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I % .4 VOLUME X3DCV CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 27 NUMBER 26 SENATE PASSES 'TAX MEASURE Share-1 he-WnUth Bill Passes First Test In Spite of Strong Opposition Threats. Clark and Others Object Jamming Measure Through. Washington, June 25. — Despite shaip threats ct organised opposi* tion. President Roosevelt's proposal for high taxes on great fortunes sue- ecWuUy^ passed its first eongn^ional test tonight with a decision by the senate finance committed to proceed at once with the hriefest possible open hearings. Driving toward the goal of enact ment by Saturday night, Chairman Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi, said the procedure to be followed may bring about the unusual situation' of having a portion of >the program de bated on the senate floor while other p^visions are still in his committee. The program, estimated by Harrison to ^eld the treasury 1340,000,000 an nually through new taxes on incomes of more than $1,000,000, inheritances of more than $300,000 and increased rates on corporation incoihb, is to be attached to the pending $500,000,000 nuisance tax resolution. syi Unless that resolutioni is adopted by Saturday night the nuisance levies will expire automatically. Harrison said that tegardless of a consequent loss of $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 daily, should final action be delayed beyond that time, the leadership is going ahead with the program. This decision was reached in the face of open resentment among some house members, rising opposition in the senate and the threat of a filibus ter by Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri. ’ Opponents of haste, including sev eral who like Clark are^for the pro posed lutes, stirred up a battle in the committee meeting late today,, which culminated in a vote to proceed. Har rison said this-ballot was later strick en from the record. The committee listened to tax ex perts from the treasury and recessed until tomonrow morning. “There will be brief public heat ings,” Harrison told newsmen, adding with a chuckle, “if-anybody wants to be heard, but they will not last more than two days. The conclusion was reached that if anyone wants to be heard we will hear them.” He went on to say that th^ commit tee was pretty well agreed on the in come and corporation tax proposals, but that since the inheritance levy was a new item in federal taxation it would require more extended treat ment in the committee.” The corporation schedules, he con tinued, may be called up on the floor of the senate tomorrow^while the com mittee wrestles with the inheritance levy, settling such questions as how long the recipient of a legacy would be given to pay the tax and other knotty problems. John C. Roper, Jr. Claimed By Death Son of Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Roper of This City, Passes In Ashe ville. Interment At Chester. # ' —T John Caswell Roper, Jr., 36, son of Dr. J. C. Roper and Mrs. Roper of tiiis city, died in an Asheville sani- taiium Monday afternoon following an extended illness. Funeral services were conducted in Chester'on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock by Rev. ^ L. P. MefSee, pastor of Bethel Methodist Episcopal church, with interment following beside the grave of his wife. Mr. Roper formerly lived at Ches ter and in Greenville, where he was engaged in the insurance business, and had a wide/circle of friends who yrill regret his passing. He married Mum Wijhelmina Young of Lake City, wfK) died in January, 1,933. From this un ion two children survive, John Cas- weM Roper, 3rd, and Edward Young Roper, who are now making their home here with their grandparents. Dr. and Mrs. Roper. He is also sur vived by his parents, four broth^ers, Sheldon, M. Roper of Lincointon, N. C., Rufus C. Roper of Belmont, N. C., Julian W, Roper of Greenville, and Charles Pinckney Roper of this place, student at the South Carolina Medi cal college at Charleston, and one sister. Miss Margaret Prances Roper of this city, who teaches in Buffalo. The community deeply sympathizes with Dr. and .Mrs. Roper and the fam ily in their bereavement. Hopkins Is Given Final Relief Say Washington, June 25. — Harry L. Hopkins today was given the final say on where and how much shall be spent of $249,000,000 earmarked by Presi dent Roosevelt for Secretary Ickes* slum clearance plans. This disclosure by Ickes himself that the lanky relief expert had been push ed into new prominence in the $4,000,- 000 work program coincided with two important developments. Mr. Roosevelt submitted Hopkins’ name to the senate for confirmation as works progress administrator. Funds actually available ^or work relief were