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-L VOLUME XpCVI CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1936 NUMBER 32 FRANCE READY TO AD) SPAIN Would Force^eiOralUy To Halt War’s Spread. Will Mpve Swiftly Unless t)thers Join In To Stave Off Struggle. Paris, Au^. 4. — France tonight rushed six war planes to her south ern, border—a warning she may de liver supplies to Spain unless Euro pean* powers heed her plea for neu trality to stave off widespread war. Fear that international conflict Note CH Warning Issued By Hull Americans Remaining In Spain Longer Do So At Own Risk, . Secretary Stresses. Washington, D. C., Aug. 3.—While Spain’s civil war opponents massed in the north last hight for a major offensive, the American embassy Former Rodent iFarm Products ‘Debate Warms Claijmed By Death Soar In Value Mrs. Lt^pa Simpsoa JVanDyke Passes At Charlotte Home. Services Held Here Saturday. Drought At Home, Rains In Eu rope Cause For Big Jump In Major Commodities. Over New Deal FEAR OF WAR GRIPS EUROPE Stoney and Harllee Protest Pro-ti i ^ 7 »» » i gram While Byrnes Defends Bflng In Campaign Tour. Mrs. Lena Simpson VanDyke, wifej Chicago, July 31. North America’s! Georgetown, Aug.« 4. — Another (d the Rev. John A. VanDyke, andl tri-cornered debate on the mf«t .on died .t in “f Do.1 opened here today .. the lotte last Wednesday night where]* world-wide wave of buying today icandidates for ^ the senate urged citizens desiring to leave Ma-ishe Had been a resident the past ten' which hoisted major farm commbdi-1 brought their appeal'-l for votes to drid to take advantage of the still i years. 'ties to a six-year general peak. ^ Georgetown county. open railway line to Valencia. Secretary of State Cordell Hull di^- The body was brought here Satur-I ''day morning and removed Fears of a crisis in wheat was ap-i Senator- James F. Byrnes, adminis- Gefieral Liberal-Fascist War. France Dispatches Six Battle Planes To Spanish Border. , . . . —- to the' nroarhino- trsHpri in o]]' Oration wheelhorse, defended the New' ' Two Germai patched a warning from Washington | brother, Frank Simplon, i ^ gananizea iraaers in May-i Tuesday .in the Growing fear all Europe may be plunged into a war of dictatorship versus’‘liberal Socialism adds grave international import to Spain’s inter nal conflic^.*^ German warships appeared harbor at Ceuta, Mo- i or Thomas P. Stoney of Charleston! rocco, and their officers were .said to Italian planes to Morocco ning of a free-for-all race ~ warring factions,-authoritative es said. The result, it was felt here, would . be quick and drastic—a bitter war to determine whether Marxist-Socialsim or Fascist* dictatorship would be dom inant in the European world. Only one thing could stave off this danger, the French government con tended: speedy acceptance of her pro posal European powers agree to sup ply neither rebel nor loyalist Spanish forces with tools of war. j But, it was asserted “^strongly, France will not be left behind in the arms sace if the, neutrality agreement is not effected. ~ This ^was explained as the reason for dispatching the six pursuit planes to the south. They took off from Vil- lacoublay for Toulouse, ordered to await instructions there. At a word from Paris they could hop quickly to Madrid. The planes originally were built for Lithuania but were said now to have been purchased by the Spanish gov ernment—their presence in the south, it was indicated, was intended as a concrete warning of French determi nation. Great Britain, informed observers stated, joined With France in the growing fear of war and accepted in principle the neutrality agreement. The British reply was deliver^ lat^ today to the French embassy in Lon don but it's contents were withheld for the moment. Its publication was expected tomorrow. ' But both nations were represented as fearful of the attitude Premier’ Mussolini of Italy might adopt. Ma neuvering by him to delay general agmment .on neutrality was consid ered po.ssible. An ‘expression from Germany also was awaited. Although originally in tended as a tri-partite agreement— France, Italy and Great Britain—in creasing ten.sion led to approach^/to other nations. ^ The French ambaaaadors to Berlin and Rome visited the German and ' Italian foreign offices today an effort to speed the neutrality stand. Results of thefe conversations were not announcedT Minister of Foreign Affi^irs Yvon Delbos Conferred with Italian Ambas- aadot Cerruti here in a similar at- t^iapt. Ambassador Albomoz of •Spain, whose leftist government has sought arms from France, also called on Delbos. Seiiure of four French commercial planes by the Madrid government