Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? If ?* > - < . National Archives Is New and Valuable U. S. Bureau Provides a Safe Place for Uncle Sam's "Papers." Washington. ? A' new and valuable division of the government Is coming into existence In Washington so quiet ly that little Is heard about It. It Id a nutlonal archives, where, for the first time, Uncle Sam will have a safe place In which to deposit his "family papers." A bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geo graphic society tells of the new archives building and the work that will go on In It. "The structure, which will house the national government's assembled archives Is one of the handsomest that Is being added to the 'Capital's notable group of public buildings," says the bulletin. "Outside it is a thing of classic Greek beauty; but Inside It Is ultra-modern. It has no windows, and neither outside light nor natural out* Bide air will be admitted. Summer and winter the temperature will be kept ?round 72 degrees. The air will be conditioned the year round by a spe cial plant which will wash out all traces of acid, which greatly shortens the life of paper. All stone and metal work In the interior of the building will be coated with a preparation to prevent the flaking of paint or the formation o' dust. Archivist Appointed. "The new structure occupies a tri angular plot of ground at the Junction of Pennsylvania and Constitution ave nues, the apex of the federal ofilce bulldli><? triangle. It Is expected to be ready for use by the middle of next Bumir-v. "In many countries of Europe a na tional archives has long been an im portant arm of the government. Sev eral states In this country have sim ilar establishments for the preserva tion of official papers, records, and other documents. Hut for the 1 r?8 I years since the Declaration of Inde pendence was signed the United States ha* had no ofllclal agency responsible for the documents that have charted Its course as a nation. "In June l'.>34, congress enacted n bill creating the office -of archivist of the United States. To organize this new agoncy, President Roosevelt re cently appointed Robert lMgges Wlm berly Connor, of North Carolina, as the nation's first archivist. "Teachers, students, lawyers, con gressmen, resenrch scholars, writers, diplomats, historians and others will benefit when this treasure house of records is opened. For the first time scattered records, treaties, legal pa pers, and other official documents of active or historical value will be gath ered together In a fireproof, dustproof, and llght'proof home. Much of this priceless material now reposes In dusty files, or In damp cellars, or In half forgotten lofts, where It Is difficult of access and exposed to destruction by tire, light, or dampness. "Just what sort of material will go Into our national archives? Mr. Con nor, the new archivist Bays It Is per haps too early to give ahy lists, but the act of congress creating the ofllce states that all archives or records be longing t-> the government of the United States, whether from congress, the law courts, or the executive di visions under the President, shall be open to Inspection by the national archivist and his stafT, and that they may be removed to the Archives build ing. What Archives Will Contain. "If a government olllcial believes that certain records should be kept secret for a limited period of time, however, these records will not be available for Inspection. But the 'secret period' cannot be extended be yond the term of otllce of the official making the request. "The national archivist and his staff may collect any government records they wish, but before they may burn or throw away any piece of ofllclal pa per, they must flrsr get the permis sion of congress and the government agency concerned. To prevent over crowding, the archivist each year will submit a list of useless material for destruction. "In addition to papers and docu Policeman Carries Radio in His Hat Tulare, Calif. ? Merchant Patrol man Ralph Barlow has no difficulty keeping confidential police bulletins "under his hat." Barlow's hnt Is equipped with a miniature radio receiving set, Including antenna, crystal and an earphone. With the set. Barlow receives all bulletins broadcast over the Tulare police department's short-wave radio. ments, the national archives will also receive motion picture films of Im portant historical events. "Of Interest to scholars, throughout the world Is the additional provision for a national historical publications committee, which shall recommend documents for printing and distribu tion to libraries, colleges, writers, etc. "Among the hallowed national 'fam ily papers' that will be deposited In the new building are: The treaty of Paris, 1788, by which Great Britain recognized the Independence of the United States; Lincoln's emancipation