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*<t f T v ) I THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable (Clwton ‘ ~ fflkmttrlf f 11 You Don't Read HE CHRONICLE ou Don't Get the News Volume XLIV Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 20, 1944 Number 29 TRUMAN SURGES AHEAD IN RACE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT !■ New Goldville Pastor i Byrnes and Barkley Also Gaining Support. See Wallace Slipping Chicago, July 18.—A sudden surge; of support for Senator Harry Truman; of Missouri placed him tonight in the | top flight of compromise possibilities; for the Democratic vice-presidential i nomination. “It’s a natural,” exclaimed Senator! Carl Hatch of New Mexico. “Harry i Truman is going to be nominated.” • Apparently the shift toward him originated partially with the - CIO. Heretofore the big labor organization has given unswerving fealty to the renomination aspirations of Vice- President Henry A. Wallace, and so far as public statements were con cerned it continued to do so. CLINTON PHYSICIAN GETS PRESIDENTIAL - UNIT CITATION / Lieut. Bothwell Graham. III. Ma rine corps, USNR. of this city, on July 10 was awarded a Presidential Unit citation. The presentation was made at Ingram field. Sampson. N. Y., by Captain Harry A. Badt, command er of the Sampson naval training cen ter. Official Tickef For Tuesday's Primary Goldville Boy Honored Ellison D. Smith Lieut. Graham, senior medical of- [ state Senate Laurens County r. S. Senate John M. Daniel Cv B. Epps. Olin D. Johnston A. C. Merrimon fleer of the Holl Unit dispensary, served as battalion surgeon with the Chas. A. Cromer O. L. Long First Marine division in the conquest. Housw . of Representatives of the Solomoh Island from Novem ber 4, 1942, until September 30, 1943.! Lieut. Graham is the son of Pro- Asked about reports that they were looking favorably upon Truman as a | second choice, CIO President Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, Political , Action committee chairman, told newsmen: “We’re for Wallace.” REV. MACK A. BRYANT Rev. Mack A. Bryant, formerly of Spartanburg, who recently received his theological degree from South western Baptist Theological seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, has accepted* a call as pastor of the Goldville Bap tist church. fessor and Mrs. Bothwell Graham, Jr. He attended Presbyterian college, the University of Virginia and Duke university, where he interned. Lieut. Graham entered the navy on May 26, 1942, from this city where he practiced his profession. He was immediately assigned to the Fifth De fense battalion. Fleet Marine force, and in October, 194^ participated in the bloodless occupation of the Ellice *’ alT,e Warden i Islands. He served as assistant bat-! W. R. Moore (Vote for three) Elmore G. Bramlett Chas. C. Giles. Walter L. Martin Charles L. Milam James H. Sullivan Robert C. Wasson Clerk of Court • -ViC R. Fleming Sheriff Tom D. Abrams Sidney A. Lee Caldwell ,W. Wier ALLIED FORCES IN FRANCE ADVANCE WITH AIR SUPPORT British Reach Flat Plain Toward Paris. St. Lo Falls To Americans. But some of Wallace’s strength seemed to. be drifting away after President Roosevelt gave a weak nod; to the man he demanded, and got,; as a running mate four years ago. The Vice-President, in fact, is on | the way to the convention to try to stem a tide which was turning to some degree toward War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes, Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley; and, belatedly, toward Truman. As for the presidential picture, Mr. Roosevelt’s renomination was as cer-1 tain as ever, but a boomlet continued for Senator Harry F. Byrd of Vir ginia. Louisiana followed Mississippi! into the Byrd column, voting to cast! its 22 votes for him. That made 46 Byrd votes, counting four from Flor- [ ida. In the vice-presidential contest,! Truman, chairman of a special senate! war investigating committee, was re ported reliably to be the second choice of CIO President Philip Mur- | ray. The senator was in conference earlier with Sidney Hillman, chair man of the labor organization's Po-. litical Action committee;— Truman has been insisting right! along that he doesn't want the nomi nation and had so told the ittissouri delegation. The Missourians, nevertheless, at a caucus today promised him their 32 votes. While New Jerseyites, with 34 con- Mr. Bryant and his family moved to Goldville July 6 and he preached his first sermon the following Sunday. Mr. Bryant spent six years at North Greepville academy and Junior col lege knd three years at the Texas seminary. Mrs. Bryant also