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VOLUME X'XXII CLINTON, S. C.; THURSDAY, APRIL 28,1932 NUMBER 17 SMITH WINS IN HASTATE Conceded Massachusetts In Pri mary Test With Roosevdt. Likely To Become Formidable Fl^rnre At Democratic Con- nrentioii In June. Washinirtoh. April 26. — With one^ of the state heard from, Alfred had apparently won a sweep- infTvictory in ^e Massachxisetts pres idential primary tonight. Mrs. Henry Young Dies At Home Beloved Woman Passes After Brief Illness. Hundreds Gath er To Pay Tribute. Jealousy Cause Of Wife’s Death Nineteen-Year-Old Horry Coun ty Farmer Killed Bride After Quarrel At Home. Mrs. R. H. Young, 62, beloved Clin ton woman and widoW of the late R. Henry Young, passed away at her res idence Monday morning after a ten Mayor James M. Curley of Boston,'.at the home Tue^Hi^' afternoon at leader of the Franklin D. Roosevelt! ?<>.«*■ « large gathering of forces, virtu-^lly conceded defeat of ' Columbia, April 26.—State consta bles announced today that Henry B. Elliott, Jr., 19-year-old Horry county farmer, had confessed to them he days’ illness, the outcome of Which, slew his young wife in ^ quarrel at had been feared for several days”tie-' fore the sad end came. The funeral service was conducted at the home Tue^H^^' afternoon r the New York governor’s slate of del egates, although there was a slight chance Roosevelt w’ould capture a few district delegates. Thirty-six votes in the Democratic national convention were at stake. Smith also was lead ing iii the Pennsylvania presidential preference voting, but on the basis of returns largely from Philadelphia, where sentiment for him iS strong. With 76 delegates to be selected, fjovernor Roosevelt’s forces were con fident the final tabulations w'ould show a big majorXty of the delegates for him to offset the Smith rictory in Massachusetts. The preference vote there is not binding on the delegates. The Roosevelt_ foive.} were not ex pected to make much of a dent in the Massachusetts delegation, but Sena tor David I. Walsh, one of the Smith delegates at large, said the vote would make Smith a “formidable figure” in the'Democratic national convention and give him a “strength and impetus to be reckpned with.” Smith himself iwsued a statement of apprei iatimr, while John K. Costel lo, DenKK-ratic national committee man from the .District of Columbia, refused to take the Smith challenge^ of Roosevelt’s dominant candidacy se riously. A Roosevelt man, Costello said: “Smith has shot his bolt in Massai'husetts. The vole there will strengthen Roosevelt in the rest of the country. He can’t be stopped.” Senator Dill, 'Democrat, of Wash ington, another Roosevelt supporter, expressed the belief the countiy dis tricts in Pennsylvania would plaice . Sooaevelt abaad of Smith tn tbe bal loting and give him a large majority of che delegates. Senator James J. Davis, r< cent con vert to the anti-prohibition cause, was running well ahead of his dry oppon ent, Smedley D. Butler, for the Re- pu>blican senatorial nomination in Pennsylvania —■ 133,651 to 50,851 in 1,131 of the state's 8,181 districts. ' Representative McFadden, Republi- —can, of..J.VinuayJvania.^ -administration. critic, was leading Mrs. Gifford Pin- chot, wife of the governor of Penn 'frien<is and loved ones present to pay a last tribute to one who had been a part of Clinton since her early girl hood. The‘^iervices were in charge of her pastor. Dr. D. J. Woods, Dr. Dud ley Jones, Dr. John MeSween, and Rev. J. M. Dick of Pulaski, Va. Inter ment followed in the Presbyterian cemetery. Many beautiful floral of ferings, and a large attendance at the services were indicative of Mrs. Young’s wide popularity. Active pallbearers were: Everett, Cecil, Otis, Dixon, and Yancy Poole, and Edd Stroud, nephews of^ the de ceased. Arthur Copeland and Dugas Copeland. | Mrs. Young was born on 4)ec. 11, 1870, at Cross .Anchor, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Stroud. Her moth er, who still reside.s at Cross Anchor. their home in the Green Sea section of the county. ^ State Oonatable C. Fred Newman said Elliott confessed to him and Con stables J. W. Richardson and C. L. Melton at the penitentiary