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/ •r.- vr f . ff Tm Dmh Rcai <THB CHSOmOiB T«m D9«*i G«t tHB CHRONICUI StriTca To Bo o Cloui Noinh popcr, Comploto, Nowijr, UKl JleUoblo. -1 yOLUHE XXXV CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 18,1935 NUMBER 16 LIQUOR BILL STILL IN AlRi 1 I May Be Settled This Week By Assembly .'Money Meagre and Other Matters Up As Grind of Fifteenth Week Begins. dlNTON FOLKS YOU KNOW South Carolina Must/Ante Up’ (Wer 2 Mulion ; Columbia, April 15. — Possible dis- I>osal of the momentous liquor control and appropraition issues \^s intros* pect to^y as the South Carolina leg islature prepared to begin^ the fif teenth week of the session tomorrow. The house was expected to be the center of atteirtion tomorrow as it re ceives from the senate a bill ib legal-j ize package sales of liquor by licensed dealers in the state. The measure was passed by the senate as an amend* meht to a house county control bill sent the “Chamber in January. % Although rep^lists indicated the;^ would press for house acceptance of the meaauDSt whether the chamber will concur or send it to a free con ference was problematical. When the bill comes before the house, the chamber nuty adopt it by concurring in it as amended by the senate; it may vote nonconcurrence and send the bill to a free conference; or it may further amend the senate amendment and return the measure to the senate for concurrence._ Governor Olin D. Johnston, who de clined to say whether he was in ac cord with the licensing bill as passed by the senate, asserted, “I’d advise t^m to send it to a free confetence.’’ •Proponents of the licensing meas- ime claimed it came nearer fulfilling the governor’s definition of a “rea sonable” law than any other. Ratification of a liquor control act and its signature By the governor would indicate how much revenue could be expected for schools, lead ers pointed out, and would serve as a guide for quick enactment of- the ap propriation bill and a measure to-ex- tend the state-supported school term and raise teachers* pay. Meanwhile, conferees on the appror priation bill said they were >n reach of completing their work on the pivot al measure this week and Representa tive Neville Bennett of Marlboro, chairman of the' house ways and means committee, said, “The bill ought to be completed in a few days barring the unforseen.** 'nte school bill, passed sometime ago by the senate without a revenue^^ea- ture, is before the ways and means committee. It would extend the state supported school term from six to seven months and" increase teachers’ pay 15 per cent at an estinmted cost of nearly $1,500,000. A workmen’s compensation bill This State Must Appropriate Its Owii Funds To Supplement Federal Relief Money. Stroke Fatal To Jobe B. Nabors Well-Known Citizen Passes Af ter Short Illness. Laid To Rest In Roscmont Cemetery.i Washington, Aprm2.—Harry Hop kins, emergency relief administrator, istated at his press conference today!held from, the First Bhptist chur^ of Jobe Booter Nabors, 44, - stricken with paralysis ten days ago, died at his home on-Sloan street early Sun day morning. The funeral service was Wallace Draws Severe Attack Cotton Textile Institute Head Assails Speech On Manufac turers Processing Tax. thai he meant business when he said this city on Monday afternoon at 4 New York, April 14.—Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wAs a.ssurod today of mis-stating the atti tude of the cotton textile manufactu rers toward the pix)cessiug tax in a statement by G. H. Dorr, president of jSouth Carolina would have to put up o’clock, conducted by his pastor, the!the Cdfton Textile instit^. ,$2,600,000 in relief money during 1935i,Rev. F/dward I^ong. Interment follow- if the federal government continuesj ed in Rosemont cemetery. Both at the its relief activities in the Palmetto! clTurch and grave, a large crowd com- FLYING BOAT > OFFTOORIENT Clipper of Sky Hops On Minute .For Honolulu. Seeks To Blaze Trans-Paciric Air Line Trail With Crew of Six Men. on Almeda, Calif., April lO.