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V ‘ 1 > , ~' , / ■ if K' THE CHR(»ilCtE ' Strives To Be s Gema NciTs- psper, Coaiplcte, New^, sad RelisUc. ^ =1 ■ ■ If Ton Don’t Rond THE CHRONICLE •—. , Yon Don’t Got t Tho News..' VOLUME XXXVII CLINTON, S. a, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1937 NUMBER 36 f CHINA’S ARMIP HOLDS STRONG Japs Mowed iJown By Chinese At Shanghai In Terrific Bat tle. RfiAring Flames Race Across Northern Area After Attack. SITUATION AT. GLANCE ^ Shanghai.—Japanese heavily bonj- barded Shanghai „war zone, but fail to budge Chinese defenders; new fires rage; - American Chamber * of Com merce protest.s President RooseveTCs warning that United States citizens remain in China at their own risk; dependents of U. S. naval and mili- tary force.s ordered To evacuate; * American and British members of Shanghai volunteer corps ordered back to duty on international settle ment borders. Nanking.—Chinese military leaders draw up filans for two-year fight # against Japanese; government places responsibility on Japan in reply to Anglo-French-American proposal that beligerents withdraw from the Shang hai area. * " Peiping.—Japane.se dispatches re-- § port conflict extended to Shansi pro- walled city of Tienchenhsien.'^ Washington.—State department of ficials emphasize warnings to Ameri cans to flee danger zones in China are not to he construed as abandon ment of any .\merican rights in the county; American con.suls in Amoy and Foochow, following Japane«i‘ bombings, ordered to close consulates, f Ijondon. — Bi'itish cabinet, meeting Weslnesday to review policy for anti piracy conference, expected -to con sider Japanese interim reply to Brit ish t Fine Opening The largest group of new «tu- dents in its history flocked to Presbyterian college Tuesday to ■ rtrtitjjr itJT rtrjfratTwxttTit jr^sicr* day as the institution opened its 58th year. Old students are ex pected to arrive today and be ready for registration Friday, The total enrollment can not be announced until registration is completed this week. The new student group regis tered yesterday and t(k)k voca tional guidance and personality tests, English tests and place ment examinations. Tuesday night the new men were re- ^ive4 at a^ faculty I’eeeption held in their honor. Fre.<hman orientation week comes to a close S^aturday as the new men at*teml a reception given in the evening in their honor by the Y. M. C. A. and CoNege Dame.?. 1137X60^6 FobtbaU Schedules The composite .schedule for South Carolina college football teams for 1937 follows: • September 17 Newbery vs Furman at Greenville jtfiJghtL ' South Georgia Teachers vs Erskine at Anderson (night). » ^ September 18 “"Emory and Henry vs South Caro lina at Columbia. Presbyterian vs Clemson at Clem- son. I- The Citadel vs Wofford at Spartan burg. Newherr^’ vs Furman at Gheo'nvTIIe. September 2< Newberry vs The Citadel at ('har^ le.<ton. September 2.7 . South Carolina vs North Carolina at Chapel Hill. N. C. • Clemson vs Tulane at Ni»w Orleans. I’resbyterian ,vs Georgia Tec^h at Atlanta. Wofford vs Washington and Lee at Lexington, Va. Erskine vs David.aon at Oavidson, N. C. October 1 Presbyterian vs Erskine at Due West. O^ctoher 2 Georgia vs South f'arolina at ('o- lumbia. f'lemson vs Army at West Point. ^The Citadel vs Navy at Annaiwlis. Wofford vs Furman at Greenville. I Newberry vs ('atawha at Salishurv, of living, a problem which faded out (> Octolier 22 Richmond U. vs The Citadel at Charle.ston (night). , October 23 Presbyterian vs Furman at Green- vibe. „ vs Wofford at Spartan- Newberry I burg. ) October 29 ■ The Citadel vs South Orangeburg. , Beuikhead Scores Cotton Loan Plan Alabama Senator Charges Gov ernment Deliberately Seeking To Ix)wer Cotton Prices, Jasper, Ala., Sept. 6.—Government “theorists" were-charged by Senator , Bankhead, of Alabama, today with a Carolina at “deliberate effort" to lower cotton „ , V , . prices as Soutliern farm groups Newberry \s Roanoke at Salem, Va. j a way to bolster growers’ re- •Erskine vs Stetson at DeLand, Fla. | turns from the staple. ' . , ,, October .30 j Bankhead, disappointed Wake rorest vs (^lem.son at Clem-)fjnjj,,.aj NATIONS CHART ^ FUTURE COURSE Freedom of Seas To Be Upheld. England Says. Anti-Piracy Confcr^enceJKepl Alive Despite New Crisis. Moscow and Rome At Odds. I»ndon, Sept. 7.