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VOLUME XXIX
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1929
NUMBER 38
MOB MEMBERS
TO FACE TRIAL
WORK BEGINS ON
COLLEGE DRIVE
Seven Bound Over At Charlotte
On Kidnaping Charge. Judge
Asserts Acts As a Disgrace
To County.
W. P.' Jacobs Name’d General Chair
man of State-Wide Campaign To
Liquidate Presbyterian’s Debt.
WEST AND EAST
CLASH IN VIEWS
MINTER GETS
HOUSEAL MAKES
LAURENS JOB CROP ESTIMATE
Borah and Reed Tilt In Senate On
Tariff Bill In Heated '
Argument.
Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 17.—Seven of
the fourteen men charged with being
members of the mob which on Monday
of last week kidnaped three men, beat
ing one of them, were bound over to
superior courts of two counties this
. afternoon by Judge Thomffs J. Shaw.
The men bound over are A. G. More-
head, and William Pickering, superin
tendent in the Loray cotton mill; Carl
Holloway, Dewey Carver, Tom Car
ver and Smiley Lewis, Loray mill em
ployes, and Horace Lane, Myers mill
employe.
John Holly, T. A. Gilbert, A. J.
Roach, C. E. Jolly, Oscar Goodman,
Dr. Lee Johnson and C. M. Ferguson^
held with the others as being members
of the mob, were ordered released.'
Judge Shaw’s investigation into the
anti-communist mob which staged
demonstrations in Gastonia, Charlotte
and Bessemer City, invading labor
headquarters in each of the cities, was
begun a week ago: He was sitting as
a magistrate.
The defendants were ordered to ap
pear in Cabarrus county, where the
alleged beating took place, on October
14 and in Gaston county on October
21. They are to be tried on tbe same
charges in both counties, that of con
spiracy to kidnap and kidnaping, as
sault with a deadly weapon, with in
tent to kill and false imprisonment and
arrest.
Bond was fixed at $7,500 for each
of the defendants. All were at liberty
tonight, the bonds having been signed
by Dr. Lee Johnson, Loray mill phy
sician and, A. L. Baugh, resident man
ager of the Loray mill.
None of the three men kidnaped,
Ben Wells, C. M. Lell and C. D. Say
lor, was in court this afternoon when
the judge completed his investigation.
Wells was beaten and all three were
left in Cabarrus county, eight miles
from Concord, to make their way back
to the town.
In a talk from the bench following
the announcement that seven 6T''flIF'
The state-wide Presbyterian College
Program of Deliverance will be headed
by William P. Jacobs of this city, as
general chairman, it was announced
at a meeting of the board of trustees
at the college on Tuesday.
Announcement also was made that
C. M. Bailey had accepted the position
of chairman for zone number 1 in the
campaign. Zone number 1 is composed
of Piedmont, South Carolina and Con-
garee presbyteries. ,
W. J. Bailey, it also was announced,
has accepted the treasurership of the
program.
At the Tuesday meeting members
of the board—there were seventeen
present, worked out details of the pro
gram which has as its goal the rais
ing of $350,000 to clear away the col-
1 lege indebtedness and thus place the
[institution on a firm foundation for
future growth.
I Announcement of Mr. Jacobs’ ac-
1 ceptance of the general chairmanship
I was made by Rev. John McSween,
president of the college. Mr. Jacobs
said he realized the deep ^responsibil
ity he was undertaking and declared
he was accepting the position only
because he felt certain he would have
the whole-hearted support of all mem
bers of the board and of all loyal Pres
byterians in the synod of South Caro
lina.
Mr. Jacobs will head the work of or
ganizing campaign forces in the eight
Presbyteries of the synod of South
Carolina. Campaign chairmen will be
obtained in all the eight presbyteries,
and these presbytery chairmen in ad
dition will obtain chairmen for the
groups into which the presbyteries
have been divided. The group chair
men will have charge of the jvork of
securing church chairmen and church
committees.
