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VOLUME XXIX-
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1929
<ITFAMFR ^INIC^ i quality service
«STORES ORGANIZE
SEVERAL DROWN
Veteran Captain and Eight of
Crew Lost In Bottom of Lake
Michigan. Terrible Exposure
Endured By Victims.
Kenosha, Wis., Oct. 29.—The Good
rich passenger and freight steamer
Wisconsin went to its doom in Lake
Michigan today seven miles off Ken
osha. Nine men, including Captain H.
Dougal Morrison, Chicago, veteran
Great Lakes skipper, are known to be
dead. Of 59 rescued 19 are in hospitals,
while 40 received succor at the police
station here. Three of four believed to
have been on the ship are unaccounted
for.
Men mad from and weakened by ex
posure, and with thejr wet clothing
clinging to them, were brought to
shore by heroic cpastguardsmen who
braved the rolling seas in fragile cut-
Clinton Independent Grocers Become
Affiliated With National Group.
Plans Going Forward.
Clinton housewives, ever anxious to
follow any program designed to offer
better service, will be given the first
opportunity within the next three or
four weeks to patronize Quality Ser
vice Stores of this city. C. R. Wood
ward, representative of this national
organization, has been in the city the
past week perfecting plans of organi
zation in connection with a Newberry
unit, with the result that several in
dependent grocery stores in Clinton
have joined the Quality Service group
and it is expected Ijbat still others will
enlist. Local officers are soon to be
elected, and the list of concerns in the
organization will be announced .
Encouraged over a success of
similar organizations throughout five
Southern states, members of the Clin
ton group believe that Clinton shop-
CHAMBER DRIVE MAY ISSUE ROAD
NEXT WEEK - BONDS ANY TIME
City’s Commercial Organization Will
Seek Enlarged Membership. Com
mittee To Make Canvass.
Threatened Opposition To Highway
Program Likely Won’t Material
ize, It Is Indicated.
CALM MARKET
ters to effect a rescue.
A week ago the Wisconsin won a'pers will find noteworthy economies
battle against a Lake Michigan gale'through dealing with members of the
but last night tho storm proved too'newly formed organization. The Clin-Carlton F. Wnin, presi-
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Next week has been designated as
“Chamber of Commerce Week’’ in
Clinton, during winch period a cam
paign will be launched for an enlarged
membership for this organization in
order to more effectively carry for
ward its work during the coming year.
Already a number of local business
and professional men are included in
its membership, but there are a great
many individuals and interests in the
community that are not affiliated with
the organization. It is to enlist, if pos
sible, the interest and support of this
class that the campaign is to be un
dertaken.
The drive is being launched under
the direction of President C. F. Winn
who has untiringly worked for the
success of the Chamber of Commerce.
Two classes of memberships will be
sought, active and associate.
The following well known local cit
izens compose the officers of the or-
much for her. Shortly after midnight
she radioed she had sprung a leak,
the pumps were*not working properly,
the hold was filling with water and
that she was in need of assistance. She
requested that tugs and steamers come
out and “stand by.”
Two coast guard cutters, one from
Racine and the other from Kenosha, re
sponded. Shortly before 5 a. m., the
first lifeboat was lowered and in a
few minutes a coast guard cutter took
its human cargo aboard. This manner
of rescue continued until five boat
loads had been taken aboard the two
cutters. The cutters were unable to
get alongside the Wisconsin because
of high seas.
With their burden of shivering hu
manity the cutters docked at the coast
guard station here and immediately
returned to stand by. In the meantime,
a Chambers Brothers fishing tug
went to the scene, arriving shortly
after the Wisconsin went down at
7:15 a. m.
ton organization as soon as details ar j
perfected, will become a member of
the Quality Service Stores of America,
Inc., a national organization perfected
to control certain copyrights used in
the group work.
The first of the Quality Service
groups was formed in Lynchburg, Va.,
fout years ago, acting as an advertis
ing display grocer group. Eighteen
months later a similar organization
was started in Roanoke and prelimi
nary work got under way for a third
group of this kind in Bluefield, W. Va.
