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% A \ 1 ■I i V' ,-J^ If. You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don’t Get The News. THE CHRONICLE StVives To Be a Clean Ncwi ” paper. Complete, Newaj, and Reliable. ’‘“U .VOLUME XXXIV CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1934' NUMBER 27 MAIN POINTS explained IN BANKHEAD COTTON MEASURE Collector Cooper Indicates Salient Pijovisions of Act. Time For Applying For Exemption Tags Extended To August 1. Ginners Must Make Monthly Returns On Ginning Operations. CROSS-FIRE AT ST. GEORGE Columbia, July 2.—Robert M. Coop- house and to each such bale must be attached a lien card, er, collector of internal revenue, yes terday poiatedout several salient fea- time of ginning and tures of th« B*nkhentt cotton. controL , of tax due. The lien card will caiTyniT showing the anvount Under the act the ^internal revenue statement that the cotton is subject) to a lien in favor of the United Statesi June 1, 1934. “Every ginner must keep an accu- — nn/. done a fme not exceeding $1,000 or six I Candidates Talk Economy and Inject Personalities. Johnson Likened To Fox Ahead of Pack In H is Speech. St. George, July 2.—Swinging tow- iard the tidewater section. South Caro- jlina’s candidates for'stale office talk- red econo^ today as they pu.-hed into I the^hird wt*ek of their camp^ign amid / \ collector’s office will handle the tag , , . , ,, , ging of cotton harvested and ginned O'* payable. | aftef June 1, 1934, while county agents' P*’,''*"" transports (except will be in charge of the tagging of storage), sells, pur-' cotton harvested and ginned prior to or opens such a bale of cotton, before a bale tag is issued junder the act and is attached theretd, is liable} rate daily record of all ginning done a fme not exceedi after June 1,” Collector Coope.r said, "'^"ths imprisonment or both. ^‘When one or more gin plants are op- Each ginner in order to operate his erated a separate record must_be kept^ plant must procure'bale tags* and cer- for each plant, the r<?cord showing the tificates .of tagging, but m order to do name and address of the owner of the this he must give bond to the collec- cotton ginned, the date ginned and the tor. The bond shall be executed by the} net weight of each bale.” | ginner and at least two individual | Time for making applications for sureties or one corporate surety which I exemption tags under the Bankhead must be approved by the collector. In measure has been ext^ehded from July lieu of the surety bond, which will] 1 to .\ugust 1, Mr. Cooper was noti- * range from $500 to SUj.OOO depending fied yesterday. <'ri the average yearly amount..vif gin- As of the last day of each calendar ning handled by the ginner, the ginner month as of May 31, 1934,'a return niay defiosit with the collector .United shall be pi epared by each ginner show- States bonds oi- ollnn bond.s or notes ing the number of bales and pounds of of the I nitetl States, cotton ginned by him iluring such cal- In addition to domestic cotton, all endar month and the amount of such i^npo.i tetl cotton must be tagged be-1 cotton which was returned to the pro-|fore it is released from customs cus- ducers to be stored by them as well as tody or control, .Mr. Cooper said, the cotton ginned from a crop har-| Cotton mills or others who have oc- vested before June 1, 1934, and gin-,casion to break hales of lint cotton red from cotton which is exempt from must file with the collector a nTolithly the tax—a complete report account for information return showing tlw num- bale tags i.ssued as well as an account her of bale.s of cotton broken or dis-| enwwwwk n' u 4 v< i> i \i . * of all certificate.s of tagging issued by posed of during the iieriod covered by Farm .Moratorium .Measure and ol'nL'Bio io ne hpeni ror Kiirai .Tiowain, X- Tillers Given ,) SI,337,200 Sent Plan Campaign Great Relief State For Relief In 4th District , a cross-fire of personali es. j Representative VV, .M. .Manning, of I Sumter, said “you want a business-like 1 carrying out of your affairs of state’’ j but added that financial ailjw.stments should Be made along temperate and I humane lines. j “.