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■/ THE CHRONICLE Strires To B« a Cloan Nefro- foper, CoapIHe, Newiy, Reliable. . v.. k / ^ 1 .If Toa Daa*t Reai THE CHRONICLE Too Doii*t Get L The Newt. i9r ' vVOLUMi: xxxvn CLINTON, S. C^ THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1937 NUMBER 18 MONEY BILL IN DEADLOCK Conferees Again Fail To Agree On State Appropriation Meas ure. Subject of Disagreement Not Stated. Byrnes Offere— Way To Balance Senator Insists Stated, Counties, Citi^ Should Share Relief Load of Nation* Columbia, May 4. Washington, May 3. — Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, Delay in tonight that states, counties Miss Odom Hit By S. A. L. Train Clinton Woman Killed On Rail road Track At Union Station. Interment At Chappells Sun day Afteriloon. general appropriation bill free con ference report, whith may further postpone sine die adjournment, re sulted today when ' conferees dis agreed over details a. few minutes be- an4 cities share equally with the fed eral government the cost of work re- . Miss Mary Elizabeth Odom, 69, of this city, was instantly killed^ Satur day morning when she stepped in front of the mid-day Seaboard Air lief projects unless they certify an i Line southbound vestibule as it was inability, to do so, ' ^ [approaching the Union station Byrnes siidv^ should congress adopt Unrest Of Labor In Nation Grows New Disputes Send Htihdreds Off Jobs W’hile Trouble Crops Out In Steel Industry. i - Miss Odom, at the time of the tragic accident, Was en route to the ^ -trelief appropriation to. SlJKKhOtKUMKl postoffice^-from her—home on- East instead of ^he $1|600,000,000 sug- Carolina avenue. Nearby witnes.ses Pouri ^ said that-apparently she did* not see fore the report was to be presented ^ ^bis proposal and reduce the -tO“^the tWo houaesr The committee, which seeks to com promise the $9,588,000 house aqd $10,-1 seated by President Roosevelt, “the 814,00^senate bills, continued meet-, entire billion dollars w^l_ never be jng throughout the day in an effort applied for.” to reach a common plane. They .would “The budget will be balanced,” he not announce the subject of the dis- added. .‘The credit of the govem- agreement. ment will be maintained.” Washington, May. 4.—A new erup tion^ of l|kbor disputes prompted hun dreds of w’orkers-to leave their jobs yesterday. , Bakersj dairy and refinery em ployes, longshoremen, porcelain and furniture makers and truck.. drivers walked out, while threats of trouble cropped out in the steel industry and a strike spread in the movie i Fourteen of the largest bakerie.s 'n Kansas City, Mo., were closed f or hear the oncoming ^tram. The^en-j^jy ^ wajjeout. It was estimated approximaTBty 1,500 were idle and The senate met for a night session hoping to receive the report after Senator S. M. Ward, finance commit tee chairman, said that • the Ji)ill was ready but that “some” house con ferees wanted to make changes in it. The house, however, deferred busi ness until tomorrow. Final adjourn ment depends on disposal of the money measure and .action on social security, which is also - in free con ference. ^ c - — The house requested its conferees on the 40-hour bill for textile em ployes .to hold out for the action tak en by the represenUtives. The sen ate forced the bill into conference by hiking the hours to 48 a week. Ward said he objected to changes because additional alterations would “^ie Tike ^^^fun’g'Taridofirrb^^^^^ Byrnes spoke on the program^ of gineer said that he did not see Mi.ss Odom since she was on the opposite side of the track. The fireman stated that he was watching her as she neared the tram and expected that the Washington Evening Star’s before attempting to dioi forum. The South Carolina senator, who also is 'advocating a mandatory re duction of 10 per Cent in this year’s appropriations by congress,, said “There is a general' recognition that we cannot go on forever spending more than our incomes.” There are two ways to balance the budget, he declared, by' increasing tax^n$r- ^ 'reducing expenditures, Byrnes said he favored retrenchment. cross the track. Realizing that she apparently did not see or hear the train, he yelled to the engineer who instantly threw on the emergency brakes and brought the train to a stop after it had rolled the length of three cars. Her badly mangled body was removed from under' the train and tkken to a local undertaking estab lishment where it remained until the funeral hour. Miss Otiom, with