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■\ 'i'a- - v, i * THE CHRONICLE StoWcs Tq^ B« a Cleu Newt- paper. Ceaplcte, Newqr. Reliable. ■ * ' VOLUME XXXVI /'■ If Yra iWt Reai THECHRONICUB Tea Don't Get Ibe Newa. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 26,1936 NUMBER 13 DRY LEADERS HOLD RALLY Church Grpups From All Sec tions of State Talk Temper ance At Conference. Declare Intention To Continue Fight \On Liquor and Will Study Its Effect On Crim^. Farmers To Get . Subsidy Payments Wallace Outlines Soil Conserr- ing Program.' Cotton To Get Five Cents a Pound. Washington, March 20,—Lifting the cover from tAe adniinistration’s new 470,000,000 AAA program^ Secretary Wallace tonight estimated sqbsidy Columbia, March 25. ^The Inter^-ipu^gjj^, cooperating farmers noTOinational Conference of the Cbns- _ ti.1. Force, of Temperance in 8^]*^“";*' » n.Bon.1 .ver- Flood Statistics Shown At Glance Tablet Unveiled I To Four Signers PENNSYLVANIA — Revised death list toUls 2; 300,00 homeless; damage unofficially $200,000,000; Governor Earle asks federal gov ernment for $110,000,000 to aid victim^; mayor\of Johnstown,also asks $10,000,000.^ OHIO Colorful Ceremony At Capitol Under.the Auspices of State D. A. R. Organization. Columbia, March 22.-;—A bronze tab let to the memory of South Carolina's four signers Of the national constitu- WyK.r Renmiri. _ HITLER STANDS \ At Post Here To Atain Head R.O.T.C. Unit At College. Major |larding To Replace Captain Beatty. The administration of the college has received official notice.: from the ’United States war department that Four dead|;- 10,000 to 12,000 tion was unveiled at the state capitol | Major R. E. Wysor, Jr., has been ap ss as Ohio river flood cres* - surges toward the Mississippi; es homeless as Ohio river flood crest here Sunday ^amid a gather!^ of j pointed to serve another year as pro- Carolina, held yesterday at the Main Street Methodist church in Columbia, went on record, through adoption pf resolutions, as detennined to continue its fight on alcoholic Ixeverages. Dr. J. C. Roper, Clinton, president of the conference, in -his address, Sketched briefly the activities of those who he said would further the sale of liquor, told of what happened after repeal, discussed the present aituation and the attitude of the legislature\ He asked, “Shall We return to lei^^ for paying the bonus. T islative assemblies those who have betrayed their trust ? Shall honor, morality, religion, social rectitude have no longer any place among us ? Shall we who are set to instruct the people abdicate our calling, or through cowardice be guilty oi the sin of si lence? . . . “Our future course is clear and simple; it is to ori'anise the 'braina, character, ability and influence of our constituencies^ We are to mobilize and deliver for Christ every atom of pbw- er^t our command at the right time and at the right place. There is no wisdom, nor statesmanship, nor en during prestige in the workers of dis aster and the despoilers. of mankind. Politicians and political parties can not be trusted., llie RepuUican party would have done no better^.jrhd'^pecr- ple will arise and ^reak the shackles of political slaved and reign in righteousness, majesty and peace." The conference, in iWsdations adopted, appealed to the Christian and tcs^rance people of South GaroUna: “To educate the youth of South Carolina to the curse of strong drink, as it blights the bodies, minds and souls of men and women. The agen cies of the home, the school, the press age of $l(]i an acre for shifting to soil conserving crops, plus othefT benefits. In two sw’ift strokes, the big con servation-subsidy plan w’as pushed in to the stage of actual operation. At 'the White ’ House, President Roosevelt late today signed the inde pendent appropriation bill carrying $440,000,000 for the farm program and making available $30,000,000 of unexpended funds. The same measure carried a $1,730,000,000 authorization \ At the agriculture Wallace announced details of the plan at an extended press conference and a few hours later sent telegraphic in structions to all state extension di rectors and farm leaders to begin op erations inunediately. Th^ conservation