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THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, (^ftiplete. Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume LXV r Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 12, 1945 Number 28 By-Passed Wake Not Forgotten KUKU Pt. FLIPPER P* WILKES WAKE IrEACOCK Mrs. W. T. Putnam Passes At Hospital Mrs. Anna Riddle Putnam, 65, wife of W. T. Putnam of this city, died j Tuesday afternoon at Hays hospital i where she had been a patient for a few days. The Announcement of her passing came as a great shock to her' many friends here and elsewhere. Funeral services were conducted! yesterday afternoon (Wednesday) at! 15:30 from the Gray Funeral Home, j j with the Rev. Walter N. Long offi- ; Iciating. Interment followed at Rose-' ! mont cemetery. A large gathering of friends and relatives attended the 1 last rites, with many beautiful floral | designs placed upon her mound as evidence of the love and high esteem i in which she was held. 1 Active pallbearers were Sterlin Young, R. L. Plaxico, Joe W. Leake, Harry League, S. A. Pitts and Roy Benjamin. Mrs. Putnam was a native of the Owings section of this county. She was the daughter of the late A. Sam uel and Emma Cheek Riddle. Brothers Meet In Germany Chamber of Commerce 600,000 TROOPS When the Allies by-passed Wake Island, they had no intention of leaving this group of islands In the hands of the Japanese. Recent reoorts indicate 1 that Allied activity Is again headed toward Wake and adjoining islands as shown on map above. Sweet Poison Proves Worth In Control Of Boll Weevils |Clinton Boy On Big Navy Carrier Japs Dared Not Meet C. B. Owens, of Owings, has dem-1 David C. Abercrombie, aviation onstrated this year the effect of 1-1-1 machinist’s mate, first class, of the sweet poison An control of the boll navy, of South Clinton, recently weevil. J. B. Williams, assistant learned how completely the Pacific county agent, checked Mr. Owens’ '— ' * 1 — * To Seek $5,000 For Post-War Projeds The Chamber of Commerce will make a drive today to raise $5,000 in J public subscriptions among the busi- | j ness men and property owners of the i community. Announcement of the icampaign was made by President |RatchfoiJ Boland at the quarterly | meeting of the club held Tuesdaj ; evening. RETURNING HOME BY AIR FROM EUROPE' ^ I • Air Transport Command At Casablanca Doing Big Business. By PA I'Ll\E FREDERICK. Special War Correspondent „ „ , , Casablanca.—I have just ieen Ca>- *°L^ a8< ? U * - h ! S ., bee . n : ; ^ ame ^ J* ablanca beginning to unfold the big gest story since V-E day This an cient'Moroccan city, where American boys came ashorei in November, 1942. >f the Western world, where Roosevc'Tt andjfhurch- ' nance worthy projects sought for,^ where , am slaying (or tw „ Clinton projects now being under-; conllnuing on ^ Far taken, with foremost emphasis on g as t ; chairman of the drive, with a num- 1 ber of members from the organiza- ition to assist with today's canvass. ! The object of the campaign Mr to start {he ]lberatlon : Casque said, is to raise $a,0001 i through public subscriptions to «-| nl me( j amlary 1M3 in Anfa underway for some become the gateway home for 600.- 000 American boys who fought the war in Europe. Converted bombers with loads of in a fourmotored C-54, has just vr, o uiivjci w njr lyji auiiic uiwc , y. Major Walter B. Todd and Capt. i secure- a veterans hospital in this Sloan Todd, sons of Mr. and Mrs. community. President Boland states J. Reed Todd of this city, met for a | that the money raised will be ear- „ _ _ _ , t short visit on June 1 in Bamberg, i marked for these special efforts and Mrs. Putnam had been a Clinton Germany Ma j or Todd is with the 8th win not be used for 0 p erating ex _ American soldiers fly in from Eu- resident^ for a^ nunaber of ^years.