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/ J u % I , ■ • • t.. If You Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don’t Get The News. THE CHRONICLE • Strives To Be a Clean News-• : • • paper. Complete Newsj, 1 * and Reliable. i ryOLUME XXXIII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1933 NUMBER 49 CITY SEEKS FEDERAL LOAN Palmetto State Remains Dry Makes Application For $169,- 150.75 For Water Supply and Extensions, Sewer Improve- ments^and Municipal Building. State 1 Convention In Columbia Refuses To Ratify Amend ment To End Prohibition. Columbia, Dec. 4. — South Carolina citziens were praised today for favor- Applicatlion for a loan of $169,150.75 national prohibition, which ended from the Public Works administration’jn the nation Tuesday, as the state he- was filed in Columbia last Thursday came the first and only one to offici-al- by Mayor H. Y. Abrams. The loan isijy reject ratificatioft of the amend- sought to finance the following pro-jment to end prohibition. | jects: > ' I Leaders announced that detailed' 1. Extension of water works system..'policies in the crusade to keep the 2. Construction of a municipal build- state dry would be left tn the execu-i| ing as a part of the water works and tive committee composed of the offi- J electric light system. cers and 15 other dry lenders. It will i o . • 4 -fo..,. meet Dec. 14. I. H. Hunt, Newberry, 3. Extension o sam > . ^ - jwas named president of the dry forces ‘T’ond. to be issued by city oouncii, Dr. J C. Roper, of Union, to repay the loan will cover a period Most of the 41 delegates present of thirty years, bearing four per centj'vent later to a dry meeting where interest, and maturing serially. i South Carolina^ anti-repealists were ‘ The amount of the loan sought, as! organized. Dr. C. K. Burts was elect- set forth in the brief submitted by the ^od acting secretary. consulting engineers employed by city I “South Carolina has ri.sen to meet council, cover the following items: many great emergencies in the past Labor aud iuate>-ials for the variou.si but on jgo other occasion did it, rise 1 ^iroject.s. nuire magnTfrcentTy~t(ra higher emer- to Duncan’s gen^^ tjian \t did on November 7; creek, $47,441.60. [when this .state voted in favor of pFb-T Water main extensions within city, hibition” Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, $12,202.57. Sewer additions, $18,400.70. Filter plant improvements, 384.10. Municijial building, $60,745.80. $9.- jnesident of Wofford college and one ,of the South’s mo.s^^ eloquent speak ers, lold the stale convention. I Amidst thunderou.s applause, the convention formally voleil unanimous- Preliminary expenses, engineering |y that this state’s vole should he. re- charge.s, interest during construction, ^-orded against the 21st amendimuit legal and miscellaneous expenses, jj^ favor of prohibition. By a ma- $15,976.49. ^ ijority of about 3,000 votes, the cili- , The application to the Public urks on November 7 voted in favor administration for the ifian to raise prohibition. The election was on money with which to finance the jbasis so that the vote of, posed project was made under delegate from each county at lo-j lution passed by the town council.' convention was cast by u dry' Harwood Beebe company, ^'^1^'*^*’***^* ropi-ysentative. , of Spartanburg, were employed by Immediately after the convention,) council to n\ake the necessary (jry forceH* a^ljourneil to the his- mates and preliminary surveys to f'^®-|-^oric First Baptist church, where the END COMES TO Prohibition Action of Utah On Tuesday^ Wipes Out EighteCntlfiAfSendr- ment To F'ederal Constitution. President Issues Proclamation. Washington, Dec. 5.—With a da.'»h of ceremony, Utah late today wrote an end to national prohibition in a I decree that opened the dno-.s of liquor j shops in 18 states. ! Almost a half dozen other states |W(>re completing plans for legalizing rsale under their own laws. The re- ' imainder of the na'ion remapped dry. i Word that Utah the .