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. 1 ■ THREE MEN FACE TRIAL TOR lUSOR MURDER AT CROSS HILL Henry Rasor and Crisp Brothers First To )Be Ttied. Yesterday Given Over To Drawinf? Jury. Gmipt Jury Returns True ^ill Against Four White Men and T^o ^iegroes. Case Continues This Morning:. Laurens, Feb. 17.—^Three men went on trial today (Wednesday)' for the alleged murder of William C. Rasor, 71-year-old retired banker, merchant! and farmer, in his home at Cross Hill! Ford Announces New Models •Y RADFORD MOBICY Washington, T).^ C., February 15.- IHE F0R(i01TEN ANANI.tS j to rhinister to his needs. What was Some years ago a chicken thief com-1 name ? Ananias, mitted a series of robberies on big F.verj body remembers Judas ^h« Interest in the coming presidential outside New York He ^ot ■ Ananias the liar. No- COl.n ^ oampaift., ha? been stimulatoj hy thf | ^ ^ s f ■ a. , K ,.v,.D Not IhnK ago I toid in thi. c^'.umn Alfred R. Smith JasC|Wlll B^ Put Oll^Market Early In, of a foolish millionaire who put a mil- that he will run on the Democratic With the calling of the case, practi cally the enire day w'as spent in draw ing the jury. By mid-day ithe names in'the big jury box had been exhaust ed with only sijf jurj’men selected, with the remainder to be drawn dur ing the afternoon ^rom the five-mile box, and each man being swoni on March. Detailed Specifications lion dollars in gold into a safe-deposit ,ick;t if drafted. >m me shall call Van Norton, need and helped to start him on his Not Made I*uhlic. box. Several persons have written to Sii\nn?r mv fitriirM wann wr/vn*r Mr. Hoover is practically unchal- hired a private deteetke and caught career Detroit, Mich., Feb Ford is coming out with eight cylihder car to hib voir dire. The care will continue [The announcement was made here to-; superintendent of the U. S, , this morning ^nd it is expected that day by tne Fords inUn open inter-j ^ ng so far as to say that it would take stretch.” i corroborative'figures. million dol-t®" club a few receiver) the neighbors, they said.! \ very wi.se and good friend of mine had a motto. Said he: “Every man ha.s a right to be judged by his best.” VViU gome psychologist explain why have the Democratic nomination sew-|.‘^fy^ rasca''”” hard for us to remember the rhesuperintelidelitoftheU.S. as-'** “P’of ‘he road for a good loilg1h«‘- a day will be required to‘~^resent the prosecuton’s side and anpher day for the defense. Solicitor Blackw'ell has stated that 10 or 12 witnesses will be called by the state, while tt is not known how many will be subpoenaed foi: the defense. Judge S. W. G. Shipp, af Florence, is presiding over the term. He was sent here by Chief Justice Blease in the place of Judge G. B. Greene, of Anderson, w'ho disqualified himself on account of a distant relationship to the Cripp brothers. Judge Shipp announced yesterday | de-pression. that the bar enclosure would b3' re- aened for court officials, attorneys, witnesses and newspaper men. On ac count of the importance of the trial, he said, the public will be asked to remain outside the railing. The defendants are: Henrj' Rasor, 45-yead-old son of the slain man; Eu gene Cris|<,'41, arid Lathan Crisp, 37, relatives oCMrs. Rasor by marriage. Three others, Ernest Hitt, 21-year- old Cross Hill youth, and I^ee Payne and Coot Richards, NegiWs, will be j among the principal witnes. os for the .Btate. Hitt and Richards .are ch:srged with murder and Payne vjatii a ces «or>' after the fact. A grand jury, of w^h J. G. Sul livan vifas acting foi^man, returned true bills against tne six defendants after hearing testimony by State-Con- etaft>le J. W. R^haYdson, Sheriff Ga- lumbus L. Owens and Rural Po'‘'ce- tnan Enorfr B. Pinson. The bills of indictmein were handed to the jpry by Solitrilor Homer S- Blackwell about three quarters of an hour after court <mnvened and the true bills were re turned in about two.hours. ^ Considerable time also will be tak en up with argument, it is expected, since each side will be represented by And so eas^, to , .......v,.. , What do you mean, send him over{'''nrst ? Productica of the new car will start lars in gold bullion would occupy ai'^^ Smith threw a monkey-wrench into road?” Van Norton asked. j some time this month. The first pub-'space of 4,752 cubic inches or 2^4 00-1^^** machinery. v ! “Why, pr(.s<>cute him. Send him to ' Smith’s statement was succin:t, and j jail.” remember the lie showings will be made early in biq feet,” he said, “and would weigh March. Detaihd specifications were not dis closed, but the two motors—the new! ounce of gold is a troy ounce, which 3,316 pounds avoirdupois, or 1.58 tons.! that he vvas willing to ’ “Prosecute him ? I don’t intend to We weigh'gold bars bv grains, and an!