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/ r /. \ r-» \ T - J * If You Don’t Rend • THE CHRONICI-B I Yon Don’t Got I The News. I '-.. THE CHRONICLE I Strives To Be nl Clean News-1 I paper. Complete, Newsj, : and ReUaUe. * •' - .4 VOLUME xxxm CLINTON, S. C., THURSOA’S^. DE^iEMBER 28, 1933 NUMBER 52 COLUMBIA BOY Approve Is murdered! c^P«>i«=to R. H. Wiles, Unemployed Me chanic, Killed Youth To Pre vent His Escape, He Says. Twenty-Seven Listed Are Practi cally All Under Construction. Quota of Workers Employed. AfUESH STARJ ALLEGED CONFESSION ' ! JV TM i>irviTPVTIA»Y • Sextom adnfrnistrator of MADE IN PENITENTIARY Administration in, Sheriff Says Killer Was ‘♦Hired county. 705 relief workers are! To Kidnap” Bov. Another Man emplojmient in the . " ,county jin 21 prajects that Jiatve heenj Held r,0^ Questioning. approved by the local and state office. projects approved and now un- Columbia, Dec, 26.—Sheriff T. Alex (^er way, according to Mr. Seaton and Heise said today Robert H. Miles. 4.- \\ \ Dicus, general superintendent* year old unemployed mechanic, was and engineer, call for a total expendi.! “hired to kidnap” Herbert H. Hams, ture of $D9,324.25 of which $S0.135..50’ Jr., 15, and had beaten the boy to ,s f^,. labor^ $I6,75S.75 for materials death to prevent his escape. and $1,580 in local contrihutibns. The sheriff depicted the jobless' The projects are listed a.s follows: M’orld war veteran as the tool of “an-' Project No. 190—-Street improve- other party” in enticing young Harris ment, I^urens. We.st Main lo Farley to a deserted .farm house near Co- .Ave.: Labor, $3,960; materials, $180;^ lumbia Saturday by an offer of em- local contribution, $505; total $1,945. j ployment. | Pix)jecl Xo. 191—County, re-surfac-1 ‘ Once there, the sheriff said, the boy >oad. Uurens to highway 56: U-' grew suspicious. He was quoted in .^c, $6,336; materials. $1,920; total, | M’iles* purported confession as -i — | .ing said “this is a devil of a place.” { Project 192 — Road,Goldville to' M’iles allegedly said the boy scowled BonJs cross-road: Labor, $3,120; ma-. at him,and twistetl away as though to tmals, $1>60; total $4,080. leave the farm. He was said to have Project No. 193 — Highway 76 to confessed that: ' Humbert bridge: Labor $2,970; mate-* “He hit me a blow in the face. ,rials, $960; total $3,930. . j “I picked up a piece of iron about! Project No. 199 — Greenville and q j * two feet long, held it in, both my 'Vare Shoals road to Poplar Springs: ,5COrC8 UCSICI AS hands, and hit him first a right-hand-' Labor, $1,419; materials, $480; total ed lick on the front of the head and'$l\^99. then a left-handed lick that caught j ^ Project No. 200—Re-surfacing road him behind his “M'hen he lay - the heels, as well Mrs. Mae Leaman Sleeps In Peace Noble Woman Passes At Local Hospital After Critical Illness. Interment At Cross Hill. STABILIZATION BEING^IED President Roosevelt Apparently Pleased With Other Phases of Recovery Efforts. ALL AGENCIES ORDERED FOR DETAILED REPORTS j Funeral service-s for Mrs. Mae S. Ilieaman, 42, widow of the late James jM^ I.A?aman .whose tragic d<!ath oc- .curmi here in 1919, were held Friday Governors of F^ral Reserve ■sf"TT, ,K rjf" a”? For Session. rfoHow^trr thi^Liherty Springs - MY_st®rY_ Surroundj^^ Meet. tery at Cro.ss Hijl where her husband is buried. The hundreds of people at j ^''"ashington, Dec. 2f'>.— Few change.'! both s|:‘rvices. and thi* many lovely ‘P ^he recovery machine a e to be a.^k- floral tribute.s testified to the high es-'ed of congress hy Pre.s'dent Roosevelt teem in which this Chri.stian woman l^nd the general in non.