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<r"-- *** ' ' ~5""" **" ' ^"" Liquor Informer Beaten To Death Florsncc* Jan- 30.?The beating to death with an axe of a prohibition informer within 100 yard* of a still he had a part in raiding furnished a perplexing mystery today for county < and federal authorities to solve. , The body of the informer, W. B. Kirven, 47, was found yesterday a short time after he bad gone with three federal prohibition agents to the vicinity of the still. After destroying the liquor plant, the off tears, J. C. ttairley, J. I. Worrell and J. K. Andrews, returned to Florence. They missed Kirven but said they supposed he already had returned to the city. When Kirven failed to show up, they went back to look for him but jn the meantime a resident of the community had discovered his body. The head was battered in and a bloody axe was lying nearby. The officers said they believed a moonshiner, possibly a watcher at the still, attacked and killed Kirven. They said that althmigh whisky was running over the Druh"~of a jar at the tlf^ip pipe, they found no one at' the still when they destroyed it. Sheriff's deputies said they understood Kirven, who had acted as aninformer for eourity and federal officers, had received a number of threats recently. They indicated they had clues they hoped would solve the slaying but declined to disclose them. Coroner Thomas W. Wallace empanelled a jury but deferred holding an inquest until a more complete investigation had been made. Kirven, a former resident of Darlington county, is survived by his widow and several children. Gar Wood, speed boat racer, at Miami Beach, .. Fla., on Wednesday, set a world record for speed boats by making a mile- at a speed of 111.08 miles per hour. The boat was driven by a 24-cylinder motor. J. H. Wetherington, farm demonstration agent at Dothan, Ala., has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring with two others to defraud the government in connection with- seed loans. Martin Clement, member of an Oklahoma cowboys theatrical troupe, ? was convicted at Hamlet ,N. "C-rWed1nesday on a charge of attempted criminal assault on a 12-year-old girl and was sentenced to two years on the roads. . , The legislatures of Louisiana and Mississippi have repealed the hastily passed laws intended to restrict the planting of cotton, leaving Texas, Arkansas and iSouth Carolina as the only states now having laws intended to restrict acreage this year in the hope of boosting the price of cottph. The South Carolina law is virtually dead by reason of the faeb that it was conditioned on 75 per cent of the other cottosS^Btatbs. restricting their acreages. --' The oher statues haven t adopted the South Carolina plan. Following the leaving of the state of Louisiana by Huey Long to take his seat in the United States senate,. Alvin O. King, Long's side-kick, assumed the governorship. Paul N. Cyr, who also claims thd office of governor by virtue of his having been lieutenant governor when Long took office as senator, threatens an ouster suit against King, following the lattcr's re fusal to vocate the governor-1 ^hip. The negro hospital at Union was destroyed by fire yesterday with a loss of $4,000, caused, firemen say, by defective wiring. All the equipment burned and tw opatients had narrow escapes. Ask your grocer for Sander s Creek water ground meal, fresh, pure - and clean.?adv. 6 6 6 IdQl'II) - TABLETS - SALVE 666 Liquid or Tablets used internally and 666 Salve externally, make a complete and effective treatment for Colds. Most Speedy Remedies Known Expert Watch Repairing Jewelry Ci> Repairs Also Engraving Sttirftelion Cnirtnt?ed PRICES R?u*ntbU All work iHn prompt . 'llwHu DICK GOODALE AaWlma Arrests Follow Finding of Body Florence, Feb. 8.?Claude Barber, 45-year-old farmer, and Tom Logan, 95, a plow hand, were arrested here late tonight in connection with the death of Junius A. Ross, whose body nam* V was found lying ,Jn a tteld in Pnrlington county. . Sheriff Burch said Logan hud confessed helping to take Rosa's body, wrapped in a piece of canvas, from Barber's home late Sunday into Darlington county. " Barber was taken Jn custody technically on + prohibitloiPVharge. The sheriff said he woqld be charged with murder and Logan with.being an uc? cossory to murder. > The officers said suspicion was first directed to Barber when neighbors reported hearing shots at his home late Sunday, . His and Logan's arrests followed. Logan was quoted as saying Bar ber Sunday afternoon had broken a fruit jar on Koss' head in a quarrel Sunday afternoon. An hour or so later, he told officers, ttarber forced him to aid in placing Ross' body in an automobile and taking it away. Ross, a former North Carolinian, recently completed a term in the Florence county jail for prohibition ...... ^ law violation, Since his release he ? had been seen frequently in the vicinity of Harbor's,home, officers said. Query Your business may not bo satisfactory, but how woul^ you like to be running one ofVhe old-time liv- ... !ery stables T?Clinton Chronicle. p? .? , - . mh ..' W m *-*r^"o*++-r ^rt ~: pl rtl ottw fitoVLfiw srn^ \?* ?nuk? r?, 4r - , jf'VTf.p'.st ) -J a. 47.A< *>, . , -?v ; y \* ; , 4.'- ! ' ** ' >-vV~ ? ^ ? * > ^ SS If t %- w w %"? % ?' y ' ^ for ONE WEEK -? ~ ? -i 1 ?-irnmmmmmimmmmmmmmi i ' . ? 'V-v ?: SjV N-tV7. 1 .. -<i .. beginning .... NEXT MONDAY FEBRUARY 8th -?- a 0 A Special Factory Showing of the New All-Enamel Majestic Range will be held in this store next week. 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