further complicated the international picture. . ma4p, he said. Only a few of the :34 still housed in the embassy desire^ to leave, how mkht rise from the Spanish civil war {conditions ipight develop which would North Adair street. From here the principal mart.s. mfunted rapidly with reports two, make it impossible to remove nation. | j Liverpool quotations soared five J and Col. William C. Harllee of Dillon,wbave called on General Francisco (^snmn-warships dropped anchor to-jals to safety. United States citizens|j_ Matthews,cents, Beunos .Aires’ three cents andj_The .speakers stuck closely to their'Franco, rebel commander, day in Seula, Spanish Morocco, and in Spain must themselves assume re-{and Rev.^C. A. Calcote of Newberry.,on the Chicago Board of Trade thei provious speeches during the county- France met this apparent indica- sponsibility if they continued to r^-j ^n^Uy Ijyj., i delivery touc^^ed |U.14 ajto-county speaking^tour which will fal ground in the Rock/^Hdf* coni'-Ibushel, the Tilghe^ figure Tn three ;wTrid up, three day.r before the’first munity where genera^ons of the de-i years, before heavy profit-taking cut Democratic primary August 25. - ceased ancestors h^ been laid to j down the-advance. The world price 'Stoney assailed the old AAA and rest. ^ for wheat everywhere was above the Bankhead cotton control act and Active pallbearers were: Joe W’. <lollar mark. ;charged they had transformed the Leake, J. A. Coleman, H. G. Chand- that their offirors called on General Franci^o Francb>,Tebel coipmander. Leftist France Sa^^^in this JevHop- ment and the earlier* iHght of arm^ begin-'ever, despite assurances three British N» I^esidaii Read]p To Make Sinwey ships were waiting in the Valencia harbor to remove all foreigners. Both rebel and Loyalist forces were ncentrating in the San Sebastian anoN^Tugoza areas. Fasciat troops hoped to capture San Seb^mn to forestall attack from the reer,,^ when the war turns again toward ^ .Madrid. Loyalists claimed capture of LaZaida, near the rebel encampment at £ai:agoza. Fasicsts left to maintain Guadar- rama mountain positions, wml^larg- er forces turned to the north, clkiiped capture of the towns of Guadarra and Navalperal—^gateways to Madrid from the north. Torrielodonnes, 12 miles from the capital, also was list ed as rebel held. Loyalists summoned new recruits from nearby provinces to stren^hen mountain troops and asserted other forces were pushing toward Seville in the southern sector. Leftist warships bombed Ceuta, Morocco. France, watching * with growing concern the battle on her southern frontier, hinted she might deliver arms to the Leftist government—un less agreement to her tri-partite neu trality proposal with Great Britain and Italy is received quickly. ler, Ben Mobley, William Boyd and J. W. Boyd. ITie services were at tended by a large gathering of rela tives and friends who* were shocked and saddened by the news of her un expected death. Many beautiful floral offerings placed upon the grave bore evidence of the high esteem in which she w®8 held. Mrs. VanDyke, in her 37th year of age, was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Elmore and Carrie bandied Simpson of the Rock Bridge sett^ment near here, her parents havingxpreceded her to the grave a few years'^nM] Both her paternal and maternal ai^e^tors were pioneers of Laurens count:^NShe was a devoted dollar mark Growing realization of the magni- United States from a ‘‘bountiful food tude of damage from the prolonged j exporting country” to a nation‘‘which drought in the farm belt contributed does not now feed itself.” to send corn above that price line! Byrnes defended the administra tion of German int<#r«»it in the Span ish revolt by dispatching six war--'' planes to the Franco-Spanish border. They were ordered held on French soil for further instruction.s. The planes, the French government explained, were* a warning war sup plies may be delivered to Spain un less European powers agree to com plete neutrality—delivering munitions .1.0, for tho tir.t timo .inc. 1930. It.lion’. .gricultur.l ,»licie» ...ertin*j„eiih..r to robol, nor to Loyalist closed here 1 1-2 to 3 6-8 cents up,' that they had ‘hrok^'n tnhiK'i'o' - .. September delivery $1.01 3-8 to'6-8. j monoiwly” and that the price of cot- Rye, oats and barley attained new | ton and cottonseed had more' than 1936 tops along with the other ma-] doubled under the New Deal . jor grains. L Colonel Harllee also attacked New Other table necessities—eggs, but- I^al agricultural policies, describing ter, potatoes, cheese—and lard and soy beans also hit new highs for th^ year, as “fantastic” tho program and crop destruction. Both