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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. 8. C
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THURSDAY. AUGUST 5, 1937
Resigns As
AAA Director
Directed Plowing Under of 14
Million Acres of. Cotton In
1933 t'arm Campaign.
Washington, Aug. 2. — Cully A,
Cobb, of Atlanta, resigned today from
the directorship of the agricultural
stdjustmertt administration’.^ Southern
division.
J. B. Hutson, acting administrator,
said no action wouid be taken imme
diately on the re.signation because^of
the absence of~Agrrcult ure Commis-
aioner Henry Wallace and .Adminis
trator J. B, Tolley.
Cobb, who join^ the .A.A.A in May,
1933, to direct the cotton plow-up
campaign which twk about 14,000,-
000 acres of cotton out of production,
was enroute^to .Auburn, Ala., for a
speaking engagement th<‘re tomorrow.
Officials said the 53-year-old
Southern editor expected to return tf*
private pursuits about .'^epteml*er 1.
He was eilitor of the Southern Rural-
ist from 1010 to 103(i. ami vice-presi
dent and an edit«^ of the Progressive
Karraef and Southern Ruralist imme
diately prtTedjpg his .A.A.A appoint
ment. '
'Directory Sooiiu^
i To Be Completed
the
ing
'City To Have .New Directory,
First Published Since 1912.
i Will Show Present Population.
j Merchants' and business firms' of
Clinton kre showing considerable in-
1
iterest inlhe city’s new directory pow
ashin^on, Aug. 1. The kilHng compiled which will be as com-
Joanna Mill News
Goldville, July 29.—Mrs. Henrietta
Wells of Rock Hill,, spent the past
week with Mrs. Robert Jones.
Little Miiss Kay Frances Boswell
Insurgents Push
Nearer Valencia
sales and Carbonera mountains.
.A dispatch from insurgent hcad-
{quarters in Seville i^ulla government
president’s proposal for “pack-, , ^ i u; .
the supreme court, by its recom-1 ®
matment to the judiciary committee^** ^e\en questions wi
by a 70 to 20 vote of the senate, is. , , • .ri. u i
reCTV.I.d her,. Mimifyinr ehiefly I
the-d.ternnivMi.111 ut wllgIfM «rfl .lx> ewi.'" a numher of Photo-
.«ert iwTiiiita aa one.of the ,hre.l«■'>' aa orphana^.homea, the
-or,linal’e-branches of the ,,d«rali">*>'®” PP'!«.*":*
Hendaye, Frknco-Spanish Frontjer,
Aug. 2.^Insurgerits pressed their'of
fensive closer to, the Valencia pro
vince border in .the northeast today
of Columbia, spent the Week-end with I and inflicted heavy losses on attack ,
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E.jing government troops in the south.
Chapman. [ Insurgent communiques ffom the
Mr and Mr.s Claude Kay and;Teruel front reported that Generalis-
daughter, Nell of Pelzer, afK^nt Sun..|,i^^ Francisco Franco’s forces had
day with Mr. and Mrs. Mack Blakely, village of Betas, broad-
Miss .Dorothy Hagan visited fnendsGening the front of their salient aimed
jswered in every home in the city and here last wwk. _ _ .... i at severing the main Madrid-Valem;ia Juan in p'^nnee Olltrr ln‘^lif-
co
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jones and IRtl® j highway.
Ijouiae. vi.sited rela- 'i.i _
daughter Ahna Louise, visited rela-i They were-said also to have taken
tives m Pjneville, N. C., Sunday. t^wms of Sierra Carbouera, Ver-
.Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Sample anduice, Mina and TomaquV as govern-
government. . by A. G. Smith, who has been
In refusing to subject the .-supreme (gathering
court, another co-ordinate branch, to'publication.
ments, and others. It is being pro- family spent Sunday with Mr. and troops fled before a push that
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the domination of the executive, con-
< The following mwirchants and busi-
klr
:ness hou.ses have Already subscribed
has carried the insurgent forces -56
Mrs. James Koon in Cross Hill.
