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t If Toa Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don’t Get The News Stte Olltntnn Ollirnnirle ' I • StrlTM To Be a dean News- | I paper, Complete, Newsy, | and Reliable VOLUME XXIX CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17,1929 NUMBER 42 LABOR HEADS LOOK SOUTH Federation of Labor PledRes Funds for Campaign To Be . Projected In Textile Centers. ! Toronto, Ont., Oct. 15.—Organized labor’s forces and funds were pledged today to a campaign for unionizing the South by unanimous action of the annual convention of the American F^eration of Labor. Delegates were moved to their de cision by a series of appeals relating to the situation of textile mill work ers particularly in Tennessee and North Carolina, but their action took a broad scope, directing all crafts unions to center organizers in the South in the coming year, and setting up a special fund to back the cam paign projected. Formally, the resolution presented by the United Textile Workers and adopted declared it impossible for “any single union to carry on the task,’’ cited the “cold blooded shooting down of our members by sheriffs at Marion, N. C.,” as “a challenge to the entire Artiericah labor movement,” and asked the federation to set up a spec ial committee of craft union execu tives to formulate policy and finance a general organization campaign. Thomas W. McMahon, president of the textile workers, speaking of the resolution, declared that the whole South was in readiness for such pro ceedings, and Francis Gorman, one of its vice-presidents, declared that strik ers kilM last week at Marion “died that the union might live.” Both at Marion and at Elizabethton, Tenn., Gorman asserted, disturbance is con tinuing because “employers will not live up to the agreements they have made with the textile union.” He par ticularly denied that Southern work ers had any bent toward Communism. DUTCErPROPHET GLIMPSES FUTURE DEATH CLAIMS HOOVERS LIKE MISS WILCOX DECISIVE GAME Sees First Killing Frost Late In Oc tober, Followed By Cold Winter and Abundant Rainfall. Columbia, Oct. 15.—The annual fore cast of the Dutch Weather Prophet, usually set forth around October 1, includes generally fall and winter tem peratures for the coming season and also the quantity of precipitation which may be expected throughout the physical year, which begins, ac cording to his estimate, September 22. The first killing frost will occur around the date, October 25. All indi cations point to as low temperatures during the winter of 1929-30 as have ever been experienced in this latitude. If the mercury does not descend this winter in the manner thus indicated, it will do so in the cycle which is now a part of the 30-35-year period when mild and cold winters prevail. We have emerged from the half-cycle of mild winters and are entering the other half of the cycle when cold winters will prevail. In this respect the observation of the Dutch Weather Prophet haa ex tended over a period of years which seem without doubt to prove this rule to be true. Moreover, his attention was called four years ago to an article in Harper’s Magazine which* agreed en tirely with this theory. Last winter central Europe experienced the cold est jwinter that had prevailed within 250 years, and this was forecast by a certain long-distance weather prophet whose opinion was much discounted by scientists at the time. This fore cast was wrong'by only one year, as that prophet had forecast it for the preceding winter. We are now in the triple cycle year —an even 100 years. Records avail able to the Dutch Weather Prophet show that floods qnd frosts of the years 1828 and 1829 are recurring now almost on the exact dates of those years a century ago. For instance, the Final Summons Comes To One of I President and Party Watch Athletics ROAD BOND ACT VALID Thornwell Orphanage’s Most Faithful Workers. Miss W’inifred Wilcox, matron oft Win World’s Championship. At titude Is Impartial. Supreme Court Finds Entire Act Con stitutional. Opinion Di vided 13 to 6. - Philadelphia, Oct. 14. — President Columbia, Oct. 12.—The constitu tionality of the $65,000,000 road bond the Fowler cottage tt the 'Thornwell j Hoover, attending his first game of ^ . . brphanage, passed away early Sunday :tbe world’s series, was liberal but im-'bill passed at the last session of the morning at the Lesh'infirmary where I parital in his applause. - | general assembly of South Carolina she had been ill only since Wednesday. I From the time he marched across j was established late today in an opln- 'The funeral service was held Monday I the field to his box between rows of ion handed down by the State Supreme morning at 10 o’clock in the Thornwell i blue-coated, brass-buttoned members Memorial church, after which inter-T of the Philadelphia constabulary, he ment took place in the orphanage !