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V (sgggj Sijp itUmt 5jprali. Is-"' _ ESTABLISHED 1894 THE DILLOX HEKAI.D DILLON SOUTH CAROLINA, THTHSDAY, MOKM.\(i. AKil ST 12. 1929. \OL. 26. NO. li COUNTY NEWS > AM) HAPPEMNOS. C I NEWSY LETTEKS BY REGULAR COBB ESI 'ON DEN TS News Items of Interest t<? Herald v Headers Ebb and Flow of the i: Human Tide. t o Floydale. V Mrs. J. L. McLaurin and daughter P are visiting Mrs. McLaurin's mother a at Maxton. N. C. P Misses Ruth and Rebecca Rogers n of Mullins are visiting the Misses Alfords. 11 Mr. B. 0. Guthrie and Ben Guthrie, f( Jr., Mr. and Mrs. 0. B. Pitts and.t' three children of Burlington, N. C.,;*' 4 spent the week at the home of Mr. f and Mrs. John Hugh St&ckhouse. jd The ladies of the Improvement As- S1 sociation met with Mrs. M. J. Rogers 0 last Friday afternoon. After a very a interesting meeting Mrs. Rogers ser-; ved cake, cream and watermelon. I Mrs. W. S. Floyd and baby have s< returned from W'rightsville Beach w where Bhe has been for the past twoloi months. icl Miss Sallie Bryant of Rowland Itl fcpent the past week with Miss Inez!1* Calhoun. : k Rev. P. K. Crosby assisted by Rev. 111 Danna will begin revival services at Zion church Thursday night. iFI Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Taylor entertain- |C ed the younger set at an ice cream, supper last Wednesday night. e< o 01 Fork. '.a Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Carmichael of ' Norfolk, Va., and Rev. H. C. Carniichael of Charlotte, spent last week with their mother, Mrs. Annie Carmichael. ,\' Miss Anna Calhoun of Columbia is 1 spending a few days at home. Mr. J. W. Atkinson of Southern Pines and J. \V. Jr. of Camerson spent the week end here with relatives. Mr. Will Rose of Columbia spent a few days-Just week at the home of . Mr. J. C. Calhoun. ' Mi?s Emtna Carmichael has re- . turned home alter a two weeks visit !' to friends in Muyesville. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Rogers and children of Lynchburg visited Mrs. !;i Mary Rogers last week. 111 Carolina. ^ Messrs. John Norton and David W Blakley of Clinton, S. C., are spend- I11 ing a few days at the home of the " former's parents Mr. and Mrs. J. E.I *' Norton. Miss Vietta Alford of Alfordsville is visiting her cousin, Mrs. R. S. Cot- 111 w 4 titebam. |*J s Mr. Duncan McLaurin. Jr., and j family attended the funeral of Mrs. i McArn of Rowland, who was buried1 \ at the Sutherland cemetery Sunday afternoon. i -* Plans have be^n made to begin" work on the school buildini: this week'!8 A new room is to be added as we will " have a three teacher school, also n music class. Mr. and Mrs. K. L. McDonald and 11 son, Malcolm John accompanied by**1' Miss Nora Morrison left Monday morning for Glenn Springs where bthey will spend some time. ' Mrs. D. B. Mclnnis and little daughter, Mildred returned Sunday from a ^ few days visit to her parents in Row-!" [land. e( Mr. D. J. Henderson who has been working with Dr. D. M. Douglass ofi" the Presbyterian College at Clinton. b< S C ic at hnme until school ODens ** F there in September. f Misses Belle Morrison and Berta' Mclnnis left Monday night for Balti-.?' more where they will be pone for several davs. i,c i P' ? o # Increasing B. & L. Capital. tc, At n meeting of the directors of 0, the Dillon Building 4: Loan Associa- g? tion held a.t the offices of Col. G. G. (,j ^lcLaurin last Friday a motion was passed calling for a meeting of the f0 stockholders to consider the proposition to increase the capital of the Association to S5U0.000. The Association was organized about four years' ago and has been very successful. Col. McLaurin is president and treasurer of the Association and has given it close personal attention. Very little ni of the original stock has chanced t| hands and the first ond second se- j, ries are worth considerably more than par. Committees have b< en appointed to solicit subscriptions to the new issue and when the capital is brought vj up to a half million dollars the As- r( sociation will be in position to take ;r care of the applications it has for, loans for the erection of new houses. o I b< DILLON' LAND SELLS HIGH. fl i tl Clarence Bethea Pays Mr. J. J. Ih George for ir ilti 2-3 Acres. fi The price of Dillon county farming a lands reached a new high level last , is li'hpn ni?r.