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/. • . •:•• •>»■ 3CTt ' ■-'- . ^i'.'H VOLUME xxxvn CLINTON, S. C.; THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1937 NUMBER 2 BLATTELECTED HOUSE SPEAKER r. Johnston Losm First Clash In House When Wannamaker Is Defeated In Close Race. Ben nett and Thomas Keep Com mittee Chairmanships.' New Given Welcome Special Union Service Held At First B^tist Church In Hon or of 6ev. Walter N. Long. \ 4 Colmabia, Jan. 12. — Governor Olin D. Johnston lost his first test in the eew general araemhly today as bouse and senate completed bare out lines 6f the OT^nization necessary to carry them through the 1937 session. Foes of the administration carried the “day when their forces elected the author of the highway measure so partment bitterly fought by the governor last year- to the. speakership of the house. Solomon Blatt, of Barnwell, defeat ed the governor’s candidate, I4. Gaston Wannamaker, of Chesterfield, by five votes in the nip-and-tuck battle for the speakership, and promised the bouse that u^fK Ms election “faction alism is dead in South Carolina.” Govexhor "JohnAon, bh the othbr hand, met the news of his group’s defeat with an avowal that he would *TiVbt for my people as long as I am 'governor of South Carolina'.” “My reasons for not supporting Mr. Solomon Blatt for the speakership were founded upon his past legisla tive record which I felt would not al- Members of all churches in the city joined together Sunday night at the First^Baptist church in welcoming its new pastor. Rev. Walter N. Long, who came here the first of the year rom BlMksburg to accept a unani mous call recently extended him by this congregation. The service was attended a large congregation that filled to capacity the auditorium and Sunday school de- :The pastors of the city were seated on the rostrum and a special musical program vras an en joyable feature of the service. Dr. D. J. JfVoods, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, and the oldest minister in the city in point of service since the recent removal of Rev. Ed ward Long^ to Greenville, presided. The opening prayer was offered by Rev. 0. Bynum Betts, of the Associ- State Track T9t April 30-May 1 Schedule For Event fuid P. C. Cinder Card For Season An- i nounced By Blue Hos^ Track activities at Presbyterian col lege will get under way some time’ within the jnext month^and, will con clude with a varsity meet against the University of Florida at Gain^ville on May 8. This announcement was made by Athletic Director Walter A. Johnson last week. P. C. is assured of having another strong troupe of cinder artists this year, although actual practice has not yet started. Many of the memberi of last year’s squad will return high hopes and great ability and many able sophomores, who composed last year’s frosh team will be added to the varsity ranks. Seven Dual Meets The Calvinistic tracksters have seven dual encounters slated for them in addition to the state track meet which takes place here on May 1. A post season meet against the Univer- Joanna Cotton Mills Plan For Enlargement Plans ere now under way by the Joanna Cotton Mills at Goldville. for an enlargement of their plant and the addition of 450 looms.'The enlargement will give a 25 per cent produc tion increase, W. A. Moorhekd, local nnanager, stated yesterday. An extention to the present mill will be .made to provide space ,.for the new machinery. The additions now contem plated at Joanna will give em ployment" to“ 150 aditional "peo ple, Mr. Moorhead states.""^ Stewart Hartshorn In New Jersey Former Owner and Developer of Joanna Cotton Mills, Goldville, Passes At Age of 97. SEARCH NATION FOR KIDNAPER ate Reformed Presbyterian church, with Dr. J. C. Roper of North Broad Florida, calls'for a trip into Street Methodist church reading the City To Have New ~ Business House the Land of Sunshine. Scripture.' J)r. L. R. Lynn, at the re quest of thelSinisterial union, brought words of cordial welcome to the new pastor in behalf of the churches of the city. He expressed his pleasure Ipw him to sorve the people of South I’"''"'*' ’'ij" 5.'’' Carolina as well" sa another man in this high office,'* Johnston asserted. Baptists in a welcome service to Mr. Long. In addressing the new pastor, 1 u‘ll make’this body a fair and that Clinton ia a com impartiail presiding officer,” Blatt said after the 62 to 57 vote placed him in the speaker’s chair. “This race -has been a pleasure, 1 ran it against munity of long pastorates, and that strong ties of ilove and devotion have always existed here between pastors and their people. You will find here. . loyal SouU, Oaroli^to and a cbll.