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SsS' '.-'an . 1'.' - •• A / TB% CHSONICUI Stiivts t« Be ft.CiMS Ni Ntwny, X VOLUME vay ~ f ? .t I ■ ITTm D«i*t Rmi4 T9B CHRONICLB To« DmiH (B«C • I'-.r"- CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 11,1936 HOUSE GROUP DISSATISFIED McMbcn **lAme Face** FrcsMoii Often YieMs To the ^Senate. Laadigra Wacom Leg- lotion At Wklte Honae.^ WacAiingtoo, Jidy 9.—Boom Pemo- eratic laodaw at a^eopferepM toniflit with f^geudont BooteveH, wore rdhab- 4y MfKMted to hate aouffat fr—tor eoanderation for the dasirM ^ that biwneh of eongvMa. Tba White Hotwe annooneed the Xtarlej had been called at the reqoeat of Opeaher Byrm and waa fM a gm- eral leffialatite diacuaaioo—ineludisf proepeota for adjoununent iVom aome of Jthe 14 Oemocntic chiefs iaclnded in the invitaitioo, how* ever, k waa learned that k had been determined hefovahand to t^ the presideat the vaasona for taidereur- lanta of dieeati if action in the house tHiich broocht defeat to hia neandp- lory abolition for utility boldine com- paniee and threatened other measures on hie tfmuet’' proctam. Numerous thin^, theM leaders es> aerted, have brought the preMik fedl- ii^ of dissatisfaction. Amonf them: The fact that on several occasions the president has yielded ifi the sen ate on matters wMch he declined to bow to house wiehee; The continued trouble members are having over patronage; The fact that the president declined to listen to t^ advice of some regu larly elected Ibaders, who told hhn the abolition of utilky holding companies was doomed to d^eat and.suggested that he agree to a compromise. On two outstanding occasions, om leader said, the house .was fore^ to ^loee face” becauM the president gave way to the stenate. The fint oooaaton was when the house paassd the inde pendent officM and appropriation hill, minus the provisioh for restoring the tamaining fhre per cant of the federal pay cut The ptmidenit deioprred to a auggeatton for ka insertion. WhMi the bill got to the senate, however, an amandment restoring that pay cut on April 1 waa offered by Senator Byrnes, of South Cardina, wMi 4ha laasarir iiak jt aps|id4 be m> I oaptable to the president It was. More rseently, the senate was torioos on the~ form lor restoring a aketoton NBA. ' V Alt the while, there have bepn peri odic Uprisings over patbonage. Numer- ods conferences 'were held, at tha Whits Howe and each time the house members left feeling fine. But the dis satisfaction later haa ratumed. - Death Chums Beloved Woman Nancy Edge Passes Soddeni ly At Hobm of Daughter Here.! Rests At RooeaMMit. Harsh trords ware spoken privately, ii<mk's too, about the presidiht's apparent unwillingoees to believe that formal polls made of the houM members be- fora tha utilkSea bfll veto ahowed that the holdiiW company abolition feature would be defeat^. - One day the houM voted 216 to 146 against this provision. Instead of call ing in the regular leaders to talk with them before tha final vote, Prudent Booaevek eernfarred with ^presents- live Bankin, of Miwiaaippi. Bankia amarged vrkh the pradictioa that tha aboliUoa faatora would be approved on the vote tba following day. But when the roll waa called, the eontrovertad provision waa Ucked by 111 instead of 70 votae. Although tonight's White House list included the names of the chair man of. virtually all big hotme com- mkteea, that of Bankin, who heuda tha veterans* affairs committee. absent. r That of MeSwahk, of South Carolina, chairman of the military affairs com mittee, was deliberately omkted so the intimation would not be drawn that the conference had anything to do wkh the Tennessee Valley authority bill now pending .op the house floor. Mm. Nancy WMiart Edge, 86, wid- iow of the late D. B. Edge, died last Friday -night' at tba hotna of her daughter, Mm^J, V. Edwards, follow ing a auddan haait attadL Funeral aaRwicea were held Satur< day morning from her daughter's home, eemdueted her pastor. Dr. D. J. Woods, assisted by Dr. J. C. Bo- per. Interment was in Boeemont ceme tery by the side of her Kttle name sake, Nancy Edwards. A^ve pallbearers were nephews and giamdaons of the deceased: W. C. Baldwin^ H. L. Baldwin, Claude Bool- wnre, Arthur Blacky Alex Black and Cedi Lawter. Both at the home and grave a large crowd gathered to p«gr thdr last trib ute to one vrho had made many friends since coming to GUnton in 1919 to nmke her home.'