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I k THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be a Clean News-^ paper, Complete, Newsy, • and Reliable. • V ‘ ' Olbr Olltntnn (Ebronirlr VOLUME XXXI CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1931 BANKERS TO AID COTTON South Carolina Banks Subscribe MiUion Dollars In National Credit Corporation To Help Farmers Through Financing of Crop. DID YOU KNOW? Death Claims Local Citizen Great Inventor^ Loses Father Columbia, Oct^ 20. — Bankers of South Carolina today subscribed ap proximately $1,000,000 to the Nation- ^Credit corporation, designed^^to j Osborne. His boyhood days were spent with his parents, after which THAT—F. Claude Pinson is one of the city's fine type of business men as well as one of its most trentle, considerate and nVodest gentlemen. Mr. Pinson was born in Greenwood county near Ninety-Six, a son of James Franklin Pinson and Annie Re melt frozen bank assets, and further agreed to finance through July 31, 1932, 225,000 bales of cotton, ap proximately one-fourth of the state’s crop this year. The action cahie at a special call meeting to organize the paid;icipation in the credit corporation, formed at the instigation of President Hoover, and to consider the plan recently put Thomas A. Edison Passes Away Esteemed Union Resident, Fath- Peacefully During Sleep. Ben efactor of Millions In World. er of G. W. Hollingsworth, Dies At Ripe Age. Edison’s Life Told Briefly HOLD TWO IN MURDER CASE 1847- count.y. West Orange. N. J., Oct. 18. — In the dark hours of early morning, Thomas Alva F/dison today passed peacefully from a deep sleen into Friends in the city of Gus W. Hol lingsworth will sympathize with him in the death of his father, J. B. Hol lingsworth. which occurred at his 185'! death and a world whose civilization borne in Union last Saturday morn-; he went to Macon, Ga., as a young man, where he received his business training. Returning from Macon h' accepted his first position with the Ware Shoals Department store as bookkeeper and for twelve years he held this responsible connection. In 1919 Mr. Pinson move<l to flin- ton and accepted a clerical posi’ion forward at New Orleans for holding I with the Clinton Cotton Mills store. several million bales of 1931 cotton off the glutted market. The bankers said their action was an expression of their,.faith in the two and the nation from the .depression. It was pointed out that participation in the National Credit corporation makes available to South Carolina resource.s of the billion dollar organization. It i.s pos.sible. the bankers said, that a material addition may be made to the $1,000,000 already subscribed. The plan is designed to enable banks to convert their “frozen assets” into liquid form to be u.sed by the institu tion's for the benefit of their comnfu- nities. South Carolina’s unit in the cor- I. .ater a stock company was organ ized and this concern became the Clin ton Mercantile company, headinl by R. J. McCrary,a[Ti president, and Mr. Pin- jiuiL gaWl miitaijyAtgBiwgtMC' ItuUft laq Mr. McCrary’s deatmn 1928, C. H. McOary became president of the firm with Mr. Pinson retaining his former position. I>ast year .Mr. Mc- ■'‘rary disposed of his inter-'St In the busir.ess and it continued as a stock .''ompany with Mr. Pinson jiresi- dent and secretary-treasurer. He is also loral agent for the Gulf Refining company r.tid the inierests he beads have g*-(. vr. rapidly and sourJ'v un der hU giiMance. As an adopted son of Clinton, Mr. Pinson has thnwn his influence into he revolutionized paid reverent hom age to the most brilliant inventive mind it ha<f ever known. There was peace in the chamber where his figure, serene in death, now rested. There was peace throughout the sunshine flocxliHl park whert* he had made his home. The physical manifestation of the w’orld’s rever ence was borne to his sorrowing fam ily through those myriad channels of communication he himself had worked to