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/■' A, . y - ■V • ' • V • .. I - ■ / H i '7T If Yon Don't Read , THR CHRONICLE -7 / You Don’t Get Tlie News., ^ rfr VOLUME XXXV CLINTON, 3. C., TllURSDAY, JANUARY 31,1935 ) SENATE KILLS : WOIMCOURT Despite Direct Pressure From White House Adherence Re jected By 52* to 36 Vole. Issue 1 Now Believed fo Be Perma nently Dead. CLINTON FOLKS YOU KNOW Relief Bill Under > Fire In Senate Further Modification of Four Billion Measure Is Foreshad owed As Glass Enters Fight. Officers Named For sak Miir Diversification Lesson' Mapped Stockholders of St utz-Had field Silk Corporation Hold Meeting. Difwlbrs ^llected For Year. Washington, Jah. 29. — Despite a marked concession by the administra tion and direct. pressur^^2n>m the White House, the *senate tonight sent down to defeat the protocol for Amer- j kan adh€i;pnce to the world court. , The vote was 52 for the resolution; of ratification to 36 against. This lacked seven votes of the required two-thrids of those present for ap- provaJ. Doth friends and foes of American adherence ati once declared the sen ate’s rejection would mean that the court issue,.which has been before the senate at intervals for 12 years, is dead for some time to come, if not permanently. Optimism had prevailed among the pro-court forces after Senator Robin son, the Democratic leader and s'pear- head of the ratification drive,- had an nounced acceptance, with President Roosevelt’s comsent, of a binding res ervation.' Introduced by Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Utah, it would have required negotiation of “general or special treaties” before the United States could .submit a question to the court. - BtttSenator Norris, Republican, Ne braska, author of a more stringent reservation that lost last week—^which would have given the senate control over all questions to be submitted by -the United States—took the floor late in the day and said he wa.s still dis satisfied. Observers felt he undoubted ly carried many votes which previous ly had lined up with the administra tion. With 88 senators voting, the ad herence advocates could only marshall 43 Democrats and nine Republicans on the final roll call. Opponents gath ered in 20 Democrats, 14 Republkans, and LaFollette, Wiaconsiij, Progres- aive, and Shipstead, Minnesota Farrm- er-Laborite. The majority leader declared the last-minute drive by outsiders in ra dio appeals, including that of the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Detioit priest, had had a tremendous influence on the vote. In a speech on the floor just before the vote, the hefty Arkansas senator charged that .Fathei’ Coughlin had made an address in which he made declarations “not supported by the record or the facts” and permitted his “imagination to run riot.” Father Coughlin’s radio appeal re sulted in approximately 40,000 tele- .grams going to senators urging them to vote against ratification. Robinson said the campaign had been carried on by “agencies outside the senate. He cited particularly the flood of 40,0OQ^ telegrams that were sent to senators. ^ “Every one,” he added, “was in spired by inflammatory rjidio state ments not based on fact.” Do you refer t^wour own radio home on Irby avenue'Saturday iMt mght? J«n»tor Ung, of nine... She wm Louisiana, interrupted. His question drew a roar from the Washington, Jan. 28.—Further mo<l- ificalion of President Roo.sevolt’s $4^80,000,000 work-relief . bill was foreshadowed today by another Demo cratic uprising against the measure, led by the man the chief executive _ amicably calls an “unreconstructed ! rebel," Senator Carter Glass, of Vir- ■ — .