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A i2 TBUB TO OUSSKLWI. OUE NEIOHBOBS, OUB COUNTBT AMD OUB GOD. Eylablislied June 5. 1902 McCOHMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1941 Number 32 m- m me w Itf- Jlda. 6.—The effects ftwanvelt’* fireside on the night of 29th, are still being de- I! circles designed to put of an early peace and Great what some led an “apa- e dangers of alk has at from re paying mall from any sud- of their while those Vigorously committees, to Con- again emphasised the neces- of continuing and increasing aid to Britain, and the need for a tremendous production effort at home. Ah of this seems " the repeal Of the John- Act which forbids credits to a defaulting on its war debt, but the Johnson Act will not go by the boards without some of the fiercest debating since the contro versy. on American conscription of manpower for t^e army. to Set Some quarters believe that the resident will not risk a defeat by backing outright repeal of the Act, but will find some of circuihventing it through an opinion of Attorney General Jackson. The destroyer deal “has set a precedent which can be fol lowed without any question of legality. In the meantime, the more mundane matter of money has come to Congressional attention. One of the first appropriations that the new Congress will have to make is for $1,000,000,000 to cover the deficiency of 1940. Al though the past Congress appro priated $9,000,000,000 to cover de fense expenditures, this proved Insufficient in the light of rising prices. These same rising prices have brought the question of price control to the fore, but it is not expected that this will be more than a passing issue—at least, for the present. A new tax bill will have to be passed to pay the expenses of the current year, but this will not be brought before Congress until after i the March 15th income taxes are j in. A new bond issue may be | floated to care for present ex penses. This will require an al most immediate expansion in the present $45*000,000,000 debt limit to the $65,000,000,000 proposed by the Treasury Department. There seems little doubt that this ex tension will be permitted im mediately. Nor does there seem much doubt that a new reorganization bill will be pushed through Congress be fore January 21st, along with a bill to continue the emergency powers granted the President ^dur ing the past eight years. A -.lum ber of these powers expire on that date, among them the power to devalue the dollar further and to control the $2,000,000,000 cur rency stabilisation fund. The new reorgahi$atibn bill will probably not exempt any specific govern- mental agencies from its provis ions as the past one did. In 1940, twenty-one agencies were exempt ed from the bill’s provisions, but it has been made clear that the President wants none of them ex cluded In 1941. Dies Asks $1,000,090 The Dies bbmmittee is reason ably certain of obtaining the $1,- 000,000 it has asked to continue its investigation of un-American ac tivities. There will be some oppo sition to the appropriation, but Dies has sold himself and his committee to the American peo- Greenwood P. G A. Meets January 22nd ANNUAL MEETING TO BE HELD IN COURT HOUSE AT ' GREENWOOD. Stockholders of the Greenwood Production Credit Association will hold their annual meeting in the Court House in Greenwood, S. C.. at 10 o’clock on the 22nd of Jan uary. according to announcement by Mr. T. J. Sibert, Director of the Association. At this meeting, complete and detailed renorts will be made by the officers of the association on its operations for the past year, directors will be elected and other imoortant business transacted. In announcing the annual meet ing of stockholders Mr. Sibert said that it was hoped to make the at tendance of stockholders at this year’s meeting the largest in the history of the association. He said that the annual meetings of the associations afford the stock holders an opportunity to learn every detail of the operation of their organization. ‘ The Greenwood Production Credit Association, which makes short-term loans to finance all t.vpes of farm and livestock opera tions, serves McCormick, Abbeville, Greenwood, and Saluda Counties, and in 1940 made loans