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site Ollwton (Elfr0ntrb • * • • If You Don’t Read • # • : • THE CHRONICLE • • • • • You Don’t Get • • • • • The News. • • • • . VOLUME XXXI CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1931 NUMBER 26 \ } FOUR POWERS Api^intii B^y ACCEPT PLAN Many Counties Face Heavy Damages Further Carolina 'PLANE OFF ON Unless Boll Weevils Are Poisoned; Growth Predicted: WORLD TOUR , Blackwood Seeks Data On Re- Clemson College, June 22.—During vil damage was heavy and profitable War Debt Countries Endorse Jm-n Qh investment of Power week ending June 20. 82 fields in j gains were had from poisoning. Hoover’s Moratorium. World, Plants In State ;eight counties examined by South tar-1 Nine of 13 fields in Darlington Now Awaiting French Action.; " lolina experiment station workers, av-jeounty averaged 40 or more weevils — I Columbia, June 19.—Three former i leraged 93 weevils per acre. Though | ppj. acre, six fields ranging-between Washington, June 24.—Great Brit ain, Germany, Austria and Italy have accepted President Hoover’s proposal for a one-year suspension of war debt payments and the wmrld is w'aiting up state senators are among the five members of the South Carolina pow er investigatory commission, appoint- e<l today by Governor Blackwood. somewhat less than reported one week ago, this is about five times greater than the minimum number at which the Southern Cotton council recom mends beginning, early poisoning, says Members are Charles W. Coker.iH, W. Barre, director of the station. cn France, whose attitude is still to be; Hartsville manufacturer and former i Some determined. egg punctures were observed i taken. 100 and 420, the county average being 101, Other counties were relatively as heavily infesttnl and there is no doubt that generally coast and south ce/itral areas are facing heavy weevil damage unless preventive steps are Designer of Muscle Shoals Gen erators Expects Power Devel opment, Steam and Water. “Winnie Mae ” To Girdle Globe In Ten Days. Next Stop At Berlin. New Record Is Aim. Darlington county senator; H. Klugh and a half grown larva was found in Purdy, former Jasper county senator Darlingt.m county. i and Ridgeland lawyer; Tom B. Pearce,! In Florence practically every field' . C'Olumbia, former Richland county | examined was heavily infested. .Aver-^ toward Presiden , senator; K. P. Vandiver, .Anderson | age number of weevils per acre was — Washington indication of will the! » . _________ Premier Lavaf and there had been no preliminary discus sion fo President Hoover’s plan with other country before the presi any The commission will investigate power rates, determining whether companies are receiving a fair return on investment and whether rates are too high. Appointment of the investigatory body followed a determined fight on electric companies in the last legisla ture. Charges were made and denied that power companies have “watered” vestment is too high and that rates in South Carolina are much higher than in nearby states, especially Georgia Paris, June 23. have an official French attitude Hoover’s proposal for a one-year debt ^ business man; and B. H.il22. l^ist year on this date, holiday by tomorrow night, P*'^>vner | I^val told the Chanfber of Deputies*' this evening, but the government will rot take a definite stand until it has consulted the parliament. • No change in the Young plan will be accepted, the premier s^id, but to morrow the cabinet will discuss the situation in detail and on Friday the government will subniit ihe issue to the Chamber of Deputies. ior Edge call- Cotton in the Piedmont while grow ing rapidly, is small and the immedi ate situation is not so serious, al though weevils per acre are numer- with onlv i“'■‘‘‘■ajfin.g 77 in Chester. 37.?