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HOGG Kl) Till: I ItONT I'AGK |{i>Kr") StfBit 1" "*v* Made l'reu?*t ure KxploMon ^ j?.i jtr -TT- iv Tjjy v( By J fMj K Aul!) Columbia, Augu*' 11 Govt-inor Richard.*. upon his return t<> bit* offive 1m in a week-end spt-ni with hi* family, who arc at Lilwrly Hoi loi the month of August, declined to comment upon the- interview given out by W. W. Rogers, formerly a member of tin- Governor's con-tabular\, last S&THTibi y afternoon, w.th regard to the A i hen lynching ih.-c, in which Utjjferk "wen quoted raying that h" -Mva? ready to r.wcar out warrants in the cast*, and was only awaiting the word to ail from Governor John G. ilk-hards." Perhaps the Governor j refuses to dignify the Rogers interview ,with a statement. However, he does riot put it that way. He simply rays, "1 have no comment to make. The records of the Governor's office show that Rogers ceased to be a member of the Governor's constabulary on the iiOth day of June, but that at that lime he applied for u commission "without pay," stating in his up plication. "J intend to do special detective work both for outside parties and within the State of South Carolina, and this commission will make my work more effective." Governor , Richards required the same endorsement of thc^application as he has required upon* all other applications of this character ?that of the sheriff and a mujority of the delegation of the county in the general assembly, or of the mayor of the town and chief of police, and so on, depending upon whether it is a town officer who is applying for a State commission or some other person, as in the ea^e of Rogers. In this case the application bore the endorsement of Sheriff T. Alex Heise, of Hiehland county; Senator James H. Hammond, and Ropresentives R. K. Broome, J. M. Cantey, Jr., ami A. K. Sanders?four of the seven members of the delegation. Upon this application and this endorsement the commission was issued. All these commissions of officers, lx>th those with pay and those without pay, are subject to revocation by the Governor at any time. They art* simply in force, as is the common expression, "at the pleasure of the Governor," notwithstanding Rogers' -lateuient t-hat "my Tnmrmsyron does not expire until the first of next year, and unless Governor Richards sees fit to dispense with my services in tHc meantime 1 shall continue to employ my abilities for the State as he may direct." It is absolutely clear and unmistakable that Governor Uichard? did not "direct" Rogers to omploy his "abilities" fur the State" in the direction of giving ouf an interview upon the Aiken lynching case, and notwithstanding Governor RUh-| ards' declination in dignify Roger;' slate mm: with any comment, it goes withou' saying that the Rogers interview was as completely unauthorized by the Governor's office as much out of place, and carried an implication as far from the facts, when it insinuated delay on the Governor's part with any facts before him which would justify him in ordering arrests to he made, as the statement contained in the interview that the "Rogers National Detective Bureau, Inc., which Rogers has opened up in Columbia, "Mr a side-line with me, undertaken because 1 have received numerous requests to make investigations", is at variance with Rogers' application for a commission without pay, to the effect that "this commission will make my work more effective." At the time the grand jury refused to bring in indictments in the Aiken lynching case last spring, Governor Richards let it be known that there would be no [ct-up in the investigation and in the endeavor to bring the guilty parties to justice. What "additional evidence" Rogers has secured i< not known, hut if it amounted to enough to justify Rogers' statement that the "case is now complete", everybody who knows governor Richards and his attitude toward the Aiken lynching, knows that immediate action would have been taken, without waiting for Rogers to put the public and the Aiken lynchers on notice. Just exactly what Rogers could have had in mind remains a mystery. The general opinion seems to !>e that he let his eagerness for publicity run away with him. Little Boy Killed Anderson. Aug. 8.?Owen Nixon, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. . P. M. N ixoti of Appleton mills, this city, was instantly killed this afternoon when he fell under the wheel of n truck in which he and two friends were riding. The boy is said to have been standing in the body of the tiuck and lost his balance when the truck tuned a corner. The wheel passed over his body* and death was practically instantaneous, according to a doctor who was cal.ed to the scene. \ coroner's jury cleared Somer K. trf, the negro driver of the truck, c f all blame*, as testimony showed that the children were riding on the truck without the driver's knowledge. BKTHt'NK NEWS NOTES JIappriiifiKit of Intercut Told |lj Our Regular Correspondent 4 BrThynr, S. < ., Aug. 4R? Ralph <4i><i H**-K411 Tiller, of Miami, | a , lafc' w?ek at t heir home lur? \l a no Mi" ' I-. Ma)- and son, left Sunday for a visit to rcla'iw-s in Alabama O.T) and Binninghain. 