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Z;', THE x:hroniclb . / StriTcs To 69 a C3eoa Nowo* #oper, Coaplcte, . Noway, I aad'RdUble. VOLUME XXXV CLINTON, & C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 5,1935 For Arrival Sdnta Claus Today If Tm Dm*t Bnti T^E CSRONICLB Too Doa*t Got Tbo Nowa. NUMBER 4» EVENT TO DRAW GREAT CROWD; LOVELY LIGHTS IN HIS HONW Saint iNick On His Way Here From Frozen North and Will Be Greeted'^By Thousands of Visitors At 5^ P. M. City Hofiday Lights To Flash Oh For First Time'.xColo^ful ^lebration Fea tured By Parade and Attractive Floats. Decorations To Be Beautiful With Six^ Trees On Streets. Everybody Invited. guished visitor. The entire business section has been decorated with thou sands of vari-coiorjd Christmas lights to be flashed on as a part of the ex All preparations wer^ reported com pleted this morning for the triumph ant arrival of Santa Claus in Clinton this afternoon at 5 o’clock.* Upon Santa’s arrival he will join quisite and brilliant adornment pjan- th« big street parade that will move I iied for the city during the holiday up Broad street, later to disband in; season. The big globes on the white front of the Confederate monument, j way in-the business section will be| A number of lovely floats will appear given a Christmas tint to harmonite in the parade, with cash prizes of-jw’ith the color scheme of the decora- fered for the three best entries. ' ’ tions. To add to the setting, stream- The white and bewhiskered visitor, [ers of >eavily laden electric bulbs as g«y as ever, speeding Uiward | strung in festoons pf lights, have been Clinton today from the snowbound arranired around-the monument. Sev- regions of the North Pole. He is ex- era lovely trees in the center of the pecting the kiddies to turn out en town brilliantly illuminated will coitf maaae to meet and welcome him. In plete the real Christmas picture and his honor, the Christma.s lights will flash on at 6 o’clock for the first time to inaugurate the 19.35 Christ mas .shopping season. produce a .scene of startling beauty. Again this year meixihants and busi ness houses will have individual Christmas trees in front of their plac- Santa Claus has been invited here j es of business adorned with colored for several years past by the Cham-1 bulbs to add an additional touch to ber of Commerce.and Merchants’ as-1 the winter scene of light and beauty, eociation and in his honor the busi-I The decorations which are being pro vided by the cooperation of the city water and light department and local merchants, will be even more elabor ate than last year. They will be so beautiful that they will take Saint ness section is draped with lights. Re cently he was invited to include Clin ton oh his itinerary again this year. A wire was received by The Chronicle yesterday stating that he had left his home in the frozen north and would | NiclTs^eath away, arrive here today in ample time fori Today’s colorful celebration will the turning on pf the Christmas j usher in the* city’s pre-Christmas lights. His telegram read: 'Trade Festival which is being spon- “Ddighted to come to Clinton I .sonored by the"" merchants and Cham- again this year for a visit. I re member with pleasure what a good time I had in yonr city last year and the reception I i^ived. I will arrive at 5 o'clock. I .ove to all the boys and girls who are my friends.” (Signed) “SANTA CL At 8.’ The thrilling news that Santa Claus is to be the city’s gUest means that everything, has been put in readines.s for his visit. Membei*s • of the city water and light department have been busy for the past week stringing the necessary wires to. furnish the power for another brilliant array of Christ-j pant to mas lights in honor of the distin-1 ?