program, succes sor of the linvalidated AAA, is de signed to shift ^0,000,000 acres from commercial cropsi^o' soil conserving growth in 1936. l%e first action of state extension directors and farm leaders will be the organization of state'committees and county commit tees. Making.clear that the ayetage sub sidy of $10 an acre was only the broadest sort of an average, shifting up and down widely in different sec- tions and for different^ lace added that an amount up an acre would be paid for maintaining soil building crops—placed in a dif ferent category from soil conserving crops. In faet; Wallace said individual fanners would not know definitely how much they will receive in subsi dies at the time they sign application forms, soon to be distributed. He conceded in talking to newspa- •xr - of education. “To .study ckrefully and accurately the present effects of the increased sale of liquor, securing data a« to~ the increase in crime, in automobile acci dents through drinking drivers, and in sickness and insanity. “To let all know, through every agency available, of this increase. “And that there may be proper sg«ncies to carry out theee sugges tions, all the existing agencies for temperance are urged to gontinue and perfect thetr organizations, for in creased effectiveness. “The conference should continue as a means of expression for the reli gious groups of our state and also for the purpose of common organiza tion and for registfring Christian sen timents on the problems of the day." llie resolutions committee recom mended a continuance of the organi zation along lines^ already adopted and in force for several years. “Social and civic righteousness, temperance, prohibition, law observ ance and righteous law," it said, ‘‘will continue to be the objertive of the or ganization, and we would urge afresh that the members of our constituent churches be faithful in observing their , right of Christian citizenship at all ‘ttmes.” The resolutions were read by Dr. J. M. Wells, pastor of the Firat Presby- ■^nah church of-Snorter and w^ unanimously adopted. At the luncheon, held at the Jeffer , state officials and throng^ of specta-[fessor of military science and tacuca, timated $1Q|QQO»OQ^. tQ $12,;000,0p0: tors. X-. ] and that Major Elnyd G. HarHiTiig haa damage in up^r valley; damage in: ^ processional into the chamber of;been detailed * to relieve Captain ' J .'the house of representatives openediGeorge S. Beatty,, who will go to the WEST VIRGINIA Eighteen' .®.j the'exercises. It included a detach-! sjtaff school at Fort Leaven- PAT ON ACTION Tells Europe He Will Not With- draw His Troops and Flatly Rejects Locarno Pro^am. Long Drawn Out Diplomatic Struggle Now Seen^ and 24j^0 homeless^ damage *t)out Washington Light Infan- $,'),000,OM; Governor Krump sur- of Charleston, Govomot veying flood ai^a to detennme Qiin d. Johnston, justices of the su- .. preme court, circuit judges and offi- MASSACHUSETTS Ten dead; 60,- house and senate, zH i*' 000 homeless; damage estimated at official robes, Mayors Burnet R. $200,000,000; rehabilitation work- Maybank of Charleston, and L B. Ow- ers number 60,000; Governor Curley seeking $75,000,000 appropriation for relief and $8,000,000 for roads. MAINE—Five dead; 10,000 homeless; $25,000,000 estimated damage; Gov ernor Brann to seek $10,000,000 federal funds. CONNiEX^nCUT—Three dead; 4,000 Hartford refugees .being cared for by relief agencies; Hartford busi ness leaders estimate damage $25,- 000,000; 8,900 guardsmen and re lief workers on duty; 800 homeless at Middleton jgRovernor Cross seek ing $6,000,000^or rehabilitation. VE^^MONT—Five dead; damage es timated at $1,000,000 ; 3,000 recon struction workers. NEW HA»iPSHIRE-Gne dead*,. 8,- 000 homeless; damage unofficially put at $20,000,000 to $25,000,000; national guardsmen and other re lief workers, 1,700. MARYLAND-^our dead; estimated damage $6,000,000; homeless 8,000; total ^ $5^14,225 sought in federal state and Red Cross funds. VIRGINIA—Four dead; practically none now homeless; damage $2,- 000 000 ' new’ YORK—Tw# dead; 8,000 tem porarily homeless now returning; damage 15,000,000; 10,000 WPA workers and 200 guardsmen on duty. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—None dead; flxty familiee homelcM;^ ens of Columbia, Adjutant Genreal worth, Kansas. Major Wysor'has rend^feJJ excellent service to the school since coming here, and the faculty, student body and friends in the cityjvill greet the news of his appointment with pleas ure and enthusiasm.^ The R.O.T.C. imit at Presbyterian James C. Dozier, officials of the college has had an excellent rating point, in fact, he and Howard R. Rol ley. acting AAA admhintrator, differ ed sharply on a. definition of “soil- building crops." The agriculture secretary explain^ that a new definition had been agreisd upon last night. Tolley toM reporters, however, that application forms for participation in the new program would be en route to the field within a few days. Offi cials said that despite the seeming complkatiopB: and ponderous defini tions of the jiew program, farmers in the cotton belt should be signing i^;)- plications for payment within a week. Following generally the recommen dations of farmers at the four recent regional conferences, the program will provide that each farm have a soil-depleting base acreage for pne or more crops. The base will be the amount of land ordinarily planted in such crops. However, special soil de pleting bases will be established for cotton, tobacco, peanuts, flaxseed, rice, sugar beets, and sugar cane. Crops will be classified as soil de pleting, soil conserving, and building. The soil depleting cro; would correspond roughly to the country’s major commercial crops Farmers will not receive subsidy payments unless they'^mesi minimum requirements for planting soil con serving crops includes" maxhmim acreage which may be ^shifted from soil depleting' to soil conserving crops Democratic Club Is Reorganized ... , itime chairman of the illiteracy com- The meeting of the Clinton Demo- . . . . . . i- r- ij * ..i 1 u * »rT 1-,. ...ro mission of the state; Julia Celdon, of eratlc club held last Thursday eve- - ■ . ning in the high school auditorium was attended by about sixty citizens from the city and Clinton Cotton de- ^il f Kac and Cornwell Brice. Cannon Named As New OflBcers. Ex ecutive Committee Elected. Daughters of the American %voIu tion and.others. Associate Justice M. L Bonham was the principal speaker. He related the parts the South Carolina signers had played in framing the constitu tion jipd said: “Kingdoms and empires have pass-, ed away, thrones have t^pled' and fallen. Revolutions have' ^stroyed lives and fortunes and produced social disorders and financial ruin. Amidst all these crises, America has stood as the syibbol of political, religious and personal fifeedom.” A number of descendants of the signers — John Rutledge, Charies CoteswortK Pinckney, Charles Pinck ney and Pierce Butler — wore intro duced, and songs and devotional exer cises were included in the program, over which Mrs. Thomas J. Mauldin, of Pickens, state recent of the D. A* R., presided. Capping the ceremonies,^ Misses Henrietta Rutledge of OhariMton, and Miss Hamilton Warren of Sumter, de scendants of John- Rutledge and Charles Pinckn^, respectively, "un veiled the tablet, in the lobby of the cspitol. Colunibfa's sesqui-centennial cele bration got underway yesterday with t>a visit of 10,000 pupils of adult ed during Major Wysor’s stay here.*Eacih year at general inspection it has re ceived ^the highest rating given. The junior officers attending camp at Fort McClellan, Ala., have been awarded the general proficiency cup for the past two years in competition with the schools o^itfhe fourth corps area. In the 13 years that the cup has been Swarded, Presbyterian college has received it six times. Major Harding has been on active duty with the 3rd infantry. Fort Snelling, Minn., and will arrive here on August 3k to take Lip his new du ties.. Major Harding entered the army fri)m the Iowa National Guard in 1917 and is a graduate of the infantry school and the tank school. He is mar ried and has two children. ueation aehool throughout the state The pupils many of whom had nev er before visited Columbia, were tpik- en sightseeing and an advance show ing of the pageant, “The l?pirit of Columbia," was put on for them. The climax of the day was s cere mony in which trees were planted inf Rotarians Will 'Meet In May London, M^rch 24.