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\> VOLUME XXXVI CLINTON,:S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1936 x,-. RAINS CHEER AREy< WEST Wave of Cool Weather Moves East Across Stricken Section, Bringing Relief To Millions. 2,800 Deid. Heavy Crop and Livestock Damage. Drought Wholesale Prices i —^i ■ Raised In rSome Cases As Much As 50 Per Cent. Will Affect Cost At Retail Counters. Chicago, July *11.—Drought, which sdoner or later touches consumers’ pocketbooks as it does farmers’ crops, Chicago, July 14.—Eastward at 33 has increased wholesale’ food corn- males an hour tonight, rain and cool'modity prices in some cases as much weather traveled to end the north [ as 50 per cent in the last three weeks. Tennis Mattes {Highway Tangle n\Fi4< / Here On\Friday. Enters Csimpaign Teams Candidates In Several Counties Put On Spot As To Johnston^s , Road Department Policies. Clinton and Anderso . To Meet In Mclver Citp Com petition On Local Coul;^t. The Clinton tennis team wilKplayj Columbia, July 13. — Formal ques the Anderson team here Friday in ■ tioning of legislative candidates on th. round of the Mclver 1 " ■" competition. > creasing practice today as county campaigns got underway. Promises Star^/ Under Rohd Act Supervisor Says Eden Road To Come First. Humhert, Former Supervisor, Named Engineer. Laurens, July 10.—Following close ly on a meeting of the county board ctf commissioners held Monday and a road meeting held at Eden school house Tuei^day night, July 7th, Su DROUGHT AID FOR THE STATE Government "To Give Sufferers Work'On Highways. Fulp To Direct Certification' Relief Employment Program Ex pected To Start Soon. Columbia, J^uly 14. — The federal government gave orders to<iay to be-* lai „ certifying needy drought suffer- heat deaths and crop losses, 'opment would affect the cost of food ’^^^^ be played on the public court counties were a.>!ked the question | filling station on the Princeton high- ers in South Carolina immediately for employment on a .‘special relief pro gram likely to consist principally of road-building! NUMBER "29 weaiiiK;! w ...v- »--- —- matches will consist of three; All the aspirants to the general as-,pervisor_A. Rhett Martin announced reX*al*states"*12-day siege of to^d-!' Statistidan's "sairtoday' thi's devel- and semhly in Richland^ahd Greenwood: yesterday that the road from Roper’s as heat deaths, and crop losses, i opment would affect the cost of food' ^ counUes were asked the question, filling station on the Princeton high- Millioks cheered it on for tempera-1 at retail counters in varying degrees. | The Pines just below the j when they took the stump to speak, way to the Greenville county line tnres climbed once more past the 100 the prices of some articles, such *3! residence of Mrs. Arthur Copeland and several other counties-^reported through the Eden and Greenpond sec- tures climoea once more pasx xne ^ ^ ...ui-.vion South Adair street. Plav will beirin or V\1anno(] a drinvilnr oonrso • ! tions. known aS the Edcn rOad, WpillH ness, heat deaths, and crop losses, 'upmcni, wouiu aiiecx xne cosx 01 loou. ^ 1 . . , - . 'Millions cheered it on for tempera-1 at retail counters in varying degrees. I l^low the j when they took fhe stump to speak, way to the C tures climbed once more past the 100 the prices of some articles, such *3! residence of Mrs. Arthur Copeland and several other counties-^reported through the Ed degree mark fatalities ascribed to J flutter and eggs and a few yegetables; ® —I ^..!^j^»j!Ln-a! the hot soeil mounted over ^ 800 and^ they "said; the infljaLence of^ the contmye at | TrSe questionnn^RicKIand couhty] lie t^e firsT roa Se grlat cor^ crop dripei already was apparent. iT f . ^mplet- was.