proclamation ; the Versailles treaty of 1919; resolution of congress declaring war against Germany, April 6, 191T; and the Kellogg pact, August 27, 1928. "The original copies of the two greatest documents owned by the United States, the Declaration of In dependence and the Constitution, will probably remain In the library of con gress. They were placed there a few years ago by a special executive order, and another such order would be need ed to remove them. Senatorial Secretaries Are Ready This group of uttructlve secretaries and stenographers of senators was found by the camera man chatting on the steps of the Capitol In Washington, waiting for the new congress to convene. Left to right, the girls are: Dorothy E. Duffey and Flo Rratton of Senator Barkley's ofllce ; Mary Vee Ilaardt and Betty Ilaardt of Senator Ashurst's office ; Mary Love Henry, senate guide room: and Josephine Sterling from Vice President Garner's ofllce. Man Is Touring World With Only One Cent <? Sign Painter Set* Out to Cover 45,000 Miles. Paris. ? Traveling around the globe with on one cent In his pocket, Emil Richard Nivala, twenty-flve-yenr-old sign painter of Astoria, Ore., has passed through here after becoming engaged to be married In Finland. Nivala had plenty of adventures on freight trains and tramp schooner* during thes28,000 miles he already has covered, but he did not find romance until ho reached Itautlo, Finland. There he studied Finnish and fell In love with his teacher, Miss Aino Ver ron. "I must hurry up and finish the rest of the 4.r>,0()0 tallow of my Itinerary so I can get hack to Oregon and ?et mar ried," he said. "The life of the rolling ntone Is Kreut sport but It can't be done after you get married and settle down." His only luggage Is a briefcase which can bo carried by band or strapped on the back. It contains a change of linen, a diary, a map of the world and MAY SUCCEED FARLEY W. W. IIowmm, nt prom/nt rtrat analat ant poRtmnntor *.noral of the United States, who \* alated to micceed Pout iroMtar General James A. Farley, when r latter steps out of the cabinet with the next few month*, according to tellable Information. some knlcknacks picked up en route. On the outside of the case la Inscribed the legend: "Round about the world ? 4f>,000 miles or more ? with one cent." Born In Astoria, Ore., of Finnish parents, NIvalA left home July 18, 1032. determined to see at least 4,">,000 miles of the world. lie pot his first lift by pl$ne to Portland, Ore. Thence he traveled through .38 of the 48 states of the Union, mostly on freight trains. After touring Mexico he returned to the United States and obtained free pas sage on a boat to the Scandinavian countries by looking after two passen gers of doubtful mentality. Ills only documents, which he carries In his coat pocket, consist of an Ameri can passport, a letter from the mayor of Astoria, and one In French from the Finnish consul In New York, at testing to his g<K)d character and honesty. Lighted Green Cross Becomes Landmark Again Cleveland. ? A green cross shines again from the top of old St. Malachl's church hero on the West side and old timers who have lived In the neighbor hood where the church has stood 03 years are rejoicing. The cross once was a factor In guid ing I,ake Krle anllors Into the dock here. It shone at night until 20 years ago. But now It has been replaced. Sailors have their modern lighthouses In the harbor now. but the light Is serv ing as a beacon to the torrential flow of boulevard trafllc passing near It. It used to be lighted by gas. Now elec tricity dot?s It. Gaelic Radio Messages Fool Canadian Crooks Winnipeg, Man.? Oeorge Smith, Win nlpeg's chief of police, has discovered s method of preventing bandits from Intercepting messages broadcast from headquarters to prowling police radio cars. Il? has ordered the police sta tion to use (laellc, Instead of ICngllsh, In sending out orders. There are enough Scotsmen on the force to make the plan feasible. An officer who can read Oaellc as well as Kngllsh Is assigned to every squad car. His Job Is to translate tho mes sages to his less learned colleagues. Not to be outdone, local newspapers equipped with short wave radio sets to intercept police messages have' put Scotch reporters In charge of the work. The bandits, however, are out of luck unless they can persuade a Scotsman to accompany them on their raids. I Prehistoric Footprints Found in Nova Scotia Parrshoro, N. S. ? 