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Abbeville Press and Banner 1 * _____ M Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, February 24, 1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. | - ? ~ c a CJUEVE KJLLINQSWORTH SHOT IN BACK OF HEAD MONDAY AFTERNOON AND HIS BODY DISCOVERED IN A GULLY THURSDAY A crime, committed Monday af ternoon came to light only, yester dayy morning when Tom Botts white man about 35 years old, walked up to Sheriff Foster Mc Lane and said he wanted to sur render for the killing of Cleve Killingsworth, negro man. Mr Botts told the sheriff that he shol the negro and buried his 'body in a gully on his farm eight miles fronr Abbeville. Botts was lodged in jai: while the sheriff and Coroner J. C Cox went to the spot indicated tc confirm the story. The sheriff said that he found the negro's body in a gully about s half a mile from the Botts home. It was lying face up, the head wrap ped in an old pair of overalls, pointing down the gully. About two feet of dirt and two large logs con cealed the body from view. Dr. J. R. Power made an examination and testified at the inquest that an entire load of shot had penetrated the negro's head, entering near the base of the skull, the shot appar ently having been fired from the rear aL. close range. In his confession Sheriff McLane said that Botts had told him in ef fect that he shot in self defense. He said that Killingsworth came to him on Sunday, (February 18, and asked to borrow $20, and that he j told the negro he would let him have the money on the approval of his brother, Jesse Botts, for whom Killingsworth worked. The negro did not get the money Sunday. The following day Mr. Botts said Kil lingsworth worked with him, cut ting wood, deciding shortly after noon that he would not work any more that day. Killingsworth then left, Mr. Botts said, only to return a short time later with a shot gun and two other negroes whom he did not know. Mr. Botts said the negro renewed his request for the $20 loan. "Mr. Botts, what about thai money I asked you for?" Mr. Bottj said the negro asked. "I asked him 'what money'?" "Cleve said 'that $20/ " "I told him I did not have it." ''Cleve said 'you are going tc give it to me now or I am going tc kill you.' " "My brother's gun, which I took *<-? t-Vio fiplH with mpi. was a few feet from where I was. My coat wai lying on the gun. I told Cleve 1 yould look in my coat pocket, thai I might have the money m there. 1 picked up my gun and killed him.' Sheriff McLane said he askec what he did with Cleveland. "I put him in a gully," Mr. Bott; replied, "cove-re^, him up with dir and then covered him with logs." Mr. Botts said he came in anc surrendered as soon as "they" be gan to suspect that his brother Jesse Botts, had killed Killings worth. Henry Killingsworth, th< dead negro's father, reported t< Sheriff McLane yesterday morning t that Cleve was missing and wantet the sheriff to help him locate th< boy. It was only a short time after wards that Mr. Botts came in anc surrendered. He said his brothei had nothing to do with the shooting but the latter has been bound ovei to court as a material witness. The verdict of the coroner's jun was that "Cleveland Killingswortl came to his death from the effect o: ? gun shot wound in the head, saic nun being in the hands of Thoma: Botts. Composing the jury were T (O. Fant, E. M. Fant. W. T. Straw horn, M. L. Wright, Lewis Bugg; and George Strother. In the search ins: party with Sheriff McLane anc Coroner Cox were Dr. J. R. Power COMMITEE PLACE ' GIVEN TO GROSS WARM SPEECHES AGAINST STATEMENT OF JBEAUFORT SENATOR?ACCEPTS HESIG NA11ION?SUCCEEDS CHRIS TENSEN AS CHAIRMAN .. Columbia, Feb. 22.?Following . dramatic speeches by Senators Mc , Coll, Bonham and Hamilton in , which they strongly resetted what they termed implications, if not . charges, 'brought by Senator Chris > tensen in his resignation, that . "business had won In the se-nate," i the senate yesterday accepted the t resignation of Mr. Christensein as i chairman of1 the finance committee 1 and then elected Senator R. H. . Gross of Dorchester to succeed him > as the leader of the most important senate committee. The Beaufort , senator made it plain that he would t insist on his resignation. ; Senator Gross was the second ranking member of the committee, , Senator Johnstone of Newberry be > ing the ranking member, but he de clined to serve, telling the senate that he did not feel tha he could i bear the work regardless of the honor and pleasue it would bring to him to lead the committee. After the morning session had gone for about an hour, Senator Johnstone called the resignation of Mr. Christensen to the attention of Jn/ilon'no + V|?J + fifttlfltrtT uic acuatcy ucwioi U15 v<m*v Christensen had made it plain to the finance committee that he would not withdraw his resignation. Senator MoColl of Marlboro took exception to the language used by Mr. Christensen in submitting his resignation, declaring that