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; I- V 1 /. T • \ I '■ * I ■ V ■- * \ .. i ■ im. CSRONICI^ Strim To Bo ft Cleaa-N«#«* pftper, CoMpleto. Newiy, Mad Reliable. VOLUME XXXVI If Tea Don't Roai THB CHRONICLB Ton Dont Oil The Newt. 1 _ 7>'' ■ GIRL’S MURDER STILL MYSTERY Sheriff Believes Hotel -Night- watchman Holding Key To Clevenger Case In Asheville. Several Persons detained. 21.—The key to the^ bafilina Clevenaer murder mystery, Sheriff Laurens E. Brown said tonight, lies with DanieL Ciaddy, 28-year-old watchman at the fasV ionable hotel where the younf c^d • / CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1936 50 Candidatee/^ In County Races Several New Eiitries At Last Moment, Seek Senate, Twelve ^n /For House; and . Five For Sheriff. Fift^candidates had qualified for coun^ offices when the entries clos ed Tuesday at twelve o’clock. veral new candidates for differ- / NUMBER 30 Laurens Jury Holds Inquest Bonus Payments Slow To Trickle Lavyn WardelTs Death Laid To Clyde Mills After Hearing of Witnesses Sunday. Laurens, July 19.—An inquest was held here Sunday intq^the death of Lavyn Wardell, 25, w’ho idied Satur» day night at the Laurens hospital as Many Veterans Prefer To Hold Bonds. Officials Express Sur prise At Large Number. Farmers Named. To Push Plan Townships Elect Committeemen To Assist With, Federal Con servation Program In County. Farmers’ meetings were held in the county last Thursday and Friday to SHIPS SENT TO SPANISH AREA' Secretary Hull Orders Vessels To Battle Scene As Safety r Measure To Receive Afri cans. No Casualties Reported. Washington, July 21.—Two United was slain..' ' The. sheriff made this ai^unce- ment after he had question^ Gaddy and three of the other four persons detained in the investigation, two jmore hotel amployea. taken into eus^ tody last night, and Mark Wollner, 35-year.old concert violinist. “I questioned Gaddy quite a while today,” the sheriff said. ‘‘I think he will talk tomorrow.” . — The latest persons to be detained for questioning in the slaying of the New York university student, blond, 18-year-old Helen Clevenger, were Eldward Fleming, bellboy, and L. D. Roddy, elevator operator. They are Negroes, The college-bred sheriff, who has thrown a cloak of secrecy around the investigation since last/night, when he hinted he expected.a ‘break’ in the case soon, did not say what, if any= thing, he had learned from the pris oners. . ' The only one of the five persons now detained incommunicado who was not put on the grill by Sheriff Brown today was Mildred Ward, 19- year-old brui»ette who gave Wollner an alibi. The girl, a tubercular patient, was taken into custody Sunday night af ter the sheriff said he had found witnesses who disputed her and Woll- ner’s statements that the. violinist was at home the night of the crime. Miss Ward is the daughter of Woll- ner’i landlady. The sheriff, chief investigator of the case, said he counted on two keys to unlock the six-day mystery of the young girl’s death in her hotel room. One, he said, is a super-master key, apparently used by the killer-ravish- er, found outside the door to the va cationing girl’s room.. The other, he said, fits the watch man’s time clock, and hangs from aj brass chain in'-the corridor of the ‘ hotel not more than 20 feet from the j room in which Miss Clevenger was included Elmore G. Bramlett of Lau- 'rens, for the senate:/John D. Davis, of Clinton, Perry Wilburn of Clinton, C. L. Milam of the Lisbon section, and Ralph L. S^liva%of Laurens,-for the house; Hicks F. Owings of Lau Washington, July 18. — Bonus pay ments slowed to a trickle this week, with tr,«sury official, expressing ,.,„t Vhc permanent community 'com- surpri.se at the large numbei’ of vet- mitteemen to assist the federal gov-j®^^®* warships headed for Spain to u # 1 J • t apparently preferring interest- ernment’.s soil conservation program!American nationals as the ^nt places filed their pledge. These of a knife wound in front i bearing bonds to immediate cash. • ^he county this year. Organization I sanguinary five-day civil war con- and under the right shoulder, alleged*! Under the process of payment, the]^.