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/■ / ■J- tJ- "--1 J.. ; ^ ■■, a. ”i THE CHRONICLE ' StriTcs T* B« a^Cleah Newt- pap^, Complete, Newsy, and Reliable. i / •'-t If Tov/oon’t |Uid THE CHRONICLlS, >< \ 1 Ton Don’t Get ^ The Neva. VOLUM|LX3SVlt CKNTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 8> 1937 NUMBER 14 COURT PLAN STILL DEBATED Friend and Foe Heard On Presi* depit*s Plan. ^Opponents Bee iW Thr^t To Democracy In Foi^ df Dictatorship Should Bill Pass. H,) County School Contests Held Declamation .and Expression Winners Deeded At Annuad Exercises In Laurens. Laurens, April 4.—Under the spon sorship of the Laurens County Teach- ers’ association, the annual county- wide school contests in declamation, expression and spelling were held here Friday evening. . .v,.- With W. R. Anderson, of Clinton, Clinton To Be Asked For Funds / - —- To Paint Orphanage Buildings 1 L_ Washington, April 6.—^An effort to end the senate judiciary conimittee^ protracted hearings on the Roosevelt court legislation aroused immediate _ opiKxsition tonight on the part of' presiding, the high school teste were friends and foes of the measure. jheld in the city School auditorium. Interrupting the testimony of a I lo each contest first, second i and witness. Senator Hughes, Democrat, j third place winners were annouriced, of Delaware, junior member of theHhe first b^ing awarded a medal. At a recent meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce, a coniihittee was appointed to launch a campaign in Clinton to raise fvmds to’ paint all buildingrs on the 'piomwell orphanage campus as an expression of the com munity’s interest and support' of the institution. All of the buildings badly need painting and the appeal is be- contributions have been i^elved and an intensive drive will be made to reach the goal with bvery man and woman in the community given an opportunity to coptnbute. Committees in^he respective wards have been nai^d to make the can vass as folloys: Ward 1, D. C. Heiistesa'and C. F. Seek To Adjust Social MesMures Legislators This Week Will Be gin Ironing^ 6u^^puse and Senate^ Plans. ing made to Chntonians, irrespective committee, asserted that “while it might be presumption on the part of a freshman senator,”- he would make a motion on Thursday “to discontinue public hearings.” \ > The first to respond was Chairman Ashurst, Democrat, of Arizona, who introduced the president’s bill and has responsibility for steering it through the senate. / “I have been associated with the able senator from Delaware only a few months,” he said, “but I have come to regard his opinions very ^highly. However,) I would be obliged-.with “Ropes,” end third, Walter Car- to vote against any motion to close the hearings.” Asserting there were still many witnesses to be h^rd. Senator Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska, a leading fig ure among the committee members opposed to thf bill, said that he would “fight any effort to stop the presen tation of the views'of the country on this highly dangerous measure.” Hughes’ announcement was made toward the close of a day in which James Truslaw Adams, historian, questioned the consititutionality of the ^ Roosevelt court reorganization bill to day, and asserted its anactment would create a precedent involving grave dangers of dictatorship. Congress, he told the senate judi ciary committee, -^aa never “given - the right to increase the number of judges solely for the purpose of pack ing the court and so having its dc- ' cisions controlled by the executive or the legislature.” “To use the letter of the constitu tion for a iNiTpose not intended and subversive-of the whole constitutional structure cannot be considered a con stitutional act, althou^ it may be a legal one,” he added. Adams testified after Charles C. Burlingham, New York city attolmey, had opposed the legislation on the ground that it would impair rthe in- ^ dependence of the judiciary. Both he and Adams, praising the president’s objectives but ctiticizing h;s methods, called for^the substitution of a con stitutional amendment. . -The day also brought a telegram to In high school expression first