-m?n Betfwa iiaid Mr. b; J. J. Georpe S12.500.00 for 26 2-2 acres acres of land. The land is known a< |ffi as the Proctor Place and fronts the v public road between Dillon and Lit- u tie Itock. Mr. George purchased the F place some ten years apo from the late A. J. C. Cottingham. It was in a splendid state of cultivation before f Mr. Georpe pureltased it. and he has developed it into on* of th?* most pro- ^ ductive farms in the county. Clarence t Be thea_ the purchaser, is on- of 'he most enterprising colored fanners j;; ^ the county and owns other lands ^ which he has paid for out oi tin profits from his crops. .. A devil weighing 2.'.".") pounds 1 ^ lieved the second lamest ev-r capftir- v ed. was caupht in tie Gulf of .M-\-j ico. It carried its captors lour miles out to sea and the work of landinp i' J required two days. * ii iOVIKTS AT GATES OF WARSAW. iolshevists Tighten the Xet Around the Polish Capital. Berlin, Aug. f?.?With the bolshrist net tightening around Warsaw n almost a complete semi-circle from he northwest to the east, the spirit 1' optimism' has given away to a eneral nervousness owing to the dean tire of the remaining legations nd consulates, says a Warsaw disatch received here late Sunday ight. The greater part of the population. reads is displaying- an admirable ^rtitude in the face of the fact that tie enemy is almost at the gates of lie capital. Only in the poorer quarrs have there been any scenes of isorder. Each inhabitant of the War-: aw slums seems tofbe trying to get i ut of the city and to take his person-1 1 belongings with him. Streets Jammed. The streets are jammed with all' irts of vehicles. Perspring house-1 ives are loading furniture and food , n them and when they start, shout tatteringly to others to get out of te way. But no one can get out of, te way, the jam is too thick. Thisi eeps the cavaicades from moving I lore than a few yards per hour. j During the afternoon the main reets were filled with processions of atholics as part of a program of lecial intercession for the city orderi by the archbishop. The marchers ian;ed in beautiful harmony a spec1 prayer composed for the occasion, i ?ginning "We beseech Thee. Oh ord. save Your city." The procession equentlv passed bands of young dunteers marching to the front to rely tunes like "Yip I Addy." Information from reliable sources i iys that General Wevgand, the iw run ft V mill illing to take command of the PolIt armies. Washington, Aug. ft?So critical is ie world situation growing out of ie Kusso-Polish war that attention, was officially stated today, is beg concentrated upon it to the excltton of almost every question dom?-s-> p and foreign. Dispatches received by the depart?nt gave a more hopeful view of I* situation at Warsaw. While th? soviet armies continued i advance, the defense is apparently! inp maintained with renewed spirit . the Polish troops. The American consulate was re-! irted to be moving to Graudenz Satrday morning. If the Poles mo\e the at of government, the American i cation will move-also. Xo Xote Sent. It was vigorously denied by departent officials that any note has as t been sent by this government to ie allied powers bearing on the Polh question. This statement was made i connection with cable reports from uris to the effect that American note id been received there. At jhe same me, Secretary Colby declined to imirt any information as to whether not a message might soon be sent; . this government, in these dispatches a few nights agoj llowing the conference of Secretary Diuy ana unurr-sevrtriary uan* v>nu ie president, it was definitely stat-l 1 that the time for American action as close at hand. This appears to be ie correct view and, it is generally! Sieved a pronouncement from the 'hite House will soon make the! merican policy clear to the world. | Unusual curiosity and speculation; cist as to what the White House decration will be. should it be decided i make one. One view is that the esident will decline to commit the nited States to any policy prejudial to either sid*-* of the controversy. Another view is that he may recti mend American participation in a neral embargo by the allied powers all ports under the control of the1 iviet forces, including those which .rntfrlv h?.lr?iif Jri Pnhmri Either suggestion, however, is pure leculation. o