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• THE CHRONICLE • • Strives To Be » Clean New#- • • paper, Coaiplete, Newsy, • and Reliable. mt OIltnt0tt (EIjrnttirIt’ If Yofl Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE You Don’t Get The News. VOLUME XXXI CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20,1931 NUMBER 34 COTTON CURES FLOORBOARD Many Proposals for Solving the Farmers’ Low-Price Dilemma. President Urged To Call Extra Session of Congress. Federal Buying Urged. Tammany Tiger Turns On Foes Greenville, Aug. 18.—Senator E. D. Smith announced 'here tonight that to morrow he would wire governors, con gressmen and commissioners of agri culture in all coKon growing states to join in support of his plan to have the federal farm board buy cotton in an effort to boost the price. He prpooses to have the board buy cotton at prevailing prices from all farmers who sign a contract not to plant cotton next year. COTTON ACREAGE LEGISLATION (From Manufacturers Record Once more, with the price of cotton average American cotton crop har-j I far below cost of production, there is vesttni in the past eight years hasfceen' I agitation In some quarters to limit the taken from 43,500,000 acres, as com- ' planted acreage by legislation. \ bill pared with an average of 33,000,000 New York, Aug. 17. Tammany been introduced in the Texas leg-.acres for the preceiling eight-year pe- : Hall tonight opened its drive for certain restrictions on riod. Meanwhile, production of foreign Democratic investigation of alleged state. cotton has increased and no doubt corruption in upstate Republican cit-i There is doubt as to the^etrnstitu-(would have increase<i a Board’s Next | Move Awaited Asks Roosevelt For Probe of j i Corruption In Republican Cit-1 1 ies. Governor Between Fires. Hope for Destruction Scheme Is Abandoned. Method To ‘Be' Adopted Holds Interest. Washington, Aug. 18. — With the farm board’s cotton destruction plan apparently rejected by the Southern states, new suggestions for solving the planters’ low price dilemma are pour- They range from leaving everyTfur row unpicked to contracting with the farmers not. to plant next year. Whether the board will formulate a new plan from these remains to V seen. Representative Lankford, Democrat, Georgia, submitted a proposal today that the board buy cotton, tobacco and turpentine and hold the purchases for price advances. He said the time loi a “great decisio” had arrived. He add ed it meant “life or death” for the farmers and for the farm board. At the same time Senator George of that state, asked President Hoover to consider a special session unle.ss the J)oard takes immediate steps to make stabilization purchases of cotton and curtail next year’s production. In a letter to the board, Lankford wrote: “Ivet the b(»ar(l, thi(>ugh'’'Slahiliza- tion corporations, l>egin buying all of these products (cotton, tobacco and turpentine) offered by the original producer for sale, and continue to buy until the price advances to a fair min imum price; let the board store the products and declare the purpose of the board not to sell any of such pro ducts now (twned or hereafter' pur chased except and until the hoard '-an dispose of same at a price sufficient to net the farmer the fixed fair mini mum price after payment of ail stor age and other holding expenses, the l)oard paying the present selling price as the initial payment and making ad- d.tional advances as the market price a lvalu es until the fair minimum price is finally raid to the farmer.” .\’o additional replies were received by the board today from governors to whom its plan of plowing under every third low of cotton was sent. .\t least seven already have rejected it. Four remain to be beard from. <'arl Williams, cotton member, said today an announcement might be forthcoming tomorrow on the amount (f advances to be made members of co-operatives this year in marketing their crop through these associations. Washington, Aug. 15.