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r. ■ T ■ V •“ . '' *^ '■ ' . ■ ■ ,. „:/ : 'K • J : THE CHRONICLE • S StriTcs To Be a Cleon Newoo • *' . ** iopdr. Complete, Newsy, • ond RelUblo. J ■siwi ll I : If Too Dent Umi IHE CBRON1CLB ^%99 Don’t Got The News. VOLUME XXXII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29,1932 \. 0.0. COPELAND ENDS_0p LIFE r^ative Clintonian Dies In New berry Snnday Morning. Large Gathering Attends Burial Ser vice Held Here,Monday. County Delegation To Meet Citizens Mass Meeting To Be Held At Court House Monday. Officials To Present Budget Needs. As has been previoi»)y announced, ij rv r« 1 j /SA *• county-wide mass meeting will be Oswald O. Copeland, 60, native of . , • » held at the court house m Laurens Clinton and for the past 35 years a merchant at Newberry, died Sunday morning at his home from a pistol wound in the head, said to have been self-inflicted. Monday morning at 10 o’clock, at which time members of the county delegation to the general assembly will be present to eitplain matters per- THIS NEW YEAR . I Several members of the family were i taining to county affairs and to re al church, and others of the household I ceive recommendations and sugges- on hearing the shot, found Mr. Cope-Uions offered by citizens generally, land in the bathroom. I Tuesday and Wednesday the delega-, Funeral services were held at the | tion will meet with county officials residence Monday afternoon at two. and heads of the various divisions of o’clock, conducted by his pastor, the | the county'government and go into Rev. C. A. Calcote. Interment was in discussions relatives.to the budget for Roaemont cemetei^'of this city. Dr. j 1933. D. J. W’oods, pastor of the first Pres-t Monday’s meeting will be open to byterian church, assisted Mr. Calcote t^he public and the delegation hoi>es at the service. >• that there will be a large attendance. Active pallbearers, all of whom ^ Members of the delegation, all be- wcre from.Newberry, were: E. M. Ev-1[|j|r members.^ are: Carroll ans. Jr., C. F. Wertz, A. J. Bowers, senator; J. D. Witherspoon, L. Morris, C. F. Weeks, James Smith,! D. Lanford and George T. Cook, Henry M. Boozer and Haskell Wright.' qJ the house. The honorary escort, all from Clin-j ton, w’ere: J. W.'Milam, T. D. Cope land, Jack H. Young, W. D. Copeland, S. W. Sumerel, J, Griffith, G. A. Cope land, H, D. Henry, S. G. Dillard, J. Vl’ill Dillard, Dr. J. Lee Young, Ross D. Young, C. M. Bailey, R. E. Cope land, L. D. McCrary, Dr. J. W. Davis, R. S. Owens, Ralph R. Blakely, R. E. .Sadler, C. W. Stone, R. L. Bailey, C. C. Bailey and E. J. Adair. Why, here you are, you little tot! You hove, straight in, right on the dot. Well now, I do declard^ou are The brightest baby year so far! Anne Pbrter Joluieon in The Country Homn Blackwood, Nance To Memphis Meet Governor 31ackwoo<l, accompanied ;by Carroll D. Nance, senator-elect from Ijiurens county, left yesterday for Memphis, Tenn., where they will represent South Carolina at the - -Mr. Copeland is^^iu*vivM__by_.his l^oy^ligrn cotton conference,_jichedule(l| widow, who was Miss Gertrude Hippl^j, tj,at city, of Clinton, and two children, Oswald, ^ conference was called Jr., and Jean Blakely; four bribers, Governor Conner of Mississippi, to E. B. Copeland of New^rry, wens plans for raising the price of Copeland of Manning, Eugene Cope- .. land of Detroit, Mich., and Dui^i ' , Copeland of this city; one sister. Mrs.I governor Blackwood s proposal for C.B. Betts of this city; and his fath-1 present cotton supply for| er, A. M. Copeland, also of Clinton. ' • ‘‘>'v«n» Pne* and declaring a cot- * ^ \ • ton holiday next year probably will Mr. Copetand was ■" b. diKU««d. beiBC a deacon in the Preabyterian South Carolina governor has eh-u^h,«ld-.-ineinber <rf4h.Ki«l«. e^ed meeting. and business men at the county seats in this state Jan. 5 to set up organi- William D. B3rrd . Dies At Hcrnie Was Prominent Citizen and For-! mer. Member of Les;islature. i Funeral Held Yesterday. ! I Laurens Dec. 28.