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r^: ■ r’. •r^rrt. I, ; ■■■7; / ./ V ^ THE CHRONICLE Strives Ts Sf ft Cleu News* pftper, CftftipleCi. Newsy, ReHsbtL If/rea l>eft*t ^ CHROm^La Te«*19M*t Oftf VOLUME XXXVl CUNfON, S. C ; THURSDAY, JUNE;25,1936 DEMOOUTIC SESS^OPENS ConTention Begins With Blafi|U At Old Beal. Keynker Bark ley Slashes Republio^ and SiuHTcme Coart. Delega^ Pa nuK In Demonstrftion. \ Convention Hell, Pbiladelphia, J 2S.—A burning keynote attack upo the opponents of the New Deal to-j part of the i^lobe, was th^honor Rotary Chib Hears Dr. Egbert W. Smith A Field Secretary Foreign Mis sions of Presbyterian Church Makes Address On **Japan.*’ Dr. Egbert W, Smith, fo^ many years executive secretary of the for- 4 eign missions committee of the South ern Presbyterian church, in which ca^ pacity he visited practically • every "20-Billion-Dollar Congress’* Set A New Spending Record For Nation / Seventy-fourth Voted *$19,29^1^7,373, Not Counting Contraci AuthorizaUonst^Bonus Took $1,730,000,000, Relief $1,425,- 000,000 and Army and Navy $1,100,000,000. Washnigton, June 20.—The seventy- fourth congress will go down in his tory as the $20,000j)00,000 congress, of which $0,716,430,863 represents the 000, set aside $296,000,000 to liquidate contrMts invalidated when the Su preme court ruled the'AAA uncon stitutional, voted $308,000,000 for the_-Civilian conservation corps and expenditures votW by the second ses- $459,000,000 to finance the new social! night sent the Democratic national • guest and speaker at the weekly sion. 1 security program, all of tlvese appro- jconvenfion into a succession of noisy edberatidns, leaviiw only a whirl of platfQrm differendesxto rutfU the sur- face^of RooseVeltian harmony. The temporary chairman — Senator ' Alben W. Barkley,' of'Kehtucky^left the milling throng of delegates hoal’se and weary after he had poured fire upon the hea^_ of Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and liThdon. The present nom inee, he charged, had urged inflation through printing press money no less than three years ago. As had those who took the speak er’s pulpit of this vast hall before him, the Rent,,uckian raised high the names of Roosevelt and Gamer—look ing to their assured renomination be fore the week is out. As had the others, he inspired‘"d and are building up cheers with his . castigation of the American Liberty League. Behind each reference many read, indirect reference to Alfred Emannuel Smith. Conspicuously absent here tonight —^his Beat on the teeming floor filled by an alternate—the 1928 Democratic nominee appeared destined to take his walk .alone so’‘far as this convention is concerned. * Clearly, this 27th Democratic na tional convention was ready to turn a militant face not only toward the frontal RepiMican attack, but against assaults from the right and left as well. ^ .Virtually every mention of Roose velt's name brought an ovation. Few appeared openly concerned over whether Smith accepts today’s speech-. ... making invitation proffered by thel*^*^"®*® empire and kave-the people Republicans. The maneuvers of the no alternative but belief^^hat meeting of the Clinton Rotary club on Monday. Spewing from a refreshingly in- teraatibnal view^ihl that long years in the many nations of the world has given hin^he gave a brief address b.n Jaj^n aM the Japanese'people. “To know \he'Japanese is to love them,” he sai^ in opening, and after a brief discussion of their politeness and grracioushess as well as their abil ity and initiative, he stated that America dislikes tW Japanese be cause of two things: meir China con quest and the belief \hat they are planning ft war against We are not justified ik either, he said. No one can condone\the Japa nese conquest of China, ye^we con stantly forget that England,^Franqe, great colonial empires by the identi- cal method.