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ttp r. 4 X' ¥ # / I i If Yoq. Pon’t Read THE CHRONICLE You Dok’t Get The News. • ' / THE CHRONICLE • Strives Ta Be a Clean News* S paper. Complete, Neway, * and Reliable. VOLUME XXXIV CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 19,14 NUMBER 15 STATE MONEY Senate Kills BILL PASSES' 1 Tax Increase Spring, Beautiful Spring but not to motl By Albert T. Reid k:: Carries Appropriation of $6,553,- 704 For Coming Year, Teach ers Get Raise If Money-.\vail- able. AdjournioeHt. Seen By End of Week, Double Barreled j Higher Income i By Close Vote. Effort For Lew Loses Co]uml?ia, April 9. prdpriation conferees tonight recom- ! Washington. April 10.—By 40 to 44. the senate today refused to levy an i additional one-year emergency tax of The general ap- 10 per cent on all individual income tax retiLuns in' 1935. tt also rejected without a roll call a proposal to boost surtaxes beyond mended $6,553,704 be used to run state departments and institutions for 1934-,the finance committee rates which al- 35, and, if it is available, an additional i ready are higher than existing levies, sum be spent ot raise teachers’ pay 10 | The 10 per cent emergency tax. pro per cent. j posed by Senator Couzens. Republican. The compromise figure was agreed, Michigan, would have raised an esti- ,upon today by the conferees, three mated $55,000,000. The higher sur-i from the senate and three from the taxes, suggested by Senator Kiitg,' house. They had worked for two weeks Democrat, Utah, wouhl have yielded ’ on the task of conciliating the two another $40,000,000. , legislative branches on the money There still was conceded to be question. chance of adojiting higher inheritanci The supply bill report was present-1 levies which would bring in an addi ed as the legislature began the weekjtiond $92.o5o.000. .Senator LaFollette,' a day ahead of the usual time in a 1 Kepublican. Wisconsin, will drive to re^ch sine die adjournment, such an amendment. propose I 4 ■l4emocrat. ( onsideration of the report was de- yf ^he finance ct)mniittee. ferred until tomorrow. legislative j decision against the Uou-' rule that such reiiorts lay on the desk i pl•eviou^!y had 24 hourfs before recei\ing attention woubl accept the juo- prevailed in both house and senate. conference with seblom invoked in the ^^y^p hou<e, but exiilained "consid.erable opposition” had arisen and since he I was speaking only for himself and the i icommittee ha^ not recommemled the' proposition, he electe<l to stand by the' This rule senate, but IS it wa- clamped on when Senator .S. .M, Ward, finance commit tee chairman, called attention to the' report, and Senator Nance, another conferee, moved it be taken up. What thieatened to be shar]) debate was shut off. Nance was bombarded with queries, “What have you dojae .with the teach ers?” Before the senate rule was in-* yoked, he said; “1 don’t think anybody on this .sen ate floor would want to create a defi cit. teacher committee. House administration lead ers also had expre- the proposal. H'd opjio.'.ition SMITH, BYRNfiS AGAINST Washington, .April 10. — .Senators Smith and Byrnes tothiy placed .South Carolina on record vn the senate as' CLUB ELECTS NEW^ICERS Leaders Named for New Year’s Wf»rk By Chamber of Com merce. I.,aurens Attorney Is Guest Speaker and Special Musical Program IVesented. i The April meeting of the Chamber I of Commerce held Tuesday evening was featured by an address hy R. T. WiLson, well known Lauron.s attorney, and the induction into office of new officers for the ensuing year. E. D., Craig, the retiring president, presided over the meeting. Thi-s being the annual election of of- i ficers meeting, two amended reports from the nominating committee were read and adopted. The foilowjjvg-TTffi cers were duly elected tb'^erve for j the coming year: R. L. Plaxico, president. T. H. Pitts, .Tr,. vice-pre-sidont, F. Winn, secretary. X — ,L I). Mc< 'rary, treasurer. D, S. W. Sumerel xr. H. Witherspoon; R. PL Ferguson. The retiring president, K. 1 >. Craig, ' thank'd!'the club for its cooperat'on during the'past year and asked ‘hi,' ^ame spirit of supiuut for the incom- ' ing officers. • During the evening a delightful mu- Isical progrjim was renden-d by Mis< Dorothy Hagen and .Miss .Io>u‘ i Pres.sly. -An a<lded feature-that scored a,!).g hit, was furnished by four Clinton chil- <lren who were recent winner^- in the annual c<»qnly expression and decla mation C4tnt4*-sts.