—What meth od the farm board finally will adopt to assist the Southern cotton farmer ^ I great dealjin his low-price dilemma tonight held ies in reprisal for the inquiry into the ■ ^f a law limiting crop aefe-' more had not the excessive American,the close interest of Washington., Democratic government of New York Farmers, the most independent i production tended to lower prices. | Hope has been virtually abandoned city by the Republican-controlled Hof-iFody of producers in the nation, would! The only salvation for the q^itton j fo,. ^ts proposal that a third of the stader committee.^ ^'rst to question the right of j fanner of the South is for each indi- In a letter to Governor Roosevelt, 1•''®y whether they|vidual to refrain from planting too [Senator John J. Dunnigan. snokesnian' should not plant cotton. Such I much co.tton and to grow it on the liest for the Democratic minority of the I® *®''’ would interfere with the indi-|of the cotton land at the lowest cost committee, demanded in Albany that j'’'d“®^’s right to work at an occupa-i possible, all the while endeavoring to; the states comptroller, a Democrat, bewhich in itself is not harmful to raise the quality and increase the; given the same powers in his exami- humanity. It is no crime to produce * length of the staple. Better cotton on nation of alleged irregularities in oth- h^o^e than can be consumed, although fewer acres. The er parts of the state as given to the'*^ contrary to sound economics. Record has repeatedly empha.sized. Hofstader investigators, | " ^®'’^ passed through several should be the objective. With so much He referred in particular to tne pro-experiences in tr.ving artificial-1 of the world’s area suitable for oot- posal that the committee be given the I b’ to control prices by governmental ton production, for any single state right to grant general immunity to edict. Is it any more reasonable to ex- or for the South as a whole to attewipt wMtnesses. Governor Roosevelt has | P^t that greater success may be ob- to legislate on the quantity of cotton called a special session of the legUla-' through legislation against to be grown, means that it wouhi not tending that authority. ' — ithat exceptionally favoraWe weather (farmer would find himself in the fix Senator Dunnigan asked the govef-1 niight produce an abnormally large,of the British controlled rubber indus- nor to urge the legislature to grantjerop on a decidedly smaller acrage.jtry—up against a rapidly expanding the same power to Rtate*CoTnptroller | Were we to succeed through legisla-'production in countries outside the Morris S. Tremaine, fion in curtailing cotton acreage, with- controlled area. In cotton, as in rub- With the letter the Democratic sen- i out regard to improving yield and her, coffee, sugar, and other products ‘ator sent a long memorandum listing quality, what would the foreign cot-1 where attempts have N en made arti- alleged irregularities in various parts i ton grower, including Russia, be doing ficially • to control production and of the state, ranging from “a shock- in the meantime? Foreign cotton acre- prices, th<‘'law of supply and demand BAHLE LOOMS IN CUBA Decisive EnKagement Awaited In Havana As Government Sends Troops. Censorship Con tinued and All Radio Stations Suspended. current crop be destroyed and stabi lization supplies held off ‘the market for a year. At U^st five actual rejections have been received from the 14 governors who were asked to join in the pro- Manufacturers There ap<parently is no nnmediate prospect of concerted state action al though many suggestions to that end have gone out. 'The disposition seems to be to leave the actual formulation of an acceptable plan squarely up to the farm board to be worked out from Havana, Aug. 18.