engaged in study at Southwestern and re ceived a degree in religious education. Mr. and Mrs. Bryant have three children and are occupying the par sonage adjoining the church. talion surgeon with the Fifth Defense battalion supporting Col. Carlson's Raiders’ oflfensive in the eastern land ing on Guadalcanal on November 4, 1942, and later served as battalion surgeon with Marine units holding the island of Tulagi. Clinton Marine Sees Action In Invasion ' D. Todd Knight County Commissioner (Vote for two) E. Frank Anderson A. H. Moore J. Herman Power John H. Wharton Coroner R. I. Burgess Magistrate Hunter Township at Clinton C. H. McCrary At Mountville J. L. Dickert SGT. JAMES L. BROWN, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brown of Gold ville, has been awarded the combat- expert infantry badge. He has been in service for two years and in Italy for the past six months. Sgt. Browi| was with the troops that took the city of Rome. Textile Program To Be Presented Here August 5 Allied Supreme Headquarters, Lon don, July 19 —Behind an 8,000-ton bombardment by 2.200 planes, the most concentrated in history, the British Second army burst wide >pen the (German line at Caen Tuesday ! and, sweeping across the flat plain ! toward Paris, met Field Marshal Er win Rommel's panzers in a show> j down tank battle. 1 American troops captured St. Lo, 1 central bastion of the enemy line, and I the simultaneous blows shattered the ; communications of between 20 and j 25 German divisions—possibly 250,- 000 men—threatening them with dis aster as the Allied power exploded i in a massive coordinated drive to- ; ward the heart of France. Gen. Sir B. L. Montgomery's tanks 1 smashed the German line in a syr- ! prise oflfensive from the Orne bridge head just above Caen They then ! veered southward to lunge out on the open plain and engage the enemy’s armored strength. Dozens of separate tank battles, -parts of one mighty struggle, broke ; out as the German panzer crews, with no more hedgerows and gullies to POLLS STAY OPEN UNTIL 6 O'CLOCK vention votes7 defeated a motion to put them on record for Wallace, the 52-vote California delegation adopted by an overwhelming voice vote a res olution endorsing the Vice-Pipesident’s renomination. The California action did not bind i the delegation and it was tempered! by the fact that Wallace lieutenants' had been counting on half the state’s 1 votes anyway. As the Vice-President entrained in 1 Washington for Chicago, Jake More, one of his managers here, said that! Senator Joseph Guffey of Pennsyl-! vania had made a new survey which 1 shows the Vice-President will get “in! excess of 300 votes on the first bal- | lot.” ' t' Fof- distribution among delegates, the Wallace people turned up with some big handbills which said: “If I were a delegate, I would vote 1 for Henry A. Wallace.—Franklin D. Roosevelt.” The posters did not add, as did the President, that the final decision on his running mate rests with the con vention. Mr. Roosevelt’s statement on the vice-presidency gave impetus also to| efforts to drum up support for Byrnes 1 and Barkley. Apparently these efforts were taking effect. The weighty Pennsylvania delega-! tion, wielding 72 votes which the' Wallace camp previously claimed in their entirety, took an advisory poll that showed 41 in the Wallace col umn. Recprded against Wallace or not voting were 21, with 10 absentees. More, Iowa state chairman, sent Wallace a letter urging him to rush to Chicago and shake a few hands.. rfe didn’t mail it. He telephoned it to Washington. A telegram came back: “I shall be with you tomorrow morning. Thanks.” Whether the Vice-President can fish his campaign out of the fire was a topic of widespread corridor gossip! in convention hotels. He still has far! more pledged and claimed delegates than any of the dozen or so men tioned for second place on the party ticket., But he was in a tight three-way race, apparently, with Byrnes and Barkley. The rest of the field was strung out behind. .J ( Some Southerners were attempting 1 • to 'pump life into a capsule-sized campaign for Virginia’s anti-New Deal senator, Harry F. Byrd. Many of them admitted, however,) that i they had no hopes of nominat ing Byrd and that they merely want-! According to instructions issued yesterday by County Chairman Ralph T. Wilson all precinct boxes in the county are to remain opep next Tues day evening until 6 o’clock. The re vised instructions to box managers were issued, he said, because of work schedules -in textile plants which make it difficult for some textile em ployees to reach the polls before 4 o’clock. Heretofore, he said, approxi