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J / / PAGE TWO THE Clinton chronicle, clinton. s. c. Thursday; marCh lo, isss CASINO THEATRE MONDAY AND TUESDAY, March 14 and 15 * ' “Ebb Tide” Explodes Bombshell MR. W. M. SUMEREL was recent ly tellinic of some amusing happen ings and doings of the town folk inj Clinton in the good days when Main i IN TECHNICOEOK. Starring D®* street boasted of watering troughs CAR IIOMOLKA, FRANCES FARM-j^j^j hitching racks. j ER and RAY Mit^CANf). j Sumerel was born and reared ini The glamour, the * ?u*fthe Ijeesville section several miles' cilement. the ^auty. the thrill ^ ^ South Seas, of Robert Uuis was built in sight of sonV South Seas, at last brought' to, home ““ /.««« f« in the screen in this greatest of all adventure-pictures. Mil Enrir Madriguera and Orchestra. News of the Pay. 10 A. M. Show—MONirAY. 10c and 25e WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, March 16 and 17 He came to Clinton in 1879 and spent three months then went back to the farm. In 1880 he came back to Clinton to make his, permanent :home. j The following incidents are told in i his own words: “One Saturday after-' noon a crowd of boys, about eight I or Un, were loitering on tbe corner 'right where the Home store is now, jand somebody said ‘I smell cotton Run* burning.’ We all started looking “ IXUalo Tf 11%J ^arourid to see if we could tell where Starring MARY BOEANO, RR-tjt_ There was a long building NE.ST TRI EX. WILLIAM HENRY,;called the old Foster building,* that and LYNN ROBERTS. Mama runs• extended the length of the street wild and Papa^runs wIldar in theifp^fjj Penney’^ to Mac Adair’s new screwiest, nuttiest campaign in building. We thought the smell hi'-fory of'.American politics! Icame from .somewhere in that di- “Alcatraz Island” rwtion and we started hunting there NEW YORK CITY ... “If Lin coln were alfve today he vvould be asha’med of the leadership of the Republican party” was the declaration 'of plain-spoken Gov ernor George D. Aik^ of Ver mont, one of the two states that went GOP in 1936. The re.<»Mltant controversy has a!-c c.....AAi a r*^t beh.een party liberals and tl.e “Old Guard.” Aiken warned that “urUess methods of leader ship are changed there will be a permanent party of ordinary folks, workers and farmers.” The Governor has been talked about at a 1940 PresiH*'*'' '' iltv. tax on most larger firms, plus a 4 per cent surtax on undistributed profits. ' <2) Substituted a normal corporate income tax of 12\^ per cent on the first $5,000, 14 per cent on the next $20,000, and 16 per cent on all above $25,000. The vote today was the first big te.st of the bill. Others were to come. Critics sought to modify the bill’s pro visions for a capital gains tax, and to eliminate a propo.sed .surtax on j family-owned or closely held corpor-| ations. * { Republicans argued that outright RUBBER STAMPS—24-hov survic^ All sizes and types. CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Wife sued husband for separate manitenance on the 50th wedding anniversary. She looked on it as a golden occasion. ir A SUBSCRIBE 'TO THE CuRONICLB “The Paper Everybody Read^ (SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLB jVJi puc w J/AVi repeal of the undisirihuted^ A- tax would remove an “iniquitous” levy from the statute l>ooks, tax all | companies on the basi.s of income and i without reference to dividend policy,! and provide a “sound and equitable” | corporate revenue system. ^ | They estimated the .vubstityte pro-1 posal would result in a reduction of $80,000,000 in government revenue, i Representative Vin.son, Democrat, of Kentucky, argued back that the loss would be $200,000,000 to $250,- 000,000. Asserting that Vinson could make “black look white,” Representative Knutson, Republican, of .Minnesota, the undistributed profit.-* tax Ym 1*1 W ■ to that prajrhouad Mhr 1/S tiM tha coat af NEW BERRY .... 35« COLU.MBIA. .. $1.00 MIAMI $10.35 ASHEVILLE. $2.10 NEW YORK.. $9.80 GREENVILLE . 85c AUGUSTA $1.60 KNOXVILLE. $4.00 CHARLOTTE. $1.70 TAMPA $8.55 SXfRA Sadwp —-Rmuri Trip Tidtoto KELLERS DRUG STORE Phone No. 1 GREl^HOUND Starring ANN SMKRIO.AN, JOHN LYTKL. MARY M Atll'lRK and GOR DON OLIt Kl{. .Now you ran thrill—| there. offered on third readings was given the hou.se bill to authorize addi-j^aid tional mileage for members of {he I was doing more than any other law for the fire. The old Foster build-! general a.ssembly. to “keep 15,000,000 people }x)unding ing was high off the ground at the* F^ive cents a mile for weekly trips lhe j)avement^looking foi jobs. n*ar ami cotton was .stored under It wa.sn’t long before one of for one l.rejithle-s hour—to the story the world has been waiting for! "Oh Kay Rhythm.” 