A grandson of Dr. William Plumer
Jacobs, founder of the college and of
Thornwell orphanage. Chairman Ja
cobs has been quite active in civic,
religious and educational work. He is
widely known among the Presbyteri
ans of the state and he is devoted to
ihe cause of
men were being held for the higher
court. Judge Shaw characterized the
conduct of the anti-Communist mob
and the action of the mob in which
Mrs. Ella May Wiggns were killed last
Saturday as “a disgrace to Gaston
county.”
“The evidence shows,” said Judge
Shaw, “that only 15 were guilty of
taking the man out and beating him,
but the others are just as guilty as
the men who carried him.
“The trouble about mob lawless
ness,” said Judge Shaw, “is that if a
person joins in with the mob prior
to the time the crime is permitted, all
entering in the conspiracy are gruilty
whether they had active participation
in the crime or not.
“The evidence shows that only 15
are guilty of beating Wells but the
others are just as guilty as the men
who carried him into Cabarrus coun
ty.
“The court finds that while the
physical ipjury is not serious yet the
circumstances are such that a serious
injury has been inflicted in the mean
ing of the law.
“I want to' say that this is a very
unfortunate case for this section. I
said the other day that all lawlessness
is the same whether from mobs or
from Communists. An example of mob
law is that which occuurred when the
wcman waS shot Saturday.
“I want to repeat again, I don’t
care who is connected with it that the
kidnaping of these men and that
which occurred Slaturday are a dis
grace to Gaston county.”
The judge declared that he watched
Saylor when he was examining him
and was convinced Saylor was not tell
ing the truth when, he said Solicitor
John G. Carpenter and Former Con
gressman A. L. Bulwinkle were in the
mob.
Mr. Jacobs points out that the rais
ing of the $350,000 fund is necessary
to relieve the college of the burden of
debt, to eliminate annual interest pay
ments on the debt, to assure the re
ceipt of conditional endowment gifts,
and to point the way for future
growth of the college, the church and
Christian education.
W^ashington, Sept. 16.—Republican
differences over the tariff reached fe
ver heat in the senate today as Sena
tors Borah, of Idaho, and Reed, of
Pennsylvania, clashed over the treat
ment accorded agriculture and indus
try in the pending revision bill.
As spokesman for the Republican
Independent group, Borah told the
senate the measure was far out of line
with the pledges made to agricultu^
by both parties in the last campaign,
that fami products were inadequately
proviled for, and that what increases
were proposed in farm rates would be
more than offset by raises in indus
trial levies.
Reed denied the bill violated Repub
lican tariff pledges. He cited President
Hoover’s message referring to the
need of protecting lagging manufac
turing industries where it was deemed
warranted, as well as agriculture, and
said the Republicans on the finance
committee" had rewritten the House
measure upon the\ theory that all
Americans are equal.”
The unheralded speech of the Ida
hoan came at a point in consideration
of committee amendments to the ad
ministrative sections of the bill when
such a move was not expected. It serv
ed to emphasize the dissatisfaction of
the western and northwestern farm
state senators with the bill. Earlier,
Senator McNary, Republican, Oregon,
had announced he would confer with
other senators from the northwest
over the treatment accorded lumber,
shingles, logs, wool, manganese,
fruits, and nuts in the bill.
“This bill,” said Borah, “is not exe
cuted in justice to the agricultural in
terests. Some of us believe the time is
at hand when agriculture must take
a stand if it is to benefit from the pro
tective tariff system.”
Citing statistics showing growing
profits of manufacturing industries in
recent years, imports of manufactured
goods less than 4 per cent of domestic
production or practically stationary
since enactment of existing tariff law
in 1922, and exports of such commo
dities greater Jast A’eay than in the
last decade, Borah said further in
creases in industrial rates were un-
Former ‘ Sedalia Citizen Named Dutch Weather Prophet In Newberry
Postmaster To Succeed Stan- Sees Cotton Yield of 900',000
ley W. Crews.
Laurens, Sept. 12.—According to a
Bales for This State.
