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^''V: .-.f. ^ ■: ' :. - r - / • \ l</' CONGRESS ENDS LONG SESSION Apfiroprijitlon Bifl Dies In Filir bnsUr By Hney Long and , Faib To P»Tlde Money For New Deal Projects. Con|bt»- Biiae Made On Cotton Loan To Washinfton, Auipise 27.—Coiicr«s* Adjourned an Ustoric eeseion of grigen-^ tie legislative labors Tuesday morning, but left buried under a filibuster by Senator Long, of Louisiana, the money Tor major New Deal ptnjeets. The senate quit at midnight Monday under the lash of an administration warning t^t President Roosevelt has constitutional powers to order ad- 'joumment. , The house closed its first session of the 74th congress at 12:09 a. m. after tumii^ hack the clock while waiting to learn what course the senate would .pursue. When Speaker Byms rapped Ahc-flBaLgavel, the clock in the house chamber read only 11:67 pi m., or 12 minutes behind the real time. But a tumultous day of conferences and compromises which maneuvered the administration into rewriting its cotton loan plans as the price for mollifying Southern senators and ning 176,000,000 in cash for the vaSt social security program was nullified by the Louisianan's five-and-a-half- hour talkfest. Bluntly, he was charged by Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader. Sen ator Black, of Alabama, and others with “deliberately killing” the third deficiency bill “carrying fjtnds for the aged and crippled by his filibuster.” **No I ain’t,” Long retorted, as he talked on. Downtown, President Roosevelt sat up late in the White House, going oyer correspondency and a huge stack of bills awaiting signature. He was kept informed of the senate situation. At the other mid of the Capitol, rep resentatives sang and perform^ to navy band tunes in the customary saa- aion*end frolick. Crowded gaUeriee echoed the fun-making. Wrapped in the $100,000,000 deficit biH Long tsdked to death waa money not only to start tha social security program,'bai also for the neutraltW arms jembargo, the national labor J^rd, the utilities and Guffey coal bills and other outstanding measures. Though some had contended Mr. Roosevelt could get the money from work-relief funds, Robinson said Comptroller Geiwral McCkrl had held otherwise,'and in repeated rulings the senate chair said the appropriations fot “the aged” would be . lost if the aenate could not voCie by midnight. Schwcllenbach, Democrat of Wash ington, charged Long with Miowing off to the packed galleries. “I wiH stand on my own feet and my oym judgment,” Long replied, in- sisUng <that the house should vote on mandatory 12-cent cotton loans de- apite the AAA’s revisipn of its bitter ly assailed 8-cent loan plan. Just before 12 o’clock Senator ScbweUenbacb interrupted Long with a “parlamentary inquiry.” \ “It if now a minute bafore mid- n^ht,” Schwellenbach said, “I ask whet^r or not because of bis selfish desir^to get pubiicity the senator from Ikmisiana hasn’t defeated the hopes, th\^irations and the desires of millions x)f people—” . SchweHenl^h waa iuterriqited by Vice PreaidenK^mer, who rapped his gavel once Uid declared: ^The sebate tra^urned sine die.” There was a roar w^sBcHtement from the overefowded gaH^es, as Long v^sjked out of the <duimMi^ alone. Oth er senators lingered' for bmf fare wells. Senator Black asked Long ifxhe in tended to kill this bill and pi^ent needed funds for railroad retireimt and crippled children. ^ \ “When was the senator from Ala^ bama when we put through the cotton and, wheat amendments?”/Long de manded. / “I was here,” Black aiuMPPe<l in re ply, “and waa. no4 tryiag to eiaim any ere^ for passing the Byrnes amend ment. The eenator from Soath Caro lina didn’t need tha nid of. the eanntor from Louisiana in getting that anmnd- it through.”