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\ / / i V THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy.and Reliable She (ttlintmt (Elmmirlp If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIV Clinton, S. C, Thursday, September 21, 1944 Number 38 First Army Enters Luxembourg i v mm m mmtmm m vmm m r | ' ? r , 'v 4«% ^ ~ - ' \ * MacARIHUR WILL LEAD INVASION OF PHILIPPINES 'See and Learn' Farm Tour Made V In This County Feeding Parisians Nimitz Tells American Legion of Decision Regarding Pacific. HKg United States First army tanks and infantry crashed over the Luxembourg border at two points and drove into the capital of the tiny Grand Duchy. Under the*supervision of Laurens* County Soil Conservation supervisors and the extension service a farm tour was held Friday to the farms of W. M. Scott six miles from Water loo on the Greenwood highway, and, ! Chicago, Sept. 18. — Gen. Douglas ■ Robert H. Roper seven miles from MacArthur will lead the forthcoming ; Laurens off the Lisbon highway. 1 invasion of the Philippines, Admiral | Farmers, soil conservation service Chester W. Nimitz said in a officials, and extension workers from | ! speech which hihted obliquely that Cherokee. Greenville, Spartanburg.! 1 major blows also impend against the union and Laurens counties made i j Japanese elsewhere — possibly in the trip Dr r p Poole, president ; China or Japan itself. | 0 f Clemson, dnd D. W. Watkins, di-; Asserting that current American rector of the Clemson extension ser- ! ! operations on Palau were undertaken vice, were among the 31 persons) to clear the way for MacArthur’s j making the tour. return to the Philippines. Nimitz : At the Scott farm, Mr. Scott made warned, however, in a broadcast a on handling of his ap-! from his Pearl Harbor headquarters; proximately 7 5 acre s of kudzu and j to the American Legion convention,; 7 g acres or more seeded to serica that "we have not yet come to grips * i espe( jeza. •> : with the main bodies of the well-1 a demonstration was held with a trained Japanese army. power mower and a r horse-drawn The “main bodies” of the Jap army mower in cutting kudiu. Also a dem are presumed to be in China and Ja- onstration useing a hay loading ma- pan. Nimitz promised recently that chine. After the meeting a number American forces will* strike across j of farmers admitted kudzu could be I the Pacific to the China coast and j used successfully on a farm as a hay ' there establish bases for the climac- : crop and as a pasture R Allied relief authorities have solved the problem of feeding starv ing Paris rhildren by the establish ment of communal soup kitchens. Scout Workers Hold Monthly Meeting THE WAR IN BRIEF ! tic battles against Japan proper. ! Both Nimitz and Gen. H. H. Ar- ,! nold, chief of the U. S. army air j forces, warned, however, that there ) is still a long way to go before Japan I is beaten. Arnold, appearing before the Le- Wfestern Front — British armor, gion’s 26th annual convention, warn- sweeps 44 miles into Holland to join' e d that the United States must never airborne troops at German frontier 1 again be caught without overseas air grass seed in 1939 on this kudzu and and cut off 70,000 Nazis to the west; baies of its own and called for post- Adolf Hitler orders civilians to 1 war universal military^ training as evacuate Rhineland; Yanks fight, “an essential national policy if we through rubble of Aachen and drive are to meet the obligations that are |o outskirts of Stolberg to the east; ‘ inescapably associated with our role as to the amount of grazing. The ~ — — — 1 ^ .A a _« 1 m .1 a A. * 1 J r* A Vx X T r* AfXW f V*WX O V* BRITISH TROOPS JOIN AIRBORNE U. S. MEN IN HOLLAND Nazi Army of 70,000 Cut Off In Western Netherlands By Move. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, Sept. 19.—British armor, 1 Pacific—American -first marine sweeping 44 miles across Holland, division captures strategic “bloody joined airborne troops in the Rhine nose ridge” on Pelelm Island valley tonight at the German fion-| tvfc' vMterrf Netherlands fncMoinUng Eastern Front—Three Soviet arm-1 to the American future, Arnold said the vestern Nethenand^ > 8 ieSt opening gigantic offensive in “ we mU st have air bases under our an nfp ^VPhr^narht at its Baltic states ’ advance to within sev-! control—spread out far beyond our t 1 in Ruhr en miles ° f Riga ’ ca P ital of Latvia ' shores where they are needed—there roots in the industr al Ru . Germany report Soviet bridgehead, must be no strings attached (and) we AHnlf Witlpr rpvpalPn TO hnve t i ^ Mr. Scott began working with kudzu 15 or more years ago and it is believed he is the largest kudzu grower in the state.