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-CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C.
NEW DEAL RECEIVES WALLOPS
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PRAISE AT JOLLY STREET
Talmadge, Blease/Harllee and Senator C. D. Nance of This County,
'^^ad^ng Attackers. Governor Johnson l^efends
/ RoosOvelt and Adnii|iis^ration. y
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BIGhTHi US'^^JkLLMENT’. jtective answered curtly. “You surely
Synopsis :—7^flN(fa Keith, wife of a d^n’t hope to persuade me your pres-
Jolly Street, Aug. 8.—Vigorous crit
icism and warm praise were heaped
^upon the-Jloosevelt administration to
day as ' Georgia’s Governor Eugene
prominent Philadelphia business man,
hi murdered as she waits alone in i
side room to testify in the divorce
case of Rowland vs. Rowland, She was
to have testified for the husband, a
friend, who was defendant in the ac
tion. IXeteetive Tommy Rankin is as
signed to the case from police j;iead-
quarters. His preliminary investiga
tion disclosed that both Mr. and Mrs.
'Rowland had gathered i^evidenoe
against the other of infidelity. The
will of Mrs. Rowland's first husband
directed her lawyer brother,yMr. Wil
lard, to handle the estate un^ she re
married when the new husband was to
come into ’control. Detective Rfmkin
finds motives and the evidence of guilt
foy the- murder of Mrs. Keith, leading
to the doors of virtually all the prin
ciples involved. These principals are,
the two Rowlands, Mr. Willard, Mr.
Keith, husband of the murdered wom
an, Hugh Campbell, paramour of Mrs,
Rowland, and his underworld confed
erated.
(Now Gd Oni With the Storjr)i.
ence was only a coincidence?
Mr. Keith compressed his lips. “Yes,
of course that’s ridiculous, l^e truth
is, I have no explanation to offer; I
can’t tell you why I went there.’’
It was Rankin’s turn to; be taken
aback, and he stared incredulously, as
though he had not heard aright.
.“You can’t tell me, Mr. Keith?’’ he
said harshly. “You mean yqu wonV’
“Have it any way you like, Ra^|^,’’
his opponentjeturned firmly. “If^on-
cema me alonerand can!t possibly' be
of interest to the authorities. It is a
private matter I prefer not to dis
close.’’
“Mr. Keith,” Rankin cried sharply,
“do you realise what your refusal
means? Nothing is private in a mur
der case; and I am investigating the
murder of some one near to you^—^your
wife.”
you still had four minutes leeway. And outspoken.crtiic of the pres-
the whole business could be accom-i‘^^f policies, and a host of South
plished in hardly more than a minute. political
Mr>. Rowland had unlocked the door!Streets picnic rally.
Keith and then open custom of gathering for a day of-helping them when you aye making
speeches and eating, the Jolly Street everything that they need higher and
grove was thronged by 4,000. •
■Hie manufacturer winced. “If it had
riy\r
from the corridbr and pull^ the cur
tains; ;t was only necessary to enter
fifteen-o-five, close the windows,
chloroform Mrs
them' again.” ^
Excited, Campbell appeared ready
to blurt out a refutation, but oadght
himself, in a desperate attempt to re
gain his equanimity.
“Well, what of that?” He Irpoke
more calmly. “It’s all words, Rankin,
nothing more; you’ve no foundation
or confirmation of any of these sup
positions. It’s ridiculous for me to take
them at all seriously.”
Disappointed at his control,^ ^nkih
played his trump card, his unwavering
gaze fixed on the other.
“Campbell,” he demanded slowly,
where can I find Mitch Riley? I think
of thii textile manufacuring seo^on,
he said 10,835,284 square yards of Jap
anese blenched cloth wefe imported
this year as compared with 8,048,845
figures addressed | for all of Tast year and attributed the
increase to pew deal policies.
The sdte-eince 1888 of an annual j “You are not in favor of bringing
barbecue an(l,ipolitical rally by South I from^^scarcity, and patting
CaroUnians wbo love to follow an old J labor on the back, saying that you are
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cattlp^ivd burning wh^r waa not M
“act of sanity.’’
“Looks like the govarment has gonw
crazy, D«inoci:aitic party or no Demo
cratic party,” he added.
