\ -■ ^ ^ t ^ y ^ .^ VV ''i ^ ^.>^> ^ . :^> .'^ ^ V TmmsbAY, FEBRUARY 21, 192r V ^ ^ Tj^ CLlNtON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C K *“ *’V'*;^*igi PAGE SEVEN COUNTY TREASURER’S NOTICE 1928 The books of the County Treasurer will be open for the collection of taxes for the fiscal year, 1928, at the Treas urer’s office from October 15th to December 31, 1928. After* December 81 one per cent will be added. After ,January 81st, two per cent will be Added, and after February 28th, seven per cent will be added until the 15th day of March, 1929, when the books will be closed. All persons owninsf property^in more than one township arc; requested to call for receipts in each of the sev eral townships in which the property is located. This is important, as ad ditional cost and penalty may be at tached. ' All able-bpd’ed male citizens be tween the ages of twenty-one (21) and sixty (60) years of age are liable to pay a poll tax of $1.00 except old soldiers, who are exempt at fifty (50) years of age. Commutation Road Tax $1.50 in lieu of read duty. All able- bodied^ men between the ages of 21 and 55' are liable to road duty except those in military service, school trus tees, school teachers, ministers, and students. Proper attention will be given those who wish to pay their taxes through the mail by check, money order, etc., giving name of township and^number of school district. The tax levy is as follows: State Tax ; —5% mills REED AND BORAH CROSS SWORDS Masters of Oratory Collide In Senate. Three Hour Debate Raged With Prohibition As Issue. Washington, Feb. 18.—^Two masters of oratory—Jim Reed of Missouri, and CHICAGO ORDERS HOUSE CLEANING St. Valentine’s Massacre Spurs Aa* thorities. War On “Booze.” Inside Story of Daily News. Chicago, Feb. 16.—As a direct re sult of the St. Valentine’s day mas sacre of seven gangsters, Chicago to William E. Borah of Idaho—took op- night was on the verge of what prom- posing sides in the senate today and for three hours and a half spoke to a tensely astening chamber on the prob lems of prohibition. Reed denounced the law in a con tinuation of the speech he began Sat- ised to be the greatest dry-cleaning and general crime-purging since pro hibition became a law ten years ago. The concerteJ drive by federal, state and city officials against crime, vice. left his office, announcing hoi expected to meet someone who would help his theory, but returned later, saying that he had been ’’unable to make connec tions.” His theorizing drew a rebuk** from the prohibition commissioner, Doran, in Washington. John A. Swanson, state’s attorney, at a conference with Commissioner Russell blamed the police for condi tions that resulted in the murders and said that such crimes would not occur unless there was a ready market for liquor. Commissioner Russell’s orders were i8.sued immediately after the confer ence, and he admonished his men to gambling—and particularly I quor- almost over-shadowed the man-hunt | stop selling and traffic in liquor and urday. Borah made a thundering' ap peal for law enforcement. Neither,murderers of the seven :dn an ordered any police officer knowing of was interrupted and the promise of i gangsters who Were executed in thsir any connection with the killing of any headquarters last Thursday. i policeman to report the matter to him. Spurred on by general criticism and Police also were under fire from thrust and counterthrust which had filled the galleries faded as the Mis sourian walked over to. the seat of the senator from Idaho at the end of the i other quarters. Alderman John Mas- sen said hie expected to present ,to the city council next week a bill provid ing for reorganization of the police CAR LOAD LOTS -illervi and hi-jacked them on arrival here. As a result, the rival distilleries j sent gangsters here to rid themselves { Mor«,’, gane j Nine men and a woman were ar- \ ^ rested in a raid Saturday afternoon' Oats, nice choice Timo- m a North Side garage suspected to be a sub-hea/dquarters of the Moran outfit. A detective captain, William Schoemaker, led the raidets, arriving just as a truckload of whiskey was moving out. In a vault were found 1. tx 1 a*- ri^zr cases of whiskey, all of it be-! iylaSil, DRDy C/hlCK iMiaSh, ”''"-|Baby Chick Grain, Ume thy Hay, Meal and Hulls, Milk-Flow Dairy Feed, Staff-o-Life Laying aJL eulogy on behalf of the senate, Sena- Ordinary County Tan .