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ir>fT|C';V ;:•>/! : /'( J \ THE CHRONICLE StxiTca To B« a Cleaa Nowo* paper, CMiplete, New^, ' aad Reliable. , IF If .Too Don't Read THE CHRONICLE ' Ton Don't Get The News. VOLUME xxxvn CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1937 NUMBER 39 SMITH SEEKS LIGHT ON LOANS South Carolina Senator Asks Secretary Wallace To Clear Up Confusion Over Present F. D. R. Talks Of Big Objectives President Tells Idaho Gathering He Is Trying To Think of “a. Better America.” Boise, Idaho, Sept. 27.—Speaking 9*Cent Cotton Loan Program, his “friends and neighbors” of Idaho’s capital. President Roosevelt Sportsmen Hold Annual Meet Here State Fish and Game Associ ation Hears of Work and Elects New OflRcers for Year. Call For Extra Session Unlikely .\t. the seventh annual meeting of the South Carolina Game and Fish as sociation held last Thursday at the Clinton clubhouse of the I^aurens county chapter on John T. Young’s property four miles from Clinton, T. Farley Opens New Postoffice Crowds Greet Cabinet Member In Piedmont. He I^raises Pres ident Roosevelt. Washington, Sept. 28. — Senator:said today he was trying to think of Smith, of South Carolina, chairman “the bigger objectives of American of the senate agriculture committee,! life,” instead of the petty quarrels asked Secretary Wallace, today to land tiisputes of the moment, clear up what the South Carolinian| named as the bigger things: described as “confusion’ over the better coordination and wider dis- ministratiop’s, n,ine-cent cotton .loan,■^;o,itiot over industry program^ land a more prosperous agriculture. Smith said \Variace assured him aj Senator William E. Borah, veteran statement would be forthcoming to-j'I<iaho Republican independent, was ful barbecue dinner to .><everal hun- morrow’. “There seems to be so much con- That Is Guess In Washington. Only Roosevelt Knows. Washington, Sept. 28. — The best guess in Washington today is that' G|;eenvillc, Sept. 27.—.Postmaster there will be no special session of j General James A. Farley today de<ii- congress; but it is only a guess. No- Greenville’s new $.100,000 post body knows but President Franklin* presence of a large 1>. Roosevelt. .^uch Democratic mehibers of con- SOVIET PRESS WARNS OF WAR Russia Points To Her Might and Willingness To Fight On Ene my Territory. Japan Pictured As Prepared For Possible Dash Across Border. I group of state and national notables j.and before 8,000 spivtators. Politcial angles were almost entire- j Moscow, Sept. 28. — Russia’s gov- ! ernnu-nt-inspired press warned to- K. Trotter of Camden, was elected i fo. .he con.i„K yea,.. 'V-< I f,ir’'w JaciK-ks was re-elected ,t.c,otary-;^'’" (ongu..iona , spending most of his time recountinc-i olxserycrs predicted there ..easure,-. Columhla ,va, selee.e.l as 1 ‘"h', -..f .h.;- post ! " Ophl he no warlike n,ove, th.al might the 1988 meeting place. ! circles Following the serving of a delight- clue as to the president’s intentions. achievements of the They have not had much success; yet j seivice. He declared Presi- fusion as to what the cotton farmer .‘■houlcf do,” Smith declared. “I want a clear and sufficient statement so anyone can understand it.” Smith said it was his understand ing farmers, wanting the loans should sign and file it along with county agents an agreement they w’ould abide by farm legislation contemplated in the next session. 4 amojig those who welcomed the presi- died members and guests, Dr. .\rchi- dent, and twice Mr. Roosevelt said his!bald Rutledge, naturalist and poet w'ords sounded like those of Borah’s. “I am trying to think of how to make a better .America for those chil dren,” the president said, referring to thousands of girls and boys who lined the streets on his,ten-mile drive through the city. There was a homey quality to the pre.^ident’s talk. He spoke of “the plain folks all of us are" and bor- laureate of South Carolina, was the principal speaker. He was introduced by Dr. Dudley Jones of Presbyterian college faculty. Confining his talk chiefly to the narration of stories of his experi ences in the out-of-doors,, Dr. Rut I they say ^hey detect symptoms that house leaders, like Representative Marvin Jones of Texas, chairman of the agricultural committee, no longer expect a special session call. llmier the genrieinen’s agreement to make farm legislatioiv the number j one business of the next session of congress, special or regular an If they do not want loans, Smith rovi’ed from Borah, the salutation said it was his understanding the farmer could sell at current prices and file the sales sheet yith the county agent to qualify for a three- cent a pound subsi<ly if they sign an agreement to abide by the contem plated legislation. Smith also