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'-A J X J A, > / 7 1 ^^#0••••«#• ••••••• # : If You Don’t Read I THE CHRONICLE You Don’t Get The News. # I THE CHRONICLE • Strives To Be a Clean News- » * S • . paper. Complete, Newsy, Z * and Reliable. | VOLUME XXXIII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1933 NUMBER 32 INCREASE IN u. S. wai Punish COTTON CROP NRA Cheaters T- / * o 1 -Stores That Are Cutting Hours Forecast of 12,314,000 Bales, rr * j • m a* Well Above Private Reports. Asked For Teamwork and Getting It To Avoid Hiring More Men 4,247,00(FBales To Be Plowed Up. Weather Boosts Outlook. Scored Bv Officials. \ i Washington. Aug. 5.—The industrial | administration today contemplated j strict action ajrainst what it considers I “cheatinp on the blue eajfle” by cer- { tain retail stores which have been re- I Washing-ton, .Aug. 8. — A govern ment estimate of a 12,314,000 bale cotton crap for this year added diffi-^ "culty today to plans of farm adminis- ported here as opening later and clos- ; tration officials to whittle down the ing earlier to avoid hiring new.em-' surplus. ' ployees. " | The official estimate by the crop From within the administration it ! reporting board was well above most was disclosed that an effort was afoot j private reports, which had forecast a to have Hugh S. .lohnsoH, the admin- ' crop of le'ss than 12,000,000 bales, but * istrator, issue a statement within the j in view of the orderly market decline next day or so publicly flaying retail-1 officials took comfort from the indi-iers who have knowingly dodged the i cated result of the acreage reduction | provisions of the coile now temporari- campaign. j ly in effect. This was disclosed in the crop re-, another iiuarter. General Thomas ^ porting board s estimate that 4,24^>00 I Hammond, director of the presi-j -b^e&.jKhicb- J&’-Uitld HftYe I denl^a reemploytvu^ntr rOt biiwkeX code7 gins have been or will be plow’ed tin-1 .sjMtremphaticallv that in- -der because of the aiimmisiratiofr’sbe made* and that acreage slash efforts. ^ “if ^ve find anyone hitting below the i Otherwise, the government produc-j ^he blue eagle will come down' tion report would have been lfi.5rtl.000 their store front.” I bales, exceeded only by the 17.00(1,000 in 1931 and crops of one or two ear lier year.s. , Ordinarily the substantial amount taken out of production would have cut the crop far below the 13,0(K),000 bales produced last year ’lut .Southern weather turned out to be an enemy of the farm administration. Unusually fine weather brought the jeondition of the crop on August 1, up T4V2 Hammond told newspapermen that j he did not know of any detailed com- j {plaints against a specific store. He' ; indicated, however, that reports had jcome to the administration of individ- i ual retail merchants failing to observe | 'the proviso of the temporary retail ifode, that stores remain open at least | 52 hours a week, while all workers, | except executives, or managerSbi-eceiv-1 : ing more than $.35 a week, be .placed | I on a 40-hour week. ^ ^ Want Cotton Control JJR A CODE ril ^ ’ Plan Be Continued Georgia Conference Voles To i Apply 19,33 Limits To 1934-35 (’rop On Cash Benefit Basis. .Atlanta. Aug. 4.—The Georgia cot-1 ton control conference decided today! jthat the crop of 1934 and 1935 should ; ! be confined to the 1933 limit.s and, pledged /its prestige to success of aj reduction plan. ' The conference, atteniled by repre- TO GOVER ALL Johnson To Open Drive Soon To Boycott *‘Chiselers.” Names of Agreement Violators To Be Published. No Lel-Up In Ef fort To Get Evervhody Under the Blue Eagle. way • Washington, Aug. 8.—Hundreds of thousands more wage ca'-ncr'j — bar- , ^ . ‘”7'I y hers and beauticians, rebiil coal hand- s..ntat,v..s.fromGcorK,a. \laham,i in<l litho^raphars an,! metal worker, the rarohna.., ,a,|^ the most praet.eal to accompl,ah .cr,«Ke control „.