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T \ •V X - 7 ! THE CHRONICLE StiiTM T* B« a ClesB 'N«wa* paper, Coaiplcte, Newaj, aad Reliable. Cltttlntt If Tea Doa’t Read THE CHRONICLE Yea Don’t Get The Newa VOLUME XXXVIII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1938 NUMBER 9 DEFIANT TALK.. BY Adt CHIEF Field Marshal Gocring Says Reich Air Force Ready for War and To Protect 10,000,000 Germans On Borders. 1938 Feed Loans ^ Now Being Made Offices Opened In Laurens By R. P. Henderson, Field Super visor. Loans Limited To $400. V^iflb SQUEEZE! Application for emergency crop and I feed loans'' for 1938 are now being ; received at the court house by R. P. Berlin, March 1. — Germany’s only; Henderson,-, field supervisor of the ^ active field marshal, Herman Wilhelm j Emergency Crop and Feed Ixtan sec-i Goering, today rattled the saber injtion of the Farm Credit administra-i best Prussian fashion as he warned ition. that the Reich’s air force was ready I ^he loans will be made, as in the s to protect the ten millions of Ger- farmers who cannot ob-! mans on our borders. ’ i credit from any other source, j ■ If Premier Milan Hodza of Czecho-lThe money loaned will be limited to j Slovakia, which has 3,500,000 Ger- i the farmer’s immediate and actual | mans, and Chancellor Kurt Schussnigg! cash netnls for growing hi.s 1938 crops of Austria, which has about 10,000,-j or for the purchase of feed for live- 000, did not hear him, it was not his [stock, and the amount which may be fauk. (loaned to any one farmer in 1938 may His defiant address commemorating' not exceed $400. the third anniversary of the air force, which he as air minister created, was broadcast. “ And if British Prime Minister Nev ille Chamberlain and French Premier Camille Chautemps do not see the -«o-mplete-'te-xt""Wi4b——8itro»g+.Farra.CciaiLit.administration. The loans words, it also will not be Goering’s Farmers who can obtain the funds they need from an individual, pro duction credit association, bank, or other concern are not eligible for crop and feed loans from the h'mergency Crop and Feed Ix)an .section of the will not be miade to standard Trehabili- fault, since the speech later was «»f-} tation clients whose current nee<ls are ficially released verbatim. I provided for by the Farm Security Raising his voice to a high pitch! administration, formerly known as the and pronouncing every word with | Resettlement administration, studit^ empha^.s the air minister j ^5 jj^ past, farmers who obtain thundered to an audience composed,crop and feed loans will Country At Cross Roads, Says Baruch Noted Financier Blames New Deal for “Paralysis” of Busi ness Because of Insecurity Feeling. Washington, Feb. 28.—^The present depression can be ended by a change of the government’s attitude toward business and a “wise rea<lju8tment” of the taxation structure, Bernard Baruch told senate investigators to day. The 68-year-old Wall BYRD OPENS FIGHT ON BILL Virginia Senator Assails F.D.R.- Proposed Reorganization of Government. Says President Given Too Much Power. Washington,, March l._ —'Senator Harry Byrd today opene<l the attack on the Byrnes government reorgani zation bill which the senate now has under consideration. The Virginian sJa-shed out at the street fj. j on four fronts, namely: nancier testified before the senate j much power to the unemployment committee that he was j in full accord wi|th the belief of his' increase insti'ad of decrease largely of aviators: ‘.And so, my comrade.s, we have all give as security a first lien on the crop financed, or a first lien on the Wright Patman jEIlwood Dillard Guest Speaker] Dies Suddenly helped lay the foundations to that' jf the money bor- force which no longer permits Ger- j-owed is to be used to produce or pur-1 Will Address Independent Mer-i Well-Known Local Attorney and many to be exposed to impotence and I (,hase feed for livestock. chants of Stale In rnliimhia ' World War Veteran Succumbs violatipn_<Lf_her national riKhta. i wh*.o aro ma.Ie to tenant*,1 ^ VeUran. ^UCCUmDS “And if the Fuehrer (ChancellorUhe landlords, or others having an i On March 10th. Adolf Hitler) in his Reichstag speech I interest in the crops finance<l or'the (on February 20) presented the proud' livestock to be fed. are required to record of achievement and uswl those i waive their claims in favor of a lien to the governor of the Farm Credit administration until the loan is repaid. Checks in payment of approve<i loans will be mailed from the Region al Emergency Crop and Feed Loan office at Columbia. * proud w<mls that we no longer can tolerate the maltreatment with im punity of ten millions of Germans on our borders, then you members of the air force''know that if need be you musit go the limit to make good these words of the Fuehrer.” That was plain language: —1. Warning Hodza to treat the Sud- enten' (mermans in Czechoslovakia aa Hitler thinks they should be treated. 