Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Columbia, Jan. 2,—Still faced by the problems of taxation and revenue that stretched its last session to eighty- seven days, the 76th General Assem bly of South Carolina goes into its second annual session here Tuesday, January 12. Four new members, named to fill seats in both houses made vacant by deaths and resignations, will join the assembly this term. In the senate these members are: W. H. Taylor of Jasper county, to succeed R. R. Tison, deceased. In the house: W. J. Moore of Greenwood county, to succeed Lloyd B. Harrison, resign ed to accept solicitorship in the De partment of Justice in Washington. W. D. Motrah of McCormick coun ty, to succeed T. M. Ross, resigned to accept solicitorship in the Department of Justice, Washington. A sudbessor to B. B. Chandler of Williamsburg county, deceased, to be named at a special general election set for January 12. Although the report of the budget commission has not yet been made, various authorities, including the Committee of Seventeen of the non political tax conference, hold out lit tle hope that appropriations will be reduced to any great extent. That some appropriation reductions at least bill providing for the repeal of the state inheritance tax. This bill pass ed the senate last year. A house measure, proposed last year, which provides for the payment of state in come taxes by state officers and em ployees now exempted is also to be found among the measures continued to this session by the house. In addition to taxation, there are indications that both education and highways will receive considerable at tention at this session. On the calen dar of the lower house is the bill of J. H. Sullivan of Laurens, to provide for compulsory school attendance. This bill was introduced at the re quest of school authorities after an identical measure h adbeen killed (Is identical measure had been killed. The “6-0-1 law” is also expected to be a center of discussion and perhaps at tack, as are the 14-member highway commission act and the “pay-as-you- go” road measure. Another carry-over is C. E. Sloan’s bill, originally designed to prohibit the operation of swimming pools on Sunday. This bill was emasculated at a hectic session last year, one re sult of which was its amendment to make it a measure prohibiting the operation of “swimming fools” on Sunday instead of “Swimming pools.” Of equal controversial possibilities will he attempted, however, is accept- j is the bill banning the teaching of ed as a foregone conclusion. Another report expected at or short- evolution, a measure to be introduced by Thomas H. Peeples of Richland, it ly after the legislature convenes is; has been announced. This bare an- that of the special joint committee on consolidation and economy, set up last year by the General Assembly and headed by Representative Thomas H. Peeples of Richland. The work of nouncement, however, stirred up a storm of opposition, and the argu ment that the legislature has trouble enough already may prevent its intro duction. A similar measure was pro- this committee looks toward effecting | posed in 1922 as a rider to the an- whatever economies might appear Inual appropriation bill by the then needed and possible. It has already | Senator F. A. Miller of Hartsville, reached conclusions as to its recom- but was rejected. mendations to be made to the Gen eral Assembly and will meet Tues day, January 5, for the purpose of Legislative elections this session will have more than their usual quota of interest in view of the existing jpproving these recommendations in! vacancies on the supreme bench, their final form. 'I Various candidates have been "propos- Another compilation^to the taxa- ■ ed and more or less systematic cam- tion iss\j!> will appear when the anci-1 paigns have been conducted in several ent “do/Jt dilemna” is revived by the ^instances for the places on the su- expiration of the tax on preme bench made vacant by death of ts, by its own provision, on Associate Justice T. B. Fraser and the ^926. This tax is embodied resignation of Associate Justice J. ,lengthy appropriation bill Hardin Marion of Chester. The two ! unexpired terms are of unequal length Two reports, incident to the prob-j that of Marion being until July 1, lem of tax reform, are expected to be , 1928, and that of Fraser being until “ridei'. received. One of these is ex pected from the non-political un official tax conference, called at the instigation of the South Carolina Con ference on Social Work, and the other from a special house committee on taxations. The non-political confer ence, at its meeting Tuesday, will draft its final report from the recom mendations to be presented by its Sommittee of Seventeen, it is believ ed. The report of the Committee of Seventeen embodies a suggested tax program under which certain emer gency taxes would be levied until pro posed permanent tax reforms could be effected. No word has come from the special house committee