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TUB OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL UUUNTT. L ita. Barnwell People-Sentinel 'Juat Lika a M«mb«r of th« Family” VOLUME LVL BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1933. NUMBER 49. WEEK-END IN BARNWELL IS MARKED BY TRAGIC DEATHS v v ( HOMICIDE AND DROWNING HERE SATURDAY NIGHT. Otis Brabham Charged With Killing 0. M. Rhodes.—William Penwell Is INtol Victim. Barnwell Steadily Climbs Toward Top Seen and Heard Here < During the Past Week Two tragic deaths occurred here Saturday night, when 0. M. Rhodes was shot to death at a filling station on Marlboro Street, near the intersec- tioij/of highway No. 3 and the A. C. Lr Railroad tracks, and William Pen- well was drowned at the new swim ming pool at Fuller Park an hour later. The homicide occurred about ten o’clock and the coroner’s jury Sun day charged Otis Brabham with the crime. According to the testimony of the only witness examined at the inquest, W. L. Collins, who wa^ in the filling station at the time of the shooting, Rhodes and Brabham came into the room, accompanied by Jfarry Conley. Others present were Hollis Ray and Seivern Ray, wh. operate the filling station. Oollins testified that Rhodes and Brabham were apparently on frendly terms, although they appeared to be under the influence cf liquor, and that A Little Sense and Nonsense About People Yon Know and Others You Don’t Know. — Six Clubs Are Closely Bunched Second Half of Georgia~Carolina Pennant Race. in Standing of Hubs. V the Utter ordered “hot dog'" for the party. The w cigar a said that he waa sitting ab ut five feet away from with hfa back towards then heard the first s he turned st a the B. F. Owens, administrator of relief work in Barnwell County, saying that several communities do not want any more projects if the worker g are to be paid 30 cents an hour, because of the effect on farm labor, etc. . . . Fight fans who attended the boxing bout remarking that the entertain ment wa 9 better than they had ex pected because they were not expect ing much. . . . Gus Baird, man ager of the Augusta Club, “riding” Tucker for “choking up" in the 8th inning of Thursday’s game and al lowing two men to score after two were out, thereby losing the contest. . . . The NRA Blue Eagle cn dis play in a number of local store*. . . . Ben T. an<j John Rice, of Columbia, I shaking hands with boyhood friends. . . . The State snd some weekly newspapers reaching our exchange | desk ape.ling the word “exorbitant'* like this: “Exhorbitant/ . . And I some ether weekly paptr ( running a and i Pond advertisement a week ahead °f i *•** I the srheiu.ed insertion date. . . j table I \ 24-pound catfish being prepared at m * n - the Barnwell Fruit Company's cafe j Club Won Lost Pet Graniteville 10 5 .667 Bamberg ... 10 6 .625 Sylvania ... 10 7 .588 Barnwell 11 8 .579 Millen 9 7 .563 Thomson ... 10 8 .556 Allendale 5 11 .313 Augusta 2 15 .118 Future Games. Thursday, August 10.—Thomson at Barnwell Friday, August 11.—Allendale at Barnwell Tuesday, August 15.—Barnwell at Millen. Wednesday, August 16.—Barnwell at Augusta. Thursday, August 17.—Bamberg *t ’ i Barnwell. 1 Friday. August 18.—Graniteville at Earn well The Lieutenant-Governor. J. E. Harley, of Barnwell, who will very likely be the next lieutenant-governor of South Carolina, promises the voters he will make that office far more than just a waiting station for a call in case something happens to the governor. For one thing he declares that he would appoint “only senators who know how to favor econo my” to the free conference committee cn the appropriation bill. That promise holds much meaning for the people of South Carolina, who have seen, year after year, economy moves blocked by senate members of the free conference committee. The senate has been the great legislative drawback in this State and a good start would be made in its reform by electing a man like Harley to be its presiding officer. — Anderson Daily Mail. Fulmer Protests Advance in Prices , V of Manufactured Goods and Drop in Prices Paid Farmers for Cotton hrn he| a* I t fired, and that k he saw Rhode* fa 1 to th* floor. Br a bhan 1. he /old. wat *“ irtrtc about three atef * fro m Rhode# and | 1 P* *«t *»!r hod a pistd ta h a band. 8*1 •oral I rw rer arl shots * ■•vie fired. four of which took A ugest effect two la Rl bod**’ head sad two' r »#r ( is hi. body. R ihodoe lived a ibout Van 01 that ha* | , ,. mg local:. hav tha r.r the Saturday night ate become a weekly inati'otion f r bu- in*** men. • ton»umera ■ f urrefit *p*rulatmg on the av ng, to be effected by the xlule of rate* inaugurated I *t by the South Carolina By defeating the Graniteville Rock* on their home lot Tueaday after >on. 4 to 3. the Barnwell Club erntinued it* steady cl imb bark toward* the top of the ladder, being now in fourth place and only one full game behind the league lenders. The local a, however, have played four game* mo.e than Granitevtl * and the ot conteata w.l| ha*e an . on th* race. A1 played a fewer n, Cause of Man’s Death Is Unsolved Mystery Coroner's Jury I'aable to Deteraiine Whether eg Not Negro Haa Struck by Train. f i ho** W 4< * J>* V of >' eo'ef Barnwell. Six c nb* are rU>»* y hatt ing hard f -r first p point* aepatattng Thou place, fr«m GmnitevtUe. ct the about i NRA u* in*ee proto tion* of t three-quarter* of on hear after b#tng| c#4# M applmd In lacnl ahot hut wn* m an aaaoaxtona cendi j Uoyd A FWxtaw and Uoa nag unable to make any f^.iy Uanag to attend the motor j boot racoo la Augusta Sunday after- and the fdlour.ag tern in Mon- >me f; rw Colima' testimony about the detail* in cvnaortlon with the homtetde differed somewhat frem the material tvidanca Although he tastl* fiod that he aaw no prntol nae other weapon in Rhodes* p on. a knife was f und near the body by Sheriff J. B. Morna when he arrived on the scene shortly after the shoot- mg occurred. and Br abham'. shirt era* cut in turn place*. Co lin* testified at the inquest that “ha (Brabham’*) shirt waa not cut whan be cease there nor waa it tat before the sho ting.** The two men. he aaid. were “hugg.'d up" and apparra’ly in n g od netured mood just before the fhtsl shots were fired. The verdict of the cor ner’s jury wn* “that O. M. Rhode* cemr to hi* death by piatol /hot* at the hand of Oti* Brabham " Brabham is he ng held in the county jail pending his application for bail. He is an un married young man and lost cne leg in an accident at the Badham Lumber if The Augusta Chrana rotory gesture and a day’s issue I “As a props ting dimes In the afternoon's racm. Loyd FW*ie». Same#.I. S C-, pen* feamonal. staged two impromptu demonatrations in a mate of the woe.I*a faatoo* speedboat that shim- mod the waters of the lake under hit expert gu-denr* at more than 90 • • • Pe p # die* , af weekend t age : >n and w nder ng he unusually bright ad«er»ely affecting gaiie* per hour rutting the sens die. in this tec whether or not August moon la human minds. ‘•Country*’ Kneece. who pitched for Barnwell last summer, tejv tmng the pitching staff of the local club. He ha* just returned fr m New Hamp shire, where he made an excellent record with a irm -pro team. . . . J. W. Patterson, cjunty ruperviaor. showing a Rogers pocketknife, which oh 4. Aogsmta I. In a date game af bnaohnll here I Thursday after*an. RamwoL defeated Augusta. 4 to 1 The lognh took a i imu run land Mi the firm inning and | addeg another marker m the second, but Turkoe then setting down. The l rtsltori tied the count in the seventh I by ttmo'y bitting and Gw* Baird s ’ I asm* run over the fight field fence m i Use next frame put them out :n front. bad not fir long Tocher o**h*neg I with two down snd allowed the tioing run to score when be mni* a will I pitch after bnvtng it- jed a couple of | paaseo. Stewart’s aingto scored tbe J winning ran. Score by um ngo: R H E Augusta 000 900 SI#—3 i S Bar no el ..lid 000 02s —4 9 0 , a negro man ab t of age. wa« found urwoi i'day miming on tho track lantic Coast Lmo Railroad mil* from Dunbarton, hav- iiscoverod by the crew of a train. H.« skull wn* badly It la nnderoto 4 that he arod several hours before Hr died without re- ! aact'. sanest uoro tw i thoorwM as to the manner M which Wailnco met hia death, on# be ag that he wa« struck sometime during the night by a pn*a- ng tram and tbe ether that be wn* the victim of foul play, hia > ">ly be ing p,ar*d on the t ark la as effort to cover ap the rrtsse In line with the lantNtfmary. n suspect o* ( arrested by Sher* J. B Mtrru sag lodged in tho Sardhei C nnty ja I. but was later release I wh*a the roi aner*a jury whith held an -nqueot Monday, re turned a verdict that the declared mot hia death a* tho result of bo ng at ruck on tho bead “by an instrumont unknown to the jury * "W" The People-Sentinel Ls in receipt of the following copy of a letter which Congnessknan H. P. Fulmer, under date of August 4th, addressed to George Peak, administrator of the Farm. Adjustment Act, in which he protests against the advance in the prices of manufactured cotton goods and the steady decline in the price of the raw staple in spite of the fact that several millian acres have been removed from production: “My dear Mr. Peak: “Sometime the first of May, Cohen Company, Charlotte, sold to Mr. W. E. Bennett, Springfield, S.