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THE CHBQNICLE . Btrivea T# Be V Ckn News- Imy' paper, Ce«te«te. Newsy, ^ , I and Rslliable. ■/T VOLUME xxxv: FRANCE TO OUST ALL STRIKERS CUNTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936 Workers On Walkoots Will Be Kept* From Occupying Places of Business jpnder Pledge of Blum^s Government. Democrats Map Heavy Can^aign High Command Declines To Make Public All l^at Took Place At Conference; Washington, July 4. — Menai^rs of the Democratic high commaml, in a three-hour conference with President Roosevelt Friday; laid the lines f9X>a summer of heavy campaigiiing they intend to climax in a whirlwind of Paris, July 7. —- PAnce served of-v fkial notice • tonight she will keep strikers fr<mi occupying places of business—even as angry motor plant workers were reported to have »ei*ed 1 fall, and imprisoned two cohfipany direc-J Beyond sUting the protra«^ par lor** . jley, had worked out a tentatw bud- Roger Salengro, minister of the in- brought a discussion of terior, told the senate. Just before the nien to fill key campaign posts, the .. governinent jreceivda 230*4o*tvata^ j^onfereea,rm^he worda-df one, dedin- .. confidencei. “The gftyernipent..will put, ^.te-i^teH aH;"- LaMotte T ^Join Orphanage Staff - Waycross, Ga., Pastor Jo Fill New Positibh of Field Secre tary At Thornwell. Comes In August. Well Known Here. The Rev. Louis C. LaMotte, pastor of the FHrst Presbyterian church of Waycross, Ga,, has been elected exec utive secretary of Thornwell orphan- Laurens Farmeir Drowns In Creek Douglas Barnett Loses Life ' W^ile Hunting for Fisb At Edge of Water. Laurens, J^^uly 3.—Douglas Barnett, 46, farmer who lived two miles from -f into action all appropriate means to put an end to the occupations.” The newspaper Le Journal, coinci dentally, said strikers at the_Citroen autonaobile facto^, near Chaumont, had locked up t^ company directors -wfter the directors refused demands for tlte dismissal of two engiibeers. The men were released, government officials said, -after three hours* cap tivity. . Warnings of a “new offensive” JSe- ing prepared by the extreme left were heard from. Senator Henry Lemery, former minister of justice who is a member of the compaVatively moder ate Radical Socialist party. “In sevetal months we shall see a decisive movement,” said Lemery. “We' are only having • respite now.” Striking at the extreme right, the S overnnient started prosecution of ightist League leaders on charges of inciting to riot and. attempting to reorganize dissolved groups such as the “Croix de Feu.” A court opened a “John Doe” inves tigation into charges that Col. Fran-, cois de Rocque and other chiefs of the so-eatled Fascist leagues had , summoned their followers to demon strate in Sunday’s dash in the (Smubs Elysees, in which scores of /persons wsre injured. De k Rooque, hhuMlf, disclaimed any intention of starting sfmg])inary rebellkms and said. the members ^ his new “Social” party ware “patri otic Frenchmen; w^ stand for Order.” Colonel de la Rocque’s National So cialist party calls itself “neither red Mv» white, test khiSg white and rsdL” Defense of the national Tricolor 'kgainst the attack of the red flag” is its goal. ‘‘Thw were 18 members of the Croix.de Feu in the chamber of depu- — ties before dissolution,” an official of the new party said. “They form the Although the president two days ago intimated Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic national committe j might have an announce ment as to *wbether he would resign as postmaster general, Farley said the matter was not discussed today. “We had a general discussion about the setup of the new party headquar ters in New York and nmde' prelimi nary arrangements for campaign ac tivity,” he told reporters. “We aleo made a preliminary bud get arrangement and discussed lead ers for division hesEdquarters, but de cided on no definite appointments.” As tb expenditures from the war chest, Farley said he could not name a figure but it was hoped the amount would be kept within that spent in 1932—about 12,000,000. flarley hinted the discussions might have extended beyond the points he mentioned, ."l^en a reporter remark ed the three-hour parley must have allowed time “to cover a lot of ground,” the postmaster general reV plied: ^ “A hell of a lot. Too bad we ca^’t tell it all.” / The shift of Democratic ]ieA<iquar- te^ to New York already was/under .Office furniture began /teoving out during the day, and cq^mittee aides said probably only a skeleton force wo\tld be maintain^/bere. Drought Relief For Stricken States President To Inspect Stricken Area. Cattle Will Be Moved. ! 