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• , / V 7: » IHE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper/ Complete, Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read You. Don't Get the News Volume XLIV Clinton, S. C, Thursday, April 20, 1944 Number When It’s Doughnut Time in Italy ^w h. leaman ; T0 SPEAK HERE AT OF dROSS HILL, PASSES 1 Mrs. Olive Austin Leaman, widow of W. H. 1 Leaman, and beloved resi- dent^PCross Hill, died at the Andei- First Church Accepts Roberts' Resignation At a special meeting 1 held Sunday : morning at the close of the’worship The guest minister Sunday mbrn-i hour, the congregation. of' the First; son county hospital last Wednesday i ing at the. First Presbyterian church | Presbyterian church, at his request/ night. She had been m declining | will be the Rev,. James-B. Carpenter, ( accepted the .resignation of the pas- health since' last November, but had: D.D., pastor of Central Presbyterian tor; Rev. J. K. Roberts, IJr. been seriously ill for the past two church, Mpbile,'Ala. ' ( Roberts resigned last August to en- months. F. j - Dr. Carpenter will also speak atjter the army as a chaplain and. at 17 LOSE LIVES IN TORNADO SUNDAY Greenwood Beors Brunt of Storm When 7 Are Killed, Damage High. Mrs. Leaman was a native of Cross i Hill and would have been 80 years e ! 3:30 in the afternoon at' the. Thorn-:! that time the congregation refused A tornado, that ripped a path of well Memorial church. of age on June 11. She was a da ugh-! Dn Carpenter is pleasantly remem- him a year’s leave of absence. Thu to accept Jiis resignation but granted.' destruction through western South The crew of the heavy artillery piece In the background are lined up somewhere in Italy for “doughnuts and” ... coffee, -of course. Members of the fighting Fifth army, they are beipg served by American Red Cross Clubmobile girls who serve refreshments to men in the for ward s r«as. MRS. DUNLAP NAMED S. C. MOTHER FOR '44 ' ■ Nominated for National Honor By Committee Meeting In Columbia. <#. '‘Columbia, April 19. — The State Mothers committee for South Card- lina, meeting in Columbia yesterday, chose as the 1944 State Mother Mrs. Annie Hudgens Dunlap of Mount- ville. Her name was forwarded im mediately to New York to be con sidered for the title of American Mother. Attending the meeting under the chairmanship of Mrs. J. Rion McKis- sick, were a representative group of South Carolinians. The selection of the state mother is under the sponsorship of . The State, Columbia-newspaper, acting for the Golden Rule foundation of New York. Mrs. Dunlap, the winner, who has 11 living children, became a widow when most of her children were still small. She operates a large farm, has "taken a wide interest in civic, social and' religious affairs, and has reared a family whose record is outstanding. She is 72. Qualification^ in the cbntest called 37 WHITE MEN SENT TO ARMY Clinton draft board No. 50 sent 37 white inductees Tuesday to Fort Bragg, N: C., for arm/, induction. Those comprising the group had been called several weeks ago for pre induction physical examinations which the/ passed. The list follows: John Alexander Abercrombie, Wil liam Theodore Queen, James Decatur Bailpy, Raymond Carl Martin, John Thomas Calvert, George James Sparks, Leo Clarence Tucker, George Wilburn Fields, Randolph Darby, Claude D. Harold Warren, Edward Henley Ray, Vernon Erie Lever, Louis Frank Gregory, Luther Ray Pitts, Horace Pinkney Horton, Char lie William Robertson, Olin Ray Motes, Huston Jonathan Abercrom bie, Paul Vance Cagle. Also David Augustus Glenn, Law rence Addson Nelson, Blaise Pascal Watts, James William Nelson, Rich ard Young Workman, John Frank Hancock, Thomas B. O’Dell, Charlie Reese McDaniel, Marvin Davenport, Calvin Lee Bridges, James Leland Young, Marion Edward Lawson, Mirk Dock Smitherman, Clyde Dean We- hunt, Robert Bailey Riser, Samuel Roy .Harris, Laurens Alexander Hen derson, Robert Andrew Gardner. j ter of the late Dr. R. Campbell Aus- be J ed here as b y a large num- ! tin and Mrs. Jane Thompson Austin, j t “ two of Laurens county’s best known ftimiiies. ! On July 1, 1888, she was married | to William H. Leaman, a life-long i resident and prominent merchant! and farmer of Cross Hill. He 'preced- ! ed her to the grave September 8,1 1933. S , i. ' Mrs. Leaman was a beautiful Chris- j tian character, a faithful member of J Liberty Springs Presbyterian church,] and while she was unable to attend] the services -during th# last few* months, she gave evidence in many j ways of her love and devotion to her j church, with which she united in j early childhood. i She was vitally interested in the j civic as well as the religious work | of her town. A woman of intelligence, a devoted mother, gentle,, kind and unselfish, she h<ld many friends and] was loved by all who knew her. Surviving are one son, Hugh C.! Leaman of Columbia, one daughter, I Mrs. Leonora L. Major, and one 1 granddaughter, Miss Anne Major of!