The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, October 04, 1934, Image 1

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f / .y,- '■ J- 'X Sv 1 If >¥oii Don't Dead ^HE CHRONICLE Too boBT Got Tht Newo.^ 1 vx ,y X the chronicle , StriTes To Be • Clean New»- I paper, Complete,.Newa7, and Reliable. TVOLUME XXXlV CLINTON, S. C., THUFiSDAy, OCTOBER 4.19^ NUMBER 38 MYSTERIOUS ^ PAL HUNTED Clerk At Wood yard Tells of Dark Compai^Qii With 'Haupt- man. Alibi Shattered. . Trenton, N. J., Oct. 2.—An unknown ' friend of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who rushed to the aid of the Lind bergh kidnapping suspect when he aroused a lumber yard man!s suspi cions with a lit) gold note that may ^have been.part of the ransom* money, today became the quarry of a man hunt. Hauptmann has been “positively idehtifii^" frdih a photograph by William J. Reilley, the Bronx lumber yard superintendent, as the man who tendered the gold bank note last Feb- •ruary in payment for a 40 cents wood panel, Cpl. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, state police head, revealed. When Reilley began to scaoxjthe gold note carefully, Schwarzkopf re ported,' the German carjienter’s com panion hurriedly ilaid, “Never mind,” and. quickly proffered the exact change. Hauptmann, who said noth ing, took back his bank note and the men left in haste, not to return as promised for delivery of the wood lat- et in the day, 5chwazkopf related. Isidore Fisch, as well as other kno^ associates of _ Hauptmannj^ seemed' to be eliminated as the Ger-^ man’s companion pf the lumber yard ^ visit, for Schwarzkopf ^aid Reilley has. been unable to identify the second man among the photographs^ of Hauptmann’s known friends and' ac- qaintances. . The linking to Hauptmann of a mystotjious companion who apparent- ' ly knew the former German machine gunner was allegedly passing “hot!’ ransom money headed'for the day a list of developments which included: Announcement by Governor A. Har- ly Moore that he was satisfied from Johnson Tells . NRA. Goodbye Blue Eagle Head Farewell Words Eiijf^loyees. Tearful In To Former Smith Proposes To Allow Farmers To Market All 1934 Cotton Crop. r Laurens Boy Falls To Death all the lint they produced this year. Under his plrfn, which was^^present- e(^ to AAA officials, allotments of growers who produced cotton in ex cess pf their quota would be increased to include it all tax free, while allot ments of growers who did not raise Washi^ogton, Oct. 1.—His eyes fill ed with tears, his voice trembling With emotion, Hugh S. Johnson bade fare well today to the employees of NRA who helped him spread the Blue Eagle’s wings across the nation. . Standing alone m the center^ of a loney, stage at the commerce department,! police I th/foi-mer calvary officer tild hiJfhe.r quota would be reduce,, hushed audience that he was resign-! This, he said, would provide a way ing as administrator to still a running! ^dr. marketing the entire 1934 crop fire of criticism that was threatening'^®* exempt as the estimated produc- to retard and paralyze NRA. . aggregate of 10,480,- “Very,often,” he said, “the crucifix- 000 bales of cotton exempted from Ion of a man means more to the thing taxation under Ihf Bankhead act. he is trying to do than all his living * This would keep the .law intact and efforts.” ' wouhl only mean that each produder Washington,'Oct. 1.—'Senator Shvith I year’s production,” Smith declared. (D., S. C.,) proposed today nullifica-j “Fit the 'allotments to the conditions tion of the Bankhead cotton control'that exist rather than take the f»res- act by modifying allotments to permit jent allotments .j-egaitdless of coridi- individual grov^ers to market tax free tion His whole philosophy, he added, could be expressed in these words: “To die with honor when you cap no longer live with honor.” " Two thousand workers, packing ev ery available seat and standing in'the aisles, heard Johnson’s address in which he called NRA “as great a so cial advance as has ever occurred,” declared he wanted no sympathy for the “dead.cats” hurled at him, assert ed that the principles of NR.A wore right, «id reorganization was a nec essary step, and praised