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rv>v * *.c* _ . / rX '' . ^ ?i|p Sambwg Ifmlb $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 15,1922. Established in 1891. Weather Favors Growing Crops For the past several weeks the weather has been about all that the farmers have not desired, and the result has been a general atmosphere of pessimism about the outcome of the 1922 crops. To begin with the spring weather was not favorable for planting purposes, and then the rains set in with fury, continuing until a week ago with a more or less general nature. cmm infests nracticallv every field, and the planters are having the time ; of their lives fighting "General , Green/' but the hot days and fair weather now favor the planters and excellent work is being put in everywhere. ? One farmer stated Sunday that his corn had the appearance Qf having grown several inches since the preceding I^iday; the color had changed from a sickly yellow to a vigorous {green, and the plants were in a generally healthy condition. Cotton?a strictly hot and dry weather plant?has taken on new life, and is growing rapidly, especially where cultivation has been possible during the past several days. The old adage that cotton does not grow until one cannot sleep at night is doing the work for the cotton crop now, for, verily, one has .difficulty in securing enough breeze at night to enter into slumberland. m ? What is pleasing the planters more, perhaps, than anything else is the fine hot sunshine, for the opinion generally prevails that this is the best boll weevil poison to be h?d. The v "bug" authorities all agree that the weevil cannot thrive when the sand becomes hot.. The weevil punctures a Vsquare," which falls to the ground a few days later. This square contains eggs or "grubs," andvthe eggs trrnho have small chance of ever %?XX\A. 0? reaching maturity in the hot sand, especially when it is possible to cul tivate rapidly to that the top soil keeps hot. > The rains have been rather peculiar in this county, as well as in this part of the state. Some sections, we are informed, have not been visited by a great excess of rain, while others > have been literally' washed away. "While .some planters have been able to do a little cultivation all along, some others have not been able to put a plow in the ground for several weeks. Thus, . many farmers find their farms eaten- up with grass; some of them will perhaps never be sble to clean the crops out, and this -Brill necessarily cause much hard ship. Fortunately this condition does not prevail all over this section. Visitors to other parts of the state also say that this' section is well fav* ored compared to some other coun^ ties; that the rajns have not been as excessive, and that crops generally are better tiian the average. All in all,xBamberg county farmers are "looking up." There is not present the same discouraging appearance \ as was noticed a couple of weeks ago. The fact that the authorities all say that June and July weather will determine in large measure the success of the 1922 cotton crop, coupled with the fine weather now prevailing, is most encouraging. . r " Seegars-Cain. V. McBee, June 11.?The lfome of Mrs. J. W. Seegars was the scene of a very simple but impressive wedding Thursday afternoon when Miss Corinne Seegars became the bride of Dr. * Herman Earl Cain. The Rev. R. R. Tucker, pastor of the bride, performed the ceremony, at which only the near relatives of the couple were : present. The living room was taste1 * fully decorated with pot plants and cut flowers. The bride and bridegroom entered alone to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march. The bride's striking beauty was enhanced ^ - by her traveling suit of midnight blue crepe with accessories to match. After the ceremony the couple left for a short bridal trip, after which they will be at home to their friends in . McBee. > The bride is the youngest daughter of . Mrs. J. W. Seegars and is one of the most popular of McBee's younger set. She is a young woman of un^ usual charm and beauty and her friends are delighted that her marriage will not take her away from MoBee. The bridegroom is a successful > pharmacist, having come to McBee from Denmark only a few months ago, and is a young man of sterling .character and business ability. >, ^ V Flyer s Harrowing Experience in Swamp Arcadia, Fla. June 11.?Treed by a panther and compelled to spend the greater part of the night in the branches of a large cypress ip the urilHo nf tVio hio- nvnrPSS country; ?f V & W*iv r- ? ? devoured by mosquitoes, his clothes torn to tatters by the cruel teeth of the giant sawgrass of the south Florida swamps; without food for nearly forty-eight hours?these were among the exeperiences of Cadet Raymond White, Carlstrom Field aviator, whose plane crashed in the wilds of southeastern Lee county last Thursday about noon, and who