Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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If Toi Dmt ras^t^ONICLB ' T«4DMi*t G«t TW Kfir^ - i. YOLUtfEXXXV ■ L / x- COTTON POUCT FORE^SOON Sesator SmHli Tells President CoBtinnstkm of IS-Cents Loan Is baperatlTei Speedy Decis ion ExpectM. WasMiictofS Auf. 18.—A predietfon tlut the edmiaiatnitioii will •xaioirae* iUi fntiire cotton knn policy within • few days wm made by Senator Smith of South Carolina, after a conference with Pioeident Roosevelt. Smith, chairman of the senate agri- jeulture committee, said he told the president there was "an abeolute im- peratlveneee** for eontinuation of loans of at leaat 12 oents a poond. "H ie my personal <Hpimon hs will make scnde-announcement within the next few dRya,” the South Carolinian added. \ Smith also discussed with the presi dent a plan to set up a $800,000,000 oorporati<m to insure foreign cre<ht transactions in an effort to bolster the nation’s export trade. Cotton, the country’s chief export crop, would he benefitted by euch a corporation, - the senator said, as K would guarmstee foreign credit trans actions in this as well as other com modities. ' , . The insurance Would be similar to that issued during the war by the war risk insurance corporation, which pro tected American shippers against loss- ea as a result of shipping hi^zards due to the conflict. However, under the Smith plan the insurance would be issued to protect credit ealea abroad. ^ "The president said he was very much interested in the proposition, and I think I am safe in sasring he is in favor of such a plan,’’ the senator -aaid. _ \^ln piedicting an early announcement regarding the oottbn loans, Smith said ha discouatsd repm^ that the gov ernment was withholding action pend ing possible market developments ^ when ths new crop is ready to mova. "There is nothing to that," he as earted. "If announosassni of the loen it witMield and cotton drops to nine oenta a pound, it will ba too^bad." Smi^’a visit to the White House mmrfcsd a renewed agitetion among apothsm cotton aanatoce for n'dsfi- nite attnonneement on the govern ment’s cotton loan policy in view of ^the agncuhure department’s 'recent forecast for the 1935 cix^, which was more than 1,000,000 bale# in exoeas of Bankheed cotton law allotmenta. ’ Last week Seontw. Beakhead of Alabama, called upon Preaident Roose velt in intefost of continuing the loans,' and Snijith at the same time talked with the chief executive on the telephone to put in a word. Loved CLINTON, a a, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15,1935 Girl Passes Betty Ann Shealy, Fiye-Year-Old Daughter of Mr. an4 Mia. Jack Skealy, ClaiMed By Death." Betty Ann Shealy, 6-year-old daugh ter of ICr. and.Mrt. Jeok Shealy of this chy, died lieC Friday night at the Hays hospital where she had bean a patient for four weeks following an operatkm ^and critical illness. The funeral service was conducted from the home Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock by the Rev. M. R. Wiagardr Lutheran minister of Greenwood, as sisted by Rev. C. Bynum Betts of this city. Interment followed in Rosemont cemetery with A. L. Shepard, Ansel Bobo, G. W. Hollingsworth and J. D. Boland serving as pallbearers. The services both at the house and grave, were attended by a large gathering of friends whose eyes were wet with tears ae they gathered to express their love and sympathy. The mound of the little girl was covered with many beautiful floral offerings placed as a hmt tribute by loving hands. Betty Ann was a bright, sweet little girl who made many friends, both young and old, by her kind disposition and loving manner. Many hMrts are sadden^ by the sudden transplanting from earth to eterjral life* of this young life, ko promising and full of possibilities. Her passing cast a pall of sorrow over young and old alike, the Mtire community deeply sympathizing ^h the family in their great eorrow In addition to her parei^^ the little girl is "^rvived by three grandpar ents, Mrs. J. H. Hipp, and Mr.; and Mrs<^ W. Shealy of little Mountain. Colie Bi. Adair , Suddenly iWell Known Citizen Suffers ^ Hpsrt Attack At Gastonia, ^rntemient Here Yesterday. tfCAum Johnson^ WHAT CONGRESS MAT ^AND ' MAY NOT DO The The poweri^ granted by the states to the congres's uader the Con stitution are strictly' d|nPed and lim ited.^ In brief, they include the follow- ing:' I; To end collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises. 2. To pay the debts and provide for the eommoji defense and general wel fare of the United States. ' 8. To borrow money ^ the credit of the United States. 4. To regulate Commerce with for eign hatione and among the several states. . 6. To coin money and fix standards of weights and measures. 6. To establish postoffices andepost roads. 7. To grant pateiits to inventors and copyrights to authors. 