place was won by- Elizabeth Willing ham of Joanna school, Goldville, with the recital of “Crimson Rambler.” Elsie Long, Laurens, wth “The Last Leaf,” Ind Eleanor Bolt, Gray Court- Owings, with “The Prince of Court Painters,” tied for second, ^place, while Dorothy Horton, Clinton, won third honor with “And a Little Child.” Declamation: firsf," Jimmie Cook, Gray Court-Owingsp’With '“The Skral of the American Soldier”; (Second, Jimmie Wienbrenner, Mountvill|, of denomination, for funds with which to do the work. ; It is estimated that $3,500* will be needed to provide for paint and la bor for the job. The committee, head ed by R. E. Ferguson wS chairman, has completed preliminary plans and designated Friday, April 16th, for one-day campaign to raise Us amount. Already several substa ial Vice-Pl-esident Gamfer from Prank E.-^therine Bryson, Clinton; third, Ju- ♦ Gannett, newspaper publisher and chairman of the national committee to uphold constitutional govemibent, asking that the senate “decisively re pudiate” what he termed “the boast ful statement implyii>g executive con trol over the deliberations of the sed ate” made by Postmaster General Farley. He refemd, he said, to Farley’s as sertion trat: “We will let the senate talk all it wants^ then the house will talk and after they are all talked out, we will call the roll. We have plenty of votes to put over the president’s program.” Adams contended that while the gamers of the constitution gave con gress the power to fix the aise of the supreme court, this was done in the knowledge that the country would grow, fwith the consequent addition of new judicial cironite. For years supreme court members rode ^rcuit in addition to sitting at Washington. Turning to the dictatorship argu- ment^_he said: “Why do i" Inject to the president’s method in this^auw? For one thing because I believe k^woul^ be creat ing a precedent, on a resounding scale, which would be fraught with the' gravest dangers for the future. There are-many things in life which are difficult fully to sense unless you have personally experienced them. 1 have spent much thne abroad since I x»me back from the war. I have been in Italy alone some ten times, and many other cmmtries. “Lhsve seen the loss of liberties under dictatorships growing up be fore the people realized whm they were goiiig. I have seen theylives of entire classes ruined by inflation. For me these things are not academic. They are real, living and horrible. I do not' for a moment accuse the pres- “There is no use denying that the ■forces overthrowing freedom and de mocracy are growing in strength af ter having overtomed one nation af ter another. Looking over our own national past <1 see no period in which our self-government waa in such dan- . ger as it it today.** ' BarlingfaamrtiM the committee that **the fondamentol qneetkiaJiNeld^ the (Oontinned on page ancX ter, Clinton, who also declaimed VRopes.” The boys’ medal, donated by Charles H. Garrison, was present ed by Thomas A. Woffbrd,' who also pre.sented the expression me<lal, given by the board of education. In connec tion with the oratorical contest there were interesting coincidents. Twenty- five years ago Mr. Garrison, repre senting Gray Court-Owings, won fit^ place, and about twelve years l^r Mr. Wofford bf^ the Lauren.s scjiook got first awardA^ Now J immie /Gook bakes the honor Wk to Qray/Court- Owings. / Grammar’^school declamation and expression, G. N;. ^oy, Goldville, pre siding. ppclamation: first. Jack Arnjr strong, Laurens, wity^“Bob At Ithe Football Game”; a^nd, William Graham, Clinton, imh “Hank and the Heii”; third, Jack^ood, Ford junior high, with “ThyMysterious Pup.” Expression: /first, Ame Jacobs, Clinton, with/junior”; second, Eliza beth Carteiy^^Mountville, with “Dottie Drives ay/Bargaln”; third, Vivian Bean, with “Mumps.” Prin^ry, Miss Allene Franks pre siding. Declamation: first, Guyton Kay,; Renno .school; scond, David Trib ble, Clinton; Horace Garrison, Ford Junior high.. Expression: first, Mkry Alice Dix on, Renno; second, Lutrell Oakley, Lyilia; third, Joan Brown, lAurens. Me<lals in grammar and primary teste were provided by the education -asso ciation. ' Spelling, high school: first, Mercy Weinbrenner, Mountville;^8 e c o n d , Yi^iinn; wa^d 2, W. H. Simpson and Dr. FeldeC Smith; ward 3, L. B. Dil lard an^ W. D. Copeland: ward 4, Columbia, April 6.