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/ ./ If You Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE You Don’t Get The Newa. : the! chronicle j J Strieea To Be a Clean Newa* J • 2 S paiier. Complete. Newajr, • ! and Reliable. I VOLUME XXXIII - ^ . CLINTON, Si C., THURSDAY, JULY 13,1933 NUMBER 28 COTTON CODE V Wallace Sounds !500 Confedwate ‘Pushes Probe IS APPROVED “ Final Warning Soldiers In State In Local Murder County Goal Yet Unreached Signs First of Giffantic Campaign ’ Beaufort County Is Without a Governor Blackwood Continues iThirty-Six Workers In Field iai To Close Without Further Ex-! Survivor. Many Others Coun-; Investigation In Lynching of! Give New Impetus To Drive tension of Time To Farmers. ties Have Small Number President Industrial Recovery Measures To Become Effective Next Monday; Approval of Plan Is n-,.hin(rt<.n, July li.-Apparently Given By Industry. _ $ati<d’ied with the response of grow. Columbia, July 10.-e-Just a few Dendy Negro. For Cotton Reduction. Columbia, July 11.—Governor Black* lAurens, July 11.—It was apparent more than 500 Confeilei-ate veterans today he intended to press today that thi^ I.anrens county cotton ,elrs. Secretary Wallace said today the!now remain in South Carolina. Not investigation of the death of Nor- acreage reduction sc4*up would be un- Wa.shingtoh, July 9. — President acreage reduction campaign one is left in Beaufort county and > I^^dy, :i5-year-old Negro, who was j able to complete the campaign by Roosevelt tonight ba.stened his indus- l*e concluded at midnight. Wed-!four others — Berkeley. Georgetown,Clinton jail and beaten i W'edne.sdoy jiight, the supposed dead- trial reccn'hry program into effect "^•‘"day. with no extensions of time for Calhoun, and Hampton—have but two'a^d strangled, “until the guilty par-j line as by the Washington depart- with approval of the cotton textile contract offers from farm-leach. * tried.” .ment “It^ matters not how long'it takes,” But the county organization has worked well into the night for over ten days and the retum.s as a rule have been “satisfactory” to the local farm agent’.s office from which the drive is directed and supervised. Thir- ty-.six field men are in the final round up, turning in over 200 signed appli cations each day. Yesterday’s returns gave a total of 212 signed contract , The pension roll in the office of A. ^ He hailed the putting*into effect of ^ e.viending the cann>aign which j Beattie, comptroller genei'al. listed ptovornor said. “U is my purpose the first of the industrial codes with have clG.-^ed last Saturday but 527 names as of January 1. Since persevere in the pro.secution of this a statement declaring it the “achieve- Wallace said that every cotton then several of the old soldiers have Ion? as* * ani governor of ment of cooperation, mutual under- would he given an opportunity ^ boy of 16 at the outbrt^ak of!1' Garolina or until the guilty par- .«=tanding and good will.” .to sign a contract and he was inform- the war is 88 now. ' ‘ ities are tried.” He declared the aboli.shmcnt of toilay that this opportunity hasj SLxty-fivi^ veterans diet! in 1922. } soon as the slaying was report- child labor in the^ industry,^pro\'ided been provided by the 22,000 fiidd - Greenville, the county with the larg- p'd, two members of the state constab- by the agreement which .sets up a $12 workers who have spent most of the ^.^t miml'er of Confederates now. hasiulary were sent to Clinton to begin an and S13 minimum wage in the South two week.