on taxa tion, not even an announcement that it has met and organized. The two chief recommendations of the Committee of Seventeen will come before the legislature without the necessity of the introduction of bills and resolutions for this purposa first of these recommendatirp chief is that the Constitutim amended so as to permit classifica tion of property fbr taxation. The second is that a bill be passed requir ing general revaluation and reassess ment of all taxable property. Continued from last year on the lower house’s first day’s calendar are July 1, 1926. The fact that the lat ter of the two expires during this year will necessitate a third election should it be decided to fill both the full term and the unexpired term. Among others, the following have been proposed for possible election: Eugene R. Blease of Newberry, I. H. Hunt of Newberry, Judge J. Henry Johnson of Allendale, R. O. Purdy of Sumter, Judge M. L. Bonham of An derson, L. D. Lide of Marion, J. F. (■alter of Bamberg, Judge John ^ Wilson of Manning, Octavus Cohen of Charleston, W. H. Muller of Dillon, F. A. Miller of Hartsville, J. G. Pad gett of Walterboro, J. G. Stabler of St. Matthews, A. F. Woods of Marion, and D. D. McColl of Bennettsville. Seven normal agencies, and one other, created by the death of R. W. Memminger of Charleston, exist in the circuit bench, which number would naturally be increased by the election judge to the supreme bench. In _of thg nor mal races, the incumbents so far as is announced unopposed, are: M. M. Mann of St. Matthews, first circuit; Hayne F. Rice of Aiken, sec ond circuit; John S. Wilson of Man ning, third circuit; E. C, Dennis of Darlington, fourth district; J. K. 'Henry of Chester, sixth circuit; C. C. Washington, Jan. 4.—Farm relief proposals came before congress from a number of sources when it recon vened today, one of them a bill by Representative Dickinson (Republican) of Iowa, a recognized leader in the house farm bloc. The Dickinson proposal, drafted after conferences with various farm ing organizations, including those rep resented at the recent farm confer ence in Des Moines, was designed to provide fbr the disposal through co operative associations of the export able surpluses of- wheat, corn, rice, cotton, tobacco, cattle and swine. Machinery to be set up to handle the surpluses would comprise a fed eral farm advisory council and a fed eral farm board of seven members, including the secretary of agriculture, within that department, and six others* to be selected from 18 names submit ted by the advisory council. The first step in marketing a sur plus would be a declaration by the farm board that an emergency exist ed in one or more basic commodities. Cooperative agencies would then be instructed to buy the commodity so designated at the domestic price and sell it at the world price. Later the agencies would be reimbursed for loss es thus sustained from funds obtained by the collection of an equalization fee levied on producers. Another proposal was a bill intro duced by Senator McKinley (Repub lican) of Illinois, to extend direct credit aid from government banking agencies to farmers’ cooperative as sociations. Representative Tillman (Democrat) of Arkansas also introduced a meas ure calling for expenditure of $225,- 000 in the next two fiscal years for the creation and operation of cooper ative marketing agencies in the agri cultural department. Still another proposal came from a group of dairymen who called on Senator Pepper (Republican) of Penn sylvania, and urged an increase in funds allotted for the eradication of tuberculosis in dairy herds. This dele gation was headed by Frank P. Will- itts of Pennsylvania, secretary of agriculture, and represented a number of dairy interests in his and other states, including Wyoming and New York. The measure would establish a na tional farmers’ cooperative bureau in the federal farm loan board charged with gathering information on farm stocks and market demands. Loans would be made by govern ment banking agencies upon ware house receipts up to 75 per cent of the value of the products covered by them. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 5.—Determined to effect a reform in the present fed eral system of crop reporting and to bring about a 25 per cent reduction in acreage planted in cotton, the Southwide cotton conference, which met here today, issued a call for a "greater Southwide convention of cot ton men,” to meet in Memphis Febru ary 8. Prior to the convention at Memphis, conferences will be held in the cap ital cities of each cotton producing state, under the direction of state commissioners of agriculture, gover nors of the various states, and every other interested cotton factor. These state gatherings will be held January 25 and have primarily for their object the formulations of means of reach ing agreement on the question and representation at the general conven tion at Memphis. The Memphis convention will be presented with the action of