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i.- / ./ 1 . r t < * < * : THURSDAY, APRIL 30. 1936 i, ¥ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNT6:I, S. C. PAGE SETEir had been slept in repejitedly and room wai in* describably dirty, its Svindows Wire I .unwashed. It was precisely the^ sort of den in which a woman lik^ Mary Holmes would sleep. Too bad she wlis ^not ’a credible witness, Vojfel thought. If she were anything except what she I was he could put some confidence inj her, make use of her, but— “Sit down.” Mrs. Ho^fmes cleared two rickety chairs of tjheir burdens i of old clothes, dusty newspapers, andj Church.Workers -Meet^At Laurens Baptist Missionary Union Holds Annual Meeting. OflBcers Are Named For Yedr. ^ Laurens, April 28.—The Woman’s i Missionary union of the Luarens as- , Washington, April 27.—^Congress is i sociation held ita-«4th ahnual meeting I what not, then from a dark corner j moving slowly—very slowly—towards i Saturday at the .First Baptist church. f abjective of its members,! The reports as given by the W. M. U. hd of this/she flung back: it was par-jvvhich is to get-aw'ay from Washing-: j tially filled with old scrapbooks, pro-j ton before the national conventions grams, lithographs, photographs, andj and start repairing their own politi- the like. She rose with her arms full cal^ences. -S 1 superintendent, the departmental sUp- Pditical Cards ^nottncemehts For This Cidnaa Are. Cash. • FOR MAYOR I hereby announce myselLas a csa* didate for re-election 'as Mayor Clinton, subject to the result of tha Democratic primary. SILAS BAILEY. FOR ALDBRMAIf' Ward Two. I hereby announce myself as a SIXTH INSTALLMENT Synopsis: Amos Ethridge is foiund murdered in a country lane with a crude cross of twigs on his breast and a scented aheet of note~paper in hU pocket He‘ was the richest man in the atate with power and influence enough to make ‘himself a candidate for gov- With Jiia death ouna limU 0f].effor^ they are^ue^ion- They were awful particular about tl^e night he was killed. I said if he'd b^n here I'd of seen him, sure and I didn’t I didn’t see his automobile standing outside, either. I swore posi tive to that.” > There’ was a moment of silence, then Miss Woods murmured with ah and dumped her burden upon the bed, then thrust a huge volume into Vo gel’s hands. “Run through that and then ask me why I tried to shoot that penny-a-liner! Those are clippings. Most of them are foreign, but you’ll find some in English.” ‘ ^ Vogel turned the first few leaves pf the book, then he loirfced up in credulously, “What-the devil—-7 Are na unsavory private life, of'scandal | ing everybody. I knew Mr. Ethridge you—Maria di Nardi?” he inquired. that might come to light if the mur-!well; he was very kind to me. He der id investigated too closely. Mary j treated all of the company well, for I Jiolmes, a former opera singer whose career was wrecked at the birth of her son, called “the gooee woman” by. newspaper reporters, lives nearest the scene of the crime oi^a small chicken farm where she ekes out a 'poor living and tries to find in drink the forget-- - fulness of past glories when she was Maria di Nardi, world-renowned op era singer. .. . Gerald Holmes, a tal ented young artist, is Imbed and loved by his mother who is embittered be cause his birth caused the loss of her voice and wrecked her operatic ca reer. He has been befriended by the murdered Ethridge, and Is. engaged to another of Amos Ethridge’s prote gee, Hazel Woods, lovely and brilliant young actress. She has been helped to success by Ethridge. She, lives in a small cottage owned by Ethridge. Jacob.Riggs, eccentric old-time actor, now a doorman at the theatre where _Hazel Woods plays, ^ appointed hin^elf her guarrdian and lives in a room over her garage. _(Now Go On Wth the Story). “You thought I’d be shocked,” she went on, after a moment, “but it takes more than—well, it takes some thing pretty dreadful to shock a girl who has‘lived