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/* ....... / / THE CHRONICLE I Strives To Be a Clean Neirs- • / 1 paper, Complete, Newsy, • J and Rdiable. V ^ *••••••••••••••••% —»»»»«»#! .• H Ton Don't Bead THE CHRONICLE *1 Yon Don't Get • The News. VOLUME XXXIII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY T9, 1933 NUMBER 3 HOUSE VOTES FAI^RS AID Roosevelt Takes Hand In Push ing 75 Million Crop Loans Measure Through After Con ference With Senator Smith. Tax Questions | Farley Sounds Come To Fore Warning Note Legislators Ponder 1933 Reve nue. Members Apparently Di vided Over Methods. Columbia, Jan. 14, — It’s only a Use of Victory Emphasized. Na tional Welfare Stressed Aboye All Other Considerations. Cincinnati, Jan. 14.—James A. Far- blow into a major storm in the South Carolina general as.sembly—the ques- \ 'w elfare” tion of whether new taxes shall be levied for support of the state’s ail- i ing financial condition. against j y^es of battle, but not definite' I ones, arc being drawn with the pros- I pect of a determined battle when the issue crystalizes, the first week of the * session indicated. One camp contends that the state cannot meet its current expenses and i make proper provision for its debts without new sources of revenue. X general sales tax, a tax on intangi bles and more income taxes through a j lowering of the hracket.s have advo- ' cates now at work, j Others contend the state can cut , appropriations low enough to leave to oarp’fov the accrued obliga- Washington, Jan. 16.— The direct ing hand of President-elect Roosevelt appeared behind a comprehnesive pro*- gram of agricultural relief tonight as the house voted new millions of fed eral credit for the farmer and pre pared to protect his acres mortgage foreclosures. While Mr. Roosevelt personally sought to remove snags from the sen ate path of the much-discussed “do mestic allotment’’ bill for boosting farm prices, the house under the dom ination of the vice-president-elect — Speaker Garner—passed a bill to pro vide $75,000,000 for 1953‘crop pro duction loans. Already approved by the senate, the bill was taken up and passed in speedy fashion under a “susj)ension of rulea’’ procedure. Onlj’ adjustment of minor differences in the senate and house versions remained betwctm the" bill and the White House. Senate circles buzzed with conjec- ture> meanwhile, as Mr. Roosevelt def initely took a hand in the legislative fate of the “domestic allotment’’ bill by summoning to New York for a hur ried conference the ranking Demo cratic member of the agriculture com mittee, “('otton Kd’’ Smith, of South Carolina, w'ho has guardedly express ed his doubt.s of the measure’s wis dom, Until Smith’s return tomorrow, the committee agreed to defer its con sideration of the bill. Smith emerged from an hour’.s dis^ cussion with the President-elect with a proposal that the crops to be bene- the allotment bill be limited to wheat and cotton. Although he in timated this was talked over with Mr, Roosevelt he made no attempt to com mit the future President. I^eaVing the Roo.sevelt conference room after an hour’s talk. Senator Smith said; “We agreed that it is es sential that farm relief be enacted at this session. I think we can pass the farm bill at this session. “My own opinion is that the pend ing legislation ought to he restricted to those products in which we have an exportable surplus. I cannot speak for my colleagues, but it .seems to me that the two prime factors in the pres ent equation are wheat and cotton. “If the legislation'is a success on: cense plates until hebruary 15. these commo<lities then I think prices! Although finances and economy of other commodities would be im small cloud on the session’s horizon picy tohl Ohio Democrats tonight that now but every indication is that it will, there must be an end “to anything which does not contribute to national if “complete order’’ is to MeSwain Would Give Farm Relief Bill Offered To Provide For Holding Up Foreclosure On Farm I.4inds. Laurens Solons On G>nunittee8 Washington, Jan. 16,—.A bill diiect- ing-federal judges to postpone action for a period of one to thj-ee years on all.suits filed' in federal courts by holders of mortgages on farms and ajnse "out of the chaos which we have i private homes was introduced in con- inherited.’’ I gress today by Re))resentative John J. “The fact that we have won is not MeSwain of the Fourth South Caro- as important as what we may do w'ith j liua district. MeSwain described his our victory,” the Democratic national i pioposal for relief of mortgage debt-1 assignment within'the gift of that ors as a “discretionary and selective I body. Other committt'e Nance On Senate Finance Body. House Members Fare Well In Committee Assignments. Members of the I.iaurens county del egation in the general as.sepihly won choice places on committees in both houses, according to the journals of both hou.ses as published each day. On the senate side NANCE FAVORS SALES TAX LEVY Offers Resolution In Senate Sub stituting Graduated Levy For I’resent Property Tax. Ways and Means Committee Ask<^d To Draft Bill for Presentation. Columbia, Jan. 17.—The senate to- . , day cautiously appmached a .sales tax, ^ II lA XT ^ , considered one of the major question.^" Carroll ». Nance was placed on tliel„f current session, in a resolnllon finance comm.ttoc, which is consid-, Carioll 1). .Nance, ered the moat important committee' committee chairman declared at a of Democratic or- moratorium “victory dinner” ganizations. “The Democratic party will not lack for leadership,' but unless those who I put it into power are willing to do I their part, the order of the high com- ! mand may be nullified. . . . The fed- 1 eral government alone has neither the j resources nor the power to bring com plete order out of the chaos which we have inherited. Kxiating emergen cies call for a degree of cooperation such as we have never exerted before. There must be an end to sectional dorhamtjr [ body. Other committc'e assignments plan. The bill pvovideSjreceivedbySenatorNanceweretho.se that in a foreclosure proceeding the on agriculturt', military affairs, print ing, public buildings, retrenchments and roads, bridges and ferries. jealousXi to pui^ly .sedfish for national aid; and to anything; years. tions and still have a balanced budget. “Kconomy” is a popular word dur ing the first week of every legislative v^bich doe session hut indications that the law makers. at least a considerable num ber of them, intend to put into effect wore numerous during the first week. They included the election of James | “(joubt that the pre.sent congress will defendant may set up in bis answer his excuse and reasons why he has not been able to meet his obligations and state the reason.s why if given more time he believes he can pay the obligation or refinance it in a manner satisfactory to the creditors. The federal judge shall then take testimony upon that issue and if con vinced that there is a chance for the debtor if given time to satisfy the creditor the case shall he postponed - Tor^nnr-ytnH^4Hd~wrt^uire_lhan_Lliree MeSwain said that certainly ('arroll D. Nante^ Lau rens. The measure called upon the wavs and means committee of the house to j draft a “graduated sales tax -hili’’ in I which the indiiect tax wouM lie sub- I stituted for the five-mill state levy B. Gibson, of Dillon, with a record of economy, as speaker by the house; his .selection of a ways and means committee of 21 members pledged to bring in a general appropriations bill providing a balanced budget; and the instruction of the committee by the house not to make the hill's total more than $5,000,000, exclusive of funds set aside for the deficit. Neville Bennett, chairman of the group for two years, was le-etected to the posL Other high spots Of the first week of the 30th general assembly includ ed the .seating of H. Remper Cooke in ► his contest for the Horry senate seat with M. G, Andersen, former senator; and the re-election of John F. Wil- liam.s of Aiken, as president pro tein of the senate. Numerous measures designed to ef fect economy and relieve taxpayers poured into iM)th houses. Some would provide for tax extension. One of the first works of the whole legislature was to secure an extension of the time for purchases of automobile li- s not contribute to the na-. within three years the debtors will be tional welfare. Any effort which docs'in position to save their iirojierty by not help us all is misspent.’’ reason of improved economic condi- Karlier in the day, shortly after his tions. arrival from New York, he expressed The MeSwain bill, of course, will ap ply only to cases brought in federal court, which according to the author of the measure, will be morgages for more than $.3,000. the mortgagor and mortgagee living in diffiu-ent states. Many mortgages on farm property in South Carolina and the South are held by New York life insurance com panies. commodities would proved without necessity of legisla tion.’’ The Roosevelt imprint was also seen dominated the scene, prohibition was conspicuous. Several bills aimed at it were intrtxluced, including one to re peal the .state's laws on that subject in ■ the announcement by Chairman ] and one to provide for beer. St-eagall of the hou.se banking com-| Inve.stigation measures, as usual, | mittee that congressional action would i were tossed in the hopper. Repiesen-j be expedited on a temporary meas-' tative Witherspoon, of I.Aurens, wants i ure to relieve the farm loan mortgage I pi obes of both the agriculture and | situation. 1 highway departments. j Through Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,I Views of many new house members mentioned as a possibility for the ag-1 have yet to be learned here, a.s they riculture portfolio in his cabinet, Mr. j are keeping quiet until they know Roosevelt has notified congressional i more of legislative procedure, but vii- leaders that he considers most imper-' tually every one of them ran on an ative the need for legislation to keep: economy program. There was one farmers from losing their homes and i the largest replacements in yeai.s thus becoming embittered or broken. | majority being without previous here. enact sufficient economic legislation.” “Governor Roosevelt,” he said, “will have to take the lead, straighten out the affairs of the nation.” Tonight, he praised Roosevelt, “a man who, having iletermined what he wants (lone and what he believes should be done, knows how to get it done, adding that “his will he a con structive rather than a passive ad ministration.” —His pleas fw-c^opcLXitiQij .for the presidem-elect, he said, applied par ticularly to those seeking govern mental office. “For my own part,” he said, “I in tend to .see that those de.siies are car ried out. There is, at the same time, a standard by which every man should expect his party and his leaders to be guided, an(l that is the good of the party and the nation as a whole. I know that I am justified in llaying that this is the viewpoint of the presi dent-elect. He has placed no limits, geographical or political, upon his choice of the most competent men whom he can induce to undertake the public service. He should nt^t be em- Phone Rates To — Be Cut Here Redact iun ern Bell Ordered For South- Customers In State. Local Office Not Advised Yet. A reduction of 20 per cent in Soifth- ern Bell telephone rates in South Car olina was ordered within the pa.st week by the l>oljTh rai blina Railrdad commission with twenty days lillowed the company to put the reduction into effect. The Chronicle was informed ye.ster- day by the local management of the company, that no notice of the pro- banassed in his choice by init*rvening i posed reduction in rates has been re claims of friendship or to soothe jiure- ceived here, and therefore declined to ly personal ambitions. Popular gov- ernment cannot take such factors into Ovor on the house side fcpros,-nl 11.'“";' ‘‘•'y ™ '."•“I- live Rex I^anford was placed on the'] J' powerful ways and means committee,, . whose important assignment is writ-^**' mance committee, ing of the nnnual appropriation bill. «*>» 'rfrrrnl. would ro|x,rt Senator Nance said tonight the sen- at»' finance committee, to which the On account of the large amount of work done by this committee its mem bers are generally given no other as signment. ceived assignment on committees on accounts, education, police regulations and privileges and elections. Representative J. 1). Witherspoon was named on the committees on ag riculture, claims, Uwal legislation, of ficers and offices and police regula tions. Senator Nance was the co-author | Wednesday of a concurrent resolution petitioning congress to enact neces sary legislation for the remonitiza- tion of silver and for