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BANK CLOSED; TO
BE LIQUIDATED |
Columbia, S. C., Nov. 14.?The
Mutual Savings Bahfc of Bennettsville,
of which Thomas B. McLaurin
is Dresident, will liquidate and go
out of business, according to a statement
issued Saturday by James H.
Craig, State Bank examiner.
Immediately after Mr. McLaurin
disappeared a few days ago, the
bank was closed and an examination
of the records ordered. Mr. Craig
emphasized that the bank is solvent
and that if the family of Mr. McLaurin
will make good "alleged securities
and hidden liabilities" the ^
depositors could be paid in full. Mr.
McLaurin is said to be in a sanitarium
in Asheville, where he was taken
]
after being located in Atlanta. Mr.
Craig conferred with Attorney General
Wolfe Saturday relative to the
appointment of a receiver for the
bank, which is capitalized at $25,000.
Mr. McLaurin was also presi1
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cuit judge will be asked next week j
to name the receiver. Mr. Craig's j1
statement follows:
"I have applied through the attorney
general for a receiver for the !
Mutual Savings Bank of Bennettsville.
Examination of the affairs of
I
of the bank discloses that the bank
was carrying as securities to loans ,
cotton certificates of the Bennetts- .
ville Warehouse that were either bogus
or worthless. In addition the
president had made large personal ,
obligations for his own account with
banks and parties which he endorsed
as president of the bank but con- ,
cealed from the bank's liabilities
Aside from worthless securities
pledged in the form of warehouse
certificates ?nd concealed personal j
liabilities of the president, the bank I
was found solvent. These, however, I
were of such proportions that the I
examiner with the approval of the
director decided to close and liquidate
the institution. If the president
and his family should make good the
alleged securities and hidden liabilities
the depositors could be paid in
full." I
RALEIGH MAN FINED
$500 FOR WHIPPING
HIS STENOGRAPHER
Raleigh, Nov. 13.?L. K. Rutter,
Raleigh mill supply man, charged
with assault on his stenographer by
whipping her with switches, was today
fined $500 by Judge Kerr in
oupenur cuuu.
Rutter offered a plea of guilty today
and his attorneys made a plea
for mercy, contending the humiliation
resultnig from the crime had
been such that Rutter's family was
forced to leave the state. Rutter offered
no excuse for his action, which
attorneys for the prosecution declared
put Rutter in the class with
Thaw and Frank, a moral degenerate
who should get the maximum
punishment.
CROP REPORT
Saluda, S. C., Nov. 13.?The average
yield of corn in South Carolina
this year is 19 bushels per acre, as
compared with 16 bushels last year
and 17 bushels in 1919, the total
production being upward of 42,500,000
bushels. The average yield for
the United States is 35.9 bushels per
acre, against 28.6 bushels in 1919.
The total production this year is eatomated
at 3,199,126,000 bushels as
compared with 2,917,450,000 bushels
in 1919.
Weiarht ner measured bushel of
wheat and oats is reported at 59 and
31.8 pounds respectively.
The average yield of potatoes in
the state this season is estimated at
100 bushels per acre, as against an
average of 85 bushels in 1919, the
average yield of sweet potatoes being
105 bushels per acre as against
90 bushels last year. The average
yield of potatoes in the United
States is 109.4 bushels per acre,
total production of the former benig
421.252.000 bushels, and the latter
105,676,000 bushels.
The average yield of tobacco per
acre in South Carolina this year is
650 pounds, the average for the j
United States being 793.9 pounds '
per acre.
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Estimates of acreage and produc-|
tion of the various crops in the
State will appear in December report
by counties.
B. B. Hare, Agricultural Sta-i
tistician for S. C.
MILDRED CHAPLIN
GRANTED DIVORC
Not to Use Charlie's Name Profe
sionally?Property Settlement
Out of Court.
Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 13.?M
dred Harris Chaplin was granted
decree of divorce from Charlie Cha
lin in the superior court here late t
day.
Mr. Chaplin, whom Mrs. Chapl
charged with cruelty, was not
court, but was represented by a
torneys.
It was stated a property settl
ment, involving about $200,000 ht
been made out of court and an agre
ment reached by which Mrs. Chapl
would not use the name of Chapl
professionally.