the way I’ve had to live. There’s one thing the theatre teaches—that’s charity. Your mother, whatever she is now, was a brilliant artist in-her time and we must re- membeir that. In the theatre that -counts for a great deal. There are people endowed .mth such blaxing genius that ordiimry ties and ordi nary conventions don’t, can’t bind them. The fire of it bums away their bond*. Yes, nd~'huM tau yvg' right and wrong? They’re such words. Circumstances are so powerful. She told you what price.girls sometimes have to pay for success—” ‘lYou ang^” breathed the boy. “It's only good, clean women like you who that matter. Why should I wish to— to injure him? Or anybody?” “Sure thing! That’s what I told ’em. Folks have to have a reason for killing folks. You’re just a sweet, in nocent kid. Iniquity ain’t in the inno cent and not^y .taketh reward against ’em. They showed me the let ter that was found on Mr. Ethridge and wanted to know if it was your writing.’’ “Well?” The inquiry came faintly. “I am. Or I was.” It is no overstatement to say that the prevailing feeling in both houses and. among the members of both par ties is one of fatigue and,indfiference. ' They are too tired ou^ to do anything on their own initiative and they are dilly-dallying along, making gestures toward producing a new tax bill but tryiing to avoid anything that will im pair their chances of reelection. ' - Under ihe constitution, all bills for raising revenue must originate in the erintendents and the treasurer indi-1 didate for re-election as Aldemum cated a satisfactory year in the va-U*'om Wafd_2, .subject to the result rious activities of the organization 1 Ibe Democratic primary. r»‘ “Go^ Lord! The pros^^utor star- house of representatives. The ways ed at^Mrs. Holmes. Lopez looked over his shbtrider and read the yellowed. which (junbraces about 30 societies. In addition to addresses by Miss Janie Lide, missionary to China, and Miss Elise McCaa, treasurer of the State Woman’s Missionary union, both of whom were on the program, Mrs. L. L. Carpenter of Gaffney, sup erintendent of the Northern Woman’s Missionary union division, and Miss Vonnie ^nce, state Woman’s Mis sionary union corresponding secre tary, were visitors and each gave headlines. Together they examined the photographs on the bed and com pared them with the huge slattern before them. The pictures wtfrerold; those In btreet dress were quaintly brief talks. and means committee, therefore, isl In making .her report for the year, trying to drdft the new tax measure. | Mrs. R. Guy Smith of Waterloo, sup- iThe Republican members* of the com-1 erintendeht fo. the Sunbeam depairt- niittee walked out and left the job to i ment announced that the 30 societies would contribute to a* fund with which to buy a roller chair .to be placed in the Sunbeam or^ Lucile Chapman Memorial room in the Baptist hos- PET B. Ward Three ADAIR. the Democrats. Every member of that committee will be up for reelection in . , . , November, so the net result of the out of date,\but msny were in j deliberations is expected to be a draft atic costumes which the men readilyj anybody’s 1 pital, Columbia. This activity, Mrs. recognized. All showed . young wo.|,„^, , man of magnificent phy.sical propor-j - to"the senate, i nection with the observance of the tions and considerable beauty. the. finance committee (most] 50th anniversary this year of Sun- “Oh, I lied about that, too! I said Sri'thetlfnon.*"of that beauty"I' ‘’‘‘mi' '‘d’*'■ii^I!