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f V. i* % f« .\ ■ rfi --f" ■f: V If Yoa DoflH Read THE CHRONICLE Ym DiMi*t Get Tke Neva. J - / f , THE XBftONlCtB^- Sti^fce To Be a Cleaa Neva* paper, Coaiplete; Nevaj, and RcIiaUa. ’ , VOLUME XXXIV CLtooN, s. e.; 'Thursday,'DECEMBER 6,1934 NUMBER 49 SANTA CUUS ARRIVES TUESDAY; LOVEY UGHTS IN HIS HONOR Santa Says, **Hello Everyb^y! rUL^nve In Clinton'On Tuesday At 6:30” New Deal Chiefs Look To Future Saint Nick To Ber Greeted Here By Thousands* of Visitors Next Tuesday At 6:^0. City Holiday. Lights To Plash On For First Time. Decorattons To Be Beautiful With Sixty Trees On Streets. Everybody Invited For Big Celebration. Santa Claus,, white and bewhiskered and as gay as ever, is speeding toward Clinton from the snowbound regions of the North Pole. He will arrive in orations. To streamers 61 bulbs struivg add to ithe setting, heavily laden electric in festoons of ‘ lights. have be(^n arranged around the monu4 nJ ment. Several lovely trees in the cen Clinton next Tue.sday evening at 6:30 ^j. biisiness section brilliantly o’clock and is expecting the kiddies to complete, the real turn out en masse to meet and wel-, Christmas picture and produce a scene come him. In his honor, the Christmas startling beauty. For the first time i lights will flash on for the first time yc^i* merchants and business 1934 Christmas to inaugurate the shopping eeason. - Santa Claua was recentlyJnMted by houses will have individual Christmas the Merchants Association to return additional trees in front of their places of busi ness adorned witb eolered bulbs to add an additional touch to the winter to Clinton for a visit before Christmas, beauty. The deco- 1.. i.- m... , rations which are being provided this year by the cooperation of the city water and light department and local arrives. His reply to The eaid: "" ^Tleligljited to come to Clinton >, again this' year for a visit. I re-^ member with pleasure" what a good tipe I had in your city last year and the reception Treceived. I will arrive next Tuesday at 6:30 ^ p. m. lx>ve to all the boys and girls who are my friends. (Signed) SANTA CI.AUS. merchants, will be nvuch more beauti ful ami elaborate than ever before. They will be so beautiful that they will take Saint Nick’s-breath awdy. Next Tuesday’s celebration will ush er in the city’s Pre-Chri.stmas Trade Festival which is being sponsormi by Association, ^ City ! the Merchants Association, ^ City of The thrilling news that SantA Claus! Clinton, and Chamber of Commerce Ls to be the city’s guest means that everything is now being put in readi ness for hi:j_ visit. The entire business set forth in an attractive page adver tisement in today’s paper. The gala decoration of the shopping district is section of the ^ity is being decorated! expected to^ bring many people into with thousands of vari-colored Christ mas lights to be flashed on as a part of the exquisite and brilliant atlorn- mcnt plannjd for the city during the holiday season: The big globes on the white'way in the business section will be given a Christmas bint to harmon ize with the color scheme of the dec- the city during the Christmas season Boys and girls throughout this en tire section are invited to l)e present next Tue.sday to give the distin guished visitor from the North Pole a great reception as the lights flash on, and joy and beauty run rampant to inaugurate the Yuletitle Season. Two Enoree Men Are Electrocuted Car Leaves Highway and'Pole Breaks, Bringing Live Wire Into Contact With Machine. Curtailment For Textiles Is Seen -T^iurens, Dec. 1.—A coroner’s jury today found that Wales Hembree, 28, and Paul Spiers, 22,.of Enoree, came to their death last night by electro cution, after their car had skidded from the highway and struck an, elec tric Hne pM% causing it to snap sev eral feet above the ground. In fall- 'ing, a live wire contacted the car and killed the two. , Coioner John A. Thomason conduct- Marchant Says Unsatisfactory Conditions To Bring Cut Un less Improvement Made. Greenville, Dec. 2.