-in 03 weevils per acre in Florence, wee-1 Greenw ood, and’30 in Aiken. he I and Alabama. dent announced it. Mr. Hoover, said, found himself obliged to act | Efforts were made to pass a reso- when the German financial crisis last lution in the legislature that no pres- week indicated disa.ster wa.s imminent. | ont member of that body be appointed France was the first foreign power! to the commission, but that failed, the to be informed of his proposal, Mr.Unlons claiming it would reflect on Fxlge said, and France would be mis- their integrity. Home Missions Month Observed Special Emphasis To Be Laid On Work Next Sunday. Activities Are Widely Scattered. terian church are ob.serving June a? “Home Mission” month, with especial emphasis on Sunday, June 28th, Hoover Stakes 1932 On Plan If Business Is Better Then, His Chances Will Be Good; But If Not Democrats May Go In. • Washington, June 22. — President Hoover was deemed by many observ ers today to have staked his political future on the belief that the adminis- “Home Missions day,” featuring the j tration’s debt-suspension program will work done under the direc-tion of Rev. i stabilize economic conditions ami re- J. B. Bisceglia, superintendent of tbelvive business in this country. Italian institute and ('entral chapel, located in Kansas ("ity. Mo., as pre sented through the program, “Sharing i With Others,” prepared for use in Asheville, N. C., June 23.—Dr. W. J. Foster of fvchnectady, N. Y., whose developments in the field of electrical engineering have brought him the cov eted! l.,amme mtslal, believes the future will .see even greater hydro-electric power developments in the Carolinas. The eminent engineer, de.signer of the Muscle Shoals, Ala., generators and of many generators in use in the ('arolinas, expre.ssed his opinions in an interview h<“re where he is attend ing the summer convention of the •American Institute of Electrical En gineering. “The more a stream is used,” Dr. Foster said, “the better it gets be cause dams built along a stream regu late its flow and an even flow of wa- Harhor Grace, N. K., June 23.—The “Winnie Mae” wa.s winging it.s way over the .Atlantic tonight hearing Wi ley Post nad Harold (Jatly toward Europe on the second lap of their pro jected round-the-world flight. The stunly craft took off from here for Germany at 4:.‘S7, daylight time, this aftern'tMin, thre<* hours an 1 10 minutes after concluding a fast flight from Roo.>!eveU Field. .New York, to Harbor Grace. The flyers had hreakfa'it in .New York and luncheon here. They took only sandwiches with them and ipml to have their next real meal in P‘Hin. They left Roo.sevelt field at 3:.5d E. S. T., this morning, and made the ter over dams is necessary for an even 1,200-mile hop here in .six hou m. .52 minutes. Thi.s was an average of" con- siderably more than 1.50 miles an hour flow of) current over wires. “More dams and electrical develop ments along a river means more stor-jthey hoiie to maintain in order t.. -*1- age. space, which prevents floods and ji^j. their ambition of snl^hing the penods. A single plant on a rwer The international moratorium which Mr. Hoover proj)oses would end .lunc 30, Il>32 just at the tirm* of the nom inating conventions and four months taken if it believed it had been inten-; Governor BlackwOv»d announced I Sunday schools by the educational d**-1 before the presidential election. If his tionally Ic'ft out of a plan j some time a‘jo that no member of the' " . .... . l • i i ^. i in advance. general assembly would he appointed The premiei thanked the amhassa-jQj, commission. partment of that church s home | plan succeeds and there is a definite sions committee. Accompanying jniprovement in business comiitions hv - . , . . . Pre.sentation of the program an «f-; that time. Mr. Hoover’s chances of re- dor and told him the conditions under general assembly appropriated i fering is to be taken, giving all I’res- ' wouhl he enhanced trcmcn- which the Eremh reply to the $.50,000, collected by a tax on power | hyterians an opnnrtunity to share inl(i„uslv, it is thought, dent’s proposal would he drafted to- companies, for the investigation. .the support of this work. i morrow. • j Governor Blaclcwood said he re- Other enteiprises carrifs! on liy the j The Democratic