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t ■ w )’[ i- -\ • \ -. V CBROMICLB j StriTct T« B« ft ClMft ' fftpw, Coftipkltb NftWiF. tmi trTff^yT yOLUHE XXXV j£L CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST ^1936 PELZEE STRIKE AREA QUIET ’HfflU Worker Caoscs An:^ of Four StHkers. Barricades To Entrance of Villace Remain WHh Clinton National Guard Company On Duty. Moiits To Head I Cfintcm Sckools Georgia Educator and Native of nUs S^te raected By New Board Aa Witherspoon's Sue- NUMBER 32 Greenville, Aug. 7.—Quiet prevailed in Pelter last night as two companies of National Guard under the command of Ma|or FranK H. Barnwell, of Plor.- •noe, patroUad approaches to the eom- munity and barred those without busi ness. » Sheriff W. A. Clamp of Anderson county, in declaring that Pelter was **as quiet as a lamb,*Vdeaied | that Gov. Olin D. Johnston’s *^8tate ofi insurrec tion” order was being used by the Pelter mill management for the bring ing in of strike-breakers. He said there was no indication that strike-lneakers were entering the village, although Paul H. Ross, president of the United Textile Workers union there, had charged that 96 strike-breakers had entered the mill in one day.^ — Barricades remained up at entrances to the village, but guardsmen esg^ri- eneed no difficulty. Guardsmen had orders to admit no worker in the mill who was not em ployed there on July 15, and Sheriff Clamp said the orders were being car ried out. Four strikers at Pelzer were arrest ed and pladed in the Greenville county jail yesterday afternoon on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill and highway robbery, preferred by F, C. Ware, a worker at the mill. The alleged attack took place on the Greenville side of the Saluda river last Friday. . n John Roberts, Elbert Johnston, Lu ' ther Ramage and David Epps were maaed defendanU in the warrant, aHhich was signed fay Ware before Bftfistrate Louie E. Smith, of Green ville. Ware Alleged that the quartet did ’’point- a gun at deponent, place aa open knife on deponent’s thrMt and did hH^deponci^with a heavy iron in- etcument anddld-hit deponent with tiMr fista iuid did beat the deponent and did wound the deponent; defend ant! did put depoxwnt in fear of hU lila and did taka from the iiereoa of deponent $9 in currency and coin . . .** The men were arrested by Deputy ShcriiKs J. Hi Granger and W. A Da- cue and lodged in the Greenville coun ty iail. Magiatrate Smith set their bonds at $1,000 each. The men, from their cells in the jail, last night declared they were innocent of the charges and stated they had asked for a prelimiiur^ hearing at 10 o’clock this morning. Johnston, one of the men arrested yesterday, was released from the An derson county jail early yesterday’un der $1,000 bond on several charge's growing out of alleged disorders in the strike zone Friday night. CONGRESS TBS SUPREME power - The form of government set up by the. Constitutional convention was a compromise between the loose alliance The hew board of echoed trustees announced last Friday that W. Edward Monts of Washington, Ga., has keen ^ ^ cImM superint«i><i«it of the Clinton J*'* Confederntion, cHTMhool.forUiooM.ionI986-S8.Hol""* ‘1>« 1>l»n TOccMd. J. H. Withenpoon. .iho The hold iW. porition for the pMt fifteen • hni.^ i? ^nnl ^ „ **|yoice ^% every Other State. The large . I years. Mr. Monts it a native of Newberry county, having been reared in the Prosperity section. He is an A. B. graduate (tf Newberry college of the class of 1910, and since that time kas been^ engaged in school work. He rqr ceiv*^ his master’s degree from the University of Georgia. - Leaving this state andrgoing to Georgia 18 years ago, Mr. Monts held the superintendeney of the schools at Cochran for Bve years, at Dawson for. four years, and at Washington for the past nine years. During his service in that state he has been closely identi fied with the educational work of his section. He has served at president, secreUry-treasurer and a member of the'executive committee of the district high school association, and has been affiliated with the Georgia and Na tional Ekiucation associations. He s«>rved several years ts district chair man of the Tenth district of the Geor gia Education association for the study and revision of the state school code. He has also done special work at the University of Georgia in admin istration and curriculum revision. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Monts have two chil dren and expect to move here imme diately to enter upon his work. The board states that he comes highly rec ommended for the position and ex pressed its pleasure over his accept ance. Witherspoon Goeft.