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THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable 3bp (Klitttmt i ( Volume XLIII Clinton, S. G, Thursday, September 16, 1943 If You Don't Read THE CHRCNICLE You Don't Get the News Number 37 WAR BOND RALLY HERE TONIGHT YANKS AND BRITISH ARE HARD DRESSED IN SALERNO SECTOR Allies Holding Bridge head Despite Intense German Pressure^ • V Allied Headquarters in North Af rica, Sept. 14.—American and British troops fought hand to hand tonight with elements of three crack German divisions on the Salerno bridgehead ag" Field Marshal Albert Kesselring made a supreme effort to drive the Fifth army into the sea. During the day and into the night Allied warships poured out every thing from machine-gun bullets to shell Are to help protect the narrow beachhead extending 24 miles south of Salerno and the entire Fifth army was engaged in a grim battle. New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews reported in a field dispatch that when he left the front rShortly after 1 p.m. “the situ ation was well in hand, although the Germans were pressing hard.” (A Berlin radio broadcast record ed by CBS declared, with elabor ation, that Salerno was “now in German hands” and that the British and American landing forces were everywhere on the defensive. SOUTHS OPEN FIGHT ON DRAFT MEASURE V ' — ' t Induction of Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Bone of Contention. Roosevelt Said To Support Plan. Washington, Sept. 14. — President Roosevelt was reported authorita tively tonight to be ready to oppose a pending move in congress to pre vent the draft of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers. • Informed congressional 1 sources said he would make his position clear in a message 4o the house and senate Friday outlining the progress of the war. Majority Leader Barkley of Ken tucky said he understood the mes sage would make no legislative rec ommendations. Undoubtedly, how ever, what Mr. Roosevelt says will influence congress’s decision on pro posals to ban the induction of fath ers. The legislators had hardly settled into their seats, after a ten-weeks summer recess Before the issue bob bed up with Senator Wheeler, Demo crat, of Montana, and others de manding quick action to forbid the drafting of fathers. Chairman Reynolds, Democrat, of North Carolina, then announced that hearings on the subject would begin (The Allied-controlled Tunis radio j tomorrow, and that members of the said m a post-midnight broadcast | army and navy high command would that: “German tanks and infantry b e called to explain their manpower are pouring against the Allied lines, ne eds. Members of the house mili- but our positions are being firmly tary committee were asked to sit held against all these assaults.”) jointly with the senate group. The Mediterranean was alive with Barkley and other Democratic con- ships and planes as the Allies poured gressional leaders—Speaker Rayburn, reserves into the Italian fighting un- Vice-President Wallace, and House der the direct supervision of Gen.>Majority Leader McCormack of Mas- Dwight D. Eisenhower Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, the lanky commander of the Fifth army, and his staff were in the thick of the fray. (A German radio broadcast re corded in London by the British min istry of information said Clark’s army was made up of the 36th and 45th U S. infantry division^ and the First U. S. tank division; the 46th and 56th British infantry divisions and a British tank division. Canadian Mr. This Soldier May Be Your Boy P C. WALLOPS FORT JACKSON SS MEETING THE SQUARE ♦ li EUGENE S. BLEAK TO MAKE ADDRESS i Presbyterian college opened its 11943 football season in Columbia j Saturday night with a decisive vic tory over the 59th Signal Battalion eleven of Fort Jackson by the score j of 41 to 0. i The second game of the season will be played Saturday night in Athens, Ga., against the University of Geor gia Bulldogs. Other games to follow on schedule are: Sept. 25—Clemson at Clemson. Oct. 2—Newberry at Clinton (night game). Oct.ft—University of S. C. at Co- jlumbia Oct. 16—Open. Oct. 23—Daniel Field at Augusta. Clinton Area Quota $500,000. Committees Named for Community Canvass Friday. A public mass meeting to inaugu rate Clinton's War Bond drive will the be held this evening (Thursday) at 7 o'clock at the monument on the j square. Every man. woman and child in the community is invited. Laurens county has a quota of $1,162,800. Clinton's part of this goal is $500,000. Preliminary plans for the drive have been perfected and the canvass will be made Friday by a group of Nov. 6—Newberry V-12 at New-: canvassers, both men and women, berry (night game). L. E. Bishop is the local chairman. Nov. 13—Camp Davis at Camp Da-' The parade tonight will begin at vis, N. C. BUY WAR BOROS STATE'S CROP PROSPECTS ARE ABOVE AVERAGE School Opening At Training School Delayed A Month sachusetts — conferred with RooseveH