*. ’1^". at \ %■' mate. I used to say Caaton and myself won the war in the same division.” Blatt recessed the bouse a short while after the tense election so that he might “go and call my dear, gray- haired old mother, who awaits the message.” Final adjournment left the ^ouse still without a speaker pro-tempore and other minor elective ofincera. The senate dropp^ everything af ter a 15-minute session and its mem bers scurried over to the other chMn- ber to watch the progresa of the fight whieh has cliknad tiie canter of South Carolina’s political attention since the general election. The upper body heard a few words ^ welcome from ita presiding officer, lieutenant Governor X E.'Hirtey, but postponed the election of clerks and president ^pro-tempore with a motion for adjournment by Senator Edgar A. Brown, of Barnwell, whn admitted “most of us are interested In the pro ceedings in the-house.” After administering the oath of of fice to new and reelected members, Harley expressed the h<H>e that the general assembly would attend “to the state’s business and get away as early as possible.’ ' - 'Warring factions in the house avoided a premature outbreak in hos tilities when they agreed on a tem- porary_chaiftnan to preside over the speakership election. Representative John A. Blay, of Aiken, strong JqhnstonRe, nominated John W. Crews, of Columbia, for the post and the election was made unan imous , on ‘ “ mometer of friendship and Christian fellowship among the people registers as high as you will find anywhere. I hope for you, he said in conclusion, a happy, fruitful and helpful ministry in this community. Mr. Long, in reply, expressed his profound gratitude for the fraternal spirit shown him hy people and pas tors, and Mid it would be his aim and purpose to work with all agen cies in ^ eommumty dedicated to promoting' cau|pi of the churoh and Christ’s kingdom. Mr. Long announcAi ar his theme, “Christ, tho Foundation of the Chris, tian Church.” He took his text from I Corinthians 1:24, “But we preach Christ cruci^ed . . . the power of God and the urlsdom of God.” I Corintb- itns 2:2; “For I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucifi^.” He Mid in part: * .It‘was upton the absolute and un compromising doctrine of these verses that the Christian society was found ed. And there is now no other reason for the existence of the Christian churcM' and Chriatian history than Christ Jesus, crucified and risen. Up on this simply truth the historic past, the livii^ present and the glorious fu ture of Christianity depend. Our re ligion was founded upon Christ, a his toric personality in whom centers and around whom revolves a radiance of divine and human reality. Those who associated with Jesus saw in him the absolute of humarr'ex- is^nce, the ultimate foundation of le election was maae un»n-t '■ » ^ *.v v j j Central truth about God and motwn of Representative » Neville Bennett, of Maiiboro, whose i chairmanship of the powerful ways and means committee hinged on the election of Blatt. Calbi« the membewi county-by- eounCy, Crews administered the oath of'office. These neettSsary phases of its organizstion completed, the house Manehed immediately into the ^ak- ership election. Bennett nominated Blatt as “a man of experience in the adminirtration ef the affairs of 3outh Ourolina and pne who would Mrr;f forward our affairs in a businessJike manner.” John D. Long, of Union, pictured the fight as ons to determined wheth er the “people or the bosses” ahall rule, in nominating Wannamaker. “I offer you a simple man from a good county. It is time for„^s to try the new. The last session was a long one, and who presided? I offer you aew blood.” man and the only worthy Lord "of MOVEB^ CLINTON J. »W. Hofdcina, of Columbia, has moved his family ||ere and is nqw oc cupying an apartinent in the Hays apartments. He hMds a traveling po sition with Clinton as his headquar- I human d<nrotion whom they placed in the center of a satisfying and chal lenging objective attainable through woralnp ~lnd faRh. And the marvel of it all is that Jesus was a peasant, a provincial who had not enjoyed the benefits of rabbinical schooling. He was a Galilean whose paternity was questioned, a resident ^ an obscure Roman district, an associate of com mon ard insignificant folk, and who, according to outward appearance, waa anytklng tu* the CSuriat ai God, whoap advent was expected with pomp and power and glory. Thaie is no paradox so great as this. .. But be this as it may, the fact re mains that we may analyze and criti cize this Christ but in the end he rises tq) more majestic than ev^ be fore, for resident in him is a quality thsR Kves'of its own sovereign nature. And no matter how men may try to explain hkn away or conceal him in ecclesiastical dogma, he has a way of silently freeing himself and going on. I maintain that he is the foundation of Christian^ and when the church forces him from its program, it is not he that suffers, but they who eject<^ him. What we 'have said suggests tMs first division: I. Obrist is the foundation of our religion because he is a sovereign The state meet will begin on the afternoon of Friday, April 30, with the freshman meet and the varsity trials, and will be closed Saturday night. May '1. Both meets, preliminary and final, will be held on the track here. The schedule is as follows: March 27, Saturday lina at Columbia, varsity and frosh. April. 