^ in meeting growers. only’21, Pickens has 20. Spartanburg;‘oiiiliry. Wallace siu«T offers .signed before 29. .Anderson 28. Ijexingtim 22,'Rkdi-+-—1L1-Jiai’c.jenlisted ihe-serviceji olLlwo with a totjd reduction of 1,577 Thursday would bo considered even land 22. Florence 21 and Charleston *be best state detectives," Gover- acres. Todays work will probably ex- though the retiuired inspection of the j 19. Death removed nearly 1.50 of the,*^''** Blackw'ood sai<f. “and the matter | coed this as the thing seems to gain j and North, respectively, and a 40-hour maximum week, as one of the out standing points in a new era of-Aiw^ri- can business. aA*’eage offered was deferretl until a oil soldiei-s f»om the roll last year. being thoroughly investigated. ihe cottun te xtile C’^'de was’signed time when local committees weiv aide On the P'22 list were «'*72 veU'raiis i momentum as time nears a run-in “I have everv as.surnnee from other with the job. Fact is the rank-t^nd file URGE FARMERS TO PLAN Wallace Calls for Sl)eed-Up In Contract Si^niinR of Cotton . Reduction Measure This Week. Imperative Need Pointed Out of Reducing Acreage. ». • Washingtory July lO! — Secretary Wallace in a’^statement tonight urged the South to speed up the signing of contract-offers to reduce, their cotton acreage after reports were received by farm administrators of a sharp let-down in resjionses from growers following Saturday’s announcement by them that the program is “an un qualified success.” ' Wallace .said that unless greater acreage was offered the program still might fail. The oam|»aign to obtain agreement.s was to have clo>ed Wed nesday night hut an extiinaiun far the ri'imaimler of the week was expected. “There has come to my attention today I report that certain agencies by the. chief executi\e after nadirg ovciy V(», l of it aloud in the pTx.-fnc. of Hugh L-hnst)n, aiiministn-.tcr ’’f indu trial reccveiy, and a g'oup ' cahirot n; m’ r including Set* etnr- Pei.ci' rnd Ir':e.'. Thereaf’^’r > •-. .11. ate 1 the t'l-llowing st.e.e ment; ' "I have i.ist approve.1 *lie co“.>n !•. xiT'c code, subject to certain m»» ;;- . J[yjjig_cundiUi>ns.. d.irLfyiiig,..ai»I . ly affecting the proposals as sub mitted. “Many significant circumstances at- temi this result: wke iheui. Ite m.. le one im*,'artant ^change in the procrohi providing that producers \\h » all -a.ly’ ha.\e signed contracts ndiih. im roast- the amount t>f fieroage up 50 per cent. Xr v ontrac*s have been accept able Ji b- growers offered fioin 25 to 5U per c -n; of thtur grow itig crop and 1***'•*!<*< 2.097' wiriows TTvrr .55. and *48 wder -offieiiiJs,.. i’iclmlJng_ the capable solie- of the fuimers. like alino.st everybody Smtth that tbe--m*j’t*a« *5. in campa ison with 527 veteran , , b<>r.- Homer Hlaokwell., tha*. notTi-TdSP, were hesitant until they j^rograih ^vHI he (lecTiivcl eTfectiveTe- ing w'iU he net,lected that could rea-! stood it better * “ * ' are advising the cotton tjiv^luTters iu reduct!f»n 11........... 191.... Au.. 4 \3L'f • r-fi n ocit n tit t« t tiama j veteran 2.m* widev. o\ev 55. ar.l '2 on ler! "Vi? "'in ne ne,t,iecieu imu couin rea-i-'-'”'* u... ..uo ..u.^y ...tu u whether ad litionri acre- 55 ou the r->M. i sonct lv he dene to bring the guilty j m’cause the proposition seemed absurd i offen‘d " Wailuci* -M T^e rienfedern’e ivgolatmes chlled ; ‘"'Practical to others and not | statemert 'l nuei7‘.s;,:uv !.iv for a'dt-1 o.l;ed men he’wvvu !.- aud ! " nature t hat j understandable to many more. YK the f ,5 526 1611 acres have h en ofr->r. ‘5 t • . ee in the t'onf.Mhv-ate .-tnu-- it c -n best he investigated and de-1 re.sponse has been very good, though , if;,...,,., , Vs the conflict grow m-ov dos-i vclopc.l ,,ui-tly." j there will be something like a fifty I gh*. the bars w -re h>wered (K's-1 an-1 acres rune n en for reduction sm-c'fica'ly po-r’ out that the coal Ivis n,e yet been young as 111 and some even •nary of them have offered from 25 to •"‘‘"y to thTir. A- •'^••‘Hey. secrotaiy of the -t ite driver, and resist will Ik* permitte<l componsatior, in the form of cash payments and options on government- ••Chilli labor in thi... industry-is hen- arroace plowed up .'abolished. After years of fruitless ef forts and discussions this ancient atrocity went out in a day becau.se this law’ permits employers toby agreement that w’hich none oithem ing arrest. historical cnmiuission, .said ixx’ords; About midnight the jailer reported, showed approximately 6iMH>0'^enlist-i f""'' " the building, heW catton, proportionately with the "‘‘'nts from the .state but there were j »'"md<ed off the li>ck and took Dendy many dupllcalioh.s and the number probably was roughly about 55.0(81. In ^recognition of theii; .service to