‘hlth state— .had ratified re|)eal was flashed to the capital a few hours af‘er Pennsyl- j vania and Ohio. But a little later the final formalities were completed with I the issuance of proelaniatinns by the j state department, Prf^sident Roosevelt j declaring prohibition at an end. ; There was little ceremony at the signing of the presidcrir'a! or the ! state departnumt proclamations, but I in wet- and stnm‘ 4ry-;jnes there , were celebrations. . • I Nea.rly 1 I years of alcoholic .drought, enforce <i by Oi.t* is h amend- " T'TePi of Wwld'TvaT^ TTrrcyT*TTm, I ended by the Utah voti'. j It found the—federal—government priqtarctl to control the fimv of liquor in wet stat(‘s, U^i/ougb a virfal dic tatorship over the industry, and to protect the dry ones. .Several of the IS staijtes where ruiuor uouid t)e sold immediattd^’, were ^without reserva- ;hv-ppplication. R. W. Wade, city at- >SfcC£a.sian gunvimtiftaflr-sUmet in 1860, make South Caro- in fact as well us - torney for the town of Clinton, pre* adopt plans to pared the legal opinion which was a^,.y foiover” part of the application. jip theory. The application was made to the Snyiler wa.s chosen permanent Public Works admini.stration, an agen-convention. The honor ty of the federal government, which’ without r • lions. Repeal celebrations, however, found [liquor supplies for immediate con- j sumption restricted in some sections. In a hurried effort to meet the de- _ j mand and thereby to beat the boot- logger the government today decided 'large supplies of Bourbon to be im- ^ I r> rv n 1 ¥ 1_ I ported from Canada. It also planned I^VIKC 1 rofflrsiinl L/r* K* IL* Jrlll^ncs replace for consumption medicinal - ® irs held in bonded and customs '^rvliTOt- RHex Held-Kar-li, SaiwueU OMfers , and—USl—Cliillirtn atra<Jpvc«I Chvskian oT.'Couiitv; iiauiLuiiiiiiiJ f^.k. Wreck Victim Laid To Rest Greenville Plans 'Last Rites For wa.s set up for the purpose of admin istering a large fund appropriated by Bolt At Laurens. Many Gather To Pay Last Tribute. Thornwell Orphanage To Take Part In Celebration Monday. the federal government to promote temporary chairman of the ^ . , . , , . . , Laurens, Dec. 4.—Funeral services of introduo.nK the resolution rntiftction w.s given to former (.i.v-. was faUlly In- in a road accident Saturday,! ernor John G. Richards, who also had|j^jj.^^j Business, civic and educational lead ers from the two (’arolinas will gather in Greenville next Monday to pay homage to James B. Duke, founder Pas.ses At Laurens Home Af ter Brief Illness. ation to block the issuance t»f the re peal proclamation was rejected in Dis:- trict of Columbia supreme court when Ituurens, 2. — Dr. Rfdfe F:.!*JTj«tice F. Dickinson Lf'tls .ejected a Hughes, 65, beloved ’Laurens physi- Petition filed by Williajn S. ( base, eian, who had been signally honoredBrooklyn, on the grou .ds thee by the medical profession, dieiF laxt was no basis for the action. convention. permanent work and improvements If the loan is procured, the govern- ^he dust that had dim- ment will make a grant of thiity other eyes and noises that had cent of the amount of laboi and tna-j oars, this little com- terials necessary in constructing the • arose to the occasion ami [irojects or a net amount of “PProxi-' indejumdence by its. adher- imitely tweaty-five per cent of the total outlay. Thus if the jirojects arC'^j .South ('arolina voters. u«e I were held at 11 o’clock today at the i Bolt home on Jones street. The last | rites were conducted by his pastor,' the Rev, George H. Hodges of the, First Methodist church, and the Rev. [ J. R. T. Major, presiding elder of the .Greenville district, who had been a former pastor hei<‘. InternWait fol-j lowed in the family I'lot in (he Lau-1 j rens cemetery. j The services weie attended by a concourse of friends and relatives, many coming from other towns in other states for the Thirty-three slate-:, hegiri’iiii: w ‘)i of the $10,(M)0,0(1(1 Duke Endowment, night after a brief illno.ss. He had The occasion will be the ceU^iration hetm at his office down town during. Michigan, had ratified the of the ninth anniversary of (he found- yesterday and had retired last night ^ ^*^^^^6ment jireviously. I’ennsylvama’i ing of the