^'“’ 'f it wa.s tendered him. prosecute him.” • but that he would make no active | Thev V-eight and the improved four—will be interchangeable in a new chassis which will be longer and roomier than the present models. - *‘ Ford revelTed that pla'ns to place the eight cylinder car on* the market were dela.ved for a year due to the conUins 480 grains; but whan we ,hip I'amPf ahead_oL_t!wvOTVjntM,n gold bars we weigh them, for freight' p'ain wonls, hi.s declu- purposes, in avoirdupois pounds, ofl^.t""! ®“* f". h’* 7,000 grains to the pound. It Ukesi''•“'"‘It <>V‘ ‘•‘’'•"'I df'r were incredulous. “Surely you’re going to see that he i.s pun- ishetl for all the loss and worry he has caused us.” ' “Just a minute,” Van Norton re- Final R. O.T. C. Bouts Monday lewj This year there will l>e feiiver books i perhap.s Penn«ylvaiiia and New the published, but they will be better to mention only a few. Other ^t-s books, the pu^shers say. For several 1 England states are also ex;>ecte'l “You know the public has suffered a lot,” Ford said. “We now must take into account the public’s ptxketbook and while we developed a dandy new improved model four we found public wanted something more. That si • — r-r- why we are how going^ to bring out j y^ars it has been possible for almost the eight.” 25 8-10 grains of coin gold to make a him in the various state pri-1 quietly. “Suppose I do prose- dollar, so the $20 goldpiece, or double 1 delepte he pi*' ^ -Sicute him. Suppose I get a conviction eagle, conUins a little more than an {be deduct-; ^nd a jail sentence. What will hap- ounce of coin gold and a little less'*^ beim p aced m years from now my name than a troy ounce of pure gold.” i Roosevelt column. Several « ates ^ mentioned in a’gathering such I are knqwn to be for v^mith, in prefei-|g,j^ ^his, and som^ody will say vague- IJOOKS ‘Van Norton? Van Norton? I-et’s [ Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illiro s see. Wasn’t he mixed up in some chicken steallTig business a little while ago ft The final bouts, which will decide the R. O. T. C. boxing championship for the year 1932, will he held Mon- day night in the gymnasium of Pres byterian college. TTie bouts are open to the public at a nominal charge to cover operating expen.ses. “The favor with which the bouts were received by the people of Clin ton last winter has led us to hope that there will be a large representa tion from the town on Monday night,” said Captain R. E. W'ysor, who as Production was started some time ago on the new model A. In the midst of activity Ford himself stepped in with orders to introduce the eight. that we forget the l>est in our fellow J , , , ,1— favor the “happy warrior.” and anybody to get a book publish^, the ovev.|„g„ ,tain or scandal whether the author knew how to write! i„„j Ky the Roose- r ’ * ngie Siam or scanaai unri 1,0,1 ao„ _ iwrielming leau ciaimea oy ine uoost clings to our memories forever and had something to say, or not. Thei^^j^ faction to a perhaps insignificant country was floode<l with volumes It is a curious fact of human nature ^be militatry department is from the pens of youpg writers who.se , , T, , . . I anihitions outran ^eir abilities, who In recent months Ford again has, had ..ever taken the trouble to learn been in the engineering laboratories | how ^ write and who, quite gencml- personally check'ig and aiding in interesteil in nothing but in total. velopments The new inodil takes the Ford nam ed I roduct away from the four cylin der field for the first time since it abandoned the two cylinder car. decency. The reading public i.s getting dis gusted with books which reflect no emotions above the level of animal ism, recognize no spiritual forces or If I were to mention to any reader of this newspaper the name Judas, he would tell me ini'mediately who Judas was. “He was the treacherous apcKs- At least two other candidates are expected to benefit by Smith’s decla-1 tie, the betrayeC of his Ixird. ration. They are John N. Garner of | ,If I were to mention the name of Texas, and Newton 1). Baker of Ohio., Ananias, I should get a ivsponse al- Close olnservers here place the chances; most as prompt. “Ananias? Why, An- s^taged efficiently and well. ’ sponsoring the bouts. “We believe that we are helping to build up inter- d.