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IV VOLUME xxxvn CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 4,193T ' y-%' NUMBER V STRIKERS TOLD TO QUIT PLANTS ^Court Orders' dit>Down Crowd To Get*Off Cknera) Motors Premises. Workers Refuse To Obey(Ejeetkm Ruling. Sheriff . Expected To Take Action. Flint, Mich., Feb. 2. — A Genesee circuit judire tonight ordered evacu ation wiiSrin 24 hours_of sit-down! Beloved Woman Passes At Home Miss Agutha Davis ' Home of Sister Illness. Interment Bridge Cemetery. Dies At FoUowing At Rock Miss .\^tha Davis, a member of one of the community’s widely con nected and highly regarded families, CLINTON AREA ClVES $1,451.97 FORRELIEF OF FLOOD SUFFERERS Red Cross Quota Doubled As Contributions Pour In After Last Week’s Appeal. Goldville Makes Mapiificent G^t of $536.61. Many Local Organizations Give Generously. Chairinan'Owens Grateful for Fine Response. The Glinton chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross has doubled its quota died Saturday afternoon at the home I of $750 as announced last week for of her sister, Mrs. R. E. Jones, on the assistance of' sufferers in the _... , .I South ‘Broad street. Her death, fol- great floods that recently swept over strikers whose. 35-day possewion of jiowihg a critkal UTnas of the^ast; mid-Western and Southern sUtes. , two General Motors plants in riot-1 few weeks, brought gemrine s^rowj Treasurer W. H. Simpson stated troubled Flint has blocked every I to her aide_circle‘of friends and ac-jyes^,.(j,y total cash cegtrib’u- peace effort in the bitter automotive quaintances,^ Ijdior dispute. tions of $1,451.97 had been turned ers of the flooded area. OKWMan In high WINDS CImtnn Pai^ MENACE LEVEES W. T. Wolfe, 88, Succumbs To Brief Illness. InteHnent Sun day At Rutherfordton, N. C. Ohio Begins Rearing New Ccest Near Cairo. Four Hundred Dead and Millions Homeless. Red Cross Needs More Mil- --llons To Relieve Distrem. The city of Clinton proper eon- Musgrove street following a week’s! tributed $641.61 ;dlnto;i Cotton Mills I Funeral services were held Sunday j afternoon at one o’clock from North I intM Friendship association $150; Lydia Cotton Mills, $123.75. Employees of the Joanna Cotton Mills at Goldville made a magnificent cash contribution of $336.61* with more to be added, the W. T. Wolfe, 88,^ venerable Clin tonian, died Friday night at the home! of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Tribble onj FLOOD AT GLANCE Homeless—'Almost 1,000,000. Known dead—376. Relief—Donations to Red Cross to- Broad Street Methodic church, con-*taled $11450,000 but more millions ducted by the pastor. Dr. J. C. Roper, i needed. with a number of acquaintances and commfittee in chai'go stated yesterday.! life-long friends present to pay a laat Judge Paul V. Gadola granted the Funeral services were held from'over to him and forwarded to nation-J spyke in the highest | tribute. Interment followed at Ruth- attended the services and' the many lovely floral offerings were indicative of the love and esteem in which she family burial ground at old -Rock Bridge. Nephews of the deceased served as active pallbearers, while the' honorary escort consisted of frierids of the family. Miss Davis was bom in the Rock Bridge section, a daughter of the late John C. and Emily Watts Davis, ^e was a woman of many fine quali ties, versatile in literary-^att^ments, and devoted to her home and loved Her kindness, her sympathy. ones. her graciouedess, her thottghtfuln«ss all these Christian and life-long member of the Presbyterian church. Her affiliation was with the First Wesbyterian i church of this city which she dearly loved and support^ loyally until her gigantic automobile producing con cern whose plants here employ more than a fourth of the city's p<^ula- tion, a three-point in-jundtion re- Etraihing strikers in Fisher ;|9ody plants No. 1 and 2 from further oc cupancy, ordering