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-. -rt- ■ ■ nulls’' • i '' : \- 1, j -'■ TBB CHRONICLE / Stziret T» Be a Clem Newt* paper, Ceaplete, Newsy, ^ «Jr< Reliable. VOLUME XXXVII it: If Tear WrR^ TH^ CHRONICLE To® Doa’t Get / Th^^ews. CLINTON, S. , APRIL ^.1937 >. NUMBER n TRIO HONORED WITH DEGREES Presbyterian - CoUege Confers LL.D. Degrees Upon Byrnes, nnvii« flnH Auatiri In DoomI- edly Unique Ceremony. Exer cises Largely Attended. Presbyterian college on Monday af ternoon conferred the degree of doc- .tor of lawa-npon the Honorable James Solons Growing Anxious For End Impatience For First Time la Shown By Legislators In Ses sions Last Week. Columbia, April first signs of impatience for early sine die adjournment appeared in the general assembly last week but they were not universally shared Hudgens Dies In Car Mishap Mer^ Of Home Agencies Sought W. W, Hudgens, County PWA Engineer, Killed When Auto Crashes Into tVain. Senator Byrd ^ys Linking of H. 0. L. C. and F. H. A. Would Save 24 JHillioii a-¥eiff.-— Washington,/ April 23. o^iy April 23. — Senator Harry Fr^yrd, Democrat, of Virginia, tonight renewed his drive to cut down government overhead and payroll ex- Monday night, however, in an effort Byrnes u s. senator from SoiShifo,. .dj„„mmenf by n^t week-end.'if"”"'’ Ust^fall, oomin* ciWin^ in Clinton; the Honorable ! obserrers saw no I Josejlth E. Daviesr U. S. ambassador to Russia, in^ his WashingtOTi apart ment, and Dwight E. Austin, promi nent New York business man, in his hospital bed ip Charleston. A nation al radio hook-^up was used in confer ring the degre^^ All .three men originally were to have Deen in Clintbn ^Monday to re ceive the degrees. Hdv^^^r, last week Mr. Austin was struck by a mail^ truck in Charleston wh^re he was vi.siting his daughter and suffered a broken leg. Arrangements Were im mediately made to confer his degree by telephone from the platform in Leroy Springs gymnasium. On Sunday , morning Ambassador ington apartment and injured his hip so badly that he was unable do ieave chance for It: j A coroner’s jury Friday returned 4 1.V u 'll- . !the following verdict: “We, the jury, Although strong adjournment sen- .. , . tir o j n u* .. . ^ t J • .V f • find that W. W. Hudgens came to his timent was noted in the senate, ii . ... ,. * . ’ {death iby driving his automobile into C. N. & L. train stationed across Laurens, April 23. — W. "W. Hud gens, 38, PWA engineer-administra tor who was killed shortly before mid- night.J Thursday when his automobile was in'collision with a freight train n South Har-. , , .u . j . V J u V f .u 'dation of agencies that do the same per street, had been in charge* of the of work He announced that, he will intro duce a bill this week to consolidate tire ’Ireme^ owii^s Ibah corporation Robert F. Blakely Dies Suddenly * .v J o u penses through “piece meal” consoli- The la^akers returned to work Har.l‘..f A. ^ Est^med Citizen and Church Leader Succumbs To Short —Hhiras. Intermenr At Hcm3«^ ihont Yesterday. Robert F. Blakely. 70, died sudden ly at hus home here Tuesday at noon following an illnesa of only a few days. While Mr. Blakely had been in declining health for the past several years, hi.s death came as an unexpect WIDE SPLIT ON COURT plan No Two On Judiciary Commit tee "Are Tn“ Afi^eement On Any Sugrg:estion On Subject of President’s Plan. Washington, April 27. Members of the senate judiciary committee ex changed ideas on the Roosevelt court reorganization legislation today and led shock to his family and..,friend.s, that no two were in agreement on found, in the word.s of one of them, ' tnP'f Tt/w -liam txtawa ar\w% met little response in the house. The former body adopted a resolu tion to meet day and night except Sunday in order to bring adjournment by April 30, but this move, with simi lar ones, met objection from repre-, , . . ji . j .. wnUtives and did not got conaidor.