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/ ■k If You Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE I S You Don’t Get The Ne4s. ^ • ' 1 A 4 THE CHRO*VlCLE- H Strives To Be a Clean News- 1 paper. Complete, Newaj, } t 1 and Reliable. VOLUME XXXIV CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1984 NUMBER 6 FARM CROPS TO BE LICENSED Cobb Predicts End To Slavery Senators Put Pi-Cent Pound Tax On Cotton Ginned Over Nine Million Bales During: Year. Administration Behind Reduc tion Move By La>>%^ \Va;Shinpton, Feb. 0. — Officials <Jf Cash Basis For Cotton Tiller Is Forecast. Long-time Program For Reduction Is Solution. Memphis, Tenn.^ Feb. 2.—Cully .A. Cobb today predic^d a long-time gov ernment cotton production control pro gram tfn 'an address in which he pic- the farm administration have sent Southern planter as definite- the White House a proposed aniend-|jy heatletl toward a cash basis for the ment to the farm act whch, if adopte<l. would in effect allow the administra tion to license producers-—a rigid form of compulsion. Coincidentally, the senate agricul ture committee today took another step toward amending it to place-a tax of 12 cents a i>nun.l on ‘•'"r i farmers nwl this vear in excess of .1,000,001) first time since the Confederate war. j . Cobb, chief of the cotton production (Section of the agricultural adjustment 'administration, said the present re- 'duction program Tnust merge into a ; long-time program of controlled pro- ;duction and that ui>on the votes of the themselves depended admin istrative action. Questionnaires sent ^halesT },y admini.<tration are on their The- proposetl amendment to the'^^.jjy Washington, farm act wouhl allow the harm ad ministration to enter directly into marketing agreements with produc ers. If these pacts aie. to be madt t f | form of a taxation meas-j the administration would have ' __ . made ef-1 . . . V • fective, to be given authority to bind non cooperators to observe their teims. Tlie farm administration has ap- {K*ared to be cooling on the compul- .sion idea recently and its officials ex- presstsl concern today over .the impli cations of the suggestion for added' authority which they drew. They said the amendment was drafted with regional crops in mind and that there “ if President Roosevelt fhlrilcs “If they want control, we shall have it,” Mr. <’('bb said, "and if wo have it, then it is my own feeling that it lire PARIS SCENE OF BLOODY RIOJ^ Mobs Battle With Police In the Streets. Estimates of .Dead abd Injured Vary In Thick of Uprising Against New Gov ernment of France. Cfincorde. a blast of even well of the idea—to attempt to apply Plans now existing, he said, <lid not reach the non-C(H>perators, an<l would not stand up under the influence of the return of In^tter jirices, and “I be lieve it is necessary to work out and apply some measure beyond anything we have yet found.” The program, he continued, should-carry with it the principle of voluntary action. He added, however, that he believed in the accepted democi’atic principle iKat when a targe majority does w'ant i a thing, the minority should nirt he The above is a reproduction of the largest check in' r exhibited in Clinton. It was nceived by the Thovnwetl Orphanage from the Vineville I’resliyterian ehureh, Maeon, (.Ja., as a ('hrisimas gift to the institution. It was ten fiet long, three feet high, and .disjilayed on canvass. The check was prepared and stretched across the front of the Vineville church auditorium with .