Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SOUTH MAY GET i NATIONAL PARK 111' fc. ? ?8ICRETARY WORK 8AY8 APPA I LACHIAN REGION 13 LOGICAL PLACE. I Ashevllle. ? The Southern Appa lachian region la the logical place (or a .great National Park, and the propoaal to Mtabllah auch a park will be placed before Congress aa son aa the cltlsens' commtltee investigating sites com pletes ita report, declared 'Dr. Hubert "Work, secretary of the itnerior, prior :>t? leaving (or Washington, D. C. The committee, which haa Just vlslt ed AaheviUe, was appointed on his own Initiative and because he desires to fill the great public demand (or a great national playground or park In ' the eaat, he said. "There are 19 national parks and monumenta, or smaller areas, set Aside aa national ahrlnea," said Dr. ;Work. "The report of the Interior department (or the last fiscal year ?howed that 1,180,886 people visited the national parka and 212,826 vlalted the national monuments. One can readily eeo what a ltu/go national park will mean (or this section o ( the United States. 0( the va8t number of people who went to national parks last year, 218,000 alone visited the Rocky Mountain park at Denver. "The demand (or such a parfc in the east has been growing (or some years, and 1 hope that Congress will lend an attentive ear when the pro posal Is placed be(ore it. Tho com mittee appointed to select a Bite (or the project Is composed o( men o( the highest type, and I am sure their -choice will be a good one. As aoon as Its report Is ready the proposal will be placed be(orc Congress at the December meeting, and we will not wait (or the new CongroBs going In next March be(ore asking (or the park. Buying Power of Crops Rlsea. Washington. ? The agricultural situ ation promises farmers some increas ed economic leverage this year, the department o f agriculture stated In an nouncing that the Index o ( purchasing power o( (arm products Is slowly rising. At the beginning o ( July the index Of purchasing power o( (arm products was 79 as comp&red with the year 191S representing 100. That is 10 per cent higher than ever at that time In the last (our years. In Its monthly rerlew the department takes issue with those who have estimated a $1, 000,000,000 increase In the value of the wheat crop over last year's crop. "It Is possible that American wheat growers will get from >100,000,000 to 1200,000,000 more for their wheat this year than last, assuming that they soil something over 500,000, 000 bushels," the department states. "This is considerably less than the 11,000,000,000 Increase estimated in some quarters, but bespeaks an In creased ability to pay off debtB and a general Improvement In financial con ditions in the wheat country. "On the other hand, the corn situa tion is by no means good. Stands are extremely spotted, many fields being full o( woedB, and much o( the crop Is so (ar behind that It will need some thing approaching a frostless tall to mature. "The main significance of the corn situation lies in its effect on livestock production and prices during the com ing year. ExponsWe corn this fall will presumably prolong the liquidation of breeding stock now In progress. Un less history is a faithless guide, hogs and high garde cattle will be good property before this time in 192B. "A six per cent increase in dairy cows in the couhtry over last year Is reported, the increase being greatest In the west. The south Is considered to bs going through orltlcal days now, but ootton bids fair to produce a lar ger and more evenly distributed in come than last year." Largest Eflg Show In World. WaynesvlUe. ? The largest egg show In the history of the world, the U. 8, V, B. school at WaynesvlUe, beat the fMnous Perdue university egg Bhow by 11T dosen eggs. There were 918 dosen eggs on ex hibit, and about 60 freak eggs, enough eggs to feed one man for br'eakfast 30 /Mrs, two months and six days. This show, was sponsored by the ftgrloulture department of the school for disabled veterans of the world war. The oommlttee appointed to handle the proposition began June 1, those entitled to the credit for pulling off the world's largest egg show are J. R. Moad, president and treasurer, C. B. Brooks, manager and superintend ent; Paul 0. Williams, secretary, with the aid of the poultry club of this school. Unintentional Voter? Congratulation. You certain ly made yourself clear on the liquor question. Politician (startled) ? Did I? "You sure did, sir." "Heavens! What a blunder F? American