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; « -J TBB CmONICLB StrinsJr* Ito A deul Nfir» ptptiv Nvwij, Mi BaBaUc VOLUME XXXVI ' !- If 7To« Dm*! BmI THB CBtONlCLB Jem DmI G«I TIm NtvSi CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1936 FLAMES SWEEP MADRID CITY f I Forty Blocks bf Secti<m of Capi- tal Is Blaziiig Inferno, With Devastating SlyeOs FoUowing Air Raid. Both Armies Battle Through Day. Madrid, Nov. 10. — Flam^i spread throufti 40 blocks of the northwest section of Madrid tonight after a :^as- cist airplane and artillery bombkrd- ment of the capital. Fire from a fascist battery caused Cotton Yield To Be IBgher —rTT" ' ♦ Forecast of 12,400,000 Bales Is 791,000 Above Month Ago. Prices In Mild Slump. { Washington, Nov. 9.--The largest cotton crop in three years was fore cast by the federal crop reporting board todky as it estimated a yield of 12,400,000 bales for this season,! 791,000 bales more than it predicted one month ago. Immediately after publication of the government estimate, which was 400,000 to 500,000 bales higher than severe danlmge to the city’s defenses, j most private calculations, cotton for The Paseo de Rosales at the west ern extremity of the city above the Norte station along the MahlaTiares river became a blazing inferno afterileclines were considered small by heavy shells crunched a barricade at the station and the Montana barracks, on the site of the former royal sta bles where the government’s powerful batteries were emplaced." ~ A dense pall of acrid, greenish- brown smoke drifted westward over the city as^ a whole areai comprising some 40 blocks, became a seething future delivery fell |1 to $1.25 a bale at New York’and'oprions .dippedJU25 fo $1.50 aliale at l^w Orleans. The traders, however, who were of the opinion the large crop figures were offset by textile activity and the gen eral industrial situation. ^ Spokesmen ^r the farm adminis tration commented that'any down turn in prices would not affect farm ers who already have been paid for the bulk of the crop.‘They added that cauldron of flame. Thick smoke rolled about 10,000,000 bales hadJaeen gin- from the Norte station. I ^ed prior to today’s report. The red flames idling into t^e The big increase in the government night from the military builditfg, I estimate was attributed by the fed- “Capitania General,” threatened to,eral experts to “fall weather that has raze the whole area near -the presi-, been almost ideal for the maturing dential palace. j picking of the cotton crop.” The glare was visible from many They reported there had been al- points of the city and some observers ^ ^ost no loss of cotton this fall from believed incediary bombs dropped byi^j^age to open bolls and that delay fascist planes set off the blaze. I in arriyaliof'frost had permitted the The crackling flames offered great i.te crop in the northern parts of the visibility to the enemy across the belt to mature. Manzanares river. | jhe estimated average yield for The devastaing artillery shelling the country of 199.7 pounds of lint followed close upon the heaviest. cotton per acre was this highest for aerial bambardment the city had suf-| three years, comparing withT 186.3 - {pounds last year, and a ten-year av- Dozens of shells raked the capital, of 169.9 for 1923-1932. One bomb fell in the middle of the Ginnings of this seaion’s crop to turreted and arcaded “Plaza Mayor,” the start of this month wete well Madrid’s ancient city bull-ring. . ahead ef the last two years, with " An artillery shell soared through Church Group Holds Meeting Fall Rally of YounR People*8 League At Abbeville Attended By Two Hundred.' Abbeville, Nov. 7.^More than 200 young people from fi^ counties gath ered at the First iPresbyterian church in Abbeville on Saturday for the an nual fall rally of the Young, People’s league of South Carolina presbytery and engaged in a helpful program on the theme, “Leadership and Loyalty,” under the leadership of the president of the league, Miss Constance Arm- field, of Newberry. Speakers on the program were . P.(. jLhe,Ji9cal yaung, peopWa TO OFFER PLAN ON NEUTRALITY Nye Program Would Put War fare On a “Pay As You Fight” Buis and End Wartime Prof iteering. Europe Termed “Tin- derbox” Ready To Flame. Washington, Nov. 10. — Describing Europe as a “tinderbox” where war might flame at any moment, Chair man Nye of the senate munition.*) committee announced today he would press for enactment of a broad five- point neutrality program in the next egngress. To be einbodied' in three bills and NUMBER 46 ^ ^ lwp.. .