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n If Toq Dm*i Rm4 CHBONiCLB Tm Dm*! GM TIm N«ir«. ‘■'t VOLUME XXXV THE CHRONICLE StriTM To Be a Clean Nfwa- paper, Conjplete, Neway, ind RcUable. ^ .CLINTON, IS. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1935 '-■'Jt LIVE ISSUES UP IN SENATE] Liquor, Schools and Social Se curity Program To Forefront This Week With Solons. Ap propriations Being Held Up. Columbia, Feb. 25. — While liquor control debate was expected-to occu py the senate begrinning Wednesday and house action on education matters appeared probable, a senate commit- CLINTON FOLKS YOU KNOW tee planned to take the first steps toward formulating: a social security program for the state. Senator Henry R. Sims, of Orange- bmrg, ^ho heads the committee, said it would meet this week and map its ■ piOgfUii. The committee must decide which t ■■—' phakea to posh first and what pro cednre to follow, Senator Sims ex plained, althougdi “with houee legis kition for old age pensions already * iinb^nced, that would come before the committee first if the house pass es if* “No congressional measures have 'been enacted as yet, and we do not know exactly what form they will take,*’ Sims said, adding that “it ap pears likely, however, that the old age pension awards will be made in this state according to the status of the individual rather than at a flat rate." A measure was introduced -in the house last week by eight representa tives to piovide assistance for per sons 65 years of age or‘ older, with the amount to be fixed “with due re gard to the condition of the individ ual.” The bill is before the ways and means committee. The senate committee* since its for mation a week ago has acquired a file of all social security bills introduced in cMigress and records of senate and house labor hSarings at Washington. It also has unofficially recommended drafts of bills on old age pensions and two on unemployment compensation. Included in the file as a report on a survey conducted by the president’s coniBlittee on econoihic securitirwhich NUMBER 9 Labor BUI Fight Moves To, Senate Textile Union Head Cktims **Un- dercover Campaign** Begun By Mill Owners To Thwart Move* said 28 states and two territones al ready h%ve^okl ai^aaaistance lavra. The committee planned a careful study of data in its file in mapping its program. ’ Meanwhile, prospects were that the general appropriation bill, now be fore the senate finanee committee. WILLIAM JAMBS BAILEY W. J. Bailey, oulstanding banker and manufacturer, is a native of this city, a son of the late Mercer S. Bai ley and Rosanna Lydia Bailey. When Mr. Bailey completed his edu cation and came -to manhood, along with his other brothel s he became af filiated with his father in the mer cantile ^ business. In 1883 he and a brother, P. S. Bailey, moved to Pelzer where they enter^ the mercantile business and remained until 1886 when they returned to Clinton. In 1886 M. S. Bailey opened the Clinton Mills. He had as.sociated with him two sons, W. J. andX\ M. Bailey. In 1896 Mr.* Bailey organized the Clinton Cotton Mills with 6,000 spin dles and 150 looms. He had associ ated with- htffl two ".Abns, W. J. and C. M. Bailey. In 1902 Mr. Bailey established an other mill south of Clinton, naming it Lydia Cotton Mills in honor of his wife. With ks organization he became president, C. M. Bailey, his youngest son, treasurer. Upon the death of his father on Feb. 19, 1926. Mr. Bailey became out” measure is received. Dorn explained that the weaver bill was the only meaimre now before the committee, to..which* all labor and in dustrial bills are referred, and that it was planned to wait until the other bill is received to save ihtereeted per sons the trouble of making two trips to Columbia for hearings. The bill ,to limit the number of looms assigned to a weaver to be- 'tween six and forty-eight was intro duced by Representative H. C. God frey, of Spartknburg, who said ‘-some operatives are now tending as high as eighty^and ninety looms.” It was passed by the house, 94 to 9, and the companion measure to fix a maximum for other mill