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W* THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Mewsp^iper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Hi f Volume LXV Clinton, S. C., Thursday, August 2, 1945 If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Number 31 I Yanks Shell Japan at Will YELLOW SEA EAST . CHINA SEA /*400MI. 350 Ml - /* # /.• V/ OKINAWA 1C MOSA SIR’S UNDERWAY TO MOVE JOANNA N , MILLS TO CHICAGO ""I ♦ Plans for Extensive En largement of Goldville Corporation Also Aban doned, Official States. Soil Conservation , Work In County ■> Covers 86,400 Acres The ^semi-annual report of the ' Laurens County Soil Conservation jdistrict-indicates that .great strides! have been made in soil conservation 1 in the county since its organization | five years ago, according to D. F. | Patterson, chairman of the board of district supervisors. Duing that time, j |467 conservation farm plans have W. t. ANDERSON, JR.. TO HEAD SCHOOLS ' ‘v Woodruff Superintend ent To Succeed Hobson, Resigned, Effective August 16. W. R. Anderson. Jr., superintend- PEACE TALK GROWS AS ALLIES POUND JAPAN WITH BOMBS Surrender.Now or Invite Total Destruction, Enemy Told. Pointed up by the Big Three dis- in Berlin. Japanese talk: been prepared, covering a total of ent of the Woodruff schools, has been ! 86 410 acres elected superintendent of the Clinton cussions The Joanna Textile Mills company, ’ r rotations city schools effective August-16, sue- continued,, to stir the Allied world of Goldville, is contemplating »o»- 1 ^ «?»Jg eeeding Pat H. Hobson, resigned, ef- even as (he f S fleet with British jing its operations to Chicago and 4 f ronstructine terraces ' fective August 15 The announcement detachments roamed up and down engineers are now in the process of ^ t V / hl - ^°J S ’ ^^tr u ct g ' was made yesterday by the board of the jagged coastline of the enemy : making an estimate of the cosf in- establishing meadow strips, pasture J homeland to join the air forces in ! volved, it was revealed by William improvement, planting trees, -con- ^e.. i A. Moorhead, vice-president and structing farm ponds and setting out Mr. Anderson general manager of the company, P 1 ^ 5 and shrubs for wildlite Friday night in an address before; Conservation fdrming es constant- ! the Clinton Lions club. 1 ^ Z*'™* Practical recognition in ! Laurens county, Mr. Patterson says. More and more farmers are realizing the dangers of erosion and are estab- In the boldest nav#l action of the war, units of the U. S. Pacific fleet steamed into the Jap front yard and for the first time tossed tons of shells from heavy warships into a Jap city. The target was Kamal- shi strategic steel-producing center on Honshu. More than 1,000 car rier planes swarmed over northern Honshu and Hokkaido and, unchal lenged by Jap aircraft, blasted enemy installations. Map shows the U. S. base at Okinawa in relation to Japan. 1 laying down a devastating fire. is . no stranger in> ^ ^ Clinton. He was principal of the local Inspired shortly after Germany s . i collapse by reports that Japanese , business interests had sounded out f>the United jStates on possible terms, and quickened by President Harry S. Truman’s definition of uncondi tional surrender as an* opportunity for the common people to throw off (the militaristic yoke and return to normal pursuits, the peace talk gain ed further momentum by speculation 'that Premier Stalin had brought enemy proposals to Berlin. In the welter of peace talk, the Sydney Sun of Australia declared that "the end of the war may come (with dramatic suddenness," and ,Capt. E. M. Zachanas of the U. S. Inavy. speaking for the government, called upon the Japanese leaders to .give up now or risk total destruction ! of their country. With Japan’s great industrial cen ters in blackened ruins, her princi pal sea ports bombed out, her inter nal Communications ruptured threat ening food as well as military trans port, and the Allied fleets tightening, a blockade of the isolated homeland, WILLIAM RAY ANDERSON, JR. Nipponese leaders have publicly bushels nf neaches in Greenwood , 7’“"’,/' /'7" . .r. 