-t in athletic activities on the part of those students who are not quali fied to make varsity teams, and we hope that the townspeople will join with ps, as they did last year, in of fering encouragement to these young men. Under the direction of Coach Walter Johnson and his staff, the now of leading candidates in the fol lowing order: 1, John N. Gamer; 2, Newton I). Ford feels the publjc is ready to buy I values in life.' Readers are turning | *^»*^f*I Franklin D. Roosevelt; 4, —that now is the opportune moment; back to the sound old classics. More for a new product of new design and | voting fo!k.s are reading Robinson idea. It was revealed that Thomas A. Ed ison rode around in one of the new eights over,-a year ago when here. Twenty eights were built then in the old Edison laboratories, Greenfield V’illage, Dearborn. “The public must have its part in all these things,” Ford said. “Only Cru.soe than have for years turnetl to that great IxMkk, which ranks next to the Bible and Shakespeare in its en- j Alfred E. Smith. Governor Ritchie of Maryland, and Melvin Traylor, the Chicago banker, are the most promi nent of the dark horses in the race. Garner’s popularity with DemmTats during value as a source at once of all over the country is due to his un- enter*ainment and inspiration. will he assisted by R. E. Babb and rtufr'f 'Huff of ihe I,aurens bsff, arid Charh^s A. Young of Greenwood, and the defen.se will be represented by Ralph T. Wilson. James H. Sullivan, O. L- Lmg and W. R. Richey, all of jit will buy. the Ijaurens bar. Ernest Hitt and the two Negroes were brought here from the state penitentiary in time for tbe trial Wednesday morning. Henry* Rasor and the two Crisps are in the county jail. It wa.s reported from Columbia today that Riebaeds had been suffering from influenza, but the penitentiary AUIIATY I think we are coming toward the end of the time when incompetence j could “put itself over” by blatant ad- * a » ft . « ft ftift * ft ftift m w ft ft «ft A ^ -V ftift I UWrtyTif^rTefir'bfTnf^ffOft can be _ maining ten per cent is that of the public. Even after the engiiH*ers have created the best they are capable of making it is up to the public w’hether Now tbe public has Iiuffer^ a lot and has been very patient. It deserves a lot from the manufacturer. From now on the public’s pocketbook sits in at "every conference. .— “There’s something else that .‘■hould are not buying poor quality products now, and are not so ready to believe what plausible promoters tell them. It is going to lie harder, for a few years at any rate, for swindlers to sell worthless stocks and bonds, and for j self-styled artists to palm off their so-called “modem” paintings and sculptures as real works of art. deniahly skilful handling of the house of representatives as its speaker. I* or years he has studied at close hand the duties of that office and when the po sition came to him he moved right in and saw to it that needed legislation, whether sponsored by his own party 7^FTlTeTr^ub1Tt*any,“Wtts-prnrnptly en anias was the man who claimed to have sold all his property and turiukd the proceeds over to the apostle.s. put he held ."ome of it back, and for tell ing that lie he was struck dead. He wa.s the prince of liars. But how many readers remember this story? When the apostle Paul saw the vis ion by which he was convertc'd, he was divinely guided into Dania.