\11 thc.se good brethren tell you ' about economy,” Lieut. (lov. James jo. Sheppard said. “I’m the man w’ho I hel|>ed you get a ^39 per cent or ap proximately a $3,000.1)00 saving.” Citing the record of recent legisla tures in which he, .Manning, and two ' senator-candjidates served, Sheppard t asserted, “if our financial condition I continues to improve I think the state can adopt an old age pension law.” j Cole' L. Hiease. of * (bdumbia, gov- '•ernor in 1911-11, declared “I’ll put South ('arojiruij on a I’a-h ba-iis again .or/ wear'' the legislature diit passing [ bills over my veto.” In commenting on the ta'e deficit. I Senatoi’ K. ( ooke, .iif Horry, charg(‘d that “these bii-ine^- !nt*n run ning for governor made 'h;w. deficit." Il|s statement wa- ’aken 'o refer to Tom B. IVaree, (’(dunOua. “Ini i- ness man” candidate and former leg islator. d'earci' also came tiniler five from .Manning during a discussion of Icounty canneries, which at least half the ginner covered by the return. the return. “The tax,” ('ollector Cooper said. Payment of the tax may be made by shall he due and payable to the col-' uncertified check if it isj eollectilile at Fruzier-Lemkt’ IIilI Art* Sig:ned Hv Roosevelt. lector at the time fixed for the re- I>ar and not sabject to any bank fee for handling, i turn. If the prwlueer, he said, does not; Failure to pay the tax when due will want to pay the tax, he has the ^lter-‘^ cause interest to accrue at one per native of taking the ginned cotton^ cent per month and a penalty of 25 home to be stored there or in a ware-lper cent, Mr. Cooper .said. Washington,- June 30. — Pijt-sident Roosevelt today ended speculation over Rehahilitatiun, $120,000 Ftfh W ill Tour This Goiinty Third (’attle, $25,000 For Transients. Week In July. ('olumbia, June 29,—The state re-, lief administrator was informed today the fate of the Frazier-Lemke with the farm D'om Washington that another $l,337,i announce^ had been granted to help the needy Candidates for congress from the Fourth Congressional district at a meting hebl a schedule State Financial Status Healthier 0\er Twenly-two Million Is Col lected In Indirect Taxes Dur ing: F^ighteen .Months. Johnson Retires, As Mail Carrier moiatorium bill ment that he had signed the measuie. in one way or another in thi.s slate. One of the broadest acts yet passed -The money-was granted under ap- for the lelief of any clas.s of debtors; pjieations made .May 29 and June 22 the bill would allow deft burdened farmers a five-year moratorium if they tory. are unable to arrangement with Gray Court Man i^tayted In I’pst - ors al Service As Letter'Carrier . ojk ' A Be delayed making his action Over .to Years Ako. h,. his ,..as„n» for signing it. Laurens, June 27.- With a record of He said the legislation was in some 32 years in the postal service, Jasper respects loosely worded and would re- E. Johnson of Gray Court, is the lat-/iy’*‘* amendment at the next session *est recruit to th^ ranks of the,retired (’olumbia, July 2.—A state tax com mission report showed today that South ( arolina collected $22,115,931 in indirect taxes during its IH-month fis- ’ ^ . - ■ CHl year .lurjna Junv 30. '‘-"t '--cruit K, th/- rank, of the.rctiro.l ■«S-,.v,.,th\.|o„." Iht- rhi..f ..x.vulivo _ Reflecting .the imiirovement in the list of Teamens county rur»F letter eonctuded.v'tTvrreaTfonsTfm^^ states financial condition, the state- carriers. far outweigh tht* arguments on the ment disclosed that revenue fiom in- -vf.. i u other side” direct levies amounted to nearly a ; , i , , i “There has been a seriou.s lack of third more during the same period of ‘Bstinction enjoyed by only a few provision.s,” .Mr 1933. er.s in the state. From June 2, 1902, to by Governor Blackwood. Harry L. reach a satisfac- Hopkins, national relief administra- their credit- tor, in in a telegram to .Malcolm J. i.Miller, state administrator, explained that it included; Eight hundred' and eighty *h'»u- sand dollars for general, relief; (.00 for drought relief and storm re lief, $35,(100 for transient lelief; $2,LM)0 for lelief research project; $1(10,000 for rural rehaliilitation, and $12(1,()()() for cattle from diought area. . Foster and Sullivan Of the candidates advocate. “Why was it,” .Manning asked, “that when I’earee was head of the 1*WA- in South Carolina for ,many months he did not V^chh^-iics*.