8. To declare war,, and to raise and support armies and a navy and make' rules for the government military forces. 9. To call out the militia in case of emergency. In general, Congress has authority to make all laws necessary to carry into execution the powers granted to the federal government by the Consti tution. But throughout the document the rights of ihe individual states are carefully safeguarded. en state. Each state sets up its own qualifications .for voters and can change them at will. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution prac tically every sita^ limited the fran chise to taxpayers or property-holders. Other important restrictions . are placed upon the power of. congresirby the Constitution. It cannot enact a law retroactive in its appliipation—an '‘ex post facto" law. That' is, it canhot make' illegal any act committed before the law prohibiting it was paesed. It cannot impose taxes or. duties upon articles exported from any state. It cannot suspend the writ of habeas cor pus. ’This does not sound so important today, but the framers of the Condli- tution had a vivid recollection of the custom of their British rulers of put ting people in jail and refusing to pro duce them in court. The purpose of the Constitution to vest supreme power in congress, ex cept for the rights reserved to the states, is indicated in the ^provision for the passage of laws over the veto of the, executive. An act of congress does not become effectve until it has been signed by the president, with the ex ception that if the president refuses to sign it, congress may, by a two- thirds vote, repass the hill. It there upon becomes a law regardless of the president’s dissent. It is .also within the power of the Congi^ Nears O ^ C* • Session’ll Finish Leaden* Predict Adjoanutaent WiU^Come About 20tk To 25tli of AuKust. Washington, August 10.—A weary congress -turned ' down the home stretch today hoping to reach the ad journment goal next Saturday, but more optimistic over the prospect of ending the gruelling Mamon the . fol lowing week. ' With the social security bill out of the way, the revised tax program could at last sight the long-awaited adjournment. A few predicted the sessioq would end Saturday night, unless unforseen obstacles arose. The more generally accepted date was “seme time before t\ugust 26." Therq-were a few unpopu^r voices warning that congress ,could^ not even finish in two weeks and would still be grinding away, when Labor day ar rives. _ ■. .-T* ■ i ■ , A belief that congress could finish next week was expressod by Senator McNary of Oregon, Republican leader of the senate. He warned that as soon as the tax bill was out of the way leaders would have difficulty holding a quorum in Washington. Chairman Harrison, Democrat, Mis sissippi committee at breakneck speed on the NUMBER 33 } HUNDREDS DIE For example, each state has the sole congress to dismiss from office any right of appointing the officers and member of executive or judicial ERA Personnel Cut In County * Bcdqction Made Under New Set- Up In ^lief Work. Several Local People Are Retained. Under the new diatriet ERA setup Laurens county retains a reduced of fice and field force, with S. B. Sexton, j formerly serving as administrator, now designated as work supervisor, as head of the county organisation. The personnel In both offices was re ported as reduced about 50 per eent and the amount of relief fimds placed in the eounty reduoed by the same amount Mr. Sexton haa announced the per- aonnel ef Ma office as folkms: Stenographer, Mrs. J. T. Davis; check clerk, L. D. McCrary; requisi tion clerk, J. A. Slice; assignment clerk, W. A. Dicus; tiine keeper, L. E. Hatton; director of woman’s work, Mrs. Lucy Ksnoedy. Miss Rtd>y Templeton, director of the bureau of social service, announces her staff as followsr^ Mrs. Leonard (Wrings, Mrs. WHHam Bailey, Mrs. Martha Hunter, Mtaa Al- mena MilKng and Miss Cknee Lang ston; cleric. Miss Martha Susan Briggs; intake seeretary, Mrs. LoU Friday, commodity clerk, Mias Mary Kate McCord; clerk, Miss Collette Da vie; stsaograpkare, Ifiaa Mary BeBe *Foy and Mis# Fraaoes McKet. ,%)ortMncR Name T Lom^ bMiQlian Lonnie S. McMilliaih local spoits- maa and athletic dfieetor at Ite col lage, was riected preridsnt of rise BeoA Carolina Fish and Game aaeod- atkrn last Thursday at the annual ooo- santkm held in Dillon which drew a large atate-wlda irttaMiaiioe. Mri Mc- MilNah law taken a keen interest in the local fish and game organiai^ion aad hio friends here and eliewfaere are pleaaed wMi his election to ^the state presidency. A. W. Briop of this city, another en thusiastic sportsman, was elected one of the,state viee-inesidents. The DiUoo heia from the local chapter. Colic B. Adair, 44, died ’suddenly esu-Iy Monday wig^ at a Hotel in (>ae- tonia, N. €., where he and a traveUng oompanion were foeets, the news re- oeived hers shortly after aeven o’clock