The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 1

AF ME LEDGER" A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OP THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, S. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1945 S4.00 PER YEAR IN ADVAXCE COMPANY GETS GAFFNEY 1AKUFACTURMG COMPANY BACK Leapin' Lizards! WRECKAGE OF AIRLINER IN WHICH 22 PERISHED imiii if, juj.i.h' i Hunt Blende For Robbing 1 Boy Dies Here After Drink Of Ant Poison Filling Station 1111 I A drink of ant poison swallowed soon after he arrived Saturday afternoon at the home of relatives here proved fatal for Adbl-phus N. Mode, three-year-old son of Mrs. Mary Baker Mode, of Fort Mill, and the late Adolph Mode.

The child died about 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning in the Cherokee County Hospital, where he was taken immediately after taking the poison. Funeral services will be held at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Draytonville Baptist church. The Rev. Clarence Hampton, assistant pastor of the Cherokee Avenuet Baptist church, and the Rev.i Ansel Forsythe will officiate. Sheriff Lee Allison's office yesterday reported no new develap-ments had occurred since the discovery Sunday of an abandoned automobile believed to have been driven by a slim, blond young woman accused of a bold daylight hold up of W.

A. Ledbetter's ser vice station near Blacksburg Saturday afternoon. The woman escaped with between $40 and $50 taken from the cash register, it was reported, The automobile, a black coupe with white sidewall tires, was found abandoned near Smyrna in York county, and York officers were informed that a woman fit i 'Vvfi Plan to Open Thursday For Old Employes Following the return Sunday by the government of the properties of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company to the owners, the plants of Gaffney's largest textile concern were closed yesterday taking inventory but a company announcement said the mills will be reopened Thursday morning at 7 o'clock for the first and second shift employees who were on the payrolls at the time of the government seizure, May 28.. The company's announcement said the wage scale will revert to the May 28 basis but offered straight five-cents an hour increase providing this was approved by the Textile Workers Union of America, CIO. One week's vacation with pay in 1946 is also offered by the company.

During the operation of the company by Captain Halbert M. Jones, as representative of the War Department, a third shift had been added and wage increases ordered by the War Labor Board, consisting of five cents an hour with an extra five cerits an hoifr premium for the third shift, had been granted. The company's announcement apparently indicates an intention ef discontinuing the third shift for a time, at least, and of reverting to the status of May 28 so far as the personnel of the employes is concerned. Following a strike which began May 14 as a result of an election in1 which the workers voted in favor of a work stoppage to try to force the company to deduct union dues, President Truman ordered the company taken over May 28 1 SCATTERED OVER A SWAMP near Florence, S. is the wreckage of an airliner which crashed, expoded.

and burned while en route from Miami to New York. Twenty-two persons, nine of them soldiers, were killed in the accident. The plane cut a swath 50 feet wide through' 200 feet of trees. (international Soundphoto) i Seaman Baker On -oS Interment will be in the Draytonville- cemetery with the Shu-ford-Hatcher Company, morticians, in charge. The pall bearers will be Thomas and Randolph Dellinger, Joe Tea-gue and Ax Hammett.

The boy is survived by his mother; a brother, Donald, his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Baker, of Fort Mill; and his paternal grandmother, Mrs.

Elizabeth Mode, of Gaffney. Predict Arnall To Resign Soon I II UTTLE Charlie Reeb of Pittsburgh doesn't always look at things this way. He's Just keeping his eyes on the chamelon nestling on the bridge of bis nose, one of seven he entered in a children's animal war relief pet show. (International) ting the description of the Ledbet-ter robber, with two companions, was seen boarding a bus for Charlotte. Sheriff Allison's officers said the car was reported to have been stolen in Spartanburg.

Information given the sheriff's office was to the effect that the young woman, dressed in yellow and alone in the car, stopped at Ledbetter's place, which is just south of Blacksburg on highway No. 29. Upon entering the establishment she was said to have pulled out a pistol and forced an employee and another person to stand while she scooped up the contents of the cash drawer. Sheriff Allison reported the affair to officers in all nearby counties, asking the authorities to be on the look-out for the woman. Strikes Result In Idleness For Chicago, Sept.