*” Pearce in his address ^aid he bad , . , ,, secured millions of dollars for South last week in (ireenville, . u • ^ i.n. v- , . . 1 > —. aroUna a.s chairman . of its P\V ,V arranged a schedule of meetings dur-l r i .L r , board, had paveil the wav for extensive mg the summer for the four countie8i„.,„. • , . . electric rate reductions while chairman comprising the district. - , ,• , , ' • of a power rate^nvestigating board. The candidates are John McSwain.l and favored deveh^iment of natural of Cireenvifle, incumbent;' Miller C.! ig.sources by the state. Foster of Greenville, and Jamea H.| Likening himself to a fox far ahead Sullivan of Uuren^ lof a barking pack, Oljn D. Johnston, The schedule agreed upon provides Spartanburg, runnei-ilp in the 1930 for speaking dates as follows: election, cited his juiblic record and Union county, July 9 through July urged countywide consolidation of ischoiil bus lines for economy. They Laurens county, July 1(5 through overlap in jiresent operations by -•lis- $200,- i tricts, he pointed, out. (Ireenvilb eounty, July 30 through' .Senator C. E. Sloanj Greenville. .\iigust 5, 'reiterated his charge-; that .lohnston, Spartanburg county, August (»'Manning and Shepiia-d took “extra through /Xugust 12. I pay” w'hile in the legislature and urge<l Greenville county, week of .August that records of 13-20. Proposes Tablet For Miss Cunningham ."‘’part an burg county, wee ;t ‘20-2(1. A, It of .Aiig- a|| the candidate' be provisions, and it has been alleg-1 Half of the indirect income during March 9, 19*22, he served a.s Kiral car-jed that insurance companies and oth- Among a group of the past IH monti.s consisted of re- at Lanford from the first mortgagees will suffer severely >0 congress on .lune turnsjrom the state gasoline tax, $10,- .September 1, 1907, when he through the i.s^tie of this law by farm- <’ongressman John 3(14,5<0 in all, which went for toads transferred to. Gray Court. In re-.*^*^ evade the payment of debts and load bond retirement. verse order he covered practically the within their capacity to meet. The temainder was placed in the ^g^tte territory he had served on hi.s generalTund and helped tide the .state o.iginal assignment. On March 9, 192*2, through the extra-long fiscal period k,.. -.a r; .-stv nf fh.. mu u.ritv; ,,f South CarolinH. wh to get on ‘’a ba.'is wiht its financial year beginning July 1 instead of .January 1. Laigest item other than the gas taje con.‘;i»ted of $$2,550JJ97 in income r or- bills introiiueed 15 was one by I. .MeSwain for a tablet to lie erected at .Mount Vernon, the ojd Washington honie at Arling- “1 do not s.ubscribe to the.se fears. in memory of Ann Pamela ('un- ^ “I have,.sufficient faith in the hon- iifigham, of Hosemont, Laurens county, extia-long fiscal peiiod was appointed postmast(*r at Gray csty of the overwhelming niajoi’ily of South ( aiolina, \^ho^«* seivita*.'- in new and more economic still retaining his civil service farmers to helieve that they will not Kanizing the .Mount Vernon .Meiiibna status, and held this position until wade the iiayment of just debts.” June 1, thi.s year. Allen Wallace, who He added that “epntiary to the be- had served as clerk in the office for lief of many uninformed persons this .some time., was appointed by-the de- noP a general or whole-ale nuua- partment as acting postmosteiv suc% toriuni [ii ivilege.” ceeding Mr. Johnson. j IBe hill, first advanced by Kepre- The retiring carrier-postmaster also renjative .McKeown (Denioci at) of has an enviable record as a member Oklahoma, woubl enalile fanners who and official in the postal employes’ Oy to reach a debt settlement through organization. He served as pre.sident county conciliation coipniissions to ask ourt Clerk Viles Annual Report ( “searcheil.” .Mayor L. B. ()\\«-ns. (oHrmbia, .scored u political sy-tem under which he said most offiet holdc!s represent business interests rather than the peo ple and “the people are not much more than slaves, peons and serfs.” .4pprO|Xiniately 590 Oorehester coun ty citizens heard the eight aspirants to the goverhorshift and- 13 ean<lidates for other state offiee*; with M. .