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/ft \ IA ^ w ijw.jT:!^ j _i|p mju^^.i. I K M nff f "1 ;..■ mipbi -»w.. i.,^. .i t...i A ‘ 1-<V^ •/ f .' \ A-#-- I THE CHRONICLE \ t Strives To Be s Clean News- • • fap«r> Complete, Newsy, | I and Reliable. | ,. “— —tr—TrtTfTttlMM « If Tm IWt l£sft« THE CHRONICLE Ton 0on*t Get The Nlwn. U- f £ VOLUME XXXII CLINTON, S. C^HURSDAY, JULY J4, 1932 NUMBER » REYNOLDS CASE Governing NOT YET CLOSED Primary Electibns Beckoning />y Albert T. Reid Young Widow Fleeing Scene of Marital Tragedy Leaves Un explained Clues Behind. Offi cers To Continue Probe. Books >Vili Close On July 26lh. Voters Asked To Note Re quirements of Party. Winston-Salem, N. C., July 12.— Libby Holman, who six weeks ago ar rived here as the bride of Smith Rey nolds, tobacco fortune heir, and mis tress of the palatial family estate, Since the time for enrolling for the primary elections expires July 26ty^, and many prospective voters appear to lack definite information on the subject, the following rules adopted by the party are repeated. Enrollment Under the rules of the Democratic stumbled to the steps of a slow pas-1 senger train here this afternoon and i party in this state enrollment on the began a 16 1-2 hour journey to her j club books is required only every four Cincinnati home, a widow sobbing her j years. There was a general enroll- grief before a small crowd of curious jment in 1930. All voters will have , to, j.. I .spectators. j enroll again in 1931. .\11 tho.se whose Meanwhile, from his office in th"* were put on the enrollment imposing granite block courthouse, Sheriff Thansou Scott made formalagain unles> the> ha\e moved out books for 19,30 will not have to en- announcement his investigation of v’oting pret .ncts and are now myvterious pistol bullet death last! other voting precinct.s. If Wednesday of the 20-year-old instructions aie ' ob- nolds was not closed. \ coroner’s jury i " deprived of the last night attributed the <leath, which f^^ht to vote: came just after a gay party, to per- '’'^‘ter s name vvas enrolled .sons unknown. * ' ibook in 1930, and he or she is still living in the same voting ! ])iecinct, no'further enrollment is re-1 No member of the Reynold.s family accompanied the widow to the station. With her father, a Cincinnati at* r- /• ney, her mother, and a sister, JTrs, Myron Kahn, she arrived at the .sta tion at 3:20 in an automobile diiv;^n by^me of the Reynold’s chauffeurs. The chauffeur opened the door. M rs. Kahn and Mrs. Holman helped the weeping singer to the grSun;!, and while a battery of news camel.is clicked, half carried her over-interven ing railway tracks and the platform to the rear door of the one pullman the local l^orfolk and Western train carried. Her face hidden by a fox fui* neck piece, Miss Holman talked hysterical ly between sobs, but her whrd.s, or the most part, were indistinguishaiile. “This is awful.” “This is terrible.” “0, those faces.” Such expressions came from the group of three women as mother andl quired. 2. If the voter has moved out of the j voting precinct and exinn-ts to vote at j another hox, enrollment on the club j roll where he or she now resitles is necessary, "suliject bU the legaT qilali- ficatioW as to time i»f residence, as j explained under the section on quali fications for voting. :C. If the voter did not enroll in 1930, I even if living in the same precinct, t his or her name will have t«> he en rolled on tlu* club book in order to vote in the 1932 election. L Others becoming of age since the last election must, of course, enroll in order to he entitled to the right to vote. Every voter should check up on these requirements to be sure that he or she is properly enrolle<i and quali fied. Expiration of Enrollmenl Under the law the club books must NEW RELIEF BILL PASSED Unemployment Measure BeBerf- ed Acceptable To Hoover Sent House. Coalition Force Swee^ift Throu|^ Chamber. Washington,' July 12.—A new un employment relief bill, which admin istration leaders on Capitol Hill be lieved President Hoover would accept^ was swept through the senate tonight by an i.Te?Istible biparti.san coalition... Ther^ wa* hardly a murmur of op.. position as the gigantic $2,100,000,000 measure, modified to meet some oT the president’.s objections, pas.sed ihf*- .'»enate without a record vote after less than five hours of debate. It npw goes. to the hou.se as %i» amendment to a bill which already has* passed that body and can be adopted there without further ado. It wa.s pos sible. however, that house leader^ ' would insist upon consideration of* I their own mea.