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If You Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE You Don’t Get ' The News Ehi Ollttttnn Ollirtmirl? : THE CHRONICLE • 9 I Strives To Be a Clean Newt-. ; S paper. Complete, Newsy, Z : and ReUable VOLUME XXIX • . CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1929 NUMBER 37 rni I FCF nPFN^ synod to MEET CLUB CONSIDERS | VV/l^L.i:<Ui:. v/ri:.110 l in ANDERSON! SEVERAL MATTERS ^ t NEW SESSION Large Freshman Class Enrolled At Presbyterian With Special Exercises for New Men. Presbyterians To Hold Annual Session i Chamber of Commerce to Sponsor Sept. 24-26. Prominent Speak- Charity Organization for City’s ers To Be Heard. Needy and Destitute Cases. Anderson, Sept. 8. — The Electric City looks forward with interest to jthe approaching meeting of the Syn- With an increase of more than fifty, pf South Carolina, which will hold its annual session here September 24- 26. The meeting will be held in the <5# w Pr per cent in its freshman class, Pres byterian college began its forty-ninth session on Tuesday evening. The ma triculation of first year men was one of the largest in the institution’s his tory with the enrollment yet incom plete. Upperclassmen will begin Re porting this morning with class, room work for the freshmen starting Fri day and the other classes on Saturday. 'Several of the old students, mem bers of the Y. M. C. A. and student council, arrived Monday to assist the college authorities in extending the “glad hand” to the new students and assisting in adapting them to their new environment. It will be the latter part of the week before the enroll ment will be completed an'd the final matriculation announced for the new i year’s work just entered upon. First Presbyterian church, of which The September meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held Tues day evening in the club rooms with President C. F. Winn presiding and an enjoyable dinner served by the local C. D. C. chapter. Capt. Robert E. Wysor, recently So7ne Potatoes! Dr. R. F. Kirkpatrick is pastor, and stationed here as the commanding will bring together 200 or more minis ters and elders of the Presbyterian church from all over the state. Attending this session also, will be Dr. H.* H. Sweets of Louisville, Ky., secretary of the committee on educa tion for the ministry; Dr. John L. head of the R. 0. T. C. unit at Presby terian college, was a guest of the club and expressed his pleasure in being, assigned to Clinton. J. B. Parrott called to the club’s at tention, an effort that is to be made on Oct. 4th by the Southern Bell Tele- COLLEGE BEGINS IC A QTONIA MHR STATE DRIVE KIDNAPS THREE E. Hentchcl of Pierce, Mo., and his armful of giant Burbank pota toes, some of which are twenty inches in diameter. State-Wide “Organization of Deliver ance” Launched to Raise $350,- 000 for Debt Fund. Presbyt^ian college will launch at I once a program of deliverance design- jed to clear away its indebtedness and 1 thus place itself upon a solid founda- i tion for future development, it was announced this week by Rev. John Mc- Sween, president of the college. The goal of the campaign will be $350,000, and the program will be a state-wide one. Decision to conduct the campaign was reached by the board of trustees after a careful con sideration of the situation in which the college finds itself, it was pointed out by Mr. McSween. Men Are Flogfued By Anti-Red Mcb and Then Dumped Into Road Fifty Miles From Scene. Fairly of Richmond, Va., secretary of: pljone company to increase its long religious education; Dr. S. L. Morris,; distance rates in a radius of 100 miles, of Atlanta, secretary of home mis-1 The matter is to go before the rail- sions, and a number of others, out-; road commission for consideration and standing denominational leaders in the I he asked the club to go on record as church. I opposing any increases in present Dr. Kirkpatrick, pastor of the First j rates. The following motion on the Presbyterian church, announces