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VOLUME XXIX
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1929
NUMBER 30
ROBIN FLIERS
ENOniGHT
Dwellers In Sky Descend To
Earth After Staying Up 420
Hours. Both In Excellent Phy*
sical Condition.
St. Louis, Mo., July 30.—The end of
the record-smashing endurance flight
of the St. Louis Robin came at 7:38
o’clock (€eh.ral Standard Time) to
night when its pilots. Dale “Red”
Jackson and Forest O’Brine, descend
ed from the sky which had been their
home for 420 hours, 21 minutes. They
exceeded the record of the Angeleno
by seven full days at 2:01 p. m. today.
The plane made a perfect landing
in the middle of the field with about
25,000 spectators watching them.
The crowd rushed on to the field
but a guard of employees from the
Curtiss-Robertson company, sponsors
of the flight, protected Jackson and
O’Brine.
The St. Louis Robin was towed into
a space beside the hangar. The field
was muddy from a rainstorm that be
gan late today, where during the long
flight in the air the dust was inches
thick.
The plane landed in.the glare of
floodlights around the field. Flight
officials and members of the ground
crew assisted the fliers from the plane
and with the assistance of guards
made a lane through the crowd to a
hangar.
A few moments later O’Brine and
Jackson were examined by physicians
and entered an automobile which took
them to a downtown hotel where they
were to rest tonight after speaking
over the radio in a nation-wide hook
up.
Both men were pronounced in excel
lent physical condition. O’Brine had
gained two popnds since he and Jack-
son went up July 13, scaling 140
pounds tonight against 138 pounds
when the flight began. Jackson’s
weight was the same as it was when
he went aloft, 154 pounds. They had
been aloft nearly *18 days.
The heart action of both men was
pronounced normal and physicians
said their hearing was normal. They
conversed easily reporters and
friends in the hangar.
The fliers said they were influenced
to change their plans about remaining
aloft 500 hours and decided to land
tonight because of the tragic death of
their friend, George Lea Lambert, who
was killed in an airplane crash near
Lambert-St. Louis field.
Jackson told newspapermen he
thought they could have flown the St.
Louis-Robin 300 hours longer. O'Brine
declared they could take the same
plane as it now stands and break their
own record.
Both men agreed that their biggest
thrill of the entire flight was this af
ternoon when they flew low over the
field nod saw a crowd of 8,000 watch
ers standing in the rain waiting to
see them land.
Both said the first 100 hours of fly
ing was the hardest and after that it
wasn’t bad at all.
Jackson said in reply to a question
that he believed the plane was good
for at least 200 more hours of flight.
Jackson was at the controls when
the plane landed. It swooped twice
across the field as the crowd cheered
wildly and then swept down across the
field to a landing after zooming over
a hangar. The official landing time
was announced at 7:38:30 p. m.
The crowd got beyond control as
soon as the plane was brought to
earth. Police lines were swept aside as
the throng charged toward the air
plane. Several persons were injured,
none seriously, in the wild dash. Jack-
son and O’Brine shook hands as they
went through the crowd.
Both embraced their wives who had
remained at the field almost constant
ly since the flight began. The fliers
were “dressed up” for their reception,
Jackson exhibiting a neatly combed
head of hair and both cleaned up as
well as they could be considering their
cramped quarters.
The fliers posed for photographs
beside their plane and in the hangar
before they left for their hotel suite.
Major William B. Robertson, presi
dent of the Curtiss-Robertson Air
plane Manufacturing company, which
sponsored the flight, said he was
“tickled to death” with the outcome.
“The boys look like they were ready
to start again,” he said.
Both men emphasized in their inter
views that it was the death of Lam
bert, son of Major Albert Bond Lam
bert, offkikl observer for the flight
for the National Aeronautic associa
tion, rather than a request from Ma
jor Robertson to come down, that
caused them to. land.
Coolidge Kin III
The condition of Mrs. Lemira Good-
hue of Northampton, Mass., mother of
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, was described as
“very low.” Twice a day Mrs. Coolidge
visits the sick »oom.
DEATH CLAIMS
MRS. M. E. BELL
“Aunt Mat” Passea At Ripe Age At
Hcmie of Son In Columbia. Funer
al and Interment At Hopewell.
Mrs. Mattie East Bell died early
Sunday morning in her Slst year at
the home of her son, J. Downs Bell, in
Columbia, after an illness of several
weeks following a case of influenza
contracted last February.
