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^laByatgMMwyagigwpiiMpp m u^«ia|BgyTgra»wii ’. '. / “' s ' : ^ • .;■ .■; /. t A\ If Ton Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE You Don’t Get The , ^ News. | Woe dttttttnn ■WfSIWW ni'.wwjjiiffTfi/iirfwwiya^w %»'it'y**' ' t! \ ■ e THE CHRONICLE Stritee To Be a Clean News* paper. Complete, Newsy and Reliable. VOLUME XXV CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1925 NUMBER 8 i MAKES AND CAVE PERMANENT TOMB OF FLOYD COLLINS Body Will Lie Forever In Its Natural Tomb Sixty Feet Under Ground. Family Chooses Resting Place to Spare Rescue Workers Further Risk. COLLINS Alt LAST FOOD FEBRUARY 4 h. Cave City, Ky., Feb. 17.—On the hill above Sand cave this afternoon his family and friends held funeral services for Floyd Collins. There was no casket, no corpse, no grave and no marker. Sixty feet underground in the Sand cave trap which closed upon him 18 days ago, lay the body of Collins, dis covered a few days ago by the res cuers. Rather than risk the lives of any of the tireless volunteers, his fam ily chose to leave him in the cave for his last sleep. Physicians, his friends and officials of the rescue party crept down into his narrow tomb today to gather the legal evidence that Floyd Collins was buried there and that he was dead. None of the family could take a last look, but the thought that Collins would have chosen such a spot, among His beloved caves, comforted them. Mr. and Mrs. Collins were there, silent in the last earthly rites for their • son. The aged couple sat side by side j in small chairs near the edge of the< limestone ledge under which Sand! cave disappears. Behind them, grouped on large boul ders overlooking the valley below, were a dozen members of a choir gathered from among residents of Cave City. Mr. and Mrs. Collins lis tened With bowed heads while strains of “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” drift ed over the hill as the'service opened. The aged father looked often to ward the mouth of Sand cave 125 feet away as the words, “Like the Wan derer, the Sun Goes Down,” floated away in the distance. Sand cave, nak ed in the absence of its sheltering canopy, yawned silently. The Rev. Roy H. Bizer, of Glasgow, a neighboring community, climbed to a stump to open a scriptural service and a motion picture camera started to whirr. At the outer fringe of the group stood a sentinel with his rifle. Huge rocks were the benches of the outdoor chapel. Men vMio had spent days in The struggle, unshaved and muddy in Ap pearance, bared their heads in the chilling breeze. The prayer was of fered. The little gathering of 150 men and women heard the Rev. Mr. Bizer tell^them they were “standing on this precipice in the midst of death” and listened to him give thanks “for the brotherhood of man, as mani fested by those who have risked their lives on this site.” Mental comfort for the Collins fam ily was besought and then Mrs. Ira D. Weathers, of Cave City, sang a solo. Newspaper telephones, but recently installed all over the hillside, rang un answered from various tree stations. A.soft wind rustled the dried brown leaves and carried the song off down the valley. The story of Floyd Collins, uncer tain in its outcome, uncertain even from day to day, the Rev. Mr. Bizer referred to as paralelling the romance of mankind itself. No other incident within memory, he said, had brought so many prayers from the brother hood of man for one fellow man trap ped under ground. “Floyd loved the caverns and the caves; loved them as some of us love flowers and the birds,” he said. “Now he is enshrined in his sarcophagus of stone where his body lies in peace.” “It was Floyd’s wish to be buried in a cave,” the speaker added, and then related a dream which Mr. Collins said his son had recently experienced, a dream that angels came and took him away from a cave where he was im prisoned. Heroic deeds have laid a permanent monument for the whole country in the exhibition of courage and stamina revealed for 18 days at Sand irtve,” the Rev. C. K. Dickey of Horsa Cave said. He supplemented the Rev. Mr. Bizer’s statement that the spot for ever would be sacred to the memory of him who had called forth so much loving kindness. J. F. Van Cleve, of Glasgow, spoke in a voice so low that the trickling of Water down om the opposite hillside only emphasized the solemnity of the occasion. Faint clicks from cameras were audible as Van Cleve told softly of how men emerging from the rescue shaft had dropped like dead on their cots night after (fight. The remainder was short, the Rev. Mr. Dickey conducted" the commital and A. F. Pearson, a Glasgow under taker, dropped a piece of ash, a tiny fluttering fern and a bit of earth as Floyd’s unseen remains were commit ted to his Maker. Fifty-five minutes had elapsed when the final “amen” brought the*closing of the service. Such was the last hour of spiritual tribute to Floyd Col lins. A few more hours and his body will have been sealed in its iomb deep in the earth below. A block of con- cvete will be permitted to solidify in the lateral, leading- from the rescue t Lay Trapped Twenty-four Hours Be fore Cries Were Heard. Caught . On January 30. y Cave City, Ky., Feb. 16.