—Because of vthe unsatisfa^pry state of the textile in dustry, curtailment is inevitable in the near future unless there is con siderable improvement immediately, according to T. M. Marchant, presi dent of Victor-'Monaghan mills -and head of the print cloth group of cot ton manufacturers. . Increased costs of production; due largely to the processing tax, and the refusal of consumers'^ to pay the ih- Boosevelt Shapes Schemes of I Work Relief To Serve On f*er manent Basis. ROOSEVELT FOR BANKHEAD Aa> ^ Warm Springs, Dec. 2. — Studies \4ihich>soon will project the new deal from the eiiTergency into a permanent phase neared completion todAy..,by President Roosevelt. —Work for those who want to work again dominated week-end meetings, out of which is ^expectetl to be pre- sente<i to congrt-ss a plan providing lU'ofitable relief in place of the dole. Well along in his study, the ^re.si- dont drove his conferees and staff 18 miles along the quiet Sunday luncheon at the lodge of Ca,son Calloway, textile operator and a trustee of the Gerogia founda- i tion. .Mr. Roosevelt and his paTfylset out : iust before noon, returning lata in the Chief Executive Sees Cotton Control As Salvation of South' and Advocates Exemption of Farmers Producing No Moro Than Two Bales. Warm Springs, Dec. 4.—President Roosevelt tonight endorsed the Bank- head cotton control act as the sal vation of the South and announced favor for an exemption of farmers producing no more than two, bales. On the eve of departure ^rom hi.s Southland home for the White Hous^-, Mr. Roosevelt hailed acreage control Georgia roads for a as the means of obtaining parity for jjr I administrator, an<l Mrs. I tI 1 II ctT I r*lid Hopkins; Rexford G, T.igwell, un(b*r-secretary of agriculture; Frank C. Walker, of New York, an intimate friend, and Marvin H....McIntyre, a secretary, com- ■| po.s<>d the party. It was anothei-.example of the way In which the president mixes work and play during his annual visit to this relreat. I,ast night he attended the motion picture show at the com munity playhouse and introduced Walker and W. C. Comerford, of New York, who made possible'the play-, house. the farmers between the price of hi» j)roduct and the goods he buys. He read the following statement in a talk to newspaiH'rmen: “If the Bankhead act is continued in effect for another year, it is my puiqmse to- recommend tro-the congress - an amendment granting an exemption f(*r the full amount of his base pio- ducLion to each^armer who has an es tablished iMtse production of not more than two bales of cotton,” TVk‘ prt‘.suleril cited figures show ing that parity j)rice foi' farmers in 1931 would have biH-n abou*t 13 cents while the actual price wh'J '> and 1-2 cents. Today he said the parity ])rice ' is about 15 cents'while the actual price is about 12 and 1-2 cents. This he regards as ijuite an accompli.sh- ment.' , --'Mr. Roost'vell alst> nssoi'tji.*d that •There is every ex|a‘ctation Secre-j when the i)rit*e wu.s as low as .5 and 1-2 tary Morgenthau and Secretary IckeSjcents exports were ilinunishing. In will apjH'ar Ituuorrow to complete the | other words, bheaj) cotton d(H‘s not two weeks’ study of the reorganized mean increa.se<I eX|)orts an<l therefore lelief i)rogram. ithe reduction of tV' huge .surplus The hcait of the new plan to take men fiom (joles to work relief is the administration’s determination to must he accomplishe<Nty acreage coii- trql. ^ He I'elieyes the existing 1 (l,2''>0,hu(> huiltl—bumes in citi<>s and cpunti-y foribale surplu.C can he cut t(Y-;\7of^.iHK) IhofH* who are unable to obtain private j by August and that within .:^\couple ci^dit. . ' . ,, of years the normal surplus 4tf\ 4,- This offers almost limitless possi bilities, bounded only by the funds available- in the treasury. These funds and opportunities for additional Curb On Cotton Backed In South Wallace' Proposal To Slash 1935 Output Meets WtK Favor of liOaders of Secton. CongreM Faces Many Big Issues funds will be canvassed with Secre tary Morgenthau. On Wwlnesday afternoon, the pres ident will board a special train to re turn to the capital and soon thereaf-. ter he will make a report to the na tion over the radio. Likelihood of Short Session Dis solves Before Growing Num ber of Scheifles Pi|t Forth. Atlanta, Dec. 1.