fund which has been felt in at about the usual hour. Shortly after the growth of hospitals, colh'gc'p ami rnidnight he suffered a collapse ami orphanages throughout the t’arolinas. _ succumbed in a short time. Arrangements have bc»‘n completed the state last rites, Mr. Bolt, and carried out as contemplated in the. “The curse of any/ land is the application, the net outstanding ohli-:^^f alcohol.” he warmyt. gation to he assunnsl by the city will j North Carolina, whose governor I e approximately •$125,000, it is esti- remai ked to the governor of mated. Under the Public Works ’ South Carolina that "it is a long time ministration, the government buys the between drinks,” also voted against bonds of the tow'n. Ihese bomls are '***. j-epe^i but they will not hold a con- .sued serially and bear interest at vention to formally j'ejecl prohibition l>er cent per annum. The schedule_of p.ymvnt uf principal and interest ovy r.rnlina's aetion, “ * ’■■‘Jf!'however, the 3.1th slaw Tnesday will ,, from »3,000 to *7,000 per year. The , „ afnendm. nt I ^ “ pharn.ac.at hy bonds are issued by the town council and it is not necessary t» have a vote , [Uu.-ens llruy aloie here and with of the people on the question of issu-^ ^ ,the (iray ( ourt Drug company l>efore ing the proposed obligations. The f>b-j ^ ^ ^ he accei>ted a traveling salesmanship for entertaining (>00 ri*prcs*“ntutives of hencficiaiy institutions, the Ixiard of directors of the Diike Endowment and others who will attend in a non official ca|tacity. Group i»ie<‘tings of rcprc.scntatives of hospitals, colleges and orphanages Funeral services were ht*ld at the native of the j had made‘his home in laiurens about twenty years with the excep- I tion of a few years’ residence at Gray the theme. Dr su|)erintendent of . ......fessicn an.r»:as“c.,nnt“ct'eirwith thi 1"“" ‘’' I'hamiKe, (iiTenwo,„l, will pie.; Va., amendment O'„,i,a'»i.le "ver this c.mfe.enee, with the .She ligations are not tax obligations and Council Hears do not call for the levying of addi tional taxes but are to be retired out of the revenues coming from the water and light plant. According to a statement from Mr. Wade, which is contained in his opin- ion^ f iled-with the -application, the leg- home Saturday afternmm conductefi by the Rev. A. R. Stuart, rector of the church of the Epiphany, Episco pal, of which Doctor Hughi’s had been a warden for many years. The rites were concluded at the graveside in the Laurens cemetery. will he held beginning at two oclock.j Ih/c'tor »Hughe.s, a Virginian and a The orphan home group will meet i^be University of Mary land, had been a resident of Laurens since 1896. A few years after coming to this city from .Abingto son, suiiennicnucni oi Lonnie Max-• Harriett Lrosl the home of the Hughes family. She survives together with 6y' two sons, Ghurjes Hughes of Green- delegates were the first to. latify to day. Ohio’soon followtol. L oh hat! <i'o- terrnined to have the 3'kh an! to assure itself of heinr th'- final .-itate, the delegates had I'lanned ' » meet tonight at 7:;ii), Momdain tinu*. Pressed hy telegrams friiin Kaslcrn state officials for aciton, I't di moved iqt the lime and r hours before the tini * o ie 1 fil'd two •a'.v se‘.. county, the auditorium 'of the ^""Itist church, with “'Fhe First Bap- Individuul A. T. Jami-i ler coming init Va.; he islly of City To Have Christmas Lights I position with a Baltimore pharma- • • « . > T> A , ceulical supply hou.se. Merchants rrotesti nv m«rri«i .Mi»H Helen ja daughter of the late Mr. Sullivan, ; and Mrs. principal address to he delivered Dr. Julian S. Miller, associate'editor i of T^e Thai lotte Otjserver, who will j u.se as his subject, “’rhe Lhild and the New Era.” Other well known leaders also V ville, and. Rolfe Hughes of l^aurens; one daughter, Mrs. Wade Smythe and his father, E. Tucker Hughes, ('olum- bia, Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Omo- hundra, Richmond, Va., and Mrs. Ron ald Locke, Lolumhia, Va. Doctor Hughes, though liioken In j i.d health and on crutches for a long time as first in recent years, had continued his oiations (‘ity