“s. ('on- pre<er\a- taxes, with revenue of ^,4(i3,Ki0 in business license iTTVles on tobacco and similar goods and $2,245,759 in corp oration license fees ranking next ijn order. Other .sources of revenue and thelf retuin.s for the period included: (’orp- oration license fee for state school aid (new), $848,700; inheritance tax, $184,517; soft drink tax, $1,190,897; admissions tax, $3(51,059; electric pow- gj. of the iJiurens Gounty Letter ('ar<jers’ federal courts that they be adjudged aBi^ociation for several terms, was hankrufit. The conciliation eommis- treasurer two years (19070908^ of sions were authorized during the Hoo- association resulted in Th< lion on W'a-'hinglon’s home. - Section 2 of the bill also iiKovides for the erection of ii suitablk- monu ment or memorial to .Miss f'uninjllutuT upon the highway, leading fmm Lau rens to Waterloo at a point ncaifst to R >s( niont, the aiicostial hoiiu* of the C'uningham fainily, wlicre .\nn I’ainela Cuningham “wa.- born, reared, lived and The bill .«2,000 for abored.” carries an ajiiiropriation of each lablet and was n the state association, and its president ver administration but advocates of For five years, 1917-‘22, he tax, $1,466,533; retail stores tax, m'eihber of the executive "com- $176,172; beer and wine tax, $362,041; ji^j^gg of ^he national association, be^r and wine permite, $25,664. Since becoming postmaster he had CpUections for the first six months -^gg^ ^ niember of the Postmasters’ of, 1934 amounted to $9,070,281 com- National Service association, pared with $6,695,052 for the first „ n ck f I half of’lOBS the report contlnt^ctL Total income from indirect taxes Johnson family he moved to Un last month came to $1,265,9§< where it had stood at $1,130,006 for June a farm helped debt relief claimed the jiroducers -very additional they had little. .After the farmer begins bankrujitcy proceedings the court is to appoint ap praisers to arrive at the “fair_ value” red to the military affairs committee to be reported out at the next session of congress. New Labor Board Gets Under Way i Mr. Johnson is a native of Dale, of his laml and chattels if liens are Gatawba county. North Carolina. With held iigainst them If that appraisal is satisfactory to^ Washington, June 30. — I’resident ford, Laurens county, in 1889. He mar- the lien holders the farmers may pay Roosevelt today established on what ried Miss Lula MoCravy of Laurens, off the indebtedn«\ f'--.: a .six-year lie called a “firm statutory basis” a year ago. Principal increases recorded 'pj^gy have two sons, Eugehe'^Johnson, period at rates of interest which be- national labor relations boai;d to deal .superintendent of the public schools gin at 1 per cent on the total at Saluda, and Charles Johnson, well- gradually rise to 5 per cent. erk of Court Thos. W. Bennett has completed his annual report for the year ending June 30 and forward-; nor, county <lcmociatic chairman, pre- ed it to .Attorney General John M. siding.' Daniel in ('olumbia. .Mr. Ilennett has Other candidate- appearing were ,j| lieen among the first county clerks to John Hughes Cooper, Columbia; .los- file their annual jeports sinee he went eph R. Bryson, Greenville; J. E. Har- into office and this year will he no ex- ley, Barnwell; and Freil I). West. .Ah- eeption. «■ ,.beville, fot*lieutenant governor; James His lejiort shows 77 «‘riini'nal eases,C. Dozier and T. -B. .Mar-,ha!l, Coluin- (li.NpK-t'd of during the y«*ar, eoinpared' hia, for adjutant genc-tal; .lohn “M. with 7!)' eask'S' last year and 57 Ihe Danii'l and ('ordie P:ige, ( olumbia. for year pri'vioiis. ()f the total of 77 cask's attornk'y gk'neral; ( . K. Wright. Lau- iriekl, (19 resiiLtk'kl in eonvictikkus ankl. ik'ns, ankl .lanu's H, Hope, and Jkthn J- s in aciiuitals. Casi>S' involving vikila^ Mc.Mahani Columina, f«»r superintend- :ion of thk' prohibition laws lk*kl thk> k'lit kif educatioiT; ami .1. Kk>y .Ikuies anil li.'t with 21 klefendants. Hkiu.se-break- .1. W. .Shealy, k)f ICchland county, for ami larck'ny cases came next with conimissikink'r k»f agriculture. _ fg,. r<l eask's. Thk'ik* wk*ie five cases of, . —: — , murder, resulting in four ckinvictions and k)ne uckjuital. * .Segregatikin kif the klefendants by race, age ankl sk'x showed that there were 47 white