*!. Even our own skirtsTare not clean, he saidTfor our relatiras with Mexico and uur acquisition o Panama lay ns open to comment as bitter as that that Japan is receiving. And the Japanese are fully acquaint ed with our history, hence they look at the Western world’s ‘righteous in dignation’ as the worst form of hy pocrisy. As for our belief that JapanJs con templating a war on us, the Japa nese feel the same way about us. A free press that prints articles in which Japan is called “our worst ene my,’’ and congressional speeches that demand that our air force be built with the view of war with Japan in sight, are widely circulated in the Union party of Lemke and Coughlin captured little attention. Alter long hours of tumult.^-.. »weY«r, sma ur. dmixn, me most igmP?"' session finally was recessed and fascinatiiv feature of mt at 11:53 p. m. Eastern daylight time. The convention will meet again at noon, daylight time^ tomorrow, to go through the motions of perfecting its permanent organizalioiL. The conclusion of Barkley’s speech, exhorting his hearers with all the power of his then husky voice to “foL low’’ Franklin Delano Roosevelt, started a final flag and standard waving trek anund the convention hall, but it reproduced only feebly some which had gone before. For 15 minutes, while tlie Kentuckian threw kisses t.) the crowd,‘the standards of every stat* were carted around in a rebel-yelling march. But it was near ly midnight and everyone was'tired. It was national Chairman James A. Fariey who touched off the first and probi^ly the loudest demonstration of this day of demonstrations. His ftf'-emoon session assault upon Landon and Knox, bis ridicule of tlteir platform, his backhand swipe at A1 Hmitk, aiid his final words, praising JRoosevelt as the “calm, capidble and ^urafeout” leader, started a rollick ing, KUninute riot Plftioly the delegates were ne"^! the war lords of America are casting blood-thirsty eyes on their nation. H^eyer, said Dr. Smith, the most the eftme mood when they catne^ack tonidit Alter warming up in the af o-AA n M--4^ iHwHwn- - Corpus Ciinsti, Xex:as, June 23. the fftvel at 9:00 sp. m.rl^ eonven ti(m etaged a noisy seriea of ovations for George H. Eark, one of the few Democratic goveniors of Pennsylvan ia riacft tlM Civij war. The Keystone state delegation apd one particular section of the packed galleries, all especially equipped with noise machines, kept it going on and on. Alter Earle’s frequently inter- Japan is the constant desire to be bet ter and to reach something finer and nobler. Seventy years ago when they first came under the influence of the Western "World, they began to adopt our customs and technique. However, it is interesting to note that the Japanese say they did not “adopt” but rather "adapted.” Believing that the secret of the Westem^success lay in education, the Japanese built up one of the greatest education .systems in the world, but in the past few years they have dis covered that education is not all, that they are losing in their moral stam ina, both public and private. There fore they are turning to all the re ligious sects of the nation,,both Chris tian and heathen, with ii^ appeal to save their moral standing. "The youth of Japan is hMrching for a God—from the depth^of ag- nosticiam and scientific unbeli^ they aiw crying out for something iftable, sometl^ng concrete, somethiAg vo be lieve—a God to love and worahiip,” Dr. Smitei sftid in cloaing. \ The total ^for the first session was $9,579,766,510, making a grand total for file congress of $19,296,187»37a,-ajL aTI-tmie record for either a - peace time or a war-time congress. * These totals, which are those of Senator' Glass, chairman of the sen ate appropriations committee, do not mclude contract authorizations for the navy, army and other depart ments, nor rcappropriated moneys un expended from appropriations made in other congresses. In the second session, congress passed the $1,730,000,000 bonus bill, made available $1,425,000,000' for re lief, voted nearly . $1,100,000,000 to the army and navy, started the new soil-conservation service on. its way with an appropriation of $440,000,- priations being for the fi.scal year 1937. ‘ \ . . Of the many major acts passed by this session, those which attracted-j probably the most attention were ‘ the j bonus