^’Us to the house of a faithful disciple. WTiat was the disciple’s name? Judas. Another disciple was sent to Paul The R. O. T. C. bouts are becoming, an institution. Together with the in- ra-mural football and basketball games and the classes in physical ed ucation, they ff)rm part of a eoncerte<l effort to bring under the healthful in fluence of active sports as many ai poi-'sible of the college students. There will be .seven championship bouts on Monday night, in addition to several humorous exhibition bouts which will add to the entertainment of ♦he evening. The program is scheduled to .start at 7:30 o’clcx-k. acted. As the Democratic candidate, he will be able to claim ecjual credit for any of the recent legislation that PresUlent Hoover has initiated, by his part in seeing that it became a law. If he continues his effective work as speaker up to the time the convention meets, the Texan will be in front of the "balloting, his enthusiastic sup- own pl^sician was quoted as saying thatjing for a time to do business without he would be able to come here, if call-i prefit in order to start the normal Iw made very strong. In time^ likci^jj^ nation and the world today is that these every one has to take some nsk, third-rate men have make some sacnfice and even be will- been ballyhooed as fir.st-raters and getting, away with it. Ability i., KoiHK t„ c..m. into it», j aKam. The pnmMpai trouWo wit* " „„p,al to "ft ed by the court. Jake Rasor, youngest brother of Henry Ra»or, who was seriously in- jure<l fn>m a gunshot wound on the head ani ear and attacked with the stuck of the gun, i^ill be one of the .even and bu.dres.s processes of industry* again.” I The eight cylinder car is tiie result of years of experiment at the Dear- HOUa^ING Ijewis Murriford, distinguished New York architect, says that the home coinitry is based upon a long anJ un blemished career in public office, and particularly on his work as secretary | of war in Wilson’s cabinet during the World war. He is one of the .strong-1 est men in the councils of the Ohioi I^emocratic parly. 7 I witnes.-es for the state. Mr. Rasor have been built, checked and .ycrap|ied born Wioratcri.., RiKhts, t»clie? an<i aeain bacome the family reere-i sentiment seems alional eenter, and that the home of' anii-iioover senumeni, se'"'-’ “"‘’" the future must be much more eom.i‘» <lerlininK. The chief opposition twjenty-four cylinder ' has spent most of his time in Green- , to nrake way for more radieal chang- foi table and beautiful. At the Muse- has been based upon the charge hat he has done nothing con.stractive wood since he was dismissed from ajos in design, certain refinements and • combat the hard times. This theory hospital there about a week after the 11 erlections. attack. He has been quoted as describ- ; ing his~assailant as. a meJium-sized U/juLa-K I3fnill»rsarl man, either.^a white man qr mulatto, »» XXmil UAU whom he saw running towards the bam and at whom he shot twice, both bullets going wild and entering the bam on either side oP the door about four feet from the ground. The flee-^ 4ng man e.'Ksaped through a cane patch near the barn?'His tracks were foi^ lowed some distance by bloodhounds next morning. The murder of Mr. Rasor and the attack on his son, Jake, have been described as the most brutal in*the linal annjiils of Laurens county interest haa not waned from the nigrit of the slaying. It is expected that the courtroom will not begin to accommodate the crowds expected Gets First Loan shown that they agree with him, ex , hibiting pictures and models of hous-j longer ho.dn, observers ere :^y, es derigned to meet modem condi-,P‘>'^tm8 ^ the two billTon dollar Re- tions, s»>me of which are actually built construction Finance corpora ion, now or building. ' actually effective, and his .suhse<iuent Glass is u.sed !il>erally both for out- to coax the hidden money re-, er walls and partitions, giving every ^«rves of the country out of the pock- ^ . ft* rt- 1 roorri*ample aii and sunlight. Homes Reconstruction Finance Cerpor-, rows, if properly planned, are Sends First “ " ation Sends First of H infeinow hekl to give more privacy than Fund ^nttr^redlt Channels. j^etaehed houses, and they cost lei's to Soundpiywf walls are insisted i 'ouild. eis of the hoatder^ -Pie two measun^s, are expected by him, and most of the economists, to, do much towards halt-1 ing the ^present depfesskm. In selecting a chairman for the, i board which wdll combat the evils of* Washington, Feb. 13.