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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL OUUNTY L litt. jT. 'Ju«t Like a Member of the Family" VOLUME LVL BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 17. 1933. DUMBER St. ■V Bamberg Constable Kills Henry Wilson Rhoad Shoots Blackville Man. omicide Said to Be Culmina- tion of Old Argument. Orangeburg, Aug. 9.—Henry Wilson 45, resident of Blackville, died in the Orangeburg hospital shortly after 8 o’clock last night from a bullet wound in his head 4s the result of a shooting affray near. Denmark two hours earlier. The bullet entered just above the right eye, passed through the brain and came out at-the back of the head. * W. J. Hutto, chief of police at Den mark, who accompanied the wounded man here, said that he was unable to state what the circumstances were immediately surrounding the shooting. He said that the shooting 7 was done by Johnny Rhoad, Bamberg County magistrate’s constable. According to Chief Hutto, the in* Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week * % A Little Sense and; Nonsense About * People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. The manager of the Thomson ball ^lub childishly losing his temper dur ing the game here Thursday after noon, throwing his straw hat on the ground and breaking it into bits by jumping up and down on the head- piece. v. And several people re marking that the visiting Thomson supporters were a bunch’of the “big gest beefers” they had seen in many a day. ... A negro complaining of a headache and saying that string tied trcund his head seemed to keep it “study”—thgt “it must • hold th< glands in place or sumpin.’’ \ . . J. W. Welchell, of Allendale, telling how hi s club lost a hard-fought game to Granitevilie. . \ A card from Col. Edgar A. Brown, mailed at Paris, Barnwell Ball Team . Is Treated Roughly Millen Fans, It Is Said, Threatened to "Kill” Wolfe and Georgians Win, 10 to 7. Standing of Clubs. Club Barnwell Won Lost r Pct. . 12 7 .632 . 14 9 .609 . 13 9 .591 .. 11 8 .579 . 13 10 .565 . 11 9 .550 . 6 15 * .286 . 4 18 .182 jured man had been in Denmark and i to the editor of The People-Sentinel, was returning to his home in Black- **ying that the Colonel had been “to ville, walk ng akng the highway. It 1 more churche* here than I go to at wa a on the highway, about ten miles home in the same time (sight-see- from Denmark, and near the home ing). M . . A radio going full blast of Rhoad that the shooting took place, •bout six c’c’ock one morning. . . Rhoad. who is about 38 years ofiJ- Buist G:ubb« planning t> take his age and a man of a family, was taken family on a visit to his son. Cadet into custody by the Qa^iberg County Elmer Grubb*, at West Point. another batter >ti * w a • * * ~ * »y if Vi*** I sheriff. I James Moore, at home WrA feSMfsjm kilt tfTVffe f he bit Wl.Vn hut fBrmerty been employed • from Forester Camy rr*- ; n -RmV with a pitihsd ^nal 1 . thru er *fkst iTmjrlsysa Trithsut S. C, saying that he and th as a section master on the Atlantic Coast Line, but f.r »ome time he and his wife had lived in Blackville. The body was returned there tonight. CulaHaatMw of Old Argument. Denmark. Aug. 9.—Henry WMson.' 46. ws a fatally shot at 6:30 o’clock this afternoon three miles from Den mark by J. D. Rhoad. 33, magistrate’s constable. Wilson died two hours , . . _ . . ,, , people wonJerin* why such reck ett- later at an Orangeburg hospital. The, , T* * . bui!«t k.. situii I nee. 1. flowed. . . Everybody suf- fenag from and complaining about ether boys fr m thi s county look forward eagerly each week to the visits of The People-Sentinel. The one copy go:ng to Reeve* Grubbs dees multip.e duty. A wood truck from the country be ing driven srvund “The Circle" so fast that the tires »creamed in protest, drivers of other vehicles being foired to give it a wide berth, and several Future Games. Thursday, August 17.—Bamberg at Barnwell Friday, August 18.—GraniteviUeat Barnwell. Tuesday, August 22.—Barnwell at Sylvania. Wednesday, August 23.—Barnw- 1 at ThoniAon. Barnwell baseball fans wh > acom- panied the dub to.Mil en Tuesday af ternoon were loud in their c-ndemhft* tion of the treatment accorded Gray son Wilfe, local pitcher, and Col. Sclcmon B att, manager of the club. Miilen fans, ^ i« charged, threatened No Extra Money for Repeal Registration All Supervisors Must Open Books for Dry Referendum Anyway, Blackwell Rules. Supervis:rs of registration in South Carolina counties apparently must keep registration books open for fif teen days in September for the pre- Another Homicide Occurs in County Next Step Mill Be Taken at South- ^ C. M. Rogers Dies from Knife Woaad Fight on Code Comes Back to Cotton Belt wide Meeting at Memphis Sept. 1 and 2. Columbia, Aug. 14.