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I > .• * ‘ v * / • . k . ■ l • : ' > ' . J . • . v ‘ , k ■ 1 ■ ■ » , * • i : ■* ••.'•■ - ' ' ( ♦VOLUME XXV Bandit slain CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1925 NUMBER 44 IN GUNBATTLE Mortally Shot Detective Kills “Dutch" g Anderson, Pal of the “Super- Criminal” Chapmin. 1 EDUCATION WEEK TO BEjOBSERVED last notch in the gun of the notorious George “Dutch” Anderson; and the notch stands for Anderson himself. Anderson, gunman-pal of the “super-criminal,” Gerald Chapman ^and the-man whose face stares from “wanton placards in postoffices and jails across the continent, was dropped Governor McLeod Issues Proclamation Asking Citizens To Laid >' Assistance. Observanef Ujroughout South Caro- - ttj«Vi o TKa Tn fhna of American Education Week, No*- exS. n nd H of^e N Uw ^ Z Thomas G. McLeod in a proclamation made public at the governor’s office Saturday afternoon. ' ^ “I urge,” the governor said, “that the ministers, teachers, managers of cur motion picture houses, the press, our clubs, rural, state and civic or ganizations, as well as individual citi- v “Y"; twnv ‘7“** w “° sens, study our educational condition, 1 b r * ho' 1 * 4 hia 0 ^n revolver, ' * wit h wrested from him by Detective Hem- ^ ^ of concerted ection vj-niond. Death overtook Anderson Saturday ' night, but it was not until today that he Was identified. It was not a clear ? victory for the law, because Anderson with his last shot mortally wounded Detective Hammond and died with the ^ blood of his last victim oozing into the dirt v of an alley a few feet from the heart of downtown Muskegon. Even as he lay in the morgue Sat urday night with his identify unknown he was shrouded in a ghoulish glamor d not wasted on a thug of lesser record of crime. Police for several hours be lieved the dead man was Martin Dur- ^ kin, Chicago’s “steel vest” slayer. Identification of Anderson was made possible today, however, when it was found that the finger prints and Ber- tillion measurements of the dead man # tallied with those of Anderson. A federal operative from Toledo Ohio, who knew Anderson personally was ’’■^expected here tonight to complete the identification. , A box of candy, a $20 bank note, that was queer, an astute storekeeper and a straight shooting detective played roles in the tragic climax of Anderson’s life. Anderson and Ger ald Chapman made the country gasp four years ago by a mail truck hold- ^ up in New York City, and he has been sought everywhere by the crack sleuths of the secret service. Ander- sc.i went into a store, bought a box of candy presented the shopkeeper with a note, received his change an<i sauntered out. It was the same pro cedure he had followed in Flint, Lans ing, Saginaw and other Michigan l cities during the last month, always getting condition needs to be where this changed.” - American or National Education Week, is observed annually in the state under the auspices of the American Legion, the National Education asso ciation and the Citizens’ Education Association of South Carolina.' “Whereas, this nationwide move ment has as its purpose the raising of the educational standard sbf the people of our whole country and the arousing of the nation v to a realiza tion of the importance of a widespread public education along the lines of physical training, hygiene, American citijymship, moral and - spiritual de velopment andvjf an equal opportunity of tjiese to every boy and girl of the nation; and, “Whereas, the president of the United States, realizing that full pro vision has not yet been made through out the country for education of either elementary, secondary or higher grade and that 'the utmost endeavor must be exerted to provide for every child in the land the full measure of education which his need and his ca pacity demand, so that not one will be perrilitted to live in ignorance, has issued a proclamation urging that the observance of this week be nation wide; “Now, therefore, I. Thomas G. Mc Leod, governor of the state of South Carolina, by the authority in me vest- ca, do call upon every\ South Caro linian to unite in making American Education Week an epoch making one in the history of our state, and I urge that