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THE CHRONICLE Sitirtk To ft Cleftft Nowt- IMiper, Coiftplete, Newty, v ’T^ VOLUME XXXVI SOUTffS DEATH TOLL OVER 400 _ ^ - t Thousand Homeless and Others ' Thousands Hurt In Storm Dis asters. Gainesville, Ga., and Tupelo, Mi^., Are Centers of Worst Tregedies. SoTToy o( Dftmftge A fturvey of domoge in the etorm MS*M» s^wed the foHowina^ ~ . Gftin^vHle, Gft., 184 dead, 850 in jured, $6,000,1)00 property damage. Tupelo, Miee., 105 dead, 1,200 in jured,*, $5,000,000 property damage. Booneville, Miss., 4 dead, 20 injur ed, $50,000 property damage. Grenada, Mise., 5 dead, 10 ii^ured, $30,000 property damage. * Columhia, Tenn., 6 dead, 13 injured, $50,000 property linage. Wajmesboro, Tenn., 5 dead, $5,000 property damage. - ^ Red Bay, Ala., 7 dead, 9 injured, $1,000 property damage. Elktrood, La., 4 dead, 4 injured, $1,000 property damage. LaCrose, Art., l^dead, 1 injured; $75,000 property damage. __Andewon, S. C., 1 dead, 20 injured, $300,000 property, damage. Melbourne, Aik., 1 injured, $25,000 property damage. Scattered small towns, 10 injured, ' $76,000 Property’^mage. CLINTON, S. C., TttUR$OAY, APRIL 9,1936 If Ton Doa*t Read THE CHRONICLE , Ta« Don't V The Nowft, NUMBER 15 ... Loan Cotton Win Be Sold GunesvUle, Ga., April 7.—Swollen rivers presented a new threat of floods to the 8tonn4a^i«d South to night as the list of dead in tornadoes which ra&ed the region from Arkan- fias “to Sdiith Carolina mounted above 400. ‘ The weather bureau, recalHng two earlier stopns in which 60 died, said the tornado season this year has nev er been equalted “from numlb^ and severity” so far as its records show. Torrential rains, hampmng the grim work of finding and identifying the dead left by the furious wind- etoi^s of Sunday and yesterday, eent TnajKH' streams on the rise over a wide 'Flood watMS took four lives. Stone Named On | Farm Board! KENNETH N. BAK^R^ - \ Various agencies, local and fed^al, meanwhile, moved quickly to oigpm- iVnw JBKiwesxern aomof w. voimncrew :1\ \ Bak er To Join _ College Faculty Comes To Clinton In Fall From Newberry To Head N^w Com merce Department At Pres byterian College. Professor Kenneth N. Baker, Jr., of Newberry college, has been elected associate professor of economics at Presbyterian college for the new year beginning in September, according to an announcement made within the past week by Dean Marshall W. Brown. He will also serve as director of the. appointment bureau in aiding students to secure employment upon gradus$ion. Prof. Baker, who is a native of Greenwood, is pleasantly remembered here by a number of friends and ac quaintances. For the period 1923-26 he successfully served as principal of CMinton high school, resigning thift position to accept work with a well- known public accounting firm. He is an A. 'B. graduate of»the University of South Carolina, and a graduate of the Mkhssstem School of Coimnerce Washington To Release Million Bales Into Regular Market Channels. / Washington, April 4. — A million bales of/wtton will be released by the comipodity credit corporation to the pi^ucers who borro^wed money on it rAhUs allowing that much cotton to flow ^k into the regular market channels. The^ producers or their agents will pay the corporation an amount equal to a quarter of a cent less than the market price at which middling sev- en-eighth staple cotton stands on the day before the cotton is claimed by the producer. , The plan was announced kte today by the commodity credit corporation with the approval of Secretary Wal las and Jesse Jones, chairman of the RFX:. Agriculture department experts had estimated that there was a market for a million bales of cotton. T^y arrived at that figiure by sub tracting the amount iirfodneed this year irqm the consumption needs es timated for the year. The announcement was made soon after the senate agriculture commit tee had approved a^easure introduc ed 'by Chairman Smtih, Democrat,, of South Carolina, calling Yqt the release of cotton to farmers by the corpor ation. The cotton affiseted by the order is that held under the twelve-cent loan of 1934. A million bales, “or so much there of as is sold prior to September 1, 1936,” was set as the amount to be seleased. The corporation specified'that:’■ No cotton be released for less than 11 1-4 cents a pound under the twelve cent loan, and none for less than 10 1-4 cents a pound under the eleven cent loan. ta^on for the stricken areas. By states the total of known dead - in tile latest tomadic blast indtides i MisfHssippi 211; Georgia 186, Ala bama 11; Tennessee 12> Arkansas 1, and South Carolina 1. By far the heaviest kxwes were con tributed by this textile manufactur ing-center in the foothills of th4 Blue Ridgfe where 185 bodies have been found, and Tupelo in northeast Mis- ^sissippi, -another cotton manufactur ing center, where 196 died. A composite estimate of property . losse^^*?