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PAGE FOUR THE INDEX-JOURNAL, GREENWOOD, S. C. THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1935 INDEX-JOURNAL Inading Newspaper of Western South Greenwood Index established November 7, 1897 Greenwood Journal established 1894 The Journal and The Index consolidated Jan. 19, 1919 Published Daily, Sunday and Tri-Weekly By THE INDEX -JOURNAL COMPANY At 114 Maxwell Avenue H. L.

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The publisher assumes no liability for merchandise Incorrectly priced through typographical error and in no event will liability be assumed where goods are sold at the Incorrect price. TELEPHONES: Business Office Dial 6616 Advertising Department Dial 6616 Editorial Rooms Dial 5616 Society Editor Dial 6610 THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1939 FOR TRUSTEES AND TEACHERS An interesting and important case of interest to school trustees and school teachers in South Carolina has been decided at. the June term of the court of common pleas in Aiken. The case may be appealed but no notice to that effect was given after the verdict of the jury in the case was rendered. Under an act of the South Carolina legislature approved May 18, 1937, it was provided that trustees of school districts in this state were required to notify in writing on or before June 1 of each year any school teacher who had not been re-elected to tench for the following term.

The fact that she had not been re-elected and the failure of the trustees to give such notice would constitute a reemployment of such school teacher subject to the same terms and conditions as previous year's contract employing said teacher: Provided, That in order for such contract to become effective the teacher should notify the trustees, or the chairman of the board of trustees, on or before the 14th day after the expiration of the time provided for the giving of such notice. This notice must be a written acceptance of re-employment. The Alken case grew out of the fact that the trustees of a certain school district in Aiken county failed to notify a teacher that she had not been re-elected prior to June the first as the State law requires. The teacher alleged that, as the law requires, she had mailed a letter of acceptance after the first of June, but the trustees alleged they did not recelve such notice. As a further defense the trustees stood upon the requirement of the old contract that a teacher in attempting to take advantage of the law giving a teacher the position by default, must send in with the letter of acceptance a of good health and a valid teacher's as was required certificate of her.

The case clears up a situation which may arise in other sections and it is of interest and importance to teachers and trustees to know their duties and rights under the State law. ADDING TO AN IDEA The Columbia Record evolves or formulates real idea. Ruminating upon the melancholy fact that legislative sessions in South Carolina grow longer and longer year by year, the Record sees in the future the move of some inventive member of the General Assembly to build' a legislative hotel- say on the highway department's unused lot -in which the members would be given room and board at State expense. It is a real idea. Anticipating the inevitable, such a tavern--if not too undignified a nameshould have a name and we start the ball rolling by suggesting "The Legislaturage." A home for teachers provided by a school district is called "The Teacherage," so why not a "Legislaturage" as living quarters for legislators! It may be too suggestive of "Pasturage" but that could be only the thought of an unfriendly mind.

HIS ACE IN HOLE? Richard W. Leche, who resigned as governor of Louisiana a few days ago, is still State Democratic chairman of his State and as such holds in his pocket the twenty delegates which the party in Louisiana will. have in the next Democratic. National Convention. That is, Mr.

Leche will name the twenty delegates. Also, a dispatch from New Orleans says. Mr. Leche is an ardent Roosevelt man and is all for a third term for Mr. Roosevelt.

rocked by the present sensational exposures," another dispatch says, "but Mr. Lecheis unperturbed." CONGRESS TO KNOCK OFF? The country at large learns with some relief, or at least hope that it is true, tie the Congress may adjourn and go home about the middle of July. It seems to be a good time to knock off. In the fights between the Administration and the Congress the country is the innocent bystander who gets shot in many cases. Our political life should not be allowed to become more important than our national life.

It is more important to preserve this country and to strengthen its foundations than it is to keep any individual or set of individuals in office. REFRESHING Last Summer an automobile driver was having fine time riding up and down one of the Florida beaches. In the course of events the driver sideswiped a bather who had come out of the water and was taking time out to relax and so on. The bather brought suit for damages as the sideswiping was very painful to the bather, according to the complaint. It must have been, as the suit was for fifty thousand dollars.

The trial resulted in a favorable decision for the defendant in that the trial judge held the driver of the car had as much right to be racing up and down the beach as the bather had to be sitting out on the beach aforesaid. A few days ago the Fiorida Supreme Court ruled otherwise and said the bather was a preferential person, or words to that effect, on the beach. In other words the automobile driver was not, privileged to race up and down or drive up and down as on a highway. So the reckless drivers do not have everything their way in every place. EDGEFIELD'S BIG DAY Edgefield town (it used to be "the village" to the thousands of native Edgefieldians still in the county or even in distant parts) will have soon a celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the building of the county court house.

