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FOINI) IN 8TOMACR8 ' / Surgcou*' Knive* Disrlotse Variety of Objects in VariouH Stomachs In hospitals in many parts of the United iStuten are museums where are diaplayed an umazirig assortment of articles, mostly useless. There are carpet tacks, pins, needlea, fragments of combs ami eyeglass frames thumbtacks, bits of wire, shoe laces, pieces of bed springs, paper clips, metal tags, washers, curtain hooks, cartridges, shot, safety-razor blades, teeth, both natural and false, spoons, hairpins, phonograph needles, safety pins, fragments of bone, watermelon and other seeds, coffee beans, pieces of solder, beads, strung and unstrung and coins, the last almost entirely of denominations less than half a dollar. Uuch articles, you would say, would make only a poor display in a museum case, They do. v It happens, however, that, virtually every one of the thousands of articles so displayed represent a human life that was saved, writes Adu Patterson in Popular Science Monthly. For these odd collections of useless Hardware vegetable matter and trinkets are made up of the mid things people swallow. People take these singularly indigestible objects into their systems for a variety of reasons. A most careful person is likely to swallow a peach or prune pit, a small bone, a pebble, or bird-shot with his food and not realize that he has done ho. Most of these foreign bodies that are swallowed, however, are taken by intent. The professional swalloweis -"human ostriches" they Oill themselves who entertain at county fairs have contributed many weird additions at the odd surgical museums. Many other persons swallow sharp objects?nails, needles, knives, and razor blades? with suicidal intent. Other habitual swallowers are mentally deranged, or suffer from some peculiar physiological condition that causes them to enjoy the irritation hard or shnrp objects syt up in their integral organs. Then a great many of these who have been operated on have been infants whose careless mothers or nurses have left bright and attractive, but dangerous, objects within their reach. Not long ago an operation on a 15year-old girl, in Michigan resulted in the removal of almost a thousand things she had swallowed. These included safety-pins, earrings, watch chains stove bolts, coins, metal street car tokens, brooches, adhesive tape, shoe laces and hits of ribbon ?almost four pounds in all. A professional "swallower" in Chicago yielded 272 metal objects in an operation the contents of his stomach including upholstery tacks, nuts, bolts, screws, a can opener, a couple of handfuls of thumb tacks, almost a box of fair sized nails, cartridges, safety pins, paper clips and eoiign Removal of foreign objects from the throat or windpipe ha> been faciliated greatly by the invention of the bronchoscope by Dr. Chevalier Jackson, of Philadelphia. This device consists of a long flex ible tube, within which i- a series of mirrors that reflect, an image of the object to be removed Illumination is supplied h\ a small clectr.c light. Through this tube. [ hv operating surgeon inserts his tc>r> ops and readily withdraws the object 'nal lias been swallowed. Coeds Stolen From Store \t ( heraw fheraw Some time Tin >da\ r igh. some one entered th* <to'o of |t. ('. Moure and Sons hen h\ km.* king out one <>t too .a.ge panes n one of the' front doom and crawling through. A suit and hat. a ::s Smith and Wo ton revolver and the motiev e,'t in the cash draum were taken and t he thief's old coat and hat were !ef\ It is impn-sihlc t . v tie, k up the stock after the Christmas rush. Mi. Moore has offered a reward of $75 for the t hit f's capture. A11 red F. Smith o f N e w 5' o r k, celebrated h.s 5-lth birthday at the executive mansion at Albany on Friday, December 2d. A lOO-'pound fruit cake was a feature of the birthday dinner. NOTICE OK FI LI NO OF WILL. State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. (In Probate Court) 1N RE: Estate of William Thompson, ? deceased. Notice is hereby given that the last will and testament of William Thompson, deceased, was filed in the office of the Probate Court for said County and State on the 16th day of November, 1927. and is now on' file in said office. w. l. McDowell, Probate Judge. lVcembei 24. 1927. I COLUMBIA LUMBER &I | MANUFACTURING CO. I 1 SASH, DOC RS, BLINDS I 5 chAIN A-. HL LR STS. PKooo 71 I COLUMBIA, S. C. | IN TUB CAKOI.INAS | I tenia of Interest Gleaned from N?w?