mately half a dozen precincts have been holding their boxes open after the 4 o’clock hour. Mr. Wilson also called attention to the fact that the name of John C. Taylor appears on the senatorial list because the ballots were printed be fore he withdrew. Therefore, he said, his name should be scratched by all voters unless the managers had al ready removed his name from the list. Hainan InVACinn — ♦ The Fourth Service Command. at 4;jde in and " with Paris only «#UI|*llll IIIVUJIVII \a//npi/CPC UllCT I ICC rec l ues * ^ war d e P artment ' 112 miles beyond, turned and fought »is sponsoring ^ program designed to Huge pockets of Germans were alleviate the critical shortage of tex- p assec j by j n the sweeping advances j tiles. A comprehensive .program has as tanks plunged through Colom- j been worked out for the purpose of b e u e j; and Vaucelles, northeastern improving the morale of textile su burbs of Caen where the enemy Male workers in Laurens county workers and to impress on the minds , ^ad held out stoutly after the main ! are subject to the priority referral of the people who live in textile pro- icd y f e jj j ast wee i l These were being Saipan, Marianas Islands—Back at | program of the War Manpower com- ducing communities the importance | ra p, d i y m0 p pe ^ up by the infantry Combat Correspondent Tells of Dangerous Mission By Pfc. Jackson. WORKERS MUST USE EMPLOYMENT OFFICE TO CHANGE JOBS camp in the states, the Marines used mission and no change of employ- to say: “This outfit has about 10 ment can be made except through times too many corpsmen.” n the chanel of the Clinton office of Out here in the field, it’s: “Those the United States Employment Ser- hospital corpsmen work harder than any ^larine.” of textiles in the war effort. j Fighter and dive-bombers pounded To this end, community rallies will the enemy in direct support of the be held in towns that are centers of Second army, reaching ever deeper textile production. Clinton is includ- into France. More than 7.500 sorties 10 times vice. In addition, no employer can e d in the itinerary in this-state with were flown during the day. hire new male workers except! a free entertainment announced to Even conservative headquartevj Along the closely guarded, trail through the same channel. These pro-. be held open-air at the armory on spokesmen described the day s sue- a dark figure slipped, was challenged ''siems are included in recent direc-| Saturday, August 5. beginning at i .30. cesses as of "gigantic proportions and gave the password. A*"hospital)^'®® the War Manpower commis-^ All residents of this community, and as the German reverses flared west- corpsman is needed up the lime, and sion issuefl on a nationwide basis, ac- especially those of the Joanna, Clin-; ward along the entire 120-mile front corpsman - - Pfc. James E. Jackson of Clinton. cordin S to D R - S nands. manager of ton and Lydia Mills communities, are and the Lessay-Periers-St. Lo lir. S. C., volunteered for the dangerous office Employment Service. cordially invited. facing the Americans began disint - job of running ' back through the The program will begin at 7:30 and grating. watchful Marine positions, getting Exceptions to these provisions are; continue until 9:35. It will open with American troops reached out and medical help, and guiding it back. ; few and include only state, county With two corpsmen Jackson glided and municipal go\ernments. etc. Dis up the perilous -trail, open to fire; c ^ ar £ ed service men have sixty days a band concert and consist of shortcut the.Lessay-St. Lo highway, back- talks and combat stories by two vet- bone of the line, and drove the Ge: - erans. mans from both Lessary and Periers, from enemy and Marines. Back they ,a ^ er *bey begin wmrk before they -pbe latter part of the program will a though those towns had not been came with the patient in a litter,! c ° rne und ^ r these provisions and in j i nc i uc j e two movie films, “Cptton At i- fu ! y occupled ; with Marine Jackson leading the mean bme may accept any em- ( Yy ar ” and "Prelude to War.” The two ! nipers and small knots of Ger- way. Sniper bulets whizzed over-j the y wish and ma F chan S e | shows will tell the story of the im- ™ ns t f ° u * ht in St L ‘’- bllt “^lul Legion Post Offii Elects Officers At the July meeting of the Cope- land-Davidson Post No. 56, of the American Legion, the following offi cers were elected to serve the coming year: Commander—W. A. Buchanan. 1st Vice Commander — W. Pierre Burdette. 2nd Vice Commander — Frank Simpson. 