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T / / V 7 / 4 4 THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Kewipoper, Complete, /Newsy and Reliable ^ -* .1 -H atttp Clinton Chrnntrb If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume LXV Clinton, S. C, Thursday, August 9, 1945 Number 32 Japanese Suicide Boats Foiled Chaplain Bernard Boyd Aids Marines On Bloody Okinawa (By Staff Sgt. George R. Voigt, Marine Corps combat corre spondent, formerly of the Los Angeles Daily News). Okinawa.—“Boyd’s still with us" is a statement often made by a bat talion of marines drying the cam paign on Okinawa It RAYMOND J. PIUS IS LAID TO REST Well Known Merchant Passes Suddenly At Home. Rites Tuesday. TRUMAN'S GIFT KEPT BIG THREE IN GOOD HUMOR WAR CUTBACKS POINT UP PROBLEMS • JT With President Truman Aboard AC DCPA|J\/CpC|AU ]USS Augusta, Aug. 4. — President VI 9\LWM v LIUlwll ; Truman's oft-expressed view that a | solution can be found for every le gitimate controversy emerged today' as one of his major contributions to Notion's Manufacturers Have Funds to Finance Peacetime Output. scheduled ..for a further 23 per cent j n reduction dyring the remainder of These two Jsp suicide hosts, captured by Sixth division marines in eaves before the Nips could get them into action, are typical of those feud daring the Okinawa campaign. On the boat in the foreground •s chalked the warning ‘Danger, these boats are booby-trapped.’* JAPS NOW FACE DESOLATION BY NEW TERRIFYING WEAPON Overseas Mailing Dates Are Given Raymond Jennings Pitts, 49. well- ^ Berlin conference:; known and popular Clinton merchant t Presiding over the sessions with, , and citizen, died suddenly early Sun- geniality and good hunftor, he J early ... , r , , first came into use during the j day morning at his home on East convinced the British and Russian Already cut 9 per cent under peak long marches and patrols over rough. | Carolina avenue J Mr. Pitts was iinleades that no avenue of compromise ™arcn war production is mountainous terrain in northern! for only a shortTwhile and passed should be abandoned. i Okinawa. It was repeated many! away soon after hfs physician ar- The protocol which emerged , times during the fighting on rugged rived, death being due to a heart the small hours of Thursday was ‘ t H 1 reconversion P'<>b- 'Motobu peninsula, the battles for'attack. His death, which came with- based in large measure upon agenda facin K lh * nat i° n following the Sugar Loaf hill and Naha and the out warning, was a great shock to the President brought with him in f *• a () ermany __ !assault on Oroku. members of his family and numer- writing to the first meeting. — Totalling 16.3 billion dollars, cut- Whprevpr the third battalion ious friends here and elsewhere. Prepared in frequent consultations backs during the first six months of L Ve 1 « rp, 00 _,,i„ DC . o-.j with James F. Byrnes, secretary of 1943 have affected 2.500 plants, but ;Fourth Marines, wbre fighting on this; The funeral services were held . . .. .t. ■ , - . island men of that unit merely had I Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 from ^e proposals gave the three whereas many^orkers remained un- ‘ Broad Street Methodist church of del ^ atlons a ^ a f. ls for starting im 'i nched because much of the reduc- wo o 'Two mediate consultations. tion was in future contracts rather which he was a member. Tne pastor,; _ . . , . • Rev. J. H. Kohler, was the officiating ^5“ t J e , l pr "5“ V p «f! u '»" work- he .situation minister. Interment followed 1 vd. Churchill added certain subjects will end to^cverse itself during the Rosemont cemetery. Both at , h el» rall >'. a ;. dld M f shal s,a1 "- Sothelast two quarters oftheyear when church and grave a large, gathering :Pre J sld f , ; t s . a Sf" da , was re( “ red im - present Programs peter off, sor to Become sniritua, guioe of friends and relatives assembled toi p ' ed ‘ alel J',. t0 ‘ he s “ r *‘? r '“'i Indicat,ve-of the trend, 31 per rent ,sor, to become spirimai guiae resoects The beautiful formin S the basls for most of the ,of the contracts cut back in April thousand leathernecks fighting P a y *heir last respects, l he beautilu , discussion. i to look around them for assurance ithat “Boyd’s still with us.” j Navy Lieutenant Bernard H. Boyd, Jchaplain’s corps, of Mount Pleasant, left the quiet halls of Presbyterian college at Clinton, where ,he was a professor, to beconrie spiritual guide to a future discussion. were for scheduled future produc- The decision to. establish a counciT tion, with the total for May 14 per Explosive Missile With More Power Than 2,000 B-29s Announced. in the Pacific. ! and numerous floral tributes banked . . „ , , , . .wo upon the mound were added proof of; Chaplain Boyd landed with th e . h r extende(J friendsh . n th *j s com _ j of foreign ministers of the United cent. In June, however, the figure. c . w i* .w w w .. i baUalion ' m assault on Okinawa s!