Housing Plane in Fayetteville. Lieut. Behr took the Kantian plane* ,er to Fayetteville Saturday afteroon where it could be housed until if weather clears. There is no place i Dillon in which the plane could ? protected against the elements und r. Sprunt decided that it would be *st to send the machine to Fayettelle where there is ample housing mm at Camp Pope, the government nation field. Since its arrival the plane had f-en kept at the pretty meadow jnst f-yond Stafford's Bridge and many ights were mode over Dillon during it; week. The meadow makes an ideal inding field and with a little ditchig there would be no better landing eld in the country. Mr. Sprunt is arranging to put up hanger at the field and when this ; erected the plane will be brought ack to Dillon. Roy Edwards and Elbert Staples rcotnpanied Lieut. Behr to Fayetteille. They made'*the trip in 4<> rnintes . The distance Iroin Dillon <o ayeltevill** is about ;?5 miles. o Services at Methodist Church. Main street Methodist church. T'r. i'atson B Duncan. P.?stor. Sunday hoe! at D- a m.. Mr. \V. 1! Mulb r. ip-rint* nd-nt. Preaching af 11 a i. and s;Uo p. m. by the pastor, [' ruing subject: "Paul'" T' ::t Pi 'he Flesh." Evening subject; "A reut Aim ami a Cr< it ;i:: " Pray* r i-t \ ici mi Weilne.-da ? : hoir practice, l'ublu ily :i ited to all s?*rvic< -. Miss Ruth All'-n is \ "siting t? lutiv? l Wake Forest. i alleges rilij.ng was accidental .Marion County Prisoner So Says Con * fession. Marion. Aug. C?Archie Turner one of the men arrested last weelt charged with tin- killing of Edwii White, made a confession to Sherifl John V. Rowell, in which he states substantially tin- following: That on Friday afternoon last spring the day Mr. White was last seen alive, be (Archie Turner) war 'at the home of .Mark Turner, standing on the porch with Henry Turner, and that .Mack Turner's wile was in the house. That he was playing with his pistol and that it was accidentally discharged. Immediately after this shot he heard some one cry out and, going out in front of the bouse, he found that he had shot Mr. White, whom he did not know was anywhere around and Mr. White died instantly, About this time his brother. Mack Turner, rode up into the yard. In his excitement he picked up the body of Mr. White and carried it about 150 yards back of Mack Turner's house to a pine thicket. He left the body there while he went home and got his father's mule and wagon, in which he took the body nearby to a field between his father's house and Carry lake, a small lake adjacent to Little Pee Dee river. He left the body there and went home to spend the nigra. Next morning early he pretended he was going after a load of straw, put his plow and wire in the wagon ana drove down to where he had left the body. He then took the body and . - ? .u- 1..1 .1 UiA . carried n aown iu ine lune .win mu i there alona with the plows and wire. He then pot a little straw and took it home. He then came to Marion, where he remained until 3 o'clock. About that time he left Marion, went back to where he had left the body, put tine it m a small boat and wiring the plows to the body while it was in the boat. He then started down the river with the body. 11" stated that lie did not reach tin- point in the river at which he intended sinking tin body, as he struck a rough place ip the water of the swollen stream and his bout turned over, throwing both himself and the body into the river. When his boat turned over, lie swain to shore, where he stood lor a few minutes, after which lie swam back and pot bis boat and went back to Carry lake and then home. When asked if he had any assistance, he stated th'dt no one at all had helped him. but that he did the job all by himself. Mr. White left his home one Friday afti-rnoon about three months apo to assist his brother in the erection of a tombstone in a churchyard about one mile away from Mr. Whites residence. He could be seen walking down the road about one-half the distance until he turned a sharp curve., He did not show up at the church and was not heard of again untilfhis body was found in the river nine weeks later, the body showing a bullet wound. It had been weighted down in the water by plows and other scrap iron fastened to the body by wires. Last week six arrests were made, all parties being white and neighbors of