“’"•''J T South Harper street, Lfeiurens, S. C.” Three Negroes, William Wright, Clarence Kennedy and William Cal houn, testified to having seeh the car ation. It was only at the last minute Fri day that the house notified the sen ate it would meet Monday night. Senator Browm Was a strong advo cate of bringing the se.ssion, in pro gress since January 12, to a close. He said he was “in a hurry” and Davies slipped on a nig in his Wash-Y*’^’*-^*"’® somebody raised a ruckus dbout adjournment. Browm asserted only the general his bed. Last minute arrangements appropriation, social security? and de ^ware made - Tor i^Seci etai y ' of Stale ficienOr~gPP»‘«Prim'iP^ i-emame Cordell Hull ,to represent the college In presenting the degree in Washing ton and with a national radio hook up being used to .«ynchronize the W'ashington award and the""GIintori ceremony. The Clinton program began at 12V15 when Senator Byrnes' reviewed the Presbyterian college R.O.T.C. unit in full-dress parade. Following the review over 200 honor guests met in the college dftiing hall for a luncheon given in their honor. Following the luneneon the aca demic procession began and promptly at two o’clock the program began in Leroy Springs gymnasium, being broadcast over the entire Columbia Broadcasting system through radio stations in Ciiarlotte and^ashington. William P. Jacobs, president of the collfege, ffigfln’H brief come, after which Dr. Henry Wade DuBose of Spartanburg,,chairman of the board of trustees, gave a brief address explaining the reason for the meeting. ^ " At 2:15, r,- Jacobs, by radio, .au thorized Secretary of State Hull to confer the degree of doctor of laws upon Ambassador Davies. Tlje radio .^^immediately switched to Washington ■’where it picked up Secretary Hull’s speech 6f presentation. WiRram P. Jacobs, III, son of the pr^ident of the college, who had rush^ to Waah- (ington the night before/then i>Iaced the acadentic hood on Mr. Davies’ shoulders. / ' Mr. Davies then made a speech of acceptance^ from Jiis bed in his Wash ington apailm^t. He opened his ad dress with a statement of appreci ation for honor conferred upon him, and Jws approval- of the type of e(kicati5m given at Presbyterian col lege ?iwsbyterian college is a school thi^t devdops the individual, that cul- ^tjvates'leadership. This is soihething ^ far too often neglected in education,” he said. :— He then gave a brief discussion of to be passed and the.<re could be frn- ishe<l “by Thursday or Friday.” The free conferees on the general appropriation and social security measures meanwhile completed their work of redrafting these important bills and were expected to report them out Mondayr night or Juesday. If they meet the approval of both hobses, adjournment probably' would .be only a matter of hours, but ob stacles to immediate passage were believed sure to arise. The senate also/Went on record against extra pay/vith adoption of a resolufion opposijBfg the voting of any An extML-pay-biW ?d W Representative Britt, of York, Was still pending in the houses -— Senatetr Thurmond, one of the au thors of the senate resolutkin, said it wouIH“*ai3”mbri*' Iban 'imy one llilng in bringing the general assembly to a close.” The roll call on the extra pay res olution recorded the stand of but lit- tTe more than^ half of the senators; ft carried by 18 to 7. The “fair trade” act and acts to tarian forin of government, “There was a time when democracy swept e^rjrthing before it/’ he said. “But following the World war, we. found that it had cost the nations of the world far more than the blood of its youth, for democ^y had weak ened.” Aihbassador Davies traced briefly the growth of the idea of oentering the goverpment.in one person. Democ racy means freejiom' ideas, of speech, of government, of the press, of the individual. Totalitarianism means the subjection of the individuai to the government in everything, he elated. Democracy now faces new changes, and it must adapt itself to a new era. This it 'ean and .must do by're affirming its faith in itself, and in the individual and by being ready to change forme without changing the bask ideas which lie behind them. “We have been’ forutnate, as we come out of a great depression, to .... .... 7 have had the great leader we have • Presbyterian •„ .... 