The Herald from Rock Hill, South Carolina • 1

THE TEST OF EVERY RELIGION POLITICAL OR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS THE MAN THAT IT FORMS-Amiel The The Weather Cloudy and warmer Mattered shower tonight Wednesday partly cloudy preceded by ehewrn In east ERALB The Markets Marts Closed Local BpoM it I7H VOL 61 NO 336 FULL NEA SERVICE ROCK HILL TUESDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 4 1911 ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE 8 PAGES PRICE 5c ORPEDOED NAVA IMPS INTO PORT Takes Oath As Governor Soldier Meets His Favorites At Winthrop College ATTACKED IN AREA WHERE WARSHIP BLACK SEA NAVAL BASE SHELLED IN GERMAN DRIVE COUNCIL ORDERS BONDS SOLD AND NEW WORK BEGUN Abattoir Bids To Be Opened Dec 1 Private Edgar Otis Miner of New London Conn wanted very much to meet James Melton and Rose Bampton when the two singers appeared at Winthrop College last week And he was about the happiest man in the army when they received him graciously and chitted with him Mr Melton lives in Connecticut himself (Westport) so he and Private Miner talked about heir favorite state Miner is stationed near Rock Hill with the headquarters company special troops of the 43rd Division (Herald Photo-Engraving i Harley Takes Over Reins As Governor BULLETINS MUSICIANS WON'T FORGET WINTHROP Artists Who Have Traded Instruments For Guns Visit Here Many professional musicians who temporarily have laid aside their instruments and stopped their voices in order that the country's defense might be served will remember Winthrop College "when the Carolina army maneuvers are over They will remember the college's huge auditorium where they found students and people go to hear some of the 38 outstanding ar tists And they will remember the college music department and Dr Walter Roberts director of music at the college for permitting them to step back into their professions and appear before many Rock Hill audiences Many Appear Among musicians who have appeared on "Community and other programs at the college and at the municipal stadium have been the following: Private (first class) James Curtis of the 47th Infantry a tenor former soloist at the Little Church Around the Corner in New York: Corporal Norman Kelly of the 17th Field Artillery a tenor who has sung with the Boston and San Francisco Opera Companies and other groups: Corporal Eugene Kingsley of the 47th Infantry a bass-baritone nf Pittsburg Corporal Charles Meyers New York pianist: Corporal Wilbur Vlebrock of the 80th Infantry organist for a large Presbyterian church in Plainfield Private Evans Thornton of the 60lh Infantry Private Leonard Morris Buffalo of the 13th Armored Regiment a baritone and Private Rudolph Hepple San Francisco Cal also of the 13tli Armored Regiment cometist Hear Programs Many soldiers from Maine to California and from Washington to Florida have attended artist course performances at the collrge Others who have not visited the college have had an opportunity to see the music department's work when the glee clubs sextette band orchestra and other ensembles Iihvp helped to entertain at camps in this vkThlty EATS REID PEPPER The saw-toothed grain beetle can live Its entire life on a diet of red liepper alone OPM Order About Power Cut Given The City of Rock lllll today is parrying In an advertisement on page notice of power restrictions going Into effect under the new OPM ruling inaugurated to save power for defense purposes The order is cited In detail in the advertisement SERIAL STORY i WENT TO BOTTOM No Loss Of Life Reported By Nary DETAILS GUARDED Sixteen Thousand Ton Vessel Was In North Atlantic Convoy Washington Nov 4 (AV-The navy announced today another torpedoing in north Atlantic waters--that of the 8 naval tanker but said there was no loss of lire The 16300 ton Salinas was without warning" a terse navy statement said Seriously dam- aged she mode her way to port The vessel was in a convoy when attacked the navy said details of the damage will be released as it will be of no value except to the the navy said In disclosing that the tanker was hit last Wednesday night southwest of Iceland This was one day before and in the same general area where the Reuben James first American warship to be lost In the present European war went down The Salinas is commanded by Commander Cope of New Or-leans La The tanker was built by the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Co for the Shipping Board In 1920 It was transferred to the navy and commissioned December 16 1921 The navy described the vessel as being of 16300 tons displacement with a complement of 107 men The vessel was the fourth 8 warship to be involved in a torpedoing incident in a period of two months MERCHANTS JOIN IN "BLACKOUT" Discuss Power Shortage And Christmas Opening At Lunch Despite the fact that elimination of display lllumlnatiou will vitally affect the appearance of the business district and of business volume members of the Rock Hill Business Men's League voted unanimously today to co-operate with the government In saving electricity for defense purposes and will conserve power that has been used for purposes above those of actual necessity Discussion of power Christmas programs summer picnics and useless advertising features consumed the hour of the monthly business meeting today Acute power shortage due to the drouth has caused the Office nf Production Management to ask drastic curtailment of the use of power In the local territory the cut Is only 5 percent but In some sections of South Carolina and