l'■,nd^■ had plarod in lb.. Clin-dX'r onnl diam.pancy in thn naaiirnod i.iii mil lair .luly d for striking Mar-fluoU if th<. canvass shut-s down to- i,,, s-ii'ii- iv ■sdbs, -■■ I'"- -'■'-■M . , ilhnt...ass„niinir tilo ' loial "aori-;o.: -c. B. Cannon, county fTrin nKontir,,^^,^, .j, are a little better than half wb\ to In onlering that there l>e no fur ther time extension, Wallace explain- etl that liecause of the rapid progress the Confederate cause, veterans‘will The .Xegro’.s body was found the next day in a churchyard near Clinton. ’T of the c<»tton crop, with harvesting al ready under way in the lower part of from the state. The pension of could do separately and live in com|>e- further delays in the cam-^*'26 and of those tition. paign appeared “inadvisable.” '• under 55, $106.25. “In the eyes of the whole public This represents a 15 |H“r cedt re- iduction from last year, made by the legislature in its “economy” program. recSeivc a i>ension of $2(M each this! Won’t Tax Wheat For Home Use there was a great conference among ywy « the very leaders of our industry, la- a OrC0S 1 ISlll t*or and social service, presided over,- who has given undivided time to the drive, said today he had to take time but since early Monday morning to go over the wheat processing matter with various farmers who had come Inj with loads of wheat to the local roller mill and had heard about the new law on grain and wanted information on incomp' -to Drive In Land. of Dry Or ganization Takes Sharp Issue With l^resident's Appeal. by the govemment. It has con.«idcred. the most controverted questions in the whole economic VExecutive Cunwnit hours of labor — and it brought that qw'stion.s to a definite conclusion. “It dealt with facts and facts only. There was not one word of accu.sation. And most remarkable t^f all, it an.vgs Columbia, July 10.—South Carolina at a solution which has the unanimous drys today took sharp i.ssue with Pres- approval of these conference leaders ident Roosevelt over re|>eal and laid on ail three sides of the question, at plans for an intensified state-wide iv..;ue. campaign to muster votes for reten- tivation in the Cnited States on July "I know of nothing further that tion of the 18th amemlment in the No- 1 "as reported by the dep.^rtulij^nt of coXiId have been done. 1 can think of vember 7 referendum. agriculture tiwlay to total 46,798,000 no greater achievement of -ciH>per- The action was taken at a meeting acres, compared with 26.152.000 acres ation, mutual understanding and g-axi of the executive committee of Feder-,in cultivation a year ago and 35,929,- will. ^ ated Organizations for Temperance, ,0(X1 acres picked last year. County Agent <2. I». Cannon issued; the following statement yesterday in 'regard to wheat that is manufactured I into flour by farmers "for home con- I Stub pi ion; Q1 « I “A number of farmers have called UlCrC&80{at the office wishing to know whether it. 'Fhey had been debating with the cotton acreage cut until they were just about “fed up on regulations” and now comes up a new thing on “our little wheat crop.” “Of cour.se, we want to be withiq the law,” some of them told the county agent as they sought interpretation of the wheat and flour act. the goal on the basis- < field re|W)rt,s. “It is not a foiegpfie (•onclu.-h''! jtliat this program will be adopteil. It j has been repeatedly enijihasized that unless a sufficient amount of ncroige is offered to redu<;^e suh.stantially the production of this 5’ear’s crop, the program will not be adopted. “The amount of acreage reported to us Satuiday is not, in my judgment, sufficient to put the program into op eration. Unless more producers join in the plan, its acceptance is in doubt. “No agency or individual is author ized to tell the cotton producers that this plan will be adopted. That can- Laurens county farmers have made an excellent wheat crop. But they will. a'"nnit bVdetei mined' until I or not wheat grown on the farm-ivould j not have to pay the 30 cents tax on have receivt d the signed offers, II vvjlH? .subject to the process tax of thejbushel of it if it ha.s produced ‘ governnwnt. The following informa-i<>n their farm, is milled and used by offered into baleage figures, and thus found out just how much cotton can be eliminated from, production if Acreaffe Survey Reveals I er Lent Gam 0\er 1932.1 tion is taken from orders from Wash-jibe producer, (train can bt* exchanged Bijjg'evt Gain In Texa.s. ington, which makes it clear that no' I’nr flour without subjecting the wheat j wheat proiiuct grown'and used on the to tax, Mr. ( annon is telling them,|j^^ offers are accepted. Wa.shington, July H. -^^otfon in .