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y- * TBB CVftONICLB gbl^/t« Bt a CImoi Ka«p* ; C«i»tatak Kawar. i I CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 22,1936 NUMBER 34 BRITAIN HOPES TO AVERT WAR Plains Economic Steps Against Italy If African" Conflict Be- ([ins. B^anwhiie Italy and Ethiopia FcTerishly Prepare For Struggle. London, Aug* 20. — Great Britain’s foreign eaqinerU, an authoritative source indies^ tonight, have agreed to recommend to the cabinet tomorrow adoption of proposals for economic sanctions by members of the Leagoa of Nations against Italy if she fights Ethiopia. This far-reaching decision, it was said, was made J>y Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary, and Anthony Eden, minister for League of Nations af- fairs. Joint economic and financial sane- tions 'would prevent goods, cash and cr^it fmm reaching lUly. Smsfler powers and France, it was said, would support the British gov ernment should it urge Geneva to adopt this course. ' If the league fails to act, Britain mutt then determine upon its own unilateral steps in the face of what it regards as an Italian challenge of England’s prestige and dominance of the Mediterranean and Africa. Ministers, recalled from their va cations, will meetA-tomorrow in a vital session to decide upon a course of ac tion following the breakdown of the tri-power tidks in Paris. After Hoare and Eden conferred in the foreign office, there was every in dication i the government is trying to postpone the fateful day when it may have to face a decision of a unilateral character ,4 in the Italo-Ethoipian dis pute. If league powers det not agree to follow the program mapped by Brit ain, then the whole crisis will be dumped back into London’s lap. Considendsle emphasis was placed upon the visit to iloars and Elden by the American charge d’affairM. in London; Neville Ohambeifain, chancel lor of the exchequer and Stenky M. Bruce, high cottinissioiier for Aui- tralia. The British government is making a strong.bid for American moral sup port in its moves and is keeping in close touch with the United States embassy. Hoare and EMen gave«Chamberlain, one of Britain’s most prominent elder statesmen,^ summary of the Paris ne- -gotiations and obtained his observa tions oh some of their recommenda tions. The foreign office is keeping the dominionc :Mly advised on st^ to be taken and Bruce’s conference was the first of a series with dominion repre sentatives. HUNTER SCHOOL DISTRia AUDIT GIVEN IN DETAIL Auditors^ Report Made Upon Request of Former Board of Trus< tees Gives Complete Analysis of District's Assets, Liabili ties, Equipment, Current Expenditures, and Sinking Fund Investments. ABRAM VENABLE MARTIN Prof. A V. Martin Passes At Home Head Mathematics Department At Presbyterian College Suc cumbs To Long Illness. Final Rites-Held Tuesday. The’audit of Hunter schoordistrict No. 5 recently requested of the county delegation by the former board of trustees, has been completed and cop ies placed in the hands of the old and ■ new boards. The audit which sets forth a complete set-up of the schools fi nances, operating expenses, sinking fund investments and equipment, was made by Elliott, Davis & Company, accountants and auditors of Boston, Mass., with branch offices in Green ville. The audit is accompanied by a letter explaining in detail the various sched ules and accounts. A review of the operating expenses for the past two years is given, while the sinking fund audit covered the past ten-year period. Under schedule giving'assets and liabilities, the audit shows that the plant and equipment of the district has a value of $217,625.00, and a sink ing fund investment of $29,236.80. The liabilities consist of term bonds which becomes due Jan. 1, 1937, in the amount of $27,500; serial bonds of $72,000, and a current note due June 20, 1936, of $8,600, making a total WHOLE NATION MOUlt^S HIS TRAGIC DEATH Funeral services for Abram Venable I in^tedness of $80,500. There was PLANS TO FIGHT Addis Atiaba, Aag. 20. — Emperor Haile Selaaaie, thia and careworn, rap Idly presaed diefenaive meaauret today against a possible Italian Invasion. He ordered foodstuffs and muni- tiom xleposited 4t. strategic points throughout the country and forbade the army to draw upon the poptiiation, which is already impoveriahed. To demonatrate'the efficiency of the ikewly-trainied EUBopian seddien a iham battle will be staged tomorrow near the imperial palace under the <tfiaeti<m of ^ emperor. At the aanse time reports from the interior eakt natives are becomhic restive because Haile Selaeeie eemtin- oes to work for peace instead of start ing hostilities. They were said to re sent the