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— 'V / • ■ l> .. / % IDE CHMNICIE— Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Sk > t f Volume LXV Clinton, S. C, Thursday, November 8, 1945 If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Numebr 45 = Problem Spot of the Mobile* East TRANS JORDAN Methodist Conference Now In Annual Meet At Clemson College Clemson, Nov. 6.—The upper South Carolina Methodist conference began its annual meeting here Wednesday night and will run through Sunday, when pastoral appointments for the coming year will be announced. Bishop Clare Purcell of the Char lotte area will preside. The bishop Cotton Picker Shown On Cross,Anchor Form The Edisto Experiment station, branch of the South Carolina Agri cultural Experiment station of Clem son college, gave a cotton-picking POSTWAR NAVY RECRUITMENT PLAN APPROVED Washington, Nov. 5.—-A far-reach ing plan to obtain and educate thou- AMERICA TO BACK ITS FOREIGN POLICY WIT« FULL FORCE Truman Asks Square Deal For All Nations Post-war Era. demonstration yesterday (Wednes-1 sanf j s ' 0 f officers for the-powerful day) from 11 ajn. to 6 pjn. at the postwar navy has been appi^ved by farm of L. M. DeShields, three miles'^ „ t . west of Cross Anchor. The demon- Secretary Forrestall, the navy an- stratVm was attended by a large nounced tonight. gathering of farmers, ginners, busi-j Officials said that the plan would! | held preliminary meetings with the nessmen, textile manufacturers, ! assure equaltiy of opportunity to Delivered in the midst of diplo- ; district superintendents, who const!- ; chinerwdealers and others. A similar: have graduated from malic' complications abroad. Presi- 1 tute his cabinet, before the confer- demonstration was given near Simp- a , Anna ^„, dent Truman s Navy Day enunci- ( ence formally opened. i scttvill last Thursday. naval araaripmv ai Annanons. * All sessions will be held at Clem- j The machine was estimated .the naval academy at Annapolis. . I u a ction of U. S. foreign policy has been to] The plan, as drafted by a board dosely scanned both here and abroad son Methodist church, except the have gathered better than 91 per cent headed by Rear Admiral James L, for i nd j ca tions of this country's fu- | Sunday morning session which will of the cotton in the DeShields’ fields. H 0 ii 0Wa y i a ssistant chief of naval ture course - in international deal- hp hplrl in thp anditnrium of (Clem- 1 Mr-vurpyrpr in onnH Pvpn fiplHs it ran , . , , . , lioricr personnel for demobilization, is sub- tn * s - be held in the auditorium of Clem-] However, in good even fields it can son college. | pick between 95 and 98 per cent. The picker can also be used for a trac- ject to congressional approval. Leg- For, with the President pledging islation to carry it out will be intro-i the full might of the U. S. for the Speakers to be heard during the meeting incclude Dr. Emerson Ford xor merely oy taxing on me uasxci, duced shortly preservation of world peace and with of Nashville, representing the church ^hich holds the cotton. ! Fundamentally, members of the the nature'of that peace depending board of education; Dr. Henry R.J w. B. Rogers, superintendent of board explained, the plan calls for upon the formula developed by the Here ia an all-purpose map of the Palestine area, now the problem spot of the Middle East. Over a period of days clashes have been re ported between Jewish and British groups. Jewish Palestine has launched a resistance movement against the British policy of keeping down immigration of homeless Eorooean Jews. Sims, president of Winthrop college; Dr. H. P. Powell of the church gen eral board; the Rev. Wilson Weldon of High Point, N. C., and others. A special sermon to Clemson ca dets will be preached Thursday af ternoon by the Rev. B. S. Drennan of Graniteville. Among reports to be submitted, that of the board of temperance, was the Edisto station, explained tbe, bas i n g officer procurement on as predominant pow-ers, an inkling of workings of the machine three or ■ broad a base as "possible, drawing the U. S. course of action necessarily four times during the day and the j cand j djdes f ro m the naval academy, provides a clue to the shape of the machine was kept in running order ; rava ] reserve officer training corps | world to be. by L. O. Drew, engineer for the sta-] collegeSi and ot b e r accredited insti- President Truman's declaration of tion. It was driven by Lee Moye. tutions. ; foreign