- It is remarkable; how he has brought back into pro-i duction a farm that was classed as waste land. Mr. Scott also pointed out that he seeded about 1500 pounds of Bhome gets a rather good grazing from the grass after the kudzu is killed by frost. He further pointed out it de pended on the rainfall in early fall enemy counterattacks along central and Southern fronts. as one of the greatest of world pow ers. "We may not always have the first impact of war absorbed by other na tions,” he said of the future. "We ' may not always have time to pre- | pare.” Asserting that airpower is the key Germany report Soviet bridgehead, must be no strings attached (and) we Adolf Hitler was revealed to have established on west bank of Vistula' mus t be able to capitalize on the ex- ordered the evacuation of more nor th of Warsaw, than 2,000,000 people from the Ger perience of our commercial airlines.’ Earlier in the day, Gen. George C. grass reseeds each year. Any farmer who is interested in growing feed for livestock and makes use of rough or waste land should visit Mr. Scott's farm. His kudzu has been growing long enough to be beyond any ex perimental stage. It is proving re sults. One striking statement Mr. Scott made was that no fertilizer or lime ha dbeen applied to the kudzu, but he felt sure it would pay a good return if such was used. From the Scott farm the group went to the Roper farm and inspect ed his improved pasture of approxi mately 200 acres of bottom land and Air—Nearly 1,500 warplanes strike : Marshall, army chief of staff .told the , a beef herd of about 90 head includ- through Holland outflanked the Sieg fried defense chain, previously breached at a number of points in t^lge^Tn Hur.raryT -frontal assaults farther south. man Rhineland, almost one-third of ^ !! s total T P°P u J ation A, a , s _at'*Ruhr''Tnstanations,"*blast" Hamm Legion that the United States and mg calves. Mr. Roper talked to the md Soest, key communication cen-! her allies must keep unrelenting g r °up along the line of his pasture *ers; Italian based bombers pound- pressure on the enemy "until his last im P rovement work and his beef herd.; I squad is battered into a state of I Also, the importance of liming and i helplessness.” i treating the pasture land with phos- The Germans m:jde new counter- Italy—Fifth ai*my wins three im- 1 Marshall revealed that 60 divisions | phate as his cattle do not eat as much attacks against U. S. First Army portant heights and advances to of the U. S. ground army now have commercial mineral mixture where spearheads driving through the west within 29 air-miles of Bologna; reached fighting fronts throughout. ^ ie > r graze on treated soils. They db-' wall breaches toward the Rhine, but Eighth army crosses San Maiino|the world, supported by "an even:‘ ain their mineral requirement these were thrown bact at almost all border and moves toward republic's greater strength” in corps and army through the grass they graze, points and Yank gunners counted capital. [combat troops and service units to- t rom the pasture the group drove 50 German tanks knocked out in two! ' i taling more than 2,155,000 men and -° a 12-acre field of lespedeza sencea C. W. STONE, FARMER AND BUSINESS MAN, DIES YESTERDAY Funeral Services This Afternoon At 4 At Presbyterian Cemetery. — ■ ! C. W. Stone. 66. prominent Clinton i merchant, farmer and business man, , died yesterday morning at 7:30 at h:s home near here. Funeral services will be held this afternoon (Thursday). A short ser- i vice for members of the family will be held at 3:30 at the*|jome and j committal services will be at the | Presbyterian cemetery at 4 o'clock. , The Rev. W. Redd Turner, pastor of I the First Presbyterian church, will | officiate. ] Pallbearers^ will be Lloyd Adair, Heath-Copeland. R. L. Plaxico, Earl Horton, J. Willie Young. L. H. Da- j vidson, W. Blakely Tribble, and Dun- : can S. Felder. Mr. Stone had been in declining : health for some months. Sunday ; morning he suffered an illness from which he never recovered. The September meeting of the Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Clinton district committee. Boy Pe^rl Sprunt Stone: two full broth- Scouts, was held at Hotel Clinton * ers - J - Ham P Stone (,f thls Clt y- and ,, . , _, . r i E. W. Stone-of Union; a full sister, Monday evening with Chairman J. Mrs j w Horton of near here: a B. Hart presiding Following the din- half-brother, D. E Tribble, and a ner period, a number of matters per- i half-sister, Mrs. Nannie E. Finney, taining to the Scout work of the dis-, both of Clinton. A sister, Mrs. John trict were