emperor’s padfie policy. The national banking society, which is French, / diepaCehed all its hides, skins and other stocks to Djibouti, French Somaliland, for safekeeping. Insurance 'companies increased their _war risk insurance rates and accepted -jisks only for thi^ .months. The na- tkmd bimk imposed oertro .restrie- tk>m en money leaving the country. Martin, 66, for the past thirty-nine years a beloved member of Presbyte rian college faculty, were heid Tues day morning at 10 o’clock from the First Ppesbyterian church, of which he was an officer and dej^oted mem ber. The services were conducted by Dr. Ehidley Jones and Dr. L Ross L3nin, both of this city. Interment fol lowed in Roseinont cemetery. Active pallbearer^i were: John Spratt, F. M. Boland, R. S. Owens, Bothwell Graham, 3d, D. W. A. Nev ille and Joe L. Kekt of Newberry. The honorary escort consisted of members of the collie faculty. . Beautiful floral offerings from friends and various organisations with which he was affiliated, were banked high about the carimt and the ehurdi was well-fUled with friends and admirers who came to pay their last respects. Prof.^ Martin died at his home on South Bnoad street early Monday morning following a critical illness of several months. Members of his fam ily were at his bedside when the iad end came, which had been expected at almoet any time. - Prof. Martin was born on Oct. 16, 1868, near Richmond, Va., the son of a Presbyterian minister,! the Rev. S. T. Martin and Isabella Venable Mar tin. He was educated at a typical coun try school until he wee of age to enter the now non-existent Prince Edward acadmny for boys. After a brief pe riod of preparation here, he matricu lated at Hampden-SidBey college where he acquitt^ himeelf creditably and was graduated in the class of *91. His first teaching poeiiton waaj ^n McMinn academy, Rogersville, Tenn., a post he was compelled to give up a year later <« account of a severe at tack of typhoid ffver. Following his (Continued on page two) RBADT FOR WAR Rome, Aug. 20.—*Qdvmment and fasciet party leaders, of all categories are going out to BpMt Africa as volun teers in the armed forces or as ad- miniitraton and executives, it was dieekMed tooght. J ' Ihejcotiie directorate of the Vkseist party/ ineinding Italy’s ’iiunlMr two” maiv AdiUe Starace, seereti^ of the paity, has volunteered.. School Belk To Ring Tueiday also on deposit $851.54, and a bank claim of $171.23. The statement shows a net worth, or excess of assets over liabilities of $139,884.57. A section of the report states: "The figures stated above do not include the balance held by the county treas urer on July 1, 1935, for Hunter school district No. 6. This amount, as deter mined from the records of the county treasurer, was $2,469.81 and repre sents the balance, after expenditures, of the usual tax and other collections for the district and $8,500.00 borrowed from the 'Palmetto bank. The amount is not included on the balance sheet, exhibit "A,” but should be considered by the trtntees in their budget or esti- nmtion of resources available for the cjrmnt eehMl year.” ~ The rep<^’s analysWi of the dis trict’s sinking fund shows a total on hand July I, 1935, of $29,286.80. The amount of outstanding term bonds for which the sinking fund is r^uired to tals $27,500 due Jan. 1, 1937. This leaves a surplus in the sinking fund over and a^ve the amount required to meet the principal payment when it becomes due of $1,736.80. All of the bonds of the district except the $27,- 500 maturing Jan. 1, 1937, are serial bonds against which there jis no re quirement for sinking fund. The auditors in their comment state: "The superintendent’s record books enabled us to trace 'the sinking fund transactions of previous.years and as indicated above, to- go back ae far aa ten years or more ago to account for the interest coupons.” It further states: "We made a earful examina tion of all tranaaotiotts affecting the sinking fund of the trustees an|l the resulte of our findinge are embodied in Sehedulea 16-18.” "We find that the sinking fund has been properly ac counted for, including all interest cou pons on btmds, tlte portion of the shAing fund which was caught in the closing of the First National bank on Jan. 22, 1981, and the dividends which have been paid on this account since. At some pains we went back to the bond" purchases of Oct. 19^ and Nov 1926 and traced the accounting for interest coupons from those dates.” In reference to the physical plant, the report says : " We made a personal visit iof inspec^on to all buildings, with the exception of the Bethel schoql. All buildings, equipment and grounds were found to be in excellent condition.” The