*—Exactly Schedule, the big clipper flying boat and its six-man crew left here today on a 2,400-'rnile flight to Hono- Commenting on the speech of' Sec-'lulu to blaze the first leg of a com- !state. In a statement last night Hopkins pointed* out that negotiations be tween his organization and Gover nor Olin Johnston had been under way but no definite agreement ha been made as to what South Carolina,' along with nine other, states, would do. Relief funds are not being alio-'practicing physician of this ing from far and wide ga,thered to pay their inspects to one who was highly regarded and possessed many fine qualities. ‘ _ ’ MTr. Nabors was born in Jacks town- ship, a son of Willie T. Nabors and the late Mrs. Nabors. He was named for the late ^Dr. Jobe J. Boozer, long a commur LONNIE LEON STILLER L. L. Stiller, a Clintonian by adop tion, is one of the well known young men of the city engaged in the fancy grocery business. • Mr. Stiller was born in Sali’sbury, N. C., in Rowan county, a son of W. T. Stiller and the late Mrs. Stiller. His training and education was re ceived in his home town, after which he entered the mercantile business. His first position was with the Belk Department store at Salisbury. From there he was transferred to Kannapo lis, N. C., where-he held the position of assistant manager of the Belk store for six and a half years. In 1925 he joined the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company, being con nected with one of their stores in Cliarlotie for several fmonths. When the A. &. P. organization entered Clin ton in January, 1926, Mr. Stiller was assigned here as manager and for nine years served the store as its first and only madai^r. Last November he severed his relation with the A. & P. chain and together with J. F. Norris of tbia city, organized ai^ opened the Argo Food Store, one of the moet at tractive and well arranged grocery concerns in the city^Mr. Stiller is manage^ of the store, And has enjoyed a fast growing business since their opening a few months ago. 'Since coming to Clinton Mr. Stiller has made many friend, and has iden tified himself with the civic and busi ness life of the community. His church affiliation is with St. John’s. Lutheran church. He is a member and vice-pres ident of the Merchants’ association, member and booster of the passed la.st week by the house was expected to come up for senate con-’*ud a member and sideration during the ^eek following ^kauiber of Cemmerce a public hearing on the measure Wed- Mr. Stiller married Miss Har- nesday. Early committee action also, riett Correll of Kannapoli.s. They have •was in prospect upon an old-age pen-1 two small children, Howard Victor sion bill sent the senate by the house,and Martha Ann. along, with the workmen’s compensa-j ' “ oth!,r“p“r'S««u likely to'eome uprOnly 8 Vcterans for consideration during the week,are] * bills on the house calendar to providei l^ClL III ^OUIaiy $3 fees annually for automobile li-| cense plates; a bill to authorize the, jhe 70th anniversary ofthe surren- state highway department to negoti-1 (fel* of Appomattox of the Confederate ate for 'the purchase of the Cooper j^rmy remnants fimJs only eight sur- cated to these states pending conclu sion of the negotiations. Several times Hopkins has threat ened to shut off federal relief funds unless the state pul more money in to relief but he has never gone through with his threat. But this .time it- is going to be different and May 1 has been set as the deadline. South Carolina’s ability to raise $2,600,00 the amount which Hopkins expects'the state and citie.s to .spend fof relief in 1935, was a subject of discussion by members of the Palmet to state, delegation today. Some ex pressed doubt as to whether South' Caroliha could comply with the Hop kins request, and predicted an effort would be made to share the amount in no little degree. In 1934 South Carolina and local public agencies expended only $390,- 000 for relief. There is* quite a dif ference in this figure and $2,6000,- 000. Some of. ^he states