{ University of (Georgia Plans To Show How’ To’ Make Money On Mules, Sheep and Wool. DR. ALMON EDWIN SPENCER Dr. A. E. Spencer, vice-president and professor of Greek and French of Presbyterian college, was bom in Tuskegee, Ala. He gr^uated from Center college at Danville, Ky., after which he came to Reidville in this state, where he taught several yeans. He received the degree of M. A. from Center college, and in 1914 his alma mater conferred upon his the honor ary degree of doctor of laws. As a young teacher Dr. Spencer came to Clinton in 1891 a.s profe.ssor of Greek and French in Clinton col lege, now known as Presbyterian, He has been connected with the institu tion longer than any other individual and ranks as dean of the faculty. He has served on several occasions both as its president and acting president. Dr. Spencer has not confin^ his in terest to the college but has entered into the civic life and development of the community. He is a former presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce and has held many posts of honor and responsibility in the affairs of the city. Since 1894 he has served as an Mtive elder in the First Presbyterian church, holding the position of clerk of the saamon. He haa aarvad aa-a commissioner to the general assem bly and as moderator of the Synod of South Carolina.-He is the beloved teacher of the Men’s Bible class of the Pixst church. Presbyterian college—Clinton — Dr. Spencer—these names are inseparable. He has made hLs mark in the city, quietly ami faithfully he goes about his work and has proved himself to be a nian of force and character and pur pose. . Dr. and Mrs. Spencer, before mar riage, Miss Martha Calvert of Reid ville, make their home on the college^ campus. Mrs. O. B. Simmons Passes At Laurmis Laurens, Jan. 26. —- Mrs. Maggie Clardy Simmons, 75, widow of Oscar B, Simmons, prominentubusiness man and banker here for many years, died galleries. Senator Schall, RepuUican, of Min* neaota, interrupted to recall that Mrs. Franklin D. 'Roosevelt^ also made a world court speech on the radio and started to ask: “I wonder if Mrs. Roosevelt’s speech—” Robinson interrupted him*, however, saying he,would not yield to let Schall , make “one of his characteristic at tacks op the president.”' ThiF Democratic leader quoted Coughlin~as saying “the chkf support for the court cotnes from'plutocrats and intematfonad bankers.” “That sounds like the senator from Loolaiana,” Robineon commented, add ing that the court was supported by Uie national granj^, “almost every bar association, all church organiza tions, civk dubs, women’s dubs” and the federation of labor. " ’ “To hell with Europe,” jshouted 'blind Senator ^Schall, in a speech op- poahtg adherence. * The final day of the threeWeeks of debate found galleries packid to the door. Among the spectators were Jus- dee Roberts of the supreme eourt ^nd officials (d the state department. | irsf of applause from the gal^! •leries greeted announcement of the | dent’s ball here, headed by Charles F. vote by VTdT-^^resident Okmer. /^ ^^^Fleming, chairman, have placed tick The roll call follows: , foltowjng a lingering a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Clardy of the Mount Gallagher section of Waterloo township, being a men^r of a large and influmitial family of Laurens county. She had been affiliated with the' First Baptist church for about 45 years. . She is survived by two sons, J. Aii- gustus, and 0. B. Sinunons; two daughters, Miss Ethel Simnwns and Miss Louise Simmons; one sister, Mrs. W. J. Moore. She was a sister of the late Mrs. W,=C.- Rasor of Cross Hill, and of the late John M. Clardy, for mer probate judge, and the late James A. Clardy, postmaster at Laurens at the time of his death' several ^ears ago. The funeral seij^ice was held from the 'home Sunday at 3 o’clock by the Rev. W. D. Spinx, pastor of the First Baptirt chur^, and thiPRev. J. 0. Smith, pastor of the First jlifethodist church. Interment follow^ in the Laurens oemetety. •». ginia. The 77-year-ol<i. Virginian rebelled against the broad language of the ’measuiv'Thd“sp6lceTus njind at an ex ecutive session of the appropriations committee which he heads. Several changes ,were made in the bill on the house side last week after Democrats protested it gave too muoh power to the president. While Gla.ss refused to discuss the bill for publication afterwards, mem bers of the committee said he flayed it with stinging words. He was joined by at least bne other Democratic member of the committee, Senator McCarran, of Nevada. Adorinistration forces tumed down, however, a demand from Republican memfbers of the committee for open hearings on the bill. Minority resent ment was somewhat appeased by an agreenvent W hohl executive hearings before the full Committee.