8. Strikes and other labor eruptions in the nation's post-war industries threw more than 100,000 workers into idleness and halted production in ship, coal, steel, food and power Ship Returning To United States On the USS Phoenix in the Pacific, Sept. 8. Carl E. Baker, quartermaster, third class, USNR, 438 Fourth Gaffney, S.

is coming back to the United States. He's a member of this fighting light cruiser which is' returning home for overhaul and to give leaves'to the crew. The Phoenix escaped damage in the Pearl Harbor' then fought through the New Guinea, New' Britain and New Georgia campaigns. the battle tif Surigao Straits, Mrs. Roberts Is Taken By Death; Rites Set Today Mrn WnnH Rohfirts.

25. To Take New Job Atlanta, Sept. 8. High state administration sources predicted today that Governor Ellis Arnall will formally receive and accept appointment as U. S.

solicitor general in the near future. These sources which have unerringly forecast developments in state affairs snc 38-year-old Arnall took office January, 1943, foresaw his departure for Wash of Gaffney and Shelby, N. wife nf James H. Roberts, of Shelby abouf 9.40" "Vctoek Sunday Jones Thanks GMC Officials And Workers Upon return of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company 1 to the owners Sunday, Captain Halbert Jones, who had been operating the property for the War Department since May 28, issued a statement in 'which he expressed appreciation for the co-operation he received from the company and union officials, the workers and the citizens of Gaffney. Captain Jones said he and his I staff will remain here a few days settling up the details connected with the return of the property to the company.

One of the details will be the distribution of "back pay" to the employees on the basis of an amendment September 7 of a War Labor Board order making a wage increase granted August 23 retroactive to May 28. This will involve 'the payment of a total of apprceei-ff mately $15,000 to the 750 workers. The following notice concerning 1 the back pay was posted by Captain Jones: "The National War Labor Board advised the War Department that its order of 23 August 1945 was amended today in the following manner: "The pay increase put into effect in this plant 23 August 1945 is effective as of 28 May 1945 instead of 23 August "Each of you will receive the full additional amount of money due you as soon as it can be computed and the checks prepared." The increase ordered by the board was five cents an hour with an extra five cents premium for third shift workers. During the time the plants were operated: by the War Department a third shift was added and the production was increased from around 650,000 to over 900,000 yards of cloth per week. -Captain Jones' statement issued Sunday on the return of the property to the company follows: "The President of the United States by Executive Order 9603, dated 25 August 1945, directed that the plants and facilities of Gaffney Manufacturing Company, Gaffney, South Carolina, seized on 28 May 1945 by the War Department pursuant to Executive Order 9559, be returned to the owners thereof as soon as the War Department, with the approval of the Director of Economic Stabilization, determines such return to be Pursuant to such' direction, the Secretary of War, with the approval of the Director of Economic Stabilization, has directed that possession and operation of Gaffney Manufacturing Company be terminated on 9 September 1945.

The Army has therefore relinquished possession of the plants and facilities as 1 3 P. M. today (9 September 1945). "As the War Department Representative during the period of War Department operation, I desire to express publicly my appre- ciation for the cooperation which has been extended by the officials of the Company and by the officials of the Textile Workers Union of America (CIO). I desire, also, to express my gratitude to the employees for their loyal cooperation during War Department operation.