-urt', which the waya .and means committee approved ear ^ I Her today.. ' The house bill was more accepranlr to the administration, and Kepublican I leader.s were expected to seek t.' adoption, rather than mtt'l tance .-f I the senate measure. ! This would require that the bill -X'- I through the senate again, while .be I hou.se ■i ■ ^ j Cotton Acreage Lowest In Years To Make Fight All Over Again Young People To Gather Here Mstcr with arm, wtmpM abuft thf ,h. fourth Tuesday in July. amiter. asaiated bar to enter the tram. fueaday. July 26, will be .Some of them aeemed to come from enrollment. The club Libby, but it was not possible for on- ^ ,, . , . , th.v,w.Kfbooks cannot legally W kept open af- Government Estimates 10 Per Cent Cut Over Last Year In South CRrolina. iNo Opportunity At Chicago To I i Vote Dry. l^awlessness Not Due To Ament^ment. Columbia, July 11. — South Caro. lookers to determine positively which one of the trio uttered them. “Be brave, darling,” the silver- haired mother urged her daughter more than once. , . . age or become so heiore the genera , , *. Una’s cotton acreage this year is the trr July 26. and any i-nrolinmnt aftrr|,^^^^^ ing to a government estimate given out yesterday by Frank O, Black, ag Ti'’.dtiu.al statistician. fhat date will be illegal. - Qualifiratinn for Voting 1. The voter must he 21 years of Holman, grim of face but 1 in NovemlKM-. A person whoj ne govern mein e.sii male as c: Ji ed, w’as attending Jo the buying ofj.^ ^rtwibllv 21 at the time of the! • 1,773.000 acres of cotton >11 c lijJuda^Jhe^hi^W ^j;fon.h..r prrmrriT>nil^JtT-6ffro:-rins ra-TTHi?^ rt ihis last task finished, he talked ^ provided the age of 21 is at-^ and the smallest a reage ’^he government estimate as cf July ui- ihah in quietly through a group of ^ of'"*’"***.'’ half a century and others surrounding the car, w'ith- out being recognized. fo '‘'fhevoter'mu.n be a citizen of j report read.s “was-^hat of I'.MX, when Earlier in the day he said and of this .state: '•L040.000 acres were planted A.s, a re- the general election. The state’s largest acre;vge,’’ the would be taken to some quiet place in the country or mountains to recuper ate from her ordeal of sudden widow hood, climaxed by two gruelling ex-1 3. The voter must have resided in the slate twm years and in the county six months prior to the .succeeding . , ' . « • I eeneral election and in the club dis- aminations before the coroner^ jury, j*' . ...... suit of the decline in price and advent of the boll weevil in the early ’20’s the plated acreage fell to 1,S66,U00 in 1923, but rose again to about 2,700,000 in 1925 and 1926, From this aminaiions oeiore me cuimino juij. ” tn tha. fir^t nri-:-.<uu,uuu in lyz.*) ano^ I9i;n, irom this .\t that time, he .said the possibility ' ' point there has been a gradual decline of Libby’s return to the stage had notl*’™^^^^ ^ • \||n. j until this year’s acreage is th.* lowest ProviHion for Teacher isters The rules proxnde that ‘public been discussed, because she had been virtuallv unable to talk coherently ainc-. .4,mth ‘ »'*‘';!"*!,chool «..chera .„d miniafra of the p.rch. dyinj w.th a p»tol >>“»« | organ- ized church shall be exempt from the through his brain. The death was originally pronounc-; . . . • ed aaiclde by Coroner W. .N. Dalton, | but Sheriff Scott refused to accept the decision, with the result that a formal inquest was ordered Friday. It held two secret sessions, at the first of which Miss Holman testified, and one session open to the press, at which Khe was reexamined. ‘I know it was suicide,*' Holman de-( jdence, if otherwise qualified, j 'Abaenlee Voting Under certain c<mditions and regu lations, absentee voting is permitted by the rules of the party. Application for this privilege must be made in writing to the committee on enroll ment or to the club .secretary nojt k^ss in alipost half a century. :i.r.d tod.y with vi*o: wddj^_th.t| he meant he wm as certain of it as h«i could be of/Vnythin* he had not ..c-. T*"- I