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\ r /■: J THE CHRONICLE StrlTw To B« a Cteu Nowo> paper* Coaiplete, Newaj, and PeWiKlf. If Too Doo't Road THE CHRONICLE Too Don’t Get The Newt. VOLUME XXXVIII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1938 NUMBER 7 SF.NATE Menace 9t MEASURE Crop Control Bill Wins By Big Majority and Goes To Presi dent. Senator Smith Steers Plan Through With Borah and Others Opposing. Washingrton, Feb. 14.—A crop con- Big Elnemy Army Nippon Troops Threaten To Bot tle Up 400,000 Men On Cen tral Front. Shanghai, Feb. 15. — A Japanese army of 60,000 men, buttressed by hundreds of tanks and planes, has surged down across the plains of North China and is threatening to trol bill, prai.sed as "the best farm]bottle up 400,000 Chinese on tl)e Cen hill ever enacted" and denounced asjtral front. “regimentation" and "more harness’. In modern war style but over the for ^ the fanner, rt'ceived final con-1 same rolling terrain, the Japanese I gressional approval today. * were emulating the thriteenth cen- { The measure, establishing a system: conquest by. the Mongol cm- under which the secretary of agricul-j Pcror, Kubla Khan. lnstt*a<l of the ture, in cooperation with farmer com-,K*'^’*^ Khans yak tail banner the > mittees, may prescribe limitations up-> conquerors carried the ri.sing sun flag, on the quantity of wheat, corn, cot-! ' spearhead of this swifftjr mo- ton, rice and tobacco grown or mar-jhile column was less than twenty keted, now goes to the White House including the broad \ellow river, l)etween it and Kaifeng, Honan provincial capital near the western t‘nd of China’s vital central front corridor. (’apture of Kaifeng would, ^hoke off the \ital Lunghai railway, prac- of exit for gions 01 Lieneraiissimo Chiang for the expected signature of Presi dent Roosevelt. The last step in its tortuous journey through congress, which began in mid-November, was taken when the senate adopte<l a compromise meas-, . , . ra * oi -ru • • u „ 1 tically the onlv means r ure, 56 to Jl. The compromise i.s has-; . , ,, .. . > 1 the legions of Generalissi e<l uiKin the conflicting bills passt*d, , , , , i . Kui-Shek now 4leployed along the originally hv house and senate. i . i . .u ' 'railway for 300 miles eastward to the | While the bill establishes varying, Yellow' sea. approaches for each of the crops af-^ Kfports today from'the northern fecteit, ni g('m ial rt~t'dirt'cts the sec-(sector told of the 60,000 Jap- retaij of agiicultuie to make an cs-jknco-d-eep through mud timate of the expected supplv. .;.et snovs in the oveilaiid thrust to- figure,against expected demand and the Yellow river ad^ist piXMluction aoc^dingly. ‘4ai)aughe..,r>a,id...lh.i5l..‘.and other of- ThiS would be (h.ne by paying liene-hmh the north and fits to farmers who plante<l no ' south against the Lunghai railway than a sptH'ified acreage. In addition, continuing with terrific losses; in years of bumper crops, the secre-j^„ despite rain and snow i tary of agriculture would lie t'nipow-1 ; ered to fix marketing quotas, limit- fp^ders i ing the quantities Ihat' could be sold and thereby iVrbteHmg lliie price. Such quotas would be dependent on a two^ thirdts vote of farmers taking part in special referendums. Because of the big crops of the last year, the administration began agitating for farm legislation last spring, to replace the old agriculture adjustment act invalidaited by the The eo^lumn of 60,000' might be- come the cork for the bottle-neck ■ ^ still open on the' western end of d^ie I ‘ | niLr Lunghai corridor. The far-flung conflict had devel oped over the week-end into one of the gretaest battles of the world. This, in part, was a re-enactment with modern tools of war of the em pire building conquest of the Grand supreme court. Congress agreed tol^han of the Mongols whose waves make the legislation the first order of of'shaggy cavalry about the middle business upon reconvening, and Presi dent Roosevelt called a. special session last fall to deal with this, among other'problem*.. , -*r