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t . _ \' THE CHRONICLE SCriTcs T* a Clean Newa- paper« Ceniplete, Ncwaj, Reliable. If Ton Dent Read THE CHRONICLE I Ton Do«*t Get Tbe Newa. VOLUME XXXVIII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1938 NUMBER 19 NS WORK To Head TRUCK LIBERALIZATION PASSAGE City Enrollment GET HOME I County Baptists TOPS ASSEMBLY'S WORK FOR YEAR^ Books Now Open } Congress Trying To Finish Job By July Since Primaries In Number* of States Loom Ahead. President Has Raised No Objection. Pastor of First Baptist Church of This City Named President / Sunday School Convention. Hours of I^bor and Tax Reductions Also Among Most Important All Voters Must Appear In Per WAGE FIGHT ON SPENDlNGHAIfr Laurens, May 7.—An extension program, as recommended by a spe- Action of South Carolina Legislators. Appropriations Bill Totals $12.562.413. Columbia, May 8. — Liberalization I roads would be injuWd leading tHej .of permissible truck sizes, limitation j opposition. High point of the legisla-| I of hours of labor and tax* reductions! tive battle was the record twenty- son and Sign Club Rolls To'Policy Assailed In Vote In June 14. Municpal Primary! Books of enrollment f#r the Clinton' House Debate and I.,abelled Shot In Arm.” Democrats Claim Votes To Spare For Its Passage. /L Washington, May 10.—^Administra tion leaders in congress, Jt^enlya^re that the polKical calendars for July^ and August are studded with primary Thursday. | Ranking with It^gislation passed as'^'ousf elections, are trying to mop up re-^ The convention, presided over by, prominent work of the session was I Considerable maining legislation and' adjourn be-'V\. P, Culbertson, was well attend ' fore July 1. . ,ed. An inspirational program There are signs tbat the president, ^^^oeral theme back from his southern fishing cruise,' b.uigdom Service. Washington, .May 10. — House Re publicans assembled in conference de- iUth to nominate a mayor and six Uosevelt speiiding-lend- jdermen for a two year term. ing program tonight as “another New pressure from both ^ According to a MOW ruling by the lh.*al raid ujkoi the treasury,des- repeated efforts to force j su es was put on Governor Olin D. Executive committee of the club, allitimHl to incivase unemployment and “ . reapportionment of the state gaso-,; Johnston but he signed the act, mak- .liters must appear in person and produce a “cataclysmic inflation.” oMine tax to divert more of the revenue, mg it law. jsign the club roll in their respective' from the highway department tO| .\doptton of the, forty-hour textile wards. committee named to makel • ; T- , ^oopuon oi me, loriy-nour lexuie wards. i no recommondation., on iPurposoa. , , .vevk, which put South Carolina in althc l»K.k» , At the close of a day of bristling The practice of circulating d«l>ate, in which Minority members by the ward enrollment ii^ict.S'nWMn'hVa 'lceiatativeH^^ PP»P««' *<> «i-l!»nizo thej acoroboard; ;cla.a by itaolf waa an early accom- hmimitteea aa in the paat, will not be Snliu 3t it pSie lo ®f . Enacted-Tho dO.OOO-pound truck IP'■’hn'cnt of the aeaa.on The aaaom- «llow,Ki thia year tenants _t^nK it ppssioie to put ^ ^pn^p^sed of R. E. Thomoson. thelbill, the $12,5d2,413 general appro-11)35 enacted a forty-hour week j Ikniks for all city residents in the Rev. E. J. Ingle and the Rev. B. j, ' priatmh mpasurp;’ Piiminatinn rat tholfor textile plants but made its-effiy-: rix wapda.laru.^aow open at the Geo. through in the next four to six weeks. Obser\*ers attach significance to the rush with which Democratic lead- Wood. j five-mill property ta^c for state pur-! contin^-nt upon similar ac The report as offered and accept- * forty-hour, five-day weeki^*^*' North Carplina and Georgia, jers may enroll. Books for voters of individually heape<l criticism upon the program—* while I)emf>cratic leaders confidently claime<l “votes to spare” for its passage—a number Qf Repub licans gathered to give their views house on the bill startetl amid pre- (/opelami & Son store where vot-j the weight «ppwov^L may enroll. Books for voters of | “The entire prograrri is based upon 1937 attempt to take the forty- the (’linton Cotton Mills community; the exploded thcniry that a nation Rev. W. N. I>mg of Clinton as pres- Ibe corporation license tax ;| hour step independentlly for South!'esidents in wanls five and six, are may .s^end its way to prosperity,” ident, with W. P. Culbertson of Cross referendum on the question of re- Carolina endtni in an apparently <>IH'n at the Clinton Mercantile con\-j said a sUtement they issued. “That ers went at