which spent about as much as South Carolina last year have already come across to the satisfaotion of Hopkins, Alabanu, for example, last year spent $893,000 for relief and already the legislature has appropriated $3,000,000 for relief in 1935. Localities are expected to pro vide an additional $500,000. Hopkins’ plan to force states and localities to pjovide $154,888,000 more for relief purposes in 1936 than dur ing 1934 is in line with President Roosevelt’s plan to take the federal government out of the business of di rect relief. The government'plans to use the huge work relief fund for giv ing jobs to the emplpyables now on re lief rolls and to look to the state and localities to provide for those on di rect relief who are not able to work. ■ \ President Works On Relief Plans River bridge at Charleston; a measui;e to provide for the sterilization of men tal defectives; and another to abolish the state highway patrol and create in its stead a “modemize<r-state con- stabulary. High on the senate calendar are vivors now residents of Laqrens coun ty. According to the' indexed rolls at the office of the probate judgre, the Confederate veterans in the county J. Patrick Caldwell, 91, who lives in Laurens. He served with Company bills to increaM ^1** ®***”P^*®® ^^•iCr-'^’ourteehth South Carolina regi- 20,000 to 25,000 pounds for trucks and' trailers banned from operation upon state highways; to investigate the status of prisoners at the penitentiary and make recommendations for pos- eible cleme.ncy; a house bill by ^p- resentative Godfrey, of Spartanburg, to limit the number of looms assigned Corn- State ment, McGowan’s brigade. A. M. Copeland, 86, Clinton, pany E, Fourth Batallion, troops. J. W. Copeland, Clinton, 87, Com pany F, Fourth Batailion, State I troops. i W. P. Davenport, 90, Waterloo to weavers in textile rnilfs and anoth- towuship. Record noMisted. nity. In recent years he had made his home in Clinton and ‘lieRT a position with the Joanna Cotton Mills at Gold- ville. He was an upright citizen, abso lutely honest and straightforward in al^^ relations of life, and one wKo was admired and respected by a wide cir cle of friends who regret in his pass ing. Besides his widow, before marriage Miss Lucy Abrams, he is survived by his father, Willie T. Nabofs; three daughters, Mrs. C. G. Barnette, Misses Louvenia and Virginia Nabors; two sons, Herman and Ralph Nabors; four sisters, Mrs. John Benjamin, Mrs. Ed Bringle, Missse Rose and Nora Na- l)ors; five brothers, Robert, Charley, Tommy, Leggette and Hugh Nabors. Leaders Determined To Put An End To Dole By Epd of July of Next Year. Fulton Speaks Here In May Foreign Missions Secretary To Deliver Baccalaureate Sermon At College May 26. The Rev. C. Darby Fulton, D.D., of Nashville, Tenn., will deliver the bac calaureate sermon before the gradu ating class at Presbyterian college on Sunday, May 26th. Followipg accus tom of long standing, the service will be held in historic First Presbyterian church. ' - Dr. Fulton graduated from Presby terian college in 1911. He was born in Kobe, Japan, where his father apd mother. Dr. and Mrs; S. P. FultOft, have served as missionaries for tke past half century. He came here from Japan to enter college where he made an outstanding record. Later he re ceived degrees from th University of South Carolina, Columbia Theological seminary and, Princeton. In 1924 his alma mater conferre<l the doctor of divinity degree upon him. For the period 1917-25 Dr. Fulton was a missionary to Japan. For the next six years he was field secretary of foreign missions of the Southern ^esbyterian'church, after which he was made executive secretary of the board in 1932, succeeding Dr. E, W. Smith, resigned. Dr. Fulton is well-known and very popular in Clinton. He is recognized as one of the able ministers of his de nomination and has a wide circle of friends in the city who are pleased with thA announcement that he has accepted a place on the college’s clos- rgtary Wallace at Atlanta, Ga., yes-, terday, Dorr declared that the process