^ To Lancaster ♦ - Workers Turn Back Anderson, Aug. 6. — Three carloads of Anderson textile workers, who have been working in plants of the Pelzer Manufacturing company at Pelzer . since a strike there three weeks ago, rode to Pglzer today, looked at; the barricades and soldiers, and then came back to Anderson. As far as could be learned, none of the workers tried to get through the tightly-drawn lines. .. Meanwhile, Elbert Johnston, charg ed with assault and battery *in a Greenville county warrant today, ap peared here before Magistrate Harold G. Dean and made bond in the sum of $1,000 on thrte charges against him growing oui of a disturbance on last Friday night which res^ted in John ston and six others being jail^. Five of them, Lems Kneese, El. J. Rice, El bert Hc^kins, Russell Davis, Morgan Ford and Jim Caiieton, remain in the coimty jail here. 1. J. Pittman gave bond the day after his arres^ Johnston is charged i#tth assault and battery, simple assault and car rying concealed weapons. He is re ported to Have clashed with two depu ties during Friday night’s tHeorders. About a score-of textile workers, regularly emplcqred.kjr tW'Anderson mills, now curtailed, Imd been wMking in tiie Pelzer idants siaet tke strike. After declaration of a stale of Insar- rectioB at Pelxer, iSey-kave gmie to Pelzer every morning but have tamed back the last two. McQuemi Resigns Position Here I states felt that their wealth, size and importance entitled them to a larger voice in the affairs ef the country. Theze conflicting views resulted in what historians call the “Connecticut compromise.” , - The colony of Connecticut from its earliest history had a dual system of representation in its legislature. One house represented the towns as equal units. The other house represented all the people as individuals. This plan became the basis upon which the con gress of the United States was set up. The Constitution provrdes for equal representation of all the states, large and small, in the senate, and for rep resentation of the people in the house of representatifes, in proportion to the number of inhabitants. The convention was a unit in agree ing that all power to direct and regu late the affkirs of the country should reside in this representative organiza tion, the congMss. S^ection 1 of Article I of the Constitution reads: “All legis lative powers herein granted shall be vested in a congress of the United States, which shall consist of a senate and house of reprewtnatives.” .That provision of the Constitution has never been altered. It has recently been brought to the front/of public diaettssion^ through the decision of the Supreme Court that certain acts of the 78rd congress were unconstitutional because they run contrary to this first and fundamental provision of the Con stitution as drafted in 1787. Congress cannot delegate to the executive, or to anybody else, the power to enact laws or to issue regulations having the force of law unless it puts clear and definite limitations upon the regula tive authorityr Members of the hepiie of represen tatives, aleeted directly by a vote of the people, must be at least 26 years old, and bc inhabitants of the state in which they are elected. Them i* no constitutional requirement for dividing the states hito diitricts, or Tot mem bers to live in-'the districts they repre sent. That is something fo^ state to determine. In New Y<^, several members Jive outs^ie of their districts. In Missouri there gre no congressional districts. The 13 r^resentatives are elected at Urge by the voters of the whole state.* Senators must pe 80 years old and residents of their states. As the bq^ originally closest to the people, the house of representatives was given in the Constitution the ex-< elusive right to originate bills for raising revenue. The insistence of the smaller states brought about another restriction upon congress; it forba^ the levying of any direct tax except ifi proportion to pop ulation. This was later changed by the income-tax amendment, which became effective March 1, 1913. That is the only exception to the mle e8ta>bli8hed in the original Constitution, intended to provide that direct taxes levied by the federal government shall bear equally upon all citizens. The senators, as the direct represen tatives of state governments, were to be chosen by the legislatures of the states. That prevailed until 1913, when an amendment was ratifi^ providing for the popular elections of senators as well as representatives. A still lat er amendment, the ti^tieth, ratified in 1933, changed the date upon which the terms of offic^ of senators and representatives beinn, from the 4th of March to the 3rd qx January, and fixed that date for tM annual meeting of congress, instead of the first Monday in December, as originally provided in the Constitution. Former SlS|>erintendent Ginton Stohools Becomes Educational . Supervisor of the County. Janies Harvey Witherspoon, super intendent of the Clinton school sys tem ' for the past fifteen years, has accepted the position of educatioMl supervisor of Lancaster coimty for the coming year, and leaves this week to enter ilpon his work. Mr. Witherspoon, in this new and responsibU