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V V < f THURSDAY, MARCH 3. 193Z I ) r Tax ^ Before Senate House Overrides Governor’s Ve-; to By Large Vote. Final Ac- j tion Expected Today. 1 fV RAPPORD MOiLCr Coluniibia, March 1.—Less than an I hour after the house had rece'vedj from the g^)vernor unsized the joint Washinirton. Feb. 29.—With the!t*x evasion was sustained today byj ^ r^v . i- ^ resolution elftending the time frr pay- ' tv.« United States circuit court of ap-; years. That fine ]()iece of ment of property taxes, his veto ^ ^ ^ ^ i |tnarity, nowever, is lar irom Ovinjr Capone Nearer- \ ' i^ison Term Circuit Court of Appeals Sus tains Gangster’s Eleven-Year Sentence. Faint Hope Left. ‘ [ An Old Bread Line Chicago, Feb. 27. — “Scarface Al”i we chronicled the Fleisch-; Capone’s lb-year sentence for income'bakery as being the first to maintain a bread line, dating back overridden today by the necessary 1 two-thirds majority vote, with se/eralj ness out of the way, congress and the l>allots to spare. j administration are |gettinc: down to Seventy-three members vk)ted to go i their ’•egolar business of playini^r poli- over the governors head, 21 agaipst.' There may be some excitement The measure now goes to the senate where its sponsors realized it f*«ces the severest test. Should the senate override the veto, the resolution be comes law. The g^overnor is allowed but one veto. , Tn a m^sage accompanying the resolution the chief executive listed four reasons fof not approving it. It r- - — :-'V here y“l. and there will be if the pres ent -plans of the house majority are carried <mt. * I the oldest bread line here. The other Thus the world s most notorious . u v* .u . -r •. , V. ‘1- came to hght that Tnnitv par- gangster was brought nearer a prison*. • . . * li-t _ 1. •* u ..1. IIS still running one that is exai t- sentence although it was on a b»ok-|, „ , , . , * t • 1 .u 'y 139 vears old. keeping charge of tax violation rath-| It appears that in 1792, John Loakc BV FiN I HE KING ('ANTT (JET j found, and the murderer sentenced. A DRINK ! In our country the crime would In London we visited a fashionable' ^ newspaper sensation for er than for any of the higher crimes charged to his regime of yiolencd and; the Interest on $5,000 for bread murder. ! to be distributed by that famous Kpir- The decision in favor of the governt-1 church, and through all those , I ment left the gang leader with but j will has been complied with. Speaker Garner has already prom-itvvo faint rays of hope: A ^-ehearing being distrrbnied JTowa- ised a’fight on President Hoover’s j by the appellate epurt and a review days by Rev. Edward H. Schleuter, plan to consolidate a number )l* de-'by the United States supreme court.'of St. Luke’s chapel, one of tached government bureaus in thel in-j Xone'of his underlings had succeeded Trinity church’s affiliates, terest of economy. Mr. Garner calls j these final appeals. would not bring the desired relief, helfl*" Perhaps j Capone, when the news reached him .J.J *i! rthat may have been merely an expres- his county jail cell, turned without sion of peevi.shness because the presi- a word^nd flung himself on a cot, his dent beat the Democratic leaders to it' face out of view. by a couple of days. A program of , The burly gangster has been in the j is,, curiously enough, an exhibition cf consolidation had been under*careful, county jail since October 24, when machinery and ‘robots.” AniJ children preparation for a good while, but be-j h'ederal Judge James H. Wilkerson restaurant caHed the En»bassy club. It is a place where the hoity-toity dance, and my wife and I had the pleasure of feasting opr middle-class eyes on a large collection of young lords and ladies, with a sprinkling of multi-millionaires and even a couple ! of dukes. A little after midnight a waiter stepped up to each table, according to the law and custom in England, and reminded the diners politely that the bar was about to close. \ few minutes later he came again and asked each i promptly. months, while the trial dragged its weary way through the maze erf legal obstruction. We are ahead of the English in many ways. We do business more quickly, w’ith more flexibility, and more steam; But when it comes to rf- •spec-t for the law they have us lashed to the mast. We pass thousands