^ The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. Mrs. Edge was bom in Union coun ty in 1849. Her father, Walter Wis- hert, waa one of three brothers who came to this country from Ireland. Her mother, Elizabeth Savage, was a gmnddaughter of Oapt. John Savage of Bevolutionary fame. Many inter esting events were connected with her girlhood*since she was the eldest of four ^Hdren^ and ' lost her mothmr when, only six years of age. There were slaves to be cared for, a baby sister, Mrs. M. F. Baldwin, to be watched over. Mrs. Edge enjoyed tell ing how, with the coming the Civil war, when her father was away from home and a straggling army would paM through their community steal ing horses and feed, ahe would often go to the bam and demand the fam ily's rights. They would only laugh at me, Mrs. Edge would ady, and then ride away on fatheria choice horses. Since bar early childhood Mrs. Edge waa a davotad member of the Pres byterian church, always'faithful in attendance of ka aarvicea.',She Idved her friends, both young and old, and waa well-lnform^ on civic affairs, and was always at*the poUawhan duty callad to east bar ballot anp inflnenca for tha cauM rightaouanass. She was a Christian woman of , pmny ex- caBMit traka of cbafacter, possesising a charming personalky .and a lo^ng dhq>oekioo. Thera are many who will Join with her family in mourning her pakeittg. Mrs. Edge is survived by two daugh ters, Mrs. J. V. Edwards and Mrs. G. A. Black of this dty; by* 16 grand children and five great-granc^children. She lost a daughter Bemioe, at the age of two; a son, Arthur, at the age of ten, and a second son, the Rev. Walter W. Edge, a graduate of Pres byterian college, passed away last year. P. C. Announces ^ FootbaU Card NUMBER 28 T oe Stockings Meet Clemsoa, Tech and Forman In Row To ' Open Fall Schedule.’ Coach Walter A. Johnson has an nounced the 1985 'acheduk for his Drasbyterian college gridiron men. ft is one of the heaviest the Blue Stock ings have ever faced. As usual the season will open at Qemson with the Preabytreians fac ing the ’ngers. The following week end, September 28, will find the Cal vinists in Atlanta trying the strength of the men from G^rgia Tech. This is the first time Tech has ever been on the P. C. schedule. Not since 1929 has the team met Furman, but this fall, October 5,~there will he a meeting on Manly field, in Greenville. The eeason will clom Thanksgiving when P. C. plays The Citadel Bull Dogs in Charleston. This game has occupied the same spot on the calendar so long that it has al most become a tradkion. There are two open dates on the schedule, Saturday, October 26, and Saturday, November 9. September 21, Saturday — Clemson at Clemson. September 28, Saturday — Ga. Tech at Atlanta. ■ Furman at October 5, .Saturday Greenville. October 11, Friday — Newberry at Clinton. October ,18 or 19, Friday or Satur day—Mercer at Macon, Ga. October 26, Saturday—Open. ^ . November 2, Saturday—Wake For- ^ at Wake Forest, N. C. ' November 9, Saturday—Open. November 16, Saturday—'Erskine at Due Wek. * November 23, Saturday — Wofford at Spantanburg. November 28, Thanksgiving — The Citadel at Charleston. lange Made In Relief Set-Up New PWA Sets ,Up Skeleton Or ganization «WiIl Retain Many ERA Emid^yes. | Cotton Acreage Put At 29,771,000 can New Orleana, July O^The Ameri- Cotton Cooperative aasociation annoBDoed today that" ks finat tabu- lationa indicated about 29,771,000 acres were planted to cotton Ws year. This is an increaM of 6J pet. cent over the 1934 acreage, E. M. Daggit said in announcing the findings. The ' acreage, he said, indicated farmers had not planted the full amount aUotted to them even under a 35 per cent re duction program. A possible factor, he said, was abandonment of part of the acreage plam^ ,^aunie of unfavor able weather. , ^ The yield outlook thi syekr was said by Daggk to be of more importance than acreage as a market factor. Oolumbis^ July A—'First changes in the South Carotina relief set-up were announced today as movement of of