committee will furnish haiUtta to ab- tually wU The percentage decrease has been greater in the lower than in the upper half af the state. South of a line drawn roughly from upper McUonnick to m\^ddle Horry the acreage decrease is about 15 per cent and approx'mate- ly 5 per cent north of this line. “The first forecast of probable out turn will be a.s uf .August 1 and re leased on the 8ih. At this time the acreage base will be the 1,773,000 planted less .the ten-year average abandonment of 2.5 per cent. “The acreage of cotton in cultiva tion in the United States on July 1 is estimated by the crop reporting board to be 37,2^0,000 acres whiph is 9.5 per 1. f n ; wirH'^fTip Vent less than the acreage on July 1, He^ferred to the “horrible i _ ^ ^h- 1^'H, and 19.1 per cent less than in piqjon” raised by the iriquest proceed-! 1930. The acreage as estimated is 23.5 ings. aaserting Libby’s every instinct | ' per cent below the record acreage of was to “protect,” thaTsheTWOT-^^the | ^ ^ . ;J9,780.000 planted th 1926 and It ir David R. Coker, of Hartsville* li) a letter to the Rev. B. J. Gue.ss of Den mark, which he gives The State leave ! to publish, says, “It seems that the j fight against liiiuor ha.s got to be ' made all over again.” His letter to j Mr, Gue.ss follows in full; “As I wrote you some WH'eks ago 1 • rBTid~reaffirmed my allegiance to the 'cause of ]>rohi'hition, 1 should like to I add a few words now to explain the situation that arose in Chicago and I my action therev 1 “There, was presented to the Deini)- ! cratic convention a mafority and a ' minority report from the platform 'committee. Both called for resubrnis- : sion of the 18th amendment to the * states. The majority report, however, , went much further than that of the I minority and not only recommended 1 repeal of the amendment but also lib eralization of the Volstead act. I thought it best in these circumstances to vote for the minority report, so 1 did so, with a statement tl>at neither the minority nor the majority met with my views. “There was no opportunity to vote for a straightout <lry or prohibition plank. “The reign of lawlessness in this country and the distressing economic condition have been attributed by vast numbers of people to the 18th amend ment. I attribute them largely to the failure to enforce the 18th amend ment and to the non-cooperation of our government with other world pow ers for the restoration of world trade —particularly to the tariff policy of qur country. )>' accepTnrg'Ihe ^semite versioTx could -end it immediately to the House. 'I'he senate hill containe.l auth.'i zation for loans to individuals thr -ugh the 12 federal reserve hanks, if ap proved by the reserve hoard. The ate limited operation of this clau-;; ta ' two years. > j The senate bill also contait » m I clause requiring publicity for alt I'>a^ j made hereafter by the reconstructiort 1 corporation, S,ome administration sen ators were doubtful about this prons- iun. The house bill contains neither of these controversial provisions. In order to pass the bill tonight, tW .senate stayed in session until almost 9 o’clock, after meeting at 11 in the morning. The annual convention of the Youngi Senator Robinson, Democratic . ad- Peotde’s Christian union of the .Asso-'er, forced it to stay in session to ap- ciate Reforms'd Presbyterian church! prove the hill and engineeresf def»at of South (’arollna will he held in this] of a motion to quit soon after the hiU city next Tm-sday and Wednesday. 1 "ns taken up early in the evening, iliiiy 19 ami 20. The organization isf Immediately after taking up ;he 18 years old hut this i.s the first timei new hill the senate tacked on ame''d- the local church has been hoat to theinients. It approved reorganizing :h6- Local A. R. P. Church To Be Hc»st Next Week To Young; People’s Christign Union. oca I c annual state 'meeting. .About a./bunr died delegates are expected. The l‘re.«hytei’ian college has given the use of .Smyth dormitory and th<- (lining hall for the entertainment of. the delegates, hut the sessions of tht* j convention will be held in the local, A. K. I’., church. A strong program has been prepar ed under the leadership of Gordon 1 Parkinson, of Due West, who is presi-i dent of the state Y. P. C. U. .Among i the speakers and leaders expected are 1 Dr. J. P. Pressly, pastor of the A. K.j P. church in Due West; Doctor Grier) and Dr. Ralston, of Erskine college;! Miss Kathryn Galloway and Chalmers! Hickman, of Due West; Rev. J. M.