Georgia and other points the reduction calls for as much as 30 percent Co-operating with the Junior Welfare League the business men will raise funds for the Christmas opening program and President Jordan appointed the following committee to secure nrcesrary funds: Earl Barron Galloway I Ardrry Stanley Delf Young Kurtz Marshall Jr and A Henderson In view of the fact that the store managers and clerks have not given general endorsement to and interest in the annual summer plena It was voted today to discontinue these events and possibly arrange a substitute feature for the summer season Business men today again urged the nereiwlty to conform to the blue card standard for advertising on the part of the business houses and penalties for the violation of the blue card rule was requested Red Cross Clips Last year the Red Cross sped assistance to 217000 victims of 149 disasters In this country Disaster will strike again this when where and how hard no one knows But the Red Cross must be ready to perform 1U errands of merey Help the Red Crone prepare by Joining the local chapter without New Offensive Opened Against Rostov SAY DRTVE HALTED Ready To Storm City After Drive Across Crimea Sector (By Associated Press) Tank-led German troops were reported to have opened a violent new offensive today against Rostov gateway to the Caucasus oil fields and troops were reported massing ready for a front attack on Russia's Black Sea naval base of Sebastopol Soviet front line dispatches said the German onslaught against Rostov was attacking from several directions At one point Russians admitted the Germans have succeeded in driving a wedge "several miles into Red Army lines losing men and machines The thrust ntfw has been halted It was said Latest advircs put the Germans within 15 miles of the big Donets river port The Russians acknowledging that the Crimea was in grave danger asserted that the peninsula "has not been conquered Fighting is go-Ing on and will go on" London advices said a Soviet army of approximately 750000 troops especially urained In Arctic Siberia were moving up to bolster forces from Moscow to Rostov A-bout 200000 already have arrived at Moscow it was reported and about 200000 more are on their way to help they would do the most presumably In the Rostov (By Associated Press) German field batteries were reported shelling great Black Rea naval base of Sebastopol today and Nazi front line dispatches said that after driving 90 miles across the Crimea in seven days Axis trno)s were ready to storm the city within a very few hours Advices reaching Ixndon conceded (I at the Germans already had immobilized the jiort as a base for (Please turn to Pace 6) AUTOINSPECTION STATION IS OPEN Motorists Required To Obtain New Stickers For Windshields Vihlcle insprrl ion station No 14 bee ill operation in Rock Hill yesterday and will remain at its location on York Avenue just off Oakland until about the middle of December William Bradford Jr su)cr-vlsor of the station said today that notice was given all motor vehicle owners that the stiekers they now carry on their windshields have expired and a new approval sticker must be secured during the station's stay liere Registration records of the Slate highway department give York county a total of 11000 vehicles of all Ivpes Approximately 7000 of this number are In Rock Hill and Immediate vicinity All those must receive the first ierind 1042 slickrr green in color during I lie Motion present visit There will he no return visit to Rock Ilill this eriod to catch the There Is ample timn for (he approval of all vehicles if Mio owners present them at the si a Mon promptly New license plates are not required for in-pee-j lion The Inspection laws mi commer-rlal and private leissenger vehicles Urn now being enforced and anyone ieaiU'hl operating a vehicle which i does not display mi up-In-da Ip slicker or one which In Iiceii rejected by the lnsecUnn I'rrp does so at risk nf being and 1 fined nr Imprisoned Th laws provide for penalties from $1 to $100 or Imprisonment for 30 days The station Is ns each week-day from 8 a to 5 Saturday hours ure 8 a to 1 copyhiamt leaf NSA SCRVICK INC A $75000 ISSUE To Carry Forward Also Plans For Building Incinerator City council lust night approved the advertising for sale of a $75000 bond issue for municipal Improvement and voted to call for bids for construction of a city one of three projects included In the improvements program The date for the sale of the bonds to mature beginning In IMS in blocks of $5000 for each of 15 years will be fixed later This date probably will be In early December It was said December 1 at 11 a was fixed as the hour for the opening of bids for the abattoir building to be erected near Northslde school A request for a priority rating has been submitted in an effort to speed the obtaining of materials Also discussed was the question of construction of an incinerator which will be given further study The incinerator and the abattoir are joined with a sewer and water exhMutnn iwwt tha thrMmy program of improvements for which the $75000 worth of bonds will be sold Passed to third reading was an ordinance to permit taxis to charge 25 cents for single passengers and 15 cents each for two or more pas- sengers going to the same destination and to charge 50 cents and 25 cents respectively for large and small trunks PLAN TO EASE TAX PAYMENTS Street Tax Levy Would Be Divided Into Two Equal Installments An ordinance providing for a plan to make it easier to pay city street taxes and to encourage