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r '! ' f' z' / ■ r- / ; THE CHRONICLE • 1* Strives To Be « Clean News- • • • • paper, Complete, Newsy, • • and Reliable. ■ • I ‘ If Ton Don’t Read : THE CHRONICLE S Yoa Don’t Get ^ 5 The Newt. i' VOLUME XXXII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1932 NUMBER 41 SOUTH IN BAG LONG ASSERTS Louisiana Senator Tells Roose velt Dixie Will Swing Solid To His Column and That Border States Are Also Safe. Revival Starts Next Wednesday Plans Being Perfected for City- Wide McQuilkin Meeting. 75- Voice Choir To Lead Music. i The first revival service of tlTe I union evanjrelistic meeting to be led Hy/.Tark, N. Y., Oct*9.—Senator | by Rev. R. C. McQuilkin, president of Huey P. Long, free speaking advocate j tho Colunibia Bible college, Columbia, of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the | will be held next Wednesday evenM.g, Chicago Democratic convention, met 1 Oct. 19, at 7:30 in the Thornwell Me- the presidenjdal nominee for the'first i morial church. Extensive preparations time today and told him the Southern' are still being carried on throughout states, were “in the bag.” W. M. Ferguson Dies At Home O. B. Simmons ' . Dies In Laurens' Esteemed Renno Citizen Passes. ■ Funeral for Former Banker and Funeral Service Held Tuesday Afternoon. Burial At Sardis. Business Man Held Yesterday. Native of Mt. Bethel Section. "^The community was saddened Mon day by the death of W'illiam Maxwell Ferguson, Sr., of Renno, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Ferguson. He wap lH)rn in Clinton on Oct. 22, 1879. He was a deacon of the Duncan’s Creek Presbyterian church, and a man of sterling qualities, beloved and re- Laurens, Oct. 12.— Oscar B. Sim mons, 76, former banker and retired business man of Laurens, died shortly after 7 o’clock Tuesday morning at his home on Irby avenue, after an illness Students Hear ^ Colig. MeSwain Fourth District Representative Speaks On National Defense' At College Thursday. i the city and it is hoped that on the spected by all who knew him He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Eva Dean Ferguson; one daughter. Senator Long said the South was very first night Mr. McQuilkin will sure to go Democratic this vear and j be greeted by a large congregation, that Governor Roosevelt had an excel-1 Mr.s. J. F. Jacobs. Jr., who was j Kvelyn Fergu.son; two sons, Maxwell lent chance of carrying the border! asked by the Ministerial union of the Fergu.on, a student at Presbyterian states as well. I W'ord of conditions in the South and 1 East was brought to Gov. Roosevelt as he rested from the rigors of four weeks compaigning that took him from one end of ^ thej country to the Congressman John J. MeSwain, ofj Greenville, who represents the Fourth ■ South Carolina district, Thursday morning delivered the first of a series . . , . „ . , . of I lectures planned by the administra- of abou five days followins a stroke Preabyterian eollege for the of paralysis last Thursday morning. I Funeral services for Mr. Simmons OCONEE MAN ADMjTS GUILT Walhalla Mill Bo.ss Confesses He Was One of Leaders In Mob That Took Negro From Jail After Clubbing Sheriff. Re fuses To Name Others." Walhalla, CK-t. U.—Having suffered a guilty conscience for more than two years, Laudy Harris, of Walhalla, to- student body. Mr. MeSwain’s talk was' ^lay l»ad “made peace with God” by on “A Safe and Sane Policy of Nation-1 that he wa.^ one of tSe al Defense.” I le»‘k*rs of a mob that lynched .Alien In his .speech Mr. MeSwain pointed j April, 1930. the First Methodist church. He was ^^t the need for some policy of nation-1 Alarms was one of more than 20 assisted by the Rev. W. D. Spinx of al defen.se, stressing the attempts of i tried and acejuitted on a w’ere conducted at the residence Wed nesday morning at 11 o’clock by his pastor, the' Rev. George H. Hodges, of E. B. Sloan, A. *R. P. church; Mrs. S. Bowles, Thornwell Memorial from his home at afternoon by Dr. D 4 o’clock Tuesday j of Laurens sihce~rR92rwheTT~he~ open-1— , J. Woods, pastor ed a large dry goods store which he ^ other. His day began with worship in the Episcopal church near his Hyde Park'P home. In addition to his talk Long, he conferred with mings, former national for Connecticut, and went over thej Each of the above is an efficient P- B- Doan, R. W. Dean, R. W, Young, the Merchants artd Farmers Bonded i ca’s national defense policy, plans for his forthcoming Southerti choir director and no doubt will, T. E. Salters, and J. M. Coptdand, Jr.! Warehouse comiiliny for several years, trip. ; greatly aid Mrs. Jacobs in organizing! Honorary pallbearers were: Dr. E. He was told that jn Connecticut' the choir for the meeting. Each is duced, ret’ring about two thousand came known today when he retu.