'pany lu 'juiuviuc—an ui jjjat.a that nas Deen ma de. mere is a oasis . ! proclaimed that the country faces the and Laurens counties durinK the oast If’ '° Ca chalr ? la " the < j lothl "® i have been abanddned. jtor hope, however, that in the years hl 2 h school tor 11 years, resigning greatest crisis ot its history, toree Ss S L many M 200 “.‘‘'''k,"” 0 TT** P i •' the °P« a >‘°ns «» «» Goldville to con T e r e ck ie ss soil exploitation in this position ,n May 1939. to become Despite the dominance ot conser- j_:i i_ it public yesterday. 'company are moved, Mr. Moorhead county-district will be a thing ofi su P er ‘ n t endent °t the Woodruff vatives in the Japanese government | Mr. Moorhead’s statement con- j firmed rumors that had been preva lent in this area for several weeks practice s designed to prevent that such a move was bei^con- and toVmaintain so^-fcrtiJit^} sidered. ’ | D ur i n g the past planting season, i Mr. Moorhead said the decision to 94 county farmers planted 892 acres move the machinery and operations 1 of ser i rea an d 54 farmers planted 303 1 ! of the company rested entirely with acres o{ k uc jzu. This gives a total of W. H. Regnery, of Chicago, president approximately 3,500 acres of sericea of the Goldville concern, and who an( j 1 sof) acres of kudzu established also heads the Western Shade Cloth on fprms in the county. These peren- i [company of Chicago, where a bleach- nia i s - wi u a ff 0 rd an abundance of . ery and finishing plant js operated, g oof i hay and grazing from land that fusing cloth made in the Goldville was bringing in little or no returns plant to make window shades. ; t0 ;he farms. In addition, fewer gul- i These plans by the Goldville con- jjes will be formed and less topsoil cern. Mr. Moorhead stated, also will be washed from the fields, 'caused the abandonment of an ex- ; The district supervisors realize i pansion program to cost $1,300,000, jhat their program for establishing blue prints, for which already had kudzu and seicea on the 30,Q00'acres ...... ' . been completed, plus Mr. Regnery’s 0 f j^ig bind in the county is sound Clothing contributed by the Amer- prev j ous decision to move his Chi- 1 and constructive and a big step to- ican people will reach millions of war ;cag0 b i each ery to Goldville. and the ward a permanent agriculture. at the POW camp at the Coronaca ‘J '"'I*™* ° f ^ “ The baUle ^ ainsl eroslon haS army air base off the Clinton-Green- ; KaTse nationaTJhaSaiTf the Unit-' pl f nt ’ t thU ? brin r g i ng ^ ^ be 6un,’’ Mr. Patterson said, "de wood highway, have picked 75,4791 ^ c^^ngconecboTFrankE Mi | teXt ‘ le , ° f ^ c ^-,.spite the not inconsiderable progress . . . L__. ea Liouung collection, franx Miii-| pany t0 Goldville—all of which plans' that has bee n made. There is a basis Germon Prisoners Pick 73332-Bushels Peaches In County + German prisoners of war interned Used Clothing Drive Praised By Kaiser prisoners working daily in orchards in the two counties, according to fig ures released this week by Capt. Clark Sanderlon, commanding offi cer of the prisoner of war camp at the base. Of the total, 2,165 bushels were picked in Greenwood county, the The report included a statement 1 s t a ted, the mill buildings, land and i lbe Das t v President Truman that the local. i * by President Truman that the local |houses of the community — which clothing collection committees in make up one of the finest mill viU . schools. ages in the South—will be sold. The investment of the company in its Goldville plant — land, mill buildings, machinery, houses for workers, water, light