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i i I } v THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable <» ** • I 4 r' L 4 If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume LXV Clinton, S. C„ Thursday, August 23, 1945 Number 34 'i! New Council to Write Peace Terms GERMAN PRISONERS BEING SIFTED BEFORE RETURNING HOME BELOVED WOMAN CLAIMED BY DEATH TO RECEIVE JAP SURRENDER Careful Screening Needed To Detain Nazi Elements. Mrs. Lizzie Simpson Young, 86,1 widow of A. P. Young, died Thurs day at her home on the Clinton- i Goldville highway following several years of declining health. The . funeral services were held afternoon at 3:30 from the with the Rev. Walter N. Long, —lof-tlhis eit$r, as the officiating minis-L Iter. Interment followed fn the Hur-i A council wag get np at the Potadam conference to write the final peace terms governing the defeated Germans ao well ao the Japs. Center shows James F. Byrnes, U. 8. secretary of state; upper left, Ernest Brvin, English foreign minister; upper right. Vyacheslav Molotov, Rus sian foreign minister; lower left, George Rldault, French foreign min ister, and lo\.cr right, Wang Shlk-ehleh. Chinese representative. By Pauline Frederick Ghedi, Italy.—On this huge, sun- baked airfield of northern Italy hear | ncane -church cemetery. A frumberi Lake Garda where Mussolini lived of friends, neighbors and relatives! until his last days, one of the first attended the last rites. Mdny lovely: problems of post V-E day is being flowers were banked upon her grave, j j worked out. Behind barbed wire erft [ indicative of the love in which she I closures, referred to as cages, some: was held in the community where .100,000 surrendered Germans are ; her long and upright life was spent, being sorted out—some to go home/ Pallbearers were: W. H. Simpson, I some to be put to work in Italy, some Clyde Young, Carroll Young, Andy to be held under arrest as war crimi- Young, Frank Young and Gillette nals. Simpson. Ghedi is one of six prison camps Mrs. Young was born in this com- in Italy. There were 310,000 Ger- munity Sept. 29, 1858. She was a 1 mans in the country to be dealt with daughter of the late Hugh and Sallie| when the surrender came. Of these, Dalrymple Simpson. A woman of more than 75,000 have been sent strong Christian character, kind and! (home so far and about 100,000 are in thoughtful of others, and true in all 1 ! work units. It is estimated that 75,000 relations of life, she made many ! will not be permitted to return to \ friends who are saddened by her SURRENDER PAPERS TO BE SIGNED IN JAP HOMELAND MocArthur To Land Tuesday After Airborne Troops Take Over Tokyo Area On Sunday. TO LAND SUNDAY Germany. passing. As our jeep first approached the Mrs. Young was twice married. camp I noticed that prisoners (Krauts * rirst ^ ^ lie She is sur- to the G. I.s) inside their cages, or v!ved ^ ^ J la “ ght * rs from 11115 the trusties going about their duties, uni °^ ^ rs - E- Neighbors and Miss General of th« Army Douglas Mac Arthur will go to Japan on Tuesday, it has been announced, and will receive the Japanese sur render on a II. S. battleship in Toyko bay. Airborne troqps will land in Japan on Sunday, and fleet units and ground forces will ac company MacArthur. Bevin Details New British Foreign Role ANDREW J. JOHNSON DIES NEAR KINARDS saluted, but the American officers Liliip. 'i °ung, both of this city. Her Opposes Substitution I did not return the gesture. I was told marriage was to A. P. ’why. Since the salute in the Ameri- 1 1 y*”* - t ^ is marr iage one son can army is regarded as a form of^ 1 ^ ‘ 1 ves ’ Young of Atlanta, greeting between comrades in arms, , 1S 3 50 s ur '' ive d by three grand- Andrew J. Johnson, 76, of Kinards, i the commanding officer ruled that it an d three great-grandchil- * idied at an early hour Monday morn- is not appropriate to return it. But w . as a ‘ st mem t>er of her ing at his home near Kinards, after the Germans must salute as a token t irnmediate of respect for the leaders of the Al-, ' lied forces who defeated them. When COPELAND RESIGNS Presbyterian College Begins New Quarter several months of declining health. Of One Form of Totoli- He was a native of Newberry county, and a member of Sharon Methodist to nanism for Another. Ichurch. His wife, Mrs. Alice John- ^ son, preceded him to the grave sev- London, Aug. M.