the idsralty of his co-workers. urfder the modified allotments wo he allowed to sell withouf tax Hop Jack Todd, ClenLson Cadet, Kill ed In Atlanta Hotel Attempt ing To Climb From Window. Under his proposal, each prdducer would be required to make an affida vit of the actual amount of bis pro duction and this production would b^ verified by the number of bales ginned. He said in some instances present, allotments to indivUiiwl producers ®djoining room, were as low as 1(H) pounds,of lint, whereas a bale of cotton weighs ap proximately 500 pounds. “It is impossible for,a producer toi PRESIDENT ASKS eor teamwork Industry and Labor Asked To Sign Armistice As Peace Goal, i Alarmists Las|ied. * Wajihington, Sept. Atlanta, Oct. 1. * A coroner’s jury today found Jaclj L. Todd, Clemson . t. . J Roosovelt told the American e<l..jo^aturday Sunday night that he would of aTa ^college senior, di Inilrht as the result of aTall from his j hotel room while attempting to climb [from his window to the window of anj within the The verdict was returned late today after sessions yesterday * and-today when testimony was taken. The jury found Todd fell from the sjxth floor dispose of 100 pounds of cotton unless!of a downtown hotel to the roof of a ht‘ joins In with others ^ >> Smith declaretl. ; “1 am insisting- that the lowest al lotment unit shall be at least a com mercial bale of cotton. 30.~Presidcnt, people confer- coming month with-cap ital and labor groups to seek their cooperation “in establishing what I 'may de.scribe as a specific, fHaJ period of industrial peace.” , ^ In a radio broadcast from the pval room in the White House the pVesi- dent sai d would .seek in these cori- .ferences assupnees of the “making and maintenance of agreements which- can be mutually relied upon. Senator! court three stories below. The case came to a speedy conclu sion after a couple said they were Mr. . . and Mrs. J. Miller of Philadelphia andJ 1 jf. determined and New under which wages,- hours, and w-ork- 8 Tired Of AUbiTalk Notifi^ Blackwood That This State Must Match Federal Be lief Aid. Laurens Church Plans Centennial evidence available that “we can con vict” Hauptmann on a charge of mur- church, Sunday, October 21 der and that New Jersey’s ipvestiga- centennial prbgrt’api of exercise*,, as tions in the case would be completed!®”"0'^J''ced by the chairman df-the “in a few. days.” i committee, the Rev. W. D. 6pinx, pas- Disclosure by authoriUtive New!^*’, includes a sefmon at the morning Jersey sources that notations In a i hour by Dr. Edwin M. Poteat, former notebook found in Hauptmann's president of Furman university and Washinglop, Sept. 28.- Governor Ibra C. Blackwood was Saturday ad vised by Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief administrator, that South Caro lina will hereafter be expected to car ry its fair burden of the relief load. Thirteen other .states have been .simi larly advised. Heretofore, thes^^'states have been carried along either entir- ly or in large measure by the federal government. Hopkins informed Gov ernor Blackwood that it is the intent oU congress that the federal govem- Uurens, Oct. 1. —Plans are going co-operate with,'but not displace forward for the observance' of the ^he- several state*, in relieving the lOCth anniversary of the First Bap-j hardships and suffering caused by un- The Conferences are to be held with the First Baptist To Celebrate 100th Birthday On petober 21. Pro gram Arranged. Yo\^k testified they had seen Todd fall to his death about 10 p. m,, OoUllty B&ptiStS 1"^ Miner .said he had turned out the m a , . 1 lights in his room and raised the IVlCCV ViCtODCr. ZJ shades preparatory to retiring, when he saw Todd, fully clad and wearing a hat, crawl from the window of the room in which companions had left him* step cautiously along a ledge and i?nterj4he-w:indow of the room adjoin- [ing. ' . . ^ There, Miller said, he saw the young As.sociation To Gather At Union Church October 23-24 For An nual Session This Year. Laurens, Oct. 1..