Bethel school inferred to is the two-teacher Negro rural school of the district. A full and detailed statement in cluding itemiEed accounts of all labor and materials used on the recent ad ditions to Academy Street echool building is given in the report. It showed that the total labor cost on this project paid by the district was $1,123.08, materials $4,798.76, making a total expenditure on the project of $5,921.79. This amount was expended over a two-year school period from 1933 to 1935; the total spent during the 1933-34 session being $3,632.86, and during the 1934-36 sessTion $2,- 288.93. In addition to the labor and materials on the building there was spent for equipment $466.01. The to tal outlay for the building and equip ment was $6,377.80. This total amount spent on the enlargement and improv- 4{% of the building and * additional equipment includes the $4,200 special appropriation. — The record of receipts and expendi tures as reflected by the audit for the year 1933-34 shows that the ampunt of operating current expendituies, which included all salaries and main tenance expenses for the white schools amounted to $36,646.48 for the Negro schools $5,874.62; for the year 1934-85 for white schools $42,403.81, and for Negro schools $6,6^.20. Under general comment the audi tors state: "A good accounting record has been maintained during the two sehool yeurs 1983-84 and 1934-86 which wa have audited, the state voucher register system being in use. Ail supplemented by the superintend ent’s record of trustees’ minqtes, sink ing fund, operating and other transac tions of the Clinton schools, we have been able to make a satisfactory audit of the two years which we have ex amined in detail.” It further stated: "We recommend that the accounting system in use be continued, subject to several suggestions which we hive made to Mr. Anderson to Improve its use. We emphasixe as the most impor- tant«f these the attaching of invoices to the voucher jackets on Vrhich the record and analysis of expenditum are made. Mr. Anderson and Mr. WMih- erspoon haw given largely of their time to assist us. We also acknowledge the cordial cooperation of the officials of the local banks and of Mr. B. H. Boyd and Mr. W. C. Oxley of the for mer and present boards of trustees, respectively.” > SESSION MAY BE Filibuster-Threlit May Prevent Expected Adjournment This Week. Inheritance Tax Levies Draw Fight With Senator Nye Demanding Neutrality Action. WILL ROGERS Rogers And Post ' Funerals Today Services To Be Held In Califor nia and Oklahoma. Fliers To Form Guard of Honor, ~ New Seeeioii At TlMniwell Or- pluuimfe Befinp Augimi 27. Several Chaages In Faculty. '^The Thornwaiy orphanage schools will open their new aeseaon on next Tuesday, August 27tji. The'ohUdren away on their sominw vacations dur ing the past two monthe, will return < q c the latter, part of the week a»d at Chn^,^S.X. large famMy imraediatdy reorganized /■ Ginners To Get . Government Fee !•.- Washington, Aoguet 17. — Giimera tfaroughoat the cotton producing sec- tiona of the South are to get help from the gownnaeat, it was aa- Boanced today following aa eiaaiiaa- tioB of the coaferenOi xeport aa the Esnkhead biU, warn $aaaid aad ae its way ta iAt Whita aoaoaR .QiaDera wffl 26 caate a hale for all eottwi aa a reeompeaae for aaaieHng aeepiBg tvs zacoros for the new year’s work both in the claM roooM and the trade depart- meets. The sdiocds are, again headed by B. S. Pinson as principal for the eighth year. Six changes in the facoKy have been made ior the coming eeszion, am oral valiudde memhers oi the staff not atandhif for re-eiection in order to accept potitiont elsewhere. The foUowing teachers will consti tute the staff: High School Mies Lets McIntyre, Clio, coninM»’- cial. “ Miss Helen Porter, Clinton, Engli^ and History. Mias Julia Porter, dinton, Latin, French and Bib^. Miss Catherine Wilson, Green, Scienee and Bibk. B. & Pinmm, dinted Mathematics. GraaiiMr and Piriiaary Grades Mrs. Sara Alumina Jaeoba, New berry, first aad aeeead gradas* Mias Evelyn McDowiril, Paeolet, third grade. Miss JQaaaMr Xenaedy, BUdcetock, Mise Sara Parktosoa, Ow West, Miss AkhevHlt, dspa^ Los" Angeles', Aug. 20. — A militaT7 guard of honor, compo.sed of 40 army fliers from March field, will be sta- tioneil around the casket of Will Rog ers as thousands pay silent tribute to the noted actor and writer Thursday morning. Final details of the funeral service, in Forest Lawn MemoriaF park await the arrival of Mrs. Rogers and her three children from the east tomor row, but Oscar Lawlor, Beverly Hills lawyer and close friend of the family, disclosed today the private service would be simple and brief. Lawlor said