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' I ■ * ^ CHROMQI Strives To Be A Cleon ^ewspoper. Complete, Reliable Newsy and Relia Volume XU 11 Untan Qlbrmttrlp Clintow # S. Thursdoy, July 29,1943 > If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Number 30 Conquerors Surrounded by Sicilians Lions Club To Purchase Army Training Plane Through &le of Bonds - Campaign In Clinton For $25,000 Will Run For Month of August. The Lions club of Clinton will buy a $25,000 primary training plane j through sale of $18.75 war bonds and 'will present it to the army, W. P. Bowers, state administrator of the war savings staff in Columbia, has gather admiringly •ion cam# aa AS This wad soon followed by a of tho AHeo of the tar»- of the War. In Borne. 19 WHITE MEM SEMI TO UMP CROFT Clinton draft board sent 10 white selectees Tuesday, to Camp Croft, Spartanburg, for examination and possible induction in the armed ser vices. The call is for July. The draftees accepted will receive three-week furloughs after being in ducted, this being the first group af fected by the new furlough extension ruling. Those included in the call are: J. D. Dellinger, Chester. fe - Orin David Davis, Lydia Mill, Clin ton. Paul Eddleman Foster, Clinton. Charlie Billings, Waterloo. Thomas Eldred Addison, Clinton. Joseph Vernon Lowe, Clinton. William Brooks Owens, Clinton. John Melvin Tartt, Florence. Jonas Bruton Samples, Clinton. Lamie Brewington, Rt. 1, Clinton. Warren Barth Gamble, Miami, Fla. George Lindsay Finley, Savannah, Ga. Charles Walter Davenport, Rt. 1, Ware Shoals. Lewis Neil Pitts, Laurens. Wendell Wallace Hair, Goldville. Robert Dill Jenkins, Gray Court. " Clyde Thomas Cooper, Laurens. Clyde William Brazill, Clinton. Maurice James Bagwell, Mount- ville. WASHINGTON SEES DUCE'S DOWNFALL / BEGINNING OF END Washington, July 26. — The down fall of Benito Mussolini as Italy’s dic tator was viewed by official Wash ington today as the beginning of the end of the Axis powers. Secretary of State Hull said he re garded Mussolini’s resignation as the initial major step in the early and complete destruction ot Fascism throughout the world. But, he told his press conference, the United States is still fighting like the devil for an unconditional surren der by all of its enemies. The general congressional reaction ; was that Italy soon would seek peace I announced. The drive* will take fctece during'and that the terms must be complete the month of August,, and sales | capitulation, disarmament and free WIDER RE96NS AT CLINTON HIGH R. P. Wilder, principal Of Clinton, high school for the past year, has re signed the position effective August 1st, he stated yesterday. Mr. Wilder will leave Monday for Hogansville, Ga., where he will be connected with the United States Riibber' company in the personnel office. His position will be that of instructor for super visors and new employes in the Ho gansville plant Mr. Wilder first came to Clinton in 1935 as high school coach and in structor. He remained in this position until 1941 when he moved tb Wiiins- boro to become principal of the high school, returning here last year to become principal and coach. Mr. Wilder’s trends will be inter ested to know he is receiving his master’s degree at commencement exercises this evening at the Univer sity of South Carolina. Mrs. Wilder and two children, Don nie and Dell, Will join Mr. Wilder soon in Hogansville. The Wilders have made many friends during their stay here who will learn with regret of their departure, and whoee beet wishes will follow them as they .go elsewhere. ' P. H. Hobson, superintendent of the city schools, stated yesterday that no successor to Mr. Wilder has been secured. PATTERSQN SAYS 'MATTER OF DAYS’ Chicago, July 25.—Acting Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson said to day it will only be M a lhatter of days” until the conquest of Sicily has been completed. The whole operation in Sicily is in its last phases,” he said. u It is only a matter of days now, I would say.” The German government is prepar ing its people for the loss of Sicily, Patterson said, taking the propaganda line that the Allies are winning only at great cost. Such is not the case, he said. Cas ualties are surprisingly light The in itial landings on the beaches were accomplished almost without any cas ualties, he said, adding that resist ance was much weaker than had been expected. He characterised the Sicilian cam paign as “eminently successful,” say ing it was proceeding ‘‘much faster than we anticipated, although of course we expected success.” Patterson said 250 army transport plahes, each of which normally car ries thirty men. were used to scatter paratroopers over the island. Allied air superiority over Italy is about ten to one, he said. However, he emphasized, “the end of the war is not in sight” Patterson is acting secretary of war while Secretary Stimson is out of the country. He attended an army service commanders conference of fifty generals. 