The body was brought here Monday
morning and the funeral service held
at the Hopewell; Methodist church,
with interment following in the fam
ily buria) ground adjoining the church.
The services were in charge of Revs.
H. E. Bullington, 0. M. Abney and J.
F. Jacobs. Many friends and relatives
from Clinton, Renno and elsewhere,
attended the services and the floral
offerings, beautiful and varied, were
indicative of the love and etfteem of
many true friends.
Mrs. Bell, affectionately known and
loved as “Aunt Mat,” was a native of
this county and spent a great part of
her life at Renno. Later moving to
Clinton, she resided here a number of
years, after which she moved to Co
lumbia, dividing her time between
her son there and in Greenville. Her
husband, the late J. W. C. Bell, died
in 1923 at an advanced age.
“Aunt Mat” was a gentlewoman'Tif
oW^sCbool, ^ith "tnany
lovely traits of character and strong
Christian faith, and a devoted mem
ber of the Methodist church. She was
an unusually intellectual woman and
one whose life was above reproach.
Her, passing removes one highly es
teemed, especially by those of the old
school and their descendants. Her
broad sympathy and her, lovely and
amiable disposition endeared her to a
wide circle of friends and relatives
who join in mourning her death.
Surviving her are two sons, J.
Downs Bell of Columbia, and W. E.
Bell of Greenville; eight grandchildren
and one great-grandson.
AIRPORTS FOR SMALL TOWNS
SEEN AS NEED FOR FUTURE
Entering Diplomacy
AS NECESSARY NOW AS RAIL
ROAD STATIONS W'ERE
IN THE PAST.
(Written for The Chronicle By
Autocaster Service)
Any town in the United States with
a population of 5,000 or more can have
a flying field, according to the Lehigh
Airport competition. The competition’s
program committee, composed of 24
of the country’s outstanding archi
tects, engineers, city planners and
aeronautic experts, points out * that
hundreds of American communities
with less than 10,000 population are
among the 1,324 towns which already
have airports.
“With the smaller cities the prob
lem of acquiring land is less acute
than in the great congested areas,”
the program committee says. “Suit
able land is usually close at hand, and
sufficient acreage may be obtained to
provide not only for immediate needs
but also for those which can reason
ably be foreseen in the inevitable
growth of flying as an accepted
means of high speed traffic.
“The history of the typical Ameri
can airport is about as follows: The
Chamber of Commerce or some other
citizen’s association get enthusiastic
about the idea, holds a meeting and
appoints an airport committee. This
committee then obtains from the De
partment of Commerce the general re
quirements for airports, and it may
also seek the advice of local pilots. A
site is chosen either because of its
cheapnibss or because of'political pres
sure. Funds are raised by public sub
scription or through a municipal bond
issue, and the field is developed.”
In actual fact, an efficient airport
is a highly complicated product re
quiring for its location and construc
tion the specialized knowledge of a
technical expert.
All forward-looking towns should
have airports in order to handle the
high speed traffic of tomorrow, just
as in the past they have built railroad
stations, according to a concensus of
expert opinion.
F. Trubee Davison, assistant secre
tary of war for aeronautics, points out
the airport will be tomorrow’s fortress
of national defense, taking the place,
in part, of the forts of the last cen-
’ry. In time of war, key airports
would be transformed into military
units,
Former Posmtaster General Harry
S. New, who has made an intensive
study of aviation, believes no town
should be without its flying field. It
may be difficult for some communities
to see the value of an airport, he says,
but if aviation develops to a point of
universal usage, like the railroads
have, then fhose towns without air
ports will be left behind in the march
of progress.
Among others who have stressed
the value of airports to American com
munities are William P. McCracken,
Jr., assistant secretary of commerce
for aviation; Colonel Harry H. Blee,
chief of the airways and airports di
vision of the Department of Com
merce, and Harvey Wiley Corbett,
general chairman of the Lehigh Air
ports competition and a noted archi
tect.
Mr. Corbett has issued a warning to
American communities and a predic
tion. He has warned that unless in
telligent planning is combined with
airport cdnstruction, the cities and
towns of this country may lose mil
lions of dollars through the building
of flying fields which will become an
tiquated too soon.
Mr. Corbett’s prediction is that ev
ery airport, however small, will at
tract sufficient business to make it a
profitable enterprise. “Even though it
is not on the main transcontinental
lines, the small town airport will be
come a branch line station in a short
time and thus will justify its construc
tion.”