^, perfected Saturday afternoon atjtinued despite a costly earned vic- ly mflicted by Clyde Mills, 19, dur-l veteran is first given bdnds covering court house under the direction • tory for the government in Barce- mg > dispute and encounter between, the money due. He is privileged to^„p f. g the two shortly after 6 o clock. The ^convert the bonds into cash at once, . ,^ — injured man was taken to the hos-;or hie may hold them and turn them, a^ditipn^to the naming of town- pital at 7 and died at 9:15. - jin with accumulated interest when i'P <^ummittee groups, a county com mit t^^.C-QIi5J?Upg 01 three manvbera. Jack H. Davis, Sr., of Clinton, E. A. Adams of Cross Hill, and E. J. Sloan rens for sheriff The new (uindWaUai held .by Coroner:, they ma4ur^^^^^ merei^S/the' numterX'X^^rel-’- «■ . Thu, far, of $1,708,000,00 in bond, well conducted the examination of issued to the vjeterans, a total of witnesses, includiiftf Dr. Martin Tea- $1,064,300,000 has been presented for ,, , - gue. who attended Wardell and made cash payment. This was against of this p-oup had the post mortem; Edgar T. Wardell, estimate'made in May the cash cost;. f^u'PUi'aiT program senate jtt four, twelve for the house, and f}^e_for sheriff. The official list follows: State Senate Elmore G. Bramlett, Dr. Chas. A. Cromer, F. A. Gedeist, Carroll D. Nance. House''of RepresenUtives L. A. Austell,.John D. Davis, W" E. Dillsrd, Phil D. Huff, S. J- Hunt, J. P. Mshsffey, A. Homer Moore, C. L. Milsm, Ralph L. Sullivan, Robert C. Wasson, Perry L.‘ Wilburn. J. D. Witherspoon. Comity Commissioner E. Frank Anderson, W. Brooks Blakely, J. Ben Hunter, Will F. Irwin, Lander B. Stoddard, John H. Whar- tpn. Sheriff Tw- D. Abrams, Hicks F>, Owings, F. L. Riddle, Caldwell W. Wier, John D. Watts. Clerk of Court — E. 0. Anderson, Thos. W. Bennett, J. Herman Power, Game Warden M. A (Gus) Cannon, R. Nyle Jack- son, Sidney A. L^e. Magistrate^ Hunter Township ^ At CUntAMi A. B. Blakely, Jpmes L. Browning, Clyde H. McCrary. Magistrate Hunter Township At MonntviUe . J. L. DiCkert. Magistrate Scnffletown Township W. P. Abercrombie, John B. Hol land. , - , ~ Msglstrste Jacks Township A. I. Dixon. .Magistrates, Other Townships -of Youhgs township, was selected. vas sell ad oeen serv- father of the slain man; Ernesl Moore, a son of E. L. Moore. Doctor Teague testified that death had re sulted from hemorrhages caused by of the bonu, would run to $^,237,000,- town,trip committeemen who have now been ooq. the severance ^th a sharp instru- The figures, too, showed both bond and cash payments rapidly dwindling. ment of the auxiliary vein. The young man’s father testified that the fight hjad occurred near the Laurens Mills company store; that he was present and had attempted to prevent Mills and his young brother, J. D. Mills, from double teaming on his son after all had alighted from their cars “to talk the tWing over,” meaning a previous dispute that had occurred on the Laurens-Enoree high way a few hours before because, he said,'Mills had refused to let War dell pass him as they raced home ward from/a ball game at Enoree. In the clash hot words were used'before blows were atruck. The witness no ticed that his son suddenly had be come weak and he was bleeding. The son was rushed to a doctor’s office at first, then to the hospital. Ernest Moore did not hear any words passed but saw the Mardells flag Mills’ cir; that Mills got out, walked toward the back of his car when, Moore said, Wa<frell had struck the first blow. After a little more maneuvering Wardell was taken away by his father. . Verdict of the jury was t'S: the ef fect that Wardell had contie tq His deatHT at the hands of Clyde Mills. In appreocimately the last fifteen days of June $1,668,700,000 in bonds werer , , issued of which the veterans cashed u^tructions on the $724 200 000 • i P>'o<^®dure to be followed m admin- By co’mp.ri,on, approxim.trty th, I '’‘".'J* ‘J* PJ'’*™"'- .poku of—the fine spirit