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' N Jtt \ <- r" THB CHRONICLE < StriTcs TV Bt'ft Clean-News paper, Coaiplete, Newsy* airi Beiiable.'~“ ■ - A VOLUME xxxvn If Ton Don’t Read .THB\ CHRONICLE j Ton Don’t Get The News. ' . CLINTO>r, S. C., THURSDAY; MAY 20, 1937 NUMBER 20 I* SOCIAL BOARD SET UP NAMED Thomas B. YoupsT. of Florence, Elected By LteRislature To Di rect Administration of State Relief Program. Union Attor ney Repr^ents This District. Robert L. Bailey DiM Suddenly Heart Attack Is Fatal To Re tired Merchant and Highly Esteemed Citizen. Interment At Rosemont., Robert Lee Bailey, ;=»r.reUr(ed mer- Ichant and prominent Clinton citizen, Columbia, May 14. —‘The general i died suddenly at 7 o’clock Monday assembly chose Thomas B. Young, re-j morning, at his home on North Broad | tired farmer and business man of street following a heart attack. Mr. Florence, today to head administra-| Bailey had arisen at his usual early tion of the $3,0‘()0.000 Social Security' had gone down to thfUome with Governor Olin D. Johrrston’s sig-Uhe building. While at the store he nature la-sj night, . 'was stricken and fell. He was rushed Young was elected chairman of ambulance to hiS home where med- the state, department of public wel-' fare by acclamation after his norp- ination by Senator P. H. McEachin, of Florence. Commissioners chosen -from the six congressional districts to ^rve with him were; Dan E. Huger, Jr., of Charleston, first district; Henry A. Jumper, of /Springfield, second; J. L. Sherard, of Anderson, third; Bruce W. White,_of‘ Union, fourth; W. L. Hijl, Jr-f of Sharon, fifth and E. C. Dennfs, Jr., of Darlington, sixth. Huger, Shepird^ White, and Den-, nis, were elected, without opposi tion. Jumper , and Hill, both busi ness men, were named over one and two opponents each. Jumper defeated Thomas Crenshaw^ of Columbia, 117 to ^9, and Hill got 96 votes to 36 for Mrs. Gladys Stack- hou.se ‘Moore, of Cheraw, and 13 for Jihe Rev. John P. Isenhower, of Fair- field county. , ThV nomination by Representative Wann^aker, of Chesterfield, of Mrs. Moore, wjf® ^ retired army niajor, came m t^ly to Governor Jolinston’s special me^ge asking a “fair repre sentation” oX women on the security board. The chairman, and commissioners from the Wcon^, fourth and sixth districts will serve for four years The others will ser^ for twa yaws but the successors of, all the orig inal commissioners year terms. \ The law also provides \hat ^ board members may not succeed u^^selves but must be followed in ofiice by |i citizen of another county m the same congressional district. They will re?re1vti,a |10 pef diem for days in. session, !^ be re stricted to ^0 foJ^theiirst ydu: Jdfil 1200 in succeeding years. The first meeting of the board will ical aid was summoned, but he ex- pired in a few minutes. The announce ment of his unexpected death spread rapidly over the city and brought gen uine sadness to a wide circle of friends who were shocked by the sud denness of his passing. Funeral services were conducted from the residence Tuesday after noon at 4 o’clock, with interment fol lowing in Rosemont cemetery. ReV. Edward Long, of Greenville, a for mer pa.stor and intimate, friend of the family, was in charge of the ser vices, assisted by the Rev. W. L. Mul- likin of Spartanburg. Mr. Long paid tribute jto the fine qualities of Mr. Bailey, his devotion to his family and church, and his Christian character. Both at the home and grave, a large crowd gathered for the ser\‘ices to pay their last tribute. The profusion of lovely floral offering.s banked upon his newly-made mound gave evidence Emke Plans For ^ June Marriage No Members of Royal Family Will Be Present For-Cere mony To Be Held At Chateau. SCHOOL YEAR ENDS FRIDAY Monts, France, May 18. —* Wallis i Warfield and the Duke of Wind.sor will l)e marr'^Ted quietly at the Chat eau De Cande on June 3, with no member of the British royal family in 1 attendance. , * * The man who chose to be husband rather than king chose the birthday of his father, George V, for his wedding 4o the womam ^_^odld not have as monarch. The announcement; whlclT"’ made no mention'of the coincidence in dates Baccalaureate Sermon On Sun day and Graduatin}( Exercises Monday Eveninsf—R a p t i s t Speakers On .Program. Fifty Member!