|uu>pttsed > constitutional ■ wmend- organizations and included Robert' ments, the progi'am is intended to Cheatham, of Abbeville, who gave the j plug the gaps in present neutrality address ~of welcome, which was re-ilaw.s, put warfare on a “pay as you fight” basis, and end wartime profit eering. It will call for stringent regulation - of arms manufacture, he said, becaus^^ “the du Fonts and other muniti^s makers refused to co-operate with/the government in the last war.” / Nye said he would seek naUonali- zation of a large part of the muni tions industry, adding that he be lieved “a strong block of liberals” in both houses would suppp^t. his pro gram. / While Nye wa.s discu^lng hi.s plans. spondeil to by the president; Miss Eliza Austin, also of Abbeville, who led the opening devotional; Miss $lu- phemia Gordon of Greenville, league secretary, who reported on the Mon treat Leadership conference and dis played many interesting posters; Miss Mary Allen of Greenwood, who spoke of “Loyalty to Kingdom High ways”; Miss Audrey Senn of New berry, who spoke on “Loyalty to the Church”; Rev. David Boozer of Gold- ville, who spoke on “Loyalty to God”; Miss Dorothy Simpson of Whitmire, the roof of the Cortes and landed in the press gallery. Parliament, how ever, was^ot sitting. Despite the roar of attacking artil lery, the Madrid defenders held on. Blasted from their narrow trenches time after time by big guns and air planes, the workers’ armies -^ung to the capital’s edges —even poshed back the besiegers from^ the gates and bridges. Three giant bombers spewing low, protected by IS^swift pursuit planes, roared over the city'before dusk, then dived on government for^s near the Toledo bridgehead. Huge crowds of smoke and debris rose skyward as the successive deton ations shook Madrid. Again the planes dived, their ma chine-gunners pouring jl<»d on the shallow government trenches fringing ' the city. , . One of the attacking planes was shot down, the government reported. A German pilot of another fascist bomber, officials said, landed at Al cala de Henares whd surrendered io the 'government. 7-^ ’ Government infantry, swept to ‘ within 500 yards of the Toledo gate and Angel bridge last night, said they had pushed back their attackers on the south a distan<» of two miles from the bridge. Furious fighting, however, raged today in Casa del Campo, the great preserve west' of the city, and the defenders admitted the fascists were menacing a govern ment military hospital filled with wounded. To the northwest, government gun- _ner8 exchanged shellfire from Arft- vaca across a valley with insurgent artillerymen in position at the suburb of Poz^uelo. The defense council said the ndarthweytem road, ftom Laa. Ro tas to El Escorial, still was held by Madrid’s men. 1 _ 9,880,068 bales ginned this season against 7,743,612 last season, and 7,917,671 in 1934. *- The new crop now forecast would be 1,762,000 bales above last year’s and 2,7f4,'000 above the 1984 produc tion, but still 2,267,000 below the av erage production fo^ the five yimrs ending in 1962. ^ School Observes Education Week National Education week,'Novem ber 9-15, is being observed in th>e lo- cal high school, with special programs given by the national honorary Beta club. Two interesting and informative programs will be given. Tuesday, one was enjoyed by all students and teachers, and another will be given Friday morning at the regular chapel hour, at which time the public is in vited. ^ Armistice diy was observed yes^er- dey with an addrees by Dr. F. D. Jones of the college faculty. The chapel hour was changed for thi# pro gram from the regular early morn ing hour to 11:00 o’clock so as to make the exercises more impressive. At 11:11 the student body stood, sa luted the flag, and repeated allegi ance to the flag. NO BIDS FILED FOR ROAD NOTES $138,000 Authorized By “Old” ‘Delegation and OfTered the Public By County Treasurer Go Begging. Liquidity Doubted Since Act Under Which They^Were Offered Did Not Provide a I..evy for ''^eir Payment. ' who conducted the afternoon devo-1 restrictions on exports of latest-type tional. j American war plane/ were announced One of the features of the program, today by President/Roosevelt, after a which began at 10:30 in the morning conference with })1gh army and navy and ran through until 2 o’clock in the! officials. ^ gfternoon, was the response that the! He ordered ^ embargo on foreign yoUng people made to the president’s sales of new/military aircraft until TO SPEAK SUNDAY AT BAPTIST CHURCH Dr^ J. K. Long, a new member, of I^sbyterian college faculty, will oc cupy the pulpit of the First Baptiit church Sunday at the morning wor ship hour. The public is invited to at tend the serviter The pulpit of the church is. n(rir iMing filled by vialting speakers from Sunday to Sunday un til a pastor can be seared. • Laurens, Nov. 10. — Following' the hour for receiving—of bids on last Wednesday, Nov. 4th, County Treas urer p. R. Simpson announced that nobody had appeared in person or by letter to bid on the $138,000 in road notes offered for sale by the county for the purpose of raising money to surface treat three road projects in the county. Bids had been advertised to be opened at 10 o'clock. 