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t, THE CHRONICLB StriTcs TTBc s Clean Newa* CoHiplete; Newsy, 9mA ReHeble. If Yea Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE Yoil Don’t ; The News. VOLUME xxxvn CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937 NUMBER 3 HOUSE BEGINS YEARNS WORK V Blati Names Committees of Lower House As Final Step of Organization. Queqr of Tax Commission Tells of Revenue ' Estimate For Year. Cohimbia, Jan. 19.—The South Car olina house of representatives' com pleted the final step in its organiza tion today while the senate seconded a hotwe -ffiCv^Tor a shorter session. Speaker Solomon Blatt announced his committee Appointments and then Fanners’ Group Holds Meet Here Annual Meeting of Production Credit Associations Hears Re- poris On Successful Year. The Clinton Production Credit As sociation, which serves Laurens and Newberry comities, had a very suc cessful year in 1936, according to re- ports by officers of this farmers’ co operative credit organization Sub mitted at the aimual meeting of stockholders held in Clinton on last Saturday ntomirig at lOr30. At' the annual meeting which was idled the houee proeeedin*s so the >nd detailed rroups could gather «id elect their 'T'” officers ' stockholders, showing how ‘ much business was d<Mie, how much it cost to run the association, the dis- ! « Only .two groups of the 25 standing committees named failed to choose their chairmen. Senate committee places and chairmen were fixed at a caucus of hold-over and reelected sen ators the night before the session —convened. There was a feeling on the part of the legislators that the completion of . all organization would open the way for speedy handling of the problems of the session. •"Chairman Neville Bennett, of the ways and means committees immedi- tribution of expenses, the net profits and other interesting data. ' C. W. Stone, of this city, president of the ^association presided at the meeting. Reports were made - by Jack H. Davis, Sr., for the bojard ol" directors, and by Rex Lanford, sec retary-treasurer covering the years’ operations, A1?P a talk on the a<Jvar- tage of the cooperative credit sys tem was, made-by Dj, W, Brown, a member of the board of directors. .tely tailed hia men tygether aud dis-U ^ talk rtreaamg the .trtereat o cuasion waa begun on the general ap-i"™ proprialion-bUl. Final paa.aage of the "?“* '‘I short talks were made by C. B. Can non, county agent, and Clyde Franks, secretary of the National annual money measure, customarily introduced by the ways and means committee, is always an important factor in sine die adjournment. The committee, after studying rev enue features and hearing from Chairman W. G. Query., of the state .tax commission, on -prospective-iur, ,, , , -r ■, come, arranged to commeie it» hear- Farm Ix>an association. - J. y. McCrackin^f Newberry and C. W. Stone of Clinton, were reelect ed to serve on the board of directors of the association. Other members Kiwanis Club Heustess Succeeds Anderson As President. New Committees Named To Head Club’s Work. At the first meeting of the Clinton Kiwanis club for the new year, held last Thursday evenirig at Hotel Clin ton, D. C. Heustess assumed office me president. He succeeds W. R. Ander son, Jr., who headed the club the'past year and aerv^ faithfully and dili gently in that capacity. A warm vote MOTOR STRIKE FAILS TO END No Progress Made After Nine'A Hour Parley. Miss Perkins Confers With Union Leader. Both Sides Silent About Peace Negotiations. _ Detroit, Jan. 19. — 'The next step toward setting the strike which has nearly paralyzed operations of the General Motors corporation, if deter- I mined, was not reveaknl tonight after 1 of thanks and appreciation was ex-ig nine-hour conference in the depart- tended the retiring president for his' ^ent of labor at Washington, services. | Present at the session were the Other officers assuming office with head of the department, Miss Frances President Heuestess are: R. E. Fer guson, vice-president; F. C. Pinson, secretary-treasurer. Hoard of direc tors, in addition to the officers:’ W. R. Anderson, Jr., B. R. Fuller, W. E* Monts, Kenneth Baker, G. N. Fifty, J. H. Pitts, Jr., and DK W. T. Martin, ^Goldvtllfe. ^^ Perkins; Gov. Frank Murphy of Mich igan, and John L. I^ewis, head of the committee for Industrial organization, which has been supporting the strike of the United Automobile Workers of America. Secretary Perkins . indicated that the lengthy discussion had not result- The new president asked the united ed in any solution of the labor situ- cooperation of the 'membership for ation but she said the conference w'a.s the coming year and outlined a num- not a “failure.” l>er of matters of interest he and hisj “Other people who arc trying to do board of directors will strive to at- things newl a few more hours,” she ings on appropriations requdsts to morrow morning. All state depart H. Davis, Sr., Clinton, E. J. Sloan, Fountain Inn, and Dr. W. C. Brown, ments amt- institutio'ns will be heard; , , by the committee. ^ ‘ officers showed The senate adopted a concurrent I that the association made 730 loans resolution, previously approved by the "bouse, providing for a committee of eenators apd representatives to assist in shortening the session. Senator Cotesworth Means, of Charleoton, met the objection of Sen ator Laney, of Chesterfield, by ex plaining that the proposed committee would have no power except to rec- onrmend. laney had objected to what he termed “a steering committee,” and opposed “paseing any reedntkm that w<^d hinder or bind* any bill that would be introduced.” “1 favor free and untrampled legis- latioii,y Laney told the senate. The senate also adopted and sent to the house a resolution memorializ ing congress to include cotton in fed eral crop insurance. Two of the suggestions embodied in Governor Olin Johnston’s annual mes sage took cbhe^te form in the house. Representative Witherspoon, of Lau rens, introduced a bill calling for popular election of supreme court and circuit judges, and the Pickens dele gation authored a proposal to make for $205,000.00 last year. An interesting feature of the meet ing was music furnished by Miss 'Dorothy Hagen, viiolinist, Mrs. Brooks Owens, pianist, and Bruce Galloway, soloist. Sam J. Ovenstre^, of the Produc tion Credit corporation of Columbia, addressed the meeting. He reviewed the remarkable progress which has been made by tlw Production Credit aseociations in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, - Georgia and Florida. The increasing numbejr of fanners availing themselves of the credit service which the associa tions offer, he said, is the best proof of their appreciation of the eervice. In 1934, the first year of their ojie- rstions, the associations made loans totaling $9,000,000; in 1935 they made loans totaling $14,000,000 and in 1936 they made loans totaling nearly $16,000,000. At a meeting of the board of di rectors held following the annual stockholders meeting, C. "W. Stone was reelected president of the asso ciation, J. T. McCrackin of Newber ry, vioe-president, and Rex Lanford, .Another four-year term of President Roost*vrh*s New Jleal administra- Jion formally began at noon yesterday with rolorful .inauKural ceremonies for the second time. The above is an informal, but a now portrait study, of the President at his desk in the White House. Mrs. Nancy Jones’ ; McLeod Editor Rites Conducted! ' Blue Stocking Services Held For Beloved Wom an Who Died Sunday At Home of Daughter. Interment At Mountvifle. i Ocala, Fla., Student Succeeds Sadler Love As Head of Pres byterian College Weekly Stu dent Publication. kidnaping a capital offense. The term’s finrt attacks on the «ecreUry-treasiirer state liquoi; law appeared too in the'- ^^ , form of measures seeking to make LaAUFdlS DdCfffttlOll possession of more than a gallon of ^ alcoholic liquor illegal and to outlaw carrying of opened bottles of liquor in gutomobiles. MiUions Tu^ed Loose In State Over $32,018,196 Spent In South Carolina For Work Relief in 19$6, Pinckney Says. Columbia, Jan. 18. ^ Relief and work relief fiuide expended in South LanTence M. Pmckney, state direetor Given Asogiuneiits Laurens county members of the general assembly have been given the following committee assignments “for the present session: Senator C. A. Cromer—Agriculture, Banking and ’Insurance, Engrossed Bills; Local Legislation, Medical Af- fairsr Penitentiary, Privileges and Elections, and Public Buildings. ^ Mrs. Nancy Elizabeth Jot^es, 77, widow of the late Leaman Jones, died early Sunday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Watts Copeland, of this city, with whom she had made her home since last Oc tober. Mrs. Jones had been in declin ing health fon..the past three or four years, and for the past-two months had bieen confined to her room. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2:30 from the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church, of which she was a devoted and conse- . crated member. The services were . I conducted by her pastor. Rev. C. By num Betts, assisted by Dr..J. C. Ro per, Rev. F. T. McGill of Cross Hill, and Rev. J. Calvin Smith of Ora.. In terment followed in the family burial ground in the Head Springs church cemetery near Mountville. The large number who attended the services, both at the church and graveside, and the many lovely floral tributes at tested the high esteem in which Mrs. Jones was held by a wide circle of friends who knew and loved her. Active jiallbearers were: J. A. Cole man, Frank C. Young, Fred Colenian, James Coleman, Hoyle Coleman and James Golden. Mrs. Jones was a life-long resident of the Mountville section where she resided uptil moving here last fall to make her home with her daughter. She was a beloved Christian woman, possessing ^many admirable traits of for the national emeigency council, announci^ today. ^ Expen^tures of all agencies oper ating under the works program In South Carolina aggr^$at^ .$49,415,- 523 from April 8, 1^5,rto December 31, 1936, P^kney said according to iniformatioR he received. Anployment for 43,394 residents of the state wma provided on the works prognutf during tbe week end ed December 12, 1936. A clasaifkation of expenditure of the $49,416,623 revealed that $21,920,- 265 was for personal service, $5,170,- 409 for aupplies and materials, $562,- 811 fos rent, $1,326,422 for coo^uc- ticn, snaintenaaee and' rqiiair, and $14,656,681 in granta, mainly for di re^ relief. In addition, $238,007 was disbursed in pnixhases for land, $3,- 810,832 was loaned and smaller amoonte were expended in purchases of equipment and payment . ployes’ aockienb compensation. In the House 4 Representative J. D. Witherspiion- character that made and held for her Education, Rhilrosids. devoted fnenda, all sRepresentativo C. L. Milam—Agri-!<>»" '^ith the family in — death. Itobert WaBso«---;t^ survived by one Eduction. - . dauthtor, Mrs. Goorge W. ^Poland: '■ iim ' [three son«, H. T:,~L. JJ. and W. E.' Jones; tiiree brothers, H. A., BIDS ARE RECEIVED Columbia, Janr 19.—The etate rural electrification authority received bids today on the construction of 174.08 miles of rural power lines to serve 605 customers in nine countij^ Tbe projects are situated in Abbeville, GharleaUm, Florence, Lancaster, Lau rens, Newberry, Ooooee, Spartanburg and Willtamsbiirg counties. VIEWED 1937 MODELS T. Lane.Monroe and B. L. Clardy, of the Wilkes furniture store in Lau- TSus, and J.IO. Williams of the Wilkes store in Clinton, attended a Westing- bome sales conference in Cjhsiiotte, N.-C., last week whan the new 1937 W^tinghoow refrigerators were dis- ' plaiyed and selling plans outlined for ^|;Us year’s boshMss. New Smial Begins Today “ELLEN GETS HER MAN” A thrilliiigf exciting and ro mantic story of a beautiful, courageous girl who risks hard ship snd death to save her fath er and vindicate thc^ man she loves. \ \ You’ll find the opeidn'g chap ter an page 7. DM*t miss .it. / FoOew this cslorful dtory in— The Ghronicle ”The Pnper Bveiybady Reads” and J. H. Colerpan, and six grandchil/ dren. Misses Maud Geer and Vilma Pj spent the week-end ip Atlanta. Cliff HiH McLeod of Qcala, Fla., haa been elected editor-in-chief of the Presbyterian college weekly student publication. The BluVlStocking. He succeeds Sadler Love of Rock Hill, who edited his last issue this week. Louis Heckle of Fort Valley, Ga.,' was elected managing editor. John Bonner of Pocolet, was chosen business man ager, succeeding Marion Bird of Co lumbia. he new staff will take charge of the paper this week. McLeod’s complete staff, as nn- nounced yesterday, follows: Louis Heckle, managing editor. Ashby Johnson, associate editor. ' Jal^ Penland, sports editor. James Hafley, assistant sports ed itor. __ John Woodward, assistant spo/ts editpr. Sgt. Maj. E. A, Johnson, R.O.T.