- C., dress shirts at a price of $2.75 per dozen. On May 24th they cancelled the order, withdrawing this price, writing Mr. Bennett as follows: “ ‘The mill making the dress .«hirts will accept our order at $3.37H, if you let us know in the next mail that this price is satisfactory—they say The price next weeilT will Ke $41001 The price of $3.37 H is made you sub ject to withdrawal without notice, anff whatever taxes may be in effect on the date of shipment.* “1 call your attention to just what 1* happening to the retailer, which naturally means unfair pricea to the c<.a*um«r. If the Admnistrator of the National Recovery Act and you. as Admin atrator of the Farm Act, ran net either control undue increase* to (he pries of eottea gaa4a ur pro sed at once to place farmers* prices n tine with these inrrea/ed unfair | monopolistic price* on the part of business concerns who are protects with a code which is endorsed by the Government, it wont be long bef re the present Admiutetrsttoa will wake up with the real tie l-ea that II has 'pent mlUiea# nselenaly. “Unles a you proceed once to put into effect the Domestic Allotment Platt, whereby farmers will be guaran teed the prewar price for cotton you? efforts in trying to rehabiiiate Agri culture and restore the purchasing power of that great class of citizens will be lost motion. “J call your attention to a letter Written you sometime ago stating that the recent increased price of cot ton was brought about solely on ac count of speculation, stating at the time that the same speculators could just as easily put cotton back to 8 cent#. Now that you have plowed up from two to three million bales of perfectly good cotton, depriving cot ton picker s *nd cotton ginners of millions of dollars of revenue and with a prospect of ten to twelve million balei this Fall, what assurance have you to offer to cotton farmers that they will receive pre-war priest or higher pricai" in line with the prfen" of cotton goods this Fall? “In the meantima, don’t you think that it if unfair to tax the American people on* hundred million deHart to pay for the destroying of two to three million bales of farmers' cotton and in the meantime allosring foreign eountria* to import into thic country jute, jute products, ramie and other foreign fibers, taking from cotton farmer* their own home market to the extent of from two to throe mil- Uoa halos ef cotton, duty free? “I am trying to write you fully with the hope that yoor Adnuaiatratien, which i* supposed U see U H that farmers got a Square Dual oat af this New Deal which aheald pier# them ea aa aboolete boats with every other line ef ladaetry. are lakea care af." Ellen ton Woman May Be Fatally Wounded lo Cmieal -in-Law. August fi. -w* were earn bed ora U night ae' term nod NRA Drive Violators skiMMS. ftrw vato; taller# h ho Are Rio* B off or d Scholarship ind W atk Tm k* Gr*«r Rrsu.t* af other game 6. A lend* e 0; Th on.-on 1 Um Bamberg Milieu 4. N' kolas J yner, been awarded the tu.tloa acbo sr«h:p Congressional Diat of W mdsor, ha* W fford Col.eg# for the Second let a. the rasa! Beraoell Swamp* Bamberg. Stewart'* home run over the center- field fence with two on base wip*d out Bamberg’s lone-run lead in the 7th ive exam nation he.d ADVERTISE m Tito Poople-BenttaoL Cnmnonv’ olant several vea-. aro w ^^ l inn,B * of Fr * <1 *J r ^nioon’a game ati th# r> ||y WM n.ppH in the bud on Rhode married and ‘he father of Mcrm * nd h “ deput,e *' (,,lmore S - Bamberg and broke up a pitchers’duel , double p ay. McGaughey to fitch. ^ d d f K , H * rl *r * nd J S Sti:I * hurriedly ieav- between Gray and Williams. From A trip | e p; a> narrowly missed ng for Blackvi.le Sunday afternoon t ben on the contest tfas a complete when the latter threw quickly to first in response to an "S. O. S." call amF rou t an( i Barnwell took the big end j n an e ff 0 rt to catch Vaughan upon his return saying that it wa* a 0 f a 9 to 1 acore. Neither team was | The R H E case for the magistrate's court rather | a h ie to acore until the sixth frame. Barnwell . 