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frMDAY, AUGUST II, 1N4 .-BS HE NEWBERRY SUN r ABB fin FEARS CIO POWER Caused Defeat Of Southern Candi dates At Chicago, Broughton Says RALEIGH, C., Aug. 7.— “boycott and proscription” of the South by “powerful northern negro groups” and the CIO’s Political Ac tion committee caused the defeat of southern candidates for the demo cratic vice-presidential nomination, Gov. J. Melville Broughton said here tonight. Broughton said that at the demo cratic convention in Chicago—“.the wildest and most bewildering session of recent decades”—these groups seemed to have resolved that the people of the South should forever be but the hewers of the wood and drawers of water within the Demo cratic party.” However, he predicted that Presi dent Roosevelt will be reelected in Nevember, and the South would sup port the democratic nominees. In a radio address, which h-_ call ed a “fireside chat" for the benefit of Tar Heel listeners, the governoi lashed out at the PAC, declaring that its anti-southern front at the convention was “unfair and undem ocratic and that its aim was to gain control of the Democratic party. The negro groups, Broughton said, “were not representative of the negro race." The Political Ac tion committee “assumed unwarrant ed” authority and its anti-southern front was “deplored as being out of harmony with the philosophy and purposes of organized labor in Am erica and ultimately destructive of labor’s best hopes.” “I have no fued with the Politi cal Action committee, and I believe profoundly in the cause of labor and deeply respect its rights,” he said. “But I do deny to the PAC or to any other group or other groups, white or colored, the right to dic tate the affairs of the Democratic party or of the American people.” “It will be an evil day, however, for the Democratic party and for America if the Political Action com mittee or any similar group shall be able to take Charge of this his toric party of ours and engage in the practice of ,proscribing and boy cotting representatives of the par ty from that great southern area which is in truth the cradle of dem ocracy,’’ he said. Promoted To Technician 5th Grade Harvey Driggers, an Army truck driver, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward R. Diriggers of Kinards, route 1, has.been promoted from the grade of private first class to the rank of Technician Fifth Grade in the South Pacific, where he is stationed with the 25th Infantry Division. His wife, Mrs. Alice S. Driggers makes her home with his parents. Prior to entering the service in February, 1942, Driggers was em ployed as a textile laborer in the Mollohon Mills here. Since arriving overseas in May, 1942, he has seen action at Guadalcanal and New Georgia Islands, where the 25th In fantry division aided materially in smashing Jap resistance. He wears the Good Conduct award and the Asiatic-Pacific theater ribbon with two stars. by news of internal strife in Ger many and other optimistic trends. And they won’t deny things now are looking a lot brighter. But, they remind you of these things. . 1. Until the shooting »stops, there is no peace. 2. The shooting has not stopped. ‘ 1 3. As long as the war continues, 1 the smart soldier does not let his | mind dwell on the possibilities of an early peace or a quick return home. 4. Knowing full well how demoral izing such thoughts can be, German propagandists are taking full ad vantage cf all allied optimistic talk. Points one and two need no fur ther discussion. If they aren’t ob vious, read the latest—and continu ing-casualty lists. A soldier doesn’t have to. He sees the dead and wound ed daily. Point three is something everyone knows all along any front. With the war’s end seeming to be somewhere in the dim and distant future and the chances of going home eoually far away, the average sol dier slips into a fatalistic frame of mind—wbith may be the best men tal status for a fighting man. For instance, I knew a sergeant who gained considerable fame for his almost fool hardy courage. He volunteered for countless patrols. Once he served as a one-man tank trap, taking on two tigers with Mol otov cocktails. Several times, he cleaned out German machinegun nests either single-handed or else he led squads which did the job. Stories about him were legion. But then someone made the mis take of telling that sergeant he had been recommended for rotation leave. —And during the few days which e- lapsed before it was approved and he was pulled out of line to go home, he was a changed man. His mind, which long accepted the likelihood of death or injury suddenly rejected it in favor of going home to his wife ' and child, alive and whole. He stayed \ glued to his fox hole until his orders came through—and not a soul blamed [him. That happens again and again. Before the Anzio battles several; correspondents with reputations for! taking almost any risk to get