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. { THE CHRONICLE ♦ StriTes To Be a Clean News paper, Complete. Newsy, and Reliable. '/ /r If Ton DpnH Read THE CHRONICLE Ton Don’t Get % The News; J. VOLUME xxxvn CLINTON, S,.C., THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1937 NUMBER 28 ■V ARMIES HGHT TN CHINA AREA Japanese and Chinese Speed Re inforcements As North China Battle Is Resumed. Fresh Bat talions Rushed To Front'. . Peiping, July ' 12. — Japanese' and Chinese troops resumed their war fare W’est of Peiping tonight as strong reinforcements were hurried by both sides toward the*North China zone of j conflict. The chatter*"of machine guns, punc tuated by the roar of artillery, was! clearly audible in Peiping ffom about j 10 p. m. to 11 p. m. Chinese and Japa nese alike expresse<l deep ^^anxiety over the renewal of .hostilities, which came after a day o‘f truce. * *“ The fighting was nearer Peiping than previous clashes, which began Wednesday night along the Yungting river, ten miles west of the city, when Japanese infantrymen on night ma neuvers collided with troops of the (Jhinesa 2tith army. Chinese reports said tonight’s fighting started when Japanese in-,, „ j • t:.i j fantrymen station at Taohingtsun, a"j'";.. village the Peipinr-^'anpinghajen 1 H-rt'"*. rl'™? Smith Opponent - Of Court Plans Senior S. C. Senator Says He’s As:ainst It ’T>ock, Stock and Barrel.” Stands for Farmers. * * ^ Washington, Juiy 12.—Returning to County Safety Survey Made Highway Department Studies Roads and Situations Likely To Cause Accidents. D!*11 T g ITEXAN TURNS Bill Is Vetoed ON COURT BILL President Opposes Measure , To Extend Rates On Federal Land !^^*””^*"^ Bank Loans. Because a great many automobile Washington today from a 10-day vi.sit • accidents are due to' road condition.®, 1 to Sonth Carolina, Senator E. D.|the state-Avide highway planning sur- Smith announced he is just as much'v«y recently placed a special party in jopposed to the substitute court bill! I^urens county to go over aril pri- as he was to the original measure mary roatl® and locate every .situation j submitted by the president. l wht‘r»‘ inadequate sight distance • “I am opposed to the bill lock, stockiniight cause accidents. {and barrel,” the .-enior South t'arolinai ‘'.ninty, the party has com-jciease in the ability of farmers to pay {senator asserted when interviewed .at! pb'ted its work and has recorded ev-'interest *the^^pitol. ! ery Idcaticm. where the motorist is' Smith commended the speeches he^'unable to at least l.dOb feet ahead'during the fisclil Vear •llloS. ing-made .against the legislation and of him. The h.ureau of jiuhlic roads j T)^. i,iii also Would broaden the was among those this afternoon who has set this as a minimum at which {fid,! pf ,>n wK.i,-h intere.st roduc- rushed up to eongratulatr—Seiiaiui'-' dririug W milPl: an hbuT~Is .safe. it ion Advocates Sit-Down On Roosevelt Measure.. Charg es Isspe Is “Tearing the Coun try Wide Open” and Will Split Democratic Party. Washington, July 12. — President j Roo'ovclt vetoed today a bill to ex-1 tend for two years low interest rates} on' federal land bank loans. j In a message to the house announc-I Washington^ July Pb — The chair ing his action he .said that the veto I man of the powerful house judiciary was based on -af general, lowering offcommittee came out so .strongly farm murljiage interest rates, an in-"| against the Roo>evelt court reorgani zation hill late today that opponents of the measure exMaimed joyfully that it \va.