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t ' VOLUME XXXVI CLINTON ,S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE j3<1936 NUMBER 24 HOPE TO END SESSION SOON Confress Working To Adjourn Saturday. Conferee Swing TawaH Accord On Key Mens- Lonnie T. Lawson Is Laid To Rest Highly Regarded Hopewell Farmer Dies In Columbia Hos- pitaL Interment At Rosemont. nre. Tax Schedule Offered. Washington, June 16. — Hopes for adjournment of congress this week were spurred today jchen senate and house conferees announced virtual agTcement on the $2,369,072,044 re lief-deficiency appropriation bill, car rying $1,425,000,000 to continue work- relief. Chairman Alvin Adams, Democrat, of Colorado, of the senate group said only one or two minor matters re mained to-be settlecb Tomorrow mom- if ALFRED MOSSMAN LANDON Lonnie T.-Lawson, 55, a prominent farmer of the Hopewell section, died early teat Friday morning at the Co* lumbia hospital following a tvm weeks critical illness and major ope- ration, the outcome of which had b^n feared for several days. Funeral services were held from the i home' Saturday afternoon at 3:30 with' interment in Rosmont centjetery, The largely attended services were conducted by the Rev. C. C. Vaughn of Bush River, and Rev. E. S. Jones of Goldville. The grave was banked high with many lovely'flowers as a fine attestation of the high esteem Jri which he w®* held in the community ' ing and a njport probably would be presented'ly noon. AccepUnce of theU-ht^re he lived an honored and use'- report by the two houses yrould leave if life. final action on the tax bill as the only major barrier to adjournment. Adams .said the senate’s version <^f the relief bill had remained virtually intact. House conferees agreed to the senate amendment giving President Roosevelt control of the huge fund instead of turning it over directly to the WPA administrator, Harry L. Hopkins. Under house rules, however, that body must vote separately on senate amendments authorizing $300,000,000 revolving fund for the PWA and fur ther study of the Florida ship canal. Meanwhile, the senate passed the Wagner housing bill today and the house approved the Guffey-Vin.son .Active pallbearers were: R. E. Liv ingston, C. M. Smith, C. W. Stone. J. R.- Workman, W, C. Dobbin^, J. Roy Crau’ford, J. T. Little, S. G. Dillard. Honorary: J. L. Dickert, G. F. Bu ford, J. A. Davis, I. M. Smith, Dr. George R. Blalock, Dr. D. 0. Rhame, Jr., Dr. J. W. Davis, Dr. W. T. Mar tin, W. M. Buford, Jack H. Davis, Sr., joe W. Leake, J. J. Clark, A. J. Mill ing, D. E. Tribble, B. H. Boyd, P. B. Mitchell, C. V. Monroe. ♦ Mr. Lawson, a'native of Union county, moved to the Hopewell sec tion in this county fifteen years ago. He immediately b^ame interested in the community and could always be counted upon to give his influence and coal control bill. Each measure must i guppi(>|.t to nU interests making for now be acted i^on by the other bodyi betterment. He was endowed with to become law. The bouse speaker, William B. Bankhead, pointing oyit that the tax and relief measures are the only re maining ’’real must" bills, sidd it was "possible" for adjournment Saturday. He ordarad a house session on private bills for 7:80 p.m. and said there would probably be night sessions the rest of the week. The Walsh-Haaley "Uttle NR A" bill governing labor conditions on government contracts was given a chance of enactment this session whan tha bouse rules eonmrittaa approved a rule for ita oonsidanKtion. Hope WM also haki for tba aeas promise ehip subsidy bill, made the senate’s unfinished business late to day. Its sponsor, Senator Royal S. Copeland, Democrat, -of York, predicted it would not nm into long debate. Meantime, the senate passed the O’Mahoney resolution extemlihg the quota provisions of the Jones-Gosti- gan sugar production and importa tion control bill. The measure, from which a benefit payment provision to producers agreeing to restrict produc tion was removed, goes to the house. The senate confirmed the nomina tion of the former AAA administra tor, Chester C. Davis, to be a member of the board of governors of th^ fed