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■I U •// T TPB CHBONICLB . StriTC^ To B« t don Noiro- toper, Coaplete, Nowij, ^ . . r .. ..* ^ .. . , , „ If Too D<mi*I Sooi THB CHSONICLl V Too Dio*t QtH I Tho Now& I • ■> , I VOLUME XXXVI CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3,1936 CONGRESS SEES BUSY PROGRAM With SeqfUoh Six Weeks Away, Leaden A^e Busy On Legis lative Framework. Proposals Affect Farms, Industries, Tax es, Relief and Housing. ■fi Louis D. Cqprad Killed By Blow Thornwell Orphanage Graduate Dies In Columbia From Injur ies Received When Struck Down By Auto. ~ — HEAD GOLDVILLE CHURCHES Woshni«ton, * Nov. 28.—with the opening of Congress only six weeks away, a score of Congressional lead- ^ ^ ers are setting up the fiaTnework for i received 24 hours earlier ' Louis Dobson Conrad, 21, son of Mrs. Nell Robinson Conrad of this city, and a recent graduate of the Thornwell orphanage, died at the Col lumbia hospital Thui^ay night from a heavy legislative program I AKhough President Rooseveh has given little indication of the meas ures he will auggest, it ap?eare<l cc'.'isin that Congress wou’d con 'd- er at least six major proposals: !. A farm tenancy bill, prwoing Federal aid to convert tenants into owners. Such legislation has been urged by the President and Chair man Jones of the House Ag.icuiture Committee, who said its passage wa.s “assured.” 2 Minor revisions^ of the tax on undastribi'.ted corporation earnings, prcmiaed Chairman Har hi .n or •‘he Seiwte Finance Committee, to lelieve any " inequities” revei id by t-io first » ->.'tctions. 3. A crop insurance plan, incubat ing in the Agriculture Department and the agriculture committees' of both houses. 4. A new neutrality act to replace the present law expiring May 1. Chairman Pittman of the Senate when struck by an automobile near^ the State Fair ground«._^ At'the tim« the young man was walking w'ith his sister. Miss Ruby Confad, also a graduate of the orphanage. Funeral services for Louis were conducted Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock in Columbia by Dr. L. Ross Lynn of this city, and the Rev: H. Allen Reed. Interment followed in Crescent Hill Memorial Park. ' Immediately after Louis was struck by a^hit and run driver, officers be gan an investigation and arrested two men early Thursday morning in con nection with the case and said that one of the men had admitted being a passenger iYl the light roadster which struck Conrad, one admitted being the driver. The men arrested were Gave W. Sawyer and Albert Mc- Quatters, both of Columbia. At a coroner’s inquest held Satur day night, Sawyer was held for the deaths of young Conrad and made ! bond. Sawyer appeared at the in- Harry Bolicks Hurt In Wreck Left'to rightt Rev. E. S. Jones, pastor of the Methodist church; Rev. IL E. Booxer of the Presbyterian church; Rev. C. Vaughn of the Baptisjl Church. Trophy Awards Next Tuesday —I—^ • Jacobs Presentations For Best Blockers To Be Made At Ban quet Here With Rotary Club As Host. — made a, voluntary state- predicted few He said that he^was blinded Senators Nye and Lewis have urged lights of two approachiruf a far-reaching expansion of the na tion’s peace program. 6. A relief bill which probably will be offered by thq President late in the session. ^ 6. Modification of the Tennessee Valley Act as suggested^ by Mr. Rooeevelt, to put stronger emphasis on land use and coneervatk>n activ- itiot. The task of carrying the admin- istretkm’s program through the House, dominated by an unwieldly Democratic majority, wiU lie with a new floor leader to be chosen dur ing the opening days of the eeaeion. Three candidntee akeady fighting for the poet are Chairman O’Con ner of the Rnlee Committee, Chair man Rayburn of the Intaratate Com merce Commieeion and Bepreecnte- tive Rankin, milHant advoce^ <rf an enlarged Federal power program. Representative Belter hae proposed his fellow New Yorket, Mead, for the poet, and other candidacies are expected. Mr. O’Connor served as acting floor leader during the final weeks of the last session. cars and that he did not realize that he had struck Conrad until his com panion called his attention to the facr that 'fih^ Tiad hit “someone.' Sawyer said that he immediately turned the. car around, went back to the scene and carried the injured man to-the Columbia hospital. He esud that he was not drinking and was sorry as he could be that the accident occurred. Teetimony-wt the inquest of offi cers working in the case brought out that they arrested Sawyer and Mc- Quatters after the accident at a tour ist cami^ on the Camden road, tdmt in tbeir epinioa whan erreelBi tha two young men bad been drinking. They aleo