2. W'aming Schusschnigg to give Austrian Nazi.s.the liberty of action Hitler demands for them. 3. Warning Chautemp* not to en courage Czechoslovakia \6o much by, as one semi-official commentator put it, “clinging to the doctrines of Ge-i The committee in charge announced neva and adhering to military pacts yesterjday that J. B. Britton, member Laurens Visitors Here jVlarch 8th The Chamber of Commerce, at ita March pneeting on Tuesday evening, the 8th7 at 7;30, will have as its spe cial guests the membership of the Laurens Business league. Columbia, F'eb. 28.—March 10 at 10:00 a. m., at the Coulmbia Hotel is To Heart Attack. Funeral Yesterday Afternoon. with other powers.” —4. Warning Chamberlain that only a “German peace” would be accept able to the Nazis. In conveying the latter warning, Germany’.s number two man said: “May the spirit of comradeship al ways be an exemplary one in our air force. In that case the force will be a guarantor of German peace. “I confess openly, however, it will be terrible once it is ordered into ac tion. Then w’e will throw consterna tion into those who attack us; then there will be nothing to deter us from uncurbed recklessness. All obstacles wherever we may find them will be overcome.” Goering spoke at the air ministry a short time after Hitler presented him ■with a field marshal’s baton, sym-1 bol of the new rank Hitler accorded j him in his army shake-up February 4., The anniversary celebration was ob-1 served at all military airports and pendence Merchants Association. The principal speaker at the con vention will be the Hon. Wright Patman of Texas; powerful and dy namic speaker, leader in Congress of a large group that is fighting for the independent business men in all lines. He is deeply interested fh the future jof independent merchants and has given much study to their prob lems. He was chairman of the Con gressional Committee that conducted hearings on the bill of which he was an author and has since become law, known as the Robinson-Patman Act. Congressmen Patman will speak at 3:15 p. m., and his address will be of the hou.sie of representatives from! browlcast over radio station WIS. will ht» the giie.stj Of great mtorest and importance William Fllwood Dillard, 55, well- the jime ami |>lMc sUeWra-t hr f<'i<r rrSni ii IiViik pri'PW^^ vention of the South (arol.na Ind.- personal friend, Ib'esident Roosevelt, that the national income could read $100,0{)0,00(),0()0 a year, as com pared with about $67,500,000,000 at present. But, he said, the thing that pre vents a busine.ss upsurge is a feeling reasonable profits will be confiscated by “inonlinate taxation” or that a«- isets will be subji'cted to some “great arbitrary change in the value of money.” Linke<i with these, the white- haired financier testifit^l, is the fear of further “disturbing as.saults” on business. He sakl these anxietie.s had pro- <lu<‘e<l a hesitancy or “paralysis of spending” on the part, of capital, in» (lustry, workers'and farmers. “It is the combination of millions (»f tautious that holds back the spend ing and (levelopment_ which could do ten times more for reemployment than any government action or all of the spending for relief in any year of this depresision,” he sawf. Adjusting his shell-rim spwtacles. administrative co.sts of government. 3. Abolishes comptroller general’s office. 4. Substitutes one man civil service administrator for present commission. In bis three hour 8pe(*ch, Byrd made further attacks on the bill but his criticism in the main revolved around these four'points. Senator James f'. Byrnes, who opened the administration’s fight yes terday for passage' of the* re*organiza- tion legislation constantly punctuated Byrd’s remarks te)eiay and challengevi the conejlusions reached by the Vir ginia .se*nator. Byrne*s insisted unle*.ss power be elede'gate'el the-re will be no reorganization because* gove'rnmerjt l(>l>by will block uctieen by eeengres.s. .Byrel el'welt Jut length on the* pow ers given the presieient and saiel he could abedish functions as well as’ age'ncies of the* geive'rnment. 