—The fight against proposea high ginning prices has been transferred from Washing ton back to the cotton belt a« direct Alleged to Have Been Inflicted by Garner Kitchings. hibition referendum without special result of the meeting of ccttcn farm ers held in Columbia last week. The next step in the efforts of the farmer* to save themselves from 'the $7.63 per bale price proposed in the national ginners code will be taken at a southwide meeting to be held at pay, W. P. Blackwell, secrefary of state, held last week. Mr. Blackwell made hi*, decision when informed cf a question raised by Scott M. Boyle, chairman of the Charleston board of registration, as to whether pay would forthcom- Memphis cn Sept. 1st and 2nd. ing for registerng voter 9 September J. Roy Jones, Commissioner of Ag- 4-19 as the State referendum act of r > c ulture of South Carolina protested 1933 prescribes. ’ against the proposal cf the ginners The secretary of state, who has | immediately following the ginners charge of election management, i conference at Memphis eaily in July studied the law in thi s teapect anil *hen they aiopted a code and sent it said he would write the Charleston- to Washington. Cotton farmers and isn that he could find no authority’in others in jthe State wrote Mr. J^nes it for ap^cial payment for the “off- endorsing his position and asking that yeai registration service. .'No Provision for Pay. “The legislature imposed the duty cf keep ng registration books open upon he continue the fight. After receiv* ing numerous letter* and telegrams from *11 part, of the State'Commis sioner JoifPf "pal'ed-« statewide meet- the supervisors cf regi*trati.>n with- > m* of farmer* and such inferma- ut additional pay, Mr. B mrkwell Lon a a he had gathered before them, aid, “just a* it poured additional du-^ * At the mert.ng a resolution^ was bullet entered his shall above the right eye and came out at the back of his head. The ahocting took ploc# near Rhoad's home on h-ghway 78, and waa the culmination oT an old argu ment. The two men engaged in nn a.tercation last Monday, it i a and renewed their quarrel today bo- for# the fatal sho ting. Rhoad. a farmer, has been a con stable for six months. Wilson, be fore he moved to Blackville recently. the intense heat. . , Arguments about the relative merits cf certain member* of Goorgia-Csrolina league clubs. . . A negro whose hair ap peared to have been cat by the simple expedient of inverting a bowl oa top of hi* head and cutting around the edges there.f. . . The editor of | The People-Sentme! wondering when ! those many delinquent subscriber* will start paying up. and hoping that •it won’t be long now" . . Mr. was a section foteman for the At-1 . .. ^ „ l«t* < n, r.ilro.d .Bd m.d. •#* M l' 0 G F “'“ "” hr r p ane for a vocation visit to Atlantic City, New York and other places of interest. . . A g.rgeout sunset hi a home at Denmark. Rhoad has been placed in the coun ty jail. and a brilliant double rainbow after the delightful shower of rain Sunday afternoon. Jury Holds Rhoad. Bamberg, Aug. 10.—The coroner's jury, inquiring into the death of Hen' ry WftSon.iOst night, ieday charged J. D, Rhoad with the h micide. Rhoad is no’w in- the county^ jail. The inquest wa s held this morning following Wil- ' - son’s death in an Oiangeburg hospi- Representative* from Barnwell. B*ro ta 1 last night soon after (he shooting cn highway 78, near Lees. Motor Truck Owners Will Meet August 21 berg. Allendale and Hampton Counties Expected. There were no eye witnesses to the tragedy. / fter the shot had been j fireii, Rhoad was seen by farm work- j ^ jo:nt meeting cf motor truck ers nearby standing, while Wilson was ovvner3 located in Barnwell, Bamberg, down. He was shot 7n the head one A.lendale and Hampt-n Counties will time, anj had evidently been clubbed ^ Allendale County Court with some instrument, a 3 the post H° us o Monday night, August 21, at moitem revealed several injuries, cne 1 o clock to formu.ate an qrganiza of which fractured Wilson’s skujl. Rhoad has made no statement of the affair. • • Wilson was formerly section mas ter for the Atlantic Coast Line at Hilda, and Rhoad 1$ a prominent farmer of Lees. The shooting occur red on-the paved highway some 200 by truckers, who unamimously yards from Rhoad’s home. j adopted the proposed code, which em- Wilson was about 45 and is sur-^bodies the same hour s fis apply to vlved by his widow.., Rhoad is several railroads. North Carolina truckers years younger. He is married and | began operating under the