fice equipment into the new works progress administration headquarters here and the formation of a skeleton staff by tata PWA Admiiu^rmtor Lawrence M. Pinckney weee heg^. Joseph J. Moorman, head of the ERA auditing depattment, amj John M. Anderson, head of the purchasing department, were notified from Wash ington that they would continue to be in charge of th^ functions under the state WPA set-up. Reports meanwhile said other ERA adminietnative employee would be transferred to the WPA headquarters staff immediatdy, and it was expect ed that Frank Haskell, chief engineer for the ERA in South Carolina, would head the WPA engineering stisff. Pinckney said, however, he had no announcement concerning personnel at this time. He previously had said he would .employ a minimum staff and minimum office space until necessity demanded expansion. State Relief Administrator J. D. Fulp estimated meanwhile that the emergency relief administration would be absorbed by the WPA by Septem ber 1. . He said he had been assured of sn August grant for South Carolina re lief woric by Harry L. Hopkins, na tional administrator.. Fulp also announced that the rural rehabilitation division of the ERA, which has been taken over by the Na tional Resettlement administration, would be' housed in the present state ERA headquarters here. Plans ^to move it to Clemson college had been considared. ^ Pindtney, although declining today to comment on the WPA set-up, pre viously had said k must be "set up and going” bjr July IS. John D. RockelcUer HopesTo Rea^ lOQ Worid^s Ricktst Man Begins 97th Year of Life In Best of Health. Ventures Into Sinking. y ‘G’ Now t Fort Moultrie Battery “G,” 263rd Coast Artillery, S; C. National Guard, local milkary unit, left Sikurday morning for Fort Moultrie where it is now undergoing two weeks of active duty training. Three officers and sixty men made the trip. The company is training in target practice with ten-inch harbor defense guns. Capt. Walter Johnson heads the unit. Reports received in the city yesterday stated that the . boys are in splendid condition and having a "good time,” with bo{h work, and pleasure mixed in their daily routine. Lakewood, N. J., July 8. — John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was 96 today and ^vap a better Obanee than in yeqra to realise his hoM of living to be 100. CehFbraiting n^ at all. he entered his 97th year vrkh 19 of his originid teeth and a new hsaMi practice Un his strict regime—singing. The oil kii^s-venture into singing for his 100-year marie or more was an intimate gHmpM of the closely guard ed maki-mill.ionaire let drop out of the enthusiaem of Dr. Vanderhoef M. Di^row. The veteran Lakewood doctor said Rockefeller was j^n bettor health than for many years. He is in retirement from the heat on his 500-acre estate. In usual cautious flight from extrem ity of temperature, he arrived June 14 from his Florida estate. Soon he will go to 'hi« huge feudal estate at Pocantico-Hills, Y. His routine almost unvarying, the wizened Iktle wealthiest man goes for an automobile ride in fair days, swath ed in linen duster and'cap. Otherwise he is seldom seen. But a Rockefeller public relations counsel report today said his program was not changed for his birthday. He did not get a birthday cake— but one gift could not be stopped by a postoffice blockade, ordered here to prevent his disturbanoe by packages and messages, k was said. The gift was 16,000,000 turned to his account by insurance companies. He had reached the maximum age recognized by actuarial tables. So he collected in full automatically. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., spent the day with him, The 61-year-old son, now active head .of the great financial kingdom the elder Rockefeller built, arrived yesterday. How the senior John D. became in terested in singing was not disdosed. Outsiders won^red whether he sang to has summer-house pisymste, Lucile Frsecs, 92 yeairs his junior. The little g^l js his chauffeur’s daughter afkl H'^waa aaid ehe entertains him by the hpuir as ehe plays before the cod sum mer house on the great estate lawn. C.M. BAILEY DIES AT HOME Lydia^jCotton Mills Head Suc cumbs To- Extended Illness. Prominent In EduciUional and Civic Life of City. Interment- At Presbyterian Cemetery. Young Men Move Into CCC Camps S^te Forester Smith Says 4,800 Enrolled In 15 Units In State. Various Work Planned. South’s First Stream-Lined Air-Omditioned Train Win Be, Seen At Seaboard Jimre On Friday The South’s first strMm-lined air- condittoned train, bringing tha lateet developments In railroad paasenger transportation, will be seen here on Friday, July 12, when the Gulf, Mo- btle A Northern railroad’s The Rebel is exhibited under the sponeorsfaip of the Seaboard Air line railway. The train will be on exhibkion at the SeM>oard station from 12:10 p. m. to 2:00 p. in., leaving for Greenwood at 2:00. The train is en routc^om Berwick, P...wl»r.Jtw.^nU».tta Am.ri-, , The w«i,ht ef the «n Cer to .to train to .bout one-third that of Cott<^ Acre^e Over’34 Figpire Washington, July 8. — Dstinmting that 29,166,000 acre* of cotton were in cultivation July 1, the department of agriculture aaid today that with the exception of 1934 thie waa the snsaUeet July 1 acreage emoe 1906. TMe to^l was said to be an in creaM o# 4.6 pbr cent over July 1, 1984, but^ 28.61 'less than the average acreage of the five-year period, 1929- 1938. Actm in cultivaiioB and peroeatage of the 1934 acreaM under cukivatioa that date inclndM: North Cereliaa, 919,000, and 104; Sooth Oaroljpa, 1,420,000 ami 108. With Lutherans The city union service next Sunday evening will be held at St. John’s Latheran church. The pulpk will be occupied by Dr. D. J. Woods, pastor of tte Fint Piwbyterian ehoreh. A eor- dhal iurttetioa is extended all eOngre- gatiom to imke in thia Mrrice. home rails and is being exhibited at Washington and Richmimd before coming to the Seaboard where its itin-- rary calls for exhibitions at Durham, Hamlet, Monroe, Cherter, Clinton, Greenwo^, Abbeville, Kberton, Ath ens, Winder, Lawrenoeville, Atlanta, Ilockmart, Cedartown, Piedipont and Birmingham. It will be accompanied by officials of the Seaboard and the Gulf, Mobile A Northern and by repreMntatives of the buildera and eqbipment manufac turers. Designed and constructed with the idea of pasMnger comfort paramount, the train has every convetuence. Cars are of standard width. Seats in the eoaehM are adjustable to any angle, simi^y by turning a crank at the base. Aah trays are Miilt in the walls beside the seats; indirect lighting is used througheut with individual lamps at each Seat. A complete buffet, wkh all electri cal applianeea, aeryea tiw entire train by memis of moveidile tables, a part of the regular equipment, and water is electrically cooled thr^ghout the train. ’Uphol^ry and carpets have been made to special desigp and col- orsr All coaches are decorated in dif ferent color schemes, everything blending for beauty. A' Inxnrioiur stateroom and the observation-lounge in the jwar of the train have comfort able sofas aiM lazfe arm chairs. The train is Ufhly strsamlined and when tte railroad decided to build a •train of this type the Mrvices of a trained aeronautical engineer were obtained and exhaustive tMts were made in the wind tunnel of New York university. The front is so designed as to afford least wind resistance and the tail is shaped to spill the air in the smoothest fashion. No bolts or rivets mar steel sidM, a new process of inside welding giving a smooth sur face from front to back. The ears are. built of Cor-ten steel, which combines comparatively light weight with high the steam train which k replaces. • While the train is capable of high speed — engineers having placed 4ts cruising speed at above 90 miles an hour—^the riulroad does not propoM to operate oh unusually fast sched ule, its president! I. B. Tigrett, of Jaj^son, Tenn., hiss previously an-, nounoed. Reduction in the present steam-train schedule, he said, will be effected through more rapid acceler ation and deceleration at station Two features which will not be found in any other equipment of this type are: the train is not articulated, and the traction drive is off the rear trucks.... In order to provide for greater flexi bility in handling the equipment, the cars have been built as separate units. A specially designed coupler also makes air and power line connections. The