The cooperation of all these parties made possible the resumption and continuance of production neces- sary to the war effort. My staff and I also have appreciated the cooperation which has been extended by the community of Gaffney during the period of War Department operation." Wm. P. Martin Dies at Hospital; Rites Set Today William Pressley Martin, 21, of Smyrna, who had been under treatment for several days for a ruptured appendix, died about 6:30 o'clock Monday morning at the Cherokee County Hospital. He was a member of the Canaan Methodist church and was employed by James Hardin as a truck she was the closest heavy ship to morning in a nosprcai ai unanoue.

the Jap fleet trying to steam through the passage and she. shot ington not later than December 15, with Senate President Frank C. Gross of Toccoa assuming the She had been sick about lour years. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

T. C. Wood, of Laurel street. Funeral services will be con duties of governor. Capitol circles speculated that1 ducted at 5 o'clock Tuesday after the new constitution adopted Au-I noon at the Shutord-Hatcner om-nnnv's rhanel on East Frederick piums.

A United Press street. Dr. D. M. Rivers, pastor of total at 102,500 idle workers be gust 7 would be interpreted as barring a special election to name a successor for the unexpired term and that Gross would be acting governor until after the general election in November, 1946.

the First Baptist churcn ana ur. Zeno Walls, pastor of the First Rantist church of Shelby, will offi ciate. Interment will be in Oak 1 hey based that speculation on a land cemetery with the Shuford-Hatcher Company, morticians, in section of the constitution which reads: charge. "The first election for governor. under this constitution, shall be held on Tuesday after the first Monday in November of 1946.

and the governor-elect shall be install ed in office at the next session of the general assembly." Navy to Receive Candidates For V-5 Air Program Chief J. B. McLendon, Navy recruiting representative in the Spartanburg area, has received word from Lt. Ward M. Palmer, state navy recruiting head, that the Bureau of Naval Personnel has authorized the continued enlistment of qualified candidates in the V-5 Naval aviation preparatory program.

Former applicants for the V-5 program who did not attain a qualifying mark to qualify for selection at the time they applied may now re-apply, as the qualifying mark ha been lowered. Those young men interested should make immediate application at the nearest navy recruiting office, located at post office in Gaffney each Tuesday, supplying a birth certificate, high school transcript, and parent's consent if 17 years old. Original applicants must be high school graduates and meet the V-5 mental and physical requirements before being qualified. Qualified applicants will be caled to active duty about Nov. 1, and will be sent to a college or university for a Naval aviation preparatory course of one, two, or three terms of four months each.

Following this several weeks of pre-fiight training, primary flight training and intermediate flight training will be given, after which successful applicants will be commissioned as ensigns in the naval service. Since the quota for this program is 'exertmely limited, interested V-5 applicants should apply immediately at the navy recruiting station located at the Spartanburg post office, Recruiter McLendon added. Gaffney Man Is Gunner's Mate On Survey Ship On the USS Bowditch in the Western Pacific, Sept. 11. J.

F. Whiten, gunner's mate, third class, USNR, 203 East Frederick street Gaffney, S. is serving on this hydrographic survey ship, which dishes out "road maps" of the Pacific to the fleet. The Bowditch prowled into enemy-held bays 'and took soundings, charted bearings and placed markers on obstructions. All this was done within easy range of Jap artillery and frequently the ship found herself involved in a battle.

She is credited officially with shooting down four planes and, at Okinawa, scarcely a day passed that her gun crews did not remain at their stations for hours, battling planes. The Bowditch produced finished charts for operations in the Gilberts, Saipan, the Carolines and Okinawa. St. Clair Trains i For Destroyer Norfolk, Sept. 10.

Allen Rennell rinir 1 apniTinn. sot. Any attempt to call or force a special election for governor would violate that section of the new basic law, the capitol sources Flag Raised Over Tokyo By M'Arthur Tokyo, Saturday, Sept. 8. General MacArthur covered the last mile of the long road back from defeat in the Philippines by entering Tokyo today with occupation troops of the First cavalry division and raising the same United States flag which flew oyer Rpme and Berlin.

The Axis defeat was complete. MacArthur made his triumphal entry in a three-mile parade of American military might through the heart of Tokyo as bands blared "The Star Spangled Banner" and "The General's March." Japanese in downtown Tokyo stared in silence as the parade, led by the Seventh regiment of the First Cavalry division the regiment which fought for Custer on Little Big Horn moved from a point just east of the emperor's palace to the United States embassy. At the embassy, MacArthur ordered Lt. Gen. Robert L.

