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4 f f « t ■7''‘'Si;'^{. > ] - VA 'j - \:. / ••••••• # ; If You Don’t Read T^E CHRONICLE You Don’t.Get The News. THE CHRONICLE • Strives To Be a (Jean New»- paper. Complete. Newsy, and Reliable. : VOLUME XXXIII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1933 NUMBER 34 NRA CANVASS I Laurens, Sumter OPENS MONDAY: H^quarter. OUT TO GET TA/I By AJberi T. Btid Intensive Drive To Be Made. Throughout Nation To Put* Blue Eagle In Every Home, and Show Window. 1,500,000' Volunteers To Take Part In Whirlwind Campaign. Made District Appraising Cen ters for Federal Land Bank In South Carolina. Washington, Aug. 20.—With a ma jority of tlie nation’s major industries under the Blue EaRle HueH S. Joh;!-' ;;a“a' “col7mhia eon today annhunced the openmK next (he speed with which" appli- Columbia, Aug. 20. — I>aurens and | Sumter have been designated by the ; Federal Land bank as district head-' quarters for appraisers working in, South Carolina. The policy of zoning j each state in the Third Land Bank dis-! trict has been adopted by the Fe<leral I in order to i Monday of the greatest drive since ^ i i. u j l- iir , j 1 . * D ,c,ations for loans may be handled, ror- World war days to put over President'/ i Roo.sevelt’s recovery program by fall. tv-six appraisers are now working in ■ South Carolina, assuring prompt ap-* Believing that wMth steel, oil and' praisal of farm properties upon which lumber under the NRA’s banner, the crisis of the campaign to get the big industries under trade codes has been surmounted, the tireless administra tor turned to the next phase of his loans are requested. .Applications for loans should be made direct to the land bank at Cq lumbia, specifying the amount of msm^ ' The land bank ajipraisa , , , I ...V ........ fee must ac He announced plans for openmK a Iapplication. toRether, house-to-house and store-lo-.«tore can-, property offered; va.ss to place a Blue EaRle m the win-1 f,,,. . dow of every producer, middleman and,the type of loan which may I consumci. I j be madt*. will he determined. This hurn; U*ading this drive, which is pai- 'the form of a first mort-, lt?rned after the Liberty loan hy the land bank, a first or sec-| paigns, will be nationally known men p^oi-tpajfe by the agent of the land ' and women, including Alfred F.. .Smith, hj,nj^ commissioner, or a first mort-; John I). Rockefeller, Jr., ^P^**^**''' ^age by the land bank, supplemented Henry T. Rainey, Mrs. Kmily Newell ^ second mortgage by the agent of Blair, Ruth Bryan Owen and the land bank commissioner. R;cha-'l Byrd. ! where the land bank can make a Encouraged at the entrance of [the loan in the territory .served by a na- steel, oil and lumber industries into the Blue Eagle fold, Johnson simul taneously turned upon the bituminous tional farm loan association, the sec ret aiy-t.reasurer will be notified and qpon approval by the association, the rmri—industry—t+te—teerific—prejimureii.^^-rmfay b.. m^^de. In other cases the w’hich was felt through the hectic daysjioan will be made directly by the hank, of last week by the other great basic j Borrowers securing land bank loans industries. (will be reijuired to purchase stock to At the same time the industrial ad-,t,he extent of 5 per cent of the amount | ministrator announced approval of]of their loan, either in the local na- modified re-employment agreements jtjonal farm loan association or in the for 17 industries bringing thousands, This stock is not subject to dou- of workers under shorter hour-higher.fjjp liability if issued after June 16, NEW CREDg NOW SOUGHT General Johnson Would Tap Hufire Reservoirs For Gettiii]^ Goinj? Within Private Indiia- try. Says Banks Must D* Their Part. Washington, .Aug. 22. — Huge ne'« reservoirs of credit for financing the recovery program within private ic- dustry are sought by Hugh S. Joluji- 'sf>n. the recovery admini.-trator. He made this known today, accom panying it with the as.sertion that *l do not think the commercial 'banking operations are fanctiohrnjr m thia country.