tha* | question was unanimously adopted:] . , plans for the entertainment of the vis-j “That the Chamber of Commerce of .Meeting of building and Loan CITIZENS CLOSES SPLENDID YEAR itors are rapidly shaping up and that j Clinton go on record as opposing any Last night" the new students assem- of the arrangements the Fir^tj change in the present rates of the bled in the college chapel where Rev. John McSween, president of the col lege, delivered his annual address. Freshman Schedule Tuesday and yester'day were given over to the netv students. The program carried out for their orientation was as follows: Tuesday 1 to 6 P. M.—Business manager’s office. Administration building: As signment of rooms. 6:30 P. M.—Judd hall: Supper. church is being generously assisted by the Central church on North Main street, Rev. Joe Carter, pastor. An invitation has been extended the sgnod by Dr. E. W. Sikes to visit Clemson college and be present at the chapel hour, and it is probable that the body will attend. In this event the synod will be the guests of the Clem son college Presbyterian church at luncheon, and hold its afternoon ses sion there. The Woman’s auxiliary of the First 7’:30 P. M.-College chapel. Admin-l^esbyterian church plans to serve a istration building: Music by college quartette. fried chicken dinner Thursday under the trees on the church lawn, to which YelU and songs fed by college cheer »» members of the First church will be invited. An invitation has also been extended to all Presbyterians of the leaders. Short talks by Coaches Walter A. Johnson and L. S* McMillian. Wednesday 8:30 A. M.—College chapel: Devotional exercises. Introduction of faculty. Introduction of Clinton ministers; Rev. Edward Long, Baptist. Rev. O. M. Abney, Methodist. Rev. L. Ross Lynn, D. D., Thornwell Memorial Presbyterian. Rev. D. J. Woods, D. D., First Pres byterian. 9:30 A. M.—Class rooms; Adminis tration building: Psychological tests. 1:00 P. M.—Judd hall: Dinner. 2:00 P. M.—College chapel: The Freshman Curriculum — Prof. M. W. Brown; • Intsructions for registering. county to bring their dinner and dine with the synod. It is a happy coincidence that dur ing the week of the meeting of the synod the First church will pass its 92nd anniversary,, which will be ap propriately noted during the session. Southern Bell Telephone company and that a letter be forwarded the rail road commission advising it of the club’s attitude.” R. W. Wade, chairman of the Lau rens County Natural Resources com mission, spoke of the contemplated work of the newly created organiza tion and asked the cooperation of the club. He stated that an effort will be madeto create cooperative canneries and to give attention to both the sell- Stockholder.s Held. All Officers Are Re-elected. The annual stockholders meeting of the Citizens Building and Loan associ ations of this city, was held Thursday afternoon in the secretary’s office at the First National bank. The meeting was presided over by President A. V. Martin with a majority of the stock holders represented either in person or by proxy. The first business before the meet ing was the reading of the financial re port for the year by Secretary-Treas- Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 10.—One man kidnapeJ and flogged, two others Jcid- naped and a quantity of Communistic literature destroyed was the net re sult of a parade of Gastonians start ing out yesterday as a patriotic dem onstration and winding up ill raids on National Textile Workers Union hsad- quarters in Gastonia and Bessemer City and the international labor de fense headquarters in Charlotte. The kidnaped men were dumped be- An “Organization of Deliverance” i side a country road 50 miles from the will be formed throughout the Pres-1 place where they were seized and only byterian church in the eight Presby-! made their way back to Charlotti,nine teries of the S>mod of South Carolina, j hours later. Their appearance in a po- The synod has been divided into | lice station