testified that their ear had been parked behind a garage and ihiU it had a brokm windshield and the rigbL4iand door i^Jammed. A sieUr of thr"dead maa^ Miss Ru by Conrad, testified that she and her brother were walking down Rose wood drive off the pavement and that a car suddenly “shot by” and she turned to tell her brother that the ear was traveling fast and did not see him. She said she found her brother X B«iik^d 11 ,hort di»t«ice aw«y anooiiKiotii find htU* oppoiKum to h„ ,h,t he wu deid. She secured help from people near the scene of the accident The sister said that while they were^ trying to get a car to take her broth to the hospital, a car came up was waved down. She declared/that the car stopped and that one yof the two. men in it got out^an^helped put her brother in the (ir^but that the other did not. Vhe witness fur ther testified that when she wanted to ride with them, they said there was no room) and that she hung on the running board unt^ they got to the iKMtpital. She said/4he smelled whisky in the automobile. Others testifying at the' inquMt; stated that they smelled the c^r of whisky hi the oar. Louis w^a pupiLof the orphanage here‘for Mveral years, graduating in the -hign sdiool claes of 1934, since which^imji he bhd, been. employed in Coi^bia. At the orphanage he was aJiwtL deptaadaWe luad i^idar b«ty# and highly eeteemed^y many ho are deeply Saddened by bis trag ic death. His sister. Miss .Ruby, em ployed In Columbia, graduated at orphansige hi 1929. A second brother, Fred*, resides hi ‘Columlda; a third brother, Clyde, is a memW Of the junior elaaa at Presbyterian college. Besides hit sister sm two brothers, the deceased is survived by hie mother, Mrs. Nell Robhwon Con rad, a member of the State Training echool etaff of workers, and a sister tKm. The most urgent job for the new Congress will be to consider re-en actment of many New Deal laws scheduled to expire early in 1937. The Treasury hM announced that, as a protection against unexpected currency upeets abroad, it will seek a renewal of the Prdbident’s power to regulate the gold content of the doBar. Other expiring legisiati<m includes the Reconstruction Finance Corpo ration’s lending power and activi ties of the Public Works Adminlk^ tration and the Electric Farm and Home Authority. v A top-to-bottom reorganization of the Federal Government, intended to to trim away unneepesary bureaus and l%"the emergency ageiMies iiho a permanent framework, is bsiitg dragted by tteee eonwrittees, named by the Senate, House and Preudent A new attempt to reach some of the NRA objectivBMf-^ifNscially Fedj eral regulation of wagea and ing condition*—has been pldge<^by several memben of both A system of Federal l^iiters for corporationf engaged in commerce has been proposed by Sen. aior O’Mahoney as the/most fea^ ible” method of estajwshing mipi- mum labor etandards/without amehd- inc the Goimtituti^ His plan baa been approved principle” by Tuesday there will gather from the four comers of the South the, best football talent that Dixie can offer at the refectory at Presbyterian col lege for the presentation banquet for the Jac^obs interference, trophies. The state’s best blocker, the Southern con ference’s best-blocker, the Southeast ern conference’s beat blocker, an all- Southem end, and the all-state team will grace the banquet hall, and lis ten to an address by Forrest Fletcher of • Washington and Lee university presidetrt of the Southern confere: On Tuesday siftemoon the and officials of the state,will in Lmxiy Springs gymnasium to draw up the 1937 baakkball, baseWl, and track schedules, and to wat^ a clini cal demooetiaiioB of the/lamkctbaU rules. That night they mili/move to the banquet hall where signal h<Hior of a trophy for uipi^ishnees in play will be awarded three men in South em spoite. _ The Clinton Rdtary club ie sponsor ing the banqu^. and is selling tickets for the evenblg’s program. The tickete are $1.50, oM the Rotary club is em phasizing/the fact that this amount is-io c^r the expense of traveling a^ sRdakert^n addition to the ban- quet. e interested in purchasing tick to the most tmueual gathering Southern sports, in seeing the great in the world of football, coach ing, and sports writing, and in wit nessing an all-state team together for tho first time in the history of the state, 'may purchase tickets at Sadler- Owens IHiaimacy or Hipp A Adair. What the Blocking Trophies Have Dob^ for Clinton Throughout the South today the eyes of the sportsmen are centered on one thing and bne place. .That thing is the Jacobs interference tro phy. The place is Clinton^. C., where they will be awarded. Mythical all- state and all-Southern teams l^e into