^ , Pirooetiag arouiid the aisle. Long ebonted his aappert for the bHL «It waa SW Loaf ^ ^ iHie 8atar*iy h* roarad. ’^yhe* an appropHation is Asa me ihr what I did thmu” rM I aavnd the MU Batiir#y a%ht, I hurt the. «• save it ba contiBued, Mdag off repeated r^ qoeeto of BM and Schwelleidmeh that ha ytekL Urn eotton loan comi^mtse ed that tha AAA nukn 10 cent on eotton, with a subaidy to tbt grower Uoents a poi^ ii4ar it tiio sonata wpdkj abastdoor ipi eontro- Hearing. In Gremiville Changes Made In Mifls’ Original Reorganisation Plan. To Come Up Again for Approynl.' Federal Judge H. H. Watkins on Monday morning in Greenville, ap proved a revised plan for reorganisa tion of the Lydia Cotton Mills to be submitted to him in the near future. The proposed reorganisation plan, under aectton 77-B of the national bankruptcy act, was presented to the court a month ago and was taken up Tuesday for consideration. It imme diately ran into a waU of opposition as attorneys Julian Mitchell, Jr., of Charleston, and R. W. Wade of this city, on be^If of the S^th Carolina State Bank, trustees for the bondhold- FORIO-CENT COnON LOANS TO FARMERS Washington, Aug. 26.—Here is the text of the AAA’s announcement to day on,cotton loans: . “The objective of the Agricultural Adjustment administration has, been to get an,average return of at iMst 12 cents for the producers of aeven- eighths inch middling cotton. . “The plan announced last week would have obtained this further study shows' that certain modi- *fication8 of this plan will xnake it simpler to understand and more equi- toble to industrial growers and will make dear to'''each producer when he ntarkeis his eotton the exact amount he will receive for it,/ “Under the' previous plan it would have been possible for growers of seven-eighths inchrlow middling cot- that the Lydia plan waa inequitable and should be revised by certain changes, particularly thd providing of cumulative preferred stock inetead of non-cumulative as set forth in the re organization proposal. Judge Watkins, after some diseuseion, suggested that the hearing resolve itself into a con ference between representatives of the mill and its creditors, whereby some revisd plan, agreeable to both sides, might be drawn up. After an hour’s conference, Ralph^T. Wilson and H. S. Blackwell of Laurens, attorneys for the mills, and creditors’ attorneys revise plan, agreeable to both sides, Judges Watkins at an early date for his approval. Groups of gold bond holders were represented at the hear ing by Attorneys R. W. Wade of this city, Eugene please of Newberry, and Ralph Syfan of Abbeville. W. J. Bai ley, actiiv president of the mill in place of his brother^ C. M. Bailey, who died recently, was also present. Features of the revis^ plan agreed upon after considerable discussion, are: Issue $ per cent cumuh^ve pre ferred stock, dividends payi^ semi annually from July 1, 19S6; common ers, presented a petition objecting to, . ^ the mill’s plan, -rhe petition alleged^® ^ receive, because of government aid, more than 12 cents per pound for their crop, and, also for some to re ceive less than 12 cents per pouftd. The new plan proposes a loan of 10 cents per pound for seven-eighths inch low middling cotten and the total received by growers of such cotton cannot exceed 12 cents per pound. It will make more certain the amount each grower will receive for his cotton. “Instead of making the adjustment payment on the basis of the four months average of the 10-point spot markets, this adjustment agreement will now be based on the daily average of the ten-point spot markets. In other words the adjustment payment will be made on the basis of ten-point spot market average on the actual day the cotton is sold by the producer. , “The adjustment payments will ap ply to all sales of 1936 cotton, includ ing those already made. - - “These adjustment payments will be made through the cotton year up to Aug. ML, 1936. As' before stated they will be made to those producers who have cooperated in the adjustment program and who agreed to partici pate in the 1936 crop i program. , ' “This program of loans and adjust ment on the 1935 crop will go into ef- fe<^ as soon as H is physically pos sible to set up the new machinery. The leap forms will be available for the 10 cents loan during the week of Sept. 2. This will be restricted to actual pro duction not in