^ In Senior Class. The 1936-37 session of the Clinton city’sehool.s will come to a close Fri day. The commencement program proper will be ushered in next Sunday eve- ning at -eight-Vciock wheftr-thXbac^ calaureate sermon before the gradu- aitng clns.s. of the high school will be preachrtTffT the First Baptist church said the wedding party would be con- i)astor, the Rev. W. N. l/mg. fined to “thtvse who have l>een with As* has been the custom fop a long them”—the Duke and ’Mrs. Warfield IH'riod of years, this will Ih» a union — “during, the past months,”' and iu whichTbe churches of the addwi ter.sely: . <^i4y will unite. LONDON, Bbflarid , . . Here "is a new picture of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth auS their two daughters, Princess Elizabeth (left), heir presumptive to the throne, and Princess Margaret Rose. Print BUsabeth recently celebrated her eleventh birthday. i Exercises Honor. Major Ri E. Wysbr College and Rolairy Club Laud Presbyterian College .Com mandant Soon To Leave. Presbyterians MtoI Today General-Assembly of Southern Cburcb Will Convene At Mon-’ ■< treat For Annual Session. commandant, who is lQ_be transferred this year to another post, exercises of the high esteem in which he was were held Tuesday night in which the To honor Major Robert E.'/Wysor, Montreal, N,.( ., May 15. The gen eral assembly of the .Southern Presby terian cTiiiich, which opens its annual held. Active pallbearers were: S. Gary Dillard, S. W. Sumepel, W. A. Moor head, W. R. Anderson, Jr., Hubert Johnson and M. Dillard Milam. Mr. Bailey was born 'near Clinton on May 10, 1864, a son of Silas and Fannie Bolt Bailey, and was promi nently Identified with the city’s mer cantile business until he retired 14 years ago. His brother, C. C. Bailey, entered the mercantile business in serve four in 1882. Two years later he and R. L. Bailey formed a partner ship under the firm name of Bailey one of the aijlar’ji most substan tial and successful firms for 41 years. In July, 1914, their store—on North Broad street and etock of goods were completely destroyed by fire. The World war having] been declared, it was f hem impossible tm secure mate* [ j rial for building purposes and the j^a of later re-building was aban- be call^ by Chairman Young at Bailey Bros, then purchased-a which time the chief executive i newXstock of goods and opened in cer, state director of public welfare, probably will be elected, to serve at the pleasure ^of the btiard and . a $3,600 annual salary. Administered by the board will be old age assistance, aid to depend ent children, help for needy blind and general relief for other handi capped and unfortunate persons. Appropriated for this purpose for the fiscal year 1937-38 is $1,519,999 from the state ' treasury, but this amount will be brought to nearly $3,000,000 by contributions from the fe^ral government and counties of the state. Working Under the sti|te board will be iouHty departments of pub lic welfare to be composed of three their ktore room now occupied by the Hom^ Xtores under the same firm nam^wWh was later ch^ged to that'of t^X Star Racket, with R. F. Bumerel as their manager. On March 29-, 1923, the firm sold its stock of goods to a sale8_ promotion concern and retired from business after en-p joyinir a large puronage from their customers ovef the long period /of years Mr. Bailey was a Vuccessful busi ness man, practical ai^ caiservative to a degreeV and one Vhose advice was frequently sought V business snd investment circles by those who held full confidence in his judgment. He was kind and sympathetic i^lways, 0 -C -^1 ¥ members appointed by the state board “upon the recommendation of a ma jority, including the senator, of the county legislative delegation.” There was no official estimate of how soon the administration of relief might begin, but under the security act: “As soon as practicable after its election and organization the state board shall .notify the temporary de partment of pxiblic welfare that H is prepared to carry out the assist ance program in this state, where upon the «ud__temporary ^depart ment shall turn over to the atate de partment ail monies, property, re cords,, eqWproent and other posses sions.” • • • ^ . “The initial appropriation^of mon ey from the atate treasury for the various purposes of this act shall be available immediately upon approval of this act, but the subsequent appro priation • • • shall not be provided until and unless the said iRate board certifies to the state treasurer that it has been organized and is ready to MwiTnir the duties and make the payments as'provided herein to needy persons.” Young, bom June 12, 1882, is a life trustee and. graduate of Clem- son college. He is general manager of the Carolinas Ckx^rative Con solidated association