^ Glass firmly announced there would be no secrecy about consideration of the bill and that the usual custom of publi.shing the testimony after it was printeil would be followed. Republican forces were elate<i over the Virginian’s attitude. They confi dently predicted it would lead to mod ification of the measure, and that enough Democrats would vote with them to cut out some of the broad powers proposed for the chief execu tive. Opiponents of the bSll in lU present form said also that the position taken by Glass would an.swer the argument that the criticism of the measure came only from -those who want to make a “pork-barrel” out of Virginia aanator has been oiits^oken against “pork-barrel legislation” dur ing his long service in congress. Glosiing hearings of the $4,880,000,- 000 bill will begin before the commit tee tomorrow, with Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoples, chieif of the pro curement division of public works, and Daniel W. Bell, icting budget di rector, as the witnesses. • Committee members said there was no meq^i.on of calHng-^Secretary Ickes and Harry Hopkins, relief administra tor, but that they might be asked to testify later. The feeling against Ickes which cause<l an administration prom ise that he would not administer the work relief fund has been manifest adso in the senate. . The move for open hearings was kd by Sanaitor Hale, of Maine, rank ing Republican member of the com-- mittee. He was acting under direc tions from the party conference last week. His motion was voted down without a record vote by the 'Over whelming Democratic majority of the committee. Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, explained the committee had vot^ against open hearings be cause “no appropriation bill has ever been considered except in executive s^sion.” He explained also there wia no room in the committee room for spectators. The assertion that Hopkins* was “wasteful” in administering relie? was made on the floor of- the house today ■by Representative Fulmer, Democrat, South Carolina. “I would ihate to think that the president was a party to, the wasteful method employed under Hopkins’s re-| The annual sockholders meeting of the Stutz-Hadfield Silk coiTioration of this city, wa.s held on Monday after noon at the office of the company on Davidson street with a full repi'esen- tatiqn of the stockholders, both in pei-son and by proxy. , The president of the corporation, C, W. Stone,' requeste<l R. W. Wade, local attoi-ney, to preside, with C„ F. Winn acting as secretary. A general statement of the corpora tion was given by A. J. Milling, .secre tary-treasurer. A motion was later offered and unanimously adopted, call-, ing on the directors to furnish the stockholders a detaile<l audit on the fi nancial status of the corporation by March first, and that the meeting ad journ to reconvene on March 12th for a consideration of the rejKirt. The of ficers when asked, .stated that they had no plans or recommendations to, make as regards the future operation^ of the plant. * *" The matter of electing a 'board of directors to consist of five members, was then entered upon. As a result of the ballot C. W. Stone, D. E. Trib ble, and J. P. Prather were elected to represent the preferred stockholders, W. J. Hadfield and- Sol Stutz were elected to repiesent the common stockholders.. The former board 'con sisted of C. W. Stone, A. J. Milling, John Hj Young, W. J. Hadfield and H. S. Finley. Following the stockholders meeting the newly named board of directors met and electe<I the following-^ offi cers : C. W. StA‘, president; W. J, Had field, vice-j^^ident; D, E. Tribble, treasurer; J. P... Prather, secretary. There are two classes of stock out standing in the corporation, preferred and common stock. The preferred stock of $60,000 is owned principally by Clinton people, while the common stock of $50,000 is owned by W. J. Hadfield and Sol StQtz of New York. The Stutz-Hadfield Silk