ing tax was unsound and “sooner or later bound tO; go.” “This is no time for misunderstand ing and conflict betweaji ^ondmic groups in this country,” Dorr said. i‘We need united front.” i “We in the textile industry regret, and I may say resent, the statements reported this ^orning to have b^n made by the secretery of agricplture to the cotton farmers of the state ^of Georgia. """He misunderstands and conse quently misstates the attitude of the cotton textile ‘manufdlcturers toward the cotton projgram. They have not attack^ the payments to cotton farm ers necessary to enable them to re ceive what Congress has determined to be a fair price for their prc^uct^ They have attacked!, and will continue ‘to attack, the'method used to raise money for this purpose. ' “They will ultimately succeed in this attack, for the processing tax is unsound and sooner or later bound to go. It is an unsound ^x becau.se it is in effect a high sales tax specially imposed ort the ne^sitjes of life. So far as cotton goes, it falls most hea- Uate vily on those lea.st able to pay. “The secretary, in his annual report in a calmer moment, has pointed out the unsound character of the tax. "We canhot believe that the cotton farmers will regard as hostile to their interest efforts to substitute nation ally raised funds for this tax, which tends to cut down the market for their own product. We cannot agree with the secretary in his reported statement that to pay cotton bwefits out of a general national fund would piit farmers “in a position to dip their hands into the treasury and get whatever they want. “We cannot understand what useful public purpose the secretary thinks can be served by his persistent effort to sow seeds of discord between thfs industry and farmers from whom it buys and who are a 1^ its best cus tomers. We can understand this attack the less being made ufwn an industry which came forwar<l *at the very start to help put into‘effective oiwration mercial trans-Pacific airline to the Orient. • The Pan-American plane took off at 3:50:30 p. m. (6:50:30 Eastern stan dard time)* rose slowly frorh the wa ter and headed toward its distant goal. Four, powerful motors, developing 2,8fl(0~Rbr.sepower, whirled the big pro pellers as several thousand spectators eagerly watched the start of the pio neering hop. The six men of the clipper’s crew, captained by Fxlin C. Musick, walked to the float and entered thefr craft. They wore natty blue uniforms and white caps. Then -Chief Pilot 0. D. Sullivan opened Ihe throttles and the craft turned slowly and headed out into the b'ay. Spray foamed from the sleek black hull as the clipper gatherc<l si>eed. It raced along the surface for a quarter of a- mile and, after 30 seconds, lifted into the air. __ ' - Apparently flying slo^'ly, the clip- p<it nevertheless forced a dozen, ae-— coniptmying planes to race'in keeping up witn it as it passed over Sap Fran- - cisco and out the Golden Gate. The two thin fingers of the Golden ^ bridge, under construction, forme<l a red-painted passageway for the plane as it flew out over the blue- Pacific. The sun was .shining bVilliantly at Alameda and weather. condition.s at».. sea were reported almost rdeaL < There were only a few scattered clouds en route, and no adverse winds. "The fliers will have very good weather for the next 24 to 36 hours,” said Major Edward H. Bowie,’ United States weather forecaster at San Francisco. With a cruising speed of between*' 150 and 160 miles an hour, the plane was expected to reach Hololulu in be tween 16 and 18 hours. A new radio compass, developed af ter tests by Colonel and Mrs. (Charles A. Lindbergh, will guide the plane. 'The clipper weighed 4L500 pounds and carried .3,000 gallon.s of gasoline' and 30() gallons of oil^ enough to take it 3,000 miles. I*" It also carried 102 poun<ls of mail, jof H,000' letters sent by philatelists . er to require the vaccination oi dogs to prevent the spread of rabies. Thomas H. Madden, 86, resident of Cold Point; Company E, Fourth Bat talion, State troops, cavalry. A. Wright Sims, Waterloo township, 86. Record not listed. Ji B. Wnght, Lanford Station, 87, Record not listed. W. A. Watts, 88, retired banker' and Upper Conference Accepts InvI-j resident of Laurent; Company F, Greenwood To Be - Methodists’ Host tation To Holds Its ^There In November. Session! Legion, Gary’s brigade. Washington, April 13.