returned to the flying field this afternoon intone of the planes that had searched for him since last Thursday. Cadet White, whose home is at Pritchett, Texas, was making a practice flightrfrom Carlstrom Field to Okeechobee City and return last Thursday. The first part of the trip was completed without incident and Cadet White, flying alone, started on the return trip, becoming turned around and losing his bearings and his sense of direction completely almost as soon as he started. Instead of flying northwestwardly, White headed his plane almost due south. When at a point about forty miles southeast of Immokalee, Lee county, his fuel tank ran dry and his plane crashed. The plane was completely wrecked, but White escaped injury. He stayed with the wrecked plane until the sun had sank far enough to give him his direction. Then White started to walk toward the northwest, looking for signs of human habitation but finding none. With his clothing torn to tatter3, bitten almost beyond endurance by the swarms of mosquitoes in the edge of the big cypress and he prepared to spend the night under a tree. During the night one of the huge panthers that infest that remote section chased the aviator into the branches of the tree, and there he remained until daylight drove the beast away. Continuing his tramp, foodless and with only the swamp water to quench his thirst, young White was picked up Friday evening, about 5 o'clock by a Seminole Indian and was taken to the camp of a small band of the Southern Seminoles. There he spent the night, proceeding Saturday to another camp several miles distant. On the way two of the searching planes from Carlstrom were sighted, but gether for a short distance until Mr. his Seminole guide were not seen and the planes passed on. Saturday afternoon the aviator and his Indian guide reached Kennedy Carson's ranch, where the night was passed and White had the first meal of a white man's grub he had eaten since Thursday morning. Early this morning Carson started with White in a buckboard -for Immokalee. On the way another of the searching planes was sighted and Carson and Whit.e. siznallina. attracted the at tention of the ^fliers, and the planes made a landing. White was taken aboard and the plane made the return flight to Carlstrom Field, reaching there shortly before dark this evening. White suffered no ill effects of his harrowing experience beyond a myriad bites of mosquitoes, the fright caused by the visit of the panther and the exhaustion of his walk, in which he covered at least fifty miles - " ? ???-4 in onntli OTnriHa OI CLlfc! worst tllUUlj xix ouuxu x ivi iuu. Four big De Haviland planes, requested by Commandant Royse, of Carlstrom Field, from Montgomery, Ala., arrived at the field about 5 o'clock this evening. The planes left Montgomery at daylight this morn-* ing and made the trip of approximately six hundred miles without difficulty. ATTEMPT TO ROB OFFICE. Thieves Fail to Make Entrance at Barnwell. v Barnwell, June 11.?An unsuccessful attempt was made one night thic week to rob the county treasur er's office at Barnwell, a crowbar or some such instrument being used in V an effort to pry open the doors. Although one lock was partly broken and the screws holding the other were torn loose from the woodwork, it is not believed that the would-be thief effected an entrance, as nothing whatever was disturbed inside of the office. The supposition is that he was frightened away before completing the job. Renew your subscription today^ Enrollment Books Are Now Open The club books for the enrollment of Democratic voters are now open at tJhe respective places heretofore advertised in The Herald. Under the rules of the party the books were opened for enrollment on Tuesday of last week, and will remain open until July 25, at which time they will be closed. The county chairman has made an appeal to the women voters to enroll on their club books, so that they will be enabled to vote in the primary elections. The first campaign meeting will be held on July 14, and the time for filing pledges as candidates will expire at 12 o'clock noon on July .13. Very few candidates have as yet filed their pledges. The following gentlemen comprise the enrollment committees througlhout the.couhty.and Che places of keeping the enrollment books are stated for each club; see that your name 'is properly enrolled at once: Bamberg?J. C. Kearse, R. M. Hitt, and W. D. Rowell?books of enrollment to be kept in the auditor's office. Denmark?J. Arthur Wiggins, Miss Lilly Cooper, R. A. Easterling?books of enrollment to be kept at the bank of Denmark. x Edisto?H. E. Warren, F. A. Byrd, T TXT + Knnlro nf onrnllmont ti vv *y cuoici uuuao vi vaim*vmv to be kept at the home of J. W. Webster. Ehrhardt?J. E. McMillan, G. J. Herndon, and H. W. Chitty?books of enrollment to be kept at the drug store of Copeland & Farrell. Govan?S. S. Williams, J. E. Kennedy, W. A. Hay, Jr.?books