—Europe’s criria was thrown ihto a new and more com plicated muddle tonight when Adolf Hitler refused outright to take hia troops out of the Rhineland and re jected the Hague court as a tribunal. Der Fuehrer’s answer to the Lo- oSmo program, made public a few hours after the council of tbe Lea^o Large AUendance Expected At District Conference To Be Held In Charlotte. An attendance - of 1,600 Rotarians of Nations suddenly adjourned, left the Rhineland dispute unsettled and with a long drawn out statement in prospect. Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler’s special ambassador, arrived in London with a personal message to the Brit ish government from the German die-, tator just as the 'council broke up— an action which was interpreted in informed circles as a direct rebuff to Hitler for his long delay in' answer ing the Locarno proposals. The council memberj, decided they would reassemble at Geneva when ever their president, Stanjey M. Bruce of Australia, called them. ' — In the meantime, Great Britaint France, BelgiuH},^.,ftnd Italy — the co signatories and guarantors the Lo carno pact—are to continue negoti ations with Germany. An authoritative source said France, was disappointed by Great Britain’s attitude toward Germany and conse- xiently sought adjournment of t^e league body. The coi^il was called into session here to consider Germany’s violation of the Locarno treaty through remili tarizing the Rhineland pending Joa chim von "Ribbentrop’s flight from Berlin bringing Hitler’s answer. Von Ribbentrop’s plane landed at Croydon airfield at 5:30 p. m., a few minutes after the council Session had adjourned and most of the delegates had left St. James palace. and wives of Rotarians,in the 68th district is the goal set by District Governor George M. Ivey and other of tlM Charldtu club far MSf. :tka Loearna profram of four formar annual district conference to be held in.Charlotte Monday and Tuesday, May 4 and 5. Headed by Coleman W. Roberts, chairman of the host club executive commit!^, the Rotarians of Charlotte, divided into mSny committees, are be- honor of four pioneer sponsors of «tireing* themselves in a determined adult education: Ambrose E. Gon- e«ort to make_the conferencejhe big- zales,, former publisher of The State; Alexander Long, of Rock Hill, long- son hotel, among the speakers were rfor''WhTch payment can be received. X 4 Representative W. W. Smoak, Dr. C. il. Burts, J. J. Lawton, Representa tive Ben E, Adan», Mra. J. L Mims, the Rey. A. D. Betts and Dr. Charles R. Jones. About 100 persons attended. Dr. A. L Gunter opened the^con- ference with prayer and extenoed w. Welcome, after which there were ad dresses by the Rev. W. L Mulliken, J. A. Henry, Greenville; D. B. Ander son, master of the state grange; Dr. John Wells; Rev. C. T. Squires, Green ville; Prof. S. J. Derrick, NeWberry; snator George K. Laney, Chester- »ld; former Governor J<^ G. Rich- s, Liberty Hill, and others. )r Roper was re-eleCted prasi- dent\for the eighth time, the Rev. DeanXCrain, Greenville, vke-presi- dcat; rae R^, G. T. Squires, Gfeen- ville, sectary, and the Rev. John M. Wells, Simter, treasurer. On the Mecutive committee: Dr. S. J. Derrick, Sjewberry; Dr. T. C. Eas terling, MariW; the ][^v. A. D. Betts, St. George; Imhop Kiikmaa G. Fin ley, Columbia; ^rmer Governor John G. Richards, Lio^y. Hill; J.* J. law- ton, Hartsville; tW Rev. R: A. Mac- Farland, D^D., Rock. Hill; the* Rev. L N. Taylor* ColumbPt; the Rev. Sam Phillipa, D.D., ColimiMai; Prof. A. Ma- Dii^ Spartanbdsig; Mn. B. R ODldoibia; ^ Eav. B. J. Gaasa, Harrimaa; the l^r. R. C. Grier*. ■fCanfliwiid dn pkgk \ ITie minimum requirement for re- ceivit^ a payment is that the total acrage of ~sot1 cofixerving and soil building crops shall equal 20 per cent of the soil depleting base, or shall equal the maximum acreage for which a payment can'be noLadev X These are the rates of jiaymMt for shifting, lands from depleting to con serving crops: For all depleting crops exicept cot ton, tobacco, peanuts, sugar beets, sugar cane for sugar, flax and rice, an average of $10 an acre varying