at Concord, N. C., early three zones and each zone is to be today and return to Charlotte this headed by a chairman. The first zone | morning was the first word that any will include the Piedmont, South Caro-j person had been .attacked by the lina and Congaree presbyteries. In the j crowd. second zone will be Enoree and Bethel j Today there was no official ivcird presbyteries. The third zone will in-jin any of the places visited by the elude Pee Dee, Harmony and Charles- mob that there had been any disorders, ton presbyteries. ' j Police blotters in Charlotte, Gastonia “Wo are calling this a ‘Program of and Bessemer City failed to show any Deliverance’ because we hope through record of'there having been any trou- ing and buying of vegetables. The | elub voted an appropriation of $50 to “‘J”" ■" '"“'’7' v assist in the work as to be undertaken Ij*' 0 868.69, and a tabu- lated sheet of all stock held in the by the county commission. B. M. Arrington called to club’s at tention the need of a ffoliceman being stationed at the Florida street cross ing at the school opening hour in the morning and closing period in the af ternoon, to direct the small children and give protection in crossing the seventeen series now running showed substantial profits accrueir Series “N” beginning on April 15, 1923, was an nounced to mature with this month’s payment, and on Oct. 5th $74,700 will be distributed among its shareholders. This series has matured on time with- this movement to deliver Presbyterian college from the burden of debt which has been hindering its progress to some extent,” said Mr. McSween in his announcement concerning ihe ap peal. “This program also will deliver ih? Presbyterians of South Carolina to a' ble. The only information came from eye witnesses who saw the mob, al though in Charlotte, police and depu ty sheriffs doubled the guard outside the county jail where 13 men accused of the murder of 0. F. Aderholt, chief of police of Gastonia, are held. After J. G. Campbell, a juror, had great extent from the burden of an-1 suddenly become insane causing a halt nually providing for the payment of | trial of sixteen Gastonia tex- interest on the debt and annuail> pro-|^’^^ strikers and strike leaders on viding maintenance funds for the col- murder, it was reported in lege. It is to be truly a progiani of. & counter movement was deliverance.” | formed with the avowed intention of Work of organizing the forces for, up the meeting at which So- the campaign now is proceeding, 1^^*® Melvin, Amy Schecter and V’era throughout the synod. Each presby-1 ^uch, New York Communists and de- tery is to have a chairman, and each, ^^udants in the murder case, were re presbytery will be divided into groups, .'^tending to speak. The meet- Death Claims Little Girl Little Sarah Louise Leake, attrac- .tive three-year-old daughter of Mr railroad and from ^he heavy automo-‘ ' | ing failed to materialize. Then the bile traffic. A motion was adopted j ^"®. j \ * m i r fv, n u i paia e turned into ,a mob and started 1- n 1 * • ft- 'amine the books and assets of the as-1 Members of the college boarJ of/. ., ^ • asking City Council to assign an offi-1 . ai.vi aootvo • .u • , , for the old Boyce home in Gaston'.a. o 1. ♦^‘ustees and other campaign leaders' , • . , . , where the Communist and union have there. icer regularly to this w j school year. wvV I sociation, reported that its work had trustees and other campaign ork during the i , . , n . u o . l ..v,*. v..v v .mu bevn completed an! every ,tera and w.11 meet here .Sep ember 17 to d,»cus» TKe need of a local charity orRani-’ "fkanizatton of the proK.ain. l ^ zation in the city, to handle cases of j s^utement. . yv • Plans also are being made for a destroyed a ijuantity of lit- distress and need was brough to the! announced t at t e itizens ^leat rally of the general commiltctv Some of the men, none of club’s attention by several members, i completec twent.v jeais o to be held at the college on P riday, i recognized, were reported It was pointed out that there is now! ^ ® tohimunitj an w. October 4, the day of the Mercei- have wanted to burn the house bu. and Mrs. T. J. I^ake of this city, died | no Associated Charities agency in the ®P^u its anniversarj senes on . . Prcsln'terian football game. 