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/ n 7 r ' / THE CHRONICLE • • Strives To Be a Clean News* • • paper. Complete, Newaj, • • and Reliabla. • t !• . ' N- /- .'-1 .rtSS ' 7 ''’n^w«nn«npeinBmnBMMHmmi r 1 ^ « • ^ I : Jf Yon Don't Read : THE CHRONICLE Ton Don't Gel Tke Newa. VOLUME XXXII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1932 number 25 PRESS DRIVE FOR VOTES Democrats To Gather In Chicago ' With Roosevelt Supiporters Claiming Nomination On First ^lot of Convention. TwO'Thirds Rule Still Holds Firm Former Attempts To Abolish It Fail. Expect New Effort By Roosevelt Forces. Chicagro, June 21.—Democrats cen tered their attention on the rapidly- moving presidential contests tonight as party leaders accepted a prohibi tion repeal plank as certain. Washington, June 18.—The funny old two-thirds rule may be the issue in a hot fight once again at the Democratic national convention. If it is ev^r definitely busted by a convention it probably will be dead for all time. But attempts to get rid Statements in behalf of several of it have been made off and on presidential candidates sprang up during the day w'hile workers of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York emphatically reiterated claims of his first ballot nomination. Alfred E. Smith and William G. McAdoo ‘ departed from opposite shores of the nation to open their fight tomorrow’ in opposition to Roosevelt. It became increasingly clear the first showdown to be sought by the anti-Roosevelt faction will be the election of Jouett Shouse as per manent chairman of the convention. ('hairnian John .1. Raskoh of the I^niocratic national committee de- ilareii upon his arrival that the Roose velt men had showed bad faith in ad vancing Senator Walsh of Montana for the post after the committee on arrangement.s had cotnmende<l Shouse. The announcement in Washington by Speaker Garner, who is supported by McAdoo for president, in favor of repeal of the eighteenth amend ment was accepted here a^ virtually assuring a repeal plank by the Demo cratic convention with the only ques tion "W’hether it would be simply a submission plank or one committing the party. during the la:rt hundred years, never with succ^.ss, and the chances are that the riile is going to endure. The forces of Gov. Roosevelt, it appears, are preparing to try to abolish the rule in case their cadi- date finds himself stuck somewhere hetwetn a majority convention vote How Clinton Voted Official Count In Second Primary, Tuesday, June 21 CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR •xs (h C6 rH S-i ec W & e3 CO "O c3 u , -c I- cu -*-> o H . Abram.s 55 103 1 6^ 43 394 234 1 947 Harris 48 " 121 1 202 1 150 37 57 I 615 A J. Beattie Says Counties Owe State Answers Criticism of Withhold* ing 15 Per Cent of Appripri- ations for 1932. New Federal Taxes Effective June 21 Washington, June 18. — The new ] ries, 5 pe^ cent—9. the United taxes that citizens of tworth;;u'“"required "ioi state* bepn paying Tiisday and the . - ^ - - nmAiinf rkf n'lnni^v nra rn nominate, held from further prog ress by the opposition of A1 Smith, the anti-Roosevelt state leaders and stubborn favorite sons. , The idea is that although it re quires a two-thirds vote to nomi nate the party candidate,/ a ma jority vote can abrogate the thing. Because the rule is embedded so deeply in party procedure- and be cause all Democratic candidates have been nominated unde*^ it, any open declaration for abolishing it at thiii time would be regarded as a confession of weakness by the Roosevelt leaders. Actually, they hope to forie their way across the line by the sheer weight of the majority which they anticipate on the first ballot. The attempt to end the rule would be only a measure of desperation de amount of money they are expected to bring into the treasury (in millions of dollars) are: "»-inco4pe tax: (effective last January 1). Individual: Normal taji, r^te.':, 4 per cent, and 8 per cent, exemptions $2,500 and $1,000* sales for iUi^mg^ie and commercial Sporting goods and cameras, 10 per cent—5. Firearm.s and shells, 10 per