-Li wa.s held in the community. jind the general impression in capitkl official circles is that the chief execu tive believes the anti-depression cam paign is progressing s?itisfactori!y. , With every indicator pointing in I R Ivnn nf Tj. . n ' i. direction, the President today de- 1 ;r •'* n-P-=.ion I’re.shyterian church. The active pallbearers were j The .service.s were conducted hy the ' Rev. H. 0. ChamlM'rs, pa.stor of the |church of which .she was a faithful j) land devoted member, assi.stod by Dr.! L. T. Ramagt', L. R. Gmy, K. R. Knox, W. ’ ,vporting nokids. B. Tribble. R. k Plaxico, P. B. Adair, Dr. R. W. John.son, and J. VV. .\ndor- j .son. j Mrs. Leaman had been a patient in I the local ht>spital for ten days where j.she had undergone an operation. Her j condition graduallyj gniwing worse, a ; second operation was I jK'rformed 'Thursday from w’hich she never gain- I 1 /> • Kl J.* I I? 1004 I.A. consciousne.ss and gradually sank Cold Grips [Nation' ror l9o4 Cotton untu the sad end came. The announce ment shocked and exciteil the dec'pest Seek Parity Price -of the $6,000,0iii),"0t) budget which will be n'conimendevl to the national legi.'dature and to his annual message the nation’s legislative Meanwhile, the prospi cts of inter national action to stnhiiiz world cur- rencie.s on a gold basis received the careful study of those 'who ha -e fol lowed the development of the allrnin- istration nionetai;y luxigram, their curiosity aroused by the refu.sal of Acting Secretary .Morgenthau to an swer a question whether a move in I m V Mercury At Low Points, Trains i Level Sought Means Same Buy- r still, I caught him by t<*nals. $1,200; total, $4,950. i o. j ou- i. j i • n ■< » j i n wr ell as I remember, and I Project \’o. 201—Re-surfacing road ; Stopped, Shipping Halted In mg I'ower It Had In Pre-War the bouSe^aTkTTDvei ed' looding- frunv Highway JNo. Z:.JLa^mr.j_ St arm’s Wake. South Escapes. dragged him in him up with an old mattress. 1 started $1,059; materials, $:140; total, $1,3‘>9. to go back and hide him better, but; Project No. 202—lAnfonI road-Mar- didn’t.” ’ Labor, $1,467; mate. The announced confession of the i rails, $360; total, $1,824. New York, Dec. 27.—.A wave of bit ter cqjd. accompanied by raging winds .ut» repairman be^an wUh a de«rip-!_ Project .No. 203^E«ad. Prmcet«n,‘'“‘ tion of how he had borrowed a light to Irving’s bridge: Labor, $1,059; ma- bliizards in New England states, night on the course of snow storms model automobile that morning from'l^rials, $250; total, $1,309. a Negro porter, M’illiam Kennedy. It 1 Project No. 204—Highway, Clinton told of Wiles’ driving to •charitable ^^and. Spring church: *4,. ^ agency in the ciW where the lad had A^0» metenaJs, $1,440, total, $o,6<0. I - A ,, . , been lured with a promisex»f a job. j Project No. 205—Re-surfacing road? ^ The statement continued “1 calle<l to a boy and asked him there. I wrote the gro wa.< there, just if this young man white boy came to the car and 1 said “ ‘Come on around “M’e drove on Period, 1910 To 1914. GreenvUIe, Dec. 27.—Return to a “parity” or “fair share” price for cot ton is the real goal of the national cotton production— adjustment pro- this direction wa.s in the making. . , . I Koosevelt only a few days ago •sympathy of the community where .she'expre.s.sed the horn' that such action was admire*! by all who knew her, and might be taken, without .saying how loved by those who knew her well. Mrs. lieaman was born in Statw- ville, N. C., and^moved to Clinton with her father, O. A.~SoweraJ in 1910. In swept across the United States last i 1912 she was married to James W. liCaman of this city, who preceded her to the grave fouiteen years ago. For the pa.st several years Mrs. Leaman had been connected with the well-known firm of D. K TribbleC^m.; |y i„ clarify ii,eir ranKuaKe"or'an.Aer pany aa b.»kkeeper where she waa lechnicafitiea that have arisen in their will give a bale of cotton the samei^®^ high esteem and made foany | fnenda by her faithfulness to duty,! ^ome amendments ville county agricultural agent. Parity price mear\p a jirice which soon he thirUght it .should come about. -His attitude for month.s has been that stabilization was not desirable until doniesTic^coimnoTiny rewtred-a- .sati.sfactory level. Nuch revisions as .Mr. Roosevelt . may sugge.st qf jhe jei^eiy laws en acted last spring are expected to be of a minor nature and intended main- ruff- labor 8"| ns- materiji!.; SI 440- v- v i i. i ,<vr, • l "I*’ cotton will hava* ^ruii. i.anoi, ;i.