the ministers, teachers, managers of our motion picture houses, the escaping detection. He tried the trick I press, our clubs, rural, state and civic URGENT CALL TO CLINTONIANS • t ♦ 4 r once too efben, however, the shop keeper, skeptical of the bill’s gen uineness, crossed the street to a bank where the cashier confirmed his sus picions. He called the police and with Detective Hammond walked into the afternoon crowds of Western avenue. Hammond collared Anderson and ^ started toward the police station with him but Anderson broke away and shot Detective Hammond but the de tective seized Anderson’s revolver and mortally wounded hini. Hammond, assisted by two office.rs, then walked to police headquarters and turned in Anderson’s revolver. * Hammond told Anderson to accom pany him to the station. The latter walked along until he was nearing the city hall, where the police station is located. Then he slipped a revolver from his pocket and fired. The first shot went wild and struck a store, win dow across the streef. , The second bullet hit another store window. Anderson ran into an ally at the rear of the city hall. Hammond fol lowed in the face *of the gun fire and as he grabbed Apderson, the bandit turned and fired at close range. The bullet went through Hammond’s lung and liver. , Hammond wrestled the revolver from Anderson And fired a shot into his body, severing the main artery from the heart. Hammond wounded, sagged against the wall as Patrolman Thompson attracted by the shots, ran to him. “Get aim! He got me,” said Ham mond. Thompson fired a shot into Anderson’s body as he tried to rise but it was the bullet fired by Ham mond from the notorious criminal’s own gun that killed him. Hammond, assisted by two firemen, walked to the police station where he turned the revolver over to Chief Han sen. He was then rushed to the hos pital where he died two hours later. It was five minutes * after _the shooting that Anderson died in the of fice of 6hief Hansen. Officers gave assistance to Hammond and Iqft An- ^derson dying Where he fell. Later he was brought to the station and soon expired. ' / Anderson had been in the counter feit game for several weeks apparen tly and had flooded .Michigan cities with the counterfeit $20 bills, accord ing to secret service operatives. organizations, as well as individual citizens, study our educational con dition, both its strong and weak places, with the view of getting concerted action where this condition needs to be changed. Let every fcitizen eo- eperate in seeing that rio child "fee al lowed grow up in the bonds of ipnorance, but that each and every one be given a fair chance as he starts out in the race of life.” “LADIES NIGHT” . NEXT TUESDAY Gov. Thos^ G. McLeod To Be Principal Speaker Annual 1 Social Event. “Ladiefe Night” Sf the Commercial Club, an annual social event jn Clin ton of unusual interest, will be ob served next Tuesday night in the club rooms in the Masonic Temple building. For this occasion the members will have thetf wives and friends as the honor guests and it is expected that covers will be laid for more than 200. The banquet will be served by the ladies of the Methodist church, head ed bjr Mrs. J. M. Pitts, and this insures a tempting menu and a well appoint ed evening in every particular. The principal speaker of the even ing will be Gov. Thos. G. .Mtffsifcod. The program will include other ad dresses also, as well as musical num bers and clever features. W. A. Moor head, president of the club, will pre side. y METHODIST PASTOR RETURNED HERE Rev. L. E. Wiggins Appointed To Serve Sixth Year At Broad • _ StrpitXhiireli, ^ The Rev. L. E. Wiggins, who was appointed last November to serve an additional year after his regular four years service as pastor of North Broad Street Methodist church of this city, was reappointed during the past week by the Conference to return to Clinton to enter upoh his sixth j^ear. The board of stewards passed a resolution asking for his return and the Confer ence saw fit to allow him to remain. Mr. Wiggins has the distinction of 4 being the first pastor to be allowed Two weeks ago he entered a drug i to return longer than the regular four year period. Mr. Wiggins came to Clintoh five years