this was the third time in four years that the senate had been condemned by a person in high responsibility. He said the statement that business was dictating to the senate was un justifiable and not true and put the senate in an improper and false 1 light before the people of South 1 Carolia. <Mr. McColl said because 1 the senate failed to agree with the ' finance committe>e or the chairman 1 was no reason why the chairman 1 :-hould withdraw. Senator McColl said the chair ; man of a great committee had no right to withdraw on the eve of the consideration of the appropriation bill and he went into an explana ton of how the appropriations had increased in the last few years and how he had opposed these increas es. The fact that the senate did not agree with Mr. Christensen was no reason for his resignation, Mr. Mc Coll said. To say that the senate was servile to one interest was not true, Mr. McColl declared. APPROPRIATION BILL TO THIRD READING Columbia, Feb. 23.?The general appropriation bill was sent to third reading in the Senate today. The bill as it came over from the House is still with the finance committee but was placed in the calendar by airreement. Amendments and argu ments will be offered on third read ing. The? Senate is. paving the way for adjournment if possible by March 4th thought that is doubtful. Rhame to Greenville Greenville, Feb. 22.?Lee Rhame of Holly Hill, Orangeburg county, one of the most remarkable college athletes South Carolina has known, will take a fling in professional basoball this season, having signed * a contract with the Greenville 1 South Atlantic Club. The red haired boy starred on every athletic team at Furman during his four s years at college, and was known as * the "iron man" of the "Purple Hurricane," Furman's football ag s gregation. I! Judge Hollingsworth and Deputy ,' Sheriffs Ferguson and Prince. L Fi II COAST GUARD CUTTERS VERY ALERT?CAPTAIN REED, COM MANDER OF NEW YORK BASE, SAYS SMUGGLING HAS IN CREASED. LO y < 1 New York, Feb. 23.?Increased li quor smuggling has caused United States coast guard cutters to be put on the trail of all rum craft plying between the Bahama islands and Can ada. Captain Reed, commander of the New York base, revealed today after he had received a radio stating that a tug, with 2,200 cases of whiskey aboard had put into Portland, Maine, "for repairs." "This exchange of liquor between Canada and Nassau, Bahama islands, is going on at an astonishing rate," said Captain Reed. "In fact the traf fice is too heavy to be bona fide. We haven't the slightest doubt that near ly all such cargoes are destined for American bootleggers and that it is landed in this country at every op portunity." Federal officials assert they have determined beyond a doubt that a vessel can not profitably haul Cana 'ian whiskey to the Bahama islands for sale and vice versa. They have come to look with suspicion upon all such coastwide traders?a nonde script fleet of tugs, schooners, con /erted yachts and fishing craft?and o confiscate their cargoes upon the slightest evidence that they are meant or American consumption. When such a cargo leaves St. N. F., or Nassau in the Bahamas, word is flashed to every coast guard | res in tod cor pai der bla tho :at tioi the cep sio ee set tee no Re; poi ed Mr cid tioi 1 pre stri erv the des ate the of hin erv adj station along the Atlantic. As soon as the vessel crosses the American three mile limit a coast cutter trails her until she reaches port, or until the cutter is relieved of her charge by another government craft. A suspicious phase of the coastwise traffic, Captain Reed pointed out, was that Canada and the Bahamas seem ed unable to strike a balance in their liquor supply. A cargo is con s'gned from Nassau to "a British port," while at the same time another cargo of the same brand of liquor is consigned from "a British port" to Nassau, Bahama islands, and each case the craft sails along the Ameri can coast to reach her destination? putting into port frequently, ostensi bly to renew fuel and food supplies. NEW ACT$ SIGNED . Few More Laws To Go on Statute The governor has recently signed a bill enacted 'by the legislature to prevent the use of cut-outs on au tomobiles. The penalty for non compliance is fixed at $25 to $100. Another measure ok'd by the gov ernor is one to direct th? sinking fond commission to borrow not more than $150,000 for the use of Clemson College during the present year. By the terms of a third law state flags are .ordered to be dis played on the inside of school buildings rather than on the out side. The inheritance tax bill has tbeen passed by the legislature and now only needs the signature of Gover nor Cooper to become law. The in j come tax measure Is aslo practical ly ready for the governor's approv al, as is the gasoline tax law. A joint resolution of local inter est is that by Representative Blease of Newberry to permit trus-jMi ( pps t.n hnrrnw monev. This act has I Ml been amended to