-ned ers, which wiTuTd mMTTthalrthoaeCt^i-liheriff John Thomas a pi.stol that With the exceiition uf a few years F. Taylor, J. C. M -.Millan, Sr., J. M.'spept in Miami, Fla., during and fol- the decision of Alfred E. Smith to asked to see that twelve members of take an active p^rt in the dtive for j their respective choirs, with the ex- vt)tes was considered to have improved! ception of the A. R. P. and Lutheran conditions. . ; churches, from which only six are ex- Senator Izong arrived shortly after pected, are present at every service, the Roosevelts returned from church This will give a chorus of about 75 and waited for some time to .see Mr, j voices, and under the leadership of Rrai.s^velt. „ * ' MrS;-Jacobs and her capable assist-j munity. He Told newspapermen he had justj ants will make the music an attractive' come to meet “the president.” ; feature of the meeting. “I’ve never seen him,” Long said.j Every member of the choir as or ganized is asked t^ please meet next Wednesday evemng, Oct. 19, at 7 o’clock in the Thornwell Memorial church to hear further announcements t'opeland, Sr., W. S. HattoP, G. H. i lowing the “boom” days, ho had,lived McGrary, M. D. Milam, S. G. Dillard., in this city since doming here forty prisoner. vi„ VI o ■ I i tu- 1 Accompanied by a ministi; , H trri.s Mr. .Mr.Swa.n doo., not th.nk a war IS Inrwinff. lie hopes that Ita.re will Thomas his par; ir the never bo another. Having served in the* Arthur' Cannupp, S. W. Wier, C. W. I years ago from Mountville where he Wier, and W, L.;Wier. .Mr. Ferguson was a man of many friends and his death caused wide spread sorrow in this his home corn- talking to the group from one of the front steps of the Roosevelt home and moving away from a palm leaf that persistently jabbed his neck. ‘You see, I left Chicago before he j from Mrs. Jacobs for the period of came., My work was finished when he j the meeting. had conducted a general riiercantile j busines.s in as.'-ociation with a brother, Charles P. Simmons, of Hodges,. ! Mr. Simmons had lH*on a leading i member of the First Methodist church for almost the whole time he had re- siiled here, and served on the hoard of stewards for many years. He was was nominated.” I Cottage prayer meetings are bei.ig He was asked if he intended to in- held this' week and are. being largely vite the New Y’ork governor to visit' attended every night. Next Sunday iKrtHSHHHt during- his Southern, trip, j night at the. First Presbyterian church “We’d like to have him down there j there will be a union service of prayer hut he’s not ne<*ded,” he replied. “We [ and praise of all churches in the city, D' bring out big crowds to the com-j two daughters, Misses Ethel and I..ou Young People member and former officer of Pal- * rVCVlVttl i lodge No. 19, A. F. M., and a member of the Shrine. He was a native of the Mount Beth el church section of Laurens county, the son of the late James Simmons A go(Ml crowd of officers of the various young people’s church organi zations, with the pastors, held a meet ing at the A. R. P. church Friday evening, Oct. 7. Rev. S. P. Bowles pre sided over the meeting and gave a fervent and inspiring talk. He wanted and Mazie Medlock Simmons, who reared a family of twelye^^^ix* sons and six daughters. “ Mr. Simmons is survived by his World war, he does not want any one to have to endure the pains of war again. But he cited history, to prove that hoping against war does not pre vent it. He reiterated time and again that he is a sincere pacifist. “Somehow a spark is struck and nations get together,” said the con- gres.sman, “and the national defense jKilicy is uim<Ml at preventing the wanton destruction and murder of millions of men due to lack of train ing or a Jjick of program on the part of the l/nited States government.” Mr. MeSwain has just completed a three-thousand-mile tour over the United States with two army pilots, Colonel Finkle and Lieutenant Halver- all the yoting T)eople to work tog<»ther j MaggieXUurdy Simmons;j^son, and his .secretary. The tour was s par lyi’ihing. “An honest confc's'on i.