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I A THE CHRONICLE Strives To B? A Clean Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read THr CHRONICLE You Don't Get the N^ws s—• Volume XLlV Clinton, S. C., Thursday, February 17., 1944 Number 7 Marines' Who Led Marshall Invasion COUHTY GOES OVER WAR BOND QUOTA scout leaders; MAKE PLANS FOR NEW YEAR’S WORK Committeemen and Scoutmasters Hold Enthusiastic Meeting. Hart Is New District ^Chairman. These three marine corps officers planned the successful Marshall invasion. Left to right: Brig. Gen. Graves B. Erskine, MaJ. Gen. Harry Schmidt, and MaJ. Gen. Holland M. Smith. General Smith commands all marine and army amphibious troops In action. General Schmidt commands the Fourth marine division which established the Roi heo^h- head. General Erskine is deputy commander and chief of staff to Gen eral Smith. | Laurens county had “gone over the top” yesterday in the Fourth War Loan«campaign, according to Dwight j F. Patterson of Laurens, county i chairman. The report, based on official fig ures through yesterday, shows that war bond sales in the county totaled $1,272,146.25 against a goal of $1,253,- ' 200. This is an excess of $8,946.25 above the quota. % . | Chairman Patterson said that prac- i The first meeting of the new ye . ar tically all quotas assigned for differ- Clinton district. Boy Scouts, I ent sections of the county had been was hekJ ^ londay evening at Hotel; raised. He stated that he desired to Clinton with thirty Scouters present extend his thanks and appreciation from Clinton and Goldville. to the committees from the Lions .. . The meeting was in charge of the SOVIETS POUND r m GERMANS BACK 4N IMPORTANKENTER Allied Planes Blast France. Hitler's Losses Huge Amid Snows. A’ and Kiwan^ clubs of this city for their fine work in the campaign. Scroggins' Flying Career Includes Varied Activities i district’s newly elected chairman, J. B. Hart, who explained the work foj- fhe year and urged a co-ordinating of efforts on the part of scoutmasters and committees. He gave an outline of his plans and fthe group present 1 I MAX E. ME1SEL. JR. Varied activities including mem bership in an aerial breakfast club, 1 TO SPEAK HERE TUESDAY NIGHT i London. Feb. 16.—The Russians in the north, moving down along tw ». railroads and a highway, have ham mered the German* farther back to ward the great communications cen ter of Pskov, bombing and shelling the Nazi retreat lines choked- with trucks, carts and infantry, Moscow announced today. The Russians were pressing the Germans in’ five other see tors of the eastern front as well 5nd were mak- i mg gams so consistently they seem ed to have an excellent chance of throwing the Nazis completely out of STATEWIDE BILLS NOW BEFORE SOLQNS Washington, Feb. 14.—Proposals to Columbia, Feb. 15. — Calendars heavy with bills of statewide impor- mittee on a $21,162,000 general ap-1 ® rs . ... . pfopriations bill indicated it would I ^ and ""f 3 " 5 let two weeks elapse belore report-1 lts A 1 ** 1 tor wa ) ,s 10 s ' m P llt ) r lncomc ing. The senate will have up for final reading a bill to cut the public ser vice cortimission down from seven . , , j i Max-£» Meisel, Jr., field director Russia in the remaining five weeks unanimously .voted their wholeheart- j for the Amerk 3 n Red CrpsSj has just of winter k ed support and cooperation to him | re t urne d from a front row seat in th th iTj. ri , ne {he r^. d*ing the coming year. . , h southwest Pacific theatre of mill- * h th 'he Ku^ bership in an aerial breakfast club* R. E . Ferguson of this city, p'resi- • ^a^rat?on and before ^riuma^T^VeTman su^iv' flying the mail, and flight training dent of the Blue Ridge district of |Soll ' tors 0 f the Red* Cross drive ^ of a 'orre of h rh ms 'l00 000 for instructorship covers but a frac- Greenville, which serves eight coun- Tuesday night, Feb. I*, at 7:30 in . _ , b ... Red ^ m v The Mos- tion of. the experiences of C. B. ties and Aep districts including Clin- : the high school auditorium. i cnw^idmeht bulletin recorded by SCro rt’whSe SionVadet^ oV Se1 r”’ th * ^ or f aniza -| Mr. Meisel was stationed with ad- the Soviet monitor from a broadcast, airport where aviation cadets of the tion from national headquarters m vance units on the northern coast of „. d > 0^/) m,,re Germans were killed 39th detachment receive flight train- New York down to the local districts. N e w Guinea in the area of Lae and 60 of ’ their tanks ‘ cked {n(1 a ’ ing. He has logged 1700 hours of The object of Scouting, he