—^Ironing out the differences in the senate and house social security bills will begin this week with the appointment of the free conference connmittee to draft a compromise measure. NEW SIT-DOWN BILL DRAFTED Democratic Leaders Agree On Resolitiipn Condemning Prac tice As Contrary To Bound Public Policy. Roosevelt Dodg es the Issue. ' Rites Held For A. Ross H^th Copeland and P. S. Bailey; Vard .6> S. W. Sumerel and E. D. /■raig. , - A st»ec‘ial lad-ies coiTuiiL^tiec will be i announced next wedk to .a-ssist with the drive. when the general ass^bly convenes wnuenming sit-down Tuesday for its thirteenth week. Lieu- rtrikes and at the same thnc express- tenant Governor Harley cannot name disapproval of the failure of cm- the senate members ef the committee Ployers to observe provisions of the until the hou.se appointments are an- Wagner labor relations board act and Waahingtno, April G. Skids ap peared sufficiently greased tonight to shoot through the senate tomorrow a Speaker Solomon Blatt said he \Vaitp7A. Johnsoirt:'E.'"sa<rier“and would appoint the houae Mac Adair; ward 5, Bra Townacnd, '-"-'wl a«.«nhlv ran.raea ndenmmir McKissick Becomes University Head Services for Well^nown Citi zen At Rocky ^rings Presby terian ChurcH/IM Few Days. New President Outlines Policy For Institution To Give State Wider Service. • ^ A. Ross Bla^ly, 63, died at his rosidenve her^ Friday night follow ing a' five ^ays pneumonia illness, the announwment of his death coming as a shocx to his friend.s here and elsewhe Fungal services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock from Rocky Columbia, April 6.—J. Rion McKis sick, former editor and more recently dean of the journalism* School at the University of South Cardliha, was to day formally inaugurated LOth presi- dent of the university. Gov. Olin Johnston proside<l. The state oath of office wa.s ad- Spyings Presbyterian church ‘ near ministered . by Chief John C. Stabler e, and wet4 con<lucte<l by the Rev. j of the state supreme court. . N. Long, pastor of the First Bap- j Dr. MoKis>;ick outlined a six- Ivoint tist church of this city. 'program of advancement for the uni- Active pallbearers were: R. 'W. Wade, W. W. Harris, F. M. Boland, J. Will Dillard, ‘V. parks Adaif** and R. Pi Chapman. The honorary escort con.<iisted of a number of friends of the family. Mr. Blake!jr was" born in the Pea Ridge section March 4, 1874, a son of the late Sallie Simpson Blakely versity. Other speakers included James Monroe Smith, educator, and pre.sidont_ of the-Louisiana State Uni versity, F’reSident B. E. Geer, Funnan- Univei*sity ami Slndton J. Phelps, pVesident of Winthrop college. An audience of 2,000 heard Dr. Mc Kissick outline hi^ aim.s. The uni- vei'sity field house was decorated and and J. Wil.son Blakely, one of the j renovated for the^xercises. highly regarded and widely connct-1 Policies for advancement Dr. Me ed families of“ that community. AsjKissick outlined a.s: a young man he went to Poughkeep- , “Development, by all wise means. lian Gardner, Joanna at Goldville. Granunar school: first, Louise An derson, Laurens; second, Mary Bailey Owens, Clinton; third, Bernice Whel- chel, Joanna, Goldville. * P. C. Leads In Baseball Race Chick Galloway’s Presbyterian col lege star baseball team continued its winning record Tuesday by defeating Furman in Greenville by .a score of iZ to 0. Lefty Sftggs, on the zno^und f< ' lor the (Blue Hose, struck out 14 men in nine innings of hitieas hurling. Furman ~i will come to Clinton next Monday afternoon for a return en gagement. ^ ' . iYeaterdair aliemopo P./ C. wae scheduled to meet Oglethorpe univer- f tty. A cecond game (with Atlanta noon at 4 o’clock on the local dia mond, with a big crowd expected. The first-week of intra-etate com petition in collegiate baseball placed the Blue Stockings'at the head of the peicentage column, w|th Wofford in aecond place. Coach Galloway’s team up to yeaterday had won four games and loot one. CoO^e