23 WHITE MEN IN AUGUST CALL through approximately 25 Lions clubs in the state which will individually sponsor such s campaign are expect ed to total over $625,000. The following Lions clubs are now arranging for the campaign: Ander son, Greenville, Greenwood, Clinton, Easley, Chester, Batesburg-Leesville, Edgefield, Abbeville, Newberry, Gaff ney, Union, Saluda, Winnsboro, Spar tanburg, Plckens-Liberty, and North Augusta. The plane purchased with the pro ceeds from these bond sales in each club will bear the name of the club, the announcement said. Purchases of bonds will not be confined to club members, but mem bers will work to have many others buy bonds. The Clinton Lions club voted at a meeting several weeks ago to spon sor the bond drive, and a committee was named to make the preliminary plans The state war savings committee said this is one Of the largest spon sorships that has been launched to date but that the reputation of the Lions for progressiveness will assure its success. Additional clubs may en ter the campaign, it was stated. RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) access by the United Nations to Ital ian military bases. The capital’s enthusiasm was tem pered, however, by words of caution from all sources that there is still hard fighting ahead for the Allies. Hull called die dramatic event very timely and appropriate and said he believed Japan will take due notice. But he made it clear that Mussolini’s j dismissal would mean not the slight est letup imthe Allied military drive toward the Italian mainland. Hull said he had no information either from the White House or the war department that there Would be any change in the unconditional sur render terms laid down at the Roose- velt-Churchill conference at Casa blanca last January. RUMORS SPREAD ITALY READY TO - ABANDON FIGHT/ *— Armistic Being Negoti ated, Bern Reports. Fascist Paper Sup pressed, Several Killed. Bern, Switzerland, July 27.— The Swiss Telegraphic agency reported in i a dispatch dated “at the Italian fron- j tier” tonight that the new Italian re- 'gime was “discussing the conditions | of an armistice” with the Allies in ;Rome, but confirmation from either the Rome radio or Allied sources wqs lacking. The Swiss agency said that it was “generally believed” that Marshal Pietro Badoglio and his aides had es tablished contact with die Allies in A congregational meeting of the ^ ome through the British and Amer- BEV. J. K. BOBERT8, D.D. ROBERTS TO BITER ARMY AS CHAPUM First Presbyterian church has been called for next Sunday at the con clusion of the morning service. Thi object of the meeting, the ses sion stated, is to act upon the resig nation of the pastor, Dr. J. K. Rob erts, who has volunteered his services as an army chaplain and expects to be called in the near future. The decision of Dr. Roberts to re sign his pastorate will be accepted with genuine regret not only by his congregation, but also in the city gen- ican representatives to the Vatican. The Swiss agency report was the latest of a growing series of rumors and reports filtering across the border in the past few hours, and it lacked confirmation from any official source. Travelers from Italy said the Cor- riere Della Sera’s morning edition had been seized and three hours af ter its appearance suppressed “be cause it contained an article consid ered inopportune.” Fascists equipped with rifles, ma- From President Manuel Quezon of erally. Dr. Roberts came here in Jan-tchineguns, and bombs barricaded the Philippines came the opinion that I uary, 1941, from Greensboro, N. C., themselves in buildings on Plinio tile-dictator’s fall “is the widest crack where he had served as assistant pas- street in Milan tonight and were con- so far in the Axis armor.” |-tor of the First Presbyterian church tinuing “sporadic and hopeless” re- Through the Philippine office of lor four years. Under his pastorate sistance, the travelers told Swiss cor- special services in