Independent grocers were faced by
dent; Gilbert B. Blakely, vice-presi
dent; W. W. Harris, secretary; Goyne
L. Simpson, treasurer. Addtiional di
rectors: W. D. Copeland, J. F. Jacobs,
Jr., Rev. John McSween, Geo. H. Cor-
nelson and R. A. Steer.
Membership Committee
The following canvassing commit
tee will cover the entire town next
Columbia, Oct. 28.The state high
way bond program seems to be find
ing its position strcngtheneil. Farther
and farther away gets the possibility
of further legal har.vlicaps to the road
pro^am.
Governor Richards stated today that
he hopes to see the bond program taka
shape at a very early date. One by
one the opponents of the bonds nave
announced their willingnes.s to abide
by the decision of the staro's highest
court. United States Senator Cole L.
Rlease announced that he, as an at
torney for the opponents of the
bondi, would not go further with the
case. Col. W. H. Keith, member of the
house from Greenville, am. recognized
legislative leader of the opposition to
the highway progiam, indicated that
he was not in favor of a prolonged
fight, this statement following a con
ference he held with D. W. Robinson
of Columbia, and C. F. Haynesworth
of Greenville, attorneys for opponents
of the bonds.
Minister^ and Laymen of This Preaby-
tery To Attend Program for I*res-
byterian College Campaign.
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A meeting of all members of the
Presbyterian college program of de
liverance organization in the South
Carolina presbytery will be held this
evening in the First JVesbyterian
church at Greenwood.
Members of the organization from
Clinton and vicinity, as well as all oth
er parts of the presbytery, will attend
the gathering, which begins at 7
o’clock.
This will be a meeting of inspira
tion and instruction at which final
plans will be mapped out for the
South Carolina Presbyterian portion
of the campaign to raise $350,000 to
deliver the college from debt.
Joel S. Morse, of Abbeville, 'the
presbytery chairman, will preside and
a number of other leaders will be
among the speakers.
This is one of a series of group and
Presbytery" meetings being held this
week and next week throughout the
synod. The Piedmont preAytery or
ganization will meet tomorrow (Fri-
iMost Frantic Selling Yet On Ex>
change Threatens Utter Price
Collapse. All Previous Records
Pass Into Limbo.
Harold Major of Anderson, also lyilday) evening in the First Presbyterian
attorney for the opposiiion, is quoted church at Anderson.
New York, Oct. 29.—Huge barriers
of buying orders, hastily erected by
professionaP financial interests today
checked the most frantic stampede of
selling yet experienced by the securi
ties market which threatened at times
today to bring about an utter collapse
in prices.
All trading records were broken,
with a turnover of 16,410,000 shares
on the New York stock exchange and
7,096,300 shares on the New York
curb market. This contrasts with the
previous records of 12,891,MO and
6,148300 shares, respectively, estab
lished last Thursday and a st<)ck ex
change turnover of 9,212,900 shares
yesterday.
Extreme declines in the active is
sues ranged from $10 to $70 a share
but many of these were cut in half in
the rally which started in mid-after-
noon and continued through to the
close.
as saying that he will not go further
with the case. C. L. Johnson of Spar
tanburg, who was the plaintiff in tne
suit against the bond act, has been
quoted as saying that he would look
into the legal phases of the situation,
week to secure new memberships, both' but he did not express his intention of
active and associate, for the organi
zation : '
Platt Prather, general chairman, Ed
Stevens, A. E. McIntosh, R. W. Wade,
W. H. Simpson, S. W. Sumerel, A.
rapid changes in the food distribution ' 0‘Daniel, R. fe. Ferguson, Gilbert
industry, and found in the policies of
the new organization a method of ad
vertising, store arrangements and a
certain uniformity which they regard
with favor.