- Cross Hill, and a daughter-in-law, j ber of friends. He came to Thornwell Mrs. W. A. Leaman, Columbia. as a lad from Anderson and after Funeral services were conducted RATIONING BOARD for the'following: 1. Her success as a mother as evidenced by the charac-.j BULLETIN (OPA) ter and achievements of her children.] 2. The embodiment of the traits most REV. JAMES B. CARPENTER, D.D. Friday morning at 11 o’clock from Liberty Springs Presbyterian church, with Dr. D. J. Woods of this city, Dr. S! J. L. Crouch of Clemson col lege, and Rev. J. H. Byrd officiating. ■ Active pallbearers were Willie T. Boyce, R..Paul Austin, Sam M. Lea- marf, I. M. Smith, R. C. Adair, S. Lyl Leaman, and Marshall A. Leaman. Mrs. Leaman was an aunt of Mrs. R. C. Adair of. this city, and Mrs. I. M. Smith of the Bush River com munity CLINTON PLACED ON SAFETY HONOR ROLL FOR FOURTH YEAR completing the school course there he graduated from Presbyterian college, after which he taught a year in the orphanage printing department. He received his B.D. degree at Louisville Theological seminary in 1904 and in 1924 was honored by Southwestern university with the honorary degree j co “n t ;“^o n vention ^ aBo^e of doctor of divinity. ! - - - pulpit since then has been occupied (by visiting ministers. Upon his re- ] newed request, Sunday’s action was ] taken. i Dr. Roberts’ present address ; ia: ! Chaplain John K, Roberts. 0-248475, ] Box 80, Headquarters, Kelly Field, , Texas. He expects in the. near future i to be assigned to overseas duty. A congregational meeting will be | held next Sunday to appoint a spe cial committee charged with recoin- mending a permanent pastor to the ! congregation. PRECINCT CLUBS MEET SATURDAY . . : , i j Ralph T. Wilson, chairman of the | Laurens County Democratic ExecU- j tive committee, has issued a call for ! the meetings of all Democratic clubs I in the county -at 3 o’clock in the af- | ternoon Saturday, April 22, or the usual hour of such meetings, for the ] purpose of reorganizing for this! ^year’s primary.- j ' Chairman Wilson pointed out that I the rules of the party require the election of officers, including a pres ident, one or more vict-presidents, a secretary and treasurer, an executive committee and a registration commit tee to be composed of three mem- Carolina early Sunday t ;morning deft 17 dead and as many as 200-persons injured sn its path as it came across the Georgia line and hit Abbeville. Greenwood, Ivy, Ninety-Six, Pros perity and intervening areas. Seven were dead at Greenwood and 150 injured as the tornado cut up a city are# two blocks w.ide and six blocks long-; at least three dead in Newberry county and 12 others injured; three were dead and a score hurt at Abbeville and two at Iva, The Georgia-born wind hit in the early hours, getting into South'Caro- ] lina soon after midnight. j ' ' , j* ^ Greenwood Report | Greenwood, April 16. -Seven per- | sons, three white-children and fqur j Negroes, were killed and an estimat- ; ed one hundred were injured, several i seriously, Sunday morning when a i tornado struck Greenwood at 1:15 1 o’clock. ! . The storm roaring in from the.west j struck the second floor of the Green- ] wood hospital and did serious dam- ! age to the yjrest side of the first (fioor, j but all of the 47 patients escaped j injuries. | The nurses’ home a few yards ) away was also badly damaged and j two nurses aides were hurt. At Abbeville Abbeville, April 16.,.