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2 / >"• » \ THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable 3hp (Elinton (Shrmtirle If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News —— Volume XLIV Clinton, S. C., Thursdoy, September 7, 1944 Number 36 Would You Like to Peek, Adolf? HUNS TO QUIT IN 60 DAYS, IS BELIEF Poll of High Officials In London Made. Some Say By October First. Army-Textile Rally Held At Armory Mason L. Copeland Dies At Laurens The third of the series of Army- Textile rallies was held at the arm ory Saturday evening and attended by a^fairly good-sized crowd. Major William E. Czajfnitski of Camp Gordon, Ga., acted as master of ceremonies for the occasion. Throughout the program the 216th _ " j, . 7" t- , ■ „ Infantry band of Camp Gordon ren- , Lorens, Sept. 4 -Funera serMces dered musical selections. , Langston Copeland, 82, Included on the entertainment side who died at hl , s Sunday morn ing Former Clintonian and Retired Business Man Passes At Home. j London, Sept. 2.—The Nazi regime which Hitler boasted 1 would last a ! thousand years will crumble within 60 days, and the war in Europe will were several accordion selections by end then. , Pvt. Lombardo, a number of hill- i This is the conceusus of highest billy selections by Bill Harris. (Slim A council of war In a hay field in France to plan future moves for wiping out the German army was held by Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery, commander of the Allied ground forces in northern France; Lieut. Gen. Omar Bradley, commander of the American ground forces; Lieutenant Central Hodges, commander of the U. S. First army; Gen. 8tr Miles Dempsey, commander of the British Second army, and General Crerar, commander of the Canadian First army. tvere conducted, from the home at 11 o’clock Monday morning wjth the Rev. B. A. Williams, rector of ‘officials of eight exiled governments Jim), Vernon Messa and Morris ^ Church of the Epiphany, Epis as American, British and Russian Yagel. Several vocal selections were c °P a ’ otIlcia in ^' armies approach the borders of Ger- rendered by Crooner Johnnie Comer. Active pallbearers were: Thomas many at the beginning of the sixth: Major Czarnitski displayed a large J- Copeland, Charles Copeland, Ralph ; year of the war.' number of articles manufactured oi Copeland, Edgar Copeland, Heath The officials with whom I talked— cotton, and used by the men m^r- Copeland, Silas Bailey, Hubert John- ! including prime ministers, fareign^vice. Two enlightening films were I ministers and war ministers—decided shown. Communique No. 5 and ! to permit the use of their names on "Divide and Conquer.” the grounds they were not necessari- - Major Czarnitski called upon tex- I ly speaking for their governments, workers to exert every effort to i but that their opinions were repre- overcome, the serious shortage in ! sentative cotton goods pirpduction now facing member of Phi Delta Theta college They all expressed the firm be- the country. fraternity. After taking his bache- lief that they will be in their re- Tho f '.nrt Martin Babb and Emory How- sey, ell. Mr. Copeland attended Erskine col lege, then attended the South Caro lina college from which he was grad- 1 uated in the class of 1884. He was a U. S. FIRST ARMY REACHES NAMUR. BELGIAN FORTRESS Silence Still Shrouds Patton's Operations. British Move Up Coast. London. Sept. 6.—Partially lifting a news blackout hiding * Allied ad vances through the lowlands toward Germany, headquarters announced today that the U. S. First army, had reached Namur, 40 miles frorru the point where they penetrated Bel gium. Free Belgian broadcasts already have been recorded from Namur and also from the fortress city of Liege, 32 miles further into Belgium and only 25 miles from the German city suggesting ^ the been driven oi . »ermans or had of Achen. either had fled. Headquarteiv continued into the fourth day its silence on the move ments of the Americans driving to- Observance Of Victory Day Is Planned In James Bell Killed In France Baffle Without breakihg a confidence, I can disclose that Dr. Edward Benes.i president of Czechoslovakia, believes the war may be over in Europe as early as the first of October. As long Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bell, who re-1 ago as April Benes predicted that ! side midway between Clinton and Germany would collapse within three; ~ ,, ! _ . . , . . . ! months after the Allies liberated a Representatives of the Chamber of Laurens, received a telegram from substantial t of 0 ied terri _ Commerce, Merchants association, the war department last Saturday police department, textile mills, col-(Stating that their son, Pvt James| Jan Masaryki Cze ch deputy pre- lege, schools, orphanage, Training; Harold Bell, was killed in action on mier and foreign m i n i st er and one of the best informed foreign diplo- The fourth in the series of Tree lor’s degree he entered the law de- spective* countries not later than rallies will be held at the same place partment of the college and wa j ‘ ward the Reich frontier „ nd , no Christmas and disclosed they already, 00 the night of Saturday, September graduated. A few' years he practiced ‘. : " n n havfrde ^eir plaTs flr leavmr ^ °' S—F.