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p. AFFNE.Y EE EDG A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, S. THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1945 $4.00 PER YEAR IN ADVAKCE M'DANIEL SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS FOR MANSLAUGHTER KIN OF MISSING FLIERS ASK PROBE Has Quad-Troubles Hungry Russian Pig Chain Is Negro Youths TT Local Plants To Slaughter More Cattle Given Eight Sponsored By Years Apiece Rotary Club German Ruin Described By Sen. Maybank Germany was destroyed from 60 to 90 per cent as a result of the war, it was declared here Monday evening by United States Senator Burnet R.

Maybank in an address at a joint gathering of several civic clubs at the Hotel Carroll. He said the 90 per cent figure applied to the industrial areas, which I. I ri) mm I -o p- ft I1.tr I "3 imiseiw i ii i ifirt r' Blacksburg, July 11. The Convicted Tuesday night of man slaughter, Lawrence McDaniel, of Blacksburg Rotary Club started its Second year's work Monday evening at the regular meeting in the Blacksburg community house. The club completed installation of new officers last week and got down to business this week with the idea .7 of raising pigs.

were almost completely wiped out. Frank Barton was guest speaker of the evening. He is president of the Rotary Club in Woodruff, and the vocational agriculture teacher there. Mr. Barton outlined the pro Washington, July 9.

Secretary of Agriculture Anderson today set in motion the plan to increase slaughtering by cleanly operated local packing houses and add their meat to the nation's general supply. An Agriculture department spokesman said the program should increase the civilian supply, aid in equitable distribution, and have some effect in curbing the black market." He added that the results must not be expected immediately but said they "would likely have a noticeable effect in the fall when the heavier slaughtering starts." The program results from an amendment sponsored by Representative Patman (D-Tex.) which Congress added to the bill extending price control for another year. It provides for unlimited slaughter by noh-federally inspected plants, if they are certified by the Agriculture department as being operated in a sanitary manner. Their meat is 'to be made eligible to move in Interstate commerce and to be bought by the govern- Maybank, the club members and a number of others especially invited were the guests of Claude B. Poole, owner of the hotel, at a delightful dinner.

Dr. J. N. Lipscomb, presidentelect of the Lions Club, which sponsored the meeting at the request of Mr. Poole, presided.

Other clubs participating-'included the Rotary. Crustbreakers and Junior' gram of pig raising sponsored by his club in Woodruff and the Blacksburg Rotarians appeared en twsmjm mm thusiastic about commencing a IllPiillt similar program here. During the next few weeks the Chamber of Commerce. Presidents club plans to buy about twenty fine registered pigs and through a contract agreement, give them to boys on farms surrounding Blacks burg. These boys will feed the DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMY, SSgt.

William Thompson, Pittsburgh, father of the quads born to Norah Carpenter in England, is beset with problems. He can't get his wife Eleanor to grant him the divorce that would let him marry Norah and bring her and the children to the U. S. His return to civilian life has ended his government allotments, (International) pigs until they are grown into brood sows and then after breed FAMILIES OF THREE U. S.

AIRMEN whose pictures as prisoners-of-war (top photo) appeared in a Nazi propaganda magazine three months after they were officially listed as killed, have asked that the War Department reopen the entire case. The kin of the missing airmen want the U. S. Army Air Forces to recheck the mystery of the bomber which crashed with these men near Taroudant, French Morocco. Dec.

8, 1943. The fliers are (bottom, t. to Sgts. Carl Cobb, Cynthiana, Sylvan Lazarus, Baltimore, B. Brody, New Rochelle, N.

Y. (International) of the organizations were introduced briefly, including Dr. J. H. Cathcart of the Crustbreakers, John Hamrick of the Rotary Club, and J.

Frank Bagwell, vice president and immediate past president of the Junior Chamber, in the absence of Billy Gunter, the president. The Rev. R. C. Griffith, pastor of the Buford Street Methodist church, offered the invocation.

