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•t VOLUME XXXVII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST-5, 1937 NUMBER 31 CROP CONTROL -UWS SOUGHT Federal Loans Banned Unless Measure Passed, President States; To Safeguard Nation’s Economic Structure. Washington, Aug. 3. President Court Vacancy Riles S^ate Solons Scent Tricky To Force Them To Accept Roosevelt’s Rec^s Appointee. Washington, Aug. 2. — A White House announcement that President Roo.sevelt has been advised he can Sees Surfacii^ > Ctf All Highways Sawyer Says That' If Building Is Continued At Present Rate Ail State Roads Will Be Paved * 4 ■ . In Few Years. Columbia, Aug. 1.—^Most, if not all, of the state highways will be hard surfaced if our present rate of high-I vent collapse of the nation V economic j up a» hornet’s nest today among sen-1 way construction can be maintained! structure. late foes of his defeated court reor- fnr a few more years,” Chief High-| Commenting at his press confer-j ganization bill ence, Mr. Roosevelt said he will ask Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of i said to<lay as the highway commis- congress to make loans on,cotAon o**, Michigan, proposeil that the senatejsion approved a $1,410,000, farm-to other surplus crops ■ until a law’ to!g,Q l record against an after-i niarket road-building program, prevent further surpluses is on the ^ appointment. He sug-i Sawyer in a statement pointed Aiut Roosevelt said today that new crop j fill the present supreme court va control legislation is essential to pre-icancy after congress adjourns stirred Senator Smith Has Birthday Veteran South Carolina Solon, 73 Years of Age^ In Senate 30 Years. NewUM Made IWAGES-HOURS ByPubhcDebt bill BLOCKED way Commissioner Ben M. Sawyeri trend toward centralization,” Washington, Aug. 2. — Senator El lison D. Smith of South Carolina, who reached his 73rd birthday anniversary August 1, looked back on 30 years of service in the senate. The thing that has impressed him j showed to<iay. most, he said, is “an unconscious. The bill issue was one of a weekly $36,707,757,744 On July 28th, Treasury Reports Show After $50,000,000 Issue.- Washington, .July 30.—\ $50,000,- 000 issue of discount bills lifted the public debt to a new peak of $36,707,- Washington, Aug. 3. President 757,744 on July 28, treasury reports | Roosevelt took the position today that nothing should be done by congress Orders Sent Solons By Presi dent. Green-Sponsored Amend ments Not To Lower Present Minimums. series with which Secretary Morgen- “The details that make up ' this j thau is putting new cash into the trend are too numerous to mention treasury’s working balance, now,” he said, “but 1 think the re-1 The balance stamls now at $940,- sult of actual realization of what this 618,981, and Morgenthau has said he statute books, He added that legislation to replace the invalidated agricultural adjust ment act is inevitable and w’ill be de manded by the country. anx'st Mr. Roosevelt’s comment followed i the high bench. demands in congress for immediate gbyernment loans on cotton and other surplus- products. Meanwhile, Senator Barkley, the majority leader, suggest ed that new crop control. legislation'created by the retirement of Ju.< I _ _ t. . be made “item No. 1” for the next session of congress. The president said his stand against loans applied also to wheat, com, hogs and other major crops, asserl- gesteii it adopt a resolution declaring j the state’s investment in highways' means is beginning to pregident ilRi(lltl**h^niinafte'' su- [ wwtrhP exceed $13,000,000 when three i thoughf and action of the entire programs adopted in May, June and country,” July of this year have been com- Smith said centralization has reach- pleted. s^uch an extent that it seems “un- Two-year programs totaling $15,- preme court justices when it is pos sible for the senatei,to pass upon them before the nominees serve any time White Hou se officials announced that Attorney General Cummings, :n an informal opinion, has ruled that the chief executive can fill the, vacan- tice Willis V’an Devanter on June 2, either now or after congress ad journs. * Although Stephen T, Early, a pres idential .secretary, said Mr. Roosevelt ing that attempts to stabilize pi’icesj^j, decided when he will name will follow enactment of a law curb-jy^j^ Devanter’s successor, some sena- ing surpluses. —^ j tors assunH‘d the president intends to Bi'fore^he pre.sident spoke, Sena-jfjjj vacancy by a recess appoint- tor Black, of .Alabama, and Bilbo, of! Mississippi, asked the senate In a res-j ‘senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne- olution to direct the Commo<lity Cred it corporation to make loans of 12 cents a pound on this year’s cotton crop. In the debate that followed, Chair- OOO.OOO, consisting of federal aid and the 1 wishes to keep it around the billion mark bccaitsi»^ "of" TTuuDled, I'OMlflfTft'HT abroad. The