corporation began operation here five years ago engaging in the manufacture of broad Hiilk. -The mill dui'ipg the past two months has stood idle, with no state ment having been made by the offi cers a.s to^when it will resume -o|Vera- tion. It is expected that the stock- THE CHRONICLE , Strives To Be a Clean Newt- paper^ Complete, Newty, " and Reliable. NUMBER 5 MANY BILLS URJ^HOUSE Legislature Debates On Appro priation Measure, Schools, Ju dicial Pay and licensing of Athens, Jan. 26. — Georgia’s state Liquor Dealers In State. university is going into the mule and : ^ sheep and wool business. Columbia, Jan. 29. — .A bill to cut It is experimental with the hope of judicial pay by ope-third was intro- showing fa rmersjthey can raise their duced today as the hquse adopted' a own animals profitably and create, a resolution requiring^' candidates for new “‘money crop;” jibe bench to declare themselves on ae- Georgia's large mule iwpulation, 1 “back pay.” now value<l at $49,600,000, came from-j^ ~ Developments over the judicial sal- Missouri, but ex{>eriments soon will jury Situation rounded out a day dur- begin at the univers’ty’.s ‘ 937-acre j ing which a $7,140,011 appropriation fanii here to determine whether [bill, .slightly lower than budget recom- money invested! iiy the plow pulling animals can be kept in the state in the future. Agricultural college experiments also hojH* to find out whethcr^it is chea|)er to use mules and horses in stead- of machinery for farm power. The iKissibility of .using idle (farm lands, retired voluntarily or involun tarily because of farm surpluses, fbr grazing the animals and the size mule needed for various types of work also will be studi€<l. Twenty-eight M,organ thorough bred mares have been given tKe uni versity by the federal government, which is also expected to furnish a standaid jack. 'The experiments likely will begin soon ami probably will ex tend over a period of years. Hoping to show Georgia farmers that cotton and tobacco aie not the only “money crops,” the university is planning experiments with spring lambs,'now such a scarcity they bring higher prices than the moie- abundant fall and winter.Iambs. Dr. S. V. Sanford, president of the university and a leader in the move ment to help Georgia farmers through exjieriments by college specialists, be lieves that Georgia should raise sheep, hogs and mules on a large scale. College R.O.T.C. Set-Up Given D. W. Boggs of Liberty Becomes Cadet Lieutenant Colonel. Per sonnel of Unit Announced. For the coming .semester the fol lowing changes in officers of the Pre.sbyterian College Reserve Officers’ holders will Uke action of some kindiTraining conis have lieen announced: at the meeting set for Maix^h 12th when the financial report will be sub- rnitte<l and any recominemlations or plans propo8e<l by the new governing board will be given consideration. ■*- m Goldville Plans President’s Ball Plans have been perfected for hold ing the second Roosevelt ball 'at Gold ville on Friday evening in the mm Joanna school building. The celebra- To be cadet lieutenant colonel, D. W. Boggs, Liberty; battalion adjutant and captain; L. A. Mct’all, P'lorence; plans and training officer and captain, J, P. To<ld, (’linton; iKM-.sonnel adju tant and first lieutenant, J. Rhodes*, ’(Uinton; assistant plans and ti-aining officer' and first lieutenant, R. F. F^leming,' Laurens; singeaht major and master sergeant, T; Plaxico, Sha ron; personnel sergeant major and staff sergefnt, A. D. Guerard, Clin ton; assistaht to the personnel adju tant and sergeant, A. W. I^evi, Char lotte, N. C. / ^ , , To be cadet company^ommanders .