-n.-h H-,n- City Orphanage Head To Be Installed law in partnership with the late N. ...... , ... B. Dial, afterwards United States the advancing \ inks senator. He retired from law practice , had stabbed across the border and 'captured Aachen and Saarfarucken. In at least one sector more than 35 miles short of the German border American forces were meeting deter mined resistance. A front dispatch and for many years was engaged in cotton buying and' planting. For a time he was in the textile manufac turing business. About ten 'years ago he retired from active business. Mr. The Rev. Malcolm A. Macdonald, i Copeland never offered for a public dated from Pont-A-Mousson. midw ay new president of Thornwell orphan age, will be inducted into office next Tuesday evening, September 12, in special exercises held under the aus-, pices of the board of trustees. The program will be given in the orphan- office, but always was outspoken on the conservative side in 'state and national affairs. He was a Mason and a warden in the Episcopal church, Laurens, and > was the son of the late George P. 1 between Metz and Nancy on the Mo selle river, told of a heavy artillery and machine gi#7 duel between the Americans on th^ west bank and the Germans on the east. South of Namur, elements of Lt. Young Copeland of Clinton. Frances Gen. also Courtney H Hodges’ First army took Dinant and Givet on the Meuse the school and Ministerial union met August 6, somewhere in France. Tuesday afternoon to arrange an ap-| Pvt. Bell was 19 years of age, and mats j n London, emphasized he is propriate plan of celebration to be was inducted into the army on No-; *‘ not muc h for prophesying, but I a 8 e chapel at 8 p.m., with the public Copeland and Mary Ann followed here upon the signing of vember 1, 1943. He received his t hink it is only a matter ol weeks invited. an armistice between the United training at Camp Wheeler, Ga., and un tji the curtain falls.” Masaryk was Tb c board of trustees will meet in Nations and Germany. . had been overseas five months. He one 0 f t he many officials who did not the afternoon at 4 o’clock. When the armistice is signed, the attended Clinton high school and is: ins j s t that their names be withheld. A special program has been pre city siren will blow at 3-minute in- pleasantly known here by a number ..j am mentioning October 28 as a P ared for the installation, with Dr. tervals for 21 minutes. All bells in* of friends who will learn with sor- 'mighty fine date for the war to end,” T - Ellison Simpson ' of Darlington, the city will ring and all whistlA | IOW °f his tragic death. Masaryk said. “That’s our national chairman of the board, presiding, will blow. Surviving are his parents and three day of independence.” Members of the board, ministers of These signals will call tA people brothers, Pfc. Wm. H. Bell, Joe and ; Czech, Belgian, Greek, Dutch and the city and orphanage superintend- immediately to the monument on the Bobby Bell, and his maternal grand- 1 Yugoslav government officials said ents have been invited to be. present square for a short service. j mother, Mrs. J. E. Ledford. 1 they were prepared to return home and to have a place in the exercises Colored people of the community ♦ ! at a moment's notice. The Polish ex- will follow the same procedure, it is j Hed government hoped that withm ■ i j 0 days an a g reem ent can be con cluded with the Polish National Lib- T .. . , , eration committee to establish a re- If cessation of hostilities occurs be- fore noon business houses will close immediately and remain closed f or ' . “T , the rest of the day. If it occurs after I ite 0 l944-4^s^i 0 ntAuwst , 31 C ^* ( )on - as'*the"city”is-freed. ~ , Kellers of this city, will represent • close for the re- ^ a S ^°o n s aftending| Part of the Czech government now the Thornwell Alumni association, column knifes 70 miles to capture Omer is waiting inside Russia to enter, T h e synods of Florida, Georgia and Pontralier, <6 miles from Germany;, an( * miles south oi Dunki rque. On announced, gathering at Bell Street school. Joanna School Begins New