- Havana this evening believed—with apparent rea son—that a decisive battle loom.s in Cuba’s eastern province. A revolutionary expedition landed at Gibara, in upper Oriente province, last night, it was reported here. The ship was said to be the “Frederick, II,” of German registry, with 500 men and scores of machine guns aboard. The government, admitting unofficial ly that the boat landed; believed it had the expeditionaries bottled up. Two hundred soldiers sent from Ha vana were joined in Santa Clara by 400 men stationed there, and kept on eastward. Another report said more expeditionaries landed on the ap|>er ward by goveThors," seniors, ah^ to li:<la5‘ planters. Governor Bilbo, of Mississippi, to day added his rejection of the Izard’s train south of Santa Clara. In Havana, air-tight censo>'sf\ip, t>oth on intra and extra island com- specific plan of plowing under every, munication, remained. Army off* third row unpicked as'V'‘8ubstiti#td plan. While they are similar. Bilbo contends plowing up the row would prove wasteful and an unwarranted •'•ers wires ing dissipation “collective and of public funds” to individual thievery” age has been steadily increasing and eventually governs the (|uantity pro-.expens**. nearly one-half the world’s cotton is duced. PriFfitable prices entice new I in »pite of the numerous objections 'and "the shortage of thousands of dol- supplied outside the United States, prinlucers and larger production. Lowji,, its plan the hoard today took some * lars collected by justices of the peace.” For every acre taken off the .Atneri- prices tend to weed out the inconipe- I Most of the towns and cities named'can crop there would be added soon an tent and to curtail pro<luction. I in the memorandum are controlled by Republican officials. ! As the Tammany demand was made public, the prospect was seen by many, political ob.servers of a possible wid-' ening rift between Tammany and the governor, who has been mentioned; (prominently as a potential Democratic 1025 presidential candidate in 1932. ! 192B In some quarters here it was pre- 1927 dicttKi that if Governor Roosevelt 1928 should accede to the Tammany de-|1929 mand he wquld so arouse the ire of 193(1 equal area to the cotton crop of for- Prosperity cannot 1h‘ achieved eign countries. through legislation. l,aws cannot force .\meriran Uolton Acreage and people to produce or to buy more than | to plow under a third of his crop.” World Percentage they are able, (’ooperative, free-will Percentage effort to stabilize production to de- of World’s man<i is one thing; to legislate ^to “w^re stationed over all perss and in all newspaper offices. ( were sent to army head(|uartei s for revision. Newspapers had to have their proofs approved by army heuiuiiar- ters, and afterward, the first . ipies of the newsjiaper, itself, blue-|)f . -iled by the interior secretary. No telephonic coinmuiiic atioii with the outside world, other than oa bii.-ti- farmers, finding each one willing >icss and personal matters, wa^ all )W- ^ed. ('noversation within the islan t wa.s Icut off when revolution was nuMition- aus- the encouragement from a lengthy tele gram dispatehed by a wealthy South ern grower who said he ha<l eanvasse<l 200 (Bales) <’rop 16,103,000 57.7 17,978,000 64.2 12,955,000 54.4 14,478,000 56.5 14J(28,tM)0 56.6 14,243,000 .51.1 achieve the same end is too near com munism for the American people. So viet Russia (ItHTees a 00 per c«*nt in crease in its cotton area. But we la*-' lieve that America will not, through Meanwhile, the hoani memlM.‘r8 eon-, , * tinned their efforts to reach an agree-«^®tions have been merit with the dirtx'tors of the Ameri-1news unfavoral.le t can Gotton (’ooperative association on If^vt inmen is peimitted. I he censorship Republicans to bbak passage bill at the special ae.ssion. But if he should refuse* to comply with the reejuest of his own party, po litical commentators said, the result would be dissatisfaction in Tammany circles and possible estrangement of ( the governor and his potential sup- j of anv It is of interest to note the amount of advances to Ik* grants!. farm<*r-menr»lM*rs in handling this !’ year’s harvest. The huni|H*r pro.spec-: , ... - . live crop of 15,584,000 bale.s was said' legi.slation, force a curtai ment of its,, , . ^ , ,•.,!!