Stop,ey_and Harllee appealed While cables told of heavy rains | for a leturn to states’ rights. Harllee hampering European harvests, fore- sai<l the administration’s, policies Great Britain’s favorable answer to the neutrality proposal was deliv ered to the French embassy in Lob- *don yesterday, but there was no re ply from Rome, f Informed sources in Rome predict ed eventual "adherence to neutrality, adding the governmenUthere still was casts for the sun-seared north central states indicated continued fair weath er with rising tetnperatures and nd of thr chorrh: „ , , 1 i.1 ... J Grain men here compared the situ- a woman of many admirable and ■. . i ^ i . .. , , . . ation represented by the almost con- ' Bombing Near Rock Gibraltar, Aug. 3.—A heavy bom bardment by two Loyal war vessels . _ ^ « was believed toffight to have ~bl^se!r ^mpsoti of Mountvilw, Frank H considerable damage at Tarifa, a few miles west of Gibraltar. A disused whaling station opposite the big rock was believed to have suffered the worst of the damage. At the outbreak of thir revolution the station was used as a landipg point for rebel troops crossing the stfaks under cover of darkness.. The cannonading, by the battleship Jaime Frimero and the cruiser Liber- tad;^ shook residences in Gibraltar. Beatty Leaves For Kansas Post RooscVell Dcckres Inspection ' of Drought-Stric^fit. States -Will Not.Be Politiad. Hyde Park, N. Y., Aiig. 4.—Presi dent Roosevelt, said today his forth coming inspection trip through some of the drought-ltiicken statoa would got be political. He made this statement in answer to a question and then followed the unusual procedure of letting newsmen quote him thus: “It is a great disservice to the 'proper administration of any govern-* latent to link hum^ misery with par tisan politics.’* He discussed the drought and held ‘what be called the usual monthly con ference on finances with a group of officials from Washington. Capt. George S. Beatty, assistant professor of military science and ‘tac tics at Presbyterian college the past year, left Friday for ^ Fort Leaven worth, Kansas, where he will enter the army school of infantry. Capt. l^tty made a wide circle of friends al the college and In the city during his residence here, all of whom will regret in his family’s de parture. While here he made a splen did record as one of the instructors qf the RDJT.Ci unit which received a rating.m second in general profi ciency at this summer’s camp. Capt. Beatty will be succeeded at the-cotiege^hy Haiap-Floyd-G^ ilard<- ing, who will arrive in the city the latter part of this month. noble traits of character, Hbi^oved by all who knew he’r for her swe^ and kind disposition. Mrs. VanDyke is survived by li^ husband and four small step-children, Fred, Hannah, Dicey and Johnnie VanDyke; by one daughter of a for mer marriage. Miss H«»trice Lyles, who holds a position' in Charlotte; and by the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. John W. Boyd, Mrs. Mary Simpson McCoy, Mrs. Ovid Harris, of Atlanta, George S. Simp son, 1vho resides near here, William tinuous rise in prices since mid-June, they said, had,j some of the commodi ties experienced so sustained an ad- wanc4. , They saw tjhe once unwieldy Can adian surplus of wheat—long regard ed as the tratfe’s “white elephant’’ threatened to destroy local self gov ernment, and create a federal bu reaucracy. Stoney charged the administration had failed to carry out the 1932 party plank to repeal the Smoot^Hawley tariff act. Byrnes pointed t,o reciprocal trade agreements the,„administration nego tiated with 13 foreign nations and said they had the effect of removing the tariff act. ‘‘The only pledge that the adminis- investigating allegations Italian of ficers had flown planes to rebel Mo-,, rocco. Fighting was most severe Tuesday night in the civil war^arefl outside .Madrid. Nearly 400 were killed in what may prove a decisive engage ment in the Guadarrama mountains. Both rebels and Loyalists massed troops in' the North and .South for crucial encounters and there was con flict in the Balearic Islands. diminishing with heavy’ export pur- tration did not carry but,” he said. Simpson of Clinton, and Dr. John E. Simpson of Chicago. Cd^ty Campaign Opens Tuesday Cross Hill will provide the forum for the opening gun of the county political ckmpaign on next Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. The candidates will come to Clinton Tuesday afternoon for their scheduled night meeting at 7:30 at the Clinton Cotton Mills. Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock, the aspirants for office will address the Clinton city voters. The speaking schedule will come to a close at the Laurens Cotton Mills on the night of August 2l8t. An inter mission is provided from the 14th un til the morning of the 18th when the schedule will be resumed at Hickory Tavern. * The itinerary,»Ta8 arranged for the candidates, appeared in The Chron icle last week. Silk Mill Sold I ' For City Taxes Silk Chandber, Mec^ Tuesday .Night The August meeting of the Cham ber bf‘ Commerce will be held at the tea room next Tuesday evening at 7:80. Following the serving of dinner the usual business meeting will be held, with all members of the organi zation invited to be present. Union Service Atf ‘ Presbyterian ‘The city union service oej^ Sun day evening will be hdld at (’4p:ht o’clock at . the First PresbyWi isn church. The pulpit will be^occupiedl by Dr. J. C. Bo^r, pastor of North Broad Stieet Methpdist ebureh, with a cordial inviUtkm exten^ all eoa- grrafationji to sntto in this The Stutz-Hsdfield corpor stion of this city, was sold by the Town of-Ciinton Monday morning at public auction under execution for pai^t due 'city taxes. The property vjras bought by J' M. Pitts, his bid being IZ^STO. ? In a sale of this type the plurchas- er cannot get's deed or possession of the property until the expiration of one year from the date of sale. 'The owners reserve the right during this period to redeem the property. The local board of directors of the corporation has made no statoment as to their future plans. The mill, in the ! meanwhile, remains idle. chases, and received advices the crop in Canada, Argentina and other im portant growing nations might be shorter than recent estimates had in dicated. • tba-meantime, the federal on the human problem created by ^ drought continued in Washington. At the reijuest of President Roosevelt 16 representatives of federal agencies was to reduce expen^'^ureT.” This, he said, was due to the crisis which the nation found itself in, and drastic action was necessary. Stoney declared Byrnes had been “on both sides of the bonus question^’ that he had “run out and deserted 1932 Democratic platform"; and thar Byrnes’ first vote in 1933 “was not for relief but' forq-^he famous began mapping a long-range assault economy act.” A vote against the against drought. : bill to restore the anti-trust laws was 1 also charged by Stoney to Byrnes, j Speaking of his services as chair man of a subcommittee having charge Road Fatalities In S. C. Increase 314 Persons Killed During Past Year Despite Efforts To Re duce Highway Casualties. Johnson Ready For Fall Games I of naval appropriations, Byrnes said an appropriation this year of a half billion dollars wax necessary for a (’olumbia, Aug. 2. — State highway officials cited today an increase in automobile fatalities during the year ended .lube 30 “in spite of copcerted efforts” to reduce them. A report for the year said 314 per- ! sons were killed during the period compared with 280 in 1934-36. It said 1,619 accidents were reported conii. pared with 1,547 during the^previous year, of which 260 involved fatalities College F.ce9_ Football ^hedule | Hoover of Eight Ganiles Opening Sept. | administration had allowed the fleet 19th With Clemson. j to fall below the naval treaty maxi- I mum and thafthe United States had (Compared witir'^0,'n’-'*=q'jf W’ith less than a month remainmg before the call is issued for the Blue Hose gridiron warriors, Presbyterian college’s head football coach, Walter A. Jdhnson, this week began arrange ments for the stiffest schedule a Blue ftose-eleven has ever played. Capt. Johnson an4 sixty men com prising Battery G, 263rd coast artil been reduced to “third rank.” Harllee deplored the “centraliza tion” tendencies of the Roosevelt ad ministration and charged the New Deal was not a true Democratic pro gram. He denounced the “extrava gance” of national administration ex penditures and predicted if the New Dealj^was not “curbed” there would lery of Clinton, returned to the city be an American "Soviet.” Saturday night after two weeks A charge that “WPA and all j other training at Fort Moultrie, Charleston, alphabetical a^ncy workers were be- ' With only seven weeks remaining ing forced to Uke an active part in before the .{Tiger-Blue Hose encoun- the campaign for» Byrnes” was made ter at Clemson ^ptember 19th, j by Stoney. ^ Coach Johnson has begun supervision I of work oh the plkying and practice; fields, and has sent out letters to his 14 let^Tr'Yhtr wKo"v^"Ibrin Ihe'nu- Groceries - Meats Food is essential to every individual and Jiome. The house- ■ t’?. wife must provide a daily menu, she wants something different, food of quality i^nd priced ri^t. Helpful Grocery tAd Meat advertisements appear reg?i- larly in -raE CHRONICLE til ing you ’where to shop, what price to pay. Don,’t* overipok these important food messages. Keep yourself info rm « d through the advertiaing col umns of “Your Family News paper. Lynn To Speak For Presbytmans cleus for the 1936 P. C. eleven, and about 40 aspirants for the team. Fall practice begins September 1, Candidates !