^ pdaced at $25,000,000 with uncounted thousands* homeless and thousands jnjured. Relief officials ^ex pressed belief many more bodies of the dead ’would be uncovered before all the wreckage is rpraoved. The threatening floods, coming af ter the South’s most <Usastrotts .wih- ter and spring in a decade, brought a serious threat to numerous com munities which escaped the storms. SevaDtem highwi^ were closed by high watw in South Carotins sad six in North CsroHna. Two rsiilrosd lines were ioundsted in the former state. Alabama’s larger rivers wwe flood ed -hut little damage indkated ^us fdr. At Plorenoe the Tennessee was falling in the vicinity of the Tennes- sse Valley authority’s opstatioDB, but upstream H was rising. Weathsr officials said no concern - was-frit for Mississippi vaUsy Isvess. iThottasmds of lowlaadcTs on ths Ten- nsssee- sidt of the river, however, were routed from their, homes and thousands more were ready to evacu ate. A crest of 26 feet, highest ainoe “^929, was pradlctsd 'West Ga., on the Chattahoochee rivar. More than 1,000 'rriisf workers la- ’ bored in Gaanaeville and a like num ber was busy at Tupalo against the threat of pestilcnoe in the waiee of the death-dealhag twieteia. At Gahweville 2,600 were homekm. upfwardi of 1,000 'homes were in ruins and more than 1,200 were injursd. Four trainloads of the injured were hospitalised in Atlanta, 70 miles away. While trucks moved slowly through debris-stnwn streets emrthig off the wreckage, pathetic scenes were m- acted at improvieed mosguea housing the deeri. Steady etzeema of solemn- faced reladvee moved through the es- tobliahments s6eking msasing kins- - men. Sti^ health officere hurried to Gainesville, 2^ milee from Cbrdris, south Georgia commuliity hit by a tornado which* killed moce than 20 theca last week.^ ■MUitary ordere ended Gainesville, although A^uteat Oeosral LiaeBey W^^Omap said martial law has not besn* deche^. Sixteen Forms will be provided for felesse needs. Local Citizen Appointed Member of Bmd To Head New Feder al Farm Program In State. * ■ • C. W. Stone, well known and exten sive fannier of this 'community, has been named a member of a state ag ricultural adjustment board, to super vise operation of the new federal [ farm program in the state under tly, soil Tonser^tion and domestic allot^j ment act, according to advices re-1 ceived here from Clemson college. j Other members of “'the board ap pointed by the secretary of agricul- tuic are: Paul Sanders, Ritter, chair man; Marvin Adams,. McColl, knd L.t M. Lawson, Darlington. D. W. Watkins, director of exten sion, Clemaon college, explained that the conservation program will be ad ministered in South Carolina by the extension service and state board through county and community com mittees. Participation by fanners will he entirely voluntary, with no con tracts and no direct crop reduction features. fhnphasiaing again two main pur poses of the program, namely, to im prove and maintain the-productivity of the soil, and to restore in part the farmer’s buying power. Director Wat kins said: “To this end federal funds are proy vided to participating farmers for payment for soil-building crops ahd soil-conserving crops, and practices/as distinguished, from soil-depleiting crops such as cotton, tobacco, iom, potatoes, etc.- ^ / “Payments Would be made to' farm ers on two bases: (1) on /acreage shifted from soil-deirfeting/to soil- conserving crops, (2) on acreage de voted - to soil-conserving and soil building crops in 1936. No paymeirts wijl be made for shining acreage from food and feed erbps except as produced in excess o^ Jnmhe consump- Philedelphia-P.C. Gaitie Cancelled Account Of Rain Many local fans, Coach Chick Galloway and his team, were disappointed Tuesday that the Philadelphia Athletics - Presby terian college baseball game was cancelled pn account of rain and ground conditions. Contimi- Monday made it necessary to Call it off. Extensive preparations had been made for the event and a large crowd was expected. Connie Mack, from Green ville, exprossed his regret that the game had to be