and sewerage facilities—is estimated at $4,000,000. The company has an annual pay roll of $2,000,000, and employs 1,100 Mr. Patterson invites farmers who! Mr. Anderson is a graduate of America “have rendered a service to world peace.” President Truman added: “By meeting and exceeding their goal of 150,000,000 pounds of cloth- majority of these being picked from jing, the American people have ac- the orchards of Dr. H. B. Morgan, j complished the task assigned to them Capt. Sanderlin pointed t>ut that the' by Franklin D. Roosevelt in a cause air base contracted with the Green-1 that was close to hi« heart. It is good workers ” The general” aVerage of wood County Farm Labor association j to know that the clothing is now on; mi ji s sbows that for one worker for the use of the prisoners and they its way overseas to relieve the suffer- there are two additional members of were sub-let to various orchard own- mg of war victims in Europe and the a f am jiy a t home, thus there are ers - , Fa I,, East ' „ ! 3,300 people dependent upon the Jo- The other 73,332 bushels wer e| The report from Mr. Kaiser point-1 anna company for a livelihood, Mr. picked in Laurens county on eleven , ed out that the first large shipments j Moorbea( j sai( j orchards: A. Dial Gray, Rex Lan- of contributed clothing left America ', The company operates 90.000 spin- ford, C. W. Madden, W. G. McDaniel, for war-devastated lands within 30 jw ? 4no Hnnmc Its statp and Dr. E. B. Gray, Carroll D. Gray, Mrs. j days after the campa.gn ended. jaunty tax paymems totaf $80,000, Doothy Gray, M. K. Setzler, Yancey ‘ The clothing will go to the follow-j Mr Moorhead stated. E. Poole, E. J. Coggins and Jack H.ling countries in varying amounts:^ While giving no assurance that Mr. France, p e g ner y wou id change his mind and Eboa ' s are interested in getting conserva tion practices established on their headed by General Suzuki, however, the enemy has intensified its efforts to carry on the war through the complete mobilization of the popu lation and its resources, undoubtedly with the intention of obtaining the Presbyterian college and was prin cipal of the Luverne, Ala., high farms to contact J. B. O’Dell, coo- school for two years, 1923-25. In servationist of th§ district, with of- J1928 he was elected principal of fices in Laurens. Information may' Clinton high school and held the po- ^ best terms possible. ' also be obtained from the county sition until he went to Woodruff six) Having fought hard through the fe agent’s office or from district super-|years ago. While residing here he Pacific, and especially so on Iwo visors. was a member and officer of the Jima and Okinawa where an elab< - First Baptist church, the Chamber of rate new defensive system of ca\e \A/k’* a C f Commerce and Kiwanis club and warfare was tried out at heavy c ; t Yrnltes AT© jcnr ^ ook an active part in the religious, to the attackers, the Japs now pt - Pqj- PrC-InduCtion educational, civic and social life of pose to carry the same kind of battl * ! the community. His many friends to the homeland itself, with a civii- The following twenty white selec-,^ 11 lear , n Wlth interest that he and ian t h ° me guard of 35 ' 0 ^ 0 ’ 0 ^ ba n c n kin » es were sent to Fort Jackson by thei Hls famil y are to return to the c,t y- , up J be h r ! ?gular ^ of 4 V 000 ' 000 With Japanese plans of a purely tees were sent to Fort Jackson by local draft board on July 26 for pre induction physical examination: W’alker Owens, Anderson. Eddie Lee Price, Goldville. William Otis Davenport, Ware week with his family in Burnsville, Mr. Hobson came to Clinton four! years ago from York to head the defensive nature despite tamiiiar 1 local schools, succeeding W. E. Monts,' brand new secret weapons 1 resigned. He is out of the city this desl «^ d W 'P<* °“t the invaders at a single stroke, etc., Jnd with