them to vacate in 24 hours and prohibiting, them fr<Mn picketing. Homer Martin, president of the . linked Automobile Workers of Amer ica, said the union undoubtedly would appeal. Asked if the union would or der its members out of the plants, he •aid: / “We are law-abiding. We will not fight the govemancnt.’V ^ Judge Gadola act»l shortly after National Guardsmen, holding a rigid military blackade about the huge ChevroTet Hqfer compapy plahte otlTers, her spirituality ter a night of disorder, set up eight machine guhs trained on the street divid>n^ the Chevrolet factory from the Fisher No. 2 plant. This street was the scene of a /bloody riot January 11 in which 27 persons were wounded. The troops ar rive the following day, but madej their first move into the strike area last night after a dozen persons were injured in renewal of violence. This .afternoon the guardsmen at bayonet point pushed a small group of pickets away from Chevrolet’s mo tor assembly department. Plant 4, scene of a' nev(r sit-down strike by sevenal buTKhred members of the Unit ed Automobile Workers of~America; seized a union sound truck because its operators were “doing too much talking,’’ demolished a picket shanty and ctetained six men. Less than two hours later, Judge Gadola read to a crowded courtroom his decision granting the injunction. Declaring the only issue involved was “possession of property,’’ the judgr^’^**”^ Davis of Laurena cited' precedents, including su preme court rulir^-upholding Michi gan’s anti-picketing^ statute. Of union contentions that the big cognition, because of alleged fail ure to abide by federal labor ■ laws, ‘ had not come to court with “clean hands,” Judge Gadola said:" “The falsity of such a position is obvious. The courts are open to the - defendants tf they feel they hay^ been wronged.” . the residence Sunday afternoon at al Red Cross headquarters. In addi- three o’clock, conducted by her pas- tion to this, Mr. Simpson stated that tor. Dr. D. J. Woods, assisted by Dr. many boxds of clothing,*^bedding and Dudley Jones. The large number who!canned food have been contributed praise of the gifts of that generous j erfordton, N. €., hi.s former home, community which was only a hundred where he had requested that he be and forwarded to the area. Chairman Robert S. Owens spoke ia, the -highest praise yesterday of the was held. Interment followed in the wonderful response made by the Clin ton area including Clinton and Gold ville, and wishes to express, hit thisnks and appreciation for the fine spirit M co-operation and generosity shown. It was a voluntary contribu tion, he added, with no pressure be- ing put on anybody, but all given an opportunity to contribute to the fund who so desired. For this reason we are alLJthe more grateful for the re sponse, he added. More than six hundred individual donations were made for the suffer- dollars beloyk’ Clinton’.s contribution. Cairo. — The glutted Ohio’s rise slackened more than a yard below the top of the protecting embankment. City appeared safe but Mayor Bode - warned against “premature rejoic-v"^ ing. buried, and where he had erected his Officers and children of the Thom-''"“"'^^ent several years ago. well orphanage gave $51.80; teachers] were: Silu Bai- %nd pupils of Florida Street school,!Oxley, R. C. Adahr, G. L. '$11.12; Hi-Y of Clinton high .school,! Simpson, R. G. Watson and Joe W. $15.QQi Eastern Star chapter, $5.00;^^®^®’ Calvary.