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ir • VOLUME xxxvn CLINTON, S. G., THU^tSUAY, MARCH 25, 1937 NUMBER J2 PROBE SOUGHT STATE AFFAIRS Governor Asks For Outside Au dit Highway Patrol, Tre^urer and-Uis^Qwn Constabu&ry To Clear Up Malicious Whisper ings. / State’s Finances . To Be G>nsidered Appropriation Bill As It Goes To S^ate Calls Fpr $10,000,- 000 For Fiscal Year. I) Columbia, March 22.—Finances will be in thg spollight in the general as sembly this week when the. general Decision by i , bill readies the floor !•: ::: III til III Vii III It: Hi ••••»x**************************^******* ii: Columbia, March 23 the house offices and officers com-[of the senate. mittee to sponsor a bill calling fori The bill, in the hands of the sen- an audit of all state offices and de- (ate finance committee since it was partments followed quickly on theppassed by the house more than a heels of a suggestion by Governor | month., ago, was expected to have j Ijl Olift Johnston- for-—*far-reaching-and jbeen~ reported irat wheff tfre “senate] jjj fact-finding” investigations and re-[convenes tomorrow, but the report;||j vised accounting for state finance.s. 'was delayed about 24 hours, it devel-iiji Johnston appeared before a joint oped today. sdHsion of the general assembly, tln'- 'announced until a short time before his arrival, to suggest inquiries into It appeared the measure would not reach the senate be^xe Wednesday when Chairman S. M. Ward of the the activities of the state treasurer,;committee, back from his home at the highway patrol and the state con stabulary ‘ in addition to the fiscal changes. Representative Elwood McKay, of Florence, piember of the offices and officers committee, said members agreed to sponsor a joint resolution for investigations in line witfi the eugge.stions and would submit a bill to a full committee meeting tomor- row. f, “For a long time,” the governor told the assembly, —malicious whis perings'concerning the affairs of cer tain officials and departments of our state government have been going the ' -rounds, undermining, I think, the use fulness of these departments. The good names of officials have been re flected upon. Libelous things have been sard about some of the men we ~ brave' functiofiThg as leaders in our government, “Such confusion, as I see it, has no place in our government.^ There should be no reason -for conditions like this. Everything that is done by our government should be entirely in the open.” Johnston said the joint legislative \committee to inveetigate transactions between St%te Treasvirer E. P. Miller firm of McAlister, Smith and. Pat^ of Greenville, was “limited in only ^ing authorized to investigate the traA^ctions of one company with dealings. I recommend that a far- reaching and fact-finding investiga tion'be made^of every affair of the treasurer's officb- “As you will reball the state treas urer himself annoti^ed that he would welcome an investigation, and I. think it is only fair that ev^ official act of this office be laid opbn for public " Inspection,” He linked the highway p^tpol and his own constabulary as the subject of “other whisperings.” X “There have been members ofN^e constabulary whosij.'conduct has hebn / ment of the report on the bill, adding Georgetown after the week-end, said several matters forced the postpone- that the committee would meet again tomorrow afternoon for some further consideration. Ward did not comment on any ap propriations figures, but it was learn ed from J. M. Smith, state auditor and finance committee clerk, that the bill, as it stood today, carried total appropriations of approximately $10,- 200,000. Both Ward and Smith stdted, how ever, that this figure was subject to change in view of the further meet ings of the committee. “I don’t know what they (committee members) will do,” Ward said. As Passed by the house, th® appro- piiiaUbn measure totaled $9,558,0M. This was $111,000 more than recom mended by the budget coipmission, of which Ward, as the senate chainnan, is ft member, and several himdred thousand dollars more than the 1936- 37 appropriation bill. The tentative draft of the bill was being whipped into shape by Smith and prepaid for the printer, who will be given the “go ahead” signal to print as soon as the committee completes its work. :H -t ill Hi it: It: Studmts ~ Otii CblttirflSIf International Relation’s Club At College Votes On Presidents Court Proposal. In a vote taken at the regular bi weekly meeting of the International Relations club at Presbyterian ‘ ifoL lege last Thursday, only one-third of the service, but the whisperers would have you believe., that the whole con stabulary is unworthy of trust. ... 