assault on th«* pics- A belief that France was working jpaj-^cd selection of the convmissiod I home missionr oomm'ttee include work ident for months has been foumled (»n out a plan of its own for the exU'n-j4.gg, „f greatest and most far- among the Indians in Oklahoma and of relief to Germany received duties to confront me since Texas; Negro mis.sions in Atlanta, for sion the charge that the administration had taken no vigorous action to meet the some support today in a statement; inauguration.” ^Louisville, .New Orleans, Richmond; |emergency., It ’has lM*cn issued by the finance ministry. “It has been my. chief purpose to work in the mountain areas of tpe that th(“y hojtc.i toj statement explained that application strong, reliable and patriotic South and Southwest; and misisiunsjhe able to enter the l!hl2 camiiaign | -of the Hoover pro'^.iosal in the mind upon-the commission, whose gen-,for foreign speaking pe«>ple in various{with the argument that prosperity hu<l > of the F'rench government, ^•’^^^jeral standing is so removed from uar-'u-enters. The ann ial report of the com-! <1|^*PP*****'*‘‘^ under a Republican r«‘- make it difficult to resume the ^ Gsanship and so above reproach as to niittee records that through the ef- plan at the end of the year ^luring doubt or raisgiving in su'*h forts of home mission workers, l,H4ft Now Mr. ILmver has struck out, which Mr. Hoi.ver’s moratorium w'ouhl report of this matter as they may were added to *'ie ' hun h M)c effective. render,” the governor said. • —— Members are to receive $1.5 might have to close during a dry spell. ■while one on a river with many devel opments could keen going because of the many .storage reservoirs. “When we first started out, hydro electric generators were only 6,5 per cent efficient,” he contiued. “That is, we "ot only 6.5 per cent of the power in the water turn<sl into electricity. Now, they are more than 90 per cent efficient and I doubt if more thanipheck their actual time of airi\.i slight improvement can he made fhe -chcdiile.i t , tof arrival in hours and minutes. Dr. Foster j'redicted that both .steam and hy(iro-e!e<tric power will he <’ontinue<l to he nnaluced in this section of the !^)Uth. Steam power, he explaincil, is ne<*<le(l in any system to supplement water power, an(i in some cases it is cheaper because a steam plant can he huiU without expense for dams. German dirigible*Graf Zeppelin. .As they left they said they exo.'ct- ed to cover the 2,860 miles between here and Berlin in 19 hours, three minutes. Those extra three minutes indi just how clo.sely the long Hight has hien iilanned. Between Harbor Gri.-e an<i the German capital there a;.* 13 positions marked on their flying map compass check'^. They als; w II It upon jin;- holdly taking the initiative in an ♦•f- dav Stimson Radio lalk ( ailed Dff Washington, .lune 23. The extreme ddicaev of the international -situation (vea’ed by Bresident Hoover’s mora torium proposal was emjihasized to night by the state <1. partment m an- nouneing the cancellat’on ' f "i rml.o iiuiliess To have bene made by S*-. re- tar> Stnison. After a confeven e w 'h t’res fession and 2..380 by hdter. Dr. Ho-i fort to put the world on the road bai k mer McMillan is exinutivc secret.iry, to economic health. .All the flying will U* tione. by Post, a onc-cyctl veteran who sits alone 'n the (ramped forward cockj'it (f the white, single-motort'd monoplane. In the navigator’s' compartment, Gatty will watch the instrument-, op erate the radio and keep Post iriform- ed (.f their position and whether or not they are .maintaining their sehed- ;ule. They will communicate t>v nn ans : itf-message's pulh'd bark and forth on 'a string. * . " ^ I Gutty ])lanned to send the call le'- ters of the ship, KHKDW, ever.\ hour 'on the hour, as an “all’s well” Lm-al Boy Mak-es Fine Showing! The radio .set transmits on a :b5..5 .ne In ('aroliniLs Junior (Jolf Tour-.