her mother, had ‘‘'= i made her home in Clinton for the past Turning to the proposal to make ^ ^ , ** *•„ t • * Qj. twelve years, ^t the time of her death she had an apartment at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. ET- He said the- conferees were contin uing their discussion during^ the meetings of the two house.s. __ The senate adopted a concurrent resolution by Senator Ellis of Jasper suggesting a state financial policy of setting aside a surplus during good years to meet the needs of less pros perous ones. The resolution went to the house for action there. The body killed a concurrent reso lution ^ by Senator Bates' of Richland to permit state offi^s to operate during the summer on “daylight sav ing” houra. Xba vote jgaa 15 0 5«.‘ In a special message Governor Johnston urged action on a bill to set a 55-hour maximum work week for employes in . mercantile establish ments. ■ — '— The message said something should be done to relieve present “inhuman” and “barbaric conditions” under which some employes work. The bill to provide a referendum on the question of amending the con stitution to allow divorce was halted when it came up for second reading in t^ house today by objections from Greenwood and M. M. Wilson of Wil liamsburg. The objections placed the measure at the tail-end of the calendar w'herc it most await its turn for consider ation with scores of other bills in troduced previously. Speaker Sol Blatt appointed Repre- sentative?r25eTbst of Charleston, Ben nett of Marlboro, and Joe Berry ef Richland, to the free conference com mittee on the 1936-37 deficiency ap propriation bill. Pending before the free conference will be house amendments to the bill to pay each legislator $200 “official expense money” in addition to the $400 constitutional pay already col lected. The seriate refused to accept the amendment. The house adopted a free confer ence report, of the bill to allow the commissioner ‘of labor to conciliate labor disputes. The 17th week of the assembly be gan Tuesday night with a brief sen ate Session, at which only one local bill was passed. slates, counties and cities^ share equally the huge relief cost, Byrnes said few would certify they have no revenue and no credit. —“TTw-bonds of- the-- va«otw and counties of this country are with few exceptions selling at par today and in nearly every instance 25 per cent above what they we^ selling for in 1933, he declared. “One reason why the states, coun ties and cities have been able to re duce their indebtedness and , improve their credit is that the federal gov ernment has been giving them mon ey with which to do things they or dinarily .would have had to finance out of local revenues. “Today as a rule they are living within their incomes and i:;educing their indebtedness, while the fede ral go^rcrinnent is living beyond' its income and increasing its indebted ness. “Judging from the balance sheets, the states, counties and cities, in- st^d^of asking relief from the fed eral government, should be offering relief to' the federal government.” / lison. She was a native of Saluda courity where the greater part of her life was spent, and was a devoted member of Chestnut Hill Baptist church at Chappells. During her stay here she made a number of friends who learned of her untimely death with genuine sorrow. " ^ Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at three o’clock at the Chestnut Hill fhurch at Chappells, conducted by the Rev. Mr. Carson, with intermeat^^following in the church cemetery. . /Spss tWom was a daughter of the late^ W. W. Odom, and Mrs. Mary Emma Odom. Besides her mother, she is 8ijirvi\ed. by one brother, W. L. OdoriT'of C^umbia, by a niece and nephew, Mrs. L. E. Nation and W. Jack Odom, also of Columbia. — City To Have New 10c Store '/ Jacobs Speaker On Clemson Day tiouse waay py oojawwn. irom cifitison, May 4. — Pr».id«nt Wil- Representatives D. A. G. Ouzts df ' Jacobs of Presbyterian col lege was the main speaicer today as Clemson college obserVed its annual honor day. Taknig a» his subject the demand for scholarship by business and pro fession, Mr. Jacobs said “the world is expecting more of the college grad uates of today than it has ever ex pected in the past. * “Honesty with one’s self, with one’s associates, is ari element'of scholar ship which is in great demand in in dustry and'p;*ofession,” he asserted. Closii^ Exdrcises At Sandy Springs Silk MiU Here To Go On .Blodc The ^graduating exercises of the seventh