ago from .the Green Street Methodist church of Columbia. Dur ing his stay here the church has grown under his leadership and has store at Flint and gave « clerk one of the bills. The clerk suspecting that the bill was spurious, followed Anderson into the street. Anderson drew Iiis revolver and drove the clerk back into the store and then escaped into the crowd, j showm progress/in all of its activities; That same day hp' passed eight of the | His reappointjnent to the local pastor- bills in Uint, Michigan. Since that j ate was warmly welcomed by his con The older boys conference Y. M. C. A. meets in Clinton Friday, Saturday and Sunday 200 strong. Seventy-five homes are needed to enter tali! them. The need is imperative. Less than fifty have volun teered so far. Clinton must not,—-cannot fail to be hospitable on this important occasion. Don’t give these boys the cold shoulder. It will terrible advertisement. Let’s open up our hearts and homes. » They are here actually only for two days and three nights, and boys are less trouble than any other guests. * Please rally to the support d£ your city’s reputation. This is an eleventh hour call. Please telephone immediately, and advise how many boys you will take to: Prof. J. H. Witherspoon, Phone 306; Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Jacobs, Phone 222; Mrs. A. V. Martin, Phone 163; Mrs. D. W. A. Neville, Phone 87; Miss Maude Pearson, Phone 381; Mrs. E. G. Fuller, Phone 172; Mrs. J. W. Crawford, Phone S08W; Mrs. G. W. a Smith, Phone 103; Mrs. Will Robertson, Phone 258; Mrs. P. S. Jeans, Phone 114; Miss Margaret Blakely, Phone 314; Miss Elizabeth Tribble, Phone 24; \ Mrs. John T. Little, Phone 164; Mrs. T. L. W. Bailey, Phone 30; Mrs. Frank Kellers, Phone 53; Mrs. W. A. Moorhead, Phone 331; Mrs. F. C. Pinson, Phone 361; Mrs. Ira C. Boland, Phone 218; Mrs. A. T. Fant, Phone 234J. Prof. Kenneth Baker, chairman of entertainment. Phoe 234J. If you fail to find them at home just leave word how many. SEVERAL CHANGES IN THIS DISTRICT Appointments For Greenville District Are Given Out By Bishop Denny ' At Abbeville Conference. Several changes were made in the Greenville District in the appoint ments by Bishop Collins Denny at the Upper South Carolina Conference, which closed its sessions at Abbeville Sunday night.' The North Broad Street Methodist church of this city retains its present pastor, Rev. L. E. Wiggins. The Rev. J. W. Pryor is succeeded at Sloan Street and Lydia by the Rev. T. A. Inabinet, a new member of the Con ference'. ~ / Rev. A. N. Brunson of Greenville, continues as the presiding elder of the district. The Rev. W. A. Fairy, a former Clinton pastor, and for the past four years presiding elder of the Spartan burg district, was sent to the Shandon pastorate at Columbia. The appointments for the Greenville district, of which Clinton is a part, follow: A. N. Branson,' presiding elder. Clinton: Broad Street, L. E. Wjg- gins; Sloan Stret and Lydia, T. A. Inabinet. Easley: First Church and Alice, J. COIN SALE TO BE PUSHED HERE BELOVED WOMAN CLAIMED BY DEATH Mother of Dr. L. Robs Lynn Passes Away at Age of 74. Interment At Covington, Tenn. V-* Mrs; Margaret Ellen McCain Lynn, mother of Dr. L. Ross Lynn, president of the Thornwell Orphanage of this fity, passed away at the homo of her son oh last Friday night after a crit ical illness of several weeks, the out come of which had been feared for several days. The funeral service was held Saturday morning in the Thom- well Memorial church and attended by the entire Orphanage family and a number of friends of the town. Dr. D. J. Wood# and Dr. Dudley Jones )ods the Mrs. J. F. Jacobs Heads This Unit For Campaign of Confederate Memorial Coinage. Mr. James H* Sullivan of Laurens, county chairman for the Confederate Menjorial Coin campaign, met in Clin ton Monday night with a number of citizens and outlined the plan of pro cedure for the sale of Laurens coun- * ty’s allotment of Memorial coins. He explained the various_points to be cov ered in the campaign and urged upon the people of Clinton that they sell their quota just as quickly as possi ble. Mrs. J. F. Jacobs, Sr., is chairman of the Clinton unit and is now actively at work getting ready for the cam