- h*4d hr Tiula- i.V 1 If .u io opposed to the Couzens eme»“gency 1 ^ Meve provided for the 1 p c M j in-iBankHcad Bill hers raise if the money .s fhere,. I* ^ * i The $6,553,704 appropriation total proposed by the conferees compared with a figure of $7,078,000 voted by the senate and approximately $6,241,- 000 by the house. The senate, however, ajipropriated for the teacher pay in crease while the house, although ap proving the raise, made no appropri- atior for it. , , Platfftl in the free conference report, c«mtingent uj>on there being enough revenu/e to provide it, the teacher raise is estimateil to cost approximately $400,000. Thi.s amount would raise the fret* conference recommendations to around $6.0.53,704. ^ Neville Bennett, chairman of the house,, ways and means committee and one of th«‘ fonfen*es, said apparently there woubl b«* sufficient money to give the teachers the salary inert'a^f*. Bennett said the free conference le-^ port, excluding the teacher raise, was^ about $500.lH)0 less than estimated revenue for the next fiscal year. tlividual income tax returns next year, j The proposal wa.s lost in the senate by ; k vote of 46 to 44. ' Sure To Pass Will Be Law Saturday, Senator Smith Predicts, As Senate Op position Dwindles. The hou.sp delegation from South Carolina stamped its ilisapproval on the move for adoption of the Norris amendment barring political appoint ments from the Home Loan Bank hoard and Home Ownes Loan corpor- atipn. It, too, was defeate<l. despite the president’s request for its pa.s.s-1 ^'tnith today predicted^he Bank- age. Representatives Taylor, Kichanls: head cotton production bill would bo und Fulmer all voted “nay” on the come a law l)y .Saturday night. The Weed Growers To Reap Funds Courtney Wilson Dies At Abbeville Washington, April 10.—Senator F,. measure. .Mc.Sw’ain, McMillan Gasqm* did riot vote. and I senior .South ('arolina .senator’s pre. Uliction was concurft^lxn by Senator Precinct Clubs dray Blakely, Rufus Sadler and .Ame .lacolvs^of Florida Street school, and B. F. Harri son of Academy Street .school. R. W. Wade introduced the guest s|)eaker of the evening, R. T. Wilson of Laurens. .Mr. Wilson chose as his subject, “Uncle Sam’’' and traced the ,, , ,T J rnu ..u rw u i» bistory of the government to its South This Meek Under ( rop ThornweH Orphanage Masses j p^sent* enormous proportions with a Reduction Plan! ; , At Advanced Age. ;population of 124.(io(i,o(mi. with assets — — I of $329,0(M1,0(Kl,000, and varied mate- Washington, April 10.—Government I Fru'nds^nd acquaintances here oflTial wealth. -All of a sudden, in the money starts flowing this week to Richard Courtney Wilson, will regret' something those tobacco farmers in the .South’s ... , r i.: happened to I ncle Sam, be Government Checks F’low Into One of First Pupils Admitted To to learn of his death which occurre*!! said flue-cured l)elt who are cooperating', , , T>»‘cann* a nervnu in the farm a.Iministration’s crop re- Tuesday at the home of his son i pH.-atcd ailment (liiction id'ogram. Jb wreck and his coni- grew alarminr. He .1. B. Hutson, chb*f of thi* tobaeeo section, announced that fb«* mailing today of $764, 1;M in rental and prii-e- (Mjualing payments to contracting pr<»- ! again today and this afternoon rej>ort-|,iucers of flue-eured tobacco initiated “We made the teacher salary in-i ^ preparation for the 1931 Demo- cre^se contingent upon t^,rt; rbeiTTg ppimary »>lections, which will be enough revenue,’ he said, to ^bso- lutely guarantee a balanced budget, j j-corganizing the clubs in I,aurens We did not want to take any chances i ^,||j gotten underway im- on the possibility of over-estimate.s | I Bankhead, author of the bill. I The senate and house conferees met Meet On 28th ed progress. They ho[»e to reach a full (he movement of approximatelv $12.