—Grim French and British, determination' tonight kept j alive a l2-powcr anti-piracy confer- that thcjence de.spite an Italo-Russian breach jirice pegging plan ‘hd not j j^^,ttlement of Euro- Kmorv an,I Hnnn-1 “ 5*^ -» WWkI tlio nc-ar rmoiy anu nrj j^ytton and that ad.uistmont payments; future ■ will IH- nm,li- only on per, cent ofl„ chock Moilitormn (ow-prmhretnrn, uik,-,T rarnicrs to pi,„te altaoks oulKrowth of the Passing Buck On ^ Increased Costs High CovSt of Civing Stalks Country. Everybody Blames Somebody. Washington, Sept. 6.—The high cost' f »r representations which followed wounding of British ambassador to China. Nurn)>erg, Germany. Chancellor Adolph Hitler in manifesto to na tional socialist party affirms readi- ne&.s to stand by both Italy and Ja- ^ pan ^|n a “defensive fight” against ' corhmunihm; responsible sources in dicate, however, Germany does not intend to be dragged into Sino-Japa- neee conflict. of the picture in depression time, is retuiTiing plague government and public. Government officials blame busi ness; business criticizes government policy, points to the tax burden and to higher costs, including wage in creases. Labor chimes in with an ar gument that wages are not increas ing fast enough to keep pace with son^ _ ^ Presbyterian vs .It Ejiiory. Va. W’offord vs Kollin.s at Orlando, FIiu E'urman v.s PavTd.son *at ('harlotte, N. C. November .3 Mercei vs Presbyterian at C'lintnn (night). vVIahama Teaehers vs Newberry at Newberry. NovemiH'r fi .South ('Hrolina vs Kentucky at 1 <. x- ington, Ky. Clemson v.s Georgia Tech at .At lanta. The Citadel vs N. C. State at Ra leigh, .\. (b (nightL ,, —— Kueknell vs Furman at Greenville. - November II Ej>kin(‘ vs Catawba at Salisbury, N. C. November 12 Wolford vs Waki* Forest at Wake Forest, N. ('. November 1.3 Furman vs .South ('arolina at Co- their cotton in holding pool financed | v^pyujj,j^ by the government mne-cent loans to ^f -and * to preserve freo- Japanesc Fail Shanghai, Sept. 8.—Japanese bat tered Chine.se lines with heatry land and naval guns today, but failed ^o crack the resistance barring their in land <lrive in the Shanghai sector. De.spite a savage onslaught which began at sunset last night and rage.l almost ceaselessly into this morning, the Chine.se stood fast to punish their foe with withering machine gun fire. Blazing fires lighted the whole of Shanghai’s northwestern skyline. As the death struggle between the rival troops seemed de.stined to co'i- tinue indefinitely, the A m e r i c a n Chamber of Commerce of Shan^ghai prote.sted again.st President Roose velt’s warning that United States cit izens remain in China at their own risk. The chamber cabled Secretary of State Hull that it depreciated “any official statement which can be in- October 8 The ('itadel v.'< Presbyterian at Clin-: lumbia. * ton (night). ' I’lemson vs Florida at Gainesville. Erskine ys Wake P'orest at Wake I Th*’ Citadel vs \’. .\1. 1. at Ix’xing- The latest official to be heard from i.s D. E. Montgomery, AAA consum ers’ counsel, who. suggested today that consumers might perform a “real public service” by conducting a buy ers’ strike to “end this alarming steady increase in prices.’’ The American Federation of Labor declared: “Rising costs of living make wage increases urgent. Any w’orker whose pay envelope this fall does not bring )\im 5 per cent more than last fall will be forced to a lower living stan dard. Living costs in 'July were al ready 4.3 per cent above 193<). “Before the end of the year, price's are expected to increase further in meats, -eggs, woolen clothing, furni ture, floor coverings aiul rents, It is conservative to estimate that before winter it will take 5 per cent more * to buy la.st year’s living standard. Montgomery declared that one “frightening thing" about the-pre.s- ent picture is the “reported tremen dous volume of installment buying.’’ He estimated that installment credits outstanding have increased from $6,- 000,000,000 in 1929 to $9,000,000,000 at present. T^is recalled”that the big Commer cial Credit company of New York re- Forest,-N. C. (night). October 9 S<*uth ('arolina vs Alabama at Tus caloosa, Ala. ’ 'Clemson vs Georgia at Athens. Oglethorpe vs Wofford at' Spartan burg. 1 Newberry vs Emory and Henry at Emory, V’a. N. C. State vs F'urman* at-Green ville. October 1.5 New''berry vs Presbyterian at Clin ton (night). October 16 DtvUliion va South Co lumbia. Furman vs The Citadel at Charles ton, Wofford vs Erskine at Due West. October 21 Clemson vs South Carolina aT Co lumbia. Oglehtorpe vs Erskine at Anderson. ton, V.i. Erskine vs Ni-wbcrry at .Newberry. .November 19 Newberry vs Einn at Klon <^ege. N. C. November 20 , Presbyterian vs .South ('arolina at Columbia. , Erskine vs The Citailel at Charles ton. November 24 Pre.sbyterian vs Wofford at Spar tanburg. Newberry vs Rollins at Orlando, Fla. ^ ,, r...