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St. School. “Mystery at Midnight,” a thrill ing three-act comedy-drama, will be presented at the Florida Street Columbia, March 4. — The School auditorium this evening nial legislative question, which has (Thursday) at 8 p. m., under the developed a surprising amount of I sponsorship of the local American controversy, was temporarily side-[Legion Auxiliary. tracks today'by the House of Rep- '^'^^eteniatives. »> ' On the motions of Representa tives Taylor of Spartanburg, and Reid Oft Greenville, three h^ls to . ratify the pending biennial session constitutional amendments were sent back to the judiciary committee. In contrast to four previous occasions when the bills have been taken up, there was no debater Before adopting Taylor’s motion to recommit the first of the three bills, however, the house ' refused, 70-46, to table it. Representative Grant of Chester was the author of the unsuccessful attempt to table. There was also a motion by Rep resentative • littlejohn of Spartan burg to adjourn debate, but this al so was defeated. * There was no public comment on the house action, but one of the leading figures in the fight to re-: commit said privately, “We want to Mrs. B. O. Whitten, president of the sponsoring organization, has succeeded in receiving some of the best talent in the city for this pro duction, which is under the direction of Mrs. Eleanor Pearsall, of Madi son, Wisconsin. The plot of the play holds the in terest of the audience from start to finish. A biu is wrecked near a 'deserted house and the driver. Jack Murphy (John Gatlin) brings his pasengers there to- spend the night Among them are: A young couple, Rali^ Norris (Mar^utU Pack) and Boi^e Baker * (Dorothy Horton), Judge Rollins (C. C. Giles), who doesn’t believe in “hants,” add con sequently his money is stolen; El vira Nosegay (Annie Lee Jackson), a spinster with romantic tenden cies; Prof RockbottOm (A. L. Shep ard), who isn’t 8tu« of anything; Mrs. Hallo way (Hazel Howard), a self-centered matron; Sarah (Clar- Turbulent Sea in Far East Changes Sought In Compensation Act Representative Sloan of This City Offers Bill To Broaden Law.- wait for the senate to be heard from” ice Wells), a spiritualistic medium before ratifying the amendments, j who condticts a seance in an effort The senate has abjpady passed three ^ to help detective Briggs (Ray Wal- biennial ratification bills of its own,|drep) solve the mjptery of missing but the house has since passed two men and money; Sally Grant (Mrs. bills proposing constitutional amend ments that would increase the terms of legislators. While the hovise was recommitting the ratifying measures, the senate received the bills providing for six- year, instead of four-year, senate terms and for four-year, instead of two-year, house tbrms and referred them to the judiciary committee. House opposition to (ratifying bien- T. C. Johnson, Jr.) who, to her friend^, is “just plain silly;” Tom Foster (Delmar D. Haskett) who gives the play a surprise ending; and the “Mysterious Stranger” (Al- dine Blakely). Three choruses of grammar school girls, a Bat Chorus, a Policemen’s Chonis and a Nurse’s CTiorus, add color and variety to the show. The proceeds of the entertainment MIU^PIMC ‘^istAMoe «g«r| Number 10 METHODIST MERGB{ UPHELD IN REPORT SPECIAL RffEREE Decision May Guide Notion In Keeping Prop erty for Merged Church, But Nome Still Free. molts The house social security commit tee is now considering a bill intro duced by Representative James P. Sloan of this city, and Representa- 1 • tive Gamble, of Anderson covinty, to j Manning. March 3. — The legality broaden the present unemployment of the merger of three great Metho- compensation act to extend benefits dist church organizations in Kansas to thousands of workers not now eli-|City in 1939 is upheld, but the new gible. I church has no right to restrain the This bill would have a worker's use of the names of the merged total 'earnings considered in deter- churches by other church organiza- mining his qualifleation for benefits, i tions, according to a report filed rather than exempting from consid-' Monday with the clerk of court by eration his income for the last three j Nathaniel B. Barnwell, of Charles- months, commonly known as the “lag ton, special master. tiat Japaaea 9 bataeaMpa, like theae ahawa akeve ateamlaj leca eC the Saalk Pacifle, were