'Footprints of a prehistoric animal, which lived and died In the days when most of Nova Scotia was a low subtropical swamp with a hot and humid climate and great ferns and horsetails, havo been found here. More than 100 clear Impressions of the foot trncks have been found. Pho tographs and plaster casts of the prints have been made by an expert from thS department of paleontology of the Na tional museum at Ottawa. The Iden tity of the animal has not yet been de termined. The llrst evidence of air-breathing animals of the carboniferous period ever found In Nova Scotia was at Nor ton HI tiff, Kings county, In 1341, by Sir William Logan, the famous geologist Sitting Bull's Former Prison Razed by Time Gross, Neb. ? A few miles north of l.ere at the site of the one-time Impor tant Fort Bnndnll military post tliero are now scant landmarks of the former post. The climax of Its history was when It served as the prison camp for Sit ting Bull, the Sioux chieftain, after the killing of Gen. George Ouster and his soldiers. The fort was on the west bank of the Missouri river Just across the Ne braska Dakota line. For many years after the Indian wars barracks, resi dences, n stone church and other build ings remained deserted, only to bo rar.ed later for the building materials they contained. Dn| Guard* D?*d Mrntur Klyrla, Ohio. ? Faithful to the end to bis dead master, an eleven-year old bridle bulldog fought five firemen and two policemen for more than nn hour to keep them from the body of George Bruce, sixty one years df age, after Bruce had fallen to his death down a ten-foot cliff In a park here. Altiino D??r Bugged Balelgh, N. C. ? An albino deer has been killed In Northampton county, and presented to the State museum. The 170-pound buck Is only the second of his species ever to l>e received ut the museum. BRISBANE THIS WEEK No, No Cash Money Won Their Reward To Discourage Murder No Surprise Possible According to solemn agreement, made between "gallant allies," which the British call themselves and us, the United States should receive from Great Britain the sura of $300,000,000. Another considerable sum on account of' "war debts of honor" Is due from France. Will these amounts be paid to maintain, spotless, the honor of na tions that borrowed in their troubles? They will not be paid. Nothing will be paid. Three hundred nnd sixty mil lions of dollars are more important than "spotless honor." To the announcement that she would pay nothing' Great Britain frankly adds that "It would be useless, and there fore unwise," even to attempt nego tiations. Little Finland, on the contrary, an nounces her intention to pay the In stallment. Napoleon called England **a nation of shopkeepers," which an noyed the English and was Inaccurate. Shopkeepers make It a habit to pay their debts in order to keep their credit. Two life convicts have earned free dom by submitting to medical experi ment, with "tuberculosis vaccine," or "preventive." The "preventive" with which the doctors have experimented on Carl Erlcson and Mike Schmidt for months past, is not a tuberculosis cure. It prevents those Inoculated from con tracting tuberculosis, as ordinary vac cination prevents contracting small pox. Doctors of the National Jewish hos pital, who have worked on the new serum for 15 years past, warned the convicts that they would risk their lives In the experiment, now proved successful. Both braved death In hope of pos sible recovery of liberty as the re ward. They have won the reward. On both sides of the Atlantic at tempts are made to discourage murder. President Roosevelt takes the lead here, summoning ad forces of the coun try ? state. -national and local ? to fight private crime, banditry, traffic in nar cotics, lynchTTigs, kidnaping, plain or dinary murder. Private crime worries us here. Doctor Dafoe is in New York, first ?Lait, and surprised reporters note that he shows, no amazement when gazing on skyscrapers and canyon-like streets. The reporters need not have been surprised. Doctor Dafoe Is the man who Introduced the five Dlonne quin tuplets to the world, and kept them alive, breaking all records, after they fot here. When you have ushered Ave little girls into the world, one after the other, you can no longer be surprised by a mere skyscraper. Doctor Rosenbach, book specialist, thinks New York city needs a build ing devoted exclusively to the works of Shakespeare. It is a shame, says he, that "scholars have to go 3.000 miles to see a quarto of 'Hamlet.' " For tunately, they can get a better Hamlet than that "quarto" in any good book ?tore for one dollar. To do Justice to Shakespeare, yon might have one' building devoted en tirely to hooks written about Hamlet, who never lived. Rev. Joseph A. Davis, colored, sixty five years old, very eloquent preacher, who operates a garage between Sun days, says he Is the New York repre sentative of Senator Huey I/ong'a "share-the-wealth" Idea and already has 10,000 members willing to help share the wealth In Harlem. He's only waiting word from Sen ator l/ong to start 'n earnest. "Me and the senator will take this town like an epidemic," savs he, "Epidemic" Is what the French would call I/e mot Juste ("Just the right word"). Fifty men wrr? arrested at a cock fight near Ixjs Angeles. Klx hundred