^l»owed the keenest interest in the pro square in the Presbyterian cemetery, ♦codings. Neither the president nor The services at the churih and grtve, Mrs. Hoover appeared to be bored at were conducted by Dr. L. R. Lynn, as- any stage of the thrilling game, sisted by Rev. S. P. Bowles. | Quite evidently trying to be thor- Miss Wilcox was in her 62nd year | oughly neutral, nevertheless the presi- bf age. In 1922 she came to the or phanage upon the recommendation of the late Rev. Dent Brannen then of Moultrie, Ga., and entered upon her position. She was assigned a group of the institution’s small boys, and her whole life and time was given to them. She was marked by faithfulness and absolute dependableness. She was a woman of strong faith and a firm be liever in prayer and ever sought to develope the prayer spirit and habit !n the boys assigned her. During the seven years she served the institution, many llittle boys came under her thoughtful and loving care, and the fine influence she exerted will be felt dent showed that he knew his baseball for never did he applaud at the wrong time. His first show of unusual interest came in the Cubs’ ’half of the second inning. Cuyler reached first after Wil son had been forced at second on his roller to the box. Suddenly Kiki dart ed toward second as Ehmke turned court. The opinion upholding the issue was written by Associate Justice John G. Stabler and was signed by thirteen members of the court en banc before whom final arguments were made on October 4. The minority dissenting opinion was by Chief Justice R. C. Watts and was signed by six members of the court. A second opinion handed down at the same time, ruled the right of Gov ernor John G. Richards to remove a sheriff from office in case .of miscon duct. The case grew out of an effort made by the governor some time ago to remove Sheriff C. P. Ballentine of LAW GROUP TO ATTACK ISSUES Flnforceinent Body Ready To Look Problems Squarely In Face. Watch Prohibition Law. for years to come upon the lives sheLthrow and dived on Cuyler to retire Andrew Fursueth, president of the , , x-,. . . Seaman's union, asserted the feder-j J.'OP'*. ation had to proceed because Georgia xere forc^ to leave their wages in the South are being used to I.7' and on the depress your wage scales in the *928, they were North.” Joseph Burke, head of the expediency. Many paper workers, offered $1,000 in be- other coincidences on the same line half of his organization, and William b® >''®ntioned Canavan of the Theatrical Mechanics, Thus it is that whije the cycle may promptly moved that the federation j touched. Miss Wilcox was bom in New York State, but had lived in the South for many years. She leaves an aged half- sister residing in Jacksonville, Fla., with a few other distant relatives scattered throughout the country. She had often expressed t^ wish that she should be buried in the place where she might die. That request was car ried out Monday when she was laid away in this city where she faithfully labored since 1922. Vocational Fair To Be Held Friday pledge $1,000,000, or 35 cents per member, “as a beginning.” Dr. Wor thy Tippy, representing the Federal Council of Churches, filed with the convention a statement of sympathy with the intended campaign in behalf of that body. arate periods of mild and severe win ters, the average is that three times during the 100-year cycle six of the two temperatures will be included. Along with low temperatures the coming winter will be included four snows which will occur in the latitude . .1 • 'south and east of the Blue Ridge in W.lham Green, in promptly naming Carolina. One of the anowa, it Burke and Canavan with others on a special fund raising committee, ex pressed the judgment that the “feder ation’s work of the last 25 years” had prepared the field. “We are going into the South be cause the workers of the South are ap' is indicated, will be unusually heavy for this section. These snows piay ush er in an early winter or their visits may not begin until near the winter solstice, December 20. However, the heaviest snows for this section occur usually m February, as does our cold At a recent meeting of the voca tional agricultural teachers of Lau rens county held in the Laurens high school building, plans and arrange ments were put into effect to hold a vocational county school fair in Lau rens on Friday, October 18, 1929. This fair will be held for the purpose of toward the mound. Ehmke wheeled Berkeley county. and ran toward first. Mr. Hoover’s' Appeal was made to the Supreme eyes snapped with excitement as the fleet Cub outfielder was trapped among a swarm of Athletics. He smil ed at Cuyler’s twistirig efforts to ex tricate hmiself from the trap. When the burly Cochrane finally took a him, Mr. Hoover laughed. The president’s first vigorous ap plause was saved for'a feat by Woody English, the Cub shortstop, to open court and arguments were presented at an enbanc session held Oct. 5 after filing the opinion supporting the righi of the governor under the constitution, the court ordered the case of Sheriff Ballentine to the circuit court for trial on its merits. In support of the road bond bill the opinion stated it was the judgment of the court that the action in question, “including all of its articles, sections, provisions, sentences and clauses be Washington, Oct. 15.