$200 set as the congregation’s goal ami this arii.aunt was reached. When dejiosited in a local hank it hild to he hamlled as a special t’-ansact'ion with collection costs of sixty-thrc'c cents. it to major crops such as wheat, cot-, iiermitteil to stand in the way." ton and 'corn. I <'el)b spoke before the final session ■ , , , if fv,„ li. iof the Southern .Agricultural Workers’ The amendment, howevei, u tne ii-1 .. censing jKiWier is iflc give ^tvded^lVwmri4Feom'imta£m^ lie jeompliment^ .jern cotton farmei's for their cooper ation with last year’s program and the farm administration a wea non it could use if non-coopejuators, , thn‘atened to wreck'one of their ma-, predicted that hefoi-e the middle of. , . i,,/.fi/>n filunc I P'ehruai'y 1,000,000 farmers will have jor voluntary reduction jiians. *• .u i i r... The filing that those fanners who] signed on the dotted line anothei refuse<l^sign a cotD.n pixKluction ‘Declaration of Independence, control agreement would increase. He said that since the (onfederate acreage and defeat attempts to re-l^ar cotton had l>een pr<M Uce<l on cm^ duce the .surplus of the staple was I it and that hajl served to enslave, to one of the reasons for the Bankhead , heat down and to destroy. hill. I .‘^(‘cretary Wallace has said the a«l*' ministration would not attempt com- Carroll D. Nance 'Direct Loans. Jurors Drawn For Out For Governor' Made Certain Laiiren.s Countv Senator An-'^*'i*^h Bill To Help Small Farm- (leneral npunces ('andidacy. Flatfurm er Passes Senate. Lower House I <aris, Feh. .'j,—.Soldiers opened fire 'on mobs for the seconfl tjme just he- fon‘ midnight tonight a« hours of bloody anti-government noting reach- ■ ed a furiou.s cresi-emRi; I Turning their rifles on infui-iated ; mobs in the Place de la where Lhr(*e hours earlier .bullets repulsed the rioters onfy mo- mentarily, the troops fi,vd half a doz en Volleys. Ihree jM-rsons were kil!e.| in the gunfire, started about 7 p. m., and at hyist !♦(! were seriously hurt.. “““The famed MouWean Sp.uhis. mnunt'- ed on their swift Arhhian. horses, we.'e turned loose in tlu‘ Place -horriy U‘- fore m-idnighl after polict* and tnmrrr--- ^ ed guaids had struggli .l tor hour.s to eleijr the sipian*. only t(. have it ovmiv^ I run with demonstrators again. I .A censorship was put into Dtrce as jsoon as fighting Ivecame inost'^*rI(j i.s. i .Among t hose gravely wounded was jPhief Marehand, hf the nuinicipal po- |lice, who was .shot. Police made a pi:gol charge which clejin'd the Place de la .Uoiieorde. fir ing to the right and left as they ran. ITie crowds scatteia-d madly and th<* rush a numl)i*r of women D’ampJed under fo(»t. M UCU y * Cl 111^ several hundriMl shots nme fired.'ov [the police, ami it was impossible t) (’on-idetermine the exact number of \ ,c- ('olumhia •’''Hmy women were apparently (hit, and it was believed pos.siide tnat Ttiw thtaThf dead wrurfrl-sit m were Se.ssions Court vjpnt's On lllth. •TdiiV mrrit-' Washington, Feb. .'I. .Senator'rarroll 1). Nance of Cross Hill, announced fnim ('olumbia last I'duction loans to fanners Tursday night that he would make the ri’ops were assured toilay. Mrs. Darlington Dies At Laurens Ijaurens, Ft'-b. .Mrs. Thomas I). 2.— I.«st rites for race for the governorsihip this sum mer. “Yes, sir, Frn in the race,” the Lau rens county fai'mer and business man replied in response to an inijuiry. “1 hadn’t announceil, hut I’ll probably make public my platform in a few days.” One jilank in his platform. Siuintor Nance stateil, will he "the relief of all property owners of taxes.” .Mr. Nance was a eandidate for gov Direct for with pro- P.hM final Granii jurors to and petit'juryme serve for the Darlington, Laurensb ernor in 11)2(1 at which time he made pulsion unle.s.s a majority of the grow ers wanted it. The administration has been making a poll of sentiment in the South on the subject and today Senator Bankhead, Democrat of Ala bama author of the cotton control' resident, who died Thursday afternoon a creditable showing. At that time he 1 measure was informed that DH per .at the residence of her son-in-law and advocateil indirei-t taxes on soft I cent of the 7,000 replies favored man- daughter, .Mrs. .James C. Todd, were'drinks, tobacco, and other commodi-| datiuy control of the cotton output. ! held from the home at IF o’clock Sat-[tics, which were enacted although said authoritatively today ' unlay morning. The service was I upward. ^ ». . ^‘‘^**1 I he crowd, in complci.