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Thursdoy, July 29, 1943 SPANGLER CHARGES WALLACE PLAYING INTO HITLER'S HAND$ Washington, July 27.—Harrison E. Spangler, chairman of the Republican national committee, declared today that Vice President Wallace “is play ing right into Hitler's hands" by branding those opposing the adminis tration as Fascists. “If there is Fascism in this coun try, it stems from the 'palace guard’ of the New Deal," Spangler said. Wallace in a speech Sunday in De troit attacked “powerful groups" who he said were taking advantage of President Roosevelt’s concentration on the war in an effort to destroy all he had accomplished on the domestic front in the test ten years. The president Aid some people call these groups isolationists, others fined them as reactionaries, “still others, seeing them following in European footsteps, call them 'Amaru ican Fascists’.” - • < •, The president said at his press con ference today that he had, heard the Wallace speech broadcast from De troit and liked it very much. “Adolf Hitter,” Spangler said today in a formal statement, “has predicted that he' would defeat the United Na tion* by dividing them. And ~ the course upon which Mr. Wallace has set his feet, by attempting to label the 25,000,000 voters in America who are opposed to New Deal as Fascists, is playing right into Hitter’s hands. ... Blasted out of his war job because it had cracked up around him, ex posed as a bungler, as father of the food shortages in America, branded as injuring the war effort by a fellow cabinet member, he turns to playing politics." * Spangler attributed to Wallace “an attempt to set group against group, farmer against factory worker, and to unloose fifteen months of political warfare on the country.” “What |s Fascism?” Spangler asked, and answered himself: “As symboliz ed in Europe where it was born it is an overpowerful, centralized govern ment directed by a small group of ambitious men at the expense of the ■ people themselves, and abetted by bold government propaganda. Since Mr. Wallace chooses to deal in labels, I charge ths/ if there is Fascism in this country it stems from the ‘palace guard’ of the New Deal. It Was they who, from the time they came to power, created, the NRA, AAA, FSA, OPA, and OWL Fascism does not' come from the millions of voters who are determined to restore constitu tional government of the people, by the people and for the people.” Spangler concluded: “The one laudable part of the vice president’s outburst of fourth-term- itis is his statement that now that he has nothing to do in Washington any THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Page Seven IL DUCE SOUGHT TO OBEY HITLER Madrid, July 27.—-Dictator Benito Mussolini tumbled from power be cause he tried to do Adolf Hitter’s bidding to abandon two-thirds of Italy and establish a mighty Axis one'who runs the Uttle hat shop down defense line in the north, the .first /luqudia Augusts Travers—you know, the newhoru on Main Street—she’s always been dead set against gambling in any travelers arriving here from Rome since his downfall, declared today. Mussolini they said, is at a villa on the road between Rome and Ostia to the southwest, and,the new fc gb vu uvj tv £4 w sauai m wsamr- a and point out the evils of gam- Italian government demands that She’s a strict woman, Augusta. ! either aU of Italy be defended, or form. Never will forget when I was a kid and she found little Hammy, her youngest nephew, playing mar bles for keeps out back of the Took it on herself to give him a wl course. lighter ing m bling. real strict. Good as gold, of But mighty set against the things of ute. Well, so you could have knocked us all over with a feather when Au gusta started her gambling cam paign fo~r War .Bonds and T Stamps, right out partner, and that the crucial te ttie window of ance to German wishes cam u now oi me ographs of who's joined a big board her shop. First she got hold of the photo every boy here in town w1 up, and pasted them on a big in the window, with little American flags aj the comers. Half the town was down there watching her do it. She left the middle empty. Then she brought out a placard she’d had printed up and put it in the middle, and this is what it said: “These are the Local Boys who have enlisted in America's War—' are that you are buying War Bonds “ lerand They are betting War Bonds and the Japs are bet- Stamps—Hitter ting you aren’t—Place your bets in side/’ My wife couldn’t wait to get her self down there and inside Augusta’s shop to see what in the wide world had happened to her, turning right around about gambling like that You know my wife. She Kind of likes to talk. She went right up to Augusta and said, “Augusta Travers, seems like something’s come over you. Why, I never thought I’d see you run ning a gambling campaign in your own shop.’’ Mean to tell me it’s a gamble whether this country buy* enough bonds to win this war?" Augusta asked. I forgot to say. Wasn’t Just a hat my wife brought home, was a hat end a $25 bond. (Story from an actual report in the flies,of the Treasury Department.) Remember: It takes both .taxes and War Beads (sad mere War War and earn bat ttoa! v. 1. Trmmry Difmrtwunt the nation will withdraw from the war. Hittelr is pictured as forced to agree, or lose his ally. By this ac count, the irony is that Mussolni, who came increasingly under Hitler’s thumb, fell in trying to obey his resist- came from II Duce’s subordinate, not himself. This is the story of the crisis told by these first travelers, aU Italians: The new government of Marshal Pietro Badoglio is supported in its stands by both King Vttorio Eman- uele and the army, both enoying great popular prestige as Mussolini’s successors. Mussolini Returned from a meet ing with Hitler at Verona last week, and immediately called in his party aides to inform them that Hitter con sidered southern and central Italy undefendable if the Allies held Sicily Hitler’s plan was to create a great defense line behind the Po valley in northern Italy, and he suggested that gll Italian troops, munitions, rolling stock and food be transferred behnd this line, to leave the Allies the heavy burden of supplying the civilian population. wiped out by bombing. The Germans tried to wipe out London-" in 1940 by dropping 7,500 tons of bombs in 90 days and 90 nights of almost continuous raids, but failed. Hamburg has been raided 104 times with bomb tonnage probably exceeding 12,000 tons. ITALY REPORTED SEEKING TERMS Bern, July 27.