Mr. White. They were Tom Turner, Archie Turner, Mack Turner, Henry Turner, Kinard Cannon and the father of Kinard Cannon. o BIO DEMAND FOll COTTON OBADEBS. c;iernson uoiit*K'\ jui> ou?i un r is a big call lor official cotton graders to serve in the various counties under the new arrangement of the Extension Service with the Cotton Association and the Warehouse Coinmission, and it is apparent now that the demand is going to be greater than the supply of available graders. This is the opinion of E. C. Seifert. Extension Specialist in Cotton Grading, who says that there is a scarcity ol good graders due to the fact that men experienced in such work have entered the field a.- buyers. Already fourteen counties have applied to the Extension service for graders. Seven of the applications have been filled and the others will be filled shortly. Five other counties i.-ve practically completed financial and other arrangements to ask for graders, and reports from the cotton marketing campaign now going on indicate that over half of the other Counties will do so. This means thai there will be a scramble for the appointment of graders. and counties are cautioned that applications will be filled in order of receipt and that many counties may have to do without graders unless arrangements uncompleted and applications made at once. In some counties the official grader idea has taken such strong hold that several towns in the same county want a prader each. In Oconee county, lor example, Westminister. Seneca, and Walballa each raised the nt'cessaiy lunds and sent 111 applications tor praders on the same day shortly after the county meetings were held. As many official prad? rs as pussihie are heinp ermaped to meet ih calls, and the suci'-.e of this phase of tin cooperative marketing* i- a' ready assured. < itil ot Thank*. To -ho., who kindly a-sis'id us r 'i: f - and d* ath ot out t.ahy hoy. 11. tuns, we wish to <>!': t < - ]. !. -hanks and ? nlso wis! * > ' :;nni". tiio.-- thottf ': :l ones !" ! :.or.,l offeriti; , S: relv. Mr ar. l Mm. !*.< > ! Ifttloti. \V. M Itrick spent Monday in J.a' t.i 0:1 t usiliess. FOllE<'AST SHOWS .1 I.AIKiK COHV ( IIOI'. - Estimate of Three billion bushels is .Made. Washington, Aupust ft?A thne; billion bushel corn crop for the third i titm- in the history of th<- country was forecast today l?\ the Department ; of .Viniculture on the basis of conditions existing August 1. Inasmuch as : August is the critical month for the crop in the great corn belt of the ; .Middle West, it is uncertain whether the promise of a crop almost equal to , the enormous ones of 1012 and 1017 i will be fulfilled. Improvement was i reported during July in the important corn States with the exception of Illit nois, and as a result a crop forecast ,,of 224.000.000 bushels larger than that r.r^ftirt^rt -Illlv f Was issued. ! Spring wheat was adversely affect-1 ,ed during July, principally by rustM and production forecast of the crop was reduced 29,000,000 bushels from a month ago or to a total of 262,000,000 bushels. Reduction Very Small. ! The preliminary estimate of win-' :ter wheat production was 15.000.000 I bushels larger than forecast in July.j i making the combined crop of winter ! and spring wheat only 14,000,000 i bushels smaller than estimated a month ago. The total of 795,000,0001 bushels was predicted in today's re-; port. There was improvement in the po,-, tato crop and indications are that the icrop will exceed 400,000,000 bushels! lor the fourth time in the country's' history. i The tobacco crop which has been, promising from the start, has shown' additional improvement and proba-1 bilities are that it will exceed thej record crop produced in 1918 by about , .2iiO.OoO.oou pounds. Total production is forecast .at 1,544,000,000 pounds. J o BROTHER KILLS BROTHER. Terrell Smith Killed by .Icns<? Smith In Mother's Presence. Hampton, Aug. : ?Jesse Smith shot; and killed his brother. Terrel Smith, j tit v o'clock Sundav morning, about, three miles west of Hampton, using a shot gun loaded with bird shot. Facts have been exceedingly hard to get. -.is there was no eyewitness to the first part of the ditficuliv. According to those who went to thei scene shortly after the tragedy, it j iseems that Jesse met Terrell in the c'.rHen Terrell returned from thej burn with a bucket