'If Mdden lad appear^, tht imia were to have been told'in two sep arate allotments. One issue of $50,000 was to have been used for the so- called Belfast roa4 from Cross Hill to the Calhoun highway. Another is sue of $78,000 was to have been used to supplement $22,000 authorized by the delegation to be raised in this year’s tax eolIecti<^B for the Lis^n and Eden roads. ’ , f The comhinedlssue of $138,000 was authorized by the outgoing delegation under Section 15 of this year’s county supply bill. Section 16 “authorized and directed” the treasurer to borrow such fund* when ^directed by the members of the delegation for the purpose of permanent road construe-, tion. • ' Liquidity Doidbted Treasurer Simpson did not offer any theory as to the failure of. bid ders to appear at the opening. L. G. Balle, local banker, said that his in stitution had not found it necessary to consider the legality of the nptes since they were undesirable (o his finance committee from the stand point of liquidity. The act under which they were offered, he «aid, did not‘provide a levy for their payment. It was reported in court house cir cles -that a private financier would yet appear to buy the $50,000 issue for the Belfast'road. The .failure of bidders to appear yesterday does not mean that the notes could not be sold ttow or la^, it was jJUd. “ • ^ To Start Anyway ^ Over on the other side of the court house Supervisor, A. Rhett Martin said that construction ^ the Usl^pn and Eden roads would ^mmence any way, using the $22,000 already auth orized by the delegation to be collect ed in this year’s taxes. Under an agreement with the Hardaway Con tracting company, he said, work of grading, draining and conditioning the two roads would go ahead binder an arrangement by which each of the two roads would be conditioned for top-surfacing on a pro-rata scale as far as the $22,^00, less incidental expenses, wo^ go. The Hardaway Contractin|p^^mpany was the low bidderN ijv^he letting of two weeks an agreement, he said, the ardaway Contracting c o nr p a n y wtiild right to eompl^ the two projects at the hid price provid ed the necessary ,jnoney it made available at any time between now and August 1, 1937. ' By following this plan, said the su pervisor, the county will get at least eight miles of topsoil road equally divided between the Lisbon and Eden projects. Work on the two roads, to begin in the immediate 1^11 start from the Calho end of the Lisbon , road Princeton highway end road. No Further M^e «Made It was learned f^m "court house officials" yesterday that no further steps have been taken by the delega tion in the matter of selling the of- tfred notes for road improvement. question, .“How <lo you develop lead ership among-, the young people of your church?” Practically every young people’s organiaztion present made reply to this question through some representative. A delegation of Presbyterian college students also made response. ^ ^nother feature of the day’s exer cises that ranked high with the young was the combined luncheon and social hour enjoyed at noon when a deli cious lunch was served by the wom an’s auxiliary and the -young people of the hostess church. Ths pastor of the church. Rev. G. M. Telford, add ed his voice in. an attractive welcome to the young people. During the pieming' session, the twenty adult counsjellors / present, withdrew and conducted aground ta- i>le session in which they discussed the program and plans of young peo ple’s work in the several churches represented. / said, is ture and highway from the the Eden Orr’s Messages Arouse biterest Charlotte Minister Beinj; Heard By Large Crowds In Special Services At A.R.P. Church. This Week’s Menu On-Gridiron' ^ Friday . Presbyterian vs Mercer at Macon, Ga. (night). Erskihe vs .Wake Forest at Wake Forest, N. C. (night). Newberry vs Wolford at Spaxian- burg. Saturday Carolina vs Furman