grade were held~at Sandy Sprii^gg school last Thursday night. Lergfy Burns, county superintendent of education, made the address. The seventh grade, assisted by the other pupils, presented a program consist- iifg of class will, prophecy, poem and '/ valedictory. The certificates were pre- } tented the graduates by a member C. W. Anderson, early in June, will open a new five and ten cents store in the Young hotel block on South Broad street. An extensive remodel ing and enlarging of the building is now under way, |he structure to be modernized in every way and con verted into one of the most attrac tive business places in the city. A new front with handsome display win dows, modern lighting and other fea tures are -planned. The stpre when completed, Mr. Anderson stated yes terday, will give an up-to-date dis play of merchfindi?e and will be com pletely equipped *;iand arranged to make shopping convenient. , Rotary Club ^ ' Elects Officers Angus H. Macaulay, of Chester, referee in bankruptcy for the Stutz- Hadfield Silk corporation of this city, has ordered a sale of the property at public auction to the highest bidder, on Tuesday, May 18th, at 11 o’clock. The sale will include the mill build- ' ing on Davidson street and three acres of' land, all machinery and equipment, arid one hbuse and lot. , ,At a recent gtocl^holders meeting, D. E. Tribble, of this city, waa elected ‘ trustee hi bankru|>tcy for the corpor ation. / / . of tbe board of trustees,. and prizes awarded. The graduating class is composed of Henry May, president; Pauline P(mle, Dorothy C^ens, Lillie Mae Chadwick and Marion Courtney., Baseball Race At a recent meeting of the Clinton Rotary club, W. M. Walker was elect ed president for the coming year. He succeeds Dr. C. M. Workman of Cross Anchor. J. K. Long was elected vice-presi dent and T. J. Blalock,'secretary. Oth er members of the board of directors for next y6ar are Dr. Workman, J. F. Jacobs; J. K. Long; M. W. Brown, W. .M. Walker and W. Ellwood Dillard. Henry To Enter ^ Drug Busineu Dr. and Mrs. Fayette Henry left this week for Leeeville where they will make their future home. Dr. Henry ^recently resigned his position as pharmacist with Sadler-Owens Pharmacy to enter the drug business in Leeaville and plans to, have the South Carolina’s Intercollegiate future formal opening of his new store in 90 per cent of the metropolitan bread j supply Was cut off. Employes of dairies furnishing 90 per cent of the milk to Cumberland, Md., went on strike. Strikers ac companied trucks to hospitals. Phy sicians notqs were necessary to pro cure milk for children. The strike of craftsmen and labor ers broadened to embrace eleven unions of the federate<l motion pic ture crafts in ''Hollywoo<l but the business of ni||Mng movies continued. He«<kiuarters^3f the organization said 6,000 were out. lip in San Francisco a spokesman for 3,500 employes whose strike vir tually paralyzed service in sixteen leading hotels. ]»redicte(l an early ^ttlement. The steel"workers union in Pitts burgh notified the _hig . Republic t i-^r» it wrtiil/l 'MiattVfvm responsibility” for keeping Union members at work in the firm’s mills j unless a conference for negotiating a contract was arranged. Mean while, Philip Murray, lieutenant of John L. Lewis in the committee for industrial organization, conferred with Chairman H. E. Lewis of the Jones and Laughlin Steel corporation. In the same city. President James B. Carey of the CIO-affiliated United Electrical and BLadio Work ers union said officials of the. huge Westinghouse Electric and Manu facturing company had agreed to cooperate in elections to ascertain the collective bargaining represen tatives of the concern’s 47,000 em ployes. From Washington came word that American Federation of Labor chief tains expected to launch a campaign in the mass production industries designed to^ break the C. I. 0. The program was reported to be based o'!! the organization of all workers into one big union—the C. L O. plan— with the members to be divided into craft unions later along the " tradi tional A. F. 0. L. lines. Utotbek When God looked down upon the earth And chose to put new blessings there, • —n- Gifts from above ^— "'To show His love. Arid lighten earthly joy a1id* care, He gave the sky the sun-set glow; ^Gave fragrance to the" lily’s blow; Gave laughter gay To children’s play; And then to every yearning soul, He gave that gift of tenderest worth A^ TnOtlieT:'— COURT FIGHT STILL LOOMS Ashurst Rejects Sugg^tion For Compromise and "intends For Roosevelt Revision Plan As presented. College Honor Students Named Stuart Bland Campbell, Jr., of Wytheville, Va., is valedictorian of the class of 1937 at Presbyterian col lege, and .