^ajjjltisk church, $26.59; mbn’s Mr. Wolfe,‘who bore the dmtinction Bible class of First Presbytefian of being the bldcKrt man in Clinton, church, $lt).00. i was bom in North Carolina in 1849. Contributions are still being re-. In 1896, at the completion of the first {workers who wertt down with steel ceived by Chainrjan Owens, Treasurer! unit of Oie Clinton Cotton Mills, he barge. I ’ ‘ Simpson,* and at ^ .several. business j came to Clinton as a cotton buyer, places designated in The Chronicle I being connected at that time with a last week. Those who have not yet Charlotte firm. A year later he was Memphis—The wind-ruffled Missis sippi approached a cre.st but 120,000 workers along the b^nk.s of its middle and lower sectors "were confident the levees would hold. New Madrid—Pressure of Missis sippi eased while boatmen dragged flooded spillway for bodies of levee made a donation and desire to do so are asked to leave same at one of these places immeiliately to be added to the splendid .showing already made by tb^ Clinton area. Grand And Petit IReport Given On Jurors' Are Drawn Other of her prime interests were the local United Daughters of the Confederacy, and Daughters of the American Revolution chapters, of which she was a charter member, and in whose work she always manifested a keen interest. She had long been affiliated with Jjieae organizations, her mother being the organizer and first regent of the D. A .R. chapter in 1905. Miss Dsvis is siMrvived by three sis ters: Mrs. R. E. Jones of' this citg, Mrs. Charles Ackerman of Maebn, Ga., Mrs. A. Walker of Baltimore, Md., and three brothers, Jack^H., and W. Watts Davis of this./place, and Seaboar4 Exhibit Vie>v<^ By Many Regular Term of Criminal Court To Convene February 15. Ox- " ner To Preside. Lauren.s, Feb. 2.—The grand jury panel for 1937 was completed and a petit jury bf 36 men for the Febru ary term of criminlU Court was drawn at a meeting of the jury commission ers held Tuesday morping in Clerk of Court Thos. W. Benn«U’a office. Twelve men were drawn for the grand jury, to be added to the six brqi^ht over from 1986 to complete the panel of 18i9Ms«tv« The grand jniy for the year was drawn as follows, the first six being hold-overi: _ . W, M. Henderson, Youngs; H. W. Turner,-Cross Hill; W. B. Mundy, Waterloo; W. M. Boyd, Dials; E. E. Simpson, Sullivan; P. H. Harris, Dials; U H. Taylor, Laurens; Tan M. Ray, Jacks; A. J. Copeland, Hun ter;. M. L. Cheek, Sullivan; E. W. Brown, Ctoim Hill; C. D. Wilson, Lau rens; J. T. Langston, Scuffletown; Highway Value State System Worth $104,554,* 012, According To Sawyer’s Report To House. Columbia, Feb. 2.—Figures placing the present value of the state high way system ,at $104,554,012 and the value when-proposed construction is completed at $123,511,824 were before the house of representatives today in compliance v^h that body’s request. Chief HTg^ay CommisBioner Ben Sawyer sent detailed accounting of expenditures on completed projaets Washington — Senator Robii^ofi, majority loader, said government would provide funds for rejrtibilitat- cmployed by the late M. S. Bailey,' ing devastated areas, president of the Clinton Cotton Mills, as cotton buyer fori his mill. For 40 years up to the time of his death he held this ^Itlbn. OHIO REACHES ALMOST TO TOP OF^ 60-FOOT WALL The Ohio, jhhnping its biggest fkKKi President W. J. Bailey of the mills 1 , ... . ^ had inaiated t« Mr. Wolfe thirt he,®.' .’“T Z't, .sissiippi, brdught new menace last give up his entire duties on'account I of «iTO«in* age, -but thto isrrefuidd'l i ' a'li to do. Hole*, due to illne*., 1«. never '“S' >?<* missed a day from his office, always projects in progress and the estimat ed spending for the two-year pro gram for which contracts have not yet been let. The house asked the figures in a resolution sponsored by Representa tive L. C. Wannamaker, of -Chester- field, defeated Johnston candidate for speaker of the house. Under the plan of construction as set forth by the highway department figures, including projects now under arriving early and being the last to leave at the conclusion of the day’s work. For nearly 40 years he had made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Tribble where he was a highly re garded and loved member of tiie family. Loyalty to his employers, and fiMthfulnsse to duty, was an outstand ing characteristic of