coming aa a great Mwek to hie family and friends. Upon going-to ill loom with his friend at the deao of the days work, Mn Adair complalaod that he was not feeling well. He ooon suffered a heart af^ck, slumped on the bed, and died a few minutea after a hastily called physician had reached him. The funeral service was held hers from the residenoe on North Adair street yesterday afternoon at five o’clock with a host of friends present to pay their last respects. The service was in charge of Dr. J. C. Roper of North Broad Street Methodist church of which the deceased wsa a member. Interment Allowed, in Rosemont cem etery with many lovely floral offer ings bearing tribute to the esteem in which he was hald. ^ Mr. Adair was well known in Clin ton where he was bom and had apeot his entire life. He was a member of a well known and widely connected family of this community, a son of the late Thomas M. Adair, and Mrs. Adair. For a number of years be had been a successful traveling salesman with headquaiten here, and was wide ly known among merchants in the Carolinas. For several years he was associated with a brother in the oper ation of a gents’ fumiehingi store in this chy. He,wa8'a World war veteran. A man of plimeint persooalhy, he leave# a host of friaads who join with the fIRnily in mourning ,his sudden dc^. The deoeswed is survived by his widow, before marriage Miss Ethel Bushin; Ms mother, ^ Mrs. Tbonnui Adair; two aistert, Mrs. M. H. Yo^nt of Hickory, N. CTiod Miss EIU Adair of this city; seven bro^here, Joe R. Adair of Laurens, W."1l. Adair of Gteenville, G. F. Adair of Seneca, J. M., Dillard, CUfton and Thomas I. A^r, all of this place. Takes Up N^ Lancaster Wbric - X J. Harvey Witherspoon, former su perintendent of the Clinton schools, left last Thursday for Lancaster, where be assumed the position of edu cational supervisor of ths county. In Us new w<^ he will be m charge of tha opecwllce id tha schools through out the eounty, both as to msUers per tainiag to the-courses and meriiod of study, the personnel of the'schools, and will oo<mRnote and equalise edoca tkml advaatagek alike for all school children Mrs. Witherspoon and son. Jack, will leave next Monday for Lanesster to j<^ Mr. WHhi^poan, enrrying with tbenl'^ best wishes of a wi<^ Circle of friends in this gity. ^ Miss Ola Davis has returned from Baliobwyf N. C., whsns she has been visiting relatives. ■| prescribing the training of its militia. Each state can determine for itself who constitutes its milijtis. In New V6rk the militia consists of every able- bodied male between the ages of 18 and 45, whether enrolled in the Na tional Guard or not Congress has ex* elusive jurisdiction over military res ervations, but has no power to estab lish them except by the consent of the states in which they ar^'TodlMX^. Congress was given power to ei^b- lish a uniform rule of naturalization, but that does not carry with it the right to say who may vota in any giv- branches of the goverjimdnt, including Uie president. This is done by the process of impeachment, in which the house of representatives ha* the sole power to indict and the senate the sole power to try any official indicted or impeached by the house. Numerous federal judges have thus been im peached and dismissed from the pub- Me sehrice, and one president, Andrew Johnson was impeached by the house of representatives but was acquitted health" by the senate. • * ' 1 (Next w9ek:'“The Function* of the Prwident”). Estimated At From 600 To 1000 Italian Livte Lost In Ragins' Torrent. Factories and Homes Wiped Out. -- ■' I Turin, Italy, Aug. 13. — Estimates that more than 600 persons—possibly 1,000—may have, perished in the burst ing bria hydroelectric dam in the vi- cinity of the Alessandrian town q£ Ovada were'-mlide tonight by rescue workers. ^ . The raging flood water?, pourings • through the "shattered dam on th4 '' swpllen Orba river, laid waste an area of 43 square miles in the.vicinity of Ovada today. A vast Volume of water, stored up by mountain atorms, swept oyer tho countryside, washing away scores of j homes, wiping out small factories and crumbling a half dozen railroad and highway bridges. The rescue workers, troops and po lice, who were rushed with supplies to the stricken area fr<^ the city of Alessandria, said they could compute no definite tojl of the dead until day light. ^ > Scores of injure<i were given emer- - "VI,, treatment at hospitals and first who w., working h.» f,n.n« .y less by tho sudden flood, si>ent tho night in makeshift shelters. Destruction of the hydroelectric l>ower station at the dam threw tho ai-ea into darkness, adding to the havoc. Power service over a wide area was disrupted. The x»tastrophe descended on the hapless countrysi^ with tragic sud denness. The first warning was a ter rific roar like that of thunder rolling ifr the surrounding mountains^ as the , dam collapeed. Then a great