—William D. Byrd, j 67, widely known Laurens,, county citi-1 zen and former member of the house' ROOSEVELT NOT FOR TAX President-elect Pictured As Hor rified By Report That He En dorses Proposal for Levy To Balance National Budgr^t. NUMBER 52 Albany, N. Y., Dec. 27.—President- of representatives, died early Tues-1 Roosevelt’s advi.sers said today day at his home near the city. Mr. I horrified’ at the sug- Byrd suffered a fracture of his thigh I indorsed the pro- la.st spring in a car accident. In recent ® general mnnufacturers’ weeks, however, he had been able to j through at the pre»- get out and take occasional rides, .se.ssion ^of congress as Monday night he sat up with the fam ily until bedtime. When Mrs. Byrd went to his room Tuesday morning to call him to breakfast he made no re sponse and was breathing heavily and soon expired. means of balancing the nation’s bud get. The suggestion wa.s contained in news reports from Washington that the president-elect had i.ssued direct instructions to Speaker John X. Gar- club. The service here was attended by a sation for puttings his proposal into i large gathering^ and the »operation. He asked that delegates be covered with a beautiful eoUection of, county meetings to a flowers. Mr. .Copeland had » i statewide convention in Columbia family connection in Clinton jq. the day the legislature meets. section and in addition there are hun-1 l dreds of friends who grieve at *»**!_ i Hattons Move To Whitmire City % Schools * Open Monday Smith Crop Measure Passed Would Make $100,000,000 Avail able For Farmers, IJsinR Fi nance Corporafion F'unds. Washington, Dec. 22. — Approxi mately $100,000,000 would be made available to farmers in the 'form of crop production loans under the bill of Senator E. D. Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina, which was passed to day by the senate. The bill provides that the amount, said to be the unexpended portion .if J| I U- ■4 i; Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hatton, for many years residents of Clinton, mov- iod- iast week to Whjtmire to make |200,000,000 set aside by the^ R'ec^ struction F'inance corporation for ag ricultural relief, would be administer ed at the discretion of the .secretary of agriculture. An original section of the bill call ing for special attention to the needs of truck farmers was stricken out be fore it was brought to the floor. Smith said $65,000,000 of the R. F. C. fund had been used, and that $40,- 000,000 had been reserved for regional agricultural credit corporations. The balance, he kaid, should be allotted to the stales in the discretion of the sec retary, and the bill, which now goes to the h)use, so provides. He also pointed out that repay ments of this year’s crop production loans ranged from 60 to 90 per cent in the various states. i The bill was passed with little dis- , j cussion. Btports of Hoover's fntentioB To Block Democratic-Sponsored | Repayment .fibres cited by the “ Farm Relie'raad B^ THa¥e M^ffrig' --|BoTrth Carolina senator included: — I North Carolina — amount loaned, I $4481 J)00^ cash collectiom^ $2,077,- 000; total amount collected in cash or collateralized by cotton $3,832,000. South Carolina — amount loaned, $4,327,000; cash collections, $1,908,- 000; total amount collected in cash or collateralized by cotton $3,789,000. The Clinton public schools “wiH ^ u, open next Monday morning after a future home. Their daughter, two weeks period of Christmas holi- Mrs. W'. W. Lewis, also live there, days. All of the teachers will return Mr. Uwis is cashier of the to the city in time for the opening ■ American Bank of Whitmire, and regular classroom work will bej Mr. Hatcon has been identified with resumed without delay. the business life of Clinton over a Presbyterian college will resume, long period of years. He wa.s at one its new term on Wednesday, Jan. 4th. time manager of the Clinton oil mill The Thomwell orphanage schools and later served as manager of the reopened yesterday. Farmers Mercantile company from — the time of its organization until it Rev. and Mrs. T. F. W’allace and went out pf business a year or two little aon of St. Matthews, spent the ago. Christmas