and president of Planters Produce and Storage com- |)iuiyy but is active in neither organi sation* having retired froin active business Kfejseveral months ago. Hit life Urn been devoted to the development of cooperative market- iag and tup yean ago he Was giten an award by Clemsmi college for outstanding work in that field. He was lor iT nambec-^ yean s special repreemtative of the U. S. department of lagrieuRure. but uncompromising in his finh^ con victions as to right and wrong. \His character Was marked by the higo^ moral courage, integrity, sincer^, rigid honesty, and square dealing to such en extent timt the absolute trust and confidence of his fellow-men was reposed ih him. Mr. Dailey was a Baptist by faith, and for many years haid been affili ated with the First .Biqttist church of this city. He seyved long and faith fully treasurer of its Sunday school, a position he held at the tine of his death. Alwa]^ he ^ve m>erally of his means and time to ihe work of hiB^«Imreh which he loved, and to wliich he manifested marked loya^ and devetkm. He was a devoted hus band, a loving father,^ amd • sincere frie^. He held hknself to the strict code which he thought was right, and lived in every 'respect a good life. In 1889 Mr. ^iley married Mis^ 'Miinnde Reid of Laurens, who sur vives with three daughters: Mrs. A. 0. Bray, Griffin, Gg., Mrs. W. P. An derson, Granville, and Miss Ruth Bailey of this city; four brothers, C. C., George W.,'and P. B. Bailey, all of Ginton, and Sam Bailey of Greenville; one sister, Mrs. D. B. Bobo, also of this city, and six grand children. < < military unit, the |College Y.M.C.A., the administration and the Clinton Rotary club took part. A review, the final military func tion of the year, wtfs held under the lights' of Johnson field with cere monies in which senior commanding officers passed their .sabretfr«nd com mands to junior officers. Following the parade and review, before visitors and students assem bled in the college chapel, gifts were presented.,.to Major Wysor by Dean Marshall W.'Brown, for , the adminis tration; by George Beatty, for the junior militiiir^ a^ by DgJjL £. Bad- ler, for the Clinton Rotary club. One student, from each class, Huit Paul, freshman; Bill MeSween, sophd- more; Ashby Johnson, junior, and Jim Collings, senior, spoke briefly of Ma- Wysor’s service and toyalty to the college. An exprej^sion of appreciation by the departing c<>m.mandant and re marks by President William P. Jacobs roundeil out the program. Later, in the Y.M.C.A. building, the “Y” held a reception in honor of Ma jor Wysor to.^hich the student ^ody, faculty, and visitors were invited. SOk MiU Here Sold On Block Bankrupt Stutz-Hadfield Silk Corporation Property Brings $17,700 At, Public Sale. The Stutz-Hadfield Silk corpora tion, bankrupt, of this city, was sold at public auction Tuesday morning under a sale order by Angus Macaul ay of Chester, Referee in bankruptcy in the matter. The sale was conducted by R. W. Wade, attorney for the corporation. Wash'M. Pitts was the auctioneer. The property was divided into thriee lots, and brought a total of $17,760. The house and lot on South Adair street was sold to C. C. Giles for $3,700. The plant, machinery and office fixtures, ‘was bought by R. W. Wade, attorney, for $2,500. The mill building and three acres of land on Davidson street, was pur chased by Mrs. Rita Lovitfof Green ville, for $11,600. No announcement as to the plans of the new owners of the property has been made. ~ COPELAND REUNION The annual Copeland reunion will be held at Hurricane church, near here, on Sunday, May 30, beginning at 10 a. m. All relatives'and friends fure invited to be pres«nt for the a|2<^nd-the-day celebration. Dinner will be served on the grotmda and an infeaiaating program preaent^ Mrs. Alma MoKee tipmt the wedE- eod in ^Dne^ We*t with her aunt and iroele, Mr. and Mm. J. A. ESlis. Mountville Holds ^Closing Exercises scs?'i(yn.s here Thursday, May 20, will (ievoto much of its time to discus sion of the handling of tW Ministers’ .