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LIIIPMIIUI r , i ^ «•»«. .\ ■ r-f- THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, \ I cunIon, s. U-^WPSI 7 r.. THURSDAY, JULY 2S/19S6 Casino Theatre MONDAY AND ’RJESDAY, July 27 and 28 “Ev«yb6dy*8^01d f9 GIRUS MURDER ' STILL MYSTERY With IRVIN S. COBB, ROCHELLE HUDSON and JOHNNY DOWNS. A comedy'romance of today^own /(Continued from page one) . room as tl)e/‘mo3t significant clu4.” “Do you have any explana1;ion of the 12th k^?” he was asked, tonight. “Have you checked the key shops in the city?^’ • ‘ “Yes.” ‘ ~ ^ — “Did you find anything?” “No.” \ ^ Is there any question in your mind R. D. NANCE IS SHOT IN FRAY Mrs, E. Mood Smith spent a fear days last week in C61umbia with rel* Eldest Son of Laurens County Senator Given Chance To Re* i*tives. cover. Mrs. Nance Released. I 'Tisdale and son are grandpai^^, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. King, and^l^and Mni. W. G. King. Billy Mill^ of Whitmire spent ) Tuesday/with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs^ D. B. Bobo. Mis.s Mary Guy of • Salemburg. N. Cl, has returned to her home, after visiting Rev. and Mrs. Edward Long. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Johnson and j spending several days in Asheville daughter, Clara, and Misses Narvis . T IV <09 H Kar* FI i^lativcs. They were accom-! and Ruth Sanford of Newberry, spent ^ Qo I Cm It n Margaret Robinson,! the week-end in Greenville. XT , , na or rro jjwho has been visiting here. . ' Miss Hulda Mae Bowers has re^ “holding his own” in his fight for^ Miss Frances Simpson in »Pending burned to her l^ome in Kinards after Columbia,’ July '22.-r-.Robert D. Nance, son Sinunons Quits Race to-eulh — np-td-the-miiiate — .incdithat the skeleton key found in thejjjfg having been critically’daya^t Lake Junalua^. jvisiting her sister, Miss Ruby Bow- at all ages and kinds of movie'goera!.'lock was used by the killer?” It reveals with rare hnmor aad sen-' “None at^all.” * tSment the human aide of a self*' “Is the report true thit Gaddy's made millionaire who is lonesome and skeleton key found on his keyring is loveless for all his snceeas. He Ukes|too badly broken to Work in a lock.” in hand two spoiled youngsters and * “Yes,”, the sheriff replied finds a new thrill in life fighting for their future happiness. “I'm a Big Shot Now.” " MGM News. 10-A. M. Show—MONDAY. \10c and 25c WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY, July ^9 und 30 “G^tle Julia” With JANE WITHERS, TOM BROWN and MARSHA HUNT. “Ginger” puts new spice in Booth Tarkington'a funniest yam! Your fa* Torite ltttte“ scream sCat wTIT lie you in knots of laughter as she tries to tie the love knot for her young and • pretty aunt! Comedy, “Swing It.” “The Sailor's Home.” 10 A. M.,Show—WEDNESDAY. 10c To All FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, July 31 and August .1 “White Fang” With MICHAEL WHALEN, JEAN MCIK and SLIM SUMMERVILLE. From JACK LONDON’S story, “Sequel to Call of the Wild.” In a primitive land ... a strange primi tive triangle! A man, half hero, half savage! A woman bent on vengeance! A wolf-dog monarch of the pack! Shorts, “You’re Not Built That Way.” “.Musical Fashions.” Mickey I Mouse—“Mickey's Redo Team.” ' FRANK MERRIWeLL No. 4. 10c and 25c To Keep Cool and Comfortable— Come to The Casino, W'here You Can "Enjoy a (iood Show. NEXT WEEK— ""‘UNDER TWO FLAGS” “WITNESS CHAIR” “ROBIN HOOD OF EL DORADO’^ Broadway Theatre ‘MONDAY AND TUESDAY, July 27 and 28 “The Golden Arrow” With BETTE DAVIS and GEORGE BRENT. Here She Is! The 19.t.