Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TWO KILLED IN 1 AUTO ACCIDENTS M 188 RUBY HELM8 AND FRANK REDD DIE WITHIN AN HOUR. I Charlotte, N. C. ? Two persona were killed and one Injured in two separ ate automobile accidents occurring in and near Charlotte within an hour. An automobile overturned on the Lawyers road, killing Frank Redd, 24, of West Palmer street, an occupant, and an automobile ran down and kill ed MIsb Ruby Helms, of 130 Sylvania avenue ,a supervising operator of the telephone exchange, Injuring her com panion, -A. L. Jackson, of 814 East 81xth street, in the outskirts of the city, near Lockwood. Two unidentified white men, occu pants of the machine that figured In the Lockwood accident, were being sought by police. They left neither names nor addresses following the tragedy and lingered only long enough to see that the man and girl were brought to town by chance passers by. Tho accident on the Lawyers' road was caused by wet. slippery pavement. R. F. Snyder, of 1208 1-2 West Trade street, was driving the machine, a Bulck roadster. Neither he nor R. H. Fesperman, of the Dllworth Fire de partment, the third occupant was in jured, but Redd was almost Instantly killed. The accident in which Miss Helms was killed and Jackson injured was of a different variety. The young couple were walking out beyond the Seaboard underpass towards Sylvania avenue, on their way home from a picture show uptown. According to Jackson, they saw the car, believed to have been a large Studebaker, as it approached, and turned to the side of the road. Jackson says the ma chine struck them and carried him underenath for 15 or 20 feet. W. G. Collins, of Twenty-sixth ave nue, and H. M. Ziegler, of West Twen ty-seventh avenue, driving another automobile, arrived Immediately after the accident happened. They said that the two men got out of their car, ap peared nervous and excited, and asked them to take tho man and girl to the hospital. Mr. Collins and Mr. Ziegler brought the man and young woman to the Charlotte Sanatorium, but by the time the woman was inside the hospital she was dead. Lights Pipe, Blast Wrecks Building. Texarkana, Tex. ? Sewer gas is held responsible for an explosion, which blew out a wall of a rest room on tlfe first floor of the new $375,000 munici pal building here and Bet fire to tow els and paper In the room. The fire was quickly extinguished. A wall on the top floor also was cracked and a gust of uprushlng air halted an eleva tor. Other parts of tho buijjfling were not damaged. f The explosion is belfeved to have occurred when R. B. Rush, an assist ant engineer, who was in the rest room, struck a match to light his pipe. Rush was painfully burned about the face and hands. Vote Income Tax Reduction. Washington. ? Removal of more than 1,000,000 Individuals from the federal Income tax roll by Increasing exemp tions, and wide-spread reductions in theBe levies, wore voted by the house ways and means committee as the first actual step in Its preparation of a new revenue bill. The Income tax exemption figures agreed upon wore $1,500 for single persons and $3,500 for heads of fami lies, compared with $1,000 nnd $2,500 respectively in the present la\v. Other changcs decided upon Includ ed : Reduction of the maximum surtax rate from 40 to 20 per cent. Reduction of the normal rates from 2 to 1 1-2 per cent on the first $4,000 of taxable Income, from 4 to 3 per cent on the next $4,000, and from 6 to 5 per cent on the remainder. Increase In the age limit for the $400 exemption allowance for depend ents, from 18 to 21 years In cases where children are In school. Retention of the present 25 per cent reduotlon In the tax whon applied to earned Incomes of $10,000 or less also -was decided upon by the committee. Unhurt in Fall of Thousand Feet. Pensacola, Fla. ? Knslgn Garry Saunders, despite a fall of 1,000 foet from his airplane, oscaped Injury here when he fell Into the harbor of tho Naval Air station. Th? plane was a complete loss. 1 Charged With Murder. Ashevllle. ? The case of V. C. Grant, federal prohibition agent charged with murder In federal court, has been post poned until next session of criminal court her?, although Mr. Grant had asked the district attorney to use all of his Influence In getting a trial he fore Judge B. Yates Webb ?t this term. Grant Is charged with having killed en alleged rum runner In Hen derson county whon tho car of the latter wan stopped and searched for liquor. It la clamed that the blookader Started firing. FOUR ARE KILLED AT RAILROAD CROSSING. Dunn. ? Four people were killed instantly and two others probably fatally Injured, when an Atlantic Coast Line through freight train etruck a Ford touring ear carry ing a family of eight colored peo ple at the Main street crossing in the town of Godyvin. 