*=uhject to a tax: ‘The act ex- and the proce.ss siHrms very simple.j “’pjip cotton producers still have a empts from the pioce.ssing tax wheat The mill here runs day and night, j j^^id this Saturday in mak- pr»K*e.s.sed liy or for a- producer for pv*ople come from all sections of the we had received. consumption by his own family, em- county and from adjoining counties,ij today. There is no reason bringing loads of golden' grain. In for riotnn farmers re- ployees, or household.’ “This mean>. according to the Bu- , or justifiuation for cotton farmers re fusing to sign contracts in the belief view of the steady advance of flour reau of Internal Revenue, that a |prices, the Ijaurens crop come.s a.s a their neighbors have put this Tt would be unfair to omit a word attended by former (Governor John G.j' Kstimates of the indirat(*d produc- farmer may, for his own consumption,,«aver at an opportune time, jt bas across of commendation of this great indus- Rirhanls and other leading dry* from tion and the July 1 condition were notjhave his wheat ground or may procure j been pointed out by many, try. It has proved itself the leader of all parts of the sUte. given because of the law preventing!direct from the mill grinding hisj a new thing in economics and govvrn- nient That took faith and cox»rage aiul mittee characterized statements on re- jU.sjJ patriotism of the hi^'esf bi^ef :~Thcy 'p¥estdeilt und ^members | ^le estimatp does not take into ac have their reward in the results they of his cabinet” as “an attempted ex-j count the proposed 30 per cent reduc have achieved, and the example they ercise have given.” American of undue influence upon the! tion in acreage which the agricultural j toll and .sell.s it is^ subject to the tax ran voter.” ^adjustment administration ha.s men-'of 30c per bushel. 1 JI “ITie failure of ciftton farmers and The rams Unlay ^! the South to realize that additional acreage must be obtained during the . .nexit two days could defeat the pro- similar wheat without any tax being |dens-.and field corn, e.specially j j^ram. It is the iwdicy to give every im|>osed. Tlie miller who grinds bis | pklfftingB, have suffered and are cut the opiMirtunity to inirtici- A sUtement adopted by the com-jis.'uance of these report.s until Aug-! wheat, in exchange for this wheat an ja-s refreshing as everything in the way equivalent amount of flour made from'of vegetation stood in need of it. («ar- .short. The code for the first time in his- '*’it held fidelity to the I>emocraticjlioned as the amount it might take! “I trust that each fannor will plant OoiTlclsOH unionaf platform “in no sense binds j out when offers have bt^en received,! a large acreage of wheat this fall! * fory provides a minimum wage for nationaf platform workeiT in the industry and a maxi- the individual voter to support the re-’ tronsolidated. and accepted on an equit mum of 40 hour.s a week of work for p^al of the 18th amendment,” and able basis among the variou-s slates, each employe. said: 'fbe acreage to be retire«l from pro- The agreement becomes effective ••Vl> would remind the people and duction is to be limited by the amount July 17—withjn one week. officials of the South Carolina Demo-.of money available and also by the 5eve«ty^«^ven per cent of the in- cratic party that they should be,yields of the land offered, industry Was sub.scribed to the c<iM4e. hound by the action of their own last i During the last ten years the aver- Mr. Roosevelt in a supplementary Democratic convention which age abandonment of acreage hetw’een statement to the code, insisted that was “adherence to the constitution July 1 and picking has been 2.6 perl the other 23 per cent be given oppor- aiid «trict enforcement of the law^cenL tunify to be heard.""