prompt jwyment was passed to second reading at a meeting of the city council last night The plan would not go into effect until January 1 1942 and would not affect the payment of street taxes during the present year Mayor Erwin Carothers suggested that some adjustment In the present plan of paying street taxes be made The tax he pointed out Is $3 a penalty added to this in August raises it to $4 and where It is turned over to the police for collection It finally reaches $3 Councilman Blackman asserted that the penalty was "out of reason'' and too hard on the man who had difficulty paying his street taxes Other councllmen agreed that some adjustment might be necessary and after a discussion Mr Blackman moved that an ordinance embodying a new plan be adopted He suggested in his motion that the tax be due 1ml ($150) In June and half In November at the same time that the two Installments of property taxes were due When not paid when due a 50 cents penalty would go on each Installment at the same time that penalties were added to property taxes the motion provided The ordinance was passed to second reading by a unanimous council vote TOWN TALK Ton idle for sjtorU section came word this afternoon that Red San-clrrs Vanderbilt coach has accepted Kock Hill Jaycees Invitation to address their annual football banquet in December Tile Junior Welfare Icaaue hns a committee working on a plan which It believes will help meet the need for emergency eating facilities for soldiers here on week-ends "Sergeant York" Is a picture to thrill every red-blooded American It shows how a man whose nature cries out against killing still can do his duty as a soldier when the neenslon demands ARMY CHAPLAINS ARE SPEAKERS Discuss Significance Of Maneuvers On Winthrop College Two army Lieut Col John MacWilliams of the First army corps and Lieut Col Eugene Alexander or the 30th Infantry Division the significance of the army maneuvers and the chaplains work at Johnson Hall on the College campus last night The meeting which was open to the public was sponsored by Pi Gamma Mu national honorary social science fraternity Chaplain Alexander attached to South Carolina's own national guard division explained that college and seminary degrees instructions In military courtesy Infantry drill training good physique and the ability to "gel along" with men were required of army chaplains One of the greatest values of army training he declared was that It taught men to "get along" Also he said the maneuvers teach men to "do something" and then lets them do allows actual practice of what they have learned in theory He outlined the different phases of the army organization and their functions Speaking of the supply service he declared that the men were well fed and given good hospital care and that there was a minimum of sickness and a minimum of Injury considering llie work which had to be done Chaplain' Duties The army chaplain he said serves (Please turn to Page 6) 14 MEN CALLED TOARMYONIOTH Local Draft Board Fills Quota York Board Gets New Order Fourteen white men will be inducted into the army on November 10 by the eastern York County Selective Service board in filling the board's newest quota The local board was not Included In the new December quotas announced today at state headquarters but the board at York serving the western hair of the county was called on to send 10 white and one colored men Following are the 14 men notified to report for induction by the local board on November 10: William Franklin Robinson Roy Lee Abercrombie volunteers Abraham Ford Benjamin Sloan Atkins John Lyle Craig Albert Van Oray Willard Lee Boswell Virgil Clayton Dickerson Roy Myers Nell Jr Henry Worth Jackson and Fred Darrell Peter all of Rock Hill and Steve Jackson Rolfe Arnold and Baxter Wilson Bennett Fort Mill The new quotas and schedules of arrival for white solectees Include: November 24: Oaffney 19 Blacksburg 9 Oreat Falls 6 November 25: Lancaster 15 November 28: York 10 Quotas and schedules of arrival for negro selectees include: December 1: York I London Nov 4 The admiralty announced today that a total of officers and men had been rescued from an undisclosed number of sunken Axis submarines Washington Nov 4 UP) The navy department announced today it had abandoned hope for finding the seven officers and SS enlisted men lost In the torpedo sinking of the destroyer Reuben James Berlin Nov (AV-The central offices of the Communist Internationale in Moscow wore hit by a German bomb In a day attack of October 29 and burned many hours DNB declared1 today New York Nov 4 Finnish forces including artillery Infantry and motorised units are starting direct assault on Murmansk and "The town will be taken in storm within a few days should the Russian garrison refuse to a Finnish broadcast heard by NBC declared today ROCKWELL KENT TALKS ON ART Tells Winthrop Audience To Follow Dictates Of Heart Rockwell Kent American artist and author urged Winthrop College students today to trust In "what your heart tells you about and to keep these values "young and alive" Speaking on "Democracy and at the Winthrop chapel assembly he traced the story of art from Michelangelo through several periods to America With the advent of the long depression he said art was "out on a limb" Then there came a democratic art which depleted the life of the people Works Projects Administration art projects helped in the move which resulted in art everyone could understand" He challenged Winthrop girls to something In art which you like" Time At Hand For Showdown