the removal of excessive tariff rates. Hcpre.sentative Witherspoon was the author in the house of four inves tigating re.solutions reported in news stories in other columns of this paper. it out for con.sideiation tomorrow, “without recommendation.” ('oncur- (•ence of .senate and house are re quired. The I.Kiurens legislatf>r expre.ssed TToTThaT^^irmajiTrlty T>f ’ nrittee are for the tax,” but said it State’s Deficit Shows Growth Operating ExpenseH Exceed In come $498,610.75 During 1932. State Owes Nine Million. account. Successful government must not.” Lutheran Synod Meets At Chapin 108th Annual Convention To Be Held At Mt. Horeb Church Late This Month. Commbia, Jan. 16. — The state of (vSoiith t’aroliha iniTurred a deTTcTlOffalike with the others; $489,610.75 for 1932 operations, a fi nancial statement pre|>ared for the general assembly by ('omptroller-Gen- eral A. J. Beattie and relea.sed today revealed. Total revenues for the year 1932 amounted to $8,166,399.38, of which ,$6,911,102.70 had been collected on make an official statement. j Dc^j.^ber 31. The new order does not apply to j various departments of the long distance charges whether within , were n‘(iuested in- December to the state or interstate. office statements of all ouLstanding bills against the depart- of I a! j The F.vangelical Lutheran Synod commission sets forth that a “fair iof South Carolina will have its 108th j return on the comiiany’s prop- The action of the commission cli maxes a long investigation into the rates of the company, involving num erous hearings over the past two years. With the new rates put into effect it is estimated that there will be a saving to telephone users m this state of approximately $200,000 annually. In a voluminous judgment and opin ion, which accompanies the order, the bills against the inents and so far these statements amounted to $732,321 which includes 198,871 50 state aid to schools,” the statement said. Apiiroiuiations were ordered cut 15 per cent by the budget commi.s8ion when a deficit was apiiar- j was so strenuously opposed by sewra! senators that he agreed after a heat ed two-hour committee meeting to have the resolution icpurLed witl'.ouL a dwision. I'Tie resolution pioposed that the sales tax be limited to {iroduce no more revenue than the inonerty taxes it would replace. It suggested that the tax bill allocate the eiiiivalent o* mills in property tax proceeds to the retirement of the state deficit, for which 2'i; mills of the present ta\ is pledged. Other revtmua accruing from the sales tax equal to incomi^ from 7^ mills of the present property t&*. wiuld be applied stdely to^4he-“p»y- men of teachers’ salaries and the op- '‘(Lration "(TT th? ~rrmiinon ^chfw4e--o^ South ^'Carolina” under terms of the resolution. .Nance told newsj'.apernieViTifter th-. committee session that it was not hi.-* purpo.se te rnairitqin teaeh(‘' s’ salari.*. at their jlresent standards while oth er state employees receive p:iy cuts. “1 want teachers to share and share -he rtttd, - ‘'but. - when the state promises to pay them 1 want to see them j>aid. Mr. Beatt.e told ne Just now that scliool teachet , are not being 4)aid today tiecause o'* the inability of property owner.'- l.> meet laxe.s, and that a .sales tax woit ! pay teachers.” A. J. Beatti(*, comptroller genc'a, to whom Nance referred, and W. (I. Query, chairman of th<r state tax c- mission, both irdvt'eafed a foini (f sales tax when called before the ceni- niittee for advice. B(*attie favored a g:ad.iated sairs tax not exceeding 3 per cent as ‘‘th-* best method of rtdieving fh(‘ piepeiL' tax,” and agieed that the n«‘\v Kwy “sliould be for rcho(d |)urj)oses.” Queiy said South ('arolma wou ! I derive approximattdy $2,OOP,(MM) Included in the deficit of nearly ruially if the legi.