Washington, Que-1 here the church has gone forward in ON THE WAR FRONTS ITALY—Hie secretary of the navy, Frank Knox, says in Washington that developments in Italy indicate some attempts to take that country out of the war in the reasonably near fu ture. Prime Minister Churchill warns Italy to sue for peace, by uncondi tional surrender, immediately, or suf fer dire consequences. Italians re ported joyfully demonstrating and asking for peace. Swiss radio says Mussolini’s newspaper supressed by Badoglio. * SICILY—rAllied fliers break up new attempts to reinforce Sicily, shooting down 21 huge Nazi transport planes in battle over Messina strait U. S. and Canadians advance pell-mell to ward escape port of Messina, and cut to pieces savage German counter- attacks. Enemy prisoners now total more than 70,000. RUSSIA — Red armies advance on three sides at Nazi base of Orel, cap ture 70 more villages, cut in behind city to threaten German’s lone rail way escape line. AIR W^R-r-RAF blasts Hamburg for fifth time in 48 hours, flames vis ible 30 miles. PACIFIC —U. S. troops open cli mactic assauirbn Jap base of Munda, gain 500 yards as combined sea-air attack hits enemy with 800 tons of explosives. Two hundred planes blast Japs in biggest single air operation in Pacific. Firtresses and Liberators hit Salamaua area with record load of 187 tons ot bombs. ALEUTIANS—Army fighter-bomb ers pound Kiska with pre-invasion thoroughness, hit Jap base in ten more raids. t 3rd War Loan Drive, Opans September 9 Washington, July 27. t— President Roosevelt today formally proclaimed Twenty-three white selectees will September 9 for the start of a thir^be sent to Camp Croft, Spartanburg, war loan campaign and asked every;by the local draft board on next American to “back the attack” with .Tuesday, August 3rd, to fill the Aug- war bond purchases according to “hisjust call. Those who pass the exami nations and are accepted for army service will be allowed to return to tlfalr homes for a three weeks fur lough under* a new ruling recently announced. zon hailed Mussolini’s ouster as “good; all departments of its work and he news,” but acknowledged that “it is and Mrs. Roberts and their two small too early to be sure that his political! sons have endeared themselves to demise marks the end of Italian re sistance to the invincible forces of freedom.” Several senators said they thought acceptable terms could be made with Italy now by which Allied armies might gain access to the European continent without the bloody prelude of a shoreline invasion. (Compiled to date for information of The Chronicle’s readers). ' COFFEE—Stamp No. 22 in war ra tion book 1 good for one pound through August II. SUGAR—Stamp 13 in war ration book 1 good for five pounds of sugar, became valid June 1 and will be good until August 15. Stamps 15 and 16 in war ration book 1 also may be used to obtain sugar for canning and will be good until October 31. Per sons needing more sugar for canning should apply to their local war price and rationing boards. Hie maximum allowed for canning is 25 pounds for one person. FOODS—Blue stamps In war ra tion book two are used to ration pro cessed foods, and the following stamps are now good for processed food purchases: Blue stamps now valid are N, P. and Q, which will be good through August 7. RED STAMPS—The red stamps in war ration book two are used to ra tion meats, fats, oils, cheeses, canned milk and canned fish. Poultry, game and fresh fish are not rationed. Four red stamps next to be used for purchases of rationed meats, etc., have been announced as: many in the city and community. Local Kiwonis Club Has 21st Birthday The Clinton Kiwanis club observed its 21st birthday Thursday evening with a large attendance. The club was organized in the fall of 1922 with B. H. Boyd as its first president. The club had as its gests O. Y. Brownlee and several Kiwanians from the Greenville club. Kiwanian Brownlee addressed the members on the meaning of Kiwanis and brought The Lions club is sponsoring a congratulations to the club on its campaign in Clinton for the purchase birthday and fine record of service in of cigarettes to be sent to United the past. LIONS RAISE FUNDS FOR CIGARETTES FOR MEN IN SERVICE Exptra July 31 Stomp Valid P June 27 Q July 4 July 31 R July 11 July 31 S —ii— July 18 July 31 SHOES—Stamp No. 18 in war ra tion book one good for one pair of shoes through October 31. GASOLINE AND TIRES—Coupon No. 8 in “A” book good for three gal lons