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CHESNEE BANK REPORT WITHOUT FOUNDATION RECRUITING ADS ARE DESTROYED. Boston Crowd Storms Office and Tears and Tramples Banners from Standards. Boston, Jan. demonstration on Boston Common in which coast guard recruiting posters destroyed an unexpected aftermath today of meeting historic Faneuil hall called in prothe killing of three rum test Rhode Island waters runners Sunday by coast guardsmen. The petty officer charge the station was unable crowd. The posters stem torn their metal trampled, and the torn bent and ancient rafters of Faneuil The echoed charges that in forcement the tion faces form oppresThe Rhode Island killings sion. referred the 'Newport compared with the massacre" the first bloodBoston massacre, the independence. The coast guard was accused blooded killing brutal of wounded the treatment deaths the three rum runners. resolution adopted unanimouswhich filled called President hall upon Hoover for impartial follows part: gation. Liberty Destroyed. the of such "By practices the governmental cident (the shooting runners) described the rum but the destrucnothing liberties for which our the fought, which fathers have bled from the time the great charter. asserting the guilt are guard believe the coast attitude the government taken will justly the that give tempt being made to suppress the facts act worst this for the enforcement unpopular, unnecessary stupid which no proper constitution of place which all intelligent nation and know can never be forced." Conrad W. the Liberal Civic council for league which called the protest meeting and which had into the shootdenied that the rum runners to that escape were given any the coast guard boat before with opened machine Crooker said his investigation showed the men shot down from pointblank feet their range the Black Duck, ceeding four miles hour dense fog and headed directly toward the The instead being in pursuit, the stern, Bumpling Rock the time. Charges Cowardice. He Boatswain Cornell, skipper the and was afraid board the Black Duck Charles Travers, wounded survivor her crew, brought alongside the coast guard craft. were left to welter and die their blood," was the aboard the said, finally in sponse to Travers' pleas, went aboard the Black Duck help him with the three dead dying Crooker claimed that if the guardsmen had taken the quicker, Weisman's life might have been saved. John W. lass said runners "outrageously promised forward an investigation Washington. Shoots Greenville, condition Wells, veteran clerk of the city of Greenwho pistol wound his chest in his private office city hall today, remained tonight, according to taches the City ployees the offices, hearing pistol shot followed Wells' private early today, find the slumped in chair his desk pistol right hand. audit of the annual procedure, started yesterday. Institution Open and Doing Business as Usual Friday, Inquiry Reveals. Reports circulated here yesterday the effect that the Bank Chesnee had failed open business proved to without foundaInquiry Chesnee developed the fact that the bank doing business usual. Hall, Chesnee business Mr. and Hall of Gaffney, said there had been small the bank two three ago, following the closing banks Spartanburg, but the Chesnee stitution had trouble meeting demands. confidence the stability the bank, and understand how such report circulated here had been started.
