Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, August 25, 1921, Image 3
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PHYSICIANS CLAIM
IS MOREPELLAGRA
?j50 answers to queries are
received by the state
health office.
SHOW TOTAL OF 1,361 CASES
The Cards Were Mailed to Physicians
Subsequent to the Pellagra Story
Sent Out From Washington.
Columbia.
Letters from physicians in various
parts of South Carolina show that
there are 75 more cases of pellagra
in the state this year than were reported
in 1920, according to an announcement
of Dr. James A. Iiayne,
state health officer.
Replies to cards sent out some
weeks ago have been received from
650 practicing physicians scattered
over South Carolina. These card*
show a total of 1,331 cases of pellagra
in 1921 as against 1.2.96 for 1920.
"It is probable," said Dr. Havne. iii
speaking of these reports, "that physicians
remember their cases of pellagra
this year more accurately than
st year, and the cards we have received
indicate that there is no increase
of pellagra in the state worth
speaking of."
Dr. Hayne said the cards would be
tabulated and the number of physl
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clans replying ny counties ?uuiu uc
given. The table will show. Dr. Hayne
believes, that many counties show a
decrease in the number of cases.
No Changes in Tax Returns.
No change is to be made in the
form of tax return this year.
The proposed new return would
have been a saving to many tax payers
everywhere in the state, few questions
are asked and under the return
Idank now used it is pointed out that
much discrimination exists. For example
two farmers return four mules
for taxation and possibly pay the
same tax on all the animals whereas
one farmer's mules may be young, in
good condition and worth twice as
much as the other farmer's. The new
return would eliminate this discrimination.
The new return had a complete list
of all property, value, age. condition
and other details necessary to determine
the proper amount of taxes on
all property. No money was available
for the printing of the return, which
would have cost around SS.000. and
efforts to get the needed funds from
the contingent committee failed, it
was said. j
Summary Vengeance Not Feared.
The knowledge that C. O. Fox and
Jesse Gappins. confessed slayers of
William C. Brazel'. young Columbia
taxi driver, were h?ing held in the
jail at Charleston, apparently had a
sobering and soothing effect on talk
of mob violence and while the case
was still being discussed in many
quarters, there was not that anger
shown that was made more or less
manifest last week, and the general
opinion semed to be that the men
were safe from summary vengence.
The two national guard companies
at Charleston. Companies A and B.
have been instructed to stand ready
to render and assistance necessary to
Sheriff Poulnot in protecting the men.
Much Progress on Roads.
Granting of federal aid requests to
several counties, reaching agreements
as to the disposition of motor vehicles
license funds in a number of the counties
and a large mass of routine business
occupied the attention of the.
state highway commission at its meeting
here.
Reports on state maintenance and
new roads placed under the care of
the state showed that the highway
department is making considerable
progress with the road program. A
number of state maintenance supervisors
were highly commended for
their work by the commission.
The total expenditures for state
maintenance up to July 31 was $173.317.56.
which leaves a residue for the
remainder of the year of $127,633.95.
Attend Cotton Grading School.
Cotton graders who will be in
charge of the grading of all cotton in
the state this fall under the statr
warehouse system began a ten day
school of instruction bore under the
auspices of J. Clifton Rivers, warehouse
commissioner. All graders were
present for the first sessions, pavifig
close attention to the teacher, and
will remain herrt for the instructions
throughout the term.
Mr. Rivers ca'led the mon here to
give them tests in grading and to familiarize
them with the work.
The Champion Grouch Shows Up.
A South Carolinian can well claim
the championship of all grouches but
his whereabouts are not disclosed
The governor's office received a letter
from a resident of the state In
which the writer complained that the
footlog across the creek near his home
had broken and now when he wants
to go to church on Sunday he is forced
to wade the creek. He asked the governor
to have the footlog replaced
with a new one so he wouldn't get his
feet wet when going to church as It
might make him sick.
Persistent Effort at Lynching.
Defeated in their attempt to s'orm
the Richmond county jail at Augusta.