excess of the Bankhead allotments.” City Schools Open Monday -rJ-- Head^ For First Time By W. E. , Monts As Superintendent. Number of Changes In Staff. The Clinton city schools will open their new 1935-36 session next Mon day morning undar the supervision of a new superintendent and entirely new board of trustees. The schools are headed for the first time by W, Edward Monts as super intendent, who comes here from Wash ington, Ga. He succeeds J. Harvey Witherspoon, who held this position for the past fifteen years and is now ediM^ational supervisor of Lancaster county. COnON LOAN RAISED A CENT Compromise Plan Gives Farmers lO'Cent Loan and Right To Borrow and Hold Cotton. Forms Will Be> Available To Farmers Wwk Beginning tember Se<^iid. , Quite a large number of changes^ Joanna School * • „ Opens Monday G. Nv Foy Again Heads Goldville School As Principal. Two New Departments Added. The i^oanna school at Goldville will enter upon its 1985-36 session next Monday morning, with indications pointing to a large enrollment. All patrons and friends of the school, it is announced, are cordially invited to at tend the opening chapel 'exercises. The school is head^ by G./N. Foy as principal for the seventh year. No changes have been made in last year’s teaching personnel. Two new departments have been stock and prefer^ stock to home economics and manual ■ 1—- 1 — * * — ■■—*-R -- * 1 — - — ^ 4 ■■ M t ■■ ■ ■a.aa tVI amL a L —m A A amL Lam a I a a equal voting privileges per share im- til there should be a default in aq many as four semi-annual dividends in which event the common stock will lose Ha votii^gr pcivilege; a sinicing fund to be s4t up into which will be paid 50 per cent of net earnings after payment of dividends for ^e purpose of retiring the preferred si^k; no dividends to be paid on common stock until at least 50 per cent of the pre ferred stock has been retired. As soon as the agreement can be drawn up by the attorneys in the case and formally consented to by the mill and creditors, it will be presented to Judge Watkins, for his approval and the compromise agreement put into effect soon thereafter. The original reorganization plan of the mill as outlined in a 12-page pamphlet, proposed to discharge its indebtedness—the total of which was listed at $915,967.86—by an issue of 7,000 shares of five per cent non- cumulative preferred stock. Included in ^ $700,000 to be effected by the plan were $348,000 in serial gold note's and accrued interest amounting to $12,180; notes payable of $273/406.38; and other smaller items aggregating approximately $75,000. The reorganization plan was signed by W. J. Bailey, J. A. Bailey, George H. Cornelson and J. Will Leake. Orphanage Schools Opened Tuesday The Thornwell orphanage schools opened their new session’s work on Tuesday, with all of the children, teachers and matrons back on the cam- son as principal, with ten teacbera mposing the s^f. Several champs dua to resignations, have been i^de in the faculty for the coming yrar. TheXHarriet home, closed /for the past yen. has. been worked over and put in splendid condition ^ be occu pied by a. niqrily of sn^dl girls. The institution’s j^oMrion has been in creased the pastvw^ by the admis sion of forty new emldren. •» Goi^ Awi^To CcAege or Teach? ,/ verted defideney MB ef 12 cents (m cotton boebe) en wheat, ^le visiMi aroaid»be ■ It you want ihe^GUnton news -4Mive*THS CHRONICLE fol- low yon. Its wfMdy visits will, be *iike n iettef from home.” Special stiickiit*s and tfadwris rate of $1A0 for nine months. List yonruubeeription today. training. Eighth grade work has also been added for the first time as the initial steo in establishing a junior high school. Equipmi^t for the new detriments is now being installed in or^ts,that they may begin function ing with the opening of school. Jack Weldon will have charge of the manual training work. He is a graduate of N^lemson college and has had several y^ars experience. Miss EIoIm Johnson of Easley, a graduate of Winthrop college, will have charge of the home economics course. The faculty is composed of the folr lowing members in ad<|ition to Mr. Foy; ^ A. B. Galloway, Jr., Goldville. Miss Rosa B. Dreher, Leesville. Miss Emma Little, Clinton. Miss Mabel Aldred, Gainesvillei 'Miss Phoebe Witherspoon, Laur(lN!