*» have eomplicated the negotiations, cottor. acreage an<l thus plav into the that thojhamls of foreign competitors. Missionary Union Group Conference Meets At Harmony Meets At Owings ... The ((uarterly meeting of the First Aiinounc«‘m<oit is made by porters in Tammany, a situation Djvj.sion of the I^aurens W. .M. U. will Carl Hramlett of I,Hurens, president of 717 a yi*ar ago. Th< by observers as inimical to his en- dor.sement by Tammany as a presiden- i," Saturday, August’ 22.’ .which have been in prin-ess for several days. I A census bureau report issued today (li.s<*!osed a dirmestie supply of Ameri- jcan cotton on July 31 of Ii,3(i9,l(l5 hales. Added to the prosjieetive croji of 15,584,000 bales, the year’s prospcc- jtive supply would amount to about Mr.s. 122,000,000 as compared with 18,310,- world carrv-over tial candidate. Whatever step the governor takes, | it is considered by certain politicians’ in both Republican and Democratic partie.s that it will have some bearing upon the availability of a New York man as the 1932 presidential candidate of the Dem(K-rats. The New York Sun predicted the governor probably would get out of the difficulty by stating in his mes- meet with Harmony Bajitist church the South Carolina I’resbytcrial that'of American cotton amount's to Groul) Conference .No. 3 of the I’res- proxiniately 2,0(10,00(1 bales more, erial ap 10:30 a. m.—Song. Devotional Mrs. Arch Owings. Enrollment of d<*lcgates. Gre<*tings Mrs. Mittie Rice. Re.sponse .Mrs. Ethel Robertson, Talk “Soul Winning in the IJfe of this group: Rocky Our W. M. U. Organization”—Mrs.'ship, Old Fields, byterial will be held .August 27th with! the Owings church. Th<' op4*niiig .s<‘s-j 'sion will convene at 10 o’clock in the] morning. I The following chunhes comprise! Springs, Friend- i Owings, Dorroh,! Waterloo Road On Paving List Included In Hijfhway Jobs To Be Let On Aui^ust 25. Musjfrove Bridge Also In List. I.«vender. j Todd .M einorial, Watts .Mills, l.aurensj .Song Mes.sage- Mrs. Arehie Cook. First, Li.sbon, Mountville and Liberty 1 Prayer—That our people may have .Springs. All members are exl<*nded aj . u • r ® If''‘'®t't‘r passion for winning lost; cordial invitation to attend the con sage to the legislature that he is l>m- iting inquiry to New A ork city Ik*-, Talk-Tithing in the Life of Our W. M. U.— Mrs. Rhett .Martin. Tithing in My Own Life—Mrs. Will Henderson and Miss F]ttie Farrow. Devotional—Mrs. Dutch Cook, Support Is Given Smith’s Scheme South (’arolina Senator Says ( ol- leagues In Six States Endorse Uotton Uroposai. to New A'ork city be-, cau.se the resolution creating the com mittee applied only to New York city and this session was urged and called * merely to patch a loophole left in the resolution. Laurens Firemen Enjoy Barbecue ' Talk—“Broader Intelligence in the (Responsibility of Our Christian Giti-"j* zenship -Mrs. Toy Patton, i Address Rev. P. D. Bragg. Mrs. Mace I.,angston, Sec. I ('oJumbia, Aug. 15. Senator L. [Smith d<*clarcd tonight that his col- be unus- league.*! in six large cotton states en- ('risp of!(lor.se his plan to remove all surplus will pre- cotton from the market by farm board side over all the .sessions. Mrs. ('. M.j purchase of 7,()(KMK)() to 8,()()0,00() Miller, president of the Laurens Aux- baUvs and abandon all 1932 eotton ference. I The program promises to 'Ually inU*resting. .Mrs. K. L (Cross Hill, is chairman and iliary, will make a talk, “Echoes From Mrs. .1. E. Kestler, of Lib- camc Uj ' t foreign corre.'^iom.ients here, who had believed the rev ' li tn was near an end with the captjr;* ;tf former President Mario C. Menocai and (bd. Carlos Mendieta, its two most important leaderk, and their con finement in Cabana fortress. ' In Santa Clara, the president re mained busy with his work of pii'ifi- cation, and government sources said many n'bels had surrendered, among them William Fi.scher, American nat uralized citizen of (’uba, who led in surgent forces that destroyed pr.iper- ty in Santa Clara worth $Lo,(»lMi. The (property wa>^owne(i by Seiiatnr t nr- ' los Machado, brother of the pio-si i.