-^British foreign eVal years ago. policy under the new Labor govern-; He is survived by three sons, and ment emerged clearly in the house two daughters, G. C., T. J., and F. of commons today, where Foreign H. Johnson, all of Kinards; Mrs. Secretary Ernest Bevin drew cheers Charlton Rauch of Irmo, Miss Daisy with a blunt statement that Great Johnson of Kinards; three brothers, Britain will oppose any attempts and two sisters, A. D., and G. W. to substitute “one form of totali-'Johnson, both of Kinards; C. E. tarianism for another” in liberated Johnson of Chappells, Mrs. Frank Europe. iSununes of Chappells and Miss Eliza He condemned the governments Johnson of Chappells, of Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary Funeral services were held at 3 as undemocratic and Instituted the'o’clock Tuesday afternoon from the Poles and Greeks to unite in their; graveside in Sharon Methodist own lands for the task of recon-; church cemetery, Kinards, the Rev. struption. Mr - Hughes officiating. Bevin’s first address as head ^ . . » A/ . the British Foreign office, world- P. L>. VjrOOUQlC WllHICr wide in scope, was enthusiasticallyjQi Fvcrv Combflt Award received by the lawmakers. tVCry ftOrnDQT MWOra When he concluded his p'redeces- Given By the Army sor, Anthony Eden, declared Bev- ♦ in’s words had received the appro- 1 Camp Butner, N. C., Aug. 20.— bation of the entire house. “We feel! Completing a “grand slam” of com- the Americans refuse to return the salute they are showing the Germans POST AT COLLEGE their inferiority in the eyes of Allied j • military men because of their viola-1 Miss Marion Burts, of Honea Path, Presbyterian college began its early fall quarter last week with the I largest student body it has had since the withdrawal of the army air forces ' training unit. The enrollment is 135. a consider able increase over that of the quarter General MacArthur will ar rive in Japan by air next Tues day 1 —two days after the first airborne occupation troops have landed and formal sign ing of a "truce agreement'' will take place on an American warship in Tokyo Bay Aug. 31, according to a Domei broad cast. Representatives of Chinese,' British, and Soviet govern ments will attend the signing .ceremony, Domei reported in the broadcast, attributing its informatioryto the Tokyo news paper, Omiur^Hochi. Earlier broadcasts recorded by the FCC, said Japanese im perial headquarters and the imperial government had is sued a joint communique an nouncing initial airborne occu pation troops will land only 20 mnes from Tokyo Sunday. Two days later, it added, twa Allied Jtjaval fleets and trans ports will make additional landing in the general Tokyo region east, west and south of the capital city. tions of the laws of war and of hu- has been appointed acting librarian manity. These violations, they arejat Presbyterian college, filling the told, are: Abuse by torture and star-i position left vacant by the resigna Manila, Tuesday, Aug. 21.—Gen eral MacArthur announced today vation of Allied prisoners, murder of Allied prisoners, mass murder of ci vilians, desecration of the dead by booby trapping bodies, even those of their own comrades. The Germans are classed as “Sur rendered Enemy Forces.” Since Ger many surrendered unconditionally, these prisoners have no rights under the Geneva convention, and are treated according to the common sense and judgment of the Ameri cans whose job it is to guard them. When the prisoners are first picked up, all personal valuable are taken away from them, and all but a mini mum of clothing. The personal items, except money, are returned if they are sent back to Germany. The organizations to which the men have belonged are broken up as tion of J. Isaac Copeland. Mr. Cope land, after a few weeks vacation, is planning to do further study. Miss Burts is a graduate of Green- which ended on August 8, and the he would leave quickly for con- largest strictly civilian enrollment'quered Japan at the head of a since early in 1943. Several veterans!mighty array of army, navy and air | forces and would dictate surrender articles in the