^8. 'Miss Ruth Todd, Clinton. Miss Mildred Workman, Clinton,.^ Miss Katherine Blakely, Clinton. Miss,Dorothy Hagan,'Due West^ Miss Eloise Johnson, Easley. Jack Weldon, Easley. Training School To New Year School Will Open Session Next Monday Mornihg. Teachiiig Staff Same As Last Year. Ga. The new year’s school work at the State ’Fraining school will open next Monday morning with indication^ pointing to a successful session. No changes over the past year have been made in the teaching personnel, Miss Norma E. Hallett of Waterloo, Ind., again serving as educational director. The teaching staff will consist of: Miss Louia^ Cox, Whitmire, kinder-/ garten and pre-primary. •/ Miss Cleon I^tts^ Clinton, elemen tary and primary. Mrs. C. E. Hdaon, Parksville, ad vanced academics. Mias Doris King, Hart8ville,/domes- tlC'MtlaaM.. / Mrs. Ellen C. Owens, Clinton, music. Mrs. Martha Y. O’Coni^, Clinton, activities of infirm group and hand work. W. E. Robinson, Easl^, physical ed ucation and manual ti^dning. Mrs. Bennie Milling, of Laurensr who^assisted Mrs. O'^nner during the past spring and summer through the service of the ERA, is again expected to serve in this (Capacity. There will jie about 230 children enrolled in institution’s school dCn partment fo/the coming^ear. Wre^ Fatal To Greenville Man Joanna, Watts To MeejLTodk^ L./W^ Childers Dies From Injur ies IS^tained When Car Turns Over Lydia Mill Road. Lorenzo W< Childers, traveling I salesman of Gn^ville, was fatally in jured Monday moTOing at 9 o’clock in an automobile acci^nt on t^le Lydia Sixth Game of Championship M'll* road near the efty He was rush- I n ««« ed by ambulance to theXjocaf hospital Series of Central Carolina League Te^ Played, At Gold- viUe Thia Afternoon, Watts Mill came back strong Satur day at Laurens to 4end the pbst- season^series for tho championship of the Central Carolina Textile league in^ another week of play when it de feated the fast Joanna team behind pus after their summer vseatioo.' /. ...... ^ r, j Th. Kbool. ar. by B. 8. Pin- ■“!»* n M imfi.in.1. wlHi ten te.rli»4 ^ * .cor. 10 to 1* .Hy—ardi who was the com|ii^ master of Brl^ ^I- loway’s tejhif let his opponents down arith two^Hs and fanned six men. He also stajri«d at the bat by collecting three Mts. - Joanna now leads in the pennant ae ries^ three games ^ two for Watts. Tbs sixth contest between the two teams will be jdsyed at Goldville'this iftemoon at ,^4:80 with a big crowd expected. The place and time for the seventh and. concluding game of the series will be determined after the oatoooM of today*# battle. Hurricane S^obL Opens Monday where he died et- 1:30 a’clock; Two boys of the mill communhy he had picked op on the highway W^re not seriously hurt; \ His body was removed to GreenVillej. in the afternoon where funeral ad vices were conducted Tuesday after-^ noon with interment following in Springwood cemetery. It was understood that Mr. Childers’ car got out of control and skidded on the eurve approaching the Lydia Mills community. StiH^ig'nn embankment, the machine tijrned over. Hisj^eath was due to c^st and head injuries. Mr. Childero was well known and liked amohg local merchants upon whom he had called for several years past as representative of a well knoam concern. / ' The deceased is survived ^by his aridow, Mrs. Pauline Hill Childers; by one son, Paul Chil<iei‘s, and one daugh ter, NiM Josephine Childers. He is also survived by three brothers, C. M. Childers, of Liberty; Lewis Childers and Fred Childers of Greenville, and by one sister, Mrs. 0. M. Orr, of An derson. have been made in the faculty, only 23 members of last year’s staff of 40 being connected with the schools for the coming session. * The new board of trustees in mak ing an announcement of the teaching staff on July 2nd, re/dsed to retain the former superintendent and practically one-third of the