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top April 9, 1948 THE INDEX: IOURNAL. GREENWOOD, C. Page Five Brief City News University Players Here April Thaw," comedy in three acta, will be presented at Greenwood High School auditorium Monday evening, April 19, at 8 o'clock. The play will be presented by the Furman University Players, sponsored by the Greenwood chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The cast of 20 players Includes Pearl Payne of Greenwood and Mary Ann Jeffries, formerly of Greenwood.

Blake Enrollment Clinte Monday The pre-enrollment clinic will be held at Blake school Monday, April 12, from 9 to 12 o'clock. Forty-eight pupils were enrolled at the Leslie clinic Monday, and 37 at Magnolia Wednesday, Hold Office at Winthrop Pierrine Baker of Green wood was elected one of the cheerleaders of the rising sophomore class at Winthrop Collese in elections held recently. Anne Owens of Clinton Was named treasurer, Nancy Chapman of Goldville was elected one of the permanent senators; Barrie Jean Wingard of Clinton named temporary senator and Virginia Dantaler of Abbeville was named member of the dance committee. Gospel Band to Give Program The Grace Gospel Band of Greenville will render program Saturday night at 8:30 at the House of Prayer on Marion street. No admission at the door.

Singers at 86. Lake Church The Moonlight and Gospel Jubilee Singers will appear st St. Luke's Holiness Church in Butlertown tomorrow night at 8:30. Temperance Meeting Tonight The Green wood County Chapter of the Federated Forces for temperance will meet at 7:30 tonight the First Baptist Church. The Rev.

Maxie Collins of Columbia, recently elected secretary of the state organInation, will be guest speaker and there will be a film on temperance. Delegates have been named to attend from each church in the city but the meeting is not limited to members and delegates and the public is cordially invited. Youth Revival Miss Bernice Stout from the Church of. Gud Bible Training School, Cleveland, will begin youth revival at the South Greenwood Church of God April 11, 1948. Services each evening at 7:15 p.

m. We are extending a cordial invitation to all the young people in South Greenwood and community to attend the youth revival. Miss Stout has taken special training in youth work and has the young people on her heart. She will use visual aid along with other useful work to make the services interesting for all. We will be looking for you each evening.

W. D. Childers, Pastor. Weather Forecast to April 14 An extended weather forecast for North and South Carolina from 7:30 p. m.

tonight to 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, April 14, is reported As follows by The Associated Press: Temperatures will average near normal in the Carolinas. Cooler tonight, slowly rising temperatures Saturday afternoon through Monday, cooler Tuesday night or Wednesday. Precipitation moderate, o- curring as showers and thundershowers Monday and Tuesday.

FUNERAL SUNDAY AT 2:30 FOR BROOKS EVANS, JR. Brooks Evans, died Monday night at 11:05 at his home in Ware Shoals after an illness of three days. He was the son of the late Brooks and Mariah Evans. In his childhood he joined the Fortville Baptist Church which he faithfully until death, He was member of Masonic Lodge No. 143 New Prospect, of Ware Shoals.

His wife was the late Sallie McCant Evans. Surviving are three sons, Charles and Roy Evans of Donalds; and Quicton Evans, Abbeville; two daughters, Garlee Hall of Ninety Six, and Mariah Evans of Donalds; three brothers, Thomas, Clyde and Philip Evans of Honea Path; three grandchildren, two uncles, Andy and Hamp Neely of Fountain Inn Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Dunn Creek Baptist Church by the Rev. G. E. Goode.

Pallbearers will be six of the members of Lodge 143 and the flowerbearers will be six of the ushergirls. Interment will be in the church cemetery. After 5 o'clock Saturday the body will be carried to the residence to await the service hour. Robinson and Son Mortuary. SPECIAL! Wizard Deluxe BATTERY Wizard Wizard Gueranteed 2 Years Now And Your Old Battery We have a battery for every make car! Western Auto Associate Store T.

L. LEARY Main st. Dial 6511 85 Methodist Young People Attend Meet Eighty-five Methodist young people from churches of the Greenwood sub-district will attend the one-day Methodist Youth Cleveland Conference to be held tomorrow at Parker High School in Oreenville. The local group will leave by special buses at o'clock tomorrow morning from Main Street Methodist Church, and will start the return trip from Parker at o'clock tomorrow night. The Rev.

B. H. Tucker, pastor of the Lowell Street Methodist Church and director of the Methodist Youth Fellowships for the trict, announces that there will be counsellor for each nine young people. The counsellors will be signed the groups enter the buses tomorrow morning and each counselor will keep in touch with his group throughout the day. The number planning to attend from each church in the Greenwood sub-district follows: Lowell Street Church, 20; Main Street, 17; Mathews, 17; Galloway Memorial, '18; Panola, Cambridge (of Ninety Bix), Tranquil, 2.