^u,ation, of the national ,. .. a ca..h henef.t offer made to ft*rm-, er.s on a per-acreaRe nas,a to he pa„l| bcKinninp of the re- on all lands taken out or kept out of ■ „ •„ . . , u u tr , ^ ^ newetl offensive ordered by Hugh S. cotton production during the next two „ j * , ^ j./ohnson, the recovery admini.^trator, u 1- M f - 1 i blanket the country with agree- •uu ^ con tre ce sau , reaching every emplove, he ap- • thaLcaah reraoneratmn ahould be of-, fered, first, to farmers who signed or io,^ , , . ‘ ’ , , ' . J Koosevelt s re-emplovment agree- offered to sign cotton acreage reduc-, , - fion confracta^ur1nt -t1leT9»r-esir-f^ and Becovery AdmiuktaKtor Hvgk 8. JoIuhob, ostrated azaetly what they meant about teamwork in tbetr huinebirf af fbe Natioaal BaMvary Administratioa promum and are now wmtehinf wiw ■ameh mtiafaetiaa aa one'after another indmtrinl diviaion adopt eodm aad' atari oparattoa. Photo thowB the Preaident roeaiTlng eongmtnlattclM o^ Mr. and Mn. Hugh 8. Johnson on his recovery addre Mrs. Corrie Adair Sleeps In Peace to 74.2 per cent of normal, almost 10 per cent higher than on August I last far above the 10-year aver-^ From still another official of the administration, however, it was ascer- Laurens School Deficit Hearing p^aignu Wc believe the cotton control administration should go further in its production-control measures, even to the’ placing of a confi.scatory tax Open all cotton gins above a certain •luota allowed each farm.” The conference said the emergency has not passed and ’’will not pass com pletely until the huge .surplus of cot ton is considerably reduced.” “We believe,” it said, “that it will take at least two years of drastic acre age and production control to remove Concurrently it beca,jue known that the powerfiiT weapon of publislung names is to be the first swing against violators of the codes and agreements The decision to make known in ev ery community those who d’sjilay ‘he Blue Kagle of the XHA without ful filling its terms was revealeil with the appointment of Mrs. Hugh S. John.son as chairman of the. complaint commit tee of the consumers advisory board headed by Mrs. Mary Hiimsey. year and age of 67.9 per cent. The indicated yield of 198.4^ lint pounds per acre for 1933 is the high-, -p«l wince 19M, with the naruptuMa nf hoUi'S by stores had been received tl the 211.5 in 1931, the year which wit- G*oncern was felt that the code^Avould nessed a cotton price slump to about lose a sizeable (tortion of its reemploy- five cents a pound. tained definitely that such a volume of complaints of shorter operating that Noble Uhristian \Voman Passes County Asks Payment of Sum At Advanced Age. Interment! Due, About ,$1,900 Be Made In In Hurricane Churchyard. i Cash Instead of Notes. J. died Columbia. Aug. S The reduction estimate which show ed that approximately 10,304,000 acres had been taken out of produc tion also showed that the Southern at her home here I morning after I she bore with fine Uhristian fortitude Hearings on a permanent code for j The luneraPseryice was conducted at the retailers have been set for Aug-)the residence Friday morning at ten AVilliaiii Inient effectiveness. - — f v ' ' ' ^ ■re early liXt Thursday' Green, of Abbeville, appointed by the, materially reduced a critical illness which supreme court as special referee to it will not be a mt : .1 ‘ ^ ^ * • In that position, .Mrs. Johnson w.l’ tho c'ol'ion Xrpiu,.' We"»re ■confident with tnfcvin^ the we can not have thia control without I which her husband has la.d dow n the whole-hearted support and co-|“;\‘^.'; steppmK stones to econuu.c operation of the national (covernnient -‘“''tl'ty wh me,ease,I wuKes an I duTinit the year 1934-36. We are con-work.nx hoiji s. tident that it we can get this support.i However, no disc,plinaiy actio.