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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1933
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THE CUNTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C
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Plan To Hold
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Twenty-Six Dead
Domoi In Cuban Riots
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Government Will See They Do City of Havana In Turmoil
Not Increase Faster Than Buy
ing Power. ,
Government Suspends Const i-
tutional Law.
demonstrations
tragic end.
The city wa.s grimly quiet tonight
while almost hopeless efforts to count
the dead and wounded went onu A
As hasty check showed 15 dead and more
W Wi
■Wa.shington. .\ug. 3. — The Roose-,
velt administration embarked tmlay
on a program to prevent prices to
consumers of products from bacon to
nightshirts from risine fa'^ter than
the purchasing power of farmers and
workers.
The first jmove was taken by farm
rmUD INST.ALLMENT !he was concerned, all was again well J *’Huh. Maybe. You seen a lawyer administrators in announcing that a
Sym psis: Ruth Warren, living injwith tbe world. Something of this feel- about this, I reckon?’’' w«rekly list of prices paid by'consum-
the East, comes into possession of ting came to the parents. 15 ith a back-. There was a perceptible j)ause b^- ers and paid to farmers, togetheV with
thn*e-quarter interest in an .\rizona ward glance, which now held wonder fore Ruth replied. “Ye.s,” she said change's in wage levels, would be is-
rancu. left to her in the of her instead of blind fear, they went for- firmly, "and my lawyer has the other sued.
only o»other, reported to have died ward with quickened step. When they copy. Now please, take us to the house The first will come next w^ek under
while on business in Mexico. With her were quite near, the dog —one of -can’t you understand? My husband the direction of Dr. Fr^nl C. Howe,
is not well.” ' consumers’ counsel for farm adminis-
For a long moment Snavely looked tra^ors^. It will show surveys of prices
at the girl. At last his eyes shifted to
the giantess and he nodded slightly products most commonly pur.
toward the house. Without a word the chased. . . T
woman picked Warren from his feet
and strode on.
./'Havana. .Aug. 7. — Twenty-six per
sons were |re|mrte<l killed and IfiO
woun«!ed tonight in disonters which
followed military occupation of the
city -the reply of President Gerardo
Machado to the united demand of all
political factions that he resign im
mediately.
Responding to an administration re
quest, the congress in'^xtraordinary
session this afternoon gavel the presi-
100 wounded. .Many of the latter
were struck by bullets which rico
cheted from the pavement and from
the sides of buildings.
.So bu.sy were hospitals that there
were none to answer telephones. Po
lice earlier in the day gave orders
that no information of any sort con
cern.ng wounded Should be released.
IH.-pile the ketion of .Machado it
was learned authoritatively that^the
t.xecutive will leave office tomorrbw.
Pacing what was freely described
as th*‘ gravest situation in Cuha’s hi.s-
toiy as an independent nation, repre-
ailing husband and small child, she whose remote ancestors had undopbt-
goes to .Arizona to take possession,, edly been part Spaffiel—moved out of
thinking the climate may prove bene- sight at the side of the incline. .A few
ficial to her husband’s weakened more strides again i brought the man
lungs. .Al-riving at the nearest town^ and girl to a rigid halt. In the shadow
she learns that the ranch, “Dead I.An- of the bank stood the most gigantic
tern," is So miles across the desert, woman they had ever seen. Nearly six
Charley Thane, old rancher and rural , and a half feet in height, her huge
mail -carrier, agrees to take them to arms folded across her breast, she
“Dead Lantern” gate. ^tood as straight as the sheer bank
Now Go On With the Story. ! behind her. Her face, hawk-nosed, had
(the dignity of an Indian chief’s and
Neither the girl nor her husband' : ;
seemed anxious to start up the road.*
It was when this fact became plum to
them both that Ruth creid, “It’ll be
sundown before long—we simply cun’t;
stay here.” i
Ruth looked back toward the gate..
Beyond her eyes sought the occasional!
streethes^ of du!<ty highway as it!
wound up the valley . . . eighty-five
miles to the first thing which could
be called civilization, eighty-five miles
to a policeman. She shivered; but
turned to her husband with a smile
which was meant to be brave. “All
right, dear; let’s go. If we get .shot
we’ll just get shot—we can’t stay
here and we certainly can’t go back.”