**’'’ ""*1 '‘‘‘•'‘I'cs between ,50(i aid Fred Oxley Enters Junior Tourney for each day engaged in investigation lU>v. P. D. Miller, educiPional secre-1 tary. Miss .Mannie Thomas, assistant educational secretary, and .A. N. Sharp, treasurer of the cMumittee, with heachiuarters in .At4anta (la. namenl At (Jreen.sboro. of rates. Extraordinary authority grunted the commission under the legislative* a. t creating it includes the right to s ini- mon witne-c-es and <l(“a! with acts of contempt with powers of a circuit judge. Pearce Named ('hairman rolumi>ia, .June 23. The commis sion appointed last wej'k liy (Governor tiower rates in South (’arolina held its initial mee{- I’residcnt H(»over, during which the distribution of th(* connplet(*d .-neech was held | Hlackwuod to inve.stigate tiower rates i hi- Moultrie. .S. ( ,, .lune 'SJ. i on abeyance. Stimson announced it would South (’arolina held its initial mee{- hoys from the vicinity of Clint.m, have nut he delivered. He had spent the named T. B. IVarce, ('n-j received promotions in their coni- tire (lav in writing the speech whi.-h . panics at the (’itizens Militarj Train- was to have been made tonight. members attending were B.iing tamp in i)rogre.s.s here. On Mr. StMiisen’s behaP the dep.nrt- Peace, Greenville; E. P. Vandiver,' They are: William S. Dens n. who ment said that owing to the 'hdicacy ; Klu'/h Purdy. Ridge-^was named sergeant. Ansley 1‘ of the situation, he felt he should ( oker, Hartsville, ■was un- ^ori, L. H. Nelson, and W . D. more time to prenar" the address. attend. In view of the swift moving dev e - c nimiss'on cument in Europe’s canitals today on the president’s nronosal for a one- year moratorium on all w'ar debts and renarati 'n.' payments, the s *cretaty s address had h<*en awaited with keen irtere-t. Local Boys Are Given Promotions 500 Farmers In | Cotton Contest (’lenison Agront.misl Say.s In- Ifresl rnusiial In View of Low Price (,f Staple. clemson College, June 21. Over .5(10 farmers have entered the I'.t.'H five-acre cotton contest being con-! ducted f r the six'h vear Ity the ex tension service of Clemson college.. and sponsored again by the South 'Vil-'(’arolina Cotton Manufai’turer.s’ asso-1 B.r.ley, i ^ ijjGon, says R. W. Hamilton, exteti-' who were named corporals. i agronomist, who feels that with I authorized Mr.i fhe (itizens .Military Training | < h,, ore.^ent low price and dis( b'red Oxley, 15-vear-old son of .Mr. and Mrs. W. (’. Oxley of thi.s city, will It turn today from Grecnslxuo, .N. ('., ^ where he -pent the nast week at th ■ ' St'ilgef iebi Country club pai't iri pat i'lg :iri the .Iiinior Golf tournament for the .Soutli. I’lav started last .‘s.-itunlay jwitb an iirinrecet'enled number of en tries in tile fifth annual contest t(» <le- fitit* the chami)ioiishii» of the Caroli- ] nns. One huritlred and ninety-two boys 'turned in tjualifying scores ranging couiag- Pcarce to secure headtjuarters in Co-ioamps provide free vacations at the | outlook it is indicative of progress lumbia and employ tempora.y assist- <*xpen.se of the government to boys in- Gormans Ready To (. (Miporate Berlin. June 23 Chancellor Hein rich Bruening told a radio aud:en'-< tonight that the German government that have heretofore b( en ad ijit- was ready to cooperate politically ^ ha-is for rate-oharges, the nu- with other govorryments to eHect a merous features of general informa- soliition ( f those (juestions which are establish a just jjpIj, ; terested in active training and at the In a statement issued after the ex- «anie time provides them with clean, ecutive session, the commission ass<*rt-(wholesome amu«(*ment and in addition ed its chief purpose is “to a.scertain j trains them to become second li(>utcn- the true situation as \i exists in South'ants in the officers reserve corjis of ('arolina respecting power companies, i the H. .S. army after sui'cessfully jiass- jiarticularly the -ates that are being iinj? four of the courses of instruction, charged ecinsumer.s, the valuation fea that so many farmers show this inter est in jirt (iucing (luality cott'»n :it low cost. the i.rimary purpo-e i- to (> i- 'he iiroduction of