air-conditioning in individual berths provides continuous flow of conditioned sir in each berth after the aisle curtaihs are in place. The rear between New Orleans and Jackson, Tenn., and aA extra coach has been constructed to be run in-set-out ser vice between New Orleans and Jack- son, Miss.» where travel over the rail road is heaviest. The three-car train which shows byre will be divided as follows: The first car will be the power car, hous ing the 660-horMpower Diesel elec tric motor and containing mail and baggage compartment^. The second car is a day coach and contains, in addition, the buffet. Seats in this coach are adjustfdble and the cOsch is divided into two compartments. The third car is the observation- sleeper. It has six sleeping seetiions and a-stateroom. AH coaches^ of the train are. decorate^n different col ors and entrance veytibules are in the Columbia, July 6. — Slate F’orester H. A, Smith said to<|ay approximately 4J100 young white men from every county in South Carolina had begun moving into the 16 Civilian Conserva tion Corps camps in the state. He said they had been enrolled for 18-month period, at $30 a month' Gassius Mercer Bailey, 68, widely known cotton mill executive and pop ular Clinbraian, died at his home here early last Friday night after an ex tended illness wh/ich had kept him from active duty for mdre than a year. His condition became quk critical, on Thursday when he suffered a stroke, with little" hope held lOut for his re covery. Simple last rites were held Sunday afternoon at four o’clock from the res idence conducted by his pastor, Dr. p. J. W'oods, with interment follow ing in the Presbyterian cemetery. As the beloved citizen was lowe^ to his final resting place, a sorrowing crowd from nearly every walk of life stood with bowed heads. The respect and es teem in which he was held by hun dreds of people was evidenced by the large attendance and the nrany beau tiful floral offerings which were banked high about his grave. —^' Active pallbearers were: P. S. Bai ley, George H, Cornelson, C. N. Mau- ney, L. W. Davis, W. E. Johnson and Wi P. Jacobs. , Mr. Bailey was bom at CUntoi^n Novembier 22, 1876, a Son of Mercer Silas and Mrs. Rosanna Lydja<Abrams Bailey. He received his ed^ation at Presbyterian college and Davidson col lege, .from which he received his A.B. degree' in 1896. Following his gradu ation he associated, himself with his father in the management of the Clin ton Cotton Milla which had oi)ened in 1886. In 1902 M. S. Bailey established another mill south of Clinton, naming it Lydia Cotton Mills in honor of his wife. With its,organization he became president, and C. M. Bailey, his young est sons treaeurer. Upon the death of his father ori Feb. 19, 1926, Mr. Bailey became preeident and treasurer of the mill which he actively headed for the 33 years of jts operation. Mr. Bailey was well-known in the textile field and active in the affairs .of the South Car olina Cotton Manufacturera* associ ation and of the print cloth group. He served as vice-president and mem ber of the executive committee of the association for a number of years and was one of the founders and a member of ' the executive committee , of the print cloth group. He was also a mem ber of the executive combiiitee of the Cotton Textile institute of New York. While Mr. Bailey’s profe.ssion took ht'avily of his time, he nevertheless found time to devote to many other things, particularly those eflyqational and cultural. He love<l the Presbyte rian college and Thomwell orphanage, and for more than twenty-five years an 18-montn period, at a pay. Ages, he added, range from 18 toju^j served ^ . , . . . „ , _ 'as a member of the board of trustees Simth explained that South Caro- of both institutiona, always manifest- lina CCC camps are to conduct several phases of forestry work, including fire protection, forest conservation, and development of state parks and rec reational areas. Some CCC units, he said, will con- struet fire towers, fire breaks, truck trails and mitior roads, chiefly on pri vate lands; others will be engaged in planting a^ thinning of trees on state forest lands; while others will con struct park camps, to consist of cabins and Jbath |nd boat houses over the state. He said nine.such camps were now under construction. To Hear Dr. The Kiwanis club witt have as its guest and speaker this evening, Dr. J. center and steps fold into the train _ when it is in motion. . jC. Kinard, president of Newberry col r<Hrn«ge.