<X ed itor. Keitt Darby, feature edito^ Pete McCormick, assistant feature editor. Robert Black,, fratemitj^editor. Alvin Chapman, alummeditor. Eldred MacLeod, *Y.MC.A. editor. W. P. Jacobs, HI, editor. D. W. Davis, colunfni.si tain, Mr,.*Hou8teHs has long been uc live in Kiwanis Work, having faith fully .sorviMl tho club as secretary for a number of years. He ’ announced that at the next senti-mpnthly meet- Tng the club will join with others of the i)l,0()() American members of In ternational Kiwanis in celebrating the '22n(i anniversary of the organization. An appropriate program will be ar- r.'inged for the occasion in charge of the Kiwanis Education committee. The 1,900 clubs scattere<l throughout America- and Caliada will next ^eek join in the celebration of the organi zation’s birthday. The following committee appoint ments wore announced by President Heustess to function actively during the comii^ year: Boys and Girls Work—W. E. Monts, G. 'W.-^Hollingsworth, and L. B. Dill ard. Classification apd Membership—W. R. Anderson, Jr., George W. Holman, and E. D. Craig. Club Meetings—B. H. Boyd, D. B. Smith and. R. F. Henry. Inter-Club Relations — Dr. L. R. Lsmn, F. M. Boland and B. R. Puller. ^Kiwanis Education—Dr. A. E. Spen cer, J. H. Pitts, Jr., and H. D. Henry. Program—Thomwell Dunlap, H. F. Harris, John H. Hunter and F. C. Pin son. 3 •Public Affairs — W. D. Copeland, W. H. Simpson, P. B. Adair and Dr. W. T, Martin. Publicity — Dr. J. C. Roper, L. E. Bishop and W. W. Harrie. Under-Privileged Child—R. E. Fer guson, W. W. Harris, C. C. Giles and R. L. Plaxico. , Vocational Guidance—Kenneth Ba ker, G. N. Foy and I>r. J. I^ee Young. said, w'ithout revealing who the ^‘oth er people” were or what they were doing. James F. Dewey, federal concili ator who has spent c<*nsiderable time in Michigan recerrtly trying to copi- pose the differences between the un ion an<l General Motors, also attendeil the conference in his chief’s office. .Murphy, Ix*wis and Dewey dwlined to commimt after th(> conference, in dicating that any statement would have to come from Secretary 1‘erkins, Governor Murppy, whose plan to Envoy To Russia Will Speak Here bring the two sides together for ne gotiations failed yesterday when each accused the other of violating the truce, said he will return to his home state after President Roosevelt’s in auguration tomorrow. It was considered possible that the president and the governor might dis- ciMW the crisis in the automotive in dustry before Murphy departs. Secretary Perkins said that during the day the conferees talked With General Motors executives by tele phone. No intimation was given by anyone ms to what would be done next to set- fle the strike which has left 115,000 General Motors employes, idle and countless others, out of work in de pendent industries. When Gov. Murphy arrived in the capital from Detroit he indicated that he had “ a definite plan of procedure in mind.” It was not know what this was, nor whether it had been altered aa« reeult of the day’s conversations. A strike m one of the plants of the Briggs Manufacturing Co., in Detroit, was settled today after an outbreak of disorder in which a-“trottlng pick et line” of United Automobile Work ers of America forced the c^pany to ehut down, despite a tear.qfas atr tack during which police/tried to break the line. The action )Vas not di rectly related to the GerW*ral Motors Joseph E. Davies, United States , . . amhawador to the Union of Socialist^ • “ haa- for more than two weks, any nego- . tiations between General -Motors and Staff reporters:/ Robert Ellison, Robert Thomason,/N. S. Heeth, Mof fett Wylie., Co-ed staff / reporters: Frances Spratt, Joyc^ Pitts, Bebe Dillard, Verna McLeod. Soviet Republics, and Dwight Austin, prominent New York business man, will be awared a doctor of laws de gree by Presbyterian college in April, President W. P. Jacobs announced the past week. CAl INET MAY STAY ■ L Washiligton, Jan. 18. —■'President At the ceremonies for the awarding of the degrees, plans for which are alrea.dy undir way. Ambassador Da vies will address Die college studMit body, faculty and xHgnitariee of tho state v/ho will be invited for the oc- RoqsereH will enter his second term cabinet, barr^g yflj* n devslcumenta. What is more, efoisB to him predict he""will e no' wholesale changes after- L- "T L o . ^ return to America. One cabinet member, Secretary of War Woodring, isaerving temporarily and informed observers expect a per manent appointment to be made early in the president’s second term. ■ * casion. Mr. iMvies will come to the United States from Moscow in April, utiliz ing for the voyage his private yacht.