defendants and 30 col- oi k'd, 75 males ..ankl two females, and the olkle.st klefenklant 75 and the young est 13. Contest On At Goldville Ten Union Service At A. R. P. CKurdi for the month were in the gas taac, /torn $578,391 to $656,498; beer and wine tax from $37,325 to $48,762; in: come tax from $46,709 to $169,073; soft drink tax from $74,706 to $97,473; and business license tax from $129,555 to $145,779. known busniess man of Columbia. VISITING MINISTERS I HERE IN AUGUST Depression Took Heavy Toll Here and Vfith controversies oCef collective bar gaining and other issues between em- Any creditor may block the settle- ployer and employe. • . ment if he desires. But if he does the The board of thre^was set up by next Sunday evening at the Assoc-iate will be. federal court is authorized to give jthe ex^utive order under the industrial Reformed Presbyterian churen at eight (loldville farmers a five-year 'moratorium. Dur- dispute.^ act, which was klollars ha" U‘k n offerekl in prizes by frik'nils \\hk» are inteiestekl in Joanna ('otton .Mills, for the best pafiers presenteil relating to “CJold- ville.” The contest will run for ten con.secutive weeks, it is announced, one dollar being given each week for the prize winning paper to be pub- .-'•iOrshed in The Joanna News and The The usual Sunday evening union ser- Chronicle. * vice of the city churches will be held The topic for the first five weeks Why I Had Rather Live In Than Elsewhere.” The sec- jammed b’clock. The Rev. H. O. Chambers, pas- ond topic will be announced later. not Washington, July '2.—The depres sion struck hard at wholesale trade in itors. ing that time the debtor would keepUhrough congress in the eleventh hour I®*" North Broad Street Metho<list Uut-of-town judges who do his place and pay a “fair rental value” of the session, t'hurch, will be the tfjkeaker, with all know the contestants, will serve for to be determined by the court. ,The To the board the jiresident named denominations in the‘'city invited to the contest, rent would be divided among the cred- Lloyd Garrison of Wisconsin, chair- unite in the service. Henry Alvin Mills of Illinois, ~ “ man, Dr. D. J. Woods, pastor of the First South Carolina, reducing net sales by At the end of the five-year period and Edwin S. Smith of .Massachusetts, f irs the court may make a new appraisal each to receive a salary of $10,000 V^llcalllWd Iva^^lA Presbyterian church, will spend the more than ^ per cent in four years .... month of’August with relatives in his and .«alaries and wages by 41,1 per of the property. The farmer could still annually, home state o{ Virginia. cent, the cen.sus bureau reported today, be relievcki of his debts if the lien hold-j The new board •w'ill be the national For his absence the pulpit commit- The report indicated an upward ers accepted that valuation and it was-head ot all regional b.oaids, in exist- tee has secured the following guest trend in the latter month.s of 1933, paid. OLhei wi.se, foreclosure may l^.^rvce i<)i* to )>e created minister.s: August 5, Dr. L. R. Lynn however, with the number of wage resorted to. - r ~ prohliems arising of this city; August 12, Dr. W, H. earaem on the increase. - r The president said the measure or strike threats, Frazer of Charlotte, N. C.; Angus! The report reveals net sales drop- would stop fdreclosures” and. that thei The general powers were given the usual dinner will Parkiftion, Due-Weal; AttgueV-26,..Dr. John MeSween of this 283,0C0 in 1933; and Next Tuesday, Lynch Offers ^ . For Magistrate •c Walter h'. Lynch, well know-n Mount- out later to meet The July meeting of the Chamber of ville citizen, announces his candidacy of nt»w Strikes Commerce will l»e held next Tuesday in today’s paper for magistrate of evening at the tea room at^7:30. The'Hunter township, at Mountville, in be served, after this summer’s primary. His friends of its use should speed board to hold labor elections, to hear which the business session will be held throughout the township will he inter- salaries from the financing program the farm case# or^ischarge of employ^ and lb ^wIlK aH ^lembeis city. $10,5;;5,000 to, $6,105,000,. credit administration. act as voluntary arbitrator. ent.fJT~ •* i . [race. T VI ...V 'X