TARIFF ISSUE
UP IN SENATE
Newberry, Sept. 15.—W. P. Houseal,
news dispatch from Washington in , the Duth weather prophet, while on a
yesterday’s The State, James E. Min-1 visit several days last week to his
ter, prominent local citizen, has been i brother. Dr. W. G. Houseal, who has
nominated for the postmastership at
: Laurens to succeed Stanley W. Crews,
whose term expired last year but who
has continued in offiqie pending the
selection of a successor. Mr. Minter’s
name will have to go before the sen
ate for confirmation, but it is not
thought that any conflict will take
place over the appointment. Under the
! usual proceedure in such cases, it is
been confined to his home by illness
since March 10, was cordially greeted
by his friends in Newberry. Among
other interesting talks on the streets
as he would meet old acquaintances,
he made a forecast as usual while on
these visits to his old home, in re
gard to crops, especially the yield of
cotton throughout the cotton states.
Mr. Houseal said South Carolina
Administration View Prevails
By Close Vote. Name of Im
ported Goods Must Be Placed
On Containers.
expected that his appointment will be would produce this year more than
confirmed and his commission issued
in about ten days, whereupon he will
: enter upon his duties.
The nomination of Mr. Mintcr to
; the local office brings to an end the
j speculation over Postmaster Crews’
j successor which has lasted since Mr.
I Crews’ term expired last fall. It has
j been known that the selection for the
; postmastership lay between the in
cumbent, who applied for^ re-appoint-
ment, Mr. Minter and Frank H. Reid.
The choice of » postmaster here was
expected to throw some light on the
statewide contest between the Tolbert
and Lambright factions for control of
Republican patronage. However, local
citizens in touch with the three appli
cants were of the opinion yesterday
that Mr. Minter’s close family rela
tionship with former Senator Dial was
a deciding factor in the contest. Mr.
Minter is a brother-in-law of the for
mer senator.
Mr. Minter had not been formally
notified of his nomination when seen
yesterday, but like everybody else ac
cepted the report as true. He said that
he was very much gratified over his
selection and hoped to merit the good
will of the public by a thorough per
formance of his duties.
Mr. Minter entered business here
with his father, the late Capt. John R.
Minter, shortly after his graduation
900,000 bales, the largest crop in a
number of years since the boll weevil
entered the state in 1917 and that the
entire crop would be around 15,000,000
bales, throughout the South would be
about a million bales less than the
government report estimate made in
August. He also predicted that the
price would rise and go upward
around 22 cents on the crop of 1929-
30.
It is quite remarkable to say that
the government report of September
9, coming three days later after Mr.
Houseal’s forecast made in Newberry,
was approximately the same as the
number of bales which he predicted
early in the spring would be produced;
that the drought wouldn’t be relieved
in Texas in time for that state to pro
duce the big crop that was expected
there early in the season.
He also says he never thought, like
the farmers complained in May that
the cotton crop would be a failure this
Washington, Sept. 17. — The view
point of the administration group in
the senate prevailed today in the hrst
voting on the tariff bill.
By a vote of 40 to 32, a committee
amendment was adopted requiring
that imported articles be marked con
spicuously with the country of origin
except in certain instances.
The ballot was taken on reconsider
ation of a previous rejection vote of
38 to 28. Eight Republicans joined 30
Democrats on the first roll call
against the amendment, the eig.ht be
ing Senators Borah,. Cuttin, Howell,
LaFollette, McMaster, Norris, Nye,
and Reed. '
The last named—a Pennsylvania
Republican, subsequently complained
about that part of the amendment re
lating to place of marking and asked
the reconsideration on the ground that
a majority of members did not know
what they were voting on. Others dif
fered with him.
On the second roll call, six Repub
licans combined with 26 Demojiats
against the amendment, while five
Democrats joined 35 Republicans f ;r
it. Senators Reed and Howell were
the Republicans to change, while Sen
ators Trammell, Fletcher, Ransdell,
Bifoussard and Pittman were the Dem
ocrats' to go over for the amendment.