the major item before^ included the nomination of thei^^r textife employes; reduction of one them, the lending-spending-job-mak- ing pregram. General debate in the Hill, as president emeritus. dklions that it would he .sent to the. -as senate before the week-end, P’^ohably; since the' reorganization of the con-1 i tighter ago pivsident con- i ]^jr., tiring judges on pensions. , hopeless deadlock in free conference pany. KilUni — Gasoline tax diversioji; committee when last year’s session The time limit for signing I delusion never has had a niore ex- the j trnvagant trial than in the United vention 21 years ago, and has rarely Muirements for marriage; air-coiuli-| .... : ever missed a convention. jtioning for textile plants; an extra a compromise feature that it would races, will expire on June 3 at G:()0 roundly $l(),(fl»(M>0(),(MM) ami by Thurs<lay. The fact that Mr. Roosevelt has ac ceptetl the conimittee-<lrawn bill,; frami'd to route funds direct to spending agencies like WP.\ an<i P\\ .A, aroused special interest. The j gj.Qy Burns, secretary-treasurer. | quor law; establishment of a state' islat ion. committee bill scraps the previous rreommencliHi asscK-iational do- Police system; imposition rtf increased Right at tin I-..- adjourned but this year the conferees books, and for entry of candidates,! states during the last five years^ tli-1 ix'iHutinl th** forty-hour bill, carrying both lor mayor and In the alderraanic^ “This trial has cost the taxiiayer.' were state .school aid. j remain in effect only until May 1, P. I'l* ' ’ ■ • - • . . . . . (Qualification The vice-presidenfts named , the Rev. E. J. Ingle, and B. Y. Cul-j Ignored or left incomplete by ad-|l939, unless the federal government IQualification for memlH'r.ship in l)ei-tson, with the re-election of J J journment—Uhanges in the state li-^had by that time enacted similar leg-|)He eluh and for voting in any elec- municipal primary elretioii lion or close *»f the session held by the club shall be as follows,! tion of the world xjiayer.s has led only to the sharpest and most sudden business «k“piession in modern eco- itomic history—a depression which is experiencisi in no other principal na- practice of giving^unds to the P*‘<'*'*** partment leaders were selected as'<^hain store taxes; biennial sessions' came an act fixing a fifty-six houriii^^ fuiih in the constitution and "The R«K)sevelt luofm.sal simply is dent in a lump sum and letting him:‘ ' ’ ’ - • * . allot the money to the agc-ncics. I Vacation Bible school, the Rev!‘H. A previ.so reserving to the pre.si- j dent was after but th.. , J result of those discussions. There i.s little' doubt among ob servers familiar with the |increasing ui'ge upon representatives and sena tors to get through with the session •,nd get busy in |>ersonal re-election campaigns that if the Iending-s]>end- ing bill goes through this week on of the gtmeral assembly. work week for employes in. mercajp-.hy.-Ia\vs of the club. They mark only the highlights of tile, establishment.'*, puldic eating The applicant for momliership, or Wootl; tnlucation, the Rev. the sixty-nine <lay session in which places, laundries, bakeries, mines and voter, shall 1m' twenty-one (21) years to start that whole di.sastroiis cycle over agaim” Earlie;- in the day the nVajmity of Mi.ss Cleo Tumblin; beginner, Missj^'’^)h Carolina in recent years has. day week with the same conditions the .'slate of South Carolina, ami of 'are unemployt'*! and destitute or har Cleo Camphtdl and cradle roll, Miss'®)D acte<l the participation of inter-j as that ap|»lying* t<> the- forty-hour /the. Town of (jliiiLon. (b) No jievson |asse<l by the .siiecln-s that haunt the Julia Martin. ! ested citizens to the same extent asit«‘Xtile week. i.shall lielong to this cTuh or Ije entit-jdoorstep of IhiiL.^tpo Jarge, unfortu- ested citizens to the same extent asit«‘Xtile week, did the truck limitation measure. Halls of the .state hou.se were crowded w'ith advocates of one side or the the pi^icted Mho/iplo. it will be a j^ydia, all of Clinton; powerful lever for quick adjournment. Senator Harrison, of Missiiwippi, warned leghilators recently that if the wage-hour bill came back to the sen ate without geographical differentials demanded by Southern interests, con gress would still be in session in Aug- uust. Obsen'ers regarded this as an effort to force a compromise in tbe house on the point and enable the •enate to concur and send the bill to the president without the usual conferenct* committee delay. The primary elections sliited for Also adopteci was a rimrganization of the county district system with the Rev. Ralph Hughes as sujierin- tendent of the first district, which I «<her almost every time the measure includt‘8 First Baptist church, Cal-' reached a critical stage in either house or before the governor. I The movement gained mementum midway the session when the United The largest tax nsluction vot(*<l, I‘‘<1 t<> vott* in any miinici|>al primary j nate group.’ was, the elimination of the five-mill. election hel<l Ijy this club unless he state juxiperty levy, an almost fix^xl i •''hall have been a resident of the item in the getieral appropriation billiBtateof South Carolina two (2) years Mountville, Beaverdam, Bethabara, Cross Hill and Waterloo. Second dis trict, Carl Bishop, auperintendent; cbuiilMri Mi: ntMMJUil, Mt. Olive, Mt. Gallagher, Rabun Creek, Union, Pop- trucks to 20,(MK) poumls in weight and lar Springs, Henderson, PrincetonJ inches in width. The statute 'Thin! district, W. T. Dwings, super-1 nfver had been enforcwl because of intendent; churches: Gray Court,' Friendship, Beulah, Durbin, Warrior were put up in both houses with members who said rail- for the last several years. The reduction came only after a stiff fight and was accompanitMl by dire predictions of mountainous defi- States supreme court upheld the law cits in years to come. The corpor- on the books at that time limiting^ation license tax was reduced hy one mill without much fanfare. *It waa Creek, Highland Home, Lanford, Bethany and Harmony. Fourth dis trict, R. E. Thompson, superintend ent; churehes: First Laurens, Second J , . , Laurens, Lucas Avenue, Chestnut, July ami Aukum furnish tW./ answer y , to the effort to close up m wngreas ,.,„^,ton ami Bellview. hy or before July 1. Such sutes asi convention will be held Combined at the First Baptist church of Lau rens. one of a series of demands made and shall have h(*e^a ri^sident of Isaurens county six months prior to the next 8uccee<ling general city election, (c) No person shall belong to this club or 'be cntitle<l to vote in any municipal primary eh«ctM>n held by this club unle.ss he shall also New Church To Be School Session Dedicated Sunday Soon To Close have Is'en continuously and unbrok- upon the legislature by a state-wiile! enly a resnlent of the Town of Clin-iiwxt ek*cti*(n.” meeting of business men. j ton sixty (60) days prior to the first | Representative Approval of the referendum on the. primary following his enrollment or (Continued on page seven) 'his offer tt> enroll: Providixl, That j jiuklic schmd teacht^rs and ministers of the gospel in charge of a r<*gularly organiztHl church shall be exempt from the provisions of this swtion, as to resiflence, if oth<iirwi.se qualifi(sl. Section 2. No person shall bt; per- The maj*)rity estimated that the entire lemliiig-spemling progiam, parts of which have alrea<ly lieen en acted, would provide funds sufficient to continue or create .some 5,00,000 jobs. On the house floor the Republican attack was led by Represenitative Ta ber of New York, who .said the pro- gmm was “an opiate designe<l to keej) thi' people foole<l until after the Oklahoma, Montana, Texas, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, California, Ida ho, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Wyoming, Mississippi and South Car olina fight out their party battles during those two month®. Every Tuesday in July, August and Septem ber will see from one to half a dozen primary elections. In view of that, there is a belief among observers that the White Conference To Meet In Laurens Little nick ConKreRations Plan Spec ial Exerciaea, With Public Invited. River - Domi- High School Commencement mitted to vote at any election held by Sermon On May 22 At First i ^ enrolk'd on the club list of memrxrrs I’resbyterian Church. Sixty, least Um (lO) days before the .said [part of the Two To Graduate. election. The Upper South Carolina Metho dist conference will hold its annual meeting with the First Methodist church of Laurens this fall, the date House has given its sanction to the [ of October 27th having been an- effort to push tSirough to ad joum-1 nounced by the college of bishojpntt ment by mid-June if possible, and,0)o closing sessipn of the Birming- oertainly by July 1. If the wage-hour | meet. bill again bogs down in either house, j Clare Purcell, an Alabama however, the president’s attitude churchman, newly elected bishop of The new building of the Little; Commencement exerci.ses proper of River-Dominick Preohyterian church i t linton high school will I>e u.sh- will be dedicated with the opening Sunday evening. May 22, services of the