-. ,. both in a supervisory and a financial Iftom Washington uumediare- ly, this being left, for the. time being to the force of public opinion in eacii in a supervisory ana a way, that during the coming two r.th£L huge sjtrplu.s will have been to the point where menace to the South- farmei and our entire eco ust 15, but this was considered same official necessary to .said it correct n....w^ ... farmers w'ho agreed to plo\v up their j the practice of shortening store hours cotton were low in their estimates of jeven during the present life of the 4ts potential production this year. , temporary code, Officials said, however, there would i It w«is learned thatTn one Southern be no additional payment because the (city alone at lea.st 37 stores display acres reduced might have yielded over ing 4,000,000 bales instead of the 3,500,000 pIoye»l i ...U.--.U fmifm administration had their s the Hurricane cemetery near here. The j niony today. He will report to services were conducted by the Rev,; court after written argum'mts M. R. VVingard, assisted by Rev. H. 0.; filed with him. sUction. ■ * ^ Hut, ‘ when the lime i.s ripe.” a.^ hear a' petitiim of I.aurens county !ern cotton farmei and our entire eco-iphrases it, conifiluints will he .school disti'ict.s for an order requiring j nomic structure, and that by that time j I’V Mrs. .John.son, the alleged payment of a 1932 .school deficit in we will have made the transition from' Y*'*^*^^*' "’’'H given an opportu:ii‘y 'AC- leiJ 0 clock, with intei nient following in cash, completed the taking of testi-; all-cotton farming to a balanced, self-i^^*^ explanation, and it this is not the are Chambers and Rev. Edward Long, and Rev. C. K. Wise of rolumbia. The services were attended by a large ing the blue eagle insignia had em-inmuber of friends and the fioral trib- no new help but were keeping ; were lovely and numeroiis. ' which the farm administration had their store doors open for shorter figured on. The contracts are alreatly' hours to attempt to come within the in'effect and it was pointed out that ' provisPm.s of the code. No information was available at ad ministration hea«iquai'ters as to whetbei the slort*^ owners were em ploying such a practice and still re maining with the 52-hour minimum. the farmers production estimate was ' made by taking an average ovei a ja*- riofj of years. Payments to the fanners wh») sign ed the reduction contracts range from J. Ingram Wilson, assist^t aUor- ney general, represented the state at the healing. His return set forth Iha^ the 1933 legislature had provideil the I moun.'- of pacing the 1932 state aid Mrs. Adair bad^ many tieautiful' school deficit in notes bearing an in- traits of character, .A gentlewoman qf terest rale of fi\e per cent., the old school, she served her home; (ioxcrnoi BlackvnuxI and State ,and her church zealously, and was the | Treasurer Julian H. Scarborough tes- olde.st member of the local Lutheran ■ tified the state finance committee,| church. Her life was marked by gen-; (-(.mposeii of thennelves and ('onip-i Veteran State Politician Dies $i» to $12 an acre where the grower allowed option on government-1 ing the code while still di.splaying th< erou.s and unselfish .service, fine ('hristian ideals and a strong, but ten or whether they were actually violat-jder. character. She held a warm place'-tie* hotis and carryng in the esteem ami affection.s of those'tion of the Je,"'islat ure. with whom she was uc({uainU‘if and; 'nic amount involved in the action jtrolic!' (Jencral .A. .). Beatlie, h:id ex , ercised its best judgment in is.suing out the intim- supporting program'of agriculture.” P^factoiy his name will be pubJi . i in newspapers. Johnson emphasized to newspaper men this would not be a' boycott but rather a plea to'the nation to palfon- I ize those stores which are coopera:- jing with the administration by rai ti'J^ i purchasing power and .spreading ci.i- ploymont. “J am going to start out uflc think the lime is right to I* .wand people to buy .gooils,” the ai'min'.