teaching staff- re- tlected by^ t^ie former, board. Since the /anno^ncemeht of their election, there/-have been two vacancies caused Iw designations. A. H. McQueen, meth- t^er of the high school faculty, re signed to accept similar work in the Latte high school. The board has elect ed R. P. Wilder of Woodruff, as his .successor. Miss Anna Bell Hudson, for several years a member of the Florida ^treet school faculty, resigned to accept a teaching position in Green ville for the coming year. She is suc ceeded by h^s Ruby Norris of New berry.. Both,the Florida and Academy Street sc^ols are headed this year by new principals as successors to Mrs. W, R. Anderson,^ Jr., of this city, and Miss Alline Newsom of Harts- ville. Of the forty teachers in the system, 26 are from Clinton and 14 out-of-town residents. Following is the list of teachers for the respective schools, together with their home addresses:- High School W. R. Anderson, Jr., Clinton. Miss Azile Livingston, Prosperity. Miss Josie Pressley, Fayetteville, Tenn. Miss Lily Mae Werts, Silverstreet. R. P. Wilder, Woodruff. H. H. Taylor, Greer. Miss Rosa Mahaffey, Clinton. J. P. Todd, Clinton. Miss Frances Roper, Clinton. Miss Vera Burnett, Greenville. Miss Alice Gaines, Greenwood. J. L. Cochran, Ware Shoals. Florida Street School A. B. Godfrey, Clinton. Miss Lily Yarborough, Enoree. Miss Lu% Burns, Sumter. Miss Nancy Owens, Clintop. Miss Agnes Davis,^ Clinton. Miss Celia Latimer, Due West. Miss Paul Vane Elrod, Greenville. M iss Ruby Norris, Newberry.' Miss Irene Workman, Clinton. Mss Ella Little McCrary, Clinton. Mrs. Myrtle Blakely, Clinton. Academy Street School A. L. Duckett, Greenwood. Miss Elizabeth Copeland, Clinton.. Mrs. L B. Dillard, Clinton. Miss Helen Milam, Clinton. Miss Collette Griffin, Clinton. Miss Sadie Chandler, Clinton. Miss Ma;tha Davidson, Cljnton. Mrs. Nene Workman, Clinton. Mrs. Mollie Donnan, Clinton. Miss Odette Mauney, Clinton. Miss Mary Johnson, Clinton. _ Miss Georgia Bee Blakely, Clinton. Providenee School Mrs. H. A. Copeland, Clinton. Miss Lou Belle Nabors/Clinton. Miss Beatrice Highsmith, Clinton. Mrs. Eugene Johnson, Clinton. Miss Margaret Blakely, Clinton. Washingrton, Aug. 2i^.—A substitute compromise plan to provide a loan of ten cents a pound aniKa subsidy to increase the final producer return on the 19315 cotton crop to l2\cents was announced late today by th^AAA. Loan forms will be avail^le to farmers the week beginning Mohi&y, The new plan, differing in sever! important respects from the first loan-^ subsidy arrangement announced last week, was approved at a conference of farm and treasury officials at the White House this afternoon, in an ef fort to ptcify Southern senators who had blocked adjournment of congress. Under the compromise plan, loans of ten cents will be 'advanced on cotton of 7-8 .inch low middling grade or bet-^ ter. 'Hie subsidy payments will be based upon daily average prices at the ten spot markets. / Hereare the salient differences be tween the nine-cent plan and the ten- cent compromise announced to<iay: Loans will be made only on T-8 inch low middling cotton or better, instead of on 13-16 inch low middling or bet ter as in the nine-cent plan. This, re duces by about 200,000 hales the num ber eligible for loans. The sub.sidy payments will be made on the basis of the average price at the ten spot markets on the day the cotton Ls sold, rather than upon the fourth month average. ♦ I.K)ans and payments will be re- stricte<l to actual production not In excess of the Bankhead allotment. Formerly, each of the 1,004,000 con tract signers was eligible to obtain a loan on all his cotton, but subsidy pay ments would be made only upon the Bankhead allotments. The subsidy payments will apply to all sales of 1935 cotton, including those already made. Visibly displeased 'vith the rompro- mise, and almost bitter about the change in the program forced by the Southern senators, farm officials flat ly refused to amplify or to explain further the new plan. \ Likewise, the compromise met'^ome disfavor on CapTtol Hill. Objections