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VOLUME XXXV
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iCLmTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 24,1936
NUI^BER 4
FIGHT TO
F.D.R. RELIEF
CUNTON FOLKS
YOU KNOW
Legislative
Session Is Seen
Democratic Insurgents Win
Comprcimise B y Breaking
Down Projected “Gag"* Rule
and Jiolt Party Leadership^
Washington, Jan. 22.—^Victorious in
partially breaking down the projected
“gag” rule procedure bn the $4,880,-
000,000 relief program, hou.'^e Demo
cratic insurgents tonight prepared to
try to curb tomorrow the broad power
granted President Roosevelt in legis
lation providing the fund^
IN
Although they compromised with
the revolters at a party caucus, Dem-
ooratic leaders, nevertheless, claimed
a^ctory in an agreement to preserv
ing in a lump-sum the $4,000,000,000
w»k-relief appropriation, to be dis-.
tribbted by the president at his dis
cretion.
It was only after Speaker Byms
‘ told the secret caucus.late today that
President Roosevelt had assured him
that he'('Mr. Roosevelt) and not Sec
retary Ickes, 'PWA administrator,
would allocate the fund that the com
promise on procedure was reached.
It was agreed that three sections
of the relief bill, granting President
Roosevelt vast powers, would be
thrown open to amendment on the
floor.
The Democrats then voted 190 to 42
to support the “gag” rule as it will
be modified tomorrow through amend
ment to 'be offered by Chairman
O’Connor, Democrat, New York, of
the rules committee. Thirty-nine Dem
ocrats declined^ to be bound by jthe
caucus rule, however, and 108 Repub
licans and Progressives also are
against it.
The insurgents also gained a point
when Chairman Buchanan, Democrat,
Texas, of the appropriations commit
tee consented to an amendment to be
offered to one of the restrictive sec
tions that no projects are to be speci
fied. The measure listed only a num
ber of projects and left out drainage,
irrigation, rivers ^ and harbors pro
jects. ■ T
Speaker Byms, who with Chairman
Buchanan, conferred with President
Roosevelt earlier in the day at the
White House, said that it was prob
able a final vote on the measure could
not come until Thursday > in view of
the liberalized procedure.
PrMident Roosevelt had asked for
an explanation of yesterday’s revolt
in the rules committee, which Byms
said he gave. Meantime, the insur
gents in the rules committee, led by
Representative Dies of Texsis, went
on record for the “gag” rule provided
tt would be submitted to the caucus.
During the caucus, Byms’ follow
ers passed the word that the President
hMi told the speaker neither Ickes nor
Harry Hopkins, relief administrator,
would be appointed head of the pi^>
posed new agency _to administer the
^4aori(-4«lief ~
tion that a board might be named for
the task.
Two Weok.s Deliberation Sees Nil
Permanent Measures Passed
By Either House dr Senate.
Columbia, Jan. 20.—Signs point to
ward a lengthy session of the South
Carolina^ legislature.
The lawmakers ended two weeks of
President Wants
Gamer Foir Mate
Roosevelt Wishes To Have Vice-
Presidajpt On Ticket In 1936.
Hppes .^^Maiiy Dashed. ^
Washingrton, Jan. 20. — XYord was
quietly passed today that President
Roosevelt wants VicKPresident Gar-
11,700,000 Bales '
Allotted Nation
Cotton Quota Under Battkhead
Act Set At 10,500.000. BiRRer
Acreage Cut Ulged.
LEADERS SHAPE
FUTURE OF NRA
Washington^ Jan. 17. — Secretary
Wallace has fixed the Bankheadt act
deliberation last Friday without; the
quota for 1935 at 10,500,000 five-hur^
ner to team up with him agaiij, for the' dred-pound bales and at the same
t records shoWed, having passed upon
9^ single permanent measure.
W’hile the ways and means commit
tee set what Chairman Neville Ben
nett termed “a record for a new com
mittee” in preparing the important
appropriation bill, a legislative i.ssue
threatened to impede its.progress.
