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\ / T5r r-i -< '»■ .'•/ THE CHRONICLE IStrirc* To B« A Cloui Novo>| poper, CoaiirittOk'Nowap, VOLUME xxxvm 4- CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1938 NUMBER 31 FIGHT OPENED IN PIEDMONT Soviets Claim Foe Lost 400 In Battle iWliole Division Used By Japan Governors Start Vote Hunt , In in Fight for/Border Zone. Mo- This Section. Law, Order andi dern War Machines Used.^, Political Machines Talked.| „ . .. ^ . * ' V u 1 ov 4 I Hsingkin^, Manchoukuo, Aug. 2.— Verbal Shots Fired. 1 Report* from Changkufcng today told Newberry, Aug. 2.-Uttle new Sunday night ter was injected into the campaign i»s Soviet Ru.^ian forces sought to for governor today as the eight Dem*< regain that strategic position on the ocratic candidates made their first Siberian border from which they were! OLIVER, OF CIO, WONT COME TO SOUTH CAROLINA, AFTER ALL Labor's Non-Partisan League Chief Decides Not Enter Stale To Fight “Cotton Ed" Smith In Senatorial Race. official call in the heavily voting in dustrial Piedmont section of South Carolina. driven by Japanese early Sunday The three fights occurred within an hour and a half, the first occur- E. Roy Stone of Greenville, candi-'ring at 5:30 p.m., when four tanks at-j date for state treasurer, joined the.tacke<f and were repulsed. party and made his first address of' At 6 p.m., 300 Soviet Russiad! . i ^ th. cmpaip.. He eonsaroed his .l-ltreeps aided by five tanks launehed "? thf ofKan.nation. Washington, Aug. 1.—It was stated at the irffices of labor’s Non-Partisan league today that E. L. Oliver, execu tive vice-president of the organiza tion, has abandoned any intention of going to SoutfirCarolina, wdiich he an nounced at a press conference here on July 15 after conferring over a long distance telephone with Dowell Pat terson, state president of the organi zation. > In the absence of Oliver, who is CIO since the widening of the rift be tween the CIO and the AFL, follow ing the J936 election when the league Textile Worker 'DISTORT TRUTH Sh^To Death! smiTH CHARGES Jack Me Anderson Killed By B. C. Cannon In Dispute At Clin ton Mills. Latter Held Follow ing Inquest. Jack M. Anderson, textile worker of the Clinton Cotton Mills, wa^ shot had all elements of organize<l labordeath early laat^Friday morning Senator Brands As “Lies” the Charges By His Opponents, Brown and Johnston. Brown Admits Race a “Circus.” Winnsboro, Aug. 2.— South Caro- ^ _ , " . j X4x:c»ni x^xaiij -i a i luojr. llivri ■ llUa ’s three Democratic candidates for behind it in its effort to reelect Presi-.^y B. C. Cannon, also a textile oper- United States senator began the sev- dent Roosevelt. j ator. The fatal dispute occurrtHl on tenth week of their campaign tour These officials, who decline<l to he! the floor space of the mill warehouse.' here tcwlay, following closely the lines quoted in the absence of Mr. Oliver j in^p^p^jjately following the shooting of attack and counter-attack estab- said that the latter had obviously | f^ji^on surrendered to local police) Hshed in the toi^r of the lower part spoken hastily at the press conference 1 ^yas later remov'ed to Laurens!of the state, and had cjiangeil his attitude after land lodged in jail. conferring with South Carolina offi- A coroner’s inquest was held here Governor Olin Johnston, who with State Senator Edgar A. Brown, is lotted time in introductory remarks, jan assault against Japanese positions First of, the gubernatorial candi-jhut were thrown back wdth the dis- dates was Burnet R. Maybank. tabling of two of the tanks. “I have never criticised any one in! The last attack was at 7 pan., when thn campaign,” the Charleston mayor Soviets began an artillery bom- said. “And so far as insinuations andi^rdm«nt from •** batteries. Japa- inuendoes go — and so far as false“W little damage was done, statements go, some in pamphlet! * form, about my candidacy, why, my, Aug. 1.