* pan for the I'ehruaryl.^.^rmed through the sidi term of general sessions court conven-' action expected next week. ing in Ijaurens on tVfD)th, ha,ve been All that remains is to adjust dif- drawn, ferences between the bill passeil yes- The circuit court term, the first for terday by the senate an<l that approv-ithe year, will he pre.si(k*d over by ed the day before by thi* house agri-i.Iudgl* VV. H. Townsend, cultural committee. j The grand jury list follows, the Although the senate hill cajled for first six being hold-over members $4f>,l)00,00(), with individual loank lim- ()f la..t year’.s body: L. B. SUnldanl itisl to $400, and the house bill, for land M, ("urry. Dials only $;Lb,000,000, with individual loans ' K. F. Fleming, B. M. i- - treels, hi tering on iloors and pleading to : let in. The Hotel Urillon finally onen its doors and |M*rmitled hundieds ' fl(K'k into the aristocratic salon to cape the fire. j Shouting down the opposition era i of “Dictator! Hitler'” D.iladier foi l 1 1 through the chamln'r a vole of afipro' - tal of his general policy, and la'rr I checked all oftposition lo his Wolff and J.' p.ogi am the .sitate from '^1/aurens towri.ship; [Texas, of the house committee said ('. .Smtih. Waterloo; J.* S. and D. by denying teriK'lIator.s the right (luestiori the goveinmeiit, on the pi It was Sat-[tics, which were con- was dcfcate<i. He [tonight there would he no difficulty (’arl A. B»-amIelt, IMato Bohorts, () jin reaching a satisfactory figure. |.Smith ansi .1. P. .Mad<len, Waterloo; He said he would call up the house L. D. .Armstrong, Dials; B. B. Ihnin, i measure ,at the eai'liest po/^sihle op-;.lacks; SL (). (Mark. Scuffletown; W.! ^ portunity. The house hill, introduced 1 .Martin,I,j(,Bjitc would bring tielav in so' ing the dangerous chao'^. .Meanwhile the mobs, pouring fr j I. Freimian, Sullivan; Sam lavaman^i ly lornns,' (.'ro.ss Hill, and W. Kai l Workman. stations points, converge l ■at 11' on the F ('oncorde, where the worst that the Farm administration felt that ducted by her pastor, th«* Kev. F//.ra the Bankhead hill cyuld not he apidiiMi'D. Patton, of the First I'reslwid^iHan a.s a substitute, or kipplement, to thejehurch, and the Kev. ('. T. Scjuii^s, a voluntary control cotton plan hou.se Vivien year this ( former pastor, now minister of the Fourth IVeshytcriiin church of Green-j fjj-.st Under the propo.sed amendment, ji-lville. The rites were concluded at thi ways he lan l‘J2(5. •Senator .Nance term in tin enacted although he 1 was chairman of thecortsiilcred liroader than that by j Hunter. Senator .Suulh, Democrat, of South. Petit jurors: l)ick Owirigs, {'. D. gan as night .A utoiiudiilc dirkcncd hus.-.t s the U i‘: and means committee, ... j,........ ,...r. for the governorship inlDarolinu. in that it would allfviv loans I Wilson, A. L. .Mahaffey, A. D. .Mitch- ! on winter wheat and other crops planted in I'.hM. the The senate hill provides hai ve.''ted in PJ.M4. tile I' is now serving ujipiT h(Miy of urily censing could not be until an 1 graveshle m the f.'imily hui overwhelming majority of the produc-lthe laiuren.s cemetery, ers insisted upon'it. This would be in j Darlington, the former Miss with the farm administration’s ) i y,jt. Irby, was a graduate of Salem ded at the' jf(.nt.ral assembly, having heim electe<l | nai ve.'