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First Hand Dope From Olympics By Lonnie McMillian / ' ' ■ ,7 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. 8. C. / THURSDAY. AUGUST 4, 19S2 Lonnie McMHlian, who has turned o«t aome truly great track stars and. freshman football performers at Pres-1 byterian college, now is at Ix)s Angp lea, w'atching the Olympic games which started Saturday. His impre?-^ sions are those, of an expert and will j be of general interest. Here are hi s' comments, after \iewing the t’^yout*. lypi s as contained in an air mail letter fintn habit the Pacific coast JOANNA MILL NEWS I' Silas Mauldiii spent the past week with his mother in_ESetter. ‘ J Mrs. Annie Taylor of Union, is vis- I iting her n^her, Mrs. Lester Young.' I / Miss I.,oui8e Mitchell of Greenville. 'Is spending a few davs-with Mr. and ; Mrs. P. B. Mitchell. ’ Arthur ~W'hitm4re of Greer, spent a’ ' few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. j C. -K. Chapman. • , , 1 Mis.' Vc'ra “Martin of Lauret.„, was the gues. last week of Miss Ljreene There is plenty o^ evidence that the j Starxles. i of human beings which now in-,. Bobbie Bannister of Belton, is ^ . I visiting her aunt, Mrs. M. I). Blakely, the earth are not the only ani-i mis of our species that ever lived. In | .spent the past week in New-: '• matia the natives have long known,berry. ^ j 7aen of McCormick he was prominently! and loan association, and was a mem-j be pleased to Know thaA.lhejE will ebn- identified with the business and civic her of the couniy t-oard of education I tinue to make theirj home here, and life ,of the corntnunity. He served as I and the city boaru of trustees, [^1*9 interested in tlw an- attorney for both the city and county,! gjjj Mr8.-C>wen« have a wide * he ,is returning to for the C. & W. C. railway, a building I circle of friends in the. city who a’illjthe pr^tice .^i his profession.. This is a great country for track.] of the existence of "a tribe of ape-men The coast goes in fo.r track as it do**>' for football. It’s a major .sport. He- sult.s? \Vell, Stanford has placed .six men on the Clj mpic^U'am and South ern California University /five men. That ;s an ex.'ellent r<‘Cord wh^^n yon ronii'fer the scope of the tryi *i s. “TUi (juestion at present seem- o he something like this, ‘Will the Uriic- ed .'^tate-' win?’ ' “We have not given it much thought hut now. as the time approache.s and the foieign athletes begin to pour into Los .Angeles with their record.-, we feed uneasy. If we could inipre.ss on our own athletes the possiliility of them lo-ing out, they would conu* through. “But the whole matter goe** hack to I alo .Alto.] where the final tryouts were h*. Id. At this mho t the conipcti- t:on wa. i?o lamn and the men, having h.id -such (lifl.cuiy in icac-hing the fin als. have let (low;i. They s(‘em to think ihat the mo.-t important nieet is over. “Some jneat athicdes fell by the WHy'ide at l‘al > .Vltp. Gene Ven-ke, the gieatest rniler America has known, fcdl out. He did not even place. Man\ out. “Germany, I believe, will pu. h u.- for first idace. It has some splendid a‘hlete.s. However, our hope lie.s in Duml»ers.’ We should place in almo.st every event. We have teams entered in every field of sport and only a couple of otfier nations are able to csjual this. “P'rom records w'hich the men have II their credit we can place them as f(dlow.s (of course you cannot tell how they will pan out in Olympic compe tition ): “High jump; Spitz, U. S.. fir«t; Tor- itio, I'tiilipjline l.sland<, .sec.md; .John son, r. S., third. “jtroad jump: N'aml/U, .Japan, first; ^'ator, Haiti, second; (Jordon. U. S.. third. “Shot pvjt^^^.J+if^hfe!dt, (Jermany, first; .SextoTi, U. -second; Duuda, ('zec-ho.slovakia, thiixl. “Discus; Hemecz, Hungary, first; .Jessup, IJ. S.., second; Anderson, C. , third. ‘.Javelin: United .States won’t place l^nland seems certain winner. “Hammer throw’: Don’t believe we will place, hut might get one among first three. “Hop, step and jump; V\’e may place third in this. “P**le vault: Our best bet. Unitec State.s should get all thiee ttlaces. “The Sprint.s: We are challenged b.