July 28 debt was $3,245,000,000 over that of a year ago and $10,111,- 000.000 above I he war-time high in Since the fiscal year 1930, the consciously we feel that our states and their legislatures are more nomi- l‘.M9 state projects, were approved and j'ml than real.” {last period in which, government in- when completed would be added to | “1 think, however, there is now a. come matched spending, the debt has the $106,195,000 in completed road i thoroughly aroused people as to what j i^^ieased $20,512,000,000. and bridge projects and $ti.S21,000 ex- would be the results of centralization] ^I'esident Roosevelt has said that penditures for projects in progress of practically all economic and social I a $2,000,000,000 increase in the debt June 30, the chief commissioner p<vver in Washington,” he added. | during the first half of this year re- I think the political battles from i suited largely from operation of the treasury’s gold “sterilization pro to fix minimum wages lower than the minimum now prevailing in various areas. This was his comment on reports that he had asked house members to delay action on pending wage-hour' |(-gi,sljj> I inn ,uuXil- ^uiUain amendments “The construction of a modei’n hard-surfaced state highway system has always had sufficient advocates to insure reasonable progress in this state, but not until recently has" such a- system of roads become generally popular throughout the state. now on will lx* between those who de sire centralization and those who re sist it. “Whether or not the consent to delegate to gram” and issuance of obligations to government trust funds, such as the people will j social security reserve fund.- the federal I For the first 28 days of this fiscal government through constitutional year, the treasury reports showed. On the i»art of counties and of the rights the government has run $193,550,363 nuinitiesf the demand for road im-ito I^em and the people will, bfaska, one of th^ leading opponents provement is just as great or greater 1 think, be fought out with as cU'ar than it was in 1930. IVople who hith- understandingM»f the issues iii- eiio opposed highway j»rogress are solved as did the members of the now enjoying and praising our'high- constitutional convention understand wavs. them.” man Smith, of South Carolina, of the senate agriculture committee, assured 'the senate his committee would hava a “comprehensive” new farm proposal in January. Smith has criticized Sec retary Wallace’s' plan, endorse<l by the president, to control surpluses through an ever-normal, granAry. Smith argued that the cotton loan resolution is unnecessary, contending that the Commodity Credit corpor ation is “directed” legislation to make loans on farm products “when for any reason there is a decline ib the markets.” (The corporation nwde loan^ of 10 cents a pound on cotton in 1934 and 12 cents in 1935. It still holds some cotton, but has sgiJd about half of a maximum of 6,000,000 bales). j •Smith read to the senate letter from Jesse H. Jones, chairinan of the reconstruction finance corporation, stalling ‘ that the 'Conimodity Credit corporatioin ati^ the RkT have ample funds to meet loan needs “should the necessity "develop.” Smith advi.sed that “We should con centrate our efforts” on Jones and other officials of the two agencies “so that they will take the necessary steps to adopt a loan policy for the current crop.” Senator Bilbo and Senator Gillette, Democrat, of Iowa, argued the Com modity Credit corporation’s power is discretionary, and that congress should direct specifically that loans be made this year. Black and Bilbo contended in their resolution that the price of cotton of .the president’s proposal to reor ganize the supreme court, said if a recess appointment is made and the nominee takes his blac® on the court before being confirmed, he wjll con sider that “sufficient grounds to vote against confirmation.” Even Chairman Ashurst, Democrat, of Arizona; of the senate judiciary committee, wko supported the presi- ent’s court bill, commented that “a wise man would not take his seat un til confirmed by the .senate.” In the midst of the furore over the White House announceinentj the ju- under existing i committee unanimously ap- <he state highway system, but if our proved a resolution for a board in quiry into all phases of the judicial issue raised by the president’s Teor- ganisation proposal. It endorses a resolution by Senators Burke and Hatch, Democrat, of New Mexico, a Roosevelt supporter, call ing for appointment of a group cf judiciary committee , members tf' study the entire question and report “from time to, timci” Gold ville Woman ' Claimed By Death has been “driven down” to almost 10 cents a pound, which they said is be- Tbw the of production. They as serted the price is influenced by spec ulation. The resolution provided that interest on the loans s)K>uId not ex ceed 3^ per cent. Smith declared