—The law en-’ forcement commission has decided to face squarely the problem presented by lawlessness of government officers in enforcing prohibition and other laws, and announced today the ap- Ipointment of two additional experts to make an inquiry to that end. They are Professor Zechariah Cha- ‘fee of the Harvard Law school, and Walter N. Pollock of New York city. A lawyer. Pollock served as special assistant to the attorney general in the prosecution of Nicky Amstein for bond thefts. ' Aside from the brief announcement at the end of its session today that they would probe into “lawlessness by government law enforcing o££i=- cers,” the commission revealed no de- th. third. Dyke, drove . short fly be- ,, ^V^^y decl.r«l eonrtitution.1 tween short snd center, apparently a „,nd and of full force and effect.' safe hit. English captured the ball on the dead run, while dashing backward. Turning to Mrs. Harry A. Mackey, wife of the mayor of Philadelphia, Mr. Hoover remarked: “That was good.” Mr. Hoover arose to stretch for the Cubs in the first half of the seventh inning when they did not need it, and repeated the rite with the Athletics in their half of the seventh when they seemed to need support in the most serious way. Local Man In conclusion the court ordered that the injunction prayed for by certain citizens that the governor and state officials be restrained from issuing the bondss be denied and the petition dismissed. Those members of the state judi ciary to sign the opinion without res ervation, besides Justice Stabler, were Associate Justice Jesse F. Carter and Judges John S. Wilson, S. W. G. Shipp, T. S. Sease, H. F. Rice, Thomas J. Mauldin, J. Henry Johnson, W. H. Grimball, E. C. Dennis and C. J. Ram- age. Loses Mother! Doubt as to the constitutionality of j the state unit plan of the road bond Barksdale, Oct. 13. — Mrs. C. Judges C. C. Featherstone and XX,,.. rut. t/xx T»xt. Tx..x.nr.<.t> Fraoks of Burksdale, di|ed at hcr homo noted that “yielding to allowing all stiidant* whn t'akp airri ^ Sunday afternoon at 4:40 o’clock af-j^^® opinion of our brethren we resolve al owing all students who take agn-; several weeks. She | ^^o^bt in favor of the constitution- was the wife of the late Charles; Franks. j dissenting opinion written by Funeral services were held Monday' Chief Justice R. C. Watts, was signed afternoon at 4 o’clock at W'arrior by Associate Justices T. P. Coth- pealing for it,” he said, “and not at jest weather. Two of the coldest peri- the behest of Northern employers orjods within the 100-year period were But the workers there must ^ February 12, 183?, when the mercury anyone remember that they must follow the royal road of self-dependence to achieve the organization that exists in the North. They cannot merely call dropped to 10 degrees below zero in Newberry county, and February 14, 1899, when it went to eight degrees below with a snow storm pre- a strike and then look for the bread j veiling which began Friday, Febru- waigon from the North. But we can jo, and did not cease until Mbn- fumish the spirit and the organizers.”'<j^y February 13. culture in the county and who are members of the Future Palmetto Farmers organization to exhibit their farm products. It is already under stood by the boys that some valuable prizes will be offered for the various farm crops as well as livestock which are listed in the contest. Most of the prizes will be awarded on a basis of economic production, complete record and an essay in certain instances. There are more than 100 farm boys j taking agriculture in the county who belong to an organization known as the Future Farmers of Laurens coun ty. Inasmuch as this 'is the first at tempt by this organization to put on a fair the little farmers seem to be highly enthused over the idea of pro- Ipoting such an enterprise. Creek Baptist church in Laurens coun ty, conducted by the Rev. Bragg, pas tor. She is survived by the following children: C. A. Franks of Greenville, J. H. Franks of Whitmire, W. H. ran, Eugene S. Blease and Judges J. K. Henry, M. L, Bonham and W. H. Townsend. The road bond bill, providing for issuance of $65,000,000 worth of bonds for the completion within a period of about four years of the entire state tails of the work to be undertaken. It is known, however, that this most re cent phase of its work begun at the direction of President Hoover is con sidered vital by members of the com mission. Pollack left New York tonight for a conference with Chafee at Cambridge, Mass., and the commission said they would be busy tomorrow “blocking out the inquiry which has been assign ed to them.” Various committees of the commis sion will be at work on other phases Here at the same time. The entire group will not meet again until Thurs day. While their work is not restricted to prohibition enforcement. Pollack and Chafee doubtless will go thorough ly into phases of that situation. 