111 ,?ud Mi- < K Bras well are \i-:?ir:g relatives wi North Carolina. Mm Mark King and children, of \nMe>, an- Kja-nding a while at the home of hei father, Mr. N. A. Beth une. M is> Geneva I'itta, of Columbia,! .-.pent a few days the past week with her parents here. Mrs. Joanna Caston and Mrs. Rove Hearon have returned from a weeks visit to Bishopville. Rev. ilueks and Misses Kitty Best and Sara 1 xe Heustiss are attending the Ep worth league Conference in Sumter this week. Rev. Bucks will have charge of one of the classes. Misses W. E. Davis and I<oring Davis, accompanied by Mrs. Roring Davis un<l Miss Marie Morton, of Kershaw, left Sunday on a trip to Washington, Baltimore and other northern points. Mrs. M. O. Ward is spending a while with her sister in Birmingham. Miss Blanche Gardner left for Charlotte last week where she has secured a position. Miss Rou King returned to Durham Monday where she is working after having spent her vacation with her parents here. Misses Maggie and Rosalie Fields are spending the week in Ramar. Dr. McKinney, of Timmonsville, is supplying in the drug store here white Dr. Bras well is away on his vacation. Mrs. C. M. Wilson and children? of Columbia, arc visiting Mrs. R. M. Kelley. Mrs. Minnie Best, of Hartsville, is visiting relatives in Bethune. J. M. Clyburn, Jr., is spending a I while in Hartsville. On last Friday evening a play entitled "The Eyes of Rove" was given by the young -people of the Baptist Church in the high school auditorium. Mrs. Mayo Davis furnished beautiful music between acts. The play was witnessed by a large and appreciative audienceN and was pronounced a success by all. Those taking part in it were Mesdames W. R. Rozier and Hugh Oliver, Misses Sara Dee Huestiss, Clara Gordon and Katherine Ward and Messrs. Fred Josey, Neil Truesdell, Ree Morgan, Ramar German and Louis Severance. Miss Frances Severance has Veturned home after a two weeks visit to friends in Johnston. S. C. Mrs. Oliver and daughter, Agnes, >f Quitman, (la., have returned home after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Oliver of this place. Mrs. Jim Clyburn. of Charleston, is spending a while with Mrs. I). .J. Clyburn. Mr. John MeCaskill, Mr. and \hs. Ralph McCaskill, Alvin Clyburn, ErUe-l Truesdell. .Jr., and John Edwin and James King left Wednesday for j Washington. D. where they will spi nd a few days. Mr. Hay Secures Agenc> Mr. W. <). Hay of this city has se lined the agency for the General Fleet rie eompanv's new refrigerator, i oeent 1 \ put on the market. This new method of refrigeration is a product ot the world's leading engineers and i- the last word in electric refrigeration. No pipes, no drains, no attachments, portable and can be installed to the nearest electric connection. Can hardly be heard three feet away. No serving, never needs oiling, sealed at the factory, uses very little current, automatic air circulation drives dust away from the refrigerator. It is the product of fifteen years research. The co-operation of sixty-four engineers. Four thousand refrigerators were made and field tested before production was authorized. See W. (). Hay before you buy.? Adv. Tarkington Brings Suit W. B. Tarkington, editor of the Dorchester Ragle, St, George, according to the Eagle, has entered suit against D. F. Dukes, n member of the St. George city council, for $10,000 damages through his attorney. R. Lon W ee k s. 1 he suit resulted from a personal encounter between Mr. Tarkington and Mr. Dukes some weeks ago, when Mr. Tarkington alleged that Mr. Dukes assaulted him on the streets of St. George, claiming that he had been slandered in the Eagle. It is alleged that his assailant sought revenge by knocking him down, breaking his nose, shattering his glasses, cutting him about the face, and doing other bodily harm. It is stated that the case will come up for trial at the October term of the Dorchester county court. Death of a Child. IsaU'll Ra^, seventeen months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs'V Ronnie Ray. of tiie DeKalb section, died on W edttexday at the < amden hospital of a stomach disease. The burial took place at DeKalb on Thursday. Death of An Aged Man. M:. W i.liam Ryles,, an aged resident of the Hermitage Mill community. died Thursday last an J was buried ) h riday at a country churchyard near Rvdia n Darbngton county. Mr. Ryles wm 70 yaVof