Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. ?c" THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1933 PAGfe TWO 2%n8 Andi Clark State ChamiM Bob Sims and Bill Clar.k, Presbyte rian boxers, have been declared South Carolina intercollegiate boxinj: cham pions in their respective weifrhts 'by virtue of their victories over Carolina and Clemson opponents.* ■ ■Hie following account appeared ir The State, under the title of “Speak- Vmm'aid stockbAidoe "'x THE CLInTON chronicle, CUNTON, 8. C. ! J ^ i J |forward; Adams, gruard; Bradle,y, jfie, Horton (Capt.) *1«5;‘ Parker {Li£LWlllllM.C» ^.LfCLiCrS vuven Itruardt 3ta^a,-?ua«ir AJuarterm Capt) iSo-tSima^jinlimitfid; and I Week Of Activity, ■ , To P. C_Alhletet; j ^ ^ I . ^ althougfh not an-, formers in Clark and Sims, both of I Le^slature Resumed .Work On'Athletic Coimeil Makes Awards j nexin5j any victories, was in there iwhotn won their fights against all ^ In^portant Matters Tuesday. Yet To F Face Body. of I ing of Sports,” by .John A. Montgoni-| ery'; I ASSASSIN.ATION j Three Prcridf'nts * of the United, : ' I.States huve died at the hands of as-i Palmetto Boxing Champs jsassm.s. One ex-I'r ey.ident. Theodo-e I Only three collegiate boxing team.- Koosevelt. was shot hut not seriously! were in South Carolina this *year—, injured. wh«jn he was u candidate for Carolina, Clemson and Preshytenan. third term. It wa.s only accidental! Columbia, Feb. 27. — A quartet u* > **'- “ i...*-* .*.*, v/i ^nv- i nr.'s'j.vi'-’-iaii ^ problems-all of major impoilance— College Athletic councT on Thursday confronts dhe genera! as-emhly of afternoon, the men who are to be ,a,v'ard*d letters and numerals in bas- Each ()f these mot each of thefrttherr and Clemson defeated 'both rar’cdinn and P. ('. for the state team pugilistic title. i On the basis-of result.s in the dual meets nnr»’'g these thro<' the follow-1 ing indi'jdu.il slate chunifiion.s were! named; iSanlainwcu.i^ht. Tommy Lide, Clem son. f eatho"'veight, son. Lightweight ruDi. WoTtei woighl, ('harlio < lorn son .lunior ni'ddlewcJight, nom minotl. Muldloweigih. Bill Modlin, (’lemson. Light-h'i.vv’weight, Heni'y Willard, (iarolina Heavywi'ight, Bob Sims, Presbyte rian. Eron Crow. Clem- Ilill Clark, Pr**sbyte- BannisterT; deter- on'y that the assa.ssin who fired dent-elect Franklin R(»osovo)t misset him and hit Mayor Cermak of (Chicago and foim others instead. i .Vssns'-ination is a risk which evcy head of aviaticm con*-'tantly faces. The F’n'sidont of r’ranee was killed Ums than a year a^o. President Ob-'x.'-'m of Mexico was .as.sa^sinated in H>2><. King C,forge of Greece Prince Ito of Ja- I>an, President Madero of Mexico, King|Humbert fo Italy, are only a fee' of the national rulers who have (lied at the hands of assassin.s in- recent I years. There is no effective wav-to protect ilulers from the irresponsible attacks of lunatics, A president oi- a king ^ must show himself to his pyople. In I thi.s counUy^a guard of secret service I men always travle.s with the Presi- I dent and wnth the Pre.sident-tdeet, hut ; even their precautions sometimes fail. 1 South Carolina this week. They are y s(>me\^at the same p3x>blems that'ketbal! and boxing were decided upon. 1 '’aced the lav'makcrs when they first Men to receive letters in varsity ni t January 10. * basketball are: Lynn, guard; Bar, on. In the hou.se, the problems are guard; Collins. forward; Boggs, ^(chools; revenue measures and con- gur.’d; II >Icf>:nb, forward; Framrton,, solidation of departments. guard; Dis.sett' forward, and Grey. . t P »' senate, finances, in the way manager. ' - , n the general appropriatijon bill, as j The team, thr.t played the last,few; 'y^t, however, in the hands of the |en-i g^mes was comnosed, with the excep-: was in inererwftotn won To Basketball and BoxinB Par-1“’•“I’Pi"*' “ the last beil. The show-'their opponents and thereforfhave . .. , Tijj made against Clemson was much {clear right to the siate chan nionsnip ticipants. Freshmen Included. made by Carolina in their weights. ^ , ^ ^ . against Clemson, although Carolina jhe athletic committee consisic of At a meeting of the Pre.s v eman , . previously defeated the P»-esby- the managers of each team. Prof. H. lerian team. ; E. Sturgeon and Prof. A. V. .Martin, Letters were awarded to Seagle, j facuity members, ifind the secretary- ll.