further sliced by evidence that delay in getting the huge pro gram started will require spending more than $1,000,000,000 in tapering off direct relief as compared with the $860,000,000 originally planned. Direct relief was costing $4,0(W,000 a day. Work Begins On CCC Contracts jJVeevil Interest ; Shif ts Upstate Coitt^n In Piedmont Section Now At Dangerous Stage. Poison ing Being Practiced. Taxes To.Match' Expenses Urged Roosevelt Plan Is Not ^ealth Sharing But > Economically Sound, Borah Claims. i - Clemson College, June 22. — Since most of the cotton in the coastal sec tion is now rapidly passing the^^ sixe when applications of sweetened poison might be applied, interest and activ ity in boll weevil control center in the Pit^mont aection-Where in certain counties considerable intere^ is shown. One Piedmont county agent re ports than 40 to 50 machines for the application of sweetened poison were purchased by farmers in his county during the past two weeks. Estimates by county agents of the acreage receiving applications, qf sweetened poison range from three- fourths of one per cent in some of the coastal counties to as high as 50 per cent in one Piedmont county where heavy losses were sustained during 1934. Square infestations are generally reported, in the coastal section, in sonre instances exceeding 10 per cent. Several agents report that fanners have reconditioned dusting machines and have already appli^ dust to fields having a large percentage of punctured squares. Since weevil infes- taition.s are often localized, farmers are advised by W. C. Nettles, extension entomologist, "to make square counts* so that they may dust if conditions jui»tify. To use more than fqur to six pounds of calcium ar^nate dust per acre for each application is unwise, Mr. Net tles warns. To exceed this recommend ed amount may cause severe plant louse infestation and injury to the lighter soils. Information on weevil control may be found in Extension Circular 104, “Boll Weevil Control.” W^^bington, June 23.-^-Senator Bo rah today hailed President Roosevelt’s new tax^ plan as a “share-thc-burd*en- of-govemment” program and gave hii powerful support to a “timely” tax ad justment “in the light of our stupen dous expenditures.’^ . -r— The Idaho Republican issued his for mal statement as a part of today’s de termination of liberal Republicans and some Democrats to force President Roosevelt into the open on whether he wants the'new levies imposed at this session of congress. Borah said: "This program ought to be consid ered as a just and timely readjust ment of our tax laws In the light of our stupendous expenditures.” Borah’s statement said it was “ab surd” to call the proposal either a "share the wealth" or “soak the rich” program. He called it sound “economi cally’ ’and “in morals,” and added it would be “more conducive to recovery” than “reckless voting of bonds” to ppss on the cost to futur^ generations. - Bluntly, Borah said “the plan pro posal would be a fake as a distribu tion of wealth program but ... is sound in principle.” As a leading congressional critic oil the New Deal, the Idaho Republican Independent has followed the Republi can banner njiore closely than other Western liberals. His stand today presaged a showdown with the admin istration on whether it wants action on the president’s proposal before ad journment. Critical of “waste” and “extrava- Farm Pi^pgram -To Start Today Township Committeeman Named . To Direct Measuring Cotton Land Rented To Government. gance,” Borah said “there is nothing Gin Slips Coming In Smaller Strips Union Services Are Arranged Schedule Given For July and AttgufjLin City Church With Lo- ai Pastors Speaking. Fidiowing a custom of long stand ing the churches of the city will unite during July and August in Sunday evening services. The services wUl rotate with the pastors filling the respective engage ments as adopted by the local Minis terial union. The schedule for tlM sum mer followa: ' June 30—First Baptist church, Rev. C. Bynum Betts. July 7 — First Presbyterian church. Rev. M. R. Wingard. July 14—St. Jcfhn’s Lsitherin church, Dr. D. J. Woods. July 21 — Broad Street Methodist church. Rev, Edward Long. July 28^First Baptist church. Dr. J. C. Roper. • Aug. 4—^Pirst Presbyterian church. Rev. M. R. Wingard. Aug. ll church, Rev. C. Bynum Betts. Aug. 18—First Bapitist-^hurch, Dr. L. Rm. Lynn. Aug. 25 — 11x>mw>ril Memorial church. Dr. J. C. Roper. D. E, Tribble company, of tliis city, has begun work on three‘government C€C camp contract? recently secun&d for Chester, Clover and GaffneyT Work sheds and machinery have been pro vided in the rear of their lumber yards where a large force of carpejnters and helpers are now employe^*uhder the supervision of J. Roy Crawford