^ A few hours before, he had gone to the retail merchants of the nation at the opening of a he.aring upon Uieir code of fair competition with a sting- jbg war^g agqinsL sjyf price.s anTa prornisfEthstTbe prartTe^ of “chiseers and cheaters" are to be driven out of the busine-is world. .Johnson said conferimc -s had been held already with official.' of tbe fed- eral reserve boa»\l and tl’.c' Reconstruc tion corporation looking to j'roviding aflditional credit facilities, hut that no definite determination had '»een reach ed. He added that the fa'!u’'e of the banks to finance the indu-‘ rial (“X*en- sion “is just a hohlover f>-om the nasi year or two’s operation-.” “T think it wall loosen up if the in dustries show what thev should in the next two o** three months.” he sa d. Taking time out only for conference with newspapermen and to go before Ihe iTK-vfh.ants. the administrator con- wage problems of the NRA. The industries were; butter, furni ture, business furniture equipment and supply, wholesale hardware, chew ing gum manufacturing, sheet metal distributing, file manufacturing, stan dardized shop assembled metal tanks, illoy casting, drug label and box. 1933. I.«nd bank loans are made in the form of first mortgages and on a ba* si.s not to exceed 50 per cent of the normal appraised value of the farm, plus 20 per cent of the appraised in surable value of the ^buildings neee.s- sary to a complete farm unit. They Mrs. L. L. Copeland ITo Get Plans Dies At Home! For NRA Drive Road Program Partly Approved Beloved Woman Succumbs After (General Wade and Members of Short Illness. Many Gather A< Funeral T^o Pay Tribute. Staff Go To Columbia For Conference With Chief of Na tional Organization. Projects In 23 Counties To Cost $L187;500. One Small I*roject In This County. Columbia Aug. 22.- -Charles H. Morefield, chit'f state highway engin eer, said today he understood favor able action had been taken by the fed- Funeral services for Mrs. Lou Bell Pitts Copeland. 41. wife of L. L. Cope- piCfcle packing, optical wholesale, heatj^^j.^ payable in annual or semi-annual died last Thursday night at exchan^«» manufacturing, | installments which will amortize the h*’*’ rosidence after a brief illness, Vft manufaHqrinit and n.bv manufac-; „ _,.,.i„,l „f 5 3:1 yi-ara. l«“ld from the hemp Saturday af- lurinR. Iwhvrv thv loan ia obtainvd throuRh a tnrnoon at 2;:!0 with intormenl follow- The new weak fStlmil 1 indualriea: ,„an aaaociation. thpi'ltt R"«’n.onl Tha aar- anlialad undar the NRA>CWton tax-1 ,.gte wil he 4 -k-'2 par aant; hy her pastor., h rank K. W ilson, of W ashinxion. ahiaf tiles, aorsat and ihra.ssiara. S)<and | f„,„, the Bank will ba ati'')'' “‘’Xt '!■ «• Chan,bars of Broad |„f the orxanixatioq division, of the alactrical manufacturing. Ttoiti.t,. r. s,.st H..(!r<.w..rs whoi'^'taat Methodist church, assisted hyiMtA. The coiifaranaa was attondad liy.tolal $l.lSi...mi and central "J on the iob set for himself to get to President Roosevelt within the next day or two, the codes of the bi tuminous coal and automobile indus tries. I Ate today he said there was no chance of either charter being com pleted before tomorrow’ but added that he wa.H content with the progress be ing made.— An additional lever for bringing an agreement among the coal operators and the auto manufacturers is being fashioned by Johnson in the form of a clarification of the long controverted labor provisions of the indu.stral re covery act. R. W. Wade, general of the Clinton NRA campaign, together with chair men of the suh-committtH‘s of th<‘ lo cal organization went to Columbia r‘' “' '’ureau of public roads on part ofj The provisions guaranteeing collec- yesterday for a conference along with I highway building program in this I live bargaining to labor without in- other committeemen of the state recently proposed by the high- ! terfei'ence as to the type of organ!