^*^ h is entire life was States ’ Russia - Great Br ‘ tain - China! w as only 5 pec cent, with the remain- September 15 through October 15,L-day. He lived and slept with the i sn „ nt ' ' and France was based on the agenda, der consisting of working contracts has been designated by the post- men at the front.during the 82 days ** a J ‘ —" !J loffice department as the period ii\;of fighting. He experienced the mud which relatives and friends can mail' and the fear and the death. He did L. S. McMillian, John T. packages overseas to members their families without requests. Armed forces overseas include spent. Active lings that the whole reconversion program was moving too slowly, OPA took steps to facilitate manu- „vuv* pallbearers were W. R. I “/'T" eoTnufng' 0 preXafory I Even as the senate was asked to Pitts, David T. Pitts, Ralph Copeland,. work for tht peace se ulements. i°'t Un " Ppl ° y ‘ of everything but fight. As a chaplain, S- McMillian, John T. Young, j He djd much to keep his conferees; • di , . ° t . a s i <,r 5 reconve ‘ - he went into battle unarmed. J®- ^ Dutton, Jr., V. Parks Adair ^j n g ood humtiir throughout the nine “ ’ 4 1 re ri -tn On the second day ashore he! and C ' W ' Coo P er - ; meetings in which former Prime army, navy, coast guard and marine | swe ated it out with doctors in a ra-j Pitts was born in Clinton on Minister ChurchilLjjarticipated and ^ Icorps whose members receive mailjvine where one company of the bat- i A P ri * 2, 1896, the son of Mrs. Sallie the remaining four involving his sue-: sw ,t c h-over to rivilian : through an APO or fleet post office! talion was ambushed and casualties Adair Pitts and the late J. M. Pitts, cessor. Clement Attlee. He left p °ts-' out _ put and the Securities and Ex Washington, August 6.—The most address. Iwere brought in, in a steady stream For a number of years he was asso- dam with the apparent goodwill of L hange commissi ; n revealed tha ' t terrible destructive force ever bar- All Christmas packages must be : throughout the day. Each casualty to ciated with his lather in the general the Russian and British leadership. American corporations with issues nefcsed by man—atomic energy—is mailed to overseas addresses during enter the sick bay there was greeted mercantile business^ Following his Never a time waster, he mixed m-, llsted Qn the national stock exchamr- now being turned on the islands of the period from September 15 tOjby the chaplain. | lathers death in 1937, Mr. Pitts be- formality with quiet pressure for es possessed 63 per cent more work- Japan by United States bombers. The October 15. All parcels should be! If a wounded man wanted a pray- came owner of the business and speedy action, but with a good hu ‘, in g capital than in 193!) Japanese face a threat of utter des- addressed 'or marked “Christmas' e r, he got one. If he wanted a c ig-' c > ontinued to operate same under his mor that infected the others, olation, and their capitulation may Parcel.” Special efforts will be made arette, Boyd furnished that also. ; rtrm name at the same location. i Every effort was made to avoid. be greatly speeded up. Existence of the great new weapon ^y the post office department, in co operation with the war and navy was announced personally by Presi-i de P art , me il ts . f ° r delivery of parcels dent Truman in a statement issued P r mr to Christmas In the push across Ishikawa isth mus and north to the tip of Okinawa, Boyd followed the battalion. In one Mr. Pitts was a veteran of World any language about which In seeking to speed up manfactur- thereie rs ’ reconversion, OPA formulated War No. 1 and saw overseas duty for might be differences of interpreta- several months. He was an active tion between the Russian and Eng- day the men marched 25 miles over member toe local Lions club and Ush tongues. through the White House at 11 a. m.i Monday. He said the Aral atomic . forces overseas must be mailed early bomb, invented and perfected in the aad "“J 1 P 0 ** 3 ** f ,! ‘ ed at flrst United States, had been dropped on r la “ ra *f order t0 msure dellvery of Hiro-1 be *°re Christmas. Christmas parcels should not ex ceed 5 pounds in weight or 15 inches Christmas cards for the armed steep mountain trails seeking a force onl y a * ew weeks ago was awarded, Most of the Big Three meetings the Japanese army base shima 16 hours before. That one bomb alone carried ai. . .. w , -t. wallop more violent than 2,000 B-29<‘ n j* 1 ** ^ 36 ^ches m length and superfortresses