170,000 Families Destitute. W^ashington, July 7. — President Rjoosevelt today set in' motion a drought relief program designed to i Laurens, mysteriously drowned late p^vide incomes for 170,000* distress-f Friday at Rabun creek, eight miles I ed families, feed livestock, and change \ southwest of here. » the economy of the “dust bowl.” j Barnett, his wife and two other He named himiself the nation’s No. i persons had gone to the Rabun creek 1 inspector to check personally next i section to buy some fish, but after month on progress of his plans. J they jeached there, Barnett decided Flanked at a press conference by to wade along the edge of the creek administration executives interested i in drought relief, iKe pre^dehT^^Td 'famtiT#s in the pHTcherf-area wouM receive aid through work relief pro jects and subsistence loans and grants. Government loan.s, he''‘said, will be made to small cattle feeders to save their foundation herds. DEATH TOLL GOES HIGHER Lives and Crops Reaped By Long Drought and High Tem peratures. Relief Activities Begun By Agricultural De partment. — . ’ Chicago, July 7.—More than a score of deaths were counted tonight in the harvest of havoc wrought by record- breaking heat and month-old drought. The deaths included at least 10 fa talities attributed to the intense heat which scorched through its fifth con- in an effort to catch the fish, with,;8ecutiv« day of better thaB lOO-de^-’- grees readings with indications yes- stream in an automobile, the. other members of the group remaining in the car while Barnett went on his fishing venture. He had been absent some time when The, new plans, he discolsed, con-! other members of the party 'became template adjustment of farmeri' to uneasy and called to him, but re new enterprises which will no^ de populate the affected region, ! but ceived no response. They searched in the area where he had gone into the REV. LOUIS C. LaMOTTE Coe b Granted Furtliir Leave Presbyterian Cbllege Professor To Stay NY A Another Year. Lon^ To Take His Work. which will alter the economy of the j creek, but cp^uld find no trace of him. blighted district and halt the need ofi Ralph TCrry, a fanner who lives direct federal relief, whic,h he esti-j nearby, wa.s summoned, and Hte im- Announoe^ent has been made through office of Dean M. W. core of the r^ational Socialist party Brown of/Presbyterian clolege, that in parliamenU*^ Dr. Rog^ L. Coe, head of the depart- The party program, drawn up un-1 ment of education at the college, who der the direction of La Rocque, fol- j for the past year has been on a leave lows closely the aims of the C^oix de j of ajtisence serving as state head of Feu, based on the energetic colonel’s | the National -Youth administration, maxim—^“T)ie state must be neither; has been granted an additional year’s a fiction pfqr a religion.” Intension on his leave. The extension J^as made at the request of NY A of- ' 1 ficials who spoke in the highest terms of the work/done the past year by Dr. Coe. At the same time Dean Brown an nounced that Dr. Joseph - Kindred Long of Seaboard, N. C., has feeen ap pointed^ to fill the vacancy caused by Dr. Coe’s continued absence. Dr. Long is a man of wide experience in the field of pra9tical teaching as well i^s being thoroughly trained in the theo- / Holiday Fatalities Jlleach Total qf Wation ExperienccE the Swond ' Fatality List In Nine Years For July Fo^h. Chicago, July 6.—Tm double holi day Of July Fourth w^ celebrated by: Jf the educationarworld, the nation at a cost/of 444 lives, re-1 ^fter studying three years at the Vised fatality tableif tonight disclos^. j University of North Carolina, he took The list was tW second.longest for bachelor’s degree at the T^adhers’ the country’s Iwliday in' nine years and was exceeded only by the 483 of 1931 for the >^ast six years. In 1931, as tins there was a., two;^y holiday pi^od. ^ With yullions of cars oh the high ways, teotor vehicle accidents led all bachel^ir’s degree college of Columbia university, and received his master’s degree from the same school. In 1933 he received his Ph, D. frpm Gorge Peabody college for teachers,’Nashville, Tenn,. Dr. Long and wife expect to arrive in Clinton early in September at age, a position crea^ by the insti tution’s board of trustees at their an- rUial meeting here in June. Mr. La Motte has tendered his resignation to his congregation and will enter upon his new duties on August 16th. ^ In the capacity of field secretary, Mr. LaMotte will spend the greater part of his time in the three con trolling synods of Georgia, South Oarolina and Florida, in an effort to develope-on the part of the orphan- age’s constituency a more intelligent understanding of its purpose, results and needs, and to stimulate a larger interest and support for the worit. The board of trustees in