6 “expense' introduced b and witnessed the crash, though sopic distance from the scene. Post mortem was made by a county physiciah. Dr. C. P. Vincent, who said death had re sulted from injury. The train was a- €olumbifi. New-' berry and Laurens freight,...The train, however, had run up on the ^Green ville branch of the Charleston and Western Carolina tracks for the pur pose of turning around, as customary. .\t the time of the accident, it ap- regulate the practice of optometry and to increase the minimum a^> un der the child labor law from 14 to 16 constituted the week’s chief legisla tion. The “fair trade” measure prohib its sale of trademarked products at less than the wholesale price. The op tometry act outlaws “peddling” of eyeglasses and bans “misleading” ad-. vertisements. Although the house failed to act on the so-called “mechankal” high way safety bill and on consideration of the governor’s v?to of th^ bill to create a board of boiler rules, it sent to the senate the hotly contested bill to* Vegulate the sale of used cars. A, bill providing for the state to assume Georgetown county’s in<j^t- edness on the Lafayette bridge across the Black, Pedee and Waccamaw riv ers and free it.of tolls passed both houses but it continued to s an'd'TSflflli'^itn'ameMmCTts. Another free conference in addition to the several /already at work was necessitate during the week when the senate refuse -^io concur in a house amendment of the bill author izing the commission of labor to ar bitrate ieustrial disputes. MeSWEEN HEADS ROTARY Chester, April 26. — At a meeting of the n^ boae of directors of the Chester Rotaiy ^b. Dr. John Mc- Sween, pastor of .Purity Presbyterian church, was eleete Jhe.. club’s new president. South Carolina’s Intercollegiate baseball at the close of last week found the teams in the following or der: W Erslrine had in the president,” he said. He then discussed the faith, simplkity, earnestness, wsd judgment of Mr. Roosevelt' •' He closed with a plea that America hold fast to the democracy that it has. Following the addrees by Mr. Da- vies, the radio ewkdied back to Clin ton and Dr. DuBose authorized hf radio, the -eonferring of the degree on Mr. Austin by Dr. Alaxancfeet Spmat ip Rlvernde hoapitai in Charleston. Dr. G. A NieklWjasin«> eenting 'President Jacobs, placed the academic robe on .Mr. Austin’s shoul ders, and Dean Marshall W. Brown from thf, plstftAsn Mr. Austin’s (Gootinnad an page two) L 2 2 3 2 4 3 4 6 Nefwberry 3 Carolina 2 Citadel ^ Wofford 2 Furman 2 Clemson .... 1 Baseball Menu Remaiiider «f Week Thursday P. C. vs Erridne at Clinton. _• Newberry vs Wofford at Spartan burg. * ' Carolina va Citadel at'Cbarleaton. Saturday ErskiDe vs Carolina at Columbda. TRACK Friday and Saturday Annuid Gtate Maet in <3ijttuii.Y way to his lodging apartment at the home 6i his cousins, the Mi.sses Fan nie, Nannie and Louise Irby, on South Harper street. He was a native of Williamston, a son of.-the W. L. and Nettie Dan iel Hudgens, both of whom were ori ginally of I.aurens county. He had served a four-year enlistment in the medical corps, 15. S. navy, and subse quently graduated from Clemsoi) col lege. At that institution he staled in athletics, especially in baseball. He had spent a number of years in some of the Western states, and upon his return he was given^an assignment _l)k A orgajpization. bein sent to Laurens from Washington, D. C,, last fall to take over the work here. „ He is survived by four brothers, J. B. Hudgens, Williamston; Dr.. Walter Hudgeiwi 4niggiut *t Ikylocuf Thom as and Daniel Hudgens, also of Tfiy- lors; two sisters. Miss Lois Hudgens, 'W’illiamston; and Mrs. Helen Daugh try, Oklahoma. —. Funeral .servi^s wore held at 11 o’clock .Sunday morning at the First Baptist church of Williamston, con ducted by the Rev. J. A. Cave and the Rev. W. R. Poindexter. and the federal housing administra tion for a $25,500,000 annual saving, here and elsewhere. Funeral services were conducted from, the residence yesterday after noon at 4:30 .o’clock, in charge of his and said twenty or more other agen- pastor, the Rev. €; Bynum Betts. In- onjMRUggeat^op,- cies could be merged just as profit- ably. , Byird said the. discussion of econo my moves following President Roose velt’s. budget message last week Js encouraging, but