normally could hand, combined, the department states. an enemy city, using old type TNT bombs. Secretary of War Stimson followed CpI. Robert Gary, Colored, through with a report that the blast i/'ii j i ’ stirred a cloud of smoke and dust sojlxllled IH ueriTIOny impenetrable as to make immediate, • accurate observation of results im-j Cpl. Robert Gary, a student of Bell possible. The power of the bomb, Street school at the time of his in- Stimson said, is such as to “stagger duction into the army, lost his life in the imagination” and he asserted it Gotha, Germany, June 6, according would “prove a tremendous aid” in to an announcement to the family shortening the Japanese war. jby the war department. Stimson’s emphasis on this point j The message stated that “he was renewed speculation all over again buried in the United States military of Japs. Men fell by the wayside with a pl«Que by that organization as | lasted about three hours. The foreign each mile. Boyd ,dropped back with “ Citizen toe year,” denoting es-j secretaries met earlier. The closing price policies designed to guarantee the producers an adequate profit margin while at the same time keep ing costs within reasonable levels to avert the danger of inflation. _ Under the OPA plan, manufactur- the fatigued men, offered what aid penally his service to the commu-[ session last Thursday, ending in an|ers doing an annual business of he could, then caught up again. | nit y as chairman of the local draft | atmosphere of good-will, brought a $200,000 or more will be permitted At Oro bay, Boyd helped save the boarb since the institution of the suggestion from Mr. Truman that if to add wage and material cost in life of a wounded civilian woman j se l e _ ctiv l. service ?y ste m : there is another Big Three get- creases over prewar prices, and then together, it be staged tn Washington, melude half of the industry-wide “God willing,” Stalin smilingly 1 profit margin for 1936 to 1939. replied. j Firms with an annual $50,000 to $200,000 business will follow the same procedure for determining .costs, but will be allowed to substi tute their own 1936 to 1939 profit i margin instead of half of that for as to whether Japan may he com pletely crushed by air attack with out invasion. Mr. Truman noted that the Japa nese rejected the Big Three surren der ultimatum from Potsdam, and that this had been intended to spare the Japanese people from “utter de struction.” Now, he said, with the new bomb, the Japanese “may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth. Scientists agreed that a new epoch in both war and peace is probably at hand. Although much experiment ing remains to be done, this newly- controlled energy can doubtless also be used to drive rockets, planes, ships and trains for constructive as well as destructive purposes. President Truman said the new bomb, which draws its energy from the same sources as the sun, had more explosive force than 20,000 tons of TNT, itself a tremendously powerful explosive. By another standard, Mr. Truman cemetery near Margraten, Holland. Appropriate religious rites were held at the grave by a chaplain of the Protestant faith.” Cpl. Gary was an outstanding member of the Bell Street football squad and was loved by the entire faculty and student body. He made his home with his uncle, Craig Gary. His father, Mance Gary, who has been an invalid several years, re sides here. Burts Completes Work For Degree At Duke who refused medical treatment and] ^ r - PRts made and held many claimed she wanted to die. Learning friends b y b * s affable manner, she was a Christian, Boyd, with the tooughtfulness of others and accom- aid of an interpreter, convinced her ; mo< ^ a ^ n g attitude, both in a business it was not Christian-like to desire and social way. He will be missed Hill Citizen death. After hours of cajoling, the' in tois community by many devoted ~ , .TV 7. woman submitted to an operation, fronds who join with the family in rOSSGS In Washington and lived. ' mourning his untimely death. « The battalion suffered many cas- .