The fine old building has been enlarged and improved, and "done over" in an excellent manner. In commemoration of the centennial anniversary and of the renovated and enlarged building which is a of Justice" with a history, this big day on July 14th, a week from tomorrow, will be one to draw many natives and old friends back to Edgefield. An excellent program has been prepared. Governor Maybank will head the list of speakers. Other high officials and distinguished guests will add to the appropriate remarks due on such an occasion.

Greenwood will be represented at this celebration. There are many, many native Edgefield county "boys" in Greenwood. It is possible that there are as many here as there are in Edgefield itself. This is no reflection on the present size of Edgefield for a number of natives of other sections are living in Edgefield now. But Greenwood is full of old Edgefield county stock.

You cannot throw a rock in any direction without hitting one of them. They could stage a great mass meeting of their own at any time. Many of these will go to Edgefield on Friday July 14th. If all of them could know that an old time "free dinner" will be served there a perfect host of them would begin to move on Edgefield early that morning. There must be some mistake about this free dinner.

It is just too much for Edgefield to undertake. Editorial Comment A HECTIC DAY IN EUROPE From Spartanburg Herald. Little news of reassuring character is coming from Europe. Hitler remains the bewildering factor in European politics and Great Britain and France are in a state of uneasiness. The Free City of Danzig continues the bone of contention and the allies fear that Hitler may decide without notice to move across the border, take Danzig under the Nazi wing and close the Polish Corridor.

France was in a spasm of fear yesterday. Britain was no less disturbed. The two nations again discussed the Polish situation and reaffirmed their promises to support Poland in the event of foreign aggression. In Paris the French Foreign Minister George Bonnet summoned the German ambassador for a conference the details of which have not been revealed. He also held conferences with the British and Polish ministers.

General Gamelin, commander-in-chief of all the armed forces of France was recalled from a trip to Corsica and a long meeting of the French cabinet followed which unanimously approved the support of Poland by Premier Daladier. In London, across the Channel, there was hurrying to and fro. Among the bitter opponents of Prime Minister Chamberlain, after the Munich and Rome conferences, were former Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Winston Churchill who was first lord of the admiralty during the World War. Dispatches from London said that Chamberlain was planning to strengthen his government by naming them to positions in his cabinet. Churchill and Eden have supported Chamberlain in his recent opposition to Germany.

Out of the European mess almost anything may come. And it may come uickly. "A CHARLESTON From the News and Courier. Williamsburg, seems to have had America's first theater, but Charleston seems to have had this first: "Perhaps the first professional performance in America of a play written in this country took place in 1703, when William Aston, a strolling English player, tells in his journal: 'We arrived in Charlestown full of lice, shame, poverty, nakedness and hunger. I turned player and poet and wrote one play on the subject of the country.

This statement appears in the magazine Think, in a discussion of "The Rise and Progress of the American Theater." The article begins thus: "Of the thirteen American colonies, Virginia and Maryland were the only ones which never had laws prohibiting play-acting. An historian relates that the early drama in this country faced a constant and prolonged struggle against 'ignorance, bigotry and malevolence' which beset it on all sides and which affected playwrights, plays, players, playhouses, playgoers and producers." The magazine Think lists first playhouses, or theaters, in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and other towns, but omits the Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, which opened in February of 1936, in the building said to have been the first constructed as a playhouse, or theater. The magazine calls the roll of leading players, virtually every one of whom appeared in Charleston theaters, from the theater at Broad and New streets to the Achdemy of Music and the Victory. Of particular interest to Charleston is the quotation from. Aston's Journal, corroborating the statement by Oscar T.

Sonneck that plays were performed in Charleston in the year 1703. MOTHER OF P.M. GALLANT PASSES Dies In Her Sleep At Home In Charlotte Last Night Friends of Paul 1 M. Gallant will sympathize with him in the death of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Jane McIlwain Gallant, who died in her sleep at her home in Charlotte last night.

Mrs. Gallant had suffered from heart trouble for some time and yesterday had an attack from which she apparently recovered, She retired about 9:30 and at 1:30 this morning a daughter went to her room and found that she had passed away. Mrs. Gallant was a native of Mecklinburg county and was 75 years of age on the 21st of May. Her husband, Lafayette Gallant, died about two years ago.

She was reared 1 in the Presbyterian faith and was a devoted member of that church. Surviving are four sons and four daughters: Dr. R. M. Gallant, of Charlotte: W.

E. Gallant, of Anderson; P. M. of Greenwood, and James G. of La Grange, Gallant, Mrs.

Levicy Eidt, of Knoxville, Misses Evelyn and Margaret Gallant, of Charlotte, and Mrs. Guy L. Kennedy, of Clearwater, Fla. She also is survived by one brother, the Rev. R.