- gmcl for the soul," he said, “I have mum!, -ny. peace with you and my Lord." Sheriff Thomas said he whs “ iver- whelmed” by the sudden turn ii the case but that he “accet)te(i the coeV'- sion in good faith.” The sheriff has si vivid iecolle. tion of Ocon<4!’s first lynching. In his fight to save Green he was co)ifroned hy a mob of more than KM) and before they had taken the frightened .Negro from his eell to an improvised gallows on a tree three miles away the sheriff was struck over the head with the butt of a gun. ' i He lay between life and death with a fractured skull in an Anderson hos pital for days. His son, who assisted him in his effort to save Green, was also battered and bruised. When Green’s bodv. riddled with are more interested in seeing him go I at which time short talks will be giv- log evangelistic meeting to be held whtre he is needed more.” ' en by two laymen from each church. Senator Long sai^he had noL been it is hoped that there may be a large n'.aking any speeches Tn the campaign congregation in attendance upon this T(, far. • — — service. On Monday and Tue-^lay •I’ve had plenty of politics of my nights of next week, there will be un in Clinton, and to try L’ them- .selves up to a new spirit in the inter ests of .lesus ChrLt. He .stiTiwed TlbW young people have always been used to strengthen pcojile and to lead them an inspiHtlDn~Trf-varinui-ariny, oosts. , ^ , , . , , • *.1.. • ■ 1. • 7^ “buiuita^_had been cut down, authon use Simmons, of liaurens, and two \ii. MeSwam us chairman of the mill- ,• . -T—rn-n—tu_. i j , * . CT- ... . ...» ties began an inve.stigalTriir^tTiHr—te<i .«ons, J. Augustus Simmons of Kansas, affyjj-s committee of the house. Gity,_Mo., and 0. B. Simmons, Jtm ‘>fp was-announced by the admihi."- Mianii, Fla. He is also 8ur\i\ed that the other side of the na- two brothers, Chai,. !’. Simmons o*' Greenwood, and John M. Simmons own ar.d am ju.rt through with them,” ion services at the Methodist and Bap-j to Chri.«t. It i.s no new thing to ask Mountville; and five sisters, .Mrs. .Mol- he sabl. “I may go on the stump" later churches, respin-tively, and every-1 the young people to carry on, Mr. |]ie McDonald, Miami, Fla; Mrs. Toni but not in the South." body in the community is urged to at-! Bowles said that if they couldn’t do ^^d Mrs. James Graham, llodg- ^^j- lional defense cpieftUon w<wld Ih* pre- * sented later in the year by a disting uished minisUT from the Synod of Georgia. The states he .said were “in the.,.ljag Lir the DemnCTats-irrctuded the Soiith j and border states, Tennes.see, Mis-i sour:, Kentucky, .Maryland, We.st Vir-! g nia, and Oklahoma. ^ j Ivong said he would return to New York today to spend a day there dui tend bot^ of the services. Death Claims - Aged Citizen anything el.se, young people could 1^.^. Mrs. Jane Seawright, Due West, 1 —fpray-ioT a revival and that it start j Mrs. R. Lee FeTder,'"Heiiderson- lin them. Then, too, young people can 1 viUe, N. (’. I reach other young people, the speaker j jsaid, better than any one else can. | _ , Committees to go after all young, V^iSllITIS people in town and to see that they' Home Coming Day Held At Laurens ing which time he would see James A.| (talloway Aiken Todd, 78, a respect- Farley, chairman of the Democratic , cd citizen of the Long Branch section, national committee, and other party died Sunday morning at his home near otficials. , -^here after being in declining health While he was talking, Mrs. Koose-' for s<*veral months. The funeral ser- velt arrived in an-■ automobile and ^ vice was held from the home Monday alighted at the front steps. /afternoon at four o’clock, with inter- Long introduced him.self and was ment following in the Langston Bap- welcomed graciously. ■ tist church cemetery. “You know',”, he observed as .shef Mr. Todd was born on Oct. 11, 1854,* with the members being Robert Mc- pas.