*?ason ber of Commerce as set forth in an attractive page advertisement ii^ to day’s paper which you ahouM not overlook. The gala decoratioiyef the 'shopping district is expected/to bring many people into the city^uring the Christma8_season—to mi^ Clinton a live, busy shopping center. Boys and girls thr^^hout* this en tire section are inrited to ba present this afternoon io y^reet Santa when he arrives in th^ity Ifrom the North Pole, and to ^end him a great re ception as the lights flash on in his honor and joy and beauty run ram inauguiate the Yuletide I.. Planter Scores | County Adult Bankhead Law t*" ™ -Schools Open United Stales Supreme Cc Told Program Radical .and Unconstitutional. Washington, Dec. 3.—A Texas .planter and the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers a.s.sailjed the .Miss Kathryn Eichelberger Has Charge of Activilies In Sev eral Centers. PEACE MOVE - IS ^RTED Ethiopia Would Make Negoti- ^ ations Through Church. Brit ish Government.- Preparing For Any EventualityT , - , Wa.shington move<l finely Tuesday to enforce its policy of American neu trality in the Italo-Ethiopian war ami the conso<iuent Eiiro{>ean crisis. Criminal proswution of munitions and arms dealers who have not regis tered with the government, as requir ed by the neutrality act. was threat ened by Swretary of State Hull. -’HVeparedness’’ wa.s the keynote in 'Europe. Doth (Iieat Hritain and Italy pJannetl tcT iinpriAo th(‘ii‘ ilefenses. King (Jeorge. in a message to the opening of parliament. i)rojiuse<l “firm .supp(»rt” of the laviguo of Na tions hy the Hriti.sh governmont an'l urg<*ntly’’ advised improvt'iuent in (lefen.se for the “adtsiuaU* saf<*guanl- ing of the empire.’’ Italy’s cabinet ground out both mil itary and economic measuis-s. .Naval leaves, it was repoiled, have l>een cancelled and vacancies in' the air foi-ce were ordered filled. Fearing an oil’, embargo by the/• Ix»ague of Nations, Fascist leader- planned to speed up oil production and to preserve the supply. A French fleet of more than 5u warships steamed out for maneuveis in the Mediterranean close to the Italian-owned island of Sardinia. - Paris reported a revived Anglo- French peace plan to "give Italy a piece of Ethiopia was rejected by Pre mier Mussolini, who wants more land. A peace move from a new' quarter , was reliably reported underway! An authoritative source in Cairo disclos ed that Emperor, Haile Salassie had asked the supreme head of the Coptic Christian church, who lives in Egypt and w'ho.se authority extends into Ethiopia, tq begin iwace conver.sations ’ with Italy. - , A huge baltle_rtppeart;d in the mak ing on the war front. Italian scouts in the north repoited large forces of warriors marching to ward the Makale front. Italian pre cautions have been redoubled in anti- 'FrpiKuurTtT anTaH^ ! . ; ^ , ii, ’ . . . r» r. Seeretiiry Ickesof the interior said Eleven To Twelve Million Bale Crop Aimed At For Approaching|l resident Roosevelt Goes Over jin Wawngton he hud been “uiisun- Year. Agreement Aimed At Croduction Reduction and Itelter-i I.ejri8lative ProKram With Hw two wo«*k.. a..o wtn-n ho wuh iiTg latl of Shari-Croppera and Tenanl-Farmera. ' p Adviaora. ' ' pTn-liMosio.i «s u.p.tK Um. oiiin.iu.iry ” ■' — ' 'to halt shipments to hthioina.* !>i Santa Says — “Hello, Boys and Girls. Meet Me fe Clinton Today At S O’clock.” \ ' ' ' Four-Year Contract Proffered ; Short Session OF By AAA To Cotton Growers' The adult schools of r.atirens coun ty, under the suifervision Of Miss Kathryn Eichelberger, are open and administration’.s. farm /program as iconducting regular .sessions since “radical” and “uncoAstitutiional” in | completing a series of recruiting carn- briefs filed today With the supreme} paign.s. i The .schools are located at the fol- Ijee .Moor.'The ^flanter, exi»and<(l hi:. lowing centers: Laurens mills. Miss Carrie I.angs- trol law to include all agncultural relief legislation. He forecast a maicb|ers. VVa.shington, Dec. 2.