of enrollment to be kept at W. A. Hay's store. Hunter's Chapel?A. W. Hunter, J. G. Rhoad, and F. E. Steedly?rbooks of enrollment to be lsfept at the store of A. W. Hunter. Kearse?H. A. Kearse, J. 0. Ritter, and L. M. Ayer?books of enrollment to be kept at the home of H. A. Kearse. Lees?C. M. Cox, J. W. Grimes, and H. B. Grimes?books of enrollment to be kept at the store of H. B. Grimes. - . Little Swamp?J. M. Strickland, J. C. Goodwin, and Q. H. Miley?books of enrollment to be kept at the home of J. C. Goodwin. Midway?Q. H. Sandifer, J. P. OQuinn, and J. Y. Hicks?books of enrollment to be kept at the store of Q. H. Sandifer. . Springtown?M. J., Free, G. W. Warren, and G. Marion McMillan? books of enrollment to be kept at the residence of the secretary, R. L. TT ? \ rv.c<tisc. . Olar?G. M. -Neeley, Dr. L. A. Hart-1 zog, and H. F. Starr?books of enrollment to be kept at the R. &. H. Drug Store. Colston?C. M. Varn, G. W. Kearse, and W. P. McMillan?books of enrollment to be kept at the residence of C. M. Varn. Hightower's Mill?L. W. Abstance, C. J. Creech, and J. W. Hightower? books of enrollment to be kept at the residence of L. W. Abstanoe. Embree?L. C. Kissam, R. F. Carter, and S. E. Lingard?books of enrollment to be kept at the office of the Edisto River Lumber company. KILLED WHILE HOLDING BABY. Anderson Man Shoots His Brother. Whiskey Blamed. Anderson, June 12.?Peter Shaw, thirty-six, was shot and killed hy his brother, Eugene Shaw, at the home of their parents near Anderson this morning. Witnesses at an inquest held by the coroner told of an unusual killing, where one brother shot down another brother who was standing in yard holding 'his little baby in his arms. Three different stories were told by witnesses at the inquest, but all agreed that Peter Shaw was shot by his brother Eugene Shaw, who was standing 1l the hack door of his house where he did the shooting. Mrs. Shaw, wife of Peter Shaw, testified that she was in about one hundred yards of the house, when the shooting occurred, and immediately ran to the house. She found Shaw lying on the ground. She volunteered the ir jrmation that the ! cause of the shooting was whiskey and said that Peter Shaw had told her that he owed Eugene Shaw money for whiskey and that Eugene said he would not let him 'have more whis key because of Mrs. Shaw, whom he said, had "more mouth than sense." Shaw is being held at Anderson county jail. ) Anderson Couple Taken to Woods Anderson, S. C., June 8.?Robert W Qlnllivan conro+arv nf fhp Orr Cotton Mills, and Miss Ruby Floyd were kidnapped from an automobile in front of the young woman's home here late tonight, by a band of masked men who "gave them a lecture" as they described it, and dropped them in the woods some three miles out of town. The man was warned not to be seen in Miss Floyd's company again, he tnlrl thp r>n1ir>P hilt hp. Hp nied reports that had reached them that he had been beaten. He and Miss Floyd and the latter's mother, Mrs. Ada Floyd, informed police that the men were dressed in regalia resembling that of the Ku Klux Klan and Miss Floyd asserted she was positive one of the men was a negro. The couple said they would be unable to identify any of their abductors. Sullivan, who is about thirty-one years of age, was recently taken in custody at Miss Floyd's home but no charge was made against him. A charge of "disorderly conduct" was made against her, however, as a result of remarks attributed to her Sv* n rrrif V? Q Y1O^Vl ViHT* ill a tuuicioaviuu ti hu u who had complained to the police. She is about eighteen years old. The masked band came up tonight in two automobiles and four men put Sullivan in one machine while three took Miss Floyd in the other and rapidly left town. Police were informed by Miss Floyd but the only clue they had until the couple made their way back to town was the marks of a struggle around the cars. They were unable to ascertain* which way the cars went. / MASKED MEX ARE ACTIVE. Another Anderson Man Taken Oyt and Warned. Anderson, June 10.?Verification of reports received here that a band of masked and white-robed men, about thirty in number, seized Ollie Crompton," Anderson county farmer, residing near Williamston, some sixteen miles from this city, Thursday night, taking him to a point near the boundary line of Anderson and Greenville counties, where it is alleged "ho was severelr beaten and cau tioned by members of the party to cease dealing in whiskey, was made today by Chief of Police E. M. Patterson, of Williamston. \ Chief Patterson stated that he has been unable to apprehend members of the band. Senators for Bonus. Washingt<yi, June 10.?Informal canvasses made by leading opponents of the soldiers' bonus bill were said today to have disclosed a senate majority for the measure of practically three to one. This compares with the nearly five to one vote by which the Kill nacspd thp