Legion Weekly. Total Blank , Wife? What were you thfnklng ?bout I A church? Husband ? Thinking? Thanks, d??rl --American Legion Weekly. MAN, BROTHER, WIFE AND 80N ALL DROWNED. Metiipbis, Tenn. ? J. Wynn Cul len, superintendent of the Memphis municipal zoo. his wife and young son and his brother were drowned in the Mississippi river, 25 miles from Memphis. The Cullen family had gone up the river for an outing with a num ber of others. The party with in bathing and Mr. Cullen. with his son John, age 6, on his shoulder acci dentally stepped Into deep water. Many in the party, including Mre. Cullen and Hugh, the brother, Jumped to the rescue. Mr. Cullen and his son were swept down the river to their death and Mrs. Cullen's body was found floating on the surface. All four bodies were recovered. 159 DROWNED IN SHIPWRECK ALL PASSENGERS LOSING LIVES WHEN TAIREI HITS THE ROCKS. Toklo. ? One hundred and fifty-nine parsons were drowned in the Raka wreck of the Tairel Maru off Cape Hotoro, northeast of Hokkaido, saysj a dispatch to The Asahi, a leading Toklo newspaper. The Tairel Mauru, nominally is a freight steamship, but was carrying about 138 passengers besides the crew of 54. She is operated by the North Japan Steamship company be tween the Island of Saghallen and Hokkaido, northernmost of the main Japanese islands. She was bound for Otaru at the time of the wreck. She Is a vessel of 1,240 tons. Eighteen passengers and Ave members of the crew survived, reaching Toyohara In lifeboats. Tho cause of the wreck is obscure. The Asahl's dispatch says It resulted from a collision with the Kamlkura Maru, but advices to the Nlchi Nlchl declares it was due to striking rocks. All aboard the ship were Japanese. American Ad Men Given Honors. Paris. ? Jarvls Wood, president of the poor Richard Club of Philadelphia, was the leading figure in a reception given the visiting American advertis ing men at the city hall when he offi ciated at the presentation to Maurice Quentin, president of the Paris muni cipal council, of a gavel fashioned out of a beam from the room in Indepen dence Hall In which the declaration of independence waa signed. President Quentin expressed his thanks in eloquent terms and warmly shook the hand of the Phlladelphian while a large crowd of prominent Frenchmen and representatives of tho press applauded. President Quentin welcomed the advertising men to the city "where the press has always been honored," recalling also that Paris boasted the first periodical publication In the world. He paid tribute to the notable role played In the European war by the men of the American newspapers and publicity organisations. Perfect Julllart of the department of the Seine spoke in a similar vein, while Minister of Commerce Raynaldy, representing Premier Herrlot, absent In London, told the advertising men [ how much their action In paying trib ute at the grave of the unknown sol dier was appreciated by tho French people. 'A brlof reception at the American Chamber of Commerce at which the president of that organization, Blythe W. Ranch, welcomed the delegates fol lowed. At 5 o'clock the advertising men and their wives and families were re ceived by President Domourgue at the Palace of the ElyBee. This evening the Srench press will tender a big banquet at the hotel Continental to the visiting Americans at which Rone Renault, the minister of justice and vice-president of the cabinet will ad dresB the delegates in the absence of Premier Herrlot, while Ambassador Herrlck will reply for the visitors. Bitten By Rattlesnake. Troy. Ala. ? The rattle snake, con sldered America'* most poisonous rep tile moans nothing to Tom Coffleld farmer. Coffleld wan working In some grass near his houne when ho heard tho snake's rattle of warning. Coffleld moved tho wrong way. In stead of leaping from the reptile he Jumped directly toward It, as he found an inatant afterward an two fangs were hurted In his ankle. Friends rushed him to a physician, who was In at tendance 40 minutes later. Coffleld began to get better Imme diately, returning home, and wont to look for the snake. It wan there and rattlad out another warning. Flood Doea Big Damage In India. Madras, Hrltlsh India. ? Flood wat ers have submerged half the Stat* of Cochin causing loss of life and widespread damage among cattle and crops, according to messages received by tho newspaper Hindu. A teacher and R4 pupils in a hoys school at Cheruthuruhy, are stated to have perished in the collapse of the school building. Thousonds