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J iPPliP THE CHRONICLE StriTca T» B« ft Clftftn N«wft* | pftpcr, Cftapletft, Ncway, ftftd RftBftbk. If Ton Doft^t Rftftd THE CHRONICLE Ton Don't Got Tlio Nowi. VOLUME .XXXVIII CLINTON, S, C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7,^1938 NUMBER 14 FOES CONTINUE FIGHT ON BILL Snell Scores Plan To Give Roose velt Power. Coalition of Dem ocrats and Republicans Re sumes Bombardment. President Plans Spending Reported “Pump-Priming” To Pep Business May Be Like Early New Deal Days. COUNTY TEXTILE PAYROLLS REACH $2,990,610 FOR YEAR County School Contests Held Washington, April 3.—The Roose- I velt administration, confronted with j lever-deepening business recession,' Payrolls of cotton mills in I^aurens W^ashm^on, April 5.—A coalition | ^as believed last night ^ be contem-! county reached nearly $3,000,000 in of Republicans and Democrats, unap- resuhiption of large-scale) 1007 risinir S><64 000 ov<»r n «iir peased by administration concessions; reminiscent Tf ns ng $864,000 over U36.asur- on the government reorganization bill,! !'^cy just completed by Figures For lOSV Show Increase of $864,000 Over 1936. County Taxes Paid Total $116,829.08, and 50,359 Bales of Cotton Con sumed By Cotton Mills At I^aurens, Clinton, and Goldville. resur.ed their bombardment of that) I . j j . 1 Support for expanded government measure today and succesisfully re-; j- • • *„ • j J „!i . 1- J -(Spending was gaining strength in ad- sist.Hi all efforts to cut short the de-' • • * • i j '* • * I ministration circles despite views of a small but powerful group of presi- “You will pretty near crush the Manufacturers’ the Cotton association of South dential advisers who insist that the business recession will soon be arrest ed and that an upturn will be evident •last hope fo the American people for relief ^of ’ business if you pass this bill,” Representative Snell, the Repub- by summer, lican floor leader, shouted to the' "house. “Nothing should be done to r»i,e the issue of further eoncentra-, j,,„t R^,evelt and Worts Proirreas Considerable significance was at tached to conferences between’Presi- tion of power >" Washington w hen j we are in the w’orst depression in his well Carolina shows. The figure for 1937 ranke<l above the 1929 total and was more than six times higher than the figure for 25 years ago. In addition to payroll increases the survey shovvivd that textile mills of (18 in school Harry Hopkins at' district, county and state taxes. Of the $337,435.85 paid "on the 1937 tax levy up to .March 1, 1938, the mills paid 31 per cent, nearly one- -tQtJL-'l Representative Lanham, Democrat, of Texas, said the bill was “wrong in essence.” Reorganization, he as.serted, phould be undertaken through a care ful congressional investigation of the Warm Springs, Ga., last week. It ''"ss ■ shown by the report. g^aUy-b^uhvod^^the t^ <Wimpt4on-of-cottom-by _the mills of the relief outook for the new fis-.^ame to 50,259 bales in 1937, an in- cal year beginning July 1. Mr. Roose velt in January hoped the appropri ation would not excetnl $1,000,000,000. ^ , , , Since then business has slumped roverpmuntal set up, rather than wtimau- that turned over to the president. Meanwhile, the leiulership of both sides was anxiously counting noses “In tKe expectation that tomorrow would bring another tt>st of strength on the bill, or possibly two of them. Administration leaders intend to move that debate be close<l when to morrow’s session b<*gins, a procedure sure to result in a roll call vot<‘. Last week, such an effort was easily de- feat<*d by the opposition. If the opposition should fail to keep the debate open tomorrow, it intends to move to “strike out the enacting, clause,” — the language which says “be it enacte<l, etc.” and gives every bill its effectiveness. If that attempt prevailed, the bill would be dead. Today’s efforts to end debate were all of the type that required the unan imous concurrence of the house. Be fore the day’s consideration ' of the bill began, four such attenrpts were made by the managers of the