Mr. Wolfe. He was in every se|^ of the word a Christian gentleman of the oM school. He was^ a Itfe-long metnber of the Methodist church but because' of ooilliF ettscbwiwitr'to' Ms old moMwr church at Rutborfordtam, he never moved his membership here. His af filiation, ihowever, was with North Broad ^reet church where he was always in his pew in the church and More rtian five hundred people in-^P- Smith, Waterloo; J. U Baldwin, construction ^nd projects prcqiosed Sheriff Reads Order/ Flit Mich., Feb. 2,—Sheriff Thomas spectp<f the Seaboard Air Line rail way^ soil conservation educational ex- Idbtt car during its aU-day stay here last Friday. Farmers and others in terested, ^were shown the destruction of soil erosion, the value of soil ero sion ^control and many other practi cal and helpful methods calculated to W. Wolcott” appeared in th. ctrik.- f*™' bound Fisher Body vdbmpany plant No. 2 toniglrt an^^read the ciredit court order whic^ says the plant must be vacated wijtKin 24 hours. The sit- dovrii strikqr$ listened to him quietly and there/ivas no demonstration when be bad/finished. To Talk When Out ^ Detroit, Feb. 2.—^William S. Knud- sen^ exe^ive vioe-preeklsnt of Gen eral Motors corporatioa, said today that the company would open negot^ ations with ’United Automobile Workers of America as soon^ as strik er-held plants are evacoat^ in nc- cordnnee with an injunetioif issued to day in Flint Those who visited the car spoke in the highest terms of the educational value of the displays and the effort being made by the Seaboard road to improve agricultural conditions throughout the srea it serves. Smith Seed Loan Byib Now Law ■« Lewis Goes T« Area Washington, Feb. John L. Lew is traveled to tKe scenq of the Gen eral Motors strike tonight calling upon the automobile corporation^ cf- fkimls to sit down \with'strike lead ers in a peaes conference as the only way to avoid a knock-down fight, he argued. Lewis, head of the Committee for Industrial Organiation and chief atnrtegiat in the strike, lefthene thisj afternoon without commentinc on court order to sit-down atrikers. to' evacuate piaots in Flhct, IGch. When hie train atoppad at BaMi- •moie, he atill refrained from dieelos-i ing Me attitude toward that order, but he ieeued a statement aaying:, “Every moral .and logical conaider- ation indicactes a eonference bbtween the contesting parties. After ati, that is the only way to settle a/tontro- versy unless it is desirable to await the ej:hauBtion of ^ of the coidaat- anU or until one s^eraaiy beats the other down.*^ Coagreos Uixsd Ta Act As Lewis sped_ toward Detroit, the attention of congreeslwaa called to Mie atrike. Senator Neely; Ddraoent,. of West ViTginiar intzodooed'a reso-* lution callii^ on ^ Bteck lobby eom- veM:tee to make a awsepiag investica- tiei^ of General Motors and aM its The Chronicle is in receipt of the following communicstibn from the of fice of Senator E. D. Smith in^Wash- ingion: Senator Smith’s seed loan bill mak ing fifty million dollars immediately availaUe for loans to farmers for crop production during 1937 was signed by President Roosevelt Friday, Sullivan; P. B. Adair, Hunter; P. H. Miller, Hunter; Gillette Simpson, Hunter..— Petit Jury The petit jury was drawn as fol lows : Sullivan township: J. O. Ridgeway, L. C. Tsylor, B. E, Crawford, L. C. Knight, G. W. Davenport, Waterloo; T. L. Martin, W. Y. Cooper, E. B. Robertson, H. H. Pin son, J. B. Odell. Laurens: Fred H. Walker, B. M. Gray, S. C. Taylor, J. A. T. Andrews, ^ T. , Henderson, C. T. Latimer, J. H. Ni abers, W. M. Cain. . , “ Dials: F. M. Curry, Frank King, W. R. Burdette, L. L. Templeton. Hunter: E. C. Taylor, A. M. Young, B. W. Blakely, G. A. Black, "E. M. Young, L. D. McCrary. Cross Hill: H. K. Boy^e, J. A. Rich ardson. Jacks: Fred Johnson. Youngs: B. H. Garrett, Sam M. Thomas, J. B. DeShields, C. E. Bur dette. , Scuffletown: W. R. Prince. The court will convene