cent—2. Matches, wood, 2 cents per thous and; paper, 1-2 cent per thousand—4. Candy, 2 per cent, and chewing gum, 2 per cent—1. Soft dVinks, various rbte.s—7. Electrical energy, 3 per cent on —63. Surtax rates, I per cent on net in- purpo.sos—39. Gasoline, I cent per gallon (sales at come in exdess of $6,000 to 55 per lefinery)—150. Both James A. Farley, spokesman signed to save Roosevelt from shar- fur Governor Roosevelt, and Shouse, the chairman of the Democratic ex- Autive committee, lauded the state ment of Gamer’s. *‘l think it was a fine and courag eous declaration,” said Farley. **lt was a good, clean statement,” Shouse .sai4- Coincidentally, Harry F. Byr^ car rying Virginia’s 24 votes for the pres idential nomination, reached the con vention scene sayig “on prohibition let our party speak clearly and frank ing the fates of Champ Clark and Martin Van Buren, the only two men who ever bad a convention ma jority without being nominated. Decision of the Roosevelt man- ! agers to support one of their own men. Senator Tom Walsh, of Mon tana, for permanent chairman against Jouett Shouse, the Smith-Raskob can didate, is intimately tied up with the two-thirds i.-^eue. The chairm^inship fight for Walsh was launched cm the assumption that a majority of delegates would follow ly." - . . Meanwhile Bjnrd and spedeesmen for! Roosevelt’s wishes in any respect, and Governor RiUhie of .Maryland, and | if an attempt is made to abrogate the Melvin Traylor of Chicago, focused j rule it can only proceed on the same as^Mmotion. cent on net incomes in excess of $1,- 000,000—88. Net earned income credit—27. Total, 178. Corporation: Rate, increased-from 12 per cent to 13 per cent—22. Exemption, eliminated—16, Consolidated return, additional rate of 3-4 of 1 per cent—3. Total—41. Limitation of se<‘urity losses and other changes, largely administrative —80. Estate tax (effective June 6). Total manufacturers excise taxes—/ 157. / Mi.'cellaneous taxes (effective J^ne 21): Telephone, telegraph messa^s, etc. Telephone, 10 cents, message^costing 50 cents to $1, 15 cents; ^yio $2, 20 cents; $2 and inore, teleg/aph, 5 per cent. Cable and radio: 10 cents each— •>•> X > Admission.s (effective June 21) 1 cent per 10 cents on admissions over I 40 cents ((‘ducational and Olympic ex- I emption eliminated)—42. Gift tax, rates of 3-4 of 1 per cent I Stamp taxes (effective June'21): ' to 33 1-2 per cent.-5. | Issues of bond.s or capital stoc-k, 10 Manufacturers’ excise taxe.s (effec- j cents per $100—6,5. tive June 21): j Transfers of stock, 4 cents per $100 Lubricating oil, 4 per cent per gal-1 par valu)?^, or 4 cients per share no par. Ion—33. ! 5 per ci^nt for shares selling over $20 «xpressed a w’illingne.ss for the Unit ed Estates “to enter, without commit ’u-nt, any TheTeanlngTTiTTlW^’TlTBlTWS^ Brew-er’s wort, 15 cents per gallon —(unestimated). Malt syrup, 3 cents per pound—82. Grape concentrates, 20 cents per gallon (unestimated). Imported gasoline, crude oil, etc.; coal, lumber, copper—6.5. Tires and^ tubes, 2 1-4 and 4 cents per pound—33, ilet nrenarations, 10 per cent (ex ^ become important in any rules fight. general world conference! He is 'the man who recognizes dele- .. ■Coincident [ggtes who. w'ant to speak or make mo- with a juat revision of War debts and' tions, who decides what is in order and ' ■ is not. who con -(k'jloivit bojuis. 13.5. Furs, 10 per cent—12, Jewelry, 10 per cent on amounts (rate^ to apply to loans of stock) ^20. 7 Transfers of bonds, 4 cents per $100 par value—5. _ Conveyances, 50 cents on $100-$500, 50 cents per $500 in excess—8, Sales of Ihroduce for future deliv ery, 1 cent pi*r $100—6. Oil transported by pijie line, 4 per cent of charge—8. 1.0 Columbia, June 18.—A. J, Beattie, comptroller general, in answering criticism of the atate finance commit-j ^ for withholding 15 p..r com of| „ y „„„ 1932 .ppropmt.on* said today thqtl while counties and school districts ■ -.u wr -ii; u • *.-11 J #coo A/vn ^ i./ !