of cooperation elected as a part of the permanent organization. ^ The meeting Saturday was presid ed over by Mr. Cannon, who outlined same number of days in July saw only $39,000,000 in bonds go to the former soldiers, and $340,000,pOO pre sented for cash payment. If, a.s some officials think is indi cated, the payment.s are thus sloping away, a revision in the year’s budget figures may become necessary. shown by the farmers in carrying forward their part of'the program and praised them on the selection of the personnel of the various commit tees named to direct the work in their resp^ective communities. A list of the committees elected by S«h crreum.t.nre, wo/id .x „ o both tho ,i« 0$ tho d.ficit and the I township: John H. Pow- oxtont of the inerea,. in the national 8''«J™an| ^Richard M. Ungston, debt, but in different ways. Siam. hardt, David T.' Knight, A JC.- Owens. Gaddy, the shlriff said, neglected, sheriff to use- the key ho punch the time. r- i v n i clock he wear, abound hi, neck when , Y. Cul- ^assin<t the second floor on his rounds at 1 a. m. Thursday morning—the! 'hour officers fixed as the time of the murder. The sheriff grilled Wollner tonight for the first time since he was taken into custody Saturday night and made a statement that he w’as at home the night of the crime. The violinist, .Sheriff Brown said, changed his story slightly tonighL but still clung to his claim that he was at home from 9:30 p. m., Wed nesday until 8 a. m. Thursday. ‘That was as Jar as the officer would comment on his questioning of the aesthetic, stockily-built mu«cfan, whose studio is across the rfreet from the hotel at whtchrthe girl was slain. 'The sheriff said an investigation Mills was quoted by officers as Laurens township: R. M. Brownlee. I saying that both Wardell men were Dials town.'ship: R. D. Armstrong, holding him Th his own car and that Sullivan township: John R. Buz- he had to cut himself Joose from them. Mills is being held at the county jail on a charge of murder. Applica tion for buil may be made, as the case is bailable,^-says The solicitor. Funeral service.^ for the young n>an, Wardell, were held from the 10 Youngs township: J. H, Abercrom- Cross Hill township: John W. Han na, L. E. Martin. and John S. Madden, with Elarle R. When the bonds were first issued | altema^. , , rv Hunter township: T. Randolph Da- they were added to the public debt total, as part of the obligation.s of the treasury. When they are paid, they are deducted from that total. However, the money with which the bonds are cashed coiyes from the pro ceeds of the sale of other bonds which have added to the debt. Such a transaction is entered three times on* the books, but two of the vis, chairman; Jim M. Miller and Ed gar M. Young, with Hugh Bonds Workman, alternate. Jacks township: Tan M. Ray, chair man; John D. Copeland and Joe H. Bonds, with Thomas P. Weir,* alter nate. Cross Hill township: Sam M. Lea- The military-fascist .ebels appar ently were still entrenched in Seville, chief city.of the squib, and makiiifr gains in the northwest. At least 900 are estimated to have been killed and thousands woupded with still no count on casualties from many cities and towns where fight ing i's known to have occurred. Barcelona, Spain’s largest city and a stroiighold of leftist workers, was the scene of 'a two-day futile strug gle of rightists to seize power in bat tles involving use of cannon, machine guns «nd bombing planes. It was estimated 500 were killed in Barcelona and 300 in Madrid where a belateil 'uprising was stamp ed out, the government claimed, by their loyal forces in the capital. A blow to rebels, with the biggest array of revolting army generals in modern Spanish times, was the re ported surrender of General Manuel- Goded, who crossed from political “banishment” on the Balearic islands to lead the Barcelona rebels. — But General Queipo de Llano y’ Si- erro, Seville military garrison com- piander, was reported to have issued ft vehement attack on the gov^rn- hient’s- radio “campaign of lies” and boasted rebel