cancelled because of weather conditions. Overriding Of ' Veto k Asked South Carolina. His businass expert ence has been wide and practical. He has served as an assistant baric re ceiver, a cost accountant, for *a large corporation, and has be^ himself in the investment business. For the past five years he has been a member of Newberry college faculty where he heads the department of business ad ministration. The installation of such thorough and practical commerce course.s at the college to be directed by Prof. Baker, is a pert of the'pro gram recently announced by the ad ministration looking toward a more practical type of liberal arts educa tion. Beginning in September the new commercial department will offer a bachelor of science degree in com merce. The coursM offevkd tn this de partment will include accounting, money and banking, mathematics of finance, bueinees statistics, economic history^ insurance, public finance, business organization and administra tion, commercial law, advanced ac- oou^ng, marketing, business psy- chology; labor problems, sepnomie feofsaphy^ bastneas English, typfiag, sbortiMind, public speaking. Mr.'^ Baker since leaving dintoo married Miss Katie Townsend, an ac complished muskUa. She attended Belhaven college, Jackson, Miss., 6ay- lor rolkge, Bolton,.jrexas, and s^^l^t twd^yeafs at Ohicagd Musical college,^ of which institution she is a gradu ate. applications Where the cotton has been rec centrated, handling charges will added to the release price. Loan agencies of the RFC will die the> releases. Ths pr^ucfr bmrowsra thrdDift fHItr' ' 5hlllh» The statement added, ,how^eT, tl»t the corporation reserv^ th^ right to require tl^t a reasonable amount of the loan rotten be' sold if/the market would absorb it. / Officials said the government stood to lose about ten million dollars on the release of the million bales. County Ffi^ “As conditions te receiving any payment, the producer mbst^ have: (1) soil-conservinflf crops in 1936 not less than 20 per/ront of the acreage of soil-depletinfif cropa; (2) an acre age of soil-deleting crops not ex- Sfipiip/i tha Itennal acreage of such, crops for thf^ farmers.” Senate' Agriculture Committee ^^hes Passage of Seed Loan mil After Funds From Relief Agencies Not Forthcoming. / Washington, April 4. — The senate Agriculture committee voted today to ask the senate to override President Roosevelt’s veto" of the $60,000,0d0 seed loan authorization bill. Action was taken after Western senators had despaired of getting an agreement between the Farm Credit administration an^ the Resettlement administration which would assure the loans would be made to fanners on relief. Bach agency contended it did not have funds for this purpose. Twelve of the 19 members of the oonlnvittec were present when the. vote to try to override the veto was taken. Senator Wlweler, Democrat, of Mon tana, was exp^ted to bring the issue up on the senate floor Monday. ^ When the president vetoed the bill he said $30,000,000 would be made available for the 1936 seed and feed loans from relief funds. State Track Meet mre May Second STREAMS RISE , INCAROLINAS ..-4 . ' Flood Waters Hurt Railways, Farms, Highways. . Property Damage $25^000,000, Crop Losses Are High. S. C. Rivers Due To Rise Higher. Flood waters hampered highway travel, forced suspension of some rail- "Upa^^ ■ s^^heclules and caused extensive^ dfimage to farm lands in the Caro ling this week as rivers left banks under the buiden of four ukches of rainfall within 24 hour*. Except in scattering ins^nces where rural famili^ were driven from their home.s, the floods cau.sed no suffering. Water from the Saluda river .crept into Chappells, a small village in Newberry county, but oriy the railroad station and one store ahere were threatened. All homes fxe well back from the ^dver. Damage^ to farm lands, railroad' beds, and highways was extensive, though a late spring limited crop loss es. Twenty-two highways in South Carolina and six in North Carolina were closed, Flood waters cut acroM the South-. ern railway's lines from Columbia to Greenville, Spartanbprg, and Augus ta, Ga., forcing ’its trains for those points and Atlanta to travel by Char lotte. High waters also forced the Piedmont and Northern railway to suspend service between Belton and tornado-torn Anderf\pn. Horse creek, in Aiken county, flow ed over the -Southern railway tracks from Clearwater iafo Hamburg yards, across the Savannah river from Au gusta. Railway traffic from Colum bia and Charleston for Augusta wait halted at bath. Torrents compelled the Broad Riv er Power company to remove machin ery and evacuate its plant at Colum bia, where the Broad and Saluda join in forming the Congaree, a surging sight before sundown Tuesday.