\How do you stand on. the. high-_,.taken uncU.r tl tne great corn crop aroppeq inrougn , ed. The winner of the matches w II vC7?Tr^1«w« m-ar" in 1 act nnt thmnw the great corn crop dropped throughadvanced"food costswinner of the ,matches will;\^iy~laws as ’they« now are another day of punishment toward | authoritative surveySpartanburg team for the 1 Greenwood county, it was w roister Lloyd of thrcCT-ishowinit a mounting cost of living I championship on August Istj-Do y„u approve of Governor John tral district station said the cool front I The national industrial conference would reach here Wednesday and de-l^^^ reported the cost of living of clare^ the area to be benefitted-'earners rose 1.7 per cent in or 2nd. j ston’s effort to cany out his cam There will be no admission charge Ipaign pledge to recognize the high- for the matches with .\nderson on Friday and the public is cordially in vited to attend. way department?” Twelve of 28'house candidates an swered affirmatively on the Richland ('linton will, be repre.sented . b^' hustings. \ -George Beatty, Taylor Martin, andj Kive of ten \Gi*eenwoo<l house can- Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas,, than 4 per cent Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, ® and Michigan—would not be disap- Food, accounting for one-third of pointed this time as they were F. Jacobs in singles, and in doubles! didates \vere quoted* as approving the t T • a year ago Vu r^ ly this sur ■ George Beatty and faylor Martin will { governor’s policies, including Repre- ‘‘fizzled out” on the western prairies., f year ago. 1 urrentiy^ tms sur , «nd'^ Arthur Tonpland 1 * p p n The western region of the states . already were enjoying tempCTatures and long awaited . ..... - m-oduce ti-ade ftierchants matenes piayeu so lar tms sea-ithihk ers. The Dakotas, sections of j steadily mounting of having defeated Union twice,! to \arry out his campaign promi.se.s, braska, Montana, and Mirtnesota "atenta ine suauiiy mounting 01 . hnt ^ ,inn’t KpHpv.. in\ shared them, Near Williston, N. D.,'^>utter prices because of seriously Afinn yoof-w plniiAhnrst i cieased production lin the parched . Chapman Seeks oad project to be' un^er- the $50,000 note issue In {act put through the last legislature worded, by the county del/gation. At the same time Mr. Martin an nounced the selection of H. B. Hum bert, former supervisor of the county and more recently highway engineer of Spartanburg county, as engineer to'supervi.-^e construction of the roads linder the act. Mr.. Humbert, stated Mr. .Martin, wa.s unanimously recom- memied by the commis.sioners and, he thought, was acceptable to all mem- .Ms ors the delegation. Mr. Martin with and the precipitation reached cloudburst jproduction iin the par proportions, washing out 900 feet of country. Great Northern mail line tracks. I Cash butter, is now wholesaling at Highway -and rail traffic was imped- highest level since April and is ed by washouts caused by the torren tial—^but drought-breaking—showers in northeastern Montana. Wisconsin took second place in death losses with an acceleration dur ing the day which sent its total up to 1 320. Chicago’s death list for the long stay of tropical weather climbed to 206 with the Illinois total passing 300. Federal authorities in Washington _kept busy at drought relief plans. WPA Administrator Harry Hc^pkins announced the president had alloted $3,000,(KK) ntore for general pursu ance of th^'program designed to put the parked areas on a “safer eco nomic basis.” Resettlement Adminia- the most expensive for any July since 1930. Standard grades of butter are. quoted above 33 cents a pound, com pared with 28 cents the middle of June. Egg prieds have* gained almost a cent a dozen wholesale in the past two weeks. Trade reports in produce circles indicated retail prices have followed the trend in butter. Meat prices have had a tendency to ease -because of the influx of live stock from drought districts. The wholesole price structure of. both beef and pork .weakened rather sharp ly yeiter^y. livestock men pointed out fluctuations in the wholesole mar ket usually was paralleled in the re tail trade. Most grades of steer beef are from 4 to 25 per cent lower th«n Solicitor’s Job tn^r Btxford G. Tu«w.U, ptaniii»« r! to depart for Bismark, N. D.,' to aa- ****"^1. 1 ,.