^She j n j an ^ r y re giment, 4th Infantry di- 1 penses of the organization.. . ; ropo- Every six minutes a C-54 starts j i vision, 1 and has been overseas 18 A number of towns and cities in home W1 th a load Of American vet erans. When they get back home, whether they stay there ore go on to the Pacific is a matter with which was a devoted member of the First Baptist church of this city, and an months. Capt. Todd is with the 745th the state have raised funds for post active member of the James B. Par- Field Artillery battalion and has been war projects in their communities, rott chapter of the Order of the East ern Star. Her life was characterized cotton for weevil infestation and sev eral fields in the neighborhood where no poison had been applied. The results showed three fields of Mr. Owens where one application of 1-1-1 was made before squares form ed and one additional application made one week la\er with no trace of weevils. In another field ontyr one pre-square poison application . was made, and it showed a slight infesta tion. Weevils were seen in fields be fore poison was applied. In the same community, four cot ton fields of neighbors were checked. No poison had been used and infes tation ran from 10 per cent to 30 per cent. has been transformed -into an Amer- overseas six months. W T hen they met The similar campaign now to be . on this occasion they had not seen J launched here will enable the Cham-! this 15356 ' s no * Concerned^ The Air by gentleness and kindness, and by eac h other in slightly over two years, ber of Commerce to effectively carry Transport Command’s sole concern at her many admirable traits of charac-j Word was received this week t hat 'on its work during the post-war pe-1 Casablanca is to get the boys back ter she made and held a wide circle Ma j or Todd has j ust arrived in the'riod for the promotion of the com-; 35 35 P osslt >le. of friends, all of whom will join with States and expects t0 b e home soon; munity’s interests. It is hoped that I I talked with Brigadier General me family m mourning ner aeatn. for a i eave n j s expected that Capt. t* 56 canvassers will receive a hearty Stowell. commanding general of the Besides her husband, Mrs. Putnam T dd will r main j Germany for (response in this worthy effort. Air Transport Command's North Ai ls survived by two daughters, Mrs 1 ^ _ J. R. McTeer of Aiken, and Mrs. John A. Seay of Atlanta; three sisters, Mrs. ! Ralph Copeland of Clinton, Mrs. | some time. ican duck pond when his ship, one Alice R. Cofer of Greenville, and Three County Roads In State Letting South Carolina’s road building program, halted by the war, will be resumed July 24 when sealed bids for contracts involving 280 miles of hardsurfacing will be opened of the navy’s mightiest carriers, steamed toward the Jap homeland, knocked on the door — and got no answer. Belated antiaircraft fire greeted the carrier’s planes when they struck the key Jap naval air station at Kanoya in southern Kyushu, but not a Jap dared take to the air or to the sea to meet the American challenge. The carrier’s initiation into the combat area had long been awaited by her crew and captain. That something was in the wind was indicated by the massed car riers, . battleships, cruisers and de stroyers churning up the Pacific. Ab ercrombie and the other crewmen checked battle gear and wrote thoughtful letters home, but for the most part they went about their tasks as usual. They shined shoes, Mrs. T. B. McGimpsey of Charlotte; two brothers, C. Rhett Riddle of Spartanburg, and Claude A. Riddle of Vicksburg, Miss.; and two grand children. Lakeside Country Club Elects New Officers At the meeting held during the week of the Lakeside Country club, A. I. (Gus) Mason, of Laurens, was elected president for the coming year, and C. W. Anderson, of this city, vice-president. The two officers with R. C. Adair of this city,-and B. A. Dukes, P. O. Campbell and W. R. Richey, of Laurens, compose the board of directors. Archie Clark, of 1 this city, was elected as secretary, succeeding Carl Pfc. James Reid Wins Citation In China Chairman Gasque stated yesterday! rican division—who has charge of that the following five committees this task—it's called the Green Pro- have been named to make the can- ject. He’s done a lot of important vass: - :jobs—such as getting the VIPs—very , No.—Tom Addison, chairman,' important people — through to the Lynn Cooper, L. W. Bullock. _. _ TI , j No. 2 — L. E. Bishop, chairman, Pfc. James H. Reid, son of Mr. and c c Glles Mrs B F Wl ngard. No. 3- Mrs. Charles H. Reid. Rt. 2, Clinton, recently received a written commen dation from Brig. Gen. William H. Tunner, commanding general of the -D. B. Smith, chairman, Roy Gasque, Ratchford Boland No. 4—H. L. Eichelberger, chalr- „ . „ .man, R. N. Blackwelder, J. Isaac air transport commands India-China lCopeland B Hubert Boyd division, for his part in an emergency | No . 