—Details of a san- friends will take care of them. Icuinary battle for possession of ,4, _ » V J 1 J iChangfeng, on the Siberian.Manchou- “I rm. my e^ ” he bo«ler. in wbieh J.p.n.M 'r^*^** ~ herW . whole divtoion Soviet faction and'the only voice I recognise In • •j- i j • .. - .. , - o -v Russian forces was disclosed, in an oi ls the voice of the people of South iw.- - , * • v* K ficial communique tonight. Carolina. I am running as a business , , • „ * I Japanese losses w’ere given as up- ' 'Wards of 400 killed and woundeif in Ben E. Adams, of Eau Claire, who,y|^ bitterly fought attempt of Japa- said for 31 days the party has been!n^<;^ to capture the strategic heights in the low country, declared “Now we|in the Possiet bay region which Rus- are in my own country.’ ^ jsian forces began fortifying July 11. Referring to his legislative ser\*ice,! Tanks, airplanes and artillery were Adams said he was “elected on a plat-1 brought into the battle for the dis- form of ‘let us apply common sense p^ted territory. \ to public business’ and I spoke in be-, One Soviet scon half of the average woriting man. ment could, be obtained on a report circulated in South Carolina of an al leged statement from Oliver to Pat terson expressing surprise at the newspapers carrying Oliver’s original' rial race was to assign to Senator It .8 qu. e true a-. n, the, testifi«l, Ralph Spirea and Juuth Carohna report that the only | „ (. (-.nfield. Both teatified that formal statement issued about the argument pre- league .5 the South Carolina senato-'^,^5 shooting. The verdiet Saturday morning at which time two I contesting for the .soat-qiGw held by or- statement that he expected to enter the South Carolina campaign person ally in support of Governor Olin D Smith a class “D” rating, the lowest of four given by the league. But in response to questions by Johnston and against Senator Ellison newspaper men, Oliver stated defi- D. Smith, whom Johnston is opposing. But amazement that such a state ment had been circulated was express ed by other officials of the organiza tion which has been dominated by the nitely on July 15 that the league was supporting Governor Johnston and that he expected to visit South Caro lina personally within two or three weeks from that date “Better Days” Orphsmage Girl Senator E. D. Smith, reviewed his record as he spoke first on the day’s program. Johnston said he was “proud that dered Cannon held for the fatality. Olin Johnston tried to carry out each Cannon’s daughter, it w’as reported,' and every promise he made the people had returned td her home and inform-1 of South Carolina.” ed her father she had been replaced! He said that four years ago he at the mill by Anderson. Cannon im- j “promised the teachers of South Car- mediately went to the mill where he' olina that they would not be .paid in met Anderson ^and Overseer Gus notes and not a teacher in South Hughes, and Anderson’s death soon followed. In the altercation Cannon was charged with hitting Hughes in the head with his pistol. Anderson suffered bullet w’ounds in the right Carolina has received her pay in these notes.” The governor cited the establish ment of the rental school textbook system, the additional month of state For Agriculture Dies At Hospital Administration Experts See Ris-! Velma Dunaway Passes WTiile es In Farm Products Prices. | Recent Weeks Show Advance.! Spending Vacation With Her Mother In Greenville.^ Had hand, in the back of the head and I aid for schools and elimination of the twice in the chest. five-mill property levy as accomplish- Cannon is a native of this county,j ments of his administration, ami had In'en a resitlent and employee • “.South t'arolina tinlay is better off at the Clinton mills f«»r several years.[than at any time since the w’ar he- Amlerson, formerly of Georgia, had , tween the states,” he said. The state Iting plane was also lM*en employed by the mill for Outstanding Record At Insti-i several years. j Anderson Funeral Sunday Funeral services for Mr. Anderson tution. Washington, July 30.