policy came at a time when The machine, which equals the > T he program calls for doubling the differences continue to exist over the work of from 40 to 50 hand pickers, | present output of the naval academy, 1 extension of Russian domination of was previously demonstrated m | the capacity of which is now about eas t e rn Europe; when the native School Asks Foe 51,312,560 NO LET-UP YET ON FOOD AND FEED PROGRAM Orangeburg, Barnwell, Aiken, An derson and Greenville counties. Seaboard Places Order awaited with interest. The corresponding board of the South Carolina conference, which met at Myrtle Beach last week, sub mitted a report advocating a system pQ r pour Streamliners of local option liquor control for ; m — towns and counties as compared with Seaboard Air Line railway has Mojor WillioiTI Moorheod the present statewide package store p j aced an order f or f our 2,000-horse- a . r system. It was adopted by the con- 1 diesel-electric locomotives to 1 At iiOITie rTOm Saipan 13,000 students. i people of Indo-China and the East The second source of officer can- \ indies clamor for their independence, didates would be the nation s 52 na- and when questions arise as to the val R. O. T. C. units, which now, future disposition of Germari econo- have an authorized maximum en-[ my f or the trade revival of Europe, rollment of 14,000 men. i ference be delivered sometime during the Clemson, Nov. 3. — Continuing its. Bishop Purcell will read the ap-I f, rsr t quarter of 1946, officials of the Dr- William H. Moorhead, holding roc c r\r\ foori r-trrw-T i inn * •sni final cgvecinn t Vi O I . The State Research, Planning and'stress on ifood and feed production; pointments at the final session of the i Development board received a re- as the basis for better farming, the, conference Sunday. quest during the week from the State I Clemson College extension service; — „ . . . . , ; has not only had exhibits to this end i Training school near Clinton for 1 ^ at the state fair and several county $1,312,560 in FWA funds to be used; fairs but has issued a revision of its 10- circular 266, “South Carolina Point Food and Feed Program.” Copies of this circular may be ob- for a new nurses’ home, new dormi tories, new cottages, a central heating plant and extensions to existing wa ter, electrical and sewer facilities. The board also received a reque,,, ts or t0 clemson from the State hospital, Columbia, The 10 cov cular are as follows: E. H. Hall To Join Jacobs Press Here Elliott H. Hall, Jr., of Charlotte, , .will join Jacobs Press of this city on reauest tained by wntin 8 to the farm | December 1 as vice-president and lumbia, igeneral manager. He succeeds Thom- for $2,126,795f in federal works agen- s cy funds for construction projects. the cir- l i as D. Jacobs. Mr. Hall since 1929 has been con- Car Makers Say Government Hurting Them H.--- 1. Make maximum use of available | ne(ded wdb The News Publishing labor and equipment on the farm and company in charlotte as manager of the commercial printing department and business manager of the firm. In Charlotte he has taken an active part in the businiss, civic, religious and social life of the community. Mr. Hall was born in Spartanburg in the community. 2. Arrange now for quality plant- -^'f-ing seed. 3. Arrange now for fertilizers for heavy application. Washington, Nov. 6. — The Auto- 4 - Check farm and home equip- ’ mobile Manufacturers association ment, and order parts or new charged tonight that a commerce ment now. department report on the auto in-! 5. Grow plenty of high dustry’s ability to increase wages is grazing, hay, and silage. j headed the Clinton public schools ‘ being used as official government Produce record small grain an d' severa j ye ars as superintendent. Un- authoriz^ion for unreasonable wage corn crop. ; til go i n g to Charlotte 16 years ago demands? 1 : 7 - Produce adequate gardens, poul- he was ( railroad announced from Norfolk yesterday Reaching beyond the 1,000,000 peo- | pie gathered in Central Park, New j York, to hear him, the President es tablished a 12-po»nt program for | America’s post-war diplomatic rela- i tidns, including: , . i Renunciation of any territorial de- the rank of major in the army, ar- ... „ 'signs on other nations; restoration of cipmav ,rived a t Camp Shelby, Miss., early, , sieraay. 