-ed into the house, “thefe’s a strik-1 and had spent his entire life in this j Lees, Freeman Parker and Agatha ing resemblance between Mrs. Roose- section where he was a well known velt and Mrs. Coolidge.” farmer. He was a man of upright Plans for Gov. Roosevelt’s Southern' Christian character, <iuiet and gentle trip are virtually completed. The ten- in his manner, and pos.^essed many tative plans call for his departure ■ noble traits of character, from New York city on October 18 on I The deceased is survived by one an ^ght day trip that will bring him! son, J. I-airy Todd of this place; a back to Albany October 25, 'daughter, Mrs. William Franks of come out to the meetings were ap pointed from each church represented. Van Arnold; from the college, was elected chairman of the meeting. ' The various chairmen met with Rev. S. P. Bowles Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist church, and further plans were made. .A poster committee was selected Laurens, Oct. 10. — Home edming Col. Glasgow ! day was observed Sunday by the First I Baptist church of I.Auren8, It was the Friends in the city of Col. E. L.':'*^*^ celebration of this kind, and it Jones. The program of exercises included an appropriate .song service and ad- dres.ses by four lay memb«‘rs of the church. The general theme of their talks was “The Ministry of the Glasgow, former Clinton citizen, will ^ was decided to make it an annual regret to learn of his ileath which oc- j ^vent. curred at his homo in Salem, N. J., on | last Friday, Oct. 7th. Col. Glasgow was stationed heue for several years as head of the R. O. . C. unit at Presbyterian college. With “"‘I i W(te,'"the subject was disc-ussed by An enrollment committee was popular officer, asd many, Thomp.‘^on, M. L, Smith, C. A. lected. The m^embera are Clyde Ray, expressions of regret have been heard i p Bobo. In the Sunday Madelyn Adair and Garrard Johnson. Ipas.sing. . [school exercises, preceding the church Another committee was selected to teaming of | «^rvice, the .same general topic pre-! arrange with the superintendent ”7'‘lominuted. For the men's Baraca I to the arrest of majiy proininent yiti* zens in Oconee county. .Solicitor Leon W. Harris, of Ander.-on. pros<H*uted the cases. Stmie of tlte be>t known criminal lawyers in the state were on the other side. .After they had lie<*n acijuitted. Green's widow began proceedings for the -eollection -of §2,0^ st-ate. law—re quires a county to pay to the surviv ors of anyone lynched within its bor- (U'rs. The case w'as earrieii to the state supreme court when . Oconee re fused to pay and only recently has been settled in favor of the widow. What action, if any, Solicitor Har ris will take was not known here. Lawyers pointed out it was i)o.<s;b]e to re-open the ease against Harris by charging him with being an acce.'S iry. Harris i.s a weave rooni Ikiss in a Walhalla mill. He refused to eame any others who participated in the lynching and termed his confession a Church,” Under different topical “jH*rsonnl mutter City To Have New Ice Plant the schools to have a daily prayer telegram to j pmgram, an invited Sunday ^ Announcement was made ye^te-lay meeting in the high school prelimi-1‘^7' s<.;hool teacher from the h'irst Metho- Lbat the Home Ice company will w'th- Under the plans as they stand he Laurens, and by two brothers, P. H.jnary to the evangelirtic meeting. The “Gn behalf of Presbyterian College. ,|ist church, James H. Sullivan, made | the near future begin the erection ould visit Baltimore October 18; Todd of W’oodruff, and John Todd of | committee is composed of Paul To<ld,lwe wish to express deep<‘st sympathy, j,he address before the cla.-s Raleigh “and'Atlanta.'70ctoHf"'I9;-^l^^T^ ■ | Vivian Parks Adair, Robert ■Meliees. | p*l. Glasgow’s fim» sp and excel-' Warm Springs, October 20; leaving' Elizabeth Buzhardt and .Mary Glynn {lont s^ervice stilLabide in our institu- there Oi-tober 21 for St, Louis on a'CHICKEN STEW AT ;Chambers.. |tion. His memory eontinues fre.