making the announcement dl the election of Mr. lARotte, spoke in ths highest tentts fbf Ws' qualifications and feels that an excellent choice has been made for the new position. Mr. LaMotte is no stranger in Clin ton. He is a graduate of Thornwell orphanage and Presbyterian college. At the completion of his college work here he entered Columbia_Theologicel seminary from which he received his B. D. degree. From Princeton Theo logical seminary he received the Th.M. degree, ami’sn M. A. degree in English from the tlniveriTity of South Carolina. ^ » j For the past seven years. Mr. La Motte has served as pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Way- cross where he is held in the highest esteem by his congregation. Before going to Waycross he‘was pastor of a group of churches at Fort Payne, Alabama, and served as supply pastor of churches at Tampa and( Clear water, •Fla. Mr. LaMotte in 1926 married Miss Sarah Hunter of this city, only daughter of Mrs. Myrtle Hunter. They have three young sops, Louis, Jr., John Hunter, and Edward Mid dleton. The family will arrive i^Clin- ton the iniddle of August and IBccupy a home on the orphanage campus at the corner of West Centennial and Thornwell streets. mates total $300,000,000 during the last three years. The president said he expected to |sit the Dakotas and possibly Min- ta. The president estimated the number of families in need of some form of immediate cash relief at 204,000. He said the bulk wVre m the Northwest drought states—the Dako^s^ Minne sota, Wyoming and Montana., To bring cash promptly into the purses of the needy xfamiHesr -he re vealed 50,000 were being taken Care of through WPA jobsNat regular weekly wages averaging Subsist, ence loans and grants, he said, are to be advanced to 56,000 families as part of the regular resettlement work in addition to the 70,000 families al ready receiving assistance. Thus, he concluded, 170,000 fami lies now arp being oared for or will be within the next few weeks, leaving a gap of 34,000 for which aid still is to be found. He said 2,800 men were being put to work daily in South Dakota, an average of 2JM)0^<day in Neeth Da kota, 800 in Minnesota, and^ 300 to 400 in eastern Montana. Mr. Roosevelt described the work as useful-digging wells to provide ample water supplies, building earth dams to store rainfall, and construct ing farm-to-market roads. The employment, he announced, will .provide incomes until winter, when, perhaps, other forms of relief may be substituted. The livestdek program in the ^Da- j kotas, Montana, Wyoming and Min nesota, he said, will be to move cattle out to feeding areas as a private en terprise, as contrasted vjith govern ment buying daring the 1934.drought. ThF • pany- had 'drivCT Tieat-^(rienray*8' top bf I nr would be ^ii'alled in many places and probably sur- pa.ssed in several. There were also up ward of a dozen and a half drown- ings as thousands sought refuge from the burning rays in lakes and rivers. Early afternoon readings including an unofficial maximum of 118.at sub urban Des.Plaines and Chicago’s high est of the year—102 on the municipal airport thermometer. 'The weather bureau in Washington announced no alleviation was likely for the next two or three days, in- crea.sing the pessimism of planters that corn’s “critical period” might re solve into ad<led disaster. | “To facilitate federal relief meas ures, the agriculture department’s drought committee designated 97 counties in North and South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming as “emergen cy drought counties.” Relief activities wilPije UTOfice'htrated in this area and ^11 include reduced freight rates on livestock, WPA projects, resettlement loans and grants, and the proposed cattle purchase plan. _ ■ / In one of the^ wildest markets in months, wheat zoomed to a new high/ price for the. month — a_ peak sino4 August of the drought year of 1934— and then was whirled downwarda^al- most a cent below yesterday’s ilose on an avalanche of selling imlers. Rainfall in the Saskatchewai/ sector of thdTlrought territory was/credited with causing the reversal, ^ter sell ing as high as 31.10 a bush/l, the first serious break in the dry /pell market ended with July deliveiV at 3il>05 5-8 to 3-4^v Corn swooped the /four cent limit but dropped back almut two cents. - Froin the Rocky' mountains east ward through In^ana the punishing I hejpt continued t^pound at records of I long standing, rosmark’s 114 degrees Hands I Terw Haute’s 106, and 112 ' at Devils Lake, N. D., were the hot test in the mstory of the weather bu reaus the^. Napoleon, in the latter state, re^rted 119 for the high mark of the current heat-drought spell ye.s- mediately started diving into the creek. After