empower the com missioner of any school district to borrow money equivalent to nine tenths of the unpaid taxes for their schools. This is in accord with a resolution by the trustees of Abbe ville county in their meeting of February 11. V Average walking- pace of a healthy woman is said to be 75 steps a min ute. m HELD UP BY RESERVATION dge must pay visit to white house?prompt ac :eptance of change ex pected from harding fails rO materialize^. Washington, Feb. 23.?The prog s of the four power pacific treaty the senate again was interrupted ay while administration leaders iferred among themselves and pre ed to seek the advice of Presi lt Harding whether to accept the nket reservation proposed by se who are opposing unreserved ification. Contrary to the expecta a of senators who had sponsored reservation, administration ac itance was withheld at today's ses n of the foreign relations commit and Senator Lodge of Massachu ts, Republican leader and commit chairman, arranged to confer to rrow morning with the president publican committee members sup ling the reservation still predict tonight that both Mr. Lodge and . Harding eventually would de e not to interpose serious opposi heretofore officials close to the ssident have declared he held ongly to the opinion that no res ations were necessary although at same time it said that he did not ire to become a stickler for sen acceptance of the treaty without dotting of an "i' pr the crossing a "t" His decision is expected to ge on whether the proposed refl ation which provides that every ustment reached under the treaty ill be subject to the review of igress, impairs or embarrasses the poses of the four power arrange nts it is not considered unlikely that whole senate situatiorj will also taken into consideration by, Pres nt Harding and Senator Lodge be e they adopt a course of action, th administration acceptance of ( blanket reservation assured it conceded that the committee will in position to vote promptly and lost unanimously a favorable re *t on the treaty itself. But with it acceptance withheld, it is the Darent purpose of the reservation ; to attempt to put through the nmittee a series of more specific alifications leading to considerable jate and a long delay. EATH OF MR. CLINKSCALES neral This Morning and Interment Was at Melrose Cemetery. In the death Wednesday after on of J. P. Clinkscales, Abbeville unty has lost one of its most sub intiai farmers ana Dusmess mci d hundreds of me>n and womer ve lost a sincere and warm heart friend. One of the wealthiesl ;n of the county, Mr. Clinkscale: is unostentatious in doing good nple, though discriminating, in hi: >tes and unaffected in the enjoy mt of pleasure. James Franklin Clinkscales wa: native of this county and fo: ars he lived in the Monterey sec >n where he owned extensiv( rming lands and carried on farm * operations on a large scale. H< d been ill for aoout a month anc 2 nature of his malady was sucl it his friends expected that ht aid not recover. Surviving members of Mr. Clink iloc' -Pnmilv are his wife, who WCJ ss Ella Kay; four daughters s. J. F. Cason of Raleigh, Mrs hn T. Stokes of this county, Mrs S. Henerly of Cope, and Mrs. A Hill of Darlington; three sons irshall Clinkscales, J. T. Clink les and Edward Clinkscales, whc ed in the old home. Funeral services were conducted he residence at 11 o'clock todaj Rev. G. M. Telford, interment [lowing in Melrose cemetery, b> ; side of his son, Frank Clink lies, who preceded his father tc E CHIEF OF ARMY AIR SERVICE t LEAVES WASHINGTON BY AIRPLANE iFOR LANGLEY FIELD?NO OFFICIAL EXPLA NATION AVAILABLE Washington, Feb. 22.?The dis aster today at the Hampton Roads army base to the army's Italian built aiphip, Roma, largest craft of Jher type in the world, cast gloom over the war and navy depart ments as the long list of officers and men who were burned to death in the ship came in. Pending full offi cial reports, however, Secretary Weeks and air service officials had no comment to make. Immediately on receipt of the news Major Gen eral Patrick, chief of the air ser vice, left fo the scene by airplane. Unofficial reports indicated that failure of rudder control had caus ed the Roma to became unmanage* able a thousand feet in the air and to plunge earthward where she struck high tension electric wires which were thought to have ignited the hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of hydrogen gas which filled the great bag. Pending detailed ac counts from survivors, officers here accepted this as the probable expla nation of the disaster. With several officers of the ship and some of her skilled mechanics among the survivors, it was hoped that full information would be available. When the navy rigid Bri tish airship, ZR-2, came to a tragic end through explosion in the air j during a trial trip in England, evi | dence of the cause of the smash had to be sought in the wreckage for there were no survivors who could tell what happened. In this case, it has since