and tgx biUs^ Both were exx j tremely controversial, the president: waging a losing Rattle in his effort; to postpone payment of the adjusted compensation certificates until some future date when the treasury would be in a better position to stand the drain. In the first session, the sen ate sustained the president’s veto. In the second session, it joined with the house in overwhelmipgly reject ing it. On the other hand the $800,- 000,000 tax bill, though greatly modi fied, was passed at the insistense of the president. Bonus Payees Get $62,350 Postmaster B. R. Fuller re- ported yesterday that the Clin ton office had received bond^ for 205 ex-service men. Of this number 142 had been forward ed to Columbia, making a total of $62,350 to be received by the holders in treasury department checks. It is estimated that there are about 1,400 veterans, white and colored, in Laqrens county, who are eligible to the bonds. The average amcunt received by each of these will be in the neighborhood of $650 where the pay ge tobk advantage of - the fifty per cent loan several years ago. _ . - NUMBER 26 TO STAGE RALLY HERE SATURDAY j ■■■ ■ 'Roosevelt Nominators’ Meeting: To Be Held At 8 P. M. County Org:anized To Push Drive Pro moting President’s Candidacy. R. W. Wade Heads Orgimiza- tion Plan. Mrs. Finley, 90, Dies At Laurens i "bird Confederate Widow of N|Dounty Taken By Death ithin Week. n 1936 BALE BWiGS 26 CENTS The Corpus Christi cotton exchange purchased today at 26 cents a pound the first bale (rf 1936 cotton. After the auction plans were made to ship the bale to Dallas where It was to be placed on exhibition at the Texas centennial central exposition. Teofila Garcia, Starr count^farm- er. re<»ived not only the $140.92 Laurens, June 19.—Mrs. Virginia Langston Finley, 90. widow of John R. Finley, died here at 7 a. m. Fri day at the home of her son-in-law and daughwr, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martin, Sr., Wter a brief illness. She had used a* w\eel chair six years be cause of an mjury and had made her home in LaWens since the death of her husband in 1930. The Finley family lived near Madden approxi mately three score Vears. Mrs. Finley was slaughter of the late Probate Judge H. Langston and Sarah Smith Lmgslon. Shft was a sister of the lateW. S. Lang ston of Laurens and tm, late Dr. W. J. Langston, Baptisk minister of Greenville, and is the iVst mem ber of her parents’ family. Her husband was a Confederate veteran and at one time audi^r of Laurens county. She had beep a member of New^Prospect chilnh since young girlhood, and later me had been idei^Tified wjth the Womkr an's Missionary society of her church\ Recently she had been voted an hon orary member of the J. B.. Kershaw chapter, U. D. C., of Laurens. Mrs. Finley was tne third Con federate widow of this city to die this week, Mrs. B. W. Ball and Mrs. Lucy N. Boyd, sisters, having died early in the week. Mrs. Finley is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Martin of Ltaurens and Mrs. N. C. Martin of Cramer- ton, N. €.; six sons, John L. Finley, Huntsville, Ala.; G. H., W. L., Thur. man L., C. -P., and P. W. Finley, all of Laurens county. She also is sur vived by 57 grandchildren, 58 great- gFtnochildren and two great-great- grandchildren. ‘ Funeral services were conducted at .1 New Prospect church Saturday mom- enuPeh oemetery. Dr. A. B. Lang ston, a nephew, and pastor of'thO church, was in charge of the last rites. 635,060 Receive Old-Age Pension Thirty-Two States Get Assist ance From Government To Bolster Funds. City Election (Juiet Affair Ma^dr bailey and Three Alder- men Re-elected Without Op position. Adair Defeats Pitts, Hedspeth Wins Over Oakley. Run-over In Ward Five. Clinton’s municipal primary on Tuesday to nominate a mayor and .