Students i - To Supply Pulpits Several members of the Ministerial club at Presbyterian college will con duct the worship services in Clinton churches next Sunday following a plan adopted^ two yean ago. The etudenta average about four services duril^.rthe college year. sie, N. Y., where he completed a bu«ine.s« training course. He later moved to Clinton and for several years was engaged in the mercan tile business with W. J. Benjamin. Afterwards he located in I^urens where he was employed a.s a'clerk for several years by P. A. Simpson, and later entered the real estate busine.s.s. Thirteen years a^ Mr. Blakely nvoved back to Clinton and since then had been engaged in the filling station busint'ss. Ho was always of the moral and religious chrac- ter of our students' because ‘the char acter of the citizen is the strength of the state;’ ^ “The university should more di rectly and specifically train her stu dents for Useful, effective citizen ship. “The utiivorsity should Ih‘ enabled to help greatly in the social, econ omical apd—iaduSitrial develpomcnt of South Carolina through the up building of its re.search facilities ami nounced: The differences in the two bdls was maihly a matter of the amount of the appropriation, to be provided for the program. The' house hill provided for $1,04.5J)00 but the senate measiure was only $4,000 short of $2,000,000. Both ^ measures were in practical a'grcement on the administrative phases of the program to be inaugu rated hut did not tally in the sums to be spent for aissLstance to the blind, the net'dy age<l and to dependent chil dren.. The hou.se appropriations were be low those of the senate for each cate gory, while the .senate bill also car- riiKl an appropriation for aiding un fortunate persons not specified in the national aocial security law. No fed eral money would lie available to match this appropriation as it would be for the other amounts. Chairman Henry R. Sims, of tiic senate social security committee^ a certainty for the free conference Com mittee, has lH*en absent from the'gen- ei^assiuhhly T^^ two we<*ks because of illness at his Orangeburg home, but was expdcte<l to return/o work tomorrow from statements/ ho has made from time to time. He was re garded as prepared to iryist on the provisions of hi.s bill. / Representative J^mes P. Mozingo of Darlington, chairmdij of the house social legislation comrnittee, wlil head the conferee* from tl>at body when the speaker annonpees his apoint- ments. / ! interested in public affairs and was of its graduate .school. well known throughout the county. He had many friends who will regrrt greatly to hear of his deathrZTj Mr. Blakely is survived by bis widow, Mrs. Rachel Davis Blakely; one aon, A. Ross Blakely, Jr., two daughters. Miss Margaret Blakely, Greenville; Mrs. A. Cook, Green wood; one brother, -;J. Y. Blakely, Washington, D. C., six sisters, Mrs. C. P. Robinson of ^his city; Mrs. L. G. Benjamin and Mj?*- J. P. Kilgore, Darlington; Mrs. W. iL. SiKmmy, Hoiikton, Texas; Mrs. L. Wylie, Clover; and Mrs. C.TW. Stuckey, Kingstree. ' WILLIAM W. BULLOCk Brother of Mro, W. k. WoAoioii of TUa City, Passes In Newberry After Short IQnass. Newberry, April 4. — William W. Bullock, 68, died Saturday morning at the Newberry County hospital after a two weekk illness. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 4:30, cdnducted by the Rev. F. O. Lamoreux, assist- opponents is on deck for this afier-“IxP^by the Rev. A. T. Jamison of Greenwood. Interment was' in Rose mogit ctmeic97. • ' Besides his w^e, who wasi Miss Lillm Glenn, are the following chil dren: W. G. Bullock, Marion; Ryan BuUock, Miami, Fla; Mies Kate Bul lock, Grerawood; T. E. Bullock, M. U Bullock, L. W. Bullock, and Mrs^ R. H. Andersron, all of Newberry^; two brothers, M. L. Bullock,’ Tamim, Fllu; Thomas Bullock, Olahoma; ^ree smters, Mrs, W. H. WorkmanyClin- ton; Mrs. .Ella Johnson, - Hattsville; Mrs. AJlie Hdl, Laurens. / ^ ICr.'