\nuity F’und, preliminary committee reports indicated today. , The Rev. Henry H. Sweets of Louisville, Ky., secretary of Chris tian Education_. ami Ministerial re lief, reported contributions to the ministers’ annuity fund drive total ed $665,458 in cash and pledges. Operation of the fund will not begin until collection of $3,000,000 is com pleted. ’The Louisville man is directing the campaign for raising funds for the annuity program. • . The committee reported It Is free of debt and operating now under a pledge not to incur financial' obliga tions in anticipation of income from the church membership. Loam /totaling $9,MMl during the past year were distributed to 134 candidates for the ministry^and to yoimg women preparing for special service in the denomination, the Rev. Mr. Sweets reported. Donations of ,,$128,877~aut of the Ministerial Relief fund went to sup port of 550 persons, the committee report said. Of this number, 310 were widows of ministers and^l95 re tired Presbyterian pastors. Thirty- four orphaned dhildren and 11 lay workers also received help from the committee. The Christian education and Min isterial relief committee rweived $251,992 during the la&t fiscal year, total contributions being $27,571 in excels of collections of 1936. Living donors contributed $189,185 and the committee collected $62,8^07 from oth er sources. “There will be no members oi the royal family present.” Right up to the moment of the an nouncement, many had supposed that the Duke of Kent, FidWard’s youngest brother, would be be.st man. June likewise is 'Mrs. Warfield’s birth month. She will be 41 on June 19. ‘ The official announcement of~The Wedding itself, handed to reporters at the gates of the Chateau by Ger man L. Rogers, said:*'' “His royal Ijighness the Duke of Windsor announces that his marriage to Wallis Warfield, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Teakle Wallis War- field of Maryland, will take place at the Chateau De Cande at Monts on Thur.sday, Jiihe^.” Mrs. Warfield only recently re-. P. C. Students Going To Europe Three of Four Plan To/Mix 1 Study With - Pleasure^Huring the Summer. . / Four Presbyterian college students are planning vacations in Europe'this of ther summer, three of them intending to blend study with pleasure and travel. W. A. Hansell, of Atlanta, Ga., has made sptelal arrangements to is /^III The baccalaureate sermon 'before the Mountville high school graduating class was preached Sunday morning by th* Rey. J. H. Byrd, piMttor of the Cross Hill 'Baptist chur^jh. The seventh grade ^aduating ex ercises, *in conjunct!^ with tfie class day exercises of thjr*enior class, were held last .night in the school audito rium. X Tonight ayeight o’clock, the ad dress before the graduates will be de livered by Dr. R. C. Long, pastor of the First 'Presbyterian Church'^ .of Greenwood. ' The following seniors will fSeceive diplomas: Frances Coatea, Saiah France# Wattip'^Mercy Winebrenner, Exnest Coggins, Thomas C<rfeman, El bert Jones* Harold MoKittrick* Car- roll Smith, and Geprge Wham. complete his/allege work early in order to sajl from^New York oh the 19th. He is going to Ireland, then across the Lake country to Scot land, and after a 12-day. cruise in Norway will return to America on June 28. S. B. Campbell, Jr., of Wytheville, Va., a member of this year’s grad- liating class, saila from New York on June 19th. He will go through the Mediterranean to Naples and Ihen tour through Italyi'"Switzerland end Germany, returning on the Nor mandie about August 16. R. K. Porter, son of Mrs. W. S. Porter of this city, plans to study about' six weeks at Besancon, near the Swiss and German border in Franee, and on week-ends, holidays and other spare times to gisit London, Rome and Paris. . — Roy Hutchinson, of Lawrenceville, Ga., pl*n» to study a ^ear at the University of^Loulouse and then re turn to P. C. to complete his college work. He also^ plans considerable nounced her first name, “Bessie” and the surname of the man from whom she was divorced early this month— F>ne.st Aldrich Simpson. The long-awaT^ werlding date, curtain call for the last act in an unsurpas.sed drama of empire, love and ^abdication, comes just 90 days before E<lwar<l’s 43rd birthday. His father, the late King George V. was born on June 3, 1865, and died Jan uary 20, 1936. '1 To Succi^ Wysor ABsistant Commandant To Be Announced liRter By War Department. Aqnouncoment was ma<le the past week that Major F. C. Harding, who has served for the-past year as as sistant professor of military science and tactics at Presbyterian college. The graduating exercises will be held on Monday evening at eight o’clock in Che Florida Street school auditorium. Dr. F’. K. I\)ole of Fur man university faculty, Greenville, will deliver thb^literary address, after which diplomasXwill .1h‘ presented to the graduating cWs by W. C. Oxley, chairman of the b^rd of trustees. The valedict-osian \nd saJutatorian, selected for their schbla^tk rocords7 will be Tench Owens ami Ernest Hipp. .Music will be furnishwl by the high school glee club. . Glass Day Exercises Friday evening, May 21, in the Florida Street school auditorium, the la graduating class will present their annual class (fay exercises. An inter esting program in the form of a plajr will be presented entitled, “The Her ald of Time.’ ’Paul League has been elected class .historian, Billy Light- foot, class pot‘t, and Robert Wysor will deliver the class will as class lawyer. Special awar<ls_will be made at this time in certain contests spon sored by the school. Officers-of the graduating class are: Elliotte Dobbins,' president; Er- neat Hipp, vice-president; Paul Lea gue, secretary-treasurer. The following girls and boys Com pose the graduating class^_ Marion Stokes Adair, Oranna Ad- dy, Elizabeth Barnett, Pauline Ben jamin, Grace Bozard, Flloise Brown, Nina Brown, Nora Cannon, Dorothy Crawford, Willie Fkrl Davidson, May Dicus, Elliotte Dobbin.s, Dorothy Ed wards, Naomi Hall, Pegge Harding, Lucile Harris, Florence Howard, Je- nclle Kelly, lone Neal, Orleana O’Dell, Virginia Painter*_ Margaret Todd, Sara Wannamaker, Sara Willard, Ilorothy Workman. Richard Adams, W. P. Baldwin, Jr., Butler Black, Frank Boland, William Byrd,. H. M. Chaney, Jr., Harold Cobb, will replace Major R. E. Wysor, transferred, as commandant of the Harold Copeland, James F’reeman, corps of cadets. / Appointment of an assistant to Ma jor Harding for the 1937-38 eeasion is as yet indefinite, the selection be ing made through army channels. Major Wysor, whose services to the college were recognized 'St exercises last week, will leave immediately af ter commencement for duty at Port McClellan, Ala. He wilh remain at Fort McClellan for six week and will then go to a post not yet. announced by headquarters. Dinner To Honw P. C. Champi<ms The Clinton Lions club will foster a public meeting the latter pari of next (Week to honor the Preebyterian collie championship baseball team a^ tJieir coa^, C. E. Galloway. The t^m finished its schedule Monday afternoon with a victory over Gem- son which clinched the flag after a most successful sea-son. The Lions did) is endeavoring to secure an. out standing baseball figure to attend the meeting as the guest speaker.^ Tickets will be'sold at a nomimtl fee, and alt who desire to do so are invited to attend bhe dinner as an expr^km of the oommimity’e appreciation of the team and its record. A. L. Shepard was in Walhalla Tuesday on business. traveling during vacation periods. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Simpson and children spent the week-end in Green ville and Greer with friends anil reja- tivea. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! . 1 DEATH from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY 1937 - ]>t*js Strive To Make This a Safe Year On the Highways. Odis Hampton, Marion Hillt Ernest Hipp, Jr., Roy Johnson, Robert Jone.s, William King, Pa'Ul League. William Lightfoot, Thomas Martin, J. D. Mc Kee, Tench Owens, William Perdue, Sam Snelgrove, Duncan Workman, Carter Wright, Robert Wysor, HI. Governor iSigns - Attendance Act Assembly Ratifies Measure To PotTAH Children Between 7 and 16 In School. 1 Oolumbia, May 15. — Governor Johnston announced today that he had signed the compulsory school attend ance act which appropriates a mini mum of $1,400 for attendance teach ers in each county to enforce the law. “1 am glad to sign this meafure,” he said. “It wilj have a very defi nite tendency to aid school attend ance and to eliminate illiteracy in our state. , I am proud of the prog ress we have^ made along educational lines.’i „ . ( The law requires thatJall children Letween the ages of seven and 16 attend‘‘Qchool. The regular, or compulsory, school attendance act was ratified by the general assembly. Tha set woqld require compulsory attendance upon children between the ages of seven and 16, Abo ratified were'acts providing for the taxing of banks on the basis of income instead of capital stock and authorizing the state hospital to bor row from the sinking fund commis sion d'r other sources for construction of new buildings. Joanna, Newberry To Meet SaRirday VV, Joanna and Newberry will meet at (]|oldvil]e Saturday at 3:30 in what promises to be a close baseball game. Both teams are tied for first place in the* Mid-State League with five vic tories each. ’ Gowan will be on the mound for Joanna. Efe has five victories to ifes credit (thus far this seaaon, and has etrock out 48 men in 41 innings. i Jc^tmpy Werts, formerly with Boa- ton, iWl pitch for Newberry. — \ t U t . \-