'saner men prevented this. They then in a Saluda, N. C., hospital last Wed-jeommunity to aid in charity cases, two uf whic time a .‘-pecia — . v.cnt to I’essemer (-’4y and ran^a.-kei nesday after a critical illness of only! of which exist at present. Several i "® "^^de to enlist every present ^i^rwvp/^'vr OUT’ union hea.'.quar.tr.s there unH vvmnmn I Stockholder. 1 UIN U L/ I F'ollowing the consideration of the a week’s duration. The body was | spoke on the question and the opinion brought here for burial and the fu-iwas unanimous that the community 3:00-6:00 P. M.-Class rooms: Con-j"'™' service _condu^cted_ Thursday af-.was negligent in assuming its part j "^X^Lrs'’was‘^e-elecl ed‘’’to serve ferenccB with facultv and registration, j^®'^- and this responsibility. i, ^ * at nf »■ Rev. Edward Long. Interment follow- j a motion was* offerel and unani-|.^®^ the ensuing Y^ar. R. L. Bailey. M. J. McFadJen, E. G. tearing up litc'rature. AT 14,825,000 BALES I'lom Bessemer City the proce's- — j sion started for Charlotte, some of the 6:30 P. M.—College chapel: Welcome address from Rotary, Ki- wanis and Chamber of Commerce. Address: President McSween. n>u t ^ ^®®.'’ 'to many, all of whom learned witli'to sympathetically handle the whole The faculty for the year is now com-1 passing. ed in Rosemont cemetery. The pall bearers were: Charles Copeland, Jack Adair, Ernest Gault and Joe Williams. The little girl had endeared herself mously adopted, calling upon the club to sponsor the organization of a char ity organization in the city to enlist Soulli Carolina’s Yield To Go Beyond nien asserting they intended to “get" .Million .Mark. Condition Above Tom P. Jimison, chief attorney fur the Average for Country. Oien and women accused of the Ader- V J lA c- T' kki 'T n r loTvvi Washington, Sept. 9.—A cotton crop holt murder. They came to Charlotte n \ A nrr 1 v ^f 14,825,00 bales this year was an-1 and .staged a demonstration in the Fuller, W. W. Harris, W. A. Moor- • WJ VA «•« VAAV. VAVJ fc-V VAAAAOW H R H R H O ' S “A ^ UOlCO tlllS J C tt 1 W tt S Clll* I « * • VI «-< k O V \ J C» VI XT i 1 I VT i I ^ t 1 <1 V i U I I I4I I * members with small annual dues and ^ 1. p ‘ inounced today by the department of court around which Jimison’s office plete and is as follows: President—Rev. John McSween. Vice-.Pre8ident and Professor of Greek and French—Dr. A. E. Spencer. Professor of Mathematics—Prof. A. V Martin. Professor of Latin and German— Prof. Bothwell Graham, Jr. Professor of English—Dr. M. G. Woodworth. Professor of Bible and Religion— Dr. D. J. Brimm. Professor of Ekonomics and Soci ology—Dr. J. B. Kennedy. R. S. Owens Joins Martin, president; R. L. Bailey, vice president; agriculture as indicated from the con- an 1 that of the Ipternational Labor question of charity work. The matter Presioeni; B. H. Boyd, secretary- September 1, defense are located. It is reported but was nut in thp hands nf t.hp Moral: reasurer. ^an commi e^ . ■ ^ ; which was 55.4 per cent of a normal. ! not verified that the men majg a *** ® . . o .| acreage left on September 1 for search of hotels in which Communists lharvest (in thousands of acres), .the and officials-of various organizations. was put in the hands of the Moral Welfare committee to be worked out ®y’ ^ make a city-wide appeal. The com- ljHll6y S ISHnK consists of J. H. Witherspoon, HARD PRACTICES Dr. D. J. Brimm, Joe L. ^^Carter and Robert S. jDwens of McCormiik, has ] Dr. p. p. Hicks. accepted a position as assistant cash- '‘T.l*titg\"f;^iife„t"’ u“^ Appeal Made For new duties next Monday. He is a brother of the late Wm. Bailey Ow- Needy Family ens and will fill the place made va- A needy and pathetic case in the cant by the, latter’s death. city at