the agricuMure de partment had fixed 16 cents a pound as the “parity” price for cotton, de signed to correspond to returns in the 1909-14 pre-war years. “Cotton is practically the only com modity which has not approximated parity,” he exclaimed. “Every time it has showed a tendency to rise to par ity, some of the government’s store is dumped on the market.” Explaining the failure of the agri culture committee to a^ee on a new crop (control bill this session, Smith asserted that “farm legislation has been piecemeal,” and criticized “fads” he eaid had been put forward. He criticized government officials who he said “wouldn’t know a jimp- fwn W0ed from -a^ cotton ataHc” and^ added: “I don’t take with good grace the whip and spur on the committee to act. We ^re told we must pass a bilk-’ft was not so much what we did, just so we did something.” Continuing his discussion with re porters the president said the price of cotton would have continued at 12 cents if there had been surplus con trol this year, which he said is one of the biggest‘crop years in history. Every tinfe cotton drops below 10 cents or wheat below 80 cents, * he said, the purchasing power of one- half of the territory involved dries up, and the wheels of factories slow up. > IN ABBEVILLE SUNDAY The Rev. Louis C. LsMotte, mem ber of the orphanage staff, spent Sunday in Abl^ville, where he ad dressed the Men’s Bible class of thg First Presbyterian church. Funeral services for Mrs. Nannie F. Ella Chandler, 68, widow of J. F. Chandler, who died at the home of Tier daughter, Mrs, W. K. Waits, at Goldville Thursday night, were con ducted at West Side Baptist church in^Greenwood Friday afternoon by the Rev. W. H. Beiers and the Rev. C. C. V’aughn. Interment followed in Hill Crest cemetery, Miis,u.Xhandler was a daughter of Jesse iMoDuffie Campbell and Sara Elizabeth Burdette Cam^^gholhs. --CJiandly’^ a devotemmem- ber of the Baptist church fori Along period of years and until her health failed she was a regular attendant. She endeared herself to countless friends by her beautiful Christian character. One daughter, Mrs. W. K. Waits, of Goldville, survives; also one step daughter, Mrs.' Gyhell Still, Green wood; two stepsons. Emmet Chand ler, Asheville, and Broadus Chandler, Kirksey; four grandchildren; three great grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. W. A. Morris of NeWry, Mrs. T. F. Darby of Anderson, Mrs. Mary^ Owena of Clinton; and a number of nephews and nieces. “Practically every hard-surfaced road constructed by the state high way department is in reality a farm- to-market road,” Sawyer said. He added: "Our most important farm-to-mar- ket roads, based on farm-market traf fic, have already been hard-surfaced or are programmed for hard-surface construction.’ Limited finances have not permitted a fa.ster expansion of present rate of highway construction can be maintained, most, *if not all, of the state highways will be hard surfaced. “When this is accomplished there will remain the other important con sideration of developing an adequate system of feeder roads which will put every farmer on or in easy access of an all-weather road.” Lions To Stage Big Horse Show As for himself, Smith said: “1 am an original rock-riblnxl Dem- crat. I am a state’s rights iVnio- crat. I am a tariff for revenue l>emo- crat, and I am a white supremacy Democrat.” Smith said 'the greatest enjoyment he has on reaching his birthday is his family. —^ — r-- "I have my wife^ four children— two lioys and two girls — all bom since I have been a meytiher Of the senate,” he said. Vehicle Study To Be Made Route 76, Clinton To L^urenH, into the red, compared ^wjth a $106,- 802,291 deficit in the corresponding periotl a year ago. A falling off in repayments to lending agencies has bi-en one factor wiilening the gap be tween income and spending this year. Local Bank Pays Final Dividend ('ioKed First National Makinfi 15 Per Cent Distribution, BrinK- FnK Total Depositoi^ Payment To 105 Per Cent. The First National Bank of this cit{J’, in proce.ss of liquidation for the past six and a half years, is this week paying a final dividend of 10 per cent and an added interest divi dend of 5 per cent, to all depositors who have proved claims. This is the seventh dividend paid by the bank. couhl be submitted. The amendments, which would di rect a proposed labor standards board to consider prevailing wages in fixing Jminintums, were-offered by the Amer ican Federation of Ijibor. Mr. Roose velt said he had not read the amend ments himself, but favored their prin ciples as outlined 1 > him by President William Green of fne AFL. Besides -the ' prevailing wages pro vision, the amendments also would forbid the hoard to interfere with any collective Imrgaining agreement. They also would delete a section of the pending bill under which the operation of the Walsh-Healey act would be placed under the proposed new ItoaT'd. The