The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 18, 1924, Image 7
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COOK BROKEN MAN
icoverer of North Pole Said
9 He 111 in TexaH Jail.
edcrick A. Cook, noteworthy
ailure to discover- tHe North
>re recently convicted of a
Dllar oil swindle, has for the
i in almost six months, been
1 to inhale the copious air
iw-abiding citizen, says a
rth, Texas, dispatch,
of countenance, sunken of
id his long gray hair strag
newhat unsightly about his
former idol of kings walked
cell at the county jail into
(sphere of free men ? but he
along to the exasperating
glittering handcuffs and the
accompanying try ad of an' unsympa
thetic federal officer.
He was escorted to the offices of a
dentist, where several bothersome
ftolarg were extracted. ?
While his score of colleagues have
all forsaken their guiding star, who
piloted them so miserably through
several months of staggering riches,
I)r. Cook still clings to the belief that
his appeal to a higher tribunal will
bring victory ? and eventual freedom.
His - companions who so nobly
elected to "stand by him" at the hour
of his incarceration have all thought
better of it, and set out for Leaven
woi'th to do their bit.
Frequently the question arises, has
Dr. Cook "salted" any of Ms Ill
gotten gain?"
Federal authorities, including
Judge Killotts, who pronounced the
14-year sentence on tho explorer, de*
elare that his future in amply pro
vided for.
To such question* I>r? Cook re?,
mains impassively silent. lie neither
denies nor affirms the belief of postal
experts^ who examined the books of
his Petroleum Producers' association
and reported many thousand* unac
counted for. They have intimated be
lief t'^ese vast sums would be at his
disposal when he walks, or is carried,
from his cell at the expiration of his
sentence- for i>r. Cook is old.
He is nearing the 'three-score mark
in life, and 14 years of prison hard
ships loom yawningly ahead for this
picturesque adventurer,. who bCHVP
the decorations of empires.
Four men were killed and 13 in
jured Saturday night, when shots
were fii'ed into a crowd of towns
people just before 500 members of
the Ku Klux Klan boarded a special
train for Johnstown after holding
ceremonies in a field near the town
and a demonstration in the streets of
Lilly, Pa. The dead, who were all
residents of tho town, are: Phillip
Conrad, 26; Frank Measko, 22; Floyd
Paul, 28,. and an unidentified man.
The injured, some of whom are ex
pected to die, were taken to hospitals
in Johnstown and Altoona. A special
train bearing 100 robed men arrived
at the railroad station here early in
the evening. The klansmen detrained
and held a ceremony at a field near
the town. They were at the station
ready to entrain again when tho
shooting occurred. Some residents of
the town aro said to have played a
stream of water from the town fire
hose upon the visitors as they were
marching to the station.
Mary Garden, famous grand opera
diva, a citizen of Great Britain, ha?
applied for her first papers to be
come a citizen of the United States.
One sewing machine ha?
been on the market for
seventy years and is still
the best known make,
"Standard" petroleum
products have been on
sale for over fifty years.
What better proof could
there be that both have
, faithfully filled a definite
public need? By doing
so they have become the
standard in their respec
tive fields.
You' can count on your fingers
products which have maintained
supremacy in -their field for two
generations or more.
To please the public year after
year for over fifty years is a
severe test. That is what the
products of the Standard Oil
Company (N. J.) have done.
"Standard" Polarine Oils and
fr
greases have become standards
of comparison, each in its class.
When you buy a "Standard"
product you can be sure that
you are buying as good a prod
uct as is made. But the only way
to be sure of getting it is to ask
for it by name.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(New Jersey)
Wity the best oil but buy it by name ?
and the name is "Standard" Polarin*
"STANDARD'*
A definition ?
"Stamiard ? a criterion
cctabhtheu by 'cu#
ttfm, puWie op?mo?
or general consent" ?
The Century Diction
ary ?n<4 Cyclojwcfc*
General News Notes
. - in j 1. 1 T .. #
Myron McOormiek, Kansas City,
Mo., mun, has been sentenced to
prison for one year because he bent
his wife for bobbing her hair. The
judge told him his wife's hair might
look bitter to him after he hail
broken rocks l'or ,'{(>'? Mays.
Daniel Johnson, 01, died at Akron,
Ohio, Friday night after n fast of
47 days. He started fasting to try
to cure a stomach trouble.
More than 5,000,000 people of Rus
sia are said to be victims of malaria,
superinduced by the great famine
which swept through the great nation
a year or more ago.