bill. While Speaker Bankhead unsuccess fully pounded his gavel for order, each such effort was blocked by ob jections from both Hie Rimblioan and Democratic seats. Then, at the close of the* day. Rep resentative Rayburn, Democrat, Tex as, asked unanimous consent that de bate be considered ended. The objec tions were renewed by Representative Hoffman, Republican, Michigan, and Chuirh, Republican, Illinois. Opposition j^eaders .said they would: be joined tomorrow by Representative Sumners, influential Texas Democrat, whose spt^ech as chairman of the judi- 4^ry committee last summer helpeil kill the administration’s court reor ganization bill. Snell said the proponents of the bill had “refrained meticulously from discussing its provisions.” He added that the amendments accepted by the administration at the insistence of the opposition “do not seem to be as im portant as some of the provisions” remaining. The concessions in question would permit any reorganization order is sued by the president to be set aside by a majority vote of congress, and between $2,000,000,000 and $3,000,- 000,000 will be needed. ^ The anti-spending -groupr heatied bjr Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and R(.*construction Finance CorjHiration Chairman Jesse H. Jones stotxl by thetr argument crease of more than 15,000 over 1936. The figures showed that the five mills consumiHl 13,000 more bales than farmers of the county productnl. An interesting comparison made by the survey showed the trend of pay rolls and employment for the past 25 years. While total payrolls were in- Expression, Declamation and Spelling Winners Named In Exercises Here Friday. AID SOUGHT BY LOYAUSTS Under the sponsorship of the Lau rens Teachers’ association, the annual county-wide school contests in expres sion, declamation and spelling were held in Clinton on Friday morning. creasing 526 per cent from 1912 to heavy rain throughout the 1937, the aw'rage number of employ- figW day sjwrts sch.Hlule<l for ees rose only from 1,538 to 4,005. Total payrolls for textile mills of the county, over "a 2.5-year periml. siwrts and afternoon Franco’s Army Has Catalonia In Death Grip. Government Must Have Arms and Muni tions To Stave OflF ^5urrender. were both morning postponed. In the high school expression con- were listtnl as follows: 1912, $477,104; i first place went to Miss Jean 1916, $629,95<; 1929, $2,196,296; 1936,; Gray Court-Owings, second $4.,125,788; 1937, $2,1)90, 610. , Prances Ruth Edwards, Clin- Other figures iJiven in the sur\’ey j and thin! to Mis« Mildred Miller, shpwe<l that the plants use<l in 1937! High .sch<K)l di'clamation: a total of 25,825 tons of coal, con-j Nance, Cross Hill, first; Joe sumwl horsepower at the rate of | Stroud, Gray Court-Owings, secomi; 12,133 a year. The mills have <'i^pital 1 jWinebrenner, of Mountvillo, invested of $8,336,415, number ofj^j,jp,j High .school spelling: Miss Ruth looms 6,685, spindles 266,428, and aj^j^a^pton, Clinton, first, 100 percent; total village population estimated at; ^iss Frances McGill, Cross Hill, sec- 9,400, persons. Manufacturing shade cloth, shirt ing, rj^yon fabrics, dress go<Mis, novel .viiss Frances .McUill, t ross Hill, sec- a [ ond; Migs Hornicc Whelchel, Joanna, “p Hendayc, Franco-Spanish Frontier, April 6.—Loyali.st Spain, ripped in half by the insurgents’ war machine, made a frantic last minute appeal to Britain and Franct* today for arms and munitions to answer the enemy’s ultimatum for an unconditional sur render. Cataonia, seat the loyalist govern ment, struggknl in a strangulation grip as insurj^nt armies completely circled it by 'ftind and left only the Moditerrani'an—dottiHl with insurgent warships—as a chance of escape. The insurgent generalissimo, Fran- ci.sco Franco, threatene<l to blast Bar celona from the’ map unless there was complete surrender, frontier dis til ird. Grammar SCh(M>l expri^ssion: Opal ties, tolmcco cloth and hosiery, the j Joanna, first; Nancy Bolt, output of the county s mills ^vas val- ijim-ens, swond; Jean Copeland, Clin- ued last year at $12,000,000, accord-; third. ing