—Floyd Col lins was trapped in Sand Cave at 10 o’clock Friday morning, January 30, by the fall of a boulder Upon his foot. His plight remained undiscovered for twenty-four hours, until on Saturday, Jewell Estis, a yputhful neighbor of Collins, chanced to hear his cries for help. Then began the strenuous at tempts at rescue, employing at vari ous times the efforts of scientific, medical and mechanical skill as well as human brain, bYawn and endur ance. Collins was exploring the tunnel of an old cavern, the front part of which had collapsed several years ago, form ing the ravine which leads up to the limestone ledge in which the mouth of Sand Cave is* located. He stated to rescuers shortly after he was discov ered that he had located a new cavern, which was more wonderful than any thing he had previously entered. The boulder fell and trapped him as he was making his way out. He once previously had been trapped for sev eral hours by a cave-in while on an exploration trip. Brothers of Floyd Collins, aided by neighbors and friends, immediately upon being notified by young Estis of the position of Floyd, began efforts to extricate *him and to provide him some comfort in his cold, dark prison. Food was taken and blankets. An electric, light bulb was placed about his neck, both to give light and heat. Each time any appreciable headway was made, a natural interference, such as a cave-in or slide of rocks, would impede progress again. Final ly, late Wednesday night a cave-in cloked the jilrrovr passageway. Collins was fed for the last time on Wednesday night, February 4, by those attempting to rescue him. Early the next day a rescue party heard for the last time his cries from be hind that cave-in barrier, which balk ed their efforts. Finally, state officials’ orders stop ped the rescue efforts being made in the natural tunnel as too dangerous, and the shaft rescue plan was started Friday. In spite of the handicaps of lack of proper tools and materials, the work progressed unceasingly un til the odor of banana oil, sprayed into Collins’ cave Sunday night, became unmistakable Tuesday night in the shaft through a sandy layer in the bottom just baluw the forty-foot level. The natural tunnel down which Col lins had crawled in search of a new cavern was about 125 feet from the surface to the spot where Collins lay The rescue shaft, started a few feet in front of the mouth of the cave in a limestone ledge, was aimed as a perpendicular tube, the shortest line to reach him in the bottom of the tor tuous tunnel. MRS. LIZZIE ADAIR DIES IN TEXAS \ !■■■■ - ■ ■ Was Former Resident of This Section ‘ and Sister of D. W. Mason and Mrs. Gus Davidso^ of This City. The hearts of many relatives and friends of Mrs.^zzie Adair were sad dened by the news of her death in Houston, Texas, on Saturday, evening, February 14. ( y “Aunt Lizzie,” as she was affect ionately known, was born May 4,1851, at the old Mason homestead, near Shady Grove Presbyterian church, in this county. She was the daughter of D. H. A. and Maggie Copeland Mason. In '1872 she was happily married to James R. Adair. In February, 1892, they moved to Texas to make their home. Mr. Adair cried about ten years ago and was buried in Texas. Three times “Aunt Lizzie” came back to Clinton on extended visits, her last visit having been made in the fall of 1923. She was very happy to see'her relatives and friends again, and received a warm welcome. She was always cheerful and greeted every one with a smile. It can be truly said of her, “To know her was to love her.” She was a devout Christian and a devoted church member. It always brightens life’s pathway to come in contact with such beautiful characters. Mrs. Adair is survived by the fol lowing children: Mrs. Banna Gilles pie, and Mrs. Bee Weiner, of Hous ton, Texas; Mrs. Ida Acklin of Hol land, Texas; Mrs. Camilla Wood of Royes City, Texas; James I. Adair of Navasota, Texas; D. Gus Adair of Austin, Texas. Her oldest daughter, Mrs. Maggie Copeland, died in 1906. Mrs. Adair is also survived by one brother, D. W. Mason, and three sisters, Mrs. Sallie Holland, Mrs. Gus Davidson, of Clinton, and Miss Ida Mason of Whitmire. The sympathy of Mrs. Adair’s friends is extended to her relatives who mourn her loss. . STEWARDSHIP MEETING TODAY Laymen of South Carolina Presbytery To Gather Here For General ^ Cogfayenca. ... . Laymen representing the Presby terian churches of Laurens and New berry counties will gather here today for a conference to discuss church benevolences and the every-member canvass campaign, The meeting will be held this afternoon in the First Presbyterian church beginning at 2:30 and adjourning at 5:30 p. m. The program calls for no set speeches, but the meeting