ineignificance, football champiop^ips are already htstory, everythi^ is pointing toward the most unusual min^Tileserved award in Southei iootball—4he Jacobs > interference tro. phies; To Ciioton on next Tteeday will come the South Carolina all-etate team, the president of the Southern conference, Forrest Fletcher of Wash ington and LMThnivereity, the best blocker in l^uth Carolina, in Ihe Sootherp conference, and in the Southeastern conference. ' ^, Already the newspapers of the South and the East are carrying fea ture stories on this sporting event. Yeariy it attrsots much comment in the prses from news writers, col umnists, and editorialists Clemson Leads On Allstate Places Five Players On Mythical Team. Jacobs of/P. C., Gets Halfback l^ost.^ — ‘ Columbia, Nov./.IO.—Although they dropped the stale championship tilt with Furman, ^e Clemfwn’Tigers led the list to place five men on the 1936 4kll-»tate te^. as compilejl from voles of eleven /ports writers.' Joe Berry and -Mac Folger, back- Boltck Gravely Injured In Cat* Collision Near Lake City. Mrs. Bolick and Son Receive Only Sligfht Injuries. Harry Bolick, gravely injured last week in an automobile accident be tween Cades and Lake City, in the lower part of the state, was reported yesterday- from the £elly sanitarium at Ringstret* as slightly improved. An X-ray examination showed that he suffered a fractured skull but no bn>ken ribs or serious chest injuries as first feared. His physicians and ! members of the family stated that they ^ro now more encouraged over his eomlition and feel that he has an ev^ chance for recovery. It will re- ci^ire several weeks, however, hospital Authorities state, before he can ^removed to his home. At the time of the accident Mr. and Mrs. Bolick and little two-year-old son. Harry, Jr., were en route to Kings- tree to visit relatives for Thanks giving. Their car and one occupied by Mra. D. L Allen of Charleston, and her sister, .^Miss Emeve C. Crouch, had^a head-on collision between Cades and Lake City. Both cars, after the terrific impact, were turned, in the same direction, headed north. The Charleston women wei-e on their way to Hartsville when the cra-sh occurred. Mrs. Allen suffered severe facial injuries, and Miss Crouch a fractured knee and nose. Both were removed to a Charie.Htop hospital, where they are now reported recovering. Miss Crouch is a sister of Miss Margaret Crouch, who formerly reside<l in Clinton, bold- field .stars for the Tigers, got the-f ing a secretarial position with the unanimous approval'bf sports editors | First Presbyterian church. ’ Immediately following the wreck, Mr.-Bdlick was removed to the Kelly .Sanitarium in Kingstree, and Mrs. for positions on the mythical eleven, ree lihemen, a tackle, a guard a center,* kept their teammates ompany on the super team. TheyXBoUck and eon to a Moncks Comer Obairman WbMder ttie Senate Interstate Comm«rce Committee. Other meanoes which seemed head ed for otm coosidemtion include a homingbased on the Wagner propoi^ lubmittod last seesion^/ a plan;to regulate the coal industry be Baker l^ieaks In Knoxville drafted by Senator Guffey, and Kxl and drug bill ealling for stringent regulation of the ad- ing and sale of medicines, food stuffs asid cosmetics. DR. KENNEDY TO SPEAK Rev. E. B. Kemwdy, D.D., of Eia- kins ooUege, wiU have charge of Ihe services at the Thom^l Memorial chmch on Sunday, both fnomiag and afternpon. Tha pMtor, Dr. L. R. Lyjm, will be col of the ^ to ^«adi at the WmmA Pieibyterlan dmroh in Oiecn- cf wWch Rev. C. T. Sqobes Ie Kenneth N. Baker, of Hie depart- ment of economics and commerce at' Presbyterian college, spent three days qf the past week in Knoxville, Temu, attending the fourteenth an nual convention of the Southern Busi- ess Education association. The fon- vention had as its theme, “The Na. ture and Poasibilities of Business Ed ucation.” The program mclndad a number of panel topics, Mr. Baker being the only r^resentative from a South Car- dina mlege. He was one. of the speakers, hit subject being, J’Hie Need of, Busirtess EiqwrisBoe lor Businasa Edueatkm.