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if t THE CHRONICLE • StriTes To Be • dean Newt- • paper,, Complete, Neway, and Rcttable. VOLUME XXXII CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 16,1932 NUMBER 24 ABRAMS AND HARRIS IN RUN-OFF FOR MAYOR ON NEXT TUESDAY Voters Will Go To Polls Again To Decide Mayoralty Contest in Which Abrams Led On First Ballot. Three Aldermen Are Re elected and One Meets Defeat. Bailey and Holtzclaw New Men In Wards Five and .Six. H. Y. Abrams and W. W. Harris, members of city council from wards six and four, -will go into the rdn-off primary next Txiosday toi determine the next mayor of Clinton. These two w’on* their way into the second pri mary Tuesday when th^y led their three opponents, Abrams heading the ticket by a, good margin. The vote broke all records in the city’s historjS 1,493 votes being cast against 1,224 two years ago. Abranis led w'ards five and six, Sadler in ward one, and Harris in wards two, three and four. Blakely, by a margin of 14 votes. In ward two, Pet B. Adair, incum bent, was re-elected over his oppon-, ent, George" W. Copeland, by. a major ity of 76 votes. In ward three, W. J. Duncan was re-elected without opposition. In ward four, F. M. Boland was ' elected without opposition. In ward five, Silas Bailey won by a large margin over his opponent, Fred Burnett, incumbent, by a mar gin of 297 votes. In w^rd six, Roy Holtxclaw was The second primary w’ill be held i elected over two opponents, T. J. Bla- next Tuesday, June 21st, the polls opening at 8 a. m., and closing at 4 p. / m.' The same managers will serve: City box:'John D. Davis, W. S. Den son, R. J. Copeland, W. P. Burdette, clerk; Clinton mill box: L. W. King, R. H. Gauib, J. H. Whitmire, S. W. Sumerel, clerk. In Race for Council In ward one, Wister A. Henry, in cumbent, defeated his opponent, B. W. lock and George F. Turner, the vote standing: Holtzclaw 174, Blalock 92, Turner 51. Three members of council offering for re-election were swept back into office. Aldermen Henry, Adair and Duncan. A fourth member standing ’ for re-election, Fred Burnette, was de feated. There wHl be two new mem bers in the body, Silas Bailey in ward five, and Roy Holtzclaw in ward six. SIGNS THAT THE UPTURN IN BUSINESS HAS BEGUN ARE SEOI How Clinton Voted Official Count In Tuesday's Primapry CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR u ec vH -o u. CC W -a ■ 03 CC . ! (h ' C3 Tf : ^ : 1 ec ec i£> 73 .<-> 0 Abrams > 13 ,39 r r 24-■ 259 201 |~558 Dillard' 15' 11 1 30 12 3 1 11 {^-*82 Harris 32 I 90 1 125 1 113 30 37 427 Nash 1 11 ! 7 1 6 17^ 10 ! 57 Sadler 36 i 59 i 90 : 28 97 i 59 369 FOR ALDERMAN Ward One B. W. Blakely 44 City Schools Faculty Named W. A. Henry 58 ^66 ...182 Ward Two Pet B, Adair 143 George W. Copeland 67 Ward Three W. J. Duncan (unopposed) Ward Four F. M. Boland (unopposed) Ward Five Silas Bailey . Fred Burnett Ward Six . — T. J. Blalock : ’ 92 Roy Holtzclaw v 174 George F. Turner 51 / 351 :^54' (Written for The Chronicle by Caleb Johnson Through Autocaster Service). Up to a very few years ago stock exchange prices interested only a comparatively small numlier of peo ple. Until the war we had no large ciass of investors in America. When the war came along and the Liberty bond campaigns began, millions of people for the first time paid out money ih exchange for pieces of pa per—for securities. After the war they found they could sell those se- curitiee^or something more than they had paid for them. They hadn’t ex pected to make a profit when they bought them, but they did make a profit, OK at kaat got their.money back. It was easy, then, for bond salesmen and stock jobbers to per- ^suade the same people to buy other eecuritiefi, and for a while the securi ty markets kept going up, so that thious profits which they think they made, or should have made, in that ef fort. Such & restoration of security prices probably never will come about. It is extremely doubtful whether the present generation will ever see the list of st{K‘k exchange securities sell ing at such high prices as they were selling in the spring of 192il. But down in Wall street they are still looking for miracles to happen, and the other day. stock and bond prices began to go up. What started them up was the an- nouncenfent that a syndicate of bank ers, headed by ’Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan and Company, had rais ed a fund of $100,000,000 in cash with which to buy good securities, bonds and stocks, not for the purpose of speculation, but because they are good