Jap Gongs, Flute, Priest Gave Pair Rare Send-off San Francisco, April -Temple gongs, reed flutes, and a Japanese priest murmur ing in his Oriental tongue That, reasoned the Navy commander and the redhaired girl, just a beautiful goIng-away ceremony for their departure from Tokyo, The girl, Miss Elizabeth Church, 28, enrolled as an ental languages student at the University of Washington, tie, after her arrival last fall. Recently, she translated document the priest had given was a marriage certificate, And, explained the retired commander, Frederick W. Ebersole, todayThe departure ceremony tually Was Shinto marriage ritual. The marriage was annulled, to the great relief of both, by Superior Judge Alfred J. Fritz here yesterday.

Ebersole, 34, socially prominent San Francisco chain store executive, already was married and the father of three children. He and his wife had been separated since 1943, but were reconciled after his turn. That nullified an inter. locutory divorce- -not final for a year -which his wife had obtained last July. Vandenberg May Influence Result In Nebraska Vote By Jack Bell Omaha.

April 9 (P) The possibility developed today that Senator Arthur Vandenberg who says he isn't running may influence the results of Nebraska's 0. P. presidential primary. Vandenberg is one of seven whose names have been entered, in next Tuesday's voting. Nebraska Republicans will say then what men they would like the party to nominate for President at the June Philadelphia convention.

The Michigan senator isn't campaigning. In fact, he tried to get his name withdrawn. This was in line with his debated statements that he isn't a candidate and will not in a draft movement. Catch-All Plan To Catch Communists In U. S.

Promised Washington, April 9. catch-all plan for catching Communists was promised today by the House un-American activities committee. member who did not want his name used told a reporter the plan will embrace: An over-all legislation program including complete new bills, mendments toexisting laws and recommendations on how the Justice Department should enforce ones. Chairman J. Parnell Thomas (R- NJ) has said the committee is working on a report that will rap Attorney General Clark for what Thomas called laxity in enforcing laws.

Gas Tank Blast At Charlotte Kills One Charlotte, N. April 9. One man was killed and another injured today when a gas tank exploded at Trailmobile, a huge repair shop, on North Tryon street here. Hospital reports were that Raymond Knight was seriously hurt. Willie Smith was killed.

Poles Are 92 Per Cent Catholic Faith Warsaw, Poland -(P)- Poland 18 92 per cent Catholic, according to Church statistics just released. They show that of Poland's 24,000,000 people, a total of 21,341,000 are Catholics. The capital city of Warsaw is 97 per cent Catholic. There are also 1.200 Methodists and 300 Baptists here. Jews in Poland number between 95,000 and 105,000.

Most Jews are centered in Lower Silesia around Wroclaw; in the textiles cente: of Lodz, and in western Pomerania around the city of Szczecin. The club in the Presidio, San Francisco. military reservation. was the first building to be erected in San Francisco. WOMAN CLOWN CARRIES ON ALONE Lulu Adama, woman clown, Garden arena, playing a bagpipe the Ringing Brothers and Barnum The day before, her husband and ped dead of heart attack while Lulu is the only female clown in of applause.

(AP Wirephoto), marches around the Madison Square at the opening performance of Bailey circus in New York. fellow-clown, Albert Adams, dropmaking a radio broadcast. the show, Her act drew rounds Two Thousand Guests View Show; Top Awards Listed Mrs. Douglas Featherstone and Mrs. George Byrd won the sweepstakes awards of the Spring Symphony flower show, held here yesterday at the Greenwond Armory, under the chairmenship of Mrs.

George Rush and M.re. Paul Watkins. Flower lovers, estimated at two thousand, from 47 towns viewed the show from two in the afternoon until ten last night. Two silver loving cups were awarded the sweepstakes winners by the Greenwood Federation of Garden Cubs. The awards were made for winning the most blue ribbons in the arrangement and horticultural classes.

Mrs. Featherstone won for blue ribbon arrangement entries and Mrs. Byrd for blue ribbon horticultural entries. These cups, awarded first in 1938, when the federation held its last full scale show, were displayed at the show yesterday. Anti-Lynch Bill Gets Top Priority By GOP Senators Washington, April 9 (P) Republican senators voted today to give a federal anti-lynch bill top priority in the Senate among civil rights measures.