Olln Sawyer, house mombe#
from Georl|etown county, defended tba
annual Se^nohe of the state legielihr
turb, and said he woifld introduce
bill next year to i^uce the teydis OdT
Talking to the cotton mill workers governor and other state of^eera.
He said he oouldnt forget the “darlc
While Talmadge lambasted the ad-
miniatration and was joined in his
criticism by former Senator Cole I*-
Blease, state Senator Carroll D. Nance
and Col William Harllee of Dillon, the
president’s leadership was| as vigor
ously defended by Governor Olin D.
Johnston, Gary Paschal. Columbia at
torney, and J. C. Metts, principal of
the Jolly Street scHool.
Newberry and Richland county tex
tile workers’ organizations last Sun
day adopted a resolution condenming
the invitation for Talmadge to speak
here and there were rumors in this
The detective could not decide
whether to believe the story or not.
“Do you know whether Mrs. Keith
ever visited Allerton, Indiana?” Ab
ruptly Rankin shifted the suBject.
The other shook his head. “Aller-
ton? Certainly not in the four years
since w'e met; before that, she may
have been th^re. She never mentioned
it . . . Why do you ask?”
I found an empty bottle with an old
label from a hospital in that town in
her medicine closet. It had contained
\ pyramidbn.”
Rankin bent toward him to empha
size the importance of his next ques-
- tion,
“Isn’t it a fact, Mr. Keith, that in
'spite of your liberal allowance and in
come, your wife was always pressed
foV funds?”
Mortimer Keith looked startled.
“How could you guess that, Rankin ?’-!
he exclaimed. “It’s true she worried
about money,, and often approached
me for more, for charities and clothes.
Once I questioned her about it,, and
she made some vague excuse about
losing it in stocks.”
“Perhaps this will explain her''ex
penditures,” Rankin said, “these check
stubs and canceled checks.”
As be studied them, Mr. Keith's lips
tightened into a formidable line, and
'his eyes flashed in features darken^
by a swift anger. /
“Steady payments like this fdr two
anyxrelations to the crime at all, I
prorni^ you I wouldn’t hesitate to
speak put, Rankin/’
‘ “I’m the best judge of what is per
tinent to the case and what isn’t, Mr.
Keith.”
But Mortimer Keith shook his head.
“I’m sorry I\^ can’t oblige,” he said
more gently.
The detectives had to acknowledge
defeat in his effort'to discover the se
cret of Mr.,Keith’s\Yisit to Sunset inn.
The man stood crearly. within bis
rights in not answering.
Leaving Cottman on guard, the de
tective returned to headquarters.
“That fellow Campbell Gordon’s
been hunting has shown up. Tommy,”
the captain announced. “H^ came in
and iisked for you of his own accord,
twenty minutes ago. \
Rankin began by ignorihg the hand
of Campbell proffered, and the visitor
flushed.
“Sit down, Campbell,” he invited
blandly. “Tve often wanted to meet
you; considering our mutual interests,
years,” he cried harshly, at^ast, "as
if sire were being blackinAiled to pre
vent <^e from learnjifg sonM secret
nboutWl”
“They certainly suggest that,” Ran
kin said, in disappointed tones. “You
had no knowldege of them or to whom
or for what reason she drear them?”
“Nq, this is my first inkling of
them/’
“Were you aware, sir, that Mrs.
Keith would the a witness in the Row
land divorce suit in Mr. Dawson’s of
fice, yesterday?”
Mr. Keith shook his head. “Not un
til I read where she met her death.”
*^Had you any idea,” Rankin asked,
“how she... happened to accompany
young .Rowland, two weeks ago, and
be in a position to give evidence for
him?” ^ ^
“I still don’t understand how she
ever permitted herself to become in
volved in such a vulgar public scan
dal!” the manufacturer rasped out.
h« cftuld h,lp me and I wo'uW like to goven.o.r
have a ahort converaation with him. |„.i^ht receive an unfriendly welcorti^
At Jaat he had ^penetrated C.mp-| h.. , re>i>ictful
belU vigilant luart. Startled and wh,t
"r*i: -."r ‘“.•'"’/I''*’ fireworka the oecaaion inSeed were
which the detective recogniied amaae-1
from the pl‘‘
nished by Bleasp. /
jobs fewer,” he said.