8 miles south of Dunn. The dead are: Viola Hlckson and her three children, two sons, Lieutenant, aged 11; Joe, aged 7, and one daughter, Pearllne, aged 3 years. Ulyses, aged 10, and Elsie, aged 6, also children of the woman kill ed, .were seriously injured. Elsio suffered a broken back and an ugly gash in her head, while Uly ses suffered a shattered hip and other Injury. Neither is expected to rf-cover The bodies of those killed w-ere badly mangled. An lSmonths old baby, held by the mother, escaped with only slight injury, though the mother was mangled beyond recognition. 8 CHILDREN KILLED IN BUS 21 OTHERS ARE HURT WHEN TRAIN HITS GEORGIA SCHOOL PARTY. Waycross. C,<C. ? Collision of the | Everglades Limited of the Atlantic i Coast Line and a school bus at N'a- | hunta, Ga., resulted in the deaths of ?even children and injuries to 22 oth- ! ?rs. Victims of the crash were hurried lo the hospital here aboard a special iraln. Tour of them died on the way. | The dead are: Hershal Louis, 11; I Thelma Wilson, 12; Anne Belle Wil ton 16; May Thornton 12; *Doris Her rin 14; Audrey Johns, 22; Durwood I Oowling, 7, and Riley Hickox, 7. lie* I ports from the hospital indicated that j no more deaths are expected, and t some others of the remaining victims J ire in a serious condition. The Injured are: Lula Mae Hender- I son, 9; Herbert Robinson, 11; J. P. Robinson, 7; Wylene Dowling, 6; Jeanette Dowling, 0; Frank Louis, 11; CJertie Ixniis, 18; Berdie Louis, 16; Elroy Strickland, 10; Lynelie Thorn Ion, 16; Etlna Lyons, 8; Pearl Strick land, 17; Doyle Dowling, 7 Creola Dowling, 8; Cecil Dowling. 8; Archie Lyons, 13; Mamie Roberts, 11; Burru^ Todd, 13; Alice Lucile Harris, 6; Katie May Wilson, 12; and Alice Har ris, 8. Elroy Strickland, who was driving the bus, suffered a fractured leg. Ho stated to railroad officials here that tie was driving In a misty rain and lad all side curtains of the bus clos ed. As he approached the railroad .rack, he said, he asked one of the i?oys on the bus to look toward the iouth. Just as the bus reached the tenter of the crosing, the train crash ed inHo It. Dynamiters Blow Up Dwelling. Durham. ? After an investigation for |4 hours. Sheriff Bunn Lloyd of Grange county, stated over the long listance telephone from Hil'shoro that ie and his deputies had failed to find l single clue which would lead to the irrest of the guilty parties who plac id a dynamite bomb beneath the porch )f the dwelling of R. J. Walker and >lew the front of the houso away, in luring Mr. and Mrs. Walker who were jccupylng a room on the second story >f the building. Bloodhounds wro carried to the icene a short while after the blast ?nd these picked up a trail at the porch but this ended at the street tnd-thls leads to the belief that the >ombers arrived and left In an auto nobile. Geo. Anderson Meets Death. Muskegon, Mich. ? Tho Inexorable lad of Iho law has cut the last notch n the gun of the notorious George "Dutch" Anderson; and the notch i itands for Anderson himself. ( Anderson, gunman, pal of tho "su ier criminaly" Gerland Chapman, and ho man whose face stares from thou lands of "wanted"' placards in post offices and jails across the continent, vas dropped by a bullet from his own evolver, wrested from him by Detect ve Charles Hammond. Death overtook Anderson Saturday, t was not a clear victory for the law, >ocauso Anderson, with his last shot, nortally wounrled Detective Hammond md died with the blood of his last ?letim oozing Into the dirth of an al ey a few feet from the heart of lowntown Muskegon. , losse Killed By Car. t Columbia, S C A coroner's Jury nvestignting the death of David B. Mosse, pressman for tho Columbia tecord. who wns found dead under a itreet car. brought out a formal v?r lift that tho deceased came to his leath by being struck by a street car Irlven by W. P. Blair, motorman. The 'erdlot does not noc.essarlly mean that ho motorman will bo held. The street railway officials and the notorman said they were unable to 'nderstand how the body got under lie car. ? . MAXIMUM IN TAX REDUCTION GOAL C/fLLS ON TREASURY FOR DATA ON R6CEIPT8 AND EX PENSES. Washington ? Desiring to mako the maximum possible reduction in taxes, the house ways and means committee asked the treasury, which