Senator Maybank recently returned home from an extensive tour of the 'late war zones in Europe. His talk consisted principally of descriptions of the almost unbelievable destruction he saw in Germany, Holland and other areas. However, he took advantage of the opportunity to express strong support for the San Francisco world charter and the Bretton Woods Indians To Play ing, two pigs from the first litter of each sow will be returned to the Blacksburg Rotary Club for distribution to other boys. This is being done as a community service for Blacksburg farm boys. It should help alleviate part of the meat shortage, and promises to provide finer breeding stock for pigs, according to club officials.

The Blacksburg Rotarians plan to continue this idea for several years in co-operation with the THIS RUSSIAN SOLDIER works: heartily on a slab of Swedish bread I in a transient camp at Gavle, Sweden, where he waits to take ship for his homeland. Formerly an underfed prisoner-of-war in a German camp in Norway, he's learned what hunger is. (International) Scrap Paper Be Collected On Wednesday Another collection of scrap paper Jonesville, Then Pacolet Trojans Plans for Next Year Begun By United Campaign Board farmers, it was stated. Heading into the second half of Chairman Pace (D-Ga.) of the House committee investigating food shortages announced meanwhile that the committee would follow a policy of placing American civilian food needs ahead of those of foreign countries. Pace, who became chairman of the cbmmittee after Anderson was made secretary of agriculture, issued a statement saying the investigating group would try to secure adoption on the principles that the American people have, next to the armed forces, the highest claim on food supplies.

Anderson announced that regulations under which slaughterers will apply for certification are being prepared and will be ready in a few days. He stressed that the next year by the latter part of August. agreement, and to pay tribute to the Spartanburg County League schedule, Gaffney's Indians, still holding to a three-way tie for top position, will invade the Jonesville Seaman Porter Serving Aboard Local participating agencies this year include the Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the Cherokee County Tuberculosis tne valuable services in Europe of Major Robert M. Littlejohn, a native of Jonesville, who is related to the Littlejohn families in Cherokee COUntV. Senator Mavhnnk sniH park Friday and return to the klm Street field Saturday to tackle Pacolet's White Trojans in a game Association, and the U.

S. O. will be made in Gaffney next Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock by that may mean an undisputed grip L. F. superintendent of the city schools, Mrs.

J. V. Phillips and Dr. Eastwood were chosen General Littlejohn, who was in charge of supplies ifor the Euro the Junior Chamber of Commerce, on first place in the circuit. This week-end will mark the it was announced yesterday by Ha, as a committee to, contact Ghero' kee county and city of Gaffney pean rorces, was General Eisenhower's right-hand man, and that he had performed a truly magnificent job.

beginning of a two-game weekly league series which was approved bhinn, publicity chairman. Mr. Shinn said the last previous U.S. S.Nevada Aboard The USS Nevada in The Pacific, July 11. Roy S.

Porter, seaman second class, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Porter of route 5, Gaffney, S.

is serving aboard this battleship which has written a blazing chapter in the history of World War II. The only battleship to get under officials with reference to contribu collection about a month ago proved tions to the fund for next year. at a meeting of the circuit representatives at Spartanburg Monday Reorganization of the governing board for the United Campaign was started at a meeting held Tuesday night at the Hotel Carroll by the re-election of the officers, selection of eight representatives of the public, and the appointment of a committee to contact civic clubs which ave me member each on the board to ask 'that these members be named as soon as possible. Re-elected upon recommendation of a nominating committee consisting of. F.

W. Sossamon and Mrs. J. V. Phillips were Dr.

A. J. Eastwood, of Limestone College, president; A. W. Askins, of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company, vice president; and Dr.

B. W. Middle-ton, of the Carolina Drug Company, treasurer. Mrs. Claude B.

Patrick, member of the post office clerical staff, is secretary. It was voted that participating organizations be requested to submit their proposed budgets for night along with a decision to per disappointing in that so few people participated and so little paper was turned in. The committee to get in touch with civic clubs concerning the selection of members to serve on the governing board includes A. Senator Maybank's findings confirmed previous reports by other sources as to the enormous amount of destruction in Germany. He said in one large city which he mit each team's using three "outside" players.