** were Mamiel Black at tackle. Bill Bryant at tackle, and Harold Lewis at center. Bob King, famous Furman end,’ clinched his position at end without much trouble, though some writers disagreed on his prowess. Jana Beott, hadcfiald fladi for the Purple Rmricans, -was the only otiier Farman man chp^ for ^e all-state. Scott’s popularity with the. arriters rivaled that of the two Clemson badtefHe got one less vote than they for his ^Halfback p<^i<m. J./B. Jacote, of Clinton, captain of the “little four” champions d Pres byterian college, got the award of greatness by taking the other half back post. Citsulel, Carolina and Erskine also placed a man apiece on the stellar rUne-up.. Wofford appeared In the 'hon orable mention column, while New berry failed to show. Alex Gettys, fighting end, repre. sented Erskine on 'the all-«tate; Paul Gaffney carried the colors for the^ University of South . Carolina at guard, and Orville Rogers of the Cit adel nosed out eleven otherrs for his tackle position. * Furmsn took four of the second all-state team places, Carolina and The Citadel got two each, and Cl<em- son, P. C. and Erskine divided the other three. i, The selections were made on the basis of votes cast by sports editors of South Carolina newspapers. Greenwood (dves ThcMTiwell $735.68 of the late C. Palmer Robinson of thisA^ “Kie J^aeobs trophies center the eyes of the South on Clinton. And the Ro tary club in providing the banquet is performing a great service to the city. This year finances low, and costs are high. They are urging those in Clinton interested in sports to pur chase tickets to the banquet at $1.50. The ticket will give you an opportu nity to help Clinton and you are cer tain to get value received from the banquet. TO SPEAK SUNDAY Rev. Le^ris M.. Rice of UiJion, editor of The ynion Time* and former pas tor of the First'^Rjqaist church of thait cRy, will fill the pul^ of Hie First Baptpt ohoich of this city on Sunday morning at the ll o’clock worship hour^ The public jm invited. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Copeland spent IhanksfiYing day in GreeoTillav. Sunday school of the First i^wbivterian Gneenwt^ contributed $735.68 in its annual “ThomWell Orphanage Day” offering on Sunday morning preceding Thanks- givtnj^. A special program- had been aironA^ for the day under the direc tion of Hgnry Reynolds, superintend ent of the school', with several hun dred children and adults in attend ance. The goal of the school had been set .at $800 and officers stated that they expected to increase the offer ing to this amount through private solicitations before forwarding the check. J . j Hie Greenwood Presbyterians over a long period of years have mai^est- ed a dmp interest in the orphanage and rank among its most libml and devoted friends in the three control ling synods. Their Sunday school of- feringjfor Thornwell for the past ten year period has <totaled $.7,215.81, an average of $720 per year in the face of several disastrous depression years. hospital. Mrs. Bolick and son, who were bruised considerably but receiv ed no serious hurts, were diemiesed from the hospHal Fjdday and went to Kingstree to be with her husband. She suffered' a broken nose, while little Harry escaped with a alight head lick. Friends here were (Hstressed to learn of the terrible accident and haws felt oonsidermbls apprehenakm War the outcome of Mr. Bolick’a injoriea. He is pleasantly known here where he graduated from Presbyteliin col lege in 1935, waS an all^ttnto fuHback and outstanding in other campus ac tivities. For the past year he him been a member of the High Point, N. C., high school faculty and coach of the football team. Mrs. Bolick is a Clinton girl, be fore" ma.rriage Miss Elizabeth Todd, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R^er Todd of this city. Training School Matron Passes DECREASE SHOWN IN COTTON GINNED Laurens , county farm^ ginned 15,424 bales of the 1936 cotton crop througtr Novembsfcc I4th, -aokwrding to the county’s special agent for the bu reau of the census. * * On 'this date last year 17,686 bales had been ginned, showing a decrease oi 2,261 bl|dat for the same period this 7Mn Mrs. Claudia N; Hunter Suc cumbs To Short Illness. Inter ment At Newberry. Mrs. Claudia Norris Hunter, 77, a mem ber of the Stete Trainh^ sebo^’s staff of matrons, died at the instKu- tion’s infirmary last Wedpesday fol lowing a stroke on Sunday night af ter dMchargnng her accustomed du ties for the - The funeral services were held Thursday aftqmoon ‘ in Newberry, conducted by the Rev. C. Bynum Betts of this city, assiaied by Rev. J. W. Carmm of Newberry, intennent following in Rosemont cemetery. , Mrs. Huntejc.was a native of New berry county, the widow of William Hunter, who preceded her to tha grave a number of years ago. Four teen years ago she came to Clinton to accept a posHkm with the Training school. She discharged her duties with a faithfulneoB and kindly spirit that made for her many friends on the campus of the school where she was highly regarded and appreciated for her many a<Mrable traita of'char acter. Mrs. Hunter is survived by two adopted riiildren, Mrs. Blanche Hol lis and Robert Norris, both of Oharlestop, several half-brothers and halfwnsters, and a number of nieces and nephews. NUMBER 48, CALLS FOR BAN AGADKT WAR President Voices Pledge of West ern Hemisphere Against Ag gression and Sounds Ameri can Unity Keynote. 