has suggest ed a limit of 1300,000.000 to present additional data on probable govern ment expenses und receipts for the next fiscal year so It can determine for Itself how far to go In cutting levies. While Secretary Mellon proposed that the government's annual Income be reduced by not more than $300,- j 000,000, committee members feel It may be possible, on the basis of late estimates, to go ebyoncl this figure. President Coolidge inclines to a simi lar view. All of the 25 members of the com mittee were present at the first of Its j executive sessions and indications j were renewed that representatives of both parties would work together to draft a non partisan measure In time for presentation when Congress con venes December 7. Under a program of procedure ap proved, the committee will tackle the income taxes after setting Its goal for t total reductions. Secretary Mellon recommended a rut In the maximum surtax rate from j 40 to 20 per cent and reductions of about 50 per cent In most of the nor- > mal rates, hut opposed Increased ex emptions. His surtax suggestion has received considerable support among committee members, but many have urged greater cuts in the normal rates and increased exemptions. "American Independence" Completed. Florence, Italy ? The Vagnall foun dry here virtually has completed a solossal monumental group represent ing "American Independence' made by the Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, wn.ch will be ready to be shipped to New York at the end of this year, or early in 1926. The monument, which is 40 feet long and 35 feet high, without lt.< case contains 16 full figures, 26 heads or busts and two horse heads. It can be cut into 17 pieces fo Transporta tion, while the base can be cut Into eight pieces. ^ Speed HlQhways Urged. Members of the Eingneers' club in New York City are working on a sys tem of now federal highways ovor im portant traffic routeB of the United States, which will permit 40 miles con tinuous speeds and which will be un obstructed by grade crossings, road croBBlngs or cities. It Is believed that motorists would gladly pay a cent a mllo on them because of the saving In fuel, wear and tear, time and limited po ? 8 1 b 1 1 1 1 y of accidents. Gets $50,000 Jewels. New York. ? While I^ouis Steinberg, a de ler in diamonds in the United Jewelers Exchange building on the Bowery, was engaged in a telephone conversation, a young man, who has posed as the owner of a Long Island Jowelry store, walked out of his office with. $50,000 worth of unBet stones. The man, whose description Stetnberg gave police, had gained the dealer's confidence during three previous visits I on each of which he had bought about I $50 worth of Jewelry. The young man had said he wanted to purchase a large amount of Jewelry nnd had been Invited behind the counter when the telephone rang. 350 Year-Old Coffin to Be Preserved. St. Austustine, Fla.. ? The coffin that for three and one-half centuries hous ed the bones of Don Pedro Menede>! Adelantado of Florida, and founder of the city of St. Augustine, will be pre served eternally In a mausoleum on Anasasla Island. Don Pedro still sleeps In Spain where he died In September, 1574. Last' year the city of Avllls paid him the honor of a new burial box and gave the old one to FlorldanH. A. h. Suesta, Tampa, In whose care tho cof fin was consigned, has consented to give costody of It to D. P. Davis, of St. Augustine, provided It be placed In a maosoleum and the ground deed ed to the city as a park. The relic will take rank In antiquity here with the old Spanish fort, now named Fort Marlon and the moulder ing headstonoa that lie above the oarly Spanish explorers In the old graveyard. Don I>*dro founded St. Augustine on September 8. 1565. .lard Luck Follow* Family. New York ? Hard luck continues to follow tho family of Frank Mackln, whose five year old son either strayed away from his home here or was kid napped. His daughter, Agnes, 8, was soveroly burned when celluloid beads about her neck caught fire. Her mother also wan burned attempting to extinguish the flamea. The girl wan taken to Hellavite hos pital. In another hospital Ilea Anna Mur.kln, four months old infant ef the ?family, suffering from malnutrition. SEVEN NOTABLE8 ARE ALLOWED BAIL IN DRY CA8E. St. Louis. ? Seven of 22 St. Louis iana named in Indictments charg ing conspiracy to violate the Vol stead act made bond for their ap pearance at Indianapolis next Saturday for arraignment. Indict ments ere returned against the 22 in