The collection totalled less than a car load, a'nd the participants averaged not more than one in ten W. Askins, Mrs. S. C. Stribling way during the Jap attack on Pearl and Mrs.

C. B. Patrick. the following points: 1. That OPA price, rationing and other regulations are being and have been observed.

2. That the fheat will move in legitimate trade channels within legal price ceilings. 3. That the plants meet sanitary standards which will be prescribed in the regulations. 4.

That meat production will be conducted utuier the supervision of qualified veterinary inspectors. 6. That the plant will participate in providing meat for governmental agencies as may be required. Anderson said local or state in- crof inn umiflrl Kft rppmynizpH nrn. visited, where there had been a population of nearly 800,000 befora the war.

not a buildinir is standing1 he said. Pointing out that waste paper The Indians, playing the strong Union Blue Devils here yesterday, were seeking, another pitcher, catcher and Thfielder to tighten up for the last half race. Several of the loop's eight teams already were playing Camp Croft soldiers, most of them former pro undamaged. The population now, Harbor, she cleared the blazing USS Arizona and through a sea of flaming oil, passed by the USS Oklahoma. Nearing the Pearl Harbor entrance channel, she avoided Board members to represent the public were named as follows: G.

G. Watts, J. J. Norton, John M. Hamrick and Mrs.

S. C. Littlejohn, to serve until 1946, and F. W. Sossamon, Mrs.

S. C. Stribling, Mrs. J. -Claude Fort and Mrs.

E. V. Hinton to serve until 1947. ne said, is not over 200,000, and it was estimated at the time he visited the city that there were still Jap planes attempts to sink her and is used for many purposes in the war effort, Mr. Shinn said Junior Chamber officials are hoping.

Gaffney people will co-operate more generally next week by placing all of the paper they can get in neatly tied bundles at points convenient 70,000 bodies buried in the ruins. Blacksburg, yesterday morning was sentenced in circuit court hera by Judge T. S. Sease, presiding, to serve four years. McDaniel was tried for killing Major Manning Childers, 30, also of Blacksburg, who died In the Cherokee County Hospital here August 11 of last year, six days after he had been stabbed.

A jury failed to agree when the case was first tried last November. The case was called Tuesday morning and was given to the jury late in the day. The verdict was received by the court yesterday niorning. 1 The jury consisted of Roy Peeler, P. G.

DeStaffino, A. J. Hulsey, S. S. Goforth, J.

C. Garner, John Spencer, Clarence Johnson, B. A. Coyle, J. O.

Peeler, C. C. Mullins, G. W. Liles and Marvin Sarratt.

Witnesses for the state were Rural Policeman S. W. Goforth, Boyd Manning and Dr. J. H.

Cathcart. The defense witnesses included the defendant and his wife, Forest Moss and Tommie McDaniel. Solicitor Sam R. Watt conducted the prosecution. McDaniel was defended by Attorney E.

Saint-Amand. When court recessed for dinner yesterday the trial of "Hawk" Harlow, well-known local ball player, on "peeping torn" charges was under way. The final presentment of the grand jury, handed in Tuesday afternoon by Foreman Hall Martin, said: "We have no recommendations to make at this time." Sentences of eight years each were imposed by Judge Sease on Don Ratchford, and Ed Stuart, youthful negroes, who plead guilty to five charges of housebreaking and The negroes robbed several business houses and the Greyhound bus station here several weeks ago. Ruth Bratton and Evely Byars, negro women who plead guilty to larceny, wre ordered to serve one year each in the state penitentiary. Eula Spencer and Roxie Martin were convicted in their absence on charges of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.

The two women reported to the court later, and the former was sentenced to three months or $50 and the latter to three months or $100. Judge Sease revoked two probationary sentences, one for Clyde Porter, of Blacksburg, and the other for Ernest Moses. Both were liquor cases. McKinley Wilson, who plead guilty to receiving stolen goods, was sentenced to four months. Eugene Mathis, charged with desertion and non-support, was sentenced to pay to the clerk of court $10 a week for the support of his family and was placed on probation for five years.