oeDoeatrattag aear the Datob M mrltalB te mlae the aea laaea.aear her great aaval baae^ gtagapere, aai have swaag the speiU^ ef war te the Far East. Ma| la area where trehUe mutf quarter,” The change would be ef fected by eliminating the quarterly wage reports required of employers under the present law and the intro duction of a stamp book system by which the work records would be * kept. Each employee, under this pro- To Make Drive. For Boy Scouts Blue Ridge Council 'Adopts Budget and Plans for Year's Work. [Cougly Seal Sale I Shows IncfMse Annuah Meeting of As sociation Held and Program Adopted. The report is made in litigation between two factions of the church at Turbeville, but by consent the de cision in the Turbeville case will be made applicable to cases throughout South Carolina and the United States. Barnwell’s report IS a rec- posed change, would own a stamp j ommendation to the court, which book and from pay day to pay day [may adopt or reject all or part of would paste the stamps representing the report. his wages earned in the spaces corre spondingly dated. Under the amendments proposed by I^presentative Sloan, the January, 1940, to take testimony in period necessary for benefit cUglbll-1 .hi. rase Hearing were heffiin last Barnwell was appointed special referee by Judge William H. Grim- ball of the ninth judicial circuit, in The finance committee of Blue The directors of the Laurens Coun ity would be a minimum of four weeks and a maximum of seventy- two weeks, taking the place of the ^pteml^r 11 present base period which is the twelve months immediately preced ing the “lag quarter,” This provision the case. Hearings were begun last August 7 and lasted two days, after which counsel argued the case on As referee, Barnwell recommends the following judgments: That the Methodist church is the woifid in^c eligible i ecclesiastical and legal successor to for benefits who othe^ise have been the Methodist Episcopal Chvrch, , , ^ ^ . ... , . their .work rec-jsouth. and as such, has succeeded to Ridge Council Boy Scouts in session ty Tuberculosis association met m, ord did not fit into a certain notch | the property, property rights. in Greenville during the week, set Laurens last Thursday night at which in the law. nial ^ssion amendments, which won | will be used ■ for community service the approval of general election vot- i an Americanism, the sponsoring or- ers laat November, has been based j ganization has announced. on an expressed desire fm: longer terms. Many repr^ntativea, Ofiec- « ially Tayip,Tjy|ve declared they night,” for ages from 1 to 6 years. not favor bi^mial sessions luiless the terms of house monbers were in A Baby Show will be staged in ccmwcUon *&ilh.“Myitety-al Mid- • About 50 children will be entered in the contest with prizes and hon ors for the most popular boy and girl, die winners to be announced duxiag the evening. creased. If biennial sessions became a re ality imder the present sjrstem of four-year senate and two-year house i terms, representatives would attend^, a only one meeting of the legislature. CLINTON BOARD TO Prohibition fiid^ts shaped up iujerura ^ kJCI^DACC both the houM and senate. In the^^^*^^ O nE\II\V/CO house, immediate consideration of aiTO FORT JACKSON dry bill by RepresentaUve Moore ofi Cherokee, and otliers, was blocked by j the dates of March 11-14 for the an- time a report was heard from Treai- nual financial campaign of the coun- urer C. Miller McCuen on the Christ- cil. mas seal sale, and thfC year’s program The campaign*will be launched in adopted, the following districts: -Abbeville, Treasurer McCuen’s report showed Anderson, Clinton, Green wood, a total sale of $1,915.80 as compared Greer, Laurens, Newberry, -Oconee, with $1,762 the previous year, or a aAd Pickens. The Greenville district gain of approxhnately $150. Out of made their campaign in the fall in the proceeds he said, $383.16 would ;P^ these amendments to the unem- connectlon with the Community t have to be isent to state* headquar-1 compensation law, as I feel Chest driye. ' ters, leaving the remainder for coun-;^at they are wsential if the law is The amendment further provides that benefits shall be paid in one week at the local employment office after the employee has filed his claim. With reference to his bill, Mr. Sloan said: I hope the house and senate will powers and privileges