ot Before Christmas, divergent biiTs were approved by both house and sen ate after much stormy debate. Upon of tdie 13th century over-powered the Chinese war chariots and foot soldiers armed with spears and bows. ^•Kuibta^ completed Genghis Khan’s conquest of North China and like the twentieth century Japanese , ^ ,made Peiping capital of the north. Teconvenirig after the holidays a con-| gaifpng ba« a pnpn1f>tmn of Twhce committee representing TothT^QQ situated on a broad plain houses took up the task of by “China’s Sor row"—the Yellow river. the provisions of the two measures into one bill. About Assembly State Commerce I.ieader8 Meet SfatyCuider Circus In May Noted Columnist Taken By Death The Presbyterian codlege track team * I !.• fn j m rfc* will meet six state teams on its 1938 In Columbia Today To Discuss Activity of Legislature. j March 26th with the University of South Carolina. The colorful Columbia, Feb. 12. general assembly as it effects busi ness will get an airing here Thursday at a conference of business men spon- iofed fry Yhc> Shuth OhroHna federa-' tion of Commerce, Agriculture and Industry. “The ftMleratidn has called a con ference of busmess men to speak fhl* thought of business on various mat ters before the legislature and con gress,” J. K, Breedin, managing di season ^ Activity of thejwlil come to a close on May 6-7 when the annual The provincial capital’s protection In so doing they incurred the wrath flomls that have taken thous-1 • • > -^.1 • . —. L- . 1 Yhe call for the parley was i.s.sued by Breedin, A. L. M, Wiggins of Hartsville, president of the federation, bankments between the river and the ^nd C. G. Timbc*rlake, of Florence and city about ten miles to the south. chairman of the legis- A dozen American men and wo-i of dairy and cattle interests by clim-jj^j^j^ Chinese lives promised to be-i inating provisions,'contained in bothi^^j^^^ part, its protection against bills, preventing farmers from ffO'^^Kithe Japanese drive—a series of em into the dairying or cattle raising business on land wihtdrawn from crop production. There were also com plaints that matter included in neith er bill was added by the conferences. “We have creat^ a third house wholly independent of the senate and hou.se <to formulate our legislation,” Senator McNary, Republican, of Ore gon, the minority leader, complained today. McNary was one of several who discussed the measure today. He saidl ^ Israel the bill provided no new benefits to Yhe farmers, except an extension ofl loans upon the 1937 crop. This, hej said, involved an immense expense to the government in insurance and stor age costs. The bill as a whole, he added, makes the farmers “vassals" of the secretary of agriculture. “It was parity t'he farmers were seeking, not compulsion, parity—it is not provided for In this bilil nor one cent of additional benefits," McNary said. “Is the senator willing to appro priate additional money for parity payments?” asked Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho. “Yes, indeed," replied the Republi can leader. “I’m Very glad to hear tigt,” Pope said. ' (Parity prices are those which men. Catholic and Protestant mis sionaries who declined to leave their posts, were among the city’s foreign population. There is also a Canadian Episcopal mission 'established in a synagogue raised 2,000 years ago by a tribe of Jews which settled thefe. Legend calls these Jews one of the “lost tribe High Court Upholds Truck Measure Washington, Feb. 14.