in mid-afternoon. When the President held his regu lar press conference immediately af terward, he was asked for his views on the question and discussed it gen erally, but without reference to the | The school bell at the State Train- specific proposals before congress. I i n g school will not ring until Mon- It might be well, he said, if writ- day, October 4. Teachers will meet ers would make it clear that mar- Friday and Saturday, October 1 and ried men in essential occupations^, for conferences and organization. wmilH rmt Ka> to Iron /IlnrlAf colaa^ftasA * Between now and then the girls would not be taken. (Under selective service regulations, men with de elements — presumably one of the | pendents and in essential occupations British divisions—were reported “on ; WO uld be the last in the draft age the northern flank of the Allied group to be called). bridgehead.”) One hundred miles to the south, the methodical Gen. Sir Bernard L. The president went on to say that everybody knows there are many fathers just laying around. A report- Montgomery pushed his Eighth army | er suggested that the statement was not grammatical, and the President said he preferred to say it ungram matically. with greater spted, passing Cosenza in a drive to effect a junction with Clark and take some of the tremen dous pressure off the Fifth army, j -» Bari as well as Cosenza had fallen. ! _ , _ The Allied communique said: ;CoGCtS C00pCr0t6 111 “Heavy fighting continues on the fifth army front. The Germans are V*OftOn rlCKlIig rfOgrom Methodist Churches To Observe Sunday As Orphanage Day counter-attacking desperately and at certain points have regained some The Clinton Chamber of Commerce of the ground previously taken by' * s m ®ki n g an effort to secure extra us .” |labor to*help farmers in this com- The extreme depth of the beach heads was six or seven miles at some places. The Mediterranean was alive with ships landing men and materiel and pumping deadly sal- munity in gathering the cotton crop. Through the cooperation of Cap 16:30 on the college pla/a and pro- •ceed to the public square. There will be a band concert at 6:45, followed by an address at 7 o’clock by the Hon. Eugene S. Blease of Newberry. Announcement is made that fwo booths will be erected on the square Columbia, Sopt. 13 -South Carolina 'J r ,h / ‘“'l ol bonds - 5, har *' °J crop prospects declined about one A. H. Cummmgs and Mrs. T. E per cent during August, but even so Adcl ison. the outlook on September 1 was for! The parade will be headed by aggregate crop production in 1943 Chief-of-Polce L. H. Bagwell, Maypr six per cent above that of 1942 and P S. Bailey and city officials, the 14 per cent above average for the ,39th Cadet Training detachment and ten years 1932-41, according to Frank., band, the college R.O.T.C. unit, and O. Black, agricultural statistician. cars representing the Chamber of August wepther was too dry for Commerce, Lions and Kiwanis clubs, tame hay, sweet potatoes and cotton The canvassing committee ic head- which declined, seven, five and one led by B. L Plaxico as chairman. The The v. annual conferences of the ' ^ while other i committee consists of Dr Methodist church in South Carolina!™** a ^ out held own ' . . P, ^ hamc * Jr V ?' , C ' ana set aside Sunday, September 19, as I * e ™. rd cr °** of K oats ’ W b^ley W. H. Simpson. J. Leland Young and annual “orphanage day.” The offer- ^ nd potatoes have already been W. W. Harris compose the publicity ings on that day from both church harvested and it is likely that pro- committee. school and church service will be Ruction of Peanuts and sweet pota- The residential section of the city and boys can be found in the neigh-i given to Epworth orphanage. Each toes also Wl11 ** larger t ? ian m any will be canvassed by a group of la boring fields picking cotton for wag- year fully half the total amount con- ^Uon^crop is forecast at 730 dleS 5; eaded by M /f- 7. E - Addison es, which they will spend according, tributed to Epworth by Methodist! | The ^ as chairman, with the following to individual inclination and desire.!of the state is given on this day. Ward ca P ta,ns; Ward one ’ Mrs - Juluin Therp havp hern manv rhaneev Ahrmt 7Rn rhnrohoc u/itw a mom | com P are< * with 699,000 bales in 1942. Coleman; ward two, Mrs. T. J. Leake; There have been many changes, About i60 churches, with a mem- The to b a cco estimate of 85.000,000 war d three Mrs W L Jone« ward during the summer. Girls and boys, bership ot 155.M0 will participate in ds is 12 ent below oduc . [our MiTd o Rhame have gone to work, others havejth.s offering. Consequently, a large £ n las , year but slightly above av-.'nidle?'Msistingt^caou™ come. A new building has been, sum is expected to apply to the cur- prap „ OI laaiej » assisting me captains ap opened in the hospital section. (rent expenses of the orphanage. | prospects are for 24 240 000 bushels' ° n ^ Woman s page ' The increased need for physio- and Every Methodist is urged to make| 0 f corn which would be 14 per cent . Tbe w,ll t be head * psycho-therapy can’t be met at pser-, a li5eral offering to the children at ;above the 1942 crop and six £ r cent ed by the following committees: ent, officials state, as the school J s ^ gp^.Q^h. Those who, for any reason, above the average crop. ^°- *—*• Adair, J. Roy Gasque, under-staffed because specialists m.