10 A. M‘. Show—WKIINRSDAV. I Or and 15c ' I the hoys called that he had found to and from their, homes would be Shaking a finger at Representative' provid<*<l for members in place of Tieadway, Republican, of .Vla.ssachu- thf present allowance of one round- '^•'tts, author of the Republican it and he pulled out a cigar box, in trip a session. amendment, Vinson asked; ' j which was a piece of burning spunk' The senate approved and sent to “Did I hear anything from the dis-1 I wood and some cotton. Spunk wood, the house hills: to provide that the tinguished gentleman to remind us ji-i sound hing like a sjmnge, and once! state convention of any |Mditit*aj of the necessity of balancing the bud- FHIDAV AM) SA'n*HDAY, .March IS and 1!) “Sally, Irene and Mary Starring ALK’K FAV. TONY MARTIN. .IIMMV IH’RAMK, JOAN it gets started burning is almost im- arty should have the power to fix get and .“aving the credit of the po.ssible t(» |nit out. It w'ouldn’t hav** (jualifications for party tnembershif) 1 fiited .States? IL* is making a weas^ iieeu lung before th«* whole store jUtid participation in party prinuuie.s •‘1-like amendment, hoping to get house was in flames. W'e had an and to require the chief hank ex- one political aiivatitage.” idea who planteil the cigar box thu^*,*^aminer to f,il(* certificates of'non but of cour.se couldn’t prove it. “’rhere was a two story dwelling house built just about where Bald win’s store .stands, and the porch wasn’t three feet from the street. A The Kentuckian, “Vhairnian D W IS. MARJORIE W’E .\ V E U new cmner to t(»wn, Kurt Richie and LoriSK HOVB K “and I'RKD AL- LKN. ,Su full of stars . . . and fun . . . and song! It's your merry musical best! Tony and .Alice at their lune- his wife had just moved ip this house. One dark night Lee Stone and several hoy.s were passing Mr. Richie’s and la*e asked the other boys if they had ever seen Mrs. fullest—under the winking Maivliattan I Richie. They said they hadn’t met moon! “Town Mall’’ Fred Allen—|M’s. Fiichie yet and Lee said: ‘She’s cracking his crispii-irt qai|tw! his crispii-irt qai|tw! And scores or other pepper-uppers in a rSyffim-romance a-tingic ; with that Darryl F. /anuck zing and sparkle! “WILD WEST DAYS” No. 8. News of the Day. Selected Sh«rCt. 10c and 25c NEXT WKKh— . ' • U Kl LS KARtJO. ITIOROOGII- BRKDS DON’T t’RV.” aitd '.THRILL OF A LIFKTIMK." user as to corporations which cease subcommittee which drafted the tax business and to diri*ct the seeretary bill, said Kllswortli F. ' Alvord, a of state to cancel the charters. "high priest in the high citadel of the Chamber of Commerce of the j 'niled State.s,” ha<l drafted the He-: publican amen<lment. “Di<ln’t Mr. .Alvord draw it ? Didn’t he?” he shouted at Treadway. “I’m not ashamed of the advice of .. ® tax expert as Mr. Alvord,” Its Tax Law Fails In HoUse^Treadway remarke.l. By HuR6 Vste. ; After V’inson had repeated his que.s- Drive To Repeal Levy Is Beaten Assault On Undistributed Prof- Theatre )\DA V A March 11 and IT) the derndest, ugliest woman you’ve ever seen in your life.’ “ ' Well, she suits me all right,’ was the surly reply from the darkness of the porch. If old man Richie had had a cane he could have 'reached out and hit Ia‘e on the head. “The other Intys had a great deal of difficulty m catching up with him anti he was deaf to their cries of ‘Wait.’ - “When (JEORGK BAILKY was a yt»uug sprout rin school he . did some- tliing that provoked the teacher to much he proinued ti> alUutd U> iuiu] the iiexi day. George came, to school* the next day with practically a|l the clot lies he possessed on his hack. 'I*he teaclu’i' let him roast in the hot s<-hool room and administered the whinning' iir u- u o * »* * Don, Treadway thought a few' mo- Washington, March i.—An attempt . .. . n i • i . I . 