- j agreement hy tomorrow night and will I 2i;s*;(MKI in first payments to an esti- Will Reurgani/e and Elect Dele-, "“bfuit their reiiort Thursday. They 27r,,(HH) gi(tw<*rs of all typ*‘s (if 'will ask for action liy both houses Fri-1 Vco |.arl ieii.at ing in the 193 1 ad- day and if the report is adofited Fresi-(jy,;( plan. dent Roosevelt will be in Washington' H„ts„n said a final audit is now in .STiturday ready to affix his signature progress on an approved block of 90.- which wilFmake the hill a law. .Smith’s prediction of early enact- in Abbeville. Fun(*ral services wert* - nam*‘:l four ailment held fi'om the Fir.st I’re.sbyterian sufferei ehureh «*f that city, of which he was a I from which the 1. I’ncle .Sam tried to a- , , , . , „ ipoimlation of foreign eoiintrie levoted memlxT, on Wednesday «'F‘r-j Kt gatf.s To County On May 9th. Convention of revenue. The free conference report includeii $4f);OOTUfor rhe board of hank ctmtrul. The same figure ha<l been vote(i by! dmilate the irreat armies oi tne<e pe ipu> coming to noun, Kt'V. (i. M. I elford, Rev. .M. A.j .^im.rjra to turn loo-c their quc.sliua- Durant, and Dr. A. .N. Brunson being I able theories and in eharge of the service. j 2. I'ncie .Sem did po! cany on; the .Mr. Wilson was the son id' Courtney advice of Geiiig** Wa hing'on tba' the Wil,>.on and .Sarah Cater Wilson. He I government stay out of a -crap aero - was born in .Mississipjii 71 years ago. Tbe waters, and that af’er en'ering His father dic'd from illness in .New the war and loaning billions to other Orleans after the .sii-ge of Vhrksburg.! nations they became s,,ic and unap- 749 flu(*-eur(‘«^ contracts which called His mother soon thereafter brought! pn*<*iative of Amei u^a’s aal. for disbursements of $139,403 in rent- the small latl to the Thornwell orphan-1 3. Uncle .Sam enf^red int<» a gam- ment of the Bankhead bill, which willlyj payments and $325,028 to cover uiTa* of this city where he received his' blinj^spiri.t with the ♦ a-y way bceom- place a tax of 75 jier cent of the friar-applications for price-e<iualizing early training and becanu^-.a skilled ing the i*opular way l a'her than hard ket (irice on all cotton ginn<*<l by a|paynients. printer. For a long nurnbej;} of years|w(irk. .Speculation took the day as the farmer in excess of his allotment un-j Payments by states, of the block of hi* was tamnected with The Press and re-ult, the spirit of greed ami grab <ler the AAA program, a.ssuring a| flut>-cured applications approvc*d to'Bannt'r at .Abbevilb;, having b<‘en had enveloped thi* nation when the Democratic clubs throughout the county will hold meetings on .Satur-iorop of less thaml0,000,000 bales, ^re V*'*! day, XApi ll 28th, for The purpo.'rp'Tif organizing and naming delegates to dicates that oiiposiCion in the senate | the senate but the house had made fio [ the county convention which will be'conference will reject the senate to the measure is breaking down. The > Virginia, $101,753, and Flor North Carolina. $286.125;. forced sometime ag<) to giyt* Uarolina, $121,539; Georgia, work oh account of ill health. uj) lisi great catastr<»phe came. X 'n. Urndf .Sam forgot that the ulti- allowance for the hoard. The girls reformatory, locilted near Uolumbia. also was included with a $15,000 aiipropnation. No appropri ation had been made for’ the reforma- held at the court house on May T.'The amendment exempting farmers who state convention will be held in U«-i produce six bales or less from the bill lunvbia on the thinf Wednesday in: and other anu*ndments which the pro- May. Iponents of the legislation feel wilT de- ,N'e\v club rolls will be made this feat the puriiose of ,the measure ida, $41,309. U.h^cks-ai-o to-be .sent out to pariici paling