eral r«)serve system. If dso ratified a United States-Ganada treaty for the protection and •extension of the sock-eye salmon fisheries of the Fra- ser river system. ^ President Roosevelt signed the $272,000,000 Overton-Wilson flood control bill. It provides for protec tion of the lower Mississippi river basin by a Mines of levees and auxil iary devices. He also wrote into law the new commodity, exchange control bHL. many admirable traits of character and possessed a strong Christian faith. A man of fine qualities, loyal to his faniily, his church, his friends mmI neighbors—his fri{;pds who were many were not confined to ahy one group of people, but to men in all walks of life. His church affiliation was with Bush River Baptist church, which he had faithfully served as a deacon for several years. Hw passing of Mr. Lawson caused widespread .regret in Clinton wheaw he was well Renown. In his death the Hopewell connnunity has again been egUad i^en to givf up one of ita urns true and upright in aH relations of life. Besidea his widow, before marriage Miss Bfary Summers, Mr. Lawson is survived by five sons, Clarage of Co lumbia, Ryan, Claude, L. T.^Jr. and Mprion, all of the home p^cc; two daughters, Mrs. E. W. Everett of Richmond, Va., Miss Blary Laweon, teacher in the Piedmont schools; sev en brothers, Deide, Wallac^ Fincher, Roy* Lloyd, Fred, and HerWt Law- son, all of yndon; four sisters, Mrs. Bailey Lawson, Cross Anchor, Mrs. Fred Bogan, West Springs, Mrs. Ben Grier, Union, Mrs. Pell Bogan, Union. Political. Pot Fails To BoU Little Interest Shown By Voters or Candidates In Listless City Primary Set For, Tuesday. Clinton’s listless* municipal pri mary to* nominate a mayor and six alderinen will be held next Tuesday in compliance with the constitution and by-laws of the Democratic club which calls for an election every two I years on the fourth Tuesday in June. There has been almost no interest manifested in the city in the ap proaching primary which promises to bo spiritles.s and, in a measure, vote- rriombers of the present ad- REPUBUCANS START nCHT Landon and Knox Chart Cam- liaign With Youth To Play Leading Role. Headquarters To Re Set Up In«Chica;|^o. ^ Topeka, Kan., June 16. Ifemor \ Alfred Ml Landon sdd'*‘Colv/Prmhk 16.—Goy« Knox teamed today for the Repi:d>li« can presidential race with a hearty handshake and a huddle on how to put a winning punch', in their cam paign. — To a crowd that cheered them un der a flaming sun—it was 9-9 degrees —the two men bespoke their confi- ministration are seeking re-election j dence. With a picked group of party oxcepr Perry L. Wilburn, who^^as | leaders the nomine<*s for president served ward’ five as alderman th^ and vice-presi<lent talked and listened REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE The most recent and a specially posed photograph of Governor Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas, which was taken the week pre ceding the Republican National convention at Cleveland. two yoars. • —■ For the office of mayor, the in cumbent, 1*. S. Hailey, who is com pleting his first two-year term, is stan«ling for re-election without op position. In the.^ldC‘nnanic ract's in the city In Giivernor Lahdon’s private study to plans for starting their drive "right now." When it was all-over, John" I). M. Hamilton, red-haired chaiiTnan of the Republican national committee, emerge4l with a broad public outline proiHM-, liltle interest h«» betn shora, discussion. Pointedly, he re- w,th feu- eandulates offering. In the ix'udily acknowledged that the agend had covered virtually every campaign Young People In Session Here Changes Made In ebU^ge Faculty Second Conference Sponsored By Synod Being Held At Col* lege. Capacity Attendance. The Young People’s conference held annually under the auspices of the Synod of South Carolina, convened at Presbyterian college Tuesday evening folkming the intermediate conference which closed at the same time. John H. Hunter, the cottsge tmsiness man ager, stated yesterday that the en rollment reached 325, which is the largest it is possible to comfortably accommodate on the campus. The R«v. B. S. Rodfes oi Union, -.'a' At AJLP. Church Laurens Criminal Court Term Brief Laurens, June 13.