of this city. The camp buildings, which are of portable' design, are cut in the plant to specifications and will later be erected on their respective sites. E. B. Meade, kovemment building inspector, arrived in the city Monday and will remain here for the next several months while the buildings are being constructed. Gin allotment certificates for Lau rens county and Sotith Carolina this year will come in 3,000 pound stripe instead of 6,000-pound stripe as in 1934, it was last week. _The gin slips will be absolutely non- traneferable except through tihe office of the county agent, an official point ed out, thus preventing any illegal transaction by a farmer who holds a surplus number over the number of bales he will gin. - Certificates covering between 15,- 000,000 and 20,000,000,000 pounds of lint cotton to be ginned tax-free under the Bankhead cotton law will arrive for county farmers around August 1. Cotton grrowers in the area have al ready made application for allotments from the state allotment board. Meanwhile, official? at the county agent’s office are urging all farmers having 1934 gin certificate? which they did not use to bring them to the office to be sent to Washington for 1935 certificates CENTRAL CAROLINA W L Joanna . ... Twre—r-*- 10 2 Ware Shoals .... i... 8- 4 Ninety-Six ...^ 1... 7—-6 Mathews ..... .... 6 Clinton .... 4... 5 Watts ...: :iri. 6 Greenwood ^ 5 Laurens .4- 3 6 7 7 7 9 Pet. 800 750 583 500 416 416 416 333 Wkere They Play ’fhis Week Friday . Broad Street Methodist at’Greenwood. _ Joanna at Ware Shoals. i.'\ COLLECTING BACK TAXES Sheriff C. L Owens turned over to Comty Treasurer D. R. Simpson last week, a cheek for $21,758.19, repre- senti^ delinquent tax collections for the past several months. Some of the collectoins wer? for years as far back as 1928, it l#as stated.. t BARBECUE AT GOLDVILLE The Hopewell Methodist chprch will give a barbecue at the school building in Gokiville on July 4th, with Aoe Johnson as Dinner be served at 12 o’clock noon with, the public in vited. _ Mathews at CHnton. Ninety-Six at Laurens. Sa$Hrday Clinton at Mathews. Greenwood at Watts. Ware Slx>alB at Goldville. Laurens at Ninety-Six. BIG'SIX LEAGUE W Lydia 6 Goldville 4 Mollohoh ...’. 3 Newberry : 2 Laurens , 2 atts .... .... .... 1 ' L 0 2 3 4 4 5 Pet. 1000 667 500 333 333 166 more conducive to waste, to extrava- gfipce, and to economic demoralization than the unconscionable system of passing expenditures over to our chil dren, and our children’s children in the way of bonds and interest.” Borah, meanwhile, conferred with members of the group urging action at this session. They determined to hammer on the issue until Mr. Roosevelt makes his views known. At the same time. Dem ocratic leaders, worried over the grow ing temper of congress, also determin ed to ascertain the president’s definite wishes before taking further steps. They planned to consult with him upon his return from Hyde Park and report that sentiment for early action was gpx)wmg. - Instructions have bwn received from Washington by C. B. Cannon, county agent, to begin compliance work (measuring cotton land). The field force met at the agent’s office yesterday to receive instructions and will get the campaign started today. ^ Mr. Cannon states that it is very important that farmers have -their government rented land staked off with substantial stakes before the committeemen arrive at their farms. This rented land may ibe land planted in com, hay crop, stubble land, or land planted to Soil improvement crop. No stakes are requir^ to be pla<^ around the cotton acres, Mr. Cannon .states. The following is a list of communi ty committeement and supervisors who will direct the compliance work in this county: Youngs township: Committeemen— C. R. Bobo, Wallace Martin, L. R. Hen derson. Supervisors—Eugene, Bobo, C. R. Wallace, Ernest Cook. Dials township: Committeemen — Ben Taylor, B. V. Gray, T. W.-Barks dale. Supervisors—Larry D, Woods, J. T. Bhooks, Jr., Cra.sWell Shell. . SuNivan township: Omimitteemen— H. O^Abcrcrombie, G. C. Roper, G. D. Wood. Supervi.sors—C. D. Williams, R. C. Was.son, Eugene Abrams. Waterloo township: Committeemen -J. 0. Strihling, J. B. O’Dell, R. G. Smith. Supervisors — Howard Cooper, C. B. Culbertson, JohniL F^nell, Jr. liaurens township: Commiiteemen— John H. Power, R. M. Langston, A. H. Moore. ‘Supervisors—G. T. Bryson, L. M. Mobley, Earl-Blakely. ^ Scuffletown township: C-ommittee- men—B. A. Goodwin, D. T. Davis, Eu gene Wingo. Supervisors —Mason Rowland, Milton Y. Blakely, Manciel Senn. Cross Hill township: (Committeemen —S, M. Leaman, H. E. Hitt, E. A. Ad ams. Supervisors—J. Q. Denny, H, L. MeSwain, Sam Rasor. Hunter township: Committeemen — Jim W. Miller, Edgar M. Young. Su pervisors—Randolph Davis, Sam Cle- land, Hayne R. Workman. Jacks township: Committeemen-^ John D. Copeland, Tan_ M. Ray, J. L Adair. Supervisors—W. M. Ferguson, Ryan McCray, Lawrence H. Hall. RELIEF BURDEN UP TO COUNTIES State’s 9,000 Unemployables Tq Be Dropped From July 1st. Counties ^ajid Private Agencies Must Care For Those Unable To Work. Calls Fpr Aid For Unemployables Andy Y. Jones Dies At Sedalia Andy Y. Jones, 52, well known.,in iClinton, dicnl Monday morning at his Governor Asks Citizens To See home in Se<lalia after being in ill in de<laiia alter oeing in health for several years. Funeral services —were conducted Tue.