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m I ■/ / I THE CHRONICLE StrlTM To B« ft doftft Nowft-I fftpcr, Cftapktft, Nowij, ftftd If Too DoftH Road THE CHRONICLE Too Don't Got IV NeWi. VOLUME xxxvm CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY lO, 1938 NUMBER 6 I HULL SAYS U. S. IN NO ALLUNCE United States Is Not Party To Any Pacts or Underst^dings With Foreign Naticms, Secre tary Asserts.-Questions of Policy Tend To Heighten Tension. Court To Convene On FAruary 21 Grand and pSit jurors Are Drawn For Criminal Term. V 'Hudge Thurmond To Preside. The grand jury panel for 1938 was completed and a petit jury of 36 men for the February term of criminal court was drawn last week at a meet ing of the jury commissioners held in I Washington, Feb. 8. Secretary clerk of Court John D. Davis’s office. State Cordell Hull told congress’ THE ••HOLDING COMPANV frankly today and with the approval of President Roosevelt that the Unit ed States has no foreign alliances or understandings which bind her to war like obligations Twelve men were drawn for the grand j jury, to be added to the six brought over from 1937 to complete the panel of 18. The term will begin on the third Monday of February, the 21st, and will be presided over by Judge J. Mr. K^'l;'(TO"g5T(tT;t7ifi'*pre';^fe tob-hSTmrii TTra'!Wfld'drK<li^fie7d,'’rcobnT-' ' ly ek'cteti by the legislature to fill a vacancy on the circuit ibench. John D. Davis, of this ji^itjir, will serve for ference that the views the secre tary of state set forth were substan tially the same as his owm. Hull's statement answered a three- th^ first time as clerk of the court point demand by Senator Hiram i The new grand jurors drawn were Johnson (Republican) of California,!follows; H. D. Gray of I.aurena that the administration clarify its | township, R. B. Austin of Cross Hill, foreign policy by disclosing whether R. Cooper of Scuffletown, C. R. it has any alliances or understand- Workman of Hunter, J. D. \\illiams of Laurens, J. T. Blakely of Scuffle- town, R. L. Gray, Jr., of Dials, J. B. Owings of Dials, W. H. Ballentine of Sullivan, J. E., Hunt of Youngs, G. B. Odell of Waterloo, and A. B. Terry of Dials. The six hold-overs are R. J. Copeland, P. B. Adair, John L, Langston, M. L. Check. P. H. Mil ler and Gillette Simpson. Petit Jurors The petit jurors wore drawn, as follows: Jacks township: G. M. Nabors, H. M. Geer and J. M. Hatton. Sullivan: <1. D Wood, J. Robert any ings with Great Britain relating to war or possibility of war; whether there is any understanding or agree ment, expressed or implied, for use of the navy in conjunction with other nations f and whether there is any agreement with any nation that the navy should patrol any particular ocean. To each Hull replied with an em phatic “no.” The answer, read in the senate by Senator Key Pittman, .chairman of the foreign relations committee, came as congresstonal tension heightened Connie Mack’s Team CONTROL BILL Cominjg In April Galloway’s Blue Hose Proteges To Clash With Philadelphia Athletics. Full Diamond Card ^^Announced. The Presbyterian college baseball team will play the Philadelphia Ath letics in an exhibition game in Clin ton on Tue.sday, April 7. BRINGS FIGHT _ 9 I^eaders Push Farm Measure To ward Final Passage By Ix>wer House. Republlean Protests of “A Horrible Gag Rule” Are Brushed Aside. Wa.shinpton, Feb. 8. — Administra tion leaders, brushing aside Republi- The Blue Hose coach, C. E, (Chick) i‘’®" protests about “a horrible a horiihle gag Galloway, for a number of yearsjammed the new crop control played professional baseball under! point of final passage in Connie Mack, pilot of the Athletics, j The warm personal friendship between ! ^ minority men contended the the P. C. coach and his former mentor■ time to read .the,. is responsible for the Philadelphia! provbling for control of over the explosive questions of for- Hellams, J, W. Cooper and J. H. I itts t .itign affairs atul national defen.se. Developments included: 1. .An unusually candid .statementr by Pittman, an authoritative spokes man on foreign affairs, that the pres ent trend in world affairs will "in evitably re.sult in war” in which the democracies—the United State.s, Great itain and France—will be at a dis- ntage. Testimony by Admiral W’illiam D. Leahy, chief of naval operations, before the house naval affairs com mittee, that battleships are powerful rv ■ defense we»pona-but m>t iiiMt|iiiftrd CUw»- Q. able and could fee sunk by aerial Buford ^ DuBois. bombs or torpedoes. 