- ial plot at I two years ago by a large majority j 1 he house winter|t‘ll, T. (’. (Iwings, Fred S. Bishup, I L. Wise, H. 1.. Wkldrep, .M. H. Temiile- foiiton, .1. N. Ba.ss anil •'VI. H. Hunter, Laurens;' W. .1. Wa.'d, T. T. Hill para'^ 'liicc de 1, I'utUlg i'e - I'fft.S, ' 'attac'.v i.cr- lire hai "ii ad cct wh ■ i- loca' ‘ and the line position that the farmers themselves 1 WMnston-Salem, N. U. For' must dentand compulsion before it will .^any years, before her health bi'came attempt any such effoK. * ! impaired, she had been actively iden- Officlals said tha^ authority to ne-jtified with the religious, social and gotiate marketing pacts with farmers' civic jif*, of the city. She was a mem- could bt* given without the power tp'ijor of the First Presbyterian church, licen.se those who refused to go along. i a charter member of the Henry Lau- The licensing provisions have been jrcns chapter, D. A. R., member of the used, however, in almost every mar-jj h Ker.shaw chapter, U.. D. C., and keting agreement negotiated with theja former member" of the Wednesday processors lof farm commotlities. _ Literary club. Officials said that an^ “marketing hqsband, the late Colonel , pact that did not contain power tofjho inas D. JJarlington, was a native control a majority might easily prove Allendale: The Darlington family' worthless through non-observance y lived in Laurens most of the time | state, and has many friends who will be interested in the outcome of his race. Nance’.s ann<miw«*ment brought the field of candidates to seven the oth ers: Repre.sentative W. .M. Manning of Sumter, Lieutenant Governor James O. Shepimrd, Senator C. K. Sloan of Grt^enville, Tom B. Pearce and Cole L. Blease of Columbia, and 1). Johnston of Spartanburg. : 1). Austin, (M'os-s Hill; ('harl<*s Bar nett, 1. Kyerett Hunt and K. I. Sloan, participate in the’ agricultural prP- Voung.s; R. WLGjljilaml, J» VV.* I’eden, duction program and to show they^.M. A. .Marler, M. L. Knight, Frank have Ix'cn unable to obtain a satisfne-1 Curry ahd P,, R. AjHxTomhie, Dials loan through the^Production Ilugh 15. Workman, C. B. Adajjv C. L, measure al.so is more sja*- S over two opiionents. He is well known IeiHc in..ixM.uinng loan recipient.s to in this county and throughout lory 01 in ✓. ^ . -J MeSwain To Run For Re-election I I those on the outside. ,1 since 1890, with the e.xception of ^ The marketing agreement proposa years’ residence in Charleston.' i Wa.shingto^r, Feh. is only one of'several sent to the ex- Darlington was the eldest; he had any comment to make on the ecutiv. manx.on. An^h«- of tho ikto Dr William C. ’ ■ . I - Vance Irby. She A Asked twlay one IS 'announcement of Judge Miller C. Fos- i.s'ter, of Spartanburg, as his first an- Oedit corporation. Agriculture . depailnient officials have anxious to make that the crop production n<rt at variance with thi pnigram. Both house and .senate proponents of the legislation want a bill enacted a,*'’, ijuickly as possible in.;0Hler that"; loans may start in lime for early i .spring planting. ! The loans would hear not more than () per cent intere.st and he secured by a Jirst niorlghge on the crop or live • stock. In the ca.se of winter wheat, .se^ wouhl he a first lien on the to be harvested in Itldf). man, .Milam, J. Town.sen<l and A. B. .Milani, Hunter, J. H. Lynch, Jacks; J.,K. Dav- certain j enport, W. B. Mumiy, arnl B. L. .Mar- loans tire j tin, Waterloo; J. Talmadge Patterson, j reiluction 1 ,Si*uffIetown; M. B. Bolt, Jr., Frank Buzhardt, ami J. L. M. Kell<‘tt, Sulli van. overturm 'l, and to add theiif tuilk to i he ’ All street b.mips in the the UniD'd .'