It probably will be offered on the Senate floor in the next few weeks. Senator Taft (It-Ohio) said antilynch was placed ahead of antipoll tax and anti-discrimination measures because the GOP believe it will be the easiest to pass. He said he believes personally there is a good chance the Senate will limit debate this time in order to obtain a vote. This would prevent a filibuster by southern Democrats. Taft is chairman of the Republican policy committee which suggested this strategy today to a closed conference of all GOP senators.

Beaten Up Editor May Recover Joliet, April 9. -4P) Victim of a savage beating Wednesday night, William R. McCabe, 65, Joliet publisher and a former state legislator, remained in critical condition today. Attending physicians said he has a "good cover. Meanwhile investigators were checking various angles, including politics and gambling, which McCabe fought editorially, in an effort to learn the motive for the vicious attack.

Three purple ribbons awarded for the most outstanding entries in three merit classes were: Mrs. Featherstone for an arrangement interpreting the mood, exultation; Mrs. Henry Thayer, and Mrs. Neel Crymes for their table, breakfast at the lodge; and for the garden, "End of the Trail" done by a committee. The two tri-color ribbons were awarded the most outstanding rangement and horticultural entries in competitive classes.

Mrs. Dewey Johnson WaS awarded the tri-color ribbon for her entry of long spurred columbine and Mrs. Featherstone for an arrangement of all green plant material. Among those listed on the guest register at the show were some from Fort Knox, Atlanta. Georgia; Sarasota, Birmingham, Lanover, Knoxville, and Boone.

N. C. Stock Average Touches New Top New York, April 9-4P-While exceptions were plentiful, the stock market average today touched new top level for the year with the rails at another high since August, 1946. At peaks for the year or longer were Union Carbide (on talk of a lifted dividend), Canadian Pacific, Southern Pacific, Illinois Central, Nickel Plate Railroad, Hiram Walker. Phelps Dodge, International Paper and Warren Petroleum.

Ahead most of the day were Bethlehem Steel, U. S. Rubber, Douglas Aircraft, Boeing, Schenley, Allied Chemical, Pacific Western CIl. Eanta Fe, Southern Railway, Great Northern Railway and Atlantic Coast Line. NEW YORK FUTURES New York, April 9-4P)-Cotfutures opened 60 cents a bale higher to 15 cents lower.

Noon prices were 45 cents bale lower to 35 cents highet than the previous close. May 36.67, July 35.95 and Oct. 32.47. Pr.Cl. Open May 36.68 July ..35.88 35.99 October 32.56 32.59 December 31.85 March 31.62 May 31.36 31.39 GRAIN FUTURES Chicago, April 9 -4P-Grains were steady at the opening on the Board of Trade today.

The market was awaiting the government crop report, due after the close. Wheat started cent lower to one cent higher, May corn was unchanged to 3-4 higher; May $2.26 and pats ere 1-8 lower to 3-8 higher, May $1.15 1-4-1-8. Jaywalkers Get 'Guardian Angels' Pedestrians in Ravenna, Ohio, were a bit startled when confronted by a pair of winged angels garbed in white gowns--and bobby-sox. The "angels" warned against ignoring traffic lights. and distributed pamphlets telling how many fatal accidents are caused by jayThe heavenly helpers pictured above are Carole Ann Freiss, left, and Bridget Romano.

J. A. Horne Dies After Long Illness Johnnie A. Horne, well known citizen And retired farmer of Greenwood county, died yesterday afternoon at four o'clock at his home in the Oak Grove communIty of this county. Mr.

Horne had been ill for long time and had been confined to his bed since Dee. 1, 1947. Mr. Horne was born Dee. 17, 1867 and WAS son of John and Annie Hastings Horne, boin families having been residents of their community for many years.

Mr. Horne spent his entire life in this community and had been eagaged in farming until his retirement some time ago. He was held in high esteem by his neighbors and by all who him. He had been member of Friendship Holiness church on the Green wood-Saluda highway for long time and an active worker in his church. On February 19, 1888 Mr.

Horne was married to Miss Sara Smith also of this section. She is a daughter of the late Seba and Martha Smith. On Feb. 19, 1948 Mr. and Mrs.

Horne celebrated their sixtieth anniversary, In the notice of this sixtieth anniversary in The IndexJournal it is stated that at that time Mr. and Mrs. Horne were still living in the hime which they began housekeeping after their marriage sixty years ago. A list of their living children was given in the notice and Mrs. Horne recalled that their wedding day fell on the third Sunday of February 1868.

Mr. Horne survived by his wife, and by the following children: Mrs. Catherine Hastings, of Saluda, R.P.D, Mrs. Essie Woodall, and Mrs. Margie Saxon, all of Saluda: and four sons, J.