to the survey. Smitik Quick Payment South Carolina Senator Advo cates Cotton Subsidies Be Ad vanced To Farmers,At Once. that “things aren’t as bad as they ■ look” and that resumption of pump priming w'ould bi‘ an exiHmsive, un- neci*sisary policy. \ treasury official said most mem- ber.s of the president’s inter-<lei>art- mental business study committee be lieved that for the pre.sent the Glass to«* K. D. Smith said yesterday he Determined to provide for the im mediate payment of the $130,000,do0 in cotton subsidies to farmers, Sena- Congress Amends; Agrarian Program Grammar school dwlamation: Lindy Harris, Clinton, first; Bobbie Chap- —man, (’ross Hill, second; Jimmie .^it- greavi*s, l.aurens, third. Changes In Cotton and Tobacco Program.s Included In Act Sent To President. bill expanding Reconstruction Finance corporation’s lending powers was an adequate antidote to the (‘conomic re cession. The bill has b<‘en passed by the senate and scheduled to be tak en up by the hou.se Monday under a unanimous consent agreement. “Some mepfibera of the committee feel that the expanded RFC should stimulate busineas sufficiently to en courage business and industry to put to work their vast supplies of idle funde,” the official said. But other f»verwnwnt offWaff.'tdio also preferred to remain unnamed, were not convinctnl by this argument. w’ould offer this plan as an amend ment to the agriculture appropriation bill when it reaches the senaU' next w'eek. He will also seek to amemi the bill to provide for a payment of $1.25 a bale on government loan cotton to farmers who wouUI .transfer title to the government. Smith fought both of these meas ures successfully through'the senate last week but house members reject ed them in conference. Secretary Wal lace has approved Smith’s plan for tbo lmhit^ate payment of the sub sidy. The other Smith amendment, however, is being resisted but .Smith They Contende<l that big business had i contends that the increase in cotUm no nee<l of RFC loan.s and that what! allotment>s means a crop this year of was required was some suitable agen-j between 12.00p,00() and 14,000,000 cy to “tide-over” funds for small bus-! hales, provide<i, of course, seasons are iness enterprises. ' j ^oo<l. With the pn •sent larg<> carry- 1 over, he says this will mean low pric- Little Business Meet Is Called State Council To Be Formed At Gathering Called To Be Held In Columbia April 13. es for growers next, year and also a reduced crop. “My amendment,” the' .South ('aro- lina senator said, “will probably take 6,000,0(>0 bales of cotton off the mar ket and freeze it. The grower will get $1.25 a bafe ami storage, interest and insurance charges on the cotton which I the government loans will stop. But Columbia, April 5.—.Small business ^ amend en cl South Lrolin. have been in-! pro<lucer Washington, April 4.—The house pa.ssed and sent to the White Hou.se today amendments to the new farm act intendtsl to impmve the cotton and tolxacco programs. After little <lebate, the members complettHi congressional action by adopting a joint senate-house con ference report on the legislation. The amendments, if signed by the presi dent, would: 1. Increase the cotton acreage of each state by 4 per cent to correct certain inequities. 2. Increase the flue-cure<l acreage allotment of each state by 2 per cent for the same purpose. , 3. Fix federid bfiw#H payments for early potatoes at 6.4 cents a bushel. 4. Fix a 5,000-acrc minimum acre age for states in which the cotton production has been at least 3,500 bales annually. 5. Make eligible for ^f<Hleral cotton price adjustment payments any farm er whose commmlity was de8troye<i by fire or flo()d._ Chairman Jones, Democrat, Texas, of the agriculture committee told the h((US4‘ the pnivisions would re sult in an inertase of about 425,-000 bales in the national cotton produc-< tion contemplated under the recent ly-passed farm act. The amendments would fix a cot- Gramniar .sch(H)l spelling: Marghr- et Flartsell, Ford Junior high school, first; lA)ui8e .