'The doings of dry agents, the coast guard and border patrols doubtless will be scanned with a view to ascertaining how much and often, if at all, lawless ness’ has been indulged in to enforce the Volstead act. The commission has yet to select an expert to assist in investigation of the general subject of prohibition, which I it made one devision of its field of in quiry. The two experts named today were the only ones selected to work together on any one of the 11 divis ions mapped out for study. Conferring continuously from early morning until late today, the commis sioners were said to have discussed several of the divisions of their ta-k, jbut no information was given as to the character of their deliberations. Besides prohibition, there remain the subdivisions of penal institutions, “probation and parole; juvenile delin- i^uency; and the cost of crime, for which expert assistance has not yet been secured. Margaret. Bowens a Tennessee mill worker, was one of the speakers, as were Gertrude McNally and Mailda Lindsay, both associated with the fed eral women’s orgranization. Women rp^akers stressed the assertion that Abundant precipitation will prevail again throughout the year 1930. How ever, the repetition conditions like 1928-29 so far need not be expected. Favorable seasons for crops may be expected for the season of 1930 with Prominent Visitor Speaks Here Today while mill workers had begun the cry i no serious dry periods, toit labor organization, there was a j Additional forecasts as to the spe- siihilaT demand from workers of all Icific temperatures and dates of precip- crhfts and localities. Terms o| the res- itation for the year are postponed to oldtion lett the selection of the or-1 a future date. ganization committee to the federa-1 tion’s executive board. i MASONS TO MEET Special preparations were made by the convention today for its reception j Campbell lodge No. 44, A. F. M., tomorrow of Ramsay MacDonald, la- j will hold its regular meeting Friday bor premier of Great Britain. Presi- j ni*ght at 7:36 in the Masonic temple, dent Green appointed a reception com-1 All members are urged to be present. mrttee headed by John L. Lewis, presi- j dent of the United Mine W&rkers, to James M. Lynch of Florence, will be the guest of the local Kiwanis club this evening at eight o’clock at its rgeular iluncheon-meeting at Hotel Clinton. The program committee in charge of tonight’s meeting is mak ing a special effort to greet the dis tinguished visitor with a one hundred per cent attendance. ’Kiwanian Lynch is well known in the Carolinas. He is a past district governor in Kiwanis, and at present is chairman of the International com mittee on Club Extension. He will be most cordially received upon his first visit here for an address. bring the premier before the gather-1 ing. Business will be laid aside for the j morning, though Matthew Woll, chair-1 man of the resolutions committee, has teady a report incorporating several. bf the more contentious points await- i ing decision. . . j P. C. Students Get Holiday Friday Tomorrow will be a holiday for the college student body following an es tablished custom of giving one holi day during the football season, the students by popular vote being al-1 lowed to choose the date preferred. The P. C.-Carolina game was selectedf. by a large majority last week and it is expected that practically the entire student body will go to Columbia to morrow to be present when the game is called at 3 o’clock on Melton field. Qtite a large contingent of Clinton- ians will also journey down for the game. OUR CLASSIFIED COLUMNS Ar€ Open To You At Only Ic Per Word Minimum 25c These little want advs bring results. Try one if you want to buy or sell something. THE CHRONICLE ‘The Paper Everybody Reads” Franks of Clinton, Mrs. D. E. Toddirr„“ V u u of Barksdale, Mrs. J. L. Riddle of' S , r.** ‘’*1^ ‘if Laurens. Mrs. C. D. Snoddy of Green-1 f n*"*- Ville, Mrs. W. H. Clement of Chicago,the measure went to Governor and Maurice Franks of Barksdale: j '***“ also one sister Miss Marv Kennedy ' * *<> Prevent the of Barksdale ’ " " ^ Kennedy, offiei,,, PULPIT EXCHANGE FOR P. C. DRIVE issuing the bonds. Grounds were that the act was unconstitutional in that BU9in6SS l^Ck-S • i "matter not been submitted to »-r Y Iky 1 'the people for a vote.' Up in -WCWDOrrj | in April the Supreme court heard I lengthy arguments as to the constitu- New1)erry, Oct. 12.