/ a the run-over with W. \V. Hamsw were atill due $533,000 from the state. i r *• u- * ^ thev owed the stati $2 300 000 defeating his opponent by a margin ot uiey ow^ tne state $2,300,000. . The vote stood: Abrams 947. Beattie, in a statement he i'^^ued, j Harris 613. said the sum waii due the state in i property taxes. [ Of -the total, he said^ $1,200,000 is i three and four. At the Clinton mill, due since 1929-19o0 1931 and in | comprising wards five and. some instances even further back. The remaining million does not become due until the end of 1932.” The comptroller general said six, Abrams received a landslide vote, polling 678 votes against 94 for hia opponent. He also made a substantial, gain in his vote in the four city w^rd*- quiries had b/en made a's when thcj jr, the firi?t primary a week ago, .Sad- 15 per cent,balance due the counties' carried ward one, Abrams five and in fer state aid would be paid and why the wboli6 amount was not paid at this time.” A 15 per cent reduction In expendi tures of all departments, institutions and other agencies receiving state ap propriations was ordered by the fi ABRAMS WINS MAYOR’S race Member of City'Council From Ward Six Won In Tuesday’s; Primary By Substantial Mar- gijn. New Administration Tm ^ake Office In September. .\hrams oarritHi wards one, five and MX, while Harri.s carried,, wrarda two. six, Harris two, three and four. Tuesday’s vote broke the record ca- tablished in the first primary by an increase of 60 votes, the total being: 1562 against 1403 a week ago. ^ The aldermanic race* were .settled nance committee several days ago to first primary. Aldermen Henry, insure balancing the 1032 budget. ' Adair and Duncan were re-elected to their seats in w’ards one, two and three; F. M. Boland wa.s electc^d with out opposition in ward four, and P. S. Bailey and Roy Holtzclaw won in In his statement today explaining the state’s financial ?ituation,^ Beattie .said: “In order to meet maturing ohliga- . tions in January, February and March |l^heir oppon- of this yep-r, which obligations were I incurred iii 1031 to pay the school aid i Septmeber will consi.st of a appropriation in full at that time, thel^^‘"’ three councilmen, to- itate finance committee, acting under| with the three hold-o.er ir.im- legislative sanction, u.^ed the first' $2,000,000 of 1032 revenue coming in to the treasury to pay the 1931 obli gations, Jlh^reby advancing the money due on uncollected taxes for 1031 and hack by the counties and schfMil dis tricts. In order to do this the legisla ture moved forward the date for pay ment of the income and business li cense tax€« in 1932. .Mr. Abrams, the newly nominated mayor, is well known in the city and is proprietor of Abrams Barber Shop, He has faithfully served ward six for the past two years as aldermar, al ways manifesting an intere.^t in thp city affairs. He is an unusually popu~ Var young man in the city as is evi- <lenced by the fact that he polled the- ‘We cannot rely on this procedure largest vote Tue.sday ever cast for si -o. u . • ♦ ..An tit.itrx* rules'over $3, plated silverware exempt—9. reparation.-,' .what is not, Passenger automobiles, 3 per cent, .At about the lime the s;>eaker was.goxein.ng I e . ^^ i' * to^ tubes exempt—32. declaring in Washington for re,>eal of Us in a-pos.tion j Truck.M 2 per cent-3. the eighteenth amendment, ( hairman. a greater or es .M«*chanical refrigerator.s, 5 percent Raekt»b of the Democratic national the convention. / committ^'wa# telling newspapermen; McAdoo and hif , here that prohibition would be the {seveial^^"'!'* ^ dominant is«nie of the coming cam-j abrogated T921 paign for the presidency. j were near en^gh to a ."