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* f ( ■J-' If Toa.DMi*t1M THB CHRONICLB Y«i DMi*t G«i Hm Mm. , . I i VOLUME XXXV c K\. , 5 THB CBftlONICLA ; Strly^^To Be a Clean Nm> P«^r, Coni|»lete, Newaf. and RcUaUe. fcLiNTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1935 j .1 ■ NUMBER 8 MANY ISSUES BEFORE HOUSE Lower Bibdy Stiffens Fine On Drunken^ Auto Drivers. Kills - Bill To Divert Fertilizer Tax To School Books. Colun^a, Feb. 20.—Penalties, to be CLINTON FOLKS YOU KNOW >r- ,r^i: imposed Off* drunken, drivers of’ auto mobiles, salaries of judges, free text* books for school children to be bought with the tax now imposj^_pnj(ertili- xer and going to demson college ai^ | various, other niatters engaged the at tention of the house of representatives ‘before lunch yesterday as the mem bers returned to Columbia to begin the seventh week of the ^ssion. n't’ The * so-called “dranken drivers' bill" introduced by J. D. Witherspoon, Laurens, proposed an amendment to the present law so as to increase the mittitnum fine of $15 for the first of fense to $50. The measure provoked considerable debate, some faring to make the penalty too high lest con victions should be difficult to secure. T. P. Taylor, Ri<^land, offered an amendment to the effect that on con- vi^ion for the second or subsequent time the j\idge be authorised to re voke the driver’s license •dor a period from one year to five years. On mo tion of Solomon Blait, Barnwell, this amendment was tabled by a vote of *^^41 to 40, and then M. H. Mellette, Clarendon, offered another amend ment to change the $50 to $25 and this amendment was^adoptecL Then the amended measure wjts advanced to third reading. So that the' effect is to change the minimum fine for th# first offense from $15 to $25. The bill relating to judges’ sala ries attracted but little debate. It pro vided that judges hereafter to be elected receive $5,000 as salary but an amendment by the ways'^ and means comnuttee raising the figure to $6,000 was adopted. M. F. Bush, Aiken, speaking for the bill, said in his opin ion there was nothing more humiliat ing to the people of the atgte than the question of judges’ salaries. Solicitors, he said, were much undepaid as com pared with the $7,500 the judges re ceive; he held the income of the av erage white* citixen of the state was far ander $1,000.per year. "It is folly," he declared, "to elect a man at one salary and then ask him to refund a -jpart of it." The house pws- ed the measure, as amended, fixing the Judicial salary at $6,000. The bill waa in line so far as salary was con cerned with the measure previously passed by the house and sent to the senate. The bill was' introduced by F. F. Bush, J. W. Duncan, A. J. Hat field, J. B. Britton, C. L. Wheeler and H. P. Beam. The bill introduced by R. Honker McAdams, Abbeville, providing that the funds arising from the inspection tax on commercial fertiHxer be used to supply free textbooks t<^the gram mar grade school pupils of the state went to a quick death. Mr. McAdams, speaking for the blil, said the tnx amounted to about $175,- 000 annually, and that Clemson col lege no longer needed it, as it has fees and other sources of income on which to operate. D. A. G. Ousts, of Greenwood, also spoke for the bill. J. M. Moorer, Colleton, wanted to know if it was fair to tax farmers and RHADa WRIGHT WADE R. W. Wade, well known locil at torney, is a South Carolinian by birth, a Clintonian by adoption^ He was bom in Chester county, a son>of William E. T. and Rhoda Wright Wade, and is the oldest of a family of nine children. His childhood days were spent in a one-teacher school in the Broad river section of the coqpty, after which he entered the Che.ster^igh school from which he graduated in 1910. In the fall of that year he entered the Uni versity of ^uth Carolina where he received his A. B. degree in 1914, and LL.B. in 1916. In tJhe fall of 1916 Mr. Wade ac cepted work iruthe law office of the late S. E. McFadden of Chester*. Upon the declaration of war in 1917, h^ol- unteered for .service and was called to duty during the summer. He was soon commissioned as second lieutenant, fjeld artillery. Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and served with the 81st division at Camp Jackson until the summer of 1918. He attended an artillery school in France and .then was assigned to 'the 107th field artillery'*,'^ 28th divis ion. In May, 1919 he was discharged at Camp Dix, N. Y. Returning home, Mr.. Wade was employed «a alumni seeratary of the Unitenrity of South Caiolina and re mained in this position for two years. In November, 1921, Mr. Wade lo cated in Clinton for the practice of law. His affiliations and coiuiections, his personality and ability have made him become more and more popular in his civil practice. He has lived up to the finest traditions of the bar and in his dealings in all matters he shows' that strict integrity which marks the sterling man no matter what his pro fession or occupation may be. Until September past, for a period of 12 years he served Clinton as city attor ney, during^i^ich period he success fully handled several complicated liti gations and mtdered valuable service in all cases he was called upon to set tle in the city’s interests. As sn adopted Clintonian, Mr. Wade has entered into the, spirit of the com munity and has always manifested an interest in various activities and or ganizations of the city not connected with his own profession. He served the Chamber erf Commerce for sev eral years as secretary, and then as president. His, church tsffiliation is with Broad Street Methodist church then use* the money to buy books for all children with the money from the j and he has served in the capacity of tax, fLS farmers pay the inspection|its Sunday-school superintendent ahd tax. He thought a rental system of j is now teacher of the Men’s Bible textbooks best at present. The motion I class of this church. In various ways made by M. D. Kellar, Calhoun, tftat'he has rendered helpful, distinguished Hauptmann Made *Jiist A Prisoner’^ “Dramatics” Removed By Jer sey Jail Officials.^Publicity Is Opposed. — r Trenton, N. J., Feb. 17.—Bruno Richard Hauptmann, in the limelight forlfive months, sat in his cell in the death house of the New Jersey state prison'today—"just another prisoner acting in a normal way." State officials, including Governorl Harold G. Hoffman and William J. Ellis, convmi^sio«er*of institution-s and Non-Partisiw Set Up As Go^ President 'Delays Makihg Rec ommendations -To Congress ‘ For Day or Twq. r~ Washington, Feb. 1.—Through Don- aid Richborg’^'the administration to day appar^ently let it be known that it favors an NRA controlled by non partisans rather than through joint employer - labor repr©.sentation on code and’ Similar authorities. Richberg is hea<t of the administra- Last Rites Paid lAwrence Blakely Esteemed Farmer of Long; ; Branch Section Succumbs. In terment At Leesville Church. agencies, sought to remove "all dra- committee set up to frame NRA matics’’ from the incai-ceration of the mfin convicted of killing the lind- organization, although bergh baby. been ^active in the latter What Hauptmann—convict 17,400— did ai^d what he said in his first twenty-four hours in cell 9 within six paces of the death chamber was know only to himself and his guards. "He’s like every man who comes in here,” Colonel George L. Selby, acting principal keeper, said. "And he’ll be treated like any one else. The board of manei^ra is opposed to publicity about the prison and about Haupt mann.” f ' The German carpenter, who was transferred to the death house yes terday from the Hunterdon county jail at Flemington, had no visitors during the day and will hf^ve. none, with the possible exceptipn of counsel, before Tuesday Selby explained that prisoners us ually are quarantined for fourteen days, but that rule does not alway? apply to persons condemned to death. The pri.son board of managers, at its monthly meeting tomorrow night, will decide, Selby .said, whether Haupt- mamn’s wife may see him before the fourteen-day period. Although prison rules provide a man’s relatives may visit him only once a month, Selby said it was pos sible the board of managers might permit Mrs. Hauptmann to see her husband twice a month because he has no other relatives nearby. Although Hauptmann Jias been sen