Year gime which can proceed immediate- Greetings from South Carolina or phanages will be brought by-Dr. A.) T. Jamison, superintendent of Con nie Maxwell orphanage, Greenwood. J. B. Johnston, superintendent of Barium Springs, N. C„ orphanage, noon, they will mainder of that day and all of the next day, Saturday excepted. , Th^chooMragEdn headed by G. i Czechoslovakia on The public schools will follow the N F as superintendent, with sev- Soviet army. The same celebration plan, it was stated. | era , changes made fn the facult Representatives of local mills, he 0ne vac has not t b filled college and orphanage are expected ; it was stated yesterday . to.join also in the celebration. In addition to Mr . Foyt the faculty The Ministerial union, as will be j s composed of the following ’mem- noted elsewhere in today's paper, has (hers: planned a service of thanksgiving for, Miss Katherine Blakely, Clinton, the community at Broad Street, Miss Mildred Workman, Clinton. Methodist church. Tentative hours. Miss Rosa B. Dreher, Prosperity. ly to the section of Poland'already | br *ng greetings from the Pres- Goldville liberated and then go to Warsaw as the Thornwell byterian institutions. Mrs. Laura L. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. I iVlcusc ' I ’ iver - and 1, 5 miles to Sarah Ball Copeland, a daughter of ^ est of Namur they were in the out- the late Beaufort W’atts Ball and "kuts^of Charleroi. Eliza Watts Ball; a daughter. Miss, Canadian forces in a drive for Do- Beaufort Ball Copeland; one brother, ver straits ports smashed reconnais- Guy L. Copeland, and one sister, sance umts within three miles of Mrs. R. E_~Copeland, both of Clinton. Boulogne and were encountering m heavy German Resistance on the^ap- i proaches to the city, heavily fortified because the Nazis had expected an invasion there. The garrison at Boulogne, although hopelessly cut off. is believed to have set up anti-tank* gun screens and ar tillery and mortar batteries for de fense of the port. Polish forces operating under the Canadian command moved up to St. THE WAR IN BRIEF WESTERN FRONT—Heavy bomb ers pound Karlsruhe, on Sigfriend line; Allies drive to within three miles of Boulogne, channel port; mop up east of Brussels. SOUTHERN FRANCE —American the heels of the ^ outb Carolina will be. represented French troops drive 38 miles north Belgian govern . I by Dr. A. R. Larrick of Plant City, i of Lyon. ment is convinced that Belgium may | K ev - R- T. Gillespie of Thomasville, 1 be freed in a few days. Officials have i and K. J- Winn of Greenville. Dr. W. manian plains to within 54 miles of 8 uns in to position against Allied col- passed decrees nullifying all Nazi p dacobs will speak for Presbyterian Yugoslavia; take Wysskow, 28 miles umns advancing from the south and RUSSIA—Soviets race across this flank it is considered probable the Germans will be able to swing Ro-j some of their anti-invasion d^fen-e passed decrees nullifying __ and puppet government orders. Some | ° ode 8 e on the program. Dr. L. R bags for the service are deluded announcement made by the ation. - Wounded Former P. C. Star Goes To Comfort Sick Wife associ- | i in the[ Mrs. Deda H. Davis, Cameron. Miss Miriam Donnan, Clinton. A. B. Galloway, Goldville. ; Miss Luella Allen, Goldville. Miss Katherine Ferguson, Spartan- , burg. Mrs. Frances Ratteree, Clinton. Miss Dorothy Epting, Chapin. ■ Trustees of the school are James T. Addison, chairman, Mrs. W. A. Moorhead and A. D. Barron. Belgian ministers have their i packed for the channel trip. King Haakon of Norway plans to | lead his government home and ex pects to be with his people by Christ mas. A tall, internationally known dip- * ne institution, an informal reception lomat whose country has suffered Lynn of Umatilla, Fla., a former president, will speak oq “The Or phanage in the Program of the Church.” Following the installation of Mr. Macdonald as the third president of Hungary ^nd northern‘Italy. northeast of Warsaw, as Russia de- eas L dares war on Bulgaria. the long narrow coastal pocket AIR — RAF bombers pound Le from which some robot bombs were Havre and Brest; Americans shower bur i ed against England Tuesday, ele- explosives on three Fyiineland tar- rnen ts of three German dive-ions gets; attack bridges and.railways in bavt ‘ bt ; en identified and others may encirdemen completed u Antwerp, virtu ITALY — Eighth army slashes to be in the trap. Tht these Germans was the British took ot len ally for guests and friends will be held suburbs of Riccione Marina, six miles greatly under the Germans believes the Hom e of Peace on the campus, from the Po valley; Americaps tut- inb,ct - * vance two milesi to take Pipafratta, Tbe Germans displayed such haste seven miles north of Pisa. m leaving Antwerp that they appar- _ . . ... . CHINA—Chinese hold Japanese on ently did not^ have time to complete ror New Minister Hengyang front; win Shihwan rail- Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 4.