^^Jority to AUuii-man, over the 'top if oply a majority imittee chairm n p^ded. F^ch time they were defeated by viva vwe votes. A ma/ority vote to cancel the rule this year would mean that mor® than half the 1,158 delegates were firmly determined to nominate The national com who managed the 1928 cantpaign of i Alfred E. J>mith for the presidency s-aid that James A. Farley, the Rim^- velt director here, had not notified him of any change in the plan of the • committee on arrangements to recom mend Shouse. F arley «ndid.te within his ithould I tell Mr. Ras^kob On this point will come the first test of the strength of the Roosevelt forces. They appear to have sufficient votes to hands., mnuir^"" or even if it meant laying Whv I him open to the charge that he was nut the gavel in Walsh’s own party who had ever been nomi nated. Considering the fact that the op position, is constantly trying to ham mer in the impreasion that Roosevelt • would be a weak candidate and that Alfred E. Smith, who may take a ^ Roosevelt delegates are not part in the floor fight to seat Shouse last-diteh type there is much and one of the foremost i doubt whether the Roosevelt group the Roosevelt opposition, will a»‘nve,^^j^ it. . tomorrow, as will his opponent who politicianu believe that any balk)ted with him to the deadlock thy I to get rid _ .pf made political historjr m 1924 Wil- two-thirds rule will have to be Automobile parts and acceasories, 2 per cent, tires and tubes, radio and phonograph equipment and accesso- per cer\t of rental 1. r^eck.s, 2 cent.s each—72.’ Boats, various rates (eff»‘ctive July D- 0.5. _ Total mi.scellaiieous and .stamp tax es- 197.5. Total additional taxe.s t>58,5. Increased postage rates (effective* .July 1 and 6) other postal legislation —160. Total additional taxe.-i and postal revenue—1,118.5. for 1933 as the income tax due at that time has already been pledged to an additional issue of school notes in the sum of $885,000 and maturing next April 15. “To sum up, the states owes the counties and school districts $5:1.3,000 j against which the counties owe the j state $2,300,000, and collections from| the counties and school districts mu^t ■be made jjLiull lieforc the state will .! he in position to pay 'ai! appropria- tions in full.” candidate in a mayor’s race in the city. His friends and supporters are delighted with the ouUxime of his race and they ac®„heartily congratulating him on the excellent showing he made,. Henry L. Pitts Dies Near Laurens Farm Meeting At Laurens Friday Eyes of Sport Turn To West Elxpecting To See Old Olympics Record Shattered By Jack Adams (Written for the Chronicle) Olympic track and field records should look quite different aftA" the Olynapic games to open July 30 in the Olympic stadium in Los Angeles. Cali fornia and the breaking of^ records seem naturally to go together. There are se^en world’s track and field rec ords in ih^ record books which were made in Cmifornia. During the. Olympic games at Am A new time was set up also at Am sterdam in the 10,000 meters run, but not by an American, instead by that great athlete, Paava Nurmi, of Fin land. His time was 30 minutes, 18 4-5 seconds. It wasn’t an American who estab lished In 1928 the new record for the 110 meter hurdles. It was a South Af rican, Weightman-Smith. His time, made during a trial heat, was 14 3-5 seconds. The Olympic record for the running La’virens, June 22.—ITeiVy U, well known f.aurens citizen, died ■early Tue.sday at hi.-? h one three mile.s ^we.'t of tlu* city on the l.aurc-n.'i- i j rI i neV-1('n 'highwa\T7iTto"r “a" tin g'‘TlTTg ~ ilhie.^.s from heart trouble and copipli- •a'ions. Funeral services were ron- (iuoled at Friend-hip Pivshyterian ,, Uaurtms, June 21. - Spon.-ored by j ehui eh, near Hiekiiry Tavern. Wetiees- .Miss .(ennie Coleman, home demon- day morning at 11 o’cloek. The Ites stratioh agent, and C. B. Cannon,! were said by the Rev. K. D. Pat‘on, farm agent, a .spe<-ial meeting fori pastor of the First Pres-byt^riaiY farmers, farm women, farm girls andlehurch of Uaurenrs, and the Rev. WiL boys and others interested in produe-lter A. Baldwin of the Rabun (.’•^ek ing and saving food products w’ill be'church .section. hidd in the c-ourthou.se Friday after-j’ Mr. Pitts is survived by his wijrw,. noon, beginning at 3 o’clock. The all-1.Mrs. Mary Caldwell PitU; thrt*e -on-s county meeting will he mainly inter- Brooks Pitts of Ficlddale, Va., Gc-den Pitts and Claude Mills Pitts of Lau rens; four daughters, Mrs. C. E. Simpson, .Mrs. O.sc^r J. Bolt, and e»led in promoting plans for conserv ing, canning and storing the promi.s- ing crop of vegetables, food products from the field and orchard, it has been! .VCs.