Monday, February 16, and is due to run for thereby becoming a law. This meas ure is similar to Senator Smith’s seed loan bills in formthr years except^the interest charged to farmers on loans baa baen reduced from ^5 1-2 to 4 per cent. .Nowadays... People don’t have to- go to town, walk until they are “fagged out,” looking for worthwhile merchan dise. They shop "first in THE CHRONICLE, and then know just where they are headed. If merchandise is worth selling it’s worth advertis ing. Buyers should not lose sight of this truth. The Chronicle “Where Thrifty Bayers Shop ( Ftyst" one week. Judge G. Dewey Oxner, of Greenville, will preside and Solicitor Hugh Beiudey, of Greenwood, will represent the state here for the first time since he assumed his office Jan uary 19. To Give Address On Temperance won a hmg fight against the river. _ The Ohio, Lapping up close to the top of thei'ciity’s 60-foot seawall, for ' 15 straight hours had stood station ary. Suddenly, it began rj^ring a new crest; pushed the stage to 59.54 feet, only 5 1-2 inches short of the bul wark, which, however, had a tempor ary superstructure of three feet. The mayor already had warned against “premature rejoicing,” and at this dhsnge in- affairs the coast guard, standing by with 55 rescue boaits, ordered for the first time an •n-night witch. To • the south, the flooded upper 4|fimisstppi at some points had been swept by high, levee-menacing winds whidh in the night were abating. A feared eventuality in the Missis--^ sippi river was general rain over ma- Sun<l.y .chool «, low «l hi, *r,n*th poured into the river by the Ohio would permit. His life was quiet, un- ,, . , ^ .MuminiC wd gentle, and chancier- «>“« be deared through, iied alway, by the hiirhert principle*. kevrrnmonl on- He had numerou, friend, here who Rowt. J>-. nucht hold him in warm affection, and .dio are sa<klene<l by his passing. Mr. Wolfe il survived by one atep- under the two-year plan, Greenville <laughUfr, Mrs. H. S. Eaves, of Ruth county would have the large.st total valuation of $5,602,925; Charleston would take second place with $5,458,- Q90, and Orangeburg would be third with $4,900,379. ■” The highway figures showed that projects now in process woukl amount to $12,194,934, and estimated expendi tures for the two-year program would be $6,762,877. laiurens County Figures The report showed Laurens county roads completed worth $2,288,431. Af ter pending proposed projects/ are completed the estimate will bc $2,- 649,719. erfonlUm; one step-son, William Rucker of Charlotte, and two aged »istt‘rs. Misses Jeqnie and Clementine Wolfe of Monroe. Eichelberg^ Ghihs Enviable Record Fanners Hold Outlook Meeting Laurens, Feb. 2.—The annual out* look meeting for Laurens county was held at the courthouse here Monday nioming. The meeting was sponsored by C. B. Cannon, county agent, and Miss Jennie Coleman, home demon stration agent, as tha sfsssion was a joint meeting ^ both aggies. Miss Juanita Neely, district home demonstration agent, ' discussed the outlook in her field of activities, while O. M. Clark, Clemson college economist, and A. A. McKeown, dis trict farm agent, spoke on the agri- coltural program for the * current year. Hugh L. Bichelberger, of this city, who ha.s iHJcn with the New York Life Insurance company for the past four teen years, led the whole South Caro lina agency in 1936 in production of new -business, according to an an nouncement maile from tbe Columbia office during the past week at a meeting of the coanpahjra repr^n- tatives in this state. Mr. Ekrhelberger has long been as sociated with the Nei^York life and ranks as one of" the 'most successful and well-informed insurance men in this section. His friends here and throughout the large territory be serves, will learn vnth interest of his magnificent record and the award of this honor that has come to him ffxmi bia-oompany. ADMITTED TO-VRACnCE IN COURT OP APPEALS