'rhere are* se*veral more spee*cbe*s to 1m* made and a test vote, which will ceime on various emase*ulating amemi- ments to be offeree! by Byixl, is not in sight. ^_Charging-.JJu!. administi'at ion with_ speaker for the occasion, and will dis-'to the rherchants of South (’arolina cuss taxation and business conditions will be an aelelre*.ss by the Hon. W. in the state. An aelde*<l fe*ature will be several musical selections by the college male* quartet. The t'linte)n and I..aurens commer- G. Query, chairman of the South (•arolina Tax Commission e)n the tack. Mr. Dillard came to his office as usual anel later in the* morning had geme to Sowers Garage where repairs were being made on his car. Starting back to his office about eleven o’clock he stopped at Niche)ls Stuelio whore h!e_,8uffert*<l the a A physician was imme<liatt*ly summoned by Mr. Nichols and the stricken man removed to Dr. Hays’ hospital where he died an hour later. The ne^s of his unex pected death came as a groat shock to hlH famil/'amf frientki.'• Funeral services were held yester day afternoon at 2:30 from the grave side in the Presbyterian c(*inetery, conducted by the Rev. B. Betts, assisted by Dr. I). J. WcmmIs and Dr. .l)mtlcy...li>nes A Inrgi* attendance at the .services and many l)eautiful flow- ment: “Of course, all of this depends on national policy. If it remains what recently it has appeared to be, there is no hope or reemployment and substantial ri*covery. “If it could be changetl I believe that we would have a rapid and immediate rise in 411 economic in dexes. “I say it with regret, but I would be less than candkl if I failed to express my opinion, that unemploy ment now is traceable mote directly U) government policy than to any thing that business could or should do, and that if those policies are not changed, neither business nor g<,veVr,ment can ever solve this most j^j' i,ur;.auc^r9iy^.JiaZ^ terrible of all our—problems failure to make any headway toward balancing the budget, he comparwl the 1933 outlay of $3,5(M),000,000 with a present budget of nearly $8,000,- 000,000. Byrd pre<licted the government def icit will be $1,760,000,000 by July 1. “And for 1939 the outlook is even worse, because the rttcession will af fect revenue collections,” he added.— “The best way to economize,” he continued, “is to eliminate extrava gance and overlapping. It is astonish ing to hear the president say that only $.30,000,000 can 1m* saved by re organization.” After dicLaring that 50 new gov ernment agencies have lH*en set up in the last four years an<l that a “bloat- (ihairnian Byrnes (D-BG) asked the Virginian sai«i: «*rs gave evidence of the (*steein in i Haruch if he thought the country which he was held by hrs friends." I had reached the “bott(un of the re- Active jmllbearers were: ('. F. I Nichols, .An.sel fosifrey, .lohn T. subjt*ct of taxation, with particular reference to taxes i)aid by merchants. Other speakers will include Hon. cial organizations have held exchange' Jas* H- Hammond of Columbia, Hon. meeting.^ for the past two years irii Wilbur Grant, a director of the a.s-ji)r (\ Hays, Dr. J. W. Davis, M. order that the two cities may know] sociation and a memb<‘r of the Leg-1 n Hunter, W. E. Monts, W. R. An- Young, T. P. Ow'ens, Kay Pitts and 'Fhomas Jacobs. The honorary e.scoit consisted of “I predict if this Idll- is jeassed in its pre-sent form, not only will there not he a ilollar of savings, hut that , , , . , the co.st of government will Im* in-’ “That eh*pen<ls e.n the tax leg.sla- millions.” ion,” Baruch replied. If it re-, n,.-explained it creates a each other better, and work together islature from (.’ht‘ster, E. M. Arnold for the common interests of the of Greenville, Gary Paschal of Co county. lluipbia and the address of the presi,- The Clinton organization ha.s been! dent, A. L. M. Wiggins of Hartsville. invited by the I..aurens leaguers to be I Two sessions of the convention their guests in October. Bishop Denny To Speak In Columbia will be held, one at 10 a. m., and the other at 2:30 p. m. Between sessions of the convention, the entire mem bership will hear the address of Con gressman Patman to the South Caro lina legislature. By formal resolu tion, a joint session of House and Senate will assemble to hear him speak. All independent business men and Sponsored by laymen of the two iirfo''rce"ga7rison8 with flag-raTsings',l®<»''^^ Carolina Methodist conferences, parades and speeches. a state-wide meeting wdl be held at I As is often the case with