—A Swiss telegraph agency dispatch from' the IRrllan frontier tonight said information from Rom^ stated that Prime Minis ter Pietro Badoglio was discussing armistice conditions with the Allies. It was generally believed, the agency stated, that Italian authorities have contacted the Allies in Rome through the Aqglo-American repre sentatives at the Vatican. These reports were not confirmed by Allied sources. The American representative at the Vatican at present is Harold Tittman. Although he is a member of the United States diplomatic corps, he is not accredited in the role of diplomat, since this country and Vati can City do not have formal diplo matic relations. He is secretary to Myron Taylor, President Roosevelt’s personal representative to the Vati can. Taylor is now in this country. Great Britain has diplomatic re lations with Vatican City and her minister is Francis D’Arcy Osborne. 6TH RAID IN 72 HOURS ON GERMAN PORT London, July 28.—A mighty Brit- more he intends to ‘get a^uainted 1 ^ air amada sent at least 2,000 more with the folks throughout the coun-;ton*.of explosives craving down on r.' That te Wfagt-Mr. mitecT has devastated Hamburg last ■night in the sixth Allied raid in a little more than 72 hours on Ger many’s first port and second city. Eighteen bombers were lost over Hamburg and in subsidiary attacks on Germany’s bomb-pocked Ruhr in dustrial valley, the air ministry an nounced as the greatest air offensive of all time entered its fifth day. Pushing what appeared to be an attempt to blast Hamburg off the TYPEWRITERS AND ADDING MACHINES CLEANING A SPECIALTY KENNETH n. baker IM INSURANCE Fir* - Tornado - Automo bile - Surety Bonds - All Forms of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B. H. BOYD Clinton, S. C. / 7/ WEDDING INVITATIONS Engraved and Printed — Announcements — Informal* — Visiting Cards — Stationery In beautiful raised letter printing or genuine engraved. Ask for samples. Chronicle Publishing Co. STATIONERY DEPARTMENT -4- . Read The Chronicle-Your Neighbor Does try.’nai U — been needing for a long time. He ni < ht needs to get his feet back into the good earth of Ipwa and his mind at tuned to the spirit of America.” FARM GROUPS ATTACK LABOR men Washington, July 29—Farm spokes- took sharp issue with labor leaders on home front problem*! .today, the National Grange appeal ing to the administration to resist map, British four-engined bombers attacked in “very great strength,” the air ministry said, and increased the labor’s demand for either a roolback total tonnage of bombs dropped on of food. Pfices^ or general wage In- the city by British and American creases. / Either Or both steps, said the ex ecutive committee of the grange, one of the mpjor national farm organi- zatons, would “deepen our impend ing food crisis and eventually bring about uncontrolled inflation and col lapse.” The Grange found fault with ar guments of the American Federa tion of Labor (AFL) and the con gress of Industrial organizations (CIO) that food cosst had advanced out of line with wages. “We are spending for food but 21 per cent of our income, believed to be the lowest percentage of any na tion on earth,” the Grange commit tee said. “This is in vivid contrast to the 60 per cent in England whose rollback subsidy program we are asked to use as a model. Yet even gt the low figure of 21 per cent, we have raised our dietary standards sharply.” BENJAMIN & - SONS PLUMBING aaaUlMiaAa HEATING SERVICE Telephone 117 WE ARE HUNTING TROUBLE THE FAMILY PAPER planes since Saturday night to ap proximately 5,000. “Preliminary reports show the at tack was most concentrated and effec tive,” the air ministry said. Flames leaped higher than after Saturday’s record assault, the British, American, Canadian and Australian pilots who participated in the attack reported. Some said they needed res pirators to fly through the 20,000- foot columns of smoke arising from the city’s 25 miles of quays, hundreds of miles of docks and great industrial plants. »' The fires could be seen 200 miles from the city, Capt. C. A. Taylor of Los Angeles, a U. S. pilot finishing duty with Canadian forces as a squadron leader, said. Three intercepting night fighters were shot down. • Fighter command mosquito planes joined in the night’s offensive with attacks on four enemy airfields and « number of railway targets in Ger many, Holland and France. The weight of bombs dropped test night on Hamburg approached the record 2,300 tons hurled on the city Saturday night by British planes in the first of the current series of Anglo-American attacks. 'Hie assault probably boosted the tonnage of bombs unloaded over Axis Europe by British and American planes during the past four days and nights above the 9,000 mark, includ ing 8,000 tons on Germany alone. Hamburg now. has been subjected to the most concentrated and relent less bombing ever given a German city in-so short a time. On the basis of British experience in raids on their own cities, it was reasonable to as sume that large portions of the city were without water, gas or electricity. Railroad, street car and bus trans portation probably has been para lyzed and tens of thousands made homeless. Huge fires that turned the pall of smoke over the City in a rosy hue guided Britain’s big . foureengined Lancasters, Stirlings and Halifaxes back to Hamburg last night and il luminated the city for the latest at tack. The offensive, ranging up to four- ton super block-busters, presumably was designed to destroy Germany’s largest submarine-construction center and one of her biggest industrial cit ies, and also possibly to test an RAF theory than an entire dty can be A Letter From Home” $2.00 AVear $2.00 y I . ♦ * Only exception Men in the Armed Forces, $1.50 a Year. All Sub scriptions PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ALL THE HOME NEWS ■ From Clinton, South Clinton, We*t Clinton, Goldville and the Rural Sections of This Part of the County. News About the Young Men of Our Community Now in the Service. 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