aircraft destroyed gov ernment warships in Tangier harbor. The revolt at Toledo, famous sight seeing town near Madrid, was re ported over but another rebel column of mechanized units was said to be advancing on Madrid under General entries each cancels the other, leav ing the third in the records. Thus, as the figures stood, today, the bemw p«yment9*-ha<i 000,003 to the public 0^,000,300 to, the deficit, the latter j figure divided into $724,200,000 in the man, chairman; Charles R. TurnerjMolas. and John F. Griffin, with William W. Commanders of the two vessels— Watkins, alternate. l^he battleship Oklahoma, now at .Scuffletown township: DeWitt T. j Cherbourg, France, and Jhe cruiser Mi/'chaiiouAp; W. T. BUlwly making a Eqropf'au shake- M 1 ei'* K. A. Goodwin, with J. L. Cooper, al- down .ci’uise—were instructed to evac- ! ’xk. l:A’:!ternate. * - uate the 1,.582 Americans in Spain if Waterlno''township: J. 0. Stribling, •leces'i^ary last fiscal year which closed June 30 ! chairman; Robert O. Smith and Jeff and $34(1,100,000 in this fiscal year. The Sjianish rebels, it was said by .N. Jones, with Joe B. O’Dell, alter-lDvo. leftist ,officisI^ who fled to nate, France* had gained control of at lea five northern provinces. Previous ac- . . ■ 1 . Youngs township: Wallace L. Mar DfiLIlxC a ir013GirtV ' ^Hairman; (’. R. Bobo and James ^counts stated the revf>Iutionaries had J I ft. DcShieldj, with (Maude A. Patton,' *<*ize(l two province- m the north, in- At High Dollar P. C. Gets Second Place At Camp Local R.O.T.C. Unit Makes High - Rating In Fourth Corps Area General Proficiency. had disclosed there were 12 “super- master keys” t(J tile hotel rooms m existence, whereas hotel records showed there were but 11, Yesterday he described the key found in the lock of Miss Clevenger’s (Continueti on page two) '7i e L. Milam In House Race Announcement was made during the past week by Major R. E. Wysor, Jr., professor of military science and tactics at Presbyterian college, that the college R.O.T.C. “unit won second place in general proficiency, at the training camp just closed at Fort Mc Clellan, Anniston, Ala. Last year the college received first place and was awarded the general proficiency cup -for the ’seventh time in the thirteen years it had been awarded. This year the P. C. group wai^re- -duced by grat^ation and aMssi^menls elsewhefe so that only seVent€en'’'stu- dents entered the camp. Three re ceived West Point appointments while I alternate. , ' i eluding the border city of San Se- I Dials township: B. Vance* Gray,^la.-tlan, ari<l were continuing a force- 'chaiinian; Thomas W. Barksdale and ; fid niaTch along-the’north coast. The remaining real ciitale u.C the j.,,.,! .S. Sti$dilar<\, with Hen G. Tay-■ Gibraltar police announced 111* a. m.'clost'd Fir.st National bank of Clinton ]„)•, alternate.^ .j Moroccan rebels whu landed at Al- Second Baptist church at Monday, conductesi by the Rev: J. L. !will in- sold at auction here on Wed Bobo. Interment followed in the Vir ginia cemetery at Enoree. Sullivan township: H. 0. Aber-. Kfcji as were killed by loyal guards. Blakely Offers For Magistrate P ne.sday, Juljj. 2lnh, at 2:30 p.m. In-, eroinbie, chaionan; G. D. Wood and In the heavy fighting which accont- cluded in the sale is the hank build-1 (;i over ('. Roper, with E. A. Pitts, panied the- rightist advance in the ing at the corner of Main and Broad j alternate. i north, approximaUdy 50 reliels and streets, and "other city and farm' - ' loyal soldiers were killed. property in this .section as listed in _ _ rx • the capital, the government en- their advertisement appearing in. OAVIS ^ ; listefl civilian battalions of armed A. B. -Blakely, life-long Clintonian, qualified on Tuesday as a candidate for magristrate of Huhter Township at Clinton, and places his formal an nouncement in today’s paper. ayA paper. The sale will be conducted by Britt Davis of Columbia, Tenn., who has charge of the auctioning off of prop erty of all closed national banks I. .peasants and workers and dispatched rjiif pQi^ House'strategic