of persona In Caliout hare been rendered homo lesa through fhe destruction of their douloile*. . . ... THOUSANDS ATTEND BIG PEACH SHOW I STATE8 FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA REPRESENTED AT j HAMLET. Hamlet.. ? From New York, Pennsyl vania. Washington, D. C., Maryland, Tennossee, Georgia and Florida, and from all over North Carolina people came to Hamlet's fourth annual peach show, which exceeded In decoration, preparation and diversity of program any public affair ever held In the his tory of*the city. Perhaps the attend ance may not have exceeded last year's 5,000, but. nevertheless, those coming were from places scattered more throughout the nation than those present at previous shows. On every hand were expressions of approval. A score of distinguished North Carolinians were on hand, Including j Secretary of State W. N. Everett; At torney General Manning; State Rev enue Commlsloner Rufus Doughton, of Sparta; State Highway Commissioner Frank Page; Brigadier General Bow ley and Colonel Butler, of Fort Bragg; Congressman W. C. Hammer; Judge Bynum, of Greensboro, and Clarence O. Kuester, of Charlotte. Supplement- ? lng these was a judge from South Car- 1 ollna, half a dozen officials from the state department of agriculture, and H. B. Grlmshaw, general agent of the Seaboard, representing the general manager. All speakers at the Kiwanls lunch eon strossed the amazement with whlih they had watched tho sandhill i belt within their own memory jump' from a barren waste of sand and stumps to some of the most fertile orchards In the country. Frank Page! solemnly predicted within the present generation it would bo not only the! most productive in the country but In , the world. B. C. Prince, freight traf- 1 flc manager of the Seaboard, a Geor- ! glan, former owner of Georgia orch- . ards, and once skeptical about the j North Carolina peach, declared it was i Incomparably superior to the Georgia ' peach, and that It was only a question of time for the survival of the fittest. Oun Elevation Contrary to Pact. Washington. ? Disclosure In London that the British government has made formal representations to the United States and Japan contending that, in Its opinion, any increase in the eleva tions of the guns of existing battel ships under the flag of any nation signatory to the Washington naval limitation treaty wduld be a breach of that treaty, gave an entirely new aspect to the discussion of this sub ject which has been in progress In this country for two years or more. The announcement was met with complete silence on the part of the -fflclals at the state department, but at the navy department Secretary Wilbur, speaking on the basis of press reports and not upon any official rep resentations he may have seen, declar ed that "It is a good idea to have the question raised in order to have it settled." The announcement in London, It is believed in thl" country, has served to give the question a diplomatic status It has not before known. So far as known, tho Washington government has taken no steps to ward replying to the British repre sentatolns. It is believed that the communication referred to in the house of fcommons by Arthur Ponson by, undersecretary for foreign affairs was transmitted several weeks ago at least. Girl Gives Life For Freedonn. Anklng, China. ? A Chinese girl stu dent at the government normal school committed suicide recently by jump ing Into the school well rather than go through with a marriage her parents had arranged for her. It appears that the girl had don< all In her power to dissuade her pa rents from forcing the distasteful mar riage upon her, and finally decided to take her own life In the hope of help ing in the fight which Is being waged by many modern young Chinese women against this ancient custom. Picture Bring* 8torm In House. I/onrlon.--? Quite a little storm ha* been rained In the house of commons by the hanging on a will of one of the staircases of a picture, commls sloned by Lord Astor, representing his wife being Introduced to the house by the Karl of Balfour and Mr. Lloyd George when she took her seat In 1919. Nobody seems to know who gave per mission to hang the picture and sev eral members of all the parties are of fended bacuse the sanction of the hftise was not obtained. None, how ever, avow hostility to I-ady Astor personally. Foreign Trade With Europe Leading Washington. ? Americas foreign trade continued In June to be larger with Europe than v^llh any other grand division of the world although the Im ports from countries mftklng up North America ran a close second to those of Flurop# The Imports from both European and North America declined suhstan tlally during the month but exports to Europe Increased. There was e drop of about $16,000,000 In exports to North American countries. FOUR KILLED WHEN CAR 8KID8 ON A. C. L. TRACK. Jacksonville, Fla. ? Mr. and Mr?. Michael J. Dux, of south Jackson ville, and their 13-year-old son, John, were Instantly killed. Mrs. 