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i • - ' . \ ■■■: 1- • mkiKi 'I',j|tiii '■■ ■ ;v' '■ ■ "‘ ■ ■ ■ THK^JNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, a C. '■ "■■ •• f ■^' PAGE SEVEN V. 1" “When did you get hnek from Chi- ^ '• ! ' ' “Today. This afternoon.” “Have a good trip?” . . • Ydh. They liked my drawings and gave me some more work. I gjolf a i\ew story to iilustrateii too. But ^ I { was .all broken up over the murder, ; of course! I left here the next mom !ihg, you remember? I didn^ hear of Prop</sed BiU Will Increase Cost To Insured Of State r animi The South Carolina general assem bly has a proposed bill before thei . house for further additional taxes on! it untiLlhat afternoon—;then just the j x||s^J.^|}ce premiums, paid by the-'eri-| bare account. Gee! It was a shock. Tsured of the state. The bill, if t»assed,| felt as if I o^ht to »et on the train ,.ii! further increase the exhorbitantj Washington, March 30. — Maybe and come "»>« b«k. I to be,amount collected now, ithere wasn’t any politics in Senator here for tjK funeral, too, but — I. Quoting from a repnnt of' bulletin Byrd's resolution Ibr a senate com- couldn t get my money in time and |No. 45, issued by the'insurance de- mittee to investigate the New Deal Idldnt dare try to borrow; from that.partment of the Chamber of Com-1.„d-find out how many of its agen'- Mu 1 - i' I c.. ,1 , ‘ It'”'•">»'lisPensed with-and then, Mrs. Holmw smiled faintly, almost printed in>:the March issue of the' „,ybo tj^ne was. Senator Byid 4 , SECOND INSTALLMENT Synopsis: Amos Ethridge is found murdered in « country l»ne with , a crude cross of twigs on his brent and a scented sheet of note paper in his llooket. Ue^ vms the riehest man in the srate with* power and influence enough to make himself a candidate for governor. With his death came hints of an unsavory private life. There was also a powerful secret po- -liticaL organixation opposed to him Mary Holmes, called “the gooife woman” by newspaper reporters, lives nearest the scene of the crime on a smhll chicken farm. . . Gerald Holmes, her' talented young artist son, has been befriended by the murdered Eth ridge. ' (Now Go On With the Story) sneeringly. ‘The funeral went off all had -done bn that other occasion; hej*'**^ without you.” .. ■tapped, got out, and went around to| “Yo“ don’t undersUnd how I ftlt the ‘front of the car to investigate, ^o^**"*!* Mr. Ethndge. You never hk Gerald did not pretend to much knowledge of automobiles, but ^his •Life A^ociation News, i published of Virginia', though a Democrat, has by tpe National Association of Life ItijSdrance Underwriters, these, facts should be studied by policy holders: Approximately '90' per cent of all enough to say that Senator HoII*f— peeve ^rose from the fact^tlmt while he wasiwaiting for his.agth birthday to Pome, so he could be sworn in as a senator, Mr. Neely had grabbed off whatever political patro^g-i theM was in West Virginia. Anyway, Senator Holt’s chargee I started something. There’s a WPA in- ‘ vesrtig&tion schooled, andtit wi]! prh-" 'duce headlines,Mf nothing else. There are internal^dissensions in administration circles over the whole relief problem. The workers employed' to administer relief are mostly op posed to the present worics relief plan, pointing out that' it is more expensive than a straight dole and more diffi- clt to administer. ' With the president asking for an- '( been one of the New Deal’s most yig-i?^^*! ^1,500,009,000 for relief, there orous critics. But if he had any politi- some talk of an effort on cal motive in mind, the president proved himself just as good d'^poli- ed hin4 after what he did for me, ^t _ _ _ I did, for he' gave me my start; mlide coincidence, it seemi^ to him, proved jjj PO«»*>le for ine to have a ^xsareer. _ . v«.. precisely what he had told the dealer;!Not so many r^ men would interest;come from Ux on insurance premi-|t^ cooperate with the senate to wit, there was a loose electric cpn-1 theinsbives in a jigged, obscure, ums. The Ux is not affected in any: nection somewhere and a certain sort ^ / .