.Mr. and Mrs Arthur Smith oU miles southward through the Univer-
Gaffney, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank'
offensive in the Alcujarra and Sierra
de Nevada sectors of the southern
front wa.* i^epulsed with hei^-y losses.
Jt said the goA-emmert drive was a
vain attempt to' knife the Granada-
Moril road and cut insurgent-held
Granada’s direct communications line
to the sea. '
Oove’Timent aviaiion was reported
particularly .active bombarding insur
gent airports. .An aviation ministry
dispatch said 12- insurgent planes
were destroyed nt Valencia de Don
'I
Smith of I^anca.sterj are spending the
week with .Mr. and—Mrs.. Ernest 1
gent air bases were bombed at Sala-
mahaca and Burgoes.
Insurgents asserted that govem-
mqnt troops lost 1,000 men when an
attatk on the northwestern front
failed to break insurgent lines east
of CK'iedo in Asturia province.
gre.ss, in effect, declared its own in-;
dependence. | g,jv«.rti8ingj_.'»pace to help make! Smith. ^
j lx*adership of congress no longerj^be director^’ possible for Clinton: i .Mr. and Mrs. S. D, Weathers visit-
lies in the White'Hou.«e, but in the; .Abrams and Ge<'r Beauty Shop,jed their son, John Weathers, at Fortl
per.son of Vice-Preshlent Garner, ^ho. ^j„b‘r.'on’s 5c, 10c an<l 2.5c Stores, .McF’herson, Ga., Saturday. j
I engineered tl;^ procnnlure by which FfUid'^.'Ntore, ■ Baldwin’s Grocery, .Mr.s. K. J. Willingham and children |
the court i.ssde'was brought to a cli- lK.*pt. Store, W. J. Benjamin, are spending the week in N’inety-Six.
max. It'is a fair .itatenient that the Blakely and Hro., Blalock’s Gro-i .Mrs. E. S. Jones, .Sn.’^nd .Miss i
president and the vice-president are <.^.ry, < arolina Service Station, f'iti-ISarah Jones of Spartanburg, spent 1
no)v ojMbily the leaders of the two Federal .Savings and I>oan .As-|the week-end with Rev. and .Mrs. E.
wings into which DeimKH-atic dinu.n Builders Supply Co., S. Jones. > , i---
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Dr. Felder Smith
of
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OPTOMETRISTS
Specialist In
Eye Examinations
Office Hours 8 to 6 Daily
Phone 29-W for Appointment
Clinton, S. C.
party has la.‘en split. J><»liti- C'hnK.n Hotel, George
cal opinion here is that all talk of jhe Country .Ma
A. ('opeland Sl
arket, L. B- Dil-
party harmony’’ is for public con- Edward.s .Auto Service Station,
sumption only, and its manifestations j ^ Frontis, Gray Funeral Home,
are superficial. (Ire^mwood CocaAf'oia Bottling Co.,
Mr. arid Mrsi
the week in F’acolet.
,Mi.«ses'Ix)uise and Christine Owens,
Buford, l^roy (and- .Margar^'t Owens
spent the past week with their grand-
“.Musl” Becomes “liesirahle” Gre<-nwcK)d Creamery, H. D. Henry &iparentsin Spartanburg.
That is not to say that'^the presi- ( o., Kellers Drug .Store, Young Bros. Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Templeton and
<leqt's recommendations will no long- Live .‘^tock Co., Giles Chevrolet Co., son, Jimmit*, Mr. and^^Mrs. Cecil Odell,
er-command respect on Capitol Hill. J. C. FVnney Co., F. C. Hinson,'J. M.j.Mrs. .1. 1). Odell and Miss Tootsie
•Many of the N«*w Deal objA'Ctives art* l*itt<, Hitts .'M*rvice .Station, Royal | Odell spent the week-end in Fort
entirely acceptable to {iractirally all Cleaners. Ilipp and Chandler, Sowers
of the Democratic membt'rs mf l»o<h Garage, Sumorel’s Defit. Store’ Tire
Mill.