Walsh-Healey act provides for the fixing of labor standards in plants Aoing work for the government. Roth Mr. Roosevelt and .Mr. Green opposed giving the new hoard the task of ad ministering this act. Earlier in the day jnizzled members of the house lilxir committed had shoved the wage-hour i legislation aside temporarily amid conflicting re ports as to whether President Roose velt, or Green, caused the delay. Green assumed the responsibility when he left the White House hut Chairm’aa—Norton, Democrat, of New Jersey, told newsmen the committee had postponed consideration of the legislation until tomorrow “at the re- Listed For Survey of Freight- 'I''’"'': P- ' " distributed to depositors since its CarryinK Trucks August 11. Totgain information which will-en- liquidation^ dejiositors in the final since jfoing- to dividends ter and more substantial road.s in the future, the state-wide highway plan ning survey, in conjunction with the The annual UiTrens county horse highway department and the show will be held on Une night of bureau of public roads; is con- August 27th, on Johnson field. Pres hyterian college .campus, AHuter the floodlights. This show is sponsored annually by the Clinton Lion« club and the officials solicit the cooper ation of the entire county in this ven ture. They are trying tcTimprove the show this year, and the present set up assure.s the county a much better and bigger show. There will be better facilities for handling the crowd and special at tention is being given to the care and convenience of all participants and their animals. There will be a lacing tournament and all contestants are urged to be gin practicing for this test of skill and horsemanship. Any information desired concern ing the show will be gladly furnished by Jack H. Davis, Jr., of this city. Plan Trip To C^er Farm Laurens county farmers, 'of ~ss many as might interested, are in vited by County Agent C. B. Cannon College Adds New Professor '^I^an Marshall W. Brown of Pres- jbytferian college, announces that Kurt Weber has been appointed to fill the position of associate professor of English at the college left vacant by the transfer of Prof. Bernard H. Boyd to the department of‘Bible. Mr. Weber is a native of New York city. He was graduated cum laude fn^ Willianii college with the A.Br degree in 1930, From 1930 to 1932 he to make a visit’to.Hartsville on Wed-.i was a member of Brasenose college, nesday, August 11th, to make a tour Oxford, England, and received a bach- able engineers to plan and build bet-1^ The bank do.sed on January 22, 1931. Exactly six months after its closing, it <listribute<i a 50 per cehl dividend to depositors. This was fol lowed by 'an additional distribution of 10 per c<mt, three 5 per cent pay ments, and a 15 per cent dividend, making a total of 90 p<*r cent up to the time'of the final payment being made this wt*ek. The record made by the bank has been e<]ualled by few ducting an exten.sive study of all ve hicles C4»rry+ng freight -over the high ways. South Carolina is one of 44 states which are making such studies. The s»tudy is made by one-night party and ^ three-day parties, one^of which is to dosed banks, officials staU'. be located on U. S. route 76 between Checks representing the fi Laurens and ('Jinton at a county roa.l crossing, 3.5 miles west of Clinton. Wednesday, August 11, from 2 p. m. to 10 p. m. The party, under the direction of G; B. Tucker, party chief, stops, all freight-carrying vehicles, whether they are light delivery trucks or large transport trucks or buses. The party recorders find out from each driver the origin and destination of the truck, the manufacturer’s rated ca pacity, the general nature of the load, and whether the vehiclj? is owned by an individual or company. The trucks are weighed byv.means of a portable “loadmeter” scale", whiph weighs one wheel of the truck at the time. For example, if a fron-t wheel weighs 1,000 pounds and a back wheel weighs 1,7.50 pounds, the weight of the two wheels would be added to gether and multiplied by two to get the total weight of the truck, or 5,500 pounds. This is’'the severtth time trucks have been weighed at this station since the study began last February. They will be weighed here every 26 presenting the final divi dend and a winding up of the bank’s affairs, are now being delivered to depositors by Joe L. I>avidson, local agent under C. H. Dixon, receiver, of Columbia. ChcHlks not called for by August 31st, the receiver states, will be returned to tne office of the comp troller of the currency in Washington. Cummings Arrives For College Post Major Alexander H. Cummings and family arrived in the city this week to take up hi.s duties as assi.stant profes'sor of military science and tac tics at Pre.sbyterian college. He comes from the Presidio of San Francisco, Calif., where he has been on active duty with the 30th infantry. Major Cummings will assume the