O. Horne, of Ninety Six, R.P.D, Jim C. Horne, Carson Horne, and Osborne Horne, all of Ninety Six. Also surviving are seventeen grandchildren, five greatgrandchildren and one half-sister, Mrs. Rosa Chaney, of Saluda.

Funeral services will be held at three o'clock Saturday afternoon from Friendship Holiness church with services conducted by the Rev. A. W. Denns, the Rev. G.

T. cher and the Rev. Mr. Pitta. Interment will follow in the adjoining cemetery of the church.

Following is a list of those who have been requested to serve as pallbearers: Stanley Wilson, J. Cal White. Ancel Hamilton, Howard Adams, Elbert Dorn, Howard Mundy and Milton Johnson. Blyth's Service. J.

O. Franklin Dies At 68 Omage Franklin, of 123 Saluda Road died at Greenwood Hospital this morning at five o'- clock following an illness of eight months. Mr. Franklin, 68, was the son of the late Thompson and Hessie C. Griffen Franklin, of well known families of Newberry.

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Blanch F. Jones and one son C. E. Franklin, both of South Greenwood.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Harley Funeral Home. DEATHS And FUNERALS MRS. MARY J. FURQUERON McCormick, April Mary Jane Furqueron, 90, died late Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter. Mrs.

L. J. Taylor, in Columbia following a brief illness. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. She was a of John Francis and Edmunds daughter, of McCormick, and a member of Order of Eastern Star and McCormick Methodist Church.

Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. E. E. Wayland of Charlotte, C.

D. Boyd of Savannah, Mrs. M. Young of ClinMira, ton, Mrs. Jack Scruggs, of Cormick; two sons, J.

W. Furqueron of McCormick and W. F. Furqueron of Henderson, N. two sisters, Mrs.

T. J. Price and Miss Fannie Edmunds of McCormick; two brothers, J. Z. Edmunds of McCormick and W.

F. Edmunds of Augusta; 34 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren. Until the hour of the funeral the body will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.

W. Furqueron. Robert Lee Beasley Dies In Hospital Early Today (Continued from Page One) ley, and Otis Beasley, Donalds; Edgar Beasley, Honea Path. Pallbearers have been requested to meet at the home at 3:30 Saturday afternoon. Honorary pallbearere will be Milton H.

Palmer, Hodges; Roy Corburn, Dud Smith, and Ouzts, Greenwood: James Adams, Hodges; John Coleman and Frank Peddit, Ware Shoals; J. A. McCoy, M. L. Smith, James Walker, Leland Walker, Bradley Singleton, Donalds; Frank Davis and Leo McClain, Honea Path.

The following nieces are to serve as flower girls: Mattie Lou Beasley, Sybil Davis, and Grace Spence, Honea Path; Miss Gladys Graham, Abbeville; Misses Inez Beasley, Catherine Beasley, and Belva Smith, Donalds; Miss Laura Madison, Shoals. The body will be at the home of J. Beasley 'after seven p. m. tonight.

Blyth's Service. Washington -(P)- The 3,900,000 births in the United States in 1947 were 400,000 more than in 1946, year which also set an all-time U. S. record for births. J.

Barfield Died Here Yesterday Jimmy Bartleld, 44, died terday afternoon at one a Greenwood Hospital, Mr. Barfield was a son of the late Richard and Mary Barfield, of Kershaw. He had made his home in Greenwood for the past 26 years where he had been gaged in textile work. He was member of Jordan Street Baptist church, His many friends and loved ones will be grieved to learn of his passing. Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Ella Goff: two Henry Pavo, and James Leo, South Greenwood: three sisters, Mrs.

Clarence A. Davis, umbia, Mre. A. Hewitt, Spartanburg and Mrs. John Dove.

Winnaboro; two brothers. Eddie and Will Barfield, Winnabore: and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be held from Jordan Street Baptist Church Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock with the Rev. Troy Godwin, the Rev. J.

E. Willis, and the Rev. W. D. Childress, offielating.

Interment will follow in Elmwood Cemetery, Ninety Six. The following nephews will serve as pallbearers: Grover Goff, Billy Rae Gott, H. A. Ballew, Jeeale Ballew, J. B.

Ballew, and Colie Thompson. The body is at the home of his son Leo Bartield, 400. Green street, South Greenwood to await the hour of service. Harley Funeral Home. Laurens Exchange Club Plans Street Dance For April 16 For the third consecutive year, the Exchange Club of Laurens sponsoring Street Dance to held Thursday night, April the East side of the square 58 Laurens.

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