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THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Slip (Elinlmi (Ebnmtrlp If You Don/t Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIV Clinton, S. C, Thursday, May 25, 1944 Number 21 U. S. Bombs Carve Victory Sign in Italy CLOSING PROGRAM AT CLINTON HIGH NOW UNDERWAY Graduates Hear Baccal aureate Sermon. Class and Graduating Exer cises Tonight and Friday Night. PLANS MADE FOR COUNTY CAMPAIGN = ♦ Fees Set and Itinerary Planned. June 1 Dead- j line for Entries of Candidates. IKIWANIANS HOLD ! DISTRICT MEETING j Representatives fPom the nine Ki- | wanis clubs of the 9th district were I present for a divisional dinner meet-; ! ing last Thursday evening at thei i Cleveland hotel in Spartanburg. j I Carolinas District Governor Jeff B.! | Bates gave the principal address and \ ! told the large group of Kiwaniansj | that the Kiwanis motto, “We Build,” j Meeting Saturday in the office 0 f j is " in , th ® individual club. Kiwanis ha*| . . a... — 1 ci cciirt “anH f Hue i survived the war, he said, “and this j war has opened another important s avenue of service for every member. ' FINAL FIGHT FOR ROME NOW SEEMS TO BE UNDERWAY Anzio Forces Join In Drive Against Nazis. 170,000 Huns Caught In Two Drives. This prophetic “V”-for-Victory was formed by a dislodged piece of masonry knocked down by American bombs whUe this Italian city was stHl in Nazi hands. Air WACs of the U. S. army 12th air force pose proudly before the Victory-V. SOUTH CAROLINA ARTILLERYMEN BLASTING PATH THROUGH FORTIFIED HITLER LINE , J LT. COL.Godfrey IN Martin To Offer CHARGE OF ATTACK For House Again Friends here of Lt. Col. Ansel Bo Walter L. Martin of the upper part Godfrey, a Clinton son, will read with of the county, announces his candi- considerable interest the following : dacy in today's paper for re-election account about his exploits with the to the House of Representatives this Singley, Brooks Copeland and John French army in Italy, as released summer. j Hunter. Monday in a feature story by a war Mr. Martin is rounding out twoi Graduating Exercises correspondent of The The high school c ommencement program whi ch began la st Sunday evening with the annual baccalau- reate sc tv ice. will be i son tinued thi's evening (Thu rsday) wi th class night exercises in the Florid? i St reet school auditor} urn at ; eight ok doe k. The 1 -xerci- ,es, aKvay- a n event of interest to gi rad nates. the ir families and friends. w: 11 be i i n charge of m embe- M of the riit'S, The follow- mg i in agram 'has bee m announced with th e pub lie cordial My invited: Proce ssiona 1 The cl; iSS. We In, >me Betty Ann ! B- aland. S11 ngs ■Au' Id Lang Sy ae” The rid'S. C!.w Hu >:y Anne 51 c?\l: Ilian. Piano ..soli l. “Star Du- * - _ -John Cok- etr Cl.-.l Pi >om - June C til 'Ji; 'Song, •Dr; nk to M ,p ! ‘ .( Duly With Thine I Ives” The class ' Cia-s Will John Cok . e r. Song, “Pac k Up You if 1 rroubles - The ela fUff. Class Prop hecy Ma ry Padgett. Song, “My Buddy"- -Th : :e ela;#*', Alma Mate •r By ev ery body. Flag Faeces: sional, as^ •d by jun- iors. Cta" off ief tS are: Betri .• Ann Bo land, pi •esident; Lemna n J ones. vice- president; Betty Tayl or, secretary; John C; oker, treasurer; Bi lly Cooper, student body president. Marshalls: Virginia Gray. Louise their pledges and fees for county offices in this sum mer's primary. The committee also Chairman Ralph T. Wilson in Lau rens, the county Democratic execu- ; , - ■ An . , r. ... . %g n ~ ,. ., T i . avenue of service for every member ’ Allied Headcjuarters, Naples, May five committee fixed June 1 at noon , , , , ^ n . v ■' V „ „ , , , , . as the deadline for candidates to file He concluded that it is up to Kiwan- i 23.^-Sijpported by battleships, planes pay their entry i*ns “to build a nation with charac-• and - 1)000 5ig gungj Ame rkan and a soul with a heart. British troops on the’Anzio beach-, Lieutenant Governor John J. Hayes , • , , , „ fixed the fees and arranged a speak- of the Laurens club, presided at the ea aunc e . a » tne!a 0 en "*^ e ° meeting. C. E. Godfrey, president of day, synchronizing with the mam the host club, welcomed the guests Fifth and Eighth armies in^an all-out and presented the gavel to Lieu ten- flrive wh j ch epught 17 German di- ant Governor Kayes, Special music was given during the e.vening. The Clinton club was represented by a large. delegation, joining mem bers of the Laurens club and making the trip by bus. Fees were fixed as follows: Sheriff, S100; clerk of court, $100; senate, $50: house of representatives, $30; game warden, $50; coroner, $50; county commissioner, $25; magistrates, Lau rens and Clinton, $25; other magis trates-, $10. Fees of all candidates without op position will be- doubled, excepting magistrates at Laurens and Clinton, and m the, case of the house of rep resentatives. where a special provis ion was made. In the case of the house candidates, the minimum was fixed at $30 but in case there are less than six candidates a gross of $180 will be equally distributed be tween those entering. In case there are more than six, the $30 maximal will still hold. The committee provided for seven campaign speaking dates, opening July 10 at Clinton and closing July 21 at Watts Mills. All meetings are to be held in the evening and will open at 8:30 o'clock. The following is the schedule, as adopted: July 10, Clinton, Trammell's lunch Last Rites Held For Mrs. Hattie Howie Mrs, Hattie Foust Howie, 67, widow of B. M. Howie, died at the home of •'viy.'O' ntmg a her daughter, Mrs. S. D. Dawkins, Sunday night following several yea'rs visions in a giant nutcracker opened the final battle for Rome. . (American parachutists have^ de scended in great force across the* Ap- pian way between - the two fronts, a German broadcast said, and are en gaged in fierce fighting with German troops. A Swiss broadcast sajd that- American troops had driven from the east flank of the beachhead to Lake Fogliano, 19 miles from United States spearheads northeast of Terrscinca, gain of about 'foot* no iles). Allied artillery-, probably more than 3.000 field pieces, already was raking,’ German positions .with a eross-ffre ‘from the southern 'and, beachhead stand. July 1V! .h1 declining health. A short service was held at the home of. Mr. and Mrs. Dawkins a# , , , « . . r . one o’clock Tuesday before the party fronts as doughboy veterans of Africa left for Rock Hill, where the services were concluded at the home of Mrs. J. H. Ferguson, with interment fol lowing in the cemetery. The services were in charge of the Rev. J. H. Kohler of this city. , . . . Pallbearers were Rhett P. Adair, 1 ^ opposite flank of the beachhead and Sicily, rising from, ravines -and blood-red poppy .fields at 6:30 a.m,* smashed toward Cisterna. The direction of the British attack was not specified but a strong British force has bebn holding positions on' 11, Goldville, school audito rium July 13, Cross Hill, school audito rium C. H. McCrary, Joe W. Leake, R. L. only 21 miles from Rome. Plaxico, Johnnie Holland and Hugh Baltimore Sun. ; terms and in announcing his candi-| The graduating exercises will be! in g dacy said that because of his expe- held Friday evening at 8 o'clock in , With the Fifth Army in Italy May nence - h( -‘ better qualified to, Florida Street school auditorium.; 19.—From new'gun positions high in serve the people of this county and At this time medals and awards for: ohna^artilkry' outfit^teday °has firedi re-elected Mr. Martin said, I will; presented members of the graduating 4 000 rounds in support of infantry i continue to serve all the people to the, class: attacks on Sant Olivia, one of the, best of my ability. 1 Leaman Jones is the valedictorian, Simultaneously, American tanks ^ , opened a frontal assault on Tenra- • _ ,., _ _ — * - ( 1 cina, coastal anchor of the Germans Mrs. Howie was a native of York ' , . , .. F^ southern front 23 miles from the county, ror the past 15 years she had:, ... j w '-oi-un. July 14, Center Point school build-- been a resident of this city where beachhe t ad ’C and the Br il , » she made many friends who s i ruck m a July 18, Hickory Tavern school; learn with regret of her passing. i ° f l tS ^ I Si ier o^ e building. , Mrs. Howie is survived by two | 3ust north of Monte Cmro. The Bfit- , .... nnH Hinlnmns' Jul y 20 ' Gra y Court -° win g s . sch ° o1 ' daughters, and two sons, Mrs. Daw- out . a » ff ! the year will be made and diplomas; auditorium , kins< Mrs T w Edgewo ; th ol Harts-i the Hltler lme ’ but at nightfaU fi€rce * anchors of the Hitler line. The guns—105’s and 155’s—are for ward of the point where by the book, light artillery should be, and are get ting ready to move up again. They have been firing steadily since H Cromer Announces For The Senate Charles A. Cromer of Laurens, an- July 21, Watts Mills band stand. j ville, T. M. Howie of Charlotte, and defended Terracma was still in and Ann McMillian, salutatorian Forty-five to Graduate The following 18 boys and 27 girls will receive diplomas: j Boys: James Alvin Bagwell, James' in light of the soldier vote. Austin Chandler, John West, Coker. Chairman Wilson said that June 1 j G. W. Howie of Texas. was the latest date that the entry; —— fees could be filed under the rules!