—The June term of general sessions court. Judge C. C. Featherstone, of Greenwood, presid ing, adjourned Wednesday afternoon, after disposing of, three homicide eas es, two housebreaking and larceny charges involving several defendants, and the taking of a number of guilty Roland Godfrey was given a dix^- pd verdict o| not guilty^ on m. iildk^ mcist charging him wi^ James Cunningham, of Clinto^ at the Log Cabin filling station '^eral j months ago. Belf-d^ense wte God- I frey’s plea. Marion Wilsopy Negro, Qfhter ^ _ _ . — -j’* Marion Wilso: The city union servite Sunday e^-1 found guilty of ning will be held at the Associate f^iven a sentence of/three years. R^brmed Presbyterian church. The pulpit will‘be occupied by Dr. D. J. Woods, pastor, of tite First Presbyte- rian church. ~A cordial invitation is extended all congregations to unite in this Service. Bonus Statistics Washington, June 16.—^Vet- ^erans entitled to appUy for bonds—3,518,000. Bond packets already shipped —about 8,000,000. Total value of all bonds— $1,900,000,000. Value of bonds already ship- ? ped-about $1,650,000,000. ’Number of bdUds priffted—- 37,000,000, Weight of the mail—300 tons. Size of the mail—Enough to ** fill more than 25 full-sized xail- ^ way mail cars. Rmergmcy workers handling the job—^About 8,000. Largeaif bonus payment, ||,- 500. - . ' Smallest bonus paympnft, $60. Aiveraga bonus payment, $550. •UU |KlVlr1l g| VXlll^liW / VUa^w JrVe$aV» He had allegedly, shot Richard Hook- f^hip, Ths 1 capital case was soob completed i slaughter and Nelson rtrmwtt nleedod guiltv to man- gm a sentence of two years. the ‘ intsrm«diatet, is serving the young people’s conference in the same ca|>aeity. The Rev. F. B. Mayes of Beaufort, is the director. The faculty for the week’s conference includes a number of prominent ministers and teachers of the Presbyterian denomi nation. The conferences, for purposes, o/ administration and development /^f leadership, are divided, into "trites," each bearing anIndian nam^- The morning hours are filled wi^ class work. The afternoons arey^ven to recreation. The eveitings /eature in spiration, fiin and fell^ship.' j!he program opening Tue^ay will "last through next Tuesday, the ^d. two^t'linton Ootjlon .Mills Wards, five and six, there are several aspirants for seats in council with chief inter est in the election centered there. In ward one. Dr. T. J. Pjeake is of fering for alderman without opposi tion. This waid has been without rep resentation in council for several months,cau^ by the removal of its repixvsentative, W. J. Henry, from within tl)e city. In >^rd two, P. B. Adair, oldest member of council in point of service. Dr. Whitelaw Transferred To'”' Physics Department. Dr. H. E. ^ Spencer New Math Professor. Announcement is made by \D«ktt ManrhaJl W. Brown of Presbyi^an college, that Dr. U. Elarl Spencer wiU of the coU^fe/facult^ Kiwanii^ 6b To Greenwood Today be a member in the department of mftlieTnaticB with the beginning of the |icw session in September. The announoeiment ajbo stated that Dr. Neil G. WhitelaT^formerly head of the mathematics division, has been tranaferred to physics depart- ment succeeding Dr. F. W.- Cooke, who will not he connected with the Utkin. r. Spe^r has been conMbled with thi^ mwtheimatics deparment of Cornbll university. He^/nolds a bachelor of science degr^ from the Univ^ity of Rochesten^ He received hisyM. A. and Ph.tt^from Cornell, n^hematics heing/(ht major subject fm both degrees.