Pawley's Island Barracuda Bites Greenville Boy Greenville, July 10. Physicians at a local hospital today reported the condition of Wirt (Happy) Stover as fair, following an attack by a barracuda at Pawley's Island yesterday, but said amputation of the boy's left foot is probable. The child, with his mother, was flown from Myrtle Beach in a B-29 bomber yesterday after he was given plasma at the army base hospital. According to the army doctor's report the seven year old boy's left foot was badly mangled with the leg ligaments torn. His hands also were injured, but not as seriously as his foot.

The doctor said he could tell the boy was attacked by a barracuda, and not a shark as was first reported, by the jagged nature of the wounds. The father, W. H. Stover of Greenville, was watching nearby as the child played in the surf and went to his rescue when the barracuda attacked. He brought his son to the Myrtle Beach army hospital, some 25 miles from Pawley's Island, for treatment.

Corporal Bolin Receives Wound T-5 Jesse E. Bolin, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Bolin, of the Filter Plant, was slightly wounded in action on Luzon Itdanri in fessional performers who League rle said the stench was awful. In traveling over Germany by airplane, he said he was never out of sieht of homh prat.prs tVint for the collectors to gather them.

pockmarked the landscape from one 'Dauntless' Ship President W. E. (Bud) Seifert of Spartanburg ruled were eligible under first half league regulations. A mix-up in the schedule for the final half resulted in meetings of two different clubs each week-end instead of two teams playing each other a home-and-home game as was agreed upon at the Monday session. However, league officials finally decided to play the "mixed" schedule.

Crashes, Taking 10 Men To Death Saipan, July 10. "Dauntless Dottie," the Superfortress that led the first B-29 strike against Tokyo vided it is conducted in a manner that will satisfy him that these conditions are being met. No special date was announced when the program would be effective, but it was expected to begin JTo6n. Anderson's announcement followed issuance of a Department of Agriculture report which expressed the view that government price policies are partly responsible for the meat shortage. In doing so, it in effect agreed with the House Food Shortage Investigating committee.

In recent reports on the meat situation, that committee listed changes in hog price support programs and the ineffectiveness of such programs in preventing a break in hog prices as major causes of a reduced level of hog production. Reporting on the livestock situation, the department said meat production during the first half of 1945 was about 12 per cent smaller Al 1 XL .1 1 i Lipscomb Heads Lions Club Here For Cominsf Year and for 53 missions carried with out faltering the high spirit of her name, has been lost in the Pacific, carrying to their deaths 10 of the 13 men aboard. Like "Dauntless Dottie," those who lost their lives had completed their combat missions and were re end to the other. Senator Maybank said the damage in Holland, which was held by the Nazis until near the end of the war, was also tremendous, largely from the Nazi V-2 bombs fired at England but which fell short and created havoc within only a few miles from the launching points. Four Negroes Go To Ft.

Jackson To Begin Service Eleven negro registrants for pre-induction examinations and four for induction into the armed services were sent to Fort Jackson yesterday by the Gaffney selective service board. Harley J. Bradford, clerk of the board, said Robert Morgan, Himes Richardson, James Edward Jef-feries and William Borders were scheduled for induction, The men sent for examination were Roland Junior Camp, David Boyd Goudelock, Lonzo Velantine, Walter Edward Gibbs; Lewis Littlejohn, George Eugene Tate, Thomas Hicklin, Harold Lloyd Peak, Isaac Newton Powell, Herman Wood, and Woodrow Wilson Littlejohn. turning to the United States. One of those killed was Pfc.

Lowell B. Spivey of Windsor, N. who was being returned to "non-hazardous duty" because his two brothers had been killed in Dr. J. Nathan Lipscomb, optometrist, was installed as president of the Lions Club, succeeding Claude Littlejohn, at a meeting held at the Hotel Carroll Monday evening following the conclusion of an address delivered by Senator B.