* * * *
P'or tuo long, hot, dusty hours they
walked on with nevei a sign of human
thing'. The awsome;sUence envelofied
them, penetrated thefn', until their
very thoughts seemed like small inde
pendent voices. They felt watched by
a gnin. thousand-eyed s|)irit. The oc
casional rabbit or coyote which ran be
fore them looked back furtively, then
went on to give news of their coming.
Ruth held out her hand, and Snave
ly. with a sharp glance into her eyes,
slowly gave her back the will. He
walked beside her during the time it
toi>k to cover the distance to the house
—nearly two hundred yanls—in com
plete silence. Nothing he could haye
I done would have served better to put
^the girl in a more frarttic state of
mind. She felt that he was thinking,
planning, !feveris|ily and craftily.
And as she neared the small house
chased.
This part of the administration pi^-
gram will bt' fact-finding and aimed
to provide consumers with the most
dent authority again to su.ipend con
stitutional guarantet's of pt'rsonal lib- of the opposition, liberals,
erty—a nove sought to cope with the conservative and popular parties
rapidly spreading strike liibvement in today that there could be no
the island. , 'solution of the politicai situation while
The.re wa.-' no waiting for that au- ^l^chado remained in office,
thorily to use the military force in, (President Roosevelt at his vaca-
helping control the situation, however,' home in Hyde Park. .N. A’., offer-
nor, jn str*far as could l>e learneil, did good offices of the United
the administiation comply with the in bringing about ^ solution of
technical formality of ha\nng the pres
ident sign the bill and send it to the
recent inlormation available regard- publication,
ing changes in costs of the es.sential.s
of hfe. ' . “ . the bill
.Another part contemplates that ii
instances where price increases.’ after
allowances for differences in trans|H>i
tation and other costs, apiwar to be
uniformly higher in one K»cality than
another, investigations will be under
taken to determine whether enti-trnst
laws are being violatetl.
.Administrators have conflicting »v-
price trenils in ctmnectlon
recovery program. One set
indicates that price rises to consum
ers may pr^u’ced at a much faster rate
than increases in prices to farmers for
their products and the rise in wagi*
scales.
When—I'lii'idy ■ —(■♦pokr,—t+ir—words'
passed befoi;e them in a low frighten
ed voice, as though ^speech were for
bidden.
They came among the lower
In the shadow of the rm-k stiMid the
most gigantic woman they
e\c*r seen.
had
with iu whitewashed walls and red .^^^ts as to
i-oof of corrugated iron, Ruth Warren'
became aware of another dis.satisfac-
tion. .A hundred feet west of the hou.se
stcKHl a huge adobe ruin. It had char-,
acter, this ruin. I'ompared to the one-
story ranch house with its almost flat'
rcK*f, the rum had Iwen a palace. Grim, i
mutilated, forgotten, the ohl building -- _ .
frowned upon the ranch, house. The 1 TStlSCS
girl had a ciueer fancy which made her
shiver. It .seemed to her that the
wanted the house to come closer
ch'.si for ju.st a moment.
The giant woman arrivec.^ at the
jmirh of the ranch house first, ('arry-
inir Warren to a rawhitle cot she laid
him upon it.
Warren promptly'^ sat up. grinning
at his wife as she and ,'snavely arrived.
"(ireat Sv*ott, Ruth, but I’ve f'ertainly
tu'en carried! She’s the
thing
ruin
very
Cotton Farmers
the color of a .Southern Negro. “Where
think yo’ie goin’?’’ she de-
ings of the mountains. No longer could „j;,nded, her voice a deep ominous
their eyes follow ^ the two parallel
paths through the dead grass for any
distance. Constantly, the road dipped
into ravines, skirted low hills, cros.sed|
gulrhe.-. and arroyos covered
It was a
could make
mojiient before the gir!
a sound; then the words
poured thenvselves out shrilly. "I’m-
, * 1- .Mrs. Warren, the sister of Harry
coarse gray sand. The mans lips weie, i .u * t .u
,, . , I . .. j Grey — I own three-quarters of this
1 uish-white, his breathing rasped, ... . t
. , , * rnu I 1 1 j 1 j „ ranch—take up to Je|r;>navely at once
short and (luick. The girl plodded dog-. * ^
.. II. Ate ... 1 — once:
gedly 111 the dust, red of face, sweat-'
grimed * lf'‘®’^G*.ss bent her head stiffly.