Indianapolis last Saturday as having conspired to the theft of 893 barrels of whiBkey from the Jack Daniel distillery warehouse in 1923. Those who gave bond were Collector of Internal Rev enue Hellmlch, Nat Goldstein, lang identified with republican politcs in St. Louis; State Sena tor Michael Kinney and his broth er, W. J. Kinney, and Fred Essen, reputed republican "boss" of St. LouiB county; R. E. Walker, for mer deputy sheriff, and M. Maltin. BUSINESS MOVE AT BEST PAGE INTENSIFIES WAVE OF OPTIMISM THAT HAS SV\EPT THE COUNTRY. New York. ? -Business activities last week continued to vibrate at the fast- ! est pace yet attained this year, giving impetus to the rising tide of optimism ( which recently had swept over the country. Diversified measures of trade improvement stood near the highest levels of 102.". with gains [ over corresponding periods last year becoming more pronounced each week. One of the significant features of ; the week was the striking improve- i ment in earnings reported by both 1 railroad and industrial corporations. Net income of the class one carriers ; for September, based on the first TO ! roads to report, was estimated at 1 1132,000.000, a new high record for the month. At t hi s rate, the earnings of the railroad for the first nine months of | the year would be equivalent to about ; 6.46 per cent on their tentative valu- j ation. Car loadings continued at the 1 rate of more than a million a week. I Total earnings of the United States j Steel corporation, accepted as a ba- ! rometer of industry, were more than ! $+2,000,000 for the third quarter and 1 about $12,000,000 above the corres ponding period of 1924. Despite the summer curtailment, the showing was the best of any period this year and evidenced a remarkable stability of i earnings which has rarely been equal- I led. The industry continued to oper ate well about 80 per cent of capacity ! and wa8 visibly cheered by Elbert H. j Gary'B recent prediction that manufac turers would be turning away business by next spring. ? Prosperity of the automobile com panies, as indicated by the earnings of | three large motor manufacturers in i the third quarter, has been unequalled at any previous period since the war. i Net earnings of the General Motors, j Studebaker and Chrystler corporations showed gains of the preceding quarter and striking increases over the corres ponding period of last year. New sales records were established by many of the motor companies for the quarter and the nine months period. Surveys of commercial activity re vealed that the improvement was not confined to a few industries. Rev. A. T. Banks Victim of Gun. Cherryville.? Rev. A. T. Ranks, pas tor of the Presbyterian church at Cherryville, was accidentally killed while hunting with friends by the ac cidental discharge of a shotgun, the hajnmer of which struck an obstruc tion as he was loading It Into an au tomobile, stock first, preparatory to returning home. The full load entered Mr. Ranks' chest In the region of the heart, lie was dead before assistance could reach him. Other members of the hunting party, hearing the report, hurried to the scene. Ulfe was already extlhct when they raised .Mr. Hanks from the ground. The accident occurred on the farm af Fletcher Dellinger, two miles from Cherryville. The party had gone out after squirrels. The other hunters were in the Immediate neighborhood and saw the preacher fall. A physl clan was rushod to the scene quickly, but there was nothing he could do. Two Killed By Plane. Independence, Kans.? Paul Gibson, 25, Independence, and Harold H. Catik Ins, aviator, Parsons, Kens., were kill ed hero when a wing of an airplane In which they were flying broke off and the plane crashed 5,000 feet to the ground. Gibson deaf and dumb since birth, went up with Caukb.a In an effort to effect a cure for his deafness. Saxophone Player Freed of Killing. Miami. ? "Justlflaflble homicide" wai the verdict of the coroner's Jury In the case against Harry J. Hearn. lfi year old Atlanta hoy, charged with killing his landlord, J. T. Tlmberlake, In Miami, by hitting him on the head with a rock during a fight following Tlm borlake's order to Her^n to move out Immediately because ho was playing * saxophone. The Jury deliberated only three min utes. Hearn was Immediately releas ed from Jail. He claimed self defense and aald Tlmberlake attacked him. RDM CLUBS TO MEET DEC. 8 ROTARIAN8 OF MANY TOWNS TO HOLD INTERCITY MEET IN CHARLOTTE. Charlotte, N. C. ? Rotarlans of Char lotte and more than half a