^ Since 1929 he has been an instebetor of mathematics at bis aJma/mater. Dr. Sponcer will arrive in the city the latter part of the summer to en ter- u^n his work. His family con- / In ward three, Alderman J. F. 3^ ^co'bs is without opposition. tin ward four, Alderman F. Bo land has no opiponent. I In ware, five, there .are four candi dates, John N. Bigliupv J. Furman Davis, Ralph N. Ri^le and L. M Evans. In ward six tlw^ocumbent, John W. Hedspeth, is seeking re-electon. He is ^posed byG. F. Oakley. The pMb will open at 9 o’clock and close at^:30 p.m. J. J. Cornwell, sec- retai^ of the club, announced yester- that the election will be in charge the following managers: City box: W. S. Dfnson, John D. Davis, Pierre Burdette, clerk. Clinton Cotton Mills box: Geoiige F. Turner, J. H. Seay, Mrs. Bertha Spiers, Claude Pinson, clerk. Dr. Whitelaw WiU Travel In Europe Dr. Neill G. Whitelaw, formerly of aiatk of his wife and an eighteen mont the mathematics deimrtment of Pres byterian college but recently made lonths old son. Graham To Study In Germany, Spain Membex^ of the Clinton Kiwanis club wi|l journey over to Greenwood- thia weening to join the Greenwood and/Anderson clubs in an inter-city mating at the Oregon hotel. The Greenwood dub will serve as hosts 4nd a large attendance is expected. spenker for the occasion will be Dr. James W. Jackson, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Co- Itunbia, who is serving his first yle*i’ as lieutenant governor of the ninth division of .the Carolinas district Mrs. Nannie A. Pitta, Mrs. Ethel Pitta, Miss Jeanette Pitts and Frances er of Waterloo to^^hip. The pitt/, spent Sunday in Inman sood completed when .with Cnrroll Pitts. Professor Bothwell Graham, of Chb language departmbnt at Presbyterian college, who will study in Europe this summer, will saH from New York today. Professor Graham plans to go di rectly to Germany where be will study at the University of Heidelberg for a fix v.ceVs’ period, and along the Rhine stuoying the vernacular of head, of the phjpsict department, an nounced recently that he would sail from Montreal on June 19 for a'two montha tour of Europe, during which he will consult with several of his former colleagues who are now teach ing in European universitieb. He will sail to London where he will visit Oxford and Cambridge. He will go to Newcastle by rail and cross the channel to Bergen and from there to Oslo, and then by rail to Stock- holmn where he will be the guest of Dr. Bengt Edlen at the University of Uppsala, a former colleague with whom he published a paper on Spec troscopy. Returning, he will proceed by canal to Copenhagen, then to Berlin, Co subject. Hamilton gdye out the ji^rsonnel of the committee within st committee —and he made it plain/tnat the prob lem of finance had fi^fured prominent ly in the conferer The new trodsurer will be C. B. Go<lspeed, Cjrfcago, retired steel exec utive. Hanulton will hurry by plane to New"\York tomorrow to discuss mon^ raising. yDesc the section. His studies at>^to€ uni-. . « varsity will be almost.solely on. German language, Leaving Germany hs will spend the month of August in Spain. Therb he intends to make an extended tour of the country and study the tongue of the people. He *wnt~probsbly attend several Spanish universities-for brief periods of time. Professor Griiham will return to America on or about September 1. Da DUDLEY JONES, Ja HERE ON VISIT Dr. Dudley Jones, Jr., accompanied by his wife and little daughter, hat been visiting his parents. Dr. and Mrs. Du<fley Jones for the past week. Dr. Jones has recently finished his special training in the Army Medical school at Washington and Carlisle, Pa., following his graduation from the Medical College at Charleston two years ago, and a year of internship at^Fort Bliss, Texas. He was . for a short while a patient in the Walter Reed hospital, Washington. He now ^ goes to Fort l^reven, near Savannah, (Where he takes up his duties as » medical officer in the army post. He and his wife ami little daughter, Alice Ahn Appleton, received attention from many friends. while visiting here. <ifr. and Mrs. L. D. Simpson and xAuldren spent Sunday in Whitmire Mr. and Mn. Jansa IT STARTS IN THE CHRONICLE TODAY A THRILLING NEW SERIAL STORY rrEXASGUNS^' By L. P. HolnjW A fast-moving western story, full of action and romance. A villain as wicked as they come; a heroine as sweet and lovely as your own sister, and a hero as gay, as reckless, as full of gallant, dare-devil chivalry as only the heroes of western novels can be.' Here is a story packed full of the glamorous atmosphere of the land of cowl^ys, bronchos, six-shooters and romance. ICs the type of story that Will carry you