—Business in all! tionality of the act and the matter lines took on a brighter look here to-! was then held pending until August day when around $70,000 was paid to 30, when a session en banc was order- farmers for cotton brought to the Newberry markets today and yester day. Around 750 bales were brought tober 4. ed by the chief justice and the date for hearing the argument set for Oc- in today and 300 yesterday, making one thousand for the two days. The The act declared constitutional t*»- day, provides that not more than $20,- Mrs. T. J. Peake has as her guest, her mother, Mrs. Duskin. two cotton weighers agreed that this.000,000 worth of bonds be issued in was by far the best day since 1920, inny one year. A companion measure nine years ago. Joy and happiness j to the act passed at the same time, reigned in the hearts of the farmers ; provides for a tax of six cents on gas- as wagons, trucks, and automobiles ' oline, one cent to go to the counties filed in line for their turn at the plat-j for the construction and maintenance form. The fleecy staple ranged in of county roads, and five cents to the price from 17 to 19 1-3 cents per state highway department for retire- pound. The merchants of the city saw' ment of the road bonds. an increase in business as the day | petitions contesting the proj^essed and one merchant sa'd at midday his business doubied that of „ ^^ose of the state of South Caro- last Saturday. .... j g p^itiooer. BLUE STOCKINGS WORK HARD FOR CAROLINA GAME FRIDAY j After nearly four days of rest the 'Blue Stockings are now down to hard jwork in preparation for the Carolina igame to be plpyed in Columbia tomor row afternoon. The much needed rest has helped the squad very much and the bruises received in the Furman ^game are about well. The team has I been through light work-outs and is now working with determination for the Gamecocks. A scrimmage was held j yesterday afternoon and light prac- i tice will be thq order for this after- ' noon. The team is strengthened by the ■ return of Captain Beckman to the lineup. Since 1917 Carolina and P. C. have tnet in ten games with Carolina win ning seven and P. C. three. The Pres byterians are therefore working to make the count one more in their fa vor and the Gamecocks will have to work hard if they beat the Presbyte rians. Following are the 'past scores of Carolina-P. C. games: 1917— P. C. 20, Carolina 14. 1918— no game. 1919— P. C. 6, Carolina 0. 1920— P. C. 0, Carolina 14. 1921— P. C. 0, Carolina 34. 1922— P. C. 0, Carolina 6. 1923— P. C. 7, Carolina 3. 1924— P. C. 0, Carolina .34. 1925— P. C. 0, Carolina 21. 1926— no game. ' ^ 1927— no game.’^ I 1928—P. C. 0, Carolina 13. against C. P. Moorer, et al, respond ent; the State of South Carolina, ex 'rel, Clarence Richards, against C. P. Moorer, et al; and Clarence L. John son, et al, against the State Highway comrnission of South Carolina, John G. Richards, et al. “Presbyterian College Sunday” To Be ObMrved Throughout the State On October 27th. An exchange of pulpits for the pur pose of stressii^ the importance of the Presbyterian college $350,060 pro gram of deliverance is being arranged throughout the Presbyterian Synod of I South Carolina. The pulpit-exchange will take place generally on Sunday, October 27, a day to be observed as “P. C. Sunday.” That day will find the majority of the i ministers in strange pulpits, setting j forth the value of the college to the church and the urgent need for rais ing the $350,000 fund at this time to pay off the institution’s indebtedness, j Dr. Henry Wade DuBose of Spar tanburg, chairman, and Dr. F, D. Jones :of this city, associate Chairman of the j speakers bureau, are cooperating with I other leaders of the campaign in ar ranging for the exchange. Most of the ministers have already agreed to the arrangement. I In the meantime the group chair men and their associates, named this week, are busy obtaining chairmen for the various churches in their respec tive groups. GENERAL FOO'FBALL STANDING Swimming Pool Almost Completed Only a few days now and the hand- 'some swimming pool under construc- 1 W L T Pts Op. Clemson . 4 0 0 152 21 Citadel . .. .... 2 1 0 84 13 Carolina 2 1 0 52 19 Presbyterian . o ... M 1 0 ♦21 12 Erskine 2 9 0 58 ♦59 Furman 2 2 0 38 53 Wofford .. 1 2 0 ♦32 31 Newberry . -0 3 1 0 •129 * Includes score of one safety. tion at Presbyterian college will be completed, and spring-boards will be swinging heavy under the weight of husky swimmers. The last phase of the construction, the bottom tiling, is fast nearing completion. 'The pool, the generous gift of Colonel Leroy Springs, w^ill complete the only miss ing unit of the magnificent gymnasi um and will rank as one of the finest in the South. STATE RACE Furman Clemson Citadel Carolina Erskine Presbyterian ... N iew^rry W L Pts Op. 2 0 31 6 1 0 68 0 1 0 59 0 1 0 26 7 1 2 31 59 0 1 0 12 a 1 14 18 0 2 0 *> ... ri* -