position, will have general supervision of all schools of that county and thelx staff of 177 teach ers. The board in electing him ^to head the school system expressed the opin ion that he" is especially qualified for the position. His duty will be to ob serve and improve the teaching work of the schools and to equalize educa tional opportunities throughout the county, both in urban ahd rural com munities. Mr. Witherspoon was graduated COnON MILLS GET TAX Court Continue Staying Orders On process Tax Injunctioiis Until Legality Is X!leAred. Judge Glehn Says There Is Doubt of Constitutionality. Columbia, August 6,—United States District Judges J. ^les Glenn of Rock. Hin, and Frank K.' Myers of Charles ton, today ordered temporary injunc- ttons against collMtioh pf the AAA cotton processing tax from 55.South Carolina cottOTV mills continued in ef fect “until the constitutionality of the act is cleared up.” The judges’ orders were handed down after day-long arguments at which counsel for the cotton manu facturers asked that the injunctions be made permanent and-attorneys for the government sought dismissal. “I feel,” Judge Glenn said, “that we ought not to dsimiss these suits. We should, I think, continue the restrain- , rv J 11 • tono .u .u orders or grant ah interlocutory from Davidson college m 1898 with injunction Lydia Mill Plan Hearing Set Artkor H. McQueen of MnUins, for several yean past a member of the Gintoa high adiool faculty and ath letic diieetor, has nsigned his position to accept a similar place the Latta high school His successor has not been announced by the school board. Mr. McQueen is a graduate of Pres byterian college where he made an outstanding record as an athlete and! Judge H. H. Watkins, of Anderson, student. He is a splendid coach and announced from his office Friday that, leader among boys, and has a wide cir- he has set August 26th at 10 a. m., a/ cle of friends here who will regret to the date for a hearing on recently sufa- leam of his resignation and wish him mitted plans of reorganization for the Judge Watkins Will Review Pro posal For Reoiganization..of Local Corporation On Aug. 26. continued success as he goes to Latta. Mr." McQueen and Miss Mary Pinson of this city, are to be married at the home of her parents here on next Wednesday. Uhion Service At Presbyterian BAILET WILL riLH) Tha wiU of tbd laU C. M. Bailey of thia city, olio died at hit home hers on Ji^<, fth,'was filed lest week at Laarazs with Judge of Probate Rees D. Yi^ong. The entire eetete is left te Ua widow, Mrs. EMze Daveaport Bai ley, who; was also named executrix Hie williwas written in 191(1 ^ TO SPEAK SUNlur ^ br. Dudley Jones of the college fee- . ulty, uid a lonner paMor of ilw First Piwbfieriail charriw will ha Mw gniat speaker wk this dinish Suadjsy at tke nsnal moggliMr aefvtee koux. Tha pas ter, Dr. D. f. Woods, is edt 'Mw engr Mi n wuivnwL The city union service next Sunday eveinng will be held at eight o’clock at the First Prcsbytei^n church. The pulpit will be occupied by Dr. J. €. Roper, pastor of Broad Street Metho dist church, with a cordial invitation extended sll congregations to unite in this service. . The service will be featured by a song service led by the men’s choir of the church, with the following old familiar Goqiel hymns being used: “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks,” “I Shall Not Be 'Moved,” “Nothing But the Blood,” “Down At the Cross,” “Since Jesus Came Into My! Heart,” and “When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder.” Chanjier Meets Tuesday Night - The August meeting of the Cham- er of Commerce will he held a^ the tea room Tueeday evening at 7:30. Follow ing the eerriag of diniwr the usual business meeting will be held, with all members of the oihranizatkm .Invited to be preaent. w L P«t. 3 749 Joanna — .... 7 8 700 Ntnety Elz - S 4 664 Ware Mioala .... .... 5 ^ 546 Matheprs % 6 m Greesiirood .... .... f 7 800 Clhittm :::r.... .... 8 8 200 msix - ■ W- L Pet. Newberry — — 8 0 1009 Laurens .... S 1 760 GoldviOe L 1 600 MoUehon 1 2 SS8 WitU 0 0 "s 4 000 0 900! 1 J . ^ * ♦ f .• 4/./. • ' ,' J Cq^t on financial structure of Lydia Mills. / The hearing will take p^hce in Greenville. According to the 8>ibmitted reorganization plan, the mill proposed to discharge its indebtedneiis by issu ing 7,000 shares of non^rumulative five per'cent stock and"exchanging this for the evidences of obligation. If the plan fs accepted by the stockhold ers and approved by the court, the charter 4*^ by-laws of the company will be amend^ to make the stock is sue of $700,(M)0 possible. The total in debtedness of the. mills was set at $916,967.86., The reorganisation committee con sists of W. J. Bailey, J. A. Bailey, Geo. H. Cornelson and J. Will Leake. Much Land Is flentedByAAA Over ^7,000,000 Acres Are Tak- eii Out of basic Crop Produc- ^on This Year. Washington, Aug. 6.