council in session night, heard a complaint from local grocery merchants against the selling in orphanage work will also appear - I f o II 4.U -4 UU 01 the program and participate in the Monilay JosaptiMI. Sullivan of thm «ty. a-4.h«; survives together with two sons,] Joseph and Samuel Bolt. He is also Mrs. The Thornwell orphanage will he repre.sented at the celebration hy its ho«Bh and on crutches for a long time as first and second awards for ( ^„f fruit and vegetables by trucks on survived oy one sjsier, .virs. v^ary preauknt-aml._meml>ers of the execu-l‘" continued his orations m residential sections of tle> islature of South Carolina at streets of ClintorT. Action in the Wallace, l4atH’emu-fow-btK>HTOfa^r^ in the to_th«^ixitCTrkh the understanthm-tbat th • Iirtri7in(r the lalonH* ..... session, passed an .act autl>orizing the deferred by council until city council of any municipality in . . ... V fh the time for adopting the regular li South Carolina to issue bonds for ordinance for 1934. . purpose of fitiancing ^rmanent im-j petition presented, signed by ai proVemeiltfe-WtttTOTit ^jibmrtting ^^^^.^bants. read as follows:- question to a vote of the peop e. is, j^be undersigned, believing that act was passed in order to enable huckster competition unfair in j son in that they choose only the|Vertiser best days in their ie.s|)ective lines and. municipality of the state to take vantage of the loans offered through lisle and Coke Bolt, John’.s Island; Lieut. Leland Bolt, Untied States ar my, Fort Davis, Canal Zone, and Lieut. Joseph Bolt, Navy Yard, San Diego. Calif. — He was a brother-in-law of Ali- I>*e, editor of the loiurens Ad- (jity council in regular <♦ ^^ion .Mon- tda.M night, voted to install Lhristmi.-t ligntk on 4he square us in past yea-’-s. Tm* decorations will be u «d as fo-■ i iiuM-ly, with the addition ('f stivamei s at intersections of Broad and Lilts streets, and •.Musgrove and Litts I .streets. The lights will he turned on about the middl<‘ of (he month. To further encourage Uhiistni.is lighting and decorations, council vtU- to offer prizes of $5.(KI and $2.59 100 boys and girls from the institution lo citizen more pop- Chamber of Commerce will offer sm will go to Greenville for the night pro-■ Lu-ward as ihir prizes for the Imsiness distncL gram and to participate in the special on special (Kicasions. Los Streamers heavily laden with rc yellow, green, and blue electric bull ^ shining in festoons of lights, will be arrangetl on the square, while several trees brightly illuminated in decora tions, will cmiiplete the colorful and impressive picture suggestion of the Yuletble season. ever limits the town council in its au thority to issue such bonds in that, such bonds are not obligations against the taxing power or the properly of the community but can only be secur. ed by a pledge of the revenues to be state. derived from the project constructed. out of the monies borrowed. This act ^ ^ was recently tested in the ‘supreme rmal OtAnCling V-ll court in the case of **Cathcart vs City . of Columbia” and the court-held ini its opinion in that case, that the hold- er of bonds issued under the authority final standing of South Caro- of the act could have no recourse fotbail teams, including gaipes against the taxing power of the mu- ppjy ^j^b Palrilietto state nicipality issuing the bonds. teams, shows that Carolina and-Fur- New Officers the federal government l^r permanent thereby, do nothing towaid the iP* i\^a|rfinR NS-IYIC public improvements. This^ keep arid support of our city; do here-| by petition council, praying that s^ch, daily license be increased by fivej times its jiresent amount. We believe j this only fair, and in line with what! The following officers were elected is charged in towms of our size orphanage eve.ei.ves upon invitation ■"■f '"'' ''[•'■••‘'•y Xlainmenl.H ami from the committee in eharge of ,h,.»" l'f«: l"«'d b.