3, 'Saturday — University of Georgia 'at Athens, varsity. .^ipril 10, Saturday ^— Clemson Ginton, varsity and frosh. —' April 17, Saturday — Furman Clinton, varsity and frosh.. April 20, Tuesday—The Citadel at Clinton, varsity. April 24, Saturday—Wofford. April 30, Friday — State Track Meet, varaity triale and froeh finala. May 1, Saturday night — State Track Meet, varsity finala. May 8, ^turday — Univeraity of Florida at Gaineivllle, varsity. P. S. and J. A. Bailey To Begin Construction of Handsome . .Structure In Business Center of Town At Early Date. - Option has been signetl by P. S. Baile^^and J. A. Bailey for the erec tion of a, handsome and tnodem two- story building on the vacant lot next South Caro- j to L. B. Dillni*d'| .store and facing on North Broad and Mu.sgrove streets. It is expected that work bn the now j ^^<1 whose untimely death oc- .structure will begin within the next at DqxMitory Holda Annual Meeting News waa received Tuesday morn- ing ^ W. A. Moorhead, manager of the Joanna Cotton-Milts* at Goldville, of the death of Stewart Hortahora at his Shorthills, New Jersey, home. He was 97 years of age, and had retired j from busineae a number of yran ago. I Mr. Hartshom^ wh the inventor in 1859 of the first spring shade roller, and became one of America’s out standing and most successful manu facturers in that industry. Irf 1924 the Hartshorn interests of New York bought the Banna Manu facturing company of Goldville, at which time the name of the coipor- ation was chf^nged to that of Joanna Cotton Mills, with W. A. Moorhead continued as its highly regarded and efficient local manager. Mr. Harte- horn owned controlling interest in the corporation, and jt was largely through^his interest and planning that the remarkable development and en largement of the Goldville property has been made in the past twelve years. Mr; Hartshorn nevST^isited his .Ioanna property but once, that in 1928, when he stopped there for a week’.s stay while en route from his winter home in Florida to his home in Shorthills. He Was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Joanna Hartshorn Hack, for whom the Goldville mill is Far-Flung ManKunt Staha Fer Mattson Kidnap Murderer, With $20,000 In Rewards Posted. Authorities Have Large Number of Clues To Work On. Directors and OiBcers Re-elected For Coming Year. Statement Bhows Increase In Business. Hie Commercial Depository of Clin ton held its annual stockholders meet ing Tuesday afternoon at which time all members of its board of directors were re-elected to serve for another year.'** Members of the board are: Jack H. Young, C. W. Stone, S. G. Dillard, W. W. Harris, H. D. Henry, F. M. Boland, 0. "X Sheely, John T. Young, W. D. Copeland. \ At a subsequent meeting of... the board, the following officers were re elected for 1937: Jack H. Young, pres ident; H. D. Henry,' vice-presidont; F. M. Boland, secretary-treasurer; Miss Vera Wilson, bookkeeper. The financial report submitted for the year showed that the depository had enjoyed a successful year’s busi ness. The board added $1,000 to its surplus. The statement showed depos its of $266,861.55, with total assets of $271,564.56. m.i „ thirty days. fThe now business house will cover the entire vacant lot, 69 by 129 feet. There will be' live store rooms facing on the two streets. The largest room of the building with entrances on both North Broad and Musgrove streets, will be occupied by Scott’s 5c and 10c Stores, a chain operating stores in a large number of towns and cities throughout this section. No an nouncement has been made aa to the oocupante of the other three store rooms. Musgrove etre^ -will he wid ened ten feet to relieve congestion in that section, and this will make the location sUU more daoirmble for the erection of such a building. The building will be <Mie of the city’s largest, most modern and at tractive buuness places with atfrac- „ tivefronts.. Large display—arindows. modern lighting and other features. It is planned by the promoters to begin construction at an early .date. Fanners At Top In Assembly List -Columbia, Jan. 9. — Profragions more vari^ than the butcher, the baker and the candlestick msker, 'are represented in South Carolina’s 1937 general assembly.' , - Farmers head the list. There sre Mr. Hiqikias is a son of the late ^ , _ Mr. and Mrs. John L. HopUna, for- j irresistable fact that cannot be mer residents of tins city. He was I dethroned any more than the stars, born in Clinton, leaving here at thej|{e wm! He is! He forever shall be! of nine. He is pl«Mmtiy remen^ j xt a point in history, the history of hered by a number of friends who wiD j ^hich you and I are parts, he emerg- be interested to know that he has he has been