The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, April 13, 1921, Image 3
JRANO TWN SELP
Dr. Bockwitb, Syracuse Professor,
Shoots Da- Wharton. Commits
'SuUide.
ayacuse, N. Y., April 2.-Dr.
holmes Beckwith, educator, former
United States army lieutenant 'auli
California bank examiner, who shot
and killed his sulperior, Dean John
Herman Wharton at Byracuse Uni
versity this moining before , commit
ting suicide himself was probably in
sane as a result of chagrin over los
Ing his posi'tionk here, according to
statements made by the authorities
and chancellor James R. Day of the
Univeisity laite tonight. That Beck
with had premeditated suicide has
Ibeen clearly established, the instruc
tor having left several letters show
ing 'his intention in that respect. At
first It mwns believed cthat Dr. Whar
ton had been killed in an unsuccess
ful attemp to prevent Beckwith's
suicide but this theory has now been
cast aside. Coroner S. 1llis Crane,
District Attorney F1rank Maypass and
Chancellor Day are all agreed in the
helief .that Dr. Wharton was shot
following an argument, when Deck
with presented a letter in answer to
'Warton's notification that the Uni
versity would -have no further need
of Beckw'ith's service at the close of
college in June. Five bullets were
found in Dr. Wharton's body, Indi
cating that Beckwith had made sure
nis superior twas dead before he
turned the revolver upon himself.
Dean Wharton was in his thirty
second year an had been instructor
at Syracuse University since his grad
uation eight years ago.
.-He was made dean of the College
of Business Administration two years
ago and Beckwith was one of the
Instructors under him.
ileckwith had been the brunt of
several jokes by the college student
body during the last year. He hid es
tablished the practice of locking the
doors of the classroom at the time
the classes were due to begin and
would not admit tardy pupils.
He was strict in his disctpline and
In the matter of time devoted to his
classes and lie had some peculiaritlec
which made him more or less a vic
tim for students' pranks and he wa*
decidely unpopular witlh them. It IE
claimed they circulated a petition tol
his discharge last .fall.
University authorities had convincee
themselves that Beckwith was a lia
bility rather than an asset and lasi
Monday he received his notification t<
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unusually harmonious blending
cal andl entertalmnent ability.
humiorous impersonations by C
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look elsewhere for a teaohing jsign
nient nest fallP: .' Pmotted 6utt-im
agrunuents were without avail. Friday
night, it has 'been established, 'e spent
hoUrs in Iris room .writiag 'lettors, one
of which was addressed to Dean Whar
ton. It was a- lengthy document say
ing among otber things:
"A corpered rat wilj fight."
BANKERS STUDY COTTON TRADE
Relief Expected to Follow Soon. Meet
in Conference.
New Orleans, April 9.-Relief of the
cotton situation in- the South through
substantial financial assistance of the
war corporation -was expected to 'be
brought about shortly in the opinion
of representatives of the war finance
corporation, Federal International
Banking company and the federal re
serve sbank of Atlanta, who tonight an
nounced after an all day consultation
that they would meet again in Atlanta
the latter part of .this month to take
action along those lines.
The Federal International Banking
company's headquarters here will se
cure from the 1,800 -members of the
corporation recently organized under
the Edge act, data and statistics touch
ing all angles of the cotton trade.
These statistics will be indexed and
studied at the Atlanta meeting after
which it was expected definite plans
will be idade for organization under
the Webb-Pomerene act of a company
able to finance and move cotton.
The meeting here today was ,presid
ed over by R. S. -Hest, a director of the
Federal International Banking con
pany. Among those active in the dis
cussion of cotton relief iplans, were
Eugene Meyer, Jr., managing director,
and Dwight F. Davis, a director of the
war finance corporation, and M. B.
Welborn, governor of the Atlanta fed
eral reserve bank. All directors of the
New Orleans branch of the Atlanta
bank also were .present.
Cotton exporters of the South will
be called upon to have representa
tives at tl~e Atlanta meeting, it wac
announced. Mr. Meyer in explanatior
of the views of the war finance corpor
ation stated the best results for th<
South would 'be accomplished by th(
proper spirit of cooperation among
cotton exiporters and bankers, acting
in conjunction with the Federal Inter.
national Banking company.
LBoth Mr. Meyer and Mr. Davis as.
sured the bankers that any .practica
plan of cooperation devised by th<
bankers and exporters would mee
with the hearty cooperation of th
,war finance corporation.