**»»** * JL. command of oicrationa, uid •»<i -holo^lmf 7 to 14 per cent lesse The grefitest increases were scored by grains, but retail prices usually show little immediate effect of these fluctuations. However, a soaring com market eventually influences con-i turners’ meat bills. 125,000 farm families would require aaiiatance. . * Suggestions for future provision against disaster included one by Na tional Master Louis J. Taber of the National Grange. He told a Roches ter, N. Y., interviewer a federal cro^ insurance protection should be ar- , ranged for the dry farm regions. \ The race between the cool front and \crop deterioration attracted close at- ntiqn on the Chicago board of trfide. ra prices there were lower, indi cating traders believe a halt to dam-. Padgett and Cas8€ls Ware Mam- Among. the vi.sitors in the city .Tuesday w-as B. V. Chapman, of New berry, who was meeting friends and making new acquaintances in the in terest of his candidacy for solicitor of the eighth judicial, circuit. While here Mr. Chapman placed his name in the candidates’ column of The Chron icle. Mr. Chapman has been a member of the Newberry bar for the past twenty-five years. He served the dty of Newberry as municipal judge for thirteen years, the county, in the house of representatives fbr two years and in the senate for the past four years. “Iptoidii an effielMit and aaonom- ical adminiitration of th« office,” ai^ Mr. Chapnmn,' “and if elected will conduct its affairs in a fair and im partial manner.”' , . 1 - ^ r - , ; Y* , , ’ Asked if the Eden road had bben but 1 don t believe in^the methods he .^.i^-^ted by the commissioners and ' ‘ then approved by the delegation Ss Governor Johnston nreanwhile in the act, Mr. Martin rd- <luoted \^as declaring in a I^ncaster ^ minutes, of the joint speech that he had no apologies to I mjifting of the delegation and com- make. for using the inilitia to oust mission held on June 8, which said th^ highway administration ^last^all. | i^j^bon and Eden roads were ? gom; The go^^nor and^George Bell Tim-: the first to be constructeu. “It was merman, state highway commission chairman, were expected to face each other on the stump,^t Ruffiij, Colle- Malcolm Miller,. PWA regional field representative, announced that J. D. Fulp, state welfare director, had been placed in charge of the certification of drought’i relief workers and was to begin passing on their applications immediately, B'ulp called his field representatives to a conference tomorrow to set up staffs in drought-stricken counties, and said they would begin certifying needy persons as soon after Monday,- as possible. ' - Miller said l^awrence Pinckney, state W ork/< Progix-ss administrator, would decide the type of projects to he sponsored by the WPA as soon a.s the extent of the ne^-d and location of the needy was determined. "It app.eaf!’ now- that the drought* relief projects will be largely farm- to-market rpads,; hut there may lie other types also,” he commented. “Unlike the West, where there is an urgent need for water foi* stock there is no occasion in the Southeast to build low water dams or dig wells said. Mr ton county, Thurod.y, and at' jollyi, ““I ‘hut »d f»r «» 1<« Street \No»-borry county Au,u»t 20. -‘-P’ « V't ^ .r • iK*t*n taken to borrow the money pro- et iV 1 ■N Johnston Names New Bank Board' age would materialize. U Weevil Ir Less Abundant Clemosn, July 14.—The boll weevil is decidedly less abundant at present than f<w the corresponding period Jast year, according to observations and weevil counts by farm agents over the state. An average of five per cent of the squares in 175 fields representing all parts of the state where fruiting cot ton is found were reported punctured here of Old Group, ^irst Meet ing Likely Held This Week. Columbia, July 11.—Chairman E. P. Miller said today the new state board of bank control, appointed by Gover nor 01 in D. Johnsfton, probably would meet about the middle of next week. Miller, state treasurer, continued as ex-officio chairman of the |board un der a 1936 act replacing the tempor ary board with a permanent organi zation. ^ Governor Jolmston announced dur ing the day that be had appointed Robert Gage, of Chester; C. D. Pad gett, of Waiterboro; W. B. Cassels, durmg the week ending July 11. Onjof EUlenton, and E. O. Black, of Co- July 13, l935, slightly more than 10 per cent of Muafes we re‘punctured. “Throughout’ most of the coastal section a new brood of weevils is emerging,” says W. C. Nettles, exten- sion entomologist, “and miO*!