\ (Jermany for first. “Finland will show us how tp run the- kAig- distances while Germany - England, and France will give us close competition in the shorter distances. “To sum up the whole situation, the United States will be pushed to win out in the track dnd field events. “Ix)nni«* McMillian. “Los Angeles, Calif.’’ who live'in an ina?(ci.-'ihle morntain u. iiV. 0*'e of the.se w'a.s .•fc.“.itly -hi t, ^.Ithqi'.gh it i.«. illegal to'•kill ] rhem, and tne bodv hgs been sent to J, H. McCullough and family spent, -several days la-st week in .Silverstreet. ^ .M rs. I). V'. Rowe and children spent j the past week in -Ninety-.Six, | •Mr. and Mrs. G, F. Boozer and chil-; dren of Smyrna, spent Friday with! Holland for examination by scientists,: .Mr. and -Mrs.-John H, Davenport, who think'lhe-=<e “orang letjos’’ may: Mr. and -Mrs. J. H. Davenport at-, I l>e survivor.s of one of the races w’hich i tended the funeral of .Mrs. W. F, preceded the mvxlern man on the ■ Chappell at Cross Hill last Wednes day. ■"S earth. In the Sahara desert the bones of, Mrs. Banna \\ ilson of Ahlieville, is j "'everal memher.s of a race, which w’as j visiting her daughter, -Mrs. H. D. j much like, yet euriou.«ly unlike human Dudley, ^ i being.- of today, have ju.'it been un- Mis.s Sara Denhy and her‘ guest, eaithed. Similar di.-eoveries over j-Mi.-s Lula Atchison, of^Cross, Hill, many years in (Jermany, France, i spent last Friday in ('linton with Mrs. Chin'a and South Africa lead to the George Bailey. iK'lief that not one hut .several difter-' Miss Margaret Moorhead had as her «nt species of human.s ami near- gue.-'t.s last week-Misses Margaret Mc- huiuans once ii hal^Hed many part.s v>f (/'aughrin, ('arrie F.sthridge, .Margaret the world. Ne.s’.ey of Newl»erry, and .Mi.-s Clara I'trnaps the foJk-myth.s of giant.s, Frances ('Hshy^of We.st Point, .Miss, .satyrs and earth-dwelling gnome, j Mr. and .Mrs. John DuBois and Don- ha e con:e down from remote times'aid returned last Friday from a three whe.'i survi; ors of these iirirnitive i'weeks visit to relatives in O.swego,, lype.s came irjto contact with our own N. V. a:ue tors, who thein-elves w'ere bet-1 Mis.-es I>oreei;e Turbyfill and Ruth ler al ie to survive the changing rig-. Turner, -Vlessr.s. Wreford -N’abor.s, J. I or.s of a developing world because ofU). Butler, Herbert and Shuford Ix'wis : )ther.« lVe‘'hitn weVe'sqVee'iVd't!^^'*'- ability and l.rain ca- are at (’lemson college,' vvhere they ■ Ijiacitv. . ' 'are students at the Opportunity) j school. i FKANKFUIiTEH Thos attending the industrial con-j In Wa hington, during the war, it- >n Blue Ridge, N. C., recently! reverent new. paoer Vnon used to call'Mi’, and Mrs. P. B. Mitchell,, him the “Happy Sm^age.’' That is a’M. K. Medlock, Rev. C. C.j somewhat strained tran slation of i ^ *!• *!• Ahi-ams, J. J. Clark, | Felix Frankfurter’s name, .since “Fe-!^- M, Templeton, \V. L. Bragg, T. I). | liy” \$ good Utiri for “Hapny’’ and j Jr., and George H. everybody knows that a frankfurter Ellis. IS a sau.sage! , But the same men who nicknamed him u.“ed a!.