watched the fighting. Two fighting roosters were named Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, singularly inappro priate names. If you know anything about fighting roosters. The extraordinary thing Is that adult Americans, not semi-savage Malays, should actually ertjo.v watching roost ers driving steel needles Into each oth er's hrain*. Dr. I/<?o Wolmnn, Intelligent, level headed young man, with Nicholas Kelly and Richard L. Byrd, la In Detroit to see that employees In th? automobile Industry have a chance, "without fear of intimidation, to elect their own rep resentatlves to bargain with employ ers." If this means that the automobile Industry through th? pow#r of the United States government Is to he put in charge of organized labor lenders, the experiment will >>e Interesting. An Inquiring alderman In New York discovers that ninety one men working on "relief work" eliminating mos quitoes were supervised by nlnety-fiv* bosses. On account of cold weathei the ninety-one mosquito exterminators were laid off, btit ninety-five bosses were kept bossing Imaginary exterminator* Q. Kln? Svn<1lo*t^ In*. WNU Mr rU*. FURNITURE SHOW IS COMING IN CHICAGO Manufacturers Will Display Their New Lines. Chicago. ? Homo furnishings for 1(.)3.'> ? on which designers, production men iind factory chiefs nave been winking for several months, will make their bow t<> the nation's buyers ami retail executives at the Industry's national market ut the American furniture mart in this city, opening January 7 for two weeks. The displays . almost GOO of them . . are ex pected to draw approximately ti.."iOO buyers to the opening. Furnishings fur the new recreation rooms in America's basements, for the extra bedrooms In the attics and for all the livings rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, halls, kitchens, nurseries, dens and porches in between, will l>e shown at the mart ? the lamest display of fur niture and allied products under one roof in the world. And with the mer chandise Itself will he ideas for dis playing it, plans for selling it. adver tislng and promotional helps to per ndt better merchandising by stores ev erywhere. "We're preparing f ir the largest at tendance of any market since 11)30, In eluding the two World's fair markets of 1033 and 11)34." Lawrence II. Whit ing, president of the Furniture Mart, declared. "Between-season attendance of buy ers, throughout the fall, has been run ning 2."> per cent alu*nd of last year's record." he pointed out. "More than 1,000 buyers registered at the mart In August. October and November. They'll nil be back, with thousands more. fo? the major buying season. Our plans t< entertain crowds of this size were formed after a careful study of condi tions in all parts ot' the country. "A few facts, not opinions only, show : "1. business Is better now. The) past few weeks have been profitable after an earlier slump. If you're Dem ocratic, you may sti y we're well on tie way to recovery; if iiepublican. that there has been a "seasonal'' improve ment. Hut the fact remains that we're bettor off than a year ago. "2. The new styles are undeniably business-builders. Modern, now definite ly established, makes it easier to per suade women to refurnish their homes before new furniture becomes a necess 1 ty through the complete collapse of the old. The ll)3."i lines are different . . and the public Is gradually be coming style-conscious in regard to fur niture, as in the case of wearing ap parel, motor cars and other commod ities. "3. The federal housing program, even in its earliest phases, promises to be one of the most Important fac tors In the furniture Held. New homes mean new furniture, whether the furni ture Itself is financed by a government agency or not. You'll want to hear the men from Washington who will ex plain the alms of the new housing movement at the National Retail Fur niture association convention, held at the time of the market. "4. The groundwork for recovery has finally been securely laid. Stocks are iow, prices stabilized; the stronger units, In both the manufacturing and retail fields, are left to carry through. And you can't overestimate the pent up demand for furniture that has accu mulated during the lean years!" A special floor covering show and un usual exhibits in the Furniture Mart's restaurant mart division, for those Inter ested in institutional equipment, are timorig the attractions this season. The National Retail Furniture association and the National Association of Fur niture Manufacturers, both with nead quarters in the Furniture Mart, will keep open house for members during the market weeks. And for entertainment. Chicago will be In the midst of the winter season, with new shows, new stars at the nighf clubs and hotel dine-and dance moms professional hockey games and all tie rest of the amusements of America'-; second largest city. Special events for furniture visitors will be sponsored bv the Furniture Club of America. As always, the Furniture Mart will be closed to the public, admittance h?