^ in- creaseiTlh weevH^Tiffeitatidfii may "be expected, if rainy weather occurs. —“We hive received nMny Tidy ii^fle specimens from coistal counties tMs year with the statement that they are damaging cotton. On the contrary, they are not damaging l^otton but are helpful in that they devour plant lice,” the entomol^st states. “Plant lice are injurious to cotton' plants, busting with calcium arsenate tends to attract plant lice and to destroy .parasitic wasps, which also tend to hold lice in check.” Pension Checks Being Distributed lumbiai as the other four members. Padgett and CasMls were members of the old board, estsblished after the 1933 banking emergency, along with MUler. 'The governor said he named Pad- ge^" an<T Gage to the board bh rw- ommendation of the South Carolina Bankers’^ssociatkm and Cassell U|k on recommendation of depository members of the association, as pro vided by tlfe act. Black was appointed upon endorse ment of the State building and loan institute over the South Carolina Building and Loan league’s recom mendation of Carl H. Hart, of York, for the post. The governor said he had consid ered the recommendations at length, and felt it was up to him to make the choice.under/the new law. NOTES ON HEAT ^ Chicago — Knock-out blow for 12- day heat wave in drought beset north central states sighted in > eastward traveling cool from, high' tempera tures continue, fatalities upward of .2,800. Detroit—Michigan deaths pass 500 as mercury soars above 100 at num ber of stations, Washington—Resettlement Admin istrator ’Tugwell estimates 125,000 drought stricken families will require aid as he leaves for Bismark,. N. D., to speed relief; WPA Administrator Hopkins announces president has al- ' lotted $3,000,000 for general program aimed at putting parched areas on “safer economic basis.” Chicago—Com prices drop on rain prospects, other grains lowet. Private estimators calculate drought damage to crops at close to billion dollars. St. Paul — Rains smashing heat wave in parts of Dakotas, Montana, Minnesota and Nebraska reach cloud burst size near WiHvaton, N. D. Regina, Sask.—Crop prospects fade in prairie provinces despite rains. Rocheater, N. ,Y.—Master Louis J. Taber of National Grange advocates crop insuranice for-*drougbt areas. i^eridan, Wyo.—Marketward trails teem with jcaUle for the burbed ranges. / Loi Angeles, Calif. — NidteT maf bread price advanced to six cenUu drotq^t blamed. Dr. Cadman, Noted Radio Speaker, Dies Stricken Week Ago During Ad- dress on World Peace. Rose , From Coal Mine To Pulpit. Rkataburg, N. Y.. July 12.—Dr. S. Parks Cadman, 71,-the Brooklyn pas tor whose voice became familiar to millions of Sunday afternoon radio j listeners throughout the country, died in th. Ch.n,pl.in V.lley t>o.piUl Sun-,—X — decided uppn in a joint meeting,” hej^Q offset the drought. The principal problem i.s to tide over small farmers whose crops do not materialize or are retarded by the drought.” - Estimates of the number of persons affected by the drought in .South Car olina will be arrived at probably to morrow. Miller said, upon a basis of calculations by the state extension service at Clemson college, the re settlement administration and the WPA. vided for in the act,, except that the board clerk was instructed to confer with the, county attorney in regard to drawing up the necessary papers. Un- d^ the act, the county treasurer is given the authority to make the loans, repayment uljivhich is to be made out of county’s share of the'one cent gasoline tax. The road, under the act, is to be surface treated by contract. Mr, Humbert, it is understood, is to begin Uppn his^dutles as engineer as soon as he can dispose of a few business matters. Senator Nance was quoted as saying at the Eden road meeting that the setting of stakes day. Dr. Cadman, who walked out of Uie Shropshire mines in England as a youth to attain international fame as a churchman, succumbed to periton itis which developed from a ruptured appendix. With him when -he died at 12:22 p. m. were several members of his family who last night had abandoned, hope for his recovery as he grew steadily weaker, t An emergency operation was per formed Monday after he had been stricken ill while delivering a lecture the previous night. Buriad was in the family plot in Mensico cemetery, Westchester cou ty, Wednesday.