From The State Dec. 22, 1932

Trampling down all dry opposition, house wets jammed the Democratic 3.2 per cent beer bill through unchanged today and laid it on the doorstep of the Senate, where early action was promised. The big vote, 230 to 153, approving the measure was the first successful move by the wets in either branch of Congress to modify the Volstead Act since it became law 12 years ago.

President-elect Roosevelt’s advisers said today that European press comment on President Hoover’s recommendation to Congress Monday had confirmed his belief that the European nations could not be dealt with by a commission such as Mr. Hover proposed without the determination of an American policy.

The state farms, to which the Soviet government looks not only to furnish approximately one-seventh of its grain resources but also to set an example for collective and individual peasants, were pictured tonight in Moscow as having fallen down badly in their deliveries of grain to the state.

A sister act played the high temple of opera, the Metropolitan, tonight in New York. It was Rosa and Carmela Ponselle, who thrilled to operatic renown by way of a Lexington Avenue music hall. For sister Rosa it was her favorite character of Giaconda, the ballad singer. Carmela sang the role of Laura.

The Budget Commission of South Carolina, through Neville Bennett, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, yesterday directed a letter to the heads of all departments and institutions of the State government urging them, beginning January 1, 1933, to “adapt and conform expenditures to a greatly reduced scale.”

From The State Dec. 22, 1942

The The German armies of the Central Don River were officially declared early today by the Soviet command to be “retreating in disorder” before the great Soviet offensive now rolling toward distant Rostov, and in North Africa the flight of the Axis Libyan forces remained unchecked.

Units of the Twelfth Corps are conducting a two-day field exercise in the corps maneuver area. Blackout driving will be practiced on all the main arteries of travel in Richland County, north of Fort Jackson, and a small portion of Kershaw County, in the vicinity of Blaney. Motorists are asked to co-operate in this phase of the training program.

An official announcement that there is “no hope for lessening of the restrictions upon the use of gasoline and fuel oil” came today from a conference of high government officials concerned with the petroleum problem. The group, meeting with James F. Byrnes, director of economic stabilization, said, however, that steps would be taken to improve rationing methods and to increase the supply.

Appropriate exercises that marked the successful completion of Faith Lutheran Church in Batesburg were held this morning and evening in the beautiful Gothic church on Oak Street. The Rev. Walter U. Brown, the first and only pastor the church has had, conducted the services.

The Rev. O. H. Hatchett, Methodist minister of Newberry, has been elected chaplain of the American Legion of South Carolina to succeed the Rev. Frank B. Edwards of York, who had resigned to enter the service. Announcement of Mr. Hatchett’s election was made by Paul M. Sealey of Rock Hill, department commander.