The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, February 18, 1932, Image 7
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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
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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
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