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I* *v TMVM TO OUBlXLTttS, OUB NXI6HBOBS. OUB COUNTRY AND OUB GOD. Fortieth Year Established June 5,1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1942 Number 47 WAIHINCTOI Washington, D. C., April 20.— (NWN5)—4“This nation is begin- nincr to produce as no other na tion in the world has produced.” That statement by Donald M. NeLBon, chairman of the War j ; ion board, coupled with cll.jr imilar evidence of the fact thnt war production now is soar- ii:^ toward records, has spread a .foxing of optimism here dispite the disaster in the Philippines and of ^r disturbing war news. The general feeling is that Allied mo rale and ingenuity of planning is Treat enough to win the war if given materials equal to those of our enemies—and it now appears cei run that we will, before not too long, establish an imposing lee frrship in the production of arms. Many cheering reports about the caliber of our equipment have been made recently. The British, for instance, have reported that U S. built bombers are superior to nything they have and any thing the Germans have; recent Idv litigation of bomb-sights have proved that the Germans don’t even know the principals of our Iv: bombsight which is far superior to any other; and other r; :>•.*.•• - come in regularly from o v Allies praising the equipment which we are sending to them. Actual figures on production of various types of equipment, which might be of use to the enemy, are not being made ‘public, ' but enough figures are released to make it apparent that our pro duction is now going at a terrific pace. ' * The government permitted Gen eral Motors corporation to release general figures on its production of war supplies, which show that that corporation alone shipped over a billion dollars’ worth of war products during the first three months of 1942. This was almost five times as much war equip ment as General Motors shipped during the first quarter of 1941. The General Motors report states that it has contractss for more than 10 per cent of all war ma terials fabricated from metal in cluding one-third of the machine guns, more than one-third of the army trucks, more than half of the nation’s diesel engines, two- fifths of the aviation engines and more than one-fourth of the tanks. Thus the progress of Gen eral Motors gives a good cross- section picture of the progress of our total war production. If General Motors is producing 10 per cent of all metal equip ment, and if other producers are keeping pace with General Mo tors, it can be assumed that our war production approaches the three-billion dollar mark for the first three months of this year. The figures also show that the production rate is being increased greatly each month. Although the first concern of the government and of the peo ple is with production, there is a widespread effort being made to see to it that no company gets exorbitant profits on its produc tion of war material. Conse quently, the President recently issued an order giving six gov ernment agencies the right to audit the books of firms which have government orders to pre vent the accumulation of unrea sonable profits. 'Hie agencies which were given this authority are: the War Production board, the maritime commission, the Reconstruction Finance corpora tion and«the departments of war, navy and treasury. r The white house has shown particular concern recently over the domestic problem of inflation, it being agreed by all authori ties here that the war program can cost us many billions more than it should unless stringent Special Radio Broadcast Tonight J. Fred Buzhardt, Chairman War Savings Committee, McCor mick County, McCormick, S. C., Tuesday received the following self-explanatory wire from Rob ert W. Sparks, Field Director, De fense Savings Staff, Washington, D. C.: Secretary of the Treasury Hen ry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, and leaders of business and labor organizations will speak on a spe cial broadcast Thursday night, over the blue network from 10:00 to 10:30 P. M„ EWT. The broadcast will be devoted to discussion of the national war bond quota system and the ten per cent payroll savings plan. A special guest on the program will be the hero Navy Pilot, Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry O’Hare, who was promoted today from the rank of lieutenant. Other speakers on the broadcast will include William Green, Presi dent of the American Federation of Labor; Philip Murray, President of the Congress of Industrial Or ganizations, W. P. Witherow, Pres