1 think that like the j treasurer’s office and all the other state departments and officers, the constabulary should be the subj^t of a far.-reaching and fact-finding investigation. “Then there have been astounding rpmors, accusations and developments in the personnel of the state highway patrol. Charges of graft and bribery have been made. One bf the high- ranking officers of the patrol now * stands charged by the fedcutd govem- ment'for alleged coluaion* with moon^- shiners in Sumter county. “He was involved along with local officers of that county. One such of ficer, I am informed, is alleged to have committed suicide whan he learned that the federal officer^ had been invastigating-hia-conduct. ' “The agencies I have named are the ones which have been 4[m>ught most into the limelight, and^ there fore, are the ones singled out by me in recommending these far-reaching and fact-ending investigations, and studies of all ^rpartmenta. “I want for odee and for all to have every cloud of doobt removed from the activities of every state official apd department. Certainly no one could object to thorough purging of our government. “Then in recent days there has de veloped widespread oonfnsi<m and dis agreement as to the accounting of state finances. It seems that even members of the general sescrobly, it self, and the heada,iil.rn9JKa:;2Anjt com mittees are not-aware of just bow much money the state ,tJ^es in, ex pends or has on hand.- This confosi<m arises perhaps from the fact that no (Ontinued on page eight) Fe^al Court Jurymen-Named S I 0^ f^'Laurens county citisens have been drawn to serve as grand jurors at the Greenville term of United States court, beginning Alpril .12th. They are: ,Cark» Boyd, J. D. Culbert son, Jamea h. Davsgport of Laurens, and S. G. Dillard of thM city. Irby S. Hipp, also of this dty, is the only petit veniremsii frwn the county. of president Roosevelt’s plan to- en- large the United ^tates supreS^e court, with five voting for the pro- posir A like number were-whofly op such that 1 Have removed them from\posed to it, while four members indi- _ .1- v: ij -v^rould be in favor of the plan if it were worked through a con stitutional amendment. ’ The ypting was conducted by Du- gald Hudson, who also spoke on “The Supreme ^Court Situation.” Oth er talks inchuled “Strikes and Indus trial Orgsmization,” by-Alvin Chap man, and a resume of his trip to the Southeastern I. R. C. conference at Auburn, Ala., by Gilmore. Presbyterians Plan DuBose Meeting •tl III ::: Hi ••• Spirit of the Day Hughes Against Court Proposal Chief Justice of Highest Bench Sends Views To Senate Group Opposing Change. Washington, March 12.—Chief Jus tice Hughes caused jubilation among the foes of the Ttoosevelt court pro posal today by bluntly declaring that jjiito increa.se the membership of the «u- jjj! -ii: ::: iJId preme court was likely to “impair” UNION STAGES^ DETROIT RAUY Martin Warns “We’H Get What’s Ours” At Huge Meeting. Poli ticians To Be Ca^t Aside In Drive for Unionization, He Shouts. Detroit, M^rchf 23.—The United I Automobilp Worker.® union broadcast its efficiency. ja warning tonight—backed by a tre- This statement, to which Associate! Tnendotri outpouring of union mem- Justos Van Dovwter How lovejy is Easter, The Queen of the Spring, What gladness and joy Its coming can bring ; It holds a rich promise As bright as the flwviers That break into beauty .‘ And bloom through its hours. , '' ! - O glad is the world On this brightest of days, W’hen nature joins mankind In glad songs of praise; For no heart can be heavy. No heart can stay cold, As' its sunshine envelopes Each pathway with gold. Hctw lovely ya Easter, W’hat, dreams it can bring. It holds ail the joy - Of the newly-waked spring. Ak through its glad music VVe hear angels say : “The Lord has arisen— Death is conquered today. - III agreed, was Thrown “drlimaf^^ into " the tense hearings of the senate ju diciary committee by Senator Wheel er, Democrat, of Montana, the first witness to appear in opposHion to the bill. ■ V / i!? ill tu III til ::t jjj ::: iii ill ••• •••••••< i**t*t*< .V ••••••••••••••• I Mil _ EAUPNS COUNH SUPPLY BUI PUTWH Measure Net Appropriation of $72,197.34 for General County Purposes. Provision Made for Building and Repairing Bridges and Purchasing New Machinery For Supervisor’s Road N^ds."