*rit. ! Fischer was (ire.seiited at the pro- • viiuial palace in Santa Clara, and smt on to Havana for confinement ’’i : a- bana, reports received here sai l, j When the President would i-.irn ^from Santa Clara was iinkm u . a'- i though his train remai.ied vv:tl. •:;m ti 1 Santa (dara di.spatches contin' *1 to I report .scattering skirmishes wit h r.-b- I).jels, and continued con entra’' i of their forces about the south 'la^t town of Trinidad. Troops ha\.u n .sent into that region in number-. ' There have been no definite r. I as to the whereabouts of Co!, II 'Mendez Penate and Col. .Ault^l■ [via, reported ojieratirig in that i I,jiiiren.s, Aug. 14.—The contract for paving the Waterloo road from Lau rens through Waterloo thence to con nect with the paving >from Greenwood on the Calhoun highrway is to be let on August 25th. it was announced re cently by the state highway depart ment. -At the same time a contract will be let for a concrete and struc tural steel bridge on route 5(> over En- ore'e river at .Musgrove mill. Announcement of the.se contracts was made along with that of 26 other prpjects throughout the state. Work will be done in 28 counties and will include 127 miles of standard concrete paving, 81 miles of bituminous sur facing, 33 miles of earth type roads and nine bridge projects. The antici pated value of all the contracts will be in the neighborhood of 3,500,000. The specifications for the Waterloo road call for paving with concrete of 16.177 miles on routes 10 and 72. Thej link from Laurens to Waterloo lies on route 10, while route 72 is the link be tween Waterloo and the Calhoun high- way. The bridge at Musgrove mill is'to take the place of a temporary struc ture erected there when the old bridge was washed away several years ago. Schools Open August Slst Laurens, Aug. 15.— In celebration of its annual picnic the Laurens city fire department officials, together with the volunteer members of the organi zation, city officials, police officers,] " and the families of each, participated As another gentle reminder that in a barbecue Thursday afternoon. The Glinton school bells will be ringing 'cue was given in the meadow just off soon comes the announcement that Church and Hampton streets. About Monday, August 3l8t, will bring the 100 men, women and children we.e formal opening of the new session. planting. Senalor.s and congre.ssmeti in North'but (bil. Gabeno Galdcz, anolht- erty, who is a well known Bible teach-^ Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississip-^ of independence veteran, is .-«a er, will conduct the Bible hour. * pi, Texas and Alabama responded fa- have some forces in the viciiv Dr. John M'.Sween, jiresident of .vorably to an in<|uiry of the South j Sierra de Banco. 'Presbyterian college, will make an in- ('arolina senator for su]>port, it wasj Unconfirmed rejioits from H spirational address, and Rev, John .Me- learned from Senator Smith through ■1 irts * rto H, - 'ion, vVi ■ Eachern, a returned missionary from Korea, will make the missionary ad- dres.s. SCHOOL OF MUSIC ADDED AT JOANNA in northwest Oriente, said thj a contact^here. tacliment of soldiers there had r.- The United States senator said he ed. In Huvatia, army headipiartc jdans to call a South-wide meeting as sued a statement claiming no .s-opn as possible and urge adoption of troo|) had gone over, his plan if a sufficient response is Indication pointed to covi . ' aroused from leaders by his sugges- fears of an uiirising in ILivao tion. (soon. Ten armored truck- aie k“ ; The ,South-wi<le meeting will follow front of police headquarters a* Mi.S8 Floride (!rouch of .Saluda, has closedy upon a gathering of South|hours ready foi eim rgeni y. Hous -ri, i.