ident of the National Association of Mahufacturers, John W. O’Leary, Chairman of the execu tive committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and T. C. Cashen, Chairman of the Railway Executives’ association. . Modoc News -V/t V HOLLYWOOD THEATRE McCORMICK, S. C. FRIDAY and SATURDAY April 24th and 25th, 7:30 P. M. and 9:15 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. JEFFREY LYNN JANE WYMAN in “THE BODY DISAPPEARS” Also A WALT DISNEY CARTOON “LEND A PAW*’ and SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. Adults 20c, Plus Tax M'S # T. E. L. Class To Meet Wednesday With Mrs. F. C. McCain The T. E. L. Class social will meet at the iiome of Mrs. F. C. McCain Wednesday, April 29th. at 4 o’clock p. m., with Mrs. W. M. Strom, Mrs. P. C. Dorn, Sr., Mrs. P. C. Dorn, Jr., and Mrs. C. K. Epting, hostesses. Mrs. J. B. Harmon, Jr., will have charge of the program. AH members are urged to come. Mr, Maurice Outz of Bradley was jja week end visitor here to homfcfolks. Mrjs. D. M. Blackwell and daugh ter, Mrs. Jack Wood, from Parks- ville were visitors here Tuesday evening to Miss Lucy Bussey. Mr. T. J. Stone, Jr., from Augus ta is spending some time here with his father, Mr. T. J. Stone, Sr. > Miss Etoyle Clem has returned homft, after spending several weeks with relatives at Spartan burg. Mts. Minnie Bussey was dinner guest Sunday to her daughter, Mrs. J. O. McDaniel. M*. and Mrs. James Sales from tincblnton, Ga., spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Nash. i Miss Sarah Howie of Greenwood spent the week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Howie. Sergt. Austin Clem and Pvt. Burton Ward from Camp Gordon spent Saturday and Sunday here with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Clem. Miss Annie Smauley of Green wood was the week end guest here to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Smauley. Sergt. Talmage Clem and family from Spartanburg were week end visitors here to the former’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Clem. Plum Branch News of the membership, the indebted ness on the church building has been reduced to only about five hundred dollars. “Uncle Henry” Wells, an aged and highly respected colored citi- en, died April 11th, and was bur ied the foUowing day at Piney Grove Church, of which he was a local preacher. Our village and immediate com munity are weU represented in the eleventh grades of McCormick and Washington High Schools. The following young people will grad uate next month: William Winn, Ray Wall, Virgil Wall, Robert Wil kie, Mryle Seigler; Misses Mary L. McKinney, Catherine Cosey, Mar garet BrackneU, Myrtle Seigler, Amy Seigler. Miss Louise Bracknell is visiting her sister, Mrs. Coleman, at Char lotte. The soft ball team of the Wash ington School recently defeated the Plum Branch girls. This is the first reverse of the season for Plum Branch. Mrs. J. R. Moore has returned from a visit to her husband now at Norfolk, Va. Mr. J. T. Forrester, long engag ed in C. C. C. work has been transferred to the camp at Brad ley. Sullivan News -XX- Mt. Carmel News ) Listen in on WGAC, Augusta, Ga., every clay at 12:20 o’clock for program announcements. MONDAY and TUESDAY April 27th and 28th, 7:30 P. M. and 9:10 P. M. WALT DISNEY’S “DUMBO” (Technicolor) Also SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS and . LATEST NEWS EVENTS w w If i ADMISSION: Adults. 2S cents; Children up to 12, 11 cents; Children 12 to 15. 17 cents, including defense tax. steps are taken to keep prices from soaring higher. The proposals to freeze wages, salaries, rents and prices are only part of the plan now being con sidered to stem inflation, a major part of the planning being aimed at the capture of many more billions of dollars from the peo ple. With purchasing power get ting far ahead of supplies avail able for purchase, it is agreed that this surplus money will cause rapid inflation unless channeled back to the treasury. Several proposals have been made for increasing taxes to even more than the $7,600,000,000 re quested by the treasury several .onths ago. Other proposals call for enforced savings, but, the ma jority of administration leaders ,eem to favor draining the sur plus off the public purse by tax- tion. The office of price administra tion had been the most active de partment in efforts to curb in- lation. Leon Henderson, chief ■>f that office, estimates that th last war cost us $13,500,000,000 more than it should have because >f inflation and he warns that this war might cost us an extra