-es Omega and Imogene Pitts, also announced by the local home and farm agents. Extension department specialists will be on hand to discuss the differ ent phaies of production, conserva tion and the storage of food products. These include Mrs. Dora Dte Walker of [.nurens; and four grandchlld'X»n- He is al.so~^[irvived by his step-n'o^- cr, Mr.s. Lizzie Pitt.s; three brot'":‘rs„ Thomas Pitts of Simpsonville, Will and Jarne.s Pitts of the Frienc-.'np church section; ore .sister. .Mrs. Will F. Bolt of Rabun Creek church ce n- sterdam in 1928, 15 new track and' by an American liam G>l>b€S McAdoo. McAdoo, at the outset, at least, will be in line this time with Smith against Roosevelt. The delegation ! he headed from California was instructed for Gamek*. The prohibition statement by Gar ner today was in line with many such that have emanated from party lead ers in Washington and Chicago in the last dav or so. Farley said today that organized in advance an3 carried on through the state conventions prior to the national show. But it never gets much attention :n those conventions. No more than one or two have instructed their state delegations to oppose the rule in the last couple of presidential years — and they were states wrth small delegations. Pre-convention agitation for abolition rose to consid- tbose “who voted for the minority re- erable heights before 1928, both the peal plank jn the Republican conven tion will have an opportunity to show if they were on the level.” Smith and McAdoo followers being field records were made or ecfualled How many of thei^ will leMr after LhoWer fo^ the-Edward- B. the Los Angeles games? Let’s look at some of the records made during the Amsterdam games. In the 100 meters’ run, Percy Wil liams of Canada; R. F. McAllister, of the U. S. A.; and J. E. London, of Great Britain, during trial heats were clocked officially at 10.6 second#; Bere it is interesting to recall that Charles W. Paddock, running at Redlands, Cal., in 1921, did the distance in 10.4 seconds. That is a world’s record and better than the Olympic record. Eddie Most of the leaders now in Chicago j bet. seem to agree that the Democratic • ■■■■ - plank will W brief and that it will SERVICES SUNDAY AT call for subrmssion to the people of a DUNCAN’S CREEK CHURCH prohibition repeal resolution. About the Congress hotel, where wilMng. But it faded long before the|Tolan, of the IJ. S. A., running m convention as Smith became a safe | Stockholm in 1929, and again in Cop- jenhagen the same year, equalled the ! 10.4 seconds time. Tolan and Paddock I are joint holders of the world’s record for the 100 meters run. Helmut Komig of Germany, at Am sterdam equalled the Olympic record for the 200 meters run with a time of f There will be aervicet next Sunday most of their conferences were held, morning, June 26, at Duncan’# Creek there was a hum of ^tivity. Elabor-. churchy conducted 1 a t^i.- ate suites wei^ set aside for presiden-1 X. G. Anderson. All members of; that an AtnemanJFloland^^^ tial candidates whose pictures, bigger;^ church are urged to be present,i^^s the than life, looked out from huge post- ,^6 public U cordially invited. j era. The “G. O. P.” that had stood be-! • 11»26, he covered the dist^e in 20.6 tween “welcome” signs a week ago ond, aao no unanimity of opinion on ^ seconds. l was replaced by •# mule rampant. ’ the third. - . ! ^ rewrd fdr the 800 meter The burx that ran through the lob-; Raikob called for retention of the was made at Amsterdam in 1928. But b^es centered largely upon three ques-|two thirds rule so long as igates were A. Lowe, who did the distance m 1 tions: Who will be the presidential j bound by the unit ral^, but Farley,! A. Lowe^, who did th edistance in 1 nominee^ What Will the Democrats do; while withholding a statement 6n ; minute, 53 4-5 seconds. idMUt prohibition; and will there be a'whether the Roos^elt forces wouWl A new record for the 1500 meters concerted attempt to abolish the tw/)-. attempt to abolish it. observed that it| run was also made at Amsterdam. But thirds