Governor Johnston devoted much of
his address to state matters, discuss
ing the accomplishments of his ^
ministration. He touched on natk^Ml
affairs nnth praise for the npw deal
adminiatration and for ^^f^reaident
Roosevelt “for suecess^Iy piloting
these United States^through ona of
the greater crises history.”
An announcedx^ndidate for the aen-
ate in 1936, ;¥^n Senator Jamaa F.
Byrnes, s^etimes: regarded as a pres-
identiai^pokesman, comes up for re-
electibn, Colonel Harllee denounced
whit he termed the president’s repu-
lliation of the Democratic.platform.
Out.side of the “wet feature, he said,
nearly every other plank in the plat-
days of 1933” and wam^ the voters
“before you decide you're going to put
Roosevelt out neiri year, decide wboi.
is going to take'his place.”
Something had to be done. Doctor'
Sawyer said, and the^resident’s cour
age and good cheeff uponv his taking
office put good feeing into the peo
ple. He said th^ while much wasUS
and diseatisfaption has existed in dis
tribution ^'f^ief funds, it is all but
impossible'to handle that big a propo-
sitiory'mth no precedent, without just
supHwaste. He said the NR A should
Jiave been allowed to expire with thw
act that created it, with the gradual
withdrawing of emergency measures.
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which the detective recognized amaze
ment, shock and, what was most sig
nificant, fear.
so as to get business and the country
back io normal. (Jovemor Talmadge,
he said, had described conditions but
hadn’t offered a remedy.
Replying to remarks “by Governor
Johnston on his veto of Ben Sawyer’s
salary and of the highway revolving
fund. Doctor Sawyer paid" i tribute to
Zaekf^^Wright and others who he said
had done a fine highway job, getting
the very best system of roads in the
Southeast- at less cost. He said that
several investigations of the highway
department had been made and
form has been repudiated and the very one wrong act in management dis
ornv^nd fur-
,, . , , • - 1 u The white-haHed former governor
Hecould not keep., .timbre onion.
from his voi«. Mitch Ri ey ? Oh.wsilj^^ uiuior the spell
he 8 one of Nicks friends from Newi.^- . .
X. , . , n , . I Of his ^platform ari, at times <1nA,wing
York, isn t he, Rankin? i . /*
[ whpbps and cht^e'rs.
•‘Yee, of All^rti'e Uutch Sykee .nd^/,j., j.,...,,
plenty other, 1 ne«dn t mention, Y«-f^ inference and included the .s,ortion
ttrday afternoon, he wa. in the offtie j'.. i,e„,ocratic
where Mrs. Keith died; he consiiWrate^
ly left his fingerprints on the table
beside her. And when I leArn why he
was there, they are gbing to hang
somebody, Campbell!”
Campbell regained his- composure.
“No, I ^ont understand his presence,
if he was really there. You’ll have to
scout around to his friends to adcount
for it, .JRankin. All I know isahat I
haven’t laid eyes on him.”
party and the nation by not having
made any vacancie-s on the supreme
court bench.
opposite action taken.
_ James H. Hope, state superintendent
of education, told of the aid given
South Cal’olina schools by the federal
government and 'Metts, prais'ing the
president, asserted that if an election
wert*. held today every one in that
community would vote Democraitic.
Senator C. D. Nance, long time crit-;
ic of the AAA, attacked this feature
of the “new deal” particularly and as
serted the government’s policies were
n<A^
ered, and he felt that the goyerriior
should co-operate, instead bf^driticiz-
ihg,..so as to get the highw^ j,ob com
pleted by giving all-wea.Uier roads ev
ery whera in this 8ta|^." ’
Dr. Curl B. Kiy>s*, president of the
Farmers and Taxpayers’ league and
former meinber of the house froill
i^umter cqtfhty, told the audience that-
he beUevefi in the constitution and
stat^rights but tha.t “human rights
shbuld i
encouraging “triflingness, laziness an^rights.”
KI TsrvTi.Ad.ka .r
goml-for-nothingne.sus.'’