„„'^*y ^y relationship between At any rate, the New DeaHs going In the son of a goose woman! j gross income and gross disburse-1 f, Ug investiirated The three men Mrs. Holmes broke m. “Of course you mgnts of the companies, ^ven if aj ^y the President, Louis Brown- taxes levied agairist insurtr^ com- [ tician, by appointing his own commit to n^ke its own investigation and co|ntnit- of jar destroyed the conUct, dislocat ed something or other. The dealer had promised to havett fired but~ well, this was a sample of his work. Fine way to turn out a brand-new car, even a cheap one! Gerald shook the lamp gently, but it api>eared to be rigidly atUched to its support and the bulb did not re light. He was afraid to shake it too / / The mystery of the murder, by the way, still remained unsolved. The clues left by the slayer of Amos Eth ridge were so slender that, no pro gress had been made in piecing them together, and, naturally, theories of various sorts began to be advanced. Several of the Chicago papers declar ed that, the cross of ,^igs on the dead man’s breast proved it to be a Klan outrage, and this explanation wtj generally accepted, for Westland was a stronghold of the secret order and Ethridge was a bitter enemy of the organization. What is more, an impressive demonstration had recent ly occurred here. There had been a parade and a midnight conclave at which scores of new miembera had been initiated. Special trains had been run from distant points, hundreds of automobiles had assembled, thousands of robed men had gathered in the light of a tremendous fiery cross erected on a hill just outside the city limits. *, Out of this occurrence had* splning a bitter political quarrel, for Amos Ethridge had boldly proclaimed through the press that the governor was an avowed men^r and that tb^. cohdave had been planned with his knowledge and consent. Ethridge b*<i gone further; he had charged that the entire machinery of law enforcement hacT'been betrayed, delivered over to the Invisible Enqiire. He had peaai* ised to. adduce^ irrefutable evidence, proof positive^^ when the tifne came. His accusati^obs had met with a tre mendous ^pular response and, as a matter of^ct, it was largely,as a re sult of/this outspoken support that he announced his inteniton to run for governor at the coming election, pledging himself, if successful, to yage relentless war upon the hooded order and to restore the government to the people. Threats against life had followed. He had received warnings forecasting much the same end as had actually overtaken him. His murder upon the very eve of the campaign convinced, 'most people that the chargee r voiced by the Chicago newspapers wer^ in deed sound. / But those charges were not so rea dily accepted by the citizens bf West- land. Amos Ethridge had been a great man locally and during his lifetime his power had been such that fe^of his neighbors dared ^ speak a word against Jhin'* dead, tongues be^n to wag. From various quarters theiSl arose a hissing of scandal. People voiced openly what they had never ventured to more than whisper-Jviz., that Ethridge’s private life had not Iwen above reproach, that there weas^^chapten in 4t-vhich would not bearAhe light of day, and that the aqtnorities would have to look further Ubin the ,secret order in order to find his sliyer. What about that “Thursday” note that had been found /in his pocket;, Theft was more than ^ one husband or lover, yes, even more than one father, in Westland who ainarted undar a sense of outrage aad who had reason to thanl&iiodttajniih; hard, for fear of pujiln, it off-!^i4,,j ,^0- was no ru*K4.:=)>and.made, fore.p car. Then he fingered aimlessly at the wire beneath the lanip, but that,"too, was disappointingly secure. He* rea- •soned that the wire must run in under the hood of the machinc'and some where ’attach itself to a battery or a dynamo or a generator or something, so he stepped back, lifted the bonnet and peered inside2L,He,*fiould. make out read the papers and saw what they called-me? ’* ^ Gerald flushed. “Yes. Yes, I read —everything.” “The rotters! Weil, you’re not rag ged now, are you?,” Mrs, Holmes stared at her son, and in her gaze. cumpany were to suffer extraordinaryCharles E: Merriam. anrhijuther losses in a particular year and as *iH. Gulick, all have fine records of un result loss payments together with public service, though none of otther (bsbursements exceeded total them has ever been active in politics, income for that year, the taxes would Xot one of them has ever done any thing to suggest that i'® could be in fluenced by political considerations to distort or suppress the truth. It seems nevertheless Continue unabated. The taxes collected from insurance oddly enough, there were both pride|gon^panies are reflected in the prem- num-it occuu, ajd resentment. As an artist «he hat- ium’that every policy holder j>ays, p^^ble* t^Vrre.'tha't“^fore^l^ng! “ -he-wen, he was whether its life, fire, liaWity or any; probably before election, the most blood. What she of the numerous types of coverage, thorough study* yet-made of'the gov- that the people carry. In.addition tc.^mmental set-up in Washington will the'pi-emium tax there are also b-ibe ready for public inspection, ceifse. fees, publication fees, expense the part of congress to prescribe how it is to be spent. That, however, seenui uqllkely. There is some valuable po- Ivtioal patronage in the set-up, from which some members of congress ben efit in the strengthening of their lo cal organizations, and they are’not inclined to be sympathetic with any proposal to change the system. Political Cards Announcements For This Column Are CasiKr. beheld was a handsome youth—a boy of sufficient good looks and charm of manner to warm any mother’s heart. Gerald's_face was frank and sunny; of F'loods and Forecasts it was unusually expressive, too, but i the companies, fees for filing annual examination and audit are paid by' * ri i u i j ^he receut floods have "played curtained with that veH of conscious statementSj, fees to maintain state ' strongly 'into the hands of the advo- I cates of public works. Look fo? a FOR ALDERMAN Ward Five I hereby announce myself as a can-, didate for Alderman from Ward 6, for the Town of Clinton, subject to the result of the I>emocratic primary. . JOHN N. BIGHAM. repression common to supersensitiveifi,.e marshal, specia^sUte and muni-^*''"" pumic >^orKs. uook lor a ^'■iprtjple; it was the eager, dreamy fwe I eipal levies to aid in the providing projMts for flood “‘jof an artist, a writer, a muliolan. The!fJ„a, the support of fir^ <lvpart- -nd dikes , boy’s faults and his weaknesses. Mary j ments. oughout the devastated regions. very lirtle indeed, even with the aid ^ hi/,.,,k„e,«,s. Mary of a match and reco^iz^. nothing that could by any possibility be con-1 weaknesses of most dreamers. sidered a dynamo or an electric light ing plant. The vital organs of ait au tomobile, it seemed to him, were un necessarily complicated; he would have considered many of them utter ly useless except for the fact that here and there “things” were revolv ing. ■ He quickly discovered several wires, any one of which might be the cause of_ his trouble, so, striking a third mateh, he gingerly tested them. He had not gone far when he uttered a grunt and jerked his hand away, in cidentally bumping his elbow against something sharp and hard. Automo biles are full of painful corners.;’He dropped the match and swore, where upon he heard subdued laughter and through the gloom discovered a cou ple of figures near by. “Do you fellows know anything about automobiles?” he inquired- There came an answer in , Italian, so he confessed, ruefully: “Well* nei ther do ,1. I can drive ’em,/but I caa’t fix ’em.” • He closed the bonnet, passed back through t^ _gl»re, of his good head- IT^t, and, steppii^ into the car, drove on.' It* was a relief to note that the car ran as well with one light as with two. Some car! This little buggy might have her faults, but he loved her, just the same. It was the first automobile he had ever possessed and his pride of ownership was inordinate, for it .represented a terrible extrava gance. It was a lovely shade of blue, She had never dared to analyze • -Comparison ‘of total expenditures!, T'”’ heavy rainfalls, eoming on the of slate insurance commissioner’s of-'he severest winter m many years, have I'evived governmental in- fice with the total special insurance very closely her feelings for this child'taxes collected shows that of every of hers—it is doubtful if she would i dollar—$702,417 collected in 1934— have succeeded very well had she | but 3.17 cents wero spent directly in tried—for ever since she had nursed ■ serving policyholders. The remaining him at her breast he had roused with-Igmount of 90.83 per cent or $680,165 in her emotions that violently clashed, ^as used for general revenue pur poses—for the public as a whole. ‘Tolicy holders are affected as a clas!