>,i.so, maiciiais, ?i,4-iu. New ^ ork had 10.3 inches of snow Clinton w-ard the place. much ... , 1 « ’ rc . “M'e turned in . . . and went . . . the Quit Miller place tscene of the Pi'oject No. ‘209^ slaying). 1 planted 169 acres of oats -s.reei.^ I.ahor, $5.)5; mate there when his son, George Miller, total, yOl.i. J M ^ Project No. ^1023—Hickory .\n account of how M'-les and the-T-oadr Lalxfr, $3.86S; material.^, ?72U:j^p,.y tixjubled ill-fated youth went through the total, $4,5HH. ^ terrific wind.storm .sunk the 100-; hou.se, into the back yard and lo the l!!at?naD ^$360*^ sible for them u. reduce production barn was given. ^ material., $360,, the harbor at Michigan City,-Ind., and-without lo.ss of immediate inconu “M’e came back to the house, the to«i. ^ ^ earned four fishermen to their deaths, statement said, “and tried to get wa- ^ l^^oject No. 138i—Sewing rooms for were drowned when the tug sons, William S., 1 I, an<l .James ileri-| his gold buying-monetary program to mak<‘ its legality, wliich ha.s hgen di.s. “parity” price levels. .\mi the ront il and benefit payments make it pos- More Demand For ter from a pump at the-well, but we Clinton, Laurens. Cro.ss Hili, Mount-South Haven, did not have water to prime the pump ville, .Gi-ay Court, Owings.and .Another fishing tug was beach- with. foi^: I.abor, $9,330. 20 miles from South Haven and The .succe.ss of the jirogyam is squarely uj) to the farmers of the congre.ss conditions as they s-tand at the moment, Mr. Roosevelt has askedv all ftMleral agencies for rt'poiis, giving ^ ^ |!-he views of key officers on the out- OOUtnern for the future. In the latter re- ! sjH ct the order excei'ded the usual re- |<|uests fur info-mation. cotton boll. .cewdinK to Mr Clray.l^ j^,, ,, The plan is a voluntary one. (otton , * ^ I l he agencies supplying the data :i-e - . J J Vfk Fm<vr0’«ru>v i ' ' —I producers HTc uot forced to take part I Are Month.s, Business many, but partieu.'ai' ♦■mnhasis wa-; ‘The. boy around and I’^mergemy teach- safelyjiy jt. The Agricultural Adjustment! Far In Exci^ss of'La.st Year, iPlaced upon the federal reserve ‘This 18 a devil of a place. ♦^.oou. .ashore, swimming through the Project No. 1518—(’ity parks and I $390. Coast guard.smen dcscriht'd the ‘I said we’d have' to get used to it He looked me right in the face and school improvement, lAurens, then hit me on the cheek.” Project No. 1664 Street improve- 3^ 4,^^^ worst in years.” Huge Then followed the statement of how ment, Clinton, N. Bell and Elizabeth 1 ^<3^^^^ threatened to destroy anything 4M’iles picked up the death instrument,'streets. Labor, $1,044; materials, fishermen were urged to a piece of heavy angle-iron, and de- ,S200j local contribution, $'25; total, remain at home. livered the fatal blows. $1,269. - , - • . Northwest winds carrieil the snow- The sheriff and federal, state, and Project No. 118 Clothing bureau, {^^.cmi's eastward from their birth- sys*. tern which maintain.^ up-to-i’ie-miriute The Agricultural Adjustment *cyf \{Bninistration is offering a plan 1 which makes it possible for the cot-j W'ashington, Dec. 26. Cotton and * all business trends. the ('iv- ton growers themselves to bring pro-! trohacco, the .S'outh’.s' large.sU money iWorks administration, the'Pu’dlic duction and supply into line-with ef-jerops, were more in demand in for-[Works administration and the Uerov- fective dehiand, thus working toward oi^^n countries this fall than a year ‘‘Fy-administration. ago and th**se expiurls contributed [ A. report was current in VVa.shing- “city“ (Continued on psge tw«i I places in the pacific* northwest, Mon- 24 Killed In Two Carolinas