-bI "ban,!,"- B Elliott, Gainesville, Ga,; company A, T. r. lief adjpinistration,” 'he said. -1 PreMdent’s Bsdl At Laurens Tonight t f J Laurens, Jan. 26. — Committees in A bursC of applause from the gal^harge of arrangements for the Presi- INFANT DAUGHTER DIES The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Shepard of this city, died Wednesday night at the Hays hos pital. Interment took place Thursday morning at Rosemont cemetery with Dr. D. J. Woods officiating. For adherence: Democrats: Adams^ Artmrst; Bach man; Bailey; Bankhead; Barkley; Bil-|Tin D^-RobseveR. bb; Black; Brown; Bulkley;"^^Burke; B]^; Byrnes; Caraway; Clark; Con- . nally; Oostigan; Dietrich; Duffy; Fletcher; George; Glass; Guffey; Harrison; Hatch;SbHayden; King; Lo gan; Lonergan; Hidoney: Minton; Mooia; Neely; Cllahoney; Pitman; Pope; Radcliffe; R^nsoa; Sheppard; Utah:; Trumn; Van Nuya; (ContisiMd OB two) ets on sale at different stores in town and completed other plans for the sec ond annual dance in honor of Frank- The ball will be given in the new high school gymnasium Thursday night. Two orch^raa have been en gaged for the occasion, and it is ex pected that the event wHl attract a large gathering as dance is a county-wide function. If tickets are not jprocured MorShaad, they^can be bottflit at the ddor tMa evenl^, it has been anmninoed by the ' .* Nowadays... People don^t have to go to to^vn, „walk until they are “fagged out,” looking for worthwhile merchan- disev They shop first in THE CHRONICLE, and then know just where they are headed. ^ If merchandise is worth selling it's worth advertis-, ing. Buyers should not lose sight of this truth. ^ r The Chronicle “Where Hirifty Bayers Shep First” > sored by Goldville I>odge 1306, Ixiyal Order of Moose, and promi.ses to be an enjoyable'event and largely attend ed. The proceeds will go to the nation al infantile paralysis fund. Dancing will begin 11^^7:30 and con tinue until 12 o’clock wkh music fur nished by the Presbyterian college or chestra and Joanna string band.^r J'ohn M. Ross is the general master of ceremonies for tomorrow evening’s affair. Decoration, dance and ticket committees havf been named also. An admission of 50 cents for men and 25 cents for women and children be charged. —.7* t— mendations, was intro<iuced and school legi.slation wa.s debated at length in the .senate. TTie hou.se judiciary committee drafte<l a majority favorable report to a bill for .statewide licen.sing of liquor dealers only one legi.slative day after passage of the Blatt-Brown county control bill that al so had its apprqva-i. The report on the bill, introduced by Representative.s Sinkler of Char leston, aYid Anx)wsmith of Williams- ^ burg, wa.s expected to come up to morrow with con.sideration of appro- priation.s, elections, and other i.ssues. Chairman Calhoun Thomas .said the committee agreed to invite Governor Olin D. Johnston and members of the state highway commi.ssion to giv<7 their views on a bill now la-fore H to abolish the present road board and create a smaller one ar'the govern<h' advocates. \ The hou.se dispo.sed of an election oontest by seating M. M. ^Johnson of Camden, to succtuHl the late Ropr.seen- tative J, R. Belk of Kershaw, and the senate advanced five statewide bills in quick succession. While the .senators deferred action ~ again on companion measures to fiXT* judges’ pay at $6,000, six representa tives introduced a bill to place all ju dicial salaries at $5,000. The bill, a re|>eix:u.s.sion like the “back pay” resolution of a recent court case uphoilding .salarie.s of $7,500 a year, would reduce judges’ pay al most to its previous figure of $4,590. It was offered by Representafives Bu.sh ami Duncan of Aiken, Beam of Gre<mv'ille, Britton and Hatfield of Sumter,and Wheeler of Dillon, and was referred to the ways and mean.'i^ committee. The house adopted, .53 to 38, a re.s- olution l)y Representative VV’ither- •spoon of I.auiens, requiring all can didates for the supreme court or cir cuit bench to file “back pay" state ments with this house imme<liately and iK'fore the eU*cti(m to fill such offices. The re.solutrdn, which does not re- ((uire senate coricurren|e to he effec tive, directs the candidates to declare “whether or not they will denmnd any hack salary which may now have ac- jerued to them under a recent decision of the supreme court'of South , Caro lina commonly known as the Grimball ease,” - Neither branch has acted to fix a date for judiciary elections but the .senate today adopted a resolution to begin hallo'ting to elect five state rail road commissoiners at noon tomorrow if the house concurs at its morning se.ssion. Ther'e