said he was anxious to “friends and neighbors.” Kslge .said his listeners could “take homemany things beside game if they I utilized the time spent in waiting— on a deer, di^ck or turkey stand, and learn much from the humble voices “We have been a wasteful nation,”!of the forest.” .Mr. Roosevelt said in talking of his plans for the country’s future. , Human and natural resources, he asserted, had been wasted, and travel through the country refreshed his thought for “the next generation see the loan and subsidy plan broad-, and the generation after that.” ened to include all merchantable cot- Wa.shington, he said, was one of ton and the entire base acreage in-'the narrowest places in the world,” stead of the C.) per cent at present. jadtTing that he gaincil strength “by He declared the present plan calls I the .American people.” for loans of less than nine cents aj In this .«etting, he said, he was pound on cotton lowej’ in grade than j trying to dispel from his mind “the middling 7-8 inch staple and that no [quarrels, the petty disputes” of the To Symbolize the achievement of the objectives of the organization, he quoted an old denizen of Hell Hole swamp as saying a “deer could jump just as high and just, as far as h”e had to.” Point ijng, out., the.. itiheix’nt iutellL gence of animals, ho said that in lay ing off the .Saluda railroad .gra<le, engineers did not vary 2.1 fcH't from ! the mountain. In closing, he, said that sportsmen hill' before a<ljournment — rartk and file hou.se members believe Jones f would have the first tip if a special session call were in prosi)ect. dent Roixsevelt is enjoying the great est popularity of his career “a.s evi- (lejicod hy his present^ Western trip.” .Also heaj’d on the program were: .1. Austin Latimer, Farley’s assistant; I'ongiossman (5, Heywanl Mahon, Jr., and civic and state officials. Farley left by tarin for New York imiiediatoly after the dedication. Spartanburg, Sept. 27,—Postm^t- er Cleneral James A. Farley, chair man of the national Democratic exe cutive committee, declareil hi.s en- dor.'^eimmt of President Roosevelt and New Deal policies in address here Off ^he rm)rd arguments against to<l«y before two amliences aggregat a special sc-ssion indicate reluctance several thou.s^md persons. of a Substantial wing of Democratic legislators to convene before the reg- uI.Hi' meeting'date in .lanuary. .A wide range of both <iomestic and interna tional political nutsons is listed for avonirng carTier rc'opening of contro versial matters in congress. Kn route from Spartanburg to (ii'cenville, where he spoke in the after!u>on, Hie postmast(>r gcmeral stopped for informal visits to the j posLulfrces at Tm'apau, Wei ford, Ly man, Duncan ami (Ircer, He was gre«‘te(l at each point hy crowds which jncludcil ajiproximatejy 1,000 aggravate tense relations wUh Japan. The Red army’s mouthpiece, Ro.l .Star, even threatene<l that Ru.ssia would fight on enemy territory. Neither the Re<! Star nor other newspapers, however, mentioned any names and the warnings were tem pered with disavow;als of any inten tion of the Soviet llnion to go to war unle.ss war is “forotHl on it." (Shanghai reports saidjforcign mili tary observers in North ('hina c.sti- inated Japan to be mobilizing 000,000 troojis for a possible clash with Rus- .sia. (Should Russia become embroiled in th(“ imdiHilared Sino-Japanese war, they said, Japan would have its full strength ready in Korea and Man- chukuo, on the iMirder of Soviet Si- h( ria. (Military ordinance “No. 11” was issued in Tokyo, indefinitely prolong ing niliitary service for all officers The chief reason congressional old trail ^f the bison across the i hoping againsf a special | seliodi chiblrim who were permitted session are hi;^thing easier unques- lo go to their various 'postoffices to tionahly is. the presidtmt’s avoi<lanc<‘ se<> the cabinet memlier. loans or subsidies could be obtained on cotton that is not tenderable under the cotton future act. Smith said he asked Wallace to give him a “thorough understanding” of why the loan and subsidy plan was restricted to 05 per cent of the base day. acreage rather’than lending on the ♦pennanency,” he asserted entire crop “It was contemplated by congress, certainly by me, that the loan should be 10 cents per pound on the entire crop for all who contemplated avail ing themselves of the loan by agree ing to cooperate in next year’s farm program,” he added. , Smith also discus.sed with Wallace a gerie.s of hearings the senate agri- ”1 am trying to think’of the big ger objectives of American life,” he said. The children and trees of the city, which he said would remain a vivid memorj’ to him, made him think of and sportswomen, w ho are privileged isupiemc court issue tlujs far With better