^* be deceased is survived by his! Irvin G. Hill, farmer and business|their particular industry, ualties in the battle for Sugar Loaf w fr e , before marriage Miss Helena man 0 f Cross Hill, died at a hospital; In the case of businesses with a hill. Boyd was in the thick of it, aid- Batman of Sumter; his mother; one j n Washington, D. C., Saturday night yearly volume of less than $50,000, ing the wounded when possible, com-, br 0ther, Hubert J. Pitts of this city;' following a long illness. they may use their current costs as forting men who lost close friends, and .f wo sisters, Mrs. S. E. Evans of He was a son of the late John and a base and then add their own profit giving funeral services for men bur- Lexington, and Mrs. Craig Kennedy E V a Golden Hill, pioneer residents of margin for 1939. or. if that is not of this city. „ | Laurens county. available, then the net for 1940 or — • Mr. Hill was a member of the Bap- j 1941. I ri..k Itist church and was a deacon at the, To help speed the manufacturers LlOnS V«IUD vrgonizea Itime of his death. , along, OPA will pass upon final If) LourCnS This NVcek R i s w 'f e . wbo before marraige was i prices set up by companies doing an i Miss Mary Owens of Laurens coun- annual business of $200,000 or more, ied on the battlefield. Boyd tried to hold daily services throughout the campaign. In the heat of battle it wasn’t always possible. It wasn’t always possible even on Sundays. There were never set hours for church. Church was held in the morning, in the evening, whenever the men had a few minutes free from battle. Place for worship was as variable as the time. Boyd gathered his con gregation on the sunny slopes of open hillsides, in the enclosure of revetments that offered protection from enemy artillery, in caves, and in Buddhist shrine^. His pulpit was a rock slab, a gun turret, or ammu nition case. Boyd ended the Okinawa camping* with almost an entirely new congre-| gation. His battalion - suffered very heavy casualties and was retained in battle by replacements. Robert M. Burts, Jr., of Honea Path, history instructor in the local high school, has recently fulfilled the requirements for the degree of mas ter of arts at Duke university, Dur ham, N. C. Mr. Burts did his major work injn ; i C prv : r p- Aj. history and minored in political sci-; IXC ’ ,TUI r\\ ence. His thesis submitted in partial j [_g£§yj||g Church fulfillment of the requirements for. the degree was “The Life of Armis-! A Lions club has been organized i ^ died 25 y ears a 8°- Surviving are while the charges of the smaller in Laurens during the past week by' one daughter, Mrsfl Clayborne V. firms will be considered approved J. Barnett Napier, special represen-i H 'PP ; one granddaughter, Betty Cor- 1 unless OPA notifies them otherwise tative of Lions international. The ne,ia Hi PP: one siste r; Mrs. John within 15 days. In revealing that 1,209 American corporations listed on the nation's organization was sponsored by the Gar P enter Rogers; three brothers Clinton club and begins with 22 A- B. Hill, J. C. Hill aTid Buow Hill, members, meeting 4w1ce monthly anrd a numbe nieces and nephews, i stock exchanges possessed 63 per Lions international has 5,000 clubs Funeral services were held Tues-jcent more working capital than in with a membership of 220,000. ' da y afternoon at 5 o’clock from the 11939, the Securities and Exchange Officers elected for the new Lau- ® a P tist church in Cross Hill, with; commission indicated that U. S. in- rens club are: Ralph Waldrep, presi-i Rev - J - H - B y rd - Rev - G H - Hughes , dustry was well heeled for the cost dent; R. G. Starnes, first vice-presi- and Rev - " r - G - Somerville official- of switching production from war to dent, G. B. Sheppard, second vice- president; Abe Smith, Lion tamer; T. J. Copeland, secretary-treasurer, tocy- Mr. Copeland has been an active member of the Clinton club for sev- Copt. Charles MacDonald eral yearn and has moved his ™m- Visjtor |„ Clinton ing Burial followed in Liberty peace. Springs Presbyterian churc hceme-; Listed as $20,258,000,000 'for the City Schools To Open August 30 j 1,290 aforesaid - corporations, total assets of all companies was estimated at $45,500,000,000. | In reviewing the finances of the i 1,290 corporations, the SEC repotted ; that the net working capital of 25 aircraft and related equipment com- $79,000,000 _ Revival services are being held at declared the bomb has 200 times thetead Burt, prominent Abbeville 1 Leesvi j le Southern Methodist church blast power of the 11-ton British i lawyer, minor statesman and loyal; the old Laur ens road, each night' Announcement “Grand Slam” bomb—the most con-, follower of John C. Calhoun, whose' beginnin g at 8 ;15 0 ' clock . Announcement centrated bundle of destruction pre- niece he fnarried. viously known on this earth. RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) - ’It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe,” he stated. “The force from which the sun draws its power has been used against those who brought war to the Far East.” j (Compiled to date for information This line appeared to hold dramatic'of The Chronicle’s readers), possibilities for propaganda against! PROCESSED FOODS: BLUE the Japanese. They regard their em-| STAMPS Y2, Z2, Al, Bl, Cl now peror Hirohita as a direct descend-. va ii di expire August 31; Dl, El, FI, ant