Mrs. Rogers had re quested the service be limited to the singing of one hymn, one solo and a brief eidogy by the Rev. J. Whitcomb Brougher, Sr., associate pastor of the First Baptist church of Glendale, Cal. Rogers* body, brought home last night from Alaska with that of Wiley Post, famed aerial explorer whose plane crashed last Thursday, was ^ placed in a simple bronze casket and that taken to the gold room in the Forest Lawn chapel. • Rogers was dressed Tn what he termed his "dress-up suit,” a blue serge, a white 8oft-,oolIar shirt, with Members of the former board of trustees requesting the county dele gation that the audit be made were: B. H. Boyd, Dr. T. L W. Bailey, S. W. Sumerel and W. W. Harris. < l^mpson Is Offi P. C. Financial Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 19.—Ths Rev. T. W. Simpson, pastor of the First Presbyterian church here gnd moder ator of the Presbyterian synod .of Georgia, has receiv^ a call to serv^ as financial secreUry of Presbyterian ""‘"y automoWIes. A meeting of the 'congregation of the ohUreh'Wtn be held Sunday to con sider the poesibility of aUowing Mr. Simpson a leave of absence for one year in order that he may be free to accept or reject the call to the Sooth Carolina college. , , Sunday Designated Home-Coming Day Bowling meatal work, fomth, sixth and ra aavMrth gradas. [to Sunday morning has been designat ed at North Broad Street Methodist church as "Home-Coming day,” with all members of the congregation in- vi^ and expected to be present. With the summer season practically over, the pastor of the church states tha; the fan program is now getting way., and an increased atUadan ex- dlit all services. pected' MEET IN GRE LLE The Gl^enville district Young Peo ple will mast Saturday'moming gt 10 a’clodc M the Itornghan Mill church in Graenvilla. Eaveral Methodiat rep- aatativas from here are enacted attend. Chvleston Has 6.08-lnch Rain a black bow tie. He most always wore that attire.. He once said that if a man had a blue suit and a brown suit he could dress for any occa.sion. The comedian’s body will lie in state under p canopy of pines jtist outside the Wee Kirk O' The Heather church from 7 o’clock Thursday morning un til noon. The private service, limited to 125 friends, will be held at 2 p. m. Public services will be held simul taneously in Hollywood Bowl, huge, natural amphitheatre. Plans will we started there for a fitting public me morial. * A request has been made that the private service be carried by wire to Hollywood Bowl and broadcast through amplifiers to the crowd a^ sembled there. Mrs. Rogers must' ppss on this request after her arrival/^ Mrs. Rogers, her daughteiyMary, and her two sons, James and^ill, Jr., are due here tomorrow a^rnoon by train. / Washingtoni Aug. 20.—-The furious congressional I rush toward, adjourn ment ran athwart a senate filibuster threat today just after an agreement * on the Roosevelt tax bill had bright ened chances for quitting. ' Senator Nye, Republican-Indepen-.., deni, yf North Dakota, announced the filibuster against all administration bills .unless ‘neutrality legislation is considered He asserted , that Senator Bone, Democrat, of Wasliiiigton, would join him. What would happen finally^none qould say, although Senator Robinson, the Democratic chief, immediately be gan seeking an agreement with the would-be filibusterers. Just previously, the new tax bill was whipped into a final $250,000,000 shape by senate-house conference • committees. In a:ll major particulars save one, the president’s tax ideas prevailed. But on that one—the new inheritance tax, which wa.s a basic recommenda tion— the 10 men representing the hou.se and senate decide<l again.st him. Three of them, all RepubKcans, sub sequently issued a statement labelling the measure a “legislative absurdity” and insisting that instead of levying new taxes tof raise' $250,000,000, the administration should stop "unneces sary, wasteful and extravagant ex penditures.” The statement was signed by Sen ator Metcalf, Republican, Rhode Is land, and Representatives Treadway^\^ Republican, Massachusetts, and Bach- arach, Republican, New Jersey. As it finally shapes up the bill in cludes new graduated corporation in- \ come taxes, higher capital stock levies, ^ increaeed excess profits taxes, boosts surtax rates on all individual, incomes over ^^$50,000, a new levy on dividends received by one corporation from an other and increased estate and gift taxes. .The inheritance taxes were suggest ed by the president with the assertion inherited economic power is as inconsistent^ with the ideals of this generation” as having king"^ ~But the congressional confereeiC, at tempting to harmonize the differences / lietween the bills passed by the~hous^ and senate, agreed there should be po inheritance, taxes. Chairman Doughton, Democi^, of North Carolina, of the hous^Mnfer- described the final bill as a Charleston, August 18.