—The supreme court hcfld today that provisions of a South Carolina law limiting the gross weight of trucks to 20,000 pounds and the width of 90 inches can be applied to vehicles operating in interstate commerce on standard concrete or as phalt highways. Justice Stone delivered the decision “Busine.ss men all over the country are becoming concerned because of the trend of legislation, both state and national," Breedin said. “They say that taxes are going up constantly and that it is becoming more difficult every years to make profits. state meet will be held here on Johnson field. The schedule follow.s: March 26—University of Squth Car olina at Clinton—varsity and frosh. / April 2—University of Gtxirgia at riinton—varsity. sity and frosh. April 14—Kurmun at Grtxmville— varsity and frosh. j April 2.3—Wofford at Clinton—var sity and frosh. April 30—Florida at ('linton—var sity. May 6-7—State track meet at (Min ton—vargity and frosh. Seek Auto Driver ' In Owings’. Death .Mack (Kip) Owings, of this county, was killtxl Friday near Gray Court when struck by a hit-and-run driver. Sheriff C .W, Wier and deputies have South Carolina business men have heen seeking the identity of the driv- been unusually alert during the last six months. For the first time they er and car, but had announced no ar- reat - in tho-case-ufr-1«+^ yesterday. PRESBYTERIAN MEN TO MEET TONIGHT C"doperated~Th”li”^ery efficient fight on, the national wages and hours bill and then promoted an organization to work for bu.siness and agriculture. “The South ('arolina Federation of Commerce, Agriculture and Industry came into being to work for the de velopment of the state and to oppose measures militating against the in-jat 7:30. Following the serving of sup- dustrial development of the state." per by one of the circles, an interest- Directors of th^''federation are: J. ing program will be presented on the B. Britton, Sumter; E. A. Gilfillin, I subject of “Our Religion In Our Busi ness." All Presbyterian men in the city are corlfially invited. 0. 0. McIntyre, Small Town Boy Who Made Good, Wan 111 Only Few Days. New •York, Feb. 14. — 0. 0. Mcln- tyde, famous New York newspaper man—whose daily syndica/ttnl column, “New York Day by Day," made his name a htrtisehlod word to mtlHons of readers—dieil at 2 a.m,. Monday in his Park avenue apartment. He was fifty- thrix* years old, port, the exact cause of death was not known. He had btien ill only a few days, M'he jaunty, trim-figurtxl writer jot- ti*d ilown his last column in bed on .Saturday, read the Sunday papers and made'notes for his next column, and then retired with the mild com- filaint that he felt “a little rocky." “At the last, hr seemtxl to become exhausted and just drifttHl off to sleep,” said C/harles B. Driscoll, long time friend of McIntyre and editor of McNaught’s Syndicate, which re- leascxl the columnist’s daily 800-word vignettes on the passing scene of New York to 508 newspapers from coast to coast and in ('ana<la and Mexico. Only his wife, the former Maybellc Hope Small, was at his btxlside when he-ilUuL He had rofusAMLa-doctor, say-y! ing he would soon be up and “feeling chirpy” again. Mrs. McIntyre, his de- voGmI companion since their marriage in 1908, said his last words were: “Turn your face toward me so I can see you.” They would have cehdiratcHl their NEW RELIEF SET-UP URGED Senator Bailey Proposes Remove Politics From Relief Jobs. Non-Partisan Board of Five Would Handle Problem. Washington, Feb. 15.—Senator Bai ley, Democrat, of North Carolina, in troduced a joint resolution today for, a “nonpartisan administration" of re- I lief funds by a hew federal board of five members. The iHiard wouhl take over all re lief activities except those of the Ci vilian Con.servation corps and the Public Works ailministration. It would eliH't its own uilministrator, to be imhl $12,000 a year. The preamble to Bailey’.s resolution 4itK;lared there is a “grave <langer’’ that relief funds may he used for j>o- litical purpo.ses. The senator would make it a mis<lenieanor, punishable by a fine of $500 or a year’s impris onment, or both, U) solicit the votes of persons nx-eiving relief or to use * any relief office for ]>olitical pur- pos(*s. The ri'solutioM also called for an investigation, state by .state, of past relief exia’iiditures, ('are .of “normally nnemployalde’’ piTsons wnuld be left to the states ' and tludr subdivisions. Relief projects would h(* desigiu'd to avoid eonipeti- tion with iirivate enterpiise. Wages iuid hour.s would be fixed with a view to (‘riding ft'deral ridj^ as rapidly as possible. 