—Viewing With fa-l Washington, Dec. 1.—Predictions of vor a continued program of regula-ia short, swift-moving, session of con- tion for the South’s chief money crop,jgress were voicwl today by returning / u < ” .leaders in the-cotton belt agree in, administration leaders ^ (’npitol Hill, bright, a resident of the communiy? chant issued a statement in behalf of (principle with the proposal of Secret'but, pla'ihly, some fin^rs wert** cross- ed the inquest. Only two witnesses;grease in costs were blamed principal- ware heard. Deputy ' Sheriff J. D- Jy for the “dilemma” the c'otton man- Owens of Watts Mills and a Mr. Full-jufgg^urers are facing now. Mr. Mar- A.,R. P. Churdi Wins In Bible Reading 000,000 bales will be reached. X He warne<l, however, there is no ob-, jective to bring atiout 20 or 25 cents \ cotton. Rather,-he reflated the ob jective was to give parity for the farmers of the South and lie feels if that 1>arity is brought about more will be done for the South than any single thing in the lifetime of the peojile here to'day. __ Washington, De^. 4,—Pre.sident Roosewell’s pronouncement for the Bankheajl cotton hill today apparently assured continuance during 1S>35 of the first compulsory eiop control mea sure. ever passes! by cihigress. •IS a\( Southern prmluce e to vote on In the Bible reading contest being continuance of the act on December conducted monthly in the .Associate, 14 in/which the faUl accident occurred ju|it after 9 o’clock Friday night. Fullbright testifiedrhe had aeen the car racing along the highway, which was wet. following a haavy rain, leave the road and plunge against the pow er post on the left side of the road. > The car after striking the post, ran about 12 feet before being stopped by a sagging wire which had caught a hook at the side of the windshield. the print cloth group stating that, considering these costs, ‘‘it is neces sary for m^lls to take immediate steps to balance their production to com mand, just as winter comes on when workers should be fully employed.” Attacking the processing tax, Mr. Marchant termed it “tnost injurious to the mills, the farmers, the textile workers and the public at large.” He pointed but that with increased costs, Bblh men were fearfully burned. C. B., most of the print cloth mills are now Hembree, a brother of Wales, was | losing from one to three cents a pound Ufry Wallace for a*-reduction 1935. output of the staple. A poll today di.sclosed sentiment among the leaders in sympathy with Wallace’s call for producers to hold the crop to 26 jier cent of tbf 1928- 1932 average, although som^ pointed out it would mean an increase over this year’s output. Under, the government’s control the led as they eyed tb^ possibilities for [1 tj>e long, drawn-out controversies. With the Rooseveirprograim still in the formulatfve stage, it was generaJ- I ij Two-thirds of the cotton giOvv- Refontieir Pix'shyteriari publication ers mu.st? favor another year/of feu^ under tKe Young People C’hristian Un- eral coid^ol or the bill will be .scrap- ion department, the Clinton Associate ped. | N ' Reformed Presbyterian church' is list-; But the presldept’s bjes.sing today od as the winner in OctiHier. The ^ together with the afhjouncement here chureh had a total score of 10,970'by Secretary Wallace Xhat he would program, the 1934 crop was cut by 40^ fattened with such thrown clear of the car and escaped with slight bruises and .cuts. He was cared for at a nearby farm house. FtineVal services.for the ycung men were held Sunday afternoon. Dr. Barksdale To Speak Here on cotton processed. County FERA Wage Schedule C^ven per cent. A definite stand on the proposal of theHecretary of agriculture is expect ed to be taken at__a meeting of the I S. B. Sexton, county relief adminis- jtrator, announces that the lab mittef_appointed recently to fix the j amount of minimum wages to be paid Dr. Irvin Barksdale, health officer! Common labor m town, 12^ cents an hour. Common