«() to say that he had the best-functioning set of brains '4r> Washington, and that was saying a good deal, in a time when Woodrow Wilson and Newton D. Baker were both there and using their.s. Owens OpeQS Law Office Robert .S. Owens, who has held the! [)0; ition of teller for the pa.st three! years with .M. -S. Bailey & -Son. Bank-j Felix Frankfurter’s appointment by '>f this city, has severed this con- . (Jovernor Ely to the supreme court of Massachusetts has started a sto^ of protest, becau.se he was the cham pion of .Sacco and V’anzetti, whose ex ecution for murder was ri'garded by the ladicaks of the world u.s due to their Communist activitie.s rather than to any real propf of their guilt. Fiankfurtei, since HH 1 a professor' nection and is opening an office thi.s week on the .second floor of the Jacob- and company building for the prac tice of law. Mr. Gwens is a graxluate in law of the University of South Carolina and prior t-o his return tw Clinton in 1929 was loCted in MK’ormlck, where he practiced for twelve years. As a citi- 4\ Ml Harvard law school, Irelieved the' two men w’ere innocent, and said so. employed That put him on tbe “black list’’ of'work it. the cnn.servatives of Boston, who were) Activities like those actually add to Bolivian who wants to NO. 1.—United Stales troop.s swinging into action to clear W’a.shington of bonus rioters when the Di.strict of Cidumbia authorities confessed defeat and the situation out of control. The detachments of cavalry and tanks shown marching up Pennsylvania avenue, were-in support of infantry and machine gun crews w hich staged the tear-gas offensive on the bonus caliips. NO. 2.—Scene in one of the Pennsylvania Avenue bonus, camps when the battle with the district police was at its height. In the rioting two were killed and 44 injured, four of them seriously, many of them police. NO. 3.—General Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff of the U. S. army, who was in personal charge of the federal troops in both the afternoon and evening offensives. NO. 4.—Here was a battle over an American flag between bonus veterans and Washington police and in which on# of the polite .shown in the picture was se riously injured. NO. 5.—U. S. infantrymen with drawn bayonets and In gas masks clearing the Pennsylvania bonur* sure the nu n were guilty Iwcause they 4he world’s wealth, and they empha-' ^“"'***'*’ burned the huts. Af^er mopping up and clearing Jhese camps, the troops advanced in an were ('oinrnunists. But great lawyers, size the lesson many of us had for-1attack on Camp Marks on the Anacostia river to which 7,000 bfinus seekers had retreated. The tear-ga.s ■■■' ' - - »..ii ^ . . .. ... . offensive was resumed, the veterans driven out and all structures destroyed and burned. These scenes mark the most extensive use of troops in the national capitoi since the Civil war. In the foreground of picture No. .’>, note the cameraman within the rioting zone, gathering these pictures. Three cameramen were injured. juilges and .state.'^mcn call Felix Ftankfurler, the Austrian .Jew’ who came to America at the age of twelve, one of the ablest legal mind.s in the^ gotten, t lat all w'ealth comes from the soli snd it isn’t safe to get too far away froMother Earth. PAINS QUIT COMING ’’When I was a girl, I suf fered periodically with ter rible pains in my back and sides. Often I would bend almost double with the in tense pain. This would last for hours and 1 could fsl no relief. *1 Jtrtsd almost trwy- thlng that was rscom- mtnded to me. but found hothlng that would help until I began tal^nc CarM. Idy' mothis#'| thought It would kt food for ms, so ahs got n botUs sf Oardul and started ras taking It I soon Improusd. Ihs bad spells 'quit UOUltBi. _ X In normal hsatth.” —lira JswsI BarrH ROMANCE Bob Millikan came back to tne home of his ancestor.s the other day and j i made a talk to the village folk on the occasion of the local celebration of the I Washington Bi-('entennial in the town j of Stockhridge, Ma. s. He is known toi all the w’orld a-s Profe.ssor Robert A. i Millikan of the Ualifornia Institute of ^ Technology, and the world’s greatest living physicist, who discovered the’ cosmic rays.. j He told u.s how his grandfather,j Dan Millikan, came across the moun tains, from over Beeket w’ay, a hun dred years ago, as an apprentice to Sam Pease, the village shoemaker. He married Sally Pea.