The'-sun winkeTl from bbfiind a jag-' unfolded her arms, and turnifig, start-
ged peak and was gone. The man and up the incline, the little dog frisk-
woman stared at the mountains - dun- >ug before her.
colored, utterly desolate. David clutch- Warren took an uncertain step for-
ed his mother tightly at the sound of ward, .tottered, and fell in a heap,
her voice. “Where are we—” she "Help usi” cried the girl, dropping
moaned. “Oh, Kenneth, where are beside her husband,
we?” The huge woman came slowly down
He shook his head, but could not af- to them. She stooped and lifted War-
ford breath for speech. Oen in her arms. “Come,” she*rdmbled, send you the will when your brother
The girl picked up her son and and strode out of the gulch, carrying died.”
started forward desperately. the man more easily than the girl car- "Oh. No, Harry sent us the will him-
At the bottom of Jjiejieyt arroyo-- ried the child. .self—it was some time ago; about
wX'TT filled with live oak tre^s — the .At the top of the gulch the girl saw —
wheel marks of the Indian’s - wagon the ranch house and buildings. She*
turned to the right and disappared up also saw a man leave the ba n and
the river of sand. It was strange how walk .swiftly toward them. He had a
they mi'seil those fresh wheel tracks, bucket in his hand a bucket of milk.
I ever met in my life.”
1 he giantess opened the screen dcH»i
and hamied a pillow to the girl. .After
she had arranged her husband com-
fortahly upon the cot, (he girl left him
with Snavely and took her son into the
house. Snavely spoke no won! to War-
rt>n. When the girl returneil .she gave
W arren a glass of milk and some crisp
lortilhis - V
For the fiist time since returning
the will to the girl, -Suavely spoke.
“When did you get in?” he asked sud
denly.
"You mean when did we arrive in
town? <tnly this morning. You see.”
continued the girl, "we wrote you
about a fortnight ago - hut we got
here as soon as the letter we didn’t
know almut your once-a-w'eek deliv
ery.”
"A’ou seen youi- lawyer this morn-
tl don’t understand what lawyer?”
“There must have been a lawyer to
Atlanta. .Aug. 5. — Henry Wallace,
United States secretary of agriculture,
prai.sed Southern cotton farmers hert*
today for “coming through" on the
cidton reiluction program and saul he
believed tobaeci* growers c
by an agreement among thmeselv
to reduce production.
■—The serrvtm’V
the bill its unanimous approval, mili-
taiy forces tri^m(>ed through Havana
street.s. machine guns bristled around
the palace and every other govern
ment building. The sound of heavy* fir
ing rang through-the strrvls.
Earlier in the aftermH>n the oppo-
sition siK’iety broadcaaEa. irofMirt thar.
MacKado had dt*cided to resign. Thou-
rttshed to the streets, yelTThgT
singing, embracing one another and
flinging their hats in the air. Some
took off their shiH's and threw them
away.
Their rejoicing was not for long.
j. From the third jmlice station ,70 uni
formed policemen rushed hurrievlly to
the capitol, In'fore which thousands
of the demonstrators had gathered.
M« unted officers quickly joined them.
Distol, rifle anil sub-machine gun
fire rattled, roared and echiH'd from
aruuml the great white capitol. ftozen.s
fell, dead or wounded.
In other parts of the city similar
.scenes occurred. .Many of the jubilant
throng carried Uuban flags. Their
the problem. While the Uniteil State.s
was described as watching the .situ
ation closely, it was pointed out that
intervention by .American was not un-
iler consideration!. I
Residents of the city tonight locked
and barricaded their doors and drew'
the shutters tight.
The strike which la'gan two weeks
ago with a walkout of omnibus driv
ers, had virtually paralyzed all the
nation’s commerce aftif Industry.