FINE SHOWING
FOR SILK MILL
Clinton’s Oldest
Dine Together
J. Will Milam informed the reporter
yesterday that he enjoyed a “cracking
good” dinner one day last week at
the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs.
T. R. Owens, the kind for which this
well known Musgrove citizen is fa
mous. He states that there were gath-
ered around the bountiful table, the
oldest Clinton woman, the oldest Clin-,
ton man, and the oldest Clinton baby,
Mrs. Ella Bell, T. F. Milam and L. H.
Davidson, respectively. Tiere was no
thought of making this record, it be
ing only an incident discovered after
the guests were seated for the happy
occasion.
Dr. Douglas To
Speak Sunday
Dr. D. M. Douglas of Columbia, a
former Clintonian and president of
Presbyterian college, will spend the
week-end in the city and will occupy
the pulpit of the First Presbyterian
,church next Sunday morning at vhe
usual hour of worship. The pastor. Dr.
D. J. Woo<ds, is out of the city, and
the supply committee in charge in
vited Dr. Douglas to filj the appoint
ment.
The friends and admirers in the
city of Dr. Douglas, who are many,
are delighted tha't he is to be, heard
here Sunday. It is expected that he
will be greeted with a large congre
gation.
Clinton’s New Industry Shows Profit
Mrst Year and Pays Semi-Annual
Dividend To Stockholders.
The Stutz-Hadfield Silk Corpor-
poration, Clinton’s new silk mili lo
cated on Musgrove street, has within
the past week paid its stockholders a
3 Vi per cent semi-annual dividend on
its paid-in preferred capital stock of
$00,000.
The directors of this^ new corpor
ation meeting in June past, after ex
amining the financial siatcment for
the first six months found the mill
had actually been in operation only
about two and a half months and in
that short period had not absorbed
the organization expenses. Since the
.plant has been in operation s;x months
of this year and shown a profit above
operating expenses foi that period,
the directors passed a resolution to
pay a dividend up to December 31st
and checks for these amounts have
been put in the hands of a!l share
holders.
The mill is now in operation under
the able direction of Supt. Homer S.
Finley and is facing an unusually
bright future. In view of the fact that
such an enterprise is something en
tirely new in this section and that the
training of labor of necessity, must
be a Ilow process, the showing made
for the first year’s operation is high
ly gratifying. In addition to paying
this dividend, the management has
paid $2,000 on its modern building,
thereby reducing the indebtedness to
$18,000.00. Twenty-two additional up-
to-date, latest model looms at a cost
of approximately $10,000.00 have also
been installed within the past few
weeks. This excellent showing made
in so short a period, gives to the
stockholders an increased security of
approximately $12,000.00. The plant
is now in full operation and additional
units will be added from time to time
as local labor is trained. It is engaged
in the manufacture of broad silks.
lOTH SERIES
NOW OPEN
John N. Willys, veteran Ohio auto
mobile manufacturer, may be offeied
the post of U. S. ambassador to Tur
key.
YOUNG DANES -
TO VISIT HERE
Clinton Building and Loan A.ssociation
To Begin Another Series. Many
Attractive Features Offered.
Rounding out its 5th year of suc
cessful operation, the Clinton Build
ing and Loan assoeiation, of which
Wm. P. Jacobs is the founder and sec
retary-treasurer, is offering a new
series, the tenth series since its or*
ganization in 1924. The details of this
series, offering both fully paid and
installment stock are explained in an
advertisement elsewhere in this is
sue. Their installment stock, while
primarily on a long term basis, offers
the privilege of doubling up and with
drawing, and thus reducing the length
of the series to any period desired.
Their fully paid stock guarantees a
6 per cent dividend and is sold forj
$100 per share. j
The Clint;on Building and Loan as
sociation has been popular and active
since its organization, and is one of'
Clinton’s greatest assets. They have |
in a short period of five years loaned |
over a quarter million dollars; soldi
over a half million dollars of stock;!
financed over a hundred homes, and j
number their subscribers in the hun
dreds. Much of Clinton’s progress and
growth can be directly attributed to
this live wire organization and, the
other two excellent building and loan j
associations of which Clinton boasts.J
Clinton is known throughout the state
as a fine building and loan town with'
three strong associations and with'
one of its citizens serving for the past |
12 months as- president of the South i
Carolina Building and Loan League. I
Last year the convention of this lea- j
gue was held in Clinton, resulting in '
much favorable advertising for this
city. !