3rd Vice Commander — Harvey Foster. ' Adjutant—J. Karl Johnson. Finance Offiijier—Joe Davidson. Chaplain—W. Hugh Simpson. . Historian—Dr. S. C. Hays. Service Officer—R. P. Chapman. Sgt. at Arms—A. M. Young. Child Welfare Chairman—Dr. R. E. Sadler. Athletic Chairman—C. E. Galloway. Americanism Chairman — Frank Mattox. head, Jackson dropped to one side Jobs °^ en as tbe y w *sh, but sixty (portjmpg of cotton in the war and ron ^patches said the town was but did not fire, in order not to give da y aUer accepting work they, 1°°,{portray the background of events that octu P ,ed - Wlt h t.ie main garrison tak away their exact position. He saw become subject to the provisions. j caused the war. Those who attend ir l* P? s,tlons on far bar 1 * 6 them safely to the field station, and; While the labor supply situation in will enjoy a pimgram including sev- ° , e ' ,ire mer two miles to the safely to the field station, and | While the labor supply situation in will enjoy a program including then went back, to his fpxhole vigil, i this area is not as stringent as in eral talented performers and have an The patient’s leg Was bad so it j some others, the lack of available; opportunity of meeting several men had to be amputated right away, j workers is holding up war produc- Without anaesthetic. Dr. Robert D. | tion in some local plants. It is be- i O’Malley of Holyoke, Mass., gave 1 heved that the potential labor supply the wounded man an intravenous south. Montgonfery's troop-; opened their morphine injection and removed the dangling leg under blue light so as not to draw enemy fire. As soon as it was light, the corpsmen com mandeered an amphibian tractor and is sufficient to meet the demand if fuliy utilized. The local Employment Service has unfilled orders for both men and women in industries doing war work. Women who are not al- who were wounded in action over- ^ reat attiK 'k a t dawn, taking the (*er- seas. and will hear from several me n ' nans . com P letel y b - v uprise with its who have been most helpful in ar-! lrectlon - s *nce they had massed their ranging this program and who have forces to the south where the Tom- been outstanding in their efforts to’ 0 ] 14 : 8 ad been car tying out elaoor- make up the shortage of textiles | a ^ ^ 1N erslonar y assau ^ s - needed for the armed forces. 1 , n a ddition to the unprecedented plane bombardment, one of the great rushed the patient to the beach and jobs. wcu wuiK. v>uinen * no are nox ai- T he varied and interesting enter-i » Montv b. irr .,7“" Vr " 7 , ready employed are urged to accept tainme nt will be sponsored bv the | ^ ^ th jobs. i i • mas sea guns, made famous in the . ... local Chamber of Commerce headed .u aboard ship. His life hasf been saved.,) It is pointed out that employers can , by President Tom Addison. Mr. Ad- th d ed g t the enem y Pfc. Jackson is the son of Mr. and ; no longer hire male workers only on dison is very anxious that the gen- j- nrw . Mrs. G .H. Jackson of the Lydia Mills a statement of availability from an-; eral public attend the program. Other) _ just before the troops smashed community. 1 LaMotte To Speak For Presbyterians Seaboard Railway Advertises South Carolina other employer. Statements of avail- program. ability must be cleared through the local Employment Service offipe, at which time an attempt will be made to place the worker where he can.! best serve the war effort. Reports from local employers indi announcements will follow, he stated i#/k.i ■ •/ r • yesterday. I New Lite For China #/ Te f en-Age Canteen Plans "Open House Film To Be ShoVn a The guest minister at the First Presbyterian church Sunday morning will be the Rev. Louis C. LaMotte, D.D., president of Presbyterian Junior college, Maxton, N. C. Dr. LaMotte was connected with the orphanage for several years and is pleasantly known here. He mar ried Miss Sarah Hunter of this city. A motion, pitdyre entitled "New ^ i Life For China, ’ will be shown at the Norfolk, Va., July 14.—Anticipating cate that abs ®*? tee * sm a nd labor turn- On Friday evening, July 21. the | J^v 23 d a^8\3^T h he S |dn , rfs 7 sound over are still hindering F*oduction. 1 Clinton teen-age canteen will have technicolor picture featuring last- and all parents and ' inute conditions as faced b / S outh- m terested in the activities ofl ern Baptist missionaries. The foreign substantial postwar expansion in in- , ... dustry and'agriculture, and as part Workers using their highe-t skills m, open house a: of a camoaian .designed to further essential war work are ur g ed to re-| friends, intereste publicize the territory it serves, the main ^ their jobs and work full the canteen, are cordially invited to; m j Si . lon buard phutopgraphed this Seab.oard Air Line railway is current- time and overtime if needed in order drop in between the hours of picture of conditions in China to in ly featuring the state of South.Caro-j to meet P^uction schedules. jand^lLOO.