States bases overseas, it has been announced by club officials. The club will accept contributions from the public in any amount and cases from time to time the funds will be sent to the various tobacco companies who will furnish the cigarettes for 5c a package and ship them to any des ignated area, such as Africa, Alaska, the Pacific area, toe Canal Zona, Ice land, or any area where United States forces may be based. They cannot attempt to send them to individual divisions or companies, it is stated. Boxes will be placed in stores and other public places for receiving con tributions, and other means of mak ing contact with contributors will be used, it was said. The drive will be a continuing one, it was said, lasting for the duration of the war, and contributors are urged to renew their gifts from time | to time. The committee, composed of mem bers of the club, who will head the drive are: C. W. Anderson, I. Mac Adair, E. M. Timmerman and J. Ash by Galloway. A list of the organization’s charter members was read during the eve ning and it was noted- that except in of death or members mdVing from the city, practically all who helped organize the club are still ac tive members. The members stood in silent tribute to the following ten Kiwanians who have passed away during the twenty- one year period: George W. Young, E. B. Sloan, Dr. G. W. B. Smith, Gil bert Blakely, Rex Phillips, J. A. Bai ley, C. J. Killen, R. W. Wade, Jack H. Young and W. D Copeland. Revival Meeting At Leesville Church $1400 Raised For Bible Course It was stated yesterday that $1,400 A series of revival services will be held at Leesville M. E. Church, South, beginning Sunday morning, August 1, at eleven o’clock, it has been an nounced by the pastor, Rev. C. R. Anderson. Rev. J. M. Mason of Winnsboro, will conduct toe services each evening at 8 o’clock. The meet ing will close with homecoming day, August 8, with all-day services. Din ner will be served on the grounds and those attending are asked to bring picnic baskets. Orphanage Children . . .. .. has been contributed in the campaign • — r p. . Motorists must write license num- , 0 ralse , 1!00 to ide , C0UI £ in To EniOV PlCniC *T and stato rm hark nf »arh rmirtrm . J. * / ber and state on back of each coupon, j t eac hing in the high school for Under nation-wide mileage ration- the coming year. The committee, rep ing, intended ' * “ primarily for rubber conservation, local wir j price and ra tioning boards will not renew gaso line rations, issue emergency rations Hie boys and girls at resenting the city churches in the ef- j who are not away for the summer, as will enjoy a picnic outing this after noon at Happy Acres near the city. Picnic supper will be prepared and fort, is headed by R. L. Plaxico chairman. It was stated that while the major , or authorize tire purchase or recap part of the canvassing has been com-1 the children and matrons will go for for any passenger car unless toe op- pleted, other subscriptions are still! the outing in a truck and several cars erator carries a tire inspecton cer- expected and wiU be added to the! tificate. Certificates are issued by lo-, fund to finance toe program. A corn eal boards upon receipt of tire regie- {mittee is now considering several ap- tration form. These forms are avail- plications for the new position, it is able at all service stations or ration understood, boards Each tire on the vehicle, in respondents. The Italian army has completely taken over in Milan and is in posses sion of almost all Fascist headquar ters throughout the city, although some members had entrenched them selves and exchanged shots with sol diers. Similar shortlived insurrections oc curred in Turin, Bologna, Genoa and other cities in northern Italy. (An Allied demand for uncondi tional surrender was placed anew be fore the Italian people earlier in ut terances by both President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. (Even as the crisis appeared td heighten, Adolf Hitler was reported to have been forced against hs wishes into a combined German-Italian de fense of all Italy as the price for her continued participation in his war. (Italy’s new foreign minister, Ra- faele Guariglia, conferred aboard an Italian embassy launch at sea with Turkish Foreign Minister Numan Me- nemencioglu, with whom he has been associated as ambassador to Turkey, an Ankara dispatch said, reporting the meeting might have far-reaching consequences). Italian newspapers reaching