will be thrown open for short addresses by laymen affecting the various phases of the church’s work. A similar conference, covering the churches in Abbeville and Greenwood counties, was held Tuesday in Abbe ville. FEW PEOPLE ARE OUTSIDE CHURCH RIVALS FIGHT TO A STANDSTILL The Clinton Hi and Thornwell Or phanage girls’ basketball teams met Tuesday afternoon and fought desper ately for cage supremacy, but neither team was able to turn the trick. Af ter a hard game, filled with many thrills, the result was declared a tie, 21 to 21. These teams are close riv als and always attract unusual inter est when they meet, victories and de feats being about evenly divided dur ing the present season. CLINTON CHAUTAUQUA OPENS ON MAY FOURTH Announcement has been received here that the Redpath Seven Day Chautaqua will open its week’s en gagement in Clinton on May 4th. The program will cover two attractions daily as heretofore, and the big yel low tent will be pitched on the same location on North Broad street. BILLY SUNDAY CLUB TO hear Laurens visitor W. P. Thomason, well known Lau rens layman, will address the Clinton Billy Sunday club next Sunday after noon at two o’clock. The service will be held in the First Presbyterian church and a cordial invitation is ex tended to visitors to be present. shaft, while the shaft proper will be filled with rock and earth from the vicinity. The entrance to the cave will be closed with heavy timbers and Floyd Collins henceforth will rest undisturbed. \ Religious Census Shows That Popula tion of Laurens Closely Allied With Church Work. Laurens, Feb. 14.—Very few people of Laurens are outside the church fold or have no church leanings, ac cording to the religious census taken in the city Sunday and tabulated by W. S. Power. The census showed that out of 1949 white people reached by the census in the city proper, all but 21 were either members of or identified with some religious sect. The following is the report of the census as compiled by Mr. Power, the number under each denominational head including both the members of the church and those showing prefer ence for that denomination, the latter class including children of all ages: Baptist 929; Methodist 518; Presby terian 376; Episcopal 40; A. R. P. 20; Lutheran 12; Holiness 7; Catholic 11; Greek Catholic and Jews 15; unable to locate 21; total 1,949. CONTESTS OPEN TO CHILDREN Woman’s Club To Offer Prises In Flower Gardens And Bird Houses. Under the auspices of the Woman’s Club (Civic League) contests in flow er gardens and bird houses are open to the children of the public schools. The Commercial Club at its last meet ing voted $30 to be used as prizes for these contesst The bird house contest will be open to the children of the grammar and high schools, with prizes as follows: First prize $3, second prize $2, third prize $1. Flower garden contests will be held for the grammar and high school sep arately with prizes for each school: First prize $6, second prize $3, three prizes of $1 each. A similar contest will be conducted for the children there. The children wishing to enter the flower contests are asked to enroll by handing their names to their teach ers. Within the next two weeks a committee of judges will visit the homes of those enrolled and inspect the ground to be planted. The gar dens will be visited again by the judges in June, the date to be an nounced later, and the prizes will be awarded at that time. ' The parents are urged to co-operate with the children ii> this work. F&ch child is allowed to have any help that he may obtain. Next week a practi cal article on flowers and gardens will appear in The Chronicle and each week items of interest and help will be found. So watch The Chronicle. In addition, study seed catalogues and garden magazines for practical help and inspiration. “Children brought up in touch with the sould of a garden, with its birds, bees, and butterflies^ seem to grow up a little different from children de prived of such interest.” “What joy is to be found in the smallest and humblest of gardens if only the heart is there.” Children are instinctively “flower lovers,” so everyone is asked to encourage and help them in every way possible and thereby make Clinton more beautiful through these gardens. ANNUAL SUPPLY BILL FOR STATE INTRODUCED IN LEGISLATURE State Appropriation Carries Total of Six and Half Million Though Over 8 Million Is Contemplated^ Additional 6 Mills Provided for In Bill Passed. SEMINARY DRIVE SUCCEEDS Atlanta, Feb. 17.