— trilhoiit Tcferenire to the Bqtior-qtte*— The July 1 area in eultivatiofr in Among the divisions of the industry tmn,” percentage of la.st year’s July 1 acre given a temporary exemption were " The statement w:as prepared by a age and the number of acre.s. for home use as the government is putting on the cotton reduction plan to aid the farmer in .self-support on the farm.” Special Services At Lydia Mills pate and, accordingly, the tihie for re ceiving offers has been extended to 'midnight of Wedne.sday. _ i “I appeal for the cooiieration of Tsilr^tl Rv Ijtf^f’nUh(>se rottim fiiVniers who TTave hof as 1 kJJ the offers :m.l wain them ,not to Ik* misled by the mi.^taken he- I • I . .. -n i J.,..*.,.! Friends in the city of Mrs. Kliza- ji^,f the plan will be adopted re- heth WiMidward ('ornelson, wife ^yf the amount of acreage of- George H. Cornelson of Spartanburg, i were distressed last Friday to learn j have confidence that the Cv>t-_ of her untimely death which occurred ton growers will do what must Ik* |at a hospital in that city after a jf their situation is to be i.m- j weeks illness. The body was carried ♦«! proved. Yet the fate of this plan han?.v _s£rvicea-,„w:Ul, WppdyinPi ya-ii Jiybere funeral services I the balance and its oiKcome v\ ill }be decided by the result.s-of these f>_ \ Special begin at the Lydia Cotton Mills on j were held Saturday morning, by; next Sunday and continue through the j Mr. and Mrs. Cornelsbn formerly ’ days of the campaign.” 23rd. The .services w’ill Ih* led by Cecil made their home in (Uinton before B. Ijiw’ter, ministerial student at j going to Spa'rUnburg a few years ago Bible School At Goldville the automobile tire and medical sup- committee consisting of Dr. J. C. Ro- states, follow’: plies groups. They had contended that per, of Greenville, president of the Virginia, percentage of last year, the maximum hour and minimum federation; Dr. C. E. Burts, executive: 110; acres 78,000; North Carolina 105; Presbyterian college, who ha.s' charge While residing here .she made many ^ wage provision would work a severe secretary; Dr. R. C. Grier, president and l,.324,000; South ('arolina 106 and'this summer of the Presbyterian wirkiwarm friends by her sweet person- hardship if applied immediately. of Erski'ne college. Due West; wf W. 1,779.000; Georgia 106 and 2.867,000; jat Goldville. Dr. Dudley Jones is f as-, ality, all of whom are dc’eply grieved Discretion is left with the ind’jstrial Smoak, Walterhoro editor; former Florida 114 and 1*22.000; Mi.ssouri llOitor of the church. by her death. < administrator as to the time for the«e Governor Richards and the Rev. .A. D. anl 451,000; Tenne.^^see 108 and 1,167,-1 Two service.s daily w’ill bt* held by! She is survived by her husband,! A Bible school is no'A' in progres- at hearing.^. There is very indication to- Betts of St. George. (KXl; .Ala^'ama 106 »nd 3.245.1)00; Mis-jMr. I»awter, at 7:15 p. m., with thejGeorge 11. (ornelson, and a little ''"u*■ (Joldville in which unusual interest night, however, that Johnson intemls Dr. Burts announced a series of d|fy .sissippi 101 and 3,936,000; Ixiuisiana j hour for the morning .service to be an-j George, Jr. ; by her father amj mother,, btH*n arou.sed. It began on July 5th to hold these hearings withif* the c»>*n- rallies was planned for July 24-31, at 106 and l,8O4,«)00; Texa.s 116 and 15,-lnounccd later. ing week, so that the code w ill i>e I 'D least one in each congressional dis- 767,000; Oklahoma 130 and 4,122,000; i — ^ per cent effective July 17. trict, to reach the principal cities of I Arkansas 106 and 3.64‘2,OnO; New; TO HAVE PICNIC TODAY Without doubt the president hur- the .state, including Spartanburg, Mexico 102 and 116.000; Arizona 120 ried this cotton textile code into effect Rock Hill, Ijincaster, Sumtef. Flor-,and 137,000; California 179 and 222,- to halt what he fears is an unnec^--- cnee. Charleston, Aiken, Greenwood, ,000; all other states 107 and 19,000. sary expansion of production at ti*e Greenville, Anderson, Columbia and. expense of labor pending the adoption others: I ifflA A«*m a-skgUC \JMllo a^a 111 'party will leave the city at four 1 o’clock and will have a picnic supper Members of the Sunday'school of j the First Presbyterian church bavc.IT^J^^ 'planned a big picni^OJuting for this'iJCrVlVC afternoon at Yarborough’s mill. The Abrams Named In Clinton Area Crushed By Mulel Laurens, July 9.