- Three dead and thirty-five injured is the result of the tornado which struck Abbe- At these -meetings delegates to the S u , nda g. h , ” een 1; :. and . to be 1 o’clock. Th<rlTornado left a path of destruction,- the like of which has Selected, one for each twenty-five, . Following, his theological training! mem bers and one for a majority frac-, never been seen !n Abbevi Ue before, he began work in a city mission( tion thereof, based, upon the votes church in Kansas City, Mo., then was! polled in the first primary of the district superintendent in denomina-1 preceding election year. It is required! tional Sunday school and young peo ? .... . . Newberry Dispatch A tornado that ripped a path of -! that-the roll of delegates from each destruction through South Carolina pie’s work in Richmpndr^“Va’r , 'Tfe'tclu§' be handed to the county secre-j an d Georgia, »took considerable, toll served as pastor of the First Pres- j tar/ as delegates so elected become! > n Newberry county early Sunday byterian church in Ruston, La., fori ^g temporary roll call of the county; morning when three persons, all Ne- three years. In 1913 he accepted the! conven tion which will be held at the! groes, were killed, and numbers of pastorate of Evergreen Presbyterian I cour t house on Monday, the first of| otbers injured. Most ot . the injured church, Memphis, Tenn., and served | May. this congregation for 14 years. Inf Qualifications for membership in] 1927 He accepted a call to the Cen-! any c i u b are as follows: The appli-j tral church at Mobile, of which he, cant shall be twenty-one years of! is now pastor, and he ranks as one; age or shall become so before the. The city of Clinton for the fourth of. the- outstanding and beloved miri- j succeeding' general' election, shall he] a white Democrat and a citizen of] were Negroes. highly regarded in mothers—courage, morale, strength, patience, affection, kindness, understanding and home- consecutive year made the. National’ isters of the Alabama synod. He is Safety council’s honor roll last year ] chairman of the committee oh home for not having a single afitbmohile 1 missions • th • - both Mobile presbytefy jfatality during 1943, according^afo the< a _ n d the Alabama synod. He is a dis- | report just released-by -the National tinguished son of Thornwell and (Traffic Safety council of Chicago. ] Presbyterian college. (Compiled to date for information | qj jgg cities in“ the United States! Dr. Carpenter married Miss Linn away in i son of The Chronicles readers). jwith a population between 5.000 and j of Kentucky, who passed PROCESSED FOODS — Blue A8! 10,000, Clinton is the only city gain and world relationships. 4. Activity ] 10 Points each, for use with tokens, in community betterment, 5. A na-iGood indefinitely. making ability. 3. A sense of social]through K8 (book 4) now valid at ing the distinction from this state. Three tow;ns were listed, in North Carolina, Canton, Tarboro and Mount Airy. Each of the -towns making the honor roll will receive a certificate of commendation in recognition of -md 31 their work in the traffic safety field. A total of 1,297 cities and 48 states were entered in the various divisions of the contest. tural ability to make friends readily. The background of her children is some indication of the justice of the MEATS and FATS: Red A8 through M8 (book 4) now valid at 10 points each, for use with tokens. Good in award; Richard Simpson Dunlap, Sa- definitely. vannah, Ga„ patentee and owner of ..Dunlap Health service; Mrs. John B. Cooley, Arlington, Va., wife of army officer; Capt. Rufus Thornwell Dun lap, New Orleans, La.; James Hud gens Dunlap, electrical engineer, Sweegy, Texas; Mrs. Sarah Lee Mar tin, Greenville, teacher in Parker district; William Lee Dunlap, Wash ington, insurance agent; John Pluss Dunlap, .Southwest .Pacific, Seventh Cavalary; Mrs. Douglas Wolfe, ’Ar lington, Va., teacher of warrant offi cers; Mrs. Ella D. Nance, Mountville, teacher in Mountville high school; SUGAR: Sugar stamps 30 (book 4) good for five pounds in definitely. Sugar stamp 40 good for five pounds of canning sugar until February 28, 1945. SHOES: Stamp 18 (book 1) ex pires April 30. Airplane stamp 1 (book 3) valid indefinitely. Another shoe stamp, as yet to be designated, will become valid May 1. GASOLINE: 9-A, coupons expire May 8. Good for 3 gallons. the state and" the United ■ States. j | The first primary is scheduled for: ! August 29 and the second for Sep- ] tern be r 12, but Lt. Gov. Ransome J., I Williams has announced that he will] j submit to the state Democratic con- j ! vention at Columbia May 17 a pro- ! j posal that the first primary be held ] | July 25. ; Officers" of the City club elected: 11- 1936. He has a daughter, and now in military service/ A special invitation' is extended Dr. Carpenter’s friends and acquaint-1 two y ears a g ( > are; President, J. W ances in the city to hear him Sun-|^ ib,m: vice-president, Robert C. Me day. CITY ELECTION SET FOR JUNE At a meeting of the Clinton Demo cratic club