- - Unhurt By Storm / Martin, Hudson annual state track and field t wHI be held at Pre.sbyterian col- e on May 2nd, it has been' an- mneed by President Jacobs. Prepa- ^ -i^ations are being made for a large L^CHlHlllaLGG Iwcrowd and one of the most sucet's.s- / jful meets in the history of the cinder sport in the state is expected. Governor 01 in Johnston has accept ed an invitation from the college to be present for the event and will speak on “Clean Sportsmanship.” (Jack H. Davxs, Sr,, of Clinton, E, A. Adams of Cr<As Hill, and^ E. J. Sloan of Fountain inn, have been appointed as the tenj^rary county committee on the ne^ farm program. Commu nity committeemen are to be ap^int- ed»lateri/it is stated by County Agent C. B. <^^nnon. ClAniber Meets Tuesday Night The April meeting of the Ghgmher of Commerce will Ik held next Tues day night at 7:80 at tiie tea room. Recently Jiominated officers will be elected and installed for ths year and a full attendance of the membership is urged by the retiring officers. Local Mill Out Central League The Clinton Cotton Mills baseball team has withdrawn from the Central Carolina Textile lei^rue within the past sreek. Lack of sufficient interest was' the reason gdven by the club for its action. Grariteville, located in Horse Creek valley, near Augusta, has been given membership in the eight-team loop to the vacancy. Clinton friends and rtdatives weie i keenly concerned Mdnday morning when the storm hews^N^ame from — (^ainesvilJt^ Ga., when* s^es were killed' and hundrwls injured by the tornado, fire and falling buildings. Information soon came through, how ever, that the Clinton people-now re- sxlirg in Gainesville were all safe' and uiihurt, and thi.s gladdened and relie visl many distres.sed nviative.s and friends here. Former Glintonians now residing in. Gainesville, all of whom were unin jured,, are: Mfs. J- Isaac Copeland. — Mr. and Mrs. Addison Neighbors. Rev. and Mrs Marshall Dendy. Mrs. Neighbors and Mrs. Dendy are daugh ters of Mrs. Copeland. Miss Vivian Parks Adair, student at Breni^u college, daughter of Mry and Mrs. V. P. A'dair. / Mr, and Mrs. T. M. Booth, paref^ of Miss Mabel Aldred, member of/the Joanna sehobl faculty at Goldv^e. Roads Closed */ Laurens, April 7.—Three higl^ays had been clo»^ today, because of high waUir conditions. They indu*^ old No. 10 from Waterloo to (^oronaca, Mimilblfr 30’from Watts milla to Yar borough’s mill, and numbCT. 7 from ClintoB-to Whitmire. Ivy ^luff bridge on number 10 on Rbe<ly river is com pletely un<ier water. power houfu* at Tumbling .Shoals is^submerged and water is two feet above the level of the flwu' in the pbwer house at Boyxl’s mill, both on Roedy river. Drys Plan “Ceaseless Campaign” ^Against liquor In ^uth Carolina C<din Hodaon, of Greenville, and VenaUe Martin, of Clinton, have re ceiaed notification of edudimehip ap. pointmeote for 0p^iiate week, tte former at the UniWiaity of Wiecon- ain, the latter at Ddce npiveceity. Hudeon it valethctmnaa of the date of 1986 . and hat been outetending achdtatictlly aince entering school; ^ will take op hit dotiea at an Butaat in the department of at Witoontin for the 1836-37 in Septcinber. Martin, ton of the late Dr. ^ V. Martin of the college facul^, alto hat been an outatanding /atudent w^ at P. C. Hit feUotrM) award it*W the department of at Dcdce. Like Hudaon, hig'dutMt will begin in September. Both men are raembere of the ior elate and each hat don* exetUeni work in hit field of endeavor. St.*iMati tionist ture this referend frApril 6.—A ppoiiibi- to_elect a legiela- mmer ihiljwill provide a on liquor law repeal in uadeP amtfljj^oeed of lootiD^i'.v; The Cooper Mauvitmm tiHch caught fhv aCtor KILLED AT GAINESVILLE Frank .1* MeJCahan, of Laurent, was epRed tejESainatvWe, Ga., Mon- day aftamo^/beciuMa jof tlyo death of the vko dt hk Iwnfhir, Jfip. R. R. ^ la tha toe- announced tonight by Dr. C. dry leader, ae 'the dry goal of a primary test Augutt 25. Surtm made the aimounce- the execirtive committee federated foroee for temper- and law enforcement at Colum- declared provitione of the pree- ent law for a primary teet afford “no adequate reliW.” The executive sed^itary of the dry forcet eaid, “we will not go into an election under conditions laid down under the present