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IT a. If 'Yon Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE 'You Don’t Got The News. -V VOLUME xxxrv 'V’wy ^ THE CHRONICLE StriTeii' To Be a Clean News paper, Complete, Neway* and' Gteliable. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY,-JUNE 21, 1934 NUMBER 25- BIG SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE WILL ICongre* End. siMe_Campi^ CLINTON VOTES TUESDAY CLOSE ON SATURDAY NIGHTi 73rd Session Tour Is O^ned •T.tV L FOR MAYOR, COUNCILUKN THE CANDIDATES' GOAL IS IN SIGHT Great Volume of Work Done In Candidates Begin Drive For Bal- I FINAL REPORT TO BE PLACED IN SEALED BALLOT BOX AT THE CHRONICLE OFFICE 10:00 P. M. WINNERS KNOWN MONDAY NOON. ^ Last Hours. Insurgents Force Through Bills Over Leaders, .i Washington, June 18. nally quit tonight, with ongress fi- lots In Lively Start State Issues Discussed- Manv Municipal Election Open’^*"*^’ pro-tem. Sila.<» Bailey, I '7 party inde- Lexington, June 19. — Twenty-one candidates for .‘^tate office set out on their marathon talking tour of South A4QA lAfoT. CT.. , represents ward five as al- At 9 A. M. Two Entries In dei-man, is in the mayors race for the Mayor’s Race and Twelve In first time. He is a well-known young Aldermanic Contests, Manag* man of the city and an of- ers Are Announced. WHO WILL WIN? GOLDVILLE, S. C. M iss Mary K?it€ Carr .....t..-. - CLINTON, S. C.,|R. F. D. No. 3 Master Halsell Roberts Miss Martha Ann Simpson CUNTON, S. C. M iss fifaby Grace Young ...i Master Davis Workman Miss Kathleen Howard Miss Betty Ann Campbell Miss Robbie King (entered by Miss Rena Abrams) pendents in command and its program j (-^^olina thday with executive clemen- a little more complete. * cy and That little more was the price of]exciting some'of the liveliest adjournment exacted by the insur-i^ion in the governor’s race, gents which crushed the opposition ficlal of the Clinton ('otton Mills. W. , M. McMillan has long been identified . '1 * Au 11 ;flio political life of the commu- “rule” by state several terms .A discus- „ „*i • 11 a 'magistrate, later as mayor of the “ mayor and six aldermen to serve , . i • .u j . ' city, and as postmaster during the ad- la mayor and six for a period! of tw • be " '-“•ji «»"a* «•-> t»vj;aniia.->iiri uuimji^ tne in a bold last-minute drive' The liquor issue was kept in a minor1ministration of President Wilsbp. crushed the opposition of the ® general sales tax declfiredi^ .... . ’ 1 aldermanic field there Democratic leadership. It consisted of the Dill railway la- “hardly an issue at all’ bardment of oratory -during a bom-i and ' through to enactment even over the i decision of President Roosevelt to let'®®*'*' , , are There are fourteen candidates in the'several new faces, .\ldermen Pet B. argument!f®*" "'^y®*' twelve fori Adair, \^LJ. Duncan. W. J. Henry, F. bor di.sputes adiustment aoT nlivhril that lasted nearly six-sweltering hours of the candidates ar^^ fiol^nd and Roy Holtzclaw are -- - ‘ * P - 'and reached a maximum of 500 per-]®®" the political field and some oTHeeking re-election, .Mr. .Adair being I them are experienced campaigners, unopposed in ward two. Others in the IThe campaign .has been unusually 1 race be.side.s the incumbents are N, W. , The me.;-u;eTay';r.h7h;rrt „f-,he "'->;‘P "nrev.'ot ytrT' fe'd'-t'’J ’ l'"' I ^^Hian,e„,ary,^^.^_cr^ Th. eUy eleetL tahettf at the! r A r i' X™, “lie I’"'*" Clinton Cotton I The manaaera of the election for the in.ffg th.eatened to kee^ conKteas tn '“lJ"'; j o. Sheppard and H. "i" ■“ ‘h' band: two votin* precincts have been ap- stand on the mill property. All city pointed by the city executive commit- voters residing in vfards five and six'tee. They are: it go over to the next congress. ' for the gover- 1 u u.,..