investments at the present prices. That was something that Wall street can Understand. It was their + 'The faculty for the Clinton city schools for the 1932-33 session has been completed and was announced yesterday by the board of trustees a.S' follows: J. "Harvey Witherspoon, sup<‘rin- tendent, history. High School CAMPAIGN TO START HERE Speaking Itinerary for County Arranged and Entrance Fees Fixed By Commitee. The opening gun of the county Democratic primary is to be fired at Clinton on Wednesday morning, Aug- W. R. Anderson, Jr., principal; and the campaign will be clos- $300,000,000 Relief | Shrinking Prices Bill Passes Senate; Confuse Fanners Bipartisan Vote Registered As Treasury Is Opened. Nation Is Step Nearer Ruin, Says Reed. \ Washington, June 10. — An over whelming bipartisan majority swept the $300,000,000 Democratic relief bill through the senate today in less than six hours as congress drove for an early adjournment. The unemploymflTt aid measure was approved by a vote of 72 to 8 in the same senate which last February Watkins Advises Against New Projects and Puts Emphasis ?)n Food and Shelter Needs. brushed aside all legislation for use of federal funds. Clemson College, June 6.—“The continued irregular drift of farm pric es to lower levels is confusing farm ers as to what to do or what to grow,’’ says D. W. Watkins, assistant direct or of the extension service, who adds that “attempting to grow ‘what the market demand.s’ as expressed in pric es seems to lead like a jack-o-lantern futher into the morass of low prices. With hog prices 41 per cent of [pre- .tpeculators could sell at a profit.' own people, spending theii* own mon- Within a very short time we had be- ^ho were talking. This was not -^mr«lmost an entire Tration -tyf 9(!tlgrilg^TmiiTiroted| The bill, which now goes to thel"'^’’' cotton 42 per cent, cottonseed 44 house, provides for advances to the' torn 47 per cent, poultry hition I producLs chemistry and physics. Miss Azile Livingston, algebra. Miss/ Ansie Kirven, bVench and English. A. H. McQueen, Engliyti. Miss Lily Mae Werts, I.Atln. Miss Louise Sims, biology and gen eral science. Miss Jane Keller, commercial and geography. A. L. Duck^, history. Miss Olive Tuck, English. . Miss Gladys Stilwell, geometry and trigonometry. Miss Nella Long, home economics and general science. Florida Street School Mrs. W. R. Anderson, Jr., principal; seventh grade. H. E. Pressly, seventh grade. Miss Irene Workman, sixth grade. Miss Paul V^ane Elrod, sixth grade. .Mi.ss Margaret Mo(^ord, fifth grade. Miss Anna Bell Hudson, fifth grade. Miss Agnes Davis, fourth grade. , Miss Nartcy Owens, thinl grade. Miss Floy Owings, third grade. Miss Ina Curry, second grade. Miss Lillian Brown, first^rade. Academy Street School Miss Alline Newsom, prirtcipal; fourth grade. Mrs. Teague Harris, fourth grade. Miss Martha Davidrbn, third grade. Mrs. Hugh B. Workman, third grade. Miss Lucy Burns, se<ond grade. Miss f'ollette Griffin, second grade. .Mrs. J. Gary Martin, second grade. Miss Lily Yarborough, first arrade, Mrfl. John W. Little, first gAde. Mrs. L. B. Dillard, first grade Providence School Mrs. H. A. Copeland, principal; fifth grade. Miss Margaret Blakely, fourth grade. Miss Melda Von Hoilen, third grade. Mrs. W. H- Simpson, second grade. Miss Martha Wilbur, first grade. Bell Street Sch<M>l ' (Colored) John Mims, principal; algebra and ed with the meeting at Laurens Mills at 8 p. m., August 26, it was decided at th^ meeting of the county execu tive committee held in [.aurens last. Friday morning at which Ralph T. Wilson, county chairman, presided. Fourteen meetings will be held at the following places: CJinton City—10:.30 A. M., Wednes day, August 17. , Clinton Mill—8 P. M., Wednesday, .\ugust 17. Cross Hill—10:30 A. M., Thursday, August 18. Center Point—10:30 A. M., Friday, August 19. Lydia Mill—8 P. M., Friday, Aug ust 19. Hickory Tavern—10:30 A. M., Mon day, August 22. Watts Mills —8 P. .M., Monday, August 22. Gray Court—10:30 A. M., Tuesday, August 23. Jones’ Store—S P. .M., Tuesday, August 23. . ' Wallace Lodge - 10 A. M., Wediics- day, August 24. Woodville — K. p. M., Wednesday, August 24. 8 P. M., Thursday, Ajg- 11 A. .M., Friday, .Augu.st Goldville ust 25. I.,aurens 26.. Laurens Mills — 8 P. M., Friday, August 26. 'The committee decided that no oth er “places or appointments would he addwl to the above itinerary.’’ Entrance Fees Fixed Entrance fees were fixed slightly larger than last year, It was stated, because the expenses of this summer’s primary will be practically the same as last year and the number of offices to be filled will be less, ^e total cost, of the election is expected to be in the neighborh(M)d of $650. The following entrance fees were adopted by the committee: Sheriff .. Clerk of Court Senator ' . House of Representatives (’oroner market s“.oculator8 .And then the bottom dropped Cut. It dropped out because stock prices: ers that rthe time was ripe for. them by .p(.liiicians at Washington, but it, through the reconstruction corpor- was the decision of hard-headed bank- ation. had gone up to figures which had no to buy. relation whatever to the value andj The mere anpouncement of this earnings of the companies in which i program has had a most tremendous they r^reaented shares. The minute. effect upon the psychology of the in- ipternational disturbances unsettled j vesting and speculative public. So far internationai trade and# the market, . Mew York and the slock market Carrying President Hoover’s ap proval, the relief measure found easy going in the senate despite a prophesy by Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl vania, that it was a “milestone in the disintegration of the American repub lic.” It faces harder sledding, however. for commodities suddenly got narrow, people are concerned, it meant the . “ nareer ^uu uk, Muw,:vr., «. rewKing in the slackening of bu»-! defi„it* beginning'of the upturn. It | .should. TKaa $2,300,00Q,000 Tclief moasurc spon- ineM and iiidi(stry, shares should, in i reassured the people^^ydK)"! had been heeitating about buyifilg for fear that theory, have dropped to their actual Instead of that, they dropped away down below theit actual ^values, and because it necessarily, take? a long time to bring about economic read justments, . and^ our . country, alone could not cure the situation, because so much of it upon the eco nomic condition of Europe, people who had tied up their money 4n stocks and wanted' to get it out began ^throwing them on the mlrket at whatever price they could get, and'that sent the mar- ket down still lower And as is the way of human nature,! people who have thus suddenfy found' themselves in a difficult situation have been looking in every direction for a mirack to happen that would put them, b^ to where they were without any effort on their own part. “The governn>ent ought to do some thing about it.” Well, the government prices might go lower, and it encour aged the jieople who owned depreci ated securities to hold on to them in the belief that their prices will go highei. It wa.s a remarkable? example of the psychological effect of a gesture on the part of peop’e in whom the invest ing puUi" has full confidence. / I am writing this because, .n the past few days, I have become’-con vinced that we have not only reached the bottom of-4he sored by Speaker Garner. After its appro^ today by the senate, Repre sentative Rainey, house Democratic leader, said the measure “offers no permanent relief.” Reed’s solemn warning drew the quick retort from Senj^r Borah, Re publican, Idaho, that: ‘I do not be lieve this marks the 'beginning of the fall of the republic, nor that the re public will fall.” As the senate worked on relief the house tackled the controversial mea?r ure sponsored by the administration home 69 jH.r o»nt, fruits and vugidablM and chamistry. geomKry. Isabelle Jacbon,^English ‘and hi.s-! County ('ommissioner - torv. ^ , I Magistrate at Clinton and Tuffllb "ymtttrr""y‘'iieial scienre-," bt- )-- ' l,aurrn>i $63 75 . 30 20 10 10 per cent, and all groups together 56 per cent, it is clear that the debt-pay ing power of farm commodities is rel atively poor. In contrast, the retail prices of things farmers buy are de-j dining more gradually, being as a whole now at 112 per cent of pre-war. “This disparity in the buying and selling price levels shown puts the brake down hard’on the normal pay-, ing of debts and the buying of goods ^ by farmers. 'This may be offset to 2l'„ Naomi Garrett, French and luatin. Maggie Mims, home economics. Ruth Alexander, seventh•grade."’~“ F^ffie Alexander, sixth grade. Clara Sims, fifth grade. Claudia Dorroh, fourth grade. Ida Boyd, third grade. Natile Frederick, second grade. Dorothy* Ix»max, first grade. Bethel Scho<d (Colored) Supearley Beasley, principal; first jcies to be filled. Other Magistrates 5 In the cases of the clerk of court, house of representatives and coroner [irovision was rnade for an increh'sin'i! the scale should the numlH*r of ca.'