- H«-will' be naccOWp^ai^ff"!^ Mia. Davies. 'Die defixiitaxiiitv^ 2^^ exercises will be announced later since plans must correspond to the envoy’s the union. ^ That Was the/occupancy of two Fisher body plants at Flint, Mich., by “stay-in” strike^ who have htdd their posts since JJ^ember 30 in spite of a street battle with police that injured 27 persons and cause<l 2,300 national guardemeji to concentrate in the auto mobile cc .<■111 ■ I 1.11 I ■ Propose Death For Kidnaping S. A. L. To Ei^bit Soil Conservation Educational Exhibit Car January 29 A soil conservation^xhibit car will be exhibited in Clii^n Friday, Janu ary 29th from 8^0 in .the nro'rning Until 5 o’clock in^the afternoon under auspices of tM Agricultural depart ment of the /Seaboard Air Line rail way. oratory, without charge. Bring a zmall uniform cross section of the soil ^ured from a sufficient number of locations to get a representative sam ple of the area to be examined. Se cure various samples to depth of six inches, mix thoroughly in a bucket, and bring a pint of the soiL to the IN SPARTANBURG HOSPITAL <» Friends of Willard L. Jooee, college librarian, will be sorry to Iumw that he ie a patient an the Spartanbmg city hospital where he has been quite ill for the past week. His condition yesterday was reported as improving. Mrs. G. W. Holman and daughtpre,' Phyllis and Jean, were visitora in Spartanburg on Saturday. The ca^will contain a portable soil.car. A one-pint pasteboard ice cream testing /laboratory, model ifarms, box makes an ideal container. Label! Iwoodl^d management, legume crops, mg, soil profiles, wild life and livestock exhibits, etc. An automatic Tilm projector will be in continuous ration in the car, showing soil con- 'servation scenes. All available wall i^ll accompany-the car to give dem- varioiu samples with lead peiKil to; avoid confusion. I Representatives of the soil conser-' vation service, state extension servic-' es, and Seaboard agricultural agents I spice“wjtt be lined with pictures. A free sound motion picture show will be given. Any farmer who wishes to do so can bring in a soil sample and have a pH . (acid) and phosphate teat run by the man ^ charge of the soil lab- onstr|ations^ and discuss features of erosion cqt^trol, terracing, strip crop ping, foresti^, etc. The public is cor dially invited to view the exhibits and demonstrations and discuss their soil erosion problems with those in cnaigo of the ear. O DEATHS - from J AUTOMOBILE .JkCCIDENTS^ in t. LAURENS COUNTY ' 1937 s. Let*)} Strive To Make This a/Safe Year On Jthe Highways. Pickens OlnmTy“^6lbhs To Tnlrd- dnee Bill fir House ^ Make Crime Capital Offense. Columbia, Jan. 19.—A bill making kidnaping a capital offense in South CarolLna was prepared today^by" the Fickens delegation for introduction in the house of representative.s tomoc- Governor Johnston advocated en actment of such a statute in his an nual address to the legislature. _ The bill provided that “any person who shall kidnap another with inteqt to secure a reward for his, or her, re turn shall be guilty of a felony, arid, upon conviction, shall suffer punish ment of doa^.” It further provided that “any two or more persons who shell coiispire to kidnap another, the conspiracy not having been actually carried out, shall be guilty pf a felony, and, upon con viction, sentenced to imprisonment fbr a period of not le.'w than 15 nor more than 40 years, in the discretion of the court.” MISS ADAIR IN HOSPITAL \“ ) \ Miss Ella Adair, proprietor of the Ladies Shoppe,' is a patient in the Greenville' City hospital. Her many friends in the city will, he glad ^ know that Jier condition is reporte'i as improving, and wish for her a speedy reco’*'iry. r r- ) , : t: f A f