Committee members .said all sec
tions pf the bill relating to constitu-
1936 presidenital election.
time told the staple’s pro<lucers they
This information dashed cold water could reduce their acreage 35 per cent
on the aspirations of some half a doz-lthis year. .
en prospective candidates.
There had been talk among pro
nounced liberal Democrats in the ad
ministration about getting Garner re
placed cither by J^cretary* Ickes or
Wallace.
To clear up the matter, some Dem
ocratic leaders sought the president’s
tional salaries, including the pay of j attitude. Any doubt about Mr. Roo.se
the ju^iciary^iind governor, were be-; veil wanting Garner to be his running
ISAAC McDonald adair
I. M. Adair, known to everybody as
“Mac,” is one of the younger men in
the mercarkile buainess in Clinton. *
Mr. Adair is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. F. Adair, a widely connected family
of this community. He bears the name
of his grandfather, Isaac Adair. On
his maternal side he is a grandson of
the late George Christopher (Kit)
Young, one of Clinton’s sterling pio?
neers, and Nannie Blakely Young,
truly a Mother in Israel, of outstand
ing personality!
Himself a native of Clinton, Mr.
Adair has always lived here. He re
ceived his education from local in^i-
tutions, the Clinton high school and
Presbyterian college. Until Jan. 1,
1933, he was employed as salesman by
L. B. Dillard. At that time he and Irby
S. Hipp, long identified with the mer
cantile business here, formed the part
nership of. Hipp & Adair, a well-
known and succeseful gents’ furnish
ings concern of the city.
Mr. Adair is a member of the local
Lions club. He does well anything that
he attempts and by- his genial and
courteous manner has made and held
a wide circle of friends and acquain
tances in the city.
, Mr. Adair a year ago married Miss
LaVerne McQurston of this. city. They
have an apartment at the home of his
parents on East Carolina avenue. ^
ing passed over until after the assem-
setties the pay que-s^tion sepa
rately. ' '.
The committee began writing the
bill Thursday night but did not com
plete a single section ,of approximate
ly 60 at that sitting because of the
constitutional salarjr situation.
Members estimated it would take
perhaps several weeks ito start .the
measure iq^completed form through
the two 'branches on a course that
largely determines the pace of the
legislature. ^
/ Sentiment in the senate as well as
the house tended to a belief that the
193& assembly would .spend long
months at the capital.
The past two organization sessions.
in 1931 and 1933,^ set records for
length.
The 1931 session ran 117 days and
mate has lyen definitely dissipated.
With this development, politi'cal in- J
terest turned to the prospects of lead
ing senators of both parties to return
in J936i
The 10,500,000 bales represent coT-
ton from this year’s crop which may
be sold tax free nnd'dr the Bankhead
act. All above the allotment is to pay
a levy of half its market value.
In addition to the quota .set are ap
proximately 100,000 certificates, le-
maining from 1934, each representing
a tax free 'bale. ~ '
The result—in bales of 478 pounds
each—i.s around 11,700,000, although
Secretary Wallace .said bje did not ex
pect that all the left over certificates
■would 'be used. The net weight in cot-
■President and His Aides Discuss
Matter At White House. Act
Expiring In June May Become
Permanent.
o • c. i the ordinary bale is around 478
tn^ iloop cnicit&infiy 'S^nfttor j pounds
The new quota apparently reprC'
Robinson of Arkansas, Democrat, and
Senator McNary, of Oregon, Repub
lican—many of the be.st known mem
bers of that branch—32 in all—wjU be
up for reelection.
Senator Borah, Idaho Republican
independent, who has seen the long
est service in the senate, and Senator
Carter Glass, Virginia Democrat, who
recently celebrated his seventy-sev
enth birthday anniversary, are veter
ans whose terms expire at the end of
this congress. Borah entered the sen
ate in 1907.