- session for days longer. and has been ^ ^ u • « .i- - Kemper Cooke, the “backwocKls states-, The finish L -^‘‘nator Hastings, Republican, of Your guess is as good as ours; the race is a clo.se one run fairly and squarely by both contestants and management. The finish'/^"aior nasungs, Kepuniican, senator from Hopry, made''’®'®*® residing in vfards five and six tee. They are: ('ity box: John D. Da is only a couple of days away and we expect the final spurt to be as clean only references to the sta^te liquor i i'tone, J. J. Cornwell, W. as the whole race has been from the start. We have been more than pleased man talking match against the bill,' issue which comes up in a with the high type of people entered in this campaign and with the Eood rcTeiendum' w'iih"th7 pi'im'ary' Auiuat -30 p. thi, change being made aportsmanrhip shown. . - ’ .„d decided to wa.t him out he -**sheppard spoke out tor “a sens abandoned' his tactics. At 10 o’clock Saturday night thelthe proper use, can mean success to great circulation building campaign of any cahdidate and success in this case The ('linton Chronicle will come to an means $500.00 in cash. A lot can he end, and as soon as the final tabula- done in thirty-six hours and surely tion is made of the return.^ Monday now is the time to make the best use morning, the piizt\^ will be presented of every hour and minute of that time, to the contestants who have paitici- A few 5-year subscriptions secured or pated in the campaign by soliciting lost could mean the winning or losing -of hundreds of dotlars; nso' again"“we box has every candidate to make every minute count anil by wet-dry”f’®**® ®"^* «ToseI I‘. Burdette, clerk. Clinton .Mill box: * at 5:30 p. m., this change being made D. K. Bobo, F. C. Pinson, J. H. Whit- "Iiy the executive committee from the mire, S. W. Sumerel.. clerk. dble previous voting hours of 8 a. m. to p. m. Tickets in each ward will ^contain the names of the candidates for alder man in that particular ward and the names of the candidates for mayor. A so A secret and sealed ballot been placed in the newspaper office niake every and the candidates will deposit their have no regrets. After 10 p. m. last report and re.serve votes in it ‘Saturday, it will lie too late tp take Saturday. .\t 10 p. m. the box will be t>PPortunity, the time with the assistance now. s lacucs. system of liquor control and taxation With that measure out of the way, and Cooke declared “as a Democrat, 1 the end eame quickly through adoption stand for local option.”' of a conlerence report on the adminis-l .Attention centered from the begiii- tratioM ^housing bill, last remaining ning of the race between a governor item ()n|the Roosevelt program, and in (,f •_>(( years ago seeking election again.i house acceptance of senate amend- the son of an ex-governor who op- nominate a candidate for menu U the rail bilL ttostTl him. tw-O-OolorfuT slicenr(CTbi^~*^^he tkff+eos, ami tn caae-anna- the mayor of •*‘’''‘^y secured, a second luimary will be held one week hence. majority of the votes cast will be nec- 'Kii victorious ——ptTsod him, day also saw the indetienilents the lieutenant 4 The complete list of candidates, both , for mayor and aldi-rman, as qualified with the secretary, follows: j For .Mayor Silas Bailey. W. \i McMillan. I For .-Vlderman ^Ward Dne—W, .1. Heni y, N. .,W Daniel. Mc- governor, in an, e ‘ffort to gel seivite the state, capital, and a private-xiti/ erehce report of the who ended his speech, “rm offer! r/.en ng -Want 'T-wti po.scd). Ward Three Chief interest is centered in the Jacobs. mayor’'s race for which seat there are Ward Four two aspirants, both for the short and Townsend, Jr. terms. H. Y. Abrams, named' Ward Five- W opened and judge of the campaign manager, will make the final tabulation of votes. ^The ('Umax Saturday Eight weeks of hard work and anx iety culminates in the closing scene Saturday, June 23, 10 p. m., at which time the big subscription contest will come to an official close and the most succes.sful candidates will claim the magnificent jirizes- headed