* The strong heart and indomi^ble will of Dr. Cadman prolonged ^ lif^, from the time he was operate upon Monday night. At that time it was bert is now making his home in Spar tanburg, but has been spending much of hTs time on his fa/lh near Mount- ville. Game Ml liation its In August “Colonel Fulp will cooperate close ly with the resettlement administra tion and state extension service, who probably know more of actual needs than any other agencies in the state,” the WPA executive continued. “The actual need cannot be deter mined' until the cases are investigat ed. Mr. Pinckney will then develop pj'ojects in the vicirvity of the work-; ers^and according to their capacity.” The WPA, resettlement administra tion, ano^E^ulp’s offices all have been receiving droi^ht relief applications, Miller discloselL Harry Hopkins>\ national-—Works Progress administrator, meanwhile announced at Washington that $110,- 908 had been alloted '.SoutlKilarolina for immediate drought relief work. Miller conferred her# with ney; F’ulp; J. L. M. Irby, stale Pit PW! Ijonni^ S. McMillian, of This Cw, To Preside At ’ Slate /director; T. W. Morgan, as.sistant ex- ^nvention In Charleston. [tension director; Dr. T. S. Buie, re- , jgional coordinator; Ernest Carnes, The sixth annual statewide conven-i-UlAJ^-coordinator of the soil conser- tioo of-the,.South Carolina Game and Fish a.s.sociation will be held in Charleston Augu.st 21 and 22. A vation service; V. T. Towles of the federal bureau of public roads, and J. iM. Martin, state highway depart- j_.- Judge of Probate Ross D. Ybung received a check last week from the state treasurer amounting to $8,762.25 / . I ment construction engineer. program of entertainment and. „ , . .. 7 • .• - 1 I v... *1... From here he planned to go to At- worthy objectives is planned by the ^ * i • - i r exteutiv. committee. The sex.ion! ^ found peritonitis had aln^dy com-1 promises to be the best g/atherin,/ of I timorr^ o aunc e eorgia 1- a J t-wiMvo , r . au- 4-4.. r— 4V.- -.4- I drought T-elief program, and to do plicated the. ruptured Appendix he sport.smen in this state for the , likewise at Montiromerv Ala Friday pose <if promoting a better under- .standing of conditions and shaping a GJ^Jahoma City Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall W. Brown, dea-n and registrar of Presbyterian to covejr pensiott claims in Laurens j left Friday for a six weeks’* county. Distribution of the checks from' his ofHce is being made this weiek. l%e checks are as follows: seven veterans, ^0 each; five funeral ex penses for veterans, $2>4Xi each; 81 widows of veterans, $136 each; ^^le funeral expenses ^r vddows, $186 each; one widow mider 55, $106.25; four widows over $0, $1M each, and one widow over 90; $240. tour of New England. Mr. and Mrs. Brewn plan to make a leisurely trip to the Northern statee, stopping several-days iq. Vir ginia, Washington, Philadelphia and New York. From New York they plhn to, go into New England «h1 ton^that section about a month,^siting fri«»ds and atadying the gra^twte re- quirsmBeta of N^faeth Tpajv<tr>l ■hies. ” T'" ■ \ I / HAVE YOU ENROLLED? Have you enrolled for tl first primary election to be held on Tuesday, August 25th? Did you vote in the st^ and county election two yeM ago? If you did and have not moved into another precinej/your name is on the book. But if you h^e moved into another precin^ you will have to enroll agiUn to vote this year. -To be- ml" the safe'"Rttfe'-ymr had bet^ go