age. | TIC A IN I/O AD KITCHEN CABINETS Dixie Dealer* Demand 30 Cam of Colorful Seller* Cabinet* Tor day* the loading platform of the G. I. Seller* and Son* Ca>., of KIi wood, Indiana has been a picture of hustle and activity. Scores of men bave been bu-> loading into a string of cars the largest shipment of kitchen cabinets ever made in the history of the industry. Ihirty full cars?containing a total of 1 MOO units, Sellers Kitchen Cabinets Utility Closets and breakfast Sets, make up this gigant.c shipment. At the moment of this writing the train, a quarter of u mile long, is speeding over the rails toward Dixie land where Southern deaiern are literally walking down the track to meet it. I he reason behind this mammoth shipment is of timely interest to all readers. It is due, according to Mr. George Sellers, President, to the fact) that the Sellers creative department has been wide awake to changing conditions. Women are demanding more color in everything about the home. The age is a color age. Even kitchens and kitchen furniture have come into th* realm of beauty and color and style. Sellers' creative artists served the change. They correctly read the trend^of women's demands. Recently they gave all Sellers Kitchen Cabinets a new and more modern dress. New Color?new decorations?new beauty. In addition they introduced for the first time the kitohen cabi-1 net in Period Styles. It is this new beauty which has taken women by storm. Everywhere it is the same. And while this tremendous trainload shipment to the Southland is a most dramatic expression of the condition it is just evident in other parts of the country. Even now a trainload is in the making for Eastern shipment which will be larger than the Dixie train. Women want color and beauty?not only in the kitchen but in everything. They want smartness and style. And the Sellers people have proved that the manufacturer who keeps his merchandise up to date? and ahead of the calendar?will he rewarded. ? I he Camden Furniture Company opens up Saturday with a full carload, of Sellers Cabinets on Sab-. Doomed Negroes Make Appeal Columbia. Aug. g.?Notice of an appeal to the State Supreme Court 1 in the cases of Paul Francis, Frank! hiancis and .Abraham Gadsden, ne-' groes, which was served today on, lames \\ IVarman, superintendent of' the State penitentiary, automatically J gianted a stay of execution, and the negroes. sentenced t<? die by electro-' cut ion on August 111 for the murder of E. h . Langford. Beaufort County po- j lite man, will have a respite until Sep- ' tomber 5 at least. Attorneys for the conv.cted men received from Judge J. Henry Johnson, recently, an extension of time' until September 5 for example and i service of their appeal to the Supreme! Court. The time for serving the appeal, j which by law is limited to thirty! days from the conviction of the. defendants, was extended when at- ! torneys asserted that the stenog- i rapher's record of the trial could! not he transcribed in time for them i to perfect the appeal within the al-: lotted time. Killed By His Own Trap Columbus, (la., Aug. K._Shot in, his back by a burglar trap he had set himself Saturday night at his store in Putman. Ga? J. T. McHan. seventy-' two, farmer, merchant and Baptist' minister died today. I Mr. McHan had set the burglar | trap, wires of which reached to the : cash register and refrigerator, prep-1 aratory to leaving the store when a' negro boy asked to buy a soft drink, j On opening the refrigerator the trap went off and the shot entered the small of his back. The negro was slightly injured. ? EDITORS MAKE VI SIT (Continued from First Page) put a better grape on the market by ' virtue of the fa t that grapes moving from the Sandhill section require only three days to reach the principal consuming markets, whereas grapes moving from ( aliforn a require ten days to reach the principal consuming markets. We were personally shown over this vineyard by Mr. C. S. Mills, who is the teacher of agriculture in the Mc- Bee school and who has also been the able assistant of Mr. McCoy in this work. He is familiar with every variety of grape and when the cuttings were first planted. They have ten vine? there that were received from California in March of this year as cuttings. They were grafted to v,no* and in {his short length of t^me they look to he full grown. We were shown ten vines of the mtm* variety of grape set out two y?art ago and they are now loaded down with luscious fruit. Malaga grapes, of the same variety that makea the heart of the small boy and the large I ones too, glad at Christmae time, are! there in abundance, but they will not ripen until October. These graces j can be packed in saw-dust or cork, placed in cold storage ami kept indefinitely. Major David