The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 01, 1929, Image 6
I,undo Dangerous Wane
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Grant Full*, Mont., Feb. 23.?A')
airplane loaded with nitroglycerine
faced a forced landing at Calgary
yesterday when the fuel nujiply ran
low, but the ship came through safe*
ly at it* deatinution. A forced landIng
probably would have meant dis
aster. The plane had just ynough
gasoline to carry it twenty feet
farther when it halted. Captain V.
K. McCall, Canadian war ace, wa? the
pilot.
Mi** Klaie Miller of Augusta, Ga.,
driver of an automobile that Sunday
night lust struck and caused the
douth of Will llrortdwater of Jjuth,
i* being held under $1,000 bond by
the Aiken county coroner. The
coroner'* jury returned u verdict Maying*
".the deceased came to his death
by mis-chance."
Got Up In The
Morning Feeling
DIZZY
"I nicf'AN to suffer with
headacho and biliousness,"
Hays Mr. John C.
Mulono, of Buena Vintu,
Ohio. "I had a hurting
through tlio middle part
of my body which seeiuod
to como from indigestion.
I would get constipated,
and then feel
ull out of Horta. I would
got up in the morning
B filing dizzy, and everything I
ato would diaugree with me.
i? "Someone uaked me why I
did not try Black-Draught. 1
found it to be just the medicine
I needed. When I foel a spell