at Greenville. Clemsop \8 Kentucky, at • Lexing ton, Ky. ■ „ (^itadel vs Chattan^ga at Charlesfdm ~ ~ x Plan For Course. Methodist Church ^le above four pupils oi the Joanna school, Goldville# have never been absent a day from idniol since they entered the first, gpade^ Aey are, Taading ftom teft to right: Pan] Bnnd^ Jbha H. Nribors, SSiaabath Willingham, Guy ihrator. Tha three J>oys art i^ thp aeveath grade, the girl is a member of the nhith gradt. * ^ \ ' A Christian culture course under the auspices of the board ofeduoa- tion of the Upper South Carolina con ference ^ and Methodist Episcopal church, ^uth, will be held at Broad Street Methodist church on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday .and Thursday nights following the week of Thanks giving day. Hie course is offered free for youngq>eople from 16 to 24 years of age and will serve the Clinton area of which Ooldville is a part. AH young people and others who are interested are invited to attend. Two 'Murses will ^ offered during the wadL Dr. C. Roper will speak on. “Personality Development,” and Rev. E. » Jones, of Goldville,''will have the theme, “What It Means To Re a Chriatian.” General Standing W L Furman 6 2 Clemson 4 3 Carolina 4 4 Citadel ..1 .... 3 5 Erskine .... 3 6 Presbyterian .. 2 6 Wofford ..X 1( 5 Newberry ....\ 0 9 /\ Big Four Standing \ W\ L Clemson 2 \ 0 Funnan 1 \j0 Carolina 1 1 Citadel .... 0 3 T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pet 71« 672 500 376 375 286 167 000 T Pet. 0 1000 0 1000 0 .500 o' 000 The revival services being conduct ed ' this “week at the Associate Re formed Presbyterian church by Dr. E. N. Orr, of Charlotte, N. C., opened with a large congregation in attend ance on Tuesday night. The distin guished minister brought an inspiring rnessage on the theme, “The Need for a Revival.” Services will continue throughout the week at 3:30 and "7:30 p. m., and are growing daily in in terest and attendance. A special service will be held on Saturday morning at 10:30 for chil dren and young people. AH children and young people in the community are cordially invited to attej^'Before the regular message at the night ser vice, Dr. Orr is alto giving a short talk to- the children. On Sabbath afteniooir at- 3189 an other special service will be held for men and boys and to this aairioe aU men and^ boys of the community are given a cordial invitation. one year after the second consign ment has been delivered to the gov ernment. The order was issuetl under the es pionage act, forbidding the delivery of military secrets to other nations. It was expected to delay reported plans of Great Britain to purcha.se large numbers of American planes. Nye said he would ask tlW'^Tiext congress to buttress the present neu trality law with a “mandatory em bargo,” automatically forbidding loans or munitions sales to warring nations from the hour hostilities break out. Aa it now stands, the act merely authorizea the president to declare aueh an emba^to -wherever he may find a state of war existing. A “cash and carry plan,” forcing belligerent countries to transport all American purchases in their own ves sels, will be included in his proposal, Nye said. He announced he was drafting two additional bills: 1. To take the profits out of war by limiting personal incomes to $10,- 000 and corporation returns to 6 per cent for thes duration of the conflict. ' 2. To nationalize plants making guns, explosives, gas, armor plate and warships, and to provide rigid control over the manufacture of other muni tions. As a “groundwork” for the peace program, Nye said he Would propose two constitutional amendments. “One will authorize the conscrip tion of factories and dollars during war time as well as human lives,” he said. * “The other will provide for a national referendum before the na tion can engage in any foreign, war.” DECREASE SHOWN * IN COTTON GINNED SPOKE HERE SUNDAY ’ The Rev. J. N. Thomas pastor of the Second^Presbyterian church of Charleston, was in the city Sunday to speak *t the college, Y.M.C.A service held in the chapel in thoi.afternoon.. Laurens county ’ farmers ginned 12,331 bales of the 1936 cotton crop through November Ist, according to the county’s special agent for the bureau of thp census. On the same date last year, the county had ginned 16,055 bales, show ing m decrease of 3,724 bales for the^ saiHc period this* year. BOYD TO SPEAK The pulpit of Thornwell Memorial church will be occupied,Sunday, both morning and afternoon, by the Rev. B. H. 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