—Admini.stra-1 brought down, and the announcement j ‘“xp^rts predict^ today that! “Iw.ntnotrickl><>«kk..pl»»wh.n'«M u b.liev«l the pilot was i. for "f- I am (tovernor.o Adams saal. “I want .„p,ur..d he took to his para-i‘'“".‘ /“' "V'” ‘ >"''‘7 a .sUtement on my desk each day chute. , agricultural prices came to a halt. showing how much was taken in; how -The gravity of the situation was ^ ^ much was paid out and have you got ^cen in instructions to the Soviet June 15, the general level of j an illness of two weeks du-■ f<'ll«w**<l in Rosemont cemetery. has a surplus of $2,(M)0,000, he added, and “the counties are now rc'ceiving Imck in taxes from the state far more then they were receiving when I went any left- >\hat is the good of a bud- cKi^rk*e d’affaires in Tokio to warn the get which merely s^ws where the,Japanese government of “possible money went after it is spent?” j terrible consequences” of this inva- Neville Bennett, of Bennettsville,'jtion of Russian territory, reiterated that he was “not a candi-' date of a city politicai machine of Charleston nor of Columbia, wpd . 1 aince the beginning in nm as an independent, on a basis 'of«)^|{> iwries ' of boundary ineWmts, Miss, Velma W. Dunaway, 17, a were held .Sunday afternoon at 41 into office.” member of the Thornwell orphanage I o’chn-k from the Calvary Baptist! Johnston citwl what he termed the rising senior class, died early Tues- church by the Rev. Ralph Hughes and opposition of .Senator E. I). Smith, At the low’est point in four y^xrs morning in a Greenville hospital | the Rev. B. S. Drennan. Interment | the incumbent, to President Roosevelt _ New I>eal, asserting that ricultural prices advanced thrw Per death she' Surviving ai-e his wife, Mrs. Willie cent by July 15, the bureau of agri was spending a month’s vacation with Mae Amlerson; six children, Mrs. Charlotte Stone, Greenwood; Mrs. Frances l^awson, Clinton; la?e Ander- performance and not of promises. numbering hundreds. “Our people should wake up V> the Foreign military observers cultuwl Monomics r.porto<l. Virtu«|.j^„ „„ 5,^,1 Dun.- ly all commodities shared in the up-1 < .The battle rates as the biggest.clash * except grains. i Puneral services were held yester-1 Unites! States army, Panama Ca- on the Soviet-Manchoukuo frontierj Agriculture department economists j afternoon at 3:30 from the Watts'»'«! z«>ne; .lack M. Anderson, Jr., Ire- 1931 of the attributed the upswing principally to \m) Presbyterian chuich in Laurens, | tha and libilie Mae Anderson, all of an tmprosremmt in the general eco-1 inducted by the Rev. H. C. Keller,! this place, nomic situation both in this country Rev. A. H, Bouknight, Dr. L. Ross and abrtkad. They oittMi increasiNl sales, Lynn and Dr. .M. G. WiKxlworth of here challenge to the law abiding p^tpula- previously were indine<l to view! in cotton textile goods and prospects this city. Interment followi^il in the tkm,” Bennett said. “The great issue the situation as only another of thesejfor a smaller ..crop this year as fac-j^-hurch cemetery, is up to the church people, the 3roung'were lH*^ginning to take a* tors largely resixmsible for a 5 per; Velma had been an inmate of the cent advance in prices of cotton. i orphanage for the pa.st.four years] people, the law abiding jieople who i^raver view of the encounter, are for clean honest government; not, Thirteen Russian soldiers were re in county conventions nor in caucuses, iKtrtH killcsi and fifty-five wounded, prices was attrihutisl to prospects fjp,. recoril and stoo<l high in h«‘r but in the free thinking in UHi.lHli xh<‘ Russian* cai»ture«l five artil- for the second large.st crop in this cla.