-h ami, CoUllty GilUlingS route that miltht take him either by. > HURRICANE FRIDAY! •’■esbyterian college and Thornwell j inspninit. We esteem him n.s a itentle-^ , Q, ne»e.a.e»<. way lof Birmingham,’ Nashville and] HUKKILAiMle ^ritlUAi j^^pbanage will ha# similar meetings man, honor him as a friend, and re- OtlOW U6Cre2l86 Louisville, or through Chattanooga j and Louisville, to arrive at St. Louis October 22, meetings ^ ^ , i at their respective buildings. The Hui-ricane Parent-Teacher «s.so-, ^ caition will give a chicken stew at' 'Hurricane school house Friday night. Prom that point his rou e probably, ^ beginninir at 7:00 o’clock. The, will take h™ I proceed, are to be used for the bene-i Indianapolis, Oct, 23; Wheelmg, W. P Va., and Pittsbui Kh, Oc^ber 24 Buf- I , faio, Rochester and Albany, October 2.5. . . i — Such a journey would take him into | —FOOTBALL were appointed to ferve as a publicity committee. ^ the border^ t^ritory of Mirylaml, | West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky i and Mis.souri. It would bring him for! the third time since he .started his^ campaign with.his acceptance speech; at Chicago, into Illinois, He made rear platform, appearances in southern Il linois and he began his journey to the west coast four weeks a^o. He stop ped at Chicago on his return from the West. STATISTICS Prof. T. FI. I.H>thery spent the week end with friends at Davidson college. spe<ted his character a.s a Christian man. VW are greatly saddened at his departure.” Miss Bretha Gray Gallman of New berry, is si>ending several day.s here with friends. *of a modern ice plant in thi.^ city, the ^ite to bf* announced ' laier. j The incorporators of the new coh- icern^re W. Clarence ('linckscales and W. ('. (’ox of Heir HI, Wnlter Dobbirs' of Greenville, F'. H. Cisine of Lau.'ens, Wm. Brooks Owens an<l Clifton Ada - of this city. The plant will ha.e a (laily capacity of 15 tons a.nd will rep resent an outlay of •>'25.000. The build ing will be of brit'k and corn rete con struction, and will al-o provide’ f ir a i meat curing department. The new General Standing KIWANIS HOUR CHANGED Citadel ...! „ Furman .... South Carolina Wofford • Newberry Clemson Presbyterian Erskine W 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 L 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 The regular riieeting of the Kiwanis i club will be held this evening at 6:45 j p. m. instead of the regular hour of | 7:30. The change has been made to'Furman .... avoid a conflict with the cottage j Clemson .... prayer meetings,.,being held in the!Citadel city. It is stated by the president that [ Newberry .... the usual pro'gram will be omitted, j Presbyterian the meeting being confined to thei Erskine serving of Tupper and a business ses sion. 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Stanton Blakely of this city, sfHK^al agent of the department of .'ommerce for liaurens county, an nounced yesterday that thci cotton gin- nings for this county from the 1932 cotton crop prior to October 1st, to taled 9,193 bales as compared with.p|yQ|^ in full ojieriuioi). it :.s 10,192 for the .same corresponding pe-Stated by the promoters, in the early riod in 1931, This represents a de- «pnng i -i>tl»4«le.-.nrtr--Mre-|m.vim»^ 'TheTToTCTe conipaiiy fni- the ..si : .season has conducted a retail ice busi ness in the city under the manage ment of Messrs, Owens and Adair. The pTant soon to be erected will manufac ture the entire output of ice necesiAry U> meet the company’s requirements. year. The first report as of Sept. 16th, j I showed that cotton ginned in the I i county was almost twice as heavy dur ing the same period last year. State Officer To Address Post College Glee Club Now At Work Harry M. Arthur of Union, state commander of the American Ijcgion, will deliver an address before the The glee club ofi Pi'esb5^rian coi- Cllnton post on Friday night at 7:30peKe has begun regular practice under jn the club rooms. 'The officers are j direction of Dr. S. M. Huntley, asking for a full attendance of the j who recently joined the faculty in the membership to greet' and hear the i department of romance languages. distinguiahed visitor as he comes to the city for an official visit. ^ Forty men have reported for try outs and a number of splendid voices iare included in the group, A tr'p is Miss Martha Whitten spent the ^st ’ planned by the dub later In th« year week-end in Bishopville wHh Miss | at which time entertainments will be Alethia Brigman. {given in several towns in the state.