| by this taxation.” There were times when he filled her with a great satisfaction, a sublime contentment, - then again times'when she hated him fiercely — yes, hated him! There were occasions when *he| -j* • ^ . lavished'^on him a sort of savage^f’^ilcr S LOCftfUQ^ affection-T-theae occasions were rare^l ■ O - 1 O a pj by the way and again occasions j KCDlV lliCiGll when she treated him with a cruelty I that was positively feline. Nearly al ways, however, her feelings were mixed and he excited that distressing Ixrndon,' March 31.—Adolf Hitler's fateful reply to the four-power Locar- warfaro within her bosom. He was a;occasioiMiL'bulletins and re- , , J , .1 London tonight ais mounting suspicion once her comfort and her torture, her opposition in British circles were too, the particular shade he •<io»«lrii5urdtt’t have had time to walk to the \ and he would have immensely enjoy ed showing it to his mother. T^at, however, was impossible. He bOuld never make her understand. Involun tarily, he fetched - a deep sigh and shook his head. Instead* of proceeding on past the poultry farm and parking his machine in the grove near the entrance to the Ethridge lane, as he had done a week previously, he turned in through a break in the fence before reaching the farm, and killed his motor under a wide-spreading tree. It was barely possible that^ the police might be watching the* scene of the tragedy, and in any event it was not a nice place to be on a dark ni^t. Gerald hated dark colors, dark nights, daric deeds>_and the thought of what had occun^ a week ago tonight in that lane, half a mile ahead, gave him a sick feeling. He felt jumpy^ he set out across the open pasture land to wards the lights of his mother’s cot tage, end more than once he east ap prehensive gtanoes back him or stopped to listen. ‘ S<Mn the familiar outlines of chick- {ionaire was dead. Let the police dis cover what woman's fingers had pen ned that note, then perhaps the mys tery could be solved. It was even whispered that out of the sMving there might result a scandal more painful to the community titan its present sense of loss, and that under J—the circumstances it might be the part of wisdom to let sleeping dogs lie. Such came tOxbe the.general.fee ing in Westland.^ As the days crept by and no arr rests were made, certain citizeM be gan to apeak guardedly of “influ ence.” The out-of-town correspond ents heard these whispers and wirtd th«n in. As a result a special prose cutor was appointed by the state and he came on to take charge of the in vestigation. On Thursday evening, a week after the crime, Gerald: Holmes drove his new car out the road tovrards his mother’s farm. It was early, neverthe- leaa it waa quHe dark. As he crossed th* bridge at the Italian settlement he noBoed tha£ hU right headlight an-houset aad rms appeared, thtiktAt blessing and her banr. “Gee! It gave me a fright to realirc that I hadn’t been gone fronPhere for Half an hour—an hour at most—whan it happened,” Gerald went on. “Why, I might have been involved in it!” :“You? Nonsense! .Whoever killed^ tereat in the weather. It has just been disclo.sed that the federal-weather bu reau has been for a* long time explor ing the possibilities of a long-range weather-forecast, and bejieves it is getting close to a workable method of foretelling whole seasons, months ahead. It is easy to imagine how valuable it would have been to everybody if the recent severe winter and this ^spring’s heavy rainfalls, or last summer’s drought, could have been predicted months in advance. While the weather bureau doesn’t hold out any hope of being able to be gin long-range weather forecasting for some years yet, nevertheless, it is attached^ to forthcoming military staff talks with France and Belgium. Joachin Von Ribbentrop, Hitler’s spec»l ambassador wlho arrived by plane from Berlin shortly , after 8. o’clock, was scheduleil to deliver the dictator’s message .toin_o,rrow