house. Both sides in the impending fight were understood to have found somesatisfaction in the result of the canvasses. Opponents said defeat of any cloture rule to limit debate on the bill practically was assured, while some proponents pointed out that if a three to one majority could be held there would be the necessary votes to pass the measure over President Harding's veto, should he disapprove it, as some opponents contend that he will, if passed in its present form. Thirty senators were listed as definitely against the amended house bill, with this number possible to be aug mented by one senator who is absent from Washington and whose position has not yet been definitely established. The thirty senators were divided twenty-one on the Republican side and ten on the Democratic side. A number of senators who are counted now as supporters of the present bill if no different^one can be put through will join in a fight to amend the measure reported by the finance committee. Some of them favor a cash feature with other important changes, but the extent to which it will be possible to change the pending bill is regarded now as problematical. But He Shells Out. Willie had been reading The American Weekly. "Pop," he asked, "what are Bursts and Duds?" "Duds, Willie," explained pop, "are what your mother orders from the department store. The bursts occur when I get the bills." 4 Death Sentence Given to Bighan % * Florence, June 9.?Judge S. W. G Shipp in the sessions court here thi; afternoon refused to grant Edmunc D. Bighara a new trial and sentence< him to be put to death in the electrii Chair July 14. Bigham was convicted of murder 11 connection with the killing of hi: brother, Smiley Bigham, and is in dieted for murder also for the death: of his mother and sister and the lat ter's two adopted Children. Th< wholesale murder took place on th< Bigham plantation in January, 1921 Bigham was tried in March of las year. The supreme court dismissec the appeal and Righam's atttorney: sought a new trial on the ground o after discovered evidence which, the: declared, tended to show that Smile: and not Edmund Bigham did the kill ing. It is not thought the case wil end here. Unabashe^. by the sentence o death, Bigham argued with the cour this afternoon before hundreds o spectators for the privilege of saying "Some things I would like to tel now, as this may be my last chanc< to speak before these people." Th< court replied that "depended on hov long you will take to tell them." Thei as in afterthought, the court added "You might as well tell it, though." Abuses State Witness. Immediately the doomed mai Dounced UDon Philip H. Arrowsmith local attorney, who was an importan witness in the connection of Bighan for the wholesale murder. , "I woufd have liked to have seei Mr. Arrowsmit'h here," he said, ii opening. "I would like to have hin standing right here," indicating th< center of the court room. "I woul( tell the reason Arrowsmith accusec me right to his?" Whatever he intended to have sai< probably will never be spoken, foi the fcourt stopped him summarily witl the reminder he was not up there to make a speech but to state any lega reason he might have why sentence of death should not be passed upoi him. "I never studied law," said Big ham, beginning on the line which th< court had indicated he must follov in his discussion. "I am ready t( meet my God and am not guilty. Th( reason I am convicted is because o: the falsehoods which have been pilet up against me. I may nave to cue. 11 fact, that's what I am up here ir this prisoner's dock for now. It's 'hard to die for something one did noi do. "Jesus Christ had to die so. He prayed for the night to pass fron Him. The people who testified againsi me and stuck out,to have me killec did it. Pleads for Himself. "If I knew the law, maybe I coulc state some reason why I should hav< a new trial?one more chance. No on* knows it alL except God and myself If there's aiy way you could giv* me another trial, just one day mor* in court, I would appreciate it. Th* state 'has four other cases against me I never had a fair trial. The verdici of that trial stands against me." Bigham repeatedly avowed his in nocence and as often averred that in nocent blood would be shed when h( was executed. v "I worked hard and laid by some means," he said in the earlier part oi his statement to the court. "But foi my property, no one ever would hav* accused me. _ But they know thai when the juice is turned onto me it'll be money in their pockets." Thereafter he likened himself fc St. Paul, to JOhn, the Baptist, and tc /-tltt:if oTT fhotr hlnnrt havin? vill lM Xlliliocii) an buvn i/iWM . ?w been shed innocently. "But I'll ris< in glory with them." "* * He challenged the state to confronl him, even When he will be buckled into the death chair in the penitentiary in Columbia, with one persor who can truthfully say that he evei did him a single wrong or injury. Letters Do Not Impress. A. L. King, the attorney for the defense, betrayed far more emotion ir conducting the hearing than Bigham T-rincr impressed c v ci maaiicoibu. ?x* . >?