said, is Finschafen. At times he was within * n reoeated Ger J an at . flying time. ^ -j to give an opportunity to more boys thrce m iles of the Japanese. As his tatk f to br( , ak lbe ‘ encircling ring Mr. Scroggins’ career in private'to become Scouts. , unit moved forward he saw dead (rom ou tside were beaten batk flying began in 1936 when he took Scoutmasters Hugh Eargle, Bruc? Japanese snipes hanging in trees and- Leningrad front troops, striking ^ ^ lessons at one dollar an hour. It took Galloway, J. C. Thomas, Shirley never knew when the Japanese down ( rom Luga. kiile<i over 1,400 were brushed aside today by the s * x mon ths to get seven hours of . Timmons and F. M. Stutts spoke of would counter attaclc. Germans and captured 40 communi- dual and at the end of that time he the progress of their troops and Their only contact with a supply ties in one part tbe dnV e • for quest for ways'to simplify income soloed. ' . rasked the support of their sponsoring base for a time wgs by air, jeeps, Pskov . 0ne force reached The rail tax returns After soloing he bought the air- j organizations for the boys program, mortars, men, and everything they station of Serebyanka and a mile The committee'however took one plane ’ 3 model E ' 2 Cub ’ from his It was reported that the Boy Scouts, used being flown in/. further the town of Kalbutitsy, 16 ine commiuee, no ^ i instructor. in their drive last Saturday sold war Meisel was with an air unit which n jii es SO uth of Luga and 75 mi let. As a sportsman pilot he belonged bonds amounting to $16,000. sent out bombers to prepare the way nor theast of Pskov. Further east.on COMMITTEE ACTS TO CONSOLIDATE TAX BRACKETS step in the direction of simplification i by voting to attempt a consolidation to an aerial breakfast club and gain-j It was announced that the annual for the marines and infantry. The tbe highway Gorodets, 15 miles south legislative-elected members to three ^ much experience participating in Father-Son banquet will be held big job was to overcome the thou- of Uga, was captured, general election-elected piembers, overall r^vmAnts ^ . monthly air meets. The club mem-1 during the month, the time and place sand and one handicaps of climate, West of this area other Russian s ^bers would fly to different cities each to be announced later when arrange- disease and geography, and keep the f orces pushed down the Narva-Pskov with foyr, rather than existing overall payments. St3 . ff i month, breakfast together, and go to ments are completed terms. * This, and a house education com mittee resolution up for consider- i <j< be ac ti on i a y S aside, at least tern ation that Yjfquld pledge house sup-, porarily, a proposal by Representa- port to a senate-adopted $10-a-month ] ^j ve Carlson, Republican, of Kansas, was given the task of drawing up.^ ai ’ t for a progTa ^ that in . proposals for the integration. | cluded bomb dr0 ppi ng> ballod n burst- and railway alorig the east shore of Lake Peipus, eupturing .several populatea planes in condition for long bombing The annual finance drive for the forays. Clinton district will be made on Feb- He was formerly sales manager*for places, An enemy 'infantry 'regiment ing, and paper cutting. The paper ruary 24. The canvass will be in a nationwide agency distributing rented .md many p*r- TT n*£*v74n i cutting-event consists of throwing a 1 LllUIge of a committee headed by J. drapery and upholstery fabrics. In rnuch matenar taken The Russian* pay raise for teachers, might both tba * tbe government droo from the/ 3 ,!* of paper out . °f the 1 ^* 3 , ne n a ^ ld ’ ^ ,eland ^oung as chairman, with a his capacity as sales manager with in art , a were i ast reported at ... . * 1 ewvcxiuucm uiup nuiu lllc ! w hen the paper had unrolled, flying quota for the district of approxi- ,hat ^ , -- . ^ . bear on the free conference report. ; tax roRs those wbo pa y the victory i Dast andifieeinV how aui*c”kiv'*t h e' , Da^ kmTtelv SI non Bills to have the state purchase tax but wh0 se income is hot large, p3 ^oulXe rut twice k y h P I HnlL^wui I .*■ _ ... ,__'per could me cut twice. | Horace Will that concern he traveled extensively Polnat 47 mUes north of Pskbv throughout the United States. . 1 T be Russian communiqile gave few Williamson, scoutmaster of* Mr. Meisel'attended the University details of the fighting in the Ukrain : the John P. Grace Cooper river toll pnough to come under the resular o • . ... . , — — - - -*»* ■ --**?, ^.».«.. .