mountain {lositions ' surrounding Madrid. Reports of rebel successe.s in the northern provinces were denied by John D. Davis, well known Clinton throughout the southeast. Mr. Davis! qualified on Tue.sday as a government in fresh bulletins de- has been remarkably successful in | candidate for the house of represen- scribing leftist victories in the prov- conducting such sales and says he fafives in the A/ugust primary. His; jnees. Mr. Blakely is well known in this wants it understood that the property section and is not a new entry into politics. He formerly served the coun ty as commissioner, ahd for several y^krs rendered the city valuable ser vice as recorder. He has many friends wha will be interested in his race. In I speaking of his announcement, MXbb-RIftkely stated that “if elected, ‘^rvice’ will be his watchword. Day or night when called I will be on the he said, ‘‘and will discharge the duties of the office promptly and will be sold squarely at the high dollar. A $50 prize for the one guessing nearest to the price th^ bank build ing will bring will be given at the sale. ? at camp and withdrew, leaving P. C.[with dispatch, and in a fearless and Charlie L. MtTim, v^ell kirown farmer of the Liabon section, quali fied Tuesday as a candidate for the house of representatives in this sum mer’s lirimary. His formal announce ment appears in today’s paper. Mr. Milam is a highly regarded I citizen of his community. For the past twenty years he has rendered the Lisbon and Mountyille schdoti valuable services as a trustee, and is now serving as chairman of the board of the Mountville school. He is a member of the Lisbon Presbyterian church and has always manifested an interest and exerted his influence for the best interests of his commu- -nity. r Mr. Milam is pleasantly known in Clinton by a number of friends and acquaintances whq will be interested in the outcome of his race. As a young lad eight years of hia life was •pent in the Thomwell orphanage here. In speaking of his candidacy, Mr. Milam declared that if elected he will represent all the people of the county to the best <4 hia abOity. I favor good schools/ the development of cross country roads, and ah effi cient and economical administration of the affiiirs, tf the county. 'with fourteen men to competet^inst the . largest colleges and universrtier~ pf the Fourth Corps area, which con- slttk of North CardTina, South Caro lina, (3eorgia». Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida. First place Was won by The Citadel, giving it the award for the third time, and making it second to P. C. in the number of tipies it has won the cup. Citadel’s three times and Presbyte rian college’s seven and Clemson’s two times makes a tqtal of twelve timke that the trophy has been won by a South Carolina school in -the fourteen years that it has been of fered. impartial manner.” L formal announcement appears in to-, Gibraltar, British territory across days paper. Mr. Davis offered forlf^oni the .southern border, was crowd- the house two years ago at which jpj ^ith refugees, most of them-from ^ime*he made a creditable showing the war-torn city of U Linea. and lacked only a few vote^ of en-: rebel planes bombed the Span- tering the second race. | jj-j, wardship Jaime I in the harbor at Mr. Davis is a native of this cm^i-1international zone in Moroc- munity, a son of the late Lidie Dor-jc^ xhe Jqime, with other leftist ’ rolv Davis and Robert C. Davis. He i*; craft, had refused to obey an ultima- a brother of Dr. J. W.JDj^is of this tum from Gen. Franci.sco’* Franco, Mrs. J. B. Carpenter wx ^ A a. Ail I city,I and Robert Dayis of "Greenville,of the rebellion, to sail rasses .i\t-JVlODUei a numbt-r of years a resident and' (jr surrender. ! business man of Fountain Inn. OUT ON, BOND ay «jr Five marching columns of civilian News has been received in the cit>f, Mr. li^is promises if elected,' ‘‘a nvilitiamen left Madrid for rebel of the death of Mrs. .Mary Linn Car-' discharge of the duties of the ^^pongholds in'^urrounding provinces. ' penter, wife of the Rev. J. B. Car-|°^f“^® a.s designated by the constitu-, movement in the'north, where penter of Mobile, Ala. Mrs. Carpen-1 stand al_all times for revolutionaries established mar-' ter's death followed an operation andl^'’^' advan^ment of the county s m- jaw,-wa.s the most widespread terests. He has a wide circle oft..jj,(.