«e and went out to Illinois to farm it in the prairie coun try. His son Silas kept on farming, but sent his boy Bob to the Univer sity of Chicago. And Millikan came all the way from the Pacific coast the other day becauM, as~h¥ told" us7 Tie ~wahlt”d~Td see if he could find the hou.se where his grandfather used to “skive” shoe- leather on the sill of the back door. He’d-recognize it from the knife- marks left by the shoemaker’s appren tices. And sure enough, he found the gashes on Doctor dyne’s back-door sill! It made all the Stockbridge people feel very romantic to have such a liv ing link with the town’s past. GOLD CARDUi H( Ipv Women to Health Anything for sale? Try a Want Ad in The Dironicle. ^ One way of putting the unemployed at productive work is to set them prospecting for gold. That is not so fantastic as it may sound. There are gold deposits in many places which easily yield enough to pay good wages to people who know how to get the gold out. In Denver and^othef Cblofadb^ciliea schools for gold diggers have been atartedr—Satf—a -doaen experienced placer miners are ahowing the unem ployed how to wash the sands of the South Platte river for gold. Here, inside the city limits of Denver, every spring and summer since g^d was first discovered there in 1858,'miners have been panning out $1.60 to $2 a day of gold per man. In the Republic of Bolivia, where there it probably more undeveloped mineral wealth than anywhere else in the woAd, the government is allottinf five acres of mineral land to any un- l»OLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT Will Congressman MeSwain Explain This! VMiile in Uurens Monday morning, August in had a talk with Mr. John B. Culbertson, candidate for the legisla ture from that county. Mr. Culbertson's name appeared on Congressman J. J. .MeSwain's payroll as having been in the government service continuously from July, 1928, until February, 1931, and again from July, 1931, until Novem- her, 1931. iJnit-ersitr cT Soirtb Caroliiir iitng months of each year during the permd fre^' 1927 up to date with the exception of summer vacation perirds.' Mr. Culbertson stated in our conversation that the public impression arising from the above situation had done him an injustice as he had only personally received this government mon^y while working for Congressman MeSwain in Hashington and Greenville during the summer vacation periods from the University of South Carolina. THE REMAINING TIME, APPROXIMATELY 24 MONTHS, Mr. Culbertson stated that he merelv endorsed the vouchei^ ranging from $83.33 to $100.00 per month and returned them to Congressman MeSwain, and that he received none ci the money thus,drawn from the government in his name.I- T^ter on the same day Mr. Culbertimii stated that he^mrisdj^a feW^riRe vooebers to a M& MSlweeT THE TAXPAYERS OF^THE FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WANT TO KNOW WHO THIS Miss w. ILWEE IS, AND WHAT BECAME OF TIfE MONEY DERIVED FROM THE GOVERNMENT VOUCHERS RFTKRV ED DIRECT TO CONGRESSMAN McSWAlN BY MR. CULBERTSON. vuuLHEKS RETURN- JMaMye sUiementa by Mr. CulbertsoB^were mode tojnejjv the lercdmp^Fw^tn^es ;^!Uiia~is~paFL-of 6ufigre£lSmairiBlj^w’ain*8 record! James P. McCullough ■f Candidate for Congress, 4th District (This advertisemei^t plac^ and paid for James D. McCullough) ■ AN