K. Coker, well known I plant breeder of Hartsville, was present and after Mr. Fred 1'. Abbott, outlined and explained the work, was called upon for a f</w remarks. Mr. I Coker .stated that the experimental | station would admit that they had made some mistakes. One was the fact that they .had been advised not to use fertilizer under th,e plants. For two years this advice was follow! ed, but it proved wrong. So he says, the beginner in grape growing will profit by this error and gain at least two years growtn on those grown at the* station. The Seaboard intends to have cuttings for sale at a later date, not for profit, but to get the grape industry started. Mr. McCoy has agreed to, handle this for the Seaboard at McBee, but neither Mr. McCoy nor the Seaboard are advising them to go into it on any large scale, and.no large number of plants will be sold to any one grower. The six southeastern states, although large consumers of both European and domestic grapes, produce less than six-tenths of one percent of the grapes grown and marketed annually in the United States. During the year of 1926, 77,585 cars of grapes were consumed in the United States, with California producing 68,549 cars or approximately 85 per cent of the total yield for the United States. Tfie grape industry in the state of California alone amounts to a $52,000,000 business annually. A. representative of the development department of the Seaboard was sent into the larger markets of the northeast and middle west to Investigate the marketing possibilities of Sandhill grown European grapes. The results seem to indicate that such grapes would receive a hearty reception from the produce trade and consumers. The Seaboard heartily invites ail interested to visit this vineyard, but they realize that it is not possible for j all of the people of the sandhill sec! tion to visit the experimental station, i so they have decided to carry the results of this work to the people in their own communities. Arrangements have been made for operating a special gra^>e train over the Seaboard commencing at Columbia on September 7th and stopping at every to^ n of any size from Columbia ""to Sanford, N. C. The car will be opened at 10 a. m., and from 10 to 11 a. m. there will be discussions of the grape industry. Hut the car will be open until 4 in the afternoon. Farmers and others interested are urged to be present between the hours of 10 to 11 to hear the discussions. This train will be equipped with an exhibit car which will clearly picture the possibilities of European grapes. It is expected that this car will contain exhibits of grapes, packed in the several containers recommended for this commodity. It is further planned to have entire vines of several varieties of grapes, together ' with their fruit on exhibit, and also a nufmber of other exhibits, charts and pic-, tUVes. It is planned to stop this train a day at each of the principal towns in the Sandhills, at which time thej general public will be invited to visit, the car, look over the exhibits, listen | to the'discussions and secure what information they may desire in connection with the culture of European and American grapes. i Those present at this meeting, to-' gether with theii busiaZ^ dress, were K. E. (;rit7riB Columbia; L. B. Kntton J rB The Chesterfield Advert\**m Wiggins, The Harthville kl Isaac London, rhe Rockingham; J. N. StrZl beth Stricklin, The nK.,n!M cle; -l. K. McCoy, l-'iuit Bee; C. S. Mills, assU^S ment agent, McB >e; c. Research Horticulturist, J| Morrow, Extension HortuJ State College, Ruleigh; LjJ The News-Messenger, Westbrook, W. S. Karri hill Citizen, Southern Pj|S Buchanan, Form invciop^B puny, Marpton, N. < .; Booth Orchard Company, ! David K. Coker, greed Seed Co., l(ari?vil^| D. Nilea, H. D. Niles, ifl Chronicle; George Wuli^f photographer, Seaboard vannah; W. 1,. McCoy, McBee; Fred P. Abbott, fiH Agent, Seaboard Kailway^^B C.; N. S. Lachicotte, I^B Agent, Seaboard KailwtJ After the luncheon thtfl a rising vote of thanks their appreciation to thfl' the civic league and Mi^B beth McManus, Grace GjH Beattie, Marion KcattK.tti^B and Sarah Hardee for manner in which the nH | our vulcanizin] i Wa make a feature of vice in Qiff YJuicaaamig We Know that you 1 damaged tire retired well as afffciently iu time or the job. We will cani'/.e a tire that is not i small < harge, bu I that are JfcDi worth f &f| t <> last as long ail tuH new tire. L. A. Campbell & Co. (J Reconized by the Nation's Best Business Men A Draughon's diploma means that your servi will be sought by the Nation's best business ro Tuition no more expensive than in unrecognh schools. Write today for information. Draughon's Business College COLUMBIA, S. C. 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