'Albertlne Esser, 72, of Jacksonville, was fatally Injured, and two child ren of Mr. and Mrs. Dux were In jured when the automobile In which they were riding was struck by At lantic Coast Line passenger train number 85 at a crossing five miles southwest of Jacksonville. Mrs. Esser died from the shock, a few hours after the accident. Margaret, seven, and Michael J., Jr., four, the children, suffered se vere cu ts and bruises. According to witnesses, the party saw the train approaching and at tempted to stop but skidded on the wet pavement. the automobile stopping squarely across the tracks. The automobile was literally smash ed to pieces,, parts of It being scat tered along the railroad tracks for nearly a hundred yards. The engineer, It was reported, saw the plight of the automobile but was unab>j to stop. The train Is a fast through passenger train which leaves Jacksonville for Tam pa at 3:30 o'clock In the afternoon Mr. Dux was a chemist and sec retary-treasurer of the Dr. H. Dux company, Inc,, of Jacksonville. $200,000 FIRE AT LYNCHBURG TOBACCO WAREHOUSES AND SEV- \ ERAL STORES ARE SWEPT AWAY. Lynchburg, Va. ? Fire, which start ed from the flashlight of a photograph er who was taking pictures of the in dustrial exhibition being held In the Bookers tobacco warehouse here caus- j ed property damage estimated at over $200,000. For an hour and a half ths fire rag- j ed before It was finally brought under control. Besides the warehouse, which was destroyed, entailing loss of over 50 exhibitors, three store buildings were gutted and several other busl- j ness establishments were damaged. The three stores which suffered j loss were the Perrow-Evans Hardware 1 company, which had stock on hand estimated at 1100,000 and which had declared a dividend to stockholders o\?ly a few hours before the fire broke out. The Army and Navy Sales com pany and the Woody-E^ans company. All three of the stores were connected | with the warehouse by doorways. C. R. North and company, whole sale grocers, suffered heavy - water damage to a $40,000 stock, knd Ander- 1 son-Stone and company suffered water damage to their stock of groclerles and j feed. One hundred and fifty pounfis ' of dynamite was removed from the j Hardwure store Just as the flames en- 1 veloped the building but a carload of cartridges and shells could not be got- j ten out and was exploded by the Are. No one, however, was Injured In the explosion. Wheat and Corn Roaches Record. New York. ? Continued strength In grain prices, persistence of ease In money and progress of the London conference shared attention In busi ness and financial circles last week. While fluctuations In wheat and ' corn widened with Increased Bpocula tlve activity, values wore well main tained. New high prices wero achiev ed during the week. A bullish crop estimate from Alberta and reports of black rust In Manitoba were sustain ing factors. Foreign markets wore strong. Cotton Jumped sharply on an unex pected bullish government crop re port. The latter set the condition on July 16 at 68.5 per cent, as against expectations of about 72 per cent. The indicated crop was placed at 11,934,000 bales, agalnBt trade expectations of 12,500,000 bales. The rise in cotton, which amounted to noarly two cents a pound, was not considered, however, a favorable de velopment, for the textile Industry, Is already embarrassed by the high cost of raw material. It was recalled that the recant census bureau figures on consumption during Juno showed that curtailment had brought operations In the mills down close to the point reached In the depression of 1921. Money rates showed practically no change, with the call rate on the Now York stock exchange remaining at two per cent day after day. There was no appreciable change In the tone of the market. The federal reserve bank statement showed that discounts still were falling off and that the open mar ket purchases of short term goverh ment paper were not sufficient to keep up the reserves, chiefly of gold. Qoes to Jail 