ipjality cot- liie post (lesirabli; ^‘aple ij,,. advardag * (»f -’everal year- ex Prominent Mason Here Tomorro'w salient to the pacification of Europe In his address the chancellor empha- size’d the political aspect of the Hoo ver proposal for a year’s moratorium of intergovernmental debts. He de clared the year of rest suggested by the American president vs'ould serve not only to restore international con fidence in business and therewith re build world economy, hut at the same time would result In a release and e(juitable ba'is for the regulation of power companies in this state.” Rotarians Are In Convention gTond j The Rev. (Jeorge T. Harmon, pastor of the First Methodist church of .Sum ter, will deliver an address Friday' evening l>efore the local .Ma.soaic REV. H. O Mr. Harmon holds the office of chaplain and is well Since couriige 1(»n of lengths so that. .Smith Carolina w,ii I'egain its world icpiitation for cotton it is m(<s1 encouraging, .Mr. Hamilton !hinks, that county farm agents re port thon-arids of bushels of pedigreed cotton seed planted th's spring loge'h- er with a great in< reuse in acrcige planted w!th set d only one or ’wo vears from the bret-dt ts. in age from eight to just under eigh teen years. So fast was the field in which Krcd tound himself, it took 80 and below to (jualify. He was paired toward the top I in the fifth flight, with Arthur Valk , of Winston-Salem, as his ((pironent. ' Fred is an enthusiastic young golf- jet and in view of the fact that the I nest wc(*k’s iournan'ent wa.-- his f'rst i experience, he made a highly credit- ’ ;dde showing in comnelition with the I other P.)l players against whom ho was matched. .Many of his opponents ;‘MI0 motors. 1 Post and Gatty -tayed 1 long enough to fuel up for ; t light ami oat the la-t full int a will have until they it ach Beilin li ft Itehind them, Ott,. ilillig and ger Hoiriis. who a’Tiv4*d here • ''lein in jiieparatimi ''m' .in .\‘’ crossing, luit wlio <le idoij to tbeir t;ike-off until t le'i ri w . It was learned f|-on \'< w V'O- the weallier was ulear N day !' I’iist part of the ■' can ji ii'Oey Winnie Mai* lint o\ -r mo'c tin thirds of the cour-^e. the sky wa- cast with occ.i-ional -howi i -. G. art exiiert at instiaimnital flyini,'. ever, and there was Ibtli doiioi a men that he could v i:de Post th the* thickest flying weather. Post and llaridd huivo to '•omii I !,()()() mile circuit of 'he world (iays. '1 heir route ami the tlistai leach jump was laid out thii-: I New 5'ork to llaiimr Grace, hero j c-t tbei'' !o*'g M Ttioy H •roa at ’It ic .It . -v - ■ a -’.h 1 :!>('» miles. a ibor G race la i liri. 2.86(1 I .; several harl jireciouslv similar championship pf rience, and competed in frames. Fred is a lover of the golf '■ourse and plays ijuite often with his father, under whom he ha;‘ receive ! his train ing, and who himself, is everytii ng hut an amateur. I'.erlin to .Moscow to Irkiit'k. 2.()(t(l mil*- likut.'k to Kharbiii'ovsk <.r V:'il 1,1(1(1 mile.-. Khaibor\sk to N’onu . 2 Pin 'nil Nmne to I'Mmonton. 1.9(10 mile- KdniMnt'in to...New 5'oilc (prt via ( lev-land) 2.000 luib-s. The only 'ivernight -tops defi: sebedubd wire at J»( ilin and III CHAMBERS TO FREACH AT SARDIS known i j throughout the state in .Masonic cir-| There will be preaching services at. T6 ‘^**^*' A mo.«t ciirilial invit.ation has; Sardis church, Renno, next Sunday af-j ineg^nu extended to all Masons in this'ternoon at 4 o’clock. The sermon will hegun with almut onc-half of the children awav for a month’s visit Vacation Begins Two Laurens Homes At Orphanage At Same Time Vacation at the Thornwell orphan- Vienna, Austria, June 23. ‘ 1”’ of the annual convention of Rotary (.o,n,munity to hear the distinguished j be delivered hv Rev. H. O. Ghamhers. . tional opened here today before 3,000 vjgjtor tomorrow evening. r/astor of Broad Street M(*thodist ofi*» relatives in various narts of this' ‘■tate, Georgia and Florida. Upon theiri temion of iv.lit.cal bonds b.t.een ,.a i„clud)n(r more than I.OOO d.l- Ifues-ljhi, dty -Iritc Gerol* Kovernmont is pr,- agates and mansbers of thair famd.as kiwanis club at dU.