combined congrega tion on Sunday, May 15. might undergo a change. HutchinMn Named First Honor Man the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has been assigned to preside at the First Presbyterian church when the baccalaureate sermon be- Servicf, will b^n .t 11:15 a. with the opening •ermon hy the paa-j ^ . ''v. i, * '• ^i’ '*** tor. Rev. C, J. Matthew., Baaket din-[ J l®"K «- 12*45 on the'^^ custom, this will be a union Mrs ***‘'^'^*‘ which the churches of the ner will be-served at lawn at the home of Mr. and H. L. Todd, near the church. Dedication services will begin at , , ^ ,, , oo j 2:30 p. m. Rev. C. A. Cli/Re, chair- held on Momlay eveji.nK May Mrd, city will unite. 'The graduating exercises will be man of home missions of ^uth Caro lina presbytery, and pastor of Ave- In the Florida Street school audito rium. The atidress will be delivered over the Laurens and Hartsville con-! leigh Presbyterian church, Newberry, j ferences in this state. He succeeds j will preach the dedicatory sermon. Bishop Paul B. Kem, who has been Others expected to take part on the given another assignment. program include Dr. D. J. Woods, Roy Foskebt Hutchinson of Law-«_ renceville, Ga., has been announced! | |^Q||(0 by Dean M. W. Brown of Pre^yte-1 ^ ^ ^ _ rian college, as valedictorian of the | Q .C^OlllCClCrSitCS class of 1938. The salutatorian, sec ond sonor member of the class, is Cliff Hill McLeod of Ocala, Fla. N. O. Creech of Moultrie, Ga., is third highest in the class in scholar Clinton halted Tuesday morning to pay tribute to the soldiers who fought in the War Between the States at exercises held at the monument ship, and Clyde Conrad, a Thomwell under the auspices of the local U. D. orphanage boy, is fourth. The graduating class composed of sixty-nine members,' will receive their diplconas on the morning of May 30. Clinton; Rev. E. .S. Jones, Goldville; J. N. Beard and J. V. Clary, both of Newberry. The general public is invited to at tend and bring basket lunch. In the future services will be held in the new church each Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. ' Presbyterian church of Greenwood. The list of this year's senior class, including thirty-eight girls and twen ty-four boys, follows: Annie Rogers Bailey, F^lizabeth Barnes, Margaret Brice, Catherine Bryson, Bessie Cauley, Alliene Cope / Lawmakers Get Their Extra Pay FELDER SMITH HEADS LAURENS ROTARIANS C. chapter, The advanced grades of Florida street school and student body of thej high school, assembled on the square] Colulmbia, May 7.—“Exrtra pay”— where an appropriate- program was' a heatedly debated subject for this presented, including band and glee*session—was a reality for legislators club selections, and recitations. Later Saturday night. 'the procession marched to the ceme- Warrants for |290 were handed the DE Felder Smith of this city, op-'t^ry where wreaths of flowers were members by House Clerk James E. tometrist, with offices in Clinton and -p}i|^^ upon the graves of the sleep- Hunter, Jr., only a few hours after Laurens, has been deoted president j jng heroes ' —* —^■****»*'' of the Laurent Rotary club for the i — new yqar beginning July first. Dther, ’the added compensation waa a part. Blind Youth Given County Jury Post With the approval of the court, Clerk John D. Davis on Monday ap pointed a blind young man to serve as “jury boy” for the May term of common pleas court in session this week with Judge C. C. Featherstone of Greenwood, presiding. The innov^ion. was pn>inpt,ed,., Mr. Davis Mid, out of a desire to aid a needy blind person. THREE NEW R O. T. C. OFFICERS NAMED Three junior R.O.T.C. oftf^rs have been added to the Presbyterian col lege military unit, according to an announcement recently made by Ma jor Floyd C. Harding, prpofessor of tand. Beanor p>^l«nd, H»™‘!*l|niliUnr Kiente and UcUct. Davi., Emily D.llard, Susie Dominick, i ^ g Hender- Miriam I^nnan, ^i^th of ainton, W. W. Evans of Ben Cathenne Finney, Elizabeth | nettsville, and D. M. Carson of New- Edith Henderson, Evelyn These men have been serv ing as members of the junior mili tary unit without pay for the past seven months. Frances Horton, Frances Jackson, Louise Ja<N)bs, Helen King, Margaret Little, Nelle Loftis, Ruth Monts, Mil dred Roberts, Edith Robinson, La- vinia Ross, Ludie Nell Scott, Frances* Simpson, Rebecca Speake, Betty Spratt, .Mildred Stewart, Doris Suber, Myrtle Trammell, Marie Weir, Mae Wier, Maxine Wood, Ila Wright, Inez' Young. I Floyd Abrams, Thomas Baldwin, j EHllard Boland, William Buford, Wil- I Governor Olin D. Johnston sigTred~the j liam Campbell, Paul Cobb, Harold 'deficiency appropriation bill of which Crowe, Fr^ Cunningham, John Hen-* otfkers named to serve with him are; R. T. Wilson, vice-president; L. B. Blackwell, secretary-treasurer. These, with R E. Babb, Chas. F. Fleming and W. P. Putnam, will com pose the governing board. Motha’’s Day Last year the members voted them- ry Davenport) Archie Dixon, James' Furr, Morton Hamm, Billy Johnson,, j Hcr^ selves $300 in addition to the $10 a,Otho Johnson, Richard Johnson, Har- CLOSING PROGRAM AT , .... , . ORPHANAGE MONDAY day provided for a forty-day session, [old Lawson, Marion I.Awson, Sam .