.d)- (lates be limited. .Should the clerk of court be unojiposed hi.s fee will he if- ereased from $75 to ’fDHk »nd the cor oner from $10 to $15. The fee'fbr tho house of representatives will be brO'-t- ed^5,()0 in case there are less seven candidates for the three va. u.i- beginning to come up, but their is no { discount banks. use in expressing an opinion of that kind without some facts to back it up. To many people have been saying for a long time that the upturn was just With the house really waiting for the senate to act on the vital legisla tion, there was no great necessity for ^peed, and it did not reach a vote on some extent by lowering such of the land fifth grades, costs of pro"dtiction as can be lowered Esther Wilson, fbcond, third, and and in some cases by adopting meth- fourth grades. ods that enable the individual to in- ; crease his output. The situation, how- Cl. * ever, has reached the stage of an | | im^ JLjXidlSlOll emergency in which farm values arej f A liTiAZrt Raftrsf* Tinalft seriously undermined and farm people. f|| IxSlSOr AppCStl! * WO IxaoOl 1 110.10 are having to give first attention toj i Cost About $2,306 vSaturday, August 6, at noon, wa.s fixed as the closing date for the re ceipt of pledges and asse.s.sments. The election will be held on the last Tjo;- day in August. a self-sjj.a ning typ* of fanning.” j i4...^udg,t. C. Koa- Instead Oi being a time tri ’aunch- therstone today granted extension of ing new farm enterprises for profit, it seemr to Mr. Watkins more appro- time to counsel in their preparation Laurens, June 9.—The total cost )f of appeal of the Ra.sor case to the Rasor,trials held M a regu.ar ...... .-niir.. Ai.aa.at 1 b<.ing i ‘>"<1 “ “‘™- "I '''■■* mg around the comer. It is nearer than home loan bill, that now. It is right here. { There was plenty of .speed on the The^ immediate effect of even i senate side,•however. In addition to nse in the stock market, if the passing the relief ’bill, it approved a has Wn trjan^o do something ateut I things, to stabilize the a^icultural appropriation bill ? • in the cap^ value of stock market securities"ir a .nd hegal consideration of the Dis- tiesin washmgrton and m tne capuais slight I highei her prices are maintained is. partial conference report on the $17’7,- and shelter needs of the family 'while] tentatively set as the final date fipH si’s.siou.s co.st the ^-L^itty applying the best known methods to j completing the record. O. L. I.ong, j$2,300, according to estim:Ue8 ' the production and marketing of those'chief of counsel for Henry Rasor, l.,a-'^ ulbertson, Ciork '•>fh crops with which the individual i than Crisp and Eugene Cri.sp, who j to the county board of commission ern. already has experience. are under life sentence for the mur- ^^^ ^“’’t of the first trial, e.stima...Hi “It is well enough to remember,” jer of W. C. Ra.sor at (’riiss Hill, thisl^t around $1,100, held during the reg- Mr. Watkins concludes, “that while • county, last Si^ptember 26, made thel^j^** term, was more difficult to ar hogs or yearlings sell for very Jittle j ^^otion before the court this morn-! f've at than the second trial becau.se cash they will, if cured or canned, sat- |njr, a.'flting that the time limit 1m* ex-| was held during a regular ‘ern ties-in Washingrton and of Europe apd in thd] neadquarters of the League of Nations for the past > ' ? ' ^ two years haa been t^e effort to do something about it.-But as ewh ste^ in ..these governmental and interna tional attempts to restore the eco nomic balance has failed to work a miracle Over night, the attitude of the Stock i^rket -has become one of dis trust ^ every governmental effort and activity. . j *v » It ipust always be re^mbered that the people who went into the atock market to mAe money went in arith the idea that they cdukl get rich with out iforking. A very few do succ^ in doing that, but the great majority of jiwle who play the market always 105*# In Uie long run. If, when the mar ket crashed, everybody who owned stocks had just taken his medicine and said ‘Vdl. that's that,” snd forgotten ' about it, and kept right on working at his regular ,baanees or his job, we -wouldn’t have any such difficulties aa we have been going through. But that, again, is not in according with human basis for bank loans. This, in turn, should ewble d great iivai\v persons who could use money for ^J^oductive purposes but have been unable to get it, to obtain loans and so start bank credit into ciyulation again. The banks have plenty of money but they have not 1^ enough demand for properly secured loans. A great deal of the recent hesita tion on the part of