^ ‘ Z' With net appropriation items amounting to $72,197.34, the Laurens the members present voted in favdrdcaunty supply bill for 1937-38 wa.s in- Beginning next Monday, Maixdi-^, and continuing through Friday eve ning, a series of special religious ser^- vices will be held at the First Pres byterian church M previously an- jKiunced. ^ — 'The services will be led by the Rev. Henry Wade DuBose, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Spar^burg, and^ one of the most prominent ministers of the Presb^- rian church. Dr. DuBose has frequent ly visited in Clinton in recent-yeafs and » w^l known here, both in the city and at the dollege. pastor of the church. Dr. D. J. has extended a cc^al wel come to the members of his congrega tion as well as the general public, to attend the services which will be held in the evening at 7:30. The meeting will be followed by the quarterly com munion on iSunday, April 4th. troduced in the house of representa tives last week and now goes to the senate where it is expected wj be rati fied by Senator Cromer, who worked in collaboration with .the house dele gation in drafting the measure.^ i Y—■ The gremn appropriation in section 1 amounts to $115,532.34, from which is deducted $43,335 estimated to be derived from fees, fines, forfeitures, insurance licenses and gas tax. The last item is estimated at $30,(KK), the same as last year, although the tax exceeded that amount by several thousands of dollars.- The auditor Is authorized to fix a levy- sufficiently large to cover the appropriation “after Consulting and with the consent of the Laurens coun ty delegation.” Jn addition to the appropriation under section 1, additional appropri ations carried in the bill are as fol lows: . One mill tax for 'tuition of- high school- pupils in districts where no high school is located. Ten dollars, pfr month each fol- deputies at Watts Mills, Lydia Mills and Joamuk Mills. An uRstipulated millage for past indebtedness to. Palmetto bank. An unstipulated milltge to pay off. $18,100 in notes. * "" r One-half'of one mill to ke known as the hospital fund. All of the additional appropriations' have been carried in past supply hills except the ^ half mill hospital fund item. Hospital Fnti4 The appropriation for :the hospital fund is disposed of, as follows: “Sec. 18.—^Tbat there is hereby,, lev- I O DEATHS ^from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in l^UBBNS COUNTV I U37 liCi’g SUire To Mtkc Thin • Tear On Um H%h wa^ vestigate the financial standing of any and all patient.s, before granting their application for charity. Their application for charity shall be filed with the claim and shall bo a pSrt of the document herewith. That in the event there remains any balance of the fund provided for in this sec tion, after taking care of the items heroin specified,' then, in thait event, the unexpended balance shall go .4o the maintenance and upkeep of the said hospital."^ More For Roads The major increa.se under Section 1 of the bill is for roads and bridged, a special-fund of $15,000 being pro vided to build and repair bridges and $8,600 for the purchase of machinery. The bill is Mrritten in twenty sec tions, a number of which are but repetitions of sections m past bills. They may be read in the printed acta by those interesting in seeing them. Section 2 retires the sheriff to make monthly imports of delinquent tax collections, and forbids him from depositing county ^unda in his per sonal account. ■ : - Section 17 is a repetition of g sec- ti(hi introduced into the supply bill several years ago authorizing and di recting the treasurer to 'borrow for permanent road improvement work such sums of money as the delegation may direct. No levy is provided for the payment of the loan. • Scetkm One Sectidn one, under which the major activities of the county are carried on, is as follows: Section 1. T}wt a tax of sufficient number of milla, less the estimated, revenue to be received by Laurens <Ik)Unty in 1937, to pay the appropri ation hereinafter made, the amount of such millage to be determined by the Hi.s words, read to the senate /ju diciary committee, had scarcely been digested by tho.se who heard/them when John 11, Clarke, only liring re tired member of the court, declared in a radio speech that Pre.sident Roosevelt’s court reorganization pro posal was “clearly constitutional." -Clarke, who retired from the court in 1922, confined himself to the “nak- e<l legal question” of constitutionality and asserted the proposal “islplainly within the powers granted to the congress.” Clarke .