been ascertained, the buckling of a portion of the frame work resulted in destruction of the ship. Naval officials laid emphasis, in talking of the Roma's destruction, on the point that had it been pos sible to deveJop a sufficient supply of helium, the new non-inflammable gas first produced during the war, to fill her great bag, today's acci dent almost certainly would have have been no fire after the crash, it was 6aid and it was the terrible heat of the blazing hydrogen which apparently brought death to more than 30 men. But so far only suffi cient helium has been produced to inflate the naval blimp C-7, a mere pigmy ship of the air beside the Roma. C-7 made her trial flight carried by the new gas during'the first days <9f the recent arms con ference, journeying from Hampton Roads to Washington and back. MARRIED MAN BLAMES POLICE FOR FLOGGING Ensley, Ala., Feb. 23.?:Carroll E. ? Clark, young married man, who was severely flogged Tuesday night af ter he had been carried eight miles from town into deep wood, today charged that members of the Ens ley police department were his tor mentors. The police department, through its officer denied the accusa tion of Clark. AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ec ly tv a* m th hi w, to re w w di m !hi W lit th h< th bi w pi b< tl hi hi di ni tl V r< sc B R cl v< ci m Th'.' Rev. R. C. Griiir of Due Westj cc j will preach in the Presbyterian I w Inhiirfh Sundav mornine. I ni The regular monthly union ser-jeo vices of the churches of the town will | of be held in the A. R. P. church Sun day evening. the grave. Mr. Clinkscales was a member of the Monterey Presby terian church and a director of the People's Bank. He was 62 years and 11 months old, having been born March 26,. 1859. Pallbearers at the funeral were W. F. Nickles, Dr. H. C. Fennell, J. A. Nance, Walter Price, John Gil liam and Walter BuSby. HARGE HOLD UP j WAS NOT GENUINE' | DUNG LONG BRANCH MAN, AC- v .1 CORDING TO POLICE, HAS AD MITTED PART OF CONSPIRACY. J MRS. ROBERTSON DETAINED BY POLICE. : Long Branch, N. J., Feb. 22.? rs. Sarah H. Rofoertson who Sat day night reported to the police at she had been dramatically rob sd of $50,000 worth of jewelry \-| iring a dinner party she was giv er at heir home in Deal, tonkrht 00 d charged with faking the hold j in order to obtain tfte insurance oney -on her jewels. In custody also was John Bailey Long Branch youth, who was al ged by the police to have told * lem that he had been offered $1, )0 to invade the Robertsofi home id "rob" her. Samuel Gasm, a ilegraph operator, was arrested on larges of having entered the con- v >iracy and aided the supposed Tob ?r. He was released on $15,000 lil. The same bail also was set for >th Mrs. Robertson and Bailey, at neither could get any one to ee them when they faced the agistrate. It was announced if the lil was not forthcoming by nigh^ >th would be taken to the county ,il at Freehold. Mrs. Robertson underwent a long rilling by the police who placed ;fore her their charges that the aborately described pistol used by le "bandit" was only a leather pe case and that the bag of ewels" she handed over contain 1 only tissue paper. She steadfast maintained her innocence of the /o conspiracy accusations lodged gainst her. Harry C. Faber of Bel ar, who was one of the guests at c pai ly uatuiua^ uigut, nap rizzed 'by the police who quoted m as saying that a month ago he as approached by Gasm and asked do the hold up stunt. He said he fused, according to the police, ho added that he told them that hen he saw the "robber" at the ning room door Saturday he im ediately recalled the request upon m and realized that the hold up as a fake. He was in tears the po le say when they entered his home lis morning and he explained that ; had been unable to sleep since ie incident Saturday night. David S. Meyer, a real estate roker of Long Branch, who also as a gueet that evening was re atred to have lost $50 in the "rob sry." The police said he told them lat when the intruder. ordered im to put his money on the table j obeyed. The money fell into a ish of tomatoes and he claimed ever to nave seen it again, uaney, le police said, denied taking the 30 and said not only had he not jceived a cent from Mrs. Robert >n but was out $5 taxi fare. Agents for Lloyd's, Ltd., the ritish company with which Mrs. obertson's jewelry was insured de ared they would av^ait further de jlopments before making any de sion regarding the insurance oney. COURT CONVENES MONDAY The court of general sessions invenes here Monday morning ith Judge John S. Wilson of Man ng presiding. Among the cases cpected to come up will be those ? Ward Thompson for attempted isault and Thomas Botts, who con*' ;ssed to the killing last Monday of leve Killingsworth. OPENS NEW ENTERPRISE Dr. Doujrias Mahon, now witk th? c Murray Drug Company, has mad? rangements to open up a drug ore in Calhoun Falls about April t. Their friends regret that Dr. id Mrs. Mahon are to leave Abbe lie.