The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 1

A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES, DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 16, 1834 GAFFNEY, S. SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1944 S4.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE PQ TO BEGIN ENFORCING TRAFFIC LAWS I i 1 Tp TTv Tfl TPTv EDGER II II II 1 Ar MM M3Bw KBULsa HI Jlj CE PREPAR WHERE INVASION ACTION CENTERS YANKS GET TOGETHER WITH FIGHTING MAQUIS Monday Set For Starting SS.Meeting By Baptists Will Be Held Gaffney is one of five South Carolina cities in which area Baptist Sunday school conventions will be held in September, ac-ording: to announcement made by J. L. Corzine, of Columbia, director Enemy Lands Be Occupied FDR States Washington, Aug.

17. President Roosevelt, back in the capital today from his Pacific tour, informed the world that Germany and Japan will be occupied by Allied troops regardless of when or how they surrender. There will be no repetition, he said, of the 1918 situation, when Germany escaped full occupatiojp by quitting when her homeland i i i-i 1 CI ORANGE jpitiRRAN AN SE Apjlll TWO MIOHTY TOUGH OUTFITS get together in the above picture. For the first time the Yanks on the left swap fighting information with the far-famed Maquis, the heroic Free French underground fighters who have carried on a persistent campaign of sabotage against the German invaders. Several shown here are inspecting American fighting tools for which they have great admiration.

Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International) Negroes To Vote Party Ticket In WITH HEAVIEST FIGHTING of the South France invasion reported from St. Raphael to Cannes and from there to Nice (Indicated by small arrow) huge new landing operations were said to be under way in the St. Tropez Bay zone and St. Raphael.

Radio broadcasts spoke of landing activities off Cannes, giving rise to rumors that this important town may have been isolated. It was announced that bombers had destroyed every rail bridge in the Rhone Valley (indicated by large arrow) thus virtually isolating the coast landing area. (International) Believe War Moving Near Early Climax Washington, Aug. 17.A blunt declaration by Acting Secretary of War John J. McCloy that the past two weeks "have been a decisive period in the war against showed, plainly today that the Allied high command, believes the war in Europe is moving rapidly to a climax.

Enforcement Enforcement of municipal traffis regulations will begin Monday, it was announced by city officials yesterday, y. At a recent conference at ''the city hall with Mayor C. L. Chandler and three members of the council present, with the members' of the police department, instructiona given for policemen to begin the enforcement of traffic laws Monday: The councilmen present were' Clyde McCraw, C. C.

Hubbard and Fred George. Policeman B. L. Grubb has been designated as special traffic enforcement officer with instructions to issue warning cards to violators and inform them that penalties for violators will be inflicted E00n- I M.j. Warning cards will -continue to be handed to violators or attached to their vehicles through but Monday strict enforcement will begin, it was stated.

It was specially stated that double parking would not be toler-erated on Limestone street in the business district, that truck parking zones would be kept open for trucks to load and unload itu It was pointed out that the law pr6 hibits any parking upon streets fa such a manner as to interfer with free vehicular movement in arteries of travel and that truck-parking zones are for the use of rucks to load and unload onlyio' a period of one-half hour; that pas settger vehicles can use such zones for the discharge or pick-up of passengers for three minutes only. In no case can truck parking zones be used for passenger cars to park in except for the specified purpose stated. Policemen were instructed to use good judgment and common sense in traffic law enforcement and endeavor to elicit cooperation of the motoring public by explaining the nature and purpose of the laws. 1 The traffic warning card which is being used by the city contains the following information: "Avoid arrest for parking violations by understanding the parking regulations and abiding by tha intent thereof. "A car is 'parked' when it is stopped in any street or alley for any purpose other than In obedience to traffic signs or signals or the direction of a police officer, except while actually loading or unloading passengers.

"1. Do not double park. "2. Time limit parking zone, are in effect from 7 a. m.

to 7 p. my except Sundays and legal hour parking zones are so marked by signs on posts on curb. -Do not over park. Parking over the time limit is a violation even though the cars are not being checked. "3.

Do not park within 10 feet of any fire hydrant. "4. Do not park at any place where curb is painted yellow. "5. Do not park where there are 'No Parking signs.