—The 38th annual ses.sion-oP the LaurensvHaptist asi^jman pick upnJiamlbag, toss, out some elation will witlj Union be ;\held October 23-24, church, nine ((>ld miles Quaker) Bapti.st southwest of the of its contents and again come to the window to start back to his room with the bag in one hand. He took one step. city. The associational siMindn will be. Miller said, and dropped. Miller said preached at the opening of the first I Ike body struck below with a sound day s .session by^ Dr. Alva B. Lang- “like thunder.” A Bronx home, were considered as evi dence the German carpenter was di rectly linked with the kidnapingA Disclosure of evidence indicating the Lindbergh kidnapers boldly, spir ited thfe baby away over the .’’main road leading to the Sourland mountain estate, rather than throug the woods in back of the Lindbergh home there as first believed. * • ' Bronr^ District Attorney Samuel B. Foley’s st^ement after conferring with New Jersey authorities. that he would proceed with plans for placing Hauptmann on tnial on an extortion indictment in New York by asking for a special jury panel, tomorrow.- A story in the Washington Star that^ two secret witnesses have shat tered Hauptmann’s alibi that he was not the “John” of the Lindbergh ran som negotiations and payment. Ne# Jersey investigators, Cbl. Schwarzkopf revealed, were in a rexr room of the' office of the Cross, Aus tin and Ireland lumber yard in the now a mefnber of the faculty of the same institution; and the reading of the history of the ^hurch. At the eve rting .service Dr. Alva B. Langston will preach the sermon, and an address will be given by C. B. Bobo. Th# centennial celebration will fol- low’cfosely on the^ conclusion of spec- governors for the purpose of reaching agreements fair to both the state* and the federal government. A survey of the ability of each state to contribute towards the relief burden is now be ing made under the direction of Lent D. Upson, who was formerly asso ciated svith the Detroit bureau of gov ernmental research and who is a rec ognized authority oh local and state taxation. These state surveys are be ing supplemented in a number of in stances by studies of the ability of ial revival services with t^e church, counties to contribute be held from October 8 to October 18. i The Rev. Marshall Mott, pastor of the The emergency relief adAmistra- First Baptist church of Spartanburg, Uion has not set an arbitrary figure ston. C. B. Bo'bo is moderator; S. W. Sumerel, vice-moderator; W. P. Cul bertson and B. Y. CullK'rtsdn, clerks; R. E. Thomp.son, treasurer. Tfiie I^au- rens a.ssociat1on has a mernbership contstitucncy of 6,085, Aeiuesenting 33 churches, according to last year’s sta tistical report. Total contributions for local church work fqr the same period amounted to'$25,133.92; total for the cooperative program, $7,965.01, or a grand total of $32,198.93. The statistical calendar also shows that Langston church is the oldest ac tive Baptist church in thtf county, hav ing been constituted in 1737. It will observe its 200th' anniversary three years' ’hence. Qther churches estab lished in the 18th century were: Dur- bHa Creek, 1781; Bethabara, 1793, and Poplar'Springs, 1794. The youhgest church of the entire group is Lucas M rs. Miller corroborated her hus band’s testimony. The Millers explain ed they had not before reported what they saw becausb they believed there were other witnesses and Miller did not wish to b<>come involved in the in vestigation* because of business ap- [fointments. They said they immedi ately went to the authorities when they notic^ the case had not been cleared up. Miller said he was a salesman for the Associated 4^1ass publication?. Mrs. Miller gaveit her home address as 2637 Ninth street, Philadelphia, al any later adjustments shall be made either by agreement or, in case of dis agreement, through the' mediation or arbitration of state or federal agen cies.” Regarding unemployment, Mr. Roosevelt said rhe would. ,“stand or fall by my refusal to accept as, a ne- ce.ssary condition of our future a per manent body of unemployed.’