warnejEi...4bat''“we Cannot economize an'if continue to write unnece.ssary checks—checks for overlapping, agencies, duplicated func tions and unnecessary personnel and administrative overhead.” ^ The Virginia senator is chairman of the senate reorganization committee and is leading a fight for an expense cutting reorganization of the gov ernment as opposoii to an administra tion reorganization program that ^p:qjil<L,eff<^liltJii immediate saving,. ‘ 'althougb emp<»weHngthe president to consolidate and eliminate agencies as he found necessary. “A mere juggling of agencies from terment followed in Rosemont ceme tery. Both at the home and grave side, a large crowd gathered for the services and to pay their last tribute. The profusion of beautiful floral trib utes were evidence of the high esteem in which he was held by a wide circle of friends.and acquaintances. Active pallbearers were: Sam Byrd, Milton Blakely, William Blakely, Fleming Blakejy, Willie Byrd :and Charles Blakely, all nephews of .^the deceased. The honorary escort con- •sisted of ■'the elders of his church Which he dea»ly loved and supported loyally until his death, and several friends of the family. - JIiIf. Blakely_ was a native «E liu- rens county, having been born and reaVed at Orh. Twenty-five years ago he moved to (Hinton whore he held a high place in the esteem^nd affec- one department to another will j tion of tho.se ?wh'o knew him. He was amount to nothing except to freeze a ruling elder of the Associate Re- THOUSANDS MOVED BY FLOOD WATERS A- Thoufsands fled their homes, rich and poor alike, as the bloated and muddy Ohio rolled downstream Tues day night with the debris-laden bur den of its tributaries. The year’s second flood emergency led. President Roosevelt to recall a special government Red Crosa com mittee to supervise relief work among the refugees. Across the border in Canada, the city of J^ndon, Ontario, floundered under the worst flood in its history. Five deaths were counteH and at least 6,000 persons were left homeleas as the Thames river, 28 feet above normal, washed through the city’s streets and spread over a large sec- Pct. 777 750 500 500 i 419 400 333 142 was threatened with a shortage of drinking water and electric power. In the United States, rain-swollen rivers of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia began receding. At least nine deaths were attributed to floods in the Middle Atlantic area. Grapplers sought to account for five—pezsens missing in -V^inia. > The situation at a glance: ‘ Ohio river valley—Water more than six feet above flood stage at Wheel ing and stiH rising; 10,000 persons vacated their homes on residential Wheeling islandt steel plants and coal mines shut down,^ throwing more than 21,500 into temporary idleness; busi ness completely stalled at WeHsburg, W. Vaj most of New Oumberiand, W. Va.,‘ Empire, Ohio, and other small coiAmunities inundated; Mowidsville, W. Va., isolated by flooded highways; river expected to ris^ eight feet above flood stage at M^in’g Ferry, Ohio; homes abandon^ for miles along the riyer front. into permanency the jier.sonnel ' and administrative costs of temporary agency .structures, “There i.s ample reason to believe that a careful survey of unnecessary personnel in the federal government will reveal the civil executive payroll is a fertik. field for immediate con structive economy.” ^YlTe government now'employs more than 800,000 per.sons. Any economy s hitting anhe job-holders are cei-tain to arouse opposition in con gress as a result of pressure from their employes to keep their jobs. Senator Arthur Capper, Republican, of Kansas, said in a radio address to- night that he agreed that the govern ment “must bring-an end to extrava gant expenditures of public funds” but warned that “the re<luctions must not be made at the expense of agri culture.” The house last week beat down a Republican attempt “to cut 10 per cent from the agricultural de partment appropriation. Mrs. Milam Des At Advanced Age ProtniRent Lisbon Woman Pass* es. Mother of Representative C. L. Milam. formed Presibyterian church and one of its.most (faithful and devout mem bers. He was a man of high