Already Govemor Ben C. Ross of
Idaho, has indicated he would seek the
the 1933 term, when the past g<Jneral j Democratic n^ination to run against
asaemfbly was new, lasted until May Borah. ^
Johnston Makes
War On Gambling
Governor Orddrs OflRcers To Con
fiscate SldH Machines and
Other Devices.
Columbia, Jan. 18.. — In asserting
that he “meant business” in his war
i ion_ jlQl_jnaclilnfis„. GiLvcriior
had gone out to county officers to in*
At least some of the rebels, it was j elude all forms of gambling devices,
said by one of those'attending the! In commenting on law enforcement
oaoeus, who declined to be quoted by j generally the govemor said that he
name, had centered their fight against
Ickes. Tliey were successful in open
ing for amendment section four of the
legislation, which would empower the
president to continue Ickes as public
works administrator until June 30,
1937.
Other phases of the measure thrown
open to amendment include those
which would give the president pow
er to: ■ .
Abolish, consolidate, or redistribute
any governmental agency
had at his disposal only two state con
stables. Three others whose commis
sions expire March 15 Ifrere commis-
tioned by Governor Ibra C. Blackwood
before he left office primarily to tes
tify in court.
Only $12,000 was appri>priated by
the 1934 legislature to provide for a
constabulary.
Roy A Powell, secretary to the gov
emor, added that the three constables
whose term expires March 15 were
17 and set a record of 128 days.
With a number of new members in
both .branchbs, the house especially
required some time to get organized
this 8es.siort and the inauguration of a
new govemor also took time from leg
islative routing.
Senator John F. Williams of Aiken,
president pro tempore of the senate,
said semi-humorously from the ros
trum Friday ‘Ve may be here until
May or June—y«s, June.”
R. P. Searao«|_aenaitOT from Allen
dale, in declining to join in a discus
sion of a measure, remarked: “I’m
not in a hurry to talk. We’ll be here
four months.”
While the senaite remained in ses
sion for nearly three hours some days
d#ing the past two weeks, it reached
no conclusioM on statewide bills and
the house met for less than half an
hour on several days.'
Shot To peath
By His Own Gun
Laurens, Jan. 1^1.—Newton Rlledge,
Si’ll*
mill, was fatally shot today at Tumb
ling Shoal by the accidental discharge
of his gun. '
Sheriff Columbus L. Owens inveati-
reappointed to testify in cases
gated and reported that Newton and
his cousin, James Elledge, Jr., who
lives at Tumbling Shoal, were pre
paring to go duck hunting on the lake
and both had entered the boat. They
found it necessary to bale water out
and as Newton placed his gun against
the seat, the hammer was struck^
causing the gun to fire.
The youth was shot in the abdo
men, dying after he had been.taken
to a physician near Princeton.'-
Two finger.s of his right hand were
Ci^te new governmental agencies, ing in court.
Delegate powers given him. The three, J. W; Richardson of Co-
Guarantee loans to needy individ- lumbia, Fr^ Nawman of Spartan-
nals. burg, and C. Lee Melton of Cheraw,
Exercise right of eminent domain serving as state constidrfes with-
Glass, apparently, will have little
opposition.
Senator Huey P. Long of I»uisiana,
is making his plans to seek the pre-si-
dency in 1936, having defmitely brok
en with the Roosevelt administration.
However, he is taking no chances on
not being returned to the senate.
At a special session of the Louisi
ana legislature recently, the “King-
fish” secured passage of a bill which
permits him, if he receives the votes,
to get the Democratic senatorial nom
ination in hjf state nexit January.
This would leave him free to strive
for either the Democratic presidential
nomination or to campaign as a can
didate on the “share-the-wealth”
ticket*. ’ ’ f-
Some of the Democrats, who were
elected in 1936, will ibe confronted by
opponents for their party’s nomina
tions.