Christmas Holidays Take Big 413,426.50. ^ Toll. Auto Fatalities, As Us- “ ^ ^ ual Take the Lead. Quict ChristmaS ^lumbi^ 2J-TH* Yule boll-: ■ Obscrved' Here day brought a total of 24 violent deaths to the Carolinas, a compilation of Associated press- dispatches re- . Project No. 119 Lau- ^nd the Canadian northwesL A ,rens and Clinton, $470. ^ ; bitter blizzard howled into, Portland, Project No. 120 Listing report 3^ noon, and. the New England .blanks Lib.: $210. '.states generally had tastes of real Project No. 2052 — l^^Firen.s-Milton highway: l.abor $10,576..50; materials,. The snow had abated and tempera- $2,450; local contribution, $400; total, tu^es were rising from extreme lows in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, and noig-hboring states, but farmers still took precautions to protect livestock, and shippers were warned of contin ued below-zero weather probabilities. Snow slides in the mountains had tied up railroad branch lines in Mon- Christmas Day was observed here in tana, with prospects that one of them, vealed today. manner. The city rest- The largest toll was taken by a ^ with the mills, stores, offices, grade-crossing crash at Pomona, a postoffice and mercantile es- mibui'b of Greensboro, X. C. Five tablishments closed for the day. persons were killed, and a sixth was The spirH of Christmas was in evu mas travelers not expected to recover. - 1 dence everpvhere with mjiny on the/Mont., for the first time since rriday. Five deaths were reported from streets carnring gifts to loved ones I Northern M'i.scon.sin And the upper Columbia, S. C.,'and its environs. friends, receiving in turn other . Michigan penin.sula counted its de^d The slain b^y of Herbert H. Har- appreciations of love and friendship, j at 16, and Minnesota reported between St. Regis and Avery or St. Maries, would not be opened for 30 days. Through trains from the Pa cific coast, bearing belated Christ- arrived at Missoula, 10 a fair exchange or parity price for their cotton. But the individual in a large way to increased farm in-'^^*b today, but could not 1,“ officially growers will have to take part in Ihe^come. 1 verified, that the mysterious meeting program in order to make it effective. I ^Figures from the commerce depart-^ federal reserve official.-* la.'^t h ' i-* Those who do not take part in the'ment today .‘showed that in Septem- ^he trea.sury wa.s to picpare a program will receive none oTThe Terif^ her, TTcIbto'" and—Mn-t/t»rfih«4v .buaijBoss- -a«d induKtu-iaJ amLy-da- Thii-, al payment and none of the guaran- year 76,973 more bales of cotton and! .^‘‘cting included the governor.s of tees of parity price for the doniesti- 4,952,8.32 more pound.s of tobacco were many of the reserve banks who were-- cally consumed portion of their crop.' sent abroad than during the .'nme hiirriedly summoned to Washington. The domestically consumed share of months in 1932. ,, ' Any re<|ues’t for legislation in con- the individual fiHqner’s crop, or “farm t .Japan, (k'rmany and the United nection with the gobi buying plan, it allotment,” will be 40 per cent of the Kingdom ((Jreal Britain) took the was considered, woulld inevitably lead average annual cotton pro<luction on bulk of the cotton exfMirts for the a vigorous debate on its merits and the farm of the ba.se period years, jtbree fall month.s for both years while laccomplishments in which the conser- 1928 through 1932. the UniU'd Kingdom and China were vative element of the Democratic • — the largest importers of American party, )e<l by Senator Gla.ss of Vir- I I;i| I leaf tobacco. ginia, would ally itself, with the old v WlOoS iTlIl I The large.st amount of manufac- guard Republicans in criticizing the o ♦ared cigarettes .exported-to any one plan. Even without a re(iue?.t for leg- •3CmCCvo V^1i1C6i 8 C(jtjn4),i-y~ln each of the mon'ths went' illation, the monetary program is e.v —^ , j to the Philippine island.s. p<,*cted to be the subjec-i of nuine.