.Mrs
Beulah -Addison is si>ending
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house.s and, for that matter, D\many'iind Radio .‘^tore. D.H. Tribble Co.,!the week at (.'amp Long. Aiken, as
of the Repuhliicans. , We>t»M n .Auto .A-^sociate .Store, Hugh | the guest of Mi.ss D(»rothy Hagan. ^
The in<licati.ons are that the con- |.. K chem-rger, Clinton Motor ('o.,| Jtaymond Odell of Fort .Mill, spent
gr*-'S will do its own judging frpm Nichols .'Studio, Copeland’s Meat Mar-! the week-end with his mf»ther, Mrs.
now on t»oth as to the hece^-^ity of Holling-worth .Motor Co., Indus-
any jiarticular proposal from the trial .'supply Co., Chronicle Huhli.sh-
White House and as to the methiHl t*f mg Co.
carrying it out if-congie<s Iike< the ^
idi-a. There will be no mitre,“imist”^ ^ ^ ^
legislatiiih jrushed through wjthou! « a mt jk
ample consideration. IndeeiU. the lU 1 Cctl 8 /\K0
word now U ing used by the pre>t- Interest From The Chronicle
ident, instead of “must," is “desir-j .August 4, 1927
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BUSH RIVER CHJ^RCH
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18
For Benefit of Bush River
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SchcM)!.
Prices:
Men 65c. Ladies .5(lc, Chil
dren under 12, 40c.
Pigfoot slew Tuesday eve-
ninji. Auk. 17. Price 50c.
Unexcelled* Prepare ion and.
Service.
able.’’ ,,
All signs indicate that the congr*‘ss! ^ ^ ju ^ ^ ^ nj-
will not stick around now any l«»ng«*r Miss .Mildred Hill of ( ross Hill, is
than is nt*cessary to clear the legis- H'** gue>t of .Mrs. F. .M. Istutts.
lative decks of things which if-i.s im- Mr. and Mrs. O. .A. .Sowers and lit-
portant to got out of the way. There'tb* daughter are visiting relatives in
was an . implied agreement that the i'tatesville, N. ( .
part of the president’s court bilD I**"- Dudley Jones is sjM*nding two
which does not affect the supreme' ***<‘ks at Hawley’s Island,
court would b<* pa.ssed at this ses.sion. •'I''
.Alma Odidl.
•Miss .Margaret Stallings of Dur
ham, is spimding the week with her
aunt, .Mr.i., E. .Jones. j
Mr. .ind .Mrs. J. H. Willingham and.
grandson, I><*onar(l Turner, of Ninety-'
.Six, .'■fient the wei-kend with .Mr. and |
.Mrs. Hayne Willingham. (
.Mrs. Raymond Odell and daughter,
Kathleen, of Fort .Mill, are visiting'
•Mrs. .Alma Odell and -Mrs. Roy Odell.;
.Miss Ruth Hair returned to her,
home here .Sunday after spending a
wM'k with her, sister in Newberry.
Mrs. Tera Turner of Greenwood, is
visiting .Mis.s Vivian Arthur.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Osborne, Miss
Notice To Depositors
First National Bank
We are now’ paying our Final Dividend
(7th) of 10 per cent and an Interest Divi
dend of 5 per cent to all depositors of this
bank who have prov^ claims. This makes
a total of 105 per cent paid to depositors of
said bank since its liquidation began.
All checks not delivered by AuKUst 31, 1937, will be
returned to the office of the Comptrolller of the Currency
in WashinKton, D. C., after which date the creditor must
correspond with that office, in order to obtain dividend
check.
Check.s may now be obtained by callinK at the
office of ^
! Sarah Osborne, Henry Osborne, Mr.
R.-E. Sadler and ehUdren and | and -Mrs. Floyd O.Hliome and son.
