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VOLUME XXXIII
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY,* NOVEMBER 9, 1933
NUMBER 45
Garoliiias Vote Dry; Nation Repeals
PENNSYLVANIA, UTAH, OHIO
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STATE VOTE
VOTE WET; CAROLINAS DRYf
“Home-Coming”
To Draw Crowd
Count V
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A VkW|>i» 111
North Carolina Goes Into Anti-Repeal Column With Overwhelm-
ing Majority and Lead In South Carolina By Narrow Marinin. i Allendale
Pets. Rpt. Wet, Dry
'isl
Effectiveness of Prohibition Amendment Comes To End.
: .Anderson
Bamberg
I Columbia. No\'. 7. — Repeal forces j where the prohibition movement start-, Barnwell
trailed by a narrow margin in late,ed back in the seventies of the last Beaufort
returns from today’s, referendum on centuiy, apparently entered the re-'Berkeley
the 18th amendment in South Caro-?peal column tonight. jCalhoun
lina. ! With a political history studded j
Although the dry majority was names like tho.se of Wayne
parently in the neighborhood of only i W’heeler, one-time national superin-, 11
2,000 votes, Romulus Reese, state | of the .VntUSaloon „
manager for the .Association .Against Howard Russell, league
the Eighteenth Amendment, conceded 1 ^‘ounder. Ohio tonight had rolled «Pij. ‘ "
fohiglit that prohibition, forces had J * majwily of more Ihan 311,000 in,;/'arnngion
v^on. I favor of wiping out the 18th amend- f
W’ith 852 precincts reported of 1,*220 efield
in the state, the vote for re|>eal was! Secretary of~State George afield
31,470; against. 33,30:1, a majority of'predicted Ohio’s total repeal majority ...
1,833. would run to at least 700,000. Geor*^*etown
Missing precincts were in remote | The figures on repeal of the 18th
and inaccessible regions, and from the'amendment at that time, with 3,686
county seats came reports that full out of the state’s 8,585 precincts re
returns were not available tonight. ported, stood: for repeal t>8,385;
First returns were favorable to the against re|x‘al 257,507.
dry forces, and when the first few
Dillon
Dorchester
thousand votes had been listed, the
«iiy majority apparently exceeded
5,000.
By an overwhelming rei>eal majori
ty in Charleston and a substantial
Greenwood
Hampton
Horry ,
Ja>per
The voters^ gave no such attention Kershaw
to the proposal to repeal the state Ijincaster
prohi'oition amendment they adopted Laurens
;in 1918. When S91 precincts had re- Lee
corded the vote on the state prohihi- l.exington
. . . V ftion repeal amendment, the margin McCormick
margin in Richland ((.olumbia) re- onlv about four to^arion
.iuced the dry's to apprex-rt^.^ heinir 9«.571 for and Marlhoro -
imalely 2 000 around wh.ch figw e U , J Newberry
fluctuated in later returns. Charle.ston '
--y-,., ^—^ Westerville. bom^ -<rf- 4be
reportetl 8,080 repeal votes lo 380 dry7^
18
34
111
52
11
11
9
19
la
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36
23
25
18
32
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71
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271
121
25
12
201
16|
2:171
12221
.3871
6971
3661
60oj
2661
2641
1071
83851
572
493
129
1400
502
136*
44
38
198!
.380 1
Presbyterian College Alumni To I
Gather Here Friday for New-'
berry Game and Meeting ofj
Association.
To Speak Here
Tuesday Night
3011
227|
761!
595
121
lOj
13!
161
9' 559
.531 1792
24 1001
161
371
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2781 ^23 j
512i 1687
275| 198!
3731 6.59-
544| 844
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64
2731
3801
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19.5|
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4.57
654
684
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3421
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462
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74
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886
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6561 *'^27
1451 174
26|
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164
168
599
2:16
In the heavy-voting Piedmont area, league the community who.se
the drys ran'up large vot4*.s. Green-, I'oast of being dry has been its chief
wood was the only county in this in- claim to fame for decade.s, poured its Kichiand
dustrial belt to show a majority in negative ballots into its precinct boxes ^almla
favor of repeal.
Other counties, with the returns in
complete, that showed repeal leads j.
were: Aiken. Allendale, Barnwell, votes against. A vote on local option Williamsburg
Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston. Clar- on the .sale of beer was approximate-
endon, Fairfield, Georgetown. Hamp-- Jy ^hc *ame. —_____
ton, Horry, liee, Lexington, Richland
and Williamsburg KKNTl’CKY NOT HEARD FROM
W’ith deadly regularity tmlay, going Spartanburg
dry three to one. This town show’ed a Sumter ....
temper of 429 for repeal and 1.017 Union
42|
211
9:11
151
191
221
27!