tenced to die the week of March 18, capa6ity lately. >i . Mr. Roosevelt’s recommendations for a new NRA were scheduled to be sent to congress today but his message was withheld. At the White House it was said that transmission probably would be^ deferred for a day dr IWo. ^The pre.sident generally is expected to ask for a one year extension of the Blue Eagle organization‘with som changed, and with authority to extend the life of the NRA for another year if considered necessary. Administration officials have said also that the piesident probably would ask for retention of section 7-a, which sets forth labor’s right to collective bargaining, without change. Labor has insisted that this clause is strengthened. Other recommenda tions imlicated are retention of mini mum wage and maximum hours pro visions; a restateipent of provisions aimetl at monopoly- and clauses de signed for a simpler and more copi- pact organization. Richberg told the house labor com mittee which had before it a bill call ing for labor representation on cod^ authorities ami other NRA, boards that: "If the NRA which we are set ting up for the future is to be suc cessful it must be run by public offi cials with" no partisan interests.’’ / 'Richberg . insisted that industrial- tabor warfare must stop in the public interest. He said that arbitrary re- that sentence is expected to be stayed quirements for equal represenUtion of by appeals. If the conviction is up held and new date is set for the elec trocution, Mrs. Hauptimnn will be al lowed to see her hu^nd once a week. Hauptmann will be permitted to sec his son, Mannifried. only once, some time during the week before he dies.. Selby ridiculed reports that be ex pected to obtain a confession from Hauptmann. _ ‘That’s all nonsense," he said. “I’m not possessed of such powers. No one ever got a confession in the history of the death house." Selby didn’t go near the deajth house today because "there was no reason for doing so.” "Hauptmann’s - all right, though," Selby, a stem disciplinarian, said. "I suppose'he’s been doing what the others Ido—reading and smoking. There’s no change in his status. He’s a man who doesn’t show his expres sion outright.” labor and emploj^er on NRA boards would only tend to intensify the con flict. The representation bill wa.s intro duced by Chairman Connery (Demo crat) of Massachussetts of the com mittee. It has the support of the American ‘Federation of Labor, avow ed foe of Richberg. » Fujjftjj^ services for Lawrence D. BlakelyTnighly regarded citizen of the Long Branch section. Were held Tuc.sday afternpon at 3:30 at the Leesville Methodist church, and were conducteil by his pastor. Rev. Ray Anderson, assisted by Rev. B. S. Dreh- nan and Rev. 0. E. Taylor. Mr. Blake ly passed away at his home early Sun day* morning after'being in declining health for the past year. The funeral srevice as first arranged, was post poned until Tuesday afternoon await ing the arrival of a son, Rush D. Blakely of New York, who had not been back on a visit to his home since he left here twenty-three years ago. The interment was in the family buriaT ground at the Leesville ceme tery. The funeral was attended by a large company of'people, with many beautiful fforal offerings placed upon the newly-made grave. Pallbearers were" nephews of the deceased: Lee Weeks, Larry Weeks, Charlie Weeks, Jeremiah Holland,/'Bluford Holland and. Bl^an Holland. Mfe.'Blakely was born in 1864 in the Long Branch comm_unity where be lived his entire life. He was a, son of the late H. Pinkney Blakely and El liott M'ilam Blakely. He niarried Miss Lilie Holland on Dec. 26/ 1888^(\^ MrT'Blakciy was a member of the Holiness church of his Community and was a devout Christian. He loved his church, his home, family and friends and waa generally beloved by those who knew him because of his gentle manners and many admirable traits of character. ■^The deceased is survived by his widow; two daughters, Miss Mae Blakely and Mrs. J. T. To<ld, of Clin ton; by two sons. Rush D. Blakely of New York, and Erskine Blakely of Washington, I). C. Also by one siste?,' Mrs. Alice B. Weeks of Greenville, and several grandchildren. t( 1 • / CASE UPHELD