Gn.. and lynch C. O. Fox and Jesse
Canning, self-confessed murderers of
William Brazell, ID year old taxi
driver, hundreds of Columbians, alleged
members of the mob, returned
to Columbia to wait further developments
in Sheriff Plunkett's tour of
Georgia in an effort to lot-ate a jail
in which to lodge the two prisoners,
who were spirited from the Augusta
prison a few hours before the masked
d?q arrived to demand them.
Citadel Rifle Team Named.
Adjutant General Grant issued or
ders designating the Ci.adel rifle team
that is to attend the national matches
at Camp Perry, Ohio, August 27 to
September 22. This team will be
known as the South Carolina college
team and will make the trip along
with the South Carolina National
Guard team.
The Citadel team, as announced by
the adjutant general, will be composed
of the following: I.. S. LeTellier,
captain and quartermaster, Charleston;
M. 15. Paine, coach, Charleston;
Edwin C. Perry, Johnsonsiile; Clarence
II. Hutchins, Spar.anburg;
Thomas W. Williamson, Florence;
David S. Asbill, Kidge Spring; Norman
F. Everts, Charleston; Uaipa
M. JJyrd, Edgefield; Hugh .si. James,
Summerton; Quincy I). Gasque, Laurens;
John L. Gramling, Orangeburg;
Carl F. Ende, Charleston; B. K. Fuller,
Jr., Mountville; Francis P. Mood, Summerton.
Alternates, Eugene \V\ Black,
W'alterboro; Abe Marnett, Allendale;
William M. Barnwell, Charleston; J,
B. Edgerton, Florence; II. P. Gongaware,
Charleston; Marlboro Pegues,
Greenville.
Wants Las/v to Take Its Course.
M. E. Brazell, the father of William
Bngcell, the slain taxi driver, made a
personal appeal against mob violence,
asking that the officers be allowed to
bring the prisoners to trial and pun
ishment unmolested.
"I am a law abiding man." Mr.
Brazell said, "and though 1 know that
no punishment, however cruel, could
possibly be too severe for these men,
yet I would prefer to see the law be
allowed to take its course. The lynching
of the three men, or two of them,
can not give me back my boy and it
may possibly cost the life of some of
my friends or my murdered boy's
friends. It is the sworn duty of tue
sheriff to protect his prisoners and 1
should not blame him for protecting
them from a mob any more than l
should blame him for risking his life
to hold them should their friends attempt
to rescue them."
Suggests a 'Safety Day."
Emmet O'Brien, safety organizer,
has written Governor Cooper a letter
asking the chief executive tor
his opinion as to a safety day to be
observed throughout the na.ion sometime
this fall to stress the importance
of eliminating the awful death toll
from accidents. Mr. O'Brien visited
the governor on the moun.ain and in
his letter he recalls this visit with
pleasure.
The organizer calls attention to the
fact that during the world war 4S.0U0
young men were killed and that during
the 19 months of the war 126,000
people were killed by accidents in the
home country. Mr. O'Brien expects
the day to materialize and be fostered
in South Carolina.
Tobacco Sales in State.
Tobacco sales in South Carolina
markets for the past month reached
a grand total of 8,618,834 pounds for
$688,156.76, as compared with 10,351,045
pounds and $2,319,563.83 for the
corresponding month of last year, the
department of agriculture announced.
These figures are based on the reports
of 25 markets and 65 warehouses
in the tobacco section.
Good Roads in the Piedmont.
Roads throughout the Piedmont
section are uniformly good, and especially
well maintained in view of tho
excessive rains of the last few weeks,
according to Charles H. Moorefleld,
state highway engineer, who returned
from a trip of several days into
this section.
Mr. Moorefield was inspecting tho
state maintenance work and visited a
number of counties, including Spartanburg,
Greenville, Cherokee. Union,
Oconee, Pickens, Anderson, Laurens,
' and Newberry.
Warning to Warehousemen.