yesterday. After the confession, the farmer was turned over to Sheriff John 0. Chest nut, of ^Horiy, and returned to the county jail at Conway. Elliott at first claimed his 17-yoar- old wife killed herself, and a coroner’s jury, shortly after her death A^ril 6, returned a veixiict of suicide. ^ Constable Melton w’as sent to inves tigate tlie-..4leatjh and Efliott’s arrest followed. The farmer was brought to the penit<pntiary. He continued to deny killing his wife until ye.sterday when, Major Cornish To Inspect Unit Annual Spring “jOnce-Over” of ^R. O. T. C. Organization To , Be Held Today and Tomorrow. The annual spring inspection of the R. O. T. C. unit at Presbyterian col lege by the waf~department will he under the direction of Major George R. F. Cornish, of Columbia. The in- '•spection is to take place today and Friday, nad is to be taken part In by all members of the military unit. Major Cornish at present is sta tioned at Columbia, where he is act ing as recruiting officer for South training at Wofford, from w’hich in stitution he graduated in the class of 1911. He entered the service of the Fanners Facing Cut WtMtns Again Cycle for Pests of Truckers and Farmers Returns. J. Clifton Rivers Advises Poisoning. Columbia, April 26. — \ warning against a “scourge of cut wornir-,” which, he said, is facing farmers, gardners and * truck growers of the state this year wa.s issued today by J. Clifton Rivers, state warehou.'fc commissioner. j Mr. Rivers said the worms are es pecially bad on rich loamy soils that contain a great deal of humus or de caying vegetable matter. He recom mended the use of a Paris green mix- UONS HEAR HEALTH TALK Dr. James'A. Hayne Addresses I>ocal Club On Problems of Municipal Sanitation. Outlines Requirements Adopted By 15 Cities In South Carolina. Carolina. He received his collegetture for controlling them, expl.miing how it is prepared and applied In his statement, Mr. Rivers saiJ red ants are the natural enemies of is now 90 yea^rs of age, and was un- the slaying. the A*onstable.s said, he broke dowr/ un der questioning and confessed. Newman said the facmer bianied jealousy for the killing. / Mrs. Elliott was stabbed through the heart with a large knife. Newman told how Elliott broke down and cried as he narrated the United States army in 1916, wher'&hetf^^ worms, and the worms '-onu has continued to serve. Major Cor-l‘" numbers ' ni.sh is also a graduate of the United States Infantry .school, and has re cently comi)leted a course at the Gen eral Staff college. Some years agb” he served as pro- able to attend the funeral on account of illness. Before marriage Mrs. Young was Mary Etta Stroud, a mem ber of a representative family of Spartanburg county. On Dec. 27, 1888, she was united in marriage to R. H. Young, w'ho pi-eceded her to the grave eight years ago. Just a few weeks ago death claimed her elder son, N. Reese Young, and last July her daughter-in-law, Mrs. John T. Young. Mrs. Y’oung had been a resident of Clinton for forty-four years and dur ing all the years of her residence here she lived a most exemplary life, a life which will long leave its impress upon all who knew her. Gracious and digni fied, hospitable jind generous, a de voted wife and mother, she was typi cal of all Uiat the word lady meant in her generation. ' Mrs, Young was singularly modest, unobtrusive, but she was truly a stal wart in seeing—and doing—the right thing. Uniting early in life with the First Presbyterian church, she lived a life of Christian exapaple and through her active years she was al- w’ays loyal to her church and its ac tivities and willingly did her part in a spirit of devotion. She was a gentle woman of the true Southern type, sweet and gentle always, and one who . . .was loived by a large circle of devoted 8l5'vania, in his race for , friends all over Clinton to whom the by nearly 1,300 votes on the basis of returns from 58 of the 312 precincts in the 15th congressional district. Prersident Hoover was assui^ of | j 31 of <he 24 Republican delegates in Massachusetts and practically all of the 75 in Pennsylvania, although late returns tonight were inconclusive. Mr. Hoover also picked up 19 delegates today in Arkansas. South Carolina and Alaska and tomorrow’s conven tions in Kentucky and Michig|in are news of her passing brings wide spread grief. Mrs. Young is survived by her The youth had .sjH'nt the night away from home prior to the killing. He had been on a fi.shiug trip. He and his wife quarreled bitterly tJie next. day. They were woiking in a tobacco bed some distance from the house when Mrs. Elliott told her husband if he could go out and stay all nightr she W’ould do as .she plea.