labor in rural communities. of the city of Greenville, will speak in j Southern Association of Commission ers of Agriculture at New Orleans December 8. Opinion f'avorable to the Wallace plan was expressed by the cotton Xr^de at New Orleans, bujt ppposition com-1 was general to the continuation ofXBe Bankhead act, to be voted on Decem ber 14. Seth P. Storrs, Alabama commis sioner of agriculture, said he was in readings, an active membership of 87, .support aft amendment , exempting ly conceded the predictions of thejwith a per capita of 126.16. The Y. P. |from the meitsure’s provision; farmers leaders were purely speculative andjc. U. won the box of song books for I who grow on .the average les.s than that'the length of the session begin-j the largest per capital reading in the i two bales was (lependfd upon ning in January would depend largely ,synod, and also the collection of »ongia<lmintstratioi;i to make anothe books offered by the Catawba distiict jof comimlsion certain. of South Carolina for the largest to-1 —^: / tal readings overall in the synod. The j |n* i Q. i* Clinton church also won the (RGB) < A* UlAl Columbia state banner held the pastj x ^ • i ejc year by Tirzah and the district ban-1 CftlUS on what legislation was demanded." Already, the legislative program [ssu<‘s as the high school auditorium here on >Ionday evening, Dec. 10th, at 7:30 o’clock. He comes to Ginton upon thej ■ invitation of the city board of health. I Spartan burg came second in the synod with a per. capita reading of 121.07. relief, taxes, public works, subsistence homesteads, other housing programs, the future of 'NRA, and AA,-db‘* bo nus, extension of the Tennessee val-X'cr-held last year by Ora ley experiment to other sections', so cial legislation, such as unemploy ment insurance and old-age pensions, inflation, the '.St, Lawrence water ways treaty, and the evci-present World court controversy. j Despite these potential stumbling j block.s, administration spokesmen; pointed out the overwhelming l)emo-i cratic majorities as a factor should ' make for Forest Comnrission OKs Enoree Land A number of land owners in the which ' Jacks township Section of , ■ , • .u. comparatively, Laurens county are interested in the u full .j™p.thy" with the 26 per cent|,„^,^ ,,|||„ announcement l.»t week from Wa«h- hoWin* the bottom bertha. cut. "Naturally it will increaie acre-.j^j piivateljTthat much conflict andI'lnklon that the NationaJ Forest: Heies how (he eipht state clubs The final standing of South Caro lina 1934 football /teams shows that Clemson college .for lli^ fiist time in four years, wqri tho. state champion ship. Teams/composi'ng the first di-. vision be^l^es Clemson were South Carolina/university and The Citadel. The/second division was composed of iKirman, F’resbyterian and ^Wof ford, with Newberry and Erskino on Dr. Barksdale will speak general he^th conditions of a with a most cbrdiail invitation^xtendr ed the public W hear him. He has been highly 8U< work and this importanf^ueation upon his visit here. It fiT hoped thaf he will be hMrd by a large gelil^Tinf. ... or Aiawma where controversy could arise within their ervation'commission had approve^ Common labor foremen, in town 25^40 I^r cent th.e yea^^^^^^ wide-spread party lines. cente an hour, rural 20 cents an hour.Jton believes the price eSn be maintain- Xl^in^iess in town, 12Mi cents an l ed dfdmprpved with a 25 per ceat re- ruTMt 10 cents an hour; cuttersduction, we are satisfied,” Storrs said. In town 15 cents an-hour; rural 12^4! ‘‘A good move^’in the right direc- iccea^ul -in public health i , | tion,” was the way Governor Ibra C willfisctss many phases of Wages fixed for skilled labor was j Blackwood, of South .Carolina, greet- eastern follows, the pay^being|ed the proposition, ^ ^ G. C. Adams, Georgia commissioner of agriculture, said: ■</{ f $ to announced as by the hour: Carpenters, 30 to 40 cents. / Painters, 30 to 40 cents. Plasterers and brick Ixyers, 40 50 cents. Plumbers, 36 to 60. > Electricians, 30 to 60 cents, Con^te finishers,'30 to 50 cents. ("“General foremen on woric projects,’ 