detachment at Presbyterian college this week welcomed a new com-v! manding officer, Captain Howard Frazier. Captain! Frazier succeeded' t u oo rpu„ r Captain Carl M. Turner who has; Laurens, March 22.—The Laurens , ^ . been transferred to a new station, i county supply bill, carrying a total appropriation of $152,799 of which A resident of Nashville, Tenn.,, 17-POINT FOREIGN POLICY LAID DOWN FOR U. S. BY HULj. Secretary of State Urges Those Who Love Liberty to Fight for It. $56 000 is to be raised by taxation, 1 Captain Frazier came to Clinton from j Washington. Marh 21—Secretary now entirely free and does not owe h as ’p asse( j b 0 th houses of the gen- Beaver T alls ’ Pa > where he was com “""Of State Hull tonight laid down a | a pepny. The last note has now been era i asse mbly and was ratified ifefore man ding officer of the 36th College 1 17-point program of American for- paid.. Furthermore the college has the close of the session last week. | Training detachment at Geneva col-j cign policy aimed at a post-war I ; operated several years consecutively: T .„ . j lege. His wife, the former Kay world of international cooperation", ! without a deficit. \ 02« 80 rarrieri in year's bill of Green - of Durham, N. C., accompan- and called on all liberty-loving peo- “We are also thankful for the fact’ w hich $48.546 95 was to be raised by’if C ^ tain jailer to Clinton and pie to show themselves worthy of that throughout this einergency, God taxation. Brought over from last * he / ha y e established a residence on freedom by fighting for it land our friends have been gracious year’s appropriatiori in 1 unexpended ! C f ar / treet - » 0 4 , Issued as millions of Allied troop* , and, fit a time when we have needed balances from various offices was the . Cap 4 taln TT Frazle . , ' u ’ a l, graduated p 0 j se( i f 0r the coming invasi «n \>f ! it, our income from all other sources sum of $4,870.15 which wfis credited;" 0 ^ th ,f University of Tennessee in Europe, Hull’s remarks about hb- except from civilian students has against this year’s appropriations. 1934 after majoring in psychology, er t y were# regarded as a call to the | steadily increased. The churches have Showing balances were medical sup- an f entered upon a career of person- peoples of occupied lands to arise and ! been good to us and our friends have pjjes insurance 4-H club boys, Fu- i ne administrat *on with the Tennes- a id the liberating arnyes when the f been most liberal in sending us con- ture ’ Homemakers, printing, postage: se f. ValIe y Authority H«r left ci-jtime comes. 'tributions to eliminate our debt, to an( i stationery, court house, court, I vlhan em P lo y men t m 19 f to accept They appeared designed, too. to , increase our endowment, and to es-. jail, county home, Clinton and Lau- ■ . .. . j tablishment of scholarships for wor- r ens military companies, sanitary 1 " me Army air corps. thy, needy students. toilet project, miscellaneous contin- compietion o^ an officer training and to c larify some of the ques- 'gon., stove tor jail. WPA road work. , tktri. which have been ra.sed ,n con- |T reply to criticism that the Unit€^i Up m me. g ta ^ es no - c i ear foreign policy “Furthermore, we appreciate the Gen. Douglas MacArthnr (left), who peraonaUy directed the inyaslrfn •f Los Negros island, Lieut. Gen. Walter Krueger, Sixth army command er (center), and Vice Adm. Thomas Klnkald, commander of the U. 8. navy forces, Southwest Pacific, return to a forward base on a PT boat after witnessing the successful U. 8. assault on the Admiralty Islands. Shortly after this photo was taken, MacArthur made the surprise an nouncement that the attack was originally planned as a reconnais sance raid. Frazier was ordered to Tuskagee, nection with recent African moves Merchants Warned To Watch For Check Forgers evident element of permanency which new machinery and construqtion of,*, . „ j- . * , .u —.iJr ’ Ala - for duty as adjutant of the, m the diD i omatic field now characterize our service. These surface treated roads, are reflected in the matriculation of a strong, though youthful student 66th Army Air Forces Flying Train-, ^ A seven mill levy, the^same as last j n g detachment. For example, the point of liberty year, was provided to raise the; When the college training program! stating that “ never did a plainer iREVOLVING FUND !PROVIDED FOR LOCKER PLANTS ~ / Laurens, ,March 22. — The county would supply up to 30 per cent of important function. *v 11v. 11 wit: Luwc-gt: bidiiiuig piwgiain. ^ A * S* was launched by the army air forces duty to fight against iU (libeity*) # ^ ...w. .... .. .cises in in February, 1943, Captain Frazier foes devolve upon all neooles who t* 3 lon " , 9° ege *. T C, aining , salary items, provision for locker was selected to command the detach- P rize hbeity-and ; Detachmen of the Army Air Forces, { a $7 000 increase in the road , ment atiB eaver Falls. i 1 ^ flts closely w pow operating full strength on our and several new itemS( the ' f am P us * We K have fdded facilities and framework of the blll is prac tically | teachers, where they were needed. the same as , ast so as to establish your college among; Jn the court house $100 was' add- body and the recognition of the ex- f un ds cellency of our college by the con-j With the exception of ra [ se g in in” FebTuaryT 1943,”Captain Vrazier foes devolve upon all peoples who i.i—... —i a j| wbo aspire to with the attitude adopted towards the Finns. Clearly the urge to fight for lib- , erty was also directed at the ner- I vous Balkans, where Hitler has oc cupied Hungary .while rumors of peace feelers by Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria swarm increasingly CPL 5ATTERWHIIE the leaders in America in Prosecu-[ ed , 0 , he , k - , , k „ V Efl U AfT OM lion ol the war and to confirm the. $2 700 a year , $400 ,„V superin- MLLEU IN At NUN judgment of the Army tn selecting tendent of education to make it ; Presbyterian College to continue this $2,400, $300 to the judge of probate' Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Satterwhite^ thicker, to make it $2,700 a year, $400 to the of near Mountville, have received a Retail merchants and by Chief of Police L. H. Bagwell to “Know Your Endorsers” in connec tion with the national campaign of the United States secret service.! . .. .. ... .. 41 _ - - —. T — —, In listing the Atlantic -Charter as business'** 16 cos * °* ^ reezer units an d Continuation js the theme. We supervisor to«make it $2,400 a year;: message from the war department one point, Hull emphasized that it •* w u .'buildings erected in connection there-1 hpnibly beg that as the military con- $400 to the tax collector to make it telling of the death of their son, Ryan! “implies an obligation for each na- rms 0 e. ci y ave een warne ^ ^j. ie amoun ^ 0 f $18,000,1 * 1 " U6S con hd^nce, our friends like- $2,400 a year, and $40 to the sheriff T. Sattei*white, who was killed in' tion to demonstrate its capacity for arrnrrlinp tn Section 16-A inserted in / 156 pr ° ve th f ir confidence ^by con- to make it $2,800 a year. Clerical action on February 14 in Italy. stable and progressive government, J r _, -..onnn ■ j tinu,ng * 0 , us * he aame ^ ne type assistants to the various officials were Cpl. Satterwhite was 28 years old to fulfill scrupulously its established this year s supply bill. The $18,000 is^f civilian students, that they will) given raises of around $10 a month and had been employed at the Watts! duties to other nations,” v.raig.c c^ror , provided as a revolving fund to be continue to establish scholarhips and except the clerk to the county board Mills in Laurens for the past ten “In determining our foreign pol- I loaned to ^cooperative association/ 6 " ntip " e to a l f su * k e ^ P 61 ™ 306 ™/ of of commissioners who was given years. He was held in the highest icy,” the secretary declared in his Many merchants have lost consider-, existence “or hereafter ere- c0 ege ^ building the endow-; $12.50 a month additional to make esteem by all who knew him. He was first point, “we mui able money by cashing checks for 1 ment. persons other than lawful owners of i ated for the P urp °se of erecting ., 0ur boySi fi g hting aroun d the such checks. As a safeguard against the spread ing crime of forged endorsements, business firms are advised to keep the following precautions in mind: 1. When any stranger asks you to freezer locker plants. j world, write gratefully of the in Such cooperatives are already in spired P. C. spirit which has given process of formation at Laurens and '‘out-think, out- Clinton 11 ? ray ’ out ‘ flght .. ar L d > lf need be > out " The section reads as follows "“‘Section 16-A: In order to encour his annual pay $1,500. The county’s share of the salaries of the treasurer and auditor were increase from $794 to $815, bringing their total salaries to $2,700. The are. must first see clear- j a member of the Little River-Domi-1 ly what our true national interests nick Presbyterian church and was ac tive in various phases of church life. Besides his parents, he is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Calhoun Gra- “At the present time, the para mount aim of our foreign policy ' die the eneimr.”Vrhey are now send- 1 and the state the other part. county pays a part of these salaries ham, Mrs. Aiken Hodge, Misses' Eliz- is to defeat our enemies as quickly as possible. > _ . , , . — , “Beyond final victory, \mr fun- I ing an appefil by mail to each other' The salary of the court house jani- two brothers, J. W. and Algie Satter- damental national interests are the - to deposit war bonds here to equip tor remains unchanged at $960. white. : assuring of our national security and 4 abeth and Margaret Satterwhite and security | the fostering oL the economic and So- Icial well being of oUr people.” The substance of the points is not ! new' but the form of their publica- lion at this time was unprecedented. is returned because of a flprged en- the*LaiirenrCounty Treasurer deriv-1 80 much to th . em and which can so! creases of $100 each to make their The monthly meeting of the Scout- On the question of reestablishing the forger . ,u„ profoundly infiiJence and serve fu- salaries $400 each'annually. An ad- cash a check insist that he properly a ge diversified farming' to assist in and remodel our Y.M.C.A. building Deputy sheriffs were given an in- identi^^imself as the rightful the vation o£ food crops grown after thewar. Let us at home keep crease of $5 a month to $140 with- L 0CQ | Jcout Drive payee of that check. t and to helo provide refrigeration f ai th with them by continuing, in- out any increase in their travel al-' l t / 2. Before you accept any check, ask lhere f or there is hereby set aside creasin 8- and permanently establish- lowance of $550 each per year. Two GOOS Over the Top yourself this question: “If this check f rom t he funds now in the hands ofi ing * he * nS titution which has meant county commissioners were given in- — 1 — dorsement, can I locate and recover my loss? 3. If a check is alreacTy endorsed forger ed from tbe coun ty’ s portion of the .. State Income Tax for the year‘1943 „ Tf g a ons annually. An ad- ers and Scoutmasters, of the Clinton order in the post-war world and ditional $94 was provided for help district. Boy Scouts, was held Monday keeping aggressor nations under sur- wheh it is presented to you insist that it be endorsed again in your presence and compare the handwriting. the sum of Eighteen Thousand ($18 - 1 *’ If ^ buy war bonds for our en ’ with the inmates at the county home, evening at Hotel Clintoo’with Presi- veil la nee, the secretary layed down 000 00) Dollars to be used as follows: ■ dowment ’ we su 8S est the selection of leaving the other appropriations for dent -J. B. Hart presiding. this policy: The said sum of Eighteen Thousand Series G and their registralipn in thc the count y home the same as last A report on the recent financial' “In the process of reestablishing (18 000 00) Dollars shall constitute a | 0 ff‘ c i al name^which is ‘Presbyterian year, viz., $3,250 for expenses' and drive in the district was made by international order, the United Na- Have each check nitialed by the r eV oi v i ng fund and sh ill be i oaned : College at Clinton, S. C.’ Please noti- $1,200 for the superintendent’s sal- J. Leland Young, chairman of the tions must exercise surveillance over employee who pays out money for it. t Coooerative Associations now in ‘ fy us when you order a bond sent ary, bringing the total for that de- committee. A total of $1200 was i aggressor nations until such time as existence, or hereafter created! in the' us - W™*, it. > ; partnten. up to M.594, raised agaiqst a quota of $990. Of the latter demoostrate their willing- Fnv FlprfpH UpnH Countv of Laurens for the Durposei “ W M. P. JACOBS, 1 The appropriation for the public this amount, $1100' was raised in the ness and ability to live at peace with ruy LiCUlCU livuu erecting freezer locker plants, and 1 \ President. | welfare office was apparently segre- city and Goldviile, and $100 by the other nations. Elected Head County Teachers shall be paid to said associations as directed by the Laurens County Del-! LEONARD WELLS N. Foy, who. has successfully egation in the General Assembly, and! MISSING gated and increased. The appropri- colored Scouters sponsoring the troop "How long such surveillance will ation for the office last year was at Bell Street school. 