perfect—'by telephone and tele graph an<l radio. But within the grounds of Llewellyn park there was only the occasional purr of an auto mobile to disturb the silence in which mg. The following account of Mr. Hol lingsworth’s passing, under a Union date line, is taken from The News of .Sunday: ~ Outside the five great gates of the park were unif<vrmed guatsls^ prt'vent- ing an anxious and curious world from intruding upon the Kdison fam ily. Inside, at the garage, which had I)een their headquarters during the long hours of Fxlison’s illness, were Union, Oct. 17. — J. B. Hollings worth, 72, well known citizen of this city, ditHl at his home on S. Church street here Saturday morning follow ing an illness of several weeks. Mr. Hollingsworth was a son of the late .Andrew and Mrs. Martha Jeans Hollingsworth, of l..aurens, and came to I’nion about 35 years ago. He was a member of one of thb oldest fami lies in the Piedmont .section. His an- tlers (f Union county and for “the past 150 years their descendants have lived within Union and Laurens coun ties and have contributed much to ward the upbuilding of these commu- nitii 3. Born at Milan, Erie Ohio, February 11. 4>ets up first F^lison laboratory at Port Huron, Mich. 1859—Bogins 'business career as newsboy on Grand Trunk trains. 1862— Ix*arns telegraphy from Mount Clemen’s Mich., station agent. 1863- 68—^Roams central west as tele graph operator. 1808—Receives his fir.st patent, for a V(-te recording machine. 1869 IVvelops improved model elec tric stock ticker. 1870—Opens own shop in Newark, N. J., for building stiK’k tick ers. Aids Christopher I,. Sholes in making working mo<Iel of first practicable typewriter. -Di'velops duplex and quadru- j plex telegraph Cijuipment; in vents automatic duplicating machine. ( } Marnes Mary G. Stillwell, by 1871 1872- Coot Richards and Lee Payne, Negroes, Said To Be Owners of Gun and Kalf., Held In Penitentiary On Charge of Slayinjr W. C. Rasor at Cross Hill Several Weeks Aijo. 1873 Mr. Hollingsworth is survive<l by the representatives of the nation’s his wife, who was before her mar- newspapers—and the great journals of many foreign lands to give the world their portrayals of the final scenes in a life crowded with activity and color. ‘H'almlv submissive to the will of poration will be managed by a loan , community and every worth-while the Almighty,” Mrs. Mina Miller Edi committee of seven bankers to be ap pointed by a committee composed of W. J. Roddey, Sr., of Rock Hill, A. L. M. Wiggins of Hartsville, president of the South Carolina Bankers associ ation, and A. E. Bird of Charleston, vice-president of the association. Mr. Roddey was appointed by the Fifth Federal Reserve District directors as organizer for the South Carolina unit j unassuming in of the corporation. He said tonight that he expected to b6 in a position to announce the mem bership of the loan committee before the end of the week. Speaking here tonight, Mr. Wig gins said, “South Carolina bankers today demonstrated not only their faith in themselves and in South Car olina, but their ability to capitalize the possibilities that lie ahead by tak ing a large participation in the most substantial agency for economic re construction that has l>een develojied —the National Credit corporation. Few people realize the large release of money that will follow the oper ations of this corporation. “South Carolina will benefit to a large extent in the release of these funds as a result of the large sub scriptions of South Carolina to the debentures of the corporation.” The bankers’ action in regard to cotton holdings is effective only on ecmliticn that the 1932 crop be re duced by 50 per cent from the 1931 acreage. They pledged themselves to make every effort to see that such a reduction is carried out. The decision to participate in the credit corporation program was made at a two hour morning session, at tended by approximately 50 bankers. -At a longer session in the afternoon the