-.t i.y tho.se who knew him best. celeiirai'on. Dr. Carmichael To Speak Here Sunday State Grid Teams and installed Friday night to serve Campiliell Lodge No. 44, A. F ]the ensuing year: T. C. Johnson, worshipful ma.ster. Dennis Sowers, senior warden. J. D. Boland, junior warden. F. M, Boland, treasurer. V. p. Adair, .secretary, B, H. Suddeth, .senior deacon. Rev. L, H. Carmichael, D.I)., in structor of Bible of religious educa tion in Columbia-'Tiemihaiy, Decatur, M., foriGa., will "occuiiy the' pulpit of the First Pre.sbyterian church Sunday‘ chairman for the la.st severa [morning at the usual hour of service. He had also been pre.sident From its initial organization, Doc tor Hughes had been identified with the Tri-State Medical a.s.sociation, fir.st a.s secretary for many y«‘ars and then for a term as pre.sident. lb* had also served as presidenUj(»f the South] (’arolina Medical society and in the same capacity with the Laurens Coun ty Meflical association. He hail been a, memiher of the hoard of trustee.s of i the Laurens city school, serving its years, of the vVeek-End Takes Heavy Life Yoll Minstrel At man were tied, with Presbyterian and Newberry finishing next. ~ j The second division is composed of I W^pfford, Llemson and Er.s- i^On^ DiftOCll fTbe complete standing of clubs in the state race follows: < Olumbia, Dec. 4. Violence snuffed out ‘27 lives in the two Carolinas over the week-end, ‘In the afternoon at four o’clock he Laurens Rotary club and the l.aureris Fourteen of the death.s were caused iwill speak for the congregation of the Business league. He was aiipointed as by automobile accidents, two by a Thornwell .Memorial church. one of the first metmbr'r.s of the hoard train derailment, three by trains,’ Dr. Carmichael has recently joined.of trustees of the Medical College of three by accidental discharge of fire- the seminary faculty and Sunday will the state of South Carolina, serving arms, and four by homicide.s. ‘ Three persons apjiarently were kill ed when they were struck by trains while walking along railriad tracks and another apparently committed J] H. Todd, junior deacon. jbe hi.s frist appearance in (’linlon," He for one or two terms. 0. H. Sheely and C. J. Blackwell, j-will be heard here with-interest and j „ stewards. ' ] extended a cordial welcome by local Chas. S. l^nkford, tyler. [Presbyterians. State Bank Law WINS HIGH HON T / Ralph C. Barrow, son of Mr. and BUYS MACAiNE gun Upheld By Court suicide. Thirteen of the fatalities were ported from South Carolina and .South from North Carolina. re- 14 There will be a minstrel at Long Carolina 3 Branch school house on Saturday Furman .. night at 7:30 to which iht' publn; is Pre.sbytet'itin cordially invited, ^lo admission will New’berry ... be charged for the entertainment, the Citadel .... cast for which will be made up of sev- Wofford ... eral well-known citizens of the com- Glemson Erskine 0 0 1 1 4 5 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 PASSES STATE BOARD City council in s(M.sion Monday W'ashington, Dec. 4. - The Mrs. L. A. Barrow of Charlotte, for-inj^bt, authorizfil the purchasing of a flaroiina statute authorizing the gov-.i 1,000 mer residents of thi.s city, will learn j machine gun for enieigency use by the ernor to take charge of .state banks' 1,000 "ith interest Chat he hai be^n award-, j^Rceldepartment against gangsters. When in his judgment this w’as neces- -— .750!ed one of the 80 faculty scholarships robbers or (langeious characters that sary to protect them and tneir depos- .Miss Avenelle L. Templeton of Gold- .667 awarded annually by Harvard univer-jmay invade the city. ilors was sustained today by the su- ville, was one of five young women 333 [Sity to law school students, Mr. Bar- ^ preme court. from Laurens county included in the / I ‘286 trow, known here by many friends as Pant Thornley, of U'alhallu, spenbi The law also prohibited suits for‘list of trained nurses annotn.ctd v.'itf • _ lltf 4 4.1* 1 1.4 >4 444 ..4 44 4 _l - 4 ' • ““ .4 I .• 4 1 04. .44 . . 44.4 4 J 4ft A .250 i “Red,” ^8 4t present .200 ‘ student' at Harvard. third-year law ithe holidays with, hia mother, Mrs. J. [appointment of receivers ahd^ author- in the past week as havinj _ IL. Thornley. , iized appoin't<^'nt of conservators. [state board of examiners i: pmemMl the \ A •\