-ed also. She then told him fShe was going that afternoon to visit a sister who had married her former suHor. This brought on a fre«h argument. Fllliott, according to Newman, was very jealous of the man, and<forbade his wife to leave. She insisted on going and a short time after the midday meal they went to the house for her to prepare to make the visit. She was washing her \fau^ whan he saw the bus she planned to catch go past the house. Elliott, apparently pleased, inform ed her of the fact and she made the retort she would go the next day. When he said she couWn’t, she sjapped him. Angered, Newman said Elliott told him, be took ^ out his long knife and stabbed her once in ther breast as she was sitting on the bed. Elliott said she slumped over without saying a word. After this, the young farmer went ■back to the tobacco bed, worked for a while and then returned to find his wife’s body cold. He then reported his wife’s death to relatives, claiming it W’as suicide. ^ , in years when the ants are .small in number. “The cut worm pest,” he said, comes in cycles as docs its natural enemy, the red ant, which destroys the mtji^uch an extent that they ^rijijK’fetmiselvc.s, and the cut wnrm OTitJ mother moth then inicreases in the same ratio that the •natural enemy docrea.ses, so that ‘'onic years we have no cut worms of any conse quence. ' demonstration., and the taetieal pnob-', “Tt'* '' *'’‘1 T'" , worm, who works its dep- ^e.ssor of military science and tactics at Wofford. On Thursday Major Cornish will review the battalion, and in.-spect the companies, revieiA'ing clos<‘ order drill, lem. On Friday the written examina tions will bo given ^nd lu‘ will also orally examine ■members of the unit; Classes will he suspended on Thurs day morning, the whole morning be ing given uver to the R. O. T. C. work. Oti Friday the regular schedule redations in the night time by cutting Dr. James A. Hayne, of Columbia, chief •suite health officer for South Carolina, spoke before the Uons difb of Clinton at the meeting held la.st Friday evening. His subject was “Mu nicipal Sanitation.” Dr. Hayne stated that a municipal sanitation program should include three divisions, the furnishing of a pure supply ^f water, an adequate sewerage system, and a rigid inspec tion of milk ami food offered for sale. Constant care should be taken. Dr, Hayne .said, to see that the water supply of a town is kept free from contamination, by frequent analysis by competent authorities. The .sewerage system should include all sections of the town and be extended far enough from the town to remove any danger to the health of the community. All sources of supply of milk and food should be subject to fretjuent inspec- tion.s, the speaker said. Dr. Hayme contended that the inspection should go further than the commodities ^ fertKl for sale. It should include the persons handling them, tht~ physical come tt]^ in the area affected by them. Especially do they work havew among cabbage, collard, tomato, l>ean ami other garden plants of that nature. In their eycle years they attack cotton of classes will i>e followd, but those; ''"‘"S' standing the exams wit-,|>l. excused i.J'''* from other classes during that time. | _ down almost any young plants that' dairies, .n Members of the battalion have het*n “.A very successful method of con- working hard aJl years to maintain po.st is by q.sing a Paris the s'tandard of ex<’ellence held by thisl g)-i>i>n mixture made up and used as unit, and as the accomplishments of (follows: the unit look at present, they will suc ceed. For the past two years Presbyte rian has ranked highest in the Fdurth Corps area. In 1930 the rating was 90 per cent, and in 1931 it was 97 per