several dives, he found K s body in water not more re or six feet deep. Most of the Water in the vicinity where the body was found was not as deep as th^, members of the^party said. It had not been determined here Ihte tonight whether Barnett had suf fered a heart attack. No announce ment had been made whether an in- (luest would be held. / . Deputy Sheriff Thad Moore and a fefiow officer rushed to the scene when reports of the drowning reach- ed Laurens. Efforts at resuscitation failed, and Barnett’s body was brought here, where funeral services were conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday, with the Rev. W. F. Hedgepath, pas tor of the Method^t church of Union, o^kiating. Besides his wife, Mrs. Eva Lang- ton Iternett, the drowning victim is survived ^ly his mother, Mrs. Victo ria BarnettKof Laurens; a sister, Mrs. Louette Clara of Greenville,., and two brothers, Robert and Rufus Barnett, of Laurens. Bible School Now Being Held / Mis.s Margaret Jones School At Presbyterian Church For Primary and Junior,Pupils. Borah Has No Idea Of Bolting Party Fifty-fjve primary and junior chil dren of the First Presbyterian church tardayy are enjoying a daily vacation Bible;, In/S'ashington^ the AAA announc- school, which began July 7 and willjed important modifications of the continue through July 18. From 9 un- | I9^> soil conservation program in ef- til 11:30 each day’s program consists I fotts to obtain the “widest possible of a variety of activities, beginning j Conservation on forage” in drought with a short devotional in the morn-estates. The step followed a. plea from ing and continuing with group activy^- the National Farmers^Holiday associ- ties in Bible ‘study, hand work, and -ation for Pre.sident Roo^vek to br other ^uses of acddental death time he will enter upon hie u 254 aargregate. Drowpipga aumber - ed 04. Various oCber aeddents con- luted the remainder. Fireworks wate responsible’ for seveirdeatSi “despite repoifTlndioat-' ing a big aeale revival of this tradi tional feature of Independence day, The same number were killed from this cause in 1935, 1933 and 1929. Comparing death tolls for the past several years, officials of the Na tional Safety council were inclin^ to CTodit tlue year with a faiiv showing. —J)oath> teCahi in 192^ were 213, 173 in 1934, 185 in 1983 and 243 in 1932. a ^ They pointed out that the 254 Ingh- deaths were somewhat under es timates for the two days, based on fireviouB marks, and said July’s aver age daily death 4<rfl from aeddents is around '800. In addition to the seven deaths, two of them ooeurring in the prema- tnre^ei$losion jof flreworics in a boat near Laxngtcm, Mkh. Fire crackers i started a blaae which razed four work-^tt-the college;— 226. Ccaifederate- Veterans In S. C. Rankg-of Men of Southern Army of Sixties Dwindling Rapidly, Pension List Shows. Columbia, July 5. — State pension rolls disdoeed today that only 226 Ck^ederate veterans, 21 fewer than last year, remained alivV in South Carolina. Ninety-nine Confederate widows had died rince the laet pension payment There were no veterans in Brauteit, Calhoun and Georgetown oounnee, azMl only one each listed from Bhrice- ley, Edgefield, Fairfield, McCormkk, Hampton, Horry, Jasper and Marl boro eountieik u L • » T -MX. Seven counties, including Anderson, bg«BW. block, m IjwmjWth RicklMd, ud ntuMted dam,*, of $600,000. Pift«ii W 10 mot. Y.ter»i» t 'iTryr Wharton Announces For Re-election John H. Wharton of Waterloo,' makes his formal announcement in today’s paper for re-election as coun ty commissioner. Mr. Wharton wae elected commissioner two years ago and is therefore completing hie Hrst term during which time he has ef ficiently served the county. His worship. . / mmate crop restrictions in drought The primary children, unde/ the states but ailministration c^es did Boise, Idaho, July 6.—Senator Wil- guhlance of Mrs. Gary Martih, are not indicate the holiday plot irfetivat- liam E. Borah, Republican, announced studying together as a unit,/l/arn- the revision. \ today that he “will not bolt the Re-j ing To Know God Better.” 5ps. Harry j Under the amendments to the publican ticket.’’ Nettles, Misses Copie M/rary and'J>«'ogram, farmers will lie permitted , At the same time, the veteran France.s Black are le/ling cla.ss fo <^nt .soil depleting crops (but not state.sman declined to deny or confirm j groups. / the statement of a friend he will seek! Xhe junior boys and girls are cen , , . , . , ,, . , re-election to the office he has held tering their activities/around a study ^ pastured 30 YMrt. • |of Ihf Holy UnJ. Mrs. Rufu.rSiadlerior.'lipiW Kroen; and may plant “I have no intention of bolting theijjs superintendent/'iif the junior de-1^ fcH^d .crops on ticket,” the dean of the senate said j partment. Wi E./Robinson directs the I their farrns without re in an intervk'w: _ >ctivitierdr'tF$1uriibFboy8, and Mrs.;'«^';‘). . Ho added: “I am supporting the Robert ^S. Owybs and Miss Bebe Dil-| platform and I have been supporting hard lead th/separate groups of jun- '®^ around .