*); Bissett, 125; Clark, 135; McDuf- treasurer, “Babe” Rampey. V SMITH ( OTTON BILL under the provisions of the measure ^ and touches other matters having to I do with school operation and support. I (If pas.sed, the bill would reduce con-j I siderably the number of teachers em-1 I ployed, 'give more pupils per teacher, i j and result in considerable .saving of | i m'oney, ^ ! As to revenue measures, the Crum ™ r. J . r 4U IT * J O* 4 'general sales tax bill is scheduled for' 1™' Ihv Umtvd hearing'bafore the ways and K a' . '.1 h ’l! rr '"‘"'‘Veana committee Tueaday afternoon i PASSES 1 when he acce|,t» that high office, ■ hearing, arranged by te finance committee. ^ 1 tion of .Lynn, of men who* hadn’t play- The week in the house-premises to ed in the regular line-up before. But be devoted in part, at least, to the * what they j public schools. A bill, introduced by the game vvas ' the house education committee, and the fight and similar to one already introduiced in the senate, is scheduled for discussion Tue.sday at 1 o’clock. This bill sets | ing. i up a schedule of teachers’ salaries;! The freshman team got off to a bad length of school terms; minimum en- start this year but has consistently ollments in order to receive benefits 1 improved. Men to whom numerals Bulk, center; Fore-^ ! „.u-4 *1— lacked in knowledge of: more than replace by spirit which they dis- * played. Although they did not win, it is a fact that they never .stopjied try- were awarded, are: hand, center; Ijevi, forward; Wya^t, (Continued from rage on®) ■) IVYEWH NESS OF TWO put this bill through and sell wheat I happened to be pre.sent at the. down the river.” 'shooting of two Presidents, Garfield Briefly, the bill puts in the hands an'l McKinley. 1 doubt if there i.s an- of a six-iuen.' 'er board in the agricul- i other per.son living of whom that is l.ure deiiav.ineiit all government-fi- true. As a .small boy in Washington I ORIGIN OF “PANK->’ Although the '^ord “panic’’ is now nanc(*d cot‘on. 500,(M)0 bale.s Iioard’s cotton <KM) bale.s held This includes the 1,- owned by the farm eoopei'ative and 7Hk- by the agriculture (Ic on seed a;u! partmenl a.*--collateral en*p production loans. | Growers agreeing to cut their cotton output at least 30 p('r (•( nt crowd, hoylike, and saw one of the would reci'ive an ojition on a slTiue of station guards struggling with a the pool e(iuivalent to their redue- bearded man, who was still holding a tions. The option would carry .the shioking revolver. On the floor lay a a' V ! ii'li the ( (itton is proini'ed figure which I recognized as that of from tile otlvr gove n- ; The rt'const ruction citr- MM lid furnisli necc.^sary G. Blaine, secretary of state General Garfield dit/d two months laliM'. Medical and surgical science B.»35. The op-' crude fifty years ago. There an\vlittle doubt that if doctors liad deducting then what they know now he would recovered. prut li_\ thr hoait merit aireta . po-at am funds. The hoard, is directed tofdisoose of the cotton on Maivh tion holders would benefit price increase afiei cavryine (barges. The S4'nut.e bill would have increas-i ' ed the pool by the amount of relief i lA’NATK’S WI’I'H GUNS cotton still held by the Red, Gross, j There is no doubt that Guiteau, who buying it back at market prices. This {shot Garfield, like Wilkes Booth, who was eliminated in the house to meet j killed Lincoln, and Leon Czolgoscz, a strong oj>position demaiyd. j the assassin of McKinley, was insane. The senate hlil also would have di-| As a newspaper reporter “covering” t<*cted the rjiiiii Iwiardi in settling its accounts with the American ('otton j falp I was in the Temple of Music cooperative, to obtain a transfer of when McKinley was shot on Septeni- Neville Bennett, chairman of the com mittee, is ‘being held at request of Earle R. Britton of Columbia, chair man of the legislative committee of the„ South Carolina Federation of La-'applied to a period of severe financial bor. The .state federation is opposed | distress, it originated on the bhttle- to this proposed tax. ’’" field of Marathon. It will b^'remem- was passing the old Baltimore and] Textile Bills j bered in that famed encounter, that I*()t(»mnc railroad station on July 2,, textile bilks have been ma(Jie a mere handful of Greeks put a va.st IKHl. and went into the station to got j fy,. this week in thd i multitude of Persians to flight, and hou.se of reju’esentatives, but w'hether Ahe honor of the victory w'as all