8ober ? Out DrUf.fc, Oreensboro. ? Going lj?to Jail cold sobor and coming out drunk Is the precedent aot here by a negro woman, believed to have ma do a record for the state of North Carolina. She did It with a hot-water bottle Arrested on some charge >f a minor nature, she took Into her cell a hot water bottle, to ease pains during the night, but the rubber container was filled with liquor, not water, and when she was summoned to munlclapl court the next mornin? she aa too tipsy to walk a?rnl<r>if TWO PROHIBITION OFFICERS KILLED BODIES FOUND IN AUTOMOBILE ON ROADSIDE BY POSSE FROM WILMINGTON Wilmington. ? A posse dispatched from here to Phoenix. Brunswick coun ey, upon receipt of reports of a battle between prohibition officers and boot leggers, found, the bodies of Doputy United States Marshall Lilly and City Prohibition Agent Loon George iu their automobile four miles from the town. Both bodies were pierced with bul lets fired at clsoe range and George's police dog was also found dead in the car. The posse, consisting of 50 police and county officers, went armed with riot guns to meet any exigency. The weapons of both officers were in their pockets and had not been fired. First news of the tragedy came in the form of a telephone message from Phoenix to the effect that a negro had reported hearing 25 or 30 shots fired and had seen the bodies of the wound ed officers at a distance. At 11 o'clock an additional 100 men had been hurried Into Brunswick coun ty to Join in the search for slayers. George was 55 years old and had been a member of the police depart ment for 25 years. For the past three years he had been assigned actively to prohibition enforcement work, his efforts In this direction having been widely exploited in motion picture news reels. He was unmarried Lilly was about 45 years old and is survived by a wife and several children. The two officers left Wilmington, Lilly telling friends that he was going to serve a paper in connection with a prohibition case In Brunswick, county. Nothing was hoard from thorn after their doparture from the city until the brief telephone message, saying til the brief telephone message, saying that it was reported they were killed. The officers wero traveling in Lil ly's automobile When the bodies wero found they had apparently been doad for several hours. The road on which they were traveling being an lnfrequented trail through the river swamps accounts for the fact that they were not dis covered sooner, Sixteen Injured In Wreck. Charlotte, N. C. ? Sixteen persons were injured, three very seriously, In a disastrous head on collision of ? Piedmont and Northern passenger I coach, west-bound, and a P. & N. freight train, eastbound. a quarter ol a mile beyond the Savona mills, near Lakewood park. At three Charlotte hospitals, to where the Injured were hastily taken,, the patients were re ported to be Improving, with possible the exceptions of the three most ser iously hurt. Two of the patients, T. S. Trott, conductor of the passenger coach, which was telescoped by the locomotive of the freight train In the crash, and J. T. Davis, of Kings Moun tain, a passenger, were still uncon scious. Eleven white persons and five ne groes were hurt In the terrific Impact between the two moving electric trains. Ten of the Injured whites were taken to St. Peter's hospital, the elev enth being carried to the Charlotte sanatorium, and the five negroes were sent to the Good Samaritan hospital Practically every person on tho pas senger coach, probably every one, and one on the freight train, R. William son. motorman, suffered Injuries in the wreck. Broken legs and armi constituted most of the Injuries, the limbs of the occupants of the car being crushed and fractured whon the passenger coach was sent asunder In the awful crash. One man Bufferod two badly broken limbs, a leg and an arm being frac tured In two places each. A woman's leg was broken and two men were Id hospitals with broken arms. Many of the occupants of the passenger coach were cut and bruised about the head, while three have fractured skulls. Adviae Against Entertainment. Washington/ ? Lieut. Lowell H Spnlth, commanding the army around the-world-fllght, cabled Major General Patrick, chief of the army air service, from HOll, Kngland, recomnufidlnf that there he no entortalnment for the filers In the United States ':untll after the finish of the flight." The text of the cablegram followu "Flight leavoB July 30. Recommend that no entertainment for filers be