totaling $241,560.00 to its 666 members. «Yi U:- J McCORMICK, S. C FRIDAY and SATURDAY January 10th and 11th, 7:00 P. M. and 8:45 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. PAT O’BRIEN JOHN GARFIELD FRANCES FARMER m “FLOWING GOLD 1 Also A Pete Smith Specialty “Sporting Everglades” A, Cartoon “Mummy Loves Puppy” MATINEE SATURDAY 3:30-P. M. Adults 20 cents Postal Receipts Show Gain Here Mr. John C. Corley Dies 'Suddenly Postmaster J. E. Bell announces that the gross postal receipts at the McCormick po$toffice for the last quarter of 1940 were $1,793.55 as compared with $1,668.81 for the same period‘in 1930, which shows an increase Af $124.74. - MONDAY and TUESDAY January 13th and 14th, 7:00 P. M. and 9:15 P. M. CLARK GABLE—SPENCER TRACY CLAUDETTE COLBERT—HEDY LAMARR in “BOOM TOWN” Also Selected Short Subjects and LATEST NEWS EVENTS •« ADMISSION: Adults, 25 cents; Childto 12, 10 cents: Children 12 to 15. 15 cents pie so firmly that few Congress men dare to take an open stand against him. Then too, the House will have to act on the committee report con demning the set-up and the ad ministration of the National Labor Relations Board. Shortly before the close of the past year, this committee completed a year’s in-> vestigation of the Labor Board’s activities and delivered a scathing denouncement in part of its re port: “Tlie committee concludes that when an administrative agency of the government so. far forgets its proper function as to defy the will of Congress, harbor and protect avowed enemies of constitutional government, invent apd devise ex tra-legal (and even unlawful) methods of tormenting and ruin ing employers, foment and per petuate industrial strife and op press and penalize certain labor groups to favor others—then the time has come when the people of Mils country must raise their voices in insistent protest lest in dustrial peace, and with it, the entire program of national defense be jeopardized, and the funda mental concepts upon which their government is based be ultimately and utterly destroyed.” Restrictions on Labor The committee report, scathing *** it is. would undoubtedly have little effect on this new Congress, were it not for the stress now be ing put on national defense. With several bills pending (with at lep , ' t inferential official approval) which would prohibit strikes in defense industries and which would put stringent restrictions on the activities of labor, it seems likely here that the Wagner Act and the whole Labor Board is due for a vigorous shake-up. Yet through all the controver sial issues offered, one thing re mains clear here in Washington— that the final word on the grave issues of national policy will rest with the White House. President Roosevelt, elected for a third term, is as firmly entrenched in his power over Congress as he has been throughout his first two terms. Occasionally, Presidential desires may be overridden, but for the most part, the President will rule the Congress. Mr. John C. Corley, 65, died sud denly last Thursday afternoon about 2 o’clock at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. L. Self, here, after a period of declining health. The son of James Asbury and Lydia Jennings Corley, pioneer citizens of this section, Mr. Corley was bom, reared and spent his entire life here. He taught school in the county a number of years before entering mercantile busi ness from which he had retired some time ago. He was a faithful member of the Republican Metho dist church since childhood. In addition to his sister, he is survived by two brothers, Jesse R. and James W. Corley, of McCor mick; four nieces, Misses Ruth and Eloise Corley, of McCormick, Mrs. E. S. Titus, of Knoxville, Tenn., and Mrs. John D. Phillips, of Watertown, Tenn.; two nephews, Frank W. Corley, of Aiken, and Robert Corley, of McCormick, and one great-nephew, Richard Corley Titus, of Knoxville, Tenn. Funeral services were conducted from McCormick Methodist church at 3:30 o’clock Friday afternoon by his pastor, the Rev. Foster Speer, assisted by the Rev. W. M. Owings and Dr. S. W. Reid. In terment followed in the McCor mick city cemetery. Active pallbearers were J. P. Deason, P. J. Robinson, J. L. Wells, C. C. Morgan, W. M. Harmon