- 'way commission. ' ' j’/.ution, has been a troutilesonie matter suit. I t fr thp Hank will be at' "• onmuioi me organizamm division oi met The projects invoved were said to at each major hearing upon a code, oans ‘***‘' ^ . w Rnfmw<o*s who IMethodist church, assisted by.NR.A. J'he conference was attended by total $1,187,500 and to b«‘ distributeil: with enqiloyers seeking to add an in- ^^^ra e o P** ■ J taxos'^^*' pastor of theiseveral hundre»l citizens from all parts'in 2.3 counties of the state. .A total of, tt^pretive clause sho'ving that affili- m eies , insuiancq a ( . ' Methodist church of Green- of the state. !$.5,4.59,1 <>5 was allotted to the state iniation with a national union was not prompflyv^hen due and so desire, may ; . wool textile, photographic, lumber, oil i principal until manufacturing, lime, shipbuilding and;j^^, ship repairing, legitimate theater. government’s and steel. They included four of the nations major imlustries. July'12. 1938. Loans made by t In a(l.iition. wvll ovvr 100 in.lu»lrivs commi.aionvr lltmol Iw for I’-'y '■'■/‘‘f' ■''"/‘f '"J*-’' wore opvratinK under temporary , j ory. The number of heaulifiil floral Immediately on their return hen*, the fedora Both at the residence and gi-ave, an last-minute details of the camjiaign ! prograln. gent of the large crowd w-as present to to be waged here w'ill be mapped out. j Charles B. Sneail, of Montgomery, ^ I I —1 4 4„ I— I Instructions have come from Wash-; Ala., district engineer for the roads recovery 1 made mandatory t)ut ihat non-iinioa .shops could continue. There is no doubt in the world that some clarifying language has to come .schedules of minimum wages-maxi- mum hours affecting millions of work ers. A heavy slate of hearings, includ ing 21 within the next 10 days, and re|K)rts of 26 codes which have gone may be in the forr.^ t * r sri^ond mor gage and under cei a Y t.mditions may include live stock and crops. Principal • payments on a commissioner’s loan may be postponed for the next three already through the hearing stage payment, when <lue, of '’‘‘ction on .Se were counted upon by Johnson tot W g.rllu. Where the total amount of a loan -yplace permanent codes over great sec- tion.s of industry within the next two months. The administrator was confident the major poihLs of controversy had l>een ironed out in the settling of codes upon the big basic industries. bank and the commWisioner’s agent, is not equal to the total amount of se- tokens attested the genuine and wide- ^ad love in which she was held by new her. Mrs. CbT>ej»nd. before marriage Miss Lou Bell was born in the 9, 18(^, where she spent girlhoo/1 dASaks^Her par ents were the late Mattie Cdpgland ington to start the NR.A campaign'bureau, ronferred with slate highway out of this administration.” .lohnson next week. The success of F’resident;officials today. He will remain in theisaid. “There is so much confusion Roosevelt’s emergency efforts in Clin-istate until Thursday, making a gen-ialHiut the words open and closeil shop.s ton will depend almost entirely on the jeral examination of the road program, j that we have to make a .statement on work that will'be put forth by the | A meeting of the state commission it and we will." committees designated and their team will be held Thursday, and representa memliers. Mr. Wade announced yesterday that NRA headquarters will he opened Fri day in the rear of the eity clerk’s of- mnu 54. oTAMted hv the land-’»’^‘l Pascal Mark Pitta, a highly which may b g y ^spected family of that community. On ilTfee^d continue until the drive in May 24. 1917,^ she was married_ to I., this coTnqiunity is completed. He stat- tives of some se(ftion.s have indicated He indicated this wo'.ild be within the next 24 hours and that this new they will be on hand to protest the (language might Ih* incorporated in the rnethml of allocation of the road funds auloimd)ile co<le and pn^^^rWy the coal cuveil 'and unsecured indebtclness «1|'- Cupel.nd and since that time had the farmer, it may be possible for his I■> '•'■■‘"''■'>1 "f "‘y- creditors to agree to such a scaling ed that ff>tiH lie and the convenience of the pub- vamms committee mem- lo the various sections of the state. Ful specifications of projects pro code. .lohnson said commercial banks posed