^spokc frdm San Diego^ Fifteen jninutes later. Secretary Wal lace tmd^a farm bureau audience at Richmond, Va., that the presidential proposal was a “simple arid effective’’ method of assuring progress of na tional welfare, lie said recent decis ions of the supreme court blocked at tempts of the Roosevelt administra tion^ to erect ‘ necessary safegtiards for agriculture and industry.” OpjMwition senators had long been seeking to get an exprcs.sion of opin ion from the high bench,* l^lieving it would lend powerful support to their cause, and they were obviously happy over the Hughes declaration. Wheeler, asserting ^ that he had been “shocked and sunirised” by the president’s proposal and 'by charges that the court’s work wan hindered by the age of its members, told the committee that he had gone “for the facts to the one source that could be gxpected to know them bettar than any* one else.” From the chief justice, he received a letter which as.serte<i thaf^ “the court is fully abreast of its work,” that “there is no congestion of cases upon our calendar,that the work of reading petitions for review ia “la borious” but a<lequatcly handled. “An increase in the number of jus tices, apart from any question of policy, which I do not discuss, would not promote the efficiency of the court,” the Hughes letter said. "It is believed that it would impair that ef ficiency so long as the court acts as a unit. -The letter created a stir among the big crowd which had assembled in the caucus room»^long before the hearing started to listen to the Montana Dem ocrat open the op'position iS the court bill. “going to get everything that i.s oiri^” / / Thou.sqnds of men and women surged into Cadillac square, heart of , Detroit’.-? downtown area, at the call of Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of Amer ica. Superintendent of Police Fred W. Frahm estimated the throng at up ward of 60,000. Union headquarters said about 250,000 were there.. Bearing bc^iners, singing, cheering and sometimes booing, but without disorder, the mass of people tangled traffic within a half mile radius of the “.square,” an oblong area 200 feet wide extending two block.s between the~city and county buildings. Martin, who ordered the demori- tration in protest against police evic tion of sit-<lown strikers in two small labor disputes Saturday^ told the crowd: “Reason and justice shall be in stituted in-t-tbis city, this state btitI' this nation.” “-We as wot-kers are going to get everything that Is ours, even if we have to move every publit official out of office to get it. We are going to^get ou'r just due.” Martin directed his remark^ to of ficials of the city and state^ to manu facturers and at one point to Henry Ford. ^ Hundreds of._jiolice were on <luty in the area, but they took no part be yond trying to keep traffic moving. ^ On some streets, motorists were de- tdured as far as half a mile fron\ the outermost of the meeting. A squad of police stood at every ;ent{aiu;e to the city hall. Addressing himself to Ford, Mar tin said: “You can’t stop the union. You can’t stop your workers from joining the union. The automobile workers of this city and nation * are going to organize, and we are tell ing you that is going to happen. You might as well get ready to do busi ness with your organized workers.” Richard T. Frankensteen, organi zational director of the U. A. W., called U'® meeting the large.st labor gathering ever heW in the Unitetl States, and clainled that the union had won wage increa.ses totaling more than $150,000,000 in recent weeks. j. ^ ■ ied upon all of the taxable property County Auditor, after consulting and of Laurena County one-half of one rnrH"'T^ of 1 mill) which shall be known as the Hospital Fund. That out of this fund there shall first be paid the insu^nce premium of the rire insurance policy covering the said Laurens County Hospital and that