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t / RMHHEaBssssra: I THB CBRONICLB IstilTMT^lto tCbMiN( L-ji , ^ / i If Tou DoD*t Read THE CBRONICLB Ton Don’t Got Tho Nowa. VOLUME XXXVIll CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1938 NUMBER 8 SENATE MONEf BILL REFUSED Woric- B^iun Oh Chur^ Building Combined Presbyterian Congre gations of Little River and Dominick Erecting New Brick Striicture Ten Miles From Clinton. DODD BARES PLAN OF ROME, BERLIN TO. GAIN COMPLETE EUROPEAN CONTROL House and Senate Conferees Soon To Be Named To Ironi Out Million Dollar Difference.! Local Option Did Not Comej Up Yesterday As Expected, i 1 A new Presbyterian church is being Columbia, Feb. 22.—The senate in-‘constructed abbuf^en'miles out from sisted tonight on its amendments to, Clinton on the Jacobs highw’ay. The, th. r*ner.l .pproprUtion Ml «ft«kuiWmg will be brick veneered and of the house refused to accept them and! * . appointment of a free conference j ^**^^*'*^ design, with Sunday school committee to iron out the differences i ooom.s, choir loft and facilities for loomed for tomorrow. carrying on the full program ofi Lieut. Governor J. E, Harley, pre- church activities. I siding offiwr of the senate, ams not^ ^.^urch is a combination of present when the senate met for the . ,. . , w first time this week, thus postponing organizations of Little River Carving of New ’’Holy Roman Empire*'! In Danube and North Africa Seen. Revekls Nazi Agents Followed Roosevelt Visit To South America. Washington, Feb. 20.—William E. | Through tho expeditious use of Dodd, former United'States ambassa-• such power, Dodd was quoted, the dor to Germany, in Secret, testimony j Roman eagle could exact tremendous before the house foreign "affairs com- concessions from Britain, mittee revealed an alleged plan by j Dodd’s testimony was given be- Wallace Greases ^ Farm Machinery Department Makes Ready For New Control Program. To Ex plain Act To Tillers. which he said Germany and Italy may*' fore tReichsfuehrw Adolf Washington, Feb. 19.—^The 10,000- room agriculture department building hummed tonight as officials and clerks worked in a race against time to start the new .farm program before CABINET CRISIS IN ENGLAND and Dominick, and will have a com- ‘bined membei^hip of about 100. Plans the expected appointment of senate _ ^ .. I have been underway for about three Senator Brown of Barnwell, presid-j y^.rs toward thi.s union and building ed oyer the handful of senators, who, program and have at last materializ- adopted the motion of thairman Wardi^ The union was effected without of the finance committee to insist bn an opposing vote in either congregation. the senate amendments which boost-; ^tle River church dates back to 1-62 and ha-s had an interest- $1,000,000 over the $l-.3^.69v house- history in the development of approved measure. Presbyterianism in upper South Caro- No other matters, except a few lo-jlina. An elder of the Little River car bills, were taken up by the sen-jehurch was killed in the battle of . Kings Mountain in the American Rev- On motion of Chairman Neville olution. In the old ce,metery lie buried Bennett of the ways and means com-!many notables of early South Carolina mittee, the house rep'cted the senate'historj\ including a general of the amendments which brought the total Revolution and a former United of the money measure to $13^170,321. States senator from South Carolma. Speaker Sol Blatt .said he thought i Parmer Governor Simpson of South conferees would be “named no laterhis family were once than Wednesday,’* but he would not mt’n'hers of this congregatiori. The indicate whom he had in mind for -^impson, Hunter, Griffin, W illiams the places. ' |?rawford families played an im- Three are appointed from each ^ the life of thi.s church house, and by custom these include I the state in the early days, the chairmen-of the ways and moans! Also old records show’ the mission- and senate finance committees. 1*0’ spirit of the people of-Little For the most part. represenUtives R*'’**** t^he pioneer days of the state. attempt to gain complete control of Danubian Europe and the Mediter ranean, the Unite<l Press learne<l to night. Details of the testimony were dis closed by a memlx'r of the committee who declined use of his name. Ef forts to contact l>odd for confirma tion or denial were unavailing. The committee member said tho former diplomat told his group, in an executive .session attende<l by all twenty-five members, that the two fascist powers plan to carve out a new “Holy Roman Empire’’ op the continent and in North .Africa. He quoted Dtnld as saying he had seen maps in Berlin, outlining in Brown Hitler s. farn^ers started spring plowing. Not since the early hectic days of Nazification of Austria. He asserteilly told the committee j ^he agricultural adjustment adminis- that Germany and Italy probably Uration in 1933 had there been such would not resort to