•A .New A'ork department store has
parking rack ^ bicvcle.s.
Grand opera at
doing W'ell in .New
hot weather.
fmpular prices is
York despite the
New A ork florists have l>een inter
ested in news from Germany that a
black rose has been grown in that
country. Efforts to grow such a rose
all* being made here.
The Broadway |assiH*ialion is offer
ing prizes for those merchants on the
street who do the most business with
restrained ilisplay.s. The as.siK'iation is
trying to rid the street of pushcarts.
haniJed a
letter from a group of ti*bacc«i grow
ers tuday in whieh they complained
they were "very iniieh dissatisfu-il"
with prices they‘^have received since
the Georgia lobaeco season i*|HMed
.August 1.
The agiieulturul adjustment admin
istration. he .said, took the iHisitioii of
not forcing regulations, on any farm
ihduslry, but there were In-herits to
}h* received under the act by tobacco
growers, us well ns other priHliicers.
The seeretury spoke at a cotton con
trol conference here and v\a> intro
duced by Governoi Eugene Talmadge.
who said the way farmers’ tobacco
crop was handled was "the biggest
.•>k’n game on the face of the (Carlh.”
He charged that "five big companies
have a monopoly" on buying of toloic-
CO. "There is something wrong,” he
said, "when five big companies get
rich off of tobacco, and the glowers
have to sell it at below cost, and I
want Secretary Wallace to know
alntu’ it.”
ANNOUNCEMENT
Beyond ihi.s arroyo the road rose to[ "Who rre you?” The man .stopiied
de.scend preser.tly into a deep gulch, i close to the girl. Hi.s tall, wiry bmly
The banks on either side fell sheer to was tense, sinuously alert. His pale
the bottom of coarse^ bare sand — a blue eyes, almost yvhite against the
great channel pluwetl by cloud-bur.sts dark tan of his clean-shaven face,
in the mountains. A distance ahead a shifted constantly with small quick
large brown bowlder thrust its bulk , niovements as though focused in turn
through the sand. The young man and ujion every point of her face. "Answer
the girl kept their eyes-upon this rock mel".Hip voice was imperious, high-
— an oa.sis, a place to sit for a mo- pitched—"What aif you doin’ ^ere?”
merit, a place to empty their shoes.. Th» gill cauglit h^i breath sliatpiy. j
The roa l, too, bent slightly to pass the i“I am Ruth Warren and this is my
j-ock. Ihu.sband—” She indicated VVarren who
—They a tt\e -supported by the
detpening dusk, the awful silence fore-igiant woman. “My husband must have
ed them to thtir feet. They took butjrest at once—a bejt;”
one step then froze to statues,, terro*" i “That don’t mean nothin’ to me—
leaped into then faces: a voice, low, what’re you doin’ here?”
intimate,
'.vhisi ered into their ears. | "We — I am the sister
"Go—'back. Go—back.” ^Grey.”
"I^en—I” Ruth serdamed'the word.' "What!” he thrust
The man and womaiy clutched each Imnd’s breadth of the girl’s,
other, staring wildly. The gulch was. Grey told me his owji se’f
still barren, nothing moved, not a rab- ■ have no folks!”
of Harrv
"You lie!
he didn’t
Stairs Made Her
, Gasp For Breath;;
IVnaltv of Excess Fat
.Although she has lo.st hut 7 Ih.'. of
her overweight, this woman find> that
lh<. ha.s made a remarkable differ-
her.
am 53 years
ft. .Uist year
We have siv:ned the
NRA Bhinket i'ude and
will ob.serve its rules and
regulations until our
National OrRunigut ion's
special code is accepted
by (ien. Johnson.
V%t DO OUR PART
Call Us Early and Help Us
To Render Prompt Service
OPEN 8 A. M. TO 6 P. M.
Buchanan’s
DRY CLEANERS & LAUNDRY
Phone 28
hit could have been
hollow whisper came
very cars. “Go—back.