"6. Do not park in such a way as to block sidewalks, driveways, or alleys. "This warning is a further effort to give the motoring public 'Square Deal by focusing attention' cn the persistent violator and over- looking a single violation, which may be unintentional. Its value win uepena upon your cooperation. Saints To Attend Greenville Meet A quarterly conference of the western South Carolina district of the Latter Day Saints will be held Sunday at Greenville in the Parker district high school building, it has been announced.

Practically all of the official and many of the members of the LDS chapel on Scruggs street here are planning to attend. -No services will be held in the, Scruggs street chapel Sunday, of Baptist Sunday school work in South Carolina. The Gaffney convention will be held September 8 at the First Baptist church. 'in Baptist Sunday school workers throughout South Carolina will convene during the week of September 4-8, at five different points in as many Sunday school conventions held on consecutive days. It is expected that in the five conventions upwards of two thousand Sunday School workers will be present.

i i The program arranged by the Sunday School Department of the Baptist General Board in South Carolina in cooperation with the' Baptist Sunday School Board of Nashvile, Tennessee, will feature addresses by Southern Baptist outstanding leaders in the field of religious education. Dr. W. R. White, secretary of the editorial division of the Baptist Sunday School Board, and J.

N. Barnette, secretary of the Sunday school di- 1 1 i 1 i vision oi mai ooara win appear on the urogram alone? with denart- inental specialists as follows: Philip Harris, Nashville, young people's; Miss Mary Virginia Lee, intermediate Miss Blanche Linthicum, junior. The state Sunday school department of the Baptist General Board will iurnish additional specialists as follows: Mrs. Wil-lard Jones, Columbia, junior; Miss "Elizabeth Nuckols, Columbia, primary; Mrs. T.

Coq, Greenville, beginner; the Rev. Olin J. Owens, xviue opinio, cAicuoiuii ucjoi lament; L. Corzine, director of the Sunday school department, and B. B.

Jernigan, associate director, will appear ab each point. The time and places for these meetings follow: Charleston, First Baptist, September Florence, First Baptist, September Columbia, First Baptist, September Greenviillle, Pendleton Street Baptist, September Gaffney, First Baptist, September 8. These five conventions will take th place of the one central convention' 'formerly' held for the entire state. This arrangement is a part of -what is called the "Serve the Folk at Home" program launched by the Sunday school department of the Baptist General Board in South Carolina when traveling became difficult. Mr.

Corzine said, "These five conventions present the ideals of Southern Baptists in their educational program and they will also point forward in the 1945 celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Southern Baptist Convention. The part which the Sunday schools can take in that celebration will be announced for the first time in these meetings." i Sunday School Worker PHILIP B. HARRIS Mr. Harris, who is superintendent of Baptist young people's work, speak at the convention in Gaffney September 8, was menaced. The president began catching up on routine business at the White house tonight after returning from a 35-day trip that took him to Pearl Harbor and to Adak, in the Aleutian Islands.

He was met at the station by Secretary of State Hull and later he conferred with General George C. Marshall, army chief of Tomorrow he will have his first fourth term campaign strategy talk with his vice presidential running mate, Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, whom he has not seen since they were nominated by the Democratic national convention a month ago. Mr. Roosevelt's special train passed through 21 states during the two crossings of the continent, but he laughed at suggestions that some people thought his journejr was political.

There were no political things 111 it, he said, adding that those who think they found politics in the trip know more about it than he does. On the westward crossing shades were drawn and every precaution taken to prevent the public from knowing who was aboard. But on the return from Bremerton, Wash, where the president made a broad cast speech last Saturday night, he waved and nodded occasionally at crowds which gathered at railroad stations along the way. Immediately upon his return speculation arose that he might be thinking of another conference soon with Prime Minister Churchill. The two leaders have not seen each other since last December, and it has been their practice to meet about every six months.

The rapid pace of the war in France lent further weight to the suggestion, voiced in diplomatic and military eircles, that another war and postwar council might be in the order. Mrs. Shirley Is Given Training As Storekeeper Mrs. Inez Owensby Shirley of Gaffney, has just completed her basic training in the WAVES at the U. S.

Naval Training School, (Women's Reserve), in The Bronx, New York, and has been ordered to report for further instruction at the Naval Training School for Storekeepers (Women) at the Georgia State College for Women, Milledgeville, Ga. Mrs. Shirley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.

M. Owensby of Gaff ney, has joined her husband and her three brothers in naval service. Her husband is James H. Shirley, and her brothers in the Navy are Basil James and Floyd C. Owensby.