3. Changes in command of the na- vy’s two largest vessels—the 33.600- Laurens: G, A. Go.ssctt, W. ( Gt^in, \^.iJt[ Crews, E. Or Andi-1^ son and R. F. Jones. Dials; J, E Henderson, T M. Kel- lett, W. ('. Cook, \V. D. -Armstrong, C. G. Hipp and Frank ('urry. Waterloo: J. K. B. Httl. It. It. Wheeler and C. H. Davenport. Scufflettown: M W. Sanders and W. R. Brown.' Youngs: J. D. Manley, T. R. Ste phens, J, Gray Harris and R. H. Ab ercrombie. Hunter; T. J. Johnson, Roy Holtz- Fair Robert C. Philson Killed In Wreck Former Clintonian Dies When Car Overturns On Curve Near Pageland. Interment In Co- • iumbia Sunday. (■lini<jti_.Ii:ietul' shocked and acquaiutauces Cros.s Hill: E. A. Adam.s, W. S. Atchison, S. A. Brown and W. Miller Leaman. ton aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga—under w’hich new assign ments for the retiring commanders, Capt. Leigh Noyes and Capt. J. H. Powers were not announced, and ap pointment of Commander J. T. Alex ander as governor of Guam, a United .States Pacific outpost, and as com mander of the naval station there. 4, Introduction of a reiiolution by Representative Hamilton Fish, Re- ^ publican. New York, asking President Roosevelt to produce any informa tion on a diplomatic break between China and Japan which wfts asked yesterday by Senator William H. King, Democrat, of Utah. 6. Request of a house bloc headed by Representative Henry C. Luckey, Democrat, of Nebraska, asking time for “members of congress, defense ex perts, and representatives of organi zations interested,” to tfcstify at hear ings of the Vinson bill which authov- izes Mr. Roosevelt’s $800,000,000 na val expansion program. Luckey said his group has taken no position on the mesaure but that it wishes to “bring out all the facts.” 6. President Roosevelt, at his press conference, was non-commital on pos sible construction of a canal through Nicaragua but he reminded newspa per correspondents of his national de fense message wherein he mentioned the uncertain safety of the Panama canal, the only existing shortcut from the Atlantic to the- Pacific. Senator Johnson's demands were embraced in a resolution which he in troduced yesterday, intended to clari fy disquieting rumors that the United •States and Great Britain have a tacit naval co-operation ' agieement aimed primarily at Japan. The veteran for eign relations expert earlier had criti cized the administration foreign pol icy as ephemeral and uncertain and “one whkfh causes grave concern for the future.” The secretary of state took up his questions one by one and to each re plied: “The answer is no.” The sen- j ate was tensely silent as Pittman read i the letter slowly, placing particular stress ^pon each “No.” When he sat down he asked that Johnson’s resolution be withdrawn but the Californian interposed, say ing, “I do not desire to withdraw it because that would be withdrawing part of the record.” He added thatt he considered his demands as having j been answered and said that he hoped j the reply would establish a precedent: in relations between the senate andj the state department on such mat ters. “It was something that had not been done before and it establishes Uie record,” Johnson said later. The senate indefinitely postponed (Continued on page six) wiTv shocked and sadiicMusl Saturday morning to learn of the sudden death of Robert Chancey I’hilson, 61, who was ihslantTy killed FiTday afternoon in an accident near Pageland, when hi.s automobile went out of control and overturned on a curve. .Mr. Phil- .son was alone and was en route to his home in Columbia after a regular week’s trip as a traveling sale.sman. Funeral services were conducted Sunday sifterQOOi) at from irhe First Baptist church of Columbia by the Rev. John H. Webb, pastor, and the Rev. F. O. Lamareaux of New- borry. Nspbowfr of the doewased served College Campaign Gets Under Way Presidenl Jacob.s Says .