Swit zerland said 74 anti-Fascist political prisoners had been released during rioting around the jail in Milan by anti-Fascists. There was still no authentic word of conditions inside Italy. All the re ports were without direct confirma tion. But advices which came from territory bordering on Italy, and from points which normally receive Italian news, indicated that Badoglio was holding ’the'country under a tight rein while in concert with King Vic tor Emmanuel he sought to reorgan ize it after the historic overthrow of Benito Mussolini. Travelers arriving in Barcelona by plane direct from Rome gave the re port that the Fascist party had been summarily dissolved and that Musso lini had disappeared without trace. Rome was reported orderly, with occasional purely patriotic demon strations in which small groups of people shouted “Long Live Italy!” in the streets. Bern heard the reports of angry anti-Fascist disorders, centering Thomwell i around Lake Como, and said that the police were not interfering with them. H. F. Blalock Promoted Treasury Secretary Morgenthau has aet a goal of $18,000,000,000 for the drive and Mr Roosevelt asserted that “in carrying toe war into enemy ter ritory, we shall need greater amounts of money than any nation has ever i from its citizens in all history.” infant SON PASSES L Committment services for George B. Delaney, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Delaney of Goldville, were held Monday afternoon at Gray Fu- neral Home. Services were conducted by the Rev. B. S. White. Interment followed in Rosemont cemetery. Seymour Resigns Position At College ♦ Harold Seymour, professor of his tory at Presbyterian college for the past year, has resigned his position to return to Cornell University to con tinue study for a PhD. degree. Professor Seymour and hit family expect to leave about September 1. eluding the spare, must be listed Persons entitled to 240 miles a month gasoline rations are eligible Jq Rank of CaDtain for either Grade I or Grade H tires. W U W l , U Community food pricing is now in Friends and relatives of Lieut. H. in effect in four counties, and after Aug- Francis Blalock will learn with _ ust 5 will be in effect in If upper, terest of his recent promotion to toe state counties including Laurens. rank of captain. Captain Blalock, son of Mrs. T. J. Blalock, is serving with a supply bat talion of the 7th Armored division near Los Angeles, Calif. He is a grad- uate of Presbyterian college and en- i Presbyterian j tered service as a second lieutenant: Synod Mooting To Be Cut Short The synod South Carolina will have a self-entertaininf J about two years ago. After receiving one-day meeting in Columbia on Oc-. special quartermaster training at tober 6, Dr. S. J. L. Crouch of Clem- Camp Lee, Va., he was made a first son, moderator, has announced. The sessions will be held et the First Presbyterian church, with committee reports prepared before the meeting latos at lieutenant and stationed at Camp Polk, La., before going to California. Billy Arrington has returned to hia and distributed to the delegates at home in Greenville after a week’s the opening of the session in order j visit with his grandmother, Mrs. R. F. to save time. 'Blakely. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! SO FAR THIS YEAR THERE HAS BEEN 1 FATALITY AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Mike 1 1943 i Safe Year On tke Highways. This date last year, 1 ALLIES CONTINUE DAYLIGHT RAIDING OVER NAZI BASES London, July 27.—With Germany’s great seaport of Hamburg and indus trial center of Essen smoldering from blockbuster blows by heavy bombers, Allied light bombers so swift they eluded all defenses struck sharply by daylight today at industrial targets and airfields in northern France, Hol loed and Belgium. Airfields included one at Tricque- ville, France, which was singled out by medium bombers for a pounding. United States Thunderbolt fighters flying at a great height shielded a strong force of raiders, including twin-engined bombers, that attacked objectives in northern France. A communique of the air ministry and headquarters of the European theatre of operations, U. S. army, said results of the Tricqueville air field bombing were “good.” The communique said “squadrons of Spitfires escorted and covered the bombers, none of which is missing,” and added that other U. S. medium bombers, .Thunderbolts and Spitfires, made supporting sweeps over north . and northwest France.