'I’he rivsolution di'clan'd nneniploy- nierit is'primarily the eoneern of state and l(H-al governments. It would fix funds, available tft the new bbarcr up~ to January 15, 1939, at not nioiv than one-tihird of the expense of adminis tering the WPA for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938. A rr*que8t that congress appropri ate $250,000,000 immediately to meet increasing demands for relief today from the house appropriations com mittee. The committee said there had been a “drastic" decrease in private em ployment since September. 'There is no indication, it added, of a business improvement sufficient to “ju.stify a lesser amount." President Rooeevelt proposed the appropriation last week, saying in a letter to Speaker Bankhead that avail able funds were insufficient. The $I,500,000,0(M) appropriated la.st June for the present fiscal- year. Aubrey Williams, acting admnistra- tor of the Works Frogress^ adminiiHra- lion, told the committee that 1,000,000 persons lost their jobs last month and 3,000,000 had been thnrwn out of work since September. House leaders, arranging to begin consideration of the appropriation on the floor tomorrow, prwlicttHl that it would be approvwl sptuxlily. Then it would go to the senate where, some members said, it might encounter more formidable opiposilion. Williams said the a{>pr(>priation would be used to provide employment for 2,000,090 persons this month and 2,500,000 in March, compartxi with 1,548,000 in September. He predicted that by JLumi, Ihc xelief- loaiLlwouLii have decrea.sed to about 2,200,000. GreenviHe; J. Wade Drake, Anderson; H. H. Morgan,-Columbia; E. T. H. on another of the many controversies Sl\eaffer, Walterboro; L. M. Lawson, over the boundarie.s of federal and state power. The 1933 state statute was intend ed to preserve the highways and pro mote safety. Illinois, Kentucky and Darlington; J. B. Mahoney, Charles ton; W. P. Jacobs, Clinton; J. Roy Pennell, Spartanburg; Alester G. Fur man, Jr., Greenville; A., W. Huckle, Rock Hill; Robert H. Jennings, Jr., Orangeburg; J. R, Fairey, Fort Motto; J. F. Bland, Mayesville; Edwin G. Sei- bels, Columbia; J. L Coker, Harts ville; Robert Gage, Chester; P. W. Johnwn, Marion. ’ Texas had filed briefs contending would give a unit of farm products j states had the right to regulate use the same purchasing power it had in of their highways. Florida attacked pre-war years). , the South Carolina regulations. Senator Barkley, the Democratic j “The regulatory measures taken by leader, said all were agreed that ag- j South Carolina,” Stone said, “are riculture was a national problem, one within its legisQative power. They 4o j 1 HlF that could nortbe solved by the states, f not infringe the 14th amendment and' * CU A AlA » “This is the best farm bill that hasUhe resulting bunden on interstate ever been enacted by the congress to j commerce is not forbidden.” deal with a great problem of Amari- can life, ” he said. Gist of Measure The measure provides: 1. Authority to the Commodity Stone announce no dissent. Justic es (Cardoza and Reed did not partici pate in the decision. The tribunal reversed a ruling by a three-judge federal district court Credit corporation to make loans on I in South Carolina that the law can not farm crops when huge surpluses de-jbe enforced again.st a group of inter- flate prices. The commodities would state truck operators and shippers. be stored under an “ever normal" j granary plan during the bumper years j for use during lean periods to assurer a plentiful supply and reasonable prices to the consumer. TO SPEAK SUNDAY >lel The Rev. J. McDowell Richards, . ! D.D., president >yf Columbia Theologi- 2. For a $100,000,000 federal dnsur-j cal seminary, Decatur, Ga,, will oc- ance corporation to underwrite wheat cupy the pulpit of the First Presby- crops against domage or destruction by natural causes and authority to buy them when necessary to stabi lize prices and supply. (Continued bli page eight) terian church Sunday, at both morn ing and evening hours