-:-;,:....;,.- .November. *5: r ‘ .South Carolina vs Catholic univer sity at Washington, D. C, Clemson vs Furman at Greenville. Oglethorpe v.s The Citadel at Char leston. December .3 .South Carolina vs .Miami at Miami, Fla. terpreted as indicating any with-j ^^•’'tly dispatched a letter to various County Buys New Elevating Grader .Senator Charles A. Cromer an nounced <turitfg7the past week the purchase of an elevator gra<ler for u.se in connection with the 20 trucks already owned by the county in ex tending the system of topsoiled roads in the county, * The elevator gra<ler -is a machine recently adopted by road builders for Farmers Gather At Court House await hettt'F prices. ‘•The loan plan," he charged, “was worked Ofit by <lepartm«'ntal thi'orisLs to accomplish two definite objectives: First To rediiee the price so as tor bring alvout larger <>xports of cotton.^ .^eeond—To make the loan so unat tractive that ft‘w fa liners would put ci>tton under a government loan.’’ .\ spoke.-^man for Secretary of .Ag riculture Wallace in Wa.sl|ngton re- pITed with the assei-tibnj^tha.^ the sole purpose'of the loan-subsidy program was “to increase the income of the cotton farmer.” “Loans," the spokesman a«lde<l, “were made low enough to allow cot ton to move freely in trade. We have found that when loans are fixed too high the government accumulates cot; ton, ('xports arc reduced and more barm than good results." From Memphis, miuinwhile, came reports that a jilan was afoot for for mation of an organization in which New York brokers and , Southern jilanters would be aligned in the cot ton country’s fight to regain world cotton markets. The’ (bjinmercial Ap peal said ('ol. I^awrence Westbrook,! advisor to the Association of South ern Agricultural ('ommissioners which met there .Satuniay confirmeil the re port. At a meeting this week-end, the commissionei's adopted resolutions de manding parity payments on all this year’s predicted crop of more than 15,()(K),000 bales and a reviision of the loan ■ From other sections of the South where, the I'conomic lianimeler re sponds to cash in cotton planters’ pockets, voices wen* raised again.st the government decision against loans of 10 cenis or above and failure to h'oyer thi- entire base jiroduction with subsidy payments. North Barbour county, Ala., farm ers by re.solutinn expro.s.sed “di.sap- pointme-nt” with the government.plan* Drafti'd by a committee headed by Donald (b)mer, textile, manufacturer, the resolution asked protection “by drawal or abandonment of American p’oance concerns and bank.s through-j scooping up dirt and loading it into businesa interests in China as seri- ou-sly damaging to American pres tige in China.’’ (State department*. official* in Washington, in comment, declared that warnings to American* to flee danger zones in China were not to be TOn.strued as the abandonment of any AmerieaTi rightr In l|iit eountry). The American Seventh Day Adven- tiats became the lat«*t to suffer from the Sino-Japanese conflict now in ft* third month. Japanese took over for military purposes the Adventists’ mi.ssion property in the Yantzepoo district northeast of ShAhghai. (The headtpiarters of the world conference of the churcH in Washing ton reported missionaries already had evacuated their property in Shanghai, as well as conference medical insti tutions in the Hongchew district and on the outskirts of Shanghai). Japanese warships ranging along the winding Whangpoo river from Shanghai as far north as Woosung, 12 miles aw’ay, were the bulwark of the thunderous bombardment of Chi nese positions. The guns hammered at Ghapei, Chi nese section.directly north of the in ternational settlement; Kiangwan, northeaat of Chapei; the north rail way station district; the Yantzepoo sector; arvd the Chinese owned Yang- tzepoa*race course. II — • - out the country suggesting that they trucks in one operation. It.s use, .said participate in “the general movement ,,now going on to put installment fi nancing on a more liquid and sounder basis than it has been during the last year or two.’’ - “The continued extension of long terms on retail installment contracts," aaid A E. Duncan, company chair* man, “will unduly, and may even un soundly, expand the indebtedness of purcha*«r* ..." Senator Cromer, will reduce the ex pense of road building by doing-away wtith the slow method of hand loading and at the same time will keep trucks from having to wait for loading. The grader, which cost about $3,225 and was paid for out of the recent road band issue, will enable the coun ty forces to do far more top soiling than they have done in the past, ac cording to Senator Cromer, and make NEARING COMPLETION possible a more equitable distribution The county’s new .ericultuml i ofJfB’f!' ““"‘y- . ' building being erected in Uurens is The delegirt.on, he ssid. reaiized the nearing eompietion and is expected to'«>“”‘>' n«t ;» po^non to surface be ready for occupancy early in Oc-i‘"*'<”■ P*”' *" ‘he important roads tober, the contractor has stated. The *■>« new Duilding will house the activities '*“<!; “ "wke »s many all-Yeather of the farm demonstration depart- 'T''’ raent now located in the court house, P’“' f >>« “id. the 1^ 'delegation felt that it was taking an TO NAME OFFICERS | important step in thardirection. The Laurens County Fish and Game j senator said the machinery was association will meet at their dub only »^ter a thorough ihvesti- house this evening at 7:30 at which llfa^^on of its awrk in other counties time a cat fish stew will be served. I ®nd that he believed it will prove one Officers for the coming year will be: o^ the best road investments the coun- elected at the meeting, the secretary j ^y I'** "nade. states. • Special House Election Called Speaker Sol Blatt of the house of representatives, on Tuesday called a special general election in Laurens county for September 21 to fill the j unexpired term of the late Represen- i tative J. D. Witherspoon, ^gulationsj under which the election ■will be hcili appekr in today’s paper. i Going Away To College or To —Teach? If you want the Clinton news —have THE CHRONICLE fol low you. Its weekly visits will be “like a 'ietter from home.” Special student’s and teacher’s rate of $1.00 for nine month.s. List your subscription today. lihe Chronicle ‘The Paper Everybody Reads’* Route 56 Listed ing of the Laurens Soil Con.servation a.«!.s<)ciation, held in the court house here Friday, was aii- dresse<l briefly by Congressman G. Heyward .Mahon, who spent mos^ of the day in the city, mainly for the purp(j«e of keeping contact with the people of the city and county. The association also heard discus sions of soil building methods, crop rotation being one of the main points by J. H. John.son, assistant agrono mist at Spartanburg, while J. M. Downing, assistant engineer of the .Spartanburg branch of the conserva tion organization, spoke from the viewpoint of his work and observation connection with proper methods of terracing farm areas and construct ing other waterways. The . Laurens county unit of or ganized farmers has approximately 200 members. C. B. (^nnon, Laurens county farm agent, presided at the meeting. Representative Mahon wsw heard with much interest as he spoke of some pha.ses of national legislation, apd closed with expressions of his Laurens, Kept. 3.—A special meet- r<,iinty -Ibe bmrvr. pound., of with or without angry Italy’.s partici pation, Franco and Great Britain de cided. , To hack their stand, the two pow ers felt they had fleets strong enough to supi)ii‘ss inaraiidi'r.s. High Italian sources indicated, how ever, that I’reiniei- Mussolini may send representative.s' to the confer ence at Nyon, Switzerland, de.spite ThRC Rus.sia’s note accusing Italy of .sinking two .Soviet meichantmen. Italy curtly rebuffed Ru.ssia with a denial of the charge. A 4 Rome official, who said Italy .still wa.s considerii:g thi' conference invitation in a.“cordial spirit,” indi cated tthat Mu.ssolini would make ae- eeplance condit ional * on gual antees" that Ru.ssia’'S accusation would he outlaw’cfl at the council table. Otherwise, Italian (luarters believ ed the me<‘ting would assume the “in tolerable” character of a tribunal w[th Italy ill the lole of detendant, a situ-' ation Italy suspected -Russia of at tempting^ to create- “ German and Italian officials were. umiei'S'tood to be c<mferring on the que.stion, and it was assumed theii- eventual stamis would Ik* identical. Whatever their stand, informed .source.s believed an important effect of the Soviet bombshell was to en- <langer Britain’s avowedly “impor tant" proposals for the conference which were believed elastic enough to include consideration of the whole western European peace problem. jute that comes into this country an nually sul>stituting for 2,000,000 bales of our own cotton.