—Rapid dis tribution of the $4,800,000,00 re-em ployment fund by President Roo.sevelt was indicated tonight as Itidminstra- tion leaders determined to 6nd federal doles by July 1, 1936. Mr. Roosevelt and his aides set mid- November as the .time to have their employment drive in full force. De velopments in their program included: _ Under-Secretary Qf . AgricuItute^,jg^-^i.ogfrft^ next month. Rexford Guy Tugwell ^nd Relief Ad ministrator Harry L. Hopkins announ ced a strrvey to expedUe soil erosion control. * 2. Hopkins insisted that states and municipalities care for the 4,000,000 persons on federal relief rolls, who are incapable of earning a living. 3. FERA revealed 2,500,00 family heads already are employed on work- projects, egming an average of $29.- 50 a month apiece. They can be shift ed to more substantial projects, and their pay increased td lfie adminstra- tion’s $50 security ^g^, officials said. —^4. PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes studied plans to reduce the four per cent interest rate now charged by PWA for its loans, and increase from 30 to 50 p^ cent the amount, the gov ernment will grant outright to politi cal subdivisions for construction ac tivities. . one of the president’s major policie.s j world. — the national inclustrial: .recovery program.” . Streets And Roads To Get Billion? Esteemed Woihan Claimed By Death , • m I > Mrs. Clifton Cunningham Pass es At Home N^r’Mountville. Interment At Liberty Springs. CENTRAL CAROLINA LEAGUE W L Pet. Clinton.— 1 Joi^ha .... 1 Matthews 1 Greenwood, April 13.—The 1935 ses- 8i<m8 of the Upper South Carolina Methodist conference will be held at Main Street Methodist church of •Greenwood early in November, i^ord- iw to a message received here today by W. K. Charles, chairman of the board of stewards, from the Rev. C. E. ov i i Peele, presiding elder of the Green- "‘J* Shoals .... 1 wood die^ct. ® The invitation vtras extended some time ag^ to the pr^iding elders com- posing the conference cabinet and was accepted at their meeting in Gaffney yesterday. The dates will be fixed by Bisbop Pa.ul B. Kem of Greens boro, N. Cw who will prsaide. . nis tipper eonfersaoe held its last imkii^ in Greenwood in' Mmp Wnirm A. CMcber pcesidinf. Greenwood Laurens .... Ninety Six ... 0 .... 0 -.. 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 BIG FOUR league L Lydia 1 MoUobon 1911-xilhi Joanna - - 1000 1000 1000 1000 000 000 000 000 Pdh 1000 1000 000 000 New Train Soon To Be Installed Bureau of Public Rpads Got Jump On Oiher^. Spending Agencies, It App^rs. Emergency rations also were car ried, although the crew didn’t figure on- needing them. They included can- ne<l pork and beans, mock turtle and IK*a soup, veal, green peas and mash ed potatoes, bread, tea, coffee orange Juice. ish- ^ arpr Washington, April 15.—.Surface in dications pointed toJay. to the possi bility that $1,000,000,000 of-the ad ministration’s work relief fund may be spent on streets and highways The bureau of public joads,^ it was' said, has got the jump on ot he ^..impend ing agencies. It already ha^$100,000,- 000 of grade crossing elirmnations or other projects contracted for under authority granted by congress last year, officials, revealed, and these contracts'are- to be met with work re lief mon^. St^ highway' departments were rted to have detailed programs crossing elimination!^, trunk line Laurens Scliool FinaJaArranged Baccala ii eate Sermon To Be De- By Dr. R. C. I.<ong‘. 