! “On the contrary,” he ailded, “we must make it a national principle that we will not tolerate a large army of , ®nd thal_ we will arrange ' our national economy Td emr our pres-~ ent unenijiloyment as soon as we can and then to take wise measures aga.inst its refurn.” Asserting the American people “ure not frightened by reactionary lawyers or political editors,” the president said “I am not for a return to that definition of liberty under which for many years a free people were being gradually regmented into the service of the privileged few. I prefer and 1 am surp you prefer that broader -deft- nition of liberty umler which we are moving fonvard to greater freedom, to greater security for the average man than he. has ever known be fore in the (history of America.” Mr. Roosevelt said in its efforts for recovery the administration had avoided the theory that .“business thoirgh the husband’s business head-1 ^*hould and .must be taken over in- quarters Ms New York. The couple were occupying a room across the court from that of Tod^. T(Mld came to Atlanta Saturday for the Clemson-Georgia __Tech football gime s^TT three classmates, H. L. Watts I Bryan of Hartsville, S. €., T. A. Kolb several weeks ago accept^ the invi-pRk®^ fo tke actual amount^o^per- tation to lead the special meeting. Increstse Made In Enrollment The. enrollment of the Clinton schools at the close of the'first month ending Sept. 28th, reached a- total of 1,655, divided 1,277 white, 378 colored. In the high school there are 321 pu pils; Florida Street school, 375; Acad- centage of requirements which South Carolina is expected to appropriate for relief. Undoubtedly, the state* will employ various methods of raising relief funds. Administrator Hopkins'is to insist upon each state and'ita.local government, paying a reasonable share of relief costs, keeping in mind ability to pay. - able and energe;leadership of which tops the list as reported a, year j tective to lock him in h|* room as they General .Iohnsonj;” the president said, ago. Three churches of the association j-went elsewhere Saturday night. Offi-j “We .shall watch carefiilly the work- leers said his body was found early, Ag of thi> Bronx “about February 14” last, wheniemy Street, 402; Providence, 179. Hauptmanh and ^his associate appear-;. In/the colored school, Bell Street ed in the front .office to amnge with has 338 enrolled. Bethel sch^l. 40 Reilley for the purchase of the wood panel. . ^ ' The investigators were State Police Detective Lewis Bornman and Arthur Koehler, wood expert, “Who “happen ed” to visit the yard thaf day in their "effolrte to. trace the wood used in the ladder downTw^TcF fheTcldhSpCfS^'t^ the baby flhom the' crib. The wood was subsequently traced to another Bronx Itimber yard, the National Mill Work The total (enrollment a year ago at the end of the first month’s work was 1,541.’ ^ Chamber Meets NextTuesdi^ / Ginnings Show Big Decrease her of Convmerce 'will be held' next and- Lumber company, where Haupt- 'Tuesday evening at 7:30'in the Mary mann, doing odd jobs about the yard/Mukgrove Tea Room. Following the Ginning of this "year's cotton crop is far behind last year’8/i*ecord, ac cording to Mrs. Mattie B. Sanders, special agent of the department of commerce. Prior to Sept. 16, only 280 bales of the 1934 ^op in the county had been ginned, I^inst 2,337 bales of last yeur’s crop of the same date. The shfmller ^hmn^Ti^1rCTl""dur] ■ The October meeting of the Cham- to the effects of the cotton acreage reduptiqn campaign, the Bankhead law, adverse weather conditions last spring which delayed prahtihg i; avenue, 1914, located-at the Mills village. In point of membership, j of (Charleston, and J, L. Sander.s of however, it stands secoftd with a total Clemson college. of 515, compared with 610 for the | Thje three testified Todd had been First Baptist church of Laurens,;drinking and they asked the hotel.;(k;-; the to an all-embracing government,” and also had avoided the “eiiually unten able theory that it is an intereferenc? with liberty to offer reasonable help when private enterpri.se is in m'ed of help." ■ Declaring the administration now prepared to move into the se cond pha.se of NKA on. the basis of experience jn the first phrase under were organized the same year. -1880.jeers said his body was found early^ihg of thi.s^ new ^machinery for the They are Highland Home, Princefon j Sunday morning on a court roof about I second iihase of .