“-a'*i i i n. ’• • , oeiore inem none oi iu«t umui-y le , majority ju senate, don t have to The donations will be divided be- - Tt- J » u • J nevertheless the likeness for reelection in November) will tween the Margaret educational fund Mi#s noods knees weakens andj recognizable. . shape it up and the senate will pa.s.vand the Elizabeth Lownes training she sat down. Her eyes were wide and, Vogel rose to his feet in genuine r..Rl tax hill. THp house will thenlschool fund. ^ I hereby announce myself as a can- didi|te for re-election as Alderman from Ward 3, subject to the rules and regulations of the. Democratic pri mary. lL J. F. JACOBS. ' Ward Four 1 hereby announce myself as a can didate for re-election as Alderman from Ward 4, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. F..M. BOLAND. Ward Five I.,hereby announce myself as a cim- didate for Alderman from Ward 6^ for the Town of-Clinton, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. JOHN N. BIGHAM. frightened; they , were fixed hypnot-i agitation, ically upon Jacob’s. The old man re garded her kindly, i then said: - Now don’t you worry. Nothing’s going to happen. You go to bed.^acob won’t let nobody hurt you.” On the -morniqg after Jerry*s-vtsit,- Mary Holmes ran through a stack of newspapers and discovered, to her surprise and to her chagrin, that no where was her name mentioned. The Ethridge case was featured as promi nently as ever, but she had dropped out of it. In one week she had emerg ed from obscurity, had become a na tional character, and had been for gotten; it seemed almost as if she had- been bom, had lived feverishly, and had died, all in seven days. Sm did not enjoy the sensation; she was of. fended. The taste for publicity is like the taste for narcotics: it feeds upon itself, and, once formed, it is hard to break. For awhile Mary Holmes had walked in the spotlight; now to be el bowed aside, to be crowded entirely ‘This is astonishing! I • can be truly charitable.’ “No, no! We’re all pretty much alike. Only some of us are differently placed. What we actually do is of so little consequence as against what we are—or what we become. She had no right to stand in your way, of course; that was wicked and cruel; it was hideous of her to tell *yau this thing; but—how many geniuses are quite normal? Any great talent throws the •cale« off bMaiiee.” •Gerald had somewhat recovered himsrif by now. (^ntly he kissed Ha zel full upon the lips quietly, rever ently, but with a throbUng earnest ness he said: “Ypu’re the truest; sweetMt wdman I have ever known and you've brought back ail ’my faith, all my courage, all my self-respwt; you’ve made a man of me. If you can r^nioa. liar vanity had been/hurt I it by the first newspaper stories,' it is true, hut with a little imagination and some fin she had been able to ignore their mockery and to cpnstrue what remained as applause: it took some shape it up and the senate will pa.«s_ the real tax bill. The house will then knew of you, of course, although ^ . . never heard you sing. I—^it’.s incred-' ^ Battlegrounds ible!” He stared about at his sur-j On the Democratic side of congress roundings. “Do the newspapers know! who you are?” Nobody knows who I am, except my son.” _ “You have a son?” Mrs. Holmes nodded. In a few words she told her callers about Jerry, and from her tone as much as from her words they drew pretty accurate effort to picture herself as' the old onclusions as to the relations exist ing betwcffn her and her boy. ~’'"7 For perhaps an hour Vogel and‘Lo pez took turns questioning the wo man, then they drove her back to town with them. In Vogel’s office she repeated her story to a stenographer, read* it in typewritten form, then swore to it. - When, at last, she had been sent home, Lopez exclaimed: “Weil! That’g the biggest wallop I ever had. It uptata evarything.” “Don’t you baliave bar?” T *1Sare! Sha must be telling the truth, but you’re going to have a hard job to make a jury belie;ve her.” “WeHl have to check up, of course.” “That’ll be easy. But remember, she’s ‘queer.’ Everybody knows she’s Mary Holmes beneath whose feet once more were the rapt, upturned faces*of the world, but after a fash ion she had succeeded. It was a sort of game and she had enjoyed playing pre- otis character and—well—she’ll judice herself.” “I’ll take care of that. I’ll .see that she makes a good impreesion. I’m go- come of the presidential, election. They are perfectly ce rtai n that Mrij^ ^ *0^*^ Roosevelt will be reelected. But an awful lot of them are not so certain that they can carry their own dis tricts, even by tying themselves to Mr. Roosevelt’s coat-tails. More than 150 of the Democratic members of congress gained their -setts in the 11134 election by plurali- tieik of less than 5,000, in some cases by only a few. hundreds. The shift of an average of 1,500 voters in each of these close congressional districts would result in a Republican majority in the next house, , That it said to be one of the points upon which Republican political strat egy is becoming.more And more con- c^trated. The feeling of the Repub lican ^gh command ie that while it is not going to- be easy to beat Mr. Roosevelt ■To!^ the presidency, it might be a not so difficult task to gain control of the lower house of congress. In this manner they could effec tively block any effort to extend the drunk hilf the 'time. She’s a notori- PoUoies of the New Deal-and give thr ~ -Qn woooant of poor nourishment, The general superintendent, Miss .\lleene Franks, was re-elected, as were the divi.sional superintendents, Mrs. Edward Long of Clinton, Mrs. W/ W. Yeai^in of Gray Court and Mahon of Laurens. Mrs. Helen G. Mellette of Laurens was elected as leader of the R. A. unit, while Mrs. J. L. Bobo of Laurene wa^ elected' as leader of the Y. W. A and G. A. group as was Mrs. Smith of the Sunbeam societies. Ward/Six I hereby announce myself as a can didate for re-clection as Alderman from Ward 6, subject to the rules and' JiCgulations of the Democratic pri mary. JOHN W. HEDSPETH. W A NTS FOR-SALEXIS Ice Boxes^ all sizes. $5.00 each. Radio Exchange. Ic Harvard, Hobsoa of Wisconsin, Tuck er of Columbia, Bradford of Lehigh, and Carpenter of Buffalo. In announcing their appointment Chairman Fletcher said that they would analyze the New Deal and find out just a4iat the present .administra tion has done and where its acts seem to be leading the nation. Their find ings will then be placed in the hands of the Republican party management to form the basiz of campaign arninu-* nition. FOR RENT—8-room house on North Broad street, next to reeidence of J. Will Leake^^o_ne _block_froni post- office. Apply to J. Will Le«ake. tf LOST — German police dog, brown color, white breast, black tip tail. If found please notify The Chronicle office and get reward. Ic BABY CHICKS Friday or Saturday. ■Rhode Island Reds and Barred Rocks. Also fresh Duplex Feeds, Mashes and Grains. Chick Feeders, Fountains and Tablets. Blakely Broth ers Seed Store. Telephone 188. Lc FOR SALE—Used rrilrigerators and used and new Frigidaires. See, ua before you buy any refrigeraitor. We will save you money. Baldwin’s Gto- cery,~ ~ 7 May-8te Wooa Who Hate Pains TiyCARDUlNeitTniMl Republicans an opportunity to or ganize a more vigorous oppoeition, with an eye on the congressional and senatorial elections of 19i38 and the it. To be robbed now of that enjoy ment left a bleak feeling of empti ness, a feeling which increased when she dimly recalled her scene with Jerry on the previous evening. So he was going to get married? That should leave her more alone than ever. She was sorry she had told him the truth about himsolf; be was such a sensi tive flower! He would probably stay away altogether, and his visits had at least broken the deadly humdrum of this wretched existence. Any inter- riiption, anything whatever to do or to think about, was preferable to mo notony such as she endured. She rent ing to get her out of the pigsty, dress 1 P*'^><I«ntial elec^on of 1940 think charitably of my mother, then ized this morning that those visits nurely I can. Yes, you’ve done a won derful thing, fo^^" you’ve made me more ashamed of myself than of her.” It waa late when the lovers man age' toftear tlwmselves a^part and to exchange the last kiss. For some time ifter Jer^ had' gone Hazel stood vrbere he had left her, gazing medi tatively at nothing att<L witK ezt pucker hetweeil her tbrows. She ppUed herself