Officials of the organization pointed
out that housewives throughout the
states served by the Quality Service
Stores are pleased with the efficient
'services offered by their grocers, the
The Chambers picked up fifteen sur-1 new cleanliness and neatness of the
vivors, eight on one life raft, four on i stores and the store personnel, and
another and three from a lifeboat justl>»ave found it possible 'to make sub-
as it capsized. A fourth occupant ofjstantial savings through dealing with
the lifeboat was lost when the boat member stores of the Quality Service
rolled over and the crev/ of the Cha.m-
bers was unable to reach him.
organization.
Blakely, D. C. Heustess, W. A. Buch
anan, Goyne L. Simpson, J. H. With
erspoon, Geo. H, Cornelson, E, D.
Craig, Harry Wilkes, Dr. J. W. Ditvis,! preliminary details, and are making
R. A. Steer and J. F. Jacobs, Jr.
taking the case to the United States
supreme court.
Many prominent lawyers have been
quoted as saying that there is no legal
groind for an appeal of the case. It is
regarded as probable that bonds will
be issued at an early date. Governor
Richards and State Treasurer Scar
borough have conferred in regard to
i Bankers who had been hurriedly
Other meetings scheduled include called into conference last night und
Spartanburg tomorrow night, York
tonight, Lancaster next Monday, Rock
Hill next Friday, and Florence tomor
row night.
All group chairmen now have been
secured for the -campaign, while the
list of church chairmen and church
again at noon today apparently stood
aside at the opening as blocks of 10.-
000 to 80,000 shares were thrown into
the market for whatever price they
would bring. When this initial flood of
selling had spent itself, supporting or
ders l^gan to make their appearance
committee members is rapidly being Lot with the intention of completely
completed. Additional group chairmen I checking the streams of selling but
and associates follow: Piedmont group with the avowed object of regulatt?ig
County Delegation
Authorizes Loan
ready to issue the bonds, as soon as
technical details are complied with.
The request from the state highway
commission and the statements as to
the state highway revenue being suf
ficient to take care of the bonds as is-
The county delegation, in a meeting ■ expected to reach the governor
held with the county board of com-j®*’^ treasurer soon,
missioners in Laurens on last Tues-'
day, adopted a resolution authorizing
The act provides that not more |
the supervisor and treasurer to bor
row approximately $55,000 to meet
Quality Service Stores of Clinton j running expenses for the balance of
2, Rev. Frank B. Estes, Walhalla, as
sociate; Bethel group 2, Rev. T. M.
Stevenson, Kershaw, chairman; group
4, Dr. W. R. Wallace, Chester, chair
man; Charleston group 1, Frank C.
Reddick, Charleston, chairman; Rev.
T. A. Beckett, Jr., John’s Island, as
sociate; group 2, Dr. J. S. Wertz, Es-
'till, chairman; Rev. F. B. Mayes,
Beaufort, associate.
Church chairman and associates for
South Carolina presbytery include:
Whitmire, J. H. Simpson, Rev, T. C.
Bryan, associate.
Aveleigh, Newlrtffry, D. W. A. N«v-
than 20,000,000 of the $65,000,000 to- i ille. Rev. M. C. Dendy, associate,
tal can be issued in any one year. It | Owings, Johnston Hunter, Dr. F. D.
provides, however, that in lieu of the Jones, associate,
bonds the state may borrow, the note
the flow.
Several times during the day, per-
ticularly in the early afternoon -ind
again toward the close it lookiii as
though a fresh collapse in prices
bringing ruin in its wake was inevit
able, but each time the holes were
plugged and the threatened disaster
was averted.
The deluge of selling carried total
sales in the first half hour to 3,250,000
shares.
Despite the facts, the prices of
probably half of the thousand stocks
listed OB the exchange have been cj:
in half or more during the recent de
cline and that the aggi*egate decline
A life raiL oeanng eight turned and vicinity. will be painted uniform
over completely three times just be-j*" color and will be further identified
fore the men were rescued. On one of by a "Quality Service” sign at the en^
the year. About $49,000 of the 8um'^° be taken care of by proceeds of
borrowed is for the special road and j bond issues later on.
bridge fund and chain gang expenses. Governor Richards and Chairman C.
tho turnovers Chief Engineer Julius'France. Full equipment of windO'W | $2,000 for the completion of the Eden|^- Jones of the highway commission,
Bushman, of Manitowoc, Wis., lost his
hold as he fought off attempts of his
mates to pull him back on the raft.