arms except as feverish activity as followed signing a last means of gaining their ob-j(,f farm bill this wreek by Presi* jectives. He .said that Japan is a;jgnt Roosevelt. most important consideration in ac-l The siKrretary of agriculture, Henry A. Wallace, completed prtdiminary Chamberlain's Policy Approved By Commons, 330 to 168. Vote Heavily Favors Conciiiatinif Dictators In Name of Peace. War Averted, Is Claim. tivities of the Rome-Berlin axis and predicted that the .island empire would come to the aid of the two Eu- plans for the program and left tonight on a cross-country speaking trip to ropt'an Fascist powers immediately explain the act to farmers. The tour in event of a major war iKxkl also .testified that war be tween Germany and Italy in entire ly conceivable bi'cause of jealously rei^ulting from one nation obtaining more than the other. He said a boycott of the “have the domain which Germarty wants.' not” powers by the “haves” would will take at least a week and will in elude four speeches in California. J. B. Hutson, assistant AAA ad ministrator, is in the South explain ing cotton and toliacco programs. Southern farmers will vote March 12 on imposition of marketing quotas for cotton and tobacco this year. Pro consumed the brief session which opened the seventh legislative we^ with a discussion on a proposed change in house rules to stipulate what percentage would be necessary to bring out a bill as a eominittee- sponsored measure. The question was brought forward earlier by action of the long-dormant offices and officers committee in in troducing numerous measures of statewide importance. Representative Wannamaker, of Chesterfield, charged, however, that On one occasion an. offering was tak en for missionary work amounting to $50. This was used to help send a home missionary to the city of Green ville, then in its infancy. Also, the first Presbyterian school in upper South Carolina was in -connection with Little River church. Cabins were erected near the church and entire families would bring provisions and camp for the school session. 'The pas tor vras also the school teacher. Many other interesting facts reveal the useful history of this organiza tion. - the prolonged debate on the rule was designed to block jconsideration of- Dominick church was organized in other matters. ,1916 and has .served the community "Wannamakerf*’*’**y^s^of Tfs”activify. ”Every^oc[^ Icnew,’’^ , told newspapermen, “that the housebuilding and uniting of ef killed time today so there could be open up a larger field of no vote on the county option and ^^Tvice for the membership of both gaIk>n-a-month liquor measures.-^ The bill to limit the amount of churches. Three acres of land on the highway liquor a person might have in Clinton to Chappells was secured possession rejnained in top phire on building by T. J. Daven- the house calendar, however, although. Timber for the framing wa's I it was not reached during the day's by M. A. Cannon. The Belk This territory parportedly includes 1 cru.sh Germany, Italy and Japan, but|allotments .sharply reducing the Netherlands, Switzerland, Czecho-jadtltsi that the hoiTors of the l«>^t |'.»3S acreage already have been placed Slovakia and the Poli.sh corri«lor in; war are still so fresh in the memories addition to whatever could be obtaiiUHl of the British. French and .American through “nazification” of Austria and governments that they are afraid to the Balkan states. jact. He was tiuoted as saying thati With this knowledge, be was quoti^i, German sch<*ol ohildxen are being Hitler and Mussolini will go tht* limit ta'ugHf'fhat it Is Germany's ilestiny' to’j^aih sourcv s of raw materials and to control these nations by right of room for expansion in b'uroiie and blood, tradition and heritage, and. that, .Northern Africa. H, R, Tolley, .AAA administrator, and Wallace discusstnl the program in nationwnoe radio hookups during last week. Tolley leaves tomorrow on a speaking atul conferenee-vCour that will Uke him to Sacramento, Calif. I*resid(‘nt Roosevelt called congress into special ses.sibh* last November to meanwhile Premier Benito .Mussolini, One of Great Britain’s greatesta new farm bill when surpluses at the other end of the Berlin-Rome difficulties, IbxJd reportedly testi axis, has his eyes on Sjvain, Egypt and Pale.stine. Dodd assertedly explaine<l that II Duce is particularly anxious to gain control of Southern Spain and ex tend his domain across tho straits of Gibraltar into Spanish Morocco as a check against British domina tion of the Mediterranean, through which all Italian sea-borne commerce must pass, the United Press informant said. With powerful fortifications in southern Spain and Spanish Moroc- fied, is the fact that the empire ac- mounted from record crop.s and prices slumped sharply. He declared an tually is a loose confe<lerati<)n of omergency exi.sUnl demanding imme- states, some of which might refuse to bear arms