to the book of your precinct and see if your niun^is there. If ^ou become 21 before No vember 3 you will be permitted to enroll and vote for the first time, in August. Here are the requirements: Two years’ i^donce in the state; six montlyi’ residence in the ebunty prior io November 3, and 60 dasrs’ residence in the precinct prior to August 25. The books close on July 28. suffered during an address on world peace a week previo Throughout his y^eek of illness, the aged ministe^clung to his own belief he would recover. - Bom at Willington, Shropsire; Eng land, Dec. 18yl864, Dr. Cadman came to Americg^ 1890. His eloquence as a pi;each€j'’Drought him a continually growing/fame and, particularly-^ince the a/^nT of radio, his voice became knos^to millions through his Sunday afb^bon semiohs.' ATwayshe preaeb- peace and tolerance. Four Dates Fixed For C&ididates course for accomplishments. Headquarters in Charleston will be at the Fort Sumter hotel, where spec ial accummodfFtions for have been secured. The round of bus iness will be completed Friday night, , , the 21st, but the enterUinment pro-. _ ^ith all children of the orphanage gram goes over ,into _ Eafurday -aniL-^^^y |he cainpus nOw Thomwell Campus -Deserted-Place /; through the week-end. presents a deserted, lonesome appear- .t mm, the entir. population President Lonnie Clinton, presiding, the session of re- the same time, with all cottages port., triks and prMenUtiona halt. at 5 o’clock for adjournment to the beach, where surf bathing is to be girls, together with teachers and I Announcement has been made by R. T. Wilson of Laurens, county chaiman, that four speaking dates I have been fixed in this county upon . ’ . ... tl a at. • tnatron.s, are now scattered through- enjoyed and two Uam. will trjj he.r j luck at beach Mining on Folly If , usual summer visit «ith relatives aSd A fho« «»PP»f will be served at 8 o clock at the Elks club and the busi- are ness session resumed thereafter. Delegates who can devote onl^ one at Riverside cottage near here for an outing under the supervision -qf Mrs. T. H. Newkirk as matron, and . , day to the convention will find they Mi = ^fl(l Frances .Snratt and Taan Me , the request of candidates for congress I , „ . / .uis.ses Frances ftprau ami jean mc and aoHoft/ir A aimilar number home Friday moming, ar- Fee as councellons. The vacation sea- land solicitor. A sim lar nun^r of\^ Charleston in time for the .on at the institution will clo-^e the [meetings are to be held in each coun.|^ ma-'part of August " , ty, avoiding to art agreement of the jo^ p<^rtion olTthe business completed “ ^*2£*^*^*1 X- t XU -11 Friday night —-The first meeting of the aorieo will ! Unibh iService . With Methodists be in the court house at Laurens at ' 10 o’clock on the moming of August ROfER HEADS,, 6, the second one that evening at 7:30 - LAURENS o'clock at Watts Mills, the third one the next moming at 10 at Clinton, * Laurens, July 10.—New officers ofj The city union service next Sun- and the fourth one that night at'the Leurens Rotary cli^ !for the yeariday evening wilf, be held at i North GoldviHe. ^ * beginning July 1 were installed at [Broad Street Methodist church. The Mr. Wilson also stated that the the weekly meeting held Tuesday, as i pulpit will be occupied by Dr. D. J. county executive committee would follows: (j!. P. Roper, president; R. T.* Woods, pastor of the First Presby- meet July 25 to arrange the itiner- Wilson, vice-president, and L. B. ■ - f i . ‘ \ .X ary of county candidates.’ He called attention to the fact that the time fo^ filing pledges for coun ty offices closes on July 21 at noon. Very few candidates have filed so far, he saidw^ N • ' Blackwell, secretary-treasurer. The three officers, together with Dr. Fel der Smith, L. S. McMillan and James H. Moore, compose the board 'aTlKr rectors, all of whom were elected a month ago; terian church, with a cordial invita tion- extended all congregatione to unite in this service. Misses Martha Davidson, Polly El rod and 'Ina Curry are attending a house pari^ at Mykle Beach. ' i-i' 4>£‘- *•