*;*. ishe ha<l IsMn selirted a few Democratic homes they will think |,.ry pH<ces and fourt«*en machine!country and the largest, world crop, weeks ago to as.sist in the office sten- Cotton Loan Of 9 Cents Sought The continual di-cline in wheat where she ha<l made an unusually' ^ . . .11 1 fro •in the South Carolina farm council while he (Johnston) made campaign .speeches for .Mr. Roosevelt, Smith did not speak for the Democratic presi dential nominee. “If the rest of the Democratic par ty had acte<l like .Senator E. I). Smith, we would have had a Republican ad ministration and Hoover would have been pre.sident,” the governor said. Senator Smith lauded the increa.sed intere.st shown in (lolitics by women vot<*rs. “It's a good (Hiien for the country when the women taki* an interest in jMiIitics,” he said. what is best for South 1 arolina ami (funs, and lost a tank ami a field piece The average pric«‘ r»‘ceived hy farm they will decide what iIh* venin't <0.1.1 themselves. |ers dropptHi from •)'.• cent.* a bushel iTie official account of the battle; on .June l.'i to «»() cents on .July l.j. D. T. Blackmon, of ( dumb:a. sad >4n,j Japane-e conceiitratisl one di-j - ^ - he was in the race “because South vision against Zaozernaya (Chang ^ Carolina needs a goml governor. kufengl after they were repul.sed in “I am no politician—I never made attack on a neariiy hill last Kri.lay MoUIltvillc DlcS brings genuine s Miss Sarah Watts ographic work for 'the eoming year. Kind and gentle, piomi.<ing in her .'tudies, amlNUiiriifiil in the discharge of all duties, she was admiied am lovei the I Tlie veteran senator pointed out h(< was namml here yesterday to coo|K*r- the office for 30 years, “two with Diurtoi li. \\. Watkins y,.,)is longer than any man i*ver serv- collegc extension service at* th t'lemsoM id the staU'—longer than Calhoun, in the planning and nH.rdination of than ISen Til’ , an the new land use program. ■ ..,tv an insult to the state for any- I resident L. .M. l-iW'on of Dai ling- ]„,,|y to come Ix foi e you and .say 1 unfaithful to the prinei- imKMaey." Smith charged. II duties, she was admiied ami . • . i i n i i n n ^ rr .1 uii 1 L r ton. appointed J. II. .lohns of W.ilhulla u.,..,, i,,.,.,, I by the children and workers of , ... ... ... . na\e txen institution. The newS of her un- . . .. .. I"'< «ii a public speech until I entcre»l this Sun<lay opened the battle un race, and I have never btvn lucky vxiHxrtkdly with an artillery barrage.i ^ —7—♦ enough to get on relief,” Blackmon They were driven back. ' ^'arah Frances W said. Cole governor They .'vtvu'T atts, 20, of to all who knew her, Velma is .survived hy her mother, two sisters, Flora and Doris iMiiia sorrow Uie committee. „„t^ ,,, atta. ks 1 In a .spei-ial meeting, the eouncil „• ,h,.v woul.l stick to the truth.” adopted a resolution asking that the ,he I'oiiimodities cr«‘dit corporation lend . . . .,,.4. ........ . gnate-t office you can give a man triMips did not cross the Mountvillc, died Tues«lay night at both of the oiidianage, and l»y b ast nine eeiUs a poiiml on cotton ."toirth Carolina, a sena'oi from from the IP Js crop. The eoimci’ls const itution wa- L. Blcase pruniistHi if e}cct*sl Manchoukuo border, it was explaimd. Hays hospital after a four months brother .1 L Dnnawav of the r “There will not Ik- one c-en- to encircle the mite.i .iuu.s navy, stat.omJ^l in .San , , . , of extra pay (for legislator> for 1 Ja|mnese or make a flank attack upon‘ The daughter of Grover Cleveland p^dro California .She is als<. -urvived l"<>vide for four reguhu- will veto the bill. Extra |ay is not th»m. Watts and the late Eliza Hudgens j.y her j.aternal gramlmother. .Mrs. ' tings a yeai on the second I ues- f'^ht.” Prior to the official announcement Watts, she was a member of the L,ui<c Dunaway, of W’omiruff. Her Augii-t and Blcase told of his service as mayor mention was made here of the .Mountville Bapti.«t church and a gra<l- father died several yeai.s ag«f. of Newberry. ti^-uhle with Japan as mass nu*eting3 uate of the .Mountville high .schoid. ^ * clean town; not Soviet woikers celebrated anti-war .Mi'S W’att.«, a young girl <jf many • • 1 C*! i.