Goering’s Street Methodist church j women in the state, whether mem- apeeches, the beginning of his address! •" Columbia on Sunday, March 1.3th, ;bers of the association or not, are furnished no real clue to the belliger-i*^ which time Bishop invited to attend the convention, ent close | Collins Denny will speak in opposi- The air minister, seemingly begin- ^ unification question now before 4he^ Methodigt church^Jadieg. Wide publicity is being given the meeting and a large audience is ex pected to hear Bishop Denny. A num- ning a merely hisloricaT review, caTm- ly traced Germany’s defenselessness in the years immediately after the V^orld Yv&r He spoke of the days when Fried-planning to rich Ebert was president and of thel®^^"^ the meeting which will be open Teachers Meet Here time when Paul Von Hindenburg was the head of the nation and on three occasions he denounced the republican regime for “cowardly pacifism.” Them he outilned the growth of the air force, declaring that the resurrec tion of Germany military air power began in 1933 a few days after Hit ler came to power. j It was “camouflaged” at first, he pointed out, but later the development was carried on openly. , Then, on March 1, 1935, he said, the military shackles of the treaty of Versailles were thrown off and Hitler, could ahow a skeleton air force to aatoniahed Germans, ' Throughout this period, Goering explained, Germany was willing to ne gotiate f^r arms limitation on a basis of equality, but equality was whati t’the others” never really were willing j to grant. 1 t SUMMER SCHOOL PLANNED ! |h*^yterian college, following its plaff of several years past, will con duit summer school opening on June 6 and continuing through July 15, At a meeting of the facirity during the weeLv Prof. Bothwell Graham was' elected director for the session, and Ragh>--Holman, <|i^’^ctor of public re- lationa, as'seereta'ry. to the public. The Laurens County Teachers’ as- derson, A, E. (Cheatham, H. K. Harris, the board of trustees of the city schools, members of the Rotary club, Clinton and I.,aurens bar, the local American Legion post and fire de part ipent Mr. Dillard was a native of I.au- rens county, having been born in the Sandy Spring.s section near here. He was a son of the late James P. and Irene Byrd Dillard, a widely connected and highly regarded family of this community. He was a graduate of the law school of the University of South Carolina and for a number of years was a public accountant. Ten years ago he returned to Clinton and had been a practicing attoiney here since that time. He wa.s a veteran of the World war, having volunteered when the war began an<l received his first training at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. TTe was commissioned as a first lieuten ant. Overseas he wa.s with the quar Senator Smith To Speak In Laurens Friday Morning United States Senator E. D. Smith of this state, chairman of the senate agriculture com mittee, will speak in Laurens Friday, March 4, at 11 a.m. on the new farm bill. The meeting will be held in the court house and County Agent C. B. Cannon has extended an urgent invita tion' to all farmers and other interested parties of the county to be present and gain first hand information from Senator Smith on the provisions of the farm program for 1938. In cooperation with county agents and county committee men Senator Smith is now at tending a series of farm meet ings in the state to explain to farmers personally the details of the ^rm bill. sociation will meet in the Florida Street school auditorium of this city captain. After the war he spent Saturday, March .5, at 10:30 a.m., Goblentz, Germany, with the president, W. E. Monts, pre- member siding. This is the last meeting of the county association this yeari of the local American Legion post, Clinton fire department and Rotary Dr. F. D. .lone*, of the college fac- «'“*>• »>f“ ''f a member of the boani of trustees of Hunter school district No. 5, and was secretary of the board. He was a member of the Presbyterian churchy Mr. Dillard was never married and , ulty, will address the group on “The j Teacher’s Responsibility in a Vitalized j Guidance Program.” Follcywing Dr. ; Jones’ address, Mrs. W. W. Lewis,* of i Whitmire, will speak on “The Value . . , ... of a Parent-Teacher aesociation to the !'>' P**!. f'’f*'. years hail made School and Community.” 'i.'” liome *ilh a sister, Mr* Reese 1 The public is cordially invited to”^"""?