today’s meeting here, at which resolutions were unanimously adopted urging cot ton growers to reduce their 1926 acre age 26 per c^nt., and petitioning con gress for reforms in the crop report ing system, including the abolition of the present semi-monthly ginning re ports and substituting for them a once a month report, which, delegates ar gued, would help stabilize conditions in the transfer of cotton fronwthe grower to the buyer; and«another pro vision which asks congress to appro priate funds for the issuance at the end of each season of a report shoe ing what it cost to produce the cotton grown that year. The conventions are a result of a campaign for acreage reduction and a stabilization of costs and prices of farmers’ commodities, particularly cotton which is being waged by the American Cotton association. It is also the aim of the association to in duce every cotton grower to plant more feed and foodstuffs, thus insur ing the farmer a greater production of self-sustaining crops and offsetting the loss incurred by low prices for his cotton crop. FORD DEALERS HOLD MEETING JUDGE DEPLORES BIG CSftIME WAVE Featherstone Tells Grand Jury S. C. Is One of the Worst States In the Union In Lawlessness. Spartanburg, Jan. 4.—Lamenting the attitude of the state on law en forcement, Judge C. C. Featherstone of Greenwood, presiding, in his charge tc the court of general sessions today dclared South Carolina was one of the worst states in the union in this re spect. Homicides, he said, have in creased from 150 to 200 per year, and now white people are consuming a large part of the criminal courts of the state. E. W. Ferguson Signs His 13th Con tract as Local Agent at Char lotte Conference. E. W. Ferguson, well-known local Ford dealer,^ reurned Monday night from Charlotte where he attended the annual convention of Ford dealers of the Carolinas, and reports a delight ful meeting with a number of splen did business talks on the program from several of the “big guns.” At Monday’s meeting Mr. Ferguson signed his 13(h contract as local deal er. In point of service, he is one of the millionaire’s oldest and most suc cessful agents, and has become a life time fixture in the family of the De troit manufacturer’s organization. In Zone No. 3, which embraces the Clinton territory, he is surpassed in Laurens, Jan. 4.—Dr. Ellis Fuller, secretary of the field forces of the home mission board of the Southern Baptist convention, opened a two weeks’ revival meeting here at the First Baptist church. Preaching at 11 o’clock in the morning and at 7:30 o’clock in the evening, the evangelist was heard by large congregations and the indications are that town and county-wide interest will be taken in the special services. In the absence of the pastor, who has been indisposed for a few days, C. H. Roper, chairman of the board of deacons of the First church, gave wel come to the visiting minister, who did not need formal introduction because he is a Laurens county boy and is very much at home with Laurens peo ple and Laurens Baptists. The ser mons, both morning and evening, made a profound impression and are but an index to a series of stirring gospel messages, as those who know and have heard Dr. Fuller have every reason to feel assured. The evangelist is accompanied by his bride and by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Fuller of Mountville, with whom Dr. and Mrs. Fuller will spend part of the time at least while the meeting here is in progress. • w & .?•<? 1 , . elation to lions for “FIREBUG” CAUGHT IN GREENVILLE Little Negro Boy Wanted to “See the Pumps at Work” and Sets Grandstand; On Fire. Greenville, Jan. 4.—Love of the sound of the powerful fire trucks while pumping water, led two little negroes to set a number of structures on fire causing a vast amount of pro perty damage and endangering lives, according to a confession made this morning by Jim Oglesby, a 16-year old negro youth, to fire Chief Donald and others at police headquarters. Jim implicated his alleged compan ion in arson, saying that Omah Hill, another little negro about the same age, was the leader and instigator of all their plots to “hear the trucks run and see the firemen at work.” When the fire chief and police questioned the little Hill negro they could not un derstand what he said. None of his statements were coherent. He could not seem to grasp the meaning of the questions asked by Detective Janies H. King. The other negro, Jim, apparently of his own free will and accord told Chief Donald that he and Oman had set fire to the Graham Field grand stand, a vacant house # on Gibbes street and the Hallman Lumber yard on Bernie street. He denied having been in on any other plots. He said he knew nothing about the fire this moining in the Allen Temple (negro) Methodist church on Green avenue, or about the recent fires in a' building under construction on North Main street, or the fire of a negro house on Jenkins street. The grandstand #it Graham Field, the home of the local