Much debate preceded the votes, the
Democrats contending for the house
language making it discretionary with
iBlackmer Given
Members of the board voted to give
their unqualified support to Mr. Ja
cobs and to assume active work in the
campaign. They will begin at once the
recruiting of a great general commit
tee which will be brought together
for a rally at the college on October
4, the day of the P. C.-Mercer football
game.
The board members include:
Fewell, Rock Hill; Dr. W. M. MePheet-
ers, Decatur, Ga.; Dr. R. R. Wallace,
Chester; C. Bissel Jenkins and Rev.
J. W. Hickman, Chareston; Prof. A.
J. Thackston, Orangeburg; Dr. W. R.
Barron and Joseph Walker, Columbia;
Dr. G. G. Mayes, Winnsboro; John T,
W’oodside and L. L. Barr, Greenville;
Rev. W. A. Hafner, Gaffney; Rev. R.
W. Park, Lgke’City; W. R. O’Bryan,
Heineman; H. M. McLaurin, Wedge-
field; Dr. H. Tucker Graham, Flor
ence; L. B. Stevenson, Hartsville; Dr.
T. Ellison Simpson, Darlington; Dr.
E. C. Doyle, Seneca; Lloyd Smith,
Easley; Dr. R. F. Kirkpatrick, Ander
son; C. M. Bailey, Clinton; Rev. E. D.
Patton, Laurens; Dr. F. E. Harrison,
Abbeville; H. E. Davis, Florence; R.
Hayne King, Atlanta; Colonel J. D.
Fulp, Greenwood.
necessary.
He agreed the farmers got all they
asked in the Fordney-McCumber tariff
act of 1922, but those representing
.them, he said, made the mistake of ac
quiescing at the same time to increas-
les in industrial levies, the “disparity”
I between agriculture and industry re-
I suiting from the bill, he argued, would
I be continued by the pending measure.
I from the Citadel. I^ter he engaged | government for 1929.
jin farming and the livestock business'
jat Sedalia, the ancestral home of 'he
; Minters. In addition he conducted a
! large store there and was postmaster
!of the Sedalia office for a number of
I years. He and his family have iieen
residents of Laurens for the past three
years.
Postmaster Crews had very little to
year for the eoncludinK sen ence of j treasury in excepting articles from
his forecast published March 1 in Thej^he marking requirements and the Re-
State, The best crops will be made | publicans claiming there was too
this year that have been produceddiscretionary power already
since 1920.’ Mr. Houseal promises to,,„^g^j the head of that depart-
give his reasons for this forecast j ^lent
(March 11) and also how the farmers | president Hoover, as well as Sec-
have been so agreeably disappointed ; j-ptary Mellon, figured largely in the
in the big crop of more than a million debate. Senator Couzens. Re
bales that has been forecast by the [publican, Michigan, and member of the
j finance committee, suggested that the
; president disclose the truth about re-
i ports that he, the president, had asked
T7* 4! (P/JA AAA i committee Republicans to place
r inC Ol $bUjUUU i manganese on the free list.
— I Reading from the Manufacturers’
Washington, Sept. 17. — Harry M.i Record a statement purporting to
Blackmer, former president of thelquote Mr. Hoover in a speech in Colo-
Midwest Refining company, was fined |rado as saying that manganeses min-
$60,000 in the District of Columbia su- ing required protection, Couzens de-
say over his failure to secure a re-i ' , * j r *
^ nrenie court today for contempt in i manded an explanation.
appointment, except that he was nat
urally somewhat disappointed. Like |
most office-holders, he said he would |
like to have had at least one more i
term so he could have quit without be-1
ing turned out, but that he recognized '
failing to answer two subpoenas to ap- i Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana,
pear in the trial of Albert B. t’aH and [observed that such a report had been
Harry F. Sinclair on conspiracy charg-!attributed to Senator' Bingham, Re
es in connection with the leasing of {publican, Connecticut, after the fi
nance committee had reversed itself on
Blackmer was fined $30,000 and I the question.