^Joseph Ernest Patrick of Covington, Ga., is salutatofian, ac cording to an announcement made Monday by Dean Marshall W. Brown. During the three and a^ half years Campbell has been a student at Pres byterian he has earned a scholastic average of 3.39, Patrick, for the sarire period, has an average o? 2.75, Dean Brown also announced that Miss Sophie Sullivan, of Laurens, will receive the scholarship medal/ which is given each year to the member of the senior class who maintains the highest average^Miss Sullivan is not eligible for class rionors as she fin-, ished her required work in three years. Faculty rulings state that a student must be in school at least one Wtmeater of the year to be eligible Memorial Day To Be Observed Program Announced For May 10th By U. D. C. Chapter. Graves To Be Decorated. Mern'otial Day,' Monday, May 10th» will be observed by the -Stephen D; Lee Chapter, United Daughters ot the Confederacy, with appropriate Mwreiaea in the Preebyterian ceme tery, following the decoration of the Veterans grave.s by the young people of the city schools. . The exercises wilhepen with music by the R. O. T. C. band of Presbyte rian college, after which the two Boy Scout troops of Clinton will lead the procession to the graves to be deco rated. After this, the program will be as follows: Devotional, by Dr. F. D. Jones. Two songs, “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching” and “Old Black Joe,” by high school glee club. Recitation: “The Blue and the Gray,” Virginia Dillard and Grace Martin. Benediction by Dr, Jones.* .Salute and Taps by R. O. T. C. of P. C. The exercises will begin at 10:39 a. m., and all interested friends are cordially invited to attend. Washington, May 4.—Senator Ash urst, Democrat, of Arizona, leading supporter of the Roosevelt court re organization bill, flatly rejected to- diy the only compromise suggestion advanced thus far ,by the- bitter-end opponents of that meiLSure. - ^ Tor the billwas it stands,” be said. “I’m opposed to all amend ments. I’rp for the six-judg<‘ increase and I hope it will be fought out on that basis.” He made this statement after Sen ator Burke, Democrat, Nebraska, as serted that if the a<lministration would approve a gradual^rather than a sudden inci^Me in the‘size of the supreme court there was a “good chance” for agreeipenpt. The Burke offer was the only indi cation that the opposition is willing to approve any incr^se. The offer was based upon an arriendment of fered by SenatorHatch, Democrat, of New Mexico. While the president’s bill would call for the prompt~ addition of six members to the cqqrt, unless incum bents past 70 retire voluntarily, the Hatch amendment would provide for the appointment of one new judge annually. A variation of the Hatch plan yras discussed by the committee today. S^atSr' McGiTT, 8tnr"iTion-co mtnittaf" on the issue of six new judges in-, crease, proposed that in each presi dential term, the chief executive be empowered to make two appoint ments to the court, if it includes members above 76 years of age. I think it meets all the objections that have been made to the presi dent’s bill,” McGill said. ‘‘Under no reasonable theory could the appoint ment of two justices in each presiden tial term, when there are men on the bench over 76, be construed as for the purpose of influj-'ncing judicial de cisions.” Generid Synod Ends Gatheraig Leaders of Associate Reformed Church Close Annual Meet ing In York County. foe. valedictorian. Also the student musC have been in college at least three ye Frances Shaw, of Hon^ ‘P^th; was not eligible for. clgM honors, though having a high average’ as she has been in school only three iemesters. Inter-City Meet Tuesday Night baseball at the close of last week found the teams in the following or- k ) Erskine PickeD Assigned " WPA Engineo* W. L. Pickell, WFA auperyistng engineer of Greenwood .county, has been assigned to tidee over the duties 6f W. W. Hodgens, former WPA su- perviung «i||rineer for Lanrenri comi ty, recently killed in an automolnle aceidmit Hr. Picki^, ,it. is learned* will divide his thne’ Mtweea Laurens W . 8 . T . 