present is that of Mrs. Dean „ , r . tj r u IT ^ens was bopn and reared in and three little boys who reside on Professor of Chemistry ro . . ., cUntoj, ^nd for the past several years j Bell street. The mother has been down Sturgeon i condition in percentage of a normal affiliated with the Internationa! La* ti^'D U AT ^^® production (inibor defense have been staying. ^ thousands of'500-pound bales) follow: | While part of the crowd was raid- State Two Good Workouts. Freshmen Start Work Also, Under I.,onnie .McMillian. The Presbyterian Blue Stockings, had two hard practices yesterday. I The mbrning practice was taken up i with the regular exercises starting' the day, then with the backs Passing' Virginia North Carolina .... South Carolina .... urgeon. . „ , , , , has been practicing law at McCormick, j in bed for several weeks and the lit-'and the ends receiving the ball the | w- • ■ ■ Professor of Psychology and Phil- „„ native home | tie boys are the only means of sup-] practice ended. '"dSna osophy Ur. r. IL Jones^ „ 'are glad to know that he is to live port. Interested friends and City Coun-' The afternoon practice was much Professor ol unysics r. . -itjere again. icil have given aid and in all proba- harder, with scrimmage between two Pvnf p T ! ^^Ry savod the family from starva- lines, and backs trying to brealc; . , ' Children Gatherinsr orgamzationlthrough.,'niere was also a short-^kick- ^^,^^ Mexico A^niiureil^duicrilljj in the city to aid in such distress cas-! >ng practice held with part of the, Soap rappers I es. The chronicle is making an appeal'backs kicking with the other half (;;;aijfornia j for the family. The little boys, seven, iceiving and linemen tackling. All other states . The Mother’s club is sponsoring aj^ine and twelve years of age, need A drenching rain fell duringf—4be Dean and Professor of History- Prof. M. W. Brown. Professor of Biology — Dr. S. C Hays. Assistant Professor of English — Prof. H. T. Swedenberg,Jr. 'eage Con. .. 88 80 .1,873 68 2,362 63 3,851 59 .. lOH 62 . 330 77 1,105 67 3,751 59 4;il5 60 2,161 55 11,515 46 4,427 51 3,962 58 130 81 224 83 . 309 88 23 83 150 85 48 -headquarters, another section said to 942 number 15 men, kidnaped Ben Wells, 1,014 union organizer, and C. M. Lell,,and 1,193 IC. D. Saylor, union members at Gas- 26 tonia. The trio was taken to a point 190 five miles north of Concord on a lonely 462 road and there Wells was flogged, 1,216 The kidnaping party carried with' 1,669 them a gasoline torch which they set 791 up when the flogging started. But 4.107 while they were beating Wells, R. D. 1,295 , McDonald, a farmer, and a companion 1,391 who were possum hunting came up. 82 Their approach frightened the party 157 and they fled in their automobiles. 232 McDonald, today telling the story, 10 said that he.and another man were 80 hunting along Buffalo creek near son. I campaign in Clinton to collect Octa-' clothes and books in order that they last part of the afternoon but the team j California and Mexico Flowe’s store road when they heard ■oi n 1. .:>wt;uciiucxK oi. wrappers to assist in the be put in school, and the'mother i kept dragging, working hard under included in California figures three automobiles. The cars stopped Phvsical Director—Walter A. John-1 Thornwell orphanage drive now under needs nourishing food until she can Coach Johnson to build up a team and United States totals. a moment later, heard blows and way to secure an electric refrigerator I be built up and put on her feet again i fill in the vacancies. Cotton of the 1929 cron s way to secure an electric refrigerator Assistant Physical Director—Lonnie ^be Lesh Infirmary. A prize of S McMillian $2.60 has been offered to the school Librarian—Willard L. Jones Cotton of the 1929 crop ginned pri- cries. , or to September 1, was announced to- “SomeboJv’s beinir lashed let’s walk investigated, is a most needy and de- 30 men to report for his first day by the census bureau as 1,570,030 to the road” McDonald said he told and able to work. The case has been! Coach Lonnie McMitlian had around i^iorarian—YYiim.u x.. PupB bringing in the largest number | serving one. The Chronicle hopes that freshmen practice, a short snappy drill conning'bales, counting 36,894 round hjs eompanion Then his friends called ftoh " of Mliiury Sd®ce 4nd of wrapper, between now and Oct. 1st. j a "oponse bn second-hand clothin* was had and then the frosh were sent their d .