NEW CONTRACTOR
ON LANFORD ROAD
he held on too long to enjoj that feci- bjg failure to answer the { Bingham said a newspaper had re-
ing. Mr. Crews has been postmaster
since August, 1924. It is well known
summons in the Fall-Sinclair case in i ported him as changing his vote on re-
Kiwanians Plan
Special Program
I The regular meeting of the Kiwanis
club will be held this evening at 7:45
at Hotel Clinton.
Miss Kenned}' On
Converse Faculty
Friends here of Miss Fronde Ken
nedy, a native of this city, will be in
terested to know that she is to serve
on the hlnglish faculty of Conver.«e
college, Spartanburg, for the coming
year.
Miss Kennedy for several years
headed the orphanage schools of this
city as principal. She received her M.
A. degree from Columbia university
and is now working on her Ph.D. de
gree at the same institution. .A few
years ago the Litt.D. degree was con-
ferr^ upon her by the Presbyterian
collie. Miss Kennedy has held sev
eral responsible positions since leav
ing Clinton, among them oeing dean
of the woman’s department at Duke
universit;^, and 'dean of Stonewall
Jackson college at Abingdon, Va.
I This week is being observed by In
ternational Kiwanis throughout Amer
ica and Canada . as “Constitution
I Week.” A special program has been
arranged by the club for tonight in
observance of the International call
with the principal address to be de
livered by Kiwanian Dudley Jones of
the college faculty.
AWAY AT
COLLEGE
Let THE CHRONICLE follow
your son or daughter. Its week
ly visit will be “like a letter
from home.” It will give much
news your letters omit. Special
studenPs rate of $1.00 for nine
months. List, your subscriptron
today.
Now Thought That Project Will Be
^ Completed By October Ist.
At Work Long 'Time.
Laurens, Sept. 15. — Contractor
Crye, associated with Simons, May-
rant and Company, now engaged in
the work of paving the Clinton-Ki-
nards project on highway No. 2, has
entered into an agreement with the
State Highway department to com
plete the Lanford-Enoree project on
highway No. 10. It is understood from
official sources that Mr. Crye propos
es to finish the job by October 1. One
mile and a half of the original 4 1-2
miles remains to be top-soiled, and a
considerable amount of rock and fin
ishing work has been taken over by
the contractor. He is to do the top
soiling and necessary grading work
at 50 cents the cubic yard, and the
rock work on a cost plus basis.
Mr. Crye moved his equipment on
the ground Tuesday and work has been
started, according to R. V. Royall of
Greenwood, contractor in charge.
The original contractors, after
spending about eight months on the
project, relinquished the job a week
or two ago and moved their equipment
away. Settlement in full with the la
borers who had been employed on the
pi'oject was effected this week by rep
resentatives from the State highway
department, it was stated Tuesday.
The reinforced concrete bridge over
Warrior creek, being conducted by
another contractor, has also suffered
delay, principally through the extra
time required in placing the foun^da-
tions, and it probably will be some
time in November before the bridge is
finished. This, however, will not in
terfere with traffic as a suitable de
tour can continue to be used by the
public.
that he has not let the grass grow un
der his feet while drawing a public sal
ary, but instead, has been applying
himself to a study of accounting and
1927 which resulted in a mistrial, and, quest of the president but he denied
tried singly on the* charges.
. George (Jordon Battle, attorney for
oo eeping. e a rea y as a retired oil man, who has continued
in? opening with a large auditing ^
firm, he states, and may enter that
a similar sum for failure to appear in I receiving such a request or that he
April, 1928, at the time Sinclair was I had switched his vote.
Senator McKellar, Democrat. Ten
nessee, opened debate on the bill with
an opposition speech in which he said
work soon after Mr. Minter takes over
the reins of office.
Clinton Hi Boys
Strong For P. C.
gation, gave notice he would appeal
from the decision.
The fine and costs will be taken
from the $100,000 in bonda, owned by
Blackmer, which was ordered forfeit
ed by the court for violation of the
Walsh act which provides service of
Of the fourteen boys in the 1929 i summons may be made on Americans
Clinton high school graduating class, i/^siding in foreign jurisdictions, and
twelve are now students at Presbyte-1 ^or forfeiture up to $100,000 if they
I rian college as members of the fresh- j answer the subpoenaes.
man class. Two members of the class: — —
idid not attend college, circumstances
I only preventing it from being a one
1 hundred per cent P. C. contingent.'