Several tobacco warehouses are
liable to be haled into the courts by
the state department of agriculture
for failure to transmit their reports
of tobacco sold during July to the
department, according to a statement
of officers of the department. The
reports were due in by August 5 as
required by law under penalty of $500
line for failure to make the reports as
provided.
Punitive Damages Disallowed.
| a seconu opinion in me case 01 j. n.
! Mussey vs. Walker I). Mines, director
| general of railways, was handed down
j by the suprme court and by the decision
a $12,000 verdict for punitivo
] damages is set aside bv the court,
At the trial in York county the cir1
cuit court awarded $8,000 actual d tti:|
ages and $12.0()o punitive damages
| against the director general of railways.
according to the record and as
appeal was taken by the railway attorneys.'
Bids for License Plates.
Bids for the manufacturing of the
1922 motor vehicle license plates for
South Carolina will lie received by
the state highway commission up until
noon, the contract to be awarded
later. More than 100,000 plates are
to be contracted for .
Several changes are to be made this
year, one important difference for the
new plates being a white background
and black numerals and letters as
con:ras'ed with the rid background
and black numerals and letters for the
present year.
Ex-Governor Evans to Travel.
Washington (SpecialI John Gary
Evans of Spartanburg is in Washington
en route to Europe, lie will
join Mrs. Evans who litis piwcd d
him to New York, and will overtake
his daughter who at'f"r recent i r-dilation.
i? now in England. Mr Evans
and family will see England France,
Holland. Switzerland. Italy. G ruany,
and Russia and before reiurnining will
endeavor to visit Egypt. Tliey will
return in February next year. Mr.
Evans will especially observe conditions
in Germany and Russia.
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INFORMATION TO THE SENATE
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Total Givgen is Difference in Number (
on Payrolls Now and at the Peak
of Employment in 1920.
!
Washington.?Best estimates avail- '
able at this time show that 5.735.000 '
persons are out of employment in the:
United States. Secretary of Labor!
Davis reported to the Senate in re-j
jspouse to a resolution calling forh
i figures. 1
In presenting the report, Mr. Davis
said the estimates had been compiled
at his dictation by Ethelbert Stewart, i
j commissioner of labor statistics, hut
| that it was impossible to give an estimate
of the number of former service
men now out of work.
It was practically impossible, the i
secretary wrote, to get exact figures.':
j The total, as given, he added, related
j to the difference in the number of emI
ploves carried on payrolls last month j
as compared with the peak of einplov-i
ment in 1!)20. Manufacturing and
mechanical industries, including the
building trades, showed the highest,
i percentage of unemployment, the estimate
being .l.floo.dtto, alio report said. 1
Ball Player's Skull Fractured.
Spartanburg. s. (.?Hanr.nas r erry,
third baseman for the Charlotte baseball
team, who was struck on the head
by a pitched ball here and rendered
unconscious, is resting well in a local
hospital. Physicians sa yhe suffered
a fracture of the skull.
Major Withington Named.
Columbia, S. C. ? Major Harry O.
Withington. commanding the first
battalion of South Carolina National
(luard. has been elected lieutenantcolonel
of the First regiment of National
Guard, succeeding LieutenantColonel
E. C. von Tresckow, resigned.
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A Grandmother at 28.
Tampa. Fla.?A grandmother at the
lge of 28 years is the distinction en- ,
joyed by Mrs. Ethel Coulnot, of this (
fitv, the attachment being occasioned
by the arrival of a baby girl to her h
daughter.
Corn Root Worm Doing Damage.
Chattanooga, Tenn. ? Discovery of,
the western corn root worm in this1
section by local agricultural agents i
lias created the fear that the crop'1
will be materially damaged.
Clean Money Being Printed.
New York. ? Folks who object to ,
filthy lucre are soon likely to have
less cause for complaint.
Assurances that the treasury is
printing more clean money is contained
in a letter from Secretary Mellon.
Education in Palestine.
London.?So comprehensive is the
education plan of the government of
Palestine that, at the present rate of
progress, the whole country will be j
provided with schools within four
years, it was announced here.