37L 2532
Tf 20
75| 1619
151 402
16| 486
12( 312
27! 517
682
372
997
667
1.349
1006
265
4185
584
1049
165
TOTAL
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220| 8fi2i314701.33.3031
Louisville, Ky.. Nov. 7.— W’ith the
A tug of public sentiment that possibility Kentucky’s locked and
Processing Tax
broke the chain of wet victories and guarded ballot boxes might hold the On Hogs, Com
took control of New. York city from an.swed toj whether* the “repeal by ’ ' i
Tammany brought three .states into December’’ campaign was .successful. Government Ready To Start Col-1
Tomorrow. November 10th, hun-,
dreds of Presbyterian college alumni i
from all over the South, particularly !
NortTi and South Carolina, Georgia,
and Florida, w’ill gather in . Clinton '
for the annual home-coming celebra- \
tion.
A full program is scheduled for the
occasion, with the traditional football
tussle between Newberry and P. C.
.hpading__the._- li&L--- Beginning—with
luncheon in .ludd dining hall for the
alumni as guests of the college, and
ending with the annual pledge dance
at Copeland hall that night, activity
enough to suit the most ambitious vis
itor is promised.
After luncheon, a meeting of the
Alumni association is to be held in
the college chapel. The meeting will
conclude in time for those attending
to see the P. C.-Newberry game, and
the cros.^-country race between P. C.
and Furman.
- A't- thi' meeting of the Alumni asso
ciation the lyiosl important business to
be taken up is the election of the
three alumni members of the Presby
terian college board of trustees. Also,
he^officers for the association are to
be elected; and plans are to be dis-
cMssed for .a. more unified iunctionmg
of the alumni body, The present offi
cers are Rev. Eugene Wilson, presi
dent; W L. Jones, secretary, and H.
L. Eichelberger, treasurer.
A gala time is expected, with the
campus being turned over to the
alumni, and the town taking on a holi
day spirit. WTth decorated stands,
stirring band music and lusty cheer-
a true holiday spirit is assured,
in which the oUl grads will revel.
The real feature of the day for
most of the visitors will be the foot
ball game between the Blue Stocking*,
and the Indians. Many will see the
game who w'ill not attend the other
CONG. JOHN J. McSWAlN
Principal Speaker for the “lisdies
Night” Celebration
Commerce.
of Chamber
COUNTY VOTES
ANTI-REPEAL
incomplete Returns Give Drys
Mere Than Three To One Ma
jority. Only Two Boxes Wet.
Laurens county, along wiih practi
cally all other" counties in the Pied
mont area, swung into tjiu- dry col
umn in Tuesday’s election by a decis
ive majority. As soon as the votes
began to be counted, ^he anti-repeal-
ists took the lead and as the various
precinct reports were received,- their
lead steadily increased.
With 28 boxes reported out of 37
when The Chronicle werit to press last
night, tht ~ vnt**- Moo<L F’oi- repeal 412?»-
against repeal, 1362.
The nine unreported boxes in to
day’s tabulation are Cross Hill, Dials,
Hickory Tavern, I.anford, Merna.
.Mount Olive, Plea.’^'int .Mound. Tip-
Top and Woodville. TTk vot« in th'se
precincLs is expected to be light and
to further increase the dry lead.
Hunter tow’nship vofed dry by a b'.g
majority, the count for the seven pre-
oflcincts standing: wet 209: dry, 354.
I Trinity Ridge, Barksciale-Narnie
John .1. MeSwain was born at Cross
Hill in I.Aurens county, May 1, 1875, a
son of Dr. E. T. MoSwain and Janie
McGowan McSw«un. His childhood
was spent on the farm, •where he
worked as a farm hand and attended
the country school; later he was pre-
pared for college by the Rev. A. M.
Hassell and at Wofford College Fit
ting school. In September, 1893, he
entered South CaroHn* college, and
graduated in 1897. While teaching
school he read law and took a cor
respondence course in law and was
able to take only a portion of the
law course at the University of South
Carolina. He was admitted to practice
law upon examination by the-supreme
court; began the piractice of law at
Greenville in 1901 and continuously
and actively practiced there until the
and Shiloh voted one hundred pta*
cent against repeal. Laurens City,
Clinton City, Watts Mill and Gray
Court piled up the largest vote.s in
the dry column.