—The AAA of- |fered the nation’s cotton growers a i four-year adju.stment contract to- I night, aimed at crop reduction anti at brttering the lot of sbare-cropiwrs 'and some tenant farmers through in- crea.<ted payments to them, i Pointed toward a 11,000,000 to 12,- 000,0(K) bale production in 1930, the 1930-39 contracHs call for a to 10 j)er cent gieater crop iiroduction than in 193.5, with a 1,000,000 acre reduc- t'on in has<* acreage. attack on. the ^ankheatl cotton on- Laurens mills. Miss Carrie l.angs- ^ hours, earlier, the farm ad- ton and Miss l..<)uisq Clevelaptj, I n^jni,s(.jaLjon had made jiuhlic, details I of a two-year adjustment progi am for corn-hog producers inTmdcd to in crease next year’s hog production by 30 per cent. * - ' Both long-range control agree ments were projt*cte<l in the face of the impending Supreme cotirt decis ion on AAA’s xoDstitutionality, Four- year contracts, also have been pre pared for wheat, tobaeco and rye pi'o- ducers. High administration tjuarters have indicated some way would be sought to" continue production control in these major crops even~Tdiould the high tribunal hold proc(»sHing taxes Invalid. Benefit payments of farm-' An , ' ,1 Warm .Springs, (ia., .Nov. 30. tion supervision; whde managing uoi-j ’ , . , . ants are those Who supervise produc- “‘.breviated 1930 legislative program | tion as well as provide stock and is being consitJertsi by^ President e'tpiipment. \ ; Roirsevelt, it was 'revealed tonight as In additiy/i, their share of adju.st- X Battle Fought With the Italian Troops at .Makale, Ethiopia, Dee. 3. - Italy's Eritrean Iroop.s met the main hotly of the Ethi- I 'd dirndl to' “ huddle with f harh*s/j,jun northern army face to face to- AA‘\ “dministi alion liaison officer ' day in a brief clash at (>uti>t>sis on the ........ ) nd nodeI’-set*rt.t arv of tht* interior ! Dolo-Makalt* line. explaining inis provision may 0|M*r-'«*'" unot i .sttitiaiy oi in< iiiit-noi. i, »l'. f„r th. |,i„t.,llon .,r lK>th Ian,I- ApiM-..,.,ialinn .m.a»ur.-». naturuMy,; 'O,.' t'al'l.na »a. over qunkly, the lord an.) tenant.” . will come first. Then apfa-als foi ship H*dhiopians retiring almost iminedi- AAA’s announcement said that legislation, a renewal of thel«<-‘'ly- liti^p, II eck^ wil m<*nt checkT"will ht tenant.s “in normal cast-s, A III ailMWltllVX ill* III. -Tt**'* I • /h despite a rediudion of H,r)t>(),(M>0 bales hehliality measure in some foim or- through the “plt.wup” campaign and amdlier and enactment/f a food an<M><>ite.l wounded, current reduction programs, the world druvs bill are expcctctl to be sulmiit-not Known. Italian whitt* soldier Was re-, The rnemy lo-ses Watts .MilJ.s, Miss. Annie Kate Chil- on Washington hy a “bonu.s army, composed of the butcher, the hakeridress, teacher. and the fCandle-stick maker’’ if th'j | Clinton mills, Miss Mattie Abrams program ‘is upheld. and Misa-lMary Higgins, teachers. The cotton maufacturers as a l.ydia mill, Mrs, Irene Pitts and “friend of the court” contemlod the .Mrs. Nancy .Irtnei*, teachers, agricultural adjustment act nulli-i (ioltlville, .Miss .Jewjril Turm*r and fies the division 6f power lietweei Miss Cornelia Hipp, teachers, states and the federal government, | Sandy .Springs, .Mrs. Frank Little, and extends almost unlimited fed- U*acher. eral power over local affairs. I/ong Branch, Miss .Mary Madden, “If Congress may lew taxes to I.ej teacher paid to farmers,” .Moor argued, “it' (Jrax Court, Kverette .Martin, may also levy taxes to pay Ijaj^ii ers, i teacher _in€rchants, manufacturers, doctors, drays, Mi.