ideals and fine Christian character, a gen tleman of the old school whose whole life wfis marked by devotion to his family, to his friends, to his church and to his -Master. He leaves behind many who krill always perish the memory of his uhselfii^ life and kind personality, and who will join with his family in mourning his passing. He leaves his widow, who was Miss Nannie Blakely. They were married in 1898. Three daughters andjone-son survive, Misses Margaret and Kath erine Blakely of this city, Mrs. W. W. Arrington of Greenville, and the Rev. William M. Blakely, pastor of the A. R, P. church at Salisbury, N. C.; also by one brother, Dr. H. S. Blake ly of Fayetteville, Tcnrr. Citizens Secures Federal Charter City’s Oldest -Building and Loan Becomes Citizens Federal Sav- inK8 and l^oan Afisociation. Laurens, April 24. — Mrs., Mary Pailey Milam, 91, widow of the late Llewelyn W. Milam, died at her home Satur^y near Lisbon Presbyterian church, kbout seven miles from Lau rens., ' She was a native of Laurens coun ty and was the daughter of'Edmund and Caroline Blum Pasley. She* was bom in 1846, She was a charter mem ber of the Lisbon Presbyterian church and was active in church affairB as /, LAURENS IS HOST TO* . KING’S DAUGHTERS Laurens, April 27.—Mrs. Henry S. Eley of Suffolk, Va.,. international president, addressed the openihg ses sion of the 41 St annual convention of the South Carolina branch of the In ternational Order of King’s Daugh ters Ijere tonight Her topic was False Lights.” The welcomii^ address was made by Mrs. A. Arthur Taylor of Lau rens, fnd response was made by Mrs. J. P. Elliott of Columbia. Mrs.. Eley will lead the noon medi- Ution tomorrow and InataU aewiy- •Iseted officera at the dosing aeasion Thursday. band died a numlber of years ago. She is survived by six sons, Ed mond P. Milam, Laurens; R.>Ei[^ Mi lam,^ Greenville; R. S. Milam, Dur ham, N. C.; C. L, A. B., and W. H. Milam, Mountville; two sisters, Miss Olivia Pasley and Mrs. Florence Boyd; 12 grkndchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services weire conducted from Lisbon Presbyterian church S\inday afternoon at 4 o’clock by the Rev. F. T. Mdjrill. Burial _followed in the church cemetery.. Church Group To Meet Here The annual Young People’s confer- ence_for the Christian church in South Carolina, ^11 be held at Presbyte- risn college July 26-August Ist,^ ac cording to an announcement made the past week by Rev. E. B- Quick of At lanta, director of religious education of the southeast for this denomina tion. The conference has been held At a stockholders meeting Monday afternoon of the (htizens Building and Loan association, the corporation was converted into the Citizens Federal Savings and I.rf)an association. A fed eral charter was received at this*“timej by-laws adopted, officers elected, and macWncry set in motion for the new federaliz^ association which is the first of its kind in Laurens county. An announcement of the association in today’s paper, states Huit it now offers loans and investment under its new plan for building and investment purposes. The Citizens is the .oldest building and loan association in the county, TiavTng been organize3~™W years ago,* and since that .time has xuccessfiilly matured a number 'of, series. At the stockholders meeting the botrd of directors of the old Citizens was elected for the Citizens Federal Savings and Loan association as fol lows: Or. M. J. McFaden, J. P. Pra ther, B. H. Boyd, D.' C. Heulstess, S. W. Sumerel,. T. D. Ckipeland, W. A Moorhead, W. W. Harris and W. J. Ihi.naUL. / At a subsequent , meeting the fol lowing officers were elected: Dr. M. J. McFadden, president; J. P. Pra ther, vice-president; B. H. Boyd, sec retary-treasurer; Miss Robbie Hen-*^ derson, assistant 'secretary; R. W. Wade, attorney. The association in the near future expects to move into a ground floor lacation with enlarged space .and fa- Reaching, finally, the stage of pro posing and voting on, amendments, the committee confined itself to a round-table discussion and left all de- cisiqjiS- to. be made in the daily ex ecutive .sessions which will follow. Senator Logan, Democrat, of Ken tucky, a supporter of Jhe bill, sug gested that by unammbus consent, the committee debate the bill for the - next fortnight and on May 11 vote on all amendments and on the bill iUelf. He vmTI ask for action on the sug gestion tomorrow. It was plain that there would be at least four objec tions and probably more, One would be sufficient to block the move. I^ogan al.so suggested that, in the / interest of expediting procedure, the committee report the bill to the sett le immediately, without recommend ing its passage or it.