—A 12-hour downpour soaked Charleston with 6.06 inobet'iof rain Sunday, flooded streets, blocked every street car line, and ees "blamed good one” but ^skid it was inheritai In some l)«rts of town, where high, tide backed up In the drains and pre vented escape of rainwater, children were swimming in -the street. T^ small boats broke loose from mp6r- inga and were recovered by the^^6oo*t guard. About 86 others in tl^ mpni- cipal yacht basin were fille^/with wa ter and pumps were goingr tonight to keep them from sinkim Wind which read^ a velocity of 40 miles an hour made some fearful of a hurricane, but the local weather bu reau said the/condition was local. Some telepbplie lines were out and downtown eellars flooded, but no se rious damage was reported. Fc« Paid Rogers ' $8,000 Per Week \ ^ ■ New York, Aug. 17.—Will Rogers, humorist and actor, received $8,000 per wedc from Fox Film corporation. 11«t was brought out Thurs^y at a meeting of Fox Film atockholders, at wiuoh-President Sidney R. Kent said: "We pay WUl Rogers $8,000 a week and we nudee money nn Wm.” Rogers reputedly wae a mnnonaire, as he also had a large income from hb writing and other sources. j POST COMl^ HOME Oklahoma Cit;^^ug.. 20.—A cur tained transporr plane settled gently to earth befpra a solemn throng at the munic^l airport late today in Wiley Pofik last landing. The b6dy of the intiepid aviator ar- rived/here at 3:54 p. m., ending an air joqrney of 4,500 miles from the bleak ne of the crash near Point Barrow, Alaska, which killed him and Will Rogers. The silver tri-motored funeral plane taxied down the main runway of the field and rolled slowly with a.police escort, into a hangar, emptie;^^ jui- ■ure privacy. .. The doors swung shut and the brok en body of the only man to make a solo flight around the world was transferred to a waiting hearse. His widow, parents, and other rela tives did not go to the airport, pre ferring to be alone when they received their dead. Circling over the airfield was the successor to Post’s 'round-the-world plane, Winnie Mae, a black-trimmed white monoplane owned by his one time backer, F. C. Hall, Oklahoma City oil operator. ~ Those in the crowd stood sUent, with heads bowed as the hearse swung out of the hangar, dropped in behind a cordon of motorcycle o^i- cers and started fo^the field. " The hearse bore wo body to a fun eral home. There it will rest uniil 11 m. tomorrow, when a cortege will necessary to drop the inheritance tax es in order to get an Agreement. Oth erwise, he implied, ^journment might have been held ^ by a conference deadlock. / Indications/were that the conference Report, on ,which the house must act first, would not-be called tp a vote be fore T^rsday because of the desire of leitders to hold that bill off until the/fast thing. /iGxcept for the Nye threat, the gen eral adjournment machinery function ed smoothly. The senate passed the "must” railroad reorganization bill, debated the Guffey bill and was ready to proceed with other legislation. The house marked time while con ferees reached a final agreement on the Tennessee Valley authority amend ments, and the house judiciary com mittee held a night meeting in an ef fort to expedite the "must” Walsh bill setting up NRA requirements for gov ernment contractors. Among the major presidential rec ommendations included in the bill was the graduated corporation income tax. He had suggested a levy ranging from 10 3-4 to T6 3-4. instead of the present flat 13, 3-4 per cent. ' The house vited for a 13 1-4 to 14 1-4 per cent le|t)y and the senate for one from 12 1-2 to 16 1-2 per cent. The final biU ranged from 12 1-2 to 15 per cent. The house had done nothing about the existmg tax of $1 on each $1,000 of capital stock. The senate had agreed upon increasing the rate to. $1.50. The final bjH makes it $1.40. The present excess profits tax IS move out of QUaboma City to Mayes vilk, the Garvin county town that Poet called home.' Local Interest In Mill Case Much local interest is centered in the reorganizatio'n hearing of the Lydia Cotton Mill.s scheduled to be held before District Judge H. H. Wat kins at 10 o’clock next Monday morn ing, Aug. 26th, in the federal, bufld- ing at Greenville. -The mUl has filed a petition for re-organization under sec tion 77-B of the national bankrupt act. In the submitted plan tlw mill pro poses to discharge its indebtednesa by the issuanoe of 7,000 shares ol non- cumulative 5 per cent preferred stock of par value.