R. Maybank to a joint meeting, of civic clubs. Other officers installed included Walter' Danhoff, first vice president; R. W. Bynum, second vice president; H.

C. Carter, third vice president; J. A. McSwain, secretary; H. H.

Smith, tail twister; and Walter Graham, lion tamer. The installation ceremony was conducted by Jack Gentry, of Spartanburg, a past district governor. Directors elected included Postmaster John C. Fowler, Zeb V. Whelchel, Dr.

John Pettit and M. L. Crotzer. block the channel, by running aground in shallow water. Raised from the bottom, she put in at a West Coast port for repairs in April, 1942.

From here the Nevada supported troop landing operations at Attu, and then steamed to European waters to participate in the Normandy invasion. After helping silence the German shore batteries, she steamed into the Mediterranean for the invasion of southern France in August, 1944. After refitting in New York, the Nevada returned to the Pacific where her guns covered the operation against Iwo Jima. She is now older than many of her crew. Her keel was laid down Nov.

4, 1912, in the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, and she was commissioned at the Charleston Navy Yard, March 12, 1916. Import Insects To Combat Pest Injuring Crops Miami, July 10. Tiny "Davids" from the jungles of Brazil are being rushed by the thousands to the United States to tackle an insect "Goliath" the destructive mole cricket which is hampering the war effort by destroying farm crops. The "Davids" are changa parasites. Despite their microscopic size, changas are deadly to the many times larger cricket.

The changa's prowess as a cricket killer was discovered by Dr. G. N. Wollcott, entomologist of the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, who brought them out of Brazil. Scientists at the Florida state agricultural station in Gainesville learned of his findings and contacted him.

Now thousands of the parasites, flown north by an American clipper, are joining in the battle against the mole cricket pest. The cricket is particularly devastating to farm crops because it attacks the roots of growing plants. Dozens of changas move in on one cricket and slowly devour it. Elks To Meet Anderson, July 9. The South Carolina Elks were slated to have their annual meeting here Saturday and Sunday President Charles Durffham Baid today.

He said officers would be elected. County Schools To Open Summer Terms by Monday All Cherokee county white schools will be expected to open by next Monday, Harley L. Wooten, county superintendent of education, announced yesterday. It is hoped that all schools will operate the full nine months term during the coming year, he said. A meeting of all summer school white teachers will be held at the Cherokee county court room next Tuesday to begin at 9:30 a.

m. This meeting will necessitate a holiday for all school children that day. Every teacher who expects to teach during the summer term is urged to be present, Mr. Wooten said. The meeting will consist of discussions on various phases of the teacher's responsibility in regard to reports, text books and a number of other matters.

At the meeting the school supplies will be given out. Colored schools are expected to open Monday, July 23. A meeting of all colored teachers will be held shortly thereafter but the date has not been determined, according to Mr. Wooten. Seaman Scruggs Now in Training Cecil James Scruggs, 21, seaman, second class, USNR, of Chesnee, has arrived at the Naval Training Station, Norfolk, to train for duties aboard a new destroyer of the Atlantic Fleet.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Scruggs of Chesnee, he has a brother, Willie, 24, who is a private, first class, in the Army. He worked on his father's farm. More Commodores Washington, July 9.

President Truman nominated five Navy captains for promotion to the temporary rank of commodore. All pay directors In the Supply corps, they Included William C. Wallace, Camden, S. C. Mrs King Rites Held Yesterday At Blacksburg Blacksburg, July 11.

Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Chaney King, 56, of Charlotte, who died at Mercy Hospital in Charlotte' Monday, were conducted at the Craft Mortuary here Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Rev. H. B.

Hardy, pastor of the Blacksburg Methodist church, officiated. Interment was in Mountain View cemetery with Craft Morticians in charge. Mrs. King's death followed a serious illness of three days although she had been a semi-invalid for several years. She was a native of Indiana.