in the state are being submit-j should finance our pri vate operations led to tlie feTteral bureau. The entire program is expected to he consitlered w'ith a secretary in chargevThis action has lieen taken for the purpose^rL^- cilitating the work of the local com^ niittee. Mrs. Copeland was a true Christian bers, the office is The "drive to pOt a Blife Eagle irfdeTteTneAS Ts" wiirenable j full of wm-k^- In e^rly every store and home is to go forward discharge all of his obligations J^’^ed the Methodist churfch ,wjth more than 1,500.000 volunteer proceeds of his loans. It has «nd became one of its devoted mem- workera already organized .for a com- determined that ordinarily a and workers, and was always canvass in every cominumtY^„_i. ,, . N„l only Will they check up op ui.ima^if h,» ,naehtc<in. ^‘ih "Ltfurrer:! W. R. Bullock of the Susanna Wesley Bible . . fore, it W’ill be neces.sary for a scaling • been increased and new employes of j^bts before a loan may be granted. established |in due coui'se. ip the United States hut added “I do not believe that the figure.s on the ad vance of commero'.al credit indicate Projects understood alrohdy to have i much loosening up of ci edit on the been approved include: part of the banks.” Abbeville county: State highway 7, “A banker in the ordiiary oj»eration ftirferaj aid route 18, from Calhoun L)f things, finances the sca.sonal peak.s said. “We those employers not operating under the NRA insignia but they will ferret , property. In many instances, there out violations where wages have not ^ ..... ed as hours were shortened. One hundred million pieces of lit-; erature will be the ammunition of — aa/v AAA A vast army .and the smallest village' will see the blue pin signifying an of Broad Street Methmlist church. Her life w’a.R marked by up right^ living and a devotion to her Falls to paving, $56,0' Savannah river, 2^1 miles of future risk,” J(>hn?un Dies At Goldville (Ir(*<*nwood counlysv.iUate route 22, j federal aid route 21, froJt»v^inety-Six' ito Saluda river, 6.53 miles bi surfacing, $22,000. ser- .N'cwnerry; State route 22, held have hail a steady down vard economic index in the last few year’s. .Most of tlR(* bankers who have l*een taking Goldville, Aug. 21. — Funeral family and to her church. By her love-j vices for W. R. Bullock were ly disposition^^and many admirablehvjonday, Aug. 1 I, at Bethlehem ceme- traits of character she endeared her-Uery^ near Coronaca. The services were j w«)()d C’ounty line* 12.J7 miles, bitiimi- self to a wide circle of friends andiconducted by the Rev. Quay Rice and nous surfacing, $44,OOlK [nous! risks have Imhti pretty dadly stung. J “I do not ladieve anylodv can force federal ■ get expansion of aid route 21. from Deadfalls through i credit Try You have to estabh.sh Silverstroet and Chajiiudls to Green-otnee irs and that is what we are trying aj as we know how to do; and the hard X-RA worlcer CottOIl CfOD Cut relatives, all of whom •mourn with the ;ihe Rev. M.V. MetlLock?., federal' trouble w'ith tfie whole country i.s ISKA woraer. ’WVl.i.waa jbeir hour of " - '• •* G ... : vr-™ f’K:rifv..4ur froie vears that The recovery administration has sent complete lnstructiohs to the lead ers in each community as the organi zations were built up for the signal family in Washington, Aug. 21. — Secretary bereaved sorrow. She is survived by her husbamf and Wallace said tonight that “instead of -^^^ children, Alliene and L. U Cope planting around 40,000,000 acres of which is to be given by Johnson . TSZ Vt .LZ l»nd 14; by two sis- Alltrust 28 Motion picture and stage United States to cotton, t ^ers, Mrs. A. S. Rumpfi of Egypt, Ga., fur»irp.rt[dpateT w, xhall put in only .bout A, a ^piraL Jacksonville Is ,25.000.000 acres next aprinir. brothers. W. B.. P; In an address the secretary of agri- Pitts, all of fhis place, culture reviewed programs \jnder way | by the farm adjustment administra ^ ^ m uy tllc ittllll c»X4iililii^xvs •• Crilhe Capital Uon and said leaders of the South Ru«ineSS FailureS .assured him they would soon have a ^ ^ plan ready so “they