given waiting-room men and women wer( ^.jH |^. reached on the calendar to the god, Pan, who smote the p'er- remains to be seen. One of the.se bills sianfv- w ith sudden and unaccountable fixes the maximum number of looms , fright. They 1(781 all sense or reason per weaver — generally called the and this conditi'in of affairs took it.s “.stretch out” bill—and the other re- name from the god who was supposed latea-to hours of labor in rayon, silk,,to have caused it. print and dye and bleache^ry and fin-j ishing plants. Measures dealing w’ithj| textile operations invariably evoke Street |Tax Notice 1S33 Street Taxes for the Town of Clinton are due and payable on or CJ before ‘ APRILHI, (933 All able-bodied male citizens be tween 21 and 55 years of age are subj ject to street tax. “ Tax $1.50 .After May Ist, $2.50. By order of Town Council, D. C. HEUSTESS, City Clerk and Treasurer. •/ a drink of w'atcr. A.s I (Mitered the men and women w<.“r( screaming and rushing in every direc tion. I wormed my way through the f’re.sident Garfield, and bending over him was the familiar figure of James} ■'] V, • '. , , - , . I considerable debate, and it is possiiile ' IPe ( (opeirtti e’.s assets. This too, was «l.minate'* in the house. A motion 4»y Boileau, Repiddican, Wi.sconsip, to prohibit planting the atiandoneo .lands in other nationallv produced agi icuLt aval commodities, whether for sale or not; was rejeeted, 135 to r.M. IK*m(H-rat-s denied the hill was a stabilization |*lan. Pou, their dean and chairman of the rules committee, said: “We ace dealing ^with i;olton-~al- rcady owned by the government. It will inju>-«‘ no othei commodity under the shining sun. It will harm no oth er prod'ice. on eaith.” N!:w ( ABLNLT NOW (’OMPLFn'E that the house will not take up both of the bills as debate on the bill deal ing with public schools will proihably con.^nie considerable time. Measures looking to consolidation I of offices may also be, called up in -the house during the w'eek. j ’ At the other end of the .State House, * the senate finance committee will be engaged in rewriting the general ap propriations bill sent it last week by the house. This bill, with a total above $y,000,000, provides for the operation of the state government for a period the Pan-American Exposition in Huf-!of 18 months—this having been*made necessary by the ratification of the amendment to the constitution, chang- her 6, 1001. The murdeixr had wrap-1 ing the fiscal year from January 1 to ned a handkerchief around his right July 1—so it became, necessary to hand to make it look as if it had been [ provide for 12 months and six months injured, but the bandage concealed a |—or 18 months. The house holds that revolver. Only those closest to the j the bill it approved is within the reve- President heard the shots or realized | nues already provided for by the' ex- for a few minutes what had happened, j isting laws 1 was present when the Buffalo po lice questioned him. If ever there was a lunatic Gzolzo.scz was one. And ap parently, Zungara, who shot at Frank lin ■ RiK>sevelt, is likewise -not quitp .sane. As a result of the shooting of Pres ident McKinley stringent laws were passed providing the death penalty for even threatening the life of. the President. REDUCTION IN PRICES r FLORIDA GANAL l*LAN Among all the proj('Cts for public iminoven'UMits to be finuncetl by the R'.'Construction Finance corporation I tGontinued from page one) ' rirvnt. Spending The day (j'lietly at the Kruni Elbow estate on the Hud son. M' ’i _devol('d principally to ifmal preparation o: his inauguial addiess". In ! .’ks with intimates, he sIviW mI he was ’('Ikiwing the national iianlving V*'! . . 1 , II. •* Atlantic oc( .situatem and wa.s keenly a'iv» “o its i, ^ , , , ’progies.v. HT' kTIehc?^' Was ... ever\ a.s indicatu'e of cbnfidence. It wa.