-Bullock was proprietor of the Newberry hotel for a ^mber of years, but for the last 4ight years had moved to $h€ farm -where he had devoted l|is eptii^ time. ' “The university should extend its services, facilities and resources to all the people of South Carolina‘who de.sire them but cannot directly avail themselves of such benefits. “The university must be improved and upbuilded upon its sound and enduring foundation in the liberal arte, the college of arts andvsciences/’ He teinved the institution as, be longing “not to one section of/the stete, but to all.” / ^ He sketched the highlights bf the university’s history, xand 8aid{ “not withstanding the incalcuably/valuable service of this * institution/to Soxrth Carolina for 150 years, I know of no other state university Munich in- the last 50 years haa so impover ished, so often the ti^rget for un- Ijustifiable criticism a^d so often dis criminated against In the allocation of public funds. “The most important task of the university now,^ M I conceive it, is to build itself /constantly higher 'in to the good /Will of the people of South CarolpW.” Prcip^dcnt W. P. Jacobs of Presby terian college, announced Thurtdiiy that/the college will confer an hon- ory^y degree jof_. doctor of laws on J^*ph E. Davies, the United States ^bassador to Moscow, at exercises /to be held here on Monday, April 26th. Mr. Jacobs in making the an nouncement, said that he talked by telephone to Ambassadoir Davies aboard the Queen Maiy at sea and that the ambassadoF~said he and Mrs. Davies would come here for the R. Friink Adair ^ At His Home R/ F. Adair continues quite ill at hi^ home on l^st Cargllna avenue he has been confined to his bed for the- past four weeks. Only slight, if any, improvement was reported in his.condition yesterday. Mr. Adair, who is well-known and highly regarded in this community where his entire life has been spent, has served the city for the past thir teen y<^rs as its faithful and efficient street overseer. He has a host of friends who will regret to leant of his continued illness and who unite in the hope that he soon will be able to see and mingle with them again. 4- Cliff McLod, president of the ident of wishing to be a dictato^ buMiW, has announced the following what of the future? ‘scsdule: W. Chester Keller, First Baptist ^urch, 7:30 p.m. Cliff If. McLeod, First Presbyterian chureh, 7:30 plm. Hob«t Wardlaw,' First Presbyte rian church of Laurent, 7:30 p.m. Merie C. Patteraon, Broad Street ICetlioditt chureh, 7:^ pjn. (April lath). Wayne Potter, nmrhwc’l Manorial chureh, 4:00 p.m. v NEW SERIAL BEGINNING TODAY LEASHED GUNS OF CIRCLE “L” Slim Loyale is paroled from the penitentiary after serv ing .eighteen months for a crime he did not; commit. Land- graibbers are trying to steal his property and he is power- leas to defend hipiself. Read how he solvea hia problems in this atirring novel ol the West by Perry Westbrook, begin ning in TI^ CI^BDNICI E today on page s^ven. Davies Get ^ Honorary Degree Presbyterian College Will Also Confer / Degrees On Senator Byrne^ and Dwight Austin In Ceremonies Here April 26th. a condemnation of the e.spionage ac- tivitias of industriali.ste as exposed by the I.»aFollette committee. The defeat in^ the senate yesterday of the Byrnes amerxhnent, which de clared si|;-down strikes illegal and contrai-y to sound public policy, left the 48 senators who vot(*d against the proposal on a s|>ot from which they are demanding removal. Only another yote on the subject wilL enable these senators to make known their opposition to sit-down strikes as a weapon of labor ,in in dustrial disputes and_ that is a rea- •son why the Pitman resolution, in cluding the Byrnes amendment along with-condemnation of employers who have violated'laws in indu.strial dis putes, will soon lx* acted upon. Senator Joe Robinson, Democratic floor leader, who had to exert all the pressure at his command to defeat the Byrnes amendment, stated today that the sit-down strike resolution will come up tomon-ow. Objections piay force* a. delay of consideration for -one •duy but-there 4k -no- 4lsposi- tion in the senate to delay a vote. The big fight may come in the sen ate on whether to make the resolu tion a simple senate dtvlaration, a concuiTent resolution, or a joint res olution. In the' [agit event it would have to go to the president for his signature. It can bp said on good