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Thursday, December 4, 1947 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Gray Funeral Home ClinlM, 8. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS EMBALMERS AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone* 41 and S99-J L. RUSSELL GRAT and V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgrt. WWMMBMBIRRRWIREWWIISWW FRANCE CALLS TROOPS TO COMBAT STRIKES; COMMUNISTS OPPOSE Paris, Dec. 2.—The national assem bly tonight authorized the govern ment to call up 80,000 troops to main tain order in Prince. This action brought to approx;- matdly 300,000 the number of re-! enuxs added to the army during the 1 paSt two weeks. Forestry Conservation Week BENJAMIN & SONS PLUMBING •••ELUclooo HEATING SERVICE Telephone 1J7 WE ARE HUNTING TROUBLE WALLACE ELECTRIC CO. All Kinds of Wiring ••And** i Electrical Repairs Phone 3571 LAURENS, S. C. HOT POINT SINK- DISHWASHER With or Without Disposall COMBINED IN ONE UNIT HOME SUPPLY CO. Next to Bailey’s Bank cWE * ou VJt CM* h .jiq AND Y( I DON'T NEED Wl UU TNI GMAC asusnoi woroutn^ PLANUM GILES CHEVROLET CO. Sales and Service 5 BILL’S ESSO Goldville 24-Hour Service Day and Night » Esso Products Bicycle Tires and Tubes —Washing —Greasing —Polishing A-l SERVICE— 1 Your Business Solicited and Appreciated ESSO SERVICE BILL DEES, Owner ^ On Clinton-Goldville Highway at Goldville Earlier, Premier Robert Schu-1 man’s followers beat down a '25- hour Communist eJfort to emascu-j late the measure which provides [ strict penalities for anyone molesting J non-strickers or fomenting strikes. ; The assembly action came as police fought scattered disorders; throughout the country. These in cluded a raid on a Paris telephone evchange by a group of 200 persons who described themselves as Com munists, the derailing of a passenger! train and a hand grenade attack on' a Commuriists headquarters. Schuman has demanded the un-| conditional surrender of the forces j which have paralyzed France with! ! strikes involving more than 2,000,000 1 workers. (Negotiations between the govern ment and the Communist-dominated General Confederation of Labor i (CGT) appeared completely dead- ! locked. The Communist national! strike committee announced it had 1 rejected the governments’ terms for | ending the strike. The committee threatened to continue the walkout (indefinitely. The Premier’s friends said Schu- J man determined not to give the CGT j any chance to claim a victory. ; Approval of the boost in the strength of the military force came ; near the end of a 35 hour session of I the assembly—just a half hour short of the record sitting established in j 1926. The weary lawmakers began ’ their session Saturday afternoon and ; continued through last night, j Originally the provision relating j to troops and the strike control leg- ; islation were contained in the same j bill titled a “Law for the Defense j of the Republic.” j Assembly sources predicted that | unless a last minute compromise be tween the government and the CGT j were reached, the Assembly would give Schuman the sweeping powers he asks to halt the wave of labor unrest sweeping France. Earlier, the CGT had offered • to call off the nation-wide strike if the government would withdraw its strike control legislation. The gov ernment replied it would discuss modifying the measures only after the workers returned to work. Labor Minister Daniel Mayer con ferred with leaders of the GGT to night.. When the meeting was over Benoit Frachon } Communist secre tary-general of the confederation, declared flatly the “negotiations have ended.” Mayer told newsmen he would have proposed delaying the strike control bill and consulting the CGT on its provisions “if the order 'to return to work had been given to night.” With 20 of its 38 unions on j strike, the. CGT has tied up trans- i portation, mines and the metal in- i dustry. Meanwhile, it was announced that ! 200 persons had invaded onfe-of the! ‘^telephone exchanges in Paris , and! had interrupted service for morel than five hours before being ousted! by the police. One hundred and! fourteen of the demonstrators, all I of whom claimed membership in the Communist party, were arrested. There were other scattered dis orders. Saboteurs derailed the Paris- Gneva express near Bourg-en-Bres-; j se, injuring one person. Four hand grenades were thrown aUthe^ head quarters of the Communist party in St. Brieuc, but no casulties were reported. Police in 24 hours seized the edi tions of eight newspapers on the grounds that these Leftist publica tions were inciting disorders. Edi tions of the Communist newspapers in Paris, L’Humanite and Cc Soir, first were confiscated. Then pro vincial police confiscated the Rouge- Midi in Marseille and Le Travailleur Alpin in Annecy, boht Communist papers. Other papers were seized in Bordeaux, v Toulouse and Stras bourg. ' The headlines in the provincial papers subjected to police action were almost identical to those print ed in red ink in L’Humanite; “Be ware, They Want to Assassinate The Republic.” In Paris the press federation is sued a communique protesting sup pression of the editions as a viola tion of the freedom of the press. The premier’s strike-control bill contains, among other provisions, sections which would curb freedom af speech and of the press for six months. Fewer policemen„were in evidence on th* streets of Paris tonight. However, at one strike-bound sta tion four trainloads of police were being held in readiness but hidden from the view of the public. There were reports that the gov ernment’s drive to halt the wave of strikes had produced a split in the Socialist party. Columbia, Dec. 2.—’(Special to The Chronicle). — South Carolina’s Con servation week is being observed during the week of November 30 to December 6, according to an an nouncement by Governor J. Strom Thurmond. The State Commission of Forestry has 134 forest Are lookout towers in the state, each of which is connected by telephone to the county units, J. £. Blakeney, assistant state forester, stated in connection with the conservation proclamation. Radio units are also being installed in the towers in the state in order to enable direct contact between the towers and the rangers’ trucks. Laurens county has two lookout towers. One is the Mountville tow er, and the other is the Big Knob tower, Route 2, Laurens. A. forestry board in Laurens coun ty which approves matters concern ing forestry work in the county, in cluding county fire control pr&grams, is composed of the following mem bers: J. T. Hollingswqrth, Cross Hill; J. Y. Martin, Ware Shoals; Allen Marler, RFD, Fountain Inn; Elmore Bramlett, Laurens; and Tarv^M^ay, Clinton. A forestry board is Icx^ted in each county in the state. t CREDITORS’ NOTICE All persons having claims »>inst the estate of Blanche P. Durgin, de-! ceased, are hereby notified to file the) same duly verified, with the under-; Signed, and those indbeted to said estate will please make payment likewise. G. N. FOY, Executor. November 26, 1947.—18-3c. . SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICL! “The Paper Everybody Reads” SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE "Tha Paper Everybody Reads" CHRISTMAS CARDS—Boxed assort ment, beautiful designs. Assort- mens of 18, 21 and 50 to the box at $1.00. Buy early to avoid disappoint ment. Chronicle Publishing Co., Sta tionery Department. 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