Eichel-berger, whose Eighth aj-my is occupying Tokyo and all Honshu to the north, to have the flag unfurled. It was the same flag which flew over the White House in Washington, D. on that never-to-be-forgotten day of December 7, 1941. "Have our country's flag unfurled," the supreme Allied com-" mander said, "and in Tokyo's sun let it wave in its full glory as a symbol of hope for the oppressed and as a harbinger of victory for the right." At the momentous ceremony on the grounds of the embassy, Mac-Arthur was surrounded by men who fought back with him on Ba-taan in the closing days of 1941 and the early days of 1942. The flag rose over the embassy grounds at 11 a.

m. (10 p. m. Friday Eastern War time). The right wing of the nearby chancellory had been damaged by a B-29 incendiary raid but the white stone embassy building, where MacArthur will set up his headquarters, was untouched.

After the flag-raising ceremony, the chaplain of the First Cavalry division spoke a brief benediction. Pearson Serves On Wooden Ship Chasing Subs Somewhere in the Western Pacific, Septv 11. Charles Albert Pearson, ship's cook, second class, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Pearson, 405 Walnut Gaffney, S.

is a veteran of three a or amphibious operations aboard the USS SC-632 wooden sub-chaser that did her bit to bring about the final victory in the Pacific' Despite hervsmall size, (she's no larger than a pleasure craft) the "632" demonstrated her ability to shoot it out with the enemy as well as carry out routine patrol duties. At Lingayen Gulf she knocked down a Japanese plane. Previously, during the Leyte Gulf invasion, she stood off the beach for four days while directing men and supplies into designated landing zones. Her engine broke down during the Okinawa campaign which left the "632" floatinir hnlnlPB.lv i cause of labor disputes, a sharp rise from the low point of less than 30,000 on strike last August. Detroit continued to be the hardest hit production center.

More than 25,000 Ford workers employes were idled by a dispute and Kelsey-Hayes Wheel company in the wheel plant. The Ford plants in Detroit were closed down for lack of wheels which they get from Kelsey-Hayes. Mos-e than 6,000 were on strike at Hudson Motor Company. Another 8,000 Ford workers were idle in plants in Buffalo, N. Chester, Richmond, Dallas, Edgewater, N.

and Louisville, Ky. Limestone Sing Be Held Sunday The annual all-day singing at the Limestone Baptist churcn, a very popular event for many years, will be held next Sunday, it has been announced. The singing will begin at 9:30 a. m. Among the outstanding visiting quartets expected to attend will be the Sand Mountain Quartet, of Chattanooea.

which will Arnall himself continued to de cline comment on any phase of the most widely discussed political situation that has arisen in Georgia in many years. Answering direct questions, he has said only that the solicitor generalship has not Deen ottered him. Meanwhile. Attornev General Eugene Cook continued a stuHv nf legal questions which would arise to prevent interruption in the production of needed war-time The "company resumed 'o'' erations promptly under the management of Captain Jones, who was placed in charge. Several conferences were held last week between representatives of the management and the union in an effort to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement.

The negotiations broke down last Wednesday afternoon. The management contends the union has refused to budge from its demand for the check-off of dues and maintenance of membership requirements. Union spokesman say the man-ment is attempting to create a "smoke screen" over the check-off question. Mrs. Sepaugh Is Taken By Death; Rites Wednesday Mrs.

Minnie Sepaugh, 68, wife of C. W. Sepaugh, died about 8:25 o'clock Monday morning at the family residence on O'Neal street. She had been ill only a few days but had been in declining health about four years. Mrs.

Sepaugh was a member of the Limestone Baptist church. 1 Funeral services will be conducted at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the chapel of the Shuford-Hatcher Company on East Frederick street. The Paul Dobbins, of Gaffney, and the Rev. John W. Suttles, of Shelby, N.

will officiate. Interment will be in the New Hope Baptist church cemetery near Earl, N. with the Shuford-Hatcher morticians, in charge. Surviving in addition to her husband is a son, O. V.