Success Crowns High Court Test,By Divided Vote of Five To Four. Federal Bondholders Suffer No Damage. » Fast Work Witfr LauTMit Court Number of Cases Disposed Of Under “Peculiar” Circumstan ces.” Clerk of Court Sick. New Postmaster Assumes Office B. R. Fuller Succeeds Ralph R. Blakely At Local Qfllce By MeSwain Appointment. Change Made In - College Faculty Dr. E. M. Berry Relieves Prof. Martin for Remainder of Term In Math Department. the bill be killed prevailed. Another measure, introduced Calhoun Thomas, Beaufort; L. by service to his city. Mr. Wade, in 1918^ married Miss Rivers, J. W. D. Zerbst and J. A, Lof ton, Charleston, and C. Lester Thomas, Hampton, was also killed quickly. It M. Frances Marian Spratt, daughter of Barnet M. and Frtince.s K. Spratt, of Chester. They have one spn,- William] Barnet, a popular, member of the provided that refunds be made of cer-^ tenth grade of the C?linton4iigh school, tain portions of motor-vehicle license! fe^ to persons engaged in the mili tary OT'naval service .of the Uniied States upon the transfer of such p^- soM to points without the Ithte. Bw. Zerbst, speaking for the bill, said men in the service were often transferred to other states after they had bought automobile plates and that the meas ure provided for a refund in such in stances. The point made Against the bill was that pther peTSons also left the state after buying license tags measure died The bill introduced by J. S. Wolfe, .Orah^peburg, amending a section of code by ex^rwiing the ,tax exemp tion now provi for American Le- l^n property to lirqperty of Veterans of f’ore^n Warsiviund to property of -Spanisfa 4rmr veterans met with favor and was advanced to third reading. Mr. Wolfe said, in Orangebpiv* three veterans’ organizations owned jointly a di^^use and grounrfi used for rec- reaCkmal purposes and that American Legion property was lexnnpt fibm tautloli under existing tews 'but property other two was not. The purpose of his bill was to extend that exemption to other veteraM er- ganiaations’ property also. C. B. Ken- dri^ S^rtanbuiir, amended the (CoBtiniied on page eigfat) Seed Loan Bill -- Tq^Aid Farmers I- W'ashing^on, Feb. 16.»—When Pi^i- dent Rooi^elt attaches his signature to the seed loan bill $60,000,000 will be made available to small farmers to finance this year’s crops. A conference report on the bill has been approved by both the senate and were given no refunds and soothe .and house and it is ^pected to become law soon. The bill was pushed through the senate by Chaiman Smith of the Ag-^) riculture committee." Representative Fdmer was a factor in passage of the measiu^by the house. Dr. Eugene M, Berry has arrived in the city to assume thb teaching du ties of Prof, A". V. MaYtin,.st Presby terian college. Prof. Martin has been granted a leave of ab.sence until next .September in the hope of regaining his health which has been impaired fof^ several'nronths. ^ ^ Dr. Berry who is originally from Maine, completed his undergraduate work at Colgate, in Hamilton, N. Y. He received his advanced, degree# at the Univesity of Iowa, his Ph. D. be ing in the department of mathematics. For six years he taughf at Purdue,' an engineering‘School. ^ For the past eight years he has been in charge of the department of mathematics’,, and physics at Lynchburg college, a church institution similar to Presbyterian college. ' Dr. Berry has already entered upon his duties snd has been given a cor ial welcome to the college campus. B. R. Fuller, recently appointed Clinton postmaster by Cong. J. J. Mc- Swsin, assumed office last Friday suc ceeding R. R. Blakely who had held the position for the past four and a half years. Until Mr. Fuller’s ap pointment has been confirmeil by the senate, he will be active pOstpiaster in-full charge of the office, j' Mr. Fuller secured the appointment through Gong. MeSwain over fifteen other aspii^nts who filed applications for the post' when the civil service ex amination was called last August. For the past two years he has served Hun ter townsihip ait Clinton, as magis trate, and in the recent primary was nominated for a second two year term beginning neSet May. His resignation wsa ..tendered to Governor Johnston effective Feb. 15th, and accepte<l. Postmasters who have served Clin ton during the past forty years are: J. P, Little, VV. M, .McMillan, A. J. Milling and R. R. Blakley. Mr. IJttle died several year.s ago in Phoenix,' Arizona, where He move<l im 1913 to make his home. “ 'V.. Himting Forlndden In This County In a notice issued last week by Chief Game Warden A. A Richardson, and published ih Ihe Laurens Advertiser, a closed season was ordered on id) hunting in Laurens eonnty beginning last Wewnesdsy. The order was is- SttsL oh the rocosnoModatlMi of jthe Laurens county ddegati<m, wHh no other cgpteaarion givao of ike aetkm. Special Services At llie CoHbge I.aurpns, Feb. 18.—Short shift was made Monday of the February term of general sessions court, held under "peculiar circumstances’’ as it ^ was termed by the presiding judge, P. H. Stoll of Kingstree. Because of the fact that the jury commission did not draw a grand jury for the year and a petit venire for the February term at the advertised date for such drawing, owing to the illness’of the clerk of court at the time, it was decided to recall last year’s grand jury for extra service, with the understanding ,that only those cases in which the defendants would enter pleas of guilty would in dictments be passed on, as prepared by the solicitor. .\ccordingly, bills of indictment, each charging housebreaking and lar ceny, were banded to the grand jury with instructions from the court to rep^t^on them in the regular proce dure, ^As a result ten defendants, five white men and five negroes pleaded guilty without the assistance of cotin- sel. Sentences ranged from one year to sixteen month.s. The .sheriff said that only two pri-v oners had been left in the jail. It was announced that all cases no’t disr posed of Monday had been continued until another term of the criminal court. Wa.shington, Feb. IH.—Dividing five to four the sujireme court in effect swept away any government or pri- vate obligation.s to jiay gold bo'nd.s in gold. While invalidating the law say ing the government obligations need not be paid in -gold, the court simul taneously denied holders of federal bonds th^'ight to sue for redress in the court of claims.‘This right is also denie<r holders bf qld gold bond cer-. . tificates w'ho had sought to get $1.69 for each of their dollar certificate.s ; The government won all along the lino regarding private bonds and state and municipal contracts. ~ Washington, Feb. 18.—The supremo court today upheld the governhient’r— right to cancel "gPId clauses” in pri vate-bonds but ruleil that the govern- fnent’s 'gold^bligation.s can not be paid off in a/.^dollar for dollar” basis. Chterf Ju.stice Hughes, in a summari zation' of the decision, disclosjed the court’s ruling that governmorit gold clause bonds must be paid off in gold or Its equivalent of the devaluated curi'ency."” This in effect means, that for eyei y $1,000 gold bond, the govemij/ient mu.st jVay $1,690. What the administration’s attitude would bo remained to Ik* seen. It had alrt‘a(ly_l>een declared by Attorney General Cummings to lie "ready for any emergency.” . The government won riie solitaiy case invalidating gold emifi'eates. The decision was that the court of claims did not have jupiJHliction to entertain a suit againf^^he federal govornjiieut because ()v Erold Iwnds and certifi cates. - F./E, Nortz, of New York, owner of^$106,300 of gold certificates, had sued to recover $04,334 whicli he said wa.s the difference between what he received and the value of gold to which he contended he was entitled. The Joint resolution suspending gold payment, which the court declared valid as applied to private contracts,'' was enacted June 5, 1933. Its purpose was to assure uniform value to cojins and currency of the United .States, He then reviewed the history of previous’regulations concerning mon ey and decisions of the court on the subject. * Hughes stateil the court wa? not^—j concerned with the wisdom of the law in question but that the question was "one of power and not of po<itic8.” . President Roosevelt was closetbd I with his secretaries, Marvin McIntyre 'and Stephen Pearly as the decision was handed down. The out.standing federal gold clause securitie.s-exceed $14,565,000,000, some seven billions havifig been Retired [since (he enactment of the disputed 'law. The treasury had e.stimated re- I demption of these in new deal d<*l- Contra^ct Le| Oq, Rokd In County _ Special' aervices began at Presbyte rian college Monday and ce^inued through last night, services being held morning and evening in the college chapel. TTie Rev.'