\nder8on, Laurens, sec ond. Piiniary expression: Lillian Dixon, Renno, first; Ann Owen.s, Clinton, second; Jean Martin, Gray Court-Ow ings, thir<i. I)e<‘lamation: Pierci' Bull, To Ixindon and Paris went urgent loyali.st notes, asking for abolition of the international non-intervention committee with its “intolerable injus tices” to |)erinit arms and munitions shiphients to the loyalist armies. Talk of a surrender, the loyalist.s ■sai<i, w^s “fantastTc?’ To the .south of bis 16.5-mile front Franco’s siege guns along the Ebro watershed ripped up the Harcelona- V’alencia coastal highway and rail road to slice the “lifeline” of loyalist Spain. ^ Catalonia’s four provinces wore completely cut off from six govern ment-held provinces south of the bot- Ford Junior high, fir.st; Richard Tmid,I tie-neck at Tortosa which the nation- Laurens, secomt; Homer Jacks, Jo-jalists have encircled. anna, third. Tests in reading from first to sev enth grades were given here at a pre- vi<nis dat«*, with the following results: First group, Hobby Hudgens, Ijiu- rens; Caroline Huffman, Clinton, and Sonny Austin, Cross Hill; second group, Dan Owens, Clinton; Rachael McGill, Cross Hill, and Dale Blakely, Ivaurens. Elementary: third grade, Betty Ji>an Smith, I.aurens; Myra Leaman Adair, Cinton; Anm* Grey, Hickory Tavern; fourth grade, Robert F. Floyd, Croaa Hill;-Clifford P. Barnes, Trinity Ridge; Mary .I.k)u Few, Clin ton; fifth grade, John Ray C/OX, Ford Junior high; Jimmie Sitgreaves, Lau- I Ma<lrid and its 1,(100,000 men, wo men and children were i.solated. Near ly ir>0,(K)0 government tnK)|is under General Jose Miaja sworn to die in defense of the former capital were marooned. Their ammunition was said to be meager and insurgents, jubilant ly asserted that soon there would lx? no more shelLs to fetnl the loyalist guns defending Madrid. A new “last stand” loyalist govern ment, with Premier Juan Negrin as virtual dictators, rejecUsl any di.scus- sion of surrender and government buildings in Barcelona were being convert«*<l into virtual fortresses for resistance against Franco’s armies. rensj Vivian IVesident Manuel Azana of the Alford, Clinton; sixth! loyalist government and his wife were grade, Edward Barker, Clinton; j reported to have fled northward from .Charles., Pitts, I^aurens; Edith Still-1 Barcelona, under Franco’s threat t(> well,. Hickory Tavern; seventh grade, j annihilate the city. Ella Cathcart, Ford Junior high; Mar-1 “The w'ar is won!” Generalissimo cia Galloway, ('linton, and Mary Me-1 Franci.sco Franco’s Salamanca head- fJill, Cross Hill, ! quarters pnwlaimed in an official ra dio hroadca.«t. Lutherans Plan Special Services men of South Carolina have been in vfted to meet in Columbia Wednes day, A'pril 13, to form a state coun cil as part of a national organization of small business men. The meeting was called by the com mittee of five which attended the re- .... ,41 cent small business conference at by a majority vote of congress, Washinirton sponsored by SecreUrv would prevent the transfer of the bu- sponsored ny becretary reau of education to the proposed new department of public welfare. Sup porters of the bill have said, too, that they might be willing to accept an amendment to exempt the veterans’ bureau from all reorganization or- i of Commerce Roper. They were: Dr. W. K. Gunter, Gaff ney; J. Ross Hanahan, Charleston; E. E. Childs, Columbia; C. G. Timl^r- lake, Hartsville, with J. K. Breedin of Manning as alternate. Breedin said admission to the meet- come to the farmer will be that when he moves on the market with his new crop, the price will probably be much higher than if this government loan cotton is not lifted off the market and the tiade assured it will not be olTered for sale until the available surplus is reduced.” 