and Dr. C. K. Epting. Honorary pallbearers were T. J Sibert, Dr. Garnett Tuten, J. T Fooshe, H. R. Stuart, J. M. Brown D. C. Talbert, J. C. Brown, G. E Carroll, G. J. Sanders, J. S. Strom A. C. Earnhardt, J. L. Caudle and J. T. McGrath. G. P. McCain, funeral director, in charge*. Rev. Wm. D. Upshaw Speaks At Washington School Friday P. M. Announcement is made that Rev. Wm. D. Upshaw, former con gressman from Georgia, but now a resident of Greenwood, S. C., will deliver an address at the Washington Consolidated School auditorium, mid-way Parksville and Modoc, at 7:30 o’clock Friday evening, January 10th. The public is cordially invited. Students Returning To College Teachers Returning To Their Schools Among the teachers returning to their school work after spend ing the Christmas holidays at their homes here and at other points in *ttie bounty are: Mr. Luther: Andrews, Parker District Schools,; Greenville, Miss Sfejlie Quarles, Matthews N C \ * Miss Birdie Walker, High Point, N. C., Miss Josie Talbert, Abbeville, Miss Helen Brown, Dillon, Miss Sarah Louise Strom, Lan- caster Miss Lucy Brown, Plum Branch, Miss Mary Remsen, Washington Consolidated Hieh School, Miss Margaret Patterson, Elloree, Miss Margaret McKinney, Wash ington Consolidated High School. Miss Ruby. Abercrombie, Lees- ville, Miss Marion Sturkey, Lockhart, Miss Kathleen McKinney, Wlde- man School, Mr. Gray Abercrombie, Ridge- land, Miss Carrie Mayson, Bennetts- ville, Mr. Roy Callison, Marietta High School, Miss Nell Dowtin, Mullins, Miss Eloise Corley, Warrenville. . Mr. J. P. Sullivan, Walhalla, Miss Marian Harmon, Lyons High School. Lyons, Ga., Miss Martha Bell, Lowndesville, Miss Willie McComb, Andrews, Miss Clara Lee McComb, Laurens, Miss Mary McComb, Turberville. Miss Lura Jean Watson, De la Howe State School, Miss Ella Lee Burnett, Waco, N. C., Miss Sara Frances Duncan, Fair fax Miss Nell Fooshe, Sardis High School, Sardfis, Ga. tXt Tree Planting Dem onstration Wednes day, January 15th i ( M. A. Bouknight, County Agent, states that the Forestry Service has scheduled a forest tree plant ing demonstration to be held at 10:30 A. M. Wednesday, January 15th, at Mrs. J. E. Britt’s place just off the Greenwood Highway on the edge of the town of Mc Cormick. All farmers interested in a reforestation program in the county are urged to make plans to attend this meeting. Among the students returning to college after spending the Christmas holidays at their homes here and at other points in the county are: Winthroo College, Rock Hill— Miss Sara Patterscfh, Miss Geneva Miles. Miss Mary McIntosh, Miss Annie Humphries, Miss Carolyn Freeland, Miss Frances Schumpert, Miss Imogene Sanders, Miss Virginia Watson, ( Miss Emma Bell King, Miss Aurelia Caudle, Miss Ella Brndlev Faulkner, Miss Elizabeth Fooshe. Limestone College. Gaffney— Miss Virginia Wilkins. • Coker College. HartsvUle— Miss Jane Bracknell. Lander College, Greenwood— Miss Vivian Jaynes,- Miss Bettye Fuller, Miss Frances Cheatham. Anderson College, Anderson— Miss Lura Gilchrist. Clemson College, Clemson— Mr. Raymond Morgan, Mr. Charles Morgan, Mr. Carl Faulkner, Mr. Herbert Sturkey. Mr. Morris Furqueron, Mr. Harvey Furgerson, Mr; Thomas McComb, Mr. Billy Hanvey, Honrv Hester, ' Mr. Jim Neal Workman, Mr. Clarence Hollingsworth, Mr. lAwrence Strom, Mr. David Edmunds. Unt^ersitv Of Sooth Carolina Columbia— Miss Margaret Welsh, Mr. Pat Hester, Mr. James Bell. Asheville Teachers College, Ashe ville, N. C.— Miss Louise Rich. The Citadel, Charleston— \ Mr. Lawrence Hester, Jr., Mr. Billy Dukes, Mr. Wistar Harmon, Mr. Douglass Bradley. Tnlane University, New Orleans, La.— Mr. Claude Workman. Newberry College, Newberry— Miss Catherine Wells, Miss Lois Freeland, Miss Mabel Winn. Presbyterian College, Clinton— Mr. Joe Bowen. Geyer’s Business College, Char lotte, N. C.— Miss Natalie Brown. Draughon’s Business College, Mont gomery, Ala.— Miss Helen Crawford. Mt. Carmel News Family Reunion Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Deason de lightfully entertained their chil dren and grandchildren Christmas day with a bountiful dinner. Every one of the children and grandchildren were present with the exception of one of the grand children. Those who enjoyed this happy occasion were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cothran, Sybil. J. Willie, Paul an<- Joe Cothran of York, Mr. and Mrs L. M. Gault, Doris, Murphy, Elbert Bnbbv. Fred and Hoyt Gault of Fountain Inn, Mr. and Mrs. B. C Bledsoe and Bobby Joe Bledsoe. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Deason and Jimmy Deason, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Deason of Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. McNeill, Billy and Betty Ann McNeill, Mr. and Mrs T. M. Dorn, Moton, Jr., Willie, Travis, John Edward and Leonard Dorn, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. LaGroon, Billy and Cornelia LaGroon, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Deason, Elizabeth, Ralph, Jean, Ronald, Grace and Dorothy Ann Deason, Mrs. Lizzie Holcombe and Mr. J. B. Walker, all of McCormick. Another important feature of this occasion was it marked the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Deason. They re ceived many nice gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Edmunds of Laurens, S. C., were guests of Mrs. Ida Black, Monday night and Tuesday. Cadet Capt. Lawrence Hester, Jr., returned to The Citadel Sab bath afternoon. Mr. Pat Hester left Friday to return to the Uni versity. Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Humphries of Camden were visitors of Mrs. Re becca Boyd and Mrs. Mabel Brown. Cadet Sergeant Drennan Brown, who spent the holidays in Camden, accompanied them here en route to Clemson College. Misses Jeanne Walker and Hilda King of Abbeville were charming guests of Misses Lura Jeanne and Virginia Watsqn, Tuesday after noon, December 31st. Mr. and Mrs. James Boyd and Mr. Julius Boyd of Greenville were visitors of Mrs. Ludie Boyd Sab bath afternoon. Miss Sallie T. Cade left New Year’s day to resume her work at Converse College. Mrs. J. D. Cade, Misses Julia Cade and Virginia Watson accompanied her as far as Anderson. Miss Virginia Watson returned to Winthrop College Sabbath afternoon. Mrs. Cecil Gilliam and Mrs. J. vB. Curtis visited Mr. Billy Gilliam at Thomwell Friday night and spent the week end in Lancaster with Mr. and Mrs. King and family and Mr. Harold Gilliam. Misses Hazel and Delia McCul- lum and Mr. and Mrs. Joan Mc- Cullum of Anderson were attrac tive guests of Misses Lura Jeanne and Virginia Watson and Mrs. Watson New Year afternoon. Mrs. Myrtle Mauldin was a visi tor in Augusta last week. Many friends will be glad to know her health is very much better. Mr. and Mrs. Feaster Mauldin of Lincolnton spent the week" end"' here. Miss Virginia Watson -was an attractive dinner guest of Miss Jeanne Walker in Abbeville Fri day evening. xx ’ Dr. Mason Receives Request For Pigeons For Use By U. S. Army From The Berkeley Democrat, Moncks Corner, Jan. 2. y Dr. R. E. Mason of St. Stephen has received a request from Major John K. Shawvan in charge of the U. S. Signal Corps at Red Bank, N. J., for two young pigeons bred by him at St. Stephen. The request came as a result of observation of two other pigeons bred by Dr. Mason and now in the possession of Dr. S. B. Gunderson of Macrosse, Wis. The army has in mind the training of faster pigeons for carrying military messages, and Major Shawvan was impressed with the wing motion of the Mason pigeons. Dr. Mason states that his pigeon loft is registered with the War Department, Signal Division, for use in time of war or when needed. He states further that as soon as he can learn the numbers of the pigeons which attracted the notice of Major Shawvan it is his inten tion to comply with the request and send the birds for the use of the army. When the U. S. Coast Guard at Charleston wanted foundation birds for training for use in its work, the Charleston Fanciers re- erred those In charge to Dr. Mason who provided the pigeons or this work. -1X1- Rev. Wm. D. Upshaw To Preach At Baptist Church Here Sunday Rev. Wm. D. Upshaw of Green wood will preach at the McCor mick Baptist Church next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock on ‘‘Old Time Religion,” and at 3 o’clock that afternoon he will address a county-wide citizenship rally at the church on “Rebuilding Amer ica And Cleaning Up Carolina.” The public is cordially invited.