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HREE DEAD IN GUN fIGHT NEAR AIKEN Carlos Corbett Fires Fatal Shots- t Another Wounded-Hugh Fann- I ing, Julian Cooper and c Bryant Salley Killed on the Spot ALL SALLEY SECTION MEN Corbett Rushes to Columbia and Sur- I renders to State , Penitentiary c Aiken, March 28.-Hugh Fanning, t Julian Cooper and Bryant Salley, C three white farmers residing near the Salley section in Aiken County, were shot dead at midnight last night by Carlos Corbett, a white j farmer, who claims that the men were drunk and after wantonly burning g away a new embankment in front of his place, had cursed and abused him. Corbett also fatally wounded Jones Salley, one of the crowd. Sheriff Howard and Coroner Bell of Aiken, were called at 4 o'clock this morning to the scene of the shooting, which they found upon arriving had taken place just across the Aiken County Ieie in Orangeburg County. Carlos Corbett, after the killing, got into his automobile and drove hastily to Columbia where he gave himself up to the authorities. The story of the killing as told by Sheriff Iloward is as follows: "Late last night a car filled with men passed noisily by his home with the muflier of the car wide open. Cor bett ran to the door of his home to see who the noisy people were but could not discern then in the (lark. A few minutes after the car passedi Cor bett says he found a newly repaired washout in front of his place on fire and believed the men had purposely set it ablaze. In half an hour the'ear was heard returning up the roa(d to ward Aiken an( Corhett steppel out side of his home to deniand of the men why they set his newly filled wash out on fire. The men, it si alleged, became abusive and finally cursed Corbett who drew his gun killing each of the nien in rapid succession. "Jones Salley was seated in the car sonic distance away and finding that the first shot (lil not kill him, it is alleged Corhett wen,1t up to the car and shot him again in the heal and body. A young boy in the crowd lay flat on the ground an( played deadI ,this es caling injury. The people of Salley are greatly worked up over the affair. The dead men were unarrie(l. RG a r hapyv +3 eet, and dige Its benefits a as its cost It satisfies t sweets, and Is Sealed Tight "After Every W Meal" N-"-TH Carlor Corbett Surrenders Columbia, March 28.-Carlos A. orbett, who killed Hugh Fanning, ulian Cooper and Bryant Salley, two iiles from Salley in Orangeburg coun y last night surrendered to the State 'enitentiary here this morning. He laims self-defense and the protection f his home against marauders. -0 ' FOR FREEDO'1 OAR) OF MISSIONS North Carolina, Virginia and Miss ssippi schools will receive $600,000 of he million and a half 1920-21 New Gra increase of the Board of Missions or Freedom of the Presbyterian hurch in the U. S. A. In addition ex ensive improvements are contemplat d in the ,other schools of. the board vhich will mean increased work in >ractically every state in the South. mprovements in Ohio and Michigan Lre also contemplated. The schools benefiting under the ,60,000 arc:-Biddlc University Char otte, N. C., Scotia Seminary, Concord, q. C., Mary Allen Seminary, Crock tt, Tex., Ingelside Seminary Burk 'ille, Va., Mary Holmes Seminary, est Point, Miss., Albion Academy, [Franklinton, N. C. Mary Potter Mem >rial, Oxford, N. C. Biddle University will receive $100, 00. Mary Allen Seminary, Mary Holmes Seminary, Ingel3ide Seminary ad Scotia College for Women will Dach receive a similar amount. Al bion Academy and the Mary Potter School benctit each to the extent of $50,000. In a(lition to the schools mention ed, this Presbyterian board operates 127 schools and 28 boarding-schools and, at many of these new dormitories will be built. The sum of $200,000 will he expended for this purpose with an estimated amount of $25,000 go ing toward each new building. Some of the schools which will benefit here are Biddle University, Albion Aca demy, Coulter Memorial Academy at Cheraw, N. C., the Gillespie Normal at Cordele, Ga., and the Mary Potter Maleorial. The sum of $175,000 is alloted for scholarships in the 127 boarding schools operated by the board in prac tically all the southern states. In ad (lition it is planned to increase the number of field workers from 650 to 750 and to raise the present low sal aries of many others. Among the colored teachers especially the salaries are very low. Under the 1920-21 bud get $385,000 is alloted for these and other current expenses. While the greater part of the work of the Presbyterian Board of Freed men is carried on in its 150 schools and -140 churches, principally in the LYS - rrosycheeks, smiles, white ood appetites ~stions. re as GREA~T ia SMALLI he desire for beneficial, too. Kept Right The IGLY5Flavor - !~Tu '~I Lasts A12 You Ca for T1 aa 30x-3%._, Goodyear Dbo Fabric, All-Weather ' 30x 31,.% Goodvear ,Si Fabri C, Anti-Skid Trea outh, an important work is also car ried ol in the North. Here many new churches have been established especially at Columbus, Ohio., Cleve land, Ohio., Toledo, Ohio., Detroit, Michigan and othe rnorthern cities. Tlhese churches must 1be enlar'ged, m lodern'U izedl andI equ0ippedI and the sal aries of their ministers raised. Forty thofusandI dollars is allotedl for this purpos)0e. - 0 BAGGAGE BEING SEg'T Amererongen, Mar. 28 (By the As soc iateo Press.) -Part or tnle former emperor William's personal luggage alIready ha~s been moved from Bentinck castle, where he is living at present, to D~oorn, wvhere he is soon to take upI his residlence. A large number of trunks, most of. wvhich hadl not been opened since the former emperor 's ar rival here, have been taken to Doorn in motor trucks. Moving (lay for Count I lohenzollern is expected to be0 M\ay 15. ROB WINNSBOR(O STO'(RE Robbers vis ited WVin nsboro Saturday night and a firm lost about $1,500 worth of merchandise. The thieves forced an entrance into the store 0c cupiedl by the Propst company and mnade a careful selection of ready to wear goodls. Thle Columbia police were notified if the robbery yesterday andl the opera tion at Winnsboro proved to 1)e simi lar to those worked in the capital city. 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