agreement has several children. It is said that : on August 7th and^ those located in there had been trouble between the Georgia are setting up enforcement two men before. tion to supervise the epetation tf the truckers’ code of fair competition, it- it has been announced by F. M. Burn ett, secretary of the South Carolina, mot: r truck owners association. Similar meetings held in other sec tions of the State were largely attend Baptist Church Services. „... - a organizations. The code will allow the truckers to work six day s of eight hours each, giving a 48-hou* week- For seven- The pastor is very happy to have day service the week may be 56 hi s friend and fellow-student of the Louisville Seminary, Alva L. Sn^ith, to speak for us Sunday. Mr. Smith lives in Louisiana and has been hold- . „ , .b ing revivals in Georgia. He, will re turn home next week, * Let us give tkis splendid young man a cordial reception. He, will bg with *us for both the morning and evening worship services. f hours. Minimum wages will be 30 cents an hour for drivers and 25 cents for helpers and clerical workers. Time and one-third i 8 allowed for overtime and provision is made on long haul s for a 16-hour day, pro vided the weekly total does not ex- Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Smith. ’ The pastor wishe s tq express sin- 10:30—Bible School. P. W. Price, cere thanks for the splendid spirit bf Superintendent Mdtafag, Worihip Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Smith. 7 >30, b- m.—B. Y. -P, U.—Mrs. L. M. Cave and J. M. Brodie, directors. 8:30—Evening Worship Service. cooperation shown during bur union gether have been a great help to each of us and desfes J t07 always work . in harmony with our felldw^Christians. H. H. Stembridge, Jr., Pastor Millenit*f having been given. ba»r* when they were hit* by the Barnwell pitcher. It is also *ai<J that Colonel Blatt was treated very discourteously and the fans who witnessed the dis gusting spectacle fiver forfetmg future game, to be p’ayed at Millen rather than risk the chance cf being mobbed. Fortunately, however, the season closes with no other Barnwell upon other Sta’e offic-alft^/pd passed saying-*83 5© p»r hah datf-a irmur*le f*»y -fau-pm* fur gaming.- Mr. June* waa increase*. requested and authorised to carry the “In my cpini n. there is qo provis- protest to the highest authorities and len in the referendum act under which name a committee to assist him. county board* of registration ran This committee is composed of D. B. draw special compensation for theirj Anderson, of Spartanburg, master of service* in collection with this elec- the State Grange; Neville Bennett, of ticn,** he concluded. ' Bennettsville, and Winchester C. The secretary cf state cited Section Smith, Jr., of Williston. 11 and 12 of the act in support of hi* At the close of the Columbia meet- decision. The flrst of these section* > n f Mr. Jones, with th* cooperation of Georgians wi.| com* her* f r mere contest before September 2nd. With Barnwell lending 7 to 2 in the fifth inning, Millen. with two men out. scored 7 run, to go out in frent and Anally iron. 10 to 7. The score: R H E Barnwell 023 020 000—*7 9 1 Millen .. 200 070 game scheduled there, although the | provide, “ThaP the sum of f10,000, iL Congressman Fulmer, arranged a so much be necessary, be. and the conference nt Washington with the same is hereby appr.priated to defray laadet* of th* agricultural adjustment the expenses of the election of the ‘ administration. This conference was delegates and of th* convention.” held at Washingt:a Friday and Mr. $19,990 for Poll. - Jones sng Mr. Bennett attended. At Alt reference to registration ex- ter listening to the South Carolinians pens* wa, omitted fr:m this section, th* administration spokesmen agreed | Mr, B nckwell pointed out. and the «r:th Mr. Jone t that there should bo Olx—10 11 3 next section, only other referring to • hearing held in the cotton belt be- Wolfe, Tr^mmerhauser, Gray and J.. finances, said: 'The delegates shah for* action was taken on th* preposed Gross; Gillespie, Davis and Moore- > be paid actual sxpenses incident to ginners cod*. It wse then that Mem I attending this ounty convention, to 1 phis w», selected as the place and Results cf other games played on b« furnished them by th* secretary of September 1 and 2 as the dates. Tuesday: Bamberg 1, Sylvania 0; * state out of fund* herein apqfopriat- “South Carolina farmer^ will b« Thomson 4. Allendale 0. ed.” represented at Memphis and it is our Granitevilie defeated Bamberg Sat ! Practically th* entire $10,000 ap- purpose present some interesting urday, 9 to 2, and Bamberg