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of the coming Rtedpathi Chiautauquia wvi:
Quartet. TVhe organization is notable
of exceptional solo voices, and for rarc
Quartet mudec ci' the higijest type as
harles Cox, manager of te company,
ful.
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Children
UR FAMILY, I\
,,%%o n~eoting here today was for the )
purose of continuing the Soussi6n I
of the cotton export situation which 1
was taken up at the recent Washing
ton conference 'with (Herbert Hoover.
ARKANSAS ROAD SCANDAL
Many People In Bad Fix as Result of
Confiscatory Taxes.
VWriting from Little Rook, Ark., -a
staff correspondent of the New York
Times reports 'that "thousands of Ar
kansas land owners are today facing
financial ruin as the result of the en
actment of series of so-called good
road laws." He quotes Governor 'Mc
Rae, the ne'W executive, as declaring
that "this road businesa has turned
out 'to be 'the greatest disaster that
has ever befallen the (people of Ar
kansas."
The ambitious good roads scheme
enacted in Arkansas was given wide
and generally favorably publicity, on
its Initiation under an earlier state
administration, The Now York Times
was prompted to investigate its pres
ent conditions .by reports reaching
Washiagton to the effect that Arkan
sas land owners were in many in
stances being taxed "in the name of
good roads almost to the point where
the levies amounted to practical con
fiscation of the property." It was
added that the federal Bureau of
Highways had withhold a large part
of the federal allotment of good roads
money to Arkansas pending revision
of the state road laws.
After visiting counties in eastern,
central and western Arkansas, the
Times correspondent reports that
I"evidence of the truth of the reports
that came to Washington was every
where easy to obtain. Mortgages were
executed which -were filed 'within the
last ten days-mortgages -given as se
curity for money to pay road taxes
that in some instances amounted to
approximately 10 per cent of the to
tal value of little farms and homes
worth less than $1000.00 lie cites,
among other specimens, the case of
"a widow whose total gross income
was less than $4,000 and whose road
tax, due the tenth of next month, is
$2,800. . . Millions of dollars,"
he adds, "have been expended on roads
that in the judicially expressed opin
lon of Assistant Justice Hart of the
State Supreme court, 'begin nowhere
and end nowhere."
Governor McRae was elected, we
are told, on a platform pledging re
form of the road laws, but charges
that his efforts to secure remedial leg
islation have been 'blocked by the op
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oositiqon of the state senate, contain
ig manf "holdover" members. This
showing that the affair has a jolitica,
%mgle warns outside dbservers to De
.autious in forming -their judgments
ipon charges and statements made
by parties to the quarrel. But the
assertion of an outside Pnvestigator
regarding the results of' the Arkan
3as road scheme in terms both of
roads and of taxation challenges the
attention of good roads enthusiasts
everywhere--and iparticularly in the
South.
The .plight of Arkansas, even it it Is
as 'bad as described, need not and
should not discourage the good roads
movement. But very certainly it em
phasizes the need of caution, careful
study and constructive planning both
for road taxation and road construc
tion. Arkanass Is neighbor to -Louis
lana; her experience can 'be studied to
our own advantage and profit in this
matter of good road development.
BALLOON FOUND
FLOATINO IN GULF
Mystery of Navy Not Yet Explained.
Pensacola, April 9.--The finding of
the naval baloon A-5604 missing from
the air station here with five men since
March 22, has not explained the mys
tery of the balloon's flight over the
gulf nor the fate of the missing men,
naval officials said tonight. The wreck
of the balloon was found floating in the
gulf about 50 miles due south of Pana
ma City and 26 1-2 miles southwest of
Calpe San Bias at 7 o'clock Friday
night, but it was 4 o'clock this morn
ing before Captain Ecker of the fishing
smack 10lectra sailed into Panama City
with the 'balloon aboard his vessel.
The basket was about 18 feet un
der the surface, according to Captain
Ecker. The fishing schooner sighted
the Balloon about a mile distaince but
took it first for another smack in dis
tress. On closer approach, however,
Captain Ecker recognized the derelict
as the missing 'balloon and immediate
ly hastened to take it abroard.
Naval offlicials are unable to under
stand why Chief 'Wilkinson, who was
an old and accomplished flier and
dirigible .balloon pilot, did not cut
loose the basket and climb with his
companions into the load ring in order
to gain altitude in an effort to tay
in the air long enough to drift ashore.
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