- 514 mills i tor Borah at the outset of his remarks Road nnd iBridge 'A........,..,,„...5H ...—♦ Railroad Bonds ; .....1 mill Tail Bonds mill >ad Bonds 11 mills Past Indebtedness Vmills Statewide School (6-0-1) 4 mills Weak and High Schools % mill Conctitutional School .i 3 mills Total .r.... : 38 mills Laurens School Districts No. 1, Trinity-Ridge 16% mills No. 2, Prospect 16 mills No. 3, Barksdale-Narnie 16% mills No. 4, Bailey 7 *n»ill8 state’s attorney’s admonition to the police to “clamp on the lid or go to discussion and warmly grasped his the commissioner of police, Wil- liam F. Russell, today told his cap- Reed began his speech today by tam® and deputies, “Booze-selling and ; department unJor a non-political ciyil- again describing the law as a “hideous booze-running must be wiped out.” i ian board of control. He said the city’s crime.” After two hours he took his I blamed “prohibition and booze” reputation had been damaged beyond seat arid Borah claimed the floor. ^ ^be wholesale slayings and order- repair by the killings, which would Reed was on his feet again when the | 5,500 policemen that he said had I not have occurred if the police depart- Idahoan had concluded but Senator been battling crime, vice and gam-i ment had been organized efficiently. Heflin of Alabama was ahead of him. * bling, to be thrown into the fight to: The association of commerce took' t Whatever Reed had intended to say ] make Chicago dry^something the po-; a hand in the matter by demanding 14 went unsaid. Bee heretofore have considered a duty' a jury investigation of the imputa-! J of federal authorities. . | tions cast on the police department as ; ♦ Meanwhile the search for the four a result of the slayings, with a viewj^ 9i:.'five nieri who virtually eliminated! to clearing the department or ridding I ♦ the Moran gang with their'^machine- ^ it of those who might be found guilty, i X ^guns .extended alon^^ two lines—neith-; The bodies of the victims of t^c J rpirrpt ^ whieft halTietm productive of r* • i gang-sieughier have been tdatmed by ♦ nmn whose "ndustry! c^^^^ andl^^Bs. The police were searchingUere | relatives. Funeral services were held genius have placed . him among the j elsewhere for three rpem))ers of > M^day. foremost men in his day.” i'^be “Purple Gang” of Detroit, identi-j The Daily News Saturday printed! Sitting as usual beside Senator from photographs by rooming-1 what it-terms the “inside .story” of NOTICE Notice is hereby given that we have sold our interest in the Fuller Gro cery Company, Clinton, S. C.,. to the said firm and are no longer connected with this establishment in any way. J. PLATT PRATHER. L. E. HATTON. 3-ll[.4tp Sulphur Solution for Spraying Fruit Trees. See Us For Prices. Farmers' Exchange T. J. BLXlOCK, Prop. The silver-haired Missourian re tires from the senate March 4 by his own dictate, and, as if to express an PERFECTION BRAND FERTILIZER IN New Bsigs We can’t improve the guano so we are try ing: to improve the package by using nicely printed new bags. See us. CLINTON COTTON OIL CO. Sheppard of Texas, the father of the 18th amendment. Senator Reed, his face flushed,'listened to his colleague on the Republican side of the aisle billings. and when he was able to get in a re ply he walked over to shake hand.s with Borah at the finish. hou.se owners across the street from ' the gang killing.^, unearthed after an i the Moran headquarters as having investigation by the nc\v;:])aper here | rented rooms there shortly before the I ani in Detroit.- | Moran’a follcwer.s, the newspaper I It was the poliee theory that those ! .'aid, were killed .as the result of a war sought spied on the Moran gang, between Canadian di.st;l!c:ies, the ex-1 aw'aiting an auspicious moment to or-, ecution s-y. j Major Silloway, assistant ^prohibition' “Mr. X,” said the newspaper, foi-m- Pmhihitinn i« rinf n nrfthlpm i administrator, that policemcn and not led an alliance with the Moran gang, days or. of ten years, he said, and |wearing police uniforms by which this gang, through a \spy “possibly we cannot prevent the use;^’*^*'® '^be killers, remained without' system, was tipped off on ('hicagoj of alcohol entirely, but shall we sur-1 •‘‘f'bstantiation today. Major Silloway ^shipments made by riv^l Canadian di.s-ri» render or shall we fight?” he answer-' _ oJ: “Fight.” i He said state control would multi-1 ply the problems of national prohi- FREE! With every $1.00 box of Coty’s Face Pow der, a $1.00 COMPACT Will be given absolutely Free. Call at once and get one before our supply is gone. SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY C ORNER AT UNION STATION PHONES 377 and 400 No’. Tt’ Shiloh rSuL 17r '- -- 22 mills bition 48 times. Later in the day Sen-j No'. 