considered. e. Adair, died iome years ago. Sur- Charles C. Acker of Travelers Rest, vivors also include two step-chiIdten, new field scout executive for the Blue Major Ned Sprunt Hays of the army Ridge district, met with the commit- air corps, and Miss Peggy Sprunt, in tee and gave an explanation of the! government work in South America, adopted plan of work and organiza-1 and a number of nieces and ne- tion for the coming year which will phews. emphasize the expansion of Scouting. .Mr. Stone was twice married, his It was announced that a training f irs t wife being Miss Clara Young, course for leaders will be held m daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. October. John W. Young. She died about 35 The matter of employing a Scout years ago. On May 8, 1935 he was executive for the Clinton, Laurens, m arried to Mrs. Pearl Hays Sprunt and Newberry districts was discussed Chaney William Stone was bom and the idea approved. A committee December 9. 1878, in the Hurricane was named by Chairman Hart to , church community near here. He was work with similar committees from, the son of W. A. Stone and Frances the two adjoining districts and re- s Copeland Tribble Stone, port to the next meeting of the coun- Coming to Clinton as a very young cd - 1 man he was employed by D. E. Trihj A report was made that the re- ble in the cotton and lumber busi- cestly organized^ Cubbing work is ness, and later by Bailey Brother,, merchants. In 1901 Mr. Stone, with T. D. Copeland and the late Robert E. Copeland, organized the Clinton Clothing company. In 1903 Mr. Stone and T. D. Copeland bought the in- ^ terest of R. E. Copeland and formed The September criminal term^of a partnership und-i the name of court will convene in Laurens on Copeland-Stone company, which still progressing satisfactorily. Criminal Court Term Set For September 25 Monday, the 25th. Thirty-six petit operates a clothing business, being jurors have been drawn to serve and'one of the city Clerk of Court V. R. Fleming states houses. The fin there will be a heavy, docket since also has extens days. Other Germans, trapped that was seeded on a steep, poor- type soil, and was told by Mr. Roper China — Japanese advance another | officers. behind 10 miles toward Kweilin and to 1 Eight divisions sailed this month, the salient thrust across Holland, i with.n 93 miles ol juncture aimed at he said, while 1,000,000 men com-;26 tons of fine sericea hay was were reported counterattacking east- cutting free China from eastern and prising 1,000 squadroris of the air ] harvested this year. This demonstra- force are overseas. I flon w-as an inspiration to the group In round numbers, the 60 ground | in lhal ll was convincing that unde harass i divisions would total about 900,000 i * irabl e land * f u r row crops on the of C-W-S Guano of Clinton Production Credit principal bU: sine ’SS of Cupel; md- St ui re e farming ■'1 'res ts. probably the la r g- ■ county. other busi ness ! CO n- ity, being pro side nt company. pro; side nt :oasts. ward in an attempt to fight through s-nuheastern to safety, starting with ilsolated units but growing into an organized thrust* Southeast Asia—British with heavy artillery support as the enemy junits along Arakan front; men. Adding the 1,000.000 air per- j ^ arrT ^ could be used profitably in pro per was elected during the last session of the legislature, will preside. Jurors listed for Hunter township are: W. T. Atkinson, W. E. O'Shields, James Dock, W. C. Woods, W. J. nation, and a director Of the Corn- Fuller, G. P Lanford, James Duna- mercial Depository. He was also a way, Claude Kinard, Tom Lee, M. V. ; member of the South Carolina Agrt- Fatterson, C. H. Worland, M. B. Mur- cultural Adjustment Associat: n Allied bombers hit Japanese com- sonnel and the 2,155,000 service unit ducing legume hay. Adjoining the mimical infos tn the pn<:t 'members, this would make an over- 12 acres of old sericea lespedeza the all total of more than 4,000,0001 & rou P was shown a field seeded to American men overseas. i sericea the first year, with a perfect Nimitz said that the two-pronged stand - and wil1 be read y to cut for drive against Jap positions on Hal-! ba y nex t year, mahera and Palau was "a good ex ample of the cooperation and co ordination” existing between his cen- phy, W. M. Chaney. Jacks township: J. D. Copeland. Following the field meeting the group gathered at the conlfminity hall in Laurens for dinner. D. F. Pat terson, chairman of the Laurens "ounty Soil Conservation supervisors, day wore on. Capturing the Duitch industrial municaiions to the east, city of Eindhoven with the help of ; ^ American