together when she heard a sound in the adjoining room, and inquired: “Is that you, Jacob ?” Jerry \went home. I wanted to talk to you.” Hazel returned to the dining room, ^t’s pretty late—” “I know, but—there waa a couple of fellahs at the theatre after you left A couple—detectives.” x 'MisS Woods turned startled eyes upon the speaker.. “Petectives ? W-what for? What about?” ^Tlie Ethridge case, of course. They naked a lot of questions: how often he* was used to coming here; did he ■ever'come after the show, when^you was alone; wal you ever put to his .place; what kind of figeiids waa you and him? All that kind of stuff.” _ 1 And srhat did you tell Ihem?” “I told ’em what the - Book says: 'The wiriced sbaH. fall by bis oim widiedness. He shall be snared in tlto {wmrk of his hands.’ Amos I^hricl^ was an abominationi unto the Lord •wad the Lord slew him with the edge ■of the swprd.” - \ “But turely that SlidnY answer •thair questions, Jacob.'” *V0b! I told ’em he caine and went tere, l&e a iot of others^-bira own ing the libe he did—and you went outfto Ms i)iaoe onee in a while when he was giving a pailj wr aome^ 'Aboot him i>eii« hum that nfciiPidfar nWkr r* had meant more than she had imagin ed. Heigh-ho! About all .the excite ment she could look forward to from now on waa being called as a witness in the Ethridge case and getting back into the newspaper columns in that manner. But there was no certainty that she would be called. Her love of wish that aha had a really sensational story to t^l. It would be thrilling to take the stand and give testimony that would elec trify the court, the whole country. There would be some fun in thM w»d— — Her mind envisaged a new thought lered it and she considered it while feeding her poultry. When-ahe had finished her work she walked up the road and spent a long while studying the scene of the tragedy and carefully explor ing the ground. When she returned her up, and put her in a hotel and make her look like a human being. I’ll take her off the whiskey, too, and make sure that she doesn’t talk until I’m ready to have her talk. This ,isn’t an ordinary case. Chief; it’s a news paper trial. When the time comes I’m going to explode something.” “Oh, it'lFbe a big thing for you if you can get a conviction where our local people have failed to’even start anything. But speaking of explosions, what about the Woods giri? 'I^is kind of blows up our theory about her, doesn’t it?'.’ “We’ll have to wait and .see.” “Shall I show that ‘Thursday’ let ter to the reporters? Thqjf’ve been after me every day to see it. They know about as much as we do.” “Show them nothing until I tell you to. Now then, locate that automobile with one headlight just as quickly as yoju can and bring me the name of the mah who drove it.” (Continued Next Issue) CECIL P. ROPER WILL HEAD LAURENS ROTARY isanreni. April 26. — The Laurens Rotary club elected a board of direc tors and a new preeident at its mid week luncheon. Cecil P. Roper was named to suc- ceed L. S. McMillan as president at the beginning of the ensuing year. R. Tf Wilson was elected as vioe- there was a deep frown of preoccu-! ^ B^zokwell wa.s re elected to the office \pf secretary- treasurer. Rbtariahs R6per, Wilson pation upon her„ face; but her eyes were bright and' there* was a purpase- litil set to her features. .. Later that ..day she assured herself that some destiny must have shaped her thoughts, for Mr. Vogel, the new prosecu^r, drove out from town and interviehred heg. With hhn he brought •Westland’s of detectives, Lopez. For a while'dfogel questioned Mrs. Holmes pecft^^rily; then his-bear- iqg. c|uuig«(lLhe hea^ nif/rtf, attepr tire. 1 “Why didn’t you make all this known before!,M inquired. “The po lice talked with you and so did the newspaper men.” “Y«s,” the woman laugfaed Iipxshly. “They talked with me; and then th^ went but of their way to make me ridiculous. The idiotsrtST't^nir'^wrM^^"^ Why should 1 tell them anything? Come here, I want