Golf Grounds Lure President.
Washington. ? President Harding 1
wants to visit Asheville and play golf:'
on the course there and may he able
?n tlint he can I
iu ill iuii^c 1110 .'v
Jo so between now and November.
Decline to Hear McAdoo.
Washington.?The senate interstate!
commerce committee refused to call
William (J. McAdoo. formerly director
general of railroads, to give "expert
testimony" of the administration's
railroad refunding hill.
Bank Teller Disappears.
Denver, Colo.?Edwin A. Morse, "2 j
years old. head teller at the International
Trust company here, has dis-}
appeared, along with about $75,000
in currency.
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ge wastage of almost 9
i best engines unavoi
>8 of potential power,
f unnecessary energy
oline.
isoline of a uniformly
e motor functions un
the fuel cleanly, but m
rge proportion of it,
burnt, into the mul
3\ver and is the cause
other troubles.
or fuel of definite qui
jte will be eliminate
now available wher
"S.O." sign is the bes
rd" Motor Gasoline
ing, and releases a m;
jower. It will be mor
to give it a careful ti
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Chemical Schedule Amended.
Washington. ? The senate finance
committee completed hearings on the
chemical schedule of the permanent
tariff hill, amended the house bill
provision for an import duty on reimported
war supplies sold by this
government to France and decided to
press for passage the house resolution
extending the life of the aye
embargo in the emergency tariff act
without urging its own amendment to
continue the entire emergency law to!
January 1.
Time to Plead Extended.
Los Angeles. ? Extension of time
until August 22 in which to plead was
granted Arthur C. Lurch and Mrs.'
Madulynne Obenchain, indicted for
murder.
Plan to be Nationwide.
Charleston. S. C.?Secretary J. Gil-,
more Smith, of the Young Men's,
Board of Trade, has launched a plan
' * e?? ; ? ? ? Mnti/%nn1 r? ocnoln h'on
I or me lorimuK u uanuuai aoauv<mvtwM.
of young men's business organiz.a- (
(ions, and expects to have a conven-l
tion held in the fall.
First Bale at Norfolk.
Norfolk, Va. ? Almost two weeks
ahead of the usual time, the first bale
of new cotton for the 1921-22 season
arrived in Norfolk.
Suggests Voluntary Reduction.
Washington. ? Railroads should reduce
voluntarily their freight rates on
live stock to SO per cent of the present
rate, but should not reduce rates
which at present are less than 50
cents a hundred pounds, the interstate
commerce commission said in a report.
Pellagra Claims Four Victims.
Dallas. Texas. ? During the past
week four deaths from pellagra have
been reported, marking the heaviest
toll from the disease here in that period
of time for several years, according
to the records of local health officers.
h Gaso
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gasoline results in
>0% in fuel energy!
idably waste great
But the principal
loss is in the use of
high quality is supevenly,
sometimes
ore often dischargunburnt
or only
filer. This means
of crank-case diluality,
and unnecesi.
The improved
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Manager Mullens Shoots Self.
Birmingham. Ala.?R. A. Mullens, 45,
business manager of the Birmingham
Age-Herald, committed suicide by
shooting himself on a lonely road near
Shades creek, beyond the city limits.
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Plan of Co-operation.
Kattowitz, Upper Silesia.?Co-operation
in the interest of their "common
motherland" was pledged in an agreement
signed here by representative
German industrial and political leaders
and labor representatives from all
Polish parties in Silesia.
Belief is generally expressed that
the conference may result in a joint
appeal by Germans and Poles to the
league of nations for a prompt settlement
of the Silesian question.
To Reorganize Army Staff.
Washington.?Complete reorganization
of the army general staff along
lines tested in France by General
Pershing, is understood to have been
approved by Secretary Weeks.
The new scheme contemplates five
sections of the general staff. edCh controlling
absolutely its special provinces,
but closely co-ordinated with
one another. It is suggested that the
nomenclature used overseas be retained,
such as G-l, G-2, etc., for the
various sections.
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