« u think of any that would do so much good as the plan to excavate a : .sea-fevel ship canal acros.s th<j , n(x*k >of the Florida peninsulji,,-connecting the Gulf of .Mexico' dir^^etly ’with the KeHume IjMst week saw three measures in troduced proposing prohibitiop .repeal conventions l y midsummer, with res- oljjtjons in both houses providing a committee of six legislators to make plans for the convention. Also during the week, {Senator H. Kemper <'(Mike, of Horry, made charg es that the state was ruled by a; “State Hou.se ri^g’’ and later 17 sena-1 tors introduced a resolution demand-1 ing pi'oof of Senator (Tirke’s accu.sa-1 ‘ ioiKs. The house ktpit to the senate a hill nllow’.ng a three year- .suspension of, foreclosures of mortgagt'.s on real es-i tale, under certain conditions, while: the .senate sent the house a bilT pro viding relief friim such foreclosures j by one year suspensions upon com- D O you feel panicky when the traffic gets thick? Keep cooL Play safe ... y^TNA-IZE ( Oui Combioacioo AutomoMI* Policy covert pracucally every iBturabl* tocorm^ cuk. S. W. SUMEREL ^ ,®tjia-izer Jacobs Building Clinton, S. C. WASHING, per car GREASING per car GULF OIL. 5 quarts High-grade Autoline Pennsylvania MOTOR OIL, regular price 30c per quart. 5 quarts for $1.25. or per quart SO SO' $1.00 2S' LET US PAINT YOUR CAR AT A REASONABLE PRICE: ONE COLOR t Some one needs thej: article you haveToi: sell. Advertise it inui The Chronicle Want:: Ad column. FORD OR CHEVROLET I SIO-OOISk. $12.00 SEE US FOR PRICES ON LARGER CARS. Give Your Car a Good Cleaning. Greasing and Oil Change. It Will Increase or Preserve the Value.__ CLINTON MOTOR COMPANY Authorized F'ord Dealers Telephone 119 » •an. learned -definitely his 'ipin- ion had lieen sought liy unknown per •Mms on whether Charles E «hairman'of the Imard of the National <’Ity bank, should resign and that le had replied an immediate change was favored. Mr. Roo.sevelt ded'line J to eomment on this. Miss Perkins is the wife of Paul Wilson, of New York, but she has .il- ways carried her maiden na»We. The complete Roo-sevelt cabinet shows a band of true Roosevelt sup It would give imme- niittee recommendations. of thousands.! The hou.«'e pass(*d overwhelmingly a It would benefit everybody in the -hiB pTt7hitnHng-4h<^-Hk>ekingt.4jX...wagca^j United States, from Texas east, by of emp.oyee!- in textile mills for “sec shortening the time and reducing " «Onds” (>'• def(Ctive cloth. The house; Mitcheil traiKsportation of comino(liti(*.( I also advanced to third Veading a hill! between the Gulf slates and the {allow ing a giajluated property tax on wealthy North .Atlantic lieaboard. It owner-occupied lands. I would pay for it.self through toll.. Both houses adopted a resolution' charged for the use of the canal by i extending the time for the payment ships. ^ of motor vehicle license fees to I hear from Uoria friends that the March 7, ! — - '"''t' railroads of Florida are opposing tl.K project. Thait seems to me like prettv small business, but it is quite chaVac- teristic. The widespread and growiru ( l imes and it was published in full on the following morning. Within less than twenty-four hours every news- doi'hlTd'.ntifiea' ‘O'- • complete reoreanilati..-, | "•P" ‘"f®''” Closely Identified ^ thi* United readers that the combined nations jtHsli its purpose. porters. All were cuweiy luenvuieu’ J a t .u IT '4 J ivs reuucis ii aril™ laTxolTf.-o.n i«»t"uchl»‘ ®PP<>« •'•ponaaol eratic and Republican independent League of Nations has ever made, thought, youth, age, and religion. | of the country. , James A. Farley, the postmaster fen-- end, and Senator W'alsh, are Catho- , R.^DIO lies. The others are Protestants. if ^^5 accustomed to ra- The other cabinet members are: broadcasting that to most of us it. Treaaury, William H. Woodin, of seew* iike a miracle. U Peniuylvluiiia and New York. I cannot escape the feeling that thC) War—Gooige H. Dern, of Buh. 'entered a new era on February j Navy — Senator J^anson, of Vir ginia. ^ Ainriculture-^Renry A. Wallace Interior- Boia. -Harold L. Ickes, of Illi I BUY COLUBR*8 '■ Magasi«p—12.0# year, for il.7S. JAMBS W. CALDWELL 17th when the League of Nations 1 broadcasted to the world its report! refusing to recognize Japan’s rights i 'in Manchuria. * ‘ | Two powerful short wave stations | at Geneva sent this fifteen thousand word message in Morse code around the world for anybody and everybody to pick up. It took ten hours to trans mit the entire report, but every word of it was picked up tw the New York ‘ p DIZZINESS relieved by BUck-Drsafht “1 decided to take Thedford'i Black-Draught, aa I had been bav- Inr bilious spells." writs* Mr. Chaa E. Stevena of Columbus, Ind. •'Wtoen I a«t bilious. I feel sl««i^ and- tir««l sf.'t do not feel like doing my work. I get awfully .dissy. I know then thftt I had better take somethlnf. After I found how good Black-Draught is.'thnt Is what I nave uaed. 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