of the sun goddess. Now they|Gi ( HI now valid, expire September can be told that the very power of;3 ft; ji, K l, LI, Ml, N1 now valid, the sun itself is being turned to their )eX p ire October 31; PI, Ql, Rl, SI, T1 destruction. .now valid, expire November 30. * President Truman, as he was near- j MEATS AND F A T S : RED mg American shores on the cruiser bership to his home town with the I organization of the new club. . Capt. Charles B. MacDonald, grad 'uate of Presbyterian college, has just panics jumped from ^vy.uuu.uuo in returned from the European theater 1939 to $470,000,000 in 1944. while ! of operations to spend a 30-day leave toe liquid assets of 84 railroads iwith his parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. L. soared from $347,000,000 to $1,548.- 7 i MacDonald, in Dillon county before 000,000. * s made that the rede pi 0 y men t { 0 t be Pacific. With half of the firms engaged in Clinton city schools will begin their “Charlie,” as he is known to his war work, 837 manufacturing cor- 1945-46 session on Thursday, Aug- f r j endSj was } n cd y f or a sb ort porations showed increases in work- ust 30, at 9 a.m. A meeting of the visit this week> At the time of his tog capital from $9,669,000,000 in The pastor, Rev. J. M. Mason, is as , Jsisted by Rev. D. C. Gregory of this city ' (faculty will be held on the afternoon g radu a' t ion hV 'w a s 'the" y0 ungesV stu- 1939 to" $15,167,000,000 The annual homecoming day will of the 29th at 4:30 at the high school dent from the co ii e ge to receive an 1 Analyzing the working capital the be observed Sunday at the close of building. The schools will be headed rqtc commission. SEC reported that nearly one-thir l the series of services. Dinner will be.by W. R. Anderson, Jr., as superin- Capt. MacDonald is a member of of the liquid assets consists of cash served on the grounds. The public jtendent, succeeding Pat H. Hobson, veteran Second Infantry divis- °n hand and in banks, and about is invited. 'resigned. Augusta, homeward bound from the Potsdam conference, and Secretary Stimson worked together to tell all that can be told at this time of the- revolutionary new weapon. Charlotte Minister To Speak Sunday The pulpit of the First Presbyte rian church Sunday morning will be occupied by the Rev. M. B. Prince, Jr., of Charlotte. The pastor, Dr. W. R. Turner, is out of the city for the •month of August STAMPS Q2, R2, S2, T2, U2 nowj valid, expire August 31; V2, W2, X2, Y2, Z2 now valid, expire September 30; Al, Bl, Cl, Dl, El now valid, ex pire October 31; FI, Gl, HI, Jl, Kl now valid.afixpi^e November 30. SUGAR :rStamp 36, good for 5 lbs., expired, August 31. SHOES: Airplane Stajnps 1, 2, 3 and 4 now .good. FUEL OJL: Periods 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 valid for 10 gallons each. Period 1 coupon (new..Reason) unit value, 10 gallons. 1 GASOLINE: A-16 coupons valid through September 21. DON'T MISS THE NEWS There are few families in the community In which THE CHRON ICLE does not go every Thursday morning. If you are not a regular sub scriber you may secure a copy at the office. Price 5c—no free copies. Paper is scarce and high. DONT MISS THE NEWS ’The Favorite Family Newspaper” Have the Newsy CHRONICLE in Your Home All Subscriptions Payable In Advance v-« ion of the First army and his served I on ^-fifth in U. S. tax and saving* overseas for one year. He participat-Inotes. ed in the northern France. Rhine- Holdings of U. S. government s - land, Ardennes and central Europe curities jumped from 846,000,000 in campaigns, seeing action in France. 1939 to $6,633,000,000 in 1944, ret - Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and resenting about one-fourth of th± Czechoslovakia. He wears the Silver] (Continued on page two) Star for gallantry in action during • the German offensive in the Ar- 5 C Food Prirpc Hinhpcf dennes, the Presidential Unit cita- J. ’ , 0a rnCe S nigHCSt tion, and the Purple Heart with Oak JinC6 January, 194 I' Leaf Cluster for wounds .‘eceived in action. Stucke To Speak For Lutherans Sunday Columbia, Aug. 3. — Stkte Labor Commissioner*R. L. Gamble said t' - day that South Carolina's food pric es. climbing 51.3 per cent in four 1 years, had reached the highest point since January, 1941. The guest minister at St. John’s, Gamble said that the cost of food Lutheran church Sunday will be the was highest in Columbia and lowest Rev. Clarence Stucke, a senior at the in Orangeburg. Lutheran seminary located at Co- Meat prices, since April of this lumbia. „ ■ I year, have risen four per cent, fn*sh St. John’s invites the public to worship with her every Sunday at 11 am. fruits and vegetables, three and a half per cent, and dairy products 3.9 per cent.