'need to continue must depend upon $2,000. The appropriation this year is' The pressing need of additional the rapidity, wifh~Which the people^ headed the Joanna schools at Gold- shall be expended upon the approval KCTUM LU IV1I03HNV3 placed a t-$1,250 but the next section Scoutmasters was presented and ef- of Germany, Italy, Japan and their ville as superintendent for several: 0 f the Senator and a majority of the ! * provides $2,500 for general and emer- forts are being made to replace sev- satellites give convincing proof that years, was elected president of the House members in the General As- j Mrs: Robert Johnson and Miss Sency relief, supposedly to be ex- eral Scout leaders who have been, they have repudiated and abandoned Laurens County Education associ-; sembly from Laurens County, but in | Shirley Wells, student at Presbyte- P ended by the welfare department. ; called into the armed forces. the monstrous philosophy of superior ation at the March meeting held the no event shall any amount greater r * an college, have-received word that mL< *cellaneous contingent fund, *L. B. Dillard, chairman of the ad-; rae'e and conquest by force and ha>)e past week in Laurens. Mr. Foy sue- than 30% of the cost of said freeze/'their brother, Leonard Wells pf Mt. i expended on order of the delegation, vancement committee, reported on empbraced loyally the basic prm- f, N. C., is reported missing in was at $6,000. j the recent court of honor meeting ciples of peaceful processes.” ceeds E. M. Alewine, principal of the | connection therewith be allotted to Holly, Mountville school. ; locker units and buildings erected in action on March 10. Mr. Wells was; Other officers elected were R. S. any one cooperative. The funds so doing convoy duty with the U. S. Tiedeman of. Gray Court-Owings loaned shall be available at the times Coast Guard. school, vice-president, and J. Leroy and in the amounts agreed to by the! Burns, secretary. Named "to the coun- Senator and a majority of the mem- County Peach Crop cil of delegates were Pat H. Hobson, bers of the House of Representatives, ^ . 7 c K Miss Margaret Blakely and Miss and when repaid may be^ advanced ^UTVIVeS 1 fCCZe Irene Workman of the Clinton to other cooperatives in said county! ♦ _ schools, and J. K. Derrick, M. A.' upon the same percentage,- and for i The county peach crop appears to frees from county Wilson, A. B. Galloway, R. S. Tiede- the same purposes and in the same have survived the recent cold snap , man, Miss Pearl Branyon and Mrs.; manner. J. A. Richardson. • Other items added included $400 held in connection with the fatherr for -fire control, $750 for painting son banquet. It was decided by the I X SHAH IN JOINS public buildings and $800 for a gar-! council to hold similar meetings at _ _ " LJ J age for the book truck at the library, intervals of two or three months. It 39TH DETACHMENT Estimated revenues to be applied was also decided ,to set up a board to the appropriation in order to ar- of review to help the Scouts with ■ Assigiiment of First Lieutenant inve at the $56,000 to be raised by their advancements. George P. Shahin of Niagara falls. { taxation were as follows: The devotional exercises were con- Calrnfe CnnHurtinn ducted by Rev. John J. Hayes. A mu-| Jj; aiCOre '-OnOUCTing sical program was presented by the TnOmWCll SorvjCCS Lauren high school glee club under , the direction of Miss Maty Frances] The pulpit of Thomwell Memorial | and the outlook now is - promising, according to County Agent C. B. Fines and forfeitures Gasoline tax Several ways in which Scouts can N. Y , to duty as assistant .adjutant contribute to the war effort were and special service officer has been $12,443.89 mentioned. It was also stated that announced at headquarter^ ’ of the 4,843.60 ♦the Scouts are collecting coat hang- 39th College training detachment at : Cannon. From all that he could learn U ank | ax j from the orchardists, he said, very “eer, wine and liquor tax I little damage was done. - Gosnell.* Ralph T. Wilson, Laurens(church for the past several months! RATIONING BOARD has been filled by ministers of South Carolina presbytery. For the past! attorney, was the principal, speaker has been filled by ministers of S™ 1 * 1 ! g (J H_ET| N (OPA) for the occasion. He urged the teach ers to hold fast to the fundamental ideals of education and teaching. Presbyterian Men Elect Officers The March meeting of the Men-of- the-Church of the First Presbyterian church on Thursday evening was giv en over to a consideration of plans for the every member financial can vas. H. L. Eichelberger, chairman of the campaign, had charge of the meeting. • Upon the nominating committee’s report the following officers were elected to serve for the coming year: J. H. Pitts, Jr., president; J. Isaac two months the minister has been the Rev. Hubert Wardlaw, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Whit mire. Beginning last Sunday afternoon and continuing for the next several weeks the services will be in charge of the Rev. C. A. Calcote, pastofr of Aveleigh Presbyterian church at Newberry. The services are held at 3:30, with Sunday school in the \moming at 10 o’clock. KfcSween Speaks At First Presbyterian __ Brotherhood Class (Compiled to date for information ij----. of The Chronicle’s readers). | neors IVIClVllinCK PROCESSED FOODS: Green K, L, j - D .. k „ and M stamps (book 4) expire March:.. . ro , er ood .