-lature enacts a In fact, such a measure i.s now be-; penence ^ on i and as-f In the senate, the turn-over was not | annual convention January 30, 31 andj^.pj^y ^ouid be from “6 to 7 per cent. 31 Lutheran j ing prepared by farm leaders , ...t u sociates of the President-elect, fnclud- so pnmounced. During the past two. Kelmuary 1 at .Mt. Horeb ing Mr. .Morgenthau, and is expected i sessions the two branches were often ^ church, ('hapin. The Rev. H. S. Petrea, pany’s gross to be introduced in both .senate and, at loggerheads and this condition may j pastor of the church. The opening ‘The evidence shows that the house early this week. Its details will, develop again, notJ)e disclosed until definitely decttF j ed upon. ^ i Mr. Roosevelt’s farm relief plans. are being formed mainly with a view j to the special session of the new con-! gress which Demopratic leaders said today is almost certain to be called about the middle of April. Representative Steagall expressed a conviction that President Hoover would veto anything but a temporary relief measure. A presidential veto Motor License Time Extended ... ft ' ITaK I day morning, January 31, at which Highway Department Sets Feb-:devotional .service will be ruary 15th As Date Limit lOjconducted and an inspirational ad- Purchase 1933 Plates. 'dress delivered by he newly elected secretary of Columbia, Jan. 13.—The state high--rburch in revenue for th( 1930 and 1931 averages aiiproxiinate- ly $2,000,000,” the opinion reads. “The commission finds and concludes that the exchange revenue can be, and should lie, reduced approximately 20 the president, the Rev. C. A. Freed, j p^j. cent, or ■ approximately $400,000, D, I),, Columbia. The first business the company a net re-1 ses.sion will be held at 9 o’clock Tues-1 between 6 per cent and 7 per i service w'ill be held at 7:30 Monday evening. January, 30,._at_ whjeh time holy communion will be ailministered and the sermon will be preached by $500,000 are salary warrants of state employes outstanding amounting to $18,801.61. Failure of income taxes to meet es timates was given by Governor Black- com- j jp bis message to the legislature ' as the cause of the 1932 deficit. Me es timated the entire state debt at about $9,000,000, exclusive of highway de partment—obligaiiuns. an- no Af tax measure identical with one operating successfully in M'ssissippi. 'I'he Mi.ssi.ssip|>i^ tax li'vies 2 per cenl upon a ma.'WsHy of eomnioditie.* s61d,- although varying consldeiat iy,_ .« More Tim6 For '• .. ^Rasor Petition I FJxlen.sion Secured Tii the United-Lutheran America., the Rev. W. H. cent on the value of its property. (LAURENS MINISTF:R Ten-Lay ! CONFINED BY INJURY; Allow I,>,;((.i,,n For Ki-hearinir In Cross Hill .Murder ('ase. for the “domestic allotment” plan I way department today complied with Greever, D. D., New York, should it pass the present congress] the request of the general as.sembly, The Chapin congregation is provid- likewise is foreca.st, even by itsjthat the date limit for purchase of jng for the entertainment of those staiincliest friends. ! 1933 automobile license plates be ex-' ^ho wish to spend the night because One of those who has been influen-j tended until Feb. 15. i.(»f the distance from which they will tial in framing the bill and getting it Ben h through the house asserted flatly to- missioner, ■ ment: “In compliance with the request of j gregations in South Carolina. The ad the general assembly, I will instruct vance bulletin of the convention is al our officers and agents not to make any cases until after the 15th of Feb ruary.” ' . Sawyer, chief highway com-, come. It is expected that there will issued the following state- j be more than 100 delegates, clerical day that no matter how much it might be altered in the senate agri culture committee or on the floor, President Hoover will refuse to sign an allotment plan measure. Little likeliho^ is seen that the necessary two-thirds could be marshalled to pass it over i veto. In fact, the bill has encountered lukewarm reception in Democratic asj well as Republican circles-since it reached the senate last week aftei passing the house by a vote of 203 to 151. a • I Three Clubs Hold Joint Meeting I.,aurens, Jan. 17. The Rev. John I H. Washington, widely known Baptist .minister of Ijiurcns, is confined to his, ■bed IxHraus^ of a painful injury to one! iof his knees, suffered Saturday in a I , car accident. I ! The leg has lieen too swollen to per- The city’s three service clubs, Ki- wanis. Rotary and Lions, held an inter-club meeting last Friday eve ning at the Mary .Musgrove Tea room with Prof. H. K. Sturgeon, pi ('oluinbia, -Ian. II. .Attorneys'foi* three men coniicfed of the murder of VV. (’. . Rasor, cldei ly former Cros.