Surviving arer three daughters, Mrs. Elbert Smith, of Charlotte, with whom she made her home for the past few years; Mrs. Binkley Lawson, of Nashville, and Mrs. Claude Duke, of Mount Clemons, Mich; a son, Private First Class Romal D. King, of the army; and four brothers.

Bible School To End Sunday PM At Grassy Pond (By Mrs. Fred Phillips) Grassy Pond, July 11. A daily vacation Bible school is in progress at Grassy Pond with the pastor, the Rev. E. Gray Jones, as principal, Mrs.

Lynn McCraw, superintendent of beginners, Mrs. Roy Phillips, primary department, and Mrs. Fred Phillips, and Mrs. M. D.

Scruggs, intermediates. The closing exercise will be held Sunday evening beginning at 8:30. The Grassy Pond home demonstration club will meet with Mrs. Ed Sarratt Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. A school of music will begin at Grassy Pond church next Monday evening at 8 o'clock with Carl Jordon teaching.

man in me same penoo. last year. It predicted that' production ing the remainder of the year will be less than a year ago. This drop in production reflects a decline of 34 per cent in the 1944 fall pig crop and a decline of 9 per cent in the 1945 spring crop. The Agriculture department said this falling off in hog numbers reflected "the relatively unfavorable hog-feed price rations during the summer and early fall of 1944, and the unfortunate experience of many farmers in marketing 1943-crop Itnira In Via urinai anA ortvinn rt action.

The plane crashed shortly after taking off from Kwajalein for Hawaii, the announcement yesterday said. Date of the accident was. not revealed. Brig. Gen.

Emmett "Rosy" O'-Donnell, commander of the 73rd bombardment wing, flew in the "Dottie" on her first mission, leading the first strike of the 21st bomber command against Tokyo last Nov. 24. Lt. Col. Robert K.

Morgan of Asheville, N. the plane's first commander, then a major, named her for his wife. Since then Lt. Andrew G. of Tulsa, has been "Dottie's" skipper, but the regular crew stayed behind to complete their combat tours when the plane started home loaded with men who had completed 30 missions or more against the Japanese.

"Dauntless Dottie," after her 1944." Two Spartan Teams To Play Locals Tonight During the winter and spring of 1944, hog prices dropped sharply with many farmers getting less than the $13.75 base price at which the government had promised to support hog markets. Action of the WFA in, reducing the support price last October fleeted in large measure a government belief that war requirements of meat would be smaller this year action here before, will pitch for Foremost, while "Black Widow" Willard, who has quite a reputation as a twirler, will be on the mound v. than last. They have turned out first mission flew 43 other bomb to be larger. The senator was introduced by The schedule for Friday night in the local league puts the State ing assignments and made nine reconnaissance flights over the Nipponese islands.

Spot Market Guard against Musgrove and Lib Representative J. Claude Fort, member of the Cherokee county legislative delegation, who gave a erty Life against Gulf Pride. Two special Softball games with Spartanburg teams furnishing the opposition for local outfits will be played Thursday night on the high school field, it was announced yesterday by Director H. H. Smith.

The first game will find Foremost Dairies, of Spartanburg, pitted against a specially assembled "all-star" Gaffney aggregation at 7:30 o'clock. This will be followed at 9 o'clock by Orange Crush', of Spartanburg, meeting Gulf Pride, the leader of the Gaffney Softball league. Cause, who has been seen in brief recital of Mr. Maybank's New Orleans, July 10. The business and political career.

Because of the shortage of bell In an exhibition game Tuesday night the State Guard defeated City Tire 7 to 5, and in a regular contest the Limestone Juniors walloped Liberty Life to the tune of 24 to 3, one of the worst defeats recorded this season in the local average price of middling 15-16 inch cotton today at ten designated Southern spot markets was 76 cents a bale higher at 22.74 cents a pound; average for the past 30 the Philippines June 24, according to a War Department message re skilled exponents now travel the Shrewsbury district of England ringing at churches in ceived yesterday by his parents. Corporal Bolin has been overseas 21 months. market days 22.70; middling league. turn. inch average 21.32.

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