defeated . propriation will be necessary to fi- fact# regarding th* cost of ginning Allendale Monday, 1 <o 0. • I nance the Statewide poll cn prohibi-■ and the burden the cott-n farmers are Charles M. Rogers, 30-year old white farmer of the Dunbartqn sec tion of this county, died in the Aiken hospital Sunday, night from a knife wround on the right side of his neck and Garner Kitchings, alscworhite, wa s charged with the homicid^>y an Aiken County jury, Corcner T. G. Tarver having -held the inquest Mon day. The difficulty in which Rogers is alleged to have been cut occurred Sunday afternoon in the western part of Barnwell County, near Ellenton, and according to the testimony of Sheriff J B. Morris at the inquest, both men were apparently under the influence of whiaky at the time. The wounded man ws a carried to Ellen ton for medical attention and the wound w*, closed by Dr. Fred C. Brinkley, but he was in a critical con dition because cf the loss of blood. He was later taken to th* Aiken hos pital and died a few hour* later. _ Sheriff Morri s also testified at th* inquest that Rcgtrs told him that he was cut by Kitchings after the for mer’s car was wrecked in a collision vUfe a tgef, while Kitchings, It is underjL-od. contend* that Ragan jrma cut by the windshield of th* car srhea th* wreck occurred. Th* sheriff states that he found Kitchings a si sap near th* car and that th* front seat of th* msehin* was covered with bl od. He *s» unable, he said, to find any blood on the windshield or oa Kitchings* knife. Rogers also told his brother, 8. A. Rogers, that ha was cat by Kitchings Th* latter wa, arrested by Sheriff Morris Sunday af ternoon and lodged ia th* Barasvell County jail to»await the outcome ai Rogers* injuries. Rogers is * arrived by his wife sod on* small son. He was from Chester, Go^ but Dunbarton section a year or tw« ago. Kitchings, who is shoot 40 yoor fl of ago. also has s wifo and children. Thu two men lived about a aula tion repeal, the retary of state already bearing” Commissioner Jones said. He said he conferred with W.| announced here this week. The com- I T. Walker, clerk of the joint State mittee to w.rk with Mr. Jone, will Barnwell Wins Close Game. Six hit* off Overstreet gave Barn well a six-run lead in the first inn ; ng ' committee on pr nting snS estimated meet in the commissioner’s office of Wednesday’s Georgia • Car line *t ea.st $9,500 would be needed for here this week and map out plana in 'eague game, but Sylvan a came from ballot printing, postqgr, express, ad- behalf Jf the cotton farjjters. ^ behind in the seventh ta knot the vertisements and other expens?*. { At the Columba meeting last week count at six-all, when with a runn?er Mr. Walker said he planned tJ have the president of the ginner s organixa- on second, the'next batter hit a ball approximately ^00,000 ballots printed, tion in this State said a fode -had that bounced over the right field fence, He said 400.000 were printed for been prepared by STuth Carolina gin- the usitqiXoeing credited with a South Carolina primary elections, ners but did not name $7.63 per bale home run. • 225,000 for general elections. The or any other price. While in Wash- However, Duke came right back in vote in the referendum, he estimated, ington Mr. Jones io ked into the mat- the last half of the same frame to would run about 125,000, and ballots ter and says that “so far as I can park one ov£r the fence for the cir- twice the number of the estimated ieam the only propo-ed ginning code v;te usua'ly are prepared. before the Washington authorities is ■ 1 —- the one adopted at Memphis and it Carpenters carried the unreas nable price of cu : t, and the local, wort—7 to 6. Wilson relieved Overstreet in • the first with two down and held the only four well scattered hits being chalked against him. Langlev r?- whi’.e the best that the home boys at hi s mercy until the 7th, could do with ten hit, was to score^ $7.63 pdr bale for ginning, and in as a lone unearned tal'y when Yonce much as South Carolina ginners had threw wild to first with runner 4 on a representative at Memphis and ap- placed Gray in the first half of the •secohd and third. / Th? McDuffs not pearently, concur in the action taken seventh after the score had been tied, only won another Georgia-Carolina there the farmers of thi s Sta^e can dSylvania ..020 '020 200—6 13 2 league game but they won their, first not afford to sit quietly while the Barnwell __600 000 lOx—7 11 *1 victory in Barnwell. matter is going on and some day Overstreet, Wilson and Rhodes; It was a pretty pitchers’ duel fc* wake up to find the Memphis cede ap- Gray, Langley and J. Gross. seven innings, with the score 2 to 1 proved* price and all.” Results- of other game 3 played cn in favor cf the visitors, who- tallied “On* of the things I learned at Wednesday were as follows: Bam- three times in the eighth and put* the Washington was that the code pro- berg 1, Augusta 2; MiHen 0, Alien- game on ice. Barnwell had 10 men pose 8 that the glnner shall charge the dale 3; Granitevilie 4, Thomson lOw left on ba^e.