-^tate.'- e nbns-y were sma.shed. The police'went about tluii wie-; Vuoly, hilt in most insiarices with !’ • llilily. .Smaller units uere sucif .sfn; y broken up, hut the nia-.sed crowds ri ^(the Place <h* la Concorde were,not ’'ia..ily handle!. In tJie; I..atin ouai ter all the terrace cafes- were cUi8<-d. -Studeuls hicJ alarriK'd the neighborhood by throxx- ing torpedoes under horse.-, aulomo- Death Claims [biles and street cars, causng near fianics. Some of the aria-sti-d >tiui«n!-; . wer»Larm<*d with what the pidice dc- |scrilK*<l as “dangerous weaioms." Tliey had affixed razor Ua<les to the end I of their canes. crop Dr. J. H. Hawkins Thornwell Head _ At Louisville -X’loa.s Hill, Feh, (». Dr. ,F H. Haw kins, 02, pharmacist of this section j who had lM‘<*n ill for several days with! influen'Aa and pneumonia, died Mouflay designed to^make easier Vance Irby. She is [ter. of Spartanburg, as his first ^ q enforcement of pacts ^ ' survived by two daughters. Mrs. Todd.nounced opjionent in the South 1QlV RaulO PrOgraiH tjauses . YTcTra- lina primary this summer, Repreaen-h • ^ ^ night. Dr. Hawkins wa.s L. K. I>ynn, Lynn, accoinoanied eft Mondav foi’ Loiv feet. There are quite a few inWnd.Mt to clarify the present law. , ,.„vi||e Farm officials decline<l to disclose wlw was the author of the marketing agreement or Mrs. , three grahdehild.ren,! tative MeSwain made this statement: .McCrady, Green- “I have kmiwn Judge Foster for a whether iTh'^d'^K^S^ille; Thoma,« I).. anti .lames 'c. Tochl.JonK time and I know the campaign Vnioval- ^ ,lr., Uureas; two sisters, ” ■ "• " of leHurens, and eenville Claudia Darlington tary W’allace’s " Another proposed amendment to carry out the sub-marginal land pro gram of the administration has been drawn but has not gone to the White Hou.se pending a study by other in terested departments. Mrs, \V. 1). will be conducted on a high plane and Ferguson of Laurens, and Mrs. J. P. becoming to two honorable men seek- ' Marion «f Greenw(K>d, Miss., an<l onr"rinS public office. brother, R. Vance Irby of I>iurens. J “1 "‘h, of course, Im* a candidate From Spartanburg IS wa.s reared ' vilh*, Ky., where- they are .spendi’V' I,ynchhurg before coming to ('ross vi,H‘k. and had practiced his pofes.sion in ^ The Child Welfare League, of Aiv < harlestffn, .Aiken and Hart.-iville with headipiarters in .New Vo has hei'M invited to make a survey the large city-county in-’.iUilion ' , •< where he had establishisl a wi<le circle of business and personal associati^. He was a .Mason, a m(*mlK*r of the and - J K. Milks and C. B. Lawter. aided by MixxM Anna .Mac Tarrc. Myi tlc Wc»t-j/’f y-' Shnne hury and Rnsa Mahaffi-y. conducted a '''•'‘'■"n l"' I’rc.abytcnan church, half hour prog,am over the Spartan- kervioea-we,-.- r,.,darted radio station Sunday. It was a 'h'' .hpemgs ehurrh ,n (r burg Capt. Wysor To Harris To Hold Services Here I for reelection amhwill run on my rec- ■ord as well as my supiKirt of tall ma jo^ legislation propo.sed by President [Roosevelt. I feel that if the Roosevelt (cAiYiain administration i.s sujiported for fourjlow.s: [years the couatry will recover fromj Trumpet solo: “Ivory Palaces,’ K. I the depres.sion and happiness will re- Mills.. E. Wy.sor, profe.s.sor ^^^r piniple.” | Duet, “Whi.spering Hope,” ' Westbury and .Miss Tarre. , Trumjiet solo, “Have Thine the care of children l(>eat**d at !-ou ville. The league invited Dr. Lynn jtfinJwo members of it:i .-^taff in nv* ing the contemidated s.tuly. Dr. ami .Mrs. I.yn.i will vpior.l r a-'“v^uhshine” ■ program wthich had foi Hill .V^^t^Tilay morning at !):.50 l> d<K*k- s;^,,„jyy j),. jjp,] \i, mi its theme. “Light Up the Wqrjd for ^>y the pastor, the Rev. F. T. Mctiill. CaTtrenUM- at - Harro.i: !