1 a,,; n ~ n the sovereign rights of people de- Under construction by the electro-! Sunday morning direct from Saipan. r : ved of them bv force onnosition motive division of the General Mo-jHe joined his wife in Shreveport | fj^^ritorial c^a^es ^ro^hout ^ HI,. Monday and they will arrive in Gold-! to l ?"iionai cnangts tnrougnout me 111 1 world without the express consent of tors corporation at LaGrange, and weigh 315,000 pounds. Each lo comotive has twelve drive wheels and four motors that generate enough nois, the streamliners are 71 feet! ville Saturday for a visit to his P ar " ,h e neoule concerned naht of Dec king, stand 15 feet above track level en fs, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Moorhead. nreuared for self-government to On terminal leave, he expects to re-, pl * P re P are « ror sell-government to ceive his discharge soon. ! rule ^selves: assist deteated na- Major Moorhead has an extended i t:o " s ^ <^lish democratic regime., power to drive the sleek speedsters I overseas record 4*. months. He en ’ ment f orced uuon cmmtries bv a for- at better than 95 miles per hour. tered the service as a first lieutenant i ^ w y Approximate cost of the four units, ; on April 10, 1941, with an assign- \]s 0 all nations should eninv free- all designed for fast oasseneer runs i^nt at Camp Blanding, Fla. He was , A naUons sp(i 4 ^ ld L$7MMO Passenger runs,,^ ^ v Calif and from dom. of the seas and he right to u,e is $100,00() : Ithere to the Hawaiian Islands for a I waterways running thnuigh efiffer- two-year assignment. From there he ^ nt ^Hintnes; peaceful states should went to Saipan in July of last year Seal Workers Plan Supper In Laurens A Christmas Seal sale supper for^ a * Saipan in the midst of the un.suc- 4 be permitted equal access to trad where he has been a member of the and raw materials; the sovereign n 148th General hospital staff. He was / eq.uip- ; and gradua ted from Clemson college.; the workers, officers and directors of cessful Japanese bombardment of i He is the son of Mrs. E. H. Hall of! the Laurens County Tuberculosis as- American troops in an effort to cap- -quality thjs cityt and the lale Mr> Halli who sociation will be held Friday night tur ® the big B-^9 airplane base. at 7 o’clock at the Laurens commu nity hall, it is announced by R. L. GoluVlIle MoSOrtS Plaxico, chairman of the Clinton area. Committees for the county and goals \v41 be set for the eommuni- Elect New Officers , employed here by Jacobs & “As a ^result,” said Association ^ry, eggs, meat, and milk for ® ver y Company. General Manager George Romney in family and conserve for home use. ; Ha ]j married the former Miss ties. I Magnolia Masonic Lodge No. 353 a letter to Secretary of Commerce _ 8- Produce, grade, pack, and mar-j ^j ary w yman 0 f EstiH. They have Dr. James C Kinard, president of Goldville, met at their hall Saturda> lone child, Isabelle, 12. Mrs. Hall is a| Newberry college and Seal Sale evening Iro the election of officers, niece of Mrs. Dudley Jones of this | chairman for the state, will be guest fn® following were elected to sene j speaker. Dr. Marshall W. Brown,! for the ensuing year; ! president of Presbyterian i will introduce Dr. Kinard. Henry A. Wallace, “automotive com- ^ quality products panics are finding it difficut to. ne- 9- Take care of the land and for- gotiate collective bargaining con ests. tracts . 10. Control crop and livestock dis- The commerce department report, cases, insects and parasites. released by Wallace last week, pur- ported to show that the automotive ^q| HiltOfl Former industry could increase wages 15 per * * cent in 1946 and another 10 per cent PriS0n6r Of JapS, increases w ' lhoul compensatin8 price Returns To Lourens city. college, i Last Rites Here For Eugene Copeland County Farmers Elect Supervisors H. O. Abercrombie of Mount Beth el community, Sam B. Fleming of Ora, and Ryan F. Lawson of the! City Council Elects Two New Policemen (From Laurens Advertsier). , , After an absence of four years, with more than three years in a J a P-'; ing he id Saturday in Lauren-. City courfAd in session Monday Wadsworth community, were elected n j g ht electee#two new members on supervisors of the Laurens County : tht , p()lice f I rce Ralph Ridd i e anc | i Soil Conservation district at a meet- Ru fu S King.) Both are well known Worshipful Master—J. L. Stogner Senior Warden—W. W. Niver. Jr. Junior Warden—Walter Fulmer. Secretary—T. A. Abrams. Treasuret^-James Fulmer. Senior Deacon—L. H. Poag. Junior Deacon—J. O. Hueble. Tiler—-Harold Murphy. Steward—Nathan Brazil. ' Steward Lester Hair. Funeral services for f A. Ifnese