> Academy Award Winner—in her first picture -since winning filmdom's highest hon or. The story oL that famous “rich est girl in the world” from Michael Arlen's daring tale of Florida's fren- 'zied socialites! Comedy, “Song of a Nation." "Pardon My Grip." - ,, 10 A. M. Show—TUESDAY. —140c and 20c ■ WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, July 29 and 30 “Champagne Charlie” With PAUL CAVANAUGH,” HEL EN WOOD. MINNA GOMBELL. HERBERT MUNDIN. Top Hat — Dinner Coat . . . and Empty Pockets. He had ,a million dol lar personality—and she had the mil lions to go with it! When the goldeil wine flowsr-nrlifels a gamble] Love is a game! , y “Stranger Than Fiction.” “Vita- phone Entertainers.” “When Groo "Hoo.” 10 A. M. Show-^T^RSDAY. 10c To All “Did you confront Wollner with any contradiction of his original statement?” he asked. ('fhe sheriff haa said he has eight witnesses who disputed the violinist's alibi). *‘No,”. he said^-- T “What happened, then?” “I got another statementil/ “Was it the same statement you got before.” ? “Not exactly the same. He changed^ the statement some, but he did not change the timb.” “Can you tell us why you took the Ivro Negnr hotel employey’ hito cus tody last night?” “No—that would be telling.” The sheriff said, however, that when deputies went to get Roddy, the elevator operator, last night, the Ne gro fled out of the back door of the field, W^ Va., are.the guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Leake. Miss Elizabeth Nelson left last week for* Greenville wUere she is at- wounded in the abdomen Monday! Mrs. R(rf)€rt P. Jeanes of ^ , m _ night at his wife’s apartment at 1800 Upent yesterday here with Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Posey Nead of Blue- iPendleton street. j Mrs. P. S. Jeanes. \ , The bullet, 41 calibre lead slug, R- E. Ferguson' Jr., and Uwrence from a Derringer pistol, was, under-j Ferguson are spending several weeks stood to have pierced Mr. Nance’s in-j Camp Elliot^ Old Fort, N. C. ,! I ^idence you have in me and cannot . — t- . 1 Mrs. Letha Gilmore has returned tending summer schoql at Furman . .. r .J'H. W. SimmonsJ announced by his frieners a few weeks ago w * candi date for magistrate of Hunter town ship at Clinton, stated Tuesday that for business reasons he had with drawn from the Tace. He furnished The Chronicle theX following state ment: V “1 Wish to thajnk ^ my friends for inserting and paying rof my an nouncement as a candidatOv for mag istrate. Due to the mill goi^ on thr^ shifts and the increase in my bi»inesS^ 1 am unable to make the race. "But will strive to hold the con- testines in eight places. The" large, intestine was punctured twice and i • *>* weeks' visit with relatives it I in Spartanburg and Landrum. -Mifa Marjorie- Best- Blatty of catar, Ala<, ia visiting her grand- the small' intestine in six pjaces, was aaid. Earle Ashmore* who shot Mr. Nance after Mr. Naace had opened |ni«>tber, Mrs. R. J. McCrary., fire on him while the two were seat-1, John Moorhead of Durham, N. C., ed in Mrs. Nance'iujapartment with i Hunter Kevil of Kentucky, and Ro- Mrs. Nance, was still being heid-4»U«nd B- Parker, member of the facul- the city jail pending outcome'of Mr.'ty of Darlington School for Boys, in Nance's injuries: Chief W. H. Rawl-1 Rome, Ga., spent the week-end with inson of the police department said I Moorhead in (Joldville. that there were two bullet holes in! Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Johnson and Ashmore’s trousers, one in the flap son, Billy, accompanied by Miss Eliz- pf the right side pocket and the plJteL in the lower part of the left leg of the garment. Neither bullet injured Mr. Ashmore. — John Nance, younger brother of the yesterday for a tour including New university. Miss Ruth Sanford of Newberry, is spending several days with her sistar, Mrs. Aadresa Jolmson. Mrs. M. E. Tompkinson is spending tell you how much I appreciate your interest in me.” Wiqr-Mt kMp>^r««r iianar «t kMM by giving your aabacfipUoiia—cither seireral days in Ciusrlot;te with rein- new- er rewewnl—to tives. Beatty To Spealc To Kiwanians The regular