work- is now pending C«l«mbia^ Feb. 24. — The first of eight textile labor bills to reach the senate was.as.sured a public hearing today amid charges of an ‘‘under cover campaign” by manufacturers to have the legislature reject the entire program. ' Senator J. J. Dorn, of McCormick, Court Staggers Backers Of TV A Federal Attorneys Hasten Plans To Seek Upset of Adverse De cision In Alabama. Washington, Feb. 23j—The adminis trations power expeiTts today hastily drew plans aimed at having the su preme court ov^^rturn—at the earli-' Mrs. Emma Monroe Claimed By Death Estimable Woman Passes After Extended Illness. Interment At Hopewell Graveyard. M rs. Emma F. Monroe, 76, widow of Joseph M. Monroe, who died in 1918, pas.sed away last Thursday af ternoon at her home in the Hopewell NRA CODE TO SEE CHANGES Consfress^Seeks Compromise On New Statute. Labor and Con sumers Await Chance To Make 'Demands For Revisions. , - Congression- chairman of the senate committee on‘stick” programs ranged from expi'es- commerce and manufactures, said thejsions of concern to consternation. committee would arrange a public hearing on a bill from the house to would use every effort at kit command limit the number of looms per weaver as .soon as a companion anti-“stretch- . Washington, F'eh. 26 . al activity came to a virtiiat halt to- est pos.sible momejnt—the adverse de- section after being in declining-healtWfday under an armed ti^uce between cision against the TV A in Alabama, j for the past year. The comment from supporters of I 'The funeral service was held Friday the TVA and other similar ‘‘yard- afternoon at three o’clock from the residence, with interment following in Ihe Hopewell churchyard. The Service was in charge of her pastor, Rey. There was no doubt that the New Deal K. Medlock of Goldville, assist^ by New I)eal leaders and (tppositionists over the w(yks relief bill and the pro posed NRA investigation. The senate met for one hour only and adjourned until Thursday. The hou.se transacted minor business and before the representatives with the (to remove the threatened^b.struction j Rev. C. B. Betts of this city. A host of Its plains. Among others, Henry T. I of friends gathered at the service Hunt, general counsel of the PWA,jto pay their last respects, said he would join with attorneys for the Tennes.see Valley authority in ap pealing the ruling by Justice W. I. Grubb. Grubb, the same federal judge who recently held the NRA unconstitu tional, ruled that TVA had no author ity to dispose of surplus power gener ated at the hydro-electric plants on the Tennessee river. ^ • - The man who drafted the TVA act, Sehator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, said that the effect of the opinion Was to virtually nullify the entire law. The ruling by Justice Grubb made permanent the injunction which pro hibited certain Alabama towns .from negotiating PW.\ loans to build munl- balance of the textile program. In speeches against the fii*st of the bills, several representatives contend ed that proposed stnihgent labor reg ulations would ren(^ South Carolina mills unable to compete with those elsewhere and wo^ force them to close down or lea're the state. Godfrey, pi^sident of the state fed eration of textile workers, asserted in cii>al electric distribution systems. a sUtement that he was‘‘fully awlW+^f^ ruling by the supreme < court that an undercover campaign is now in progress among the manufacturers to try to bring to the general assem bly a' feeling of fear in regard to th4||e humane bills that would benefit the majority of people in this state.” Tlia Spartanburg legislator said mill executives were writing “to stock holders, asking them to bring a fight up^Th these balls which I have intro duced. In these letters they" hot only fight my' bill on the stretch-out sys tem bPteWf^blTI'lhTrwIuced. by Rep- re.sentative-Kasteflin, of Spartanburg, myself, and others, calling each and president of the Clinton Cotton Mills and of, the bank fiinn of M. S. Bailey A Son, Bankers, which is now occu pying a modem new banking hou.se with beautiful interior finishing and