Mrs. Shirley attended Limestone College and prior to joining the WAVES was employed as a clerk with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad company in Portsmouth, Va. Macedonia Will End Meet Sunday A series of revival meetings at the Macedonia Baptist church, scheduled to have closed last night, will be" continued through Sunday, the Rev. W. J.

Sprinkle, the pastor, has announced. Dr. R. C. Granberry, president of Limestone College, who is assisting Mr Sprinkle in conducting the meelngs, will preach on "Life's Last Thirty Minutes" at the closing service Sunday night.

Grid Squad Called For First Meet With a 10-game schedule complete, football practice for the Gaffney High School squad will start at 5 o'clock Monday afternoon, Coach Henry H. Smith has announced. After the opening practice the squad will proceed from the high school to the American Legion home in Irene park where a picnic supper will be served, and block sweatere won by last season's players will be presented to the recipients. Principal J. Paul Beam said the winners of the sweaters are asked to assemble at the high school along with the boys who will form this! year's squad.

Some of Gaffney's old-time rivals that have been absent for several years, notably Spartanburg, appear on the schedule for the approaching season. Spartanburg has agreed to play the Thanksgiving day game here. The schedule follows: September 29, Forest City, N. here; October 6, Shelby, N. here; October 13, Central High of Char-lotte at Charlotte; October 20, Anderson at Anderson October 27, Greenville at Greenville; November 3, Easley here; November 10, Chester here; November 17, Rock Hill at Rock Hill; November 24, York here; and November 30, Spartanburg here.

Only three of last year's regulars are expected to return to the squad this year, these being Bill Humphries, Vic Cagle and Warren Bonner. However, Coach Smith will have several others who were relief men last year, and he is hoping for a large turnout of new material. The first several days of practice time Will be devoted mostly to running, throwing and catching balls, and limbering up exercises. Pupils Invited To See Principal To Make Changes J. Paul Beam, the principal, said Gaffney High School pupils who wish, to make changes in courses, selected for the session beginning September 4 may see him in his office at the high school between 9 a.

and noon or between 2 and 4 p. daily during the next week or two. He also announced that high school children who have moved from one district to another since the close of the last session are required to register before the opening of the next term. Jubilee Singers. The Southern Jubilee Singers of Charlotte will present a program in the Cherokee county court house here Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, it has been announced.

Instances ome Columbia, Aug. 16. The South Carolina Progressive (negro) Democratic party's executive committee decided today to support "acceptable" nominees of the state's regular Democratic' party "whenever possible," named presidential electors pledged to the Roosevelt-Truman ticket, and said it was "unanimously opposed" to Governor. Olin D. Johnston as a candidate for the U.

S. Senate. A sub-committee was directed to report August 30 on a candidate to oppose Johnston in the November 7 general election, and the executive group will consider candidates for Congress at another meeting to be held within 30 days. Selection of candidates for the general assembly and other local offices has been left to district and county committees of the party, State Chairman John H. McCray said, and listed these presidential electors to be offered in the general election First district, John H.

Green of Charleston; second, Annie Belle Weston of Columbia; third, H. B. Butler of Newberry fourth, Dr. S. D.

Brown of Spartanburg; fifth, Ira H. Haile, of Camden; sixth, J. C. Brown of Florence, and two at large, Rev. J.

W. Miller of Walterboro, and Rev. William MeKinley Bowman of St. George. Back on Home Soil CARRYING a walking stick, Gen.

Philippe LeClerc goes ashore in Normandy to take over a French tank division fighting the Nazis there. This is the general's first visit to his native land in four years. He led French troops against the Germans in North Africa. Signal Corps photo, International) 6 IS i if Seek Parents Of A. F.

Humphries, Prisoner Of War Howard Humphries has received a letter from Dorothy Kronen -of New York containing a transcription of a short wave radio message from A. F. Humphries, a prisoner of war in Germany, for delivery to the -father of the soldier but Mr. Humphries does not know the sol- The letter, dated August 14, said: dier's father and so far has been unable to find anyone here who does. "Last Saturday night, August 12th, I heard a short wave broadcast from Germany and the following was a message from your son read by a woman narrator: 'From A.