\RA, modifying it and Waterloo. Six years later, 1892, Mount Olive and Mountville were add ed to/the association. Visiting Minister > Here Sunday 30 feet below the window of a room , where it needs modification and final- adjoining the one into which Todd and j ly makirg recommendations to the his friends had registered. [congress in order that the functions A theory of foul plaiy was advancedjof NR.^ which have ^iroved their and City Detective J. 'T. Woodruff be-(worth may be made a fiart of the per- gan an investigation.x>n this theory. A'manent machinery of government.” i.l.„ * • i. A- • resumption of the inquest to conclude the case was ordered at 3 p. m. toj^ay. The three young men'who accom- The.,Rey. Patrick H. Carmichael, D.D., instructor of Bible and xcfigious education at Columbia seminary. At- lanta, will occupy the pulpit of the ThomweU Memorial church next Sun day, both morning and afternoon. Dr. L. R. Lynn, the pastor, will be out of panied Todd here all testified today that he was of high standing and ex reputation in his school. George Hodges, Jr., of I^iurens, a frefdiman at Clemson, testified, that Todd was of good character and good standing both at school., and his home. Loans On Cotton Now Being Made the city attending the meeting of the! Similar testimony was given by Hugh Synod of Florida, r (Stoke.s, of Birmmghamn Ala., who qj.so Production Credit Association Lends H^oney, On llasis of 12 Cents a Pound. ' Local Mills Now ' RUhning-Again'^ could have had access to it. usual dinner H business-session will many sections, boll weevil. and the work of the The Clinton Cotton Mills resumed Injoperation 'Monday morning after hav Columbia, S4>pt. 30.—Eril'e.'^r Gra- is a fresFpnan at ('lemson. Both are ham, president of the’ Production in the R." 0. T. C. company of which i C’redit corporation, said today Pro- Todd wa.s a mem'ber. - iduction Credit associations in North Blood on linen in the hotel rbom had and South Carolina and Georgia hkve led poITce to push’ the 'inquiry bh' a beguff'^ making'-wunimodityHtwms-’^-orr- foul play theory but vone of the two cotton and reports indicated hundred.-i young women who testified to visit- of applications would be received in ing the room said Todd struck her a the next few weeks. Cannon Talks To Chib It was the tracing of wood found in be hold with an invitation to all mem- Hauptmann’s garage -to the yard bers to be present, where Reilley is employed that led to'estate developed when ^hwarzkopf the unco^ring of the new evidence, announced ^hat a wire thumbguard Schwarzkopf said.. After Hauptmann which the baby wore when he was had been arrested the wood was trac-'taken from his crib nklNheen found ed and Reilley waa questfoned. [about 200 yards from the entrance to Reilley, who is aiding police in their; the eatate. hunt for Hauptmann’s companion,' is Some time after Schwarzkopf made acheduled to be examined fuHher at j these revelations District Attorney the Bronx county courthouse concern-j Foley arrived here for an extended ing the kidnap suspect's visit to the'conference with Governor Mo^re, At- who ia j|lways a fiivorite with the local lumber yard. ^ [tomey General David T. Wilentz andj^clubyngKle a most interesti^ a^ ira- The Kiwanis leltib had as Its guest speaker last Thursday evening, Prof. 0. B. Cannon, superintendent of the Newbfrry city schools. Prof. Cannon pressive talk on the work for Under- Privilodged children being done by 'An sbrupt mannered, clean shaven, Schwarzkopf, dark complexioned mxn who spoke | It was after this meeting t^t I very good English,” was the way Reil-! Moore said New Jersey expected tir International Kiwanis. ley described Hauptmann’s compan-j complete its investigation of HanpJtT*' The club elected R. E. Ferguson as ion; He'said the man was about 6 feet|mann within “a few days” and aikm its representative to the Kiwanis 6 inches tall ana weighed about 130 the was satisfied "we can convict him” District convention to be held in Aahe- .pounda. After/lwking at a picture of I when he is exthidited to face trial on ville October 10, 11 and 12th. 