cotton plan was approved. Through it the banks of South Car olina agreed to join with banks of other cotton states to make or to re new loans maturing not earlier than July 31, 1932, secured by cotton to the total amount of at least 3,500,000 bales. catJse has always received his ready and effective support. Prominently identified with the city’s civic, reli gious and business life, he has made many friends since coming here son, his wife, LowcmI to the inevitable and bravely acceptecl the passing of her husband. In a dignified and cour- ag€K)us mes.sage to the world, through the press, her family later expressed twelve years ago, and having made' their admiration for her strength un them, kept them. A man of the high- j der this ordeal. est principles, with a great sense of , the bedside when Edison’s sleep honor and duty, extremely quiet and!,hocame lasting were; Thomas A. Edi- his manner, he has made distinct contribution to the building and expansion of the com munity. s(-n, Jr.. William L. Edison and .Mar ion Edison Oser, children by the in ventor’s first marriage; Charles Edi son, Madeleine Edison Sloane and Mr. Pinson is a loyal member of.;'j^^Qjoj.e Edison, his children by his the North Broad Street Methoclist j second marriage. Another group of church and a faithful member of its j j.|ose relatives was in an adjoining board of stewards. He has been iden tified with the Chamber of Commerce and is an active and useful memlxT of the Kiwanis club, .Mr. Pinson’s wife before marriage was .Mi.ss Lucy (’lardy of Laurens. They have an adopte<l daughter. Miss Mary Pinson, who is an accomplished and popular student at Limestone college. He has two sister, Mrs, G. E. Dukes and Miss F'annie Pinson of Greenwood; and five brothers, E. B.) and J. A. Pinson of this city, R. D., J. W., and J. E. Pinson, all of Green wood. room. Party Forces Are Divided riage, Miss Elizalndh Copelan<l of Laurens, and the following children: Mrs. Lilia Heath. Mrs. Heelan<l God- shall, of Uni(.n; Mrs. Russell Drake, of Spartanburg; John A.. T. Arch, J. (^larence, George E., and P. H. Hol lingsworth, of Union; and Gus Hol lingsworth, of Clinton; one brother, J. P. Hollingsworth, of Miami, Ela., and a sister, Mrs. Hattie H. Miller, of Kinards. F'uneral services were hel<l at Grace Methodist church at 3:30 Sunday af ternoon conducted by his j)astor. Dr. David English Camak, assisted by Rev. L. L. Wagnon, Rev. J E. Mathe- son and Rev. la*wi.s M. Rice. Inter ment followed in Rosemont cemetery, in charge of Maple camp, Woo<lmen of the Wt)r!<l. The honora'ry pallbearei s -vere; Dr I). 11. Montgomery, L. B. (Jodshall, VV’. D. Harris, B. B. James, .1. S. Bet- enbaugh, T, A. .Murrah, John .lames, W. C. Lake, O. E. Fuller, J. M. Pitts. J. C. McMillan and VV'. M. McMillan. rhe active pall Deo rers were: W. II. Lancast T, D. Blalocl^, Dock .South ard, 1. Frank Peake, Eugene Edwards 1882 18HG 1891 and E. W. Stone. Head of Allied Forces For Pro hibition Says Campaii^n Is Pushed and Sees Victory. she died In 1884.' 1876— Improves telephone for com mercial use. 1877— Invents the phonograph. 1879—Invents the incan<les<'ent elec tric light. 1880 Develops new typ<* dynamo. 1888-82 Builds pioniMT electric rail way line. OjM'ns nation's first commer cial electric lighting central station. New York, Kept. 4. Marries Mias Mina M. Miller. Three children were horn to them. Invents the motion picture camera (“Kinetagraph”). 1900-1910—Perfects chemistry of con crete. Intnuluces talking motion pic tures (“Kinetophone”). Devises process for making synthetic phenol (carbolic aci<l). Becomes president of naval consulting board. 1917-18—Turns energies to naval in ventions. 1926—Begins Florida experiments it. pnMlucirig of .synthetic rubber. 