^ bridge for $4,000,000 from Charles- j incoi S e levies. A similar proposal was ! dr JJ>pi^ r cSt tn?atrophy whi?h where the Red a «W was Kashin* Sh C hnn!rL are ° n s ^ cond reading made by the treasury last fall , he k t until the ne t me€ting o{ both houses. -- Congressional sources expect the th , b _ 1 The senate also has in line for ac-» treasury and probably some labor, In 1939 his was one of g7 planes and urged the importance Of holding up his business duties. He tried to (;e rman division*" int*r hit* »•. regular monthly meetings. Sociar enlist in every branch of the armed Oils art work, he said, must be done by vol- forces but was turned down because unteers and the leaders of the coun- of physical disability. Feeling - the ter 12 days of shelling, dive-bombin ; and mortar fire. tion a -house measure to permit per- g roU n S to oppose the merger Of thekv. " V * , 7 V "u , / dna me icaaers 01 me coun- ui pnysitdi msaouuy. reeling - me sons. in fHec armed services to nar- that made a tri P from Flonda to-the, cil who are giving their time to the need for active, service, he made ap- sons • in the^armed services to par ticipate in geher.al elections. victo^ tax into the permanent taxj New y ork World fair. 1 promotion of scouting are busy men plication to the Red Cross for active Joint resolutions-that would order I Stofy" l e vy° iTa ^em^rarv wartime' • wor t kin g. at^thepost office who are volunteering their services duty wrth an air corps unit. • d ivmpoidiy waiume; m bis bome town of Ocala, Fla., the in behalf of the boy^ of their respec- —— 1 yearly celebration of airmail week tive communities^ He outlined the referendums on eliminating a consti-|t ax only. tutional ban on divorces, arid on per- Meanwhile, congressional Demo- mitting women to serve ori juries, cratic leaders were reported to have are ready for house debate. counseled President RckySeveit at a PRE-INDUCTION had a special meaning for him. It duties of the committees, was planned to have- all the mail Scouters speakirig *fdr the commit- The house has set noon Wednesday whft* House confe’rence’against ve^ "°*' n out »' Oc^a during that week tees were: Finance J Leland Young; f AI I fftp UCU ,0 debate a committee on education u>iI ? g , he $ 2,3.5,OOD.OO new® revenue and sS’ K o tALL ^ bill to elirpinate the present. Win- measure with-- the admonitionthat • 6 C u u j * a 'A/ 0 -A ^ n d. barety DiT^S. O. Rhame, Jr., -» throp college board of trustees, and no new revenue measure wotfld be ^5 of d u 0 A y th ^’ mad over t0 ^mping Activities, J. H. Hunter; The Clinton draft board has re substitute a board composed of two j? ort ScLing this ySr ^ bTl?, which ! Dayt ° na BeaCh Wher * ttle regular a * r ! Orgamz a tion and Extension, L. B. members from each congressional I was sen t to the President last Week, district, electedjjy the legislature. | contains only about one-fiftti W The board now has seven legisla- $10,500,000,000 requested by UHt-latf- tive-elected members, two chosen by m i n i s t ra tion. « f * the alumnae of the college, and four 1 , , ex-officio members. FOURTH WAR LOAN Other principal house legislation. v 1 that might reach the debate stage 1 DRIVE REACHES GOAL within a two-weeks period were bills, + to allow minors to work in cafes and Washington, Feb. 15. —The $14, London: Feb. 15.—The Allied air forces made another furious assault against German fortifications _ in northern France today and, from th; hundreds ancP hundreds of plane i •ent out.from British ba-t the L-4|- cs were two medium bombers and four fighters. T- The bombardment of Pas-De- Calais and its environs was begun-by formations of American Liberator .. . — , , — _ . cei\ed an order to send H4 white men ixinnher* nnri lines took over, for his service he Dillard; District Commissioner, G. N. tq Fort Jackson during February to bombers which navieded over ■ i-.i was given an airmail pilot’s certift- Foy. tak „ their nrp i ndllPt inn examina t « ^ na\ igati-d over \ ast cate tcT one day. * ! It ww.d^ld*! U, h.ld 0« diaUJc.-, “Sy flak , °‘ S - ne of the experiences Mr. Scrog- regular meeting on the third Monday morning and the additional 54 will mercantile establishments between 000 000 000 Fourth War i oan wen t the hours of 5 a.m. and 10 pjn. when 0 * ver ^ be ^ Q p by $19^000,000 tonight not due in school; require Bible study a f ew bours before the midnight in the schools for one hour a week;' dead]jne for the carnpaign . create a state products authority to j Although the drive ended for “big mine lime and manufacture fertilizers mone y” participation, war bond pur- and cements from lime, and permit - cbases reported to federal reserve Blue Cross Hospital Care associations banks during the remainder of the month will be counted toward the i^inal total to be announced by Treas ury Secretary Morgenthau on March : 2nd. I Tonight’s treasury announcement gave no breakdown between indi vidual and corporate subscriptions, gin& most fondly remembers occurred evening of each month. in 1938 when he and two com pan - 1 —-— ’'ions were asked £y a farmer to fly , q , . . . o>S?r his eggplant field and stir up the Lt. DUrrOUgnS IS New i.