Limestone Group To Lead Service Mrs. J. H. Harvey, who is-much in demand as a speaker in high ochools | and c<dJeges,,will give a lecture onl _ , tempemnee plication at the Thom-i J^® d^utotion t^ni of"’ttoestone well orpibanage chapel Saturday: Gaffney, will have charge of night, F^tth; at 7:30^ The lecture regular Y.M.C.A. meeting this I is illustrated by colored stereoptican {®r®*»»9«; «t «even o’cl«k at Presbyte- . I nan college, at which tune an mter- Coliege and'achool students are cs- «»ting program /will be given. The pecially invited, as well as the gen.lf'ouP « here on a r^urn trj eral pubik. ^”® deputation which the P. C. — • ‘ I team recently gave at a Limestone R. W. Wade, Esq., of this city, was among a-gronp of well-known South Carolina lawyers recently admitted to practice in the United States Court of Appeals. Ibe admission ceremonies took place in Columbia at a seasioii of tibe court held ki the federal build ing in that city. TO SFEAK SUNDAY The Rev. John S. Dixon, of Deca tur, Ga., will be the college Y^MX.A spezker Sunday afternoon at two o’clock.^ Mr. Dixon is pastor df the Momingside Presbyterian church at Decatur. C. W; Andei^mn left Saturday for New Toric’on a kijisinam trip. vesper service. NO SALES DN MONDAY Laurens, Feb. 2.—Although Monday was sales day at the county court-} housd, there was not a single official i offering, thus breaking a record for February legal sales over a long pe riod of yea&.^ H was said at the of fice of the "clerk of court. hK.- i , * • : • ■ L ‘ . . ,4- -ru-j o DEATHS from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY 1937 Lei’s Strive To Make This a Safe Year On -Ihe Hifhwasra. x presently not regarded in dangoi - “even greater than 1927.” OfficiaTs said that without such an eventuality, the big levee line in all probability would hold. Far upstream, floml-menaced *New I^Madrid, Mo., heard with sorrow that at least 15 levee workers had lost their lives in trying to protect that area. The plight of flood refugee.s was nowhere reportoil more uncomfortable”’' than in east_Arkansas, yhere thou sands huddled on a riiige in tents, or spent waking hours in heated public buildings, in‘sub-freezing weather. Between that ridge and the river itself ,water released by tributai’y levee'breaks crept coldly southward. Elsewhere in the Missis.sippi valley —' where the Red (’ross said some 200,^0£|P^.,Mlotw]ai2ders already werp homeless, the wind-di»turb«‘<l waters broke a secondary dike, at the ham let of Bessie, Tenn., for a fourth time. Neaiby Tiptonville, Tenn., was threatened with isolation. Hickman, , Ky.,'behind a wall and samtbag bar ricade, was for'a time in'danger— ■ again from the wind’s action—before . the blow subsided. - _ This threat has been recognized by army engineers- as the worst along the MisKWsippi—they have saidythat without the wind’s added menace the prospect was that the billion dollar levee system would stand ihe teat. 'The flood disaster nationally had cost more than 400 lives, under the best estimates, and ha(L driven nearly 1,000,000 people fro^ their homes. The damage still stood in the count- , less millions. President Roosevelt, in recognition of a catastrophe which Red Cross of ficials said bad made more -people homeless than any in American his tory, proclaimed an “emergency” to permit duty free importation'^for eign relief donations, j The U. S. geological survey said jthe flow from-the Ohio river, when jthe crest is reached ait Cairo, prob-, [ably today or tomorrow, would be 31 .per cent greater than ever before— 2,100,000 cubic fwt per .second. General Malin ^raig, the army chief of stoff, who has mobilized the most far-reaching military plan of . evacuation and aid ever put to work in peacetinve in America, said he had a feeling of^“o6nservative optimism” about fk>od conditions. Bev./M. C. Dendy of Gainesville, Ga., Wednesday witli W. E. NeigUmiu and family. \