paign. Clinton is assigned 714 coins to be sold, this number being equally divided among the three banks of the city. The Rotary and Kiwanis clubs, U. D. C., D. A. R., and other or ganizations are asked to nominate young ladies to enter the contest in the coin selling campaign. Two win ners from the county will be Selected to go to Columbia, and two from the Columbia meet will be selected to go to Atlanta on Lee’s birthday for the great celebration. Just as quickly as the Clinton nominations are made, the conducted the service. The remains, accompanied by Dr. Lynn, left on the 11:30 vestibule for Covington, Tenn., where interment took place Monday afternoon in the family burial ground by the side of her husband. Mrs. Lynn was born in Tipton coun ty, Tenn., Dec. 17, 1851. At eighteen years of age she was married to John Wilson Lynn, both having been reared in the Salem, Tenn., A. R. P. congre gation. To them was boi4i ten chil dren, eight sons and two daughters. Her husband died in 1904 and since that time Mrs. Lynn had made her home with her children in Texas, North Carolina and in Clinton. For the past three years she lived here with her son, Dr. Lynn, and during this period she made and held many friends who were distressed and- griev ed to learn of her death. Mrs. Lynn was a woman of a fine mind though deprived by the Civil war of the advantages of an advanced education. Since early childhood she was a consistent member of ^he Pres byterian church and possessed a re markably strong and fine Christian character. Her life and service were for others, both in and outside the FIRST GAME ON H0MEGR0UNDS Blue Stockings Meet Wofford Terriers Here Tomorrow Afternoon. Record Crowd Expected. • The Presbyterian College will gieet her ancient rival, Wofford, at P. C, stadium tomorrow afternoon. The contest promises to be full.of thrills, and will show colorful football, unless all indication go wrong, and pre-kick off speculations prove of no founda tion. Both teams have shown good foot ball this year. Strifctly~ipe*kihg, Wof ford has the edge in the dope, holding teams to closer scores than the Blue Stockings. Their claim to an offense is well supported by one touchdown scored on Oglethorpe, and two ou, Clemson. They held Carolina’s crack eleven to a fluke touchdown margin. Presbyterian has never lost to Wof ford but once. The old Gold and Black romped on the P. C. eleven last sea son for a 19 to 7 decision. If Presbyterian plays the type of football shown last Saturday in Greenville, she will be able to make things lively for Wofford. If all goes' well, Walter Johnson’s eleven has more than one even chance to wallop the Methodists. The game is going to be a close one, and local fans are* counting much on the toe of th£ sensa tional kicker, Jimmy Stamps, who last Saturday kicked a field goal against Furman measuring forty-fi\4 yardr. COTTON PRICES ARE LOWEST IN YEARS Government Estimate Sends Staple v Way Down. Spot Demand Falls Off. New Orleans, Nov. 1.—The most im- home. Coming to the Orphanage ahe in th<! COtt ° n H.Brown; North Easley, C. D. Good- young ladies will begin canvassing the win; South Easley, J. E. Strickland. community in an effort to sell every Fountain Inn: H. B. Hardy. possible coin. The campaign is a Gray Court: J. E. Mahaffey. unique one and in recognition and ap- Greenville: Bethel, G. I. Ford; Bran don, R. H. Chambers; Buncombe Street, C. E. Peele; Choice Street and Mills, A. H. Bouknight; Dunean, C .L. Harris; Hampton Avenue, H. O. Chambers; Judson, W. F. Gault; Monaghan and Woodside, J. W. Mc r Elrath; Poe and Union, J. P. Byar's; St, 'Paul, D. E. Camak; Southern Bleachery and Poinsett, J. B. Kilgore. Greenville circuit: W. S. Goodwin. Greer: Memorial Church, W. H. Polk; Concord and Appalache, H. B. Koon; Victor and Ebenezer, J. B. Chick. Laurens: First Church, L. P. Mc Gee; Laurens circuit, A. E. Smith. Liberty: N^K. Polk. Norris: D. P. Hudson, supply. Pickens: Grace, T. O. Cannon; Pick ens circuit, R. L. Doggett. Simpsonville: W. H. Murray. Traveler’s Rest: H. W. Sanders. ^ Student Emory University: C. F. Nesbitt, St. Paul, Q. C. Respected Farmer Has Passed Away Father of O. I. Shealy of This City, Dies at Little Mountain < Home. Little Mountain, Oct. 30.