in defense of the mother land in event of a European war. He said the overwhelming pacifist sentiment of the major ■‘powers was iliate new legislation. Wallace and other farm administra tion officials urged speed and chaffed at delay. Time for planting was draw ing nearer and haste was essential if responsible for the war-like,program was to bisiome effective aggre^sslve moves of some of the dis satisfied nations. He predicte<l that in any realignment of powers, Rus sia undoubte<lly would be found in the camp of the “haves” against the “have nots,” and ad<led that recent CO, Dodd pointed out, Italy ; could Soviet policy has been slanted to- practically nullify Britian’s position at wards friendliness with the democrat- Gibraltar. He said however that Mutadim will not be aatiafied witii this and will move towards domina tion ^f Egypt and Palestine. If this venture proves successful her long- cherished ambition for control of the Mediterranean and be in a position bnhe^ritish ‘life-TTrie’ to sever the empire in event of war. ic nations. was learned that Dodd charged that after the inter-American peace conference at Beunos Aije.s late in 1936, Germany sent secret agents to the Argentine capital to undermine the good will engendonxl by Pres- ident RobseVelt’.s” and '1^eefe!ary"“'l)T KeVretary State Cordell Hull’s visits. Todd Chairman Of P.C. Board U. S. Is Advised To Remain Aloof proceedings. The house referred to the ways and stores of Clinton and Newberry spon sored a gift of $250 from the Belk means committee a bill by Repreaen-1 ^^*’*°^**l fund to be applied on the not gasoline!P'**’’^ba,se of brick. J. V. Clary, tative Bennett to exempt gasoli an used by counties and municipalities >n tbe Smyrna church, New- gasoline license tax. ;wrry, gi from gasoline license tax. ;t>erry, gave $1,000 toward the build- Other new bills included'two by.‘“X fun<I and also, at the request of RepresenUtive Britt, of York, to for-^be two congregations, Mr. Clary will bid textile operators from charging 1*^^ ** chairman of the building corn- house rent to employes during any nsittee and treasurer of the building week in which the plant operates Jess' fund. than 24 hours, and to furnish free textbooks for the first seven grades in those public schools of the state “which shall be designated by the county boards of education.'* The contract for the building has been awarded to E. T. Mayer of New berry. The two congregations have given sacrifkially and are at present l^thin $500 of the amount necessary Greenwood Attorney Succeeds , Dr. Henry Wade Du Bose, Re- 8is:ned. Home Financing I to pay cash for the new church. Any- |one desiring to have a part in this !work by contributing to the building j fund may do so by writing J. V. Clary, Association Fonnoii To Altneli $1,000,000,000 Private Fnadsip Q J treasurer, or Rev. C. J. Matthews, 'pastor, both of Ne'wberry. Into Construction. Up Winter Sports Washington, Feb. 19.—An effort to| attract $1,000,000,000 of private funds j into home construction and financing Presbyterian college athletes are got under way today when Stewart * quiet and almost inactive MeDoiuOd. the fedeml housing admin-^PC”^^ 'bis week as three teams see istrator, signed a charter authorisingcontests throughout the six- craation of a National Mortgage a»-|<l*y period. Bociation. j Boxing season is officially closed. The association has initial capital^The swimming team has one contest of $10,000,000 and sorplua ui $1,000;- 000 paid by the Reconstruction Fi nance corporatiMT. The R. F. C. haaatated it is willing. during the period, a meet with Geor- git Tech temoon. T^ basketball men, having played if necessary ,to contribute more mon-1 ig qf their scheduled games, rest un- ey up to $40,000,000 to the coital of.tR Friday evening wheiT they meet this or other national mortgage asto-1 the Wofford ag^gation in Leroy ciations. 'Springs gymnasium. Their closing In this way, a statement from the i little comes next Monday when they housing administration said, there • naeet The -CiUdel in Ointon. would be provided “a tot^ of $50,-; „ OOOJKIO as the base for $1,000,000,000? w « « p of private funds ultimately available LsStlUT^nS wK^IOllS TOT for housing construction and financ-i ^ l*a* • •nc - >^Air Conditioning In order to raise cash to make; loans and purchase mortgages, mort-; Albert C. Todd, Greenwood attor ney, was elected chairman of the Presbyterian college board of trus tees at its spring meeting here Tues day. Todd, a member of the board for the past five years, succeeds Dr. Henry Wade DuBose, who recently left the First Presbyterian church of Spar tanburg to accept a pastorate at Dal las, Texas, and resigned at that time. Dr. DuBose had been chairman since 1930 except for one year. The board approved a budget pre sented by President William P. Ja- George Wa.shinRton*8 Farewell Addres.s Given Attention On Anniversary of His Birth. cobs and also gave its