control over industry and a better-planned agriculture, he lumped in his long-range program the conservation of all natural re sources. He mentioned timber, a pri mary industry of this northwe.st sec tion. culture committee will hold next^ month. The senator said he accepted Wal lace’s suggestion that an agricultural admini.stration ^ official attend the hearings and expected J. B. Hutson, Kiwanians To Stage Minstrel assistant administrator, would be as signed. The hearings open in Louisville, Ky., October 15, moving from there to Winston-Salem, N. C., October 18, and Columbia, S. C., October 19. Jobless Census , To Begin Soon Clever Home Talent Show To Be Given Tuesday night, Oct. 5, for Belief it of Orphanage Santa Claus Fund. to get back to the heart of things, bring back to civilization valu able messages derived fi*om the sources of life. Other si>eakers on the program were A. .M. Day of the bureau of bio logical survey, who discussed the new federal-aid-to-wildlife hill; .A. A. Richardson, chief game warden, who paid tribute to the organized sports men of the state, and W. R. Hammer- lee, a.ssistant state forester, who rep resented his department with an in teresting talk on the future of forest and 'wildlife resources of the state in view of the increased demahd up on its timber brought about by the construction of pulp mills and other wood an<l lumber manufacturing con cerns. A number of resolutions affecting proposed legislation, changes in the as.«ociatiop’s con.stitution, and policies pertaining to its work were adopted during the session. / in public addres.sos on his Western trip. .A hint from the prositieiit that he. intended to issue a special .session call would hav<' ' been interpreted widely as indicating a determination to carry on immediately with the court fight. Finance Experts Consider Means New Taxes and Government Savings Reviewed As Possible Program. Washington, Sept. 28. — Financial officials consideied new taijes and governmental savings today as pos sible means of attaining the halanciMl budget forecast by Rresident Roo.se- velt for the next fiscal year. Mt. Roosevelt touched hriefty on [n his a<ldr‘esses here Farley dwlar- South ('arolina ha<l played an im- In ed portant part in the nomination of Roosevelt for the prt^sidency in 1982, cited a reduction of air mail .suh.sidies fn>m alxiut $20,000,000 to approxi mately $12,000,000 as a result of the eanceriation of air mail contracts shortly after the Roosevelt adminis tration assum(‘d office and d(*clared his wholehearttsl endorsement of the president and his policies. '‘President Roosevelt not only has made his place in this nation but in the world,” he .said. Rites Held For Robert Lathan Blanks To Be Sent Out J^rdm Washington On November 17. Go To 31,000,000 Families. The Clinton Kiwanis club will pre sent a minstrel at Florida Street .school auditorium Tuesday night, Oct. 5, at 8 o’clock, for the benefit of the Thornwell orphanage Santa Claus fund. The minstrel will be under the di rection of Mrs. J. F. Jacobs, Jr., Mrs. William Brooks Owens, and Miss Nancy Owens, and the cast is com posed of the leading talent in Cllinton. End men positions will be taken by John Holland Hunter, Julian Cole man, Ansel Godfrey, and E. D. Craig. government finances in a speech at A re.solution calling on the federal j Bonneville, Oie., declaring: Washington, Sept. 27. John D. dialogue will be taken Biggers, admini.strator of the unem-|jjy ^ D q Heustess. ployment census,, announced tonight features will be a male quar- that registration blanks will be dis tributed to the nation’s 31,000,000 families on November fS and 17. tet composed of Bruce Galloway, An sel Godfrey, Pierre Burdette and H. F. Harris; trombone solos by Paul The blanks will be passed out by ^^rmon. tap dancing by Paul Martin, pestmeiH- Persona out of work or Galloway |[Fd~ on part-time jobs will be asked Godfrey, special songs by the government to turn over to South Carolina three vast areas in submar ginal lands for administration by the state fore.stry and game departments was also adopted. Before the close of the day’s pro gram a rising vote of thanks and ap preciation was ^given the local com mittee headed by H. D. Payne, L. S. McMillian, John T. Young, Secretary A. J. .Mifling and others, together with a bevy of girls and young women who served the sumptuous barbecue dinner. James Koon Watts Dies At Mountville ,Mountville, Sept. 25.—James Koon WattB,^ 78, well~~1twgwtr~Tgmer~7^ Mountville, died at the home of his fin them out and mail them to Wash-i the Big Ap-|SO"; ^aVl T. Watts, on Saturday. He ington by midnight, November 20. The census bureau then will tab ulate the data, Biggers said. 