1928 lieceives congressional gold medal. There were rumors yesterday of the possibility of additional a: ;e«*'< in U’la investigation of the s!.t big of W. C. R;tsor at his home in (’ross Hill, but neither state nor county officers would confirm the reports. When ask ed if additional arrr: ts were exiiecte 1, •tttaehes in the office ( f Sheriff Ow ens staled, “We can’t say at this time.” It was also indicated that much information which iias not been divulged has been obtained by those wc.rking on the case. Two Negroes, Coot Richards and Le<> Payne, were arrested last rhurs- day at their homes on a Rasor farm near Ooss Hill by Sheriff'Owon.s and State ( onstalble .1. W. ILchard.son aial itYj rrtediHte’v fakentl. i Hie sTate 1912 1914 penitentiary for safe-keeping. They' were taken, it was '‘ated I'V offii'crs, not so much for safekeep’ng as f r pur|)oses of separation. It chanis is very black and Payne a n; i! , . .l-'ko ILisor, since hi.s recovery fi ..n ihi* attack ma(ie upon him (oi .iic night of the trageiiy, has stand diai the party who attacked him w.ts either a whit(‘ man or a mulatto. .Sheriff Owens, followi’ig the aric.-t 1915 Laurens Baptist Meeting Held last week of the two N’egroe-:, has stall'd that he eonsidc's the Rasor mjsti'iy as now clearing up. IL' said that the shot gun fiyind on the hack porch of the Rasor home and the knife discovered by the si<ie of the dead man, have been i(l<*ntified as be longing to Richards and Payne. The officer still is of the opinion that the motive of the killers was the murder of father and son. He be- lieve.y, too, that the murder was com mittal hy persons familiar with the surroundings of the Rasor place. Neither of the Negroes, when ar- lested, made any comment and did not ask why they were being taken to (Columbia, l^ater, on being landed in the penitentiary, both denied all e >n- nection with the crime. They wiy bey held, it is stated, until the February term of erirninal court in this county, at which time a hill of indictment against them is expected to he turn- I i*d over to the grand jui y. I In the meanwhile '.he mvesiigalion is .continuing and theie may li" other P.C. Dean Has - Plenty Speed Brown Shows the Boys He Can Still Step Along By Racing Uootball Player. Wa.shington, Oet. 19. — ('ompleU* success in its fir.st campaign to ob tain dry planks in 1932 was claimwl by the Allied Forces for Prohibition today as the Democratic national committee* pointed to “the wide range of opinion” within the party on the i.ssue. Dr, Daniel A, Poling, chairman, said Allied Forc.es attainwl “every objective” in the first transcontinent al Baruch Donates $13,000 To Fund Reaffirm Faith In Eighteenth arrests before the ca-( is dosed Amendment At 35th Annual Gathering At Oi.unty Seat. South (’arolina Native Sub scribes To Slate Progress As sociation. Abbeville, (K't. 17.—.State .S<*nator P'red I). West, of Abbeville, chairman of the South ('arolina Progress Move ment, t(Klay announced Bernard M. Baruch, New York financier and a compaign of a drive to pledge a | native of .South Carolina, had sub- i million or more votes to prohibition Prof. M. W. Brown, dean of Pres-' P''"''''' ‘h" "i'’" byterian coBeKe, althouitb not in |‘•onventions. training for the track team, showed 1 In 39 days, he said, 39 cities and the boys Friday he still can step live-' 1^ states have been visited and or- ly. ganize<i, and 43,000 voters have per- Challenged by Mike Caskey, alter- sonally signe<l “a declaration of loy- nate captain of the football team, to ally to ,the Eighteenth amendment.” a 440-yard dash, the dean accepted i The Democratic committee quoted and they forthwith repaired to John- | statements on prohibition hy George son field in street clothes where they j Gordon Battle, New York lawyer, and raced before cheering students, j repre.'’entative Tarver of Georgia, f pv t I Observers said the race was a dead ; published by the Woman’s .National ... . r whereupon the dean challengt^d , iH-moeratic club in the bulletin which ^a-key to a 100-yard dash. The foot- I is presenting a series of platform dis- hall player a.sked that this be defer- j cussions by i.rominent party leaders. red ff.r ‘everal da.