Already there is talk that Govemor
Henry Horner of Illinois may be one
of several to contest Senator J. Ham
ilton Lewis, Democratic whip, for the
nomination. ’» ^
Representative Disney of Oklahoma
has been mentioned as a prospective
CftMliCNlXC atJv Tire
tion for the senators-hip held Sena-
tore Gore, who has not been friqndly
to some of the .administration’s poli
cies.
Senator Morris Sheppard, Texas
Democrat, who fathered the 18t'h
amendment, may have strong intra
party opposition, Representative Pat
man,of Texas, leader of the cash bo
nus group, has been urged by friends
to run.
Some friends of Representative
Fred Vinson, Kentucky Democrat,
.sented a compromise between Senator
Bankhead, Democrat, Alabama, who
wanted the 1934 quota of 10,476,000
bales of 478 pounds net weight re
tained, anti the views of AAA offi-
cial.s.
They wanted to synchronize the
Bankhead act with the voluntUi'y pro
gram which originally aimed at the
production of between 12,000,000 and
13,000,000 hales.
The’^largest cut in the normal acre
age which could be ordered in 1935
was 25 per cent because of contracts
signed in J934 which covere<l, 1935
also. But the .secretary sometime ago
said those participating in the volun
tary program might re<luce as much
as 30 pel- cent.
Funds to pay for the additional re
duction were expected to be obtained
thi-odgh the appropriation of about
$10,000,000'to pay costs of adminis
tering the Bankhead act for both 1934
and 1935 and an amendment to the
agricultural adjustment act to permit
continuance of processing taxes after
the completion of reduction programs.
This would permit the absorption -of
deficits.
Senator Bankhead, authhF of the
Bankhead act, said the quota fixed “is.
■better than the one they have been
ta^IImg about” at the AAA.
A 85 per cent reduction in acreage
would 'bring the 1935 plantings to
about 29,000,000 acres.
Wallace said the individual allot
ments to farmers would be adjusted
as nearly as possible to prevent some
of the hardships that caused protests
from small growers lastryear.
The development today indicated'
the AAA intends to meet the situation
in cotton without waiting for the pro
posed international cotton pact.
Wa.shingtoif, Jan. 22. --'At“a White
House conference tonight. President
Roosevelt and his subordipates imme
diately concerned 4vith bfisiness and
labor shaped NRA’s future. ^
Cfne official .said two or three leg
islative proposals were onder consid
eration and that at least one of them
had cleared through the national
emergency cpuncil, headed by Donald
RicKberg.
Richberg, general counsel of NRA
on leave, was summoned to, the White
House, as wa.s Secretary Perkin.s, who
has been persisjtent in the defense pf
.section 7A of the act which
labor’s right to l)argain collectively.
Other subjects up for discu.ssion
were whether to reenact the organi
zation once directed by Hugh S. John-
sorn on a temporary or permanent
basis. Unless renewed, the acT which
established NRA expires next June.
Other questions involVed' whether
to retain anti-trust law exemptions.
Several senators, Borah of Idaho, and
Nye of North Dakota, among them,
have urgf<l that monopoly act exemp
tions be restoreil. t
Whether the labor provisions ‘net^d
to be. strengthened or made more spe-
.^cific was also 'under review.
There was also me problem of ad-
mini.stration. Whether there will be a
I>ermanent board devote<l to admini.s-
tering the whole field of business and
labor, or the administration be sepa
rated among various other govern
ment agencies, remaine<l to be decided.
In addition to Richberg and Per
kins, the conferees Included:
Chairman Kwin Da^s, of the Fed
eral Trade commission; Chester Davis,
agriculture administratoiH the entire
NRA board and Charles l*\hy of the
petroleum administration.
The pi-esent N'RA expires iiqtomat-
ically on June 16.-
Mr. Roosevelt has decided definite
ly on retention of some of the pr
cii>le« of this emergency act.
permanent features are to be workei
out.
Oth>
New Driver Laws
Advised In State
18-Year Age Limit and Passing^,
of Rigid Examination Propoa*
ed To Reduce Accidents.