—The AAA an nounced today that its crop adjust ment program has taken 27,600,000 acres out of basic crop production this year. Of this total, the AAA said, 27,500,- 000 acres have been planted in other crops. The 1935 total compares with more than 36,000,000 acres rented in adjustment programs in 1934. Officials said the switoh from baaic crops (wheat, corn, dottqn, tobaciro) has been the leading fattor in the largest increase, in legume acreage ever reported in the United States. Legumes are pods such as are borne by pea and bean plantiT Joseph F. Cox, head of the replace ment crops section of the AAA, said the 1935 acreage of alfalfa hay^, a plant of the bean family^ is 1,760,000 acres larger than the total of 11,482,- 000 planted in 1934. A. B. degree. He then entered the University of South 'Carolina law school where he graduated in 1900, re ceiving both the LL.B. and M. A. de grees. He then became a graduate student at Columbia University, New York, and received his' M. A. degree from that institution after specializing in history for four years. His first work as an educator began in the old King’s Mountain Military academy of York. From there he went to Fort Mill in 1905 as superintendent for three years. In 1908 he was elected superintendent of the ^ York schools, where he remained until 1914. From there he went to Gaffney where he headed the city school for six years. In 1920 Mr. Witherspoon viras elecU ed by the local board of trustees to head the Clinton city schools, succeed ing A. C. Daniel. Each year he has been re-elected in recognition of his competence and falthfuliiess. ^ This spring a split on finances de veloped between Senator Nance and the board of trustees. Following a citi zens school mass meeting held here in May, the senator with the aid of members of the lower house delega tioa succeeded in pessing through the legislature an act to abolish the .old board and to provide a new one to be elected in .a preferential pVimary. Two slates of tickets were put ip the field, one composed of the old board and its friends, and the other by local inter ests who were supported by Senator Nance in speeches made here at the two cotton mills. Opponents _of the old board con>bined with opponents of Mr. Witherspoon and defeated the old board which immediately resulted in the elimination of Mr. Witherspoon, “There is prima facie evidence of doubt of the constitutionality of the act, particularly as to its delegation of power to the secretary of agricul ture. It is clear we should continue these restraining orders.” Judge Myers expressed similar views. ' " United States District,, Attorney Claud N. Sapp, of Columbia, cited re cent amendments be said were intend ed to clarify the question of constitu.* tionality, and Judge Myers replied, “if the amendments are adopted, and if they make a different stiuation, then the government can renew its motion to dismiss the cases.” Whan the court convened, the ap-/ proximately 60 lawyers repre.senting the mills chose B. Finlay Henderson of Aiken, and A. C. Todd of Green wood, as their spokesmen. They argued there was no way to recov^ the tax after it had been paid; that the mills were unable to pass it on to the consume; snd that it' waa not a tax. j' . “1 don’t call it penalty,” Henderson said, “but it is something other than a tax.” He added that it resulted “merely in taking the money from the pockets of some and putting it into the pockets of others.” District Attorney Sapp, Assis^ht District Attorney Louis M. Shimel of Charleston, and Eldward P. Hodges and W. Crof Jennings of the tax di- vi.sion of the department of justice at Washington, contended that the is sues were not betwq<‘n the plaintiffs and the United States government. “The suprmee court has held num- i)er.s of times that you cannot sue an although he had previou.sly been re-the United States to, by in- Grange Formed At Mountville The organization of a (Grange unit at Mountville was completed the past week by<.a representative of the State Granlre: The fbllowing officers were elect^ to serve: S. J. Hunt, master; L. P. Bums, lecturer; C. L. Chapman, secretary. T~ Announcement Iiii"been made that the next meeting of the new organi zation will be held Friday evening, at which D. B. Anderson, State Grange master, will complete officers’ instal lation services ahd give them frater nal instructions. The charter Kst will be opened at this time for the enroll ment of all members who may desire to affiliate with the chapter. elected superintendent fbr the 1935-36 session. The Clinton schools under the sui)er vision of Supt. Witherspoon haive im proved in many ways through hi.s ef-||^^^‘ temporary forts and untiring labors, until today the high school holds a scholastic rec direction, overcome the provision that the United States cannot be sued,” Shimel asserted. ' ^ The order of each ju<lge applied to injunctions he had ord in the Southern Association of Wysor And Blanton Promoted To Major Witherspoon Given Silver