—Medical of ficers at Lawson GendVal hospital bundled a one-footed lieutenant, I • - still under treatment for his wounds, Labor Shortage into a plane for Tallahassee, Fla., to -j A ril f 0 | n PrmnK. day so he and his ailing wife could i^^Ulc in V*OUnry speed each other’s recovery. i ♦ ••I want to go home even if I have L According to County Agent C. B. to hobble the 250 miles on my good Ca"non Lau ren ty , rs are foot." Lt. Harry Mitchell, 24. of 1013 C, ? t,0n 1 h a r ''<*!'ng *ta- Pensacola St., Tallahassee, had told. f on , w,lh “ seno f lab ° r s 5“ r l a « e - Last year the county produced 20,800 bales of cotton and prospects are that this year’s crop will be equally as large. , The schools of the county did a good job last year in helping gather the crop, Mr. Cannorj states., Roy DeShields, farm labor assist ant, is now working to locate and the end may come at any moment “I cannot, picture the Germans fighting on their own soil,” he ex- j plained as he played with a stack of | messages describing the latest suc- ! cesses of his country’s Patriot forces j againt the Nazis. “The Germans have | always fought on somebody else’s ! soil. And I -firmly believe once the Welcome Service demolitions. But the great port can- ♦> ! way station six miles northeast as not be used untl1 the Germans are 11 A union “welcome” service was' fighting continues around Liling. 1 driven from other fortress points held Sunday evening at Thornwell SOUTHEAST ASIA—Chinese gain c<,mn ' an ding the Scheldt river estu- Memorial church to honor the new P ar t of Tengyueh (Tengchung) and ar y- This British Second army ad- president. of Thornwell orphanage, ba ttle Japanese reinforcements head- vante . bad , re P rest ‘ n ^ e d a six-day Allies cross into Germany they will 1 the Rev - Malcolm A Macdtinald, who ed toward Lungling; British move gain frum the ^m*.* of more than . .. j j . i . ■ , , ., .f /-.l : •_ • . ‘>1(1 miltw quit. the medics when he landed at Law- son two weeks ago for treatment of the amputation he underwent after a mine shattered his Itfft foot in France. His wife, Pleasan ; t Mitchell, 23, was suffering from typhus fever, he had learned on his arrival. The H. in of entered upon his work here the first *nto Sittaung on Chindwin river; ad of September. vance to within 50 miles of Tiddim. The service was arranged by the ^ city ministerial union and presided t ri n- over by its president. Rev. Walter • 0 jiIOW rlCtlire chu^'T^'leS'p.r F leln BaP ^ At B<1 P» iSt Church read by Dr. D. J. Woods, and prayer offered by Dr. C. Bynum Betts of Mitchells had not seen each other |p] a ce all available labor. Leaders i since the day, more than two years h a V e been named among the colored re ?! c °„ y ago, when the young officer was or- peopJe to'help with the problem. | ; ed in auoreciation of the *neH-;i dered to Camp Edwards, Mass, and j Hugh Workman of this community. ™ pol ' la " I „ ns “ ranc< ' c “ m P an >' sln ™ nhis hSiop was assigned to the First Amphibious asslsted white t armers last year in 1 “ arch ', u 9 ' H « m™!. 10 Greenwood vice arranged in hjs honor. fo roe - - 1 securing help and is expected to Since then Lieutenant Mitchell had offer the same service this fall, ac- helped pave the way for four Afri- cording to Mr. Cannon, can and European invasions, and had been half-way around the world The Mitchells were high school HOLIDAYS TO CONTINUE The usual summer half holidays on sweethearts in Tallahassee, and when Wednesday by local merchants and the* lieutenant was a star halfback. business firms will continue without at Presbyterian college, Clinton, interruption until the Qhristmas sea- FullerTncTcpL ’Rebecca* FuHer""both S. C., Pleasant was his most ardent; son. ‘ * ’ rooter. He has told her of his ampu tation. Mitchell climbed in the plane with the'aid of a special support the doc tors had built for his bad leg. Ministerial Group Names Officers The city Ministerial union on Mon day elected the following officers to serve for the coming year: President, Rev. J. H. Kohler. Secretary, Dr. C. Bynum Betts. * , The association meets»regularly on Monday morning after the fourth Sunday. 10 miles. As the British and Americans reg istered these gains, Luxembourg's prime minister broadcast a triumph ant welcome to the Allies and said the Germans were fleeing across the little duchy toward the Reich. . , , The Swiss-French frontier dis- At „ the Sunday evening service of patches said American armor, which stormed into German soil from B< guim to Aachen. 