to showr you aoflie- thing.” She led her oollera oM of her living room and into a aqqaUd bad. ahamber adjnlBiBg. Tha >addotbai and ■' McMillan, Falder Smith and James H. Moore cqm^se the board of directors. Headed by W. P. Thomason of ficial delegate from the Laurens x^lub, a large delegation of Rotarians and Ratary-anns will attend the anni^ distri^ conference of Rotary Interna tional to be held- in Chariotte May 4-5. Tlfe Laurens del^ration will in clude, in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Thomason, the following, Dr. and Mrs. Feid^ Smith, Mr. and Mrs. L. Sjt McMillan, Mr. s^ Mrs. C: P. Ro per, Mr. and Mrs. C. K, Wright, Mr. . H. R and Mrs. R. H. Roper, Mr. and Mrs. Herman. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Fleming, Mr. and Mrs. tl. D. Easter- and Bfrs. R. Wilson. E. Babb and Rhl^h T. Bdhhsr Stampm all Idnda. S4-ha«r CtowMela PdM|ihfaig Ca. Landon-Vandenberr Not long ago the twmnen who are now conceded in the lead were at the tail end of the li.st of Republican preridential possbiiities. Today the managers of Governor Landon, head- ed by John Hamilton^ have it all fig ured out down to a gnat’s whisker, just how be is going to be nominated on the second ballot at Cleveland. ' Landon’s camp figure him as get ting the votes of all the west and most of the South on the first ballot, for a total of 318 votes. Then on the second ballot the* solid East and the rest of the South are expected to come in for Landon, with 2^ more votes, giving him 646, which is 45 more than a majority of the delegate!. It must not'be inferred from these rosy claims, however, that there is anything like unanimity for Governor Landon in the inner., councils mf the G.O.P. Quite W>e contrary is true. To the pld line leaders of the party, Lan- — “don doaa not look, taljL. nor net- ' one of ihemselves. They ace frankly puzzled by the' growth of public sen timent in Landon’s favor. They want to nominate a fire-eater, if not a swashbuckler. "FT Also, the G.O.P.-inner circle want to be assur^ that the party’s candi date will pky ball with the drowd which has controlled the Republican party in the past, and they have no such assurance from Governor Lan don, who has made mo promises-and formed no alliances. Indeed, Landon is in the almost unique position in po litical history of a man wbo has not even declared himself a candidate be ing actually the foremost candidate. Senator Vandenberg’s strength in populkr ' party favor continues to grow. If something goes wrong, with the figuring of Landon’s mapagers, and he does not the nomdnation on the second or third ballot, watch vVandenberg come to the front. He is ^ginning to be looked upon ak the who_wili Jiayc biost to^do with shawling the issues on which the pres ident^! campaign will be fought. “ \ G.Q.P. BraiMroatera The l^l^t politicai strategy of the Republican, national committee is the organization, of the arty’s own brain tniat. Exactly wihatXHairman Fletch er expaeta of the group of'university prdfeWfs been named as an advisory research council is not quite clear in the minds of aomSk - ‘The profeaaors who have bean nam ed on thii'’cofnmiaaion are Saxon of Tak, 'Bollddi «f Hanra^ Carver of many womao. suffer funcUonai pains at oarUUn Umaa, and It U for thaw that Cardul U offarad on tba raeord of tbo oafa roUof it bao brouftat and tbo sood tt baa daoa In bolptne to oVoreorao tba oouto of vomanlr dlooomforl Mrs. Oolo Tounf, of Laaorllla. La., wrltoa: "I vao auffortne with lirafttlar ... I bad qulto a lot of pain vbleta ouida aoa norroua. 1 took Cordul and found tt balpod ao In ororr war, aaklnf aa rofular and olopptnf tbo pain. Tbia qulotad BBT nairaa, auxins ay baaltb anob batlar.” ... It Oardnl doas ael bagafll TOO, aonawit a ptrealaa. 3WEBT POTATO PLANTS, Cabbage Plants, Pepper Plants, Tomato Plants. All kinds Flower and Vege table Seeds. When you think of gar dening think of Blakely Brothers Seed Store. 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