—The drive for $250,000 for the removal of Co- lumbia seminary from Columbia, S. C., to Atlanta, ended tonight with $50,000 reported secured over the $250,000 necessary for the removal. * Forty acres of land near Deca tur have'been donated as a site for the seminary, which will add a $1,000,000 educational institu tion to those already in the city. Plans will be worked immedia tely for actual removal of the Presbyterian institution to At lanta, it was announced tonight. POLICE ROUND UP LAWLESS DRIVERS Death of Young Kenny Brings War. Credentials of Every Taxi Chauffeur Pass Under Eyes of Bobbies. CLUB TO HOLD LADIES’ NIGHT Local Kiwaniana To Stage Enjoyable Occasion Friday Evening At Clinton Hotel The members of the local Kiwanis club, accompanied by the Clinton Ki- weens, will gather at the Clinton Hotel Friday evening for the second annual mid-winter event popularly known as Ladies’ Night. Soon after gathering in the parlor, the proces sion will march to the dining room where a menu par excellence will be furnished by Mrs. Wilson, the plates to consist of an abundance of good things to aat. A program of interest is being ar ranged with the Kiwanis idea carried out in all the decorations and pro ceedings. No long-drawn, set speeches are on the program, but there will be music, stunts and fun for all. The committees looking after the various details, announce an enjoyable even ing for all members and guests who attend. IN SPARTANBURG SUNDAY Dr. D. M. Douglas spent Sunday in Spartanburg where he preached for the congregation of the First Pres byterian church at both morning and evening services. Dr. W. H. DuBose, the pastor, occupied the pftlpit of the First Presbyterian church of this city and was heard with interest by large congregations. SPOKE IN ROCK HILL Dr. Dudley Jones spent the week end in Rock Hill where he occupied the pulpit of the Oakland Avenue Presbyterian church. New York, Feb. 14.—Dennis J. Ken ny, 20 year old victim of a gun toting taxicab driver, was buried today, while the police wound up their driye against lawless taxi chaffeurs. As a long cortege, including Gov. Alfred E. Smith and his military staff, fol lowed the body of the youth from the Fifth avenue residence to a cemetery, the police continued their activities, arresting 48 drivers and summoning 947 others for appearance in traffic court Monday. It was the shooting of Kenny that induced Police Commis sioner Enright to begin a surprise in spection of the 17,500 cabs in the city late yesterday. Kenny’s funeral was impressive. A nephew of Edward J. Kenny, honorary deputy fire chief, the youth was popu-^ lar and had many friends. High requiem mass was sung for him in the .Church of St^J Governor Smith came here from A1 bany to attend the funeral. Kenny died Thursday of revolver wounds inflicted by John Levetine, 24 year old ex-convict, and taxicab chauffeur, early in the morning January 29. Levetine had driven the youth and Miss > Annabelle Flower from a Greenwich Village cabaret to the young woman’s Brooklyn home. A fare dispute arose, ending in the fatal shooting. Levetine, indicted for first degree murder, will go to trial March 9. Without warning Commissioner En right ordered a taxicab cleanup late yesterday, taking uniformed and plain clothes men; including clerical work ers, from their regular tasks and sending them upon the streets to stop every mojtor hack they came across. There were 6,000 of the officers, and they worked in the streets of the five buroughs simultaneosuly, permitting no cab to depart after inspection un til the driver’s credentials either had been found entirely within the law or he had been served with a sum mons to appear in court. The drive caused considerable con- stefnation among the city's army of chauffeurs. Several of them were re ported to have deserted their'vehicles in the streets at the approach of the police, while a number of others has tily stabled their cars in garages. Seventy-two cabs were fount! to be operating without licenses. Three drivers were immediately sent to the workhouse. One of the drivers ar rested was said to have had a pistol, for the possession of which he had no permit. The head of the two largest taxi cab concerns operating in Manhattan gave hearty endorsement to the drive. ODIORNE GETS CITY CONTRACT COLOR OF LIFE You use silverware and linen, hang up curtains and pictures, wear fabrics carefully cut and adorned—all for the purpose of coloring the drab facts of food, shelter and clothes. Advertisements enable you to put this color into your life. They bring you news of improvements to quicken your pleasure, increase your efficiency, lessen your work—tb feed your hours with every comfort and convenience men have thought out for you. Read the advertisements. Their timely messages, their intimate lessons in econom^, their assurance that advertised goods will please —help you color your life even more. When you choose from advertised goods, you choose from the safest goods known. They are value-true. Read the advertisements in these columns. By their guidance you can obtain the best today; economizing for the best tomorrow. Advertising reduces the cost of products that add pleasure and comfort to living. Local Contractor Will Erect City’s Raw Water Settling Basin On Sloan Street. At a meeting of city council held Monday night, G. C. Odiorne, local contractor, was the successful bid der over six competitors for the con struction of the city’s raw water basin as designed by City Engineer John son. The basin is to be built of re inforced concrete and will have a capacity of one half million gallons of water. It will be located on Sloan street adjacent to the Seaboard road, and is expected to be completed with in the next sixty days. There were seven competitive bids for the contract, that of Mr. Odiorne being the lowest. The bids as sub mitted ranged as follows: Rickenhack- er, $9,035.00; Latimer ft Peak, 8,- 734.00; Edisto Construction Company, $9,626.00; Geo. C. Odiorne, $7,468.26; V. B. Higgins ft Company, $8,260.00; Poe Construction Company, $7,636.00; C. H. Story, $8,879.00. Columbia, Feb. 17.