-i at T>«red to lenWner utmost efforts to- America. Hotel Clinton, at which time he will; L is3t of the ain, of Amar- Sydney W. Pascall of Undon, was | p;, Bn,|in*ton •ward., reaiizai to co- unanimous ballot as presi-; lean initiative. e Rotary International for the! operate politically, too, ivith an gov ernments to effect solution of those coming year, questions ■ w%ch are salient to the t President nacificatior. of Europe. , Austrian chancellor and foreign min- “With )ut recovery of business and • ister and the governor of \ lenna were finance there can be no easing of the |in attendance as were diplomats of all countries. pastor of Broad Street The public is given a cor dial invitation by the oastor incr (in Ea-t .Main -itrc.'t,. arway the upper porticn of •• “ '• return, the second section will he awav * >' • H-'from the campus for a similar oerioii. ' - mile a;ur‘. was not df'teinrn- l.auien-', June 'J.'!. Two fire-; ii broke out at the -ami- time t ;•>>* di-'tioyi-d the home and furnishir c- ■ *' G. F. ^incr on Ea-t .Main .stri-.o,. n - j burned arway the upper porticn of tin- --•ri ,-v salient to the I President Miklas of .Austria, thej political situation and without politi- »«nn/,i,iiPv A removal of economci 1 cal tranquility a distress is inconceivable. IHCHT FAN DIES -The chancellor insisted the bus- ROUND ENDS; iness and political aspects both ar^e ml j a sUte of dependent r^tionship. ,!'Vcolimibia, June 23. — As the bell, “The well-being o, Tluront an , ^ng, marking the end of the main I the'whole world, he .sai , vXbput of a boxing card at Newman on ■whether those who, by the 'I’Sk'c ^ fi^]^ here, John J. West, 44, of Che- whim of fate, became enemies in the yaw, slumped over with a heart at- WnrW war' are determined now onitack and died a few minutes later, worw war, are He was superintendent of the Che- bfcth sides to take he vi s ep- ^ cotton mill and had come tx) Co- ■which the dire need of this hour de-jjjg goj^g witness mands.” jthe matches. Collins, Of R. H. Macy & Co., Says Newspapers Are Best Kenneth Collin.8 of R. H. Macy & Co., New York, says: “Newspapers are the best medium because they reach the largest number of people at the lowest cost pe^ person, more quickly and with greater returns on our outlay than any other form of advertising so far developed. I do not know of a single successful department store in this coun try that does not spend the major p«rt of its advertising appropriation for newspaper advertising.” USE THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” A number of the children, delinquent, j^***”^’*’ about a in one or more studie.s during the vear. ^ , .ed tonight, six weeks ! The Sanaer their have been retained for summer .school course. For the children who have no homes to visit, “Riverside,” on the banks of Enoree river, has been opened with familv W'H.- away a‘'d entire property was lost. .\I-a. h of the contents of the Blakely h-vj.-e „ was saved. The two fire trucks were }. tron, and a large groun of boys aniL started at 8:30, when the girls went out last week to enjoy anj*"'*i alarm came in and by the t.-ne outing. Both of the cottages are in firemen responded to it, tjie t. a.. , N first-class condition and comfortable ^ hopelessly out of control, in every respect, and this promises to' Mrs. L. M. Dugan in charge as ma-l'’' fighting the Blakely b'aze. be an unusually popular resort for thi- next two months. MRS. RANTIN ILL The friends of Mrs. H. D. Rantin will learn with regret that she is ill at her home on Musgrove street and unite in hoping for her a speedy re covery. LEAVE CLINTON .Mr. and Mrs. Mile.s Hunter, for the- past few years residents of this city, have moved within the past week to Dwings where they will make their future home. During tbeir residence here Mr. and Mrs. Hunter made a host of friends who regret in their dep.irt- uie, and whose best wishes will f -i'ow them as they go elsewhere. ■ ■ "-i-i-ilfe(ri‘'&irli