3 L 3 3 3 3^ 4 5 4 7 A joint meeting of the Laurens I Business League and Clinton Cham- Seceders Sitting Qn Top In State With anpother week of the state col legiate baseball campaign rtdegated to the past, Erskine continues to set the pace with a half game advantage over Presbyterian’s threatening Blue Stockings. P. C.’s outfit 8toppe<l the Fleet, 3 to 1, in an important get-together at Due West last Tuesday, but tbe Galloway tribe had on Monday drop ped a gruelling affair to Citadel. The Fleet whipped Caroljipa Saturday to maintain the slight lead they held last w Rock Hill, May 2.—The 133rd Gen eral Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church brought its four- day BessioTX to a close Sunday night with a sermon by the Rev. C, 0. Wil liams of Greenville. More than 300 delegates attended the synod, representing 13 states and two foreign countries. During the conclave, held at Neely’s Creek church, near Rock Hill, the im portant pha.scs of the denomination’s/ structure were discussed. I>ebate revolved around a proposal to appoint a full-time evangelist 6f the church. A motion to that effect was adopted before the synod clo.sed but was rescinded at the last moirient. Athorization was given the domi nating committee to study a proposal for a central commitU*e to supervise the synod’s work. The crimmittoe would serve as a‘co-ordinating agen cy,' acting in an advisory edacity, A motion to set up a/rotary sys tem for pastors and for/officers and . professors at Erskine cpllege went to the judicil'fy cbmrhttte^. , Among final business was we adop tion of ^budget totaling $60,000, call- ' Wofford climbed up into the _50P cltf£5, which is also i^red by New berry gnd Carolina, each with three wins and three losses. Clemson still remains custodian of the cellar, wiht only one victory re corded in their eight appearances. The Henrys have many friends here j her of Commerce will be held next j Whose best wishes will follow them. i Tuesday qvening at eight o^felock in Pet. T27 700 500 500 500 445 333 125 Presbyterian Newberry S. Carolina 3 Wofford .... .... 4 The Citaderr.. .... 4 Fnnrtan ,... 2 Cleittson .... 1 Baseball Mena ,Re«aiiider of Week Tharsday P. C. vs ClemKm at Clemson. -dewberry vs Carolina at Columbia. Friday vs Erricine at I>ub West Mvdmj Caral^ va C«lamson At.Clamsoa. Mrs, Henry, before marriage Miss Josie 'Brodie of Leesville, in leaving Clinton ‘‘is returning to her former home. -- Clinton Schools Seek PWA Funds A Washington AP dispatih yester- day, stated that the public works ad ministration had received 12 applicar tions for PWA funds for construction of schools in South Carolina to elimi nate conditiona which are haxardoua to lives of students. f^ Included in the a^icatkim filed was one of 'the ClinlioR sefaook for $49^90a Laurens. A“ committee consisting of B. F. Wingard, .W. H. Simpson and C. F. Winn has been appointed to ar range for a large attendance from here. All who intend going are asked to gather at Hotel Clinton at 7:15 and to notify the committee hoW many you can provide transportation for. CHANGES HER POSITION Friends in the city of Mrs. Ektelle Abrams will 1m interested to know she has acceptm w position as sales lady with the Joanna Mercantile com pany at GoldviUe, and entered upon her new wprk Monday morning. For the past two years ahe has held a similar position with Bclk’s Depart ment store of this cHy. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! 1 DEATH from AUTOMOBibE ACCIDE^ ' Jii LAURENS/ COUNTY • 10S7 Strive To Make This a Safe Year On the HlgKwajs. ing for more expenditures than last year. 4 Whitten Attending ""National Meet Dr. B. Ov WhitU*n, .'sui'erintendenT of the State Training .<^hooI, left ^ Monday afternoon for Atlantic City, New Jerjiey, to attend thej sixty-fi^t. -' annual /Convention of the! American Association on Mental Deficiency. He ^ will be out of the city the entire week. _ Dr. Whitten is president of the as- .so^iation and will preside over the 8^.s8ion.s. 'He will deliver the annual address at the president’s dinner on Friday evening. He is also on the program today to lead a discussion on the subject of “Value of Statistics to State Institutions,” ^—-I Dr. W'hitten is a recognized author ity in mental deficiency work ia America, and last year waS highly honored by being electe<l head of the' association which is-mational in ita scope. JOINS CAMP STAFV A. F. Montague has recently been assigned to CCC camp F-10 near dhi- ton, as proj^ superintendent Mr. Mmitagne comes -from Camp JefCer- son Davis at Union, and sueceedi C/' W. ’ W(annamaker, transferred to n similar omip at Modoc in this \'f ij