rule? seemed significant that those opposed lit was made by a Finn, H. E. I^arva, *[here wm keen dispute over the j to Roosevelt were insisting upon its j who covered the distance in^ 3 minutes, first, some slrght harmony on the acc-jwtentlo^ 153 1-5 seconds. in Amsterdam in 1928. The record Hamm. He, jumped 25 feet, 4 3-4 inch es. ^ Ihe Olympiv, record for the pole poultry vault is also held by an American, Sabin W. Carr, who in Amsterdam cleared the bar at 13 feet, 9 3-8 inch- of Winthrop college; A. E. .Scbillettcr! munity; three half-brother^, Riy, of Clemson, extension horticulturist;. Fred and Clyde Pitts, and two E. H. Rawh in charge of horticulture jsi.sters, Mrs. Herman Traynham -tod extension, and C. G. Cushman, dairy' Mrs. Clyde Traynham, all of specialist from Clenwon college. ; Friendship church section. Gardemng -and h«me- oixhards^Nvill .Mr, Pitts was a son of the Wil- be discussed by Mr. Rawl and .Mr.; liam H. PitU and Nancy Murff.prtts 1 Schilldtter; Mr. Cu.shman.will discuss; of the western part of the-counly. poultry and dairying; and Mrs. Walk- was a Spanish-American war Vetera.:, er will tell the housewives and farm' nu’nrher of the Friendship Presl/’c- girls how to can and save the vege-j I'ian church, and had been a ta-T^ci- table products. ■ uH i is dfe. • fol- e^. Now 13 feet, 9 3-8 inches is high The meeting Friday is to he to be sure, but in California they have lowed by a county-wide campaign | I P 2k been kjiown to vault higher. The looking to the conservation of the| lYllH, • 1 • Al* lYlCluCCo world’s record for the pole vault is I food crops and other products from j 1^*^- I held by Lee Barnes, of the U. S. A., | farm, garden and pasture and or-, L/1C5 111 VirCCnWUUIS who in Fresno, Cal,, in 1928, cleared chard. [ the bar at 14 feet, 1 1-2 inche.s. ! —-—^ * Greenwood, June* 18.—Mrs. Jo’i.v'.ift When Dr. C. L. Houser threw the | , Fope Abney Me Lees, 68, wife cf J discus at Amsterdam a distance of 155 0«pUol \il Wipo V^l j 'I'hornwell McLees, died at her hoTi^ feet, 2 15-16 inches, be set up a new’ f Will today after a long illness. Olympic record. But contrast that rec- ^ Funeral .services were conducted at ord made at Palo Alto, Cal., ift 1929. ^ jfhe First Presbyterian church Sun- In that year Eric C. W. Krenz threw | Owings, June 21. A get-together (fey afternoon at 4:30 o’clock by her the discus a distance of 163 feet, 8 3-4 meeting of the young women andj^as^or, Dr, Roswell C. Ixing. and in- inches. Irirls’ as.sociation of all the churches' thrment followed in Magnolia eenve- The Olympic record for the javelin Comprising*the Laurens Baptist asso- tery. throw is held by a Swede, E. H. Lund-;ciation will'^met?t with the Y. W. A.’s- Mr.-^. McLees was the daughter of quist, who in 1928 set a record for | of Rabun Creek church on Saturday, Dr. John Pope Abney, a-*^suYgeon in 218 feet, 6 1-8 inches. j June 25, at 10 o’clock. the Confederate army, and Eustacia Track and field athletes Have their 'Those churches not organized are Floyd, and was a native of old Edge- off days like everyone else. But with I urged to send' representatives from field, now Saluda county. a break of luck the Ixis Angele.sithe age required for membership. It is; games should see many new records! urged that pastors and VV'. M. S. niem- estrfjlished. j bers take notice and make every ef- ■ — .I., I fort to have their young people cn- Besidi's her husband she is survived by the following children: Miss M*ry Hunter McLees, of the faculty of tl^ State Normal college, Trenton, N. J.j Mrs. E. T. Strom, Kirksey; Mrs. C. Berry, Benncttsville; Mrs. Earki Mrs. Rutledge Adair of Columbia,! li.sted. is spending several days with her par-j -I'he program will include devotion ^ ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Henry. ! als, brief addresses by members of; Groves, Cassia, N. C.; and J. Abne; Mrs. Hugh Oonnan and children, Joe and Mtriaiji, spent the Week^-end personal service period, mission studv|law. .She also is survived by eight period, and other activities, f j grandchildren. with J. Donnan, who lives near here. / 1 \