of laws and disregard them. The English pass fewer, but they certainly respect and enforce them. If you . kill your mother over there you’re hung, and J contended, would be unfair to those .who have paid their taxes, would de moralize the tax collecting machinery of the state and work against the state’s fulfillment of its contracts. . The governor’s message was receiv ed by the senate later and on motion of Senator West, Abbeville, consider ation was deferred until 12:30 p. m. tomoi row. Under an J. Beattie refused to put into effect a concurrent resolution extending the taxe^ passed two weeks ago,, additional penalties for non-payment of 1931 taxes will not go into effect until March 10. No ‘‘Hands Off Signs One of the most attractive free shows here is maintained in the Dailv diner to finish his drink liecau.se the' when t,her^bar closes even the glasses must be removed. kir*g can’t get a drink. CITATION FO^L I.ETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION especially are invited to stroli through fore it CQOild be made public the rec-;grava him the stiffest penalty ever re- the exhibition and‘handle everythin*' ommendataon came from the White ^ corded in an income tax case. 11 years to their heart’s content. House and once more the administra- imprisonment and $50,000 fine. For! /'bildren are simidv mad about the tion had stolen the spotlight. four months he had been awaitir>g the! ^y own yourrgster, <>. went A gay party arrived only a little while before, headed by a younger son of his majesty, King Geojge. I watch- jNcws building on F'ast 42nd street. Itjed w'ith intere.st to see what would j The State of South Carolina, happen when the waiter visited that! l^aurens County, table. Would a prince of the blood be By C. A. Power, Probate Judge: asked to give up his glass like any i Whereas, A. G. Montjoy made sxrit > . . . K A • starts a fight in which each | outcome of the appeal and getting no j ^ n order issued today by A. p^^ty’ will try to prove that it.s pet credit on his sentence. _ or and reveled in the various gadgets. , comptrolmr^eneral, ^ho j method of retrenchment is better than The appellate court, working rapid-, thing shawm was a telephone. She _.-x .r 4 1 The argument will be^ly, found no basis for ('apone’s down the receiver, dialed her ively and full of statements: lention that the indictments against j uumber and saw* the machlnerv she the other hot a^ li and speeches carefully prepa4*e<l for him were insufficient ai^^that he had| in motion get her the connection use in the presidential campaign. But been depriveil of his coh.stitutional I then, ten feel away, her pa! • out of it then'seems a hope that there; 1 ights. On the contrary the court .,wered the call and talked to hei. Issued to county treasurers writh will actually be a reiluction in govern-: found that the language of the indict-j other things are automobile mod- approval of tjie governor, the order 'nenl costs. ments follows explicitly jthe language | steam engines, elevators, riding ! of the statute and that Judge Wil- all kinds of things like'that. common man? Or would a polite evas ion (X'cur in the case of one sp exitltL- ed? My question was quickly answered. The waiter did, indeed, go to the prince’s table last. But when he ar- rivHl, the prince took one last gulp and handed over the glass "w'ith a smile. to me to grant him Letters of .Admin istration of the estate and effects of Mrs. Corrie L Montjoy. There are therefore, to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred ^ and creditors of the said Mrs. Corrie L. Montjoy, deceased, that they be _ and appear before me, in the Court of I*rabate, to be held at I^aurens ~A few hours previously we had sat j Court House, Ijaurens, S. C., on March provides that the February penalty of two per cent not be increased until March 10, when it la-to jump to five per cent. It was to have gone into ef fect today. — Under the joint resolution now be fore the assenfbiy, payment would be postponed until June 1, with a one per cent ixmalty, how'ever, for each of the five nibnths beginning with Janu ary and ending with May. Lauding Governor Blackwood for showing ‘‘nerve and backbone,” Cal houn Thomas, of Beaufort, opposed overriding the veto. R. J. Williams, Marion, also protested on the ground that enactment