«!ix aldermen was a listless affair, with .Memhe^hip in the or- niimfl spewli, Mtttiqr at thr'tw.tve -wMdr the Hie itnaifhr, hut i~'tonus long years” of Republican rule and explaining why he left the party, the day’s second major parade around the ball wfts started. It lasted so long the convention of ficers made no secret of their worry. The hour set for Barkley’s speech came pad passed. Finally, he got un der way 20 mihotes late. His time was then so short that he ha<f to trim huge portions out of his speech as he talked. The stuidy-ftatured Kentucky sen- atar had tha crowd with him even to the end, however, as he openly and directly criticised some of the opin ions of the supreme court which throw out New Deal tegialation. ‘2^ in the future further constitu tional amendment should become nec essary to enable the people to work out tbeir destiny and protect their ^ fundamental rights, or to ooeicome some archaic interpretatien never in tended by its framers,” Barkley shouted, “I doubt not that tha people will face that duty with the same calm inteUigenee wfakh has guiwd them ia tha" pasL” ' ^’Whftt wo Beed,”*he added, ^ a now delhiitMU gad a now IKiipihlft*- timi ct Interatate oMamaree.” ^ of $500 offered by a bagging Com pany for the world’s first bale - of marketable cotton of the year. Read Your "Home Paper” For Values Both Conferences^ • Lately Attended Advertisements in THE CHRONIOLE are filled with helpful information you can’t afford to miss. These store messages will enable you to shop easily, wisely and econom ically. Advertisers i n TH E OiniONIOLE are reliable. They quality, unexcelled ser vice, and reasonable prices. FoUaw.- the advdHisemmkts closely each week. If it’s a new automobile, hat, n suit, dress, groceries, drugs, furniture, re- frigemtoc, ndio^. household ne cessities, etc., f<m will find them advertis^ In year favor ite‘‘family newspapei’.’' \ past week at Presbyterian college, dosed Tuesday at noon when the 325 young people in attendance left im mediately for their respective homes. 'Both the intermediate and senior conferences this year broke all pre vious records in attendaiKe, the col lege facilities being taxed to their full capacity to accommodate the ma triculations. Both were unusually suc- Washington, June 20.—The social security board said today 636,000 per sons in 32 states and the District^ of Columbia were receiving old age as sistance from grants provided by the federal government to bolster state funds. Officials estimated this - represent ed 66 per cent of the needy aged in the country. In addition to these, plans have been submitted but not yet approved, for New York, Florida and Hawaii. Counted among those whose plans have approved is also Tegga, which will not receive any fqftds until July 1. The federal quarterly allotment .now amounts to $16,788,845, and the total amount spent in the states ap. proved—federal funds plus state funds—during the three months pel riod is $32,122,678. Under the plan now in operation, the federal government pays the state a sum equal to half of any amount up to $30 a month which the tate pays to an n,eedy person 65 of er who is not cared for by a pub- lib institution. In audition, it pays th& state an amount equal to five perVent of its assistance grant which may'be used either for old age as- sistanW or- administrative expenses. The lunount paid to individual ra- cipients is determined by the state, but if it\i8 more than $30 month, the state'^^^rs the excess, ^,he limit of federal Ncontributions being $15 a month. \ To gain a^roval by the social, se curity board, the plans in tht states now receiving jmmts had to meet the folloiwing speeixteationB: The age limit must be* reduced to 65 by 1940. Not more than five years residence in the tstftte, .jjjit K .the last pine,> may be r^uired, noit more than one year of continubua residence imme diately prior to application. No .