of milk in his I hand. Terrell ran for tin* house but,i . was shot in the back just as he ( I cleared the corner of the garden next 10 the house. It seems that Jesse followed and reached the door just as| iTerrell put down the bucket of milk. 4 The mother of the towo men states ; that Terrell turned around as Jesse i reached the door and said, "Jesse. ' why did you shoot me?'' that Jesse did not answer, but pushed the gun almost into Terrell's lace and fired | a second time, killing him instantly; I that Terrell was unarmed and appar-; ently made no effort to defend him-j self, except to try to get out ot Jes-; se's way. Jesse Smith is about 4 5 years of age and lives within a few hundred | yards of where Terrell Smith lived with their mother on a farm. Terrell was about 28 or 30 years old. o ENTIUESCLO.SE Aid ST 19TII. I Candidates Must l?'ile Pledges by 12 i O'clock Noon Thursday, August 1 Oth. I _ . ? ? I The rules oi ine uemocraiu- i.m? provide that candidates must file I their pledges 011 or before 12 o'clock noon on the day before u campaign Opens, and as the county campaign1 opens Friday. August 20th. candidates must file their pledges by 12 o'clock noon on Thursday. August 10th. The opening meeting will be held at Little Lock, and tin- itinerary as fixed by the executive committee is as follows: 1 Little Lock. Friday, August 20th; Oak Grove .Saturday, August ulst; Minium, Monday. August 23rd; Fork. Tuesday. August 2 1th. Lak< View. Wednesday. August 2.".th; Floy da le. Thursday. August 2t'?th; Latta. Friday. August 2?th; Dillon Saturday! 28th. 0 TI.MK VOW TO PLANT FAI L FOOD CHOPS. Irish Potatoes and Turnips Fiisilv Grown and Product* W ell. "It is now time to prepare and sow 'tnrnio.x ami to plant the second crop of 1 ri.-h potatoes," said Commissioner Harris yesterday. "If the second croji of Irish potatoes is planted at onein yood land, well prepared, it will produce aood results. I suap-st planting the Lookout Mountain variety. It o- suitable and especially adapted for all platitina This variety will not toak. tuhej> if planted in the spriny. "The Looi.otit Mountain potato con planted m ti;e eastern part of the Mate as at* as Auyiist lv it planted ill cofxl land They should he plaid?d atni ma1 lit. d the sain., as sprint: potaic- ar> plav>d tinci cultivated lu tin . astern j>ai t ol the stat. tie Lookout Mountain |?otatiicjt can he in tie- Lioiiial all winter and due and lis-d a- ne. .je.i. In tact, this is ' t:,. I>.-t way to b? p th. in throiiirii ' the wilder. Now 11 is ft pli'.i'ti. . 'a If s.-L.tl- ! at.d We iiia;. ? \; >. h?m ;.i . on:.a * > t.t hivti. I d not h'.'k tor any r?>: letioti it. tin price oi - i crop- for an or least. -j It Worth McKinley i- sp> ndinp' tl.? ' ^ c :C in Miiliiu; with fri-ud-. I.KiHT COMMITTKK OKTS ItKPOKI Kngineer <iives K*tiinat<* for H P. I. i i_ 111 Plant at $150/100.00 The committee appointed w\ th< citizens meeting to look into the mat ter of selling or improving the ligh and water plant received the repor from the engineer last week. Th< report was made by Mr. Olsen. one o the h ading engineers of the south wh< spent a day in Dillon going over tin plant and making a close inspection Mr. Olsen estimates that it will cos Dillon $liiO.OOO.OO to put in a moderi light and water plant. These figure: ure based on a CuO ho'rse power plan consisting of two units which he sayi will give Dillon an ample supply o current for the next 20 years. H< r?r>r>r?iiienH? as additions to the Wat er plant the putting in of larger wat er main and the construction of t resevoir with a capacity of not less than 250.000 gallons of water. Tht plant as outlined by Mr. Olsen is mod ern in every respect. The sentimen of the committee was, after reading the report, that Dillon could not af ford to invest that much in a ligh' plant, and Mr. Olsen has been askec to revise his figures and reduce th< amount to something like $40,000 01 $50,000. The committee also decidec to take the matter up with prospec tive purchasers, and if it is found tha adequate improvements cannot bt juade with an expenditure of $40,00( or $50,000 the committee will enter tain propositions to dispose of tht plant to private individuals. Tht committee will be ready to make t report back to the citizens as soon a; these matters can be gone into thor oughly. o DILLON PLANE