‘*day afternoon at four o’clock fiom Padgett’s Creek Baptist church Columbia, June 22. —Governor Olin,by the Rev. J. R. Moore. Interment There Is No Suffering or Pri vation in State. Columbia, June 24. — J. D. Fulp, aiUto relief admiiFistrator, announced tiiday that county and "private chari- table agencies would have to care for South Carolina “unemploymblea” after June 30 as they had in the past with , some indirect state assistance. The administrator said a newly- completed survey showed that a total of approximately $4,000,000 was raised by private agencies and individuals, the state and counties in^South Caro lina for relief purposes in 1934. “The amounts will be more in many instances in 1935, from present indi cations,” he commented. iHe pointed out that the state appropriates funds for the aged in the form of Confedev- atOi pensions and allot-s money to aid orphaned and crippled children. An Unofficial estimate placed tho amount of state appropriations in tho neighborhood of $500,000, including more than $400,000 in Cxmfederato pensions, $03,000 for the de la Howe school, and smaller sums for the. state children’s bureau and. cripple<i .chil dren. Fulp said approximately 9,000 cases -' of unemployables would lie droppe<l from the relief rolls July 1.under in structions from' Washington. A sur vey has been planned to determine the exact number. Uru*mployables were classified as the type of persons who were charges upon the State and its subdivisions before fe<leral aid came in and whoso industrial rehabilitation is precluded by incapacitation. Charitable oi^anizations" in tho counties were looked to for their care. The state administrator said ho knew of no special .state jirogram lo provide for unemployables, as fioTkato appropriation had been made for tho purpose. j.- “Most counties have county homes or funds for the indigent,” he added, “that ‘might be brought into play to cope with the situation. “Thfen there are the community chests, associated charities, the Re<l Cross, Salvation Army and other agencie^ that cared for these people before the federal emergency relief administration stepped in to shoulder- the burden during the depression.” Governor 01 in I). Johnston urged South Carolinians Saturday to “see» that there shall Ik* no suffering and undue privation in our midst” with the comment that “unquestionably times are better in South Carolina an<l • our iK'ople can now begin to care for those unfortunate jK*rsons who are net — able to work,” D. Johnston called upon South U*ro-j family burial ground liniane today to “see that there shtrfl jp adjoining churohyatxl., Nephews be no suffering and undue privation Renewal of these certificates willlin our midst” arfter direct relief in the not cost the holders a penny, it was stated, but in their present form they are worthless. Both Conferences Largely Attended The senior conference in session the past week at Presbyterian college^, closed Tuesday at noon and the 325 young people in attendance left im mediately for their respective homes. Both the intermediate and senior conferences this year broke all pre vious records in attendance, the col lege facilities being inadequate to ac commodate all who desired to attend. Both were unusui^ly successful and helpful, according to the leaders in charge. Joanna Mills To Gose For Fourth Following a custom of several years past, the Joanna (Cotton Mills at Gold ville, will closa down the week d July 1st to observe the' Fourth. Operation of the plant will be resumed.on the state is discontinued. A recent announcement here said of the deceased served as active pall bearers, Mr. Jone? was the'only son of the late J. Andy and Valeria Young stole ERA headquarters iwd been no-ij^p^j, bom and reare<l in tified by Harry L. Hopkins, national [j^p^gpg county and married Miss admipistrator, that it would be stop ped July 1. In a statement explaining he had been informed of the move, the gover nor said be also^had been told there were approximately 9.000 relief cas^ in the state “which are termed unem ployable” due to physical disabilities or “other acceptable causes.” “The