'banning To Make Address. AnnQuncement has been made by J. T. Perkins, of Atlaijta, traveling passenger agent cf the Se^oard Ah* Line railway, that the new* one-coach electric stream-lined train between Atlanta and Monroe, will be put into ^service on Sunday, April 28th, the schedule to be announced soon. The new train will run practically on the same schedhle as old No. 29^ and 30. It will be operated with a Diesel engine, carrying express and mail, aid with a seating capacity of sixty chairs. A bill making its operation possible was recently passed by general assem bly msm pst^km from Gm road. \ Mrs, W. Clifton Cunningham, 6^ a life-long resident of this county; died suddenly at her home near M^ntville early Monday morning, after declin ing health of^several years^ The funeral service was held Tues day morning at Liberty Spring.s cem etery at Cross Hill, witl^the Reji^Mr. Byrd in charge. The'sSvice was at tended by a large concourse of friends, the respect and‘esteem in which she! was held by many people being eyi- deneVd in the beautiful floral offer ings which banked her grave. Mrs. Cunningham was a devoted member of the Cfoss Hill Baptist i^urch and possessed a kind ^nd lov- js^le disposition. Her fine traits of Christian character made and held for hef m-r.y friends who are grieved by the news ot Her death. Mrs. Cunni.^qham is survived by her husband, by four daughters, Mrs. J. P. Caldwell of Greenville, Mrs.' Austin Chaqdler, Mrs. M. A. Bennett and Mrs. J. K. Johnson, all of this city; by three sbns, W. L., Harold and Reese Cunningham of Mountville; and by two brothers, T. J. and J. M. Davenport of Mountville. 4^. I' Laurens, April 14.—The annual ser— mon in connection with the closing ex ercises of the l.aurens city school, .dates to be announced later, will be 4 preached by the Rpv, Rosswell C. Ixin-g, D. I),, pastor of the- First Pres byterian (Jhurch, Greenwood. It is also announced that the annual address before the graduating class will be made by W’yndham .VI. Man ning. of Sumter. The sermon will be preached in tht? routes through cities, arterial high-ipj,.^ Pre.sbyterian, Church. The way improvements and the like ready l exercise.s will'be held for consideration as soon as President Roosevelt indicates th^siim he wants to spend irt this direction. . The president said at a press con ference l^.st week that between $100,- 000,000 and $266,^0,000 will be used to eliminate grade crossings. ^ra. J. A. Coleman and Mrs. P. B. AMir spent Hiursday in Laurens with Mr. and Mrs. Hui^ Morgan. Lynn To Speak At A.R.P. Church Dr. L. R. Lynn, will occupy the pul pit of the A. R. P. church next Sab bath night in the absence of the pas tor, the ReVr^CkrB. Betts. The hour for the service is 8 o’clock and the public is cordially invited to hear Dr. Lynn’s message. HONORED AT PEABODY James Isaac Copeland, sorr of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Copeland, of this city, ha:s been elected president of the Kappa Delta Pi, an honorary educa tional fraternity of inixdd member ship at George iWhody College for Teaclmn, Nashville, Tenn. Mr. (Dope- land is an honor graduate of this in stitution smd is connected with its li brary school. ' m the high .school auditorium. The cla«s roll this year is composed of 35 girls and 28 boys as follows; France.s Anderson, Henrietta Black- welli Pauline Bolt, Dorothy M. Bram- lett, Ina M. Bramlett, F^ugenia Burns; FDdith Coggins, Ruth Donniln, FTUza- beth Dorroh, Margaret Franks,'Laura Aylette Fleming, Ethel M. Garrett, Bernice Hartsell, F!loise Hendrix, Katherine Biers, Nora Hudgens, .Mary Irby, Ruby Lanford, Helen R. Mahaf- fey, Lydie Miller, Mildred .Minter, Sa die Murphy, Amelia Nickels, Mary FVances O’Shields, Margaret Putnam, F'rance.s Reeves, Virginia Roper, Doris Sanders, Made B. Simmons, Saia E. Taylor, Grace Tumblin, Sarah Weis- ner, Wilma Wham, Grace Wilson and Nancy Sue Wix. Samuel Avery, W’ilburn Bolt, Stan ley- Boyd, Roger Blakely,* Charles Blackwell, James Blakely, Ansel EF- more, Frank Fleming, Vance Fuller, John Glenn,I James Golden, Harvey Goolsby, Rai^ond Hill, John Hugh Mahon, Willmm 0. Miller, Jack Pat terson, Claude Pitts, Jack Prince, Lewis Reid, David Roper, Dan Sherer, Lofton. Sullivan, Hayne Taylor, Whit- nor Taylor, Maxey Templeton, Vernon Watson and Duvall Weatb«ra. A 3. .K..- „