of the resolution would prevent teachers from being paid. App’.au.se greeted announcement in one of the English law courts. A young man had l>een arrelstwl only 18, 1932 next, after publication here of, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to After a child has spent a few hours in i the place she comprehends a lot more One of the curious things visitors here idiserve quickly is the detache<l air with which saleis people in the big stores wait on customers. In the better stores there is never any at tempt made to force a sale. The idea to be that if that particular One^v»f the big fights between I'api-' ^^*'**^**' made no eiror when he over- t«l Hill and the^^White House will Ihm *'**^‘“** the demurrer and niotion in ar- ^ ^ — over the Democratic proposal to COM- •'**** judgment filed by ^ i'Pt^ne s; modern conveniences than she solidate the army and navy und<*r one ^ u j i before. wad seertdary. .Vrmy men oppo.se it ^ Even if a slight mistake had lm*n^^ .And it .is all gorgeous fun! ! unless they can run the combineil ser-'”*“^^*‘ wording, of the indict-> vices, navy men opiMise it for the same the court held, the defect I Sales I’eoule reason, the president and his advis- be of a technical natuie not a -i eiTS are said to be against it, but it f*‘<^Hng the substantiah rights of the has been made an official policy of. app<*llant. the Democratic niajoritv, which in-1 appellate court usually waits tends to shove the bill through the ordering a defendant house as speedily as possible ami prison, giving his attorneys time use every effort to get the senate to * petition for rehearing. It j tn it 1 announced at the district atorney s r . 4u ‘nr I agree to it. !.u.. 4U.,4 fi,.. I customer walks out, there will be a The army and the navy were ad two weeks ht'fore, charginl with the j show cause, if any they have, why the heinous crime of murdering his moth-1 said 'administration should not be er. In thoj»pace of a few’ days he was! granted. 'brought to trial. The jury was cho.sen ! Given under my hand this 2nd day in a couple of hours, the case was heard fully, including the testimony of medical experts, the verdict was of March, A. I)., 19.‘52. ('. ..A. Power, 3-10-2U’ ' J. P. L. C. in any othe^ city in the world. In Isin-i don, (»ne cannot e.scape from a shop j after one has entered it without buy-i office, however, that “because of the • . * • . 1 „4 . f >** before many minutes. ministered as a unit in the first few * .i, i Vluv i » Hi- I *•'* woniv-'ii here thor years of the United States, hut siiveh'*'^’’^ oiighlv enjoy shopping, more so than 1798 they have been oiierated separ-'*^»l''e .the writ of .supersedeas now ^ ■ ii k, that tht? pov^rnor s stand had Th^r^ is no tpossj'hlo way, tht?rt‘- htJdinir t apont* in ( hiiapo anii to oi- been supported. ifon^to tell whether cambiiUHl i*per- der his immediate removal U) prison. Few other sUtewide ' matters were | fighting force.s under Capone s ing something, or being-forced to lis A motion to roc-ommit the,^ single cabinet head would be more |® distance In m the pressure selling from ev- I - , j e -ybody in the place, clear up to the ary payments was overwhelmingly re- Either side^ without danger of any one 1 C^ 1 Rill proving him wrong. And into the de-^A EMAl bate there is likely to Ik* interjected. Would Aid S. C. taken up _ joint resolution to place teachers on' efficient in these times. Tbat <‘*>nnty jail a parity with state employees in sal-jjj.jypg everybody a chance to argue on H. D. HENRY F. M. BOLAND H. D. Henry ^ Company INSURANCE • STOCKS BONDS REAL ESTATE LOANS NEGOTIATED to jeeted and the measure was sent the senate Because of, the American Legion meeting here, the house did not m€?et tonight. “Tomorrow it is to hear ad- dreases by Henry L. Stevens, national legion commander, and Mclver Wil liamson of Darlington. the third group which ha* been trying to divide controL still further bj' .set ting up the military and naval air ser- This State Could I^aunch l*ro- vices as a third arm with its own sec- $3^^00,0(10 Is Measure retarv in the cal met. Tliere’s going to be a lot of fighting l*asses II. S. Senate. Seabury Starts talk .spilled over this. Columbia, March 1.—-South Caro- Here it seems to be quite* all right to walk out. One never gals a ‘‘dirty look” from any of the .sale.s force. And they are really grateful when a sale has'been consummated. Horse Tf.