-oi.-i Cross Hill. Dec. 22.—At a i-ecenl I [torrid speeches in both ^.houses. , meetiing of lonlge No. 159 h. 111 the following officers were elected for' »wIlIlldO V4IvdI all the coming year: MT. Ht Barn.s, worshijifyl master;^ J. A. Guthrie, senior warden; L, (i. [ Jones, junior warden; H. E. firown. Home Contests' I Methodist Church The judges a.ske*l to seject the he.st i found'in an Abandoned bouse 48 hours visiting relatives, while others gave | of many fatalities. j senior deacon; M’. T. Boyce, junior; rhristma.s decorations in the rosiden-'j The Broad Street Metho li.sjt churjuji deacon; C. S. Pin.son, .secretary; M. C. ,tial section of the city awarded firwt will have .a “watch nighi Ft fvice” oh ris, Jr., 15-year-oId schoolboy, 'was the day out of the city ^ dead. Exposure to the cold was cause ^ Pin.son, .secretary; M. C. ,tial section or me city awarded iirsi wjll have a “watch night many fatalities. Pinson, trea.surer; J. M\ Hanno, tyler; [ilace to Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Fergu.son, next Sunday evening. A .service of The Southern states were the only g Pinson and H. A. Bryson, steyv- and .second place to Mr. and Mrs. W. prayer, prai.se and testimony will be ards. > P. Jacobs. Prizes of $.>.00 and $2..>0 gin at, jj o’clock. The .service will con- after he had mysteriously disappeared. ^ hunting. ) • * • Other fatalities in the Columbia Locla merchants reported a heavy ones to escape winters vagaries. area were: Frederick Lee Rast,,*>“**^8 on Saturday in preparation struck by an automobile driven by Tor the happy celebration. James A. Uayne, Jr., BiU Jenkins, ^ From Crop Of 1933 U. S. C. student, killed in an , CTAaArpif* mobile collision; Betty Lou Cartini’^CWer IMICS \Jinnea struck by an automobile. F. M. Howard, 81, waif struck and, killed by ah automobile al Spartan-j burg. / ' Mattie B. Sanders, statistician At Itoiminf. S. C., Mose Harvin, for Laurens county, reports that a negr/t was found on a county road 21,847 bales of the 1933 cotton crop with M briAen neck; Charlie Miller,. we^ ginned prior to Dec. 13, as com- was killed in an automobile [ pared with 24,583 bales ginned to the ii^poKrtg Ehrl Cody Reported Slightly Improved were offered the winners by the city tinue until the beginning of the nevr FULLER UNDER ARREST 1* V.4' rw V, I Ll/rrtl'n 4 t n rr ^ • J4 4 4 ' *44 iage Christma.s lighting and decorating | Other .sei-vices for the day will be as Laurens. Dec. 21.-John FuIIcm- wilL Yuletide season^ -.Uol^owsi Sunday .school at 10 a. m.. the , jbe the defendant at a circuit court! inTl^ citv 1 Tk'"r preaching service-at ll. At L • 1 • . 1. ■ • • I beautiful homes and yards in the city this time a special sermon appropn- .jjjtnal in ronnection with a homicide the Christmaa spirit and'ate to the corping of the new year wall Greenville, Dec. 27.—Although still i"”"* “ .ivy4ii.v..4.. with the iChristmas spirit ana 'ate to the corping of the new year will seriously ill. Dr. Z. T. C^dy, nditor ^®P®riod^Sunday pight from Lanford ^^g^j.j}^jj winding displays be delivered. At 7:30, Dr. J. R. T. Ma- of the Baptist Courier, was reported slightly improved at City hospital last night Dr. Cody b^-ame suddenly ill over the week-end and was taken to the ImspitaL Station. Instead <ii his being killed, as 3^ unusually beautiful and attractive.‘jor, presiding elder of the Greenville reported, he did the shooting thaUnd-, jdiBrrict, will be present and preach. od the life of Jim Templeton, it is al-j. Miss Sara Pitts of Manasas, Va., I After the preaching .service Dr. Major will hold the fir.st quarterly confer ence. The public i.s invited to all these leged-A warrant charging Fuller with and Miss Martha Pitts of Piedraon^ murder wKs issued by Coroner J. Ajare spending holidays with thei Thompeom following the inquest. 'parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. PiU^ Sr. meotinga. B -ryut, 1