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.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
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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
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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,
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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
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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~
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