VISITS COLUMBIA Columbia Record. Columbia was visited by an airplane bank messenger a few days ago, bui not until today did Columbians know thai the strange air visitor carried under its scowl or in his gasoline tank, or, somewhere, a half millior dollars worth of securities. A few days a go a big strange looking airplane, a "Farman"with tlx passengers riding out in front of the planes and in front of the motor landed at Columbia's flying field, and foremost among the occupants o the air-car was James M. Sprunt cashier of the Bank of Dillon. Tw< New Yorkers were in charge of th? plane. Only a few Columbians saw the plane at the flying field, though ? large number saw it over the city ant wondered at its strange appearance being of a new type of flying machine Little did the Columbians who saw the plane then realize that some where within its fusilage there was : fortune tucked away from unseeinj eyes. The news of the car^o came ti light today, when Columbians saw ir the Sunday's picture section of tlx new York Times^a picture of tlx plane and its three passengers, chiel among them. Mr. Sprunt, as they wen clDOIll IU ltilVf 1 I UILJ 1VUUOCI i inu Long Island. Mr. Sprunt and his plane driven spent a night in Columbia leaving next day for Dillon. The travelers stated while here that they had hac a remarkably successful trip, coin ing from New York to Columbia, b> way of Charlotte in a fraction of i day. No advices have come from Dil Ion regarding the landing of the plant there, but is is presumed the half million dollars worth of securities land ed safely at the Hank ol Dillon. Mr Sprunt is quoted as saying just be fore he "hopped off" from Koosevelt lield that he had decided not to trust the securities to railroad transportation. o The editor is .very much indebted to .Mr. H. C. Stunton for three largt watermelons which Mr. .Stanton was kind enough to bring in Saturday afternoon. The melons are of the Tom Watson variety and in point ot flavot and excellence tln-v fully sustained the wide reputation which this melon has. Having been raised in tin- low country where lroin 11tin* mmo-mur in I tin- watermelon lias been u favorit?* fruit we can say with all eandoi and sincerity, that in our love ot tin watermelon we have only one equal ? and that is the low country darkey, .Missionat') I'nioii Mwtinit. The annual meeting of the Worntips' Missionary I'nion of I'ee Dec Association will meet with th*- Cattish Baptist church August L'tith and >7th Delegates will be met at Mallory and Latta if notice is sent to, Mrs. 1,. K. D. w, l/.itta, S. C o NOTICE. Fursimnt to the rules of the Democratic party notice is Liven that then will be a meeting ot the County Democratic Executive Committee at tin Court House at 10 o'clock in the for< noon on Thursday. August 1!?th. foi tie- purpose oi revising the club rolls' Any person who ha- b? en denied tlo right to enroll or any person who hat any |>roi?-.-t or ?<Mnjna:ni 10 mum ar to any nth*-r { :.-< n whuso naui?- an pt-a:> on th?* oltit? roll or who ha? h> : th-nit i! th? rutin to enroll may ai lu ff! - .-.i ! i-otuniiii?o and mak<* -uoi < t'!ii|>la:i.' or j?rot?-.<f. A 1!. JOIHiAN. (.' unity Chairman. Vir-ium: N> w York '< oho-rv fl.si!.:.: :;.- : !. C it W-l!.-. a WkIi':, luinisfor. (aims li" was unable to t :.* i!,.-:ii. M:-?-r ami fovrtv !,a\? : aj'j- ar? 1 Chits:.-.-io.-.u-h aliv.. -lowly !> 'i-lini-. hWin a a joiin. !ad> lio ?:s!? - : I'.:".. !? .at. -! 1:1 lis.- a: > ' ii.? > 111111 di.-t' '.'Tm ?I.j 1:n-- a \ thr>-? courteous young men escorted h**r t? . a i- : ' [' PON/J TELLS HOW HE MADE MONEY. Boston Man Discloses Business Methods in Sjkhh'Ii to the kiwanis f> Club. t Boston, Aug. 10?Charles Pouzi, t who claims to hove jumped from ^ comparative poverty to multiniilliont aire's estate in a few months through 3 dealings in international postal coo. pons, told members of the Kiiuauta . Club today some of the steps in the t process by which he claims to have , amassed his fortune. Ponzi, making s his first appearance as an after-dint ner speaker since he became one of j the most talked of men in the counf try, was a luncheon guest of the club. ? He was invited sometime ago, be. fore he was compelled to cease pay. nient in hi? "fiftv n?r .jc ^days" proposition because of the orj ders issued by the State Bank Com?jmissioner to the Hanover Trust Co., .