the fulcrum of a inoved back to tte city of his birth. COLLEfG^ GETS GIFT Presbyterian college ^ within the past ^reek received a cheek for $500 in eettlemeBt of a legacy under the will of the laite X C. of Sum- mr, a flriead «f the institiitien. new life ip the world ever rince. From what be is and has accomplished we conclude in our better moral and spir itual judgments that there was never a personality as he before him, and certainly none baa appeared since. Nobody has a|>prDxkttated daz zling clarity ai^ originality of >mtrit (Cqntinued dp page eight) ^ 711 in the two houses combined. Fifty- six belong to the lower house-and'lO to the senate. -Lawyers come second, and out of jg. total of 57 in the assemUy, 35 are claimants of bouse chairs. Twenty- two are in the senate. Merchanta are third, wRh 21 in the legislature; 16 in the bouse, and five in the senate. There also are barbers, bookkeep ers, dentists, ministers, ‘insurance agents, law students, a plumber, the atre executives, school superintend ents, newspaper editors, and rral es- Farmers Meet - Here Saturday curred during that year. Until four weeks ago Mr. Harts horn owned the controllii^ interest in the Joanna property. At that time his interests were purchased by W. H. Regnery and associates xxf Ohioago, 111., who now own the mill, with Mr. Moorhead a.s local manager. While Mr. Hartshorn was* hardly known in Goldville where he held large interests, the announcement of his death was received with general regret by Ms. Moorhead and others who held his acquaintance. Funeral, services for Mr. Hantaborn will be held f^om the Shorthilla reai- dence this aftemo<« at three o’clock. The Joanna Mills sent a handsome floral deeign yeetCrday as a tribwta of respect from the people of that comimunity. Opming- Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 12.—Manhunt- ers, spurred by public wrath and presidential action, pursued an al most microscopic search of the Ev- ejett area tonight for the trail of lit tle Charles Mattson’s kidnap-kiUer. * Spreading out from the spot where tbe boy’s savagely beaten nude and frozen body was found yesterday in the new, they scanned every foot of the country in a three-mile radius. ‘Sheriff Walter Faulkner at Ever ett said a report the victim’s clothing had been found in an abandoned auto- mibile there bad proved without foun- dation. He said the clothing belonged to the ckr owner’s family. ■^Science'gave the determined ‘ hunt ers a cast \of the footprints and a record of automobile tire marks left in the snow by the killer. Public indignation accompanied President Roosevrit’s call for speedy apprehension of the criminal. The jus tice department posted a $10,000 re ward for arrest of the killer. Wa.sh- ington state legislators prepared to offer a $5,000 reward. Washington state hcispitals seareh- e<i their records on the theo^ry that chance might point to some narcotic addict or former patient whq had op erated from confused motives and sought to harm the child’s father, Dr. W. W. Mattson. , They bad little to support this sup position excepting Dr. Mattson’s statements that the kidnaper was in coherent during “contact” telephone conversations and seemed “irrational” in giving directions. Police in all northwest cities check ed the recent setivities of persons with crime records, particularly those on parole. ^llingbam officers followed a re port that an unidentified man had made strange statements about the oaee there last night. Tacoma police asked owners of beach cottages and isolated proper ties to inspect their holdings for pos sible signs of their having been used for hideouts. ^- JThe gricf-strickem - family of Attracts Many The annual meeting of the Ginton- Newberry- Production Credit associ ation wlil be held here Saturday morning at 10 o’clock in the high school auditorium. C. W. Stone, presi dent, and Rex Lanford, secretary- treasurer, stated yesterday that a large attendance of the membership is expected. At the annual meeting complete and detailed reports will he made by officers of the association on the op eration for the past yeaiy directors will be elected and plans perfected for continuing the short-term credit service the association has 'been ren der!^ its farmer members since its organiziJtj!on-..in 1934, The associatidif liSrves the counties of Laurens and Newberry. During the past year it made 724 loans for a to tal of $206,000. NEW HOUSEB BEING BUILT IN CITY Robert S. Owens has begun the con struction of a new residence on Maple street. Frank E. Miller is erecting a new residence at the corner of South Broad and Walnut streets. G. W.. Bell is building a new home on Young Drive in the College View section. ^ Hamp Boyd is completing the erec tion of a new residence on Hickory Street in College View. Major R. E. Wysor is completing 'the erection of a handsome home on New 30-Bed^ounty Instltalion Inspected ^ Public. Modern In Every RrapeCt. Laurens, Jan. 8.