by $500.00 m cash as first prize. adoption of a conference repoi Frazier bill, giving bankrupt farmers foi- re-election as gxiveinor.” a virtual six-year nioratorium on theiri Olin D. Johnston, of Spartanburg, . debts. who said he was asking "re-election”[ ** - I. , • . r ,u • * 4 I *i ‘/ 1 on his l'>3() platform did not amplify “way Smith. Perry L. Wilburn, lo the friends of the different can-t A wrangle over this^measure, and a P'a”< ini. •’ ^ months ago and the office didates, we wish once more to remind fiiiimster for it by Eonk of Louisiana, statement but adheienU ook Uing held by Alderman K you that you can pay your subscrip- were important contributing causes of with a clap of applause a.s refer,•ing r i g mm i y .Aim, man r tion Or renewal at this office and have the abandonment of carefully" made claims he was deiuived of the e ec-i . Duncan, J. F. .M. Boland, F. •V B. .1. L, .Mathes, J. J, IS .M. Bo- Ward .'Nix Holtzclaw. I. W. Hedspelh, Ko'y the votes go td any one that you favor plans to end the .se.ssion on Saturday lo win and want to help, but remem-^ night. her, this must be done before 10 p. m. Saturday night to secure votes for your favorite. Your subscription riiight be the one to put that favorite one over the top, soulo it now. tion four years ('harleston. ago by activities in Cows From West Union Services In addition, action was completed „ . m . Representative Wyndham M. Manning during the day on the vital second th*- .‘ . p i ... . liii . . . tu do J*' Sumter, son of former tiovernoi K.i^ w.rrainK up to the eiemeney issue,' Comlng To State'' , ^ Azc Arranged ficiency bill, carrying more than $2,- ■Ull»,uou,(MK) in appiopriations largely ^ governor's par.loning power) for relief expenditures. restricted" to remedy a situation' I. .Manning, advocated outspokenly. dlliiUllll Beef I'attle W ill Be Fal* Schedule (liven For July and Are y<*u going to be one to finish _ tl lumphantly with an overwhelming^ LAlirOllS OllCrS number of votes or are you going to^ be conten.t with what you now have and see ^he t^ff^rts. of these many' Weary weeks go'to wa.sle and the re wards of the contest wrested from . a »• tv • /v i/ your gra.>^p by more enlerpri.sing cam- ffrcss Against McSwain. K. jiaigners'l It is up lo you now or let WriKht For Education Post. your opponents beat you to it. iSuccev.-i in an affain of this kinil Laurens, .Iiine 10. I-aurens will be depends upon keen judgment anil ini- icpiesented in two important iiriiiiary enactet iened and Carolina. Canned In South Sullivan Enters Race For Con- r, a The slow progress of the <:onferees under which a governor “may throw] on the housing bill, who met through-the senUnce of the couvt.s andi 1* 1 * the day, gave indejiendenu their himself up as a little tin god.” Millm 1 WO V^d-nciiclsitcs “l‘l*‘>rtunity to force through the rail- j^m B. Pearce of (’oluiiibia, former^ . — , way bill. They ipiickly grasped the op- .^j.nator and power rate ipvestigation portunity. chairman, promised that “if I’m elect- Karly in the day' they-liegan with there will not be any pardon rack- an announcement by Wheeler, Demo- ^.t in the state either by individuals crat. of Montana, that he and others „!• gr(»ui»s who will come to you and would filibuster against adjournment ^ell you they can get a pardon from unless and untirthe railway bill! was jr,)vei nor.” I Cook, whose fiery assertions led to protested vigorously. He an unsuccessful attempt to expel him for the bill but haiLbeen from the senate, said “when you see a AuKUst In City Churches With Local Pastors Speakintr- u’diate action. Throuj^hout ail his- (;ampaigns this summer, with James Robinson ory people i>ossessing llW faculty of H. .Sullivan in the race for congress in .said he was lor the hill but had^been knowing a gmxl thing when they see the fourth district and C. K. Wright informed that the opposition to it wholesale exercise of the pardoning it and gra.siiing