^citizen may be excluded be cause'of the length of time be has beea *a citizen. Where assistance is-^deMed, there must be some designated \tate au thority to ^iclr^the .at>pli<^nt may appeal. The plan nn^t be., of state^de bperi^fioa and mahSitory i^n the chanties. There must be ope central to administer or supervis^it, state to set tip the admmistratH machinery and select the personae WILL GO TO kUROPE little intere.st shown in the city and tfn unmually light vote ca.st due to a lack of opposition in several of the races. Mayor P. S. Bailey offering for a second term without 'opposition, re ceived a total of 839 >rotes. In the four city wards properxhe polled 232 votes. In the two Clinton Cotton Mills wards, five and six, he rewived 607 votes. The vote by wards stood: Ward one, 14; ward two, 160; ward three, 37; ward four, 21; ward five, 332; ward six, 275. Little interest was manifested in the aldermanic races in the city. On ly in ward two was there opposition and the incumbent,.?. B. Adair, was re-elected by a substantial margin. At the Clinton Cotton Mills a heavy vote was cast with keen inter est*^ centered in the race.s for aider- man, but no election made-In ward five. In ward six the incumbent, Al derman John—Hedspeth, was re turned to his seat by a three to one margin over his opponent. The administration assuming office in Si'ptember will consist of Mayor Haile.y, four hold-over councilmen and two new members. Aldermanic Races In ward one, Dr. T. J. Peake, with out opposition, received 13 votes. In ward two. Pet B. Adair, offer ing for re-election, defeated his op ponent, S. A. Pitts. TheWote stood: Adair, 124; Pitts, 44. In ward three J. F. Jacobs was re elected without opposition, receiving 37 votes. —— F. M. .Boland was re-elected in ward four without opposition, his vot^ being 21. / In ward five, where there w^ a four-cornered race, no election was declared, and a second race/will be run oyer one week hence bmween J. Furman Davis and Ralt^^N. Biddle. The vote stood: Davis^l06; Riddle, 109; Johp„»N*J3igha^< 30; L. M. Ev- In ward six, pie incumlb^nC,~Jolih W. Hedspeth, ^n over his opponent C. F. Oakleyy by'tbe count of 206 to 71. Laurens county is preparing for Roosevelt rallies as a part of the na tional rally to be held on Saturday, June 27. On Saturday the national Democratic conve'ntion will hold its out of door session at' Franklin field in Philadelphia. President^ Rooseyrit will at that ’time make his~acceptaf speech which will be broadcast over a nation-wide hookup. It is expected that 100,000. people will attend the rally in Philadelphia. _ Arrangements have been and are being made for meetings in all parts of the country by the Roosevelt nom inators. Already plans have been per fected for many localities where the crowds will gather^to join in the cete- bration and listen to the president’s radio address. For the purpose of conducting these national rallies 'simultaneously with the one at Franklin field,_there is be ing created a nation-wide organiza tion known a.s the “Roosevelt Nomi nators.” Its slogan Is, “I Want Roose- In^eases Made / In Supply Bill Delegation Raises Fund From $6,000 To $12,000. Is Under *^eir” Supervision. ganization will be acquired by the payment of one t$1.00) dollar or more to the local organizations. The mem bers named, together with contribu tions, will be registered on the en rollment roster which, after the con vention, will be presented to President Roosevelt. R.'W. Wade, attorney of Clinton, has been named by the national com mittee as chairman for Laurens coun ty and Mrs. T. Lane Monroe of Lau rens, as vice-chairman. The chairman and vice-chairman have been author ized to designate the I..aurens county organization and name the organiza tion for thei various Cbmmunitie.s in the county. Mr. Wade stated yester day that he and Mrs. Monroe had al ready set up the county organization, naming committees in each of the voting precincts of the county and that literature together with mem- bor.shjp cards had been distributed to the local- committees so that every Democrat in the county might have/ an opportunity to be enrolled in the national rally of the Democratic party. The county organization as s^l. Up con.sists of: R. W. Wade, chair man; .Mrs. ‘T. l.,ane ‘Mc^oe, vice- chairman; .Mr.s. Emily 0. Bennett, secre/ary; Thos. W. Bennett, treas urer. In-the ihstrirt^ticms sent out to the various committees it is requested that a similar oigdnization be set up in each precinct and authority has been given to the local chairman to complete tl^ organization. The can vass will be made during Thursday, -Friday ahd Saturday of this week in order /to bring the campaign to a close^imultaneously with the expect- ed/clo.