-,’ lor .said, “Buying diu ild b ■ doi' support of this luov nu nt and against it ,and nobody i« constiu were . ^ owned cotton at six cents a pound. The iblue eagle straight cash rental payment will be Hammond, .standing behind a desk will be greatly mi.ssed by many who is approximately $1,9(10 from $7 to $20 an acre., Flxclusive of piled inches deep with letters, reports .loved, her. I ' the option contract, farni officials es- an«l statements asserted that investi-'^ Mrs. .Adair is survived fiy four sons, ♦ imntp rash navment.s to the giownn’.s ' gallons w tmld l>e pu.shed at the earli- I- L. Adair of .Atlanta. .A. B. Adair of wm be rore tharjlOO.OOO.OOik N^st moment. -Greenville. J. I. and I. (). Adair of this ■ ' “It will lake a week or two to get I city; one daughter, .Mrs. H. J. .Nabors showed ihat the straightened out here,” Hammond <*f this city, and two grandchildren, warmest response was from the states I said, “hut once we do we intend to,.Mrs. B. H. Austin (»f this city, and W. which grow most of th- staple.'Texa.- see that the people displaying the blue H. Adair ol Roxboro. N. ('. ed to iilow up about i.3(t5.0(M» *agle are living up to the spirit of’ __ rhoma Ll«9MKkl; Missis-■ their code. » , Poiinf 1/ Ha a I afrtoef .iippi 925 ObO, and Arks.nsas 925,(»'MI. 7 “We ifon’t intend to have the public |„VUmi>y liaS LfaigeSi The forecast on acreage eliminateii' from production Road Contracts To Be Let Soon agre acres p[)l Uii.l.ooi/, itJUl I H4. II.'U- .— „ irLJ I Ibled high by the 19;H bumper ctop*fooled on these things. If the display- - e 4U. cheating on it. and under-consumption from the de-,ers of the insignia aVe pres.sion, the world carry-over of cot-'the flag will come dwn ton was estimated on July 31 at 15,-' 000,090 bales, a reduction of about 2,000,000 bale.s under the .same i»erio«i la.«t year. Th*: carry-over of .American cotton in the United State.s was estimated a* 1- Peach Season P. C. Enrollment' Exceeds Record I Uolumbia, .Aug. 5. .State highway i department officials exjiect (<> let con- ' tracts ahniH the fir.-^t week in Septem- ! her for the $5,(Ui,0,000 in federal road const ruction allot tt'd—Sout h Carolina under the indu.strial recovery act, It ! i was learn«*d today. I Aw'ard of the contracts at that time I-aurens. Aug. 4. — Laurens county , h . hcgir.ning of ^has just completed .shipping the larg-1^.-anting of sev- e.st peach crop since commercial or-i,.,,^, thou.saniljobs by mid-Septemhei, chaids weie e.stablisheil in the county, time for an inten.-^ive fall con.struc. accoiding to County .Agent ( . B. C an- tj„p program before winter sets in. non. The last carload shipment was Union, Aug. 7. John J. Hamblin,j Union attorney and .speaker of the! stat«‘ house of ivpresentatives for sev-r en sessions, died in Angel hospital at; Franklin, N.'C., early today after an! operation for removal of a brain! tumor. Death come shortly before dawn and after .Mr. Hamblin bad rallied from the ojieiution, which was performed Saturday, and was apparently on the road to recovery. Dir. Furman ^ Angel, who removed the tumor, said putmon., ary congestion was the caU.se of the death. | Funeral scrvice«s will be held at 11 | a. in. tomorrow. Born at Magnolia,, N. 52 years ago, .Mr. Hamblin wasi one of the few men not a native of I .South Carolina who had attained the' position of speaker of its house. ; After serving lO years in the house7 he succeeded F/dgar A. Brown, of j Barnwejl, as sjieaker in I927, and pre-i sidetl ovt‘r -seven -sessions, including j the special session of 1931. ership, he served as ehairmun of the, I’l ioi to his elevation to the speak- ■ speaker pro-tem. His teim as speaker ■ judiciary committee and servetl as I i It I u»'Verni produc" ' 1 by that in any way wb iU'Vi J vious thing.” Johnson added that ^hi probably would not buy the Tuture from inductric' that w >n’: live up to the code, asserting, "D would he a eiirious thing if we dul ’.Along with the eampaign, to t ; ing all industries under modifu'd agr**- riO iits with President Roesf*'elt pend ing the more difficult ta-k'of draf-ing and holding hearir.gs on pcrman'p.t codes, the national labor board cicvi - ed la.st week to arbitrate turure si l ikes, held its first torma! inef ng and Lelegrafthed Mayor Walm^ley, of ■New Drleans. that it wa- rtioving in at once on the lUdt ruli>c control '‘heje. 