equipped with the most upsto-date bank equipment. This is the only pri vate banking institution in the state, would not be reported out for anoth- Now operating in its 49th year, it has er week or 10 days due to delay in never changed its small ^apiUl stock progress as a result of three-hour of $20,201.40 as set up in 1886,'Tias! every one a dangerous bill,” night sessions of the senate last week I never-changed its original location I Godfrey listed legislation which he and concentrated action of,other com-|and.has always been .owned and con-jsaid was the target of the purported mittees during the week. The bill as j trolled by the Bailey family. It has | campaign as follows: passed by the house carried a total stood unshaken during years of pros-i Godfrey bill to limit the number of perity, storm and »tre.ss, expanding!looms pe^ weaver. - and growing, with total assets today} Godfrey bill to limit the number of exceeding a million dollars. A.s its di-] machines per operative from the open ing room to the weave room. Easterliin bill to establish a general forty-hour work week. , G^frey bill to penalize discrimina tion against operatives because of un- of .$7,166,842. -.Senator S. M. Ward, of George town, chairman of th? finance com- Norris’s view apparently was that the decision, unless revcrseil, would deprive the administration of the yardstick it had planned to use both as a measuring rod and as a lever to I force power rates down.t ' ^ | Some administration officials, how ever, exinKrted an attempt to carry the issue directly to th?, highest court. They pointed out that Fly jcould ask Pallkebrers ^ere: Elarl W. Work man, J. Roy Crawfor(|l, G. F. Buford, James Williams, Hugh Bond Work man, L. T. Lawson. — Mrs. Monroe Ivas a native of this community, a daughter of the late Edward Boyd and Martha Bolt Boyd. She was a' devoted member of the Hopewell church and a Christian wo man of many admirable traits of char acter. In the community where her useful life was spent she was high^ regarded and leaves a wide circle of friends who are saddened by her pass- '^* , ' . The deceased is survived by one son. Downs L. Monroe of the Hopewell sec tion; three sisters, Mrs. J. L. Dickert*, Mrs. Ella Crawford of near here, and Mrs. Mattie Silverman, Flberton, Ga. Smith Proposes ^ Crop Loan Fund S. C. Senator AsKh Direct Treas jury.^Appropriation Despite the President’s Request. adjourned fn Ics.s than three hours. The NRA faces two senate investi gations, one proposed !>y Senator Ger ald P. Nye (Republican) of .North Da kota and Senator Pat McGah*ran (Democrat) of Maine, and t!ie other by Senator William H. Ring (Demo- crat)-of Utah of the judiciary commit tee. Both are aimed ■at. examining charges that the recovery administra tion has fosteml monopoly and price fixing. The former investigation, while aimed against the administration, was steered ^o the senate finance commit tee, where, with Chairman Pat Harri- ^ son (Democrat) of Mississippi, in charge, its authors feared It would be u.sed chiefly for hearing opinions on the form in which the lecovery, act should he exU>mIe<l, as it must be done before June 16 if that agency is to he retained. The second inquiry, urtder King and Senator William E. 'Borah (Republi can) of Idaho, NRA critic, promised to lx‘ more embarrassing to the ad ministration. Today the audit and con trol committee reported the measures providing $5,000 for each imiuiry, and Harrison sought ijjimedinte consider- tigation. Nye blocked it, lioweve.i;, to peiinit without waiting for the circuit court to pass on the suk. Unless theTVA ca.se is docketed be fore April 15, court attaches said, it probaWy-couhl not be decided ^f relief money, Senator Smith, Washington, Feb. 22. — De.spite President Roosevelt’s edict that the $60,000,000 crop'loan fund must come flill. In the ordinary course, it takes about three months for a suk to reach the highest court if it proceeds through the regular circuit court •channels. To Hold Clinics of South .Carolina, today proposed in the senate a dii’ect treasury appro priation. conferences looking toward u compro^-. rpise