Wallace, spent the week-end in Gaff
ney.
in some revised form. This is for pro- Mfs. Ib R. NimiK'ks ami little duugh-
viding more judges, where neces.sary, j (vr, are at home from a month’s
for the low'er ftnleral court.s. and in^**y »t Skyland, N.
certain’"WayH revising and defining ■ Mrs. HuloTt I’itts and Miss Emmie
th«‘ir powers in the interest of the I'Xts are .spending the wwk
ll>etter and speedier administration of ( anip Jocassee as members
justice.— "^ 4—^ h<»u.'e party. ! spent the past week with Miss Eliza-
There has bt'eij no M'Hous differ- Dr. and Sirs. T. J. Heake have gone iheth Willingham.
ence of opinion as"*to the nw^l for to ('hatlanooga, *Tenn., for a three ♦—— [
some chang<*s in judicial procedure,'w«'<‘ks’ stay.
but the meas-ur«‘ as reviseil bv the Miss Ixniise Simmons of I,aurens,
JOE L. DAVIDSON
34 W’est Main Street
"Clinton, S. C.
C. H. Dixon,
.Miss Margaret Home of Fort Mill,
is’spending the week with Miss Toot-
near | sio (Well.
»>f a I Miss Grace Wilson * of Ninety-Six,
New ReHidents
Welcome is extended to the follow-
I senate judiciary committee is far le<s has accepted the position of secr«‘tar.v..i-'jK fanulies y\ho_havA;_i:eMiitJy niuved
: sweeping than
was sent up fi
I With that measure ^nd % » o i
, di'fii ieticy appriipriation bill out of home in Har.s, Texas, aft«‘r a visit | (anhuig; Mr. and Mrs. \V. B. Daven-
the.way, congress will be ready to ad-;to Mr. and Mrs. Bailey and Mr.jpnrt and family^ from .Anderson, Mr.
ry commiiiee is lar ie<s »»*> wcvLeineu mr iinsiuuu -- -—----—-a -
i"the form in which it to l>r. B. 1.. Harkinson, pn*sident of the village: Mrs. Belle < rawford
i’oin the White Hou-e. 1‘resbyterian college. ’ , ! and family from I’nion; Mr. and Mrs.
mt'asure and the thinli T<<m L«’ake has returned to hiSi^ . H. ( aldutdl and family from Njiar-
journ, in all prot>ability before S«»n-,and Mrs, J. Will la'ake. janil Mrs. \\. K. < ooley and family
I tember 1. There is much talk of an Rev, ('. B. Betts, .Misst^s .Margaret j [rom Anderson; Mr. and .Mrs.^Eugene
I adj’ournment by .August 14th. Blakely, Ruth Tinld, IKirothy Wilson,
Opposition To Federal ( ontrol Nannie Ynung Tribble, Katheiim*
u'k . jj u , t - Biakehrl Beth Itlakelv, and .Messrs,
vVhrtt will be the fate of the admin-!* i„ . i ‘i «• n-
• u V V u 1 William Blakely and William D.
istration s measures which have b«*en
waiting upon the fate.of the supreme
court bill is somewhat uncertain,
('onsiderable opposition st'ems to be
• developing to the principle of federal
j control of hours and wages of labor,
well as to the proceilure for ac
.Ada:r are in Spartanburg attending
the state convention of the Y. I’. ('.
r. of the -A. H. church.
iK'ssey Howze McFadden has re
turned from a month’s stay at Camp
.Adger. near FVkens, where he made
'luch'conm.T.‘71 ”!
jin the original Klack-A'onnery bill. If
anyi law on this subject is enacted, it
activities set up at the camp since it
was established four years ago.
probably will W much more elastic
iin its provisions than was orig'.nally F^fm
contemplated.
The outlook for the enactment of
the W’agner-Steagall housing bill is
fair. .A.« reported by the .senate ct>ms
mittee on education and Iab<>r. it pro-
Fatally Shot
Lothndge and family, and Mr. anid
Mrs. H, Lyun and fawriJy from l;,ad-
rens; .Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Manley
and family from Ninety-Six.
Return From Hospital
Friends will be glad to know that
Miss Frances Flvans, Mrs. Glenn
Franklin and J. S. Ijever have re
turned to their homes after being pa
tients at the Newlierry hospital.
Mm. Galloway Entertains ,
A delightful social, affair of the
week was the tea given by Mrs. Bruce j
Galloway] in honor of Mrs. James Ad
dison, ^ bride of June, and Miss
Blanche l)urgin, a new-comer to Gold
ville.