\ s , Bat‘le favored a natii nal referen- Ca-skey, on physicians orders n-' “prohibition cently turned in hi.s football uniform dent of the South (I'-arolina Cotton Co (Continued on page four) Clinton Boy- PrOmOtiOIl' lUness weakened should be e.sc he wed,” him, and was arguing about his phys ' ica! condition when the challenge was R bert P. Jeanes of this city, neew ' made, a stu.ient at the .South Carolina .Medi- 1 cal college. Charleston, has been pro-! moted from 2nd lieutenant to the grade of Isl lieutenant, infantry re serve, in the Officers’ Reserve corn.-;. U. .S. army, according to an annour. e- ment made yesterday from the adiu tant general’s office. Mr. Jeanes is a New Sergeant At College “Both narties are snlit over it,” Tarver said, “and any declaration in the platform r^dative thereto, except it de-lar< in favor of 'he enforcement of all laws, will inevi.ahly eliminate all of th( great issues upon which we have such a .scribed $13,000 in the campaign to rais<* $98,000 to further the work of the South Carolina Natural Resour ces commission. Th'* sub-scription was the first to he received in the movement launched by the .South Caiolina Progress asso ciation. It was received after .Senator West bail telegraphed Mr. Baruch of the progress movement plans ami the need for additional ecpiipment at the food research laboratory. I^turons, Oct. 16. The I.aurens Baptist association yesterday after noon shortly Ix'fore concluding its 35th annual session, with the I.ucas Avenue church, adopted resolutions reaffirming “our faith in the Eigh- tc'cnth amendment and all the laws designed to make it effective.” The resolutions, written and offer- <‘d by a special committee, also de plored the “effort being made in our legislature to legalize race track gambling and to weaken the prohihi- ' tion law.” In this connection the re.so- lution appeal'’ to the I.aurens county h'^i.^lative delegation to “give '.heii earne.sl support to all efforts to up hold the Eighteenth amendment and Synods’ Support To Be Increased Georgia and South ra»-o!in;i Bodie.s Place College In Bud gets For Total ( f l.fMiO. President MeSween. who has ju-;t returned from Waycro.ss, ('la., wh.'ro he attende<i the annual meeting of h” Synod of Georgia, joint owners of Presbyterian college with the .S> ii »d of South Carolina, reiior's an in- crea.sed interest and support in the college hy the Pro hyti-'of the neighboring s'..'it< . He <xp!'e<-cd hi'n- self as being highly jilea-ed with t!ie support of the synod and its act on laws design<*d Cor its enforcemen'. and ! . . • .u i i . , , r 'fi increasing the l)udg<d :imoi!i’' ('.''n to put forth every right means for . , „ , . • ,, n ' ^ , , J inir tfi liin (•.i!!* I • iht prohioitin^r rare track anu oth- er forms of gamhiing.” The association will hold its 19:;2 ling to Pr( shytei ian cotli L'’e. Ilie lit- i ter will amount to for the } ‘jnr I 1932-33. session with N<*w Pro.spect ehui'h. .Since th( Cc'rgia s'-m d 'ook o', and the annual sermnn will ho prea'-h- joinf control of th<‘ e dhgt in I92't, In a telegram to .Mr. West accom-■ hy the Rev. E. M. Bostic, (.r the : allowan e lor the :ns. '. i- panying the suh.scriplii.n, .Mr. Baruch j ,I. I). Mayle'r. j tion has increased from ’ ■ [x r said: j Officers for another year w ic re-j to 2'/j per cent and 'he “I am [ileacel to subscrilx* towani •'decti'd: C. B. Bobo, moderator; .S. W. , (a'orgia hoys in the 'sti'.d; funel .$13,000 which, you say, is i Suioere 1, yice-jrn(Mlera.tor; \V. I’. d'’il- materially increase th needed a I . nii'i'h- r of ■; ly has In I92H. si.K or the' food research labora tory at Charleston and which I w.auld | clerks, anel R. E. Thompson like to have alhicated for that pur- j urer. pose. I fee! sure that if South ('aroliri- i On request a letter of dismia.-ion ians will have the confidence in them- j was grantee! the Goldville Baptbst selves that the resources of their ehiiinh whieih wishes to jeein the state and their own character justi- hert.