away with the first paragraph and keep you enthralled right through the final installment. Young and old, everyone likes a good western story, and ^Texas Guns” by L. P. Holmes, is a sure-fire winner L / The Opening Installmenf Appears On Page 7. DonH Miss It. ^ / scribing the new executive coni- hiittee aa having “the youngest per- .sonnel we’ve ever had by far," Ham ilton said: “Th picture of youth at the con trols of the party will be more ap parent tomorrow with announcement of some of the division heads.” Hamilton said his headquarters would be Chicago “because there is more work to be done there." “The new general counsel of the committee will be Henry P. Fletcher, retiring, national chairman," Hamil ton said. Hamilton indicated the exact date and place of Governor Landon’s ac ceptance speech were yet to be de- termiaad. / Strong sUppbH for a tentative plan whereby Governor Landon would fol low his acceptance speech with an opening speech at ^is birthplace. West Middlesex, Pa., came from Mrs. Worthington Scranton, committee- woman from Pennsylvania. ' Governor Landon now cOntemplate.s goiiig to Colorado with his family next week for a brief rest—perhaps while there he may have an opportu nity to scan the platform adopted by i4te^emocrats in Philadelphia. Then, he has a special ses.sioit of the Kansas legislature set for mid- ■July with the "time and place of his acceptance speech depending upon - developments. Knox expected to spend .several days here charting his course. There will be a notification and acceptAnce ceremony for him and he likely will visit each of the 48 states during his stumping. te go into the Baltic to Lubeck. fte wili sAil from CSieibrn^ToF Am^$a on August 29. . Hi Graduates Hear Pastors’ School ■ To Open June 22 The Kiwanis dub at its regular meeting Thursday evening.hftd .m its special guests the boy menibers of this year’s graduating classes^nir the Columbia, June 13.—•/The pastors’ school for the two conferences repre sented in South Carolina Southern Methodism wilT be7heTd“ this' y«sr *St" GoltimB^ c^^ June 22 and ending eleven day.*! later. Preach ers from the South Carolina ♦and the Upper ■ ^uth Carolina conferences a.re expecte<l to attend in Jarge num- bers. Fiv^instructors and nine courses arc included in the curriculum for the 1936 school. These five, with other Jeadera oi the Methodist. Episcopal Church, South, will have parts on the lecture and forum schedule of the Clinton and Thomwell orphanage high schools, following a custom of several years. The dub also had as its , guest speaker. Dr. S. J. Derrick of New- institute: Dr. Gilbert T. Rowe, Duke univer sity, Durham; Dr. Lavens Thomas 'll, Emory university; Dr. W. P.* King, editor of the Christian Advocate, berry college who delivered a helpful'Nashville; Dr. William F. Quillian, and challenging addresA to the young I general secretary of the general graduates. He admonished the young board of Christian education of the men not to spend tiheir time in idle- denomination, and John Lewis, direc- ness and loafing, to work, to save, to • tor of the Chapel choir, the latter i have courage and endurance if they; two alse of Nashville, are faculty expect bo succeed in the things they are to undertake in life. Stores To Close On July Sixth / •/ A petition circulated yesterday and signelL' by practically all merchants and business concerns in the city, agreed upon Monday, July 6th, for a holiday instead of July 4th, which comee this year on Saturday. members this year. The list of platform speakers is j headed by Bishop Paul B. Kern, 1 Greensboro, who is administrative head of the church for the two Car- jolinas.. Bishop Kern’s service at the .school also includes the sermon Sun— jday morning, June 28. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Somefel and children visited. relativM in Briton loat weak. GETS SCHOOL CONTRACT :^T9ie firm of D. E. Tribble Voi .iar^y at this city, has been awarded a con tract for ^e construction of an audi- toriym Jfor the Watts, Mills school. The'auditorium will be placed at the rear of the building now under con- atryction by tbta concern. \ J ■ -r. ..