enemy homeland of World War II enrolled this quar ter under the G.. I. Bill of Rights. Under the accelerated program on ville Woman's college. She holds an 1 fh* college is operating, the present quarter will end on October 16, and another will begin on Octo- M. A. degree from the University of South Carolina, and the bachelor of science degree in library science from George Peabody College for Teachers. She comes to Presbyterian | ans enroll at that time college from Tiegrville Junior college within ten days. One of two Japanese planes car rying the Tokyo emissaries home from le island rolled into the ditch this afternoon while proceeding to- ber 19. It is expected that a number, ward the take-off runway but none of high school graduates and veter-'of its occupants Was Injured. The second plane, bearing Lie 1 . .. that what he said represented a, bat awards and decorations, Lt. Col. un j tSt anc j the individuals are put foreign policy of which he was George L. Mabry, Jr., of Sumter, S. speaking for all parties,” Eden as-,C., and the famous Fourth Infan- B 1 <, serted. try division, will receive Wednesday Thus Great Britain's postwar di- in Washington the nation’s highest plomacy, launched with a united honor, the Congressional Medal of front, embraced salient positions: 1. Great Britain will not recog nize the governments of Bulgaria, Honof. The presentation will be made in the White House by Presi dent Harry S. Truman. Romania and Hungary at the pres-. Following the presentation, the ent time because they “do not in!Carolinian will have every army our view represent a majority of combat decoration in the books. Col- the people and the impression we onel Mabry has previously been get from recent developments is that awarded the Distinguished Service one kind of totalitarianism is being cross, the Silver star, the Bronze Star replaced by another.” medal, the Purple Heart, the Euro- 2. The British desire “a stable pean theater of operations ribbon democratic” government in J with four campaign stars and an ar behind barbed wire, to sleep in tents. They are given rations for two meals a day which their own cooks spread into three meals. I watched as the mess attendants ladelled out stew for their fellow prisoners from huge vats. They all looked healthy enough, i anything but beaten down. LONG TO CLOSE PASTORATE SUNDAY One of the first requirements of the prisoners who in the main deny p_| u l i that they know anything of the L ' 0, ‘ HOITy MOWOen atrocities committed in Germany GetS LegiOfl of Merit under the Nazis, is to sit through a 3 film showing these atrocities. At the Gen. Takashiro Kawabe and eight where she has been librarian for sev-! Cfar Oil Medal Won other envoys, left without incident eral years. p . y C C’ at 6 40 p. m., for Tokyo. The other The college’s librarian, Captain Lt. Henry r. Finney Japanse remained overnight on le. Willard L. Jones, has been on leave 7^“ They are expected to resume their of absence for military service since 1 ^ gold star, in lieu of a second trip Wednesday. 1941. Bronze Star medal, has been award-j American censorship had delayed ^ ed Marine First Lt. Henry F. Finney.; announcement of their departure 26, son of Mrs. Sallie Finney of from Manila for several hours af- Goldville, for heroic service in the ter their C-54 American transport conquest of Iwo Jima. | left for le. There had been no Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Cates, com- further word until le dispatches Th - M T .manding general of the Fourth, disclosed their accident there. w v. ’ c , er L ' ong ''’“(Marine division, made the presenta-1 The sky-filling American air £,™ C L If., k 8erm ° n S r day ition at a lormal parade. meets, the'landme troops and the S, 1 as been announced. j Leader of a mortar platooon. Lieu* Allied naval armada scheduled to t f n ?k r ^13“ ,“ l . ne u yea [ s i tenant Finney won the decoration on 1 move speedily into Japan will be P"*' Of o the Z B n P ,S L chl i rch : ,lwo Jimas D - da y- February 19 The alerted for any emergency as they Rnnti e f r ^ V* ^ he ~ First ; citation accompanying the Bronze 1 approach the shores of that seeth- BapUst church of Belmont, N. C. j Star readSi in part: jing country. “When his platoon became