were raised by Senator George, of . j Georgia, .strong proponent of a 12- . cent loan. .Senator llyrnes, of South ] Carolina, whose amendment to the third deficiency bill, for a 12-cent loan resulted in the cbmiiromise, said the compromise wasn’t what he wanted , but that it was the In-st that c6uhi"be done. - Faem officials privately expressed hop^ that the new plan would permit some increase in cotton exports, but said the opportunities were not as* great as they had been. The AAA press section officials handed to reporters a statement of the “modified plan,” and dejwirted imme diately, saying the “statement speaks for Itself.” The action of congress in forcing an increase of from nine to ten cent.s in the* loan was said to have made avail able to fanners approximately $50,--*^ 000,000 more than ha^l been provided.- An increasejn price of a cent a pound amounts to $5 a bale. The crop this year has been estimated at 11,980,000 bales. Growers representing, approxi mately'?? per cent of the cotton acre age were reported under, AAA con tracts. The Bankhead allotment this Hurrkane schqok neei^hert irill . Ha 1935-S6 afetion next Monday 'mornuig at 9 o’eloek, with Rev. Ed ward Lotog of thia city, conducting tha derotioiMiU^l. C. Lake, auperintendent of the Whithi^ achool, will be pres ent and make SN^rt talk at the open ing'cxeroiaea. AJKpatrons and friends of the school am Teachers-of the .Mary .jLottyr Riser, pgit ood Mias Mary CUnt<m. : Resume Seririces AtAJLP. Church lool are: Miss tmire, princi- Workman, terian ehuroh announced that regular services will be resumed next Sabbath morning. Sept, lat. At ‘the morning hour a sermon will be delivered upon the aidiject, “Rethinking Our Reli gion,” and at'the evening hour, “Youth and ReaponailHlity.” The public is cor dially inrited to attend these services. USED BOOKS NEEDED In oriier to meet the acute emergen cy as to^xt books in primary and in- termedieie N^ades of all schools, Su perintendent ^onts asks that all pii- pils.or families having books in the home that will nb^ be used or having books they will be glad to give to chil dren unable to buy l^ks, bring them to the various principi^ on or before the opening date of scho^ Sept. 2nd, at 9 o’clock. \ year was 10,500,000 bales. Dennis Resigns Thornwell Place Miss Jamie School'Secretary . Fr-Mr Dennis, 3uperint/n4lenl of th« Thornwell orphanage poultry plant for the past several years, has resigned his position effective Sept. 1st, at which time he goes to Jacksonville, Fla., where he has accepted a position with one of the country’s largest feed concerns. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis have malTy friends in the city who will re gret to learn of their leaving. Waldo C. Huffman, a graduate of Clemson coilege, will succeed Mr. 'Dennis and has already arrived at ibe or^i^nage to enter upon his new da- ties.\ poultry^ business at Little Mountain J / Miss Jamie Little of this city, has been elected secretary to thb Clinton ■choels superintendent for the coming for scveHl yeers and is well qualified'’ After a month’s vacation, the pas tor of the Aaso4iate Reform^ Pre^y-^fTMently elected board of trustees, their year and has already entered upon her duties. Bhe will also have charge of the library at the high school during school honrs, it was stated yesterday. The job of secretary to the superin tendent, is a new one created by the budget submitted to the county dele gation as a basis for fixing the school levy carrying' an appropriation to pro vide for the position. Miss Ruth Todd returned Saturday from Uit^ where she had been visit ing Miss^onette Betenbaugh. for the p'Mce he has accepted. His wife and child|Kn will join him in thn near future and they will occupy the building on the eampus soon to be vacated by Mr. ar^. Mrs. Dennia J:;. TO OCCUPY ^LPIT Dr. D. J./Wood8, pastor of the Rest Presbyterian chuTch, will return this week from Virginia where be has"been spending his vacation during August. He. has announced that be will occupy his pulpit next Sundiiy, both morning and evening. '/ /; .....J \