5_ c w Anderson, chairman, movement, “one of the most impor-j L Mac Adair, W. Roy Pitts, tant special projects ever to be car- i a ried out by that division of the ai r I. . transport command. Lutherans Celebrate The exact location and nature of|T WAn + w f«ffk AnniuAroMrw the movement, which took Pfc. Raidi 1 Wenty-tlttn.Anniversary from his base in China on a tempor- stole brief naps, tried to bribe extra | Davis » of Laurens, resigned. Frank pie from the baker or merely sat E - Templeton, superintendent of the property for a number of years, was also re-elected by the directors around and talked. On the morning of June 8 things _ began to happen. The call for “gen- Included in the lettings are three |eral quarters” brought men racing to LaUTCnS Pastor projects in Laurens county: |battle stations. Plane captains okayed!. *. n J c J Route 39—bituminous surfacing of j the planes which had been earmarked mStOlled jUflCay 8.34 miles from Route 225 to Route to protect the fleet overhead while 25. Route 101—bituminous surfacing of 6.48 miles from Enoree river to Gray Court- Laurens-Spartanburg counties, Route 30—bituminous surfacing of 9.20 miles from Laurens to Route 92. Revival Services At Grove Church Holly others dropped visiting cards on Kyushu. Lookouts sdanned the horizon, gun ners hugged' their cannon, flight deck crews put-putted around in tiny gas oline jalopies attending to last min ute details and plane directors coax ed the Hellcats into the air. Revival services at Holly Grove Baptist church near here began Mon day evening at 8:30 and will con tinue through the week. Services are being conducted by the pastor, Rev. Walter N. Long, of this city, with the public cordially invited. Davis Sells Peach Crop To Cannery Jack H. Da^is, Sr., has sold his entire Elberta peach crop to a large canning concern in Tennessee. The 1 fruit will be moved from the or chards beginning this week by trucks to the packing plant. Mr. Davis states that he will do no shipping this sea son. returned and the sun set. But not a single Jap had ventured in to look over Uncle Sam’s crushing navy power. vealed. Yalta conference But he's never had a bigger mission than this one. He told me that by August the ATC would be carrying home 40,000 bo; > a month out of Casablanca. Here is how the project works as I saw it at first hand. I went out to the airfield this afternoon. It is a single strip more than a mile long, wrtn used French and American fighter stacked up along the sides As I saw the great amount of traffic with the planes going and coming I marveled the more at our skillful crew which brought our big ship with the 110- foot wing span in which we. had „ | St. John’s Lutheran church of this,. ..... ary duty assignment, was not ^ a pp ropriately celebrated its 2 5th Atlantlc from Bermuda t > i the Azores and 15 minutes down The commendation said: “This emergency movement was completed on schedule in spite of many adverse factors and under the most trying circumstances. As one of a small; group of men at anniversary Sunday with special ser- here in all the traffic. The car :n Hours went by, finally the planes Hions. Dr. D. J. Woods, of this city, vices both morning and evening; which were largely attended by! uhic ” * was nc * !n 6 dodged in ar. i members of the congregation andj^V^ *° a '°^ Soing and coming plan,* friends. ,lke an ant tr y in 8 to keep'out of the In the morning the Rev. J. Le-1 wa / a eagles during thej Grande Mayer, a , former pastor, oc- . A B-17 rolled up in a cloud of sand movement your contribution to this, cupied the p U j pit Mr Mayer is now' that must have 1)6611 something like exceptional record was indeed note-, Dastor of th Redeemer Lutheran a minor storm in the Sahara. For worthy. | church, Charieston M the e!enmg ! * having its worst drouth in “The success of this mission re- service another former pastor, Rev.! y6ars - Antl t,Vle fam ine that threatens suited in a break in the Jap lines and|M. R. Wingard, pastor of Emmanuel! h 0 ^ 5, in the opinion of seasoned ob- the possible saving of a strategic air Lutheran church, Greenwood, was | serV6rs in Casablanca At the Anfa base for the Allied air forces. You the guest