Says Press Of Japan In Attack (By Asnelalrd Press) Japanese newspapers renewed their anti-American editorial campaign today declaring that "the time has come for the final show down" The newsaper Kukomln said Ja pan must assume the failure of To-kyo-Washlngton talks unless the United States changed Its present attitude The talks were initiated last August by former Premier Prince Konoye Informed London sources expres sed belief that Japan was prepar lng to seize on British preoccupa tlon with the Oerman drive toward the Caucasus to strike at the Burma road China's lifeline STORK HOSPITAL Morocco has a stork hospital for injured storks Wealthy Moore who regard the birds as sacred keep up the Institution gnrnwll AffnrnpyU Sworn In Succeeding Senator-Elect Columbia Nov 4 Joseph Harley 61-year-old Barnwell lawyer took over the office of Governor of South Carolina today with a statement that his "highest ambition would be to help accomplish a 40-day legislative session devoted to the efficient and businesslike disposition of the affairs and divorced from Harley lieutenant governor since 1935 succeeded to the governorship a few minutes after Burnet May-bank resigned to become Junior United States senator Maybank saw Harley sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Taylor Stukes In a simple inaugural ceremony In the executive offices at the state house The coming session of the general assembly the opportunity to achieve political unity and to aid in promotion of the national defense as South Carolina has a part in ft" Harley said In a prepared address read by his secretary John Cauthen The new governor is handicapped by a throat ailment and has difficulty In speaking Governor Mayoank said last night that "by no vote or act" would he "give support or encouragement to such groups as the America First who look to the Wheelers and Lindberghs for tills hour of nur national emergency" he tolcl a statewide radio audience shall follow the leadership of the man on whose shoulders in my opinion rests the destiny of our Democratic way of life" In his last speech as the state's chief executive Maybank mid the trend "during recent years has been to take powers away from the governor and place them In the hands of officials not elected by the people But In my opinion this trend should be reversed and the powers taken away from the governor be rehimed In order to bring about more efficient and more responsible government" I have not done all would liked to have done there is one thing certain I have demonstrated that the governor's of fire Is not a dead-end street of public service" Work Is Begun On Courthouse Annex (By Herald Correspondent) York Nov 4-Following exrava-I inns last week by the county chain-gang the McDevllt and Street company rnntr actors for the courthouse annex got busy yesterday with work preliminary to actual building operations The brlrk and stone entrance just outside the rear door of the building was tom down The pouring of concrete for the foundation of the new structure will begin shortly it was raid today hy Llhdsoy who will superintend the building of the annex The annex will be completed in four or five months if no trouble Is experienced In obtaining building material Mr Lindsay raid BANNED Cadets at the 8 Military Academy at West Point are forbidden to marry or to raise mustachei SEEK TO MODIFY-POWERCUTORDER Meet In Charlotte No Change In Non-Essential Lighting Charlotte Nov 4 (AV-Executives of the power division of the OPM and of power companies of the Car olinas will meet here tomorrow to consider possibilities of modifying the OPM order for a five percent curtailment of power consumption by non-defense 'Industry of the two states The order la effective Monday unless modified meanwhile This conference officials explained has no relation to the blackout of display and non-essential advertising lighting which was put into effect last night for an indefinite duration pending relief from a drought which has curtailed power production This explanation was given by A Krugg of Atlanta chief of the OPM who said the lighting blackout would be continued Indefinitely are not giving any thought at thia time to any revialon of the ordrra relating to private and non-essential display lighting" he raid He said a conference would be hrld here tomorrow to determine whether or not all the demands of the defense program might be met without making effective the five percent curtailment for non-defense and Industrial customers nf power companies LORD HALIFAX IN EGG SHOWER Women Peace Demon-trators In Detroit Make Envoy Target Del roll Mich Nov 4 Women pence demonstrators showered eggs and tomatoes on Lord Halifax British ambassador to the United States today as he entered the Chanrrry building on Washington boulevard In downtown Detroit The aniburaador making a two-day tour of Detroit's defense Industries was struck hy several of the missiles Detective Inspector Charles Searle who whs arrompunylng Lord Halifax said the women were apparently the mime who plrketed the entrance to (he lintel Monday carrying placards reading with England" and "Halifax is a Halifax raid after he was Inside the building came In thia way and I Intend to go out thin way" Police raid the demonstration was started by a group which calls Itself "the mothers of America" EXECUTIVE COUNCIL The Winthrop College community is governed by an executive council a Judicial board and a senate-all three made up of students FOR THE LOVE OF PETE! 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