to._An- Ethridge drove up in an automotllt j thony Eden^ British foreign secretary, and left it standing in that pine grove l Because of the latenesjs of von Rih- across from th* lane. I saw the tracks the nexf morning.” Young Holmes started: he eyed his mother appre hensively. "By the way, you must have met Mr. Ethridge on your way back to town?” “N-no!” ‘You must have met him. You bentrop’s arrival at a meeting be tween him and Eden was pos^one<l until tomorrow morning. ports on the subject. Anyone who wishes to study the efforts that are being made can receive these bulletin free. , Lobby Investigation Nobody has yet figured out any po litical angle on the flood situation. Iti is seemingly about the,.only th^ing in' Wasbmgton that -ha* no polmcal an gle at this time. The activiws^of the senate lobby investigating/committee, of which Senator Black is-ehairman, in searching the telegraphic files of more than 1,100 individuals and cor Provmd riglit htm in (A reliaWe^source in Berlin ^**41 porations in the himt for evidence end of the street-car line b^ore he came along. It didn’t seem to me you’d been gone ten minutes when I heard hie car pass and then the shots. Gf course, it was longer than that—” ‘^Have you talked to the police?"^ “Ortainly! They questioned me the morning of the murder and they’ve been here a couple of timet since.” “Did you—Ull them about those— those automobile tracks? I suppose, of course, they noticed them?” Mrs. Holmes nodded. “Sure! You couldn’t miss them — they were'as plain as the nose on your face.” “Have they formed any suspi cions?” (Continued Next Issue). the bone Of Hitler’s courtter-propos als provides a ^our jjtbnth “armis tice” and the creation of a three-man internaitional commission to super vise both the Geftnan and the French' Belgian sides oTthe frontier.) W A NTS PCK)MS FOR RENT—Apply to Mrs. Minnie Tompkfnson, North Adair street. Ic U Wl/ tl^ gard dog barked. It wae Jack, the old air dale. The dog rocognis^ Gerald’s voice and greeted him with extrava gant affection when the young maa dropped dosrii inside the fence. Mrs. Holmes had heard the distuHbanoe; she opened the kitchen door and peer ed out, inquiring guardedly: “Is that you, Jerry?” “Hello, mother!” Gerald entered and'Cios^ the door'^hehind him, then stooped to kiss the woman’s upturned lips. When his face was | within a hand’s breath’of bars he checked the movement and cried, reproachfully, “Oh, mother!” Mrs. Holmes answered petulantly: Very well! Don’t kiss me if you don’t want to. But for heaven’s,,, sake don’t start in With a temperance lecture!” There waa a moment of silepce, then: ‘Tou don’t understand what it is to Kve all alone, in a place like this. You’re never lonesome. You have p^ pie to talk to. You see things ,knd hear things—” “All right, mother. 1 won’t lecture. But you know how.^ I feel M>out — gone out n week provioariy at hi# precise potf^ Thaight ho did what he HOSPITAL NEWS ” V f Bmh to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Pitts, Jr., on March ^h., a eon. to Mr. and Mrs. A W. Ki;^, on March 2fth.,’ a son. P. tB. Buzhardt is improving after an operation last week. W. G. CavineM of P. C., is a patient Allan Levi hae ietumed to P. C. after a Miort illaeee. M. H. Woodward hea returned p6 Whitmire after a Miort illness. / ^ohn Moultrie hae returned ^mmie after being a patient here a fe^ days. suddenly went out, juet as. it hioad and preeaed his lips to the wo^ man t i/ D. E. TriUue Co. FUNERAL OIRECTORS EMBALMERS Liceased ^balssers, Coapleta Modem Eqnipiadtit Day Phone t4 Night Phones.. 24, 253 or 255 CUbUml s.a $1.00 for 15. B88-W. against lobbying, is/beginning.to have decided political ^actions. Nobody kno>^ exactly what the committee has/uncovered, since only one or two o^the telegrams, which it has copied, yliave been made public. There i^ a good deal of guessing going om and many members are re ceiving/letters from back home ex- pressiiig indignation, if not alarm, over/this invasion o|f what some of home boys have heretofore re- rded as confidential communica- 'tions. Nobody is talking much* in public about the dissensjon. inside of. the ways and means committee over the proposed new tax bill. 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