—Patricia, six-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry *■ ' of the code. Returning late today from an over night cruise on the Potomac, accom panied by Attorney (5eneral Cum mings, he summoned Johnson and the industrial recovery board into imme diate session. Fortunately, after an T. D. Abrams of the (ioldvUle sec-'Franks of the Namie section, wras the all-night job, Johnson and his aidea tion. has been appointed a constable victim Friday of an unusual accident, had completed the code.' by Sheriff C. L. Owens to serve in the In a fall from the back of a mule, to- After a careful reading, during Clintoh’territory. Mr. Abrams is a for- gel her w’ith twp other children of thej which the president interspersed the mer rural policeman and is well knowm : family, the little girl had her left arm j word of “bully’*’'every now and then, ms an experienced officer. Provision ‘ broken and dislocated at the elbow, | he affixed his signature and dictated for the extra constable was made by not by the fall, but by the hoof of the; his sUbtement. the delegation at the request of the mule as one of its hind feet crushed I He hopes this will be the signal for sheriff, who said that law enforce- the tender limb of the child a.s .she other inda^itries^to fall in line* and this ment over the entire county wa.* too sprawled underneath the ani.nal. | is expected. ^ heavy for his present force and that | Marrtn H. McIntyre, a secretary to the added officer was needed in this DR, RHAME IN CHARGE the president, and Johnson, cooperat^ section. * -— tonight to hasten the cotton textile^ ^ * I absence from the cily of Dr. code iiito“effect ih response to a dc-* Jfrs. R. O. Nelson of Columbia, was S. C. Hays, the Hays hospital is being' mand by the president for prompl^^ Aha Jdia.-J.Jlk.Donnan oa^jmerat^ ^ direcUon of pr.j — . (CpnUnuied on page two) • D. 0. Rhamc,'Tn, surgeon in ‘ \ on the grounds. IS THE SALES TAX SOUND? I Yes-Nb "" 1 Turn to Pajre 2. Read Two Able Contenders— FOR ' and AGAINST Mr. and Mrs. (.abell Woodward^ will _continue through the 19th, WoodviJlc, Va., and one brother, enrolirnent npvv exce^ing one (dl Woodward, Jr., of I*»rt^hmont,' } N. Y. _ j Special courses are being given for I children in four departments, begin- !ners, primary, junior and intermedi- 'ates. Those concfucting the school are: With Baptists M«ry Bl.ck. Clmt»n, Mr5 B. j Sloan, Mrs. R. L. Martin, Mrs. Per- ^ kerson. Rev. M. K. Medlock, Bruce The union service next Sunday eve- Galloway and Cecil B. Uwter, all of ning will be held at(the First Baptist Goldville. church, with Rev. H. O. Chambers,! closing day of the school a pastor of North Broad Street Metho? program will be pre- I dist church, occupying the pulpit. A15,ented, special plans for which are cordial invitation is extended ail con-ip^^ being made, igregations in the city to unite in this service. TO REPAIR COURTHOUSE A contract has been let by the build- Baptists Meet In Laurens Today ing committee of the l^urens county i The Laurens county 1'. Y. P. U. w ’l I grand jury to W. M. (dreamer for re-1 meet in annual session this morning 'pair work on the county courChouse.iwith the First Baptist chiuxh of Lau- I The repairs will consist of laying cortr Irens. Twenty^two churohes of t^e Crete floors in two offices on the I county have B. Y. P. I’, organjzatio’i.s ground floor and plank floors on the I and they are expected to send a larrre Jury rooms upstairs. Common labor j delegation for today’s prog.-am. Morn- for the job is to be furnished free of'ing and afternoon sessions will be -charge ^ the R. F. C. ' | belit, tritlrt^^l^er^se^•v(^d At-^tbe.church. ttg asm ii8«TM#w