merging the two inquiries into one, in charge of a sel(‘ct committee of five. Some agreement was. hoped ■furvby tomorrow. " ^ While on the subject of invesitga- lions, the -sentrte learned -from Public Works" AdiTiTnistrator Harold I., Ickes ‘‘We can't wait for the relief hill to go through,” said Smith, chairman of the senate agriculture committee. that ihe agency's files containing re ports of his division of itivestigatio.u on two-'New Yoik constiiicTion-firms Pn which Postmaster General James was interested, over to the upjter iiy or two.” j juested the informa tion at the in.stigation of Senator Huey P. Long of 1/iuisiana. Icke.s , ^ m ' .111 . * , . 'pointed out that PWA nevei- investi- nur»e for the iwuth Carolina ■fubor-fu- ey ehoul, of i,„t thm it ^ “ ■■■ ■ ■' ff'■''"J T'‘r, u ilfW i'uroliitate the .lamro S'teaart the $4,«80.0(10,000 work-rohef, hiH-,h,. llenerol The farmero must have this monoyl.^ Karlov-fi.rmeilv . „ . 'S' '"iwill he tuened ov'e, In This Sectioni"!"! ^ T"'? r," z'•' U1 1 lUB iH, aken out of relief funds liHiT. ‘ Mr. Roostwelt wrote .Speakjer Uy*'ns As a result of the Christmas seal that to prevent unbalancing of his ex sale, Miss Jennie McMaster, field j penditures budget, the cr</j) loan mon- losis association, is ^ow working in laaurens county. The progrAiP .wiH in- mktee, said the committee had been recUng head, Mr. Bailey has been re- unable to make very definite head- mahkably successful, demonstrating way on the bill and asked that all oth- ability, sound judgment and clear vis- er committees meet .Wednesday to al- ion. When the bank moratorium was low members of the finance group to declared in 1933, he was / named, by devote their entjre time to the meas- _ ■ I**-*. ure. Senator Hughs of Oconee, a mem ber of the finance committee, eaid on the eenate floor that “if we continue holdii^ night sessions, it is very in definite .^as to when we shall d^ in position to receive the appropriation bill from the committee.” Hughs praised WArd’s efforts to speed com- nkttee a^ion and urged cooperation vrith him. 'The:house Iras jfxpected to' begin consideration of school - legislation during the week. Already in pdssw- sion of a duplicate measure to the bill passed by the senate last week, the chamber was expected to complete the enactment of the enlarged school program. The measure passed by the senate would" extend the state-sup Gov. Blackwood as a member of the State Board of Bank Control in rec ognition of his long and successful banking experience. As a manufacturer, Mr. Bailey is the active head of one of the largest cotton mill corporations in the Fled- mont section — the Clinton Cotton 'Mills. For the pMt year and a half, due to the health of his brother, C. M. Bailey, he has also served as acting jaresldent of the Lydia Cotton Mills. His mill Operates 72,000 spindles, 170p~ looms, manufactures white print cloth and employs.about 800 people. The Lydia Mills has 31,000 spindles ion affiliations. Easterlin bill to penalize blacklist ing of operatives. Godfrey bill to establish an indus trial court. . ^ Easterlin bill to require weekly pay days not later thim^ive days after wages become due. A bill by. Representative Wither spoon of Laurens, Godfrey and East erlin to require ihe redemption of scrip in cash. and 800 looms, the two plants having ‘‘These balls,” Godfrey said,"aril! not put the mills out of operation but if the mills go on as they are now $roing it will eventually put thifm but^ edmbined spindles of 1(^,000, and 2,500 looms Mr. Bailey married Miss Florence Bailey, only daughter of the late Dr. ported school teng to seven months jWm. Plumer Jacobs, founder of and provide a 15 per cent increase in Thomwell orphanage and Presbyte- teachers’ pay. No means of financing the bill, estimated to involve expendi ture of nearly $1,500,000, were pro vided. The senate was scheduled to begin consideration Wednesday of the Mc- Eachin-Harvey liquor store bill, ad vanced by the judiciary committee ^ a substitute for the Blatt-Brown bill passed by the house. rian college. Mrs. Bailey passed away of business. , . , 1*1 ■ 1 1 »T*L' A 1 *. AI ' I I win ..... mu I int nuiiufi-' dude free classes in health and home JhiH measure was returned to the sen-..j,, tj,,. care of the sick at Hurricane. Clas.seH will meet at the Hurricane school on Thursdays, February 28th, March 7th and 14th, from 2:30. to 4:30 p. m. These same classes were held in Clin ton two years ago, and at Wadsworth last year. There will also be a free chest clinic, held at the Masonic hall, from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. on Wednesday, March 13th. Dr. G. S. Clinckscales, cKnician for the Anderson County Tu berculosis. association, will be clin ician. The chest clinic is for both white and colored. This work was made possible through the sale of Christmas seals. The U. D. C., with Mrs. John T. Little as chairman, managed the 'seal sale in Clinton. ‘‘Dissatisfaction is beginning to reign and is the very thing we are seeking to limit. Anyone who views the situation as a whole, with strikes, turbulence, and. unrest, can see the proof of what I speak.” The union leader-legislator also as- in June, *1930. She was long promi-1 serted tbit “company unions, mfn- week~ to select a*i*epresentative from the high school to take part in the Foster Haftded Relief Checks nent in religious, civic,, club and edu cational activities of the city,~ being universally beloved - and admired. Gentle and cordial and gracious, she adorned borne and church and society, and coming from a long line of Pres byterian ancestry, she honored her in heritance. Mr,, and Mrs. Bailey lost their only son, Cyriis Bailey, in 1920. He was a popular and proptising aged and controlled by mill corpor ations,” were planning to send lobbies to Columbia to inform the legislature that operatives do not wish the bills enacted. “These lobbyists,” Godfrey said, "I purpose to expose when they arrive in Columbia.” Louise Chambers Huildoix’- ate appropriations committee, after the administration suffered a serious (■(•dure of keeping clu*(;k on F’WA pr( jects.’ defeat on the McCairin lircvairingj that ho .still is wail- wage amendment Senate leaders, however, indicated a separate $889,000,000 direct relief bill will be returned to the senate for speedy action. Such a course would enable congressional leaders to follow the president’s request. Jacobs Heads College Board The regular"annual meeting of the boar(| of trustees of Presbyterian col lege was held on the campus Tuesday with a full representation from the synods of Georgia and-South Carolina. William P. Jacobs of this city, was ing patiently for Rolu^rt Moses, New York park commissioner and member of the tri-b()rough bridge authority, to resign one or the other of his jobs. ‘‘I am giving Moses a reasonabl(} length of time to comply with the order,” Ickes said, referring to the re quirement that a federal appointee could not also hold a municipal post. ‘‘I’m a very reasonable man and in this case I want to be especially so.” ‘‘The next move is up to Moses,” he added. “The bridge authority haH plenty of money on hand at present to go ahead "with its work.” Work Begins On - City Abbatoir j elected chairman of the board, sue-' seeding Dr. H. W. DuBose, pastor of! OCol OpCUCl the First Pre.ibyterian church of .‘?par-1 tanburg. The Rev. E. L. Hill, past()f. (Started this week -with Walter In a spelling content held the past^^ the rinst Presbyterian church ofL^ Davis in charge of the project. Work on the building of a city ab- Athens, Ga„ was elected vice-chair man, sBsceeding the Rev. M. M. Mac- Lautens county contest, Modeen Fir^l Ferrih of Augusta, Ga. Mr. Jacobs is ney and Louise Chambers tied for a graduatS^ d^the college in the class first place. In the final decision Miss Chambers was declared the winner. Frances Bouknight came second, with of 1914. The board received from President MeSween what was described as-a Lwwrence Hall and Olive DeYoungj favorable report on the improved fi- tied for third place. For the,conti§«t the words were se-j lected by Miss Alice Gaines of thei high school faculty. The papers were | naricial condition of the institution. Cplumbia, Feb. 26.