cent. , Clinton Loses . Dr. F. L. Webb Anchor; two brother, Cary Stroud of Cross Anchor, and W. H. Stroud of Austin, Texas; one sister, Mrs. D. L. Poole of Spartanburg; the following children, John T. Young of this city, Mrs. John C. Henry of Greenville, Mrs. A. B. Godfrey of Abbeville; a daughter-in-law, Mrs. N. Ree.se Young expected to swell his total pledg^ ^},J_J‘city; and the following grand and claimed delegates beyond the 578 majoiity needed to renominate him. I A. R. P. Presbytery Has Session At Iva Anderson, April The regular Laurens Finals Of May Official of Training School Goes To Whitmire Where He Will Practice Medicine^In Future.. children: Mary^Etta Henry, John C. Henry, Jr., of Greenville, Reese Young, Inez Young, Henry Etta Young of this place, and* little Joy Young Godfrey of Abbeville. •As Mrs. Y’oung’s grave was touched School Closing l^ogram To Open May 15, Rev. A. R. Stewart and Dr. 0. F. Crow To Speak. Dr. F. L. Webb, M. I)., for the past nine years connected with the State Training school of this city, as assist ant superintendent, leaves today for Whitmire where he will locate for tlic practice of medicine. He was recently extended an urgent invitation from leading business men of that commu nity to locate in YVhitmirc nnd after a careful consideration, announced his intention a fewSdays ago of leaving the city this week. Dr. Webb, who is a Georgian by birth, came to Clinton in 1923 to ac cept the position of a.ssistant super intendent and general physician of the State Training school. He has filled this place with characteristic faithfulness and efficiency, and is popular w’ith all who are connected with the institution. Likewise, Dr. “To ten pounds of wheat bran add one pound of Paris gre<*n. Stir there two materials in their dry .state very thoroughly so that each particle of bran will carry a small particle of the Paris green./Moisten this mixture with a solution made from one quart of giKHi molaares and just enough water to damjien the bran and Paris green mixture; not into a dough but just a crummy consistency. “Sow this sparingly along the rows where the plants grow. Do this late in the afternoon so that the material will not become dry from the sun’s heat, and .so that it will bejfresh for the worms who take their food at the markets and stores, and restau rants, to sec that they arc free from communicable diseases, G(ung into detail about milk, D’* Hayne said all milk sohl in a city should I>e graded—A, B, C, or D—axid the grade stamped on the cap of ev ery bottle. Grade A milk should coc- tain not more than 50,000 baetcra. per cubic centimeter and not less th.’^” .‘>*2 per cent butter fact. This is the best grade of milk and may be useo for any purpose. Grades B and C n:i’j be used only for cooking purposes, and grade D milk may not be sold uc all. Dr. Hayne stated that 15 citic.; and towns in South Carolina have •anitation laws including these rc- i quirements. Dr. Hayne, in speaking of a city’s health problems, said that when a person contracts a communicable dis ease the health department should * .see to it that that person is placed under quarantine, calling in policy power if neces.safy, to require e.'.- forcement. Cooperation of all phj"si- •iuns with the health department s essential in this respect. ^ .Much of Dr. Haym-’s address vrxs poison tb<*ie will be danger of it.s being tak en up by them, and it will all be dried and dissipated if applied prop erly before they can take it in the morning. “If these applications are put out U*n days apart they will completely rid the ground of cut worms. The amount given above will cover from one-half to three-fourths of one acre, accoixling to the width of the roys, and.it is very inexpensive. fnixture containsran ele- nature, covering ag it ment of poison to birds and fowls „ii form* (lid all forms of health work. Statii- tics were given frequently. Amo^i: .hese was the fact that South Caro lina’s white death rate per 1,000 popu lation is 9.3, while the nation’s aver age is something over 12. The Negr*.) death rate in South Carolina per 1,000 population is 15,' giving the state an average about on a par with that of the nation a.s whole. The white death rate in South Caro lina from tuberculosis is 35 per 104,'-'' ! 