000 000 333 9 14 1 than “the big court.” . . Two little w h e n Bamberg pushed over one tally, boys from the c:untry, one “armed" In the fi^t ha if 0 f t h e seventh, with several children. Brabham wa s released Monday un der $1,500 bond. William Penwell wa< drowned at the swimming pool about 11:00 o’ clock Saturday nigh: in the presence of several men who evidently did not realize what was happening until it was too late to rescue the unfortunate young man. His body was recovered about an hour later a few feet from where he wa s seen to go under. According to William Gilliam, the caretaker at the park, Penwell had asked permission to take a shower- bath, his request being readily grant ed. He went into the bath house, dis robed and in a few minutes ran out naked and dived into the pool. He gwam across to the other side and when Gilliam told him thait he could not extinct^ In view of the circumstances, on, he started to swim back. When within arm’s length of a diving board just above the level of the water, he was seen to make a desperate effort to remain afloat and immediately went under. When he failed to reappear, those present ma<fe efforts to rescue him, but his body was not located un til an hour later, long after life was extince. In view of the circumstances, no inqtoest was deemed necessary. Penwell was about 25 years old and unmarried. * He i is survi ved by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Penwell, and several brothers and sisters, all ef the MsrUa section of Allendale He waa aayloyad Relief Bamberg .. 000 001 000—1 9 2 Gray and H. Gr;ss; Williams and with a fiddle and the other a guitar, mniiers cn first and second and two c 0 bi e rendering instrumental and vocal M-1 out , Stewart parked his circuit clout.! The reaults of oth 3 r games played lections on the streets and "taking up i n t h e i aa t half of the same frame, the Friday were as follows: Allendale 2, a collection” after each perfomance to fi r3t two batters up hit singles buf Augugta g. Thomson 7, Sylvania 11. compensate them for their musical ef- '= Granitevilie-Millen, rai fort 4 . . . The daily sessions of parmerg wondering how much they > - — the Wolves lacking their usual pep wi jj have to pay , f or gj nn j n g their low t The R-cks got off to a two-run since the departure of Angus Patter- priced cottcn thU ^11. . . . And lead in the very first inning of Tues- son for the World Fai r. ot h er people wondering if the gov- day’s contest by virtue of Hayes’ A Ferns Wheel and a Merry-Go- ernment based its per-acre-yield esti- home run. Barnwell pushed one Round on Wall Street, the music (?) mate of a p prox i ma te!y 200 pounds of acros s in the third and tied the count from the later attracting crowds of jj nt cotton on t h e estimates submit- i n the seventh when Fitch walked and children of ad ages. . . . F. A. ^ by the f armers themselves in their Duke hit one over the right field fence Gross, who had a birthday Monday, contracts to plow up some ten* million for the circuit. Stewart’s /ingle fol remarking that nobody but himself acreg \ . | lowe<1 Bear d e n’3 double and Fleming’s had remembered the occasion. • • Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Fuller coming sacrifice in the eighth to score the A football fan jubiant over the fac. j n f rom c 0 i um bi a Monday in their, winning run. Three time s during the that the gridiron season is just a new p i aiie jt j s ver y similar to the game—in the second, sixth and eighth litle more than a month hence. . . one pu^h^ed a couple of years ago, innings — the Carpenters nipped A report of the anual polit.cal picnic a four-place Stinson, but it is | promising rallies in the bud w itb at Jolly S?ree-, Newberry Ccwinty, bigher-powerwi ahd has a cruising lightning double plays tnat retired which stated that Clint T. Graydon, gp^ 0 f no miles an hour and a top the side without allowing a run. of Columbia, introduced Col. J. E. of 150. And somebody remark- Harley, candidate for lieutenant gov- injf that Mr Fuller i# evidently not ernor, as being from “bloody Barn- ‘ Iup€rgtltioiuI( as the number of the well.” ' A lady remarking that‘there are ^ whUe the fifUre , 4 and 9 add Livingaton. two men shed like to^ ahoot—Jimmie tnd 9 pi Uf 4 the same result.