among ktates and counties and isdU vidual fafms according to the pibduc- tivity of the land. Payments will be made up to 15 per cent of the base acreage for the^fanh of all other de pleting crops ei^pt sugar beets, su gar cane, flax and rice. ^ (Wallhce estiiuated diversion pay ments in the corn belt would range from about $6 to $20 an acre. He would make no estimate for wheat). ' For cotton, 5 cents a pound for the normal yield of each acre diverted. Cotton payments will not be made for diversion of more 36 per cent of the cotton base acrea^ for the hi- divldpar farm. .'For bobaoeo, from 8 to 5 cento a pound, depending upon type for^ the normal yield per acre d diverted lands, with A rnaxunum diver^m of SO per eent of ibe ttteeeo haie Mills. In. the absence of the president and vice-president. Dr. Dudley Jones and R. W. Wade, the meeting was called to order by Secretary H, L Eichelberger. W. R. Anderson was elected temporary chairman, after which the purpose of the meeting as set forth in the by-laws was ex plained. The following officers were elated to serve for the next two years: A. W. Brice, president; J. C. Cannon, vice- president; J. J. Cornwell, secretary- treasurer. \ One executive committeeman from ^ch ward was elected as follows: rd 1, H. D. Rantin; Ward 2, Joe W..\Leake; Ward 3, L. B. Dillard; War^4, Goyne Simpson; Ward 6, J The Executive committee was em powered appoint enrolling commit tees and ret machinery in motion for the June tomary at which time a mayor and ^ aldermen will be nomi- nated^fpr a ^Or^ar term. A vote of flmnks to- the retiring president. Dr, Joflwj, was voted by those attending tV meeting, and the secretary instructs to write him a letter in appreciati^ of his past ser vices^ Rock Hill, early worker for adult edu cation, and Dr. Patterson Wardlaw, first chairman of the illiteracy com mission. Of these only Dr. Wardlaw is still living. The first official act of the sesqui- centennial came when Miss Virginia Hayne Taylor, great-greajt-grand- daughter of Colonel ThomasT Taylor on whose plantation ColLunbia was built, opened a museum of Colunobia relics at the University of South Car* olina. Standing Pat Berlin, March 24.—Adolf Hitler ora- torically and diplomatically rejected The seven per cent penalty on un paid taxes will be applied after April 15 and not April 1 as he announced Ward-4rr.AriytaA: Xomptrolto^GeneruL ROSS D. YOUNGS CLOSE CALL IN lAVE r lCCIDENT Laurens, March 22.-rLai^ns coim- judge of probate, Ross D,_Youiig, Mrs. Young and their grandmughter, Betty Ross Young, five, had aWrrow escape from serious injury Sunday when a tire blow-out caused then; car to leave tbe highway near Madden turn over three times before Ian- upright in a yard. Mr. and Mrs .Youii; received painful arm and body bruis es. The party had'started to Green woqd. The accident occurred two miles from home. April 15th Set As Tax Beattie set forth in a letter received by County Treasurer Simpson on Sat urday. '"The comptroller general’s previous announcement, made several days ago, was to 'the effect that, the penalty of three per cent in force now would be increased to seven per cent on April 1. While taxes ordinarily go into exe cution afte^ March 15, a joint resolu tion passed by the general assembly extended the date for a month. The text of the communication from Mr. Beattie follows: “Under date of March 1 you were instructed to add additional penalty of four per cent on April first on all taxes paid after that date. “This should have read ‘April l6,’ so that the penalty will be three per gest ever held in the dfstrict. They are urging every one of the members of the^O clubs to attend. _H«ifwllipe attractions announced for the' conference include Edward W. McFaddin, of Arkansas, of the Int^- national board of directors, who will represent Rotary International offi cially; H. V. Kaltenborn, of New York, famed editor, world traveler and radio news commentator, who will 'be the banquet speaker; Ed Hard ing, of Washington, N. C., with his accordion, who will be. the song lead er, and a nationally known, orchestra will play for the governor’s ball. The banquet will be the big Mon day night feature of the conference. There will be