° *‘^t Bap- „„ *0 4U_ u ro /w5_i-..x bst church met in the education new year. Special Services At ” •*** P° s t Exchange officer, and to Head Springs Church Vi Dr. John McSween, president of Tusculum college, Greeneville, Tenn., Copeland, vice-president; William R. occupied the pulpit of the First Pres- Pitts, treasurer; W. C. Baldwin, sec- byterian church , of this city on SVin- retary. H. D. Rantin is the club’s re- day morning. tiring president. TO SPEAK SUNDAY The guest minister at the First Presbyterian'church Sunday morning will be the Rev. Ashby Johnsdn, pas tor of the Presbyterian church at Brevard, N. C. Dr. and Mrs. McSween Were the guests of the L. B. Dillard family while here. Dr. McSween had been in Columbia to perform the marriage ceremony of his niece, Miss Helen Foster and Capt. Marshal Spoonts at the First Presbyterian church on Sat urday evening. $96,799.00 excellent start has been made for the | college. Lt. Shahin’s service has also carried him to Moody Field,^Ga., as assist- »ost i?xchani Cochran, Ga., where he was adju tant of a college training detachment . at Middle Georgia college 90 Riiio ar thrnuoh Fft /honk now. *** c ‘ »** me cuucciuuii { Special preaching services are an- 1 A graduate in business admimstra- va’lid at 10 nointseach for use with bu ! ldmg la «t Thursday evening, with nounced at Head Springs Associate tion of Syracuse university, N. Y . tokens' exnire May 20 President Sterlin Young presiding. I Reformed Presbyterian church near Lt Shahin was an accountant in ^ ra-to Axrrs tsa'tc. v / Aft6r a su PP er served by women of Mountville, beginning Friday eve- civilian life. As special service of- MEATS AND FATS: Brown Y and tbe church, Rev. James R. McKit- ning at 8 o’clock. Services will con- ficer at the 39th CTD he will assist Z (book 3) expire March 20^Red; ^jc^ professor at Presbyterian £ol- tinue at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, the commanding officer in planning i A8, B8, C8, D8, E8 and F8 (book 4) j egei was introduced as speaker. Mr. a nd 11 a.m. and 4:30 on the Sabbath, and executing special social events now valid at 10 points each, for use ^icKittrick brought a timely message The Rev. W. P. Grier, Jh, of Troy, and other activity for the benefit ! wit h tokens; all expire May 20. i on “Church Loyalty” and related it will conduct the services, to which and welfare of aviation studentx. j SUGAR: Sugar stamp 30 (book to the loyalty campaign now being the public is invited. cooperating with the USO and >ther 4) good^for five pounds indefinitely, prepared for at the church. - | Clinton groups. Stamp 40 good for 5 lbs. for canning — Mrs Eliza MfCrarlfPn until February 28, 1945. Sugar stamp £^1 X fl¥ P^nnlfv CHZO JVtCV.raCKen 31 (book 4), good for five pounds, ' “‘V 1 r ., becomes valid April 1. After April First SHOES: Stamp 18 (book 1) expires April 30. The current shoe coupons A seven per cent penalty on all recent death of her sister, Mrs. Eliza Four white men were sent to Co- “airplane” stamp No. 1 in ration book unpaid 1943 county taxes will go into McCracken, in Columbia after a brief lumbia Friday, March 17, by local 3 good indefinitely. A new stamp be- effect after April 1, it is stated in an illness. She is survived by three sons’ selective service board No. 50 for m- Posses In Columbia Friends of Mrs. E. B. ^Sloan of this cjity, will sympathize with her in the Locol Board Sends Four To Navy comes valid May 1. FUEL OIL: Period 4 and 5 cou pons (10 gallons), expire September 30. . GASOLINE: A-!) coupons (3 gal lons) expire May advertisement in today’s paper by and two dauhterj. T. Lane Monroe, county treasurer. The announcement . further states that the tyjoks will close April 15 when all unpaid taxes go into execu tion. duction into the navy. They were: Mrs. McCracken was a former resi-| John Henry McCuiry, Rt. I, Ware dent of this city where she is x pleas- Shoals. antly remembered by many friends who will learn with regret of her pa&ing. Henry Alvin Caughman, Clinton. Woodrow Wilson Tucker, Clinton. Roy Bruce Abrams, Goldviile. r. 31,526‘.41 ens to be sold locally, the proceeds Presbyterian college. 1,714.13 to go into their fund for a summer! Lt. Shahin was a reserve officer 7,305.70 outing at Camp Old Indian. AH citi- when called to active duty tn June, Brought over from last year 4,870.15 zen* are asked to help the Scouts In 1942. He came to Clinton from Tif- County’s share of 1944 in- this effort. ton, Ga., where he was commanding come tax 34,095.22 President Hart outlined plans for officer of the 3rd W;h Service Truiii tHe district. Under his leadership an ing detachment at Abraham Baldwin