21 Repub lics Bent On Keeping Peace. Buenow Aires, Oec. 1President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the historic moment of a hemisphere bent on peace, iwtrayed the Americas to- ni^t aS “shoulder to shoulder” against aggression and pledged for ever against war of conquest—stem warning to an old worliT “whore ca-~" tastrophe impends.” His words gave' the vivid breath of life to a solemn congress of 21 American republics as he told them of "others, who, driven by war mad ness or land hunger,” might strike “against ua,” Standing in the .stately hall of dep uties of Argentina’s congressional palace, Mr; Roosevelt formally open ed the Inter-American Peace Con gress, which he fathered, ip a dramat ic climax to two days of unending color. Hard off’ the palm-fringed Plaza del Congreso the United .States presi dent hailed in -the pa.ssionate tempo of Latin fervor as American democ racy’s savior met with the peace-seek ing delegates of the continent in a setting of luxuriant, summertime splendor. The congress heard President Roosevelt outline this three-fold pro gram: ' 1. S^ngthening and unifying the piwess of constitutional. Democratic government in the western hemis phere and making clear to “war mad” nations that the two Americas stand ready to conaul't together in the event of agression from abroad. 2. Steps 'to prevent creation of conditions idiat give rise to war, in cluding establMiment fo the highest possible standard of living pnd politi cal, religious and educational free- dOTO. ' ‘ _ 3. A more free exchange of goods among American nations, removing wliet Mr. Rooaevelt termed “suicidal” trade barriers that lower living stand ards and obliterate democratic ideals. The wave popular enthueiasm for the president’^ goodwill mission, which followed hie trip down the South Americtn 'coaadt, reached, its climax as he reached the congression al palace. A crowd which packed the Plaza del Congreeo—a huge square five blocks long and three wide, directly in front /of the congress building-r;_ cheered madly as the visiting presi dent reached the Plaza in an automo bile with President Agustin P. Ju.sto of Argentina. 'Yoeterday’s popular reception of Mr. Roosevelt on hif! arrival was described as the greatest in Argen tine history, and today’s demonstra tion was almost as great. As the two Presidents! entered the 4 $22,605,148 PAID TO S. C. FARMERS Washington, Nov. 29.—South Caro lina farmers who cooperated in the old agricultural adjustment program received $22,605,148 during‘its dura tion, according to an agriculture de partment recapitulatioa of payments from May 12, 1933, to September 30, 1936.’ South (!!)Kt:olm^ cotton growerz re received $3,833,705; corn-hqg fiann- ers, $674,979, and peanut planters, $14,736. ^ ^ -1 chamber by a side door—Mr. Roose- velt in a cutaway coat and Justo in the white uniform of a general, with a blue and white .sash across his oheet—^the delegates who filled the hall burst into ten minutes of cheer ing and applause. President Roosevelt took the place of honor in the center of the plat- room, with Ju^ at his left and Argentine For eign Minister Carlos Savedra Lamas at his right. James Roosevelt, the . president’s son, and Felipe Espil, A^entine ambaoeadof te Washington, awo Mt on 'the dais. With Savedra Lamas presiding, Justo, in the opening address praised President Rooeevelt’s peace ideals and express^ the opinion j^e conyfer- ence would bring beneficial results for all now world nations, yet pre serving friendly ties with Europe. The round of applause which swept the chamber; as the Argentine presi dent stopped^ speaking rose to a cr9- scendo and lasted for five minutes a.s the United States executive rose to speak. “We stand «houlder*to shoulder, he said, “in oiir final determination that others who, driven by war mad ness or land 'hunger might seek to commit an act of aggression against us, will find this hemisphere wholly prepared to consult together for our mutual safety and eur mutual good.” People living in Democracies and under good social conditions, he de clared,” will ’ defend themselves to the utmost, but will never consent to take up arms for a war of con quest.” The >. president was saddened by the death of his friend and body guard August (Gus) Gennertch) who died of a heart attack eerly this morning while dancing at a local res- faurant / ceived $18,1^1,727 of ' the Palmetto state’s, total, whole tobaoeo planten't'^^XSemierich, vriio was 65, bad been the president’s compi RooMvdt Arat was of New York state in 1 since ^Mr. fomnor •\