VOTE BY I'RECINCTS
(Incomplete)
, —Wet Dry
Clinton City_ 67 211
declaration of war against Germany,
Waterloo
Watts Mill
Ijaurens Mill
Ijiurens City
Barksdale-Narnie
Clinton Cotton Mills
Lydia Mills
Goldville
Hopewell
Gray CouHT •
Trinity Ridge
Renno
Princeton ....
in 1917, and shortly thereafter he en
tered the first traing camp at Fort
lectin^ Beicinnin^ This Week.
Regulations Announced.
Prices of hogs and field corn, as
well as pork and corn products, will
line last night in vote tabulating that repealists tonight clainu^l the Blue
rolled un huge initial wet majorities. Gra.ss sttte vote was overwhelmingly!
Th«* three — Ohio. P**nnsylvania wet. while prohibitionists said the’
and Utah-followed tne course they outlook for a dry result wa< promis-^
took at the outset, they would lining ing.
to the necessary :P states fiose that The Rev. Dr. .lohn Lowe Fort, ox-
have voted ToT'reTn'al of the IHth ecutive secretary **( the imrhibition ^e boosted by the addition of a pro-
amerulinent eniergei.ey eommiuc-e. said the state- cos.sing tax on the.se commodities
North and South Carolina appeared wide prohibition campaign had re- took effect November .5.
to have settled definitely into the dry vealed “a strong trend toward the In the case of hog's, every slaugh-
eolumn, the former by a wide margin dry side in various sections of the terer of a hog for sale, or any part
and the latter by a vole that in the state.” 'thereof, is considered to he a process-
late returns dwindled to a thin edge. “I am not a min to make predic- or of hogs ami is, therefore, subject
Kentucky, the .<ixth slate to vote on tions,” he said. “The answer lies in to the processing tax. No exemption
repeal, does not count its votes until whether the majority in the rural dis- is provided in the law for any slaugh-
today ' tricts is enough to overcome the heavy terer of hogs for .salt*. This means
wet vjte WT expected in LouisviPe ind that the occasional slaughterer of a
UTAH 36TH STATE other urban centers.'’ hog for sale is liable to the tax. The
Salt Lake City Utah. Nov. 7.—Re-' rate of the processing tax imposed up-
peaiists held a lead of approximately PENNSYLVANIA WETS WIN 'oh the slaughterer of hogs for .sale is
5,000 votes tonight a.s 300 election dis- Philadelphia. .\ov\ 7.—Prohibition’.sias follows:
tricts were tabulated in the state’s j foes raced far ahead in Pennsylvania’s .November 5, 1933, is fifty (50)
vote on the 21st amendment to repeal I repeal erection tonight as rural re-, cents per hundred (100) live weight,
prohibition Igions gave unex|>ected support to the December 1, 1933, is one (1) dollar
Returns from the 300 election dis- overwhelming wet vote of Philadel- per hundred (100) live weight.
25 of the slate’s 29 counties phia and Pittsburgh Januarj' 1, 1934, is one (1) dollar
Returns from 797 districts—approx- and fifty (50) cents per hundred
common- (100) live weight.
functions of the day, and go away /t 17 >
fodiriK ratisfuMl. Newberry Ls an „|,i j OKlethorpe, (.a. Upan com lion of
rival of P. C. an,I every conteat be-jf*"' m.atruction he wax rec-
tween the t«o is of K,-eat inteie.s,. to foi ■> coromistnon as cap-
tain in the national army.
supporters of both teams. ,
Last year the two teams played to
a seven-all tie in Newberry, and both
squads have been pointing to this
battle.
It will be the first -time in many
years that a I*i esbyte’ian coll'ge
Poplai Springs
Shiloh
Ekoni
Stevvari’s Store
Mount ville
Youngs . ,
Mt. Plea.sant
After his di.scharge in 1919, he im
mediately returned to Greenville
resumed the prac,tice of law. In ^5e
primary for congre.ss in l920, he was t
nominated on the first ballot '>''‘^*•*1 Daniels’ Store
three opponents and has been I'ootinu-j
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I ’If* Mlj g\n lOviiLiv/ It ously siticr then hs rep*: intr^t
home-cominK day falls on iMiday. ii
i„ lH-licvc(l that n,o,c pco|,lc Will be ■‘•'•■“■ntat'v,. „f the b ourth < onKres-1
enable.1 to alien,- la-eause nf the fact .lisfiet eompri.sinK the eoun-1 toTAI,
enaiiuu , | Ijaurens, Spartan-'
It
lidJ
that it con'es on Friday rather t lan , ,, . n • u ■
Lturday ainee, fo. many, Salurnay | , »"'l U"'""- «•'
iaabuayday. nu»inVS-fi,ms<,f<'Un- ,the ,mp,.rtant houae eomm.ttee on
ton will close in the afternoon in or-i mil,la, y affairs.
der to give their employees an oppor-1 ^ "
tunity to see the game. CfOSS Workef
Death 'Claims
1 Here Next Week
trcit.s in
gave the following vote:
For repeal, 21.346; against repeal,. imately one-tenth of the
16 123; for state dry law modification, I wealth’s 7,925—showed 206,234 votes 1 February 1, 1934, is two (2) dollars
is'osr* against state dry law modifi- for repeal and 47,940 against. per hundred (100) live weight,
ation* 14 142* These returns include 316 of the Processing tax returns on P. T.