meeting of the Ki- wants club will be held this evening JAMES W. CALDWELL The Magazine Mgn ^ J®, seized him, the | charge.s had been lodged against the sheriff added, when he returned at 3 a. m. " ' Brown said no move had been made injured man, was rtieased yesterday I where she is the guest of morning on $1,000 bond signed by his Miss Bertie Heidt. - father. Chief Rawlinson said that no Buddje Ch^man of Columbia, Orleans, Dallas, Hfuston and points at 7:30 at Hotel Clinton, of intere.st in Mexico. j The club will have as its guest Miss Agatha Jones left Sunday for speaker, Capt. George S. Beatty, a, younger Nance but that b^d had member of the R.O.T.C. staff at Pres, byterian college for the past year. Capt. Beatty has been transferred by spent the week-end with his brother, the war department for the coming! John Chapman, at Presbyterian col- been posted tor assure his appearance through a wriVof habeas corpus. There is no charge against any of them. They are^ merely detained “for year to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and will report there next month for! Miss Lucile Wilson has returned to duty. The committee in charge of. to*: Six bullets were fired in all duringhpme in Spartanburg, after j night’s meeting is asking a full at- 'sil , ... - , , ,when needed for further questioning by friends ot any of the five jiersons, gj^ bullets were fired in all during, , now detained to have them rel®a.sed j Robert D. Nance fired «ip«nding several weeks with her. sjs twice at Ashmore and after Ashmore, X®*: brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. who fired only once, had injured Rob-|^- E...i^ichols. ' . ert D., John took the gun from his! Mrs. Carl Floyd apd son of Olanta, • • • >» Vn.- — J ■ c' Iuuiiii tuun lilt? guu xiuiii Ilia I '-n — — , investigation. T^is procedure IS jj^other ,and fired three morel**'® visiting her parents, Mr. and quently used in investigation of crim inal cases in this state. Meanwhile Police Chief W. J^ Ev erett said he had checked up on the .statements from the per.sonii Sheriff Brown said,had reported .seeing VVoll- ner Wednesday night and Thursday morning. \ “1 am convinced,” he said, “that only two of the eight persons saw Wollner between 9:30 p. m. and 6:30 tendance to hear' the distinguished^ army officer who is soon, to leave the city. BUS FOR CAMP TRIP On Monday morning at 8:45 a bus will be at North Broad Street Metho dist church to carry delegates to the. summer camp at Rocky • Bottp|Tr.i shots at Ashmore. l^Mrs. Guy L. Copeland and other rela- Robert D. Nance was quoted byj'^'ves. • / Chief Rawlinson as saying that he I Misses Ma/tha Davidson, Polly El- “carried the gun there with him”'}*'^^ Ina Curry ^returned Sunday when the chief* asked Nance for a! * vacation at Myrtle Beach. statement. Nance was attempting a I Misses Helen Brownlee ^apd. Edna Round trip transportation Reconciliation with^ his wife, from' Laurens, were guests of j $2.00, with a cost of $6.00 whom he had been estranged for| Miss Patricia Ghles on- Monday andi week s stay at the camp. Those in- Xere.sted in going from here are ask ed to assemble at the church at this time. about three week.s. -jTuesday. Senator Nance who rushed to Co-1 Guynelle Milam of Laurens, tumbia after the shooting, went back f several days with Mr. and IS Uurens after having po.Ued bond ■'I™. W. H. Roberts. confused• Thursday pight With Wed-i for his son John. ' Yera Bailey Bray, Roberta and nesday night.” I Louise Bray of Griffin, Ga., are visit- Shooting Occurred Monday Night j ‘**8^ their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Columbia, Jul/ 20.