-- New York City was probably the last place in the whole country to stop running horse cars. The last line was on Fult<»n street, a few bliK’ks from launch a program of new — * « .S-giu^.^. multiplying that wt haj,l j^.^ _.r _ r-{'’WnlEstireet. and it took tW car aboutslj half an hour to go the half mile be- Attack On Taramany By Invesli- C^aior Interpl'eted Ah Presiden tial Nominee Declaration. I have a general .-ale-s tax of some so^l' Highway coSstruction on j before congress gets through j je^errord^'^ap^ro^ U*rininals. Of course the line It Win* to lock if the w.t-.lry'!»- ‘h' hou,. ..d »cnl t.r th. ,.,n.le|«« "Pcat..! n...rely hol,i th- fran- last week in congre.ss is .enacted, New York, Feb. 27.—Political ton- i.ssue will loom big in the Democratic convention next June. Official party Charles H. Moorfield, .state highway declared today. The other day one of the big de- pai—nent stores cele4>rated its fifty- leadership in the national committee,anniver.sary and part of the IS wet, and the wets are not going to . ^ ...... i I celebration was to get the slrtH*t car gues were set awagging today by tHei ^ platform In* adopted, with address Samuel Seabury, counseJ for — the Hof.stader legislative committee, delivered in Cincinnati last night at- horsi* cur <)n 59th located. tacking Tammany hall and taking what all .New York paper.s interpreted as a slat> at Govednor Roo.^e’'€lt. 14 1 i:i ♦ 1.. i..t thousands by reviving the road c«m let a dry candidate ^be nominated, let, • i . .u in „ mon’e to run . .-traction industry, the bill iarr.es aiP*‘'P ‘ .— u firrM r vr..rnhor federal appropriation of $i20.00i).00Ui *‘''****L which the s.ore is «u. P’.akmg a fight. J* ' I for nationwide distribution. I The car ran all «lay and to.d^nthous-, velt out i The state of .South Carolina woulil^-’nds of nickels from iH*o,itr-w+To en-1 moderate wet A1 Smith is an out-1 . *1 ii.o .s,,.,k.-n Mri|.,>inK" wH. Witness i. thi-i *«’*■>''<■ «''»'*» S1.««I>.1!>2 of this ; j<»yctl the “novel” experienre. To stop the car o.ie pulled a cord • 1 l a Jc fkf *80 jukopul «f Cov-’ under terms of the billj, which j *<» stop the car o.ie purn*<l a coru princiiial basis 01 .ht* appeal ol IjOV i . i i c * ■ tied to-' lbe driver s leir who there- 0 4 V.: Vowton provides that it be u.«ed foi^ construe-,urivti s 1 k, who uum enior RiUhie of Maryland qq Mpj-j upon pulle<l a lever that opened the Uoi,...- Ko. nnt pomm tted him.self ir- ‘O" prior 10 june .iu, ij.s.i. In many political circles the sj^-h committed him.self ir- was taken to indicate that Seabury: either side, and most of the other men l»eing talked of as po.s was tos.sing his hat into the ring would seek the Democratic president- tfal nomination for~ which RooseY-elt is now the leading contender. Assemblyman Ixiuis .A. Cuvillier, Democratic member of the Hofstadter committee, was among tho.-'e who took this view. •S'ate officials have endor-.eii the j 1 measure, and Soriatbrs James F. - j rible nominees of the Democrats and E. D. Smith have info*ni-; i,bpo.t:int s‘a e paving pn.j.rts to he} rother non-commiral. hoping’:tharthej«» South Carol.nians that they-willu*efiver,.d to-federal aul pioje.Hs are( ,4.111 nnt Wome an issue. support it. to be sent (4.arles D. .Sne-^d, federal; Introd'j.'eii bj^ Democratic renrex*n-1 district engineer, at .Montgomery,' Al.'i., probably Wednes«lay. .Approval of the plan.s by the fed eral engineer and his superiors in matter will not liecome an issue. Speaker John N. Garner.'-however,, .... i, rUrded ..-politically dry, and the>t.ves m the house as one of ^ dry leader, are ju.t as determined as' ■"»*• .mp,,rtant relief measures of the *he wets to make no compromise or bill would make it pos- The only conclusion I could drat* ! riole for the stab .s to .se<nre a total 1 Wa.shington will allow .South Caro- froan the speech was that he 1Garner wTl" hare . lot of del-, 'f po.OOffA'W. for road building. jlina t » draw 1931 federal aid funds to Iwryl 1. *vowed^candidate him-^’ ^ S.,uth would beJn pom _s«lf," he satd. ,,, :!je powerful aupDorl of W. R.HeHr.t^‘“" nonrly 00,001 , “There I. no &uhn>rmrmtTHnhar^ and h^.Tn“ of tweTty-reiin-daTry+Timnnrtrthe passatre of the measure. „ Judge Seabury has set out to fn«He ^ sumuiEt for