<s Edna Coker, teacher. peddlers, barbers and mechanics, “If it is of ^public importance that farmers should live in comfort with a minimum effort, and that the pur chasing power ,of the fanners should be increased, it is of importance that all individuals ahall so live.” SPECIAL MUSIC * FOR CHRISTMAS In .several of the centers Home eco nomics will be taught by Mrs. Duck- financed through these taxes, ett Young. In addition, six agtnculture major changes in the new cot- helpers are working with F. W. Tay- contracts: lor, teacher of agriculture in the Lau- They .stover four years instead rens high school. Q^e. Six Negro school unitf^are also op- 2. National base acreage is reduced crating under the same supervising 45,000,000 to 44,500,000 acres, management “ I The deduced production for 1930 I must be 30 to 45 per cent of the base, Widow Follows Husband To Grave carryover of Ainericah cotton last t'‘d to congress, the latifr, howtwtr, August I WHS around 9,(KM).(M)0 hales v-;t. belicvetl .Till very much on the - 3,00(1,000 hales.larger than the av- eiage annual carryover in the lO-yeari Adinini.sLratioii ex|M‘its, oi t*our.-e, period ending in 1932-3.1, but l.000,-iare looking for the lioniis hill to pop 000 hales less than the record 13,(KM).- "P almost as .<oon as bot^h hoiis- , 000 bale carryover in 1932. convene. The measure which passed [ I'uneral set vic^-s . for .Mr-. 'Knuna “We have taken into account the,i* few months ago and was vetoted byjHiH .Austin, widow of Dr. William ('.. iinitfue iM.sition which cotton hold«4n ’fhe pre-Tdent, again wait expec-ted-to Austin, who died at he; lit.me in Chi- our national life,” s^id Administrator' he OK’d hy both houses. .So far as!fag<. Sunday night, will he conducted Chester .A. Davis in announcing the <-''*idd he determined, - howevtO ' the This afteinoon^al 1 o’cItH-k at the Lit.-^ ‘Our jiriniary concern is White House attitude on it remains'erty SjMings Ib-eshyterian church. I unchanged. 1 ('ross Hill. Interment wiPl follow in' contract.s, “Our primary concern the welfare of the producer. We Ik*- iieve that while lienefitting him pri marily, the inogram will also be of great benefit to The--South_ and the country a.s a whole.” _ . ■. "We feel also that we have in the Crash Kills One, the church graveyard beside the new ly made giaive of-Fu*r husband. The la.st three years passed well beyond the emei*gency which neoesAitated the A program of special Christmas music will be presented at the First Presbsrterian church on Sunday after noon, Dec. 15th, at 5 o’clock. The Christmas cantata, “The Hills of Ju dea,” by Fitchthorne, „will be render ed by the thoir under the direction of the church organist, Mrs. J. F. Ja cobs, Jr. / . . A cordial invitation is extended the entire community to attend this spe cial vesper service. -v-li was stated yesterday that tb ’ 'December nveeting of the Chamber of Commerce, scheduled for next Tues day evening, will not be held. The i next regular meeting of the organiza tion will come early in January* JOHN WOFFORD ILL Laurens, Dec. 3.—John A. Wofford, well known resident of Madden, four miles from Laurens, is a patient at the Laurens hospital suffering from bronthiai pneumonia and ~complica- tion.s. Sons and daughters, including Miss Kate V. Wofford, widely known in the /aate and national educational circles, now holding a professorship in Teach ers’ college Buf^o, N. Y., are at home to be wi|K^ their father. One suighter, wife of a Columbia-Pccsby terian minister, the Rev. Vernon Crawford, and her husband are doing mission work near Tokyo, Japan. The Crawford fanuly had recently return ed to the foinign post after a fur lough at home. 7 compared with 25‘to 35; and 35 to 46 per cent in 1934, ; 4. Benefits equal to five cents a pound, or $8.60 an acre, will be paid in one che<A for the reductions. Three payments formerly were made on two bases, totamg 4 3-4 cents a pound. 