held Friday evening at the high school, the following officers were elected to serve for the next Tire inspection: Regular tire in- ] two years: L. B. Dillard, president; County Peach Crop Practically Total Loss spections are not required after ’to- Walter Ewell Dunlap, Clinton, superbRetain tire inspection record for use in renewing supplemental gasoline rations.. intendent of farm at Thornwell- or phanage, and Robert Gordon Dunlap, Sumter, deputy collector of internal revenue. (Ages range from first born in 1895 to youngest in 1914; one daughter,] Ella Patfell Dunlap, died in infancy). , Mrs. Dunlap is a member of the H ue ^ D A R* chapter at Lauren* thel sugar the Washington OPA office is Civic league at Laurens, and the! conte m.P] a ting a change in the pro King’s Daughters. 1944 Canning Sugar Program Changed to the- supply situation^ in ,L. E. Bishop, vice-president; J Cornwall, secretary. One executive committeeman from each ward was elected as follows: Ward 1, I. B. Copeland; Ward 2, W. R. Pitts; Ward 3, G. ,W. Hollings worth; ward 4, J. B. Hart; Ward 5, Joe Terry; Ward 6, Roy Holtzclaw. ■ The: executive committee- is em powered to set machinery in motion fpr the city primary on the fourth Tuesday in June at. which time a The estimated $400,000 commercial ] peach crop of Laurens county is a} practical loss as a result of the re- j cent successive freezes, according to ] County Agent C. B, Cannon. There j may be a few peaches here and there, j he said, but there will not be enough] for shipment and not even enough! for local uses. The freeze and' frost] of the middle of March wiped out] about 85% of the crop, he said, and the low temperatures two weeks, ago about killed the rest. s | LeeS; secretary, James P. Sloan; ex- i ecutive committeeman, Jack H. Da- ! vis, Sr,; chairman of committee on i registration, L. B. Dillard. *Forty-two i delegates were elected to the county ! convention. • The club will meet, at 3 p.m, at the city hall building. MRS. ADA BELL WINGO DIES AT HER HOME . Several Clinton nurses and physi cians went to Greenwood to assist in treating the victims Mayor, Aldermen For Re-election The 'entire present city - adminis tration, including the mayor and six. alderman, officially announce their candidacy for re-election in today’s paper. ■ --2f |* Mayor P. S. Bailey, now complet ing ten years in office, will stand i for re-election. I In ward one, Hugh Ray. announces j for re-election. ] * In ward two, Pet B Adair offers : for re-election. » /. ! ' In ward three, J F. Jacobs an- j nounces he is seeking re-election. In ward four, F M Boland an nounces for re-election; j In ward five, C. O. (Uncle Bud) ■ Owens is standing for re-election, j In ward six,- J, W, Hedspeth j nounces for re-election. . an- SGT. BALDWIN GETS FLYING CROSS ANp AIR MEDAL Presbyterian Men To Meet Tonight The Men-of-the-Churph qf the First Presbyterian church will hold Laurens, April IS.-LMrs, Ada Bell Wingo, 74, widow of J. C. Wingo, died' at her home, Laurens,'Route 1, Tues-! day after several years of declining: health and a serious illness of two; Weeks. Until her health , failed she was a faithful member of Rocky , —^ Springs Presbyterian 'church and; Technical Sergeant Thomas E. was active in the woman’s auxiliary ] Baldwin, son of Mrs. W. C. Baldwin of that church. j and the late* Mr. Baldwin, has been She is survived by three daughters,, awarded the Distinguished Flying Mrs, C. D. Wood, Mrs. •K. W. McKit-, Cross in tht^European theatre of op- trick and Miss Maggie- Wingo; four! orations. inated for a two-year term. A few of her present and former interests outside the home include assistant home demonstration agent, member of committee on rural re habilitation, first president of the County Council of Farm Women, school trustee, superintendent of Sunday school, organist in church, and master farm home-maker. . Edgar W. Donnan Passes At Home Edgar Wells Donnan, 67,„ retired farmer of the Sandy Springs section of Laurens county, died at his home Monday hiQrning after a year of de clining health. He was the son of th^ late Napcy Goodwin and W. J. Don- gram, the local ration office an nounces They desire to'restrict is-, The reor g anizat i on meting was suance to a ceiling of 10 pounds P 6 !