farni(*rs at the ratejif o.lMHl to | 10,000 a day until the payments aix* j ■'|Completed. To dale, 15,365 flue-cured; , , L i. 1 *'• . . . '• icontracts have been received together! -i9r.y by with 2r,.0!ll apj.lications for price- decided to aboFish it, while the f'Pnarr a local club fUtt in Tirder ,p the sehate'lt met serious hppo-payments. -hail allowed $10,000 for it. [take par t in the primaries, -! sitiony loil hy Senator Bailey of North' In arriving at sums for the institu-1 tions of higher learning, the conferees ithe measure frankly stated that, they did not believe it could he |)asst‘<l if the conferees wiped out the senate , [amendments. Citadel, $8.5,000 for -Clemson. $li6,- ! Charleston, April 7.— .Marshall W. j The optimism of Senator Smith and 687 far Winlhrop, an<l $65,750 for dean of Presbyterian college.) Senator Bankhea<l suggests that they Medical college. . iof Clinton, was elected president of ^ have made a canvass of the situation Meet Saturday in most instances approximately | split the differences between senate and house’figures. They allowed $168,450 for the University, $121,175 for The k Dean M. W. Brown Heads Society 'Carolina, and Senator Borah, of Idaho. .At the time, some of those supporting For the Cedar Spring institute^ Ibejthe South Carolina Historical associ-iand have the votes to a<iopt the con- conferees took the appropriation fiJT-Ration here this morning, succeeding A. j f^rence report. ure of the house, $75,000. The senate Holmes, Clemson college. The as-| figure was $74,100. .sociation, here in annual session, chose ^ They accepted the, senate figure ofjColumbia for its 1935 meeting and] V^QIllCol nClC $121,614 for the railroad commissibn, j earned J. Harold Easterby, Charleston, an increa.se of nearly $40,000 over the i vice-president, and reelected Miss hou.se. The increa.se w’as largely to provide for continuation of the com- mission’'s power rate inve.stigation. A large part of a $54,000 increa.se (Continued on page four) Clinton Hi Wins District Debate Fannie Bell White, of Columbia high school, secretary and treasurer. jC. E. Cauthen, of Columbia college, and R. L. Meriwether, University of South Carolina, are members of the execu tive board. Winners Cdven In U. D. C. Contest Clinton high school won the district! debate yesterday by defeating Thorn- well. Both affirmative and negative teapis of Clinton won anTwill repre- The loc^l chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy offers a medal an nually to the pupil of the Thornwell sent District No. 2 in the state debate, j orphanage and Clinton high schools in Columbia during “high j;-,school j submitting the best examination on week” the last of April. (the subject, “The War Between the The affirmative team is composed j States.” Friday Night District No. 2, high school league expression and 'declamation contests will be held here Friday night, at 8 o’clock. The expression contest will be held at the high school and the dec- lamatioif contest in th^k orphanage chapel. Elizabeth Buzhardt will repre sent the Clinton high .school in the expression, and Tench Owens in the declamation contest. Cooke Accepts Mountville Date (-m HI ■ fHkfj w > -41 f 4h s- e x4 w-as \mr : promot** the general welfaie uf, all ihe r* strin _W omen 1 o , p.:^>pie. Uonlinulng, Mr, WiTson said with -uch eonditions existing the gtivern- ment was forced to st» i» in and make a diagnosis of its ailments and the^ i meeting of the Laurens Uounty Conn-I'Dtempt a cure. Those u^ing c•ilt- ^cinrWraV’Wominr^nrT^ mah.ida in bu^i-weiy. sw«aG ^tirdav wTth the Princettm club ,.at,^bop practicevthose apiiissing wealth_ Princeton school housi* in the western ^be sw.vat of the brow of others i p.art* of the county. Mrs. I,. U. Taylor,I<^«*b‘d uj.on to change their lof Harmony, is pn'sidcnt. methoils in order that letter conditions for the masses might be !.aurens, April The sjiring The program for thi* day, i'^ued brought about. .Mr. Wilson stated from the office of the county demon-1 i . I'olumbia, ' April 11. —H. Kemper stratiqn agent, .Miss Jennie (kilema'n,' n cone u.