5. Gray Court-Owings) ....24 mills ator Caraway (Democrat) of Arkan-: . . _ _ • • 1 M * J til— A 4^ AM A AM 4* sas, called attentfon to a statement given out by Reed at Houston at the I time the Missourian'"was a”candidate^ for the Democratic presidential nomi- No. L-3, Barksdale-Narnie .16% mills No. 8, Mertta (Sul. 17) 22 mills No. 3-B, Foflntain Inn 24 mills Sullivan School Districts No. 1. Princeton '. ‘—22 mills No. 2. Mt. Bethel 8 mills, , , . *u i ♦ . r. 1 c • _ OK clared, “who has for the last two No! 7, bIwLioI."”'' ■■ ■:'. ::16 Wen denouncing hypocrite, gave No. 17, Hickory Tavern 22 mills “t Houston m which I nation. ‘The same senator,” Caraway de- RaiJroad Tax 3 mills Waterloo School Wstricts No. 1. Mt. Gallagher 12 mills No. 2, Bethel Grove 9 mills No. 3, Ekom (Sul. W) 22 mills No. 4, Center Point 14 mills No. fi. Oakville 8 mills No. 0, Mount Pleasant 13 mills No. 14, Waterloo 8 mills No. 7. Mt. Olive 21 mills Cross Hill School District No. 13, Cross Hill 21% mills Hunter School Districts he himself offered to lead the dry to victory.” The floor was crowded with hous'* members, who had deserted their side of the capitol. Steps leading down to! the seats in the gallery were jammed' with men and women. More stood in j the doorways in defiance of senate I rules. Outside long lines waited with I a forlorn hope that perhaps some i would leave before the oratorical dis- i play was over. ! But scarcely a soul stirred through-! out the nearly four hours that Reedi Does the gasoline you Have these qualities? If should, if you are a careful buyer,.. rANDARD] No. 3. Rock Bridge 6 mills {and Borah held the floor. The air in j No. i. Wadsworth ...8 mills! the poorly ventilated senate chamber} No. 5. Clinton 23 mills, became heavy but still the crowd, lis- ] No. 6, Goldville 4 mills | tening with rapt attention, stayed on j No. 7, Belfast 5 mills until the final word had been spoken, j No. K-9, Kinards -.8 J^Bls outset, Kced informed the i No. R-42, Reederville senate he w-as jesting Saturday when! No. 16, Mountville 21 mills' Jacka School Districts he threatened to make public the | names of men who “vote dry and drink | wet.” He assured his col!eague.s with: No. 1, No white school 4 mills v**' -Glove 11 a smile, that “I would not violate the I’ " - i confidence of my friends or the hos- No. 4,'No white school 3 mills . • ui, u * n No. 6 O’Dell, 8 mill, i ^ighhors^y ever tell- No. 7. Garlington 3 mills “nythmg about them when he.v No, 15, Hurricane 6 mill,! VT-T'',*” ‘ “ Seuffletown School Districts ‘ sunshine out of life. No. I, Long Branch 8 mills' And then the Missourian, with bit- No. 2, Musgrove ..8 mills | ing sarcasm tore into the prohibition No. 3, Langston -.3 mills! law; accused the Anti-Saloon League} No. 4, Sandy Springs 4 mills' with substituting the doctrine of force I No. 10, Lanford r.-v. 24% millsi for that of reason; declared that the! great races” had been addicted to j the u.se of stimulants: denounced cor-} ruption in government as an out-1 For colds, grip and flu take No. 12, Ora -. 11% mills Persons sending in lists of names to be taken off are requested to send them early and give the township and | growth of the liquor and finally jilead j school district of each, as the Ifreas-1 for state control. i urer is very busy during the month of: agreed with his* colleague in i December. - j denunciation of those who vote for the, ROSS D. YOUNG, 1 prohibition law and “live in violation! tf County Treasurer, bf the law.” He denied, though, that i this law was “the crime of crimes.” He j insisted that the Idquor interests were : seeking to break down this law as I they have “every other law aimed at i controlling liquor,” and he belittled the argument for state control, de claring it had been tested and failed. The bill of Senator Jones (Republi can) of Washington to increase the penalties for violation of the dry law was the vehicle that serv-ed to bring the discussion before the senate and although debate was scheduled to be !'limited after 4 p. m., it went over un til tomorrow. 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