>-.i L*lt Jesus.” The conipleU* [irograiti fo)- Interment followed in the cemetery in tirtie Dr. Lynn will Tapt. Rv military science and tactics at .Presby-: terian college, will be retained at the I Miss Quarterly Meeting Of First Division The. fii*»t' diyif^inn of the I^aurens The Rev. A. C. Harris, pastor of.the College for a sixth year, according to First Presbyterian church of MUledge- a recent announcement_by the war v-ille, Ga., will hold a series of .special., depfirtmenls, . . .. services for the student bo^y of Pres-j Such as.sig'nmentjl as Capt. Wysdr'.s byterian college February • ' are usually for a'four-year tdrm. The speaking both morning and 'eveniftg president of the institution. Dr. Johfi ■ VVoman’s Mis.sionai-y union wilL hold in the college auditorium. i, j^^cSween, throughJ Congressman J. J. !a quarterly meting at Harmony Bap- Mf. HaiTis was fo^'merly a widelyr MeSwain and a personal iritCrview, tist' ^urch on Sdtur-jjay, February known army chaplain and has been with-the commanding officer of the iPth.^The topic for the day will be very successful in student’s work at .Fourth Corps area, strongly urged “Prayer.” The First division is com- Milledgeville. He is a gi'aduate of I that this precedent be set aside and [posed of societies of the following Erskine college and Union Theological the ‘popular officer allowed to continue chureWs: Bethany, Beulah, Durbin, Own Way, liord,” K. Mills, Duet, “His Eye Is On the .Si»an'ow, .Manning at J o’chn'k in the afternoon. I Dr. Hawkin.s is surviveiJ by his wid ow, the. former .Mabel .McKadden of Manning, to whom he h:ul Ix’en mar ried for 27 yt'urs, two daughters, .Miss Kli.se Hawkin.s, a tcaeher in the .An drews high .'-choo., and bliss Kranee.s Hawkin.s, a .seni<»r at Winthrop col- frttijiit ehutch jwistor. of of the I Firs which Dr .idhn , Ky.. ee’)iy ■ iiyte; .,e;;tcr Founder’s Day To Be Observed Misse.s Westbury ,^d Tarre, peni.st. Miss Mahaffi.‘y. .Accom* tind a sister, .Mrs. Kasley. Kmrnie Phtts, i 1 : ' irOG TAX TO INCREASE * J Presbyterian college will c debrate 7 "1 i its fifty-fourth birthday on Mare'i FRBJ^HMEN NA.ME LFJADERS[ir>th, wh<*n‘Pounder’s iL-iy Kill be oh- served with approjirinte exj 'ci.ses. l)i‘. . seminary, with post graduate at his work here. Both with faculty and PriDcetpn. His coming to the .c^ege students, the announcement will be campus for these services is being i welcomed that no change is to be k>ok«i forward to with unusual in-1 made in the dirwting head of the lereat, • iR* C. unit. Friendship, Gray Court, Harmony, Highland Home, Lanford and Warrior Creek. Each missionary society is urged to send dolegates to thia nue^pf. Robert M. Cooper, collector of inter-! pu* freshman clas^^•'bf Prt*Hbyterian! Dmilpy Jones of the faeuhv, will maki* nal 'ppvenae, announced .Saturday that [college has within [..he past week elect-[the special address at the cha)>el-hour, he had been imstrucled by the office ed the following officers.to serve for^- The college was foundin! in I.K80 by of the commissioner of internal reve- ntie that the processing tax on hogs effective as of February 1 will be one and one-half cents per pound*, live weight, and that March 1 and there after it will be two and one-.qnarter cents per pound, live weight. the year; .1. K. Collings, president;[the late,Dr. ’William Plumer Jacobs, •I. E. Patrick, vice-president; J. R. Me Alpine, secretai74reasurer; J, L. Dab ney, hliUyrian; F. S. Ixive, poet. was a ' W. C. Moore of Greenwaod business visitor in the cit]^ Tuesday. also founder of Thortiwell orphanage. Following an established custom, spec ial exercises commemorating the life and work of its founder are held each year tn which the pubKc Is cordially invited.