—R. D. Nance, jR’ Bailey. , eldest son of State Senator Carroll _ Mrs. Russell C. King and son of For- the first time since Sunday morning, when, photographers were permitted to make picture's of the BOARD TO MEET / . The county board of registration will be in session in Laurens from the first Monday in August until the defiant, sportily dre.ssed violinist,j Nance of Laurens, was critically X"®**'**^®"*. **'* visiting her brotherf I5th. Persons without registration; ! word came from the jail on the l^^th tonight in what ir tone wit- ***,‘^ ***^*''‘*'*^**v» Mr. and Mrs. B. F.|certificates and desiring same, may! floor of the courthouse of his con- -described as ,a triple shooting:^ |obtain them'at thisutime, Or by com- Mary Lee Phillips of Spartanburg, j municating with J. (X McMillan ofi ‘lition. • 'fray-— LeoffreyTiglv thv jader Sven byj. j,„ K. D. Nance/estranged wiW «hose apanmaut the firing pc curred, told police that her husband shot at Earl Ashmore, in turn was , , ^ , /n, ,, , shot by Ashmore, and that John H. In contrast he saui, Gaddy was very pa e, and - nervous and Jitten-J opened fire on Ashnlore, with the Asked about a reporMhat the d8-,5.,„e pi,lol, . year-old watchman had eaten noth- (’hief W' H is spending some time with^ trer; tliis city, a member of the'boSrdT sible time, told them W’ollner was in “good spirits,” .and* had “an excel lent appetite.” ing since his incarceralixm Saturday, Ingle said: “He n\^y have eaten one or two sandwiches sent him by his wife, but outside of those^^ I am .sure he has not eaten.” f The jailer attributed Gaddy’s re ported failure to eat to ner\'0U3nes3, rather than to a deliberate hunger- strike. No report was received about Miss W'ard, Who has been held since Mon day. An exception to the iron-clad rule against~visitors had been made in her case to permit her to receive attention from a physician. She is described as tubercular; So far as could be learned, none Rawlinson said, “Ash-! more, unscathed, was held without! charge' in connection with the shoot-j' ing, along with the younger Na«ce. Mrs. Nance was detained for further questioning. Surgeons struggled for more than an hour over Nance, who was wound ed in the abdomen by a slug from a .41 calibre Derringer pistol, to save his life by an emergency operation. The shooting occurred about 8 p.m. at a small apartment where Mrs. Nance and’her two children had lived since she and her husband establish ed separate homes about three weeks ago. - i Investigators said Nance apparent ly called Ashmore to accompany him of thft. persons bald incommunicado i , J J J J to the apartment to make some state has demanded an attorney or made| i._ , ... any other move to obtain release. j W.. H. Rymer, piano dealer, ati whose home Wollner was arrested TRIDAY AND SATURDAY, July 31 and August 1 - “Alias John Law” With BOB STEELE, ROBERTA XIALE and BUCK CONNORS “Alias John Law”! A dynamic, split-second setion thrill^ of the Old “West. There was s "price, dead or alive, on the head of the Kootney Xid, but the West’s most formidable fighters failed to collect—until Bob Steele hit the trail of the murderous outlaw! Cpmedy, “Marine of the FoUiee^” • “Screen Snapshot.” “REX AND RINTY” Na tl. ' 10c and 20c ' and who tried in vain to see the vio linist yesterday, said today he did not intend' to engage a laWj’er at pres ent, although he reiterated he would gladly friend. 44 his said, repeating that he was confi dent Wollner would establish his in nocence. ments he felt would lead to a recon ciliation with his wife. —Mrs. Nance said John Nance and a companion entered but left to sit in their car outside while she talked with her husband and Ashmore. She was quoted as saying that , . -on nnn j / u- Nance threatened Ashmore and open- gladly put up J20,000 bund for hi, bullet, took «f- "‘Tm VtaW it might tend to harm I is case if I hired a lawyer now ”'he 1 started back ^oward them. IS case II I nirea a lawyer now, hej Ashmore th#n iii»4 once, she said. The bullet took effect, and Ashmore placed his gun on the mantle piece. Mrs. Nance was quoted as raying that John Nance then picked qp his brother’s gun and fired at Afhmore, but missed. > A. R- Heyward, city sheriff, and a visitor were said to-have stepped in and disarmed -the parties to t Culbertson Heads S. 5. Association Laurens, July 19.