minister. The liturgist for hotel the water an d electricity are may take great pride in this blow both services was the pastor, Rev. j 1 turned off until six o’clock at night that has been dealt the enemy.” j Shelton Moose. As ^ motors of the big B-17 came Pfc. Reid has been in the army St. John’s was organized in 1920 ; to a halt * sunburned and weary vet- since May 22, 1943, and overseas with a charter membership of 21,| erans ^ om Laly piled out. They had Dr Marshall W Brown nrp t idpnt i sin66 Ma y 20 . Since he arrived i and the first service held in ;he; 5660 ^mg on seat, where turret ! at his Chnia base he has been work-' Methodist church here on July 21, guns had once b66 n. Their baggage ing as a cargo supervisor in charge 1921. The church since its organiza-1 wa5 stowed in the bomb bays. Over of one of the groups of Chinese cool- tion has been served by five pastors, I the door of tlieir sil ver ship was ies who unload the giant transport the late Dr. James D. Kinard, the ipainted “Home Bound Airlines" The Rev. Tom C. Cook was in stalled Sunday morning as pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Laurens by a commission from South j Carolina Presbytery of Presbyterian college, presided and propounded the constitutional ques- RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) American Legion Elects New Officers On Tuesday the local Copeland- Davidson post, American Legion, elected the following officers to serve for one year: Commander, R. P. Chapman. Vice Commanders, J. Dewey Mills, George W. Bagwell and Garey G. Hooper. Adjutant, Minfred Norris. Finance Officer^ Joe L. Davidson. Chaplain, Rev. D. C. Gregory. Historian, F. M. Stutts. Service Officer, Vernon Trammell. charged the minister. Other mem bers of the commission taking part in the service were Rev. Fred Har mon of Laurens, and Elder Ernest Milton of Birmingham, Ala. Rantin Again Heads State Rural Carriers H. D. Rantin. of this city, was re elected president of the South Caro lina Rural Letter Carriers’ associ ation at the conclusion of the asso ciation’s 42nd annual meeting held in Columbia Friday. Mr. Rantin has been an active leader in the work of the organization for a number of years. Niles C. Clark, of Waterloo, was re-elected secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. Clark was re-elected president planes which come over the famed late Dr. A. J. Bowers, Mr. Wingard, Himalayan "hump” from India with! Mr. Mayer and Mr. Moose, who en- vital war material for Allied forces | tered upon ; the work in January, fighting in China. 11944. In addition to the Good Conduct i i m medal, the Presidential Unit citation. x T LI and the Asiatic-Pacific theater rib- '▼•OOSC 10 I GOCn m bon, Pfc Reid wears the Bronze Ser- Camp In Pennsylvania vice Star. r ' Local People Attend Opportunity School Sergeant at Arms, Harvey L. Fos- 1 of the auxiliary of the Rural Letter ter. Child Welfare'Chairman, Frank H. Simpson. Athletics Chairman, C. E. Gallo way. Americanism Chairman, R. E. Sad- (Compiled to c^ite for information ler. Carriers association. of The Chronicle's readers). , PROCESSED FOODS: BLUE STAMPS T2, U2, V2, W2, X2 now valid, expire July 31; Y2, Z2, Al, Bl, ''Cl now valid, expire August 31; Dl, El, FI, Gl, HI now valid, expire Sep tember 30^ Jl, Kl, LI, Ml, N1 now valid, expire October 31. t/ MEATS, AND FAT'S: RED STAMPS K2, L2, M2, N2,' P2 now valid, expire July 31; Q2, R2, S2, T2, U2 now valid, expire August 31; V2, R2, $2, T2, U2 now valid, expire Sep tember 31; Al, Bl, Cl, pi, El now valid, expire October 31. ^ SUGAR: Stamp 36, good tor 5 lbs., expires August 31. | .1 * SHOES: Airplane stamps l^, 2 and 3 now valid. New sho^ stynp be comes valid August 1. i, FUEL OIL: Periods 1, 2,^3, 4, 5 Valid for 10 gallons each. Period 1 "ociupoh (new season) v/nit \jplue, 10 gallons. GASOLINE: A-16 coupons valid through September 21. ^ 1 ']" • Among those present at the meet- irtg were Captain Jack H. Davis, Jr., recently discharged from the army after service in Africa aad Italy, and, Lt Robert M. Vanee, serving with 1 the hayy, both of whom told of their' war activities. \ - ON SCOUT STAFF Bobby Owens, of local Scout Troop 111, has been appointed on the staff of counselors at,Camp Old Indian for Boy Scouts of the Blue Ridge coun- cil. ’Home Bound Around the door were