35 to 40 cents. “A reduction of 25 per cent of the 1928-’32 average allows too much •acreage unless we have .some baleage restriction to supplement the acreage restriction. Farmers will spread ferti- llizef on their fields arid hike pro duction without a baleage restriction, soch as the Bankhead bill. For the first time the farmer has sat at the {banquet table in Washington with the ENROLLMENT CLIMBS _ ' Enrolknaat in the Ginton ^public; tariff-protected manufacturers of the aehoob at the eiid of the Ahird month; Eaat, under the new agricultural poll- had raached 1300, a anbetiattiat i]i-l«i«s^ I think the plan to increasa par- ereaae over last year. The total ma triculation ia divided: white, 1,840; colored, 460. PATS FdURTM MVIDEND Laurena, Nov^ 30. — The Peopics- ity payments is a good idea.’ attended college herb Eaterpriae baak, in raeeitirahip ainoe Nevembar, IMt, ytirtierdayv paid its fourth dividend to depoaitora, hring- Dur the tetid to 90 per dint returned eathe A ■ W. C. Kirven, Sumter police officer who recently slew one bandit and woundad another in a gun battla thtre, is a former Presbyterian colkfe eiudent audit plaadantly remeadMred here by a number of friends and ae- Most predictions fora short session;to the national forests of t were,indefinite, but Senator Harrison, of the United, Statei^ chairman of the senate finance com-( mittee, stepped out with a for(EH.‘a.st was 37,718 acres of land in the Enoree for a harmonious .session ending about■^‘^rvation locate in an arleu embrac- May 1 or May 15, jing parts of Laurens, Nerwerry, Un- Representative Byrns, of Tennes-.ion and several other counties. The seel Democratic flpor leader of the amount sel; aside for the Enoree pur- hoose during"the last session and now ch^ was $184319 or an average of an outstanding candidate for speaker, a little less than $5.00 per acre, likewise expressed hope for a short Of three other projects approved in session.. He .pointed out, however, that South Carolina, two w^re in t)ie moun- there will 1^ no election -next sum-lain section and one ip the Abbeville- backed up tbl.'^ sea.son in the new ehampion.ship race: Team W L T PS OP tClem.'On 3 oa ‘0 32 0 C. 3 1 - '0 47 25 The Citadel 3 *» 0 50 47 _ Furman ’ .. . 2 2 ^ ‘0 19 f> P. 2 2 1 39 32 Wofford 2 2 1 61 56 Newberry .1 3 0 40 54 Erskine .... ..X. -.0 4 0 14 79 Good-WiU Club ■ mer to bring joumment.“ pressure for early ad-, Greenwood area. Organized At Mill Witl^^oqn Goes To Bouth Anierica A wa.-^ the Friendhij) aiid Harmony club orgamzed-Saturday evening at Cli:iton Cotton mill.s. The or- TO GIVE PLAY HERE \ ‘ ,‘/Black-Ey(Bd_JSi»An,’” a ,Waync^ P. ^well play, will be given in the Flor ida Street school auditorium by local ganization has as it.s object promot- talent on Dec. 18, under the auspices ing friendship, harmony and full " —- —- I of the High School Atl^etlc associ- co-operetion between the -manage- James WitWspoon, son of Mr. and^stion. - ’ ' {meat and eapployees of the mill.-i cor- Mrs. J. H, Witherspoon' of this city, left the past week for Medlin, Colom- j bia. South America, where he hj^ ac-j eepted the position of superintendent | M poration. Officers state^that. it is the W. Brown of Presbyterian col^ of a cotton mill. For the past yeqr Mr. | lege; are. in Atlanta this week attend- Witherspoon has been connected withr'ing them'nnual meeting of the SoJth- the Spa^n Mills at Spartanburg, and' ern Association of Colleges and Sec- IN ATLANTA THIS WEEK 'further intention of the association to President John MeSween and Dean aet up a definite medium of charity benefit of has « number of friends and acquain- taneea have who will wish for him a ■uecaaaful textile career as he goes to his MW work. ondary Schools. Yesterday’s sjseionr were also attended by Dr. L. U. Lyrn and ,B. S. Pinson, principcl of:, tlie orphanage s^oola;. to be dispensed for the members who may becothe in^^jteed du: to sickness or other reasons.'^ The club is head^ by the follo"'- ing officers: J. C. Canijpn, preside*i‘; J, D. Word, vice pieeident; Roy H*' - claw, secretary; David' W<ffd» t ttrtr. •V \ . \ J’4 - A