the N. C„ and could not be reached yes-1 U ‘ S f P° ss€ssing a tremendous su periority in armament and material. Davis. ! Belgium, Czechoslovakia, The Drisoners were D3id their us- Greece Italy the PhiliDDines Yufio-i x f* ^ u* i^i David Wright Garrett, Greenville, terday for a statement as to his fu- K ~ 1 1,1 t,l,u hkiiliivii ine prisoners were paiu uieii u» uieere, iiai^, me r-iiuippines, i ugu not moV e his Goldville company to; _ „ r , , T /-t . „ . i u u . i _i American spokesmen have sought t( ual wages, 80 cents per day, for their s.avia, China, Russia. Chicago, Mr. Moorhead said simply _ eorge , r . an in . X a ’ in t ur V P ans - • e as .* . 1 . imnress unon the enemv that the^ thae he hoped he would not do so. Mr. Moorhead said Mr. Regnery labor, with the prevailing wages of 7 cents per bushel being paid to the government for the labor. The farm ers furnished transportation for the prisoners and the government fur nished them with food and water. According to the figures released by Captain Sanderlin, the prisoners, who picked a quota of 40 bushels per day per man, worked a total of 1882.4 man days over the three week perior, at a profit, exclusive of food, of over $2 per day per man to the government. A computation of the figures shows that an average of 100.7 prisoners per day were engaged in picking the unusually heavy crop of peaches this year in this county. Draft To Call 100,000 Monthly Until July, 46 Indianapolis, July 28.—Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey said here today j that selective service will continue to draft men after V-J day. General Hershey said the neces sity for maintaining strong occupa tion forces on two continents after V-J day would mean the continuation of drafting in order to replace men who are eligible for discharge under the point system. “We plan to continue drafting 100,000 men a month until July, 1946," the draft director asserted. “Of course we could cut that if the war should end before then.” He added that he believed the high draft rate would be contihued through the County Ships 236 Cars of Peaches Laurens county commercial peach growers shipped by rail 236 cars of fine peaches, which is by far the largest shipment in its peach history. A conservative estimate of $261,800 has several reasons for desiring to move the company to Chicago, • the first of which was the refusal of the South Carolina tax commission to accept a certain method of inventory of cotton on hand for tax purposes, which is used by the federal govern ment. Mr. Moorhead said that Mr. Reg Francis Howard Brannon, Gold-! with the city's civic life during his! ' mpUs ' upon .^ be * m m y t b* ,t they certainly could expect no easier S. than if they gave up ville. 'residence here as a member of the!. , , Clarence Edward Neal, Rt. 3, Clin-jChamber of Commerce, Kiwanis club ! __ rr ?^_ a , T er J n .J 1 um eavy * 05se> ton. and First Presbyterian church. Edward Benjamin Holbert, Rt. I, 1 ^ Clinton. ■ A James Nathan Wright, Clinton. iLOWSOfl AfinOUIlCCS was realized from the crop. These figures do not include peaches sold i nery followed closely the proceed- as orchard run nor cull peaches, | j n g s 0 f ^ be South Carolina legislature which would total several thousand j and expressions of views of its mem bers. During the past session of the lawmakers when a certain bill was before the group doubt was express ed as to its constitutionality. Some members are reported to hive said, “Regardless of whether it is consti tutional or not, we’re going to pass it”—and the bill did pass. Mr. Moorhead said Mr. Regnery, became alarmed at such an attitude In the absence of the pastor, Dr. jon the part of members of the legis- W. R. Turner, the pulpit of the First! lature, who had sworn to uphold the Presbyterian church will be occupied! constitution of the state when they I more. Many