«!€ of the national convention. /The chairman and vice-chairman issued a joint statement j^terday in which they said, “We confidently ex pect enthusiastic respon.se through out the county. We feel that this is a ^eat opportunity for the people of Laurens county to express themMlves and assist in the re-election of Presi- dent Roosevelt. His nomination is a eertemiy. A determriwd'vtff'OTt is be- him in the elec tion and it behooves every Democrat to rally to the cause.” KaHy Here Saturday Night I The committee in charge at Clin- [ton has arranged for a 'raUy to be held at the Pines tennis court on South Owena" street beginning at 8 o’clock. In, addition _to .President Roosevelt’s address, which will begin at-R n^cloek,- there will -be interesting tennis match^ and a'abort address by Dr. Dudl^'Jones, executive com mitteeman from Laurens county. Each precinct in the county has 105 to be collected by taxes is contain ed in section one of the county supply j bill, a copy of which is now on file in William. Bailey Owens, Jr., of this * the supervisor’s office. This compares been organized, Chairman Wade stat- Laurens, June. 22.—A total of $47,- ed yesterday, W the list of the per sonnel was not furnished in time to appear in today’s paper. Hailey zncuianons. unusuaiiy at (4orgia Tech, will, tail | with a total of $39^35 carried in last ceesful and helpful, according to the ' hJii . leaders in charge. *1110 membership of the conference attended services in a body at thje First Presbyterian church Sunday morning and beard a special sermon from the pastor of the church. Game Warden Lee For Re-el^cticm July 31st on the Laconia, Cunard ,White Star line, for a trip to Europe. He will land at Liverpool. From there he will cross Elngland and the chan nel to France, where he will spend two weeks. The return trip will beirnade on the Georgic about September 1st. Mr. Owens will be a member of the ship’s orchestra am pianist while on board. — Sidney A. Lee, completing his first term as game warden of the eoimty,' places his formal annoancefbent for re-election in today’s paper. M|r. Lee states that be is nx^ag on the ree- ord be has ssftde since riwm^ing the office two yseprs ago ftod peromiaes to coBOtiBne ft fftHbfnl pexfonnftiiee of Ms dafetesu ,■4, BANK BOARD HOLDS FINAL MEET Columbia, June 23.-—The present state (board of bj^ control teld its Tlnal meeting todsy. The act creating the bO^rd expires Jme 30, and ft nsw board, tateMUOMd by ft 1986 act, w^ toka pvtr ^ntb Cftrolina bank supenrisioa. SPOKE HERE SUNDAY year^ bill. Included in the measure is 'an in crease of $6,000 i« the item for con tingent expenses supervised by the delegation, bringing this, item up to $12,000. Salary increases carried this year include $150 each for the suqieri- visor and superintendent of education, with an added allowance for the for mer of $50 for traveling expense. A new section was added In the senate as a result of the flurry caused after the death of Sheriff. C. L. Ow ens whenriMftriff Watts announced- that he expeejM to appoint three d^- uties to takeii^e places of three who had been- serving. .The new section provides for the appointment ’ of the former deputies by the delegation, thus taking the app<totinents away from the aberiff for the remainder of thie year. .4. Dr.. Egbert W. Smith of Nqshville, T^nn., one of the leaders of the young people's conference here the past week, occupied the pulpit of the Thomwell Memorial church Sunday morning. In the evendng he spoke at the service held at the First Baptist church and was heard with deep in terest by a union''congregation. Dr. Smith, who is one of the out standing mimsters of the Southern Presbyterian dburch, has been' con nected with the foreign missions com mittee of the ch,urch for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Thornton of TampOf Fla., and Miss Aaffa Fuller of pharieston, arrived thia to several days with cnl^ Mr. and Mrf. B. R. / j • « ■:X . 1 ‘‘k