Later his body was recovered.
On the second incoming trip the
Racine coast guard cutter brought a
cargo of 6 dead, including Captain
price tags will be provided for display toad and the remainder for such items j each other, each com
as interest, court expense, jail, sta-
tionerry and printing, and lunacy, all
of which appropriations have been ex
hausted by unexpected drains. A part
jof the $49,000, it was explained by the
Through the Quality Service idea j Supervisor, was asked for to replace
on regularly priced window displays
on exclusive Quality Service Store
merchandise. All windows of member
stores will be in charge of a local rep
resentative.^ .
mending the other for their part in
bringing about the success of the high
way bond act.
It is expected that by the end of
1930 the state will see a large part of
™ . ,in quoted values of all securities from
Thornwell MemormI, W. W. Harns,|^^^ ^,3^,
25,000,000,000 dollars, only one cas
ualty has developed among brokeraze
houses thus far. Suspension of the
Dr. L. Ross Lynn, associate.
Liberty Springs, R. A, Boyce, Rev.
F. T. McGill, associate.
Lisbon, R. L,-Young.
Mountville, B. R. Fuller.
Rocky Springs, N. J. Anderson.
Laurens First, C. F. Fleming, Rev.
E. I). Patton, associate.
Dorroh, D, L. Brooks.
Friendship, G. C. Abercrombie, Rev.
Morrison and Engineer Bushman. AIL member stores will be enabled to car-' funds'expended for repairs made after i or surface treated,
six w^re picked up floating in the ry on a complete advertising campaign "^be recent freshets,
water. Several still were alive when I from Dfeek to week. Local merchants
the newly projected highway system ,.!. L. Shannon,*associate.
New York curb exchange firm of John
J. Bell & Company, fer failure to meet
its obligations was announced shortly
after the market opened. Inasmuch as
this firm was not engaged in a gener
al commission business the failure had
no serious consequences.
On ]Vov. 12th
picked up but died from exposure en.who have been interested in organiz-! «T Nlcrllf”
route to the dock. ing the Quality Service Stores here, Uica
On its second trip the Kenosha cut-! point out that it was the purpose of
ter brought in six survivors, all alive, l-the stores to offer economies which
On their first two trips from the I would be impossible where the inde-
Wisconsin, the two cutters were loaded! pendent grocery was concerned. It is
to capacity, carrying 38 survivors.- explained, however, that each of the her of Commerce, will be held in, the
The^re were only three passengers on member stores would retain its indi-lclub. rooms on Tuesday evening, Nov.
■ viduality, offering its customers the'12th, beginning at eight o’clock. The
benefits of charge accounts and per-j banquet will be served by the mem-
SECOND SYNOD
INVITED HERE
Clinton First, A. W. Brice, Dr. D. J.' conditions . as one
Woods, associate. “>6 first measures put into effect
by bankers to calm the wave of hys-
iteria which has suddenly swept over
the holders. The call money renewal
M.
the boat. They were saved.
Facilities at the coast guard station
Presbyterian Church and Local Insti-
“Udies Wrht,” an annual social i ‘“liT
event under the auspices of the Cham-! "."L ■’ ,
It was stated m-last week s issue
of The Chronicle, that it was very!*!- F- Bradley, associate.
probable that the South Carolina Warrenton, F. W. Wilson.
Old Fields, J. Ben Hunter, Dr
G. Woodworth, associate.
Todd Memorial, L. H. Taylor.
Watts Mill, J. Elbert Templeton.
Greenwood, W. T. Watkins, Rev. J.
W. Jackson, associate.
Ninety-Six, J, C. Weir.