**/ ■ ^ . adopted by the state convention. Thei ’▼Or LOOn L/NVG I O convention, he said, provided that the! OnGn June 12 deadline should be June 1 or earlier; ^ German hands. (The German DNB agency an nounced the evacuation of Pico, Hit ler line stronghold which had been surrounded by British and French troops). Powerful tank forces, .supported the i beachhead offensive, which ended a vanced positions. Attached to the French, they want to go wherever the French go. And fi n( 'n ibe \oters later. Mr. A quota of $1,271,000 has been as signed to Laurens county for the, th ree months lull on the embattled I Fifth War Loan drive starting June I A ui ec |_held strip of sand extending ; 12. D. F. Patterson of Laurens, chair- withm 2 1 miles of Rome. Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark of the Fifth army hour 11 pm on May 11, one unit "ounces today that he will be a can-; Char ie S William Cooper, Jr., Bobby; |/ L| T n AHHtpcc leap-frogging another to set up ad- dldate thls summer for the State Sen-| Dcan Dailey, Leaman Dantzler Jones,; 1 u ate from Laurens county. He said i clarence Franklin Oakley. Jr., Mar-: Graduating ClaSSCS that a detailed statement will be 1 ion Pope Oxncr, John Henderson . j Pitts, III, Robert L. Plaxico, Jr., Har-| p de R ev j the French are going places. iVU - Cromer served th e county as 0 ] d Hack Prater, Edgar Owens Rich- North Broad Street Methodist church meeting in Columbia. On Wednesday from a point near s ^ naU)I f°r the four year term 1936-, ard Sadler, Thomas Waite Smith. Joe; 0 f c j t y i W1 n deliver the baccalau- South Carolina will have .a quota' <5-, hniH urac the. timing rff th*. nf Esperia, I watched the South Caro- ^O, and is well known throughout j Carl Stroud. Jimmie Alan Suddeth, reate se rmon to the graduating class of $58,000,000 and the national goal' fm-ivp h^inninfj a fun^hnur anH a imians lay a wonderfully coordinated the county. In Einnouncmg his can- Richard Edward Willingham. Charles uf the Whitmire high school on Sun-; i s $16,000’000,000. ** ^ | ha{f afte r s 8 unrise^-that the German barrage on German positions on the; dld acy he stated that he feels he is c. Winn, Hartwell West. , day evening, June 4. j The Fourth War Loan drive wasri ia air " # a lope of Mount D’Oro. These also are! uel1 qualified for the office and if Girls: Vivian Alford, No^ma Lou- Mr. Kohler will also preach the Conducted during “ ‘ : forefield defenses were found un man of the county war finance com- . m it tee announced yesterday, follow-; wa t c hed from an observation tower oh er, pastor of ing the state drive organizational | as hj s troops went over the top at * ’ H-hour—6:30 a.m. the guns which in the battle's open ing barrage battered the slopes of Mount Faito so) severely that the. Germans fled into their own mme^ fields. German prisoners are still on Faito burying their own dead. The artillerymen like the fast-; travelling French. Everyone agrees! that French traffic jams in the moun- 1 tains—it is not unusual to sit for an anHpr«nn FHna Fliziheth Raid- u i * ‘ , ., ffl; — » January with Mr.i manned and Yankees smashed ,se Anderson, Edna Elizabeth Bald baccalaureate sermon o e f o r e the Patterson as general chairman, and! quickly into the secondary lines. elected will work for the best inter e.^ts of the county and all its people. w ; ni Betty Ann Boland, Theima g raduating c i ass 0 f Calhoun Falls: wa Sloan Todd Promoted To Rank of Captain News has been received here of the promotion of J. Sloan Todd to the rank of captain. The announce- Bridges, June Marie Crisp, Lizzie are Cleo Hooper. Laura Frances Hudgens, ^av 28. ; Doris Jennings, Helen Miller Leaman, T ' he Calhoun Falls schools , Eva Jeanette McBurnette. Christine' headed by j B Gentry as superin- I Novella McCurry, Ann Lee McMil- 1 ^ t . nden t former principal of the local lian, Nancy Rebecca Neal. Sara Eve- high school. His friends here will be lyn Noffz. Mary Padgett, Lucia Faye, Pinson, Marian Adair Pitts. Alice Re- , , , , „ , s over-subscribed. The same local There they met fierce return fire from high school on next Sunday evening,, committees are expected to head up jail arms. the campaign in the Clinton area. interested in knowing that he has volunteered his services for induction Clinton Hi Wins State Class 'B' Baseball Crown hour in one spot—are the result of \ "tent will be lecoived with intciest. becca Poole, Annie Louise Ridings,; j n service as soon as the present by his friends Ruth Rumph, Elinor Frances Shaw, 1 school year ends. their eagerness to get everything they have as far forw-ard as possible in. Captain Todd is a son of Mr. and Jodia Sullivan, Betty Aiken Taylor,; the shortest time. 