(rom al Juto8.“ “ ^ preve " t tros ' Adjutont of 39th Unit On the appointed night they landed 0 at the field th^y had chosen to op-! L,t Harold A. Burroughs is the i go on the 24th. According to regula-j Naples; Feb. 15.—American bomb- tions, the names for these .pre-indii):-; ers blasted German troops irom the 1 tion examinations are not ’ released Mt. Cassino today and ajlacked the for publication uritil after the draf- iinc ' ent Benedictine, monastery atui) 'tees have .been accepted and in-| Tiburtina and OstiOOfe railway yard.* ducted. j °f Rome in two ^operations with the This call comes under the rw»w.. jlhgle aim of speeding ^^he 1 iltli men for Aerial explosives and incenifi.i: ie» to organize. crate” from and found "that i" had: neW ol the' isth College ra Sdlation S , which is tor the purpose army s l.ush north. been ploughed up. Despite the bumpy coReee g ^' Presbyterian future calls Thpv WikFpnl y bp ex _ and artillery -hells turned the Mt on .nry naan —a — — Lt Burroughs rec?ntly rted amined now and'the number ph^f-tC^ino monastery into a smoke- cally fit for service ascertained’. Those - s brouded inferno ^nd abou.1 300 grey- uniformed Get man-soldiers were sent racing like rates from the stronghold they had fortified to obstruct an Al lied drive ft r the relief-of the Anzi * RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (ORA) landing, they performed their task. .. A C c?^ gin | S fl UnderWert ^ trai ! li A g Wlth here for duty from Grand Raoids i ,lfc Ior service ascertain ^fly>ng_s e rv ice at 9 ames " - Miehiean Prior to his entry into 1 the accepted have three weeks ordrmger Burroughs was!/ t ,ore w * d be calledT*. ; It is -rtoderstood that practically all, of the draf teas in the February are married F ville, Fla., and from there to Atlanta, I Michi 6 an - Prior to his entry into the 'Ga., for a check ride. army air forces Lt. Burroughs was After Atlanta came a three week period at Maxwell Field, Ala., and a month of classification at Kelly Field, nr, ’ • ’ Hfs S assistant public relations'director of the San Francisco Chamber of Com- He attended the University of New Mexico and the University of Cali fornia. anything but post-wair go (Compiled to date for mformatirin bu ^ individual purchases yesterday! can play of The Chronicle s readers). : still were more than $1,800,000,000 music. PROCESSED FOODS; Green G, short of their $5,500*000,000 guota. | As for his H and J stamp§ (book four) expire The treasury said it would .con- Scroggins plans to go back February 20. Green K,*L agri M tinue to announce daily the individ-! post office and private flying, stamps (book four) expire,March 20. ual purchase totals-fcfr the remainder| ♦ MEATS AND FATS: Brown V, W of the month. MnrP CnHpfr ^friisfonfc and X stanrTps (book three) expire; The drive opened officiaJly Jdnu- 1 ,v,u,c JlUUCiirb February 26. Brown Y stamp (book ary 18, but all war bond sales for three) expires March 26. Brown Z both January and February will be (book three) valid February 20—ex-!'counted. pires March 20. j ' 1 SUGAR. Sugar stamp 30 (book Colored Folks To Have four) good for five pounds. Expires o* D«J p M || w March 31. 5 Ibp. for ^canning good| D, 9 •'“O V-rOSS ivaiiy until February 28, 1945. 1 * SHOES: Stamp 18 (book one) validf ° n Friday night, February 25, there indefinitely. Texas. Not lacking in other talents, Mr. Scroggins is somewhat of a virtuoso, , . 1 In August, 1940, Lt. Burroughs Hawaiian was cor omissioned in the grade of second lieuteparit and ordered to of- of the draf teas s in calls for examinations men. bridgehead. on the Hawaiian guitar on which he.! plans, Mr. TO SPEAK SUNDAY The guest minister at the First Presbyterian church Sunday tmorn- ing will be the Rev. R. R Ctyig, pas tor of the First PresbyteriJn Ichurch of Idabel, Oklahoma. Kiwanians Hear Of Beta Club Work L Assigned 39th Here ficers training school at Miami^Fia., to the for in doctriwatibn.’ F'rom thereme had I assignments at Napier Field, Ala:, [and at Grand Rapids, I W. M Byers visited his sistt|r„ Mrs ' Lt. and Mrs. Burroughs have two Henderson Pitts, and Mr. Pitts last children, a nine year old boy and a week enroute to Miami, Flr|., from [few weeks old daughter.* He Hopes New York. j ’ _ l to have his family join him here 1 , later.- A group of 120 ne\tf “Beavers” ar rived Monday morning-from Miami " Beach to enter training at tiie 39th RAPTI^T^ Training detachment at Presbyterian ' college. The new Ynen have been | MEETING PLACE housed ip Spencer dormitory. . Last Wednesday'the second class' The Wednesday evening session of, Wl11 . be . a rall y at Bel1 school l0 f 1944 to be graduated from the de- the spring meeting of Ihe Laurens FUEL OIL: Period 3 coupons (lOl au ditorium for colored Red Cross tachment left for Nashville, Terin., Baptist association scheduled to be gallons), expire Februay 21. Period war fund workers from this section, f or f ur ther training. The traditional held at the First Baptist chusch in of the county. Special arrangements j ceremonial farewell was held on the Laurens on February 23, has' been 4 and 5 coupons (10 gallons, expire September 30. ,• *\ GASOLINE: A-9 coupons (3 gal lons) valid February - ®, expire May 8. Methodist Men To Meet Tonight have been made for the admission of | college Plaza in their honot. mothers, fathers, and wives of men ■ mm in the armed services. Other rela- W re p VA/ri^kf lives will not be able to attend. The! “Ngni program will include a sound moving Passes In Jacksonville picture and other features of inter-; » est. 1 transferred to the First Baptist ! church of this city. The planned [ mating will be held at 8 o’clock, j with Dr. Charles F. Sims as the speaker. . ♦ The meeting of the association . . Mrs. R. Z. Wright of Jacksonville,, will be held as already announced The following are members of the F j a ^ died in a boS pit a i there Satur-jon Thursday, Feb. 24 at 11 o’clock The Wesley Motherhood class of/°™ mit £* h3S , C t har ** °* ^ da y after an extended illness of sev,- in Laurens. Broad Street Methodist church will x 3 ‘nn~* ’ eral months - Funeral services were All churches aie requested to send ^ held their regular meeting this eve ning (Thursday) to whicU all •mem bers are invited. \ 'A' chicken supper will be served at 7:45 to be followed by a humorous Mims and Clipt Wadsworth. CHURCH MEN TO MEET The Men-of-the-Church organiza tion of the First Presbyterian church program given by a group of cadets will hold their regular supper-meet- from the 39th detachment at byterian college. Pres-J ing this evening, at 7:30 at. the church. All members are invited. * • es-l ii l d in Jacksonville Monday representatives both meetings. conducted afternoon. Mrs. Wright before marriagf was Miss Lola Rikfe of Charlotte, N. C. Her husband is a native of Clinton, a son of the late R. Z. and Mamie Lee Wright, and is pleasantly remem bered here by a number of friends. BANKS TO CLOSE M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers, and The Commercial Pepository will ob serve Tuesday, February 22*, as a holiday in honor ol Washington’s birthday. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! SO FAR THIS YEAR THERE HAVE BEEN O FATALITIES Irom AUTOMOBILE f ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Make 1944 a Safe Year On the Highways. • . This date last year, 0 The K A.in;> cl .b h.ui .. h^guist, ai d speakers Thuisday evening, Di sMiit W. Hat ris : U <• jcoUk g< fw • ulty. and Miss .Hannah Lei trier "oi Spartanburg.. • . _ • . Dr. Hams i^ secretary of the Na tional Beta club and executfve eititor ot the organization’s monthly journal Miss Leitner is the a.-Mslant secre tary. - . Both speakers told of the work the Beta club is ddtng for high school boys and girts v who comprise it* membership. They stated that tin? club is a non-secret, leadership ser vice' club for high schyul student- that its purpose is to encourage ef-* fort, to promote character, to stimu late achievement, to curtivate lead ership qualities, to reward merit, and to /encourage and assist students-1» continue their education after high School graduation. The local h..4h school has a chapter in the Beta -r- ganization. Baptist Brotherhood To Reorganize Tonight A reorganization me: ting of the Brotherhood *of the Fust Baptist church will be helrf tonight (Thurs day) in the Sunday school assembly room of the church at 7:30, it has been announced.. | It is hoped by officials that alt i men of the church will be present. An oyster stew will be served.