paratroopers, Lt. Gen. Sir Army-Textile Show Miles C. Dempseys British Second ni ' A J* army swept on north at a whirlwind T'CaSeS Audience pace, utilizing bridges secured by the, ♦ airborne forces or building its own The fourth in the series of Army- by new and secret high-speed meth- Textile shows being presented at the ods. Clinton armory every two weeks was j tra l Pacific headquarters and Mac- Late in the day, junction wias, given Saturday evening and was the A rtbur ’ s s° u thwest Pacific command, made with the airborne unit south most enjoyable program yet present-! He said that success of the cur- mad ® a remarks on what the dis- of Nijmegen on the Rhine, and the! ed. It was attended by a large crowd.! ren ^ 0 P era Hons—"and we do not pro- dric ^ supervisors are trying to put joint force battled on to within two| Capt. W. E. Czarnitski acted as I P ose fail”—will isolate the Japs ; in4l ° edect - •7 Od®!!- assistant soil miles of that city which lies just master of ceremonies, and Dr. D. J. 1**111 ‘ n the Carolines and place Amer-j c ' onber% a *l on l s *> showed a soils map west of the German frontier. | Woods spoke briefly on the impor-!' can forces in a position to strangle wdb * be seven types of soil and dis- Official dispatbhes confirmed the tance of the home front keeping up communications between Japan and j cussed land use capability and soil German reports thart parachutists its production. [Its stolen empire in New Guinea and 1 assdica *l° n ' T be county agent, C. had landed on the north bank of Among the entertainers for the * be Dutch East Indies. ( E. Cannon, discussed the use farm- the Rhine near Arnhem, nine miles evening were Sgt. Marie Gerd and j 'Finally, he said, "when Palau - ::s arc making ol the land in Lau- above Nijmegen. Thus only 11 miles Cpl. Emma Berkowitz, who sang a f a Hs. a formidable . obstacle to our ' en - s county termed waste land. H. A. remained to be covered before the number of popular songs. Sgt. Her-, eventual return to the Philippines is f vL 'PP, county AAA administrator, Allies would have established a solid man Weiner gave several selections - swe P* awa y. a nd we will have a base, d * SCUi ‘ sed * be AAA practices, and D. front entering upon the north Ger- on the piano while Pvt. Joseph f rom which to cover and support ^ • Watkins made a brief summary man flatlands, generally flat ter- Whalen sang a number of songs. e n e r a * MacArthur’s Philippine ol the importance of soil conserva- rain before them for aa southeast- Music for the occasjon was furnished cam P a *8n. jt on and the results shown on the ward dash to the rich Ruhr, by the 2116th Infantry band of Camp • Marshall, whose address followed * ou [, toward solving such problems. Gordon, Ga. i those by Senator Harry S. Truman, ! E C. McArthur, state soil conserva- Russians Dive To Baltic • The last in the series of such shows Democrat, of Missouri, and Cover- j tion chairmaan, made brief state- London, Wednesday, Sept. 11.—The will be held at the same place on: nor John w . Bricker, Republican, of: m ents as to what the state commit- Red army drovie within six miles of the evening of Friday, September 29. . vice-presidential candidates, trying to do and the progress Winn Promoted By Greenville Bank board of directors and was connected with and actively interested in oth- I er agricultural associations and move- ^ ments. He was a deacon in the First Presbyterian church of Clinton and ; formerly was a member of the board of trustees and executive committee Winn j of Thornwell orphanage In the death of Mr. Stone the com- j Friends here of Henry J will be interested ‘in the announce ment yesterday that he had been [ mumty suffers the loss of one of its I promoted to the positions of vice- most prominent business and agn- president and trust officer of the cultural leaders. His loss will be felt First National Bank 6f Greenville, | in many fields in Clinton where for .where for 25 years he has held, the 45 years he has been widely con.