a-i good story were told they would j get home leave as soon as the oper- j ation was over. And these guys , who had taken all kinds of shelling. \ bombing, strafing, mortar and small arms fire in their stride were shaken by the worst fears they had ever known. Figuring that as a pretty aver age reaction, you can imagine what it. dpes to a fighting man who is seeing men die around him every day when 'he hears that all the big are saying the war will be over any week now—or gets a letter stating that “it looks like you’ll be home in time for the football 1 season this fall, Johnny." As for point number four, all win ter and all spring, Germans have been firing propaganda leaflets over the lines and broadcasting radio speeches, saying in effect: “The war’s almost over, Yank. It’s too bad you're going to be killed right at the last, isn’t it?” Now the Nazis are pulling all stops out, asking Allied soldiers why they’re still fighting when they’re liable to get killed and the war’s practically over, anyhowi. Luckily, the doughboys still can laugh at any thing the German propagandists- say. But it’s a strange, ironic twist of war that soldiers spirits are shaken and embittered somewhat by the well meant but unwitting words of the folks back home. They’ have to be strengthened by their utter disbelief in the same words when they’re spoken by the enemy. l^n^caVtic. cakes, hogs, and mutton it Isold represented 36 per cent of the lipy- total farm income. Stock Up with Coal inaei.. The of all- depar Now, Ickes Urges Washington dJ.P>-—Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Irices Monday appealed to both indus trial and domestic soft coal con sumers to start stockpiling im mediately “as a protection against the heavy requirements of next winter.” Ickes said if consumers wait un til next winter the productive fa- - - ...111 Via t n votl the 11 exccpI this - ll Hal betwfl parenl cautiif guarej tion. It 111 IRT.-Vl r , cilities of the mines will tee taxed in R t to the limit. Weather _orht rain extreme -* and cen- licc haltel Vich f prevl reacll thro | PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW FOR NEXT WINTER’S COAL SUPPLY 4- m. HERE’S WHY Our Supply Has Already Been Cut 10 per cent Farmer’s Ice & Fuel Co. PHON E 1 55 BUY MORE WAR BONDS AND STAMPS * SOLDIERS PEEVED ABOUT OPTIMISM WITH TH EAEF IN ITALY, July 31.—(Delayed)—Soldiers still fight ing along the Italian front & airmen still flying daily missions against the enemy are getting just a little bitter these days about all the opti mistic speculation back home over how soon the war will end. it i«n’t that thev weren’t cheered NOTICE OF DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELECTION Notice is hereby given that a Dem- j ocratic Primary will be held in New berry county on Tuesday, August 22, 1944 for the purpose of balloting on a Magistrate at Newberry and a Magistrate at Little Mountain. Pells will open at 8 a. m. and close at 4 p m., and only qualified Democrats may vote and only those persons whose names appear on the Club Roll of the Voting pre cincts will be allowed bo vote. Polling places will be the same as in the first Primary for magis terial Districts 2 and 6 and the same managers will serve in said districts. NEAL W. WORKMAN, County Chairman MRS. A. H. COUNTS, Secretary and Treasurer 'K> CHECK ^ Liquid foi take 666 Liquid for Malarial Symptom*. LOANS ON Real Estate Automobiles and Personal Property NEWBERRY Ins. & Realty Co. NED PURCELL, Manager Phone 197 Exchange Bank. Bldg. FOUR YEARS AGP HdttS WAS IN OUR SHOES H ans is a German. Four years ago, be felt the way many of us feel today. He thought the war was as good as won. He had reason to think sc. Far more reason than we have. France was his. England was bloody after Dunkerque. The German Army seemed invincible. 9 But the war wasn’t almost over. And now it is our armies that are on the march. It is our bombers blast ing German cities. Victory is in our grasp. It’s up to us to see that we don’t let it^slip through our fingers the way Hans did. Most of us know that this is the military crisis of this war—the time when our fighting men must give everything they have, not once in a while but hour after hour—day after day. But this alone is not enough. The lives of brave men are not enough. Money is needed too. For this is the financial crisis of the war just as surely as it is the military crisis. Millions of dol lars’ worth of equipment is being destroyed. The money to replace it must come from us, quickly. If every last one of us here at home will try to match the constant, day-to-day drive of the men who fight our battles, we’ll raise that money. The way to do it is to put every cent we can possibly invest into U.S. War Bonds. Not some of us. All of us. Not once in a while during a drive, but regularly. Can we do the job that Hans couldn’t do? It’s up to you. 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