| Granitevile defeated Sylvania Sat- .People wondering how the urday, 1 to 0, and Bamberg took Al- “New Defil” can benefit this section lendale’a measure Monday, 7 to 3. with the prietg on everything but The result, of other games played cotton advancing and tha price of the Tuesday were as follow/: AUenda'e fleecy staple steadily sinking to 'ewer 0, Bylvsnia 7; Thomson t, Bamberg Wra-a il Score by innings: R H E Barnwell ..001 000 210—4 8 2 Graniteville 201 000 000—3 8 2 Wolfe and J. Gross; Timmerman and Walker, ex-mayor of New York City, and King Carol of Roumania. . . . < tbe name of “Willian to the retards of the dL Cleotw Doowet by Atkeo Ceuoty 4 the raoaeo 0 moa hionufloq a^ Ray* RUMsd Gt.oms. ab ut 10 year* ef age, •hot sad probably fatally wonadod hia aiater-ia-law, Mr a Leona Willtaasa Mr/. W r! lams waa dangerously munded by a bu let Griaae, admitted be firsd aa she attempted to inter cede in behalf cf her sister w th whom the hu»bead was struggling. Grimes, officers said, admitted that he had had trouble with both cf the women just prior to the shooting. The women were in a creek near Ellenton at the time. Att red in ba’hing .*uits, the two sisters were standing on a bank wh«n they were approached by Grimes, who had been drinking, officers said. The husband held a brief conversation with his wife and a struggle ensued. Mrs. William- sought to intervene and was wounded in the attempt. Grimes fled, going to the home of John Bates, where he wa s captured, deputy sheriffs said. He was brought to the Aiken County jail to await the outcome of the wounded woman’s con dition. Deputy Ernest Garvin who went to the scene with Deputy J. E. Sanders, said that Grimes admitted the ehcot- ing and said that that it wa s the cul mination of his wife’s refusal to live with him. He said he only recently returned to the Ellenton section from a point in Mississippi where he de clared he was* engaged in work on a government boat. Deputy Garvin said that Mrs. Wil liams i s the operator ef a filling sta tion at Ellenton and at which she shot and mortally wounded Robert Gunter, an Augustan, more than a year ago. A jury aaid that she fired a single load from a shotgun into Gunter’s body in self defense. Attending physicians at the Aiken hospital to which Mrs. Williams was conveyed said that chances for her recovery were slim tered her abdomen. Waahiagtan, Aug. 7.—TW mpaign today •toe* t ef 1 fled tempo) metit. Deputy Administrator A. D. •Id*, la charge ef the retail stare taaa- porary code, utd the Uaitod Fra as ha had fee*.ved report* from all parte of the coaatry that retail at ores are entering agreement* to shorten hear s of operation so they will not have to hire additional workers, which la tha major objectivf cf the campaiga. In numerous cases these stores alaa are “staggering” their employes to avoid an increase of their forcaa. Whiteside sought to “nip such chis eling” in the bud yesterday by sead- ng a stinging telegram to the Indiana Retail Grocers’ association. Ha had learned that in tome —mm unities grocery stores had entered agree ments to shorten operating hours bp- low the 63 hours per week to which they had agreed when they were per mitted to work employes 48 hours par week. These agreements were to go into effect today. * ■ This telegram was effective with a smile, the deputy admnistrator told how telegrams had come pouring in today from retailers all over tho country assuring him they would not make such agreements. Many ap parently had contemplated sach agreements. The stream of telegram^ indicated a “guilty conscience." “I had no idea that this practice waa so widespread until they began to teQ me about it,” Whiteside said. The recovery administration has a very effective weapon. In the case of grocery stores, for instance, it thretens to reduce the mRvii—o hours of work for employes to 49 fab- stead of 48 now in, effect This wfll be employed in the case of other re tail lines. The bullet en- G. Bates Hsgood left last week for Detroit Mich., and Chicago. He will also visit point, in Canada before returning heme. B. Wilson Walker spent tho end with his family, who are relatives in Charlesfion. Ho eoaspaniod by Bon Davies, Jr, Joe Stewart who enjoyed a days at the beach.