business and in dustry about going ahead has been tl^ doubts naturally raised by the politi cal hullabaloo in Washington, as to trict of Columbia supply measure The . appropriations committee, far behind schedule, worked with similar dispatch. It approved the billion dol lar independent offices supply bill, the third of the week, and received from 1 a subcommittee the $400,000,{)()0 navy measure. House and senate conferees reached an agre^jnent on the legislative ap propriation bill, but left the economy program which is in the same meas ure, for future deliberation. • The vote on the Democratic relief isfy just as much hunger as ever.,Now' in order to allow attorneys toi when other ca.-ie.s were tried. Pricti- is the time to get a list, such a.s i* complete the appeal papers. Mr. I>»ng• special term was de- available through the home demon-1 the court that transcript of the. voted to the Rasor trial so all of the stration agent, of the food require-' stenographer’s report of the trial hadi®®*^** term, e.xcept paymen.*? to ments of a familv. and nlan to can. not been completed, heme the delay] the grand jury, were assessed against in perfecting the appeal within the; tht^famous case, time allowed by the court in such cas- whart form of Uxation would be i i,ii] giiowed seven Republicans and one adopted in the new revenue bill. That is all settled. Wa* the government going to econotniie? That has been settled. We have balanced our budget and the govemmet^’s credit is not going to be unduly strained. There was a lot of undec-^ver talk for a while about the posaibiKty of the United State* going off the goW ba sis. There never -was arrything to that, but the imagination of a terrified few, but it had its effect in keeping men of big means on-ithe anxious scat, so Democrat, Gore, of Oklahoma, in op position. The Republicans were: Austin, Dale, Bingham,'^ Herbert, Metcalf, Moses and R^. ATTENDED WEDDING “Sir*’ .,v out to * that they were actually afraid to risk Wh,t the p;?*'* 1”|,he>r money. Tt»t U >11 over It U i ■ IContinaeii oh !»«, eeven) Mr. and Mrs. 0. I.^Sheely, Mr. and Mrs. E._Ri Knoxs^nd Gene Knox, Mr. and Mrso C. D. Yarborough, and Charles'' Yarborough, Mr. and Mrs. Grady Chandler, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Mills, William Milam and Henry Ha gen were in Gaffney Tuesday for the Tnmer-Yarboroogh wedding. ments of a family, and plan to cjin, Cure, dry, and preserve enough to in sure a sufficient and a balanced sup ply. This will become more acutely necessary with the continuance of the price situation which holds two dan gers; first, that next winter will find es. too many farm people with insuffi cient food; second, that what has been learned in recent years as to the ne cessity of a properly balanced diet >^-111 The following itemized fig-.jre.st .show the cost of the .second trial: Petit jury $51t.l0 I Witnesses 287.40 I Bailiffs, janitor and court ^ to 1 181.00 To Sdcek Sunday ^ • I .scene of crime . .. Mmlicine and refreshments Visiting Minister 10.80 be forc-otten’’ with bad effects on the Pulaski, Va., who j juj.Q|.j5 7^0 with Mrs. Dick, is visiting j Hotel bill and friends in the city, will preach *1. jyjy for drawing jurors... the local A.yaociate Reformed Presby-' vitality and health of the farm popu lation ” ■■ 191.60 4.50 ' terian church next Sabbath morning,| Total Clinton Mill To i" fost of first triai’. __ - {cordially invited to hear .Mr. Dick,' Moot NOWDOITVialways brings a worthwhile me.s ^ sage. _.$M93.70 .... 1,100.00 Total coitt of both trials, estimated $2,293.70 The Newberry All-Stars, a team, cvuvtrv composed of former collegi baseball “I LLIAL hJbKVlCE^ players, will meet fhe Clinton Cotton FOR YOUNG PEIOPLL mill team, pennant winners in the Central Carolina league last summer, | i with an iiiustratea sermon, wui «e; ax noi ^conducted at the Broad Street Metho-j Mrs}\J. Will L^ake, until the fin^^of diet church next Sunday morning .at | July, when Ae lea^s for Camp Gruy- n o'clock. The poblic is cordially in- stone at Tuxedo, N. C., where shu^ill vited. ' I be a counselor ier the summer. GOING TO CAMP Miss Janet Leake, who has com pleted work for her nmster's degree' A special sem^-e for young people, j at the University of South Carolina, at the Clinton mill park next Wedne#ri with an illustrated sermon, will be; is at home with her parents, Mr. and day, June 22, at four o'clock. ’This is conducted at the Broad Street Metho-j Mrs}\J. the first of a series of gamei to be played here this summdr, and a full attendance is urged. ' /mm