! Those entering college last week were:
if the bill passed as written the Re
publican party could not only “get by
with stealing from the government,
but with murder.”
TRACK MEET TO
COME HERE
New Management
Blue Stockings To Be Hosts Again
On May 3rd. Sturgeon Named
Association President.
Charleston, Sept. 16.—Clinton, S. C.
has been awarded the annual track
meet of the South Carolina Intercol-
For Hotel Ethel j legiate association, and Presbyterian
j college will be host to the trackers
j on May 3.
This became known today in a state
ment from D. S. McAllister, of the
Citadel, secretary, who was re-eiected
Eugene Bragg, Jim Davis, Reid Lock-j Hotel Ethel recently opened in the
I man, Wm. Pitts, Lawson Abrams, i city, has been leased by Geo. Bratsos !
1 Grady Adair, John William Dillard, of the Sanitary Cafe, and the hostel
I George Dominick, Bothwell Graham,; ly continue to be open to the pub- ^
James Horton. Harold Johnson and llit. Mrs. J. Clarence Miller of New- f" ^es-
John Odiorne, berry, ha.s been secured as propriet-'I-resbytermn
' ress and has already entered upon
FSiritl MCBtin^S duties. The hotel recently opened
rp XT 1J contains all modern conveniences and
10 rS0 nOlCl is v.’ell furnisheJ throughout. The
new lessee succeeds Mr. and Mrs. Co-
W'inter cover and small grain crops Adair who recently relinquished
I will be discu.s.sed this week and next at the management.
meetings of farmers and business men.
NINTH grade ORGANIZED
The subject of winter cover crops is
one that is of much interest to all of
the farmers just at this time. The
meetings Scheduled are as follows:
I Friday night, September 20, Hurri-
Icane .school house; Tuesday night,
Septembter 24, Clinton high school
building. The hour of meetings will
, be 8 o’clock.
• It is hoped that a large number of
farmers and business men will be
present. Plans for these meetings are
i being made by the local agricultural
teacher.
At a meeting of the ninth grade of'
the Clinton high school held yester
day, the following officers were elect
ed to serve for the ensuing year: Pa
tricia Giles, president;, Rena Abrams,
vice-president; Charlie McDaniel, jtec-
retary-treasurer.
RETURNS TO CHARLESTON
George O’Daniel returned to Char
leston yesterday to resume his studies
at the Charleston Medical college, and
will be resident physician to Porter
Military academy during his senior
year.
First 1929 Bale
Ginned Thursday
Clinton’s first bale of 1929
cotton was furnished by Reese
Young, well known local farm
er. It was ginned last Thursday
at the ('linton Cotton Oil com
pany’s plant. The bale was from
Coker seed, weighed .506 pounds,
and graded strict low middling.
It was bought by Pitts & Cope
land of this city, for 18 1-2
cents. The cotton crop in this
section though two weeks late,
is exceptionally good. A num
ber of bales have been ginned
since Mr. Young started the ball
rolling.
college. The election took place at the
annual meeting of the association at
Presbiderian college.
Tennis again will be place I under
direct supervision of the association,
according to Secretary McAllister.
Every state institution with the ex
ception of Clemson, Erskine and Uni
versity of South Carolina was repre
sented at the meeting. Flligibility of
football candidates was discussed, but
none of the boys was thrown out.
Coach Tommy Scaffe, of Wofford,
and Professor Petit, of the Furman
law faculty, were nAmed to the tennis
committee, and given power to act on
the date of the state tennis meet.
Ne.xt year’s meeting will be held at
Laurens.
1 A DIES TO SERVE
CHICKEN STEW
On next Saturday evening begin
ning at 6 o’clock, the ladies of Bailey
.Memorial Methodist church will serve
a chicken stew in the dining room of
the church. There will be a charge of
35c for the stew and 5c for coffee. The
public is invited.