families in the county have taken advantage of the peach, crop by canning or storing in freezer lockers for home needs. Presbyterians To Have Guest Ministers Homer Manley Dunaway, Clinton. I John Franklin Etters, Rt. 2, Clin-' UK,n5 V * 0fTimi _ C5 ton. Richard Martin O’Dell, Warei c Shoals. ensuing year wer on the U. i now. Still on friendly terms with the Japs despite the recent abrogation of their non-aggression pact, Russia I assumed a key position in the re ported peace talk with the speeula- Committees to fiead the various; tion that Stalin bore Nip terms to activities of the Lions club for the Berlin. Even William John Allen Hellams, Lau- I— as tbe Big Three sat announced by;down for their historic discussions 'President Ryan F. L^son at a meet- embracing the remaking of Europe evening. jas well' as the Pacific war, a high Soviet spokesman in Londan averred ling of the club Friday th the first, They are as follows, named bei»st—t»fa«^u^inan:,p* ’ i that the Reds would be willing to Attendance: T. E%A0dison, Lewis; !, ra ^ d T a " y ge _ n J U ‘I!f_ 4 Ja t pan * se offer Pitts, L. W. Cooper. to the U. S., and that Russian par- rens. John Jasper Edge. Clinton. James Calvin Greene,* Jr., Gold ville. John West Coker, Clinton. John Stamey Navy, Jr., Clinton. Robert Lee Franklin, Kinards. Billy Eugene Sheffield, Clinton. Bobby Forrester Spoone, Rt. 1,, » *». v*. »»«t.-, Clinton. Son. J. A. Gateway. axamst Germany James Monroe Dominick, of Rt. 3. Publicity: Harry X. Layton, B. O. ! s me, time. President Ttu- Newberry, was inducted tintp service Whitten. Brooks Owens. a VVa5 re P‘' rtetl to Program: J. B. Hart, Archie Clark, ticipation in the far eastern conflict w pj £ ell would haye to be carefully weighed Finance:'W.X. Neely, R. G. Wat-;.'"^ losses suffered !son, J. A. Galloway. at Fort Jackson or> the same date. during August by visiting ministers. Next Sunday the morning services will be conducted by Rev. R. T. Gil lespie of Nashville, Tenn. RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (ORA) , took office. I REA Funds Provided These developments, Mr. Moorhead j r * I ' said, started Mr. Regnery to figur-|YOr LrOUnty Lines ing. It is his contention that the national wage, and hour law makes the Chicago area and Goldville equal as to labor costs. In setting up the plant in Chicago no village or homes for workers would be required—and maintenance of the village at Gold was reported to have borne Lions Education: Roy Casque, S Y. A ™ r ‘ can ^ *rm S for the con- J M ’ sideration of the Big Three. Drawn op by the U. S. war navy and state (Owens, P. S. Bailey, J* J. Cornwall !f_ e i) a ^"] entS ' the ttirm - s sup P° sedly Sight Conservation: W. Roy Pitts, ‘ , L^ rr . 0 , , .. jj. W. Finney. I. M. Adair. L r a f nemy ground - air and sea equipment and the dis- Adair, C. W. Cooper. Constitution and By-Laws: (Compiled to date for information 1 ^ 116 amounts to considerably more of The Chronicle’s readers). PROCESSED FOODS: BLUE next year “regardless of encouraging STAMPS Y2, Z2, Al, Bl, Cl now events.” Saying that we “found ourselves valid, expire August 31; Dl, El, FI, Gl, HI now valid, expire September than the company realizes on rents. *deral Boys and GirLs Work: B. R. Aus- T, n , rn^r f . „ b e tin. A. W. Brabham. Dillard Milam. •* P<™"nrl. Safety: James E. Addison. Goyne f „ r 2 v Ex^oatam of conquered terr L. Simpson, J. F. Jacobs. “ T',- m ud ‘" fc K,lr, '“- Manchur c, . . . 