- He had many friends here attend the meeting. I .f'^where, who will ,oin with the I 1^ j family in mourning his death. [ ' z Az ■ I Surviving are two brothers, Larry | B. Dillard of this city, John II. Dill-1 ard, Augusta, Ga.; four sisters,. Mrs.| C. B.*-Elliott, Columbia, Misse.s Lila, and. Mary Dillard, Hendersonville,! N. C., and Mrs. N. Reese Young of tion lieves the burden.s on business and thus puts people hack to work, we will have reached the end of this 4l(*pre«- sion. If it <loesn’t 1 feel very du bious about the future.” Baruch .said he thought the “only hope” lay in flecreasing taxation rates on business, p(*rmitting it to make a larger turnover,' ‘thus increasing the national income and raising the gov- ernment’ls total revenue receipt*. While Baruch discussed taxation que.stions, ('hiarman Harrison (D- Miss.) of the senate financ^* commit tee, a visitor at the hearing, listene<l intently. Harrison’s committee will go to work on the new tax bill an soon as it is passed by the house. Baruch urgi'd modification of both the undistributed profits tax and the capital gains levy, di'claring that the “combine<l influence* of high and un- reasonal)le capital gains and unwise undistributed profits taxes ha« al- most^ stopped the developm^ent of new enterprises.” He advoca't<*d, also, a “thorough overhauling” of the regular income tax structure “to discover its max imum revenue-producing efficiency under the law of diminishing re turns.” Miss Mae Barton spent the week end with her paixmts, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Barton, in Westminster. new (!(*- Orphanage Gets Endowment Gift In the will of the late Mrs. W'm. E. ,'McIlwain of Pensacola, Fla., Thom- \ well orphanage is left an endowment ^ I bequest of $5,000, and Presbyterian j GOING TO KENTUCKY college is given her excellent library! The Presbyterian college'Blue Hose which her husband states he will add'cage team wilPcompete in the annual . to with a number of his own books, i Davidson college^ is also to receive $5,000 from the estate. Mrs. Mcllwain was the wife of Rev. Wm. E. Mcllwain, D.D., of Pensa cola, and passed away on February 17th. She had been a life-long friend and supporter of the orphapage. S. I. A. A. basicetball tournament be- i ing held this week at Kentucky State Teachers college, at Bowling Green. Coaches Johnson and McMillian, ac companied by nine members of the squad, will leave this morning for Bowling Green to participate in the contests. DRIVE CAREFULLY “ SAVE A LIFE! So Far This Year There Have Been 3 FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS • in IJIURENS . COUNTY' Let’s Strive To Make 1938 a Safe Year On the Highways.' This date last jsar* 9. partment of wt‘lfar«* and creates a staff of six adniiriistrativ** assistants for the president. “He cannot aJt»olish: an entire execu-. tive department, that is, one headed by a cabinet officer,” said Senator Byrd, “but he could transfer 90 per cent of its activitie.s to other depaii- men-ts.” The senator said he would not ob ject if the bill is amended to require congre.Hsional approval of reorganiza tion orders Iwfore they take effect. As it staml.s, the ord<*rs take efft*ct 60 days after being sulnnittwl to con gress, unless congress can have a law enacted within that time to disap prove an order. .Such a bill would have to be aignwl by a president with power to veto it. A two-thirds vote then would be rt*quired to override. Jury Panel Drawn For Civil Court Jurors have been drawn as follows for the March term of civil court to convene in I^aurens on Monday, .March 14th, to be presided over by Judge J. Strom Thurmoml of Edgefield. Cro.s8 Hill: J. F. Noffz, R. W.’Grif fin. Dials: R. 11. Amistrong, T. I*. Boyd, J. States Curry, K. L. Gray, C. D. Gray. iScuffletown: W. I). Glenn, L. J. Blakely, Joe R. Martin. — I^aurens: T. B. King, L. A. -Bram- lett, W. R. Power, R. A. Hudgens, T. B. McDaniel, V. P. Rutledgre, Waterloo: C. L. Phillips, J. T. Wil liams, J, W. F'owler, A. J. Allen, D. C. Smith. Hunter: W. P. Burdette, C. .S. Rowe^^ C. W. Hallman, C. W. Cooper, J. W. .Miller, Ralph R. Blakely. Jack.s: Ij. A. Morgan, N. II. Nabors, Ray Dillard. Youngs: W. W’. Wallace, E. P. Pat ton, C. B. Bobo. Sullivan: Jeff H. WockI, P. L.^ Da vis, A.*H. I*it£s. RANTIN NAMED DELEGATE H. D. Rantin, of this city, has been elected by the Rural Letter Carriers' association of the Fourth congres sional district, as delegate to the na tional convention which meets in Washington in August. Mr. Rantin is retiring president of the organization.