‘ ’ ’ 1,280 districts in Philadelphia and Form 4, covering each calendar
NORTH C.AROLIN A-DRY one q,f the 941 in Alleghaney, where ‘month, should be in the hands of the
Charlotte, N. C.. Nov. 7.'^North Pittsburgh is counted on (by repeal.collector of internal revenue at -Co-
Carolina voter* today decisively re-!forces to give a mighty shove in theilumbia, S. C., not later than the last
’ected the proposal for repeal of the efforts to thru.st the eighteenth' day of the succeeding calendar month,
i^h amendment, and thereby record- amendment from the constitution. 'whether or not there is any tax due.
d the state as the first in-the union In only .si.x of Pennsylvania’s 67 Complete records regarding such pro-
^ f itely to break the anti-prohjbi- counties did early returns show thelcessing must be maintained by the
' vv’tve ^^'~*drys to be leading. These were Arm- processor.
^°With unofficial returns compiled strong. Centre. Cumberland, Forest, If any individual intends selling
from 1 432 pr^incts of'1^831, the, Fulton and Indiana. ' sau.sage or ham, or any o^her portipn
for repeal 107,793;
Prof. I^ierson'Field Representative To Visit
^ Clinton Next Monday To IMan
Annual Roll Call Drive.
Indian Invasion
Comes Friday
Blue Stockings Ready To Stop
Powerful Newberry Eleven On
Hcmecomin);: Day.
nt stood: for repeal of his slaughtered hogs, noW or later,
« 9tmA56 land has not received the necessary
**^The* technical question voted on was IVICtnOCllSt * AStOrS , forms, he should write to the collector
“convention or no * i Off To ConfcrenCC “v ““ Colombi. for
result, no convention will be held, ant^ ^them. , ,
the delegate* elected by the various | In the ca.se of field corn, every op-
t es will not assemble to cast] The Upper S<tuth’Carolina confer-(erator of a grist mill is considered to
th ■ votes 'ence which opened in Columbia Tues-iKe a proces-sor and is, therefore, liable
A tabulation shortly before mid- day night and will continue until Mon- for the tax. The rate of processing
' ht showed only 14 of the 100 coun- day, is being attended by the Rev. H. tax imposed on the processing of field
t'** reporting a lead for repeal. Re- O. Chambers, pastor of North Broad corn is twenty-eight (28) cents per
from eight of these were com- Street Methodist church; Rev. C. D.lbtLsheljof fifty-six (56) pounds. Pro-
y * Goodwin, pastor of Bailey Memorial cessors of field, corn will be required
** Following is a H*t of the 14, Alle- and Lydia churches; and Rev. M. K. ,to maintain complete records of all
irhenv Beaufort, Craven, Currituck, Medlock of Goldville.. Several laymen J field corn processed.
Dare ' Durham. Halifax, Lee, New of the respective churches anil also | Processing leturn.s on P. T. Form 3,
Hanover Martin, Onslow, Pasquotank, attend the sessions during the week, (covering each calendar month, will bo
Pitt, and Wilson ' t ' .completed his requited to be in th'^ hands of the col-
SwifUy accumulating* majorities, third year here, while Messrs. Good- lector of internal revenue at Columbia
reported from all sections of the state, ;^’in and Medlwk are closing their on or before the last day of the suc-
wsre portrayed by the unofficial assignments. Iceeding calendar month, whether or
tnrns and within a short time, Wal- * • not there is any tax due.
ter (Pete) Murphy, head of the repeal QUARTERLY MEETING ' If any indiviiiual who operates a
campaign, issued a statement conced- —T^rcorn’miH,'whether large or small, has
ing victo^ to the drys. The First Division of the W. M.‘U.'not received the necessary instruc-
“It looks like we’re headed back to of the Laocc^ .Baptist asso.^iation| tions or form.®, he should write to the
Hoover” was the veteran legislator’s will hold ,a quarterly meeting'at High-j collector of internal revenue at Co-
ortty comment. I land Horke Baptist church on Satur- liimbia for them.