ar ranged until after the finish of the flight, which should be made rapidly to reduco chances of our planes being damaged and to prevent personnel from becoming relaxed. Our planet are In excellent condition and every thing possible has been dona to In sure our success. " Llquor Found to Be Polaon. Salisbury.? A quantity of "rye" liquor recently confiscated when South Carolina bootleggers were arrested has been sent ofT for chemical analy sis by the prohibition headquarter? here and the report Just recolved shows that tho "rye" was ordinary commercial alcohol treated with syn thetlc flavoring and placed In counter feit bottles with counterfeit labels Instead of being old stuff made be fore Mr. Volstead's tlma, It was a cer tain poison. MOTHER! Clean Child's Bowels "California Fig Syrup" is Dependable Laxative for Sick Children Hurry, Mother ! Even ft fretful, fe verish, bilious oi< constipated child loves the pleasant taste of "California Fig Syrup" and It never falls to sweet en the stomach und open the bowels. A teaspoonful today may prevent ft Blck child tomorrow. It doesn't cramp or overact. Contains no narcotics or soothing drugs. Ask your druggist for genuine "Cal ifornia Fig Syrup" which has direc tions for babies and children of all ages printed on the bottle. Mother! You must say "California" or yoo may get an Imitation fig syrup. More Room for Speeder * Not merely must the roads be widened to hold automobile traffic, but many ditches need to be enlurged to hold the speeders. ? Newark Advocate. ASTHMA AND HAY FEVER A GUARANTEED RELIEF "I have arranged with all druggists nere, as well as In all other towns of the U. S., that every sufferer from Asthma, Hay Fever, Bronchial Asthma or difficult breathing can try my treat ment entirely at my risk," Dr. R. Schlff inann announces. He says : "Buy a package of my Asthmador, or cigar ettes, try it, and If it does not afford you Immediate relief, or if you do not find It the best remedy you have ever used, take It back to your druggist and he will return your money cheerfully, and without any question whatever. After seeing the grateful relief It has afforded In hundreds of cases, which had been considered Incurable, and which had been given up In despair, I know what It will do. I am so sure that It will do the same with others that I am not afraid to guarantee It will relieve Instantaneously. Certainly more positive proof can thus bo dem onstrated than a free sample' could possibly prove. Also sent on Baroe guarantee, per parcel post, C. O. D., or on receipt of price, 65c, If not kept by your druggist, by addressing R. Schlffmann Co., 1784 N. Main, Los Angeles, Calif." ? Adv. Takea *Em Up Mother ? Has that young man ever ?poken to you of his forbears? Daughter ? Spoken of them? You'd think he was a drummer carrying a line of ancestors. WOMEN uEEDJWAMP-ROOT Thousands of women hare kidney and bladder trouble and never auapect It. Women's complaints often prove to bs nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder diseaae. If the kidneys are not in a healthy con dition they may cause th? other organ* to beoome diaeaaed. Pain in the back, headache, loaa of ambition, nerrouaneaa are oftentimes aymptoma of kidney trouble. Don't delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmer's Rwamp-Root, a phyaician'a pre scription, obtained at any drug store, may be just the remedy needed to overcom* rich conditions. Get a medium or large sise bottle imme diately from any drug atore. However, if you wish firat to test this great preparation, aend ten centa to Dr. Kilmer A. Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for ? sample bottle. WTien writing, be anr? and mention this paper^-AdvertUement. Of Whatever Kind "Blank'a badly-told ntoriea are ? dreadful bore." "Yes, poor relations generally are." A Lady of Dlatlnctlon In recognized by the delicate, fascinat ing Influence of the perfume she uae*. A bath with Outlcura Roap and hot water to thoroughly cleanae the pore? followed by a duatlng with Outlcura Talcum powder uaually meana a clear, aweet, healthy akin. ? Advertisement. Land Reclaimed From Sea More thnn 1,000,000 acres of land have been reclaimed from the sea, river and lake, In the Netherla o?h Hlnce the Sixteenth century. If your ere* aora, f?t noman I0y? Balaam. Apply It at nlfht and you *r? haalad by momlnr. >7 1 Paarl at., N. T. Adv. Nearly 200 women carpentera, n* shown by the lateat (Jnlte<l State* cepaua, give the lie to the myth that ? woman cannot drive a nail.