'Phis strike wa^' the I u st . i-allcd lo the attention of the arbitration board, and action -y : ‘V - I’.C’.V vva- wa.s the longest of any in recent years. Dr. 1 the absence The 120 hituniinou.'^ kr,>OT<F¥!4«0,<KW bal.-4 J butOpens- .September' consumption was heavy .iunnj! to without Any ReducUon 1" vah,^,|'a7app'ioximat®,Ie”t"'>rr aunties weie foiwaiileii past month. . , . C4_|r r,., , * i *u * ’ i '.'district federal road office at .Mi * • Teachinjlf Sian. The shippers and the number of *. The shippers and the number cars .shipped by each were given for this on the 'basis of goverliment figures. The government report today esti- \ The enrollment . . u i the by 25 per cent any figure attained be- proceeds from the peaches of i Officials .said that federal fore in the history of the college Aug- growers, it was estimated byjbf the luogiam should he per cent ui a iui. - L Three of the four dormitdrtes, xf'annon. represented about Black, of Columbia, crop statistician, aie best .August condi- i.s rapidly being re.served. j year’s cotton crop in the county ex Presbyterian college limits enroll-1 elusive of the cotton seed. ment to 300 students and no more •Estimate F'ur This State Columbia, .Aug. 8.—South Carolina < farmers as a -reiialLi-oJ weather and improved methods have the finest cotton crop ^ will be received for orientation, t he Ralph Coueland season of the year of lecord. upper classmen will re‘u,n .September Younir Jl cars, L. £. Ree,ii,r_« r„. J '-“"for'l 10 cars, and r. \V. for 1933-34 exceeds mated the condition of the crop in the by 2.5 per cent any figure attained be-! xha. , state as of August 1 as indicating 79 ' » - . fhe p.oceeds f,om the peaches cent of a “full yield.” Frank ust 1. Three of the four dormitnnes, m,- completely filled, and the fourth , s»id this was the i twenty-seventh of the value of tion his records ‘f»how€d. i, The second best of recent years was. riitrin. .... 76 per cent in 1930. I.a.st year the than this number will be accepted. | August 1 condition was placed at only) Owing to the heavy enrollment, no' 57 per cent of normal. This year’s 79 reduction wijl be made in the faculty, per cent is several points higher than Prof. H. T. Swedenberg will return to the 74.2 average for the cotton belt as the deportment of English after com- announced in Washington. pleting his work for the Ph.D. degree Probable yield in the state w’as es- ,at the University of North Carolina timated at 791,000 bales of 500 pounds and spending the past summer study- gross, or 75,000 ipore than last year,ing in the British museum in I.A>ndon, despite the fact around 450,000 acres England. have been removed from production in ^ ^ the state in the national acreage re- ■ w • ^ • duction program. ^lUOIl OCUTVICC Acreage remaining for harx’est was t placed at 1,325,000, or 464,000 les^ ‘ than on J uly 1 .\The reduction repre- ‘ sents the results of the acreage cut j movement and the usual estimate of acreage abandonment. by; gomery, S -I ft the Mont- for aiijiroval after the cdmiiii.s.sion agreed up- lElnoree Man Is 8,000,000th At Fair .eo Wdlina i, lll.*^illln.^ ui of Senato. W’agne . af I New Ydik, said other existing ',ka- 'would be irxiuired into s!i(>i*ly. ---tJwt il e n t AN' i > ■ i i h .Ala., Pre.xhyterian college will open for Mr. Cannon as follows: S. J. Craig j .Jtoujihle.:the 54th annual session September 12, 23 cars, W'. G. .McDaniel 23 cars, L. J. 9 cultivation when memliers of the freshman class j Blakely 2 cars, 8,. C. Gambrell 12 cars,' Actual check and will be received for orientation. The Ralph Copeland 8 car.s,-Davi.s and P^'^Jects will he made in .Montgomery. ('hicago, Aug. lionth" visitor t<» position .Mad- lit was learned. Final approval of the [bureau of *n>a(t.s Th W'b.