'pi. by the be.t Big Appiers in Clin- hn<i bee" in declining health Mveral ^ » I'l' years. Mr. Watts was a native of I.,aurens county and had spent his en “Under our law.s, the pres'ident sub mits to the congress an annual budget —a budget which, by the way, we ex pect to have definitely balanced by the next fiscal year.” The year to which he referred be gins next July 1. Officials here said it has not been determined whether the budget can be balanced solely by trimming ex penditures. They reported Secretary Morgen- thau and Chairman Marriner S. Ec- cles of the federal reserve board be lieve the treasury should get out of the red even if new taxes are neces sary to do it. It was emphasied, how ever, that higher taxes would be rec- ommende<I only in an intensive effort to pare spending down to income fails. -—Ecclcs and Morgenthau, informed Asheville l*ayH Tribute To Edi tor and Civic Leader At Sim- ^le Service. ton. Each year the Clinton Kiwanis club After a conference at the I assumes the responsibility 'of seeing House anth leaders of industry e^ery child at Thornwell is vis- labor, Biggers said that during the j ganta Claus. The entire pro- six weeks following November 20 a house-to-house unemplo3rraent count will be conducted in typical com munities throughout the nation. The "house-to-house checks also will provide information on some it ems omitted from voluntary regis tration cards. ceeds from the above entertainment will go to this worthy cause. Grammar school and high school children will sell tickets at popular prices on the streets and in various sections of the city through Monday tire life in this section. He was the son of the late Richard and Elizabeth Dendy Watts, members of two of the county’s prominent and widely con nected families. He is survived by six sons, R. C., G. C., E. T., G. H., and J. T. Watts, all of Mountville, and J. G. Watts, Wlytmire; one daughter, Mrs. Foster of next week. Get your ticket., get up .Mrs. A. M. Nelson, Clinton. Funeral services were conducted « minstrel party, and see a good Further checks on the accur^y gijow. Don’t forget the date and hour: n o *• * u u ♦ o the voluntary regirtiwtion .will be Oct. 6, .t the Florida:'™,"’'J’"’’''' ‘‘ ® Street kIkJiI. Popular price, of Sundy aftainr^n by the Rev. made by the Works Progress admin istration, the United States en^loy- ment service and other agencies, Big gers asserted. and /25c will be charged. F. T. McGill. Burial followed in the Presbyterian church cemetery. D. REECE WILLIAMS DIES AT LANCASTER; Funeral services for D. Reece Wil liams, prominent Lancaster attorney, were held last Wednesday afternoon from his residence. Mr. Williams passed away suddenly on Tuesday. Mr. Williams had visited in Clinton frequently in former years. He mar ried Miss Ro.sa Bailey of this city, only daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Bailey. Following her death in 1916 the four Williams children, Frances, Rose, D. Reece and Bailey Willj^s, were reared here by their -gr This We^'s Menu On Gridiron ' Friday Thornwell Family persons sajd, believe the time ha.s come to begin scaling down the $36,- 800,000,000 public debt. Emergency needs for some federal activities are passing, it was said, and the two top-ranking fiscal officers want to terminate the recurring defi cits which some persons contend might lay the ground work for harm ful inflation. In addition, officials said Morgen thau and Eccle.s believe a balanced budget would eliminate one of the uncertainties in the confused bu.si- ness situation, and bulwark the foun- Ashcville, "N. C., Sept. 28.—Ashe ville paid final tribute to Roht'rt I..a- than, e<litor of The Uitizen and civic leader, at a simple funeral service at Trinity Episcopal church this morn ing. Several hundred person.s gathered for the brief Episcopal ritual. They included men and women of many races and creeds and many walk.s of life. The .service was conducteil by the Rt. Rev. Robert E. Grrhhin, bishop of the Western North Carolina dio- cesi^ of the Episcopal church, and the Rev. George Floyd Rogers, rector of Trinity church. More than 100 officials and em- pbxyes of the A.shevHle Citizen-'Times company, with which Mr. lathan wa« a.s.socialed during the last 10 years of his life, attended the services in a and men, both active and reserve. (Roth nations were* reported in Tokyo yesterday to have massed heavy concentrations on the Manehu- kuo-Siberia border). “If war is forcc'd on us,” said th(* .Army Journal, “this war will lx; fought not on Soviid t(‘n itory but on the territory of those who-firsll dare ' to raise their .sword against us. “We are sure, not only that we will be victors in any war forced on us by any enemy, no matter how strong he may be, but also that this ^ victory will Ik' achieved by us with a minimum loss of our blood.” There was no announcement of the reiH)rte<l departure of Dimitri V. Bog- omoloff, Russian ambassador to Chi-, na, suppo.sedly on hks way here from Nanking on a vital mission affecting the Soviet’s position in the Sino- Japane.se war. (Dispatches' from Nanking said Rogornoloff left Nanking by airplane and was expected in Mo.scow within four days for an important confer ence (Russia has warned Japan, sup- postnlly in resfMin'W* to a Uhinesc ap peal for aid, that ab+* will hohl Japan responsible for any injury to Soviet citizens or property in air raids on Nanking). j Foreign O'bse^.ver.s, including in- formtd Japant‘se, saiil they doubted that Russia would make any belliger ent moves. 