; day and Sunday of this areek.,All offi- Certain penalties are provided for
OHIO FOB RKPEAL
Columbus, Ohfo, Nov. 7. — Ohio, ^ent.
cers and leaders are yrged to be prea*
failure to meet the requiremeaU of
the law.
News has been received in the city
of the death of Prof. D. M. Frierson
which occurred recently in Batesville,
Ark., where he had held the chair of
mathematics for. the past 25 years ’n
Arkansas college. He was a son of
the late Dr. I). E. Frierson, at one
time pastor of the First Presbyterian
church in Anderson.
Prof. Frierson was a native of .Yn-
derson county and a well known edn-
Miss Allie McNeill,,field represen
tative in this state for the National
Red Gross society, will be in ('linton
next Monday evening, Nov. 13th, in
the interest of her work.
- 4tohail_iL.D»en8,.jn charge of the
annual roll call drive, announces that
there will be a meeting of all who
Aftef^^Taking the part of the visit-
j ing * team in two home-coming con-
jtests,/ the Presbyterian college foot
ball inen settled down to work this
week in preparation for their thii'd
home-coming game in a.s many weeks.
This tussle, which will be the ('alvin-
ists own home-coming, will he with
.Newberry college at Johnson fielii to-
-morrow .aftornuon al.2;:i(t,-.o’cluclw^
With victories already chalked in
over two state foes, the Blue .Stock- 1
Joe Vance
widow, he i.s survived
dren.
•am
1
FOOTBAU,
cator. For a number of years he Wds!t-o«l< the drive "^lings are hopeful of keeping the s!a‘e
a member of the faculty of Presbyie- K^oup is asked to meet at the Maryj^j^.^j^ Friday’s game. The squad is
rian college and married Mi.ss Willie ! Cosgrove Tea Room at 7 p. m. foi & ^ excellent shape except for a slight
Joe Vance of this city. Besides his “‘li*4ch” treat supper, at which Lme resultant from the Gharle.<-
\y three chil- the campaign for local members will trip and some scattered bruises.
be planned. It is expected that a *p^p injured list hefb’e
least twenty-five persons intereste Citadel game are lecovtring rap-
jin this work will present. Thereexpect to he ready for action
jwill be repre.sentatives from Clinton,,
I Lydia Mills, (Minton Mills, Goldville,. knee, injured in-the Wofford
and perhaps others from Ulinton s Tolbert’s shoilrder, frac-
trade area. Itured in the Howard fray, mended.
If the goal set for the state is Johnson will be able to throw
tained—two per cent of the P*>PO!a- game which
tion, the local committee must set 360 ^ much to P. (\ supporters,
members as its goal in this area. f ^ victory over Newberry, even though
^ —ny^p tpunn ig,,^ every other game opi the
, schedule, would mean a successful
Century Uf a rogress j^.a.Hon for-the Blue Hose.
MavI- l■••Hle is known hereabouts of the
*\eOpen IvCXl • 'strength of Coach Dutch MacLean’s
ibarges, but the Indians have appear-
-JL.. I'
at Clin-
FRIDAY
Presbyterian vs Newberry
ion.
SATURDAY
•to
Furman vs Bucknell at Lewishurg,
Pennaylvania.
Cleni.son vs Wofford at Spartajj-
burg.
South Carolina vs North Carolina
State at Columbia.
Chicago, Nov. 3.- The nation’s big-jed strong in their appearances so far
Erskine vs Rollins at Winter P:irk,|jje8t .show—A Century of Progress—jthis season and indications are that
Florida. |
Citadel vs Davidson at Davidson.
STATE STANDING
W
F’iirman 3
South Carolina 3
Presbyterian 2
Newberry
Citadel ....
Wofford ..
Clcmeon ..
Erskine ...
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/will stage its encore next year pro-j the battle will
jvided necessary legislation is ob
tained.
The World’s Fair associat'ivn, or
ganization that' made possible the ex-
pesltion this year, today, voted unani-
Jniously to reopen the sbow”bn Chica-
! go’s lake front in 1934.
Details and the date are yet to be
worked put, but Rufu.s Dawes, presi
dent of the fair, said he anticipated
little* difficulty in obtaining legisla
tion to permit the reopening.
ill be strongly contested.
A fast and heavy hackdieki, headed
by the fleet-footed Ingram, who ran
60 yards with an intercepfed pass last
year to score on P. C., will feature
the attack.
. . L-
7,000 PfHJNLS PORK
/
About 7,000 pounds of povornme.nt
pork for distrihution among thfe needy
of the county/’Were leceivedNby the
countK relief organization Ia*U
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