of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, South. That the Pine Grove Methodist church at Turbeville is a local unit or church of the Methodist church and subject to the constitution, dis cipline rules- and regulations of this church. That the property of Pine Grove Methodist church is held by the trus tees of the church in trust for the congregation of the Methodist church parliamentary piovra. I-_1 hoarri? and nt Indur-< *'*'*'-**^ eaucauon. n. viauauon rccora piaii Representatives ’Thmnas of Beau- wwSaS 47« hunter, local chairman, also submitted by Dr. H. R. Perkins, Quotas for South Carolina’s 83 lo- The total budget set was $13,712,- ty uses. The principal local activity wrve the best^ interests of the fp,. congregation as a 00 fof~ the bp^rSB^h of the council of TRF'aSiiSctfitloini the Silpport of IS pa^la ^ of Laurens wWMly' qj worship, according to the which provides for extending char- tuberculosis nursing and duration So^h Carouna. • • , discipline and subject to the consti- acter training of Scouting to 1,326 program. ^ | tution, rules and regulations tind dis- addiiional boys. To carry on this; The year’s program, as presented cipline of the Methodist church, work the budget provides for the by Mrs.'Jennie Faye Bolen, tubercu-i , agamst the ten’ible misfor-| Thpt the deed of conveyance exe- services 'of three full time executives, losis nurse, was announced as a con- j ^Under ' cuted by E. N. Greene et al, to H. W. an efficently operated office in tinuation of the “past year’s program.'®^Mcole, et al,_on April 24, 1939j_is null Greenville, training of leaders, ad- which included monthly X-ray, clin-[ ' ahd void and that the recordation be vancement awards, camping, post- ics at the hospital; pneumothorax. wnents l^-ause their | jjy age, office supplies. Senior Scout-' clinics; tubercular testing of high | records do not fit into a par-1 That the defendants and all others ing. Cubbing and numerous other school students, domestic servants “cuiar wage pattern, a gross injus-, claiming under or through them be tice. The amendments I have intro-ignjoined permanently from interfer- serviceable items. and other high school groups; follow- The meeting was presided over up examinations for positive reac- by R, E. Ferguson of this city, newly tors, and home visitation and health elected president of the Council, education. A visitation record plan ition for the 850 white and 478 Negro 1 sel*ctEea ia be called to report for a gued that the MObrfe bilT had notjyggj. military training under the ^n on the desks a full legislative: selective service system have been day comi^ out of the judiciary aiuiqunced from state headquarters, con^t^, which recommended ai Major George C. Warren, delivery flo^ of amenitoente. Moore thra^gjj^j induction officer, announced that tried to have the bill set for consid-ijg boards would furnish the eration tomorrow but ffie motion p^ riod expired before he could getri^^ tlon. One of the authprs of the senate 3M white selectees, while 66 local boards would furnish the 476 ^egro selectees. Both white and Negro se lectees will be furnished by 15 local prohibition bill, Abrams of- New- boards. terry, told reportera he beteyed thatj jijo white registrants will be called the measure would pass the senate ^.^m Laurens county in this quota. before 12;30 pjn., When there would be a joint session to hear Governor Maybank speak on “national defense problems in South Carolina.” The Clinton Board No. 50 will sknd the following six Negroes to Fort Jack- son-March 19 at 10 ajn.t William Marvin Burnside, James argiment will center on the motion j^ogbe, HIU Robert Richey of Senator Brown of Barnwell, to Th/^a. Trara,.cnn*.TnhnniA wiiUnm refezl the bill to the finance commit tee. The Thomas Ferguson, Johnnie William Peake, Rufus James Watson. . . . Replacement men named are: house embroiled itself M a-joi^^nig Marshall Fair, Jimmie Mil- attended the conference. . _ Executive O. B. Gorman has an nounced the schedule for the spring Bo'y Scout camporees to be conduct ed by troops of the districts includ-! of the program, ed in the council. The events for* Clinton, Greenwood, Laurens, New- \ berry and Abbeville districts will be held April 4-5 imder the supervision of scoutmasters. county health director and a member of the board of directors, was adopt ed as a guide after opposition was expressed to its adoption as a part duced will correct this wrong 700 