will not plant cot-i. i IT C ton in the unlimited, planless way they ' Ul V* •J* IVt5UUApCU He was the son of J.. R. Bullock and aid route 15, widening of bridge west foi tlu* past four years th^ as n Sarah Johnson Bullock. He joined the L,f Ijaurens, $1,600. ^ confidence and downwar Methodi.st't?hurch at an early age. In j — r- 1886 he attended Wofford college, ini^ - , -- - 1892 he was elected clerk of court of} pllTRlClflfi HCaCl Abbeville county. .Mr. Bullock was, O J married in 1911 to Miss Mary Spence | tlCrC SUllClftyi Floyd, C. D.,jof Washington, D. C. He is survived i (by his widow and one son, W'illiam, 4 • . 4 4U.. ' ' The guest minister at the hirst « 1 l Presbyterian church next Sunday j FoF JlllV LftTlfCr The object of this plan an upward spiral and carry the along with it.” Jr. He also leaves one sister; Mrs. Tax Collections # Chicago, Aug. 21. — Jack.sonville, Fla., led the nation in the rate of mur- ' „ ders per capita during 1932, according to a .survey just completed by Freder-;_ _ - _ - -j ■ ick Rex, librarian for the city of Chi- DOVCl INaillCCl 1I6ACI 'cago, while this city, much publicized^ as the haunt of the gangster, ranked- 26th. Lydia Henry of .Atlanta, Ga. . . » n r’-:*... : At the time of hia.ilealh. he resuieil ."-o™"* J’?”; m Charlotte. N. ( . 'weH. and one of the .Hate'., widelj; Colnmhia. Amt. 21.-Tax colleotiona i known and oulstandinlt eduratiira. Ajaffplicable to the ataU- ap.iropriatira Icordial invitation i» extended the pub-1amounted to 61 in J-ilv. an m. ■ll , . , I , ,1 lie to unite in thia service Sunday and letaaae of »76..(W^ Mer t. AH day services will be held at Dun- , .... Tnionth last year, W. G. Query, chair- AT DUNCAN’aS CREEK hear Dr. Grier. New York,Business fail- lures in the United States for-the week ■ended Aug. 17, reports Dun ■& Brad, can’s Creek Pre.shyterian church next, n 1 • -street, Inc., were le.ss than one-half'Sunday. Dinner will he served on the; Ul Kc-Cinployinent of those in the .same period of 1932. (ground.s, with a cordial invitation Union ‘ The trade agency’s records show tended the public to be present and' v/Mxvrma bring baskets. Rex made a survey of 95 cities hav-j g ^ been'321 defaults against 349 and 325, re- ing a population of more than manage^ for Laurens county spt'Ctively, in the two preceding weeks, His statistics were based upon figures federal re-employment service,,»nd 648 a year ago. For the year to furnished by police reports to the bu- ^j^^^ding to an announcement made Mate the decline in failures is equiva- reau of investigatipn of the Columbia. This service was es- ' lent to 31.1 per cent, ment of justice and other figures re- several months ago for the i The situation in the South in the garded by him as authentic. 'purpose of placing unemployed to matter of insolvencies, was said, work in both public and private mdus- continues to improve in a/marked way. SHOWING IMPROVEMENT Service Sunday man of'thg tax commis.«.li>n, reported today. ' ’ Query pointed to the collection of $128,291 in business license taxes dur ing the month, as compared witb $99,- 42f> for the same period. This tax is collected from tobacco, tobacco pro- « The closing union service of thejjyj,(jj various other merchandise. Reports yesterday from C. M. Bai- summer will be held next Sunday eve-land an increase in its return is takes ley, who is a patient in a Green’/ille o’ljlock in the Thornwelljas evidence of improved business hospital where he hes been very sick,!,. c.»4..4>i p 'conditions. stated that his condition is slowly -u ♦kJl Collections of the gasoline tax also Miss Caroline Lomas has returned reduction in the efast was also (showing improvement and this thiscity will occupy j advanced during the month. They to- ,to.itfr.AoiTituuLG££L^^ . ^ A-i>..ltorare anri.tlw ruf"">«-^ >^wer in tl^BlrnurairiM BftWA MII-lte--PtTeivad apimVx $522.597 for 'ing several di^s with Mi.ss B6be .j western and l^acific coast states.' j friends” with pleasure. 'city are invited to unite in the service.' July of last year. Urd. ./■. ' . ■ ''v ‘ ‘ - -t7 '.r ■p //,: id- * \