< dead. and on the administration policy of t.rying"to balance, the budget up Josiah W. Bailey after he had con cluded an hour and a half attack on When engineers first began 'build ing fiighways for the ‘‘horseless car- the judiciary reform legislation and i riages.” they little realized that the in which he aimed-his criticism di-|<iay would come when a minimum nf Major Alexander Cummings (aibove)' president who he charged of the United States .army, will ar-1,a court that will make legis- rive in Clinton soon to take up duties I proposed by him constitu- aa asaiatant professor of military sci-1 „ . , ., , , , ence and tactics at Preabyteriaa col- said he had not yet -- . _ decided whether he would speak on highway four miles east 'ot the river. assistant to professor of military sci- ' ^jence and tactics, upon Major Robert 1,000 feet of unrestricted sight dis tance would be ab.solutely necessary for nKHlern high-powered cars. Conse- (luently, there are many situations on the highways where a driver may see as little., as l.'iO feet ahead of him. The advanced to within firing range w. ■ _ t . . ^ * . . reaay. Chinee .roop,v hoWmK T,ai,henn.i.o '.C l‘jr C»m'n.vntin* on gonor.! farn. (tornplo of the god of 'OiSlItlh), only »™y duty uith the .Socond d.- two milvs fntm Peiping’. CJlinese said the Japane.se retired { after an hovir’s fighting. •Chinese declared the Japanese had broken the truce which had been in eff.ec.t since Sunday night although both sides were vague as to jts terms. They asserted that an official at tache tio Mayor Chin T. Chun, of Pei ping, sent to the Yungting area to see that the Japanese had carried out an agreement to withdraw their forc es, returned tp report that Japanese commanders near Wanpinghsien told him they had no intention of with- dra'wing. • Origins of the conflict remained ob scure. Each side declared the other fired first in the opening battle Wed nesday night and each blamed the other for the collapse of subsequent truces. Earlier today Chinese officials had indicated the crisis had passed from the military to the diplomatic stage. The center of gravity, they said, had shifted from Peiping to Tientsin, where Japan’s North China garrison, involved in the conflict with the Chi nese 29th army, maintains headquar ters. I Major Cummings comes to Clinton 'from the Presidio of i^an Francisco, I California. the court bill but he left little doubt I officials of the highway planning sdr-' that if the opposition needed him to help prolong the debate he would be ready. leg islation at this session, which Presi dent Roosevelt will tomorrow urge, Smith said: ‘‘I want some permanent legislation vey want to find the.se situations so that recommendations can be made for improving them to fit the needs of the 1987 motorist. The sight dis tance paiiy has entirely covered ‘24 counties and almost complet<sl four others. The party uses two cars. The first Cotton Acreage In State Rises Black Announces FiRur^. Pro duction Forecast To Be An nounced August 9. but you can not get it through af this travels along with a vertical black- session with this hot weather and with Columbia, July 9.—Cotton acreage in South Carolina has been increased 16 per cent this year, according to the government acreage estimate, nounced Friday by Frank 0. Black, agricultural statistician. The report shows 1,648,000 acre* in cultivation JuJy 1, which compares with 1,416,000 acres in cultivation a year ago and 1,869,000 acreil in TOTtL Bowqver, the. present acreage is 14 pe.r cant less than the average of 1,- 91.')J)00 acres grown during the five- being debated.” The South Carolina chairman of the .senate agriculture committee express ed disappointment over President Roosevelt’s veto to<lay of the act ex tending the emergency interest rate of .'U’i per cent on farm loans ,under the Farm Credit administration. This will cause farmers to pay from be tween 4 and 6 per cent. .and-white ten-foot pole (stadia rod) •Advocating a “sit-down” on thcAis- 5 0 c, (' h a i r m a n Sum tiers, Denioc ra.t, of ... . , • Texas, made a .spewh interpreted on were granted by mcludiog..»