withdrawal of federal funds for the aid of these persons'will catfse untold suffering and privation unless the kate, county and city "govern ments, the charitable organizations and private individuals come forward imm^iately to meet the emergency,” he asserted. i r' Fannie Bobo, He was a highly regard ed and useful citizen of his com munity. The deceased is survived by his widow and the following children: three daughters, Mrs. William Hen- Johnson To Direct Girls InjSports Scope of Uresbyterian College Physical Education Department To Be Widened. Acting Preiident Wm. P. Jacob.s has announced that Coach Walter A. ~ Johnson would have charge of the' special classeis in physical e<lucation «rey «Dd Miu FrMce. Jone» of this f"’ P.e»bytenon col-, city and HU. 01. Jone. of Sodali.; Cl*.**. three MM. J. Andy Jonea. Claude *’*>'' '" .Le">y •'’P'-mgs gym- Jone. and Hugh done.. AUo by three ewnnnj.ng pool ami on eUtera. Mra. Tom Blair and Mft. W. J«l>P«®»,f'eH one of the l>eat athletic, H. Lon* of Blair., and Mrs. Jessie , ,, , , Coach Johnson has- been head of Sparks of this city. Lydia Mills Case In Federal Court Pmy Rerigns Sdiool Place morning of July 8th. The Joanna plant has been running two folLshifts ^lay and night the en tire year. The', cldee down for next week will be the first thne the mill has lost a day since the Christmas holidays, Mr. Moorhead stated yesteri* day: I The Lydia Cotton Mills remained kUe this week following the filing of a petition on last Wednesday with Judge H. H. WaUcins at Greenville, for reorganization under section 77-B of ,the national bankruptcy act. Notice has been filed in the West- , BPOKE IN AUGUSTA Dr. L. R. Lynn spent Sunday in Au gusta where ^ was file guest speaker at the Reid Memorial Presbyterian dburch. ‘FIRST COTTON BLOOM em district of South Carolina, United States court, that a hearing will be held'in Greenville on July 5th at which time a decision will be rendered upon the question of whether the debtor shall be continued in possession of its estote or whether a trustee or trustees thereof shall be appointed.' The first co^n bloom produced in' this section to be brought to 'The CJironicle office came Saturday, June 22nd( from the-farm of T. M. Patter son, who resides on the G. W. Bailey place in t^ Beard's Fork section. The second bloom of the season was brought to the office from R. M. League’s farm on Tuesday, the 25rii. Joanna Scouts At Myrtle Beach W. B. Perry, for the past year agri cultural instructor in the Clintop high school, has resigned his position ef fective July the first. On July 15th he will joint the New York Life In surance company with Clinton as his headquarters, and will serve quite a large area of the state. For the first two weeks in^\^ he will be stationed at Firt Screven near Savanah, where he-Will serve as ah officer in the R. 0. T. C. Mr. Perry, who is a graduate of athletics ft Presibyten'an college for j20 years. .Next to Zupke of Illinois, he— ii^he oldest coach in jxiint of service at one institution in the United States. Johnson attended the Battle Creek School of Physical Education and ser^’ed in the American Expeditionary Forces with the Thirtietb dfvision as physical director. H<e was also direc tor of athletic activities of the Myrtle Beach estates for several summers. His success with the Blue Stockings’ football team his been unusual. Pres byterian college teams, under his tu telage, have won rnore than hfJf their games, although meeting only one school annually whose kudent body is smaller. Coach Johnson’s courses in^ physica education for boys have been a the Clemson college, made an outstanding , , , , record the past year at the local school cuumculum where he was an excellent leader and y®**'*- organizer of boys. He has made a wide circle of friends in Clinton whp_will be interested in the announcement of his new work, and who at the same; time are glad to know that Clinton will continue to be his home. The Boy Scouts group of the Joanna Cotton mills at Goldville, are on a two-weeks’ vacation outii^ at Myftl^ Beach: The group of boys, numberitig sixty, are being chaperoned by their Scoutmaster, Bruce Galloway. TO DIRECT FIELD MEN Glenn Patton of Young’s township, and Ryan Lawson of the Wadsworth community near herej are the general supervisors of the field men now con ducting the government cottqn acre age compliance program in county. Club PI TP • Tn • ■’I *8 Atlanta One hundred members of the Moth er’s club organization at the Joanna Cotton Mills will leave on next Friday, July 5th, for a two da^s’ stay in At lanta. The trip will be made in buses by the entire membership ol the club. The Joanna Girls’ cljA, composed of this 1 sixty members, will go to Washington [in August for a week’s outing.