Upper Long Cane, J. R. Hill, Rev.
Presbyterian synod would be invited Calhoun Falls, John Gilbert, Rev.
X ^wi%**v* ^ uaiiqucL wjii ut: SCI vcu uv ine mem- t . . . IT T?
.ere taxed as the _survivors .erelsonal store and delivery service forjbirs of the local Eastern Star chap- JllrSl" I"!"?. ! ''Lowndesvihe. Alhlll'
brought ashore. They hud'dled about a i which the independent grocer has been ^ ter, headed by Mrs. A. B. Blakely,
large stove, calling for cigarettes and noted. j President C. F. Winn of the organi-
coffee, as they awaited their turn to | ‘‘The success of the Quality Service . zation, announced yesterday that
sessi(^ wklrlhe Georgia body which
two weeks ago accepted a similar in
vitation. 1
be transported to hospitals or to the Stores is based upon two fundamentals' Lieut. Gov. T. B. Butler of Gaffney, the session of |
police station. iof modem merchandising - better has accepted an invitation to deliver r*"® First Presbyterian church has I
Soon after putting out from Chi- foods and decidedly better service to the principal address of the evening, ■ y approve e i ea an . - • , l
• - ' ® extended an invitation to the synod
Lowndesville, Albert Baskin.
Mt. Carmel, M. R. White.
Willington, Albert Gilbert.
Rocky River, E. F. Gettys.
rate, ordinairly announced about 10:40
a. m., was fixed at 5 per cent, a drop
of 1 per cent below yesterday’s’ fig
ure before the market opened.
After the mid-day meeting of bank
ers, it was announced that leading
banking firms of New York had re
duced the margin requirements on
street demand loans to 25 per cent,
thereby releasing a huge volume of
credit to facilitate the financial oper
ations of stock exchange firms dur-
I ing the market crisis. Some of these
cago at 7:30 o’clock last night the Wis-Lhe public,” a member of the organi-'and there will be other features of in- v, > t i u +
consin was buffeted by the gale and nation said yesterday. “Adding these | terest. This banquet held annually ° *
for four hours it seemed, members of two salient points to the fact that the!with the members’ wives and friends . " j accepte i
- - [by the synod at its recent meeting in i
the crew said, that she would weather i public is getting economic values they as honor guests, is always an enjoy-
the gale as she did a week ago tonight ^ have seldom been offered before, one able'event,
when the cary ferry Milwaukee was can see why the independent grocer j
sunk with its fifty men just a few identified as a Quality Service Store ] K 4- * T’
miles from the scene of today’s disas- jg more than holding his own in the i ^FCSuy iGnSnS AO
ters. bitter competition marking today’s! HcHT Df* OrGCft
Nearing Kenosha the boat sprang a food distribution field.”
leak and the incoming water washed | Member stores of the Clinton group
Anderson, and it is stated by those in a |
position to know, that the Clinton "bid:
jwill in all probability be accepted.
Abbeville, Dr. E. L. Power, Rev. g. 1’’^^uirements previously ran as high
as 40 per cent. F. B. Keech and com-
' pany, one of the large commission
huoses, also announced a reduction in
the margin requirements demanded of
its cu.stomers to 25 per cent on the
theory that current price levels were
Sufficiently attractive to warrant such
action.
Wall Street attributed the dumping
of huge blocks of stocks at the open-
Donald.s, J. M. Campbell.
Bethia, J. L. Pettigrew.
Due West, W. S. Jordan.
Hopewell, Troy, Lewis Leslie.
Lebanon, Abbeville, C, S. Evans.