(yesterday to pay no more of Ponzl's t checks. ; In opening his remarks, Ponzi r4. i iterated his claim that he was solteAt tjand expressed confidence that this 11 would be substantiated by the Fedetj(al and State investigations now in [ progress and that he would be able to I resume business in a few days. He related how he had hired a t small office, used his small capital In > various business schemes, and then. ) with an international reply coupon . always in front of him on his desk, ? "began to do some thinking." He > finally obtained financial assistance, l he said, to develop his idea and spent 5.thousands of dollars in foreign ?or respondence. "I found out," he said, "that the ' postal coupons were being sold in i foreign Countries for the equivalent of six cents and could be converted into postage stamps. Then all I hart ? to do was figure how many nicking t made a million. rI "I got in touch with men?that's I as far as.I'll go?who were able K> secure for me large amounts of con i pons 111 uttierent. countties. They .bought them without money and used -Ithem as collateral io bo redeemed ? later. >' "When conditions were right I of , fered to borrow money from the pub, lie I offered ad per cent in HO days f and would not promise to redeem , notes in 4 5, though I thought that ) three weeks was about the right time ;, to bank the money here, send it r abroad, get the stamps and convert i! them into cash. I "I started the Securities Exchange. , I Company. I was everything from pros-, .jident to office boy. *; "I decided that if I redeemed the -1 stamps in the United States the Fcdi eral government might decide that it ; came within its jurisdiction, though > | there was no Federal or State law ij against it. But the exchange rate was ;, the same in Switzerland and Norwuy ? and some other countries so I rfefjcided to redeem them there." . .. ?! Some one in the audience asked ,|why the postal authorities had bwn ! unable to find any evidence of such 3] large dealings in reply coupons. Pon ; zi replied that foreign governments si realized a profit on the issue of these I'postal certificates "and are not going - to disclose to other governments how .many coupons they have issued." , ij "And the international postal un ion is not going to do it," he addtpl. | Asked if foreign government t>u^l - not stopped this, he replied: "Yes,. 11**.-v art- stopping?mey nave stopj ped the sale of coupons lor public 1 use. But that does not stop my bnjsji iu-.ss. My money in Europe is work in;: today, even it it is not here." ' In the transactions in coupons', tic insisted, nobody suffers a loss. "I buy today." he said, "a dollar's 1; worth of Italian exchange. At the "l resent rate i get is lire. I would ; v? t live under normal cxc tin age. Willi 'he Is lire I buy tin interna i lional reply coupons. These coupons can l?e .-old for *': in American nion I ey lb tiiaintained that no goveruuient it' * (I iose because transactions between governments may be delayed UPtil > xchaiice i> normal and pointed out that there has be. n delay in the layment of interest on American loans to the allies. J have not found anybody who wilt have to make it pood." he asserted, i when somebody wanted to know w ho .'would huve to stand the loss. ,; o i Capt. 15. V. Gibson is opening a I Rescue Home at Kayetteville, N. und when tie home is completed they will be in position to take car" o! many homeless children. This dcw?K not mean, of course, that we tire dis [continuing the work in Dillon. We |will continue our work in town and county as heretofore. Sincerely <lcsir int.' tlu* co-operation of the public tu this tix- Master's wurk for humanity, ' we are. American Ilecue Workers, Inc., Capt. II V. (lihson, in Charjrti. (j ;' Mr. K. C. Uauks, who will he con - n>cted with '!) L'illon County Out " ton Storage Company a- yrad'T. h:tr-. 1 at ri'.e.l in tK <;* and will b? n aif* to Miter upon his duties win u 'In Uiii.-ir up. n Mr Hanks i.- t'oiu Alt <! I I.|;. I w! re e hte- h' hi the ?i ,i>- ( w.'1 a < 'ten ? a lorn? -:.e past ral \ti.. , 1:: ::k : re of fh" ! ' t ra'! ts: in : te an<! !. \ : :! p.inv . :.:ni up wi. ertvt. \f. ' a I ; 1 1 a'i'i'ta t tors : tp. i'.. war* lioiru mi 1 . . . * 'en w he . :id? d I It v. ' , iv 1 - :1- ti, Itilfotr a.' JLeov a, ...It secure a house.