$.100,000,600 the chief of corn) and knnual legumes for forage; 'will be allowed to mow nurse crop.s the platform from the beginning. “I had very considerable tp do with mgktng^ It.^ Garrett To %)eak At Service 7 Thomas^acobs are proving 8ug^s-.i„ two-thirds of the states by lack tions J/OT hand work. The school is I plannln and directed by Miss Mar- j ' -garo^-Jonear- The city union service next Suiv -Yin 1-.™ «vemng will be held it eight ^ o’clock at the First Presbyterian church. The pulpit will be occ/pied familiee gsEre hontrieM and natiotwl guardsmen were called in to atai^ patrol duty. A Cambridge, Mara., giH died to<tej from the effects of awal- kwiog a quarter given bar to buy fbeworka. Other raeeot 'years bad tbe foUew- teg number of mortalitira attrSbutad liM, 1 each. BtAPK 3T0EB MANAGER Friends of Bill Abmma, youngest soii-of Mie. Eetalle Abmia* of tUa be inteieeted to Icnow ting to pyroteehnica: 1930, 12; 1928,. 11; ,ba baa ngoiBiiMy batn oradt nMaager atora at standing for re-election. “I feel that my experience in the office^for the past two ^^ears equips roe for better service In the future,” he stated in placing his announce ment. “It has been a pleasure to me to woric with the other officers of thfr'-in-'jt North Bfoad^ SI county'mhd to give them my ftdW^ church of this city ai cooperation. I hope that the votete of agtly remembered fo; the county wiU see fit to giye me another term.” by a visiting minister, the Rev^W. B. Gannett*.. Pj?-J^*^bwood, presiding el der of the Greenwood dial Mr. Garrett recently cp^ucted a serira of special evangelmie services ior girls. / Mrs. Ldnnie McMIllian .and Mrs. I the AAA replacement crop section, ! Joseph f’. Cox, in Indianapolis, said jthat hay and pa.sture were reduced. Commercial Bank To Pay Dividend Heavy Enrollmei^ Seen By Secretary / — ■ I BUYS CITY PROPERTY W. C. Baldwin, well known local grooeryman and Frigidaire dealer, has purchased the Spencer property at the end of South Bropd street, con sisting of a rasidence and several acres of land. The ^e was made from. the^ComroecpIil,now In liquidation. Priands of Walter Thomas Carter will rsgrat to^OMW that ha k ill at tbe boma of Ui brothair, Woodrow Carter. / * Methodist is most pleas- his strong Gos- the earnestness pel messages an with which he sj^e. A cordial invi-'|*nnounoed brings th^tbUl up to tation is extended all congregations [ cent since the, bank closed, in the city to/attend this service onj Sunday evening. MR3. i^FADDEN IMPROVES - ■■ I — Dr. 8^. J. McFadden returned Sun day from Hot Springs, Ark., where he hag' been spending the past month. IkFadden aqd sen, Dossay ^owza,i remained for a atay of aev- aral weeks longer.'Tlie many friends in the eky of Mrs. McPbddan will be iatarairiad to know that bar conation la showing fanprovaroent teaea'going to Hot Springs. - Columl^, July 6.—Lane L. Bonner, state Democratic secretary, said to- Notice was given yesterday by H. 1*^*^ increased enrollment over 1934 D. Henry, conservator of 'The Com-jbefore the Democratic mercial Bank, now in Kquidation, that}close July 28. a dividend of 10 per cent will be paidf books opened June 2, and Bon- iis depositors beginning Friday, July .”^^ called upon all persons who be- 10th. All depositors are requested to 21 by the first primary August call at the bank and present ^eir re- have changed their pre- ceipt to share in the distribution. cincts since 1934 to enroll, m, ... ...... . ' Enrollments made in 1934 remain The third dividend payment valid if the Vote- v... .-.i another precinct. Bonner said there were 375,796 per sons enrolled two years ago, and 306,- j 765 in 1930,. He said the total of 417,- 1 599 reached in 1932 did not afford a GOES TO NEWBERRY J. M. Roland and family left thisTTair comparison because it included week for Newberry, where Mr. Ro land*has been tnuiaferred by the Southern pell Telephone company^ to take the place made vacanl~ by m recent drath of an employee. Mr. Ro land has been connected with the lo cal Southern Bell oMce for several years past in the service ax|d repairs department Bis'friends hare will be interested in tbe Announcement of his pronwtiett. ■ a' ^ugiLUations. GOES TO NASHVILLE Pete Bennett left_ Saturday for Nashville, Tenn., where be will spend six months studying embalming nt the Guyto^onra School sf EbsWlm- ing. Upon bk return to the fity be will reaume bk poeitkMi wltbi. tbn Gray Funeral Hqn^ / •//' '4.4^.