prison camp Col. Roy C Hil- The distrjct will be operated un _ Eugene ^ on ^ vas rt ' unitet f ' as f wee ^ with fn s | der the supervision of these three ~ , , „„ , j * j (family in Laurens. I . ■ - - - Copeland, 62, who died suddenly Oc- w ^ e Ru t b Easterby Hil- tober 30 in Detroit, Mich., were held tor)( and tbe i r daughters. Misses here Friday allernotm liom the Gray i Rutb and Laura Ann. of this city, Funeral Home with Dr. W. R. Turner ^ j 0 j ned hirn at c amp Gordon, where as the officiating minister. Interment : hc ai . rived frjm the West coasti on a followed in the Presbyterian c eme -1 hospital train tery. Pallbearers residents of/the Clinton Cotton Mills community. The new officers succeed Jodie C. i together with D. F. Patterson a "d i McMlIlan> retire d, and B. B. Ballard,! R. B. Roper, ol Laurens, who are the reglgn ed other supervisors. ' ^ M. B. Henderson of Owings, and M. H. Burns of Mountville, were Youth Night Sunday At First Presbyterian tions of the western hemisphere mu t work together for solution of thi • common problems without outsiu» . interference; all countries must co - laborate economically to advance liv ing standards; the U. S. will continue to strive for religious and political freedom, and the belief in a United Nations organization to promote post-war security. While no one in the U. S. argued with the President s objectives, crit-. ics declared that they have long con stituted Amei lean diplomatic but recent actions of both the Roose velt and Truman administrations seem to have run, counter to their realization. In this .espect, the critics pointed to Russian dictation of the ^composition of the Polish and Yugo- * '/sfav governments recognized by rlh^tj IU. S.; Communist machinations ul Bulgaria and Romania for the es- . tablishment at pro-Red regimes in t those countries, and alleged Dutch , and French use of lend-lease wea- ! pons for the suppression* of native independence moves in Indo-China ; and the East Indies. Answering administration critics, at the President’s partisans point to the RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) (Compiled to date for information of The Chronicle’s readers). MEATS AND FATS: RED STAMPS FI, Gl. HI, Jl, K1 now The board of trustees of Hunter good, expire November 30; LI, Ml, election judges in holding the elee- ^ • , ... | tion. _ . following a few days rest at the, m d ^ e 'rs U:> ' valc, ^”P®" hospital at Camp Gordon, ColoneL . _ r _ * land, Wm. Brooks Owens, R. E. Sad- HjU&n came tQ Laurens for a leave MrS. D. S. Templeton ler, H. M. Young, R.L. I laxico, J-H. and rest \i any friends are extending' C_LC_.___.f_ Pitts, Jr., and BJ y Owens. b . m a waim welcome as they gretft jCnOOl bCCTCtary Mr. Copeland was a native this him , . hiS home and on the streets community, a son of the late A. M. i Under artny orders Colonel Hilton and Eugenia Owens Copeland. Since)^ nr . 5 ;j 0W e d to tell of his treatment' District No - 5 has el ^' ted Mrs - D - S. Nl, PI. Q1 now good, expire Decem- retiring from the navy several years by t h e Japanese while he was their | Templeton as secretary to Supt. W. ber 31; Rl. SI. Tl, Ul. VI now good, The service will be omduclcl by Ax • " ll Youth night will be observed the First Presbyterian church Sun- :ut °.ssurily complicated political con- day. November'll, at 7:15. ; dltiuns m Europe, where the Kus- The service is in keeping with the ^ iails S( »ught to e.stab|ish friend- Assembly’s request that youth night L v " bulfei governments on thtlr vvest- be observed in all Ipcal churches', 1111 honlers, and the recent stiffen throughout the Southern Presbyte-' in ^ ot ^ b. diplomacy against Red rian church to give youth the oppor- mant ‘uv , ering in Bulgaria and • Ko- tunity to inform local church mem- ri ' in ‘ a ’ ( icputctl y resulting in tne bers of their various activities and die Ijbijdon conference also to give every local church the lole ‘ yn niil,u -'’ tel '' s - opportunity ,to recognize its young i As ■ or use knd-lease mate- people and their service to the king- Ila ^. d 18 said ^ Klt ^uch supplies weie dom of God. ■' originally provided !«/ iightnu; the pn^ent Frerffh and (Dutch ago he had made his home in Detroit. I pr j soner However, he kept a diary; Andersci n of the city schools. Mrs. expire January 31; Wl, XI, Yl, Z1 the young people with Mrs ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ pecial can- t,u ' on,al difficulties are of an internal He is survived by his step-mo^er, j ^ ’ aIld Templeton entered upon her new and GREEN N-8 now good, expire d i t u lg ht service to h mor the name, l ’ha:acter affecting friendly nations. rs. Ruth S. Copeland; two half-. abl£ ^ release its contents in course iwork last week, succeeding Miss February 8. 