^and inZUL^l^y he " > Tactics-Capt. Robert E. Wysor. U. The Mother’s club is asking the oo- ; food or anyVang else one may w.sh to the showers The fo lowing men September 1 by ping ceased and the cars drove awav. e A operation of all local housewives in to contribute, will be made. After you were present for the first practice. *. gf , ^ b. A. , g.g.i J , -11'Viotro tVsJo owwmol srr.,, v.riii Vnmir, F. .T C F RmufTt .1 F Os. siuics loiiow. Ooc of tht‘ cucs tur'ietl from *re Arizona, 1,771; main highway into the farm of Frank California, 280; Fry, McDonald said, but joined the Taylor Assistant in Military Science and Tactics—Sergeant Foster B. Parham. Registrar—Mrs. M. W. Brown. • College Physician — Dr. James W. Davis. Director of Music — Rev. Marshall C. Dendy. eorgia, 221,958; others when they fled from the scene son, R. W. Martin, N. S. Barron, Mont- Louisiana. 170,507; Mississippi, 162,- later. While he and his companion JNCW JVl3.nH^6r FOF TVinTtimn igomery, W. T. ^^dair, J. E. Stamps, 049; Okjahoma, 9,114;^ Sout h ('aroli- wore talking near the bridge, a car Roffers Store VliriS jj_ Winer, Hunt Holmes, Watson, na, 11,379; Texas, 511,719. with two men in the front seat drove r ! Back To Books Sam Clarke, "Patterson, Reid Lock- up and one of the men called to him P F c^vifiv of i.oc ov ! ' nian, B. A. Lowry, Nettles, James but did not stop where three who had ■ ” 1 ^ Tt, f 1 f vv fv, Grier and Lamar Wilson oPCClill SCrVlCCS been left were walking down the road rived in the citv and assumed the i The formal opening of W inthrop i^amar »uson. . TO TEACH AT FURMAN management of Rogers grocerv store.! college for the 1929-30 session was Mr, Smith is an experienced grocery- j held yesterday morning. Local girls (man and has been cordiaUy received i entering the institution as freshmen.j )nn( At Bethany .McDonald could not identify any of * the party, he said, because a gasoline Special .services are now being held *urch and brush hid them. The tenth grade of the Clinton high at Bet ban v Presbj-terian church near Wells, Saylor and Lell made their LYDIE LEAKE HEADS CLASS J F Bozard has returned from the since his arrival. The foi4ner mana-jleft last week while the former mem-| j . , . l *• University of Virginia where he at-, ger for the past three years, A. J. I hers of the student body took their school elected its class officers for the here with the Rev. Chas. E. Sullivan way to Concord and aske<l the police tended summer school. He and Mrs. Poole, has been transferred to Spar-1 departure Tuesday aftrenoon in mo-! 1929-30 session on Tuesday morning, pi caching twice daily. The meeting there for help. They said they could Bozard will leave next week forltanburg where he now heads one of tor buses, Clinton is well represen^^ed They are as follows: will continue through next Sunday, identify some of the crowi. "Hiey were Greenville where he will be a member! the well know Rogers districts. |at the Rock Hill institution for the I President—Lydle Leake. the hours of service being 11 a. m. and directed to the railroad station where of the Furman university faculty for the coming year in the department of English. j coming year with twenty-five stu- Vice-President—Drummond Bailey, 8 p. m. The congregation and all min- they caught a train to Charlotte. T. D. Copeland is at home from a idents. Their names appeared in last! Secretary-Treasurer — Frank Bur- i.'ters and friends in the community On their arrival in Charlotte, tha business trip to New Yo». iweek’s issue of The Chronicle. jrougha. ,are cordiaUy invited. 1 (Continued on page four)