'r acreage al](»tment atl Next Sunday (Palm Sunday) preaching .services will be helel at 11 a. m. at St. John’s Lutheran church. On Monday and Tueselay evenings not less than 50 per cent of his 1937, following at 7:30, special Unten and Cromer Votes ‘No’ On Expense Bill '‘Tk.vk Cnnrtt, ch.ln«n of tfc,; in» would be by «nd. He National Committee to Uphold Con- atitutional Government, made puUic a telegram he sent to Representative Warren, Democrat, North Carolina, denouncing as “false and lyhelous” re marks W’arren made on the houee • floor about the committee. In the debate last week, Warren asserted Dr. Ekiward Rumely, execu tive secretary of the committee, was directing “propaganda” against the bill. He also said, referring to the thousands of .telegrams house mem bers received, “We know ^ey *re getting names from telephone direc tories, and that names of fictitious would be sent on application from the. state headqiarters of the federation of commerce, agriculture and indus try. Wasson To Run For Judge Of Probate Senator C. A. Cromer of this coun ty, voted against the measure to pay legislators five cents a mile for their J. Hewlette Wasson of the Hickory Tavern community, now a senior at! Preabyterian college here, stated yes-j terday that he had definitely made up hk mind to offer for judge of probaite this summer. Mr. Wasson stated that since entering college he or dead persons are being signed to has planned to offer for the position messages of opposition." ! and haa been pursuing a course of - Gannett sftid neither Rumely nor the' study that would best prepare him for committee had sent an anonymous} handling the duties of the office, telegram. weekly tripT to lind from Columbia, according to a statement made by the senator while at home for the week end. Senator Cromer said h6 would favor such a bill if it were made ap plicable at the end of the present term of legislators, but that he was opposed to voting himself extra pay. On a roll call vote in February by which the house passed and sent the “extra pay” bill to the senate, Messrs. Huff and Wasson voted for the bill. Representative Milam was not record ed in the vote.^^^^ acreage. If he cooperates with the agriculture department in the new program, he would be allotted, in ad dition, 50 per cent of the acrL?age he diverted from cotton last year. During consideration of the amend- preaching services will 'bt* hold. On Easter Sumlay services will be held at 11 o’clock, followed by the Holy communion. Members of the church are urged by the pastor. Rev, M. R. Wingard, ments, Representative Tabor, Repub- present, and to the public the lican, New York, charged that the government uses compulsion to obtain approval of its farm policies. He exhibited a copy of what he said was a poster place<i in the Gret*n- church also extends an invitation atteml these services. to NE(;R0 WOMAN HELD l^aurens, April 4.—A coroner’s jury ville. Miss., courthouse, urging cotton, Monday held .Stella Milks, Negro wo- farmers to produce records of their j man, in connection with the fatal plantings in recent years. Taber said shooting late .Sun<lBy of her husband. to re- the poster warned ^11 farmers "come in this year” with those ports. Representative McFarlane, Demo crat, Texas, arose to say cotton farm ers had approved marketing quota.s for this year by a 92 per cent ma jority in a recent referendum. The in.surgcrils’ .KC(iith«‘i ri wing, hammering aerns.s mountain.^ ami (h*wn the broad Ebro' valley to the MediterrJlnean, brought the coastal lifeline of'the loyali.sts under fire of their siege guns. ' The Barcelona-V’alencia road along the coast wa.s virtually .severed under the fire of Franco’s guns planted on the watershed! along the Ganciesa road north of Torto.sa but the loyal ist defenders of the seaport sitill held out valiontly and desperately and the Italian “Black Aroow” brigadt^s and foreign legionnaires of the insurgents were unable to seize tin* ancient town. Terror and panic in Barcelona was said, in frontier dispatches, to be in- crea.sing by the hour. Bespectacled Loyalist Premier Juan Negrin became virtual dictator as the 21 months old civil war blazed toward a finish. As premier, war mini.ster and niin- Jphn Mills, following the alleged;of finance and economics the whipjiing of her child, step-daughter 'of Mills. County Medicos Meet In Laurens ATTENDS EYE CLINICS Dr. Felder Smith has returned from Birmingham, Ala., where he took part in the three-day