Gar- provides, in brief, for the federal paving projects in all are to ’ - seU^T'Ktr^onie fiom ^uneip^Ud -overnment to lend the states $120 -j he hamlled by thi. proci*«lure. Be- irejts that a strong-^^*^^ mat< h the ^mounts | tw e“n $100,000 and $500,000 in federal match state funds already spcul in the parfraUrohstructio'n~"(ir the pave-^ trouble hot only foc-GoVernor Roost velt, but also’for A1 Smith. oupce which suggests “JudKe Seabury ba. rerved "otiee,- , ,, on Governor Roosevelt that unless ^ \ . J I 4 u /o ‘ Standard-bearer, the governor does what he (Seabiy) I support wants him to do, he is^going to try to e.xpose him Tammany hall allotted them with the .same amourrt; aid will be received for their comple-i tion if the plans are approved. j in federal aid urwier the usual terms igjof federal aid proposals as of Garner J. ^ '■> voiced by W. G. McAdoo, who waC The loan to South < arnl,na would he,UK alhcd with; Wilson', srerctary o^ the te pa:d back in ten ml ms aliment.. SI'KCIAI. OFFEIt beginning in 19.‘18. The bill has ar- . „ 14. T, 4 •! treasury and married Eleanor Wilson. l . Bo^ the Sun and the Post said ,, <iec\dpd and uncompro- that ro hardship wnll U mising dry. Moreover, he was beaten ^*orked upon the ^taUs. however. *>e- cause the installments will be deduct-, *^****^ Sfi.OO during March. JA.MES W. GAI.DW ELL there H.S little doubt left in the mind? of pomical leader, that Seabury Ip ,5,24 by the ,4, 4 , 4- now definitely a candidate for p, ,.d from federal aid payments made in presidential nomination. - | ppj „f IWO and for ten yeark thereafter Most of the papers interpreted Sea-j - j. Garner hasn’t iaid South Carolina would pay her first bury’s single reference to f ^s yet he likes this voRmteer of- installment oF $l6r),492\ in 1938, but in the address as a “denunciation” or! support from iSir. McAdoo, who have a large amount of federal ocen attack” on the governor with the official Hy that time so that party loaderahip,, althoUKh he hu • 'H.'? larte foUowinj: in the ranks. Anyway.! ^State hii^y officmi. had urged H'a a fresh complication which ahoaWit**** the bill be passed m t^ house make the Democratic eonventibo even •"** prepar^ to rwew thmr en- dorsementa for the benefit of the sen- _ ate. ( ' removal of Sheriff Farley upon facta Cosmopolitan and G«m d lIoiiHckt'cp- ing with Home and Field and Harper's on the governor. That reference came while Seabury ‘ was discussing the case of iWteriff Thomas M. Farley, powerful Tam- many district leader. “On Feb. 24 of tfci. F*"I more livelier than said. “Governor Roosevelt ordered thei ^ , removal of Sheriff Farley upon facta P* • . all of which were brought out last Oc tober. Nothing having been done about it, I myself filed charges be fore the governor, and after two months we got some action.” Later in the .Rddrltss .in declaring Tammany was a" na^nal menace, he said: “It drives pii)lic men, whose in stincts would lead them to speak out' in protest against the corruption that has been revealed^ to a toUen sUence.” ( all .78 at 12:.70 I*. M. Neuritis Misery Quickly Stoppeil Throw Away Your Wish Bone Stiffen Up Your Back Bone StickOut Your aw Bone And STEP ON ’ER Mr. Moorfield said .that the enact- SPKCTAL OFFER Christian HerakL 8 ’months 11.00. Regular price 12 monihs for 4 $2.00. Special—24 sionths for I2.S0. JAMES W. CALDWELL The Magasiae Man (>U S8 at 12:30 P. M. nsent of the, bill would allow the state highway department to initiate a new _ I building program and open jobs for '“^hundreds. The highway department proceeded meanwhile with another plan to se cure federal aid for construction. This method has been authorized by the federal bureau of roads through the intermediation of Senator James F. Byrnes. Complete engineering plans for two Paetar*a Prescription Enables Her te Bun Upstairs M4flc-like relief from the t4>rturi»g p>in» of nemitU. rheumfOm end larntMco has oern Riven thouunds vh« used Ru-No-Ma a doc tor's prescription So eertnln are the rerults that If first 3 don't drive i^odt'^^lns. monev will be refund ed Works differently from other medicines becavee It nnt •'Ins no narco';ea or opiates Why vndfrtn need less pain another hour? Voir drjrarist rlQ fladlv tell you about thi* amnztnf ADVERTISE IN --•r pneertpUoo that stops pain so quickly. Sold by SADLER-OWENS I’HAR.VIACY