> ing by pass only. Passes may he <d> tained in advance by written request to the Registration Department. American Furniture Mart, (10(5 Lake Shore Drive Chicago. Dr. Theobald Smith, Noted Pathologist, Is Dead New York. -Dr. Theobald Smith, seventy five, president of the Rocke feller Institute for Medical Research who turned Into ew channels an en tiro if ream of medical thought, died here. An eminent pathologist, honored In almost every nation, he opened the way ?o conquest of typhoid fever. cho| era, malaria, and yellow fever, lie proved for the first time that Insect hosts spread certain disease* to man. Dr. Smith died of heart disease. Minittftr Drown* llima?df Waltham, Mass.? The body of W. Hanson Pulsford, seventy live, a retired L'nlfnrlan minister, was found beneath fhe Ice of Lyman's pond, Just as he had Indicated In a letter to a friend I'ulsford lived in Chicago until ton yen i s ago. Fire Dettroyi Mail on Train St. I'anl, Minn.- A mystery fire do stroyod the contents of a mall cat loaded with parcel post In the St. Paul Colon depot yards. ARTHUR HENDERSON This Is a now portrait of Arthur Henderson of Kimland, president of the disarmament conference, to whom was awarded the Nobel prize for peace. FORD IS TO SPEND EIGHT MILLION MORE Will "Create Employment by Reviving Industry." Detroit. ? The l-'ord Motor company announces that contracts for nearly SMKHUHMi worth of equipment for Us steel rolling mills and other equipment will he awarded in the next <>" days, bringing to approximately !?20,0(Ht,000 its expend!! tires on development of the Rouge jflant. The annoiinceitient says suppliers "benefit; ing by this tide of work have plants all over the eastern half of the I'nited Slates,'' and described tlu* 1 'ord expansion program as "a drive to er-'aie employment l>y reviving in* dusi ry." Several inoiuhs ago the addition of two steei mills and power units was. announced hy the I-'ord company, and contracts totaling nearly !>r_'.000. ' m M ? embracing this program already have heen signed, material now arriv i nir at the plant. The new units under construction are a Meel finishing jdant, to cost So.-IGo.OOM ; a hot steel strip mill, cost ing Sd.l 11,02?$ ; n stripper building for handling ingots, S2.'$o,<HH) ; new steam and electrical nnits for the power house, $ l.oOO.SSN ; new blast furnaces and foundry equipment, $2,120,4(50. and additional equipment of several kinds, costing $:U44.2:>0. made necessary by the shift from 24 to 10-hour produc tion. The aggregate Is $10, OHO, 521, and contracts covering $11, 742, GOO already have been let. NRA Dead as the Dodo, Says Gen. Hugh Johnson New York. ? Brig. tien. Hugh S. John son, former National Recovery admin istrator, announced "the NRA Is as dead as the dodo, which Is not only dead but extinct." The tlery administration leader of other days issued that statement at ft department store where he was auto graphing copies of the two books he had written while he was a lieutenant in the I'nited States cavalrj. Amplifying his statement (lenerat Johnson said the NRA does not oper ate. He announced he has ended all contact with It. When asked if he In tended to suggest methods of opera tion to the present NRA olliclals he de clared: "That was Just the trouble. Too many people were trying to tell me what to do." Machado Hiding in Reich Boarding House Hamburg, (Jermany.? Cerardo Macha do. former president of Cuba, sought, seclusion in a hoarding house alter completing Ids voyage from the Do minican republic. The fugitive states man gave orders to I he house per sonnel to <ii setose no information about his movements. British Name General to Command in Saar London The war ofliee announce!* that MaJ. (Jen. J. Iv S. Rrlnd, com mander of the Fourth division, will, command the League of Nation's in ternational force to be sent to the Saar basin for the forthcoming plebescite. Muliony llrmlii A. A. U. Miami, Kla. ? Carefully sidestepping controversial Issues throughout the final session In carrying forward Its fnr reaching sports program, the Amateur Athletic union closed Its forty-sixth na: tlonal convention by unanimously elect Ing Jeremiah T. Mnhoney of New York, fifty six-year old former Jurist, ni pres blent for the coming year, succeeding Avery Mrundage of Chicago. Couple Found Slain Cleveland, Miss. Apparently the vie llm of n fiend who sought to wlprt out an entire family, fbo bodies < f Mr. and Mrs. A I?. Turner, their headn crushed, were found In their homo near here. Two small children wern found alive, but the older, six, had been brutally beaten. K. of C. Official I. Dead Toledo, Ohio. ? Daniel K. Under, su preme agent of the Knights of Colum bus, died In n hospital here.