approval to the faculty, with one change—elevat ing Bernard H. Boyd from associate professor of Bible to a full professor ship. The triistees endorsed i fornin foundation plan outlined by President Jacobs calling for establishment of revocable trusts with the college as beneficiary. They also voted commendation to President Jacobs and Dean Marshall W, Brown for their administration during the year. Approval wa8_yoted to a proposal that suitable resolutions be drafted expressing thanks to donors of gifts to the college. GOING TO CHAPEL HILL I Track Coach L. S. McMillian an nounced yesterday that he will enter I five P. C. men in the ninth annual Southern conference indoor games to be held at the University of North Carolina on’ Saturday. Of the entries, three will compete in the non^onier- ence varsity division, and two will enter the freshman events. Coach Mc Millian will accompany the team to Chapel Hill. Washington, Feb. 27.—Congressmen worried about the troubled interna tional .scene heard advice today that this country “should steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world.” The swiftly moving events stem ming from Hitler’s Sunday speech and England’s ■efforts—at? rapproach- men with Italy left most congression al leaders silent, wondering what they portend for America’s future foreign policies. The legislators were told, however, that “Europe has a set of primary in terests which to us have none, or a very remote relation.” “Hence, she must be engage<l in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concern,” said a message read in the senate by Senator Ellender, Demo- cat, of Louisiana, and in the house by Repre.sentative Case, Republican, of South Dakota. “Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the or dinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collis ions of her friendships or enmities.” The message, however, spoke with approval of “temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.” George Washington’s farewell _ ad dress always iji given a careful hear ing on his birthday. this year. Wallace said the soil con servation act was inadequate to cope with the situation. ' Impatient as roce horses at the post, Wallace and his assistants sped away when Mr. Roosevelt lifUnl the barrier by signing the bill last Weflnesday. One official said, “There isn’t a min ute to lose.” Prodoctitm altotments for cotton were set at 26,384,000 acres, a rtxluc- tion of 8,000,000 acres from last year. VV'allace announced quotas—suliject to a referendum — to penalize farmers who market cotton raisi^tl on age in exceks of the allotment Wallace announced plans to pay London, Feb. 22. —' A thundering conservative majority tonight gave Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain a house of common.s victory in the wake of a cabinet crisis that ushered out Anthony Eden as foreign secre tary and signalled a new British pol icy of conciliating dictators. By a vote of 330 to 168 commons rejected a labor motion to censure the prime minister’s action. Fighting bitter attacks in the tu multous commons, Chamberlain cried it was his duty to seek peace in the armed camps of Hitler and .Mussolini, thus to aVoid “the frightful ciuestion” of war. He rejected fts “sham” the League of Nations idea of fighting aggression by, force. The effect of the new policy on the United States was flung into the bitter delmte .on si^verab oecaslons by opposition members in their running fire and former Prirru* Minister David Lloyd George accuseil (^hanibeilaiii of withholding an Italian telegram until Eden resigned. Arthur Greenwood, vice chairman of the labor jiarty who moved the vote of censure, (hH'lared that recognition of Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia “would really hamstring the president of the United States and <lrive him complete ly into a policy of isolation.” Winston Churchill, former cabinet minister, charged that in the United States “havoc has resulted from these events. Millions of people there who are our enemies have ho<’n armed with the means to mock the sincerity of British idealism ...” He said American isolationists now could "represent that we are all of us continental people, tarred with the same brush, and that there is noth ing to choose between us. “'That is propaganda which is now being given enormous impulse w’hilc our friends and those whd steadily are working for clospr cooperation of the two countries, on parallel lines, are downcast, baffled and ^evsTL dered.’’ Lloyd George, opposition liberal. a<!cuse<l Chamlierlain of “not taking the trouble” to obtain an Italian tele cotton farmers more than $250,000,- 000 this year for compliance with re duction and marketing control pro grams—a sum double that of any pre vious year. He proclaimed a national market ing quota—also subject to referenda .March 12—limiting tbe .sale of flue- cured tobacco this year to 705,000,000 pounds ami dark tobaccos to 145,- 000,000 pounds. Elliott Leading Services Here MAR'nN-CANNON CASE POSTPONED The annual week of religious ser vices sponsored by the college, b(?gan Monday morning when the Rev. J. McDowell Richards, I).I)., president of Columbia Theological seminary, spoke to the student body. The services were continued Tues day morning with the Rev. W. N. El liott, D.D., pastor of Druid Hills Pres byterian church, Atlanta, as leader. Two services are being held in the chapel daily at 11:45 a.m. and at 7:30 p.m. to continue through this evening. Dr. Elliott is an outstanding min ister of the Southern Presbyterian church and is being heard ■with inter est by the students. TO TAKE FLYER’S TEST W. M. Clark and C. P. Fuller, Pres- 'byterian college students, are soon to take the physical examination for ad mission to the United States army air corps school at Randolph Held, San Antonio, Texas. In the vote in the house of repre gage associations may issae their own sentatives last -week on the passage obligations up to an amount not ex- ‘ of the bill for air conditioning of tex- ceeding two times their paid-s^ capi- tile plants, the Laurens legislators, taL I Mesars. Huff, Milam and Wasson, McDonald said this system **gives'were recorded as among the forty the individual investor an opportanity ^ legislators who voted “no” on the to place his savings in a tax-free in-1 motion to kill the bill. In other words, vestment, hneked by imvred Mori-ltlMy voted for tbe bill. The bill was I killed by a vote of 53 to 40. MEETS HERE IN APRIL The South Carolina Scholastic Press association will hold its annual meet ing in Clinton on April 14 and 16, with an expected attendance of 300 boys and girls. In providing entertainment for the convention plans are being made to care for the girls in private honies of the city and tbe boys at Presbyteriaa college. The case of A. F. and Waldo Martin of Laurens, who are alleged to have made an attack on County Agent C. B. Cannon at the new agricultural building last December, was postponed Tuesday until the next term of court by Judge Thurmond. The postpone ment was made on a physician's cer- ifkate stating that A. F. Martin be cause of illness, was unable to appear in.court. VOTE ON GAS TAX BILL Representatives Huff and Milam were reported in press dispatches last week as having voted against the gas tax division bill defeated fay the house. Wasson, the third member of the dele gation, and one of the co-authors, voted for the bill. DRIVE CAREFULLY- SAVE A LIFE! So Far This Year There Have Been 3 FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let's Strive To Make 1938 a Safe Year On ' the 'lij^hways. This date last year. X£. for removing foreign volunteer.s fr.nn Spain ^until after E<leti resigned. White with fury, the prime minis ter sat on the edge of the front heiu-h while Lyold George cried: "... I never heard of such cen- duct ... it is a most iricreilihle story.” Chamberlain hotly denied he had done “anything disgraceful” and in sisted he merely ha«l learned of the telegram’s im[H)it from a friend of Italian Ambassador ('ount Dino Gran- di on ,Sunday. He sai<l he told the cabinet so—but did not get the telegram itself until Monday. Eden took part in the angry scene, rising to declare that up to the time of his resignation “I received no of ficial intimation whatever from the Italian government in t^ie sense of which the prime ,mini.ste'r has just spoken.” .I^ahor members cheered as he add ed it would not have made any differ ence anyway. Lloyd George brought the dispute to a climax by declaring “we have been beaten by dictators.” He assert ed ,a man as innocent as Chamberlain was “only fit for a stained glass win dow.” " T’he" prime earlier had te- pudiaied flatly the league sanctions theory as a “sham.” "We must not try to delude our selves, and still more we must not try to delude small, weak nations that they will be protected by the league against aggression,” he said. "We know that nothing of the kind can be expected. ■ ■ "The league is unable to provide collective security for anybody ... 1 would stay in the league btyause I have faith that it will he reconsti tuted. "If the league would throu’ off the sham.s and pretenses which everyone sees through and come out with a declaration of what it is prepare<l to do, its moral force as a focus for pub lic opinidn would b<! multiplied at once.” He defended his action in seeking to negotiate ^an understanding with Italy by saying that if it was not taken “we may presently be facetl with that frightful question (of war).” He. has promised to submit any agreement with Italy to the l^eague of Nations and stated the league still had "valuable work to do.” "I would not tear up a single ar ticle, not even article XVI (the sanc tions article,”) he .said. Mrs. Grady Seawright and Miss Margaret Milam of Pendleton, spent the week-end with their daughter and wisteri iMiss Jim Milam. 7-kr'-