^hingto'n iffqnt- ] jiected shortly after. .sanction received one last 'here about .August 15. Advertisements will be in.serled in daily newspujicrs i immediately, they said, calling foi ■bids upon the jirojects two weeks later. 8, The eightj. mil- the Century of 1‘ro*-1 t t‘i ifi. gliw I ..f il.r exposition arrived today in the person of Paul Hundley, of Knoree, i .S. C., 23-year-old clerk.* ^ Mumlley wa.s greeted hv .Mis.s Ksta' Bernstein of ([larksdale. Miss., who was chosen “.Miss Mi.ssissippi” at the! cotton carnival held in Merh'i>hi.sV Tenn., in May. Sl.e presented him with, a camera. He was accom|)anied hy j Yate.4 Rammett, 21, of Saulsaliti*, I (California. I ■ Green of the American Federat ion [of I l.abor, told iiewsfiaperment he I a.sk all .slate and city hjanche.'< or h;- Dirganization to aid m .-iiixma isn g .»p- |erali(»n of the cixle>. Reports of vihlaitun- would (■Continued on page twoi Sexton Named - - As Administrator Presbyterians To Hear Visitors With Baptists CM.Bailey 111 In Greenville -''C|. M. Bailey, prominent local citi-) zen and manufacturer, is a-.patient in' the Greenville city hospital. Mr. Bailey was taken sick .suddenly on Sunday '20th. the pulpit will be occupied ^ «" T“e»day »a» removed by am. , John MeSween of this city, and on the bulance to G,eenv,lle. He etood the ■nth by Dr. R C. Grier, preaident of ‘"P "'H and ,wa» reported yesterday Erskine eollere. Due West. •« comfortably. ■ The pa.stor, Dr. D. J. Woods, is now Mr. Bailey has hundreds of friends I in Salem, Va., spending the month of in the-Lydia Mills community, in Clin- August on vacation. Members of the')ton and over the state, who will regret) The guest preacher at the First j Presbyterian church next Sunday I morning will be the Rev. John Mc- Eachern of Whitmire. On Sunday the Mies MarthA Phillips of Columbia, • the Re^. C Bynum Betts, pastor of spent the week-end with her mother, the Associate Reformed Ptesbyterian Mrs. B. E. Jones. church. , ^ ^ The union service next Sunday eve«j pulpit committee have expressed ning of the congregations of the city ■ themselves as pleased with the minis will be b^ld with the First Bapti.sr. tera who are to appear here during church./The pulpit will be occupied by his absence. • Miss Mary iJowze p)Ilar4 is visit ing friends im Hagood. I i to learn of his .serious illness. When it became known Monday that he was ill, many inquiric.s were made at the home as to his condition, all express ing the ho'pe that he will soon recover and be able to return to his place of usefulness in this community. WE THE CHRONICLE iH i*ooperatinfi: with IhreHi- ^ dent Ro,{Mievelt and is a member of the NRA. Lauren.s, Aug. 4. S. Boyd .Sext >»i, I wilt) has .served a.s diiectqi uiiikM the Laurens County Relief council, .super vising the expenditure of funds pro- jvided by the R." F, C., has leeeived notice of his appointment as relief ad- 'ministrator of the county under the newly formed Federal Emergency Re- (lief administration and has already j accepted his appointment, j Accori^ng to the instructions re- Iceived by Mr. Sexton, he is to be in jsole authority in the admini.stration of i relief funds in the county with tht? I former council acting in an advisory capacity. [ In connection with his appointment, Mr. Sexton called attention to the new I 'scale of wages provided for him to 'follow. The minimum wage for relief work, he said, is to be 30 cents per hour but workers will receive no more j money than they received before. For I instance, he said, workers who for" imerly received 75 cents a day for three days or $2.25, will now get a|)pro\i- ' mateiy the same amount4for one da)-'* v»’0;*k at 30 cents ait hour. X.- J m- r