wall of water rolled - down from the river, engulfing towna and village*. First reports said 100 in habitants were drowned in Ovada alone—a town of about 10,000. In the absence of more definite in- ' formation, police tentatively placed^ the number of homes destroyed ab “more than 100," and said scores of Predict Crop Of IJoanna And Watta 11,798,Bales! To Meet bi Series Government Makes First Esti* mate of Soaapiti Crop Is 2^03,- 000 Bales More Than Last Year. A cotton crop of 11,798,000 bales, about 400,000 bales higher than ex^ pected by private concerns and 2,603,* 000 bales higher than that of last year^ to the same period was forecast by the government Thursday in its first eeti- mate of the 1936 cotton crop. The esti mate to the same< period last year was 9,195,000 bales. The condition was given as 73.3 with an ifidicated yield per acre of 198.3 poubks per acre. A . total of 94,241 bales had been ginned prior to August 1, stccording to the report. ' •Cotton dropped about twelve points following the announcement. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace stated imme diately tha^ adequate credit facilities would be made available to the farm ers this year. He also stated that the cotton now held by the government would not be made available except the price was in excels of thirteen oenta. This gave rise to the opinion that a loan announcement would not be given at the present time. 144 Cars Peaches From County Commerml peach growers of the county, have finiahed the biggaat year in their hiatory, it waa boated the paat week by F. W.-Taylor, local repieaen- tative for'the pe<u;h co-opa. A total of 144 cars were ahipped from the coun ty, beaides thousa^ of bushels sold to tmeka at the orchards. The ship* menu with the number of ears cred ited to each were aa follows: 8. i: Craig, 54 ears; MeDaniel brothers, 38; Young, 0>peh^ smd Davis, <}Hnton, 18; L. E. Reeder, 7; Bex Laoford/ S; Weir Madden, ll; S. C. Gambrell, 12, and Lk J. Blakely 6. CoUege EnroDs 100th Freshman Dean Marshall W. Brown announced yasbarday that enroHment of fresh men at Presbyterian coltege has readied 100. Edward A Wheeler, of^ Florence, was the lOOUi student to en roll. This is the highest advance en rollment at this time of the year ever ei^rienced at the college, and points to a record-breaking freshman claas. The present enrollment of 100 new students compares wHh a freshman daw of 83 iqr last year. Dean Brown •Cated that he' confidently expecta the edlege’s greatest year in the aecfion 1M646. f Wimiers of Both Halves In Caf^ oUaa Lei^iue'^Kf^r^c^y In First Championsfafp Game. Watts Mill of Laurens, ^ewed up the second half race last Friday of the Central Carolina league and will enter into the play-off series with ihe ftast Joanna Mills team' of Goldville for fhe pennant. k The big championship series calls for three games this week, the first to be played at Watt* Mill this after noon with Ouzrts on the mound for Joanna and Lynch for Watts. Friday the two teams will meet in Greenwood at the city park, wiib Corley of Joanna opposing Rook for '^Watt*. Saturday the rivals will play at Goldville, with either Bouknight or Ouzts pitching against Howard. All games'will start at 4:30 p. m., with the series expected to extend into next Week. Wide inter est is centered in this championship match with large crowds expected to be on hand every afternoon when the umpire says “play ball." Watts clinched the title Friday while lying idle. Ware Shoals came through by defeating Joanna, 2 to 0, in a brilliant pitchers’ battle. The vet eran Tom Ingle on the mound for the Riegels, allowed but one hii. Josuuia, under the management ef Bruce Galloway, has enjoyed a big season and h^ little trouble winning the first half, losing their only two games to Greenwood. The second half was a real race with Nii^y Six, Ware Shoals and Joanna battling .the final winners all the way. “ tax bill, agreed theie was "strong Hentiment" for adjournment next week, but said congress would "have to move awfully fast" to do'it. He forecast an adjournment between August 20 and August 25 was more likely. ' More” than eighty members of the hoq^ have signed a petitioq urging that congress stay in session until the inflationary Frazier-Lemke $3,000,- 000,000 farm refinancing brill and rail pensiofT” measures, had—been act^ upon. Chief threat in the senate was Sena tor Huey P. Long, Democrat, Louisi- who will offer his share-the* program as an amendment to the tax bill. Leaders declared them selves ready to bold night seesons if the Louisianan should try any filibus tering tactics. There waa a "gentlemen’s agree ment" among most other senators to cut short debate. Aside from the tax bill, the chief obstacles to adjournment were con- ftfewce diffapences between the two Cldied Season To, Remain In Force The closed season agajn.