| can ^ a ttend services on Sunday, the Dry weather reduced hay prospects C- Giles, Robert D. Lynn. every field are absorbed in the con duct of the war. At present the following teachers, all of whom were employed before, will compose the school faculty: Miss Mamie Mcllroy, Miss Louise Cox, Mrs. Margaret P. Fouche, Mrs. Ben Milling,, Mrs Ayliffe Jacobs, Mrs. tain Carl M. Turner, commanding | Reymond Pitts, and Mrs. Maggie officer of the 39th Army Air Force Holson. 19th, are requested to send their of ferings by some' one who does at tend or mail direct to Epworth Or phanage, Columbia, S. C. Mailing Period Given For Those Overseas training detachment at Presbyterian voes into the enemy The city of , college, a large number of cadets Salerno (population 77,000) remain ed in Allied hands. The air was straked with incessant dogfights as the Germans hurled FARM WOMEN HOLD MEETING are assisting one day a week in the work. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 60 cadets go to the fields, 40 on Thursday and Friday, and 300 more and more fighter-bombers intoi on Saturday. The schedule has been the battle, Anted planes, T50 mtlesj«ranged so it does net Interfere with- from their nearest usable landing their training routine. field, bombed roads and railways; School students are urged to use j the Farm Women’s Club market leading to Salerno, striving mightily, their afternoons to help the f'arm-' hosts, to delay or prevent German rein-' ® r s-Persons otherwise employed have 1 Miss Eleanor Carson of Winthrop forcements. : also been contacted to enlist their; college, chairman of the South Caro- (A German broadcast declared services during spare time to assist llina Woman’s Land Armj^ was the seven iper cent during August and j No. 2—Dr. S. C. Hays, S. W. Sum- Jthe forecast of 519,000 tons is four erel. H. D. Payne, C. W Anderson, per cent down from last year, but 30 No. 3—D. B. Smith. R. E. Fergusm, per cent above average. w. R Pitts. W. C. Baldwin. Sr. Sweet potato prospects were down No 4_ Dr D 0 Rharms Jr D c five per cent but the outlook is still HeustesSi w H . Simpson. R Hubert for a record crop of 6,750,000 bushels, I Boyd i which would be 15 per cent above „ Clinton Cotton Mills, J. C. Can non, chairman; Lydia Cotton Mills, J. R. Cobb, chairman; Goldville. Joe overseas only between September 15'41,250,000 pounds, or 43 per cent L ' chairman - and October 15. After the latter date, I above outturn last year and more As th f cam P aign * tarts ’ Christie such parcels may not be mailed un-i*han four times average production— Columbia - chairman of the less a written request from the sol-i the larger crop being due to increas- ^alcw^je campaign. called upon all production last year and 37 per cent Christmas gifts may be mailed by j above average, parcel post to army men and women! Peanut production is estimated at mv.® foil Twaatirvcy ®f 4V.® Ta,.r®r. c « wriuen request irom me soi- uuc iu jimcds- ,, „ , Countv Cou^ffoTFarL WrJ^en was dier for the artlcle is P resented with 0(1 acfeage and a somewhat better; ^’ uth Carol,nians to J 0,n in this County Council of Farm Women parce i The navy also urges thatiy’ 6 ! 41 P 61- acre thls year. (greatest pieie of war financing, and .told toUmtoy 10 *. m. to tto “5" The outtaok-irlor 1.100.000 pounds '< the dnvv ,h..uid-u^ as 1 i, , **"* *** gifts be mailed between the above The outlook is fur ~3,100.000 pounds agriculture building in Laurens with 06 ma led between me above _ which would be ^ same the country may face higher taxes or rj * t j * 1 as last year’s oroduction but well eompulsory sav ings to finance the Reasons for the early mailing dates year ^ ^ weU war effort, are: The vast distances that the par-| atKne dVera £e. Mr. Black said. cels must travel to reach men at war * Nazi tank formations had swept from in the farm emergency. the mountain heights before Salerno! onto the coastal plains and were j i “engaged in breaking enemy resist-!