^ management of the ^aboai Dr: Kihkrd is one of the most appreciative of the friendly coopera-rattractive speakers in the state and truck drive, instead of a front one, is JW®4ating, dependable and ambitious to better equaj^ize weight in the pow- car, the motor bein^ over the front trucks. In addition to the train which will show here, the G. M. A N. has another one just like it, which at the present time is on exhibiikmjDn the company’s own IhMs adter having completed a tour cf the middle west two trains of th^ ears each will Operate tion and help that has betn manifest ed towards it by the people in the ter ritory it serves and is happy to be able to show to them this example of the most modem type of railroad equip ment. The Seaboard is striving to give the people of the South the best trans portation service at the loweet cost. To this end it is providing the most improved facilities and adapting its passenger and freight service to the needs of the public. An editorial in one of the great Southern newspapers stated that the Seaboard is regarded throughout the United States as progressive, accoifi- will be heard with interest by the membership of the club today, The meeting will be held at Hotel Clinton at 7:30, with all Kiwanians urged by the committee in charge, to be pres ent. ing an active^and helpful interest in their growth and development. Anoth er of his prime interests was the Clin ton public school system which he' served faithfully as a trustee for twenty years, being forced, however, on account of ill health to resign from the board last year. He showed a deei> interest always^ the boys and girls of the community and stood back of the schools a.s one of their strongest and most loyal supporters. From his early boyhood days Mr. Bailey was affiliated with the Presby terian church. At the time of hi.s death he wa.s an honored elder'of the First Pre.sbyterian church of this city which he lovtKjLdearJy and supported loyally. He was chairman of the church’s building committee following the de struction of the ^'mer plant by fire a few years ago, ami was in a large ' measure responsible for the handsome new church and Sunday school build ing of this denomination. . As a man and citizen, Mr. Bailey HOW THEY RATE CEN’TRAL CAROLINA and in lin^ with this policy this is the second str^m-lined train whiph the Seaboard has operated on experiment al exhibition tours over its rails. Mrs. W. J. Duncan and Duncan Workman have reutrned from Deca tur, Ala., where they have bean visit ing the former’s son and daughter-in- law. Mr. and ifrt. Joe Duncan. W L'' Pet. Ware Shoals 4 0 1000 Joanna - .... .... 3 . 1 750 Watts .... .... .... 3 1, 750 Clinton .2 500 Greenwood .... ... 2 2 500 Ninety-Six 1 3 260 Mathews .... .... 1 3- 250 BIG SIX • LEAGUE W l! Pet. Lydia .... .... 6 1 857 Mollohon 4 3 571 Goldville .... 4 4 600 Newberry J 4 500 Laurens 4 500 Watts .:. 1 r 125 was jiubjic-spirited and filled a use ful place. He held the esteem and con fidence of the entire community, and the respect and loyal friendship of every one privileged !to know him in timately. Always courteous and af fable, a man of pleasant personality and of great kindness, he made friend.s easily and possessed in large measure those solid and admirable traits of character that imspire respect and at tract and retain the enduring friend ships of those who value uprightness, integrity and clean living. In his pass ing Clinton has lost one of her out standing and* mo.st valt*e<i citizens. Besides his widow, who before mar riage was Miss Eloise Davenport^ of Norfolk, Va., he is survived by three daughters, Mns. Brewer Dixon, Talla dega, Ala., Mrs. William L. Marshall, Jr., Wadesboro, N. C., Miss Florence Bailey of this city; two brothers, Jo seph A. And William J. Bailey of this city; by three sisters, Mies Connie Bailey and Mrs. R. B. Vance of this city, Mrs. Emma Comelson, Spartan burg, and a large family eoiuMciion.