Humphries, Stalag 7A, to his father. Dear Dad: I am a prisoner of war in Germany and I am in good health. Love to "Unfortunately I couldn't get the address so I am in hopes that tha postal authorities can locate the proper person in due time. "I called telephone information in Gaffney and there were" quite a few Humphries listed there but none listed under A. F.

"So I would appreciate your locating the proper party if upon opening, this letter you find that you are not." In a postscript the writer suggested that if the right Humphries could not be found here that the letter be sent? to Easley as it was possible that the names of the towns had been confused. Mr. Humphries said officials of the Gaffney selective service board informed him no A. F. Humphries has been sent into the service by this board.

Inquiry among relatives, including various branches of the large Humphries family in this vicinity failed to find ianyone who is ec-quainted with A. F. Humphries or his family. Mr. Humphries said it is possible someone may know the family, and if so he will appreciate any information furnished him so the message can be delivered to the proper person.

Sgt. Hollifield Hurt in France Staff Sergeant Caldwell Hollifield was wounded in France July 6, according to a message received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T.

Hollifield of Kings Creek. Sergeant Hollifield has been in the army two years and two months. Webster Lost As Ship Goes Down Off Anzio Beach Pvt. Walter R. Webster, 24, who was kinedTrr action January 26, lost his life when a transport was sunk by a mine off the Anzio beach in Italy, according to a letter received by his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. W. G. Webster of the Timber Ridge community, from Capt. George A.

Gaiser, chaplain of private Webster's batallion. A. part of Capt. Gaiser's letter describing the tragedy follows: "Your son was with a part of our batallion which oh January 1 26 was en route to the Anzio beachhead. Another part of the battalion in which I was included had gone in on the initial invasion, and so my report of the tragedy of January 26 is necessarily secondhand.

On that morning the vessel an whichfour men were travel ing struck a mine when near to its destination, and there were fires and explosions, and the vessel finally sank. I am not sure exactly what happened to Walter. Some of the men jumped off into the sea, which was very rough and with the ship. Some were saved, of course, but no one is too sure of what happened to individuals in the midst of the fire and water. Many bodies were not recovered.

This was true in your son's case. It was therefore necessary that he be listed as However, the War Department Jias now decided that there is no chance of any of the missing still being alive since none have ever been heard from, and so they are all now changed in status to 'killed in Postponed Date For; Opening At Blacksburg Blacksburg, Aug. 18. Opening of the Blacksburg grammar schooh has been delayed from August 28 to September 4, it has been announced by Mrs. Terah P.

Ferree, the superintendent. The date for the opening wa3 changed to conform with the beginning of the session of the Centralized High School, of which C. B. Hannai is superihtendent, because many of the grammar school children depend on the high school buses for transportation, Mrs. Ferree said.

Mrs. Ferree said the colored schools will open on the same day, September 4. Summarizing the swift develop-nents of the four-front war against the Nazis, McCloy told a news con ference: i Two German armies, the Fifth and Seventh, have been defeated in Normandy, suffering huge losses in men and equipment. Forced to withdraw, they can hardly regroup for a new stand anywhere west) of the; Seine. In one of the most efficiently conducted mass maneuvers in military history, a huge Allied force has invaded the south of France against meager German opposition and is consolidating its strength for a campaign of which only the first step has been taken.

French interior forces are in the fight throughout France, blowoing up bridges, demolishing Nazi trans port and engaging the Germans openly on scale that amounts virtually to a national uprising. Pressure against the weakened Nazi forces in Italy is being main tained by Allied armies co-ordinat ing their action with developments in France German resistance has stiffened against the Soviet armies in the east, but the Russians, while consolidating their supply lines, are (Continued on pa0 5.) Inspectors Say Rules Require Right Car Tires A spokesman for OPA tire inspectors yesterday offered the following advice to persons wanting inspections for making application to the ration board for new tires "See that all five tires due to be on the car are on it before taking It to an inspection station; and take the tire inspection blank with the car so inspectors can check the numbers required." Unless these requirements are met, it was pointed out a trip to an inspection station will ba a waste of time and gasoline because the inspectors are nnder strict orders to see the tires on the vehicles and to see the tire inspection blank. One inspector said he has had to refuse to make inspections for several applicants recently because all of the tires were not on the vehicles. Spare tires, no matter how useless they may be, must be on cars, and inspectors are not allowed to pass "borrowed" tires or any except the ones called for by the inspection blank..