'Mrs. J. Reed Todd, of this city. He j Dorothy An Wingo, Lessie Catherine, The food has been plentiful but; was recently transferred to a field! Wh iteford, Helen Smith. j artillery unit at Camp Shelby, Miss., until suppertime tonight there had been no time to cook it and the men j and he and Mrs. Todd are making had been eating “Charley,” or C ra- their home in Hattiesburg, Miss, He preached Sunday evening at the First; Graduates Hear Sermon The baccalaureate sermon was Dr. J. William Frey Changes College Work sina and took part in the winter mis sions against Cassino. They have been attached to. the 45th, 36th and Third American divisions, and now French of the Fifth army. Tom D. Abrams officially announc es himself in today’s paper as a ean- this “We just go going, with the one that’s the didate for Sheriff kn primary. Mr. Abrams in making his in the front of the auditorium. The prelude was given with Mrs. Heath Copeland as organist, followed summeris !‘b.y'4he-‘P#oees6ional. The invocation was offered by Dr. D. J. Woods. The Scripture lesson was read by Dr. an- : j (Quoting a German front reporter, j the Berlin radio said that “there is j no doubt that this ’is an all-out drive •i to outflank our troops'and squeeze i them in a pincers—at this moment ♦ i the great battle is raging like a real Clinton high defeated Bennettsville hell.”) high 15 to 4 last Friday night at j One of the-greatest Allied convoys Bennettsville in the class “B” base-j ever to anchor off Anzio arrived just ball title game, to clinch the state; before the battle started,carrying re- championship Stroud pitched for the j inforcements, equipment and sw-p/ : local team, striking out 18 men. j plies. As the massed land guns began The local team won tw'o straight; their pre-attack bombardment just in the three-game Upper-Lower state! before daWn, U. S. battleships stood finals. | close' inshore and hurled tons of i steel against German position-. JOB? QmitL Di Nearly L000 heavy bombers and omirn Kenamed Un scores of lighter planes took up the State Board ; bombardment as the attack began,, ^| .concentrating on targets around the Dr. Felder Smith of Laurens, with! German Headquarters town of Fras- assume new duties as assistant pro-. offices in thTls ci{y< has 5een re _: catt and an eight-mile long ravine appointed to a four-year term on the noGb 0 * Giiderna where the Germans. • n i m r, u u r * state board of examiners in optome-! m ° S * heavily concentrated. A u and Marshall college, Lancaster, ^ try Th{? appointment was made on 2,150-sortie softening-up bombard- the recommendation of the S. G. Op- j [V ent was ^hv^ed on German posi-^ lessor of mathematics and German in the Navy V-12 program at Frank- Pa I ing held in Columbia. says Major Paul Godbey of 1 nouncement stated that he has served I Betts, ^followed w^dh prayer by j be in the home reg^on^oHhe^^^alled i'J orn * tr ! c , ^^^tipn at a recent meet- i around fbe beachhead yester- i The beachhead offensive, following by 11 days the opening of the all-out drive in the south, threw the full Columbia, S. C. “That’s all we ask.” the county as a peace officer for 28l Rev - Shelton Moose. An anthem. De0 nie the Amish and the Men “It’s fine being with the French,” years and is well qualified by train- was sung by the choir. : SonTtes about whom he on says Lt. Col. Ansel B. Godfrey of ing and experience for the position.; Ur. Betts selected as his text, J ^ cts . severa ]’ occas j ons w hile this city. Clinton, S. C., the outfit’s commander. He was in the race four years ago i 18:14-16: “If it were a matter of ‘Their officers know their business when he received a most creditable wrong or wicked villainy, O! ye Jews, and their staffs are well organized. 1 vote, he stated. reason would that I should bear with \ '. ~ — . When it comes to fighting nobody can, « you; but if it be a question of words John MalpaSS RlSCS beat them.” i and names, and of your law, look yei—. . • / n ■ The South Carolina artillerymen DATIAMIM/^ DrtADft to it; for 1 wil1 be no judge of such lO Captain S KOPK KA I lUIN I INo DUAIvl/ matters. And he drove them from the judgment seat.” His theme, based a resident of, KIWANIS MEET TODAY The Kiwanis club will meet tonight . . , . , (Thursday’ at 7:30 o’clock at Hotel weight of Allied arfns m Italy I Clinton. Dr.