- ! attended by a small crowd with lit- person on the first application and|ti e interest manifested on the part then require proof that the five ] f ppunds on stamp 40 and the first 10 pounds on application were actually used for home canning before any portion of the second 10 pounds per person can be acquired. In anticipation of this possible change and in order to insure uni formity in issuance, all local boards will establish a ceiling of 10 pounds per person on the first application. . . sons, W. F., J. J., Pvt. R. M. and Cpl.! ! their 'April .meeting this evening at, R- H _ wingo; two sisters, Misses Ella , r% Might o clock in the church dining I and , 0ra Bell< and two brothers, W. mayor arid six aldermen will be nom- ] department. ‘The speaker w$l be Dr.; B and j w. C. Bell; also by U 'A. L. “Pickens, member of the col- j grandchildren. • ,. U h'S 6 faculty, ^j Funeral services will be held to-: ] day (Thursday) at 3 p.m. from Rocky j Baldwin has *Sgt. Baldwin is a gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress and already has-two .enemy planes to his credit. ’ The Distinguished Flying Crbssy.is awarded for heroism of "extraordinary achievement in aerial flight, Sgt. also received the- Air Clinton High Band t ! To Give Concert j The Clinton high school band, un der the direction of Miss Nettie Find-! ley, will present its spring concert bn Thursday evening, April 27, at 8 o’clock in the Florida Street school auditorium. The public is cordially invited. There will be ? no admission charge. At an organization meeting ot the! bounty Association nan and a member of the Sandy j Clinton Cold Storage and Locker ( TO Hold Meeting Springs Methodist chprch. j plant held Friday night, the follow-j , —— ; He is survived by two sisters, Miss-j ing board of directors was elected to] There will be a meeting of the of- es Emma and Mattie Donnan, Lau-j head the project for a term of one fleers and directors of the Laurens, rens; three brothers, R. J., J. R., ]year: R-. L. Plaxico, P. S. Bailey, W. j County Tuberculosis assdeiation Mon Directors Named For Local Locker Plant and T. W. Donnan, all of Laurens. Funeral services were held at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at; Sandy Springs church, conducted by the for ag charter. for the non-profit or- E! Bell, Ryan Lawson and James T. day, April 24, 'at the L^urfhs com- Addispn of Goldville. Th.e bpard will! munity hall at 8 p.m. proceed at once, it is stated, to apply ! Plans for the new year’s budget Rev. C. O. Bell. Interment followed in the church cemetery. ganization which is to serve this com munity. and projects will be outlinefi, it has been announced by the president, R. L. Plaxico, of this city. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! SO FAR THIS YEAR THERE HAVE BEEN O FATALITIES ■« firom AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Make 1944 a Safe Year On the Highways. This date, last year, 0 Springs Presbyterian church, con-] Medal, which is awarded fpr rneri- ducted by Rev. F. T. McQiil and Rev. ] torious achievement in aerial'flight. Hugh Hazel. Interment will be in the ; adjpining cemetery. and three oak leaf clusters Clinton High Bantt To Attend Clinic Toddy COUNTERFEIT GAS COUPONS IN COUNTY 1 ’Recent audits of ration bank ae-j Representatives of the Clinton high [counts covering 10 filling stations, m ; school band will take part m a spe- ! five counties in South Carolina with \(rial band clinic to be held in Green- a total deposit of 3,943 coupons, re- ville today J sponsored by the Q'reen- ; vealed 3,135, or approximately 80 ville senior high school band under fper cent to be counterfeit, atfcurdmg the direction of J. Marion Magiil. to the Columbia Office of Price ad-] Dr. Ernest Kanitz, director of mu- ministration. ~ ; -jsic at Erskine 'college, will be the 1- The stations involved were located guest conductor, for - '-the clinic. In in Georgetown, Richland, Greenville, eluded in the scheduled program are ;• Anderson and Laurens , counties, a broadcast over • station .AV'FBC at Three of the stations, operating in; 10:30 Friday nmrumg-.aud a public i Laurens county, were-found to have concert Friday, evening. ^ [ 1,513 total coupons -with 1,289 eoun-; . Miss Nettie Findley, director of‘the terfeit. local high band; and me -iu.L! nvrng ] OPA said the spurious coupons had, students will attend: Lawrence Bar- ] been printed illegally and 'were not! den, George Broekenbrbugh, Henry [printed by the government. It was Burton, James Chandler, John Coker, ] not a case of the coupons’ being i:r-; Bill Henry,’ Wyman Milam, Marian | regular, but they were actually coun- j Pitts, Alan Suddeth. Lucy Ami terfeit stamps. | Thomas and Grace Young. —\