<rt hunting in Laurens county, ordered several months ago by the state game warden on the request of the county delega tion, will remain in force indefinitely, it was learned last week' from mem bers of the delegation. ‘This means, it was aaid, that when "the regular hunt ing season for birds and other game opens op in ths state, hunting wiU not In allowed in Laurens, county. houses on the utility holding company bill, the banking bill and the TVA amendments. All, however,, were re ported^ be on the path toward'^settle ments State’s Crop i Outlook Good Columbia, Aug. 12.—A report issued today air the office of Frank Or Black, federal crop ►statistician here, said South Carolina led the nation in pros pective crop yields August 1. "The August' 1 indicated yield of all crops for the state," the report said, "is 125.9 per cent of the ten- year average" fronv 1921 to 1930. Georgia was listed as second with an average of 124.4 per cent. Kansas was given as having the lowest pros pects with 71.6 per cent. South Carolina cotton production prospects were listed as 111 per cent of the 1934 crop and tobacco 138 per cent. The hot weather during July and others were wrecked beyond hope of repair.. x Many bodies were buried under th^ ruins of homes and it was believed numbers would never be recovered. F'irst estimates pjaced the damage at 300 million lire (approximately $25,600,000). AH crop* in the area, including grapes,.-grain and vegetables, were razed. . Everyone except officials were barred from the .stricken district and information was meager. The, few sur vivors who reached here told how en- ttre families weiv wipt‘d out by the torrent that rushe<i down the valley. *" Dr.iHarold S. Fish Takes Post Here I Harvard Graduate Joins Presby terian College Faculty As Suc cessor To Dr. John H. Davis, . Resigned. Dean Marshall W’. Brown and Act ing President W. P. .Jacobs of Pres byterian college, announced on Tues day the selection of Dr. Harold S. Fish of the biological laboratories of Har vard university, a.s head of the departs ment of biology at the college for tho the copious rum increased th^ condi- coming year tion of ^1 crop* in the|atate,” the re port saicl. Bums Re-Names School Board Union S«*vice With Baptists ) The city union service next Sunday evening will be held at eight o'clock at riie First 'BapUst church. The pul pit will be occupied by Dr. L. R. Lynn, preaident of Thomwell orphanage, wkh a cordial invitation extended all eoBRegstioiw to unite in this fcrviee. - J. LeRoy, Bums, recently inducted into office aa county superintendent of education, announc^ thb past week that be had recommended to the state department of education for re-ap- pointment the four members of the present county board of education. They are: R. E. Babb^ Rev. Jodie A Martin, €. K. Wright, all'Of Laurem; and R. E. Sadler of this city. Mr. Babb has been a member of the' board for thirty-three years. Other members are com^li^ing a four-year term. In speaking of the re-appoifoment pf the board, Mr. Bums said, "I have stodied the records of these four men Dr, P'ish succeeds Dr. John H. Davis, who has severed his connection with the college to accept a position as head of the 'department of biology at South western university, Memphis, Tenn. Dr. Fish will a.s«ume hiii new duties here in September but expects 4o ar rive in the city before the fall o;^n- ing. He is an A. B. graduate of ^w-^ doin college, Brunswick, Maine, wheroi he majored in general zoology^ verte brate zoology, histology, emb^ology; and botany. He taught biology for two! years at Colby college, Watervilie, Maine. . At Harvard Dr. Fish took advanced training in biology and research, re ceiving the degree of doctor of philoso phy. He served four years as an as sistant in the biological laboratories at Harvard, from which service* he comes directly to. -Presbyterian col lege. Officials of the institution feel that they are most fortunate in secur ing Dr. Fish for this important post \ and have''' been pleasantly associated, wHh them for the past nipnth. They j^nd he will prove a valuable ad- seem to me to be thoroughly interest- 4i»on to the Jaculty ed in promoting the educational pro gress of the county and I can find no reason why they should not be re appointed." TO SPEAK SUNDAY Dr. L. R. Lynn of this city, will be the guest speaker at the First Pres byterian church next Sunday at the usual morning service hour. The pul pit of the church is'bdng rilled by vis iting ministen during Ao^st,while the pastor Is away on vacation. BUYS RESIDENCE HERE . W. A. Moorhead, well-known cotton mill executive of Goldvlll€,v has pur chased from the Citizens Building and Lqan association of l^l;?is city, the resi dence on the. comer of Centennial and Woodrow streets, formerly owned and occupied by S. G. Dillard. The resi dence ,Js now bmhg repainted and worked over to be occupied in the near future by E. Monts, new superin tendent of the city schools. r ■ 1L-