—Jack D. Shealy, a highly respected farmer liv ing near Little Mountain, was stricken with apoplexy at 8 o’clock Friday morning while at work in the fiel^i by his home apd died shortly after be ing removed to the house. He would have been 74 years of age in a few days and had always been industrious and active. A brother, Joseph Pres ton Shealy, died in Columbia only a week ago. Surviving Mr. Shealy are a widow and two children, Mrs. W. M. Sloan of Little Mountain and O; I. Shealy of Clinton. Funeral services were held Friday from Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, of which he was a faithful member, his pastor, Dr. J. J. Long, officiating. preciation of the Confederate soldier and makes an unusually strong and patriotic ^appeal to the people of the South. It is hoped that Clinton’s quota will be sold in skprt order, and to this end, the local chairman and all associated with her is asking a com munity response when the actual can vassing begins in the next few days. GREENVILLE MAN NAMED ON BOARD Henry J. Winn of Greenville, Added To Board of Trustees of Thornwell Orphanage. At a recent meeting of the South Carolina Synod in Rock , Hill, Mr. Henry J. Winn of Greenville, was elected a member of the board of trustees of the Thornwell Orphanage, succeeding Mr. W. P. Anderson of Greenville, resigned, who recently moved to Orlando, Fla. Mr. Winn is an alumnus of the or phanage and it is quite fitting that he has been selected by the Synod as a member of its executive board. He is cashier of the First National Bank of Greenville and is highly esteemed here, both at the orphanage and in the city, by a large host of friends. immediately entered into the spirit of the institution and won the love of the large family of children and work ers, being affectionately known by all as “Mother Lynn.” She greatly im pressed all with whom she came in contact by her rare sweetness of char acter, and by her warm and generous heart she drew her friends in the ten- derest ties of love and appreciation. She leaves behind loved ones and friends, whose comfort and joy is in having known her as an upright and charitable example of womanhood. The deceased leaves to mourn her loss four sons: G. J. and E. M. Lynn of Ballenger, Texas, H. W. Lynn of Winters Texa. and Dr. L. Ross LynnJ jn umkr of this city. Also two sisters and one brother: -Mrs. A. J. Wilson of Monte- cello, Ark., Mrs. Lois V. Shannon of Lexington, Va., and Dr. J. I. McCain of Due West. OGLETHORPE GAME TO HAVE “COLOR” Shady Grove School October Honor Roll First grade: Mary Lou Johnson, Lucile Johnson. 1 Second grade f Robert Spencer. Thyrd grade: Birage Alburton. Fourth grade: Ethel Spencer. Sixth grade: Myrtle Johnson. Seventh grade: Wilbur Workman, Texie Henderson. Eighth grade: Mary Keller Bonds, Sara Bonds, Carroll Johnson,* Harold Johnson. Ninth grade': • Hattie Simpson, Dial Henderson, Lockman Henderson. time he gated in other cities 1 gregation and scores of friend of thei and entered upon their duties Tues- of the state. f ether churches cf the city. Changes Made On City Police Force Messrs. C. W. Weir Wd Pierce Fer guson, efficient members of the city police force for £he past year, have resigned their positions to go to Mi ami, Fla., where they will make their future homes. Messrs. Henry Young and Sam A. Kern, well known Clinton citizens, have been elected by city council to fill the two vacancies Clinton Girl Is Highly Esteemed CoIlegeB Founded Largely by Labors of Father and Son to Meet on Gridiron for .First Time If the ghosts of men ever walk a- mong their accustomed earthly path ways, surely the sp rit of William Plumer Jacobs, founder of the Thorn well Orphanage and the Presbyterian College of South Carolina, will be pre sent in Clinton on Friday, the 13 day of November of this year. On that date, perhaps -the most re markable football game that has ever been played in the Palmetto state wiy begin with the referee’s whistle at 3:80 o’clock, between Presbyterian College and Oglethorpe University. The romance of the hour lies in the fact that this is probably the first | time in the history of the United States that a football game is played between two colleges one of which was founded largely