Loving Cup The men’s Bible class of the First Presbyterian.church preaented J. .H. Witherspoon within the past week a beautiful silver loving cop in recogni tion of hit faithful and efficient ser vices aa anperintendmrt of the Sunday school daring the past several years. Before aceepting tiw superintendeney Mr. Witherspoon was a regular at* tendant of the class and the parting gift bearing his engraved nama came as an evide^ ^ esteem in which he is held (by the men with whom he aaeociated- during the past .Nineteen regular army officers now stationed in South Carolina will re ceive promotions under the provisions of the promotion bill recently signed by the president. Indluded in the list are'Capt. Robert E. Wysor, Jr., infantry, Presbyteriai^ college; and Capt. William L.'Blanton7 infantry, Presbyterian college, these two officers being promoted from the rank of captain to their majority. Capt. Wysor will again be stationed at the college for the coming year as head of the R. 0. T. C. unit. Capt. Blanton recently left the city for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he lias been given a government assignment for the coming year. He is succeeded here by Capt..GMrge Beptty, who re cently arrived in the city to enter upon his duties. Schools and Colleges unexcjelled in the. state. Marked advancement has been made during the fifteen years period j in the standards of work done and he | has made-a>distinct contributioir to the { growth, expansion and prestige of the school system. Local Citizen h OSes Sister Friends in the city of Ira (!. Boland, well-known local merchant, will bo sorry to loam of the death of his sis- jter, Mrs, John A. Shealy, which oc- jcuri-ed at her home near Little Moun- jtain last Friday. The following Little Mountain ac- FIRST BAL^ IS SOLI)' Orangeburg, Aug. 6. —- Orangeburg | county’s first bale of the 1935 cotton count of her passing is taken frorh crop, grown by A. T. Whetsell, of the Bowman section, was sold a public auction here today and was bid in by the Orans^Cotton mills for 14.10 cents per pound. The State: MOVES TO COLUMBIA Frieds in the city of Dr. and Mrs. R. L Coe and daughter, Louise, will be sorry to know that they have moved to Columbia during the past week where they mil make their home this winter. Dr. Coe was recently ap pointed Sooth Carolina^ dire^r of the national youth administration and has established offices in (Columbia from which he cwijl serve the state. ' ' - ATTEND GAME MEETING L 6. MeMilltan, A J. Milling, A. B. Galloway, Ansel GoArey and John T. Young spent yeatarday in DilHm ai- tandiag ^ atate n^hatiog of tho Gaipa and Fi^ aaaoeiation. Local Battery • Now At Pelzer Battery G of the 263rdi Coast Aftillefy of Clinton, Consisting of three officers and 65 men ;ah- der command of Capt. Walter A. Johnson,' was ordered out^ at noon Monday for relief duty in the Pelzer mill strike area. Two station wagons and six army trucks arrived here early in the afternoon to ipove the lo cal boys to their assignment which was issued by Adj. Gen. Dozier. The equipment was im mediately loaded and the com- pMiy on its way to its first as signment since it became a part of the state military unit. The Clinton reinforcement was sent to Pelzer, officers stat ed, “not because of. any antici pated troidile” or rumors of any, “but to provide assistance for Batteries D of Greenwood, and E of Andersoitl who hare been on night and day duty since or dered to the scene. > " How long the Clinton battery will rqmaih in Pelaer is not known. -'>1 Mrs. John A. Shealy, 82, diqiTat her home here E’riday after a^irolonged period of declining health. “She was Happy Boland, the difughter of Mid dleton Boland antkoarbara Frick Bo land. ^ i j Funeral service.s were conducted i Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock at Mt. j Taboj>dl.utheran church, of which sho jW^jra charter member and in which psfie was an ardent worker. The Rev. P. M. Counts, h«r pastor, conducted the service. Interment followed in the church cemetery. She is survived by her husband, John A. Shealy; the following‘chil dren: Mrs. J. W. Ballentine, Leesville; Mrs. George E. Lever, Columbia; Mrs. Will Koon, Chapin; Mrs. H. C. Clark, Mrs. J. W. Long and MUs Bessie Shealy, Colun^a. The late W. A, Shealy, long connected with the state department of education in South Car olina, was her son, and Mrs. C. A. Ep- ting, Leesville, who died about a year ago, was her daughter. She is sur vived also by the following brothers and sisters: £. J. ^and, Springfield; L. C. Boland, Charleston; I. C. Boland, Clinton; the Rev. L. P. Boland, Tay- ilorsville, N. C.; Mrs. Enrma Brady 'and Mrs. B. B. Davis, Colambia;^ Mrs. J.4W. Linder, Little Mountain. J SPOKE HERE SUNDAY Dr. M. G. Woodworth of the college faculty, occupied the pulpit of the First ihresbytorian church on Sunday morning in the absence of the pastor. Dr. D. J. Woods, who is out of the city on vacation. \, ■,x