the balance thereof shall be ex pended Jor the care and support of the needy or charity patients of the <C;ounty of Laurens; and that-it shaH be the’ duty of the County Board of Commissioners to pass, upon all claims, followed by the Operating Board of Trustees of said hospital and the same Operating Board of Trustees are hereby -authorized and required to pzss on the advisability of giving aid to any pHlii-rt claiming to ^ charity patient and in so doing riutll take inlo considmtion and in- with the consent of the Laurens County--Delegation, is hereby levied upon all taxable ppoi^rty of Laurens County*^ for county purpa.ses for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 1937, for the amounts and purposes here inafter stated as follows; to wit: ^Jtem 1. Roads and Bridges: For maintenance of Chain- gang. Roads and Bridges $30,<d00.00 To“i»^erived from gas tax and commutation road tax, and if these two sources of " .revenue are not sufficient, the deficit shjill be sup plied for u the contingent fund with the i written ap proval o^ the Senator the majority of the Legis lative Delegation. - (Gontiinied on page,tlx) History Class Oft On State Tour Dr. Dudley Jones and a group of Presbyterian college students left Tuesday morning to visit several im portant points of interest in South Carolina history. This class in history makes an an nual tour to Charleston and vicinity to study the .early developn^ent of the colony. This year their trip includes l^mter, Eutaw Springs, the old San tee canal, Medway plantation, -and other points. After visiting Magnolia and Middleton gardens near Charles ton, the students will return to their respective hmoes on Friday .for the spring holidays. Easter Sunrise Sunday The young people’s societies of the various churches of the city have ex tended a special invitation to the peo ple of Clinton to attend an Easter sunrise service to 'be held at the Thornwell orphanage chapel Sunday morning at 6:30 o’clock. 4rhe program as planned will in clude t^ gospel message of the res-' urrectlon, 3^>ecial Easter music, and a brief talk by Pro. Bernard H. ^yd of the Presbyterian college faculty. ■piiii I «"■■■»' ■ County Ginnings Show Increase Census figures 21,763* bales of cotton innned in Laurens county from the crop of IMS prior to March 1st, according to Marvin W. Sanders, special agent of the bureau of the census. This was an increase of 2,707 bales over ginnings for the sune period last year, the report at that time showing 19,05$ bales luui baiji gianod in‘i^he, county; ^ Herbert J. Martin Dies At Lamrens Father - Mrs;'?^1*aul Todd, of This City, Succumbs To Short Illness. Laurens, March 23. — Herbert-J. Martin, 1^0, well known bu.siness min and farmer, died at his home here early Tuesday after an illness of three weeks following a partial stroke and then.a complete paralysis, with complications only a few days ago.^ Mr. Martin was a son of the late Ambrose H. Martin and Harriett Rook Martin, residents of the Trinity Ridge community. His father wfts for many yeara a lea<ling merchant, at Laurens and bperator of large ^farm ing interests near the city. Mr. Mar tin ihimselT*, was engaged in business here in early 'life as operator of a comniercial flour(and grist mill in a.®- sociatioh With J. S. Machen. now of Greenville. For many years, however, he had lived at'the old homestead on the Princeton road. A few years ago he bought a home on Farley avenue, and moved to the city. He was inter ested in various enterprises, and was formerly a bank director. He is sur vived by his wife, Mrs. Mamie Byrd Martin, daughter of the late George C. Bryd of Laurens county; two sons, ^Alpha Martin,^ Laurens, and Byrd Martin, Anderson; one daughter,-Mrs. Paul Todd, Clinton; four sisters, Mrs. Laura M. Easterby, Mrs. Arthur L Hudgens and Mrs. H. Dbuglas Gray of. Laurens, and Mrs. C. S. Mcl>aurjh, McColll. L'uneral services for Mr. Martin were held from the residence at 11 o’clock Wednesday morning, with committal rites in the La ureas-ceme tery. I The services were conducted by the Rev. E. D. Patton and the Rev. Jodie A, Martin. ■' ' —.. |f . - ,A . Triends of A. W. Brice- will be sorry to know he has been ill at his home the past few days. Mnr. Jennie Sparks and sons. &uy and Claude, and Owen McAbee, H.i o.^ Union, spent Sunday with Mr. I Mrs, 'T -L/Cooper. "" ' V - \ " > ' ' ' \ I vr- I . \