disor- The Japanese notified MacArthur ganized during the assault landing ( officially that they were keeping because of intense enemy mortor and 1 forces under arms at home “for the machine gun fire, Lieutenant Finney, 1 maintenance of order,’ and the and Greece. It is the British view that rowhead for landing in Normandy on the government Vulgaris should free election is held. 3. Official reports from British troops stationed in northern Greece did not bear out “serious allega tions” made by the Yugoslav gov ernment about treatment of Slav speaking Greeks. ^ ! completely disregarding his own Tokyo radio warned that many of on/i «i~, i „ ♦ n, Information has been received safety, and in spite of the enemy fire,, the Japanese military might forci- n Cprman hv th#» rnmmanHino 1 that ^ ^ o1, Harr y Y. McSween, of moved among his men to gain con- bly reserft the occupation. “ hrim>inff rocr.rm ih iit« 'fv, F lies ^ er and C^ n ^ on > ^ as ^ een award -; trol and achieve reorganization.! But the manner in which the em- atrorities hark to individual ^’ egu i n °* Merit Medal. Throughout the remainder of the day peror's emissaries offered coopera- likp thncp whn havp coon ihp fii ^ C 0 * one l McSween was associated he continued to expose himself in lion at the now-concluded prelmu- H S e ♦ 6 / with Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s Fifth | order to direct accurate mortar fire nary conferences here indicated Ja- thil vfrv pffT^ivp from Arm y- and was wounded the third upon enemy points of resistance, | pan would be occupied with a 1 “Vn. h effectlve Indlctment - i time while in combat. In Septem- moving at one time to a point of ob- minimum of friction, lege, Clinton, S. C., in 1940, Colonel tic S °T e be J’.’ J®*** ^ ^ e PP ed . on a mine, servation in advance of our front A headquarters spokesman said Mabry joined the Eighth infantry | eommitted P by £ e rman p££E i of .- h “ ; lines.” ; that for the present a “technical of Premier Peter D-Day, the presidential unit cita- carry on until a tion and the combat ^ infantryman badge* A graduate of Presbyterian col- regiment in July, 1940, within a ! These' ntrrwMtiP • ^ feet off ’ He was bought back to' Lieutenant Finney won his first state of truce'' existed, and until- month of his graduation. He has i ^Yth the fiiN k^fnwl^ipo ; the States last fall as soon as he Bronze Star in the Saipan-Tinian the Allied entry into Japan no for- Isince served continuously with the^iipif dir _„ tion f A.4 0 i f ‘ Hlt i„ r „ nH S? uld be moved and has recovered, assaults, where he also won the Pur- mal surrender would be signed. It ; British govern-! Eighth, rising from platoon leader: £i s aides the men who oromised vou w 6 r f ceived ^ rde ji of * he Pur P le P le Heart medal and the Presiden- was indicated the signing wiaild ment would take “a favorable view”! to commanding officer of the regi-; ,, reat things the same men vmi nnre [j eart and a cluste Y tbls medal, tial citation. In addition, he partici- take place in or near the ruined if the Spanish people changed the ment’s Second battalion. Through-' j do ij ze d and cheered so enthushsti- . In ^ n | le 01 the hardest fou 8ht pated in the assault on Roi-Namur, capital of Tokyo. Franco regime, it is “not-prepared out 11 months of combat in France, j ca i] v at lh : everv innearamFeft att f 6 V n , H f was one of the in lhe Marshall islands. | MacArthur did not deign to see to take any step which would pro- Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany,: arn )ng vcm ‘ first, if not the first, officer to enter Lieutenant Finney attended Pres- the Japanese delegation, but short- mote or encourage civil war in the he distinguished himself as an out-1 “You Germans esneriaiiv vnn cni captu ^ ed R °me. Colonel McSween byterian college, where he was a ly after it left he issued a state- country.” (standing leader in a crack division.'ni^rs alwavd coYk *r, s® r ^ ed __° v , er f eas from tbe spring of guard on the football team and was ment saying that the emissaries- 5. The question of making a peace! treaty with Italy will come before i OfENS NEW STORE the council of foreign ministers in IN ANDERSON London next month, with Britain; Gene Anderson’s, a department desiring “the treaty should be made^store, opened for business in Ander- on fair terms and the people of «on during the past week. Heading Italy should be given the chance of | the business is Eugene F. Anderson, reviving their life on the basis of formerly manager of Mvey-Keith’s liberty.” store in Greenville. Associated with 6. Great Britain would like to him in ownership of the business is see all Poles overseas—military and his brother, C. W. Anderson of this ^ civilian—return to their homeland city. They are sons of/Mr. and Mrs. and “assume the responsibilities' in! E. F. Apderson, residents of the building a new Poland.” Musgroy? 