# rn* • year, however, the lawmakers; McCraiy, Joe McMillan, Jack Roper,* Hundre^ of Clintonians, ^ permanent statute provid-j Edwin Stewart, William Terry, Rob-' young, Sunday in the celAra- -^j^g weekly round^rip expenses of five j ert Tomkinson, Henry Young. j tion of Mothers day. In the churches ^ents a mile inst^d of one annual' Officers of the class are: President, and S^un^y schopU si^ial exemses i roundtrip expense. j Elizabeth Barnes; vice-president, ’ k. .J . .... , $49,590 was required to'jack Roper; secretary-treasurer. motherhood next to godliness. Lovely[p^y j24 representatives, the for- ’The Thomwell orphanage grammar flowers, white for departed mothers, senators, and lieutenant gover- grades will present their school clos- and red for the living, were worm by’ — ing program in the chapel on next sons and daughters, while tokens of Monday evening at 8 o’clock. The public ia cordially invited to attend the entertainment. love were expressed through flow ers, other gifts and^ cards of lovely sentiment. nor $250 i^h. Miss Marie Smith of Glenn Springs, was the guest the pasft week of Miss Sallie Wright and M|x. Zee McLees. Catherine Bryson. PRESS MEET SET Columrbia, May 7. — The annual summer meeting of the South Caro lina Press association will be held June 9-10 at Caesar’s Head. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE!. So Far Thja Year There Have Been 3 FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS i in - LAURENS ; ' COUNTY Let's Strive To Make 1938 a Safe Year On the Higrhways. This date last year, ,1. Engel, Ib'puhlican, whose prejmred spereh in the house wuks di.stribute<l to the press by the R«‘publicaii national committee, pie- dictjxi “national disaster.” Conditions “may improve for a time, fierhaps for a few inonth.s,” he said, “but the final result will l»e financial and eco- rnnnic disaster.” Pending w'as a hill to appropriate $3,000,()<)(),(M)() for work relief and public works projects, an integral $4,500,000,000 lending spending campaign agaiivst the de- prt*8sion recently n'com mended by the president. iH'spite the vigorous Republican at tack, none bf^its leailers would vx'lY” ture a pr(*diotion that the appropri ations would be rejected. To ho vic torious, the Republicans ha<l to at tract to their side large numbers of DenuKTats. Democratic leaders as- seHeil that whole.sale Democratic de- 'sertions werqjacking this time. _ For the appropriations committee, Reprt'sentative WiKKlrum, Democrat, Virginia, began tne debate with an asseKion that “thi.s program is for the purpose of starting uj) again the wheels of industry.” ^ The need of business, he added, was “n<>t kin<l wo'nis but cu.'rtomers.” The program would provide custom ers, he argued, hy increasing purchas ing power. When he argued that the program w^s comparable to giving business a “.shot in the arm,” Representative Snell, Republican, New York, inter rupted. “You really thing this is only a 6^bo>t in the asm, and will have no laksting benefit?” he asked. “It will the spiral on the up ward trend again,” Woodrum replie<l. “And if you .start things, going, it will be worth the cost.” A.sking that congre.ss repudiate the “role of rubber stamp,” Taber as- (serted: I “I am appealing to the* membership I of the house to cast aside foar of political reprisals and do what I know {the honest judgment of every mem- ! ber of the hou.se calls for, try to meet j this problem, repeal the national la- *bor relations act, repeal the agricul- I tural capacity act, and give our busi- nes.s j)eople a chance to put peoplcL to i work, have honest relief instead of 'promoting a tremendous building pro- ;gt^m as a racket. I WELDON IS WINNER ! John W. Weldon,''a ^freshman from I Bisbopville, was declare<l winner in jthe IVesbsrterian college declamation [contest held recently. He received the college award given annually to the member of the freshman or sopho- more'class who i.s judged by the facv ulty to be the best declaimer. --t- I F 1