Location Changes
In City Soon
Columbia, JaUi. 20.—A. W. Koehler,
secretary of the national conference
on highway safety of -the United
States department of commerce,, has
iwfpgested "to- a-jofni legislative eom-—
mittee a number of laws to reduce the
number of accidents on .South Caro
lina highways.
Koehler suggested to the house and
senate committees on roads, bridges
and ferries that applicants, for driv-
ers licenses be required to pa.ss rigid
thereafter.
L. B. Dillard, now located.Jn one
of the store rooms of the Masonic
Temple building, will move on Feb
ruary 1st into the George W. Bailey
have urged him to run agaii»t Sena- building now occupied by Sims Cut
Several well-known local 'business
establishments will change their pres
ent locations on February first or soon I qualification examinations including
eye tests, reading, knowknlge of traf
fic laws and driving.*
Another suggestion advanced hy
Koehler was that the age limit for
drivers be raised from sixteen years.
now in effect, to eighteen years and
d li(
a restricted licen.se be issued to those
qualifying ibetween 'the ages of four-
over personal and real property
Prescribe rules, ^ the violation of
out pay.
‘ Powell said the governor had a right
to appoint a third confttM>le in chang
ing t^ staff but had not done so yet.
which would make an offender a felon
and sid)ject to a penalty of two years
in jail and a $5,()00 fine.
During his plea to the Democrats,
Speaker Byms assured his colleagues
that the president would see.,^to ii
that all work-relief projects submit
ted would receive “consideratioi^ on
•an equal basis,” and that the “i)re8i-
dent will administer the fund.”
Ti« .p..ker Mid “there i. i» the South Carolin. eiperi-
e^ity now” to rush a final vote to-ri,_,.
This State Leads.
In Cotton Staple
“Village Players” .
Organised Here
Clemson College| Jan. 20. — Harry
A. White, assistant agricultural econ-
morrow, and predicted passage
Thursday.
With ten charter members, an or
ganization which adopted the name of
“The Village Players” held its first
meeting Tuesday evening. The fol
lowing officers were elected: Director,
Miss Rosa Mahaffey;.president, Dan
S. Hollis, Jr.; vice-president, W. E.
Robinson;, jrecretary-treasurer. Miss
Lois“ Blakely.
The aim of this group is to stimu-
tor Logan foV the party nomination, j Rale Store, which is retiring from
Two of the sevei^t Roosevelt crit-!business.; The building vacated by Mr.
ics. Senators Dickinson of Iowa, and ! Dillard has been leased by R. A. Steer teen and eighteen.
Hastings of Delaware, Republican j of the Clinton Dairy to be used for a j Koehler recommemled that a per-
leaders, will be centers of attack by j year-round ice cream parlor. | son figuring in an automobile accident
“New Dealers.” ^ I ^'PP * Adair will move from their rectuired to make a written report
Unless the situation changed they j present location into the building next 1the accident to the highway de
may have stem opposition. {door to Kellers Drug now occu-jpartment within twenty-four hours
—L Ipied by Rays’ Lunch Room and Bil-j after the accident and that an acci-
' Hard Parlor. This concern will move'ifjent record be kept for each driver
into the fornSsr police department I Hj^ensed by the state,
building on Pitts,street. J Maximum and minimum .speed reg-
The Book Store, of which C. E. Gal-, yjations were’ suggested, with a rtc-
(jiant Messages
To President
. lloway is owner, will move into the Unimendation that the'burden of proof
Millions of Names Expected'imiocence be placed upoi. a driver
{next to the Farmers Exchange. This
Be Sifinod To Birthdfly Groct-■ formerly operated by George
ings On January 30th. Bratsos, has gone out of business.