-on anel the Rev. VV. ,A. Ikdeiwin,' pyj (yrit eif the sludeni h <ly (or six- treas-, men), wa.'- made uji of Georgia i l»oys, This ye'ar, h'lweveo, the Ge-or- ■ g’ans comjios- fifte'en pe r ce-nt of the group and have forty-or.e men en- e'h’Jinh whieih wishes to jf)in the River asseiciation of Newberry I Sirt. .S. Younit, furmerlv with ,he 22rd infantry, stationfd at Fort yfe! "TheM two qoutations are merely son of Mr. and Mrs. P. S, Jeanes, and ph^rsen in Atlanta Ga. arrived in ' s^^niples that illustrate the wide range a graduate of Presbyterian college.! j- nday f^r duty with the R. opinion, net only on prohibition His many friends here will learn wiih i q. T. C. department at Presbyterian numerous other subjects pre interest of his promotion in the re- college headed by Capt. R. E. Wysor. sented.” ^ serve corps. He s’jcceeds Sgt. A. W. Parker, who! to*^ Reeily I fy, it will bring confidence of others j oountV. tremendous advantage ; and happiness to them.” ! a'teiidiinre on th* se.s.-ions was over the Republican.s at this time.” ) | i.^a.^uallv good and at noon each day At the close of the quotations, the . T' I‘dinner wa., served on the lawn near. ^ ^ County Treasurer j i,he community home, in charge <if! in the Li.>*,-33. The GRIDIRON w L T Pet. Furman .... 3 0 1 1,000 Citadel .... 2 1 1 .667 Wofford ... 2 1 1 .667 Clemson .... 1 2 1 .333 Presbyterian .... .... 1 2 1 .333 Erskine .... 1 2 1 .238 South Carolina .. .... 1 2 0 .833 •••• .... 0 4 0 .000 ' has returned to^^e Hth infantry, I Fort Mcultrie, after being stationed i here the past year. Sgt. Young comes highly recom- ! mended by the commanding officer of the 22nd infantry with which Jie has been connected for the past seven years. He will be joined later by his wife and two-year-oid son to make their home here. Visitors Sunday At Baptist Church I By a recent action, the Synod of South Carolina vot«'<r 16 per c<‘nt of i its budget of $300,000 to the college, :nakirg an income from that source U 1 p . special cc.mmitti (.s of the church anl (>eorgia body voted IxCafly rOr l axes, community. Resolutions thanking the | Rs budget of $244,1 ‘>1. I church for it •er cent of 000 for the same fine entertainment of ' period. The amount to he rei'eived i.s Books for state, county and school! (he assix iation were adopted alon.g .$6,105, an increase of nearly $ l,0U0 ^ district taxes were opened for collec- j with other resolutions during tion Oct. 15th, according to the regu-' of the bixly. lar treasurer’s announcement in to- • ^ thXf'over this year. day’s paper. The total millage for ENTERS MOODY Mrs. R. M. Lea^ros* Mrs. Roy Mad den and Miss Mary Grace Madden spent Saturday in Gteenrille. A group of young men from North Greenville Baptist academy will have charge of the services at the First Baptist church of this city next Sun day morning at 11 o’clock. A varied program, both interesting and help ful, has ^en arranged for this service to which the public is cordially in vited. state and county purposes remains at 40 mills, the saij^ as last year, sev eral^ changes being made in individ ual items. The ordinary county tax and the item for past indebt^nes.s are each increased one mill, but the average tax for general county pur- BIBLE SCHOOL John G. Willingham, a former pu pil and graduate of the Thornwel. or phanage, has enrolled at the Moody Bible institute, Chicago, IM., with an Football Slate For This Week poses is kept at the same figure as l*^coming class of 255, of which 120 last year by a reduction of two mills in the item for roads and bridges. All other items remain at the same fig ure as last year. are men. The institute provides cours es of Bible study and methods of Christian work, including special training in gospel music. Saturday Wofford vs Mercer at Spartanburg Presbyterian vs Chattaiioogaa at Chattanooga. Erskine vs Davidson at Davidson. Furman .vs Oglethorpe at Atlanta. Citadel vs Stetson in Charleston.^ Newberry vs Piedmont in College Park, Ga. ^ , \