'one, of Hai^mann's friends, Reilley an indictment charging him with the said that iMit resembled the myster- j Lindbergh child’s murder. * ious com^^oh in some ways but he Mopre's' belief the evidence was was n^sttze enough to make a posi-1 sufficien^t to con^ct the Bronx car- tive idratification. [penter was expressed when he was ^lonel Schwarzkopf disclosed ihat pressed to amplify an earlier., jtate- tile cashier of the luxi^r yard, a Miss mej^t, “we are satisfied we can take /Anne Murphy, had verified Reilley’s [care of him here.” New Jersey has enough evidence against Hauptmann to bring a eonvio- I'm satisfied we tan convict story of how Haimtinsiw presented the $10 gold note for the 40 cents'slab of wood. Mias Morphy, however, didjtiom ndt get a look at Hau^maan'^ friend. ‘ him.” ’A strong indication the kidnapers j The governor gave no hint u to had cs^ed the baby away'over the‘whin the state will institoia Inra- mala road kadiag to the liiMfiwigb''dition proceedings. • - .•’9 ^ Orphanage Gets Following a long established cus tom, Monday was observed at the ThomweU orphanage - as a holiday, with a eessatioA from «II school work. The celebration was ^''Founder's Day” of the institution which opened Its doors for the admissipn of ehUdrea -on October 1,1876, with the late WOKam Flamer Jacobe aa founder. ing been closed' foir the past month®('i Gra'ham .Haid the loans are being when the union, employees joined the'ter accusing her oLlaking his pocket-(made on the ba.sfs of 12 cents per national strike. The Lydia Cotton. mill*, closed for the same period, ol^hed Tue*dafy. Reopening of the two mills p^assed quietly without any signs of disorder. book. The'pocketbook later was found j pound for cotton clas.sed as low- under a rug in the roam. ' middling or better and seven-eighths — i inch or better in staple and 11 cents Buried At I^aurens ll>er pound f6r cotton below loiiir-mid- ' Laurens, Oct. 1, — With military dlihg and staple less than .seven-. 'Wi ■’W Furman vs University of Georgia at Greenville. • ' Clemson vs Duke at Durham. honors. Jack Shannon Todd, Clemson eighths inch. college senior who met a tragic death ' Ai security for each loan, Graham in Atlanta early Sunday morning was explaine<l, the borrower must furnish laid to rest in the Laurens cemetery a" receipt ifrom an appro^d ware- this-afternoon following services at house, Lians, he, said, are at 4 per the residence conducted by the Rev, cent 'per 'annum and interest is W. , D. Splnx and Dr. Graves L. charged .only foT-4ha time the, money Knight. From Clemison came Com- is actually in use. ' * *• pany A, first regiment, accompanied Citadel vs Oglethofpe at Augusta. , y, , l d . j » Erakine v. Api»Iachian Teachers at Charlotte. I ant and Colonel Mooreman, senior; Newberry vs Catawba at Salisbury. military instructor, and the line offi-' Two Clintonians Presbyterian vs Howard at Bir mingham. South Carolina University v*- V, 1. at Columbia. ' ‘ ’ i V 1 I ^ cers,-Six men from the senior class; M. (served as-active pallbearers while the (other officers and men formed the In “Who’s Who” NAMED AS EDITOR Charles E. Carson, of > Atlanta, has been, elected editor of The Collegian, literary magazine of Presbyterian col- j lege, to fill the term of Hart Odom,!^^ who did rtot^tum to school this year.! The new editor has been active in , . „ . , ... Two Olinton citizens are amorg honorary.escort. Tollowing the f.rmg South Carolinians'whose bioKra-' of th^e salute at the grave taps waS p^^^, brief-appear In “Who's Who' sounded and the company filed out of America'' in the M3J.36 editiop... the grounda to return to the coilege ^ - ,^^ently‘ The funeral of the young student,dfstrjbute'd. These are; Ur. John S'"-.To? Bi McSween, president 'of Presbyterian R. T. Todd pf this city, was altended^^,,,^' M. Bailey, president of COTCourse of fnends and rela. . ^ ■ The,new publication carries the per- » Isonal sketches of 31,081 names, and »r € - ■ V. a tives. names, literary wprk at'the college for'the I Miss Ek>lsf Von Hollen ot Lander [makes up a volume of ^,750 octavo^ paat three years and is well qualified'college, Gre<lnwood, spent the week-[pages. Two hundred and twepty-eigh4 for the position he has been chosen end withTber parents, Mr- and .Mrs. J. citizens of the state are listed in the to fUL H. Von Hollen. ■ [volume. mumw