Only about a thou.sand per.s<m:^^ere
be considered above all other
How any farmer whOse home has
been saved, or any banker whose bank
‘I know that the Democratic party!on hand when the rally_got upder way,>has kept open can fight Franklin D.
is favored by the Ijord,” he said. “Iihut by the time Governoir Talmadge i Roosevelt and the new deal, I cannot
know he loves the people of tjiis na
tion. I need cite no other reason than
that there has- not been any lacancy
on the supreme court of the United
and Governor Johhstoma'rrived in the | understand,”^ said Epps. “The honor-
afternobn an estima^u crowd of 4,000 able governor of Georgia j;ame over
was on hand
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During hie
States bench within the past three -asked -4>y a^rarmer -what he t-hought
to tell us how to vo-te in '36 and his
(I'divs.s Johnston was;advice has been received|*as informa-
f,
it’s strange we haven’t done so be
fore.” — ' /
Campbell set aside his cane. “Yes,
it is,” he agreed. “I might i-eturn the
compliment, Rankin; you’re to be con
gratulated on your splendid reputa
tion. It’s a privilege to know, you.”
“I had expected to hear from you
before this,” the detective continued.
“It’s bebn in all the papers that we
want^ to communicate with you.”
/^That’s what realty brought me in,”
Campbell returned easily. “I happen
ed to be called hastily to the country,
where there were no newspapers. I
spent the night on the Perkiomen
creek, the cottage_of my friend, Nick
Alberti, who manages the Drgandy
club.”
Rankin spoke casually,
where so much of the trouble began,
wasn’t it, Cami^ell? When you and
Mrs. Adele Rowland spent a night
there, two weeks ago?”
At the deliberate provocation, the
racketeer compressed his lips resent
fully and his eyes flashed; but with-ta
effort he held his peace.
''“W’hat about that phone call in the.
lawyers’ offices?” Rankin challenged.
“You were heard to cry out, ‘Qh," my
God!’ and ^You fool!’ That dijln’t mean
very pleasant news. You-iprere alarmed
enough to rush out quipkly to . . . well,
be on hand yours^ and then leave
theVity.” ^
Again Canipbeirs features harden
ed. “You haven’t a single fact to prove
any coniiectipn, with Mrs. Keith. It’s
no us^, Rankin; you can’t show I had
Uon.
H<.*n E. Adams, -Richland county
house member, said the greatest need
of the day was a "restoration of con-
years and I sincerely hi'qie there will, of thi>/llafikhead act.
When the racketeer left headquari^p^j some time to come.” ! Thi^overnor ivpiied:
t^rs at the close of the interview,i Talmadge arrived, Blea.se "Flhink it has worked hanlship on
Si^ith’ a plain-clothes man followed temi>ered any mood there may huve^jrtfine i^ople hut as a whole it.'has done fidence in. government and charged
/s • , been to demonstrate against the lleqr'- great good.” - rthere was a gross waste in the hand-
(Continued Next Week). gian with an example of his plaj^fh^rm j “It has hurl the poor man,” said tho-iing of relief Junds.
^ ■ showmanship. iquestioner, “and it T^ilt put me out of “The people are thoroughly disgust-
I 1 up an Atlanta .Newspaperhiu.siness.” led with the way relief is handled,”
LmUFClio V UlCo ^which 'had a story intiiiiating T«I- Ami .Johnston answered: 'Adams said. “Confidence canno-t be r*-
might find a hostile audience' “If it hadn’t been for the govern-^siorad as long a.s the government luMI
* •'“*^®|here. Blease denoi^ed it and said: merit, giving relief to thousands, we uelfi.sh politicians administering
\ — ' ■ ' I “If there is jxHy disorder it won’t all would have been oift of business.” jlief.
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Mwerage extension.
Better Homes and Gardens,My
That wa^Garden Helper—17 moatlif/ ll.M.
JAMBS W. CALDWELL
“Did you know Mrj. Keith was go- knowledge of her death before to
ing out that Wednesday night at allt^ day, or expect me to admit anything
“Yes, she was to visit her physijBian,
.who attends her when her hendMhes
become particularly vicious^^Dr. Anton
Brantihan on PTne street^'! didn’t pay
any attention to wh^ she left or re
turned home.”