Sepaugh, of Also surviving are three brothers, Frank Wylie, of Gaffney, Dave Wylie, of Newport News, and Elbert Wylie, of Zebulon, N. and a sister, Mrs. C. S. Dickson, of Kings Mountain, C.

New Session At College Starts Here This Week New students were reporting yesterday at Limestone College for the institution's 101st annual session, now beginning. Returning students are scheduled to arrive Wednesday. Classes will begin at 8:30 a. nt Friday. The first official assembly will be held at 11 :30 o'clock Friday morning.

In the meantime, orientation programs for the new students will be held from Tuesday through Thursday. An informal party will The pall bearers will be wunam Randall, Don Roberts, A. M. Cash, Albert T. Swofford, Virgil and L.

D. Pierce. An 'honorary escort will include W. M. Craft, C.

A. Kirby, L. L. Pierce, Jimmie Pettit, Dr. J.

H. Sanders. Dock Phillips, Roy C. Cobb, John M. Jenkins, and D.

and C. T. Clary. Mrs Roberts is survived by her husband and a son, Gary Roberts; her parents; three sisters, Mrs. W.

W. Thomason, of Thomasville, and Mrs. Cordell Lee and Mrs. Sammie Sarratt, of Gaffney; a brother, T. C.

Wood, in the army in Germany two half-sisters, Mrs. N. B. Sanders, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. H.

Mintz, of Blacksburg; and her maternal grandfather, R. F. Garrison, of Spartanburg. 1 FO Ibra Sarratt Qualified For Distance Flight Flight Officer Ibra C. Sarratt has graduated from an intensive course in transition-flying for the Air Transport Command at a school conducted by the Fifth Operational Training Unit, Ferrying Division of the ATC, Palm Springs Army Air Field, California, according td Col.

Robert J. Goewey, commanding officer. Flight Officer Sarratt was selected from his previous station to take this course and in addition to undereo a thorough study in should the governor resign. He re-iteiated that he had not been asked to' prepare an opinion on' the snh. ject but considered it possible that it out with the leading Jap battleship without getting a scratch.

At Leyte Gulf one of our destroyers went down and her torpedoes were released accidentally. Two passed ahead of the Phoenix, two astern and none in the middle. At Mindoro, the USS Nashville, next to the Phoenix, was hit by a Kamikaze, but not the Phoenix. On the way to Lingayen, two tor-does and several Kamikaze just missed. At Corregidor and Balik-papan she was straddled several times by big shore guns.

Luckiest of all after two years in the Southwest Pacific, the Phoenix was en route home when peace was declared. Miles Hammett On Ticonderoga In Halsey Unit On the USS Ticonderoga in Tokyo Bay, Sept. 10. Miles Wood Hammett, 19, seaman, first class, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs.

C. N. Hammett, route 6, Gaffney, S. is serving aboard this carrier, which is part of the powerful Pacific Fleet engaged in occupying Japan. Under the operational control of Admiral William F.

Halsey, USN, the Ticonderoga, with 16 other aircraft carriers, 12 battleships, six escort carriers, 20 cruisers and more than 290 other U. S. ships, is helping take over control of the Jap's big naval bases. The Ticonderoga participated in the gigantic carrier raid against the Jap naval base at Kure and other installations on the Japanese home island of Honshu during a two day raid prior to the Japanese surrender. The flattop's fighters and bombers swooped in on their targets, which included one of Japan's few remaining battleships, the Hyuga.

Severely damaged and left burning after several explosions, the vessel later was found to have sunk. Several times during the two day raid enemy planes approached the formation but were driven off by the fighter cover overhead whicn succeeded in knocking down nine of the attacking enemy planes. Wreck Probe On Glenwood Springs, Sept. 8. Officials of two railroads will open a hearing in Grand Junction, on Monday to see if they can learn why the Union Pacific's passenger train, the Challenger, rammed into the rear of the Los Angeles Limited in a narrow, rocky gorge east of Glenwood Springs last night.