HOME FROM SUMMER SCHOOL
Misses Helen Milam, Kate Odiorne,
•Frances Black, and Martha Pitts
have returned to their homes here
after spending the past six weeks at
the Winthrop college summer school.
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Union Service At
Baptist Church
The first union service of August
will be held next Sunday evening at
the First Baptist church, with Dr. L.
R. Lynn occupying the pulpit. A cor
dial invitation is extended all denomi
nations of the city to unite in this
service.
MID-STATE STANDING
MoIIohon
4
0
1,000
Newberry
.... t... 4
1
.800
Clinton
.... .... 2
2
.500
Lydia
2
3
.400
Monarch
2
3
.400
Laurens
2
3
.400
Goldville
2
3
.400
Watts ....
1
4
.200
“Miss Blue Bonnet”
On August 9th
I
Miss Blue Bonnet,” coached and cos- j
turned by the Wayne P. Sewell Co., i
will be presented in the Florida Street
school auditorium at 8 o’clock Friday i
evening, August 9th, for the benefit'
of the high school athletic associa
tion. There will be forty-six in the |
cast of characters. As fast as these
plays have been ^written they have
been presented very successfully to 1
Clinton audiencek. This is their latest
play with music, beautiful costumes,
snappy dances and a clever plot. An
unusually capable local caSt^ has been
secured for this production.
Two Young Scandinavians To Arrive
Today To Be Guests of Clin
ton Rotary Club.
Toben Gjerulff, aged 20, and Niels
Haugsted, aged 18, natives of Den
mark, will arrive in the city today to
be guests of the Clinton Rotary club
for two days. The young Scandinavi
ans arrived in Columbia Sunday as
guests of the 58th Rotary district for
two weeks. From Columbia they are
proceeding on a round of five other
Rotary clubs in the district—those of
Newberry, Greenwood, Clinton, Lau
rens and Greenville—going later to
Florida for two weeks in that state.
The visitors will spend several days
in this section and while in Clinton
will be entertained in homes of local
Rotarians. Their coming is being
looked forward to with unusual inter
est and plans for their stay and en-
tertanmient while here is in the
hands of Rotarian Geo. Cornelson.
'These young Danes are in the Unit
ed States under the exchange visiting
arrangement worked out several years
ago by a Danish university teacher.
Dr. Sven KnUdsen, by which each
summer a certain number of selected
Scandinavian boys of preparatory
school age come to the United States,
while American boys go to Scandina
via; the young Iravelers'on each side
being entertained by twos, in the
homes of the people.
This plan has worked out so well,
in the promotion of international un
derstanding and goodwill, that it has
been sponsored by .the International
Boys’ Work council and actively aided
by Rotary International. Several
young men from South Carolina have
toured Scandinavia as members of
these exchange groups.
Niels Haugsted is particularly in
terested in textile manufacturing and
in this section he will be given an op
portunity to see every phase of this
interesting work. Torben Gjerulff is
not particularly interested in any in
dustry but all of these boys are alert
to all that is going on in this great
country and they will be given an op
portunity to absorb all the ‘'Ameri
cana” that they are capable of hold
ing.
There is great speculation among
the various host clubs as to whether
these boys can speak English or not.
So far this information' has not been
given and everyone is up in the air
as to whether they will have to make
signs to the boys, employ an inter
preter—if possible to find one—or
just let nature take its course. Anyway
they will understand, whether they
speak this language or not, that they
are getting a warm welcome, for this
is something that needs no language
to be fully expressed. Troben is 20
years of age and Niels 18. One might
think that these are not boys but ma
ture youths, however, the Scandina
vian boys do not mature as rapidly as
our own boys and these two young
fellows will readily fit in with Amer
ican boys of 16 or younger.
The entire program is so arranged
by officials of this district that the
young men from beyond the seas may
attend a Rotary club meeting in each
community they visit.
COURT GRANTS
VENUECTANGE
Accused Gastonia Strike Lead
ers To Be Tried In Mecklen
burg-. Defense Claims Efforts
Made To Intimidate Witnesses
and Attorneys.
Gastonia, N. C., July 30.—Sixteen
members and officials of the National
Textile Workers union apd affiliated
organizations accused of the murder
of 0. F. Aderholt late today were
granted a change of venue to Meck
lenburg county.
The case, hearing on which started
at a special term of the Gaston su
perior court yesterday will be resumed
in Charlotte at a date to be set by
Gov. 0. Max Gamer.