Mrs. Tula* Cummins -died in Rich
mond, Va., Friday night from a self
inflicted bullet wound. She said she
h?d shot' herself as the result of a
suicide pact with her husband. Her
husband died instantly after he shot
himself last Wednesday.
Fifty negroes of New York and
Chicago will next week make a tour
of southeastern cities to get first
hand information ,as to how their
colored brothers of the South live.
Two alleged rum runners, trying to
escape from prohibition officers in a
car, ran into a train on a grade cross
ing near Fairburn, Ga., Thursday
night. The officers captured twenty
gallons of moonshine liquor, alleged
to huve been thrown from the fleeing
car before the grade crossing mishap.
Both the rum runners were captured,
William J. Bryan has announced
his candidacy for delegate-at-large
from Florida to the Democratic
national convention to be held in
New York in June. He says he will
nominate Dr. A. A. Murphree of
Florida as a candidate for president.
Bandits held up a national bank at
Belt more, L. I., Friday, got about
$2,000 and as they were leaving the
building shot and killed a bond sales
mar. "vvhc v??o entering Che bank.
Thirty-six men, all Japanese, have
been indicted at Tokyo, on the charge
of piracy of the high seas, it being
alleged that they seized two Russian
vessels and murdered their crews,
totaling 35.
? Great Britain has lost a total of
12,207 skilled craftsmen to the
United States by emigration to the
United States during the past nine
months. ?
Mrs. Essie Gross, 25, was freed by
a jury in New York Saturday after
a trial lasting ten days, of the charge
of murdering her husband last De
cember. While the jury was delib
erating the friends of the woman
prayed for her acquittal, and rela
tives of the husband prayed for her
conviction.
Harry F. Sinclair was indicted by
the Federal grand jury in Washing
ton for refusal to answer the ques
tions of the Teapot Dome investiga
tion committee.
Charles Allen Munn, editor and
publisher of the Scientific American,
died at his home in New York Thurs
day after a brief illness.
Nathan Haymen, 65, whose home
was at Buffalo, N. Y., committed sui
cide Friday at Atlantic City, &. J.,
by walking, fully clothed into the
surf and drowning himself. He had
10,000,000 German marks and some
small change in his pockets.
Two -men were killed and three
injured when an apartment house,
under construction, collapsed at
Atlantic City, N. J., Friday.
Thompson Dickson, 57, was on
trial at Bridgeton, N. J., last week,
chargetl with ' the murder of his
daughter, 13, who disappared Sep
tember 13, last. The chief prosecut
ing witness was Dickson's father, 83.
The old man's story of the alleged
murder, told several months after
the girl disappeared was all that the
prosecution has to go on against the
accused. The jury returned a verdict
of not guilty. ?
Michal Camarata, wealthy hotel
proprietor of- Atlantic City, N. J., was
on I* riday sentenced to serve a year
and a day in the Atlanta Federal
prison, after pleading guilty to the
charge of smuggling liquor. Also he
is to pay a fine of $5,000.
Two negroes were -electrocuted at
the state prison at Huntsville, Texas,
Friday. Both of them were mur
derers.
Governor Charles Bryan of Ne
braska, has started a drive to reduce
the retail price of gasoline in that
state. He claims that the country is
flooded with gas and should sell for
less.
Fifty students of Garrett Biblical
school of Northwestern university,
Chicago, have signed a pledge never
to take part in any war.
Butler Bros., a big Chicago mail
order house, hare decided that in the
future they will sell no more pistols
and revolvers, on account of the
growing sentiment against the sale of
this type of firearms. During the
past ten years their sales of such
firearms have totaled 11.500.000. ji
Seventeen huisw* were burned to
death in a Hvery mb^tre in Brook
lyn, N. Y., Friday monriftf.
The government of Norway has in-,
traduced u bill in parliament to re*
peal" tl\e , national prohibition act and
providing that the saW of spirits in
Norway shall become a state mon
opoly,
According to a Constantinople <1 is
patch divorces in Turkey lust year
exceeded the number of marriages,
The official figures gives D,2f>0 as the
number of divorces against 7,074 i
marriages.
Two alleged bandits were arrested
north of Fort Scott, Kansas, Tues
day, charged with robbing a state
bank at IJniontown, Kan. AH the
$0,991) loot was recovered.
Herman Hitzer, restaurant pastry
cook in New York, was killed Tuesday
tAorning by the explosion, of a gas
stove oven. The ten-story building
in* which the restaurant was located,
was shaken from top to bottom ^by
the force of the explosion.