~0 * his audience deeply that he does believe Bigham is an innocent inan. But the facts presented by the solicitor L. M. Gasque, weighed aganst him, Considering the letters and signatures, which were alleged to have been written by Smiley, for whose murder Edmund is sentenced to die to Edmund while the latter was ir Georgia, the court stated frankly he doubted their authenticity. He prac tieally as good as said they were Warrenville Man Kills Wife's Keeper \| Birmingham, Ala., June 9.?"I killed in defense of my home." g This was the statement Thursday T> tr T r> n /-> OA tt. Vi ~ J ui x . v. x^aiic, ov, w iiu vv cuucauajf j night fired six shots into the body ? of John Foland, of Alexander City, Ala., killing him instantly. x The death of Foland followed 3 ony a few days after a dramatic reconciliation of Lane and his 19-year3 old wife. Lane recently came to Birmingham 3 from Warrenville, S. C., where he 3 was a cotton mill operative seeking news of his wife who had been misst ing for two weeks. I Newspapers were appealed to in an a effort to locate her. f Lane said his wife while on her 7 way to Augusta, Ga., from Manoula, 7 Mo., became stranded in Birmingham _ and wired for money. "There had 1 been a big cyclone at Warrenville,and I could not raise the money that f day. When I wired her later, she I had disappeared. I spent weeks f searching for her and my two year old baby." t Coming to Birmingham, Lane toid a his story to the newspapers. The next 3 day he announced that his wife had ' 7 communicated with him. and that they \ x j were going to Warrenville. After the shooting Lane told the nolice and coroner that he found his wife had been accosted by'John Fo- / 1 land, while stranded here, and that Foland took her to a hotel where he ^ virtually kept her a prisoner. 1 He declared he met Foland and persuaded him to go to his home where Mrs. Lane identified him. "Is that the man?" Lane.said he 1 asked. <1 a "Yes," his wife is said to have anj swered. j Lane then opened fire with two revolvers, six shots taking effect, it is j alleged. r "Justifiable homicide. Go . on 1 home." This was the announcement of Coroner J. B. Russum, following j conclusion ^ of an ina_,uest at which a Mrs. P. V.'Lane, 19 years old, haif J told how her husband killed John'Foland, of Alexander City, Ala. .\ j [ BOOTLEGGER PICKS WRONG MAN. 7 Mayor of Camden Agrees to Purchase J "-i n-11 T??H T.ntnnil ?>Ul r uutc iii9tcau> ( i . Wigf P . Camden, June 10.?Mayor H. G. j Carrison, Jr., turned a clever trick l this morning. A^stout, well dressed 4 t man, who gave -his name as Ward, 5 called upon him at the Bank of Caml den, where Mr. Carrison is the cashier, and told him that his name had ^ been given' him by a friend who t thought he would like to buy some t ,Scotch whiskey. Mr. Carrison an1 swered in the affirmative and told him he had a friend who would like to get some, and invited him to go with , him. They walked up the street to i.? e ~v. YTt. j geeitsr iur <x suun uisiauv>c uuvu iui } Carrison located a policeman and called the officer. The alleged vender ' of Scotch wares asked him if he were [ going to put a policeman on him. ^ iMr. Carrisqn told him that was exactly what he was going to do for him; ^ that he was the mayor of this town. Ward started running the officer right behind him. As he reached DeKalb street Ward called to a confederate s in a car to move on. Sheriff Welch happened to be crossing the street j at the time and caught Ward and f he was taken in charge by the police. man and locked up. He said he was > from Aiken. His confederate was J caught in Columbia. Officers will go to Columbia and bring him back and . the two will be tried here in the cir) cuit court. These fellows did not } fare as well as one did here a, few r days ago who went around quietly j and took some orders and received the cash for the goods and then left ^ for parts unknown. Mr. Carrison ^ is being congratulated by his friends for the clever part he played in turnL ing up these fellows. frauds and forgeries. Bigham began to show the strain of the trial for*his life when the so licitor in the afternoon took the floor i to argue against giving him a new i trial on the alleged after discovered I evidence. First, he turned almost livid white. Later, under the stress i of taking the sentence of death, he , turned ashen in color. As the judge . pronounced the date of execution, his - jaw dropped. As the case wore on, J evidently with diminishing hope for > the defense, Bigham seemed to take , on a desperate, haunted look. i /t was the first betrayal of any feel> ing in the matter that has escaped him, in words or appearance, since i the,trial more than a year ago. i