, I The store rooms on Musgroveistreet
Any person anywhere in the United {soon to .be‘vacated by Hipp & Adair
States will be given an opportunity {and The Book Store will be reipod-
late interest in home theatricals andUhig yggr to do his^or her part in con-|eled and enlarged and occupied in the
foster and develop local talent. Keen j tributing to the infantile research • early Spring by the Belk organization
involved in an accident if he were
found to have been exceeding the
speed limit.
mtcrem i. being mnnifeted by .lll,„„d i„ conncctibn with Preident
ISanclair Station
To Be Built Here
provemnet ip th. sMpl« length of the. ,1,,^ performnik^! by
Ground has been broken for the
erection of a handsome new filling
station on West Main street -next to
Adair Hosiery Mil’s.
The building is being built by Cope-i,
land-Stone far the Sinclair (Ml com
pany. k will be of brick construction.
nwdem in all details and similar to
state’s cotton crop.
White said the proportion of .15-k^
inch and longer staple ginned prior to
December 1 was 79.8 per cent this
season compared with 64.2 per cent
last season. ,
White’s report showed that South
Carolina led all other cotton^growing
states in staple length, with North
j Carolina second at 73.4 per cent above
the standard 15-16 inch.
Figures quoted by White al^o show
ed that 77 per cent of the state’s
these players will be given within the
next.fcw weeks
Conunittee Posts
Laurou Members
which will enter the local mercantile
Laney Addresses
County Teachers
Roosevelt’s birthday.
Both the Postal and Western Union
Telegraph companies have announced
they will handle messages at 25 cents
per person and the entire proceeds,
will go to the fund, the two cornpan-,
les not charging a cent for their ser-|
I vicea,
field.
Atlanta Friends
Laurens, Jan. 19.— .\t the January
meeting of the Laurens County Teach-
'.ers association, held Thursday night
I in the high school auditorium, the
Send Rig Chccl^' principal address was made by Sena
tor George K. Laney, of Chesterfield
'county.
Tbe Thornwell orphanage receivedi. Prior to the^assembly meeting for
the style of ShicUiir stations now in
operation inj^is and other states.
' Miss Jeannette Crawford of Colum-
bia* apent the woek-and here with her
nwllwrg Mfs. J. W. Oawfori.
crop was extra white qr white cotton
of middling'grade or above and that
99.5 per cent pf H waa tenderaUe
futures contra^.
The r^rt waa baaed on aurveys
covering 94 per cent of the atate’s es-
tinnted total 1934 crop. \
Members of the ’Laurens county companies read as follows:
house delegation have been given the I “Happy birt^^^y* **’'• President. I
following assignments for the present] am proud to participate in the sending
session: ' iof this personal greeting, to you and
Phil D. Huff, judiciary, rules, com-
mwee and manufacturing.
fj. D. Witherspoon, education, police
The messages to be sent by both on Monday from the Sunday school of ithe address, departmental units heard
regulations, accounts, privileges an^
elutions. ---
Samuel J. Hunt, agriculture, privi
leges and elections, banking and in-
anzsuiec, and elains.
the Central Presbyteriah church of i di.seu.ssion of the general theme of the
Atlanta, its annual Christmas offer-j session, “Interpreting the Schools in‘
ing. The check amounted to $1,489.18. [the Community.” These'^'werejled by
More than $600 of the amount wasjC. K. Wright, Miss Gladys Stilwell
thereby help in the great fight contributed by the Men’s Brtoherhood' of Clinton, S. C. Ganrbrell of Gray
agaimd infantile paralysis to. which class of the church. _|Court, and G. N. Foy of Goldville.
you have given such notable leader-i The Central church Sunday school! J. E. Ford, president of the associ-
ship and loaned your birthday.” 'bears the distinction of being the larg-tation, presided at the session of the
'esi contributor to the institution in bqdy in tj»e auditorium. The invocation
R. Pv Adair is spending this week
in Mac<m i^d Byron, Ga., with relm-
tivas.
the ”hree controlling synods. Second
place honor Is held by the First Pres
byterian chureb of Greenwood.
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was offered by the Rev. W. D. Spinr.-^
Entertainment was provided by the
Gray Court-Owings high school.
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