1- ^ -J J I merits, then rose to ye a_lieptal. . at con>|>lete r<*]M-aH>f the widely enti^t “ cized tax on undistrihut(*<l profits hesitates is lost, \ inson went down to defeat in the house to-1 *t*Vorled, while a wave of laughter day. V i rolled through the chamber. Administration foix'es easily shunt-, ed aside, 78 to 3:1, a Uepubjican amendment to the tax revision hill which would have: (1) Kliminated provisions for a 12*-i to 16 per cent income tax on corporations with income? of $25,000 or less and for a 16 per cent income, LEGAL PAPERS CHRONICLE PUB. CO. . Phone 74 11 . WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16TH 1:15 P. M. In Front of Armory Building LAURENS, S. C. Sm Utm cxpiocUd by dynomil* oe a car Ircnraling iO buIm p«r hour. 8«« i^pikM rip-opon two Htm oa a car travaling at Ihk dassliag spaed. S«s the driver being tbs ovs bssi car to a smooth nocmol slop on tiros that berro blown-out but or# still inflated. Don't mise this omating show— COURTESY OF McDaniel VULCANIZING WORKS (LINTON LAURENS next day7 “Firefly” Still ring IKYNE'rrK - AlacDON^ I I). .1. Bin.M.M. .IR.. son of DR. D. .1. |BRIA1.M. Ilf this city, will liroadcast from New Yerk uver tlie Columbia ALD. M LX.N .MINKS. WARRKN ' \MI I I \M. and Bll I.Y CILBKRT. | Lclipsing inenieralde “Miiytiine” in: .vh«rr grealnex- . . . cumrs Ihl- roiiN- ing niusical drama! Hear .leaiietle MacDeiiahl and Vllan Jones sing songs ul lo\e by I he Composer of "Rose Marie"! ( olorlui east of thou sands! ".''^eplember In the Morn.’’ , Ml A. M. .Show—TI ESDAV. lOr and 20c netw(lyk Friday, MaTiii II, at 2:80 p.in., under the au.spii'e.s of the .Amer ican .'scluiel 111" the .Air. WIOD.NESDAV. THURSDAY, M:ir.i*h 16‘Und 17 . “Adventurous Blond” Starring GLKNDA FAURKLL, BARTON MacLANI*!, ANNE N.AGEL and TO.M KENNEDY. Fire engines! Ambulances! Patrol wagons! Thia trnuble-shiMitiiig blonde is well pre pared for any emergency. “She Loved a Fire man”—- Starring DICK FOR.VN. ANN SHERIDAN, and ROBERT ARM STRONG. ' ’ At Ihf risk of their lives. ... . foil B., II. BOYD celebrated a birth day Sunday. DR. F. K. SllFALY fol- j lowed with one on Monday. DR. L. R.. LYNN reached another iiiile.stonc I .Monday and was presenTed a 1h^U- tiful gold watch chain by his co- workers at the orphanage. \V. A. .MOtiRHEAD, of Goldville was a year older Friday. March 4. GEORGE ELLIS bad a birthday Saturday, .March .*>. House Kills Divorce Bill Rejects Measure For Referen dum Elinfinate .Mar riage Law of State. the thrill of yours! You'll find'heart break and thrills in this .blazing drama of the gallant fire-fIgWers! “His Day Off.” ' ll : 10 A. M. Show—Till’RSHAY. lOc and 15c FRIDAY AM) SATURDAY, March IS and 19 “Heart of the Roddes” Columbia. .March 8.—The House permanently buried the pixiposal to eliminate South Carolina’s unique prohibition against divorce tonight after it got support of a majorTfy earlier today but failed to win a necessary two-thirds. Rep. Pratt of York, moved to re consider the vote whereby the house refused to pass the hill. The motion was tabled by a 48 to 44 vote, thus, ill e/fect, applying the parliamen tary clincher to the afternoon vote, i The divorce measure, which would have submitted to a popular refer endum the question of changing the state constitution Uv allow divorce, was suddenly and unexpectedly in- jwted into the house session when its author Rep. Bailey of Cherokee, gut unanimous cqpsent to take it up out of its regular order. South Carolina is the only state w’hich diM‘s not allow divorce on any. DRESS SHIRTS The THREE MESQUITEBRK BOB I.IVINGSTON. RAY C (fURI-i GAN and MAX TERHUNE. Attention of both houses was foc- Crackiing action! Hunted by the re lentless law avengers . . . marked for death by the traitors of the trail— the Mesquiteers strike hack! •'8. O. S. COAST GUARD” No. 7. ('omedy, “Man Bites Ix»ve Bug.” “Set ’Em Up.” "America March es On.” — ' lOe and 20c used on the special message from NEXT WEEK— “I’LL TAKE ROMANCE,” “SHE MARRIED AN AR’nST” “NO TIME TO MARRY” “RIDERS OF DAWN,” Governot Olin Johnston charging the highway department with ex ceeding its legal limit of bonded in debtedness, and the unexpected ap pearance of the divorce bill created considerable hub-ibub among the rep resentatives. It was acted upon with- ckit debate. ’ The house voted 60 to 44 for the bill but a two-thirda majority of the full house membership (83) is nec essary for approval of a constitu tional amendment. In the senate, second reading with notice of general amendments to be Feature Priced! Pre-shrunk broadcloths in roomy sizes! Smart pat terns, won’t fade. NuCraft collars! Pretty color- fast prints and solid pastels in cunning styles. Real bargains — buy them now Sturdy and Handy! BARGAIN PRICED! WOMEN’S WHITE NUBUCK Monk Straps $1.77 Imagine! 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