names of the eight cities this now peaceful ship had bombed — Berlin I. Vienna III, Verona II, Salzburg II, Belgrade II. and so on. The ships without the I turret guns carry 15—the others 10. | I talked with several of the boys as : they got off. One was husky Elzy j Youngkin, T-5. of Monroe, Iowa. | The Rev. J. Shelton Moose, pastor J ^ ^ iof St. John’s Lutheran church, will i ^ ^ (leave Sunday evening to be gone for „ cuj d, S ,w. , klr , Then there 130 days. Mr. Moose has been selectedw^had h Ch f h rl0t ^ by the Lutheran Parish Education I £ ,n 1 the34t ^ The state’s annual Opportunity board to attend Camp Nawakawa, a : Milan He’s been school opened Monday at Columbia Lutheran camp-school located near and when he ret - h rt * Vf m on,.r. N college with more than 200 persons Gettysburg, Pa. While at Cm»p in attendance. Miss Wil Lou Gray. iniNawakawa he will teach a class of , be b ‘ b ‘ ‘ 0 "'. charge of the school, announced that y° un g adults and act as an instructor i rrvnriv f 'tv, " ' f ' nr '‘ 17 students from this county are at-> the camp. “ n>an5 ' ot ,hem "* ' M < tend.ng the school and 12 boys will Tb e services of St. John's church Tbe pilot- . attend .Camp Opportunity to open-will be continued every'Sunday in tical -bins do n it July 19 at Kings Mountain. tb e pastor's absence at 11 a m. and < Those attending the school from will be conducted by President Karl Clinton are Ellen Blackwell, Ruby W. Kinard of the Lutheran synod,-44 2 I T C l Nell Russ and Lavonia King. The and students from the Lutheran sem- •▼\CUani6l I 0 bpCak camp will be attended by Harold inar y in Columbia,. A*. rL lirr L Ross, James W Glenn. Jr.. James Wr . Moose will return to the city wupnai v,nurin Harrison and Lawrence Kuykendall! a b°ul August 15. Mrs. . Moose and these converted even report to (Continued on page seven) from here. Federal Offices Closing Earlier -1 In line with President Truman’s directive that government offices go | on a 44-hour week, the Clinton war price and rationing board,;and the; U. S. Employment service offices are; now open only a half day on Satur day. The ration board hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, Thurs day and Friday, and 9 a.m. to noon on/Wednesday and Saturday. The employment office hours are 8:30 to 5:30 through Friday, 8:30 to 12:30 on Saturday. A LOCAL 1, NEWSPAPER '■ You will find more news items in THE CHRONICLE About friends and relatives you are interested in than in any other newspaper pub lished. x / THE CHRONICLE is truly a lo cal newspaper — like a letter from home. If not a member of our family of readers, list your subscription today. ‘The Favorite Family Newspaper” Have the Newsy CHRONICLE in Your Home All Subscriptions Payable In Advance in ° n Sunda - V 6V6 ning, July 15, at 8 !o’clock. Joe C. McDaniel will -pea* J a t the First Baptist church on ‘Th* \No^k of a Lay-Chaplain m a C»- - • m^n Prison Camp."' Jot- as he; , affectionately known in Clint.'-, ( served a* a lay-chaplain for m : • —.—a — , « , than 8<i() Amertvan The FBI National academy, which during hif 27 months serves as the West Point of law en- Thi- ! small son will visit relatives Branchville while he is away- 1 Officer Blakely To Finish At FBI School war prisoners “if -■ •••vii-Ji.- impnsonrfieh: is prjomises to be an mterestihj forcement, will observe its tenth an- and ^relpfal message, and the pub! ' niversay with the graduation fjj! tWe; is invited to hear him on this occa- twenty-nipth sessioi) at W’ashmgtdh ,.sion. on*July 21. according to an anno^iHcfite m rnent made by Edward Scheidt, spe- Rpyjvnl Mppfinn Af cial agent in charge of the Charlotte "fleering AF ;office of the Federau Bureau of HurriCOne Church .Investigation. j — ■ ♦ Numbered among tho«e police offi- The annual revival meeting *4 the cefs who will receive diplomas are Hurricane Baptist 1 church will begin William B. Blakely of the Clinton Sunday afternoon at 3 30 and will j police department. Mr. Blakely and | continue through Friday evening, j other officers concluding the present The week-night services will be held session of the academy were selected at 8:30 with the pastor. Rev. W N from 78 law enforcement agencies in Long, doing the preaching The pub- 30 states and the Panama Canal lie is cordially invited to attend th-s zone. series of services.