* a bawdy house; no blind tigers in .jj^y pledged resistance to any in- fine trait< of character, was loVed hy IVlUTllCipSll LalOCtlOIT town; no gambling joints. Fd want vaihr. jail who knew her. C a. f? A a 14? my city in debt before I’d pay it out At Khabarovsk, 400 miles north of Surviving are her father, five OCt TOF AUgUSt lu w’ith that sort of money—gambling jhe tense bonier district where Japa- brother.*, .1. H. Watts, Clinton; B. P.' joints, machine jHilitics. ncse and Soviet troops clasheil,' a 1 Watts, ' Greenwoo<l; Walter Watts, NuveiniMr, State Peach Crop Yields SI,000,000 <1 coimly is the highrst oftire in liis teii'itory and botii of them Imve d - toil'sl the truth. “They said 1 didn’' vote for Eratik- liii Roosevelt. It’s a lie. Th< y said I said .')0 cenfs a day was enougli for a labou r. That’s allot hi r lie. I was trying to save the niamifacturing in- diistry. “Get the record and read wliut I .-aid,” he urged. , “1 have been blacklisted and so has Jimmy Hyrnes, hy the C. i. O. and Columhia, -Aug. 1.—T. .A. Cole, ex- 1 The city general elwlion for the' marketing ''invialist -aid to- John Hughes Cooper, of Columbia, meeting of Cimimunist youthi Richard Watts and Elihu Watts, aIlipurpo.se of electing a mayor and six no'irlv *1 (HMHmio vv:.< Non-Partisan leagm- for our stand u. ...o.tx..! .4. tolls -.k-K..., ..... . , A._. .-I on the Negro,” .Smith said. -They en- iness of .South He said taxes duced by eliminating ernment, adding that the “most im-_ IJttle mention was made of the Ur Watts, Mountville. P.. .Miller, Hugh C. Ray and J portant thing for a candidate to have trouble with Japan as the anti-war I Funeral service.* wf*re conductc*d at Seay serving as managers, is character. Without character, he is observances marked the twenty-fourth14:30 o’clock yesterday afternfion atj Nominee.* of the June primary to a failure from the foundation. anniversary of Germany’s declaration the Mountville Bapti.*t • church, the be vott*d upon in the eli*ction are: “I am not Santa (la us. 1 can't in against old imperial Russia, j Rev. Mr. Byrd officiating, assisted by .\f ay or, P. .S, Bailey; alderman ward truth say taxes will he reduced—but a brief announcement sakl Japa- the Rev. F. T. .McGill and the Rev.'one, T. J. Peake; wanl two, P. H. 1 do say that tax money will be hon- ncse had been “strongly rebuffed” at J. .A. Martin. Interment followixl in Adair; ward three, J. F. .Jacobs; ward estly spent. Aou can’t live on dema- loike Chanchi near the juncture of the Mountville Presbyterian church four, F. M. Boland; ward five, J. F'ur- goguery an^hypiKrisy all your lives, frontiers of Japanese Korea, cemeterj'. iman Davis; ward .*ix, J. W. Ileds- F. M. F..asterlin, of Spartanburg, Manchoukuo and Siberia on territory ^ pelh. made his usual speech against what claimei^hy both Russia and Japanese- p 1 ^J ’ , mm - he termed the greatest enemy of the supported Manchoukuo. V^CUlIlOIl IxClCclScG jQ ii* u as human race, alcohol. He said he came jhe Soviet report said great losses D J /"IF ^9 AAA^^wV&ll llClCt before the people as a “plain Chris- of nien and materials were inflicted V^H DOHU V^l w ^ . I *1 tian man^uj^n whose heart God has oi, Japanese. I ‘ —;— } ! . Ill V^OlUltV JSlll put it to w&ge battle against ako- j B.xC. Gannon, of this city, chargt*dr —. ♦ hoi. 'g~t • o • i W’ith killing Jack M. Anderson, weave' Laurens, Aug. 2.—^Broadus Sullivan nde<l dorsed Olin .lohn.stim. loads “Thc.v intend that the Negro .shall b4‘ in ymir .school an<l in your facto- H. » / ,1. 1 .• —1 l‘>'’‘“ Negroes in their iilace.” " were sent out of the .state and esti- * Edgar Hrown said “F'rom hearing ' mateil that truck .<hipments aggre- , 1 -fii, 1 I II 1 .u: „ • .Senator .Smith, you won ( think a vote gated .)00 loads. He vaid this year s . , , ■ , • 1 ■ 4 .VI- I * u ' .. lor me or (lovernoi Johnston in l ii.s shipments were believed to have sot ,, , . I race Would lie a vot<‘ loi tin* .Negro, a rix-ord. ■ ... , • , l.i.st y.Mr 1.431 carl,.a.l.. aial 3(10 to 1100 tiuck loaU< Kar,- ship- tl:.' -naU- las nothing to make a .