* as compared with five farmers of South Carolina $1.25 for . i for Thomson, but the locals lacked bagging and ties. This i s outrageous, Thomsen Wins .6 to 1. the necessary punch when hits meant as bagging and ties for a bale of Although Barnwell outhit the runs - The Pl easure cf the & ame was cotton cost today only 55 cents. It Thom^mn McDuffs nn-Hw* Incallnt marred to some extent by’the contin- is time the farmers were taking action “ay afternoon,viaitorsmade u.1 “beefing” of the Ttunuon mana.;t„ protect their interest, and the -their nine safeties count for six runs Ker-and some supporters. ceed 48 hours. All operators of trucks, drays, and teams for hire come under the provis- ion s of the code and are expected to R 131—6 H 9 farmers of South Carolina are leading the way and will be heard from at Memphis in September,” declares Score by Innings Thomson -.000 100 Barnwell --0OQ 001 000—^1 10^.21 Commissioner Johes. Webb and Ford; Langley, Gray ' and J. Gross. Resultg of othe-r games, played on cooperate with it. Another group that will come ..under it are those persons Thursday were Sb follows: Augusta who conduct another line of business but who h'aul their godds to th* con sumer and charge the consumer for the houUng, Mr. Burnett said. **- Tha government will not treat wit^h , 2, Sylvania 6; Bamberg 2, Millen II;- Granitevilie 2, Allendale 0. Pitcher Wins ia Debut, ' * V * • -' - - Trcmerhauser, pitching his fii‘st individuals and to realize the full game for 'Barnwell on the local lot benefits of the Code, motor truck Friday afternoon, let Allendale down it affiliate themselves with with only five hits while he and his the South Carolina motor truck own- team "mates batting ■three risil Tromerhauser deserved a shutout vic tory, as Allendale’s lone tally was mc'de on Fitch’s error in the fourth with two men out. The score: , R H E -'Allendale 000 100 000— 1 5 .3 Barnwell 101 ,422 02x—12 1$ 1 Hargrove, Bobkhardt, ‘ Outz and Mitchell; Tromerhauser and J. Gross, Greer Results of other games played Fri fta.. fnlWa- Ramh^fg ,7 Three Small Negroee Are Burned to Death Children of Roths* Ford Lost Uvea Whoa Family DweHiag Waa Destroyed Thursday. Three small negroes, ranged from cne to five years, wars burned to death Thursday whea their parents’ dwelling was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin oa the faim cf O. D. Moore, near Sneiling. Their father, Robbie Ford, aod hia wife had gone to a nearby field to pick cotton and left the children alone in the house. It is thought that they were playing with .matches sad set the house on fire. As soon, as they saw the blaza, the frantic parents rushed to the scene, but arrived too late to save the three children, whose bodies were found la ter huddled together under a bed. The little victims were as follows: Rosa lie, age five yean; John Henry, four years, and Adam, age one ye An inquest was not considered nec essary. - . 1 f Boy Scouts to Go Camping. ers association or some other'organi- ing pitchers for a,total o? 16 safe- 1 Granitevilie- 3; Augusta 7, Thomson sation recognized by the national re- ties, agd the locals won an:ther Geor-' 2; ^Mil'en 6, Sylvania 6 (cal.ed *at covery administration. giarCarolina league game, 12 to 1. end cf 9th on account of darkness). ~ The Scouts will leave Monday or Tuesday for the scout camp near Sa vannah. The Savannah organization has kindly consented to let us uaa their camping grounds and have oa- surej us ample protection and leader ship, as several men from their Troops will be present to /help as. They will instruct our boys in seoat-^’ craft and we feel that this is a splen did opportunity. The Scout Council will -meet Thursday afternoon at 2:80 to discus s final plans. This commit tee is composed of Mr. Solomon Blatt, Mr. JL L. O’Bannon, Mr. T. M. Boulware, Mr. P. W. Price and Dr. A. T. Russell. Mr. W. W. Carter, an other member, is out of town. The Masonic Lodge i s backing this organ ization. ’ . . it The boy s are asked to meet at 8:00 o’clock at .the Bgptist Church. • . ' H. H. Stembridge, Jr., i -J&RLllifoTi,.,., .-V.' v << “7- ** Mrq. W. A. Holman and Mrs. A. C. Woodruff, of Anniston, Ala., hmm been recent guests of Col. and tfio. , N. G. W. Walker.