>-00g DrOnCn dCnOOl ance on the coasts of the sea.” The * enemy broadcast claimed that strong Allied detachments had been cut off from their landing points). Gen. Montgomery’s Eighth army j guest speaker. Mrs. Jack Templeton, Begins New Session The Long Branch school began the 1943-44 session on Monday morning, ... .. Ti |September 6. J. Leroy Bums, super- be,(in * “P Hatton [ jntendent ol oduetton .ddressed the Mediterranean and Adriatic coasts p U pji, a t the opening exercises. fronts and stations the world over; CADETS Gl ESTS OF CLl'B frequent transfers of thousands of A group of musicians, members of * bls supervisor of Laurens county lunch men from one location to another,! Training Detachment at the buy wiiuj> ui a rooms, explained the rules and regu- 1 which means forwarding of the mail were guests of the Kiwanis next tjrne government lations for school lunches. ! an d consumes additional time; * the I Thursday evening. The young A prize will be offered for the best necessit y for giving preference to re-! cadets presented a.varied program of inforcements, arms, munitions, medi- mus ic which made a big hit with the cine and food in allotment of ship-(Kiwanians. ‘unchecked except by demolitions;” Teachers are Mrs. Robert Cain of Gen. Eisenhower’s headquarters a n- lLaurens> principal, and Mrs. W. R. nounced. « Cosenza (population 40,000) is near the top of the Italian toe 120 airline miles from the city of Salerno. It fell after a 10-mile British advance. Bari (population 200,000) is on the Adriatic 112 miles across the south ern Apennine mountains from Sa lerno. It was taken after a 65-mile! sprint from Brindisi and its capture gave the Allies 125 miles of Adriatic coastline threatening the Balkans. Cosenza and Pari both are provin cial capitals, the latter only 74 miles from Foggia and its cluster of im portant airdromes. Montgomery’s pace was rapid be cause southern Italy was only light ly defended. The rough nature of the country and the effective demolitions probably will prevent his joining the i Fifth army for a week or so, £hd the Fifth was under immediate, r cessant pressure. ^own of the Long Branch commu- ;the meeting . mty. G. W. Cunningham, John Holtz- claw and Claude Madden are trus- 1 tees. GOING AWAY TO COLLEGE OR TO TEACH? If you want the Clinton news —have THE CHRONICLE fol low you. Its weekly visits will be “like a letter from home.” Student’s and teacher’s rate $1.50 for the school year. THE CHRONICLE ‘The Paper Everybody Reads” club report for the year, it was an nounced. The program was concluded at the P* n 6 space, which often means that; noon hour when a picnic lunch was ^be shipments of gifts must wait. i spread. j Rules for Christmas mailings to the Mrs. H. L. Williamson is president fighting forces overseas include: of the council. | The parcel must not exceed five Members^of the^ 17 home demon- p OUndSt and must not be more than 15 inches in length or 36 inches in length and girth combined. It should be marked “Christmas parcel” so that it may be given special atten tion to assure its arrival before De cember 25. Not more than one parcel may be stration clubs in the county attended Patterson Addresses Local Lions Club Dwight F. Patterson, of Laurens, VyV"” 1 * unc P^vei may oe airman of the War Bond campaign mail ^ d in f ny one week to the same member of the armed forces by or in behalf of the same mailer. Perishable goods, such as fruits that may spoil, are prohibited. chairman of the War Bond campaign in the county, addressed the Lions; club at the meeting Friday evening at the Clinton tea room. Mr. Patterson explained the county set-up, the quotas for the various parts of the county, and appealed to members of the club and citizens I -, > n j \it generally to assist in the successful V36tS Under Woy completion of the drive. ’ * During the evening seven new members were received into the club. They were J. B. Arnold, G. W, Bell, L- W. Cooper, W. M. Hughes, John ! County Bond Drive The third War Bond ceampaign in the county gets underway this week D%i with Dfoight F. Patterson, Laurens banker, as general chairman. The Addison, John Cauthen, and R. M. goal for the county is $1,182,800, *of Crooks. which $235,000 is assigned to farmers. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! SO FAR THIS YEAR THERE HAVE BEEN 2 FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Make 1943 a Safe Year On the Highways. This date last year, I Mr Benet, expressing confidence in the response South Carolinians will give, nevertheless, in a statement week, said: “Unless .the people buy bonds in sufficient amount. Lie needs money we may have higher taxes or compulsory savings." In this county the organization to press the drive forward as the great est and most vital of all the war loan campaigns so far is ready, and the leaders hope to carry it to every man and woman and to many of the school children of the countv. Wotler B. Todd Promoted To Major Friends of Walter B. Todd, of Fort Dix. N. J.. son of Mr and Mrs. J. Reed Todd of this city, will be in terested to know he has been pro moted to the rank of major. Major Todd, a regular army offi cer, received the advancement in rank from captain on September 11, having previously completed a spe cial course at the battalion eom- manders and regimental staff officers school at Fort Benning. Ga. At pres ent he is stationed at Fort Dix as : intelligence officejs on a regimental staff. p Major and Mrs. Todd spent sev eral days leave last week with h.s parents here and with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Alex ander, in Laurens.