of service. Dr, Richards on Monday morning will address the college student body at a special chi4>el program. Record L^st Week Washington, Feb. 14, — Treasury ^ figures showed today the federal debt reached a record total of $37,676,-j 727,713 last week. The debt had been considerably be low this figure since December 15 when it rose temporarily becau.se of financing. It is expected to reach $37,853,000,000 by June 30, the end qf the fiscal year. The .Men-of-the-Church of the First Preshyt(*rian church will hold their regular February meeting in the din ing deimrtment of the chuirh tonight thirtieth w^wWing anniversary, also ' hLs fifty-fourth birthday, on FViday. Funeral .services will be held at (Jallipofis, Ohio, probably on Thurs day. Thu.s the lantern-jawed cosmopo lite—the “small town boy," as he fre quently described himself, who rose to fame and riches as the epitome of the nation’s idea of a “typical New Yorker’’—will return at last in death to the never-forgotten Ohio river town of his boyhood. Often, in nostalgic paragraphs in his column, he said be was going to leave the metropolitan scene forever and return to Gallipolis, to the fine horhe called “Gatewood” where he courted Maybelle, and which he bought for her on their silver wedding anniversary. He had upward of a million dollars when he died, accumulated from his $2,.600-a-week syndicate salary and his magazine writings, and he re marked wistfully that it was time that he—sometimes styled “the pro- j phet of the provinces”—'returned to STANDS HIGH AT WINTHROP The friends of Miss Peggy Sprunt, of this city, will be interestefl to learn that she is included in the 111 Win- t'hrop students on the “distingui.s)MxH’ list of the college registrar as released this week. ~ FEDERAL TAX MAN COMING A deputy collector from the office of collector of internal revenue will be in Clinton on March 2nd for the purpose of a.ssisting taxpayers with the preparation of their 1937 income tax returns. The official will have his ^office at the poat office building. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! So Far This Year There Have Been 3 FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY I..et’s Strive To Make 1938 a Safe Jear On the Highways. TMa date last year, 0. Elliott To Lead ^ College Services Announcement was made this week from Prosbytt'rian college that the Rev. W. N. P^liott, D.D., pastor of Druid Hills Presbyterian church, At lanta, Ga., will be the speaker dur ing the annual week of religious ser vices for the students which will be helld three days of next week, Tues day, Wedne.sday and Thursday. Two services wlil ^ held each (lay, at 11:46 a,m., and 7:30 p.m,, in the col lege chapel. Dr. Elliott is one of the outstand ing ministers of the Southern Presby terian church and his messages al ways make a strong appeal to young people. Preparatory to his coming the student body will bold sptxial prayer meetings in all the dormitories every night at 10 o’clock to continue through next Monday night. his hinterland town. POSTOFFICE CIX)SING HOUR FIXED AT NINE Postmaster B. R. Fuller has an nounced that effective Sunday, Ftrb- ruary 13th, the postoffice will remain open daily for the depositing of mail until 9 p,m. instead of 8 p.m. as in the past. The change in the hour for closing the door of the office to the public was made to comply 'with a recent request of the Chamber of Commence. •/ ONE LEGAL SAUi: Clerk of Court John D. Davis made one legal sale on February sale.sday in the cause of the Federal Farm Mortgage corporation vs Mrs. M. J., Kennixjy, 83 acres of land in I.aurens town.ship being bid in by R. E. Balib, ^torney, for $500. Sheriff Wier con- ducUxl a number of sales for lax items. TO MAKE INSPECTION Major Charles C. I>oughIin, com mandant at Wofford college, has been designated bY'^tbe U. S. war depart ment to serve as in.spcctor during the annual government military inspec tion of the Presbyterian college R. 0. T. C. unit on April 21, according to an announcement from the military department.