5, Share croppers will receive 25 per cen otf the payments instead of the 15 per cent they now get; non- nvanaging share-tenants 50 per cent I a^rvict'.s willTH- in charge t.f the Rev.* » • * C* *^‘’^****' of the church. illJUFCS rOlHT'aJui-Jiev. Edward of this city. — . j l*alll>earers will be the . same who l.aurens, Dec. 2. Attending phy- ^^** Austins death, plowijp campaign in 1933. Our policy sicians .said tonight that (!. C. Mor- <*f the death of Mr.s. .Austin con.Hequently aim.s at the adjustment j ris, L.'H. Siau, Georgetown and Ar- of the supply of cotton through, as thur W, Farrell, (.’olumbia, who are the agricultural adjustment act ex-'at the I^aurens hospital a.s a result presses it, a ‘gradual correction"~of 1 of an automobile collision Sunday the pre.sent inequalities’.” j night at l.akesi(le Country club^'on The 1935 cottoq program was de-j liaurens-Clinton highway,'were all in signed for a crop of 11,500,000 bales, j favoraihle condition. The la.st official crop estimate placed) Frank Sarvis, .Ir., injured in same production at 11,141,000 bales. A con- crash, who is at a Clinton hospital, siderably larger crop had been ex- was reported “about the .same'.^ late__ pected before adverse weather hit today. He has head and other in- some sections of the belt, and offi-j juries, . Morris and Siau received. »€- instead qf 22 1-2 per cent, and man-vr»r -$1^5,00e,000. in 1934, 14,550,000 [ taken tb his home in Columbia. He aging 4hare-tenants 50 per cent in stead-of 57 l--24>eiLcSnL^ The AAA explained that share croppers are those who furnish labor only and share a half-interest in the crop with landlords; tion-maiMiging tenants are those who fonrish work- stock and equipment ibut not produc- cials indicated privately they would 'Vere_.tuta.-fnd. bruises about the face prefer to see a crop close to 11,0010,-la^id body, Farrell suffeVed a jaw 000 t>ales in 1936, Ifractur^ and .serious khee injury be- This year 14,000,00 acres were tak-(sides fac^* lacerations.v . en out of cotton production. The esti- i The body of Frank Bell, • young mated cost of 1935 benefit payments TICXF camp worker at Pickens, was was received here Monday, coming as a great shock to friend.^ and members of the family. Her hu.-hHnd prt*cedetl her to the^grave slightly more than a week ago, an account of his death appearing in The Chronicle last week. Mrs. Austin is survived hy two daught^s of former marriages, .Mis.s Barbara Cudworth of' Chicago, and Mrs. Edwardr Spienhoff of Omaha, Neb. • acres were taken out of prt^uction jdied early today from head injuries |M2,550,000 was spent to take 10,-j was traveling with Mr. Farrell whose 000,000 acres out of production. Icar collided with the (leprjfetown au- Officials decline to estimate eith er the number of acres which "might be retired next year, or the probable cost of the program. io which contained Morris, Siau and Sarvis. Sheriff Columbus .1* Owens said an Jnqiicst In the Bell case was pc.itponed. Work Starts On New Buildings Ground was broken Monday morn ing at the Stale Training .school for the construction of two brick dormi- ly |7.5,(>00. The buildings which will enable the institution to j^enliyge its population, are being erected as a PWA project with the firm of D. E. Tribble company of this city as con tractors. . ^ V ' •\ , . V ■ , ■ ' . . •) .■