MORE MEN* CALLED IN STATE Spring Term To Open Monday Jurymen Norngd For Next W^k With Judge Featherstone Presiding. deteteover a biUby Reprwntatives iier, John Henry Pitts and Law W. McDonald of Floreace, and Richard- j poster Mn of Hor^, to require motorists toj At the same, time Laurens Board dim their ligits when mating carsiNoM9 will furnish seven Negroes, atnij^t. McDonald said •the measure* , •. was aimed primarily at “educating” j ^ drivers, put Representative Morrah j ^^®*^** HONORS WILDER of GitenviUe, said H would give lo-j In appreciation of his services, __ __ cal magistrates “an extell«it oppor-’Coach Robert P. Wilder was 1**^ i church? tunity to make a little money” apd week presented an electric clock byj pu^eral seiwices local police wide “di8ip:etion.”J ;the ’40 football squad of Clinton Morrah moved to” send thl bill high. The presentation was made by JAMES M. CURDY, UURENS, DIES Laurens, March 2.—James Monroe Clardy, popularly known hotel cleric here, died Sunday afternoon of a heart attack shortly after being tak- The spring term of comnaon pleas en to the local hospital following a court will open in Laurens Monday sudden illness several hours before. | morning, March 10, with Judge C. C. Mr. Clardy attended Furman uni-1 Featherstone of Greenwood, presid- versity and the College of Charles ton, and for the major part of his life he had been connected with ho tels at Laurens, Columbia; Union and Hewberry as cashier and clerk. He was a son of the late James A. _ . Clardy, former Laurens postmaster, | * and Oj^helia Henderson Clardy. He ing with the property of Pine Grove Methodist church or with the con gregation of the Methodist church worshipping there. That the Methodist church has no legal exclusive right to the name Methodist Episcopal Church, South, or any other name of like import (excepting the name the Methodist church) and has no legal right to in- Selective service headquarters in Columbia announced Monday that 700 white and Negro selectees from the state would be ordered to re- port at Fort Jackson between March! terfere with the defendants or others 21 and March 28. ' [claiming under or through them in Major Gwrge C. Warren, deliveryjthe use of such name. and induction officer, revealed that j The last recommendation is in fa- 500 white selectees would report be- vor of the defendants, the plaintiffs tween March 21 and March 26, and leaving requested that the defendants 200 Negroes would report on March j pe enjoined from use of the name March 28. | Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Toe call is in addition to 358 white The plaintiffs are Dan E. Turbe- selectees already scheduled to report ville and D. L. Green, individually on March 12, 13 and 14, and 478 Ne-jand as trustees of Pine Grove Meth- groes diK to amve at Fort Jackson | odist church; E. L. Green, individ- on March 17, 18 and 19. ing. The roster for the* session con tains 13 civil cases. JAMES RHODES WINS TROPHY AWARD lually and as tru.stee and steward; E. IR. Morris, M. L. Dennis and D. Ed I Turbeville, individually and as stew ards, and, John L. Green, a member of the church individually, all on be half of themselves and other mem- 4)ack to the roads bridgfs fer ries committee but this was tabled. Representative Grant thfo offered an amendment that would provUM for Vepeal of the automobile inspectioa law, but It lost too. - / I B^ore adjoumiiu without action on the bill, the haute accepted Mc Donald’s amendment reducing' the maximum fine for violation of tfae^ proposed law fMm $100 to $10. ^ TWO GIFTS COME i TO THORNWELL . Taro gifts have come to Thcamwell orphanage dmring the ‘past week in wffl beqewsta amountinl to $6,157.01 The late Jphn R. Blackman of l$a- cietjr HiS, Ie<l $6,060' to ,'md inistito- tioh to be used for a new cottage, other needed building or endearment at Ihe discretion of the board of bnis- teelL The board artU take action^ In matter at their annual 'maethig in Juhe. ; A second bequest of $1.187J2 came , imm the latd N. 11 iIcCHain^of Cam- 4aB, ,aDd is q^ecifla<l ter IRe luod. Captain Charles Burnett. r CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE so FAR THIS TEAR THERE BAS BREN 1 tnm AUTdWOratB AcCWrans LAURENS COUNTY Uf* Sttlt*'r« Bilk* IMl a Saf* Tmt Ob tli6 Higkwsys. This Aato faiil year, 1 .. .. - James Rhodes, guard on Clinton ibers of the Methodist church, for- By townships me following venire- ^ high’s football team, was awarded merly the MethodLst Episcopal men have been drawn to serve. yf g Monts blocking and leader- Church. South; the Rev. C. C. Der- Scuffletown township: Robert R. ^ship trophy at chapel exercises last rick, as district superintendent of (Friday. The trophy is presented each Kingstree district of the South Caro- aw*. v.,ciiu Waterloo: J. R. Madden, Robert L. year to the player who because of 1 Una conference of the Methodist was a Mason’’’und a mwnber^of thei^°®?