group luncheons, with round-table discureions of Rotary sub jects, special entertainment ^or wives ^Rotarians, favors, etc. The district includes all the Rotary^ clubs in South Carolina and those in North Carolina west of Salisbury and Wadesboro, inclusive. ., A number of Clinton Rotarians will- Mtoad dha-canvoBtieite.. World war allies tonight and tbld Eu rope he is standing pat. Europe’s statesmen will have to - surrender their post-war assumptions that “German weakness can be relied upon as a constant factor in interna tional relations,’’ he told a cheering audience of 20,000 at the huge Deutschelande Halle. At the same time the official news agency publsihed the German reply rejecting vital features of the Locarno powers’ proposals as' “based on jiew discrimination, unendurable for a great pation, and upon a renewed at tempt to establish the inequality of Germany.” “Every attempt to introduce a re organization of Europe with the oW methods of the hate-filled division of nations into the more privileged and the less privileged, the defamed and the honorable, or into those dictating and those subjected to dictation," must—because it is undertaken under the same old destructive assumptions , —lead to the same result: that is, the new solution will be no better than the old,” said the German. . Coimty Ginnings Show 100*6086 FDR Won’t Close 700 CCC Camps cent on all taxes paid up to April 15, and thereafter the penaltj^ will be seven per cent.” Census figures show 19,053 bale.s- of cotton ginned in Laurens counyt from the crop of 1936 prior to March Ist, according to the special agent of the bureau of the census. given him the president was said to be prepared to issue a new order con* tinuing the camps .slated to be aban doned at least until enrollees have This was an increase of 1,078 bales (completed work on which they are over ginnings for tbe same period last j now engaged. year, the report at that time sho-wingj Civilian Conservation corps al* that 17,976 bales had 'been grinned in j ready had notified representatives the county South Oorolina aa a whole grinned 738,332 boles from the 1935 crop as compared with 664l,'6l9 from the 1934! crep. that certain camps in their states were to be closed under the presi- 1 deni’s original order. CROP MONEY ALLOTTED ,Out For Alderman In Ward Fivet It was also understoo<l an alloca tion of funds would be made to main tain the'camps during the remainder of the fiscal year. ^KE IN GREENVILLE Dr. Felder Smith, local optometrist, was in Greenville Monday evening for tiie meeting of tbe Piedmont zone (^man fr the South CanHina Optqmetrie associ ation. He WAS one of the speakers on the profram, hi* Aid>jMt bdng, ^Bew Ifoeh Uglit Is Bnou^" John N. Bighorn i^oes the dis- tinetton of being the first candidate to ptmlicly throw his bat in the ring for th^ coming citv jjj^ary in June. His forpial annoimrement for alder- ward five appears in to- . Mr. Bigham is a resident Cotton Mills where he vqral ytm» at 21 Jackson day’s V of the has lived st*e^ A \ A: .'♦V Hi Columbia, Mairch 19.—W. W. Lar sen, regional managrer of the emer gency crop and feed loan office here, said the office had been allotted IL- 504,000 from Washington to make 'loans in the Carolinas, Georgria and Florida. Ths loan maximum has been reduced from $500 to $200 this year. Crop In 1935 Is 10,635,156 Bales \ GETS DIPLOMA IN CHICAGO E. M. 'llmmerman has returned from Chicago, 111., after receiving his diploma in a li2-wsAkif course in ra dio, *ou^ and totevisitm from' the Radio and IStoetriifeal aehooL .. Miss Essie Davidson of Great Falls, spent last ireek-end wi^ her parents^ Tkr. and M^.' L. H. Davidson. Washington, March 21. — As a re- It of tonrferences with a bloc Democratic representatives President I Roosevelt was authoritatively report ed tonight to have decided to rescind his recently issued executive order which would have closed 700 CCC camps April 1. — On the ba.sis of new information Wa.shington, March 20.—^The cotton crop of 1935 was reported by the cen sus bureau to -have totalled 10,417,237 j running bales, counting round,as half bales 'or ' 10,^5,156 equivalent 500- pound bales, in the final" ginning can vas. r \ \ I JLMm