^ion, ^ Cooke, fiery-Tongued senator from provides for two addri'sses, depart- Horry ciiunty, has accejited an invita- mental reports, as.sembly .singing *n«l work Mountville, Laurens county, in the up- by .Mrs. .S^. O. J’Jowden, of Sumter, state, district agent, an<l other- interesting Senator Uooke informed .six Mount-'cxerci.ses. Johnson Warns Code Violators Wa.shington, April. 7.—A-general onslaught of' court actions against' of Elizabeth Buzhardt and Jack With-j Ada Sue Allen won fir^t place, Al-jNRA code “chiselers” was ordered to- erspoon, and the negative by Irene ifred Browning- second, and Nancy jdi erspoon, Dillard" and .Alfred Browning. The sub-(Young third, the three being students ject of the debate was^ “Resolved, | of the local high school. The questions That the powers of th^< president of. the United States should be substan- L-aa.JL settled policy.” were prepared and the papers graded by Miss Carrie Sams of the history department of the Union hirh. school JegaL jsriicc' iTWimi—ini i >iirlidb«iM;a.-:n;-4jraanaa|^,(iiiwL‘rm-';ira>.iai;..abk->i.4rae I day by Hugh S. John.son. The time ha.s come,” .said the NRA administrator in letters to all code au thorities and field representatives, when uncertainty as to enforct«fiat tion to address a citizens meeting at’a song contest, both to be conducted come when n)en can and sing at the same time, because Uncle Sam is in a partnership with his big family and will see to it that ville citizens who extended the invita- SiM*eches are to be made by C. K. receive a .square tion ho would be glad to re.spond May Wright, superintendent of the I^au- * ,iii«„a 5, “if that suits you.” They had asked ^rens city .schools, and Mrs. J. Whit- great fortunes w le him if he would expand on “i.ssues you'man Smith, state president. (suffer, but there mus f ^ ^ ‘ brought out so notably in the senate.”, Mr.s. I.essie Avery, president of .the “ble. f»>*' hones rea j “I am always willing,” Cooke wrote Princeton club, will give the address[^ban^rs of Commerce can ^ in reply, “to give my views on ques- of welcome, with the response by Mrs, contribution m this grea p g , tions vital to the welfare of the .st%te M. H. Wil.son, of Gray’s club. ^ ,|be said, by creating a sen im s and the nation.” — ' Statements made by *Cooke in the, •* ■ . npi 1 £ 1 .senate relative to an assertion of htsl Wri^lll 1 flSUlKlUl that .some legislators “made as high as $1 ,000 in hotels” resulted in a mo tion to expel him. The motion failed to receive a two-thirds vote neces.sary to its adoption. < . For ' ^ing that the only way safety and suc- •fce.ss «an come to the people ts through . ! hoi«t ^work. In the proportion that iwe OTiftate ourselves to these great. In Pay fundamentals of srovernment will government Uncle Sam again come intQL_bis_^o^>®;*^^, A r ' Mr. Wilson was voted a rising vote Greenville, April C. K. Wright,appreciation for his in- of Uurens, president of. the South; g^j^iress. Carolina Education asscoiation, to night expres.se<l his appreciation for the possible 10 per cent pay increase Story Contest At Provideh’ce e ENROLLMENT CLIMBS The annual story-telling conte.st was held at Providence school on Thursday afternoon, .April 5. Mis.ses Boozer, Kern and Johnson acted as judges. First place was given to Gay- Ifive this much-needed increase in pay «eHe Hairston, second to Mary Wil-{for the 1934-3$ session to the teaclv- ihe general as.sembly. jr-nrollment in the Clinton city schools “This is the end to which the State »t the end of the .seventh month co^ Education association has been work-. l^***^*® shotf^a slight increase ov r ing all year,” declarwl Mr. Wright. The total enrollment, ilow “We feel veVy grat^tul to the general stands at 1,897, divided, four wmte asjiembly for .seeing iLs way clear to liains^ ^d thirdjto Mae Jordan, {era. .schools liSTH, two colored schools 519. Visiting Miss Zelime- Davis friends in Manning. IS r Ii -fl ^ !*•'