educational eye clin ics of the Southeastern Congress of Optometry, April 3, 4 and 5. Mrs. Smith also attended the Southeastern Congreaa Auxiliary meetings. Representsrtive Ramspeck, Demo crat, of Georgia, said in ithe debate today that if the house retained pro visions calling for abolition of the Mrs. Bailey Gives Seminar Room With the president. Dr. F. K. Shea- ly of this city, presiding, the Lau- I rens County Medical association held its monthly meeting last Monday eve ning at the Laurens hospital with a number of physicians present. Papers on medical subjects were presented during the evening by Dr. Mrs. C. M. Bailey of this city, has contributed funds for the equipping of! Roy P. Finney of Spartanburg, Dr. T. a specially prepared seminar room in L. W. Bailey and Dr. George R. Bla- DEAN BROWN HONORED Dean Marshall W. Brown of Pres-! psychology and philosophy at Presby-jlock of this city, byterian college has returned from I terian college. The gift is a memo-1 ^ ^ ~ ... •• 4, 1.4, Texas, where he spent the \ rial to her hu.^band, the late C. M. i | K civil «rvice conimi.8i«n you ouyht p„t .^ending the auriiuil | Builey of this city, a lifelong friend » to chan^ the n^e of the new head ^i^g^ng of the Southern Association I ©f the institution and member of its pOt* TRYD3.ViniF from civil service administrator to^^f Secondary Schools end' Colleges., board of trustees until his death patronage administrator."’ Representfttive O’Connor, Demo crat, New York, referred to the amendment 'accepted by the adminis tration as “bait” in • radio epeech tonight. Dr. Brown was honored at the meet! The room Mrs,, Bailey is equipping An act passed last week by the gen- by ^ing elected chairman of the an-j,^jjj finished in walnut panelling eral assembly and signed by Governor nual conference of academic deans IN SPARTANBURG SUNDAY ' A group of Presbyterian college Mrs. S. B. Barnette and daughter j students was in Spartanburg Sunday Ann, have returned from a weeks to present a special program at the evening service of the First Presby- visit to Mrs. Barnette’® eiater in Hiss- Msippi. terian church. with a 16-foot walnut table, and! Johnston on Wednesday, extended the specially constructed walnut chairs, with green leather upholstery,. It will be used for forums, general dis cussion groups and seminar work, in addition to its regular use as a class room, college authorities have an nounced. time for the payment of 1937 proper-1 ty taxes to May I, with no additional j penaltly than that now in force, which is 3 per cent. Mter May 1 the taxes go into exe cution with a penalty, all told, of 7 per cent. | ^ DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFEI So Far This Year There Have Been 3 FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS M LAURENS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Make 1938 a Safe Year On the Highways. ( This date last year, t. 46-yi«r-old Negrin sought to restore order and the 'panic caused by the slicing of loyalist Spain in half. The United States entbassy an<l consulate move<l to San Andres Del I^avaneras, 30 miles north of Baree-. Iona toward the French frontier. Reports that Franco is contemplat ing an ultimatum to the loyalist gov ernments’ northern base at Burgos and come to the frontier by the round-about lyay of Lisbon, where pro-FVanoo sentiment is strong. The generalissimo was said to have proposed that the loyali.sts be given “reawonable time” in which to sur render' without conditions in order that the useless she<iding of more Spanish blood be avertixi. Its massed violence upon Barcelona, already torn and stained with the blood.shed of re peated aerial bombardments, that brought protests from foreign govern ments and the' Vatican. Presbytery To Meet This Month The spring’meeting of South Caro- : lina presbytery will convene with tl o Thornwtdl Memorial church of this city on Tuesday, April 19th at 9:30 a. m. The presbytery comprises the counties of Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens and Newberry, with dele gates expected from all Presbyteri.in churches in this area.