$500,000 j Will Be Soug:ht for Library’ -and Endowment. Drive l*er- .sonnel Announced. A perpetuation campaign to raise team stopping over in Clinton while en route North from their Florida training camp. The Hosemen are scheduUnl to- play 16 games this spring as they set out to defend the state championship title won last year in a thrilling race at the close of the sea.son. They play each of the other stwen teams in the Palpietto league twice, ami in addition meet the Athletics and Duke univer sity. The complete card for Coach Gallo way’s team follow.s; April I—Duke at Durham, N. C. April 4—University of South Car olina at Clinton. April 7—J’hiladelphia Athletics at Clinton. April 9—Newberry at Clinton. April 1‘2—Erskine at Due West. Ajiril l.'t-^CIenison at Clemson. April 1.^)—F.rskine at Clinton. April 18—Wofford at Clinton. April ‘20-—Citadel at Charleston. April 2‘2—(-’lemson at Cdinton. April 2.'t—Wofford at Spartanburg. April 2!) Uiiiver.sity of South Car- $.')()(),(Min foi I’reshyterian colleg«> wus|„]inii at Columbia. Clinton-Laurens Meetings Planned The Laurens Business League at its February meeting, accepted an invi tation from the Clinton Chamber of Commerce to be its gue.sts here on as pallbearers. Included in the hon orary escort were two former Clinton sons and life-Fong friends of Mr. Phil son, J. C. Copeland and Tom Watts of Columbia. Mr. Phil.son was a native of Clin ton, a son of the late Mr. and .Mrs. S. A. Philson. For a number of years he was connected with the J. W. March 8th, following a custom esUb- Copeland company of this city in lished a few years ago of holding an nual inter-city meetings betw'een the two organizations. In accepting the invitation, the Laurens league extended a return bid to the Clinton group to dine with it in October. Seed Loans Made Available Soon their dry goods department. In 1907 he movi*d to Abbeville where he was associated with the late Albert Henry in the dry gomls business. After Mr. Henry’s death he continued in busir ness in Abbeville for a number of years. In 1933 he moved to Columbia and since that time had traveled for several New York concerns. Mr. Philson was married in Colum bia in 1911 to Miss Adelaide Horton, whose girlhood days were lived in Clinton. Besides his widow, he is sur vived by two daughters. Miss Ade laide Philson of Columbia, and Mis" Josephine Philson of Darlington; two brothers, James B. PhiLson of Clin ton, and W. H. Philson of Gaffney; launch<‘(i the past week, aeeordiug toj an announeemeiit made liy President! \V. P. .Jacobs. The iuirpo.se of tlu* campaign is to rai.se $500,000 to assure the future of the collt'ge. Of the amount, $100,000 will be uses! for the erection of a fireproof Itltrary to house the college’s present excellent and valuable collec tion of books. The proposes! building also wiir contain two large reading rooms, fireproof stack rooms, two es pecially (sjuip|M‘d seminar rooms, and the administrative offices of the school. The remaining $4()n,IK)0 will Washington, Feb. 7. — The fftrm credit administration said today emer gency crop and feed loans for 1938 would be available to farmers within ten days. _ S. P. Lindsey, Jr., director of the' sisters, Mrs. Ben Anderson farm credit administrations emer-l^n^j ^,^8. Walter Anderson of Switzer, gency crop and feed loan .section, said^ Ray Anderson of Laurens, Mrs. the loan, as in the past, would ix-*! Agnes Kem of this city, and Mrs. made only to farmers who could notij j, La^gg^on Darlington, obtain credit from otktet source.s. Thef - most any farmer might borrow would be $400 at 4 per cent interest. be added to the endowment as an as.surance of the future of thu college, as the result of the recent using of endowment fund.s by the hoanl of trustees for the removal of the press ing bonded indebtedness of the insti tution. The college in waging the campaign is concimtrating in particular commu- nitie.s in th(‘ synoils of (Georgia and South ('arolina. The opening gun of the offensive move was made in Dar lington last Sunday at which time President Jacobs spoke at the First Presbyterian church. The drive now started will cover several w'eeks. President Jacobs has announced that he will per.sonally direct the cam paign. The field crew is compostsl of H. M. Wilson, Jr., personnel director of the college; John Osman, field ‘sec retary; J. H. Hunter, business mana ger; Walter A. Johnson, atWetic di rector, and A, O’Daniel, field repre sentative who has been connected with the college at several times in such capacity. The publicity, campaign is in the hands of Hugh Holman, di rector of public relations at the col lege, and Sadler Love, an assistant to Mr. Jacob.s. Preliminary work for the campaign has been going on for the past two months. April 27- Gitadel at (’linton. April 