*’ Chamber Meets Tuesday Night The S<*ptem}>er meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held at the tea room next Tuesday night at 7:30 with all members invited to be present. A’ongressman G. Heyward Mahon of Greenville, representative from the fourth district, will bt^ the guest of the club and deliver an address. Prof. Milton Moore, hea<l of the voice de partment at Newberry eoHege, also will be a guest and contribute a musi cal number to the program. HUGH JACOBS IS MUCH IMPROVED Friends of Hugh .Shockley Jacobs, who was seriously injured ten days ago in an automobile accident near Monroe, N. C.^ wijll be gl*d_Jo know personal and official intere.st in agri-j^l'®^ ^ continues to eatisfactorily im- ‘ prove at the Monroe hospital where he is expecte<I to remain a patient for some time yet. His mother, Mrs, Wm. P. Jacobs, has* been with him since the accident occurred at which time the Jacobs family was en route from New York to their home here. culture and the importance of the system of consc-rving the chief re source of the country, the farm, land.s. Young Serving As Acting Clerk If Italy attends it was believed she would need a lot of convincing that Britain and France were not behind the Soviet move. If Italy does not attend hopes for inijirovement in Anglo-Italian rela tions, along with liijuidafion of Mfd- iterraiH'an nmrauilers, would be blast ed for some time and planned Anglo- Italian talks probably would be aban doned. “Offtefaf “quarters TferHnFd cnrnmmt on Rome rejiorts that Anglo-Italian soundings had been made for British recogn i t ion -of-4taly^—K+htoptati- eru-- pile. But the belief gained credence that Britain planned to include this problem of friction between the two nations at h'riday’s meeting. h'irx*-breathing editorials in the Italian press greeted the Russian ac- cu.sation of guilt in the Mediterran ean, but authoritative wiiters did not close the door to Italian participa tion. Virginio Gayda, the editor who of ten speak.s for Mus.solini, said the^ Ru.ssian note created “a situation iif Europe for the consequences of which Germany and Italy will not be re sponsible.’’ Informed circles discounted any possibility of armed hostilities be tween Jtaly and Russia over the is sue, hut said ruptured diplomatic re lations were possible, especially in view of the fact that Rome and Mos cow have maintained only the most formal relations for years. . Acting on opinions of Attorney I General John M. Daniel and County,' Attorney R. E. Babb, Judge of Pro-j bate Ross D. Young has assumed j « Q a ' f aa* * charge of the clerk of court’s office! In in»the alfsence of Clerk of Court Thos.' ^ j W. Bennett, who was two weeks ago! .Seeled bid* will be opened in Co- committed to the veteran.s* hospital lumbia on September 21 by the statq_|at Augusta on a_j:Qmmitmefrtr of“im ■ highwajrdepartment on 15 road and | sanity. . bridge projects estimated to . mTv'T $1,715,000, officials have announced. NYIMUD lU Included in the letting are two Lau-| „ DARLINGTON rens county projects. Presbyterian synod of South Concrete paving of 9.7 miles on U. S. route 276 from Bark.sdale to Greerr- jville county line near Fountain Inn. j Bituminous surfacing of 9.6 miles on route 56 from Clinton to a point 1.5 miles north of Enoree river con- fHseting Spartanburg and Union coun- I ties. Carolina will hold its annual meeting 1 in October in Darlington with thej First Presbyterian church as the hostj church. Dr. T. Ellison Simpson who' is well known in Clinton, is pastor 1 of the Darlington church. The meet-| ing will be attended by a number oft] ministers and elders from here. | DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! 4 ——DEATHS — from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY 1937 Let’s Strive To Make This a Safe Year. On the Highways. Monarch Takes Joanna Series I Monarch defeated Joanna in New berry .Saturday in the Mid-State pen nant race by the scoj-e of 9 to 2, Johnny Walker, sen.sational pitche^^ for the Monarch club, fanned 15 bat ters. On top of brilliant pitching he poled a homer over the fence with no one on ba.se. Gowan and Farmer for Joanna, were hit hard. Newberry was scheduled to meet Joanna at Goldvillg yesterday after noon in the first game of a series to determine third place in the loop. The teams will return to Newberry Sat urday for a sefond game. RETURNS TO f Mr, and Mrs, Edward Henry and two -small boys, have moved to Clin ton within the past week from Elber- ton, Ga., where they have made their home for the past several years. Mr. Henry holds a traveling position and his friend.s in the city will learn with interest that he has been transferred back to his native homo. Mrs, Hen ry before marriage was Miss Willine Spann 'of Greenville. For tKe pres ent they arexmaking their home with Mr. Henry’s parents, Mr. and. Mr^. H. D. Henry on Centennial street.