^ ^ j struct American Christians by visual lina in its advertising in newspapers! and magazines. Announcement of this was made r ... i. ,from Norfolk, Va.. by L. R. Powell,I Mills Near Mere Officers Destroy Two The canteen has proved to be a i . , , education as to the opportunities in a ( success and officers in charge hope itlj^ ew china (Jr., and Henry W. Anderson, re-1 , will .continue to be open this fall.! tvoT . _ no s .ii tMis picture is highly recommended .There are now 118 names on roll and bv Dr . M T. Rankin, the new execu- , every night the canteen is open, a tlve secretary of the foreign mission ceivers of the railway, adding that it Deputy Sheriff H. R. Jones, assist- lar 8f> enthusiastii^crowid is present. buard The public is cordially invited | is the Seaboard’s aim in advertising ed by City Policeman Bill Blakely RATIONING-BOARD BULLETIN (ORA) TWO NEGROES CALLED ' Frank Hugh Floy and Willie C Grant, colored, of Mountville. were to attend ed to use support forTiim to bargain for satidTufctoay convention declara- * tions on racial and other issues. (Compiled to date for information of The Chronicle’s readers). PROCESSED FOODS: Blue A8 through . Z8 and A5 (book 5) now valid at 10 points each, for use with tokens. Good indefinitely. MEATS AND FATS: Red A8 through Z8 (book 4) now valid at 10 points each, for use with tokens. Good indefinitely. SUGAR: Sugar stamps 30, 31 and 32 (book 4) good for five pounds each indefinitely. Sugar stamp 40 good for five pounds canning sugar until Feb ruary 28, 1945. Apply to local boards for supplemental rations. SHOES: Airplane stamps 1 and 2 (Book 3) valid indefinitely. GASOLINE: A-10 coupons for 3 gallons expire August 8. South Carolina to focus attention on’of Clinton, made it hard for liquor the natural advantages and resources makers last week-end, according to of the state, and. thereby attract the information obtained at the sheriff’s favorable consideration of those Vho office. may be interested in the ppportuni- Saturday afternoon, it was reported, ties for future development in t v they located and destroyed a crude nat,on at Fort Jackson. state. - i 60-gallon outfit in Hunter township, The.advertisement featurin:’ South south of Clinton. The still showed Carolina, which has already had its signs of recent operation and about preview in newspapers in the state, 200 gallons of beer^were destroyed, j is attractively illustrated and enumer- The following Monday the same of- Special Primary sent by the local draft board on July For Alderman 13 for pre-induction physical exami- ates some of the state’s basic assets, fleers destroyed a high .dass outfit in H« depicting by means of characteristic the Duncan Creek section.'Here they symbols a few of its better known also destroyed about 300 gallons of raw materials and mahufactured pro- mash. ducts. Credit Association Buys $4,500 War Bonds Two Churches Join For Prayer Services During the months of July and In the Fifth War Loan drive just August the First Baptist and First closed, the Clinton Production Credit Presbyterian churches are holding association purchased $4,500 of jwar joint midweek prayer services on j bonds to be, credit^ on "the county Wednesday evenings at 8:30. This quota, it was stated yesetrday by Rex month the services are at the Bap- Lanford, secretary-treasurer of ‘the tist church and in August they will association. be at the Presbyterian church. ELECTION RETURNS THE CHRONICLE will re ceive and post county election returns for tfW first primary next Tuesday night across the street in front of the office The % results will be announced as soon after the polls close as possible. THE CHRONICLE especially invites its friends and^subscrib- ers to be present for the re turns. A special primary ha’s been called for August 1 to elect an alderman irom ward 2 for the Town of Clin ton. The primary is to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of P. B. Adair who was nominated last month for a two-year term. Notice of. the primary is given in today's papef~By~J J.. Cornwall, sec retary of the city Democratic club. Four candidates announce in to day's paper. John R. Holland, V. Parks Adair, P Dillard Adair, and' Leisel L. Copeland, well known resi dents of the ward. t)KF ON VACATION A number of orphanage boys and girls will leave this morning for a month’s vacation to be spent with relatives in this state, Georgia and Florida. /