- ; position of cashier. [ nected. Mr. Winn is a Clinton boy, hav-! ^ — ing received his education at Thorn-i C* lir J v r n .. r ~ 0 J? well orphanage and Presbytenan | ^ 0UrSe 0f 'college For a time he was connected 1 Sunday School Workers with the old Commercial bank of this L| 0 0 C f Tr TO city before going to Greenville in "Cre jOpf. 1917. He is a brother of Carlton F\ * Winn of this city RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) the Latvian capital of Riga yester day in the fourth day of a new all- out offensive that has captured near ly 3,00 towns and aims at total des truction of the Germans in the Baltic states. Churches Seek Clothing For Needy Europeans told the cheering delegates that the being made and that Laurens county 1 United States intends to inflict such i* helping put into effect a sound soil a beating that “any doObts the er; ;ny conservation program, may have had regarding our m.iitary Laurens,county has approximately | competence or willingness to fight 30,000 acres of waste lands, according j n will be dispelled in an unmistakable to the soil conservation service. To i date there are 2,775 acres' of* lespe deza sericea seeded on 465 farms. :ou rse. Local churches will take part A single one of the three Red the national drive for clothing for and bna ^ ma nner. army groups participating has smash- people of devastated countries .. of \ ^ ed through the deep network of Nazi Europe, it has been anriouneed. CoUflty ToX Books defenses south and southeast of Riga i The week of September 24 has 1 1C on a 75-mile front 25 miles deep, been designated as the time for the *0 UpCfl UClODCr I j Moscow 'announced.' drive for usable warm clothing of • Closest approach to Riga came any kind or size, but not including According to a notice appearing, ol lespedeza sericeajbe on every farm with the capture of Kekava, on the hats or shoes. , elsewhere in this paper, the time for Laurens county and kudzu on west bank of the Daugava, (Dvina) The various churches in Clinton the opening of the tax books of Lau-, those farms adopted to its use. Dates Given For Hunting Season Also, 1,2^5 acres of kudzu planted on 330 farms. A goal toward which all agencies working in the interest of agriculture is that at least one acre river six miles south of the sprawling will designate places to collect cloth- rens county has been extended from city limits of Riga,, the Russians dis- ing from their own members, and it September 15 to October 15 for this PrCSbytCNCn Men closed, 1 is planned to make the shipment by year. The statutes provide for the The Germaans had orders “not tcuthe end of next week. dr * ^ retreat a single step and to hold their positions to the last man,” a Soviet R communique said thitf morning, but October 15, said Miss Jennie V. Cul- J. PITTS AT HOME Friends of Raymond X Pitts will the Soviet First Baltic front army [ be glad to know he is improving at j bertson, county auditor, but an order broke through the deep defensive his home after being a patient at the from the comptroller general is nec- (Continued on page six) 'local hospital the past several weeks. 1 essary to make the extension legal. opening of the books on September To Meet Tonight 15, but the custom in Laurens poun- The Men*of-the-Church of the ty has always been to open -them First Presbyterian church will hold their first fall dinner meeting this evening at 7:30 in the church parlor. The group will be addressed by the pastor, the Rev. W. R. Turner. Rev. Mack Bryant, pastor of the Goldville Baptist church, will con duct the annual study course for Sunday school workers of the First Baptist church of this city, it has been announced. The course will begin September (Compiled to date for information ’ 25 . and n cohti " ue the ‘29th. of The Chronicle's readers). 1 W di t ^ xtb< l >ok ' The I Made Plain, by Dr. J H Brooks PROCESSED FOODS: Blue A8 A11 aduhs of the church are invited through L5 (Book 4) now valid at 10!t C) attend the ct points each for use with tokens in groups of 10 only. Tokens invalid af ter September 30. Stamps good in definitely .- MEATS AND FATS: Red A8 through G5. (Book 4) now valid at The season for hunting doves 10 points each for use with tokens.:opened last Saturday and will re- Both good indefinitely. main open until October 15. The sea- SUGAR: Sugar stamps 30, 31, 32 son for hunting o possums and rab- and 33 now good for five pounds bits without guns opened September each indefinitely. 1 and will run to Thanksgiving when CANNING SUGAR: Stamp 40 good S un " can be used The partridge sea- for five pounds canning sugar until stm a * s0 °P ens un Thanksgiving and February 28, 1945. remains open until February 1. The SHOES: Airplane stamps 1 and 2 f tat ^ bc t e . n ?t la f 2 1 ." jnd the county (Book 3) valid indefinitely. , 1 «"«« »U«. both tern* available at J stores throughout the countv. FUEL OIL: Period 4 and 5 epu-j 1 pons for current season good until JOINS JOANNA FACULTY September 3i. Period 1 coupons for M rs . Pau i Turner of this city, the next year now valid. ^ j former Miss Virginia Dillard, has GASOLINE:: A-11 coupons gpod for three gallons through Novem ber 8. been elected as fifth grade teacher in the Joanna school, Goldville, and entered upon her work last week. . I "u. /