“Then, Mr. Keith, what was. your
connection with the Rowland divorce
action?”/^
At/the abruptness with which the
:tive shot this .question tlSii bth^r
at him in perplexity and sur
prise. "
“My connection?” he repeated won-
deringly. “I don’t follow you, Rankin;
L haven’t the slightest interest in it.”
Rankrn’s voice rang with the vigor
he put into his unexpected offensive.
“In that case,” he demanded, “what
^er'e you doing at Sunset inn, the eve
ning of February first — when Mrs.
Rowland discovered her husband in*{
you can use.
“At leasit you have no objection 'to
telling me who phoned you,” Rankin
suggested.
“Oh, but I certainly have. That’s my
private affair.”
Abruptly the detective shifted his
attack. “If I’m not mistaken you
reached Mr. Dawson’r office yester
day before Mrs. lUith arrived with
her escort.”
“No, I wasn’t there then,” Camp
bell corrected him. “I followed them
by a few minutes—it must have been
almost twenty to three; and they had
already gone into the library to wait.”
“Mrs, ^Keith chose to stay in the in
ner office, fifteen-o-five, where she
could be alone,” Rankin-stated, “and
you were aware of that; in fact, Mrs.
Rowland joined you from the library
to tell you that.” His! tone became hos-
compromu|ing relations with her sec- ! tile. “Just before she entered fifteen-
retary there?”
If it was Tommy Rankin’s intention
to startle the manufacturer by his
sudden query, he succeeded admirably.
“How in the world did you find that
out?’’.he finally asked in a dry voice.
Rankin saw no harm in answering.
“It came out at the hearing that you
reached the inn just after Mrs. Row
land’s l;>arty and witnessed the inter
ruption of her husband’s affair.”
^‘Well, it . . . all happened quite ac
cidentally ... I had no warning of
wliat was happening,” the other floun
dered. “I Was driving to New Yorit
alone that night, and when I reached
Qoakertown, I decided to sleep there
lieeause^it was eo late. I had left Phila-
<Mphia* at about . . .”
Obviously be wss stalling for time.
“That won^ wash, Mr. Kei^!” the de-
o-five herself, to unlock the hsll door
The implied aocusstion brought
Csmpbell forward in his chair, in a
swift burst of anger.
“So. that’s what you’re getting at,”
Tw said, through his teeth. “Yoiill
claim next I committed the murder
i^j^self! Damn it, Rankin, be careful
with your charges; you might have
the unpleasant job of trying to prove
the^ I was in the main office during
the time she was killed.”
“Sk> you know when thst happen
ed?” the detective dbserved drily. ,
And why not?” his visitor demand
ed wrsthfully. “It’s in all the papers
that she died between half-past two
and three o’clock.” {
“Well, what about the tim^^jbeforo
you arrived—^two-thirty-eightTM)^ af
ter you left That Wm at two-^tfty-six;
Laurens, Aiig. 18.—In a special elec-; be by South A>arolinian3—and the fel-j Bob Connor, former member of thej ,/.‘A gang of cutthroats and thieves
tion here today a bond issue of $50,000 low who yrtote it hasn’t the nerve to house from Orangeburg county, .said mu.st be gotten rid of or the Roosevelt
w« voted 102 to 3 u. compliance with '“S'|h-. Koing to^adiiiinistration i. going to •
a peilding application tor federal loan, PnPV down and tianH-rai* the dickena wherrhe went in of- If Rooaevelt doean’t look out that
and irmiS for street imorovement and ^ d'^^aPPointed me. alphal>et is going to_leave the A’s and
. J ^ A Talmadge, for months a bitter critic He would have made a go<^ candidateigo to-4he Z’.s. e’s being misled and I
of the president, followe*! his usyial for the South Carolina legislature with .don’t bedieve conditions are chargeable
vien in assailing the ailministration jhi-s promises of economy.” ‘
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to him.’
and| its “brain trusters'”'^ who, he said, Conner saifi he “kind of admired Walter Richardson, of Columbia,
[were using “hunger, warlt and beg-Uhis man Talmadge” and declared theinative of the Jolly Street community,
;gary’’ to brefik the constitution. [policy of “{dowing up cotton, killing 1 arranged the program. "j
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