holidays here with Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Hatton have many Wallace’s mother^. Mrs. Arthur Cope- friends here who regret they have tanH moved elsewhere to make their home. Cross Hill, and the Rev. E. 1). Patton, pastor^ the First Presbyterian ctniTCh of i^iorens. Interment was in the l^aurens cemetery. ’ Mr. Byrd was a son of the late Capt. J. Downes Byrd and Evelyn Craig Byrd, and he had liVed at the old homestead all his life. He is sur vived by his widow, Mrs. Carrie Cath- cart Byrd, formerly of Columbia; one son, William C. Byrd of l,aurons; a brother. Dr. Samuel C. Byrd, former president of Chicora college, now con nected with Queens-Chicora college, Charlotte, N. C.; three grandsons, Henry Downes, William and Douglas Byrd of l^iurens, and a sister-in-law, TkTrs. Thomas P. Byrd of Ora. Mr. Byrd was a successful farmer and dairyman and a highly esteemed citizen. For a number of years he was at the head of the Laurens County Fair association, and took special pride in the annual exhibits of the county’s agricultural and other re sources. He represented Laurens county in the house of representatives in 1916-18. Mr. Byrd was an elder in the Rocky Springs Presbyterian church and had taken a leading inter- estt in the Sunday school and the young people’s organization for many years. He received his education in the public schools of I.jiuren8 and at the University of South Carolina. Washington, Dec. 26. — Taxpayers who had incomes of $1,000,000 or Mr. Byrd was an uncle of L. B. and more dropped to 150 in 1930 as com- W. E. Dillard and Mrs. Reese Young pared with 513 the previous year. j of this city. These statistics were announced to day by the bureau of internal revenue which last week reported that near final figures for 1931 showed but 75 j^ersons with incomes in the million or more class contributing to the fed eral coffers. Eight persons in 1930, the final sta- Funeral .services for Mr. Byrd were | vice-prpsident-elect, to revive held at the home Wednesday after-1 sales tax plan, noon at 3 o’clock, conducted by his ! Mr. Roosevelt himself was sTlent on pastor, the Rev. Fred T. McGill, of | W^hington reports and declined icomes Given In Figures 150 In 1930 Had Incomes Over Million Against 513 In 1929. Large Fortunes Fall. Cross Hill Men Stabb^ In Fight to indicate whether he would use his influence with the Democratic major ity in the house in any way with re lation to the sales tax propo.sal dur ing the present session. In explaining that the .New York governor was "horrified” at the re port that he had given his indorse ment to the general manufacturers' sales tax proposal.' .Mr. Roosevelt’s advisers drew a sharp dis;tinction be tween the general _ manufacturers’ sales tax plan and sales taxes on par ticular commodities such as the fed eral ga.soline tax pow in effect and the tobacco twix. v They indicated, however, that Gov- erndr Rpos^elf is o'ppdsedTd the gen eral principle of .sales taxes. Mr. Roosevelt did not discuss the sales tax question in any of his presi dential campaign speeches, and until today his attitude toward the propos ed general manufacturers’ sales tax had not been known. Governor Roosevelt said he had not been in communication with S))eaker Garner, his running mate in the pres idential campaign, "since one day last week” when he asked the Texan to visit him at his home in Hyde Park soon after Mr. Roosevelt’s tertn as governor ends next Saturday. “I asked him to visit me as .^oon as he could make the trip,” Mr. Roose velt said. Mr. Roosevelt’s attitude toward the sales tax report from Washington wa.s made known while Senator Robert Bulkley, Ohio Democrat, was in con- Jference with him. Senator Bulkley is I a member of the senate committee on i commerce, manufactures and banking land currency. Quiet Christmas ~ Observed Here liaurens, Dec. 27.—John Henry , , . , . , , Martin and Mance C. Martin, Negroes, . T'T''* " * ■; I i" here in connection with . TmIZ TnTonrt;;.’ J.?0(monrLv!l“‘'^‘ S.turd.y! Chrietm.. wae <>b.,rrv...i in Clir.t.i en’hail income, of £.1 (Klli niui an.i on j whcih reaulted in three younff in the uaual i|uirt manner. TJir city . ^ . White men being cent to a hoapital $2,000,0(10 and under $0 000,000, 24 MeSwain, HOOVER VETOES MAY MAKE EXTRA SESSION NECESSARY Almost Ctftaiii, Gsrner Ayers. i, Washington, Dee. 26.—Reports that Prmident Hoover would not approve ' Democratic-sponsored farm relief and beer legislation at this session today M Speaker Gamer to express the petaoaal opinion that prospects of avoiding an extra meeting of the new congress were “not bright.” The Democratic vice-president-elect said he was “hopeful that an extra session will not be necessary,” but that “if one may judge by reports and interpretations in newspapers every where, from the executive and his close advisers, the prospects do not look bright to me personally.” On the basis of these reports. Gar ner said he was doubtful whether the duef executive would approve such measures If they were passed at the short session. The 'house agi krttwc committee is planning to submit a farm bill for action shortly, and die Is Buried Here "That would give Governor Roose velt a chance to survey the situation and we coulci go along until next De cember.” “We promised to submit the 18th amendment immediately—the Repub licans used the word ‘promptly’ in their platform,” he continued. “We promised to modify the Vol stead law immediately. The Republi cans said little about that. Both* plat forms promised agricultural legisla-l don. Judging by what you newspaper j her home on Washington street here I wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Mrs. Marie McGee Died Monday Myron Black and Guy Thompson, all members of prominent Cross Hill families. Black was probably the most seriously injured, it was said, as.he received a severe stab in the head. The others received body stabs and lacerations. rested Monday with the mills, store-, offices, banks, post office, etc., aJ closed. The spirit of Chiistma.s was in e i- dence everywhere with many on the streets carrying gifts to loved (irts and friends, receiving in turn other appreciations of love and fiiend.-^hip. Many spent the day hunting ami tn- joying Christmas visiting had income.s of $1,500,000 and under $2,000,000, and 86 had incomes of $1,000,000 and under $1,500,000. New Jersey had one taxpayer with an income of $5,000,000 or more, New York had five taxpayers in this class, Pennsylvania one, and Ohio one. States which had persons with mil lion dollar incomes in 1930 were: Cal ifornia 3, Connecticut h, Illinois 20, Delaware 3, Indiana 1, Iowa 1, Ken tucky 1, Maryland |4, Massachusetts 3, Michigan 6, Missouri 1, New Jer sey 12, New York 66, .North Carolina , 1, Ohio Pennsylvania 20, Rhode Is- LonBtilulionfll Phases of BilL Passed By Huuse Heintf Exumined land 2, Texas 2, Washington 1, and | In Order To Speed Action In Senate When Wisconsin i. SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE IS STUDYING BEER MEASURE X!ongre88 Returns ToTWorlT. Was Visiting Wife’s Parents In Laurens When Death Came Monday. Taught In Maine. Washington, Dec. 26. — A subcom mittee of the senate judiciary com mittee was set to work today on the constitutional phases of the house 3.2 per cent beer bill to speed up consid- men say, the president probably would i late Monday. She had been ill only a not sign a farm bill worked out by us. | short time. “We would be obligated to call an She is survived by her husband, extra session, in my personal opinion, D. S. McGee; two daughters. Misses to cany out our promises if they are Mildred McGee and Mrs. Ruth Spiers; not enacted at the present session.” one son, Arrah McGee; one grand- Senator Blaine, Wisconsin Republi- Laurens, Dec. 27. — James A. Rob-jean, who heads the subcommittee, (ins, 32, died at a Laurens hospital at I Promptly announced a plan for revis- 4 o’clock Monday afternoon. He was jjniT Ihe house measure so that it Mrs. Marie S. McGee, 47, died at j stricken ill while on a visit to his | would repeal, rather than amend, the provisions of the Volstead law limit ing the alcoholic content in beverages to 1-2 of 1 per cent. This would result, in case