—formal open ing of the Laurens county hospital, located in this city, took place Friday afternoon, when the public, in re sponse to invitation of th^ board of trustees, visited the newly ^mpleted institution in large numbers tnd in spected the building and its attri^tive surroundings. Miss Hallie Howara of Henderson, Ky., the superintendrat, and her staff of nurses and other a^ sistanks, greeted visitors and ush ered them through the various de partment. During the afternoon light refreshments were served. The new hospital, constructed at a cost of approximately $67,000, includ ing equipment, is a SO-bed inriatu- tion. . Sportsmen To Meet In Laurens tate agents. KIWANIS MEETING TODAY TTie first Kiwanis meeting of the new year will be held this evening at Hotel Clinton at 7:30 at which time new officers will be inducted into of- Maple street which his family plans to occupjMn the very near future. Among the recently completed resi dences are those of Horace D. Payne, on iSouth Adair street, and Lowry M. Wilson on Hampton avenue. The next meeting of the Laurens County Game and Fisit. aaaociatkm wni he held in Laurens January 22, at 7 o’clock, at the Gomnninity halL Dr. Ariail, Hen^ Franks and Mill er Brown wall he in dtaige of making arrangements for the meeting. H. D. Payne, of this city, prerident of the county chapter, urges all members from OKnton to be present He deeires to make the organization as county- wide as possible, and ia especially anxious to see every cnember from Ginton and vicinity attrad the Lan- rens meeting. Dr. Havikh Babeock of the University of South Carolina will be the principal speaker. TEACHERS MEET IN fice, committes .named, and plans out lined for the organization’s work. W. R. Anderson, Jr., is the club’s lairing president and will be succe^ed for ’37 by D. C. Heustess. LAURENS SATURDAY OPENS ANOTHER STORE Jolm T. Blakely,. long ideirtified with the grocery business in CUnton, is opmring a store this week at Gold- ville in the former loeatioa of BIi^ lock 4 Chaney. ^ The-Laurens County Teachers’ as-i sociation will hold its regular meet-| ing in Laurens on Saturday, Januaryj 16, at eleven o’clock. Dr. C. C. New-j man of Clemson collegeujrilXbe the speaker.' His address will be on “Civic Improvement and Home Beaurifiea- tkn.” The platform guests wjir'be {Re preridents of Parent-Teacher atk>nt and representatives from civic dribs of the county. ^ O DEATHS from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENIB in LAURENS COUNTY . 1937 ^ Let’s StriVe To Make a Safe Year On tke HisfawayF. W. W. Mattson arranged for the fu neral at 1 p. m. tomorrow in a Ta coma mortuary. For 15 days, since Charles was seized for $28,000 ran som December 27, the Mattson fam ily concealed its grief and worry. But full realization of the trage^ brought tears to the home. Bernard McFadden, magazine pub lisher, announced he would pay $1,000 for apprehension of the killer. Both the federal and Washington state.,,Ltws permit infliction of the death penalty for both kidimping and murder. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the fed eral agents who lay daim to a solu tion for every major kidnaping in re cent years, said in Chicago his bureau would “use all the resources at our Command to apprehend and bring to justice” the kidnaper and slayer. Obviously, the criminal had a good but so did his pursuers. Fori, periiaps the first time in the “big money” kidnapings, the n^t hunters ^d wjtuc^es tQ„.ihe aefll^ abduction-^—three children who saw the swarthy, blackJbearded • face, heard his voice and observed hie ec- tions as he brandished a pistol and took 10-year old Charles from the liv- ing'room of his home., The cast of the footprint disclosed he wore socks over his shoes, aa did afadnetor of b^e Charles Lbid^ bergb. Federal experts made the cast by sprinkling the^snow with talcum pow der and pouring into the tell-tale footprint a freshly-made botch of planter which hardened qucildy to the exact ahape. / Prom the kmg-darwn out ransom negotiations the manhunters knew something also of his personality. “Yellow,” sadi Paul ^eva, friend of the family. “A nut,” nome of the kidniq>era now in the government’s Aleatrax ia- land priaon were reported as theoriz ing. Coroner’s physicians expressed the belief little Charles had been killed not leas than iSiree days*and possibly a week ago. The body bore ‘ signs that it had been bumped on the dirty floor of automobile and hauled about after be ing beaten terrifically. Several teeth were knocked out and one side of the skull was crushed, indicating a ham- Jner or a pipe had been used. Thera^ were marks on the wrists, indicating ChaiieB had been bound. An informed source said the laat of three contacts between family and jcidnapfr took place Sunday, Jmmmef 3—-a week after the abduction. Tbu ^'formant said the alductor was ii- #riheTent and. failed to make contac' I A (Cootinued on page aii^t) V t.