* |>M pi*TH Of TWO State* Four person* were killed and two othura injured in the t wo Carolina* Su t u rda y. In the two Carolina* on < hriatmas there wore mx persons killed and thirteen injured by automobile accidents gun battles an<J fires. North Carolina has more than four hundred cotton nulla now and leada all the states in spindle-hours. The mjlla there operate nearei full time than thoae of Massachusetts which the Tarheel state has i .w passed in the textile industry. Fred Smith, 22 had his hand cut off by a corn xhredder on Mountain View farm near Anderson. An epidemic of robcrie* marked Chriatmastide at Greenville and a <lo>en men are in jail there, besides those who escaped. The week before ('h/istmas farmers of Darlington county shipped their twenty-aixth carload of poultry which yielded $.'j,7().'J to them. The heavy toll of casualties in (Ireenville, at Christmas time included twenty-seven Automobile accidents, one fatal to two negroes, eight fires and one person seriously injured by exploding fireworks. Two little children of Albert Cuughman, negro laborer, were burned to death in the home in Columbia when that ,little shack burned while the father was at a Christmas celebration. Their mother is dead. (ireenville Lcgionnaries refused Co sell tickets on Sunday for an aviation gypsy who offered them a share of his receipts if tjjey would help hijn that day. They said they would not violate tly Sabbath. Mr. Ncubnuer, of the construction company working at Myrtle Beach, was killed near there while hunting quail by the accidental discharge of a shot gun in the hands of a companion His home was at Clinton, Massachuse Its. Fiie originating by a short circuit in an electric train iri the toy.department of Gilmer's department store in (Ireenville caused damage of $5,000, on Christmas. Seven residences and two stores just outside the city limits also burned two roofs in town caught fire, and several minor blazes occurred there thut day. Surgeons from the two Carolinas forming a section of the American College of Surgeons, limited to outstanding surgeons in this country, will hold a meeting at Spartanburg Janu aiy 2IJ-2-1 with some of the most distinguished surgeons of America as visitors and on the programs. A large attendance of surgeons not members is expected. A High Point, N. ('., bank never received a package of $25,000 and a $2,000 package for a Greensboro bank ?s also missing, as a result of a robbery at the railroad station at Danville, Va., where the mail sacks are transferred from one train to another. Post office inspectors are working on the theft. Dr. .J. K. .Jerome, a prominent pjiysician ?>t Wingate, died Saturday, | aged tW*> years, after practicing medii - :ue these thirty-five years. | Frat A. Linney. United States 'district a 1 rtiey.of Booner, N. (\, has resigned .,',1 in unees it for political a ml to -top some talk about a trade. \ ada Wall, a colored girl. Id years j old. wa- burned to death in Koi king1 ham. \. ( when her clothes were j ign.tid at a lirephtce. Nobody was , "' in and she ran into the garden and ! 1 1 ' he: e before -ho died. j Alvai Bradley, a young textile , w o ker ot Henrietta. N. C , near j Shelby, was instantly killed Friday in j an automobile collision, near Kilonj bom, when his Ford coupe hit a 1 It'Mioi oil truck head on in a den-.' I f"*\, I 1 he sU',H.Mior court ot Concord, N. | l'.. sentenced Harlen Searcy, a young bo\ convicted of stealing automobiles for joy rides, to be whipped by his father once a week for two weeks. Three others were bound over to court. Blood transfusion failed to save the life of Bernard Davis, Jr.. 7 years old, a ( harlotte boy, who was accidentally shot through the thigh while playing with another boy at a neighbor's. A shot gun fell down and when the 9year-old neighbor boy replaced it, it went off. The first woman hank cashier in North ( arolina is Miss Annie Shipman, of the Brevard Banking company, who is also the first cashier of a million dollar hank. She has beer, assistant cashier for many years and was promoted when Cashier Lyon resigned to go into other business. 1 he dead body of Mrs. J. A. Dean, an aged woman who disappeared four days previously from her home near T ayetteville, N\ C., was found in ? dense thicket and partly in a pool of water. Over a hundred men had been searching for the woman for days. It thought she fell in crossing a small stream and died in the bitter cold of Monday night of last week. < harlotte. not satisfied with the population estimate of the census bureau just published, had another estimate made b\ a newspaper organization which gives it si.092 population, which i- more than it gives WinstonSal, ni and makes Charlotte the laigcxt c11 \ in North Carolina, according to the newspaper figures and a- !. rea-e of 25.000 population which 1 O.. M.IU' annexed a: midnight on Natyiday night, The same newspaper estimate gave (lastoniQ 21,881 population and Concord, 12(37&. i Irm ni"* A LYNCHING# DECREA8K No Lynching Occurred in Houth Carolina DurinK Year J oat Cloned I'rot. Robert K. Moto/i, principal of Tuskegee School, Hernia The Chronicle the following concerning lynchinga in the United Stutea during* the year juat cloned: "I tend you the following concerning lynching)* for the pant year an compiled by Tuskegee Institute in the Department of Records and Research. 