‘A. L. Pickens, rqember I of the faculty at Presbyterian eol- j lege, will be the guest speaker. give them such support that Ger man prisoners, veterans of the Rus- BULLETIN (OPA) sian front, says artillery ^re here is: . more terrible than it was at Stalin-j (Compiled to date for information gra ;of The Chronicle’s readers). All the men except a few replace- . ments are South Carolinians and; PROCESSED FOODS — Blue A8, than the passions’; the reason being, i on mhre than 50 combat missions. He many have been in the unit for six through Q8 (book 4) now valid at;j think, that ideas excite to passion. wps rescued from the sea a few to eight years. ! 10 Points each, for use with tokens. an d furnish the motivation for the months ago when the Japs disabled John Malpass, former Thornwell upon the text was, “The Mistakes of orphanage boy, has recently been Gallic.” Dr. Betts said in part: promoted to the rank of captain. “Ideas are dynamite. It has been • Captain Marlpass 4s somewhere in, said that ‘great ideas are mightier : the southwest Pacific and has been. Some of the men, who by ill luck! Good indefinitely, aren’t from South Carolina, havej MEATS and FATS: Red A8 through living of all life. The idea of revenge his plane. Capt. Malpass expects to furnishes the passion for hate, for be sent home on leave in the near taken steps to remedy the fault. One,! T8 (book 4) now valid at 10 points i unforgiveness, and murder. The idea future, a dentist, already has picked his each, for use with tokens. Good in-, of love furnishes the passion for self town and begun lining up clients. j definitely. i denial, high aspiration, and noble They are a long way from home; SUGAR: Sugar stamps 30 and 31 Hiving. The idea of exploration fur- and intend to go farther, but their; (book 4) good for five pounds in- nishes the passion for the trek of spirits are high, said Colonel Godfrey. : definitely. Sugar stamp 40 good for, mankind throughout the world. Ideas Native of This City ; Oi'ci inHc tannine* cnaor until nlwnvs ht-pn thp miphtipst fnrPPS Lieut. Col. Godfrey, described in Lions Club Meeting Be Held Tonight live pounds of canning sugar until have always been the mightiest forces I The Lions club will hold its regu- the above dispatch from the Italian front as the commanding officer of a crack artillery unit which has been making life miserable for the Ger- ’ (Continued on page six) February 28, 1945 SHOES: Air plane slamps 1 and 2 (book 3) valid indefinitely. GASOLINE: 10-A coupons valid May 9 for 3 gallons and good through August 8. in the world’s life and will always be., lar meeting tonight (Thursday) at But Gallic, the man of our text, fail ed to realize it. the Game and Fish association lodge near the city, officers state. The ses- “You remember that when he was.sion begins at 8 o’clock and takes deputy undet^Achai under the Roman I the place of the meeting scheduled (Continued on page tout) 1 for Friday. SUBSCRIPTION NOTICE — All friends and^relatives who are sending THE CHRONICLE to those in the armed service must keep the subscriptions paid up if they desire the paper to be continued. We do not send statements to men in the armed service. Please check on the date and if the subscription has expired let us have renewal. Due to curtailment of paper and other materials, all ‘subscriptions must be paid in advance. THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” the possibly 200,000 Germans Field Marshal Albert Kesellring has staked in a final gamble to hold Rome, These troops, sandwiched in by two power ful Allied forces, their supplies and reinforcements reduced ta a mere trickle by Allied bombing, faced al most certain death or surrender un less they chose to withdraw- to Rome, and sooner or later, to northern Italy. E. Frank Anderson For Re-electipn —-*»'■ . E. Frank Anderson, well known resident of this part of the county, announces himself offically today as a candidate for re-election as County Commissioner. Mr. Anderson states that he- is seeking re-election on his record. When I offered and "was elected to this office, he said, I promised the people I would spend their money carefully and be fair to all interests of the county. This I have conscien tiously endeavored to do, he said.;