Tiny McCoy shot and killed his
wife, her brother, hor mother, and
wounded her sister, and then fatally
shot himself at Deer Creek, West]
Virginia, Tuesday. He. had separated,
from his wife after a year of married
life. McCoy swam a river and ran
three miles before he collapsed after
shooting himself.
Reports received by the agricultu
ral department at Washington, indi
cate a world production of 21,000,000
short tons of sugar this year, the big
gest production on record.
One hundred and seventy-seven
men paid fines aggregating $3,750 in
a magistrate's court at Chester, Pa.,
Tuesday, following a raid by state
troopers on "The Paddock," a notor
ious gambling joint in that city. The
proprietors were fined $1,000 each
and 175 habitues of the place $10
each.
George Driscoll, 35, believed to be
demented, killed himself nt New
Haven, Conn., Tuesday, when he
jumped from a fifth-story window of
o ^otci
Lieut. Ervin Brown, U. S. Navy
paymaster, who disappeared from
Mobile, Ala., March 10, with $120,000
of tfovernmont money, was found ly
ing in a roadway near San Francisco,
Cal., Monday night, in a supposed de
Congressman John W. Langley has
been indicted by a Federal grand jury
at Covington, Ky. He is charged with
conspiracy to withdraw, transport
and sell whiskey.
T. S. Ven Vechten, lieutenant, army
flyer at McCook Field, near Dayton,
Ohio, was killed Wednesday when his
plane fell from an altitude of 2,000
feet.
men ted condition. Ho had $1,200 i't
$100 bill's on his portion when found.
His \vitV hail already returned $75,00#
of the money to the authorities.
Physicians who examined Brown, say
thru he is feigning insanity.
Flood-stages in the rivers of New
England, caused by melting (Mow*
ami heavy rains, have caused $<J,
000,000 property damage during the
past few days and cost one man his
life.
Five alienists who have recently in
vestigated the mental condition of
Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford
White, declare that Thaw is now nor *
mal, mentally and physically. This
is part of the effort to get Thaw re
leased from an insane asylum in
Philadelphia. ?
Patrick K, Crowley has been elected
president. the New York Central
railroad to succeed the late A. H.
Smith, who was kil loci a few week*
ago by a fall from a hoist; in Con
tral Park, New York. Crowley began 9
working for the railroad as a mes
senger boy, then became a telegrapW
operator and then \?n to the top.
Izzy Kinstein, Moe Smith and K.
Merrick, prohibition officers, seized
$100,000 worth of liquor and alcohol
in a garage at Yonkers, N. Y., Wed
nesday. Kinstein and Smith got the
evidence by disguising as truckmen
and working about the suspected
place.
Because of the large numoer of
unlicensed dogs running around Bir
mingham, Ala., and the electrocution
of an average of about forty a day,
the keeper of the dog pound and dog
catcher is calling for an assistant.
' Two college students were killed
and eight others more or less injured
near Hartford, Cynn., Wednesday
when a trolley car ran into the auto
mobile in which the party was going
to ft baseball gaftie; '
George Wood, negro chauffeur, hit
a train on a grade crossing near
U xr ? nr i - "t t
iiouiiiiv/nutuii) ii. tj . , iv cuuvnuay wunr
a train was passing at 70 miles an
hour.^ The automobile was smashed
to splinters. The only injury to the
negro driver was a cut finger.
DR M. HARKAVY
Graduate Veterinaf ifen
Special Attention to Dogs
Office at Geo. T. Little's Stable*
PHONE: Office 169
Residence 325 -W
FOR SALE OR RENT
/
Camden Milling Company will sell its milling plant for
cash or on easy terms, or would rent the outfit to a
responsible party along with building.
This is a good opportunity for some one.
- ? ? , ? SEE
R. L. MOSELEY
No Need For
a Palmist
IF YOU have an account
here, you don't have to go
to a Fortune Teller to have
your future foretold.
Loan & Savings Bank
CAPITAL $10#, 000.0#
4 Per Cent. Paid on Savings Deposits
GASOLINE ENGINE DRAG SAWS
All equipped with Bosch Magneto. Made by Witte
Engine Works and sells for about $90.00. Will s?ll
First lot of five at $60.00 each
Second lot of fire at $65.00 each
Third lot of five at $70.00 each
Fourth lot of five at $75.00 each
.Fifth lot of five* at $80.00 each
Sixth lot of five at $85.00 each
Seventh lot of five at $90.00
COLUMBIA SUPPLY
823 Weal CervaU St.
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