®*^' ®*'<* L. outstanding football ability, leader-j church, and the Rev. L. D. B. Wil- Daniel. : ship qualities and character, renders Hams, pastor or preaqher in charge Youngs: J. Ben Hunter, Jr., John finselfish service to his team and of Pine Grove^^rch, 'Kennedy’s mortuary at 4 o’clock> ^-.Nnight, H. H. Aber-, school. Rhodes, who was co-captain: The defendants are; M. J. Morris. Monday afterdoon Interment follow-'Putnam and Clar- of the team, was mentioned by sev-j A. N. Coker, E. N. Green, H. W. Cole. ed in Laurens cemetery. The servicesBurnett. • * — —— -- were conducted by the Rev. J. H. were held at Kyzar, assisted by the Rev. A...C.jC;^<>fford, Clyde Franew^ R. A. HoUer, the Rev. John J. Hayes and!^ the Rev. D. A. Williams. ^peaxe. Survivors are two brothers, B. L. Laurens: J. D. Williams, J. A. Tay- and W. E. Clardy of Laurens; two N. L. <3ilbert, D. W. Green, Har ! eral sports writers as one of the best Hunter: Harry Estes, W. R. Brown, linesmen in the state. James, who is a member of nior class, is the son of P, bodes of Goldville. the M. sisters, Mrs. Frank H. Cothran of Charlotte, N. C., and Miss Pearl Clardy of Columbia. He was never married. GALLOWAY CALLS BASEBALL SQUAD Coach Chick Galloway, baseball mentor at'P. C., called the initial practice of the season Tuesday af ternoon for his ’41 outfit. For the first practice 25 men reported and began whipping into condition to fara a 20-gaEDe schedule covering toe next several weeks. I,-Mil CLUB MEETS TUESDAY The llardi supper-meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held old Brownlee, W. E. Bramlett, C. A. Baldwin and F. W. Little. Dials: Rf J. Bryson, C. E. Wallace, E. Haskell Burdette,tP. R. Abercrom bie, P. H. Hairis and Harold Cheek. Sullivan: William Hughes, Jim El- ledge and Tom Traynham. Cross Hill: W. R- Simmons. Mrs. C. E. Piephoff Loses Father next Tuesday ev«Ding at Hotel Clin ton at th^ ueual 7 JO hoXiri Presbyterians Plan For Annual Drive Plans are now being perfected for the. annual every-member- canvass of the congregation of the First Pres byterian church with Thomas Heath Copeland* as general chairman. Din ner will be served at the hotel this evening <for all leaders, majors and captains who are to serve in the cam paign to raise toe budget for the coming year. F. B. Thomas and W. L. Coker, indi vidually and as members or former members of Pine Grove Methodist church, tn their own right and as (representing all other members sim- j ilarly situated. I A Far-reaching Question I Mr. Barnwell explains that al- I though the immediate issue Is the I question of title to Pine Grove charch WiUiam Murdock Stenhouse, 81, of,)®*®”^, building, diriictly involved is Greenville, a Charlestonian by birth,* ^^r-reaching and important and father of Mrs. Clarence E. Pie-i legality of the iphoff of this city, died at a Green-! the three great Methodist Ivite hospital IMesday afternoon fol- known as the Methodhit lowing a brief iUncas. Funeral ser-, Church, South; Methodist vices were conducted yesterday af-|^4^®P** church and Methodist jtemoon with interment following Episcopal church into the the family plot in Springwood ceme-, Methodist church, jtery. , -He traces the organization of the j Stenhouse had been-engaged]^^^couveyance of the land In farming for many years. He was a member of Reed.T River Presby terian church and had served the church tor a l<mg period of years xs an elder and as a former Sunday school superlnte^gent. The deceased is survived by one son, Thomas Stenhouse; two daugh ters, Miss EUzabato Stenhouse and Mrs. Pieito<^, and one grgndaon. ^ on > which the church was built and its operation prior to the merger, ef fected May 10, 1939. The de^, which he recommends the court to declare null and void, was dated April 24, 1939, in which A. M. Coker, M. J. Morris and E. M. Green, “being a m§|prity ot the trus tees of said PinOM^iura Methodist (OmthiiMd on page six)