^A. G. Harris, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Mil- ledgc^llCf G*-, was the leader for the services and delivered a series of h^p- fttl, tespirationid messages that wero well raotived by the atndent body faculty. Mr. Harris was pastor ct the Seasea Predbytsriaa d^nreh bsrforo go- iof to MiltedfsvUte sir years ago. S. S. Newell & Company, of Green ville, were the low bidders when bids were opened in Coli^bia last week for bituminous surfa<wg of 4.78 miles of Route 392 iii this county known as the Cold Point road “lying between Cold Point and the intersection of the Mouirtville cut-off with the Cross Hill highway. The successful bid on the project was $40,596. ..TO SPEAK HERD SUNDAY Rev. K. E. Strong, member of Ers kine col^ge faculty, will preach at the Thornwoll Memorial church on Sunday, both morning and afternoon. The pastor. Dr. L. R. Lynn, is out of the city on a^two weeks’ trip in Flor ida in the interest of the orphanage. TO PRESENT,PLAY AT , MOUNTVILLE SCHOOL I A three-act play, "Caught Napping”! will be presented in the auditorium of the Mountville high school Friday eve- ning> Feb. 22, at 7^30 o’cl^k. 'The cast is compWd largely of the school faculty, and the proceeds Will go to the Parent-Teacher assoctetW. .Admiateon of 10 oenta fo(.adhool ehil- 'dnte and 20 cents for aduHs will be ehargod* . Mr. Merchant- J- . What are you doing to in crease. your business, t'o bring customers to yodr store? Busi ness doesn’t just happen in these days of keen competition. There’s a big difference between a live merchant and a mere store-keeper. Newspiper advertising is rec- ognied . jM the cheapest, most effective' :4nowii. Newspaper readers- ai'e' boyers, their col umns are producers. Advertising is Today’s Great est Business Ally. The Chronicle “The Family Newspaper That Goea Into tko Homo and vis Road" ».r'- -- ' V:.'*/ . lars to be_lhe.equivalent of the bonds’ gold cont^t would increase their re- demifitibh cost by over 15 billion. Then 40 billion of state, county and municipal indebtedness is affected, payment of which in money of .old content would have added 28 billion to the ^‘bt. "Fairly construe<l the gold clausifs were intendinl to afford a definite* standard of measure of value and thus protect against depreciation of cur rency by i>ayment of a lesser value than that |H'<*scrilH‘<l,”’ Hughes saiil. Treasury officials ' were running hack and forth relaying the decision over an ojK'n clicuil telephone system to high government offinals down town. Senator Rohin.<on came out of the hcotM't and said, "I’m satisfied.” Informed-ef■ the decision, Summers, of the house judiciary, said “that’*.s all right. The big trouble was in the private cases. We can take cafe of the federal cases by legislation without paying a cent.”- "We are not concerned with the con sequences in the sense that conse quences, however serious, may excuse an invasion of constitutional rights," .said the court. Speaker Byrns said "a .satisfactory verdict, -but^. the importance of the opinion is to my mind exaggerated." In his summary Hughes said “the question at issue was the power of congress to establish a monetary sys tem and the power of congress to in validate existing contracts which in terfere with its constitutional author ity and whether the gold clau-se did constitute such an interference as to bring them'within the rortge of con gress oyer the monetary system.”- i "Private parties, states, municipali ties and their' snbdivisions," said Hughes, "have no power to enter into a gold clause contract providing they interfered with the power of congress to regulate the currency.” ji. "We are concerned with tl^ ooasti- tutkmal power of congress over the monetai y systenr ef ■ /"■ a- J