-4i-af}-KtHes as meaning that hi.s commit- the.se highly controversial measures on the side, The- second, with a hori zontal bar (stadia interceptor) on its hood, follows. .At a 1,000 foot unob- structe<l sight distance, the tip of the pole on the first'car appears to touch the horizontal bar on the second One. per cent rate on land bank commis sioner bonds. This would be a cut from o per-cent. Explaining that a majority of these loans were on second mortgages and that there were other “factors of risk” involved, the president said the T) per cent rate was not excessive. The bill would have . extended through this fiscal year the 3.5 per cent rate on federal land bank loans and through the second year, ending June 30, 1930, would have pro'vided a four per cent rate. , “I believe,” the cbief executive told the house, “that there is no justifica tion for rtiritinned government subsidy of federal land hank interest rates below the unprecedentedly low rate these, banks are now offering farmer- borrowers on a business basis. “Furthermore ti^>e abilify of farmers to pay interest at the rates, provided for in their mortgages with the fed eral land banks has been very sub stantially improved, <lue’ to an in- / crease of more than 100 per cent in When the pole cannot be seen from i the leyel tvf farm prices since the the swond car, the recorders know emergency period of 1932-33.” that the sight distance is less than 1,000 feet. When the driver O'f the first car loses sight of the second one, he stops “In view of the faef^that we are extending relief to the tune of a bil-ijust beyond the obstruction. The driv- an-!lion and a half I think we should give'er of the second car comes up and this aid to the struggling land-own- takes a measurement of the actual ers.” SmitJi said he wished members of the senate, as well as other officials in Washington could have been with him gathering tobacco in one of his tobacco fields last week and could fol low that with curing the tobacco in a barn, for three days and nights pre paring it for the market and the sell- year pericHl, 1 (♦28-1932. If‘abandonment thLs year U about} ing of-it on the warehouse floor, the average of recent years the state j “J think if they had to experience General Sung Cheh-Yuan, chairman | should harvest approximately 1,630,-1 some’of the difficultie.s of the farm- of the Hopei-Ghahar council, highest j0(M) acres ihis fall, which would bei^rs they would be more con.siderate of t’hinese aut-nority in North China, and j the large.®! harve’sted acreage since {hem,” he a.sserted. aUo commander of the 2(Kh itrmy, ar-|i;i.32, Mr. Black said. rived in Tientsin today. He was ex-j Acreage changes within the state.} tn or to confer-tomoriHW Lieu^The cohtihuedrfa^ige from a<bout K per {override the presliident’s veto. The tenant General Kiyoshil new com-^cent in the upper Piedmont section to | house will vote on it tomorrow. Smith could not hazard a gues.s as not' ingress wouliT mander of the Japane.se forces Hitherto General Suti§ has remain ed away from the troubled area. Japa nese have asserted his aibsence made previous truce agreements valueless.! arouml 2.5 per cent in the southern I Senator-Smith wore a flaming red portion, the percenUge increase being} tie today with shirt to match. He had progressively up-ward from north toja good coat of tan ami apparently south. I ha<i fully recovered from his recent Mr. Black gave out no figures on I illness. General Katsuki today was in Hsin-1 probable production, but it is known} Smith will return to South Oro- king conferring with (General Ken-|that during the pa.st ten years thejlina this week-end. He will address kichi Uyeda, commander of Japan’s'state has averaged 2-31 poilhdsof lint the Young Democrats at Columbia powerful army in ManchukuSt jcotton per acre, which, if attained tjjis I Saturday on “Democracy As a Sys-‘ year, would give a crop of approxi-|tem and the .Science That Underlies mately 788,(K)() bales of 500 pounds | it.” Units of that army were pouring southward along the railway from .Mukden to .reinforce the Japanese | weight. The five-year lint av- forces in the Tientsin-Peiping area, j erage of 251 pounds "would give a crop Five troop trains were reported to' have arrived at Tangku, twenty miles north of Tientsin. Peiping returned to something like normal. Martial law for the night went intOj^ effect at 11 p .m.., three hours later than- on previous night.s. Train service to Tientsin and Hankow wua restored. It was announced all gates in the city’s masaive walls, closed since Thursday, would be re opened tomorrow. Reliable Chinese sources said the Japanese had withdrawn most of their troops froni the Yungting