would b«' 4hrt*e ballots daily until all are elected. Volleys of questions deferre<l action in the senate on education bills to. es tablish a rental textbook system ahd to raise teachers’ pay an average 6f $9 a month an<l extend the term an additional month. -—The- senators voted down a prbposal to give second reading today to an education measure to extend the term and raise teachers’ pay at an estimat- 7 - --i. [Death Claims Miss M. E. Crisp Miss ^ary Eugenia Crisp, age 46, died at her home at Mountville Sun day afternoon after a brief illness. She was a member of one of Mountville’s most prominent families, a daughter of the latte M. B. and Mrs. Mary Dendy Crisp. ' . Funeral services were ^held from the home at Mountviile Monday after noon* at 3 o’dock in the presenoa of "a large number of-relatives and'friends. The services were conducted by Rev. J. H. Bird, assisted by Rev. F. T. Mc Gill, pastor of Liberty Springs Pres byterian chtrrcb-'at Cross Hill. Inter ment followed in the family plot in Ule church »• cemetery. Pallbearers [were: Lowry M, Wilson, Watts Bry- i8on, R. W. Boland, S. A. Crisp, Jr., Roy Miller, Herbert Bums. Miss ’Crisp is survived by fow brothers, M. I. 'and W. E. Crisp of Mountville, A. B, Crisp of Elberton, Ga., S.[ A. Crisp of Grover, _N. C., and by two sisters. Miss Zelle Crisp and •firs. Lorena Adams of Mountville. Carothei's, Fort Mill; company B, .L G. Jeans, Clinton; company (’, H, E. Bo- lick, Charie'ston. ^ To be cadet first lieutenants and company officers: C/ompany A, (’. E. Carson, Atlanta, Ga.; F, E. Jordan, Clinton; L O. Elmore, Rock Hill; com pany B,' W. R. Holcomb, Tate, Ga.; W. J. Clark, Union; G. W, Ihinlap, Rock Hill; company C, P. W. Yearout, Chicamauga, Ga,; J. McCaskill, Clin ton; V, M. Arnold, Sylacauga, Ala. To'be cadet second lieutenants and attached to the band:~B. B. Under-, . , u* v t- wood, Clinton, and Rv D. Hannah, jJ umi Newnan, Ga. To be cadet platoon sergeants:-J ineludeil in the appropriation bill. Expected if approved to swell rthe money bill to approximately $8,500,- 000, the sum was omitted from the bill with an official explanation that B. Bradley,_Chicamauga, Ga.; .h F. Holliday, Williamston; J. McClary, Georgetown; R. A, Wilbanks, Clinton;, , . - . R uTorcig, Florence; C. C. rh.p."’^' ■'‘■t f. “■^«» , ’ ' on -school measures. man, Colum la. Representative John.son was sworn in to succeed Belk when Representa tive Phil Hiiff of I^aurens, read the house a letter from Newton Kelley of Kershaw, who opposed Johnson in a speoral electionl last week, saying he withdrew his election protest. P. C. Tracksters Face Big Season Presbyterian college track teanj, coached by -Lonnie McMillian, will ex- jiibit its running, jumping and weighty wares in a full schedule according to W. A, Johnson, director of athletics. Six colleges will be met' ir^duSl \ Mrs. T. L Reeder hgs returned to her home 4n Newberry, after spend ing the past week with her son and daaiditer-in4aw, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Raa^; meets prior to the state meets to be staged here May 3 and 4, The sched-^ ule follow*: ^ March 23—^^offord atiHpartanburg —varsity and freshman (pending). March 30—Garolina at Columbia— varsity and freshman (pending). ‘April 6—University of Gwrgia at Athens--varsity. April 13—Clemson at Clinton—var sity and freshman. “ April 20—Furman at Clinton—var sity and freshman. April 26 Davidson at Clinton, freshman-oply. — May 3.—^te freshman meet and varsity trials at ^nton. May 4—State varsity finals at Clin ton. * \ Louise Chambers Wins D.A.R. Medal The local chapter of the D. A. R. offers each yeskr-ja medal to the pupil ofith^ eleventh grade of the Clinton high school, who submits the bes^t ex amination paper on the .American Revolution. ^^7. , The questions this year were pre pared and, tlie papers graded by'^Mfss Lottie Barrbw, of the history, depart ment of W’inthrop Training-school, Rock Hill. First j^ace was won by . -Louise Chambers; second to Madeline' Cassanova, and third to Katherine Graham. S B8 Elizabeth Sheely of Ninety- risked her parent, Mr. and Mrs. Sb« , Sheely,' on' Friday. } 4*^ 1