29 Furman at ('linton. May 2—Newberry at Newberry. ^^>L4uf were May 5—Furman at Greenville. production through iHUiefit i>avnicnts an.I loans, and possible drasti ‘ limi tations on mark<‘tirig of (lopr. Their ef.’oiti to prolong debate on the measure, which was approir d by a senate-house confer’ence committee la.st Friilay, failed, however. The huge Democratic majority functioned smoothly along lines tiesigned by the leadership, and the house voUmI to limit debate to four hours. This move also prevented any member from changing a word of the hill. When the house ri'cessod today, Kpeaker Bankhead said an hour and 29 minutes of the four hours re mained, indicating a vote around 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. The house will meet at noon, hut there usually is .some delay after convening before debate of a measure is ri'sunted. While the rule ado()t(sl by the house prevented chani»e of thi: nieasiu’e, Nimator O’Mahoney, DeiiuHuat, Wy oming, sjTved notice that senators from Western livestock stales woulit id<‘mand provisions to protect <lairy, ! livestock ami poultry industries fi'om competition Iry farmers who diverT land from major crops. Strict provisions to this end were in bTiTs; Thornwell Alumni Chapter Meets The annual bamfuet "dinner of the Clinton-Laurens chapter of the Thorn- well Alumni as.Hociation wa.s given last week in the McCall building on the campus, under the supervision of Miss Cftthcrino Wilson and the 4prla ' TENNIS TOURNEY IN MAY The South (Carolina Intercollegiate Tennis tournament will be held on the terraced courts of Pr^yterian college Wednesday through Saturday, May 11-14, according to an announce ment this week by W.- A. Johnson, college athletic director. County Hospital Year Successful Nowadays... Peopde (ion’t have to go to town, walk until they are “fagged out,” looking for worthwhile merchan dise. They shop first i n THE CHRONICLE, and then know just where they are headed. If merchandise is worth selling it’s worth advertis ing. Buyers should not lose sight of this truth. The Chronicle ’W’here Thrifty Boyers Shop First.** T Laurens, Feb. 3. — At the annual meeting of the board of trustees of the Laurens County hospital, held at the hospital last Friday evening, President E. D. Easterby read his annual report showing successful op erations since the institution's open ing last. January. During that time, j the report showed 548 patients had ;been cared for. ! In the election of officers Mr. East erby was re-elected president; J, H. Nance, Cross Hill, vice-president; L. G. Balle, Laurens, treasurer, Miss Hallie Howard, secretary and superintendent. H, D.' Gray, Laurens; R, W. Wade, Clinton, and J .W. Todd, Laurens, were named on the finance commit tee, Mr L. Motes, Lauren.s; €.^ R. Work man, Goldville, and T. C, Owings, Kendrick Is Winner For Laurens Post Laurens, Feb. 8.—The second city primary election held Tuesday result ed in the renoAiination of T. Paul Kendrick as member of the public works commis.si<5n over W. G. Mc Daniel by the vote of 814 to 496. dn ward three Plato Roberts de feated W. C. Cox for alderman, the vote being Roberts 306, Cox 229. In ward four John F. Montgomery was elected over W. P. Sullivan by the vote of 120 to 57. After the general election :n April, I Laurens will have a new mayor, L- S. McMillan having been nominated j last Tuesday, and city council will have four new and two reelected mem bers. in her domestic science class. The chapter had a.s its honor guests Dr. and Mrs. A. E, Spencer, the for mer being the guest speaker for the evening. Dr. Spencer’.s addrus.s was filleil with interesting reminiscences touching the life and history of the orphanage since he came to Clinton as a young college proft^ssor in May, 1891. 