it at the right-time (»fferij;ig for state superintendent of would cause an extensive prolongation power, there is ‘something rotten in ha\e won the goixl things of the education. - of the .session. Then he brought Presi- Denmark,” anil .Mayor L. B. Owens of world, frequently on the last turn of tive canvass of the di.strict which em* dent Roosevelt into the situation. Columbia, assured his hearers he the cards, while those undecided, aial tive canvass of the district which em- “The president thinks, and 1 think,”| (Continued on hack page) afraid, stand hack and talk about braces the counties of I>auiens, Green- he said, “that if the measure is to he what they m?ght have* done. ville, .SjiartarUjuig and'Union, with a taken up and indefinitely discussed it The end is but a few hours away, combined voting strength of some- had better go over until the next ses- yel if you can trust your own judg- thing like 60,U(K). He is no stranger in sion. It is not of emergency nature, ment as to youj: competitor’s .strength political and legal circles of th^ state.| Wheeler and other indepeildenTsle- hased on fact.s and observation and lay For five years he was county-Kuperin-^plJed with their threat that “unless your plans accordingly, there is time i»*ndent of education, six years a mem- we do get a chance to vote on it, 1 and ^ Laurens, June 19.—tJ. Frank Little, yet to stem the tide of defeat and turn her of the house of repre.sentative.s, a nunYber of other senators will do (>2, well-known Lauren.s citizen, died it to sweeping victory. several years a'member of the state oqr best to keep the congress from today at his'hoine near the city after do The services will pastors filling (hi merits as adopted by ‘erial union. The -i-i iiier follows: July I Death Claims _ G. Frank Little a week’s illn^>ss fiom pneumonia. He was a successful farmer and highly member of The insurgents were not to be esteemed citizen. He was a son of the ay particular stress on the the board of trustees of the Univer.sity thwarteiL. Dill qUickly moved that the late Geoige F., and .Mu'rgaret Wright of looking the situation of .South Carolina, his alma mater, and'bill be rhade the senate’s unfinished Little. In li>17 he married Miss Mable Better Safe Than Sorry Dmociatic executive committee, and adjourning until such time as we This paper has urged candidates to four years ago he made the race for get an opportunity for a vote.” do their best right along, but now it attorney general. He is a wishes to 1 necessity of looking >17 he married straight in the face and .seeing where is at present vice-president of the husines.s and Hastinj^s just as quickly, Blume, of .Netyke*, x^ho survives him, it will be necessary to put forth su- state bar association from this judi- began his filibuster, carrying out a together with two (leorge and preme effort if you would be the win- cial circuit. previous warning that jie' was pre- Henry Little. He is also survived by ner of the grand capital prize. ^Mr. Sullivan was admitted to the jiared to speak indefinitely. jone .sisTer, Mrs. J. Calvin Philpot, Co- Don’t flatter your.self that you al- bar to practice law in 1910, and has I^ter, he relented and permitted a lumbia, and a brother, Fred W. IJitle, ready have enougK To win, for you ajipeared in many important criminal vote on the -Dill motion which-start- Ijiurens. haven’t. Don’t take a single chance and civil cases, in addition to having led galleries by producing a 76 to 2 Funeuel rites were held at the home cn losing the prize you most desire, served as special judge on different vote in favor of consideration and Wednesday afternoon-al.._4^)’^ock. It would be wetter to win Ky a million occasions. He ift^ an effective public found the independents and the lead- conducted Ly his pastor, the Rev". E; votes than fall .short by a few hun- speaker and is in frequent demand for ei.ship finally voting together. D. Patton of the Presbyterian church, died thousand representing a mere addre.