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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
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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
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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.
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