J. McIlwain, of Monroe. Another brother, Dr. William McIlwain, also a Presbyterian minister, died a short time ago. The funeral services will be conducted at the residence on North Church street in Charlotte Friday afternoon at four o'clock and interment will be in Elmwood cemetery.

NAZIS SAY FOR ON WARPATH Express Irritation Over July 4th Speech Of The' President BERLIN, July 6 (P) Nazi publications expressed great irritation today over President Roosevelt's July comment on United States neutrality legislation. Adolf Hitler's newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter declared that "Roosevelt again has dug up the war hatchet." The semi -official com- mentary Deutscher Dienst said: "The intention of Roosevelt to line up America in the encirclement front does not lessen the danger of a world war, but on the contrary increases it." (Mr. Roosevelt said the first policy of his administration was to prevent war in any part of the world, that the arms embargo section of the present neutrality law should be scrapped and that press dispatches from four major capitals and state department dispatches indicated Fascist and Nazi nations welcomed the action of the United States house of representatives in writing a modified arms embargo into the American neutrality law.) The commentary service said that to maintain that Germany welcomed. the action was a "biased and added the President was under pressure of the many exploding firecrackers" in making his statements at his Fourth of July press conference. The Morgenpost pictured Mr.

Roosevelt as on the war path." Furman Student Drowns In Lake Near Anderson ANDERSON, July (P) Joe Hilliard, 19-year-old senior lifeguard and swimming instructor in at Keys Spring lake here, drowned in a practice swim at the lake today. Physicians express the opinion he suffered a heart attack. He went down once in about nine feet of water. Efforts to revive Hilliard were made at the lake and also at the Anderson county hospital. The young man was a rising Junfor at Furman university, and was guard on the varsity football team.

He was a son of B. R. HIlHard, local policeman. Czechs Defy Nazi Ban On Celebration Of Religious Hero PRAGUE, July 6. (AP) Pious Czechs today defied a ban by Nazi protectorate authorities on largescale commemorations of the martyrdom of Jan Huss, a Bohemian religious reformer who was burned at the statek July 6, 1415.

The commemorations began throughout the country last night and bonfires gleamed on many hilltops in the Beskiden mountains. the exhibit where cows were being milked. Those were the New Yorkers! WEATHER NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By C. B. DRISCOLL Title Res.

U. S. Patent Office NEW YORK, July 6- A World's Fair day: Daughter Mary and drove to the World's Fair, spent the afternoon, drove back. Driving time, from northern edge of New York City to City Parking Ground, at the fair, one hour and fifteen minutes. Parking fee fifty cents.

This parking ground is about a mile from the fair. The journey is made by bus, five cents. The buses not the most comfortable, but are good enough for the short distance involved. Our route was down Henry Hudson parkway and West Side highway to 125th street, left on 125th street to Triboro bridge, across the bridge and out on Grand Central parkway. All hihgways and parkways are well supplied with signs to direct visitors to the Fair, The new glasscovered tirectional signs on the Henry Hudson parkway are lighted at night, easily readable at a distance.

We noted unusual courtesy on the part of traffic policemen, who have on their World's Fair manners. One of them even permitted me to turn left on a red light, where no turn is permitted by ordinance. He saw that I was blundering into a left turn, threw up his arms goo d-humoredly and shouted, "Okay, Buddy! Any way you want to go!" We spent most of the afternoon on the various transportation systems on the fair grounds. I was introducing the daughter to the fair. believe the best way to begin is to ride all around the grounds, get general idea of the picture, view the lagoons, esplanades and avenues, and learn to appreciate the magnificent size and sweep of the exposition.

So we took the twenty-fice-cent ride on the low, open observation train. This type train carries no spieler, leaturer, or pointer -outer. We had, however, a most accommodating cashier or fair collector. He made a conscientious effort to answer questions, and from time to time offered information to those close enough to hear him. Passing the, show, Railroads on Parade, he informed us that the entire Golden Gate Exposition could be put inside this one show.

ventured to remonstrate, having sceen the San Francisco Fair. I told him that the fair at Treasure Island occupies four hundred acres. just a third as much space as used by the exposition at Flushing Meadows, and that Railroads on Parade, an excellent performance, not nearly as large as Cavalcade of the West. I hope I was right in detail, for the young man seemed sadly crushed. The ride on the open train gives you a good view of the inner part of the exhibit area.

To get any idea of the fair in general, you must take the trip on the official sightseeing bus. This we did next. Fare fifty cents. These are large buses protected from the weather, seats facing the sides. Each bus carries a lecturer who identifies as many of he buildings as he can, and puts in a few paragraphs of advertising for certain exhibitors.