1946. * service and sacrifice of the youth of 1,1 an y President Truman’s Frances McKee, who had held the I SUGAR: Sugar stamp No. 38 now lb e community and the world. Join- enunciation ot U. S. toreign policy, •a..i c _ ndll_ able_tqrelease brothers and one half-sister, Dugas 1 Copeland of this city, Owens Cope land of Manning, Mrs. C. B. Betts of this city; five nieces and one nephew. He was a brother of the late O. O. j and E. B. Copeland of Newberry. position the past three years. Presbyterians Plan, To Resume Mission Work Atlanta, Nov. 6.—The Presbyterian Church in the United States is plan ning to resume missionary work in the Far East at an early date. The denomination’s executive com mittee has been advised from Wash ington that it may be posable with in “the reasonably near future? /to return missionaries 1 to Korea i /and China. , , f’ The church plans to send out im mediately, as soon as passports and transportation can be arranged, two committees to China and one man to Korea to make surveys. ' ' % Mrs. Joe W. Leake attended a con ference of Southern Bell Telephone company workers in Greenville Mon day and Tuesday. Jurors Drawn For November Court |4 • The November term of general ses sions cfcurt will convene in Laurens November 12. Thirty-six petit jurors to serve for the term were drawn last week by the jury commission ers. - -Vt Hunter township jurors are: Ar thur Allen, Jesse Abercrombie, W. P. Rushton, H. M. Willingham, C. J. Craig, J. W. Smith, W. jT. Jacks, A. C. Workman, J. B. Taylor, J. P. Terry. Scuffletown: J. E. Mims. I good, expires December 31. Legion To Give Da ace At Armory ^ J l- The local American Legion chap ter is sponsoring a “victory danpe” /Saturday evening, November 10, at the armory. Round and square danc ing will be enjoyed from 8 to 12. Mu sic will be furnished by . the Stomp Spring Hillbillies. LET THE CHRONICLE HELP YOU WITH YOUR BUYING It Will pay you eai h week to carefully read the adver tising columns of THE CHRONICLE — they tell you where to buy wisely, and where you will fimil lowest prices: Advertisements toll you where to buy foBdfflflothing, drugsrautomobiles, electrical appliances, jewelry, house hold necessities and many other items. And don’t over look the little “want advs.” Shpj) in the advertising columns first — then in the stores^ 1 ' v THE CHRONICLE The Favorite Family Paper In This Community ,, ^ r J ; /ing in the service will be the young bucked by the determination to em ploy force for wifrld peace, should ! help to clear the uat in future inter* I national dealings* T^he declaration of ! American intentions should prove to j be especially heartening to many of the sm eft ler nation^, which look to the U- S. as a political patron, as they There;, will be no services, either ' land in i he shadow 11 t^M-ver poL- morning or evening, at Broad Street tlc ®' Methodist church Sunday, November) , .‘idvresting aspet' to the Presi ll, since the pastor, Rev. J. H Koh- 8 ^P^rh wa.. h reference to i ler, is attending the annual meeting A itd assistance to defeated—ejpiyny of the Upper South Carolina confer- na Lons for the re-establishment of people of Thornwell orphanage. The public is invited to attend. Methodists To Omit Services Supday jnday ence at Clemson. ; democratic governme and eco- Appointments will be announced k 0 ? 1 ! 110 cod aboratjon fo.* the elevation over WFBC, Greenville, Sunday be-| lvin ^ s t an dards. tween 4 to 4 30,'it was stated. t piesent, the A ed economic — -■■■■■■ policy toward post-war Germany is Hr D _|| CrwnsiL heading for a thorougn re-examina- ur - aO" I O jpeOK 1 Lion, with proponents f a “praeti- 1 cable” rather than a “hard” or “soft” peace, insisting that the organization A, For Baptists Sunday Dr. VVilUam L.^Ball, of Greenville,! a bealtliy civilian economy for the until recently pastor of Earle Street " eich was requisite for a prosperous Baptist church in that city, will be ; - ur ope offenng trade markets for the world. . Though agreeing on the necessity of stripping Germany of all of her • (Continued on page four) I the guest minister Sunday morning at 11 o’clock at the First Baptist church. The public is invited to at tend the service.