position held at the college during the past year by Major Floyd C. Hard ing, who becomes' professor of mili tary .science and tactics, succeeding Major R. E. Wysor, Jr., who leaves this month for an active army duty of Coker’s seed plant and farm. A considerable number of Laurens fanners formed a party that spent a day or two there last summer, and several of these wish to make another inspection. Those desiring to join My. Cannon for the trip this time are invited to get in touch with his office. elor of arts degree from the Honours school of English language and liter ature at Oxford in 1932. Last year he Union Service With Methodists The city union service next Sunday evening will be held at eight o’clock at Broad Street Methodist church. The pulpit will be occupied by the Rev. Louis C. LaMotte, exteutive sec retary of Thomwell orplwnage, with a cordial invitation extended all con gregations to unite is the servioe. days from now until next February, either from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., or 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. The night party works here from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., seven times during the year. With the results from these stud ies, the highway planning survey can studied abroad on a Columbia univer-'make recommendations for roads that .sity fellowship, and has taught Eng lish at the City college. New York, summer session. Mr. Weber will ar rive in the city early in September to assume his position. SSiTgnrhmTTh Wyomiiig. GODFREY TO CAMP wlil be adaptable to the freight traf-! fic that goes over them. . | SERVICES AT CROSS HILL Special revival services l^gan Sun- day_-at Liberty Springs Presbyterian church. Cross Hill, * to continue through the week. The Rev. W. S. A.l B. Godfrey of this city, captain! Porter of Ninety-Six, is conducting of Battery F., 115th field artillery, I the .services, a.ssisted by the pastor,- Abbeville, left with this company Rev. F. T. McGill Sunday for their annual encampment at Camp Jackson. Mr. Godfrey has retained his connection with* the Ab beville company since moving to Clin ton two years ago. Other officers- of the unit are Lieutenants Glenn, Knell and Sjurtherland, all of Abbeville. \ CLUB MEETING OMl'TTED President W. R. Anderson, Jr., of the Chamber of Commerce, stated yesterday -that the Auguat. meeting of the club will be omitted, following a <iustom of sever^ summers past. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! 4 DEATHS from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY 1937 / Let’s Strive To Make This a ^fe Year On the Highways. quest of President Roosevelt.” Committeemen, some of whom pro-* fessed themselves “astounded,” said the meeting had bt*en halted after Green had conferred privately with .Mrs. Norton and she informed them the chief executive ha(| reejuested de lay until some amendments could be suiiTmitted. , ' ‘ Representative Hariley, Republican, of New Jersey, comfdainod that “this incident forcibly demon.strated^thi? low estate in which the house is held to<lay.” “We are no longer legislators, but a re* heBa- tmiy ttF 'heed t he ni a sIt' i- ’ .s voice,” he^^aid. • The AFL head explained he felt the president would not want the commit tee -Ui act anti! it- had been acipiatfrt- ed with three suggested arhendments. GrcH'n added the cli^-f executive had agreed to the amendments in prin ciple. “If there has been any misunder standing,” Green said, “I am to blame.” Auto Accidents Leave Many Dead More Than ISO Dead and Manv % ■ Hundreds Injured. Chicago, Aug. 2.'—Week-end traffic accidents on the nation’s highw'ay’s left more than 180 dead and many hundr<?ds injured. New York and California led in fa talities w’ith 16 each. Ohio and Mich igan each counted 15 and Pennsyl vania and Texas each had J2. Five drowneil near* Beilefontaine, Ohio, when their car plunged into lake, trapping them in 12 feet of water. Four died in a single accident near Stanwix, Nl, Y^,* when a car hit a tree. Two couples died on a grade crossing near Denmark, VVis., when a fast passenger train struck their coupe. The auto death toll by states in- ‘ cfaded: Georgia 2, North Carolina 4, South Carol inir^ Two CCC Boys ^ Killed In Wreck Duroy Parker of Spartanburg, and Louis Duncan of Camden„_enroIlces Of the colored OOC camp nesir Clin ton, were killed Saturday night while sitting on an embankment near the entrance of the camp, When struck by a car. The automobile hit a parked taxicab careened into the embankment and crushed the two Negroes before they could e.scape. Both died soon af ter entering the hospital. A coroner’s^ inquest held Sunday termed the accident as unavoidable, and absolved Charles Williamston, white, of Clintoh, driver ofMhq car, of responsibility in the accident. Wil- liam.ston and several comjaanions war.e reported on their way ^ck from a. dance at Stomp Springs when tho accident occurred.