river fight ing zone to their advanced base at Fengtai, railway junction five milea southwest of Pei{p>ing. Chinese officials emphatically de nied they had accepted Japan’s de mands for settlement of the conflict but s&id the outlook was mure hope ful, since the Japanese had agreed not to aggravate the situation west of Peiping and not to advance 'their tTO^ beyond positions now held. Today’s armistice followed heavy fighting along the Yungtung last night, when artillery fire and the rumble of tanks — presumably Japa- of 856,000 bales and the three-year average of 264 pounds crop a of 900,- 000 bales. No official forecast oii^ production will be published until August 9. Marshall Browns Away On Trip Dr. and Mrs. -Marslhall W. Brown, dean and registrar of Presbyterian college, left recently for a protracted tour of the leading law, medicine, and Thomwell Campus Deserted Place With all children of th<* qrphanage leaving to<lay and tomorrow on vaca tion, the campus will pre.^ent a de serted, lonesome appearance. As last year, the entire population of the home is away on vacation at the same time,' with all cottages clos ed. Only about 25 older Iniys will re main for the month, to carry on the work on the farm, dairy, poultry plant and shop. About 250 of the takes a measurement of distance from where the first car come.^ back into view to the spot pn which it his stopped. This record.s the minimum sight distance from wHere the back car is to the front one. The recorders write down the exact location of the jb.struction. They de- scri'he the general "nature of it — whether it is temporaiy or perma nent, whether it is a sharp curve, hill, right angl<‘, or any other feature that might be reniedied. The survey exp^-ct^ to finish the w’ork in-all counties )»y .Septemb.er 1st. New Concern To ^ Open In City Storm Damage!^ Felt In County I.aurens, July 12.—I^urcns and sev eral outlying communities were visit ed just before nightfall Sunday by electrical storms, accompanied -by heavy showers and damaging hail fall !h scattered area.«. The’jftreei Irghting system Was in- lerrufded for sometime and a number of telephones in town and rural dis tricts were out of commission last night and today because of the 'ktorm. (’onimunitie.s reporting hail damage to vegetable gardens and growing field crops include a small area south of the town at Watts .Mills and a con- side table. section—in—tbe^^'opeland j school <iistrict, northeast of Watts I .Mill.® ; Fleming school district, five or six mil<’s north of Laurens and at tee will never let the bill out on the house floor for a vote unless the hou.se it.self takes it .away from the group by drastic action. "V To get a bill out of an unwilling committee, 'a petition bearing th'e names of 268 of the 435 house mem bers is necessary. Friends of the court bill began talking of such a petition. Opponents predicted it never would be filleii. Senator VV’heeler, Democrat, of Montana, a leader of the opposition to the bill, which is now being debat ed in the senate, declared the Sum ners speech markeil “t’he collapse of the fight to save the bill.” iSumners had never hefore„ com- mei;j|ed punlicly non the jiresent court bill, which calls for the appointment of one additional supreme, court jus tice a yea,!’ if incumlients past 75 do not retire.' But today, while Senator (opcland, Democrat, New York, was appealing to President Roosevelt from the sen ate floor to withdraw the measure lest it split the Democratic parly per manently, Sumners arose in the hou.se to declare that the nation is at a crossroads, and that one of the paths lead.s*to dictatorship. Representative Keller, Democrat, of Illinois, asked the Texan if he was taking the position that his committee "has a right to deny the house the opportunity to vote on this subject." “”No, 1 do not think that,” Sumners answered, “but I take the po.sitioa that the judiciary committee of the house is an agent of the hou.se and trusted with cert^iin responsibilities, and at' any time this hou.