70 miles east Brussels, and into Saarbrucken, rtv_ miles across the Reich frontier and about 30 miles from Metz, also was battling in the outskirts of Stras bourg, French border city on the Rhine, 70 miles east of Nancy, i The American broadcasting station in Europe said in a French-language broadcast that Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's forces have entered Nancy. None of these reports drew any comment from the supreme com - 1 — mand. and so complete was the radio (Comailed to date for information silence from the front that when the The city Ministerial union has of The Chronicle’s readers). news finally is given out, there may planned a Victory Day union service PROCESSED FOODS: Blue A8 wt ‘d t*? sensational disclosures, to celebrate the day Germany sur- through L5 (Book 4) now -valid at Headquarters announced only that renders and the war comes to a close. 10 points each for use with tokens. bad been a general eastward ( All people of the conynunity are Good indefinitely. advance from the Verdun region. of Miami, Fla; and one son, Aviation invited to unite in the celebration. MEATS AND FATS: Red A8 Carried far enough this advance in- Hugh H. Fuller Dies At Greenwood . .... f Greenwood, Sept.* 3. — Hugh Fuller, 57, assistant manager charge of the Greenwood office the Metropolitan Life Insurance com- * be Associate Reformed Presbyterian pany, and prominent resident of cb n rob - . , Greenwood, died suddenly at his The welcome address was .made-by home Saturday night. ’ - - : ■ Shelton Moose, pastor of ! He was a’ son of the late William d°hn s Lutheran church, who as- Benton Fuller and Mrs. Emma Fin- sure d the new minister of a cordial ley Fuller, lifelong residents of Lau- Mr. Fuller had been with the Met- welchme both by the ministers and the community. Preceding his ser mon, Mr. Macdonald briefly respond- from Newberry in 1933 to take over the office here. He was a loyal and active member of the First Baptist church and was serving as a member of the board pf deacons at the time of his death. Surviving are his widow, who was Miss Blanche Pinson of Cross Hill; two daughters, Ensign Elizabeth City Observance |Of Victory Day Planned { the First Baptist church .beginning at 8 o’clock, a motion picture iwdl be shown, entitled “Who Is My Neigh bor.” The picture is based on the parable of the Good Samaritan and released by the Sunday school board of the Southern Baptist convehtion. The pastor. Rev. W. N. Long, cor dially invite^ the public. RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) i- Cadet Hugh H. Fuller, Jr., Hamilton, N. Y.; four sisters, Mrs. Lilia H. Aus tin, Mrs. Conway Dial, Mrs. Blanche Rasor, Cross Hill, aVid Mrs. Mattie Young, Clinton. - j Funeral services were held at 5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon from the First Baptist church,/ conducted by his pastor, the Rev. J. A. Bowers. Burial followed in Cross Hill. It is announced that the service of through G5 (Book 4) now-valid at evitably would reach Saarbrocken 10 points each for use with tokens. an d Germany In the case of Hodges* prayer and rejoicing will be held at Broad Street Methodist church. If the glad news comes between 6 p.m. and 9 a.m. the service wlil t>e held the next morning at 10:30. If the flash comes after 9 a.m. and be fore 6 p.m. the service will be held at 8:00 that evening. i Bailey School TWO SCHOOLS OPEN d • v The Renno school in charge of Mrs. DegiflS New 1601 J. D. Copeland, has opened its new ——- year’s work. , | The Bailey school near Here opened'^next- year now valid. The Garlingtoq school has also its new session Monday morning with! GASOLINE:: A-ll coupons good opened with Mrs. Gillette .Simpson Mrs. Carl Taylor and Mrs. William for three gallons through Novem- as teacher. * I Poole as teachers. ber 8. Good indefinitely. SUGAR: Sugar stamps 30. 31. 32 and 33 • now good for five pounds each indefinitely CANNING SUGAR: Stamp 40 good for five pounds canning sugar until February 28, 1945. , ‘ SHOES: Airplane stamps 1 and 2 , (Book 3) valid indefinitely, i FUEL OIL: Period 4 and 5 cou- pons for current season good until September 30. Period 1" coupons for First army troops, the blackout was lifted a trifle to permit a report that in one pocket around Mons in Bel gium they had taken 9,000 prisoners and destroyed or captured 1.500 ve hicles and 40 tanks. Oak Grove School Opened Monday The Oak Giqve school began’ ts new year's work Monday morning with Mrs. Virginia G. Griffin as principal, Mrs. Evelyn Blackwell of this city, assistant.