4 m , and rorrnosa. Notification of a $200,000 federal allotment from Washington to used for extension and construction of lines covered by the Laurens sys tern was received Friday by the Lau- Entertainment. T. Heath Copeland, rens County Rural Electrification ad- ^ Walker,- R. C Adair ministration office. Parts of Greenville and Spartan- 1 y° un g- J- B. Arnold 3. Destruction of war industry, an 1 Public Health: D. O. fthame, Johp ^ T'T* POrU t n a _u..i_t t* i shipbuiTjayig and manuiacturing tu- short” during the battle of the bulge|30; J 1 * K** LI, Ml, N1 now v^lid, in December, General Hershey ex- ex Pi re October 31; PI, Ql, Rl, SI, T1 plained that “it’s much easier and (now valid, expire November 30. speedier to release men i£ we dop’tj MEATS AND FATS: RED need them than it is to draft and STAMPS Q2,^R2, S2,^ T2,^ U2^nowjj 0 Q race Covenant Presbyterian Betts On Vacation The Joanna company buys about burg will be benefited by the allot-i D CWic^ improvement: IL Hubert' (Continued on page four) Presbyterian Church Changes Its Name The Presbyterian church at Watts- ville, Laurens, has changed its name (Continued on page seven) Turners Away On Month's Vacation valid expire August 31; V2, W2, X2. j church . The Re v. C. I. Calcote is pas- » — , Y2, Z2 now valid, expire September I tor of the church which was or _:At Bon darken 30; Al, Bl Cl Dl El now yabd, ex- !ganized May 15 1927 ' ' ^ pire October 31; Fl, Gl, HI, Jl, K1 j m now valid, expire November 30. i -p p i SUGAR: Stamp 36, good for 5 Ibs.,!^- 0 ^ ’ ° bpCOK Dr W R Turner, Mrs. Turner and expires August 31. For Lutherans ’ - ■ SHOES: Airplane Stamps 1, 2, 3 ment, as well as all of Laurens coun- Buyd ’ B Fichelberger, C^W, An- ty. It will be used as the Laurens l dt ’ rson - TUC lif Aft |A| Hflirr REA officials direct. j Citizenship and" 1 Patriotism: T. J I Hr WAk IN DKlrr Henry M. Faris, manager of REA, Copdand, Joe Tinkersley, Guy E. U WT »fi\ m UI\ILI said that construction will begin j us t Tumb lin. PArinr Twmium 4. f - J ! Convention: E M Ttmmermj.n 1 BACIflC. Twelve Japanese cities are warned of impending doom by tire bombs; communique discloses Pitts, Frank F. HkltsVJohn^Cauthen! that Th ' rd ^ sank or imaged 49 Dor roh Hairston. ' ' ( mo re ships Saturday, brmging total fc^r. 21 day* 1 to 1,023 vessels; Far Eas*.- !as soon as material and labor are Convention: E. M. Timmerman, ! available. H. D. Payne, John Addison. Membership: Robert Crooks, R. J. son, Billy, left yesterday for / a month’s vacation. .Dr. Turner is attending a confer ence at Massanetta Springs, Va., af ter which he and his family will visit relatives in North Carolina and else where. They will return to the city September 1. and 4 now good. FUEL OIL: Periods 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Valid for 10 gallons each. Period 1 coupon (new season) unit value, 10 gallons. ' GASOLINE: A-16 coupons valid through September 21. The Rev. Paul B. Cobb, member of the senior class at the Lutheran The ological seminary in Columbia, will preach at St. John’s Lutheran church Sunday at 11 a.m. St. John’s rinvites the public to worship with them. McSween Declines Dr. C. Byhhih Betts, pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Call 10 VjreenVille church, with Mrs. Betts, left yester day for a month’s vacation stay at their cottage at Bon darken, the dent jern ain Torces sink six enemy sh; » (and damage 20 others Monday. BORNEO: Australians mainta i [•steady artillery pounding of Japa- , r ^ i rtese positions on Samunnda Roa i Dr. John Mc'Sween, former pre'si- northeast of Bahkpapan. of Presbyterian college, has CHINA: Two Japanese columns A. R. P. church’s summer assembly declined a call recently extended him advance over 100 miles in Kiang'i grounds at Flat Rock, N. Cf ; to become pastor of the Fourth Pres- province to threaten rich 10,000 Preaching services will be sus- byterian church of Greenville. No square mile area. pended at the church for the month of August, but Sunday school will be conduct&l as usual, it has been an nounced. reason for declining to serve the church was given by Dr. McSween, the pulpit committee stated in mak ing the announcement BURMA Mountbatten announces that British troops and guerrillas have killed more than 7,000 Japs in clashes west of Sittang.