REPORTED CLARK WILL
OPPOSE, SENATOR REE
Washington, Nov. 13.?Forrrn
Speaker Champ Clark, who was d
feated for re-election to Congress w
?o upon the lecture platform for tv
years and then be a candidate to su
ceed James A. Reed in the Senat
according to reports that reach<
Washington today.
The former speaker is the thii
oldest man in point of service in tl
House. "Uncle Joe" Cannon ai
Speaker Gillett alone have serv<
longer, forty-four and twenty-eig!
years, respectively. Mr. Clark w
have been in the House twenty-s
years when his present term expires
A private in the United Stat
army, with specialized knowledg
:an earn $60 a month.
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Columbia, 'Nov. 14.?Philip B.
:8" Warner, executive secretary of the
South Carolina Tuberculosis Associatoin,
announced yesterday that
il_ the following charimen had been ap
a pointed for the coming Christmas
p- seal sale:
o-| Anderson, Miss Martha Bonham;
; Barnwell, Miss Josie Davis; Beauin;
fort, Deloss Springs; Calhoun, Dr. C.
inj B. Kinzer; Charleston, Mrs. W. W.
t-!Scouten; Cherokee, D. Walter
I
j Boone; Chester, H. S. Adams; Clare*
endon, Carlton Durant; Colleton,
l(* J Dr. S. R. Turner; Darlington, Dr. C.
e* H. Verner; Dillon, Mrs. Evans;
'n Edgefield, Mrs. Jas. H. White;
'n Florence, Mrs. E. R. Howell; Greenwood,
Warren T. King; Greenville &
Spartanburg, Miss Harriett Shepard;
Jasper, Mrs. A. B. Arnsdorf; LexD
ington, Mrs. Wilbur Caughman;
Laurens, Mrs. Robert Roper; Lee
er County, Dr. E. Paul Knotts; Marion,
e-|Mr. Peter C. Evans; Newberry, Dr.
ill j Roy P. Finney; Oconee, Miss Sue
fo j Gignalliatt; Orangeburg, Dr. Richc-lard
Bailey; iPckens, Mrs. Jas. P.
e, Carey, Jr.; Sumter, Mrs. Louis Wili/l
I tiomcnn- TTninn Mrc W W MlXSOn!
York, Mrs. Louis Friedhiem; Wilrd
liamsburg, E. C. Epps; Fairfield, Dr.
le Hamilton.
id "Enough tuberculosis Christmas
;d seals have been printed and distribuht
ted by the national Tuberculosis Asill
sociation to reach more than half
ix way around the world," said Mr.
. Warner. Nine hundred million
seals have been distributed _ to the
es forty-eight state tuberculosis assoe,
j ciations and the more than eleven
'hundred local anti-tuberculosis assot
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Uniform Cost Accounting Method* ^
Sought w}
| New York, Nov. 13.?More than bu
I $150,000 is to be expended in estab- wz
I lishing uniform cost accounting er
methods in the garment and cloth- au
| ing industry, it was announced to- ou
night by the International Associa- ?
' tion of Garment Manufacturers. 1 ,*
A feautre of the organization's
plan is the operation of a service
bureau and school on a self-sustaini
ing basis. The purpose of the reform,
it was said, was to save the
' industry and public whatever burden
is now imposed by reason of a lack
of generally accepted standards and
! methods of cost finding. I!
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! ciations scattered throuhgout the
' United States. If placed in a row,
these seals would measure fifteen'
thousand miles. ;
"Approximately nine seals for| ,
1 every inhabitant of the United
States have been prepared. In addition
an attractive health bond will!
be used in the Christms seal campaign,
this bond guaranteeing to the
purchaser returns in individual and
community health.
"The sale of tuberculosis Christmas
seals will extend from December
1 to 11. More than one hundred
thousand workers will be engaged
during that period. The seals are
sold for the support of the National,
state and local anti-tuberculosis associations
in the country."
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Beneath the ruins of a temple in
Egypt scientists have discovered a
subterranean necropolis containing1
thousands of mummified bodies of
the sacred Ibis ^each neatly packed
in crumpled papryus (ancient Egyptian
manuscripts), which, say investigators,
appear to consist of everything
from love letters to washing
bills.
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