au thority that an effort will be madt* to make the declaration in a foimi of a joint resolution .st> a.s to enable the * president to make art expression. Back of the Whole fight in the Ben- ate for a declaration of policy against sit-down strikes is the failure of the president to speak out oh the sub ject. Before Mr. Kooseveli left for, Warm Springs, it is understoo<l that/ he made ce^;tain definite promises t<( congressional leadei-s that h(' his ceremony. United States Senator James F. Byrnes and Dwight E. Austin, promi nent New York drug manufacturer, will receive LL.D. degress at the same time. -f- The ho^r guests will be greeted at a reception by Governor Johnston, South Carolina federal judges and other distinguished guests. Upon the train arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Davies they (wilFIle met by the col lege military corps and the party will go immediately to Johnson Field where they will attend a review of the military corps, to be followed by a- special luncheon In the college dining hall in their honor. Following the luncheon, the Rev. H. W. DuBose, D.D., of Spartanburg, chairman of the board of trustees, win confer the decrees. | Ambassador Davies will deliver the principal ad dress of the occasion. After the ceremony the guests will make a tour of the college and attend a baseball game between Presbyteriap college and The Citadel, and also tennis matches between the two schools. Mr. and Mrs. Javiep will leave Clinton on the six ^o’clock vestibule for Washington. Shortly .thereafter they' expect to sail aboard their yai^t, the Bea Cloud, for England where they will attend the coronation ceremonies of George VI. would .speak hi.s mind ,on t he ".subject. Then came his departure and nothing was said. When the prc.sident lushed back “to. Washington from Georgia.lor hk con ference with congrc.ssTonal leii<lers^ he was again urged to make a de<-- laration. Again he r6mained silent and as he did the pressure for a dt^- " laraiion by congress increa.scd. After defeat of his amendment yes terday, Senator Byrnes, long regarded a« the ^closest of the friends to the president, predicted the same senate which had defeated his proposal would condemn sit-down strikes with in a short time. -4 Kiivaj^iians Attend Inter-City Meet Address Heard From Carolinas Governor. Clinton Club Wins Prize For [.(arrest Attendance. Chamber Meets Tuesday Night The April meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held next Tues day night at H7:30 at the tea room. Recently nominated officers will be eleoted and innilalled for the oomhig year and a full attendance of the membership is asked by the retiring officer*. ’ fTbe^dut) will have as its‘guest, 'Niels Christensen of Beaufort, field representative df the eoeial aceurity board, vrho will apeak on social se curity legislation. (y'linton- Kiwanians Went to New berry Thursday evening for an inter city meeting held'^at _ the (Country club. More than 170 Ki-wanians rep resenting the club.s in the ninth Caro lina district were present with each club having a part un-^thcMprogram. The prize offered to the club in the district with the largest attend ance was won by Clinton. District Lieutenant lit»vernor Don ald E. Brown of Ander.>«on, presided at the banqliet, with the. principal address of the evening delivered by Dr. .Joseph R. .Sevier of Henderi^on- ville, governor of the Carolinas dl.-^- tr|ct. His address was centered around the/Kiwanis slogan, “We Build,” and 'was a most m-holarly and instructive presentation of the \work of the organization. Clubs participating in the eve ning’s program were: Spartanburg, Greenville, Greer, Andersork Green- wxkkI, Clinton, Newberry and Rock Hill. Presbytery To Meet This Month The spring meeting of South Caro lina presbytery will convene with the Liberty Springs Presbyterian chureh 'at Cross Hill on Tuesday, April 20th. The Rev. F. Ti McGill is pt^stor of the church and is! now, i>erfecting plans*, for the approaching meeting. The tpresl3rtery comprises the coun ties of Abbeville, Greenwood, Lau- reos and Nexvberry,-'with delegates expected from" all Presbyt€'*iaa ohorehee in this area. * ■ I" \ \ , J