“i defeat. It was plain that leaders of both .si<le8 would refuse. Other senators had ideas to put forward also, but in no instance, the participants said, was there any man ifestation of general approval. Clear ly, sentiment in the committee was far from a crystallization. Opposition leaders, hopeful enough committee votes for an un favorable report, were obviously fol lowing the same course^.with- the re alization that mollifying the bill by amendment might co.st them votes. (The bill would empower the presi dent to appoint a fnaxlmum of six additional menll^rs Id the supreme court, unless present members who have passed the age of 70, retire vol untarily. It also would authorize new judges for lower courts). In addition ot Logan’s two sugges- tionB, the following were btrtught into the ■'discussion: Senator Van Nuys, Democrat, Indi-^ ana, called up his motion to separate the section .dealing with the supreme— court and make two bills of the meas ure. Senator McCarran, Democrat, Ne vada, propo.sed that the menrbershtp— of the court be permanently increa.sed by two. Senator Hatch, Democrat, New Mexico, offered an amendment to keep the size of the court at nine, with a prtvision for the retirement of one incumbent and the appoint ment of his successor annually. Senator Norris, Independent, Ne braska, .suggested a re<|uirement that two-thirds of the court concur before an' act of congress can be invalildated. / / Rotary Clubs— / To Hold Meet Fifty*Eighth District- Confer ence To Be Held In Columbia May 2nd To 4th. “"TCotariana from the .54 Rotary clubs in the 68th district of Rotary Inter national (which includes the clubs in South (Carolina and western • North Carolina) will assemble at Columbia on 'May 2, 3 and 4 to enjoy their an nual ^strict conference. Fifty-two such gatherings are ing held in the United Ktatev^and Canada this spring and 39 others In countries outside North America. The total attendance at all of these is ex pected to exceed 60,000 as they are high spots of the year to all Rotary clubs. i aUities to handle its fast growing vohmie of business.' before in Beaufort, but has, outgrown headquartm there, officers state. Joint Meeting < Chil^ May 11th Secretary L. C.’Baricsdale (k^ the Laurens Business Leagud has noti fied officers of the Clinton Chamjbec of Commerce, that the joint meeting of the two organizations scheduled in Laurens for the first Tuesday evening of ‘May, has been, postponed to second Tuesday,- May 11th, m 8 o’clock. - ♦ ‘ O DEATHS from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS fai LAURENS COUNTY lfS7 Let’i StriTO To Make Tkk a Saf e Tear Oa the Highwaja. \ They rank second in importance and interest to Rotarians to the inter national convention which is being held this year in Nice, France, on June 6-1,1. Delegates from every club in the 58th district, and a number of prom- in(^t Rotarjians from other parts of the country are expected to attend the conference here. Abit Nix, of Athen.s, Ga., will of ficially represent Rotary Intematiorp' a) at the conference. His address -On the ideals and purposes ‘ of Rotary will be one of the features of the •conference program* Among Imsiness matters to come before the conference are the pros^ pects for extension of Rotary in the 58th district, and how Rotarians may best carry, out their /ocaticMial and community responsibilities in their own communities. A number of entertainment fea tures are being planned by the Bo- tarians of OblumbiI/wi)th the aastst- ance of their ladiM whorwill act ms boateaaes to the hundreds of visiting lAdies. \ / C. W. Anderson spent severs! dsyn fhiS'Woak in Bmltimi^ ht •N. .Z' - J