More than 30 persons were injured, but physicians said late today that only three of them were in a serious condition. i a request lor such an opinion might be forthcoming. uross has consistently supported Arnall's policies in serving as presiding officer in the senate sin give a concert Saturday night at the governor took office. Friends me uanney nign school. Other out-of-state and manv lool musi cians are also expected.

or both forecast that if the duties of governor fell upon his shoulders, he would continue the Arnall program. Sgt. Phil Clary Leaves Service With Discharge After serving 35 months in the southwest Pacific area. Staff Sop. geant Philip Babington Clary has advanced instrument flying in order to equip the officer pilot for the long hours of flight over great distances.

Pilots graduating from- this Kepresentative Lake W. Stroup, who will be in charge of the singing, said the public is invited to attend and bring well-filled baskets. Mullinax Gets Army Discharge Swannanoa, N. Sept. 8.

Pvt. John W. Mullinax of Gaffney, S. has been given an honorable discharge from the Army on account of physical disabilities. He had been patient in Moore General Hospital Mullinax entered the service in August, 1942, at Columbia and served with the 15th Air Force's 337th Service Squadron and 337th Air Service Group in North Africa and Italy.

He wears three bronze campaign stars for action in Africa, Naples, Foggia, Rome, and the Arno. Before induction he was a pipe fitter in Radford, Va. He is married. Tammany Hall, founded in New York 1789, was named for the Indian chief who signed the famous treaty with William Penn. school will play an important part in the redeployment and demobilization of the Armed Forces as a member of the Air Transport Command.

They may also fly the wounded back from hospitals in foreign countries to the United States. ond class, USNR, of Gaffney, S. nas arrived at the Naval Training Station, Norfolk, Atlantic Fleet training renter for destroy driver. Funeral services will be held at 6 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Canaan Methodist church near Smyrna. The Rev.

J. A. Merchant will officiate. Interment will be in the Canaan cemetery with the Craft Funeral Home, morticians, in charge. The pall bearers, will be James Hardin, Howard Humphries, and Bless, Charles, Arthur and Les- ter Martin, Mr.

Martin leaves his wife, Mrs. Clara Mell Martin i his mother, Mrs. Mary Jane Martin; two sis-yVrs, Miss Mary and Mis Kathleen Martin; three brothers, Glenn, Marvin and Eugene Martin; and his paternal grandfather, Kelly Martin, of Smyrna. Deen given an honorable discharge from the army at Camp Gordon, Ga. is a son of Mr.

and Mrs. B. C. Clary, of Gaffney. Enlisting in October, 1940, Sergeant Clary completed his basic training at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.

He was awarded the pre-Pearl Harbor ribbon, the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with three battle stars, the good conduct medal and the presidential unit citation. Before going overseas he was stationed at Bangor, Me. He is a graduate of the Gaffney High School arid was employed by the Cherokee county engineering department before he entered the service. Flight Officer Sarratt is the son er crews, to undergo instruction of Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel E. Sarratt, of route 1, Gaffney. His wife lor duties aboard a new destroyer or similar type vessel. He has com- nletet) A norinrl nt instruction nt. the Naval Training Center, Bain- the former Lillian Pearl Smith, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. J. M. Smith, also lives in Gaffney, at 115 South Johnson street. Jap waters for five hours.

Flight Officer Sarratt is now A little flour sprinkled on raw be given in the gymnasium Wed nesday evening by the Athletic Association, and Thursday evening the students will be the guesta ox the local theatres. Driage, Md. He is the son of Mrs. Jesse St. Clair of route No.

2, Gaffney. St. Clair attended Boiling Springs High School. spending a leave here with rela tives. Bhces of potato before frying helps each quart of cooking water makes 1 vlin fluffing nr.A to keep them crisp to keen thom prion.