'They expresstnl the view’ that Mo.scow would prefer to see the Japanese army so weakened by stub born Chinese resistance that Japan would refrain from any provocation. Pravda, Communist party organ, Cotton Ginned Exceeds 1937 Marvin W. Sanders, special agent of the bureau of the census, report ed yesterday that 1,742 bales of cotton were ginned in Laurens county from the crop of 1937 prior to Sept, 16 as compared with 663 bales for the same date last year. The higher figure this year is ex plained by the fact that the crop Ls dations for a period of susUined bus- earlier and also thAt a larger crop iness improvement. Clinton, Thornwell To Meet Friday 'The annual football game between Presbyterian vs Erskine at Due I tern Friday will be observed at the m - fj !• 1 ancient rivals, Clinton high school £ Q viCt HOllClfiiy and Thornwell orphanage high school, will be played at Johnson field Fri day afternoon at 4 o’clock. Both teams won their first games> sp to- is being harvested. Following a long establi.shed eus- ' Thornwell orphanage as holiday morrow’s battle should be one ofrthe ton schools before entering Converse •nd Davidson colleges. West. . ■ I Saturday Georgia* vs University of South department work. The celebration j The game wa." ongina Carolina at Columbia. will be “Founder’s Day” of the home for a night exhibition, k Furman vs Wofford at Greenville, which opened its doors for the admis- sign of orphan children on October vs CataSvba at Salis- Newberry bury, N, C, Clemson vs Army at W’est Point. The Citadel vs Navy at Annapolis. with a ces.sation from all .»chool and be-st game.s of the season, originally .scheduled but since Fri day, Oct. 1, is a holiday, founder’s! day, for the boys and girls of Thom-; man, spent the weekend with Mrs. Reid's father, F, M. Boland. 1, 1875, with the late Dr. William j well, and becau.'^e so many of the Plumer Jacobs as founder. Following | younger children cannot attend night | his death in 1917, the institution has i games, it has been decided to play be^en headed since then as president in the afternoon in order to give all Mr. and W/kvoy field of Ly- hy T. Ross Lynn who came to-Clinten the-ThomwelLfamily^ an opportunity from a Jacksonville, Fla., pastorate. It will be 62 years old tomorrow. to see this annual classic of atanding. long DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! 5 DEATHS from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS *‘in LAURENS . COUNTY 1937 Let's Strive To Make This a Safe Year Oir- tlie Highways. .supporte<l this view. Russia, it said, is "doing everything possible to hold humanity back from new and blotnly butchery” and “is not thinking of anj^ kind of war against neighbors far or near.” Mo.st of the press comments were linktHl with completion of the Re<l army’s maneuver's which, foreign mil itary missions .said, were particularly impressive for their array of tanks and effective use of airplanes to drop troops and guns by parachute. Black Case May. Be Decided Soon Technicality In Ijiw Furnishes Itasis of Suit To Deprive New Justice of Seat On Bench. /, Washington, Sept. 27.—The capitol .speculated tonight on the possibility that a suit by Albert I.ievitt, former federal judge in the Virgin Islands, will determine whether Hugo L. Black retains his seat on the Supreme court. Some observers expressed belief the court might agree next week to consider the litigation, which it could pass upon without taking any formal notice of the charge that Black is a Ku Klux Klansman. If the case were taken up by the court, two of those deciding it would be Jews—Justices Brandeis and Car- dozo—and one a Catholic—^Justice Butler. No one here pretends to know for cretain the outcome of the contro-.' versy raging about the new justice, | who is scheduled to land Wednesday I at Norfolk, Va., after a European vacation. ’The -pending petition, against seat ing Black is not based upon allega tions of ^Klan affiliation( but upon ✓ 1 __. ^oundv!—In—facty-it w>s filed before the publication of the charges^ thftt the justice is a life member of the iHan. \