- ’ 2. present, and the event provided one The faculty ha.s been completed, the arrived at Goldville where she will (Carolina farmers at Greenville which house .search for arms has hcen -t ip- of the pleasurable occasions of the buildings put in first-class condition, teach violin and piano in the Joanna S<*nator Smith plans to address Tues-!pcd, it was learned on good auth. r'ty, summer, ®^^ everything will be in readiness for school for the coming session. .Miss(day. I)ecau8e of authentic reports tha*; ')p- R. Fi. Babb, city attorney, a'’ted as the opening. All teachers will 'oe in Crouch will also organize a glee club “I believe the Federal F’arm board positionists have weapons and a'nmu- toastmaster, and the principal address their re.spective class rooms on Satur- .and orchestra and this new depart-^can be persuades! to buy and hold 7,-'niti()n stored in many well burrijaJe l of the evening was made by Ralph T day. the 29th, to conduct re-examina-'ment under her direction is expected 000,000 to 8,000,000 bales of cotton if houses. Wilson, member of the Ijaurens bar, tions and to give any information de-ito prove quite popular for those who;the farmers demand it and agree toj and one of the city’s ready and always j sired by patrons and pupils. lare interested in music. plant' no cotton next year .so the mar- pleasing speakers. He spoke in behalf -ii" . . ' . '' ' - . r . — ket may get to normal,” Senator Union Service At A. R. P. Church The union service for next Sunday evening wilf be held in the Associate, Reformed Presbyterian church. Rev. Samuel P. Bowles will be the speaker avl all congregations in the city are invited to unite in this service. , / of the la’wyers, county and city offi cials and the citizens generally, and gave high praise to the local fire de partment and the men who compose its fire fighting ranks, both white and colored. The barbecue hosts and guest? were “waited on” in the serving O'f the pre- j pared ’cue dishes by the fifteen Negro firemen, who themselves were aficr- ward just “tumt loose” on the residue, ( which proved ample and wholly ^atis-1 fying. , The young people of the barbecue' party later in the evening repaired to the'American Legion hall -where a. square dance was given in honor of the occasion. I James L. Davenport is chief of the ’ fire department, and Nat Wallace is assistant chief. The fire truck drivers I are William Switzer and Richard i Babb. Misses Mary and Hattie Blakely of Ora, were guests 'Thursday of Miss Nannie Young Tribble. may Smith declared. WHICH DO YOU KNOW THE MOST ABOUT? The telephone The radio The telegraph The airplane The want ad The want ad is the most ser viceable to the a>seniife person of all the wonders of the age. Can you find a better job through the radio? Can you find a tenant for your house by telegraph ? Can you locate a lost bracelet by airplane? Can you find bargains by hap hazard telephoning? The want ad can do all of these things, It is the perfect method of mass communication. You can reach thousands of people by want ad cheaper than by any other way. THE CHRONICLE ‘The Paper Everybody Reads** Limestone Head Here Sunday 'The guest minister Prerf)yterian chunh morning will be Dr. R. Confessed Killer ! Saved By Flood ^ Newark, N. J., Aug. 17.—A Georgia (Sheriff today asked police to release Ben Powell, 51, because a murder in dictment returned against him 21 I years ago wos lost in a flood and there at the First . are no living witnesses. C. Cranberry, ^ ^ ,, „ “So,” the sheriff, R. J. Griffin of presTdent of l.ime,tone coHejrd. Ga.. wrot,. “ther^ ney. and one of the . atta w,d<.|y ^ ;knowneducators.l)r I» .J. Woods, the the hnmuide s.|uad pastor, w.ll return to the e.ty next,^t„ ^,,1; w«k and occupy h.s pulp.t nn Aufrust (30th. A cordt^nvitatwn is extended ^ ^ Ithe pubiKt «. hwr Dr. Cranberry next of . revolver. Sunday at 11:15 a. m. He was arrested here. July 2.3 TO SPEAK SUNDAY S. E. Evans of Laurinburg, N. C.,| has joined Mrs. Evans^ and littlei daughter here for a visit to her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Pitts. I Rev. John W. Speake of Spartan- I Mrs. W. W. Arrington and little son (burg, wUl preach at the Broad Street !of Greenville, spent the week-end with i Methodist church next Sunday morn- jber parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. F.|ing at 11 o’clock. The uublic i* cer- Blakely. jdially invited.