—The first ofi^’Pon^ Large living rooms facing Jfar nne nf the huge fund to be fed into the credit: d®ns, and kitchens built to save la-, >^oarding, the president nam from this hear the c channels bv the recon«truction finance i regaixied as essential. Roofs country s foremost publishers, channel, by the reconaruc^on f nance 1 ^ e^ireatinn in the I C-l- I'rank Knox, of the Ohlcapi )al- w:th”'the'’b«HiTupt Wabash 'railroad! «f the future, andjb; •'''®*-. I'"'' ’“Ji" *nd hanks the-recinient, I»" >>'>"'« w'H hh™ »'hpl' ">■<> =/ "''►i',*" press-agent The co^itioTannouneed the loar' besides. with the view of making every paper to the receivers of the railroad for the- Some of the plans and pictures of, m the land ^rry ^ purpose of paying the principal andif^^ese modern homes iMk odd to eyes j evils now being wrought y nd adjoining counties “ in.re5 of '^uipme::; ^^tT^rtTfi-heustomed to conventional forms, but i who keep their savings out of circu- CITATION ADMlSl LETTERS OF ATION I find young minds accepting them ■ , The slogan of the.campaign will be V The State of South Carolina, Laurens County. By C. A. Power, Probate Judge Whereas, Mrs. Irene • nackr suit to me to grant her cates of the company, now in arrears, and maturing prior to June 1. i enthusiastically. TTiis first interna- tVia» «v..rv It was also said loans had been tional exhibition- Qf'*«u?dem architec- based unon 'the thought that e t y made and others authorized to 1^ num- ture is to be sho*wn in>hiladelphia, dollar her of banks in various sections of the I Hartford, Los Angeles, Buffalo, Mil- les up . who ’takes I country } waukee, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, In cthei^ywordsi. everybody who takes The Wabash was the first applicant/I^hester, Worcester and Cambridge, S200 out cf the J6ck and Tuts it in the !to the corporation for financial suc-jA^ter it closes-in New York on March cor and the first' to receive aid from 2*3, and it will be worth making a trip the two billion dollar corporation de-1 to see. gram ner to instill new'life into busi^e s of Administration of the estate and I airriculture. X offects of John Griffin Pitt** These are therefore, to cite ad monish ^1 and singular the kindr^ and creditors 'of the aaid John Grif fin Pitts, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be heW at Lauren# Court House, Laurens, S. C., on February after publication and agriculture^^ J, The corporation is prohibited by law from making public the amount of loans or the names of banks receiving akfc-' > With the 4)egirining of the* loans, of ficials expect a daily flow of |unds from the corporation’s treasury into oredit channels. MORTflAGES The sifest investment in the world, according to Jotf'Oay, is a first mort gage up to not over 60 percent of its pe^i actual vidue, on an_owmr-occupied n< 19th, 1932 next, hereof, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, | to show cause, if any they have, why i oSyjHiCS a O ^1080 IP'anted. «im.T«.t»t»n .houid^ot^ ^ Nejrt Monday Given under piy hand this 5th day | of Februarj', A. D., 1932. | C. A.-^POWER, Monday in observance of Wash dwelling house anywhere in the Unit ed States. Joseph P. Day sold morel real estate than any other man ever sold, and he is also a director of the largest money-lending ir1«titution ir. the world, the Metropolitan Life In- j suranee company. • The cities and towns of the nation over-built with business and are 1 apartment structures built to rent. The two banks of the city will close laj-s Joe Day, but there is a crying 2-ia-2tc J. P. L. C. ^ ,k » * DU p ^ T/i THK rHKnNir.IJ$|.ilI ■ir.gton’s birthday. They will open for business as usual on Tuesday mrim- need for several million modem one family homes. There is plenty of mon ey available to build them, but pgyd is ,^or $200 out ci tne .SOCK anu n- m 1 bank will add one ordinary worker to| the national payroll for a year. Col. j Knox is now hammering away along' these linc.s and long before the nation- i al convention* meet it will be known how well the plan worked and, ‘Mr. * Hoover believes, the coiintrjr.will haxe} made giant strides towards emerj^ngj from the depression. 1 The two movements, taken together, I are expecteri to restore Hoover’s j popularity entirely and, the Republi-j can leaders a's.^iert, will return him aSj the victor in next' November’s battle of ballots. *1 that money livailable to the home- owner at reasonable cost. That is^omj- ing, invertors think, and soon. Li^ GOOD HOU-SEKEFftPING 2 Years tor $3.50 iam Throw Away Your Wist Bone Stiffen Up Your Back Bone Stick Out Your aw Bone And STEP ON 'ER .^5 ADV^TISE IN “The Paper Everybody Reads” \; if i^i m»9»wfiimnmviiw J >,