South Atlantic point of service only by two dealers, J. I. Chipley of Greenwood, and W. M. {association baseball club, was destroy- Thompsohi of Greenville. Mr. Fer-1 ®d by fire shortly after 11 o clock en- guson signed his contract for 192G|I a *bng a loss of upwards of $10,000, and states that he will keep the cars 0,1 'y partially beyond control when The record in South Carolina year f^jfr year as (p law enforcement is disgrace. Presi3efr^-*-?k^. ’•pcjyitly that our criminal courts are ai NW SESSION a/ d> said “rolling” all the year to meet the needs of his customers. He reports the Ford managers as optimistic over the year’s business outlook and will continue to offer the people of this section, an unexcelled service, in the sales, parts and repair departments. the two so-called “fundamental tax Featherstone of Greenwood, eighth reform” resolutions sponsored by John K. Hamblin, of Union, one of these would repeal the three-mill con stitutional school tax. The other would set up ^‘a just and equitable tax system,” classifying property for taxation. Bo|h resolutions, which were passed on various occasions by! the lower house since they were pro posed in 1921 in the so-called “Marion report on tax reform”, were given but little consideration last year and fail- W. to secure the approval of either hoilfco. However, a bill, passed by the *>{e, though opposed in the lower which provides for a general ^valuation of all taxable property will come before the House of Repre sentatives for action. This measure, the result of considerable debate in the senate, is now in the hands of the ways and means committee, by which it must be considered before the house may act upon it. A similar measure embodied in the free conference report on the annual appropriation bill, was rejected by the lower house last year. Another measure relating to taxa tion schedule to come before 'the lower house for consideration is the senate circuit; and Thomas J. Mauldin of Pickens, thirteenth circuit. To fill the vacancy in the ninth circuit, occasion ed by the death of Judge Memminger, William H. Grimball of Charleston, has been proposed. He is so far also unopposed. Other vacancies to be filled include: Insurance commissioner to succeed John J. Me Mahay of Columbia; one member of the State Railroad Com mission to succeed Sam Cl Blease of Saluda; one member of the board of visitors of the Citadel to succeed Or lando Sheppard of Edgefield; three members of the board of trustees of Clemson College to succeed J. J. Ev ans of Bennettsville, I. H. Mauldin of Columbia, and R. M. Cooper, Jr., of Wisacky; two members of the board of trustees of the State Negro Col lege to succeed C E. Sawyer of Aiken, and A. L. Dukes of Orangeburg; one member of the board of trustees of John de la Howe School to succeed J. M. Nickles of Abbeville; two mem bers of the board of trustees of the University of South Carolina to suc ceed D. R. Coker of Hartsville and James H.'Sullivan of Laurenp; two game of chance with the chances in favor of the criminal. If one be acci dentally convicted he-^s the sym pathy of the country. “The criminals now are not all Ne groes. I can remember when it was the rarest thing in the world for a white man to be in sessions court except for fighting or homicide, but now three-fourths of the cases of house breaking and larceny and other similar crimes are committed by whites. In Spartanburg county last year there were 138 whites convicted against 107 Negroes. OPENED'MOiYfrti the firemen answered the alarm. MINISTER ILL IN HOSPITAL Dr. Alexander Martin, Chairman of Board of Trustees of Presbyterian College, in Critical Condition. v Rock Hill, Jan. 6,—The condition of thTTC? -Alexander Martin, pas-/ tor of Oakland Jfvemip PrMPiWJgr>an 13 BANKS SHOW Columbia, lar* will bo Carolina farmora for at a low rata of interest as a of action takes today by holders of the Sooth tural Loan smodstfon an increase of the organisation from 000. Directors of the take the necessary steps to amend the charter and capital stock. The South Carolina Loan association was organised January under the federal interms» diate credits act and under the visions of that act may borrow times the amount of its capital from the Federal Intermediate Bank. Under the provisions of act, however, $5,000,000 is the which any one association may bor row. At the annual meeting of the asso ciation yesterday reports of the offi cers showed that notwithstanding the association was not organized tmti! late in January of 1925, it loaned over $1,500,000 to South Carolina farmers last year. It is believed that the as-, sociation will extend its operations^ very widely this year. A realization of conditions existing in the state prompted the stockholders today to take the steps necessary to meet them. The rate of interest charged farmers is regulated by the interme diate credits act. The association lends only to mem bers of the cooperative marketing as sociations. The stockholders elected the follow