the su preme court held 3.2 per cent beer unconstitutional, in leaving the stat- child, Murrel G. McGee; her mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. He stressed if the Democratic plat- farnato balance the budget and pro vide beer and farm legislation were; Morris; two half-sisters, Miss Sudie ‘permitted to become law” at this ses-1 Morris and Mrs. Hicks Martin; two beer mensure is pending in the senate, | sum. President-elect Roosevelt would half-brothers, Edward and Bramlett Imving already been approved by the'have an opportunity to see what was Martin; one sister, Mrs. Bud Moore. kouae. needed before drafting his recommen- j Funeral services were held Tuesday “Nine out of ten men would like to dations to the Seventy-third c<mgre«8 afternoon at 3 o’clock at, Cal vary Bap- n program of comprehensive Icgis- j in December. . | tist cLurch. Burial was at Rosemont lation passed at this session looking' Although the house defeated the townrd relief of the country,** Gnmer' Democratic outright repeal proposal snid. “They want the budget balanced,! by six votes. Gamer ind^ated that if I bdieve they want carried out; the smiate acted on the proposition st tike mandate of the people as reflected this session another opportunity hi Hm November election, as quicUy might be granted for a vote in his ; branch. cemetery. Rev. V. McK. \ Marlowe of ficiated. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Sbsse and little son spent the Christmas holidays with their parmts in Silverstreet and Pros perity. Blackwell, here. He was a school teacher in Kennebunk, Maine. Mr. Robins wa.s born and reared in Clarksville, Tenn. Funeral services were held at the Blackwell home at 10:30 o’clock Tues day morning, conducted by the Rev. E. D. Patton, pastor of the First Pres byterian church of Laurens, and the Rev. C. Bynum Betts, pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian save time. This wa.s agree I to, and the chairman designated Blaine’s .sub committee, which already was work ing on the draft of a prohibition re- jHsal resolution. Norris said he would call another eraliun of the measure when congress meeting of the full committee for returns. " ! Wednesday in another effort to get a quorum to begin formal consideration of the bill. The committee chairman refirsed to coi^mit him.se]f oft a request from Ed- Diftwiddie, a prohibition leader, for a hearing on the bill, saying there were reports opponents of the beer bill wanted hearings for the purpose of delay. Blaine suggested his plan for re pealing and substituting sections of ute books clear instead of reverting j the Volstead act instead of merely to the present Volstead limitation of 1-2 of 1 per cent. Formal action on the beer bill was blocked when a quorum of the senate judiciary committee failed to materi- church of Clinton. The services' were.alize for the meeting called by Chair- concluded at the graveside -in the Blackwell family burial plot in the Presbyterian cemetery at Clinton. Six years ago Mr. Robins married man Norris to take up the measure. Blaine asked Norris to refer the bill to a subcommittee, but the chairman objected, saying ha thought it would Miss Ma,ry 0. Blackwell, of .Laurens, j expedite consideration of the measure She and a son.^James Adkins, III,;to have it considered by the full conn- aged four, survive. Mr. Robins ia alsoj mittee. survived by me parents, Mr. and Mrs.j Blaine then proposed that Norris James A. Robina of McKenzie and, authorize a subcommittee to study the Nashville, Tenip, ' I constitutional questions involved, to amending it as proposed in the house bill might avoid a "chaotic condition” if the house bill were declared uncon stitutional. The house bill would change the wording of the Volstead act from l-$ of 1 per cent to 3.2 per cent, and if the supreme court held it unconstitu tional, the Volstead law would regain its present status. Under Blaine’s propo.sal, if the S.2 per cent were held unconstitutional, the repeal section of the bill would stand and there would be no enfoito- ent percentage until congress again. -tJ. ^ . .. . ' y f'I