dozen neighboring towns will hold an Inter city meeting here December 8, It was announced by Hamilton C. Jones, pres ident of the Charlotte club, at Its weekly luncheon meeting at the Chamber of Commerce. A committee of the local club has been busy for several weeks arrang ing the detallii of the program for the lnter-clty meeting, which will be a sort of all-day affair, with a lunch eon at 1 o'clock, which in the case of Charlotte Rotarians will take the place of the regular weekly luncheon. Among the Rotary clubs invited to attend the inter city meeting are those at Monroe, Concord. Salisbury. Moores vllle, Statesville. Gastonia and Hock hii:. The program of the meeting was in charge of the business methods com mittee, of which Chas. H. Brockman is chairman. The chief speaker was Frederick W. Mozart, of Houston, Texas, formerly secretary of the Ro tary club of Worcester, Mass , who gave some of his impressions of Char lotte as gained during \ho 10 days ho has been here and stressed the im portance of local citizens keeping their money in Charlotte, of "spending your money where you make it." In the course of his address he de clared that Charlotte Is the most wide ly advertised city in the United States, outside of Florida and the great met ropolitan centers, and a city of the most wonderful opportunities and ad vantages, and yet he said that the people here seem to him to be entire ly too self satisfied and contented with things as they are. He declared that there were store windows In Charlotte that had not been changed or re dressed since he came here. H. P. Harding, a member of the Na tional Education association, told of the work and influence of that organi zation, saying that it Bhould be credit ed with the fact that the schools throughout the nation have been more or less standardized, and that tne grades and curricula are practically the same in all cities. Louis Llplnsky, president of the Charlotte Merchants association, told of the trementous progress made In the last 20 years and more In the mat ter of conducting retail mercantile business, comparing some of the old customs and practices with the mod ern ways of doing business. Girl Bandit Appears in Columbia, Columbia, S. C. ? A game that was pulled In Charlotte a few days ago was worked here, when a man and girl boarded a street car and staged a uni que robery. They engaged the motor man-conductor In a few words, and then drew a gun and demanded his money. The car stopped automatically as soon as the motorman's hand was released from the control lever, and the girl disappeared. The conducvor rr.otorman was rob bed of $20, his change and a watch. Officers have notified other cities, as they believe the couple are work ing their way south, pulling this trick In a number of cities. They answer the description of the two who robbed a conductor on a Charlotte car. Governor Cancels Pardons. Little Rock, Ark. ? Governor Tom J. Terrell issued an order setting aside the nine pardons insued by Acting Gov ernor S. H. (fete) McCall last week and directed Dee Horton, superinten dent of state prison to retake tho eight men and one woman and return them to the prison. Kentucky Election Casualties. Txmlsville, Ky. Three men were re ported killed in election fights In Kon tucky. Reports from Harlan said William Gilbert and a man named Maples killed each other and Whites burg dispatches said George Hales was killed and four others injured near there when shots were exchang ed. Cuitomn Receipts Gro>A* Washington ? Federal revenue from the customs houses In October estab lished a new record for that month, re fleeted steadily improved world eco nomic conditions October receipts were $F>2.R3f),2f>0, more than $1,750,000 over the September total and almost four millions above October of last year. 25 Million Merger. Chattanooga, Tenn.? Announcement has been made here by T. R I'reston. a director, that the merger of the Hon Air Coal and Iron corporation, tho Ten noBsee Consolidated Coal company, the J. J Gray company of Nashville, and the Chattanooga Coke and (las company of Chattanooga had been con solidated. It was further announced that the combined Interests would be completely reorganized and will be known as the Tennessee By-Producla company with a capital of 126,000.000 Lame, Tired, Achy' Are you tired, lame, achy? worrU with backache? Do you suffer shu pains, headaches, dizziness and disturl ing bladder irregularities! Perhtj your kidneys need attention. 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