Husband Also Wounds W’ife
vides for federal loans of not more
than $20,000,000 a year up to a total
of' $700,000,000, for the construction
jof low-rent houses to replace “slum"
(tenements in cities.
SliKktly In
Affair.
I^aurens County
laurens, .Aug. 3.—A coroner’s jury
ordered. S. Roy HiiU, carpenter-farmer.
The president’s plan for feorgani- held today jin the fatal shooting of
'zation of federal offices and depart-j Richard Blackwell,^ a farm worker,
ments has little chance of congres-’;»nd the wounding of Mrs. Hill,
sional action now. Some minor phases! Coroner John -A. Thomason ordered
of it may be put through, but the pro- Mrs. Hill held as^ a material witness,
ject as a whole will lay over until the Se was released under bond. ,
next session Strong opposition to the] C. W. Wier .«aid the shoot-
plan a.s outhm^ has 6een org^ized j occurred when Hill came upon
iby the National Civil Sorvice Reform wife near their
.league, on the ground that it P'^5;home in the Mt Gallagher section.
I he executive too much one-man con- ^ere, about 11 o’clock
jtrol, outside of legal restric^n^^ rnormng. JSVier-^
over^mtments-to-^iia ol^^
and their operation. awaited the arrival of officers.
There seems littl^ likelihood of any! Blackwell died in a doctor’s office
.About twenty friends gathered to
extend an informal, but cordial, ■wel
come |o^ these new residents.
^ Shower For Bride
Mrs. Frank Brannon w’as honoree
at a miscfllaneous shower Monday
evening at the home of Mrs. R. L.
Brannon, with Mrs. Clare Brannon
as assistant htstess.
After an interesting contest, the
gifts were presented to Mrs. Frank
Brannon. A tempting sweet course
was served by the hostesses.
Miss Joknaon Resigns
^iss Eloise Johnson, for the past
two years head of the home econom
ics department of Joanna school, has
accepted—the^ position—of^.. assistant
general farm legislation before next*
at Ware Shoals shortly after noon.
year. Congress is frankly apathetic to ^rs. Hill’s wounds were not consid-
Secretar>’ Wallace’s “ever-normal »rious.
granarj’’’ ideas .and the house agri-;
culture committee insists upon time 2V* billions for the soldiers’ bonus,
to give full consideration to any farm I However, there is still the third ,de-
i proposal. Even ■ the crop insurance ficiency bill to come.
plan, which .>jeemed to have ciear sail-' The national debt passed the 36
■ ing. now looks as if it wouid be left.billion dollars figure early in July.
' over when congress adjourns. How to raise revenues sufficient to
j There is no noticeable enthus'iasm' i^y current government expenses and
I on Capitol Hill for the administra-! interest on the debt is the big prob-
tion’s request for'a law to plug up!lem which the second session of this
the
loopholes’’ in the income tax | congress will have to handle. Nobody
law through which some wealthy in- is giving much thought to reducing
diriduals are enabled legally to avoid'the debt. Merely getting federal fi-
excessive tax payment^. 'nances back into balance will call for
NaUonal Debt 36 BlUion
The total appropriations of this
wingress, to date, come to more than
7** billion dollars. That is about a
billion dollars less than last year, but
the 1936 appropriations included over
a^l the' ingenuity that can be brought
to bear in framing a complete reor-
ganitation of the entire federal tax
system! That is now regarded by-the
majority leaders in both houses of
congress as the paramount necessity.
iKime demonstration agent in Green-
ville county and will enter upon her
new duties September 1st.
Attending Opportunity School
Miss Nell Hamm, MiSs Jsne Craw
ford and) Miss Doris Clark are at
Clemson college attending the four-
weeks’ session of the ^annual Oppor
tunity school. I
Went To Camp -
Miss Ellen Boyce, Miss Jeanette
.Gaskin, Billy Willingham and Mar
vin Hall spent the past week at the
intermediate Epworth League con
ference at Rocky Bottom camp. Rev.
E. S. Jones is one of the camp coun-
»yelors. I
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