{ Highani, denominational director of | young peojile’s work, and Miss Eliza-1. '■‘Vv; i t .er h. I econ.struction oorporatiOh hy tafrmy- 1- off as ex-officio nieml>ers ' (I ive’ r Eugene .Meyer of the Pederal Res* hoard and Paul Hestor, farm commiisioner. This President Ho*' ifiiuested.'but the senate rejected recommendation for inCn'Hsinr"*T«- lioard’s membership to eight. It adoitted an amendment to pe-ri* the reconstruction unit to lend of n.s- .s(‘ts of. closed hanks and anothe' t prevent the corporation from inai'.ing loans to aid Lireign marketing •'f farm board cotton surpluses. But it turned hack an attemp* u* strike out a section authorizing Fann for generaP foreign marketing of ag. ricultural surpluses. The vo*e on was 15 to 17. Despite the.-e changes, the lieth Ftoper, of Anderson; Prof. Bruce jmeasures general outline was R(d>ins()n and Miss Elizabeth Robin-1 same as the vetoed hill, minus son of Lancaster; Rev. E. B. Hunter, the section authorizing loans hy Sharon; Rev. Dale White and Rev. E.! reconstruction corporation to ind .-1v Id- Gettys, missionaries to India, the lat-{uuls. President Hoover’s chief reascn- .. i* It I rf^i- - iki \J\ /Xi a . Ji ter being supported in India hy this young people’s organization, and Rev. and .Mis. H. E. Pre^sly. missionaries to Mexico. The first .session of the convention will be held Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock, with a Bible message by Dr. for disapproval. The $300.0tM),(KK) f jnd for emergency relief loari'^ to stxtes was left intact, as wa.s the $322.f'0C'. (MM) for public works and the auth ty for increasing the reconstruction coi poiation’s borrow ing power by SI.- .509,000,(700 and enlarging the s'ope of its loans to take in re product! that "stre w»i “the ^ ^ tenderest girl in the world,*' and poei-1 C C ' At tively could do no harm to anything. | •3* \^nVCnUOn /-ki Mrs. Reynolds was held in custody fttCifloO Tocl&y at the home as a material witness lower than the planted acreage of any year sipce 1922. “All major states show reductions ranging from 3 per cent in .Arkansas from Ffiday night until the jury re-j — ^ to 14 ner cen* in Geifreia A reduction ported its verdict at 11:45 last night.! The annual session of the I>aurens^^® Ift wr cent is estiSi^rted in TeLs Albert Walker, a chum of her hus-j Association Sunday .School con^ntion Carolina the reduction in band, was held in a similar status but will be held today with the -f^ptist i ^ * ^ g^^imated at eVr cent- as a prisoner incommunicado in the church of Waterloo, as previously Carolina 10 oer cent* Tennes- county jail. bounced hy the officers of the organi-, Carolina. . Mii Blanche Yurka, actress of zation. W. P, Culbertson, president, i .V,w Yor^who w.. . h;u« of and C. A. rotary. rnri'nd ^k’lahom;^! Zcent the Reynolda. and atten^ .TH *'L Tc Vlkar “T'** 'aereaKe of Pima ^yptlan Tne«i.y .night, was ordered by the | o clock with gmtmgs by V.. C. Whar- coroner’s jury to hold hereelf avail- tomof ^aterlw. _ (mated at 22,000 acrea, compared with Rble to it. but she was not reexamined The general theme of the da) s aao .ere* in 1931 cussions will be “What we want “No report on probable production “It seems that the fight against liquor ■ has got _UlJie, jnade, all over the again and I want you to know that I stand just where I have always stood —for the prohibition of the legal sale of liquor and the rigid enforcement of the law.” J. P. Pressly, who will give five nie.s- j "sageF “dBTllTg^ the~ 0^. j-consiructiun. Pres-ly’s gddress will he followed by i The house hill, reported out by a communion service, whuTi is the eiis- “ways" and tom for all first sessi<ms of the yearly aH the.se provision.s hut did not inc'udi^ convention. Other .se-ssions will lie I the federal re.sei ve hank loans tc F - Tuesday ufternoon at 3 o’clock. Tuei-- 'hviduals provision of the .senate*, -o- day night at 8 o’clock, Wednesday at, the reorganization of the recons*-^'^ Two Legal Sales Held Monday 9 o’clock, 2:30 and 8 o’clock. The pub-jticn unit. lie is cordially invited to attend alli The original plan w'us to take ‘'his of the iw’ssions of the convention. ' hill up tomorrow, first adopting a rule at the open session, • Miss Yurka leli^lnam for New our a ^ . ^ u m.iU h^r «nHl Af York this afternoon. On the sameT On the program t« talce in the i» ma<M by the board untll-Aogust. At train went Raymond Cramer, of * discussion of the different pha'ses of ■ that tune the production forecast will Flushing L 1 who came south a lit-1 the main subject include W. P. Cul-|he ba^d on the forecast yield per har- tle more than’a month ago to coach 1 bertwin, the Rev. E. M. Bostidk. the 1 vested acre applied to the acreage in tlw young tobacco heir In elementary I Bev. H. J. Snider. Dr. Graves L.l<^uttivation on July 1 less ten-year av- TMthematicr^ * 1 Knight, C. B. Bobo. B. Y. Culbert.son, erage abandonment m each state after Sheriff Scott, a quiet nian of mod- j and J. L. Corsine. , • j date.” est stature, merely *nid in his state-j “ ' i """ ment that while Investigation of the JJj|jQj| At ) RE-ELECTION M. A. Cannon, for several years Although a legal holiday for others. Clerk of Court Thomas W. Bennett and a couple of lawyers with a scat tering of interested bidders were in front of the court ^ house Monday morning, July 4th, at 11 o’clock _to conduct two legal sales, as follows; Miss Elizabeth Todd is president and .Mis.s Margaret Blakely is .■‘ecre- tary-treasjier of the local V. P. (!. U. which would cut debate to 40 niinuteH and bar all hut committee amend- ment.s. After development of the sen ate’s drive for passage tonight, how., ever, .Speaker Garner said the house would follow whatever procedure I I would most expedite the bill to f'nal Dies Of Gunshot Waterloo Citizen cMe was not cjosed, he was not in a position to indicate in what direction the inquiry would be pursued. “No case is closed as long as it re mains a mystery and unsolved,* be •Aid LjUth^TAn Ohurch magistrate of Hunter township at ; MountviIle,\announces his candidacy The usual Sunday fvening union J for re-election in today's paper. Mr. serVict of the loc<I churches will be Cannon is a popular citizen and offi- TTie grand jury met in regular sm- j held "next Sunday at St. John’s Luth sion here today, but there was oo in dication that body had Uken cognize (Conlintted oo page six) eran church at eight o'clock. The Rev. Edward Long, pastor of the First Baptist eburch, will he the speaker. cer of his community and has many friends who will be glad to support him for the office he is again seek ing. D. E. Tribble Company vs Mrs. Byrd Davis Jones, lot in Clinton, sold to R. W, Wade, attorney, for $400. Palmetto Building & L/ian a'^socia- tion vs Ambrose L. Hudgens, lot on Chestnut street in l.,aupens, sold to R. E. Babb, attorney, for $1,550. Legal land sales, like “time and tide” wait on for man, remarked Mr, Bennett after the sales. “We had these two sales advertised for ‘sales- day in July' (which turned out to be the Fourth) and we had to be here ‘lyhether or no' when other people were off enjoying rest and recre ation.” W’aterloo. July 11.—John W. Can- On Temperanoft non, 74, well-known citizen of this! TVSpeak Here community, was found in his •bedroom! early today with the charge of a shot-j gun through his breast. He had ap-, ; parently died instantly. No one was On I’uesday evening, July 19, Rev, pre.sent, members of the family being .Arthur J. Barton of Wilmington. N, in other parts of the house and in the will deliver a temperance addi^eM yard. I at the,Broad Street Methodist chttreh. Sheriff Columbus Owens, of Lau- at 8 o’clock. l>r. Bnrton has long beeiv rens, made an investigation and was identifierj with the work of temper* quoted as saying the case was appar- ance and prohibition. He -has the rep* ently one of suicide'. ! utation of being a vigorous and enm. He is survived by his wife and the; tertaining-apeaker. The general poL*- following children; Mrs. W. C. Dendy,jlio is invited to hear hmi- Mrs. Bob Cunninghami Mrs. Pearl Miss Pearl Hitt is visiting friends in Greenwood and Cross Hill. Stewart,! Mrs. P. E. Price, Otis' Can non and Clarence Cannon. Funeral services were held at Wat erloo Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock _r Prof. A. V. Martin and son, Tnyl'jr. left Tuesday for a visit to relntivee- and friends in West Virginia ad4 Vir ginia. !* ;