—Govej*nor John ston said today he had turned over to State i^A. Administrator Miller C. Foster' two federal checks,^ one for 1171401 and the other for"|748J}99, for relief work in South Carolh>^» The govemoA said proceeds of the ncNT checks are being kept in a sejpar- ate fund while the customary audit in conniption with the phange of a^toih* istration is being mfde. loiter to'i|bether the funds would be distrib- ntad to coimty admipigtratera agw hoMiiig offiee or coneemiag chMfM ia thr bmoanel. He promiaed, •fw, a eonrehwiye c< tha nllel aita tlw Baar latera. Godfrey was the mediator through f whom Governor Olin D. Johnston sent j j^ded' by ’ Mrs. -L.' BV binard of the i young man of the city, highly regard-;a letter yesterday asking ®«veral i ed by both young and old. His two Cherokee county textile unions to de-' ‘ ' daughters, Frances and Florence Bai ley, reside in Augusta with their fer proposed strikes. mother, Mrs. W. C. Bailey, and are if PiffiwAti the only grandob|ldren of Mr. W. J. V^IUZCII Bailey. For a number of years Mr. Bailey served as a member of the board of trustees of Thomwell orphanage. He is flow a meo4ier.sqf the board of Presbyterian eoUege, of ‘the State Bank BoaftC nnd a mentber and of ficer of the First Preabyterlan-cjuareh with which his fatnHy hM Umg been affiliated. For fifty yean he has l>een a dominant fame fai tin fattiness life of the city with hit large interaata. Blis reooni staads ac a MMammSt ta Ml bttfihcM «alibra» aad ta tha hiiiU> tag aad ei^MaiaD af tlda eamnupity ^ m jmrmm Mg iBsttatf'Tltn Loses Mothar "V Mrs. Florsnce Sheely, 80, mother of 0. I. SHeely of this city, died suddenly last Tliursday at home' of her daughter in Little Moun tain. The funeral service was held Fri day afternoon at Holy Trinity Luther an church, conducted by her pastor, Rhv. ErZ. Pence. Mrs. Sheely was the widow of John D./IttwMy.. She is survived by ane 4aufhtar, Mra. W. M. Stoaa of little MenatMn, two bathers, Robert L aad J. B. IL Stad^ Md one soa,^ Mr. MMIgaltliiacifey. New Garage Opens Injuity Chandler A Cooper, a new automo bile garage, will open for business to morrow, according to anannouncement in today’s paper. The concern will oc cupy brick building adjoining L. H. Davidson’s warehouse' on West Main street. Owners of the new garage are H. G.‘ Chandler iiBd -T. E. Coapar, for "sew eral years pasf connected with C.. W. Caper’s garage. Both are experienced niachanics and wcU-known yqnng men of tha eky poeeesting a host of fiends who Joiwin 'irishing snaoeas for them im th^.ant' laitiaM yaatart. - Aihr. Merchant- ■i. What are you doing to in crease your business, to bring customers to your store? Busi ness doesn’t just happen in th^ days of keen competition. There’s a big difference between a live merchant and d mere store-keeper. " Newspaper advertising is rcc- ognied as the cheapest, most effsetive known, n Newspaper readers are buyers, their cd- amns are producers. Advertiaijng ‘is Today's Great- ft rtnaintiw JUly. TheGhronicle •mm Gi Family Newspaper lata the 8( b That dr The abbatoir is being erected jus-t above the new highway to the rear of the Dunlap property on the Mus- grove highway. Material for the pro ject is being furnished by the city, it is understocKl. while the labor is be ing M]l)plied by the county Federal ^Relief administration. When complet ed all meats to he offered for sale in the. city will be butchered at the ab- 'bato^ under the supervision of Iht* cip^Ieailth^ officer. While the proper ty will be city (nvned, it is expected that it will be leased locally. Wysor-To Remain Anothmr Year Captain R. E. Wysor, professor of military science and tactics at Pres byterian college, has been ordered by the wav, department’ of the United Btates government to remain at his present assignment for another year. The announcement when made Mon day by President MeSween was cor dially receiVled and brought enthusi astic cheering from the studexkt body with which Capt. Wysoi* is very j^pu- Inr and highly regsrcM. His friends In the city skm will Re plessed to know thatJia is not to be ramdvtd frooi Ua pmaat post,’ ■\