by the labors of a father and the other largely by the labors of a son, all within prac tically one generation. Sitting on the bleachers will be two young men from Atlanta, Fred Lesh Jacobs and Thorn- Well Jacobs, Jr., who will see their father’s college play their grand father’s college. Both of these young men will be wearing the old gold and black of Oglethorpe on one lapel of their coats and the garnet and blue of Presbyterian College on the other. The romance of the occasion is still further heightened by the fact that the President of Oglethorpe is also an alumnus of Presbyterian College having received his bachelor’s degree not only from that institution but his Master’s and Doctor’s as well. was the govern ment’s crop estimate Monday, indicat ing a total yield of 15,226,000 bales, exclusive of linters. The almost im mediate, effect of this esfimate, fully a half million bales in excess of gen eral expectations, was a decline in prices of approximately $6 a bale com pared with ^losing prices of the pre ceding business day. While the market recovered nearly 50 points of this in the two days fol lowing the government estimate, ow-— ing to trade buying on the scale down and more or less covering by shorts in fear of the effects of freezing weather and rains in the belt, the de mand gradually thinned out and prices the growing conviction that the crop was so large that frotot or other weather damage would not be sufficient to count mater ially. Toward the end of the week there V'ere evidences also of a falling off in the spot demand with October commit ments out of the way and fn addition there developed a quite general liqui dation of the December interest by large spot concerns. As a result prices declined rather sharply Friday and Saturday, finally breaking thru the 18 cent line and establishing not only' the lowest prices of the season but the lowest in several years. As a result of the liquidation of the long interest the technical position of the market is believed to have been strengthened and the general expecta tion is for a fair rally if any develop ment of a constructive character fol lows. The weather in the cotton re gion has been unfavorable and there- have been several days of freezing te mperature over the greater portion of the northern section of the belt. Just what damage such weather has. done to a crop prospect remains to be seen. That it has put a stop to any further makiftg by late cotton seems certain. Thprnwell Wins And Is Still In Race M?ss Ruth McQuiston of this city, was during the past week selected by the student body of Chicora College as its most popular member. Miss McQuiston is the daughter of Mrs. H. F. McQuiston, matron at the Thorn well Orphanage, and is quite an at tractive and accomplished young wo man. Her friends in the city will binet. learn with interest of the high es teem in which she is held by her class mates and associates at Chicora. ' | Rev. J., W. Prypr Goes To Buffalo Rev. J. W. Pryor, fdr the past two years pastor of the Sloan Street and Lydia Methodist churches of this city, was transferred at the Abbeville Con ference to the Buffalo supply. He is succeeded here by the Rev. T. A. Ina- r. Pryor made a number of friends during his pastorate here, all of wh< n will learn with regret that he has been sent elsewhere. By defeating Williamston 35 to 0 lest Friday, Thornwell kept her place in the elimination, and plays again this afternoon with Due West. There are now five teams in the district that have not been beaten. They are Anderson, Pickens, Easley, Due West, and Thornwell. ^fter this week there will be only two. Wheth- ei Thornwell will be one of the two remains to be seen, but the following spotless record is behind her: Thornwell 7, Bailey 6. Thornwell 34, Barium Springs 6. i Thornwell 33, Laurens 0. Thornwell 35, Willimstor. 0. Union Service t - Sunday Night The churches of the city will unite .in a special union service next Sun day night at the First Baptist church at 7:30 p. m., in connection with the Older Y. M. C. A. Boys Conference which will be in session at that time. Dr. B. J. Blocker, professor of Philos ophy at Furman University, will bd the speaker, using as his topic “The Goal Supreme.” ■ vJ >