«e wants to assume the re.spon.sibility of -taking the hill away from the committee, it has the privilege of rloing so.” ^ .Sumners din-lared the nation is at the crossroads and that one of the paths leads to dictaiiirshqi, — “Is it good .sense,” he demanded, “to siLlit us from top to bottom when we need a unit<‘d governm(*nt and a united jieople to save this nation?” Hickory Tavern, 10 mile.s west. Many hou.se members rose to their • , cr, ' t ounty Agent (. B. ( annon, after! f^et and applauded when • Sumners The Western Auto As.sociate Store,leaking a preliminary inspection of appealed to the senate to abandon headed by Arthur Gopeland and Harry ,, ho different affected communities, I-^hat 1 think is an unneeessarv piece • L. Nettles as owners, will open their'.Kaid he had estimated that .300 acre.s of legislation” door.s for l.usiness early next month] of cotton had suffered from hail and} Keforrimr to the court bill as “this in the .store room adjoining Callo- indicated that a full survey wijj ,likely ; thing ^hat ^Mditting ^ ' way s and until recently occupied by I made in a few days to-skdermine' wide onen ” the Tc'x-in deelared* .John <.l)ominick. The building will} the extent of damage doiie in various! •■'The‘judiciary committee has be put in first-class condition for a! areas. . . 'this thing out of the hou.se formal opening which they plan to —no apologies % it.” . 0 ( on ugus ) . LJnion Service i f'olden,’ Democrat, 1 California, asked .Sumners if he Wltll advocating a “sit-down strike on kept and it graduate schools of America, main- S^rh, together with teach taining the close friendly relations which the institution has had with these schools for a number of years. A number of Presbyterian college graduates are at present doing ad- vmneed work m mkny leading univer sities of the nation. The college main tains relations with these universities and graduate schools that it may betr ter equip its students for advanced work. • Last year Dr. Brown visited be 'fhe new concern, which will be en tirely home owned and operated, will be the only one of its kind in the city. It will carry a complete line of automolule supplies, acce.ssories, ra dios,, tire.s, and a wide Variety of home appliances. .Messrs. Uopeland and Nettles have resigned their positions With Young- Copeland Poster Advertising Service, and C. W. Anderson, hosiery jobbers, to give their entire time to the store. Both are well known and popular young business men of the city with a wide circle of friends who will wish them success in their new 'business venture. thi.s legislation ? ” ' ‘Ml would 1k‘ a ers and matrons, are now scattered throughout this and other states for their usual summer visit with rela tives and friends.^ Sixty children will go tomorrotijt to Riverside cottage near here on En- oree river, for an outing under’ the supervision of Mrs. Lucy Love Barton of Orangeburg, as matron, and Misses Sara Rector of Inman, and Mary Pre.ssley of Chester, a.s counsellors. The vaca'tion ' season at the institu nese—were clearly audible from *Pei- ^ ping’s walls. Chinese said the con- tour,’^ and a permanent part flict had been “furious,” that three the policy of the college, villages along the river had seen ac tion and that losses had been heavy. Firing ehded about 2 a. m. - ■ . , -.-L i ^ U. S. IsMies Warning ' W’ashington, Jujy 12.— A war b^.-} Friends of Dr. James O’Daniel and tween Japan and China would be a [Dr. Charles Pinckney Roper of this great blow to fhe cause of world [ city, recent graduates of the State Dr. JL Lee Yoiing Dl At Hospital Dr. J. Lee Young, well-known local physician, is a patient in Dr. Hays’ hospital where he underwent, a serious operation last Fridf^. Dr. Young was carried to Spartanburg Thursday for an examination atwi returned to his twwn* thirtv*^ an<r”fortv equate close the,latter part of Aug-' home later in the day. Friday mom- « and^hi “L Kl.ifl - ;in^hi.broth.Mnd,w, Dr.R.E.At*I ' - '■ ♦ I of Chester, performed the operation l-lsyA [and reports from his bedside yestfr- (lay stated that he is satisfactorily Maiat convalescing. A man unusually popu- I'lCW l^lic;vi.vi y esteem of all i . The city union .service next .Sunday' ” wouki ik* a goo«l thing to sit- evening wili be held at the Kir.st Bap-’8'“’' ,,^.ci,. other legislation-,” Sunuif'r® replied. In rejdy to (jUestions, he said he tist church. The pulpit will h« pied hy the Rev. ('. Bynum Betts of the Associate Reformed Presbyterianhe!;eve an incre.a.'