1 community (near here 7. The new government feels con- « j * a * . , , , . ,, I among you he distinguished himself as an out-l »You Germans e*neri-.llv vnn cnl , lie wc standing leader in a crack division.' diers alway ^ t excuse vour iq?^ 0 . v 1 Cr f eas from . the a P r ‘ ng ° f guard on the football team and _ _ — aiers, always seen to excuse your, 1943 untu he was returned to the mentioned fpr all-state honors. He “imparted all inlormation required Z n tH y St. a te S last fall after he lost his foot, took his A. B. degree in 1940, and * and^hstLtionrofTe United Na- plea that you only obeyed the His wife is Mrs. Frances W. Me- was running the canteen at Joanna tions are being conveyed by them nrHpr* nf vn.ir «nnpr,nr S i t is S ween of Chester. Textile Mills, Goldville, when he en- to the government ul Japan.” Colonel McSween is an alumnus of tered active duty with the Marines “In my capacity ,as supreme corn- orders of your superiors difficult for us to believe, however, that you Germans could have been Presbyterian college. He is now as- in August, 1942 ignorant of all this, yet you did noth- sociated with Jacobs Press of this (Continued on page seven) city. mander for the Allied he fident that Hong Kong, the British colony on the China coast, will be returned to Britair^ "in agreement with our Chinese v and American allies.” , . These were the high points in the > /address and when Eden arose to offer his congratulations to his sue- RATIONING BOARD LLETIN (ORA) (Cpppiled t° date f° r information of Thif Chronicle’s readers). MEATS AND FATS: RED cessor he pledged his assistance in STAMPS Q2, R2, S2, T2, U2 now helping carry out the program with valid, expire August 31; V2, W2, X2, all of its internatitonal ramifications. 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DON’T MISS THE NEWS ’The Favorite Family Newspaper” Hove the Newsy CHRONICLE in Your Home All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Bennett Branch Is Killed In Action — — powers, added, “I shall soon proceed to Ja- ! pan with accompanying forces com- i posed of ground, naval and air ele- 'ments. j "Subject to weather that will per- Mrs. J. R, Branch of the De la mit landing's, it is anticipated that Howe school, near McCormick, has the instrument of surrender will be received notice from the war depart-i signed withih 10 days, ment thq* her only son, Bennett! "At that time, having accepted Branch, was killed in action on Oki- the general surrender of Japanese nawa, May 10. The young soldier armed forces for the United States, had been in the service only a short Chinese Republic, United Kingdom while and on the island for three and the Union of Soviet Socialist weeks. Republics, and in the interest of Bennett was the son of the late other United Nations at War with Rev. J. B. Branch, who resided.in Japan. I shall direct Japanese Im- Clinton during the period 1909-T7’fas penal headquarters tot-issue general a member of the orphanage staff. He orders which will instruct the Japa- was superintendent of- the De la nese commanders wherever situated Howe school until his death in 1931. to surrender unconditionally thera- Bennett is survived by his widow selves and all of the forces under and two small children, who make their control to the appropriate their home in Arizona; his mother; theater commander.” two sisters, Miss Olive Branch, now MacArthur expressed hope that engaged in war work at Fort Moul-jin the meantime "armistice condi- trie, and Mrs. Elizabeth B. Sale, tions may prevail on every front whose husband is in the service. | (Continued on page seven) ) 7 r i