«ses at church, .school, old sol- After a brief discussion of the and the Rev. W. D. Spinx, of the Bap- Columbia, June lO.^The cows, Mal- annoiinced today, are QMiing. The state relief administrator said, tie was notified from Washington that t*"*ning-sej vicc.s 50,000 l)ead of beef cattle from ilrought breas of the .Midillewest will bi‘ hipped to .South ('aroliria during the next two weeks. .Miller coiiimented that a decision of the iiatioiiul ailiiiini.st rulioii against 'ending dairy cattle to the stale was "mosL wise, as we would [irefcr to buy chuich, Di daily cattle wilhin the state to supply July H those |»ersi)ns we ate rehaliilitating on ( hami>eis, fauns.” ^July !.*> The administrator said the la-ef cat- S. P. Bow! tie will 1)1* |iut to pasture in South .July 22 (’arolina. He outlined plans a.s follows: “Our representatives and represen- tativves of the (’lemson colIe.ge ex- 1>r tehsibn serviiH-r^wlTT'rnvt*stigate avail able pasture facilities. "The beef will t>e canned this fall in our canneries pver the state and the product will be made available to per sons on the relief roll. Any surplus will be .sold to the federal surplus food corporation. "In the event that adequate pastlures are without the neces.saiy fencing, we will buy wire, erect the fences, and de duct the cost from the rental. "The cattle will be shipped to us in consignirmnts of 1(),(HK) a week, l»e- ginning within-^'''^>j)roxiniately two Following a custom of long stand- Tng, the churches of the city will unite during July and .August in Siindav # rotate with the ri'pective engage- the local .Minis- 'chedule for the .sum- Broad .'stiei'i .Methodist. . 1 >. .1. Woods, speaker. A. K. P. chuich, Rev. H. O. speaker. hirst PiaiitisUcluiridJ, Rev. es, speaker. ' - •Si. John’' I.utheran church. Rev. ('. B. Belts, speaker. luly 21» First Presibyterian church. . I.. R. l-ynn, sju-akei, ___ _ .. -August .» Broad .Street ..Methodi.st church, Rex.—Ijidwaid Lung, >peaker. August 12 -l.Fu>.t B,ap.tisi church. Rev. (’. H. Betts, speaker. -Augu'si IP rhoiriwell .Memorial church, song st-rvice. .Augii.st 26 hirst Pre.sbyterian church. Rev. .M. R. Wingard, speaker. Dr. Ellis Fuller To Holy Land They will be (listrilmteil lo all parts of the .state where pastures are suit able, he added, and will be grazed there through the summer. Friends Fuller, a in the city giaduate of handful of long-term subscriptions. Over-confidence has lost many bat tles. Relaxation at this .stage of the game js suicide to success. Determi nation to win, coupled with relentles.s activity in vote getting could make any candidate a winner. Thei^e is no time to hesitate. What is to be done is to be done now. To temporize is to let some competitor sweep ahead and win the prize that might Ijc yours. 10 P. M. Sharp Each candidate mu.st have her final diers and other gatherings. 12,000 Mdi^e Autos Operate In State Twelve thou- measure by Dill and others of his as- tist church! Interment sociates, Hasting-s-again took the floor Lauren.s cemetery. to resume his filibuster, reading re- - -r-- ports, pamphlets, and transcripts of ciimmitee hearings. But, the party leader-ship had patch ed up its row with the Tn.surgents and followed in the VOTING I»RE(’IN(T AT SHADY GROVE High Degree To College Alumnus of Dr. Elli.s Pre.sbytdrian cidif.ge and now pastor of the First Baptist chinch of .Atlanta, will be ih- teicsted to kriiAv, that he sailed Mon day fMuii New A ork on a three months study and travel trip, returning on j .August 21th. While away Dr. Fuller will vi.sit Paris, Italy, Egypt, Jerusalem, Pales tine, the Holy l-and,..Switzerland, Ger- I ? The many. The Hague, Holland, I.ondon, Rev. Carl W. .McMurray, a Engfand, Southampton, and manv oth- For th.. firM lime Shady Grove hae of I'reahyterian eollege and e, |.oinI, of interest; The tri,, is'heing anntiunoed it was waiting only for an been designated by the eounty execO- Golumh.a Theologual sen,,nary, las conducted by The Brownwell Tours. ^ ... (,a<i the degree of doctor of the olde.st private tours in .America, Columbia, June 16.