—itack! Go—”
hidden. Yet the^ R-ifh took a step backward. “But I
again,'at their. am Harry Grey’s si.ster. He willed me
You—must—go his interest in this ranch. .My hus-
•/ '^hand and I have come here to see
Like wild things, the man and wo- about it.”
man ran blindly forward. Immediately “You — come here — to take this
tht whisper was lost, dying away on a | ranch —” His .words faltered. At
single word. The two stopi>ed again: length, with an effort, he spoke, his
and clung together trembling. The voice in a .softer key. “You—got—your
darkness was coming quickly—already documents ?”
the banded walls of the gulch had tak-| “Yes, Mr. Warren has the will in
en a weird mystery from the light, his pocket. Please—can’t we go up to
With terror-widened eyes the man and
girl looked from one bank of the gulch
Snavely's face returned
jaiBp to the girl. ”Juiit
in a
what
you aimin’ to do here?!
ence to
Her letter reads: “I
old and my height is 5
I weigl^ed 151 Ih.s. I have l»een taking
a haIf-tea.‘-p(»>lTflTt of iCrxische'n Salts,
making no change in my diet. Npw I
■am less round the hip.s. a:id only
weigh 117 Ihs. dres.sed. But 1 feel
lighter and can m»w run upstairs,
whTi'tr Itt'fore useir to Fuake me prasp
for breath. Everyone says how well
and fit I look.” (.Missi J. H
Kru.schen is an ideal blemi of it sep
arate salts which hel|» bialy organs to
function properly and maintain a
'splendid degree of health* it build.s up
energy and .<^^^r^^TgTTl (K’lii!e"y> i're re
ducing to norma! wi ighl.
Get Kru'chen Salts at A«»ung’'
Phai iiUM-V’-o*: aay tUher live tls uggtst
in the world—a jar last.s 4 wieks and
co.st.- not more than H,7 cents.
three months after he went *nlo this
ranch.’’
“Huh.” There was quite a pause.
"But you just said your lawyer had
a copy of it.”
"There are plenty of attorneys in
the East,” replied the girl sweetly.
**I reckon.” Snavely considered a
corner of the whitewashed wall.
or plan.
Sounds from within indicated that the
the house? My husband and little boy giantess was getting supper,
must rest. We walked all the way from ^ Snaveljr’s eyes returned in a little
the nuiil box.” ’ ijump to the girl. “Just what are you
“Let’s see—the will.” |aimin’ to do here?” |^®*
Warren was able to step forward “Well, since I have this interest ini
hysterical sob, another followed. War-1and give Snavely the paper. The man the ranch, I suppose I’m in the same'
ren gripped her shoulder with the.read it slowly and completely. At laat poaition that Harry was. I can’t be
agony of the sudden cough which pres-'he lifted his eyes to the girl. “W’hy'the partner he was, hut I’ll try to do
entiy was flecking his white lips with j didn’t your brother tell me about _ my share.”
ref}, 'this?” A definite plan shown in his pale
“I’m sure I don’t know.” eyes. “Oh, sure. Well, now, I get you
"He tol’ me he didn’t have no folka. ) — yes, sir." Snavely seemed on thei
The girl hesitated. “His real mother verge of^ becoming pleasant. “I’ve got you know
WAN T SI
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months old. Roy Crawford. Itc
STR.\A~EI> — One black mare
Notify J. M. Piti.s store.
FOR RENA'—6-room house on .Acade
my street. Apply to J. .A. Pauley.
mule.
Ic
lo the other, cons<jiou8 of no thought
Then Ruth caught her breath in an
red. "
with
liich I
lips
.A dog barked friendlily. Some dis-'
tance ahead the gulch turned to the
right and the road rose out of it by [
FOR RENT—Upstairs apartment. .Ap
ply to Mrs. W. .M. McMillan, phone
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in the ranch that he had.”
“A'ou sure have.” ^ ,
There w'as a long silence. "I sup
pose,” saidvthe girl, “that there will
be some legal technicalities or scune-
thing. won’t there? 1 thought we’d
leave it until we could see about it to-
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another incline. .At the bottom.of this!is dead and Harrj^ and I—Harry be-‘the idea—you an’ me is to go on jest;
cut in the bank sat a small black dog. came estranged from hrs father before like as if you was your brother. \%
Dog!" announced David, squirming he came^West. Perhaps that was what .that it?’
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