—The state gen eral appropriations bill amounting to $6,493,764.30 with total appropriations of $8,993,746.30, contemplated, was in troduced in the house of representa- tiv)es today by the ways and means committee. It was read by title only and placed on the calendar for. further consideration. The, difference of $2,500,000 called for in the bill and the amount con templated, is due to the omission from the bill of that amount in state aid for schools, which is to be raised by a direct state tax of 6 mills provided for in a bill by Representatives Mc- Laurin and Riley which was brought up in the house today and passed and sent to the senate after considerable debate following the efforts of Repre sentative Williams of Pickens, to amend the bill making the tax 10 mills instead of 6. According to authors of the bill, it is expected that approximately $2,500,000 will be raised through the levy of the 6 mills tax so the appro priations bill includes $641,555.37 for the department of education to make up this deficit. Should the McLaurin- Riley bill not be passed, this item would be increased to $3,141,556.37, and the total of the general appro priations bill to $8,993,746.30. The bill introduced today, even con sidering the additional amount should the McLaurin-Riley bill fail, calls for a considerably less amount than any recent appropriation bill. The con templated amount of $8,993,746.30 is approximately $140,000 less than that of the 1924 appropriation bill and more than $700,000 below Governor McLeod’s budget recommendations. It is more than $2,000,000 below the de partmental requests for the year. By 'slightly more than $1,000,000 it ex ceeds the 1923 appropriation bill total. .Notwithstanding the decrease from the appropriations recommended by the governor, approximately $1,625,- , either from an increased property levy or by new formfc of indirect taxation. Now that the work of framing and writing the appropriations bill has been completed the ways and means j committee will devote its time to the study of revenue raising legislation. It is understood there is consider able revenue raising legislation slated, for introduction now that the appro priations bill has been introduced. Be fore the house at present is a bill by Representative Stone, providing a tax of $1.50 on each gallon of syrup used in South Carolina in the manufacture of soft drinks. According to his opin ion such a tax would bring approxi mately $1,600,000 into the state treas ure annually. Notable cuts in the 1925 appropria tions over those of 1924 are seen in the figures presented today. Chief among these is in the item of the University of South Carolina, the re duction of which amounts t<^ $84,258. The 1925 appropriation for this insti tution is $391,756 as compafpd with $476,023 in 1924. It is $82,400 less than the amount recommended by the governor. Other educational institutions in the state will have decreased appropria tion with the exception of the state medical college and the state colored college. The 1925 appropriation for the medical college was increased $3,000 over that of 1924 and that of the colored college approximately $5,000. The South Carolina hospital appro priation is lower than that of 1924! Last year it was $828,815.64 and this year it has been reduced to $809,- 576.20, a difference of $19,239.44, and $48,250 less than the amount recom mended by the governor. The largest amount called for in the bill is the appropriation for the comptroller general’s office. This large amount of $944,873.58 is neces sary, largely because of the fact that through this office all pensions are paid, it was pointed out. The bill will be taken up for con sideration tomorrow and it is under stood at that time will be made special order of business for Thursday night. Mr. Nance stated this afternoon that in all probability this procedure would be followed. The total appropriations contempla ted under the two bills aggregate $8,993,746.30. Appropriations for various depart ments are carried as follows in the bill: The legislative department $111,- 625.00. The judiciary department^ $185,- 293.66. The governor’s office, $23,379.60. Secretary of state’s office, $12,- 545.00. Comptroller general’s office, $944,- 873.58. State treasurer’s office, $262,541.12. (Continued on Page Four)