— sand more automobiles are in oper- opportunity to break the filibuster.. ti\e committee as a voting precinct in . i . „ k-.w, kw rka, i«v7 hcjj ation in .South Carolina now than at Realizing the impossibility of his this summer’s primaries. Books for philosophy conferied upon him y ‘ • the corresponding period of the Ust jone Dask, he, too, ca automobile llc^se year. . with this key log out of the way. highway department reported broke and adjournment tonightJ'ShatTy Grove school district eligible The sibility of his this summer’s primaries, nooks lor • • •’ .pitulate,!. an,I enrollment a,e now open at the home t htversity of M.nhurgh.In S«,tU ,f the way, the l,f Fed,.lohnson. with alTvoters in the l'•»‘ J-Y*. certainty. report in the ballot box by 10 p. m. today the current regi.«tiation of cars (^^^ame, forfhe first time. One minute after 10 p. m] will be too totalled approximately 150,000 as late.’ Reserve votes, subscription re- against the comparative figure of ports and collections niust be in by around 138,000 for the last tag "year, that time. At the same time, truck registration All vote ballots that candidates are increa.«ed from 18,304 to 20,640, and holding in reserve must be in the box niotorcycles from 401 to 413. "at 10 o’clock. The final counting will — definite and urged to enroll e ‘committee in charge. at once by the be done in the office of The Chronicle. There the*ballot box will be opened by the judges and campaign manager and the final standing arrived at.’ Details of final closing particulars of the contest appear on another page Summer Holidays Moved Up Day The half-day summer holidays pro of this issue and the cafldjdates- are viously arranged for Clinton business advised to read them carefully and concerns for Thursday, were moved up follow them to the letter, as no candi- to Wednesday last week. Yesterday date will be excused for not knowing afternoon was observed as the first just what- tQ do. J Wednesday holiday and this arrange- Ftnal Advk^e and Appeal [ment will continued through they The next tb:rty-di* hours, if put to months of June, July and August. NEW SERIAI. STORY BEGINNING TODAY 1 h^TRAIL’S END” By Agnes Louise Provost J, » Aff appealing, drarfiattc Jrroyel of love and hale. Don’t ^ mi.s.s'The opening chapter. i . > Read 'the .story each week in— _ THE CHRONICLE ^7 .“The Paper Everybody Reads »t Scotland, ur- ha.s been engaged in special re search work under the supervision of the Univer.sity of Edinburgh and the .American School of .Archaeology in Jeiu.salem. He has been making a Vacation at the Thornwell orphan- study of the hi.story and religion of age has begun with about half of the the Old Testament in the light of ar- children away fori«a month’s visit to Vacation. . Begin8 ■. At Orphanage chaeological data.. Summer School . Opened Monday relatives in variou.s parts of this state, Georgia and Florida. I’pon their re turn the second .sections will be away fioni the campus for a similar period. For the children who have no horfies to visit, “Riverside,” on the banks of Knoree river, has been (Eqiened, with .Miss .Mae Wi.ite, matron of the kiteh- .A summer school for high school pupils with delinquent sludje.s opened cn department, in charge. She is as- .Mondaxjnorning and wiircontinue fdr siste~d hy Misses Gene .McKee and a period'of six weeks. (Ja.sses are be- Mary Belcher .as councilo'r.s. Both of ing held'Taily in the high achool build- the cottages have been made comfort ing. Teachers in charge of the achool able in every re.spect for the summer^ are: W. R. Anderson, Jr., Miss IJdie with a large group of boys‘and girls Davis and Miss Rachael O’Daniel. already there for a vacation outing. \- r T X .9*