provision. They are wholly unaatiefactory to ue. ' ^Hiere it no proviskm atturing that the general aatombly will carry out the wiU of tiie peoi^ as expreee- ed in such tn election. If we won, we ndght wto nothing. “We are going into the eajnpaign this tummer instead to elect a legis late that will aorange an election in an off-year; next year, very prob- ably in the general election, 'when tiMve are no pereonalkies involved: ^'Were vee to enter a contest in t pdimary elaetton ye«|r« paraopakttoc Greenwb^od, April 5. — Niles A. Craig,popular citizen and Green wood merchant for more than 35 years, died at the Greenwoo<l hospital Satuiday night at 10:45^ o’clock fol- lowmg a stroke of apoplexy yester day morning. He was taken ill Friday night and became worse after being ^moved from hit home. He moved to Greenwood from Ora, / what his poeitioCls on. voting for a special referendum on liquor if he^ Spets into the general aeeembly. The ah^ a committee appointed Ahmini Chaptei* Is Perf^ted The recently formed/ local Thorn- well orptomage ah^^-ctoqiter met at the reeidenoe of L^ and Mrs. L. R. Lynn on Monday icveifing te perfect the organization. A report was heard from a special eimmittee preeenting a proposed constitution and by-laws which was sqiptoved sutd adopt^. An offering for Mother’* day in May was Niles A. Craig Passes Away executive committee is very determin ed to make a vigoroue cam^udgn and to bring out the issue ip every county in the state.” The proeerot law provides for a non- mandatory referendum in tbd primaiy August 25 if 15 per cent of the voters in 35 counties ^itkm for H. As inJ aV the residence of Mrs. Carl Bram-1 looking into increasing interett in this offering among all' former students of the inatitatioB. Befreehments were served Juriqg the evening. ^It #t8 decided thatjthe next meet ing bf the chapter will be held in Lai/rent on 'the evening of April 27th, Laurens county, in 1900, when be or ganized the Greenwood Hardware company, a business in which he- was engaged until five years ago. Since that time he has been connected with the refrigeration busings as- local repfetontative of the General Electric company. Mr. Craig was a native of Ora, the son of Samuel P. Craig and Janie Mc- Carley, and would have been 66 years of age on the 21st of next JuTte. He is survived by his widow, who was Miss MoMie Hunter, of Ora; one daughter. Miss Ora Croig, of Atlanta; two sons, Samuel E. Craig, of Atlan ta,and Joshua M. Croig of Green wood; two sisters,' Mtsses-BeHe and Lizzie Craig, and one-brother, J. S. Craig, all of Ora. The funeral services were conduct ed at the home on Magnolia street Monday morning at 10:30 d’cleok by his paster. Dr. Roswell C. Long, of the First Presbyt^an church, and interment followed in Old Field Church cemetery at Ora at 12 o’clock. the 1934 primary referendum that went 'wet, it would rest in the dis cretion of the legislature as to whetV er the results should be recognized and borne out by legislation. / J. J. Lawton of Hairtsville, prosd- dent, announced that the state execu tive committee of the federa^ forc es for temperance and law/enforce ment had-ap^ved appointhimt of a committee of seven “to pkip a cease less campaign against the liquor traffic.” The committee reportedly batif be fore it a recommendation of the in terdenominational conference of cler gymen .that it consider a drive' to re peal the liquor jaw in the’primary. Membeni'Of the soafmqiN said Mr naBaed teaolutioaa on tiktf iohitet at a Miss Bearl Hitt of-Lake City, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hitt. inffritolbljr mould tfap kiMa gesskm togt moaitb hot xgfartad dun ftad jkritopa diptoK it: ^ ^ •Wai ' GIVE TO THE RED CROSS! To aid those injured and left suffering and homeless in th4 wake^of tornadoes which have swept the South in the pa«t week. ■ Read article in today's pqper from the chairman of the local -Bed Crqaz chapter. J ' „ Presbytery Meets Here April 21 The spring meeting of South Caro lina presbytery will be held in Clinton on ’Tuesday, April 21st, with the Thornwell Merporial church-was the host church. The presbytery corapris- 'es the counties of Abbeville, Green wood, Laurens and Newberry, with delegates expected from all F^sby- terian churcim in this area. HOLIDAYS AT COLLEGE fipring hiJidairs wiM .begin Friday morning at Presbyterian college and and Monday avaniag at six o’cio' .. The studento are expected to Ir o this aftonwtot to epend tfie^pariod al thair raapaet!^ ‘ /• 1 T- 'jik V < M ‘I ■