ing directors: James E. Peurifoy, Walterboro; B. F. McLeod, Columbia; F. E. Hinnant, Columbia; J. M. Hol man, St. Matthews; Edgar L. Culler, Orangeburg; E. M. Croxton, Lancas ter; R. H. McElveen, Lake City, and Leon L. Rice, Anderson. A resolution commending the man agement for the efficient and econo mical administration of the affairs of ~ the organization was unanimously passed and the stockholders expressed themselves as being delighted with the showing made in the first year’s operations. Immediately after adjournment of the stockholders ’meeting a meeting of the board of directors was held r.nd former Judge James E. Peurifoy of Walterboro, was reelected presi dent; B. F. McLeod, vice-president; and F. E. Hinnant, manager. Judge Peurifoy and Mr. Hinnant will be ac tively in charge of the association during the coming year, and both of-, ficials expressed great optimism as to the outlook for it. The association, they pointed out, had been organised for the purpose of securing cheap money from the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank to assist the farmers of the state in making their crops and that it had rendered wonderful assist ance the first year it had operated. It has been urged to extend its opera tions this year and the increase of tljie capital slock will mat.} this possible,;- they said. Last year the association operated principally in the eastern part of the state where there had been several successive crop failures. The poor crops in the Piedmont section of state last year has created a demand for funds from that section. The reports of the officers today ; f hewed that the collections had b "*,- remarkably good. t-.' ■ • WELL KNOWN MARKET , HAS CHANGED HANDS The Country Market, operated for a number of years by R. F. Adair, has been sold to Messrs. L. L. Copeland and W. R. Pitts of this city, and the new owners assumed its management the first of January. The business will be continued at the same location and conducted on the same policies as heretofore, the proprietors announce. Presbyterian College Begins New Term and Class Work Is Nov In Full Swing. The Presbyterian College reopened Tuesday morning after a two weeks’ Christmas holiday. The students re turned to the city Monday afternoon and night and practically all were on the campus to begin work at 8:45 Tuesday morning. Several professors, after spending the holidays at their respective homes, were all back and ready for the work of the opening semester. The students’ return after the holi days, is always looked forward to with m great deal of pleasure by the citi zens of the town because of their en livening influence in the community, New Managers For Musgrove Tea Room SCHOOLS RE-OPENED — ON MONDAY MORNING Mrs. J. O. Barnett and Mrs. J. H. Perry have taken over the manage ment of the Mary Musgrove Tea members of the board of trustees of I Room, succeeding Mrs. M. J. Ferque- Winthrop College to succeed J. E. Breazeale of Anderson and Mrs. C. W. Harris of Bishopville; and one mem ron, who gave the work up the first of the year. The business will b« conducted by the new managers os her of the board of regents of the heretofore, catering to the general State Hospital to succeed J. E. Sirrine public as well os a number of local of Greenville. \ boarders. church since its founding more t 13 years ago, was reported late to day critical at the Riverside hospital in Charleston, where he was taken several weeks ago, following an at tack while on a hunting trip on the coast. He underwent a serious opera- tion several-days ago. So serious is his condition that in response to the request of Mrs. Mar tin, who is at his bedside, members of his congregation gathered at the church this afternoon in a prayer ser vice for his recovery. Dr. Martin is among the best known ministers here and in the state and is regarded as one of the strongest characters in the Presbyter ian pulpit. E D1 to-; Local Institutions Have Deposits Ex ceeding One and! a Half Millions of D(otiars. The city’s three banking institu- Lion?, in tneir trailer of the currency of 31, as published in The Chronicle day, reflect a healthy condition spite of the talk of “hard commonly heard on the street The annual stockholders the First National Bank and cial Bank are to be held nest day, at which time the ports for the year will be officers and directors reelected: usual semi-annual 4 per cent dende have been paid the ers during the past week. Under the item "bills neither of the three hank*. £>T: The orphanage and city schools re opened Monday morning following iowe a dollar, while their the Christmas holiday season of two. running about aa yff*** 1 ' weeks. Ail teachers and pupils were in their places and the new term’s work started off in fine style. presid-tV*. m conv Misses EHa and Marie and Jack and Dillard Adair fpent day in Renno with their rani Venfo Ray. v - •' ■ .• r-rV-vrA "Jt yyis ' *■ e hined deposits op compared to' year ago. than one hi *M»4J _ ' •/ >3^ 6** •r .3 u-;