The ruling of Judge M. V. Barnhill
of Rocky Mount, named by Governor
Gardner to preside at the special term
here came at the end of a day of read
ing of affidavits and hearing of a
number of witnesses. 'The defense al
leged intimidation of witnesses and at
torneys while the prosecution sought
to prevent the case being taken out of
the countty. Judge Barnhill ordered
Amy Schechter, Workers International
Relief worker, Sophie Melvin, organ
izer for the Young^ioneers of Ameri
ca, and Vera Buch, National Textile
Workers union organizer, releaseu on
$5,000 bail each. Solicitor Carpenter
had announced that "the first degree
murder charge against them would be
amended to second degree murder.
He ordered Fred Erwin Beal, south
ern organizer for the union, Joseph
Harrison, union organizer, George
Carter, K. C. Byers, W. M. McGinnias,
J. C. Hefner, Robert Allen, Russell
Knight, N. F. Gibson, K. Y. Hendricks,
Delmar Hampton, Clarence Miller and
Louis McLaughlin confined in the Gas
ton county jail until the first day of
the session of the Mecklenburg su
perior court called for resumption of
the hearings.
When the trial is resumed in Char
lotte all questions holding off selec
tion of a jury and hearing of evi
dence will have been completed. The
prisoners were arraigned here yester
day and all preliminary motions dis
posed of.
Affidavits alleging intimidation of
witnesses and attorneys for the de
fense were introduced today by the
defense and efforts were made by the
state by cross examining the makers
of the affUavits and presenting of
counter affidavits to break down
charges that a fair trial could not be
given in Gaston county, even with a
jury from another county. Attorneys
Tom H. Jimison of Charlotte, and
John Randolph Neal of Knoxville,
Tenn., appearing for the defendants
made affidavits that they had been
threatened last Saturday night in a lo
cal restaurant.
•
This was denied by the state. This
afternoon Solicitor Carpenter present
ed an affidavit made by L. J. Hammill
of Gastonia, stating that he had cursed
Jimison, but that he had not threat
ened either Jimison or Neal. He stated
that he and W. 0. Anderson and Hen
ry W. Rankin had gone into a restau
rant near midnight. They started for
! the kitchen. Hammil said he did not
jlike Jimison and when he saw him at
a table in the rear of the restaurant
I returned to the front and ordered a
j lunch. After he ate he remained in the
restaurant while Anderson and Rankin
went outside to their automobile. As
j Jimison came out, he cursed the at-
jtorney. He denied that he had threat-
lened to “get” Jimison.
MISSING LINK
TO BE PAVED
EASTERN STAR PICNIC
Jas. B. Parrott chapter. No. 9, Gr
ader of the Eastern Star, will have its
annual picnic next Thursday_ after
noon, August 8th, ^t Curry’s Lake.
All members with their families are
cordially invited.
Special Services At
Hopewell Church
The revival services of Hopewell
Methodist church will begin Sun<^ay
evening, August 4th,, at eight o’clock.
Services will be held each day at 11
a. m. and 8:00 n. m. through .Aug. 9th.
Rev. J. F. Lupoj pastor of Main
Street Methodist church. Columbia,
will preach. Mr. Lupo is one of the
outstanding ministers of South Caro
lina Methodism and at present is pas
tor of the largest church of his de-
nomipation in the state. Those who
avail themselves of the opportunity of
attending these services will be bene
fited. The pastor. Rev. H. E. Bulling
ton, and the membership of Hopewell
church, extend a cordial invitation to
every one to attend.
Highway Department Lets Contract
for Clinton-Kinard Road At
Cost of $148,011.
The state highway department in
.session Tuesday, let a contract for the
paving of the Clinton-Kinard road at
a cost of $148,01 L This eight' miles
missing link is now the only unpaved
portion of the Columbia-Greenville
highway and work is expected to be
gin at once.
The Clinton-Kinard road was the
major project before the commission
with a number of bids submitted. The
low- bid of the .8imons-Mayrant com-
: pany of Charleston, was accepted,
$148,011.
I The second bid on the project was
submitted by the Porter Constr’uction
company of Dothan, .Ala., for $149,19.>.
I The Ballenger Paving company of
I Greenville, offered the third lowest
bid for $151,000. The Claussen Law
rence company of .Augusta, bid $151,-
26:1.
I It is expected that the work of com
pleting the paved highway will be-
‘ gin imnsediately. While it is under
construction, the old link of the Mil-
j ton road from Bush river briige to
Jacobs highway at a point near Hayne
B. Workman's place, will be used as
the detour route to Clinton.