000 population, while the Negro death “If something is not done J expe<*t i rate from the same disca.se is 125 per a great deal of damage to our gar- 1(0,000 population, dens and crop'^ from this pest.” and northern Georgia, was held today ■W’ith the A. R. P. church of Iva. A large num’oer of ministers and lay delegates from many churches of the S'vrond prt^yt^ry were present for the meeting, . The outstanding event was a Atlanta Newspaperman Named roon by the retiring nioderat-or, the,- Rev. J. B. McFerrin of Covington, Ga.: The presiding officer today tvas the Laurens, April 23.—The closing ex ercises of the Laurens city school will be held the week of May 15-20. The , annual sermon will be preached .Sun-1 Webb has always' manife.stod a keenj late Tue-««day afternoon by the soft-l^j^y night, .May 15, by the Rev. Albert! interest in the city’s civic and religi-' Officers it was- visited j of ous life. He is pr^ident of the local j by a large number of friends Piedmont Churchman of the Up-■ Kiwanis club and an active memb^i diocese of the and officer of the ^^'ir.st Bapti.st' and rector of .sev- church. , up-state, includ-i Dr. and Mra.___\VeW). have scores of j the Epiphany ^ofj friends in the city who will learn of Club Meeting Held Saturday Cotton Co-ops Hold Meeting '! Elect DeleKales To District Elected and DeleKalesi Meeting To Be Held Here Sat- NaritedJTo (.’ount>^Convention; urday Morning. To Be Held Monda.v. .Mcinlxu's of4iihe*^v*uth Carolina C John S. Cohen Is ,Grt>cgia Senator By Governor Russell To Suc ceed William J. Harris. V Laurens. The ^sermon will be preached! their (lcpart,ure with genuine regret hy ele(ting oiiu at the First Baptist church. [and whtisc best wishes will follow j delegates to the county Dc i On Friday night, May^20, gradual- them to their new ht)me. ing exercises will be staged in the The f'linton Democratic duh met .Saturday afternf»on, and effected or- by electing office rs and mocivitic convention which convened in I.auren:^ ton Glowers’ (’(joperative associatV’m of Lauren'S county held their annual •ounty ^membership meeting at the coLUthouse on la-t ^ Saturday. Tne principal busmcs.s transaett'd at th « meeting was the election of delegates ! school auditorium and the address be fore the senior cla.ss will be made by Dr. 0. F. Crow dean of the .school ofi education. University of Sguth .Caro-j :lfina. > 1 On Friday morning all awards and Waterloo Bank Receiver Named I on Monday, .May 2nd. Only a few were , xu ; present for the meeting an^i the bu.«i-ti“ distrut meeting aiu e r€A.- ; ness did not transeemi the bounds of ‘ i"'-? the special mes.sage > reorganization and election of dele to the mcmlKU's of General Manager- J. S. Ffathcock. The Ldlowing were elect-jd r t ^ Rev. B. Dale White of Ora, mis^ion-| ~ ~~ „ . , . 'presentation certificates by the school ,r.v to India, who i.s now on furlouKh| .\:l.nta, Ga.. Apnl 'f —Major John, ^ ^ U> this country for. several month, ih- Co^n. <>2. president and editor of: . ^ certificatea of promotion to —^ ! The Atlanta Journal today was ap- f. . * . . ... . ...... gates. , , , lx X ' Jack H. Davis was re-electesj prosi- <h'l<‘lfHtes ami alternates: F V Cfildinir Fleeted Tn Handle dent; R. W. Wade, vice-pre.sident; L. •• ’ I Dillard, secretary; committee on '^an Power L Gray, Uurens’. P. Liquidation of Closed LaurenH,,,.^i,t,ation: L. B. Dillard, A. Kos.s D- ^ * County Institution.. j Blakely and R. L. Pluxieo; fxecutive 1). L. Todd, l.aurens, . . . Byrd Improves After A^ident ° . X J II x J Ox X * U kigh school of the classes finishing, pointed United Sute. «inator by^ ^ ' !17’^i. f tiMi- f u superintendent of the Laurens sehooU.I succeed the late \ViInam J. Hams. reviewed association for jii Mil rt. y ' in announcing the program for com- until the *«"*ral elec-^ r w'hen the oecmle se-l . x... Laudens, April 26,—-^The condition; le.t a successor for the remainder of of W. 4>. Byrd, well kn >wn Laurens^the Harris term which expires in county citizen who is at a Spartan- March, 1937. Governor Russell will be burg hospital suffering from injuries'a candidate for this portion of the he received several days /lko when. Harris term. ran over by his own car, was report-: Senator Cohen was once described j ed today as being more encouraging.