illion unless further inflation is prevented. “In every inflation in history,” said Mr. Henderson, “wages and alaries have lagged behind the general rise. That is the deadly danger. Wages seem to be more; there is actually more money in the pay check. But that increase is more than offset by the rise in prices. So in reality the wage- earner’s standard is lowered.” Those who favor higher taxa tion as a means of preventing in flation fear that they cannot get the cooperation of congress in an election year. Already some members of congress have sug gested that the tax proposals are too high and it is evident that a good deal of administration pressure would be necessary to: boost them still higher. —Luy Defense Bonds— The health of this thriving vil lage is good. With thirty white families, there has been only one death here in five years. Mrs. A. B. Turner, head matron of the N. C. State Prison for Wom en at Raleigh, spent last week with her daughter, Mrs. G. P. La nier. Sunday, April 19th, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Bracknell had as guests for supper Mr. and Mrs. George Dorn, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Freeland and Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Sturkey. Mr. Griffin Robertson,’ who re cently underwent an operation in a Louisiana hospital, is recovering satisfactorily. Mr. John Henry Wideman, for merly a citizen of Plum Branch, is luite iU at the home of his son- in-law at Aynor. Also we regret to report the illness of Mr. Frank Wells of Troy, formerly a well- known resident of Plum Branch. Mr. H. N. Smith, two mUes west of town, recently showed us an arm chair two hundred years old. Mr. Smith, who is 81 years old, says the chair was made for his great-great-grandmother. Misses Margaret BrackneU and Carolyn Rice attended the Alpha Beta Convention in Columbia last veek. Miss Frances Talbert of Green- rood spent last week with her arents, Mr. and Mrs. George Tal bert. . On Sunday morning, April 19th J fr. W. M. Freeland, for several 1 ^ars superintendent of the Meth-| odist Sunday school, was presen t- d by his friends in the school, with a beautiful fountain pen. He recently joined the army. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crawford are the proud parents of a charm ing daughter. The little one was born April 11th, and is named Martha Jean. The operetta, “The Maid and he Golden Slipper,” was present- d at the school house Friday tight, April 17th. The costumes vere exquisitely beautiful, and the children gave full proof of the careful training of Miss Brown and Mrs. Freeland. The proceeds of the evening amounted $23.00. Mr. and Mrs. Carol Winn have moved to the residence long oc cupied by Mr. W. M. Freeland, while Mr. and Mrs. Freeland are occupying an apartment in the home of Mr. Ralph Winn. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Sturkey had as their dinner guest Sunday April 19th, Mr. Thomas Meriweth er from Meriwether. A large congregation heard Rev. G. P. Lanier preach the third Sun day at Plum Branch. The ordi nance of the Lord’s Supper was observed at the close of the ser- \iee. As u result of the liberality Quite a number of Mt. Carmel pepole enjoyed the Inspirational Hour at De la Howe Sabbath af ternoon. Among them were Mrs. t. W. Boyd, Mrs. J. B. Curtis, Miss Susie Patterson, Mr. James Miller, Dr. S. W. Reid, Mrs. Cecil Gilliam, Mrs. W. R. Boyd, Mrs. Mabel Brown, Miss Juanita Curtis, Messrs. Campbell and John McAl lister, Mrs. Hunter McKinney, Mrs. W. A. Scott, Mrs. Carrie Tarrant. Mrs. W. v lT‘Trorton, Miss Monnie Harling, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Wat son, Sen. and Mrs. L. L. Hester, Misses Carolyn Hester and Jean Smith and others. Mr. James Miller accompanied Dr. S. W. Reid to the Spring meet ing at Second Presbytery which met in Spartanburg Tuesday and go on to the meeting of Synod at Statesville, N. C., the balance of the week. Mrs. Dode Philips and son, Dav id, of Due West were visitors of Mrs. J. W. Boyd Sunday afternoon,. Messrs. J. J. Sutherland, J. F. Sutherland and J. B. Sutherland were visitors here Tuesday after noon. Mr. Bradley Morrah of Green ville was a visitor here Friday. Mr. Billy Gilliam spent the past week end with his brother, Mr. Harold Gilliam, in Greenwood. Mrs. William Sharp and Miss Julia Cade were Anderson visitors Monday. The many friends of Mr. Wright Andrews are glad to hear he has recovered from his recent illness, and is able to be at home for a- while. Mrs. Ida Black, Miss Annie White, Mrs. D. J. McAllister, Mrs. Carrie