Antreville, James T. Erwin.
i The coming of the two synods wilL^; • oxi
be of inestimable value to their two ' v/Cl* Olll
intstitutions located here. It is expect-i OVCF NlIlC MilHoil forced liquidation by large op
ed that the Georgia visitors will be |erators, who were no longer able to
Dr. J. B. Green, member of the Co^i entertained on the orphanage campus, rw,.* ox, xx x, x,.. protect their rapidly dwindling ac-
Washington, Oct. 26.—Cotton of the
counts after having amassed paper
the^Uerpu^mps'^whlch w"ete^soon local shoppers will wel-jlumbia seminary faculty of Atlanta,'while the South Carolina delegates 1929 crops ginned prior to Oct 18th * ,
the bilge pumps wh c we . the opportunity to deal with j will occupy the pulpit of the First will be provided for at the college and i ^as announced tX7 bv th^ VnsuJ ^
ptemen stood in water up to their I Stores. Through an Presbyterian church next Sunday in Presbyterian homes in the city. —
Firemen extensive program of cooperative ad-!moming and evening, m the absence '
waists, shovelmg coal into the boiler ^ ^
.res, ey fjrpg member stores will be brought to , Woods. Dr. Green ia one of the promi-
posts until water put out t e . attention n't the shonnprs of this Lonf mi'nio+or-B ar,/i^ioo/,k£.»
the attention of the shoppers of thislnent ministers and vteachers of ^is de- 'South Carolina organization
It is nlanned to hold the business ses I 1 ^ bales, in- regarded as the leaders of the
Ins of the GeorgU^ f “bull” market, escaped totally
Thornwell Memorial church, and the, running balei.YnduXg 304,743 round
'section. Each of the advertisements j nomination and will be heard here'First Presbyterian church. Both syn-last year.
Df. HnyS Hospitfll win be identified through the Q. S. S.'Sunday with a great deal of pleasure, ods will unite in the evenings for in
DGiniF EnlHFfifGd announcements are soon|He Is the father of Jimmy Green of
” ® to be made by the grocers comprising j Presbyterian college, outstanding
this new organization.
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Ground has been broken within the
past few days for the enlargement of |
Dr. Hays’ hospital at the comer of OvstCF SUDOeF Bv
Hampton avenue and Woodrow street. ^ ^
J. Gary Martin, well known local con-,
tractor, has the work in charge. i , 1
The new section projecting on each On Friday evening, Nov. 1st, the
member of the varsity football team.
to hold long lines of stocks for invest
ment. And the sustained decline of the
Ginnings by states were: past week took them completely by
.Alabama 954,810; Arizona, 42,330; surprise. Sizeable fortunes have been
traders on the
Tresbyterian church. Florida, 7,785; Georgia, 843,015; ^ut these are only a drop
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Louisiana, 685,687; Mississippi, 1,352,- jn the bucket compared to the losses
D a T> XT II Missouri, 71,279; New Mexico, Asustained by stock market ‘'bulls.”
• A. At. INOW Alas 25,680; North Carolina, 227,471; Okla- Directors of the United States Steel
171,840 MembeFs homa, 511,873; South Carolina, 371,- corporation, and the American Can
’ 420; Tennessee, 212,317; Texas, 2,818,- . • .. x-/- .
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I Washington, Oct. 28.—The Daugh-
420; Tennessee, 212,317; Te.xas, supplementing the efforts of
The night school for adults began | Washington, Oct. 28.—The Daugh- ^^ s.a.tx, ^o restore confidence which
side of the present building, will be of junior department of Broad Street its second session at Academy Street ters of the American Revolution re-^ ’ ‘‘ has been badly shaken by the recent
brick veneer design and will relieve Methodist church will give an oyster school with an enrollment of thij ty ported today it now has a living mem-j *~ ' jtrash in prices today declared extra
the present crowded conditions by the supper in the Masonic temple buiHing. pupils. Muoh interest is being shown bership of 171,840 women who are TO SI’E.AK AT COLLEGE jdividends of $1 each on their common
addition 6f ten new wards. The bps- The proceeds from the undertaking in the work and a very successful ses-, lineal descendants of soldiers of the
pital is now well furnished, modernly will go to the piano fund of this de-,sion is expected. Last year the wPrk Revolutionary war. Since its creation
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stocks, in addition to the re|pilar
Thomas W. Lingle of Davidson quarterly payments. These special dis-
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