|by a fellow editor as “the chevalier”! He had his left hip dislocated and|of his profession and Is know'n among,' He will serve •on in Nov,mUr When the peinile candidates for elate hiifh school diplomas, 37 girls and 22 boys. County Institution.. 'Blakely — . , , I committeeman, B. R. Fuller. ■«- | l.eaguc. Llmton., Waterloo, April 23, — At a recent The following delegates were elect-! -'D. Hathcock^ mes.sage meeting of the deimsitors of the Bank ed to the county convention and em- acLivitie.s ® to appoint their alternates 'l"-t «•«*-''. amiaac'lt member ' 1 resent fn'.st-hand information in re elected receiver. j R. L. Plaxico, of Waterloo, which closed its doors j powered to appoint some days ago, E. ,.V. Golding was in ease they could not attend; . . , • .- » R. L. Plaxico, W. H. Simpson, Rosa t-'aftl (he aasociatron s operatior,. Ballots were caitt .for Kottert Sinith' Blakely, H. O. (''nainliers, Walter IJa- Delegates from this couiWy, ' 1..:,. ^i y. A*. A*111..., li.. I I,..,., tr With those from lioxmgton, New- A. R. P. Pastor Out Of City and Mr. Goldijig, the latter receiving} vi.«, "I. McMillan, Dr. I.. Ross Lynn, few votes but they represented |er amount of depo.sits i withdrew his name and ! election wa.H made unanimous. wanted a larg. ClVde Lankford, .la:k'H.' Davis, Jr,;. i-W. f'J ™ . Mr. Smith W. Dicu.s, Thoo D, Jacolw, Pope Chn.on at the Masontc Tempi, m Mr. Golding’s Chapman, Jack Anderoon. Rieire Bur- •''‘.'D**'®"-'’: ‘^P**'* 11 a. \ The depositors also voiced their ap- prei-iation (»f the •services of J. C. slightly fractured and a »serious in-; his friends as “Jack Cohen.” He is a* Rev. C. B.vnum Betts, pastor of t’nej Smith, president, whose administra- jury t<T his baric and head as the re-member of a distinguished Southern I local A. R. P. church, spent Monday jtion had improved the condition of suit of the car knocking him down! family and has achieved prominence ’ and TYiesday in Iv’a attending the'the in.stitution/con.stantly. and crushing him to the ground, after i not only as a-newspaper editor but as | meeting of the .Second presbytery. He | Preceding the meeting of the de- he hadf craved the machine while jn a civic leader and an outstanding fig- left last night for Winnshorb where, positors, stoc kholders met and named j Abrams, J. Will Milam, Roy Pitts, W. * j Democratic party. He hast he will spend the remainder of the an advisory committee, consisting ofiE. Owens, John I). Davis, R. J. Cope- Mr. Byrd is a substantial farmer been Democratic national committee- week attending the annual meetin'tiJ. C. Smith, Rex I.anford and S. Ix.!land, James L. Browning, tnd at one time was a menuber of the; man from Georgia since 1924 and w of synod. ; .Moore, to act W'ith the receiver ini ——— dettf, €. W. Ston., Dr. .lohn MeSwren, »'l‘ "ommal. on. op more motn^rx V. Martin. H. L. Kirh.-ll,.rg.r. B. asioc.ation from H. Boyd, L. B. Dillard, W. M. Mc.Mil-' diatrict for the commg year. t. Ian, B R. Pnilor, B. B. Blakely, R. W., «■ Wade, Harrison Coin-land, C. S. Lardi-! -‘‘t “f district . o. . ^ ford, R. Sadler. W. W. Harrij, W.| , TJf "''‘'I'"* *•» prefJfi »'•« t». D. Copeland, Dr. P .1). Jonest-H. Y. A. H. Moore, county cihairoian, and C. B. Cannon served as secretary. IcgishtUve delegation to the house of prominent in social: activities in At representatives from Laurens. He isjlanta and the South. He is a menvberi Miss Agatha Bailey of Chester, a brother of Dr. S. C. Byrd, former’of tJie North Avenue Presbyterian I spent the week-end with her parents, itolWe e 1 church. I Dr. and Mrs. T. L. W. Bailey. liquidating the bank’s assets. Miss Cora Richey spent la»t week- lend in Camden with relatives. SATURDAY LAST DAY TO ■ MAKE LO.AN APPLICATION Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Giles, Misses. — Patricia Giles, Helen Adair and Dar- Saturday will he the la.st day on rell FVanks spent Sunday in thf which farmers of tho county cj mountains of North Carolina. . j pjy for federal fann loans, ' ' . -1^* X-' ' . dX-'sk-.iX*. • A .i.-» ' ■