Tarrant and Mrs. Hunter McKinney attended the meeting of Presbyterial of the Presbyterian Auxiliary which was held in the Presbyterian Church in Abbeville Tuesday. They reported a splen did meeting and a very interesting and helpful program. The many friends Gf Miss Flor ence Patterson will regret to hear she is not well, but we hope for aer an early improvement. Mr. and Mrs. Feaster Mauldin were visitors of Mrs. Myrtle Maul din Saturday. Mr. W. L. Miller was a visitor in Anderson Tuesday. xx- Program At Troy School Friday Night The Troy P. T. A. is sponsoring a personal appearance of Bab* Ray, Country Cousins and Coth ran Sisters, who are heard twk daily over WFBC and the Blue Ridge Network at 6:30 A. M. and 4:45 P. M., on Friday night, Apri' 24th, in the School Auditorium. The program will begin at OiCT o’clock and the admission is 2 cents for children 12 years of age and under and 30 cents for aduils, We were delighted at the large number attending the preaching services at Sullivan school house Sunday night. The message de livered by Rev. A. D. Croft was very impressive. We want every one to be present first Sunday af ternoon at 3:30 o’clock to reorgan ize our Sunday school. Come and bring some one with you. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Winn and family visited Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Talbert and family of Plum Branch Sunday afternoon. Misses Margie and Narine Cor ley, Dick and Tommie Corley of Edgefield spent the past week end with Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Shuford, while Mr. Jimmie Corley visited his aunt, Mrs. Ethel Plumkett, in Lynchburg, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Whatley and Sidney Louise of Greenwood and Mr. Wilbur Reames of Fort Jack- son spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Reames. Mrs. Virginia Bailey and Inez spent Monday with Mrs. Susie Winn. Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Corley spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Timmerman and family. Others there were Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sandifer of Troy, and Miss Sabrina Timmerman of Aiken. During the afternoon they visited Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Seigler and family, and Mr. and Mrs. H. Al drich Cheatham and family of Edgefield. The Sullivan H. D. Club met last Tuesday in the lovely home of Mrs. J. E. Winn. Everyone pres ent enjoyed this meeting very much. Mrs. J. L. Reames demon strated and gave everyone a sam ple of beef. Mrs. Winn’s yard was beautiful with the white and pur ple flag lilies in bloom, and other flowers. The hostess served de licious refreshments of sandwich es, crackers, pickle, tea and Eas ter candy eggs. Mrs. Sallie Gilchrist of Cleora community and Mrs. Mark Perry of Columbia spent Thursday with Mrs. Virginia Bailey. Mrs. G. D. Beil, Mrs. Boyce Bell and Mrs. Otto Rush of *Callison spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Mayson. Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Reames were Mr. Eugene Reames of Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Reames and Betty Jeanne of Anniston, Alabama, spent a week visiting relatives; Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Reames of Allendale, spent Saturday night and Sun day; Mrs. J. M. Johnston of Aiken. Mrs. Albert Seigler and children of this community were supper guests. Miss Thelma Gilchrist of Green wood spent the past week end with homefolks. Supper guests in the home of Mrs. J. B. Gilchrist and family Sunday night were Rev. A. D. Croft, Jimmie Reel, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Winn and family, Sara Kath erine Winn and Martha Seigler. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Mayson spent Sunday in Greenwood with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Reames and family. Among other guests were Mr. and vlrs. Marvin Reames of Fort Bragg. Master Tandy Bailey was sick several days, being absent from jehool, this being the first day he has missed from school this ses sion. He has returned to school now. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Winn and family were dinner guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rey nolds Sunday night at Clinton. -ixt- Mr. James Bell Is Made Ensign In U. S. Navy Mr. James Bell, who is a student /in the junior class at the Univer sity of South Carolipa, was com missioned an Ensign March 2/, in the officers reserve of the United States Navy. including tax. First grade chil dren admitted free if accompan ied by their parents.