I presume this is a business arrangement. At the time of our visit the flower display along the lagoons and boulevards had almost completely disappeared. At the opening of the fair, the million tulips, presented by the government of Holland, were in full bloom. Their glory made up in large. degree for the unfinished condition of the fair itself.

When the brief period of tulip time WAS ended, other flowers, richly variegated, were installed. On the day of our latest visit, these had faded and there was nothing to replace them. The change in the scene is so notable that I am sure the fair management will find more flowers. The business of keeping the fair grounds in bloom is expensive, and involves a tremendous amount of labor. Attendance during the early weeks did not encourage such expenditure, Next we took a rolling chair.

double chair, pushed by a pompetent, polite and informative young man, costs $2.25 per hour. You may, of course, stop at any time, and pay for the part of an hour you have used. During the afternoon we had two such rides at 75 cents each. We visited the telephone exhibit. It is one of the most interesting I have seen at the fair, though I understand it is practically the same as the telephone people have used at several other expositions.

Although there was not a large attendance on the grounds, we were unable to get near any of the personal participation stunts. These include voice tests, and the chance for a free conversation with any point in the United States. I believe there are about 250 receivers on which customers may listen while the long distance conversationg are going on: Fully two thousand people were waiting their turn, but all were happy and interested. An enormous crowd surrounded CHARLOTTE, July 6. -(P)-Official weather bureau records of the temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 7:30 a.

in the principal cotton growing areas and Station Max. Asheville .90 69 .00 Atlanta 92 76 .00 Augusta 97 68 1.38 Charleston 91 74 .00 Charlotte 88 3.01 Columbia 91 68 .1.34 Denver 93 58 .00 Mt. Mitchell 66 56 .00 New Orleans 94 78 .00 New York 84 .01 Raleigh 87 66 .1.11 San Antonio 1.01 .00 San Francsico 62. .00 Tampa 91 74 .1.01 Washington 80 60 .24 GREENWOOD Observations of Greenwood Weather Bureau for 24 hours ending at 7:30 this morning: Temperature: Maximum 93; minimum 69. Sunrise today at sunset today at 7:47.

Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, scattered showers Friday. MRS. J. H. CHILES DIES AT HOME Member Of Prominent Family Suecumbs To lIlness Last Night Mrs.

Cleora Thomson Chiles died at 10:45 o'clock last night at the family home near Bradley. She had been in declining health for some time. Mrs. Chiles, was the last surviving member a large family, prominent and of much influence in the community in which her father, the late Judge Thomas Thomson, was an outstanding citizen. Her mother was Margaret Ann Gomillion, and she was born and reared in Abbeville.

After her marriage to John Hearst Chiles in 1889, Mr. and Mrs. Chiles lived near Bradley where she has since made her home. Mr. Chiles died October 31, 1926.

She was 74 years of age. Mrs. Chiles was held in high esteem by all her friends and was a woman of high character, retaining the affectionate regard of her friends through the years. To all of these the news of her death will bring real sorrow. Those who knew her as an active and energetic worker in community.

life will recall her service in behalf of the best and uplifting movements for good in her home community. Mrs. Chiles joined the Presbyterian church of Abbeville in childhood. After her marriage she united with the Cedar Springs A. R.

P. church, and was always sympathetically interested in the religious life of the community. Surviving are one son, John Hearst (Tug) Chiles, and three grandchildren, Mrs. J. O.

Steifle, Miss Willte Chiles and John Hearst Chiles, III: and a number of nieces and nephews. The funeral services will be held tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at o'clock from the graveside in Cedar Springs cemetery. The Rev. B. Kilgo and her pastor, the Rev.

R. E. Craig, officiating. The following friends are requested to serve as active pallbearers: Calvin White, Henry Duckett, J. M.

Cox, Frank White, Neil Steifle, D. P. Kerr, Willie Ligon and Coleman Steifle. Blyth's Service. Letter Carriers Meet In Greenville GREENVILLE, July 6 (P) -More than 125 delegates are expected to attend the 17th annual convention of the South Carolina Association of Letter Carriers.

and. Auxiliary here Saturday. A reception for state and national officers Friday night will open the meeting. Speakers will include Rep. Joseph Bryson of the fourth district; J.

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C. GOSNEY DIED YESTERDAY Nephew Of W. K. Charles Succumbs To Illness Of Two Months William C. Gosney, nephew of W.

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Mr. Gosney was connected with the South Coal Company here for about a year and made a number of friends who will learn with sorrow of his death. He was 27 years of age and was salesman for McCormick of Baltimore, traveling in South Carolina. He graduated from Timmonsville high school in 1932 and attended the University of South Carolina. Surviving are his mother, Mrs.

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