%>eak Wilbur Smith, traffic engineer who complied the report, pointed to the increa.se “in spite of concerted effort on the part of the department ahd many public organizations to provide safer facilities ai>d to impress upon the traveling public the importance of safe driving.” ^ He said 77 per cent of the acci dents and 78 per cent of those result ing in fatalities occurred on straight stretches of road, “indicating that on straightaway .stretches the driver seemin'jly relaxes somewhat in the observance of traffic rules.” The report said 89 pedestrians were killed during the year compared with 74 the previous year. It attributed 204 of the accidents, of which 44 were fatal, to reckless ness due to liquor,, compared with 213 ibf which 26 were fatal. Careless driv- ^ blamed.. for -3R.6 and .reckless- FriTday; The political pot in the county will I AbseriteC BfiUot just 18^ days befoTeT:Ulen»s©ft -*nd4bagm-boiling today with ^ arrivals = ^ Presbyterian college ring^up the cur- of congressional and aolicitorial can-] Q||^ tain on the ’36 gridiron season ' P. C.’s scheduhris: ' Saturday, September 19—Ckmaon at Clemson. didates froni the fourth distriri and I eighth circuit for four speaking en-| gigehfients. The meeting which ’willi The pulpit of the Fv*t Presbyte rian church Sunday morning will be occupied by Dr. L.. Ross Lyna, presi dent of Thornwell orphanage. La't Sunday morning the guest minister was the Rev. L. C. LaMotte, recently resigned pastor of the First Columbia, Aug. 1.—Lane L. Bonner, be7in"‘;rm vciork7’iSi he“hiid"ini*‘?^^. ’’‘‘J Saturday,*"September 26—Georgia the grove near the Laurens high!ballot Tech at Atlanta, Ga. V school and will be presided over Saturday, October 3—Open. {Ralph T. Wilson, county chairman.I*®7j^^**** Frida:y, October 9—^Erskine at Clin- The congressional candidates will' were ^nt today so ton (night game). l speak first. At 7:30 in the evening officials would Imve them by Saturday, October 17 —Citadel gt the second meeting will be held at exj^dite fdhng requests ChafTeston. - ' — ~ : Watts Mill. ja.s soon as entries close. Friday or Saturday, October 23 or Friday morning the candidates will Bonner said a smaller number of 24—Newberry at Newberry. come to Clinton for a speaking for absentee ballots had been Friday or Saturday, November Sjn^giement at 10 o’clock on the vacant Jormer or 7 — Furman at CKnton (night j lot opposite the postoffice. In the eve-1 but indications pointedi to a game). ! ning at 7:30 they will appear at Gold-1 enrollrnent of more than 400,000 Friday or Saturday, November 13 ville for the filial engagement as ar-forthcoming pn- or 14 — Mercer at Macon, Q0. (night' ranged for this county, game). C j The candidates for congress are Saturday, November 21 — Wofford, Joseph R. Bryson, G. Heyward Ma- / mariesg = at Clinton. c£. TO ADD MANAGERS hon and J. G. Leatherwood, of Green-i ville, and Claude A.‘ Taylor, of Spar-| tkliburg. The candidates for solicitor are 0.! The Leader’ Moves To Great Falls n- The county executive committee in'L. Long of Laurens, B. V. Chapipanj .The Leader, a dry yoods .storf Presbyterian church *'of Waycroas, 1 session last week to arrange the can- of Newberry, and Hugh Beasly, W. j erated here for sevtia) years pa ‘ by Ga., to accept a position with the or phanage here as field executive seo- q retary. Tha pastor oi the church, Dr. D. J. Woo<u, is spending the month of Au gust on vacatibn with relatives in Virginia ahd during his absence his pulpit wl be. filled by visiting min isters. \ didates’ itinerary, adopted a motion Wiithorizing the appointment of an additional manager with pay for each precinct in the county polling 400 ori more votes/ A motion was also passed providing that managers bringing the boxes to the county chairman after the primeriei five cents a mile each way. \ K. Charles and Charles A. Young of Greenwood. IN LAURENS FRIDAY The United States senatorial cam paign meeting for this county will be held in Lawens on next Friday lAorn- ing at 11 o’clock. \ H. D. Cranford of Union, ha.s gone out of busines.. nerved iheir stock of goods A ro Great Falls where they trill w! lut a similar store. '• The store here has been beaded by L. V. McMaekin as manager. His friends will regret ^ knowfthat his family has left tlie city. V \ 4 ■ \