-e in the _ I m( Miber.'hip of the suiu eme court is church, with a cordial invitation ex tended all congregations to unite in this service. CCC I’I,A(tES STILL OPEN It was stated yesterday by the County Board of Public Welfare that there are .still a few openings in the county in July for junior white OCC enrollees from the age of 17 to 23. Applications are being received by Miss Jean McKee as inve.stigator for this enrollment, -with headquarters in the court house lobby. Rec.se Young and ^IMvis Workman lare spending several weeks at Camp Elliott, at Old Fort, N. C. necc-ssar-y. He added there would be additional retirements from the court “when we take the lash off the judges-,” Many Democrats and Republicans visit them. Thi# i* a regular “good- of I Local. Men Pass Doctors Exams , _ _ , , . , , , iwho know him, Dr. Young has a host A. C Smrth who ha, just compIet-,„f ^ ed a ci{y directory for Lauren.s, hasij^j^^ illness, started compiling a .similar directory peace and progress, the state depart- Tpent wanted the two nations today. The’department’s views were con veyed to Japanese Ambassador Hiroii Saito and Z. T. Ing, cfounsellor of the Chinese embassy, when the diplomats called on Secretary Cordell Hull to <tiscuss the Far Eastern crisis. (Continfied bn page eight) Medical college, will be interested to know that they have passed the state PASSES STATE EXAM Duncan Felder, of thi's city, passed for Clinton.-Mr. Smith in his work has been endorsed ahd approved by local civic organizations and when his^^jg opticians examination •recently directory is completed the^city’s pres-Ugij Columbia, and was granted an ent population will be shoivn. ’ 1 optician’s license. Mr. Pelder has been board examination for licenses . to-j The last directory of Clinton wa*; associated with Dr. Felder Smith for practice medicine and. surgery in made in 1912 which gave Clinton a j past two years as laboratory as- South Carolina. Drs. O’Daniel and Roper recently left for Georgia Bap tist hospital, Atlanta, and Watts hos pital, Durham,' N. C., where they have entered upon their internship*. population of 3,700, and' Laurens, | which included Watts Mill and adja cent suburbs,.j7,244. The 1937 direc tory of Laurens, -which includes only the cjtj^ proper, is 5,968. . Miss Betty Beatty of (Savannah, Ga., is the guest for several weeks of Miss Bums Browming. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVfi^A LIFE! 2 DEATHS from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS In ’ LAURENS .COUNTY 1937 Let’s Strive To Make This a Safe Year On the Highways. i. cheered the Texan at the conclusion of his speech. Instead of the administration meavS- ure to" provide additional ' supreme court justices if incumbents past 75 years of age refuse to retire, Sum ners urged the senate to consider ju diciary legrislation which the house has passed. Taking ,up the opposition cause in the senate, Senator Copeland warned his colleagues that disaster is not far ahead of the Democratic party^ if the court4)JJ1 is pressed.- ^ • The stocky, immaculate New York er told his colleagues the party ha.s not changed .but tliat “those who have taken possession of our organizatitln are the men who have changed.” I “Let me warn the members of what I was once a united and invincible party !that disaster is not far ahead.” ! t'opeland, long in disagreement [•with thjf administration on thi.-« and ; other policies, spoke after , .Senator Bailey,^ Democrat, of North Carolina, j had declared that, if the couri bill is® i enacted, the road to an American dic tatorship will be cleared of all ob structions. \ ^ . Both .senators spoke angrily of what they termed threats of reprisaks against Democrats who are opposing' the bill. “Let those who tremble and cring* at the mere mention of the Jash'bear (Continued on page eight) t L,.