—W*. P. Culbert- quarrel. NEXT WEEK— 'MESSAGE TO GARCIA” “SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR” “RED RIVER VALLEY' spn was reelected president of "the Laurens Sunday School association at the 20th annual convention at Trinity Ridge “school Thursday. J. LeRoy Burns was reelected secretary, and Mountville was selected" for next year’s meeting place. „ Chestnut Ridge Baptist church was host» church, but the gathering was held in the school because the church The officers quoted the Nance as admitting he shoty4t Ash more after Ashmore wounded his brother, but said he' djd" not witness the first shooting. X Ashmore, a youthful furniture com pany coliector,^a8 considered a good friend of the Nances and often at tended entertainments with them. R. ^Nance is an employe of tl stati^-^n To the Depositors of the jfrst National Bank and the Public < i / .. / . ■ . ^ In liquidating the affairs of the First National Bank of Clinton, S. C*, I have acquired considerable real es tate. A large part of this h^ o^n sold but there re mains several good farii\s, a^welling, and the bankim house belonging to this trust In order to convert tms real estate into cash ^dl distribute as dividends^iCnas been deemed advis^Ie to sell all of the remaiping real estate owned by tms trust at public auctioi The Comptooller of the Currency has rpdehed the con clusion thaVwell 4$dvettised public am^on of the real estate h^ by Insolvent National Bdnks furnishes the best method of eliminating thes^^ion-liquid assets and has dhtained the services of ap^xperienced auctioneer in the person of Mr. Bntt Bavis, of Columbia, tenn., with his efficient corps qf^ssistants to conduct these auctions for the n The Comptroller's arranged for Mr. Britt Davis to hold ^n auction pfThe real estate owned by this trust qm iiipB'iiM* r'" ,2:30 P.M. 8«v«r4l i^ths ago. Istati^^me departmant, sad J„ ‘Consecrated Efficiency” was the > Naiice Jr is connected with general theme of the discussions, with^tate insurance department. J. L. Corzine, state leader; the R^vTj W. D. Spinx, the Rev. E. J. Tp^le, L. L. Langston, the Rev. H. L: Fer guson, the Rev. John. L, Bqb^ P. W. Bums, C. B. Bobo, ^T. GT Wharton, the Rev. B. L. Wood fhd others tak ing part on the pr the OUTDOOR MEET FOR LIONS ON FRIDAY ram. JotaL: TO CLEAN CEMETERY Notice has bben given by _W. E. Neighbors that the Hurricane grave yard will be cleaned on Thursday, July 30th. All who are interested in J preserving this burial, .ground are aaked to come'oh “this dale or send help. ->< The Lions club will have an out door meeting Friday evening at 7:30 at the city^ater plant on Duncan's creek, near he^. The plant may be reached by going out dJorth Broad !Street. A "Special committee is making ar rangements for the meeting, to which wives of members and their friends are invited as special gueats. Sabaeribe Te THE CHRONICUT "The Paper Everybody Reoda” IS real estate belongs to the creditors of the First itional Bank and each of these creditors is' vitally in- "terested in using his or her best efforts to see that each property sold shall bring the highest possible price. I earnestly hope that all will cooperate with us in our efforts to make this sale a big success, and with tt^t in view attend the sale. As Receiver of this bank L wjsh to state to the de-' positors and creditors^ .as well as the general public, that THIS REAL ESTATE WILL BE SOLD TO THE Richest bidder as advertised. For informa tion about the various properties see me at my office— First National Bank Building. W. SCOTT FARLEY, T r 'V- -f -y -y- r ^ • Y T f T ’ T— 4