1 find there were 16 per won a lynched in 1027. This is 14 leaa than the number .'it) for 11*26, 1 leaa than the number 17 for 1925, the name number T6 an for 1924 and 17 leaa than the number 33 for 1923. 12 of the persona lynched were taken from the handa of the law, 6 from juil* and 6 from offieera of the law outside of jail*. 4 of the peraona were burned to death, 2 were put to deuth and then their bodies burned. "There were 42 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynch* ings. 8 of these were in Northern states, und 34 in Southern states.In 24 of the cases the prisonera were removed or the guards augmented or other precautions taken. In 18 other instances, armed force was used to repel the would be lynchers. 68 persons, 15 white and 53 Negroes were thus saved from death at the handa of mobs. "All of the persons lynched were Negroes. The offenses charged were ? murder, 7'; attempted murder, 2; rape, 2; attempted rape, 3; improper conduct, 1; charge not reported, 1. The states in which lynching* occurred and the number in each state are as follows: Arkansas, 3; Kentucky, I; Louisiana, 1; Mississippi, 7: Missouri, 1; Tennessee, 2; Texas, 1." I.oeb Left Huge Fortune. New York , Dec. 30.?Albert 1J., Loeb of Chicago, vice president of Sears Roebuck & Co., who died in, October 1924, after his son Richart!,[ had been convicted of murder and sent to prison for life, with Nathan Leopold Jr., left gross estate of $.3,233,360, a transfer tax appraisal revealed today. His wife, Anna Loeb was named sole beneficiary. The will made no mention of his son. Though it was drawn up five years before his conviction. The debts and administration expenses totalled $1,620,543 included $27,500 due Clarence Darrow, who headed the defense counsel during the I^eopold-Loeb trial, and $15,000 and $10,000 respectively due to Benjamin and Walter Baehrach, who assisted in the defense. Negroes Wreck Bank. Memphis. Tenn., Dec. 31.?Two officials of the Fraternal Savings Bank, a negro institution which closed its door yesterday, confessed late today -they had embezzled $50,000 of the bank's funds. The two negroes, A. F. Ward, president, and L. W. Williams, cashier, asked police to keep them in jail as they feared violence at the hands of angry depositors. OAnothor negro, Th\ F. J. Walker, was arrested and charged with larceny of $20,000 through dealings with the bank, which was said to have had deposits amounting to a million dollars. Tragedy in Rock Hill. L'm k Hill Herald, IuesiLiy: Briet* Kddy Dunlap, N-year-o!d son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Dunlap of Fairview sivenue. died this morning at 3 odotk in a !>cMi hospital as a res'?ilt ol seven burns sustained Sunday morning when his clothing caught t'.tv a< he walked in front of an open lire. 1 he family had gathered around the t hristmas tree and were receiving gifts when the child walked in front of the lire. The flame immediate^ flashed over his outing night clothes and before his mother could bring a blanket from the adjoining room the child's body was badly burned. His father's hands were also binned in an effort to extinguish the flames. Funeral arrangements had not been announced at an early hour this afternoon. A congressman arriving after the appointed hour at Q$orge Washington's home and finding the party at the table was informed that the cook at that home did not ask if the guests had arrived but If the hour had. National President . Mrs, Ldwatd-Stork _oi Camdc: ,. N J:, clretod \:?rrmnl I'rrMtirr.t oi )}>? I .?< ? * A"?tl'3'V of tt?C Veterans .or ( \ i wars a; 'hv annual cn? ar?l?i.?< ... .t. Provuk.'n..',' i-J^L " : ' k **1 r \1 "v - --? ? ; *" * *- v y ?i .'., 1 yW Ecomtmitmt Trmntfortotiim \JfajPRnnF/ ^ ^ Today, Chevrolet presents the crowning triumph of sixteen years' continuous progress?a great new auto* mobile so impressive in appearance, performance and staunchness that it marks the opening of a new era of luxurious transportation at low cost. ? r Built on a 107-inch wheelbase?4 inches longer than before?the Bigger and Better Chevrolet is impressively large, low and racy. 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