^ military revolt broke out . la.-it'weolfe ir .Spanish Morocco. Civil sides her husband, the deceasedwelcomb his candidacy. (,fficial.s'^ere reported fleeing across survived by one <iaughter, Mre. ■ . . the frontier into France while rebel trnnn"L«T"A«r.i;V-V5«..%!;'l‘'KlTi',,r=!Caffery Pond of New Orleans; one,l^^^„_^_ .leaders declared they had mobilized $1,000 bond. Application for bail wasi— , ^ ^ lYlC^lTStiry vyll'drS j 12,000 mountaineers from the Na- A '’®'’‘^® regions. • ,rOr Ivlcl^loLl aL6; Moroccan troops which landed at • —-Ji * ' .Algeciras were forced to flee by loyal Clyde H. McCrary, well known defenders after ejigagements . in Lxuren,. July 20.-Clyd« Mill., held l«r/.nd threughout the Sunday by a coroner's jury in cohnec-j* •!$ ’ tion with the death of Lavyn Wardell,; was at liberty this afternoon on survi mftde^bjTTJ. L. Long, I^turens attor ney, and the order was signed by Judge C; C. Featherstone at Green wood. „ v_ Battery "G” Off “ To Charleston Battery ,G, 263rd coast artillery, of Clinton, left Sunday morning for Fort Moultrie, Charleston, for a two weeks’ period of intensive training given annually m July. The battery is headed by Captain Walter A. Johnaon and Lieut. Jack H. Dsivis, Jr., abd eonsists of 60 en listed men. Transportation to Fort' Moudtrie was made in 4(^7 ti^ieki sent here from Camp Ja^sson in Columbia. “The Movies” Do you attend the “movies’-^? .Do yob desire to keep posted on the latest entertainment of fered at the city’s two popalar. theatres ? If you do — read their pro grams each week in THE CHRONICLE. Keep yourself posted on what’s coming„vihat’s new, by reading their adver-*- tisements. r _ Keep yourq^ i n formed throu^ the advertising col umns of “Your Family News- paper.” 4- .son, J. B. Carpenter, Jr.," of Mobile, and one brother, Dr. H. P. Linn of Paducah, Ky. Friends here of Mr. Carpenter will i sympathize with him in the'pas.sing I of his wife; He is now pastor of one ’of the large Presbyterian churches in Mobile and was reared and educated Clinton merchant, announces himself which many rebels ■ were reported in today’s paper as a candidate for killed, magistrate of Hunter township at f here at the orphanage. He is pleas-' Clinton, in the August primary. l. -antly remembered by his friends and f Mr. McCrary is a son of the late^ acquaintances as “Jim” Carpenter. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Wash H. McCrary and i Tsx ^ has been a resident of this city for; x^OIUCo 1 O x^lUoC a number of yeafs, most of which | Summer School Union Service At 'A. R, P. Chm I i time he has been engaged in the mer- j The Presbyteriap college summer LLi cantile* business. He is a member of'school came to a close last Friday af- the board of trustees of Hunter ^ , school district No; 5, having been The city union service ‘ next’ Sun-j elected to this position'a year ago. 4iay evening will be held at ©ightlThe announcement that he has en- o’clock at the Associate Reformed j. tered the magistrate’s race will be Ti——V mu- _;ii gordial interest to his friends. J Presbyterian church. 'The pulpit will be occupied by Dr. J. C. Roper, pas tor of North Bjoftd Street Methodist church, v^h a cordial invititidn ex tended all congregations to uxiite Jn I Mr. and^rs. T. P. P. Carson*and little, daughw sf Greenville, spent the week-end ^th Mrs. Carson’s par ents, Mr. jano airs. W. H. Shands. being in progress for six weeks, ourses were offered in English, French, Spanish, education and math ematics. The school was headed by Di^ Stephen M. Huntley, a member of the college faculty, as director. H^ ex pressed satisfaction ip the type jof work, done during the X^upimer ms- sion, which he termed as one of'the most successful ever held. V' \ !\