'For nine years he serve<J as a teacher in the institution’s schools, and for 25 years as a member of its board of trustees. Following the addrcs.s of Dr. Spen cer, the nominating committee sub- mitte<l its report, resulting in the election of Mr.s. Harry I.ayton as president for the ensuing yea’r, suc- cee<Hng Mrs. Charlton Benjamin; Mrs. Carl Hrarnlett of l>aurens, vice-presi dent; F". M. Stutts was re-elected secretary, and Mi.ss Frances McKee, treasurer ' ~ the original house ”alid ”?c7iatc miKlificd by the conference committee. As a result, O’Mahoney .said the hill ‘ now “would lie wholly iru'ffwtive to protect either the dairy or the live stock industry.” He said it would allow farmers to “use any land withdrawn from cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco or rice foi“ pro ducing livestock.” O'Mahoncy .suggcsttsl that instead of the time-consuming effort of seml- ing the bill 'hack in conference again. - Shealy Heads County Medicos At the first meeting of the year of the I.aurens Coojnty Medical amto- ciatiun held last week at the county hospital in Laurens, Dr. F. K. Shealy of this city, was elected president for the coming year. Other officers nam ed are: l>r. M. B. Nickles of Laurens, vice-president, and Dr. J. L Fennell, of Waterloo, secretary-treasurer. New members added to the associ ation included I>r. F. L. Wefeb and Dr, B. H. Henry of this city, and Dr. W. T. Martin of Goldville. Tb^ next meeting will be held in Clinton on the fourth Monday night of this month. RED CROSS AWARD IS GIVEN P. C. STUDENT In recognition of his meritoriou.s ^Laiirens, were named as an auditing | service in saving the life of Katherine jcommittee. .Burton on June 4, 1937, at a swim- i The active operating committee was ming party at Crystal lake, Winston- ;elected as follows: Mr. Easterby, Mr. | Salem, N. C., Richard Meisky, out- j Balle, Mr. Nance, W. A. Moorhead j standing Pre.sbyterian college fre.sh- I of Goldville, and P. S. Bailey of Clin- man athlete, was awarded a national ; ton. General approbation was expressed for the able manner in which Miss Howard has condj^^ the hospital during the year. Red Cross certificate. Meisky received the awt^rd at the chapel services of the High Point, N. C., high school during a vi.sit to his home there on January 21. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! So Far This Year There Have Been j 2 T\r T\f n* n* rir FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Make 1938 a Safe Year On the Highways. This date la.Ht year, 0. a joinP'congressional resolution might be used to revise thi.s section. ' In the hou.se <lebate._ tislay. Chair man Jones, Democrat,’Texas, of the agriculture committe«‘ appealed to the members to accept the hill to put the nation’s farmers on an (‘quality with industry, which has the benefit of the tariff. “If you defeat this hill,” ho shout- tsJ, “you won’t have anything. Any man honestly in favor of equality for agriculture in this country can’t fail to supjMirt this measure." The program is intendisl to elimi nate both surpluses and defitdencies in wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco and rice, with attendant wide fluctuations in price. When the house convened. Repre sentative Lanrbertson, Republican, of Kansas, noUsl that less than half the 435 members were on...the floor, and TorciSl a roll call to r(‘quire their attendance. Then (Chairman O’Connor, Demo crat, New York, of the rules commit tee called up the debate limrttation mo tion for an hour’s consideration. Rep resentative Martin, Riqiublican, of Ma.ssachu.setts, assistant minority leader, said the limitation proposal wa.s a “parliamentary outrage” and an “insult to every member of the house.” He said the confere('.s had consid ered the bill one month, yet the M- ministration forces were asking the house to pass it in a few hours. Ht' charged the leaders did not want the members to know what the bill con tained. Representative Knutson, Republi can, of Minnesota, .shouted that if the house knew all the provisions in the measure it would not pas.s. O’Connor retorted there had been a lot of “loose talk” about the “gag rule” and pointed out the house would debate the pending conference report three hours’"'k)nger than it usually sets aside for such legi.slation. Representative Anderson, Republi jean, of Minnesota, charged that-the 'feill'^dtiT<Tinfl'it‘t a'(*gimentat‘ion on*the ■ farmer “by a bureaucratic dictator under a legislative fiat.” He objected principally to the con ferees* “emasculation” of the McNai y- Boileau amendment originally intend ed to prevent land taken from soil- (k'pleting crops from being used for * expansion of dairy crops and herds. Chairman Jones said the conferees’ ! modifications only made the amend ment “workable” by permitting “nor mal increases” in herds and crops. TO ASSIST TAXPAYERS A representative frdm the state tax commission will 'be at the Commercial Depository F^. 18 and 19 to assist taxpayers in making out their income blanks. • .4 • 4 • 4 k 4 A.*: 7-.