- Ilill bankers, have ten more day.*^ in which to file a petition with the su- ' prenie court for a rehearing of the mit an X-ray being made of the r , . wound so far, but it is thouKht that no I» '•'('■’“‘I >" K™"* “ bones were fractured, though the; brui.ses made walking out of the ‘ question and thus prevenU*d his b‘)ld- |’^' ing regular preaching servives Sun- ‘ W. K. Richey, of counsel for the three Cross Hill men, one of them a .son of the slain man, .secured the ten ay extension, it wa.s announced to- ^ „ of tho Rotary club, proaidin*. Talkal'"* ;,lay,whon the luMio,I for filing (hope- and lay, from the many Lut ] pledj^inif hearty co-operation to all ef- j * , . .jatiirduv af til'on was to have expired. farohna. The ad- city’, intereat, |. linl,.,, the petition^ filed were made by Robert S. Gwens of the Lions, R. L. Plaxico of the Kiwanis, to the pastors and- thdegateir Januarjr Brown of the Rotary . County Finances . In Good Shape VOIIVC: V ready in print and will be mailed out club. A discussion was entered into upon the need and advisability of or ganizing a community ternoon when a ear in rever,e hit the ‘"c per,„..n „ by .lan- miniater’a parked machine a, he stood. Henry Rasor, the v.ct.m s in front of it while .some repairs were being made by a mechanic. Mr, Wash ington’s leg was caught, between the community cheat in the ,''“"'P"’ to care for charital^e 1 -^=— 19 so that they will have ample time to study the reports and recommenda- tion.s upon which they will have to act at the convention. Tuesday evening represenUtiVeg of "the United Luther- j „ j,. Ox-! ATTEMPT TO WRECK j an church will be heard. It is antici- j Capt. R. K. Wysor named as p At W C F'REICHT ipated that Giis^ill be a t a special committee to direct the un-j ^ * dertaking. . j - J Lauren.s, Jan. 15.—Laurens county railway police today House Approves ^Buy America’ Bill ! Lauren,. Jan. I4.-“We now have ajof the ayuod. ru^con, clean slate ,0 far a, current hank ducted for the offices o p , I loans are concerned, with the oxcep- secretary and treasurer. tion of a $5,000 loan privately' se-. ——— j cured,” remarked D. R. Simpson.' MEN MEET FRIDA^V-NIGHT county treasurer, after he had <aid Th(? regular monthly meeting of the. lujyjbus L, Ov/en son, and Lathan and Kugene Crisp, will be brought to Jhe state jieniten- tiary here to l)egin life sentences. V 'I’he elder Rasor was beaten to fle.ath im his home on .September 26. j 1931. After one mistrial, his son an<f I the ('risps were convicted in .May of 11932. The supreme court on Januaiy denied an appeal for a new trial. [ officers and the county had settled bank notes ' First Presbyterian church i ca SHERIFF OWENS BETTER j.sought penions respon.sible for an ap-! — - parent effort to wreck a .Crmrleston FYiends in the'city of Sheriff Co- ^nd Western Carolina railway train who has been criti- near here Saturday night. TRl TO MEET The hoard of trustees of Presbyt^ rian college will hold its .semi-annual meeting here February 28th with a ill with influenza and complica- A locomotive pulling 50 loaded full attendance expected. ! amounting to $125,000, including in-' Friday night at 7 o’clock ■ tions for about two weeks, will be hvighh cars struck several of six rail- A new member has rect itly been withim thmJaat^day oi two, in the church dining department. Fol-: gf^d to know that, he wa.s reporte(] road ties placed on the track.s between rdded to the board, II. T. McIntosh, But the treasurer is behind with lowing'the usuaTdinner, an interest- yesterday to be improved. He is now Ora and Watts mill. The tfng more com- ground over the tie.s with little hi» ])hy- age, M. R. Fooshe, railroad special who has moved oht of the Georgi* Washington, Jan. 16. —The today pa.s.=ed and sent to the senate the Wilson bill dii'ecting the govem-; current and outstanding claims, and program •will be pre.sented with free from fever and resting ment to purchase American produced I is not able to forecast as to when gn nnen of the church cordially i fortably, it was stated by ft. ^W Uy * Aft tap engine , editor of The Albany Herald,\Albany, c dam-1 Ga., replacing the Rev. A. W. Dick, supplies 3nd materials for its use. ^ paid. , . j invited. , sicians. I agent said synod. K&Saa^iBBXiaamiaB^m: y •\ /