<j)eech alnnit lint -J- the .Negro question which was settled M i.*s Pearl Hitt .spent the past week years ago? in Chappell.*, a.* the gue.st of friends. “1 am 'I'd going to ask you to vote — for me on what sonndiody el.se ha.s ‘We.need a governor and offeers Service who have the courage to call upon men to repent; to pot am from among us so that God can bless os. Let us remenrber the Sabbath day and keep it holy.” With Methodists room,second hand at Clinton Cotton today was held by a coroner’s jury in mills last Friday, was released Tues day on $2,000 bond on an order grant- connection with the death of another ^nant fanner, James Putnam, both The city union service next Sunday' Greenwood. * caning will be held at North Broad j ed by Judge C. C. Featherstone of of Dials township. Putnam died Mon day night fFom a head injury, alleg edly inflicted by Sullivan Friday night at or near Reeves’ ginnery. .Sullivan, the investigating officers said, struck Last of the gubernatorial candi-’Street Methodist church. The pulpit PATROL.MAN JACKSON MOVED dates was Wyndham Manning, of will be occupied by Dr. L R. Lynn, Jackson, state highway pa- Sumter, who promised “to carry out president of Thornwell orphanage. A' <,ut.of Laurens for the lasti^^® ® four-foot slat,, the duties of the governor's offke cordial inviUtion is extended by theLjy^ on Monday, August 1,1end an argument between the twoj fairly and frankly and impartially ministerial union to ^1 congregations transferred to Gaffney. In turn, R. L. ^eji. and to enforce the laws impartially,” to attend the service:. the'Gkffney district, has come* Sullivan was arrested and commit knowing neither friend nor foe. “*1 am the only full time farmer in this race,” Manning said. “I know the problems of the fanner and I AWAY ON VACATION Dr. D. J. Woods, pastor of thb First to Laurens to serve in this area. GOES TO MISSISSIPPI CAMP fully equipped to look after hia ;Preabyterian church, left Monday fori Major A. B. Godfrey of this a month’s vacation to be spent with;one-time captain of Battery F, Abbe- spent j relatives in ffadcaborg, Va., and Mar-! ville contpany of National (luaid, 1^ Mac Finney has returned hoeae af- tinaborg, Wv'Va. During his absence Sunday with the unit for Biloxi, Mis ter spending several Greenvilla at Camp]hia pulpit will be AUed hy visiting I ■itsippi, for the Thirtieth division army maneuvers for two weeks. ted to jail shortly before the death of Putnam, when the sheriff’.* office was notified of the critical condition of the injured man a few hours be-, fore.' Solicitor Hugh Beasley assisted the coroner at the inquest',Tuesday. Miss Maude Pearson is spending the week in Athens, Ga., as the guest of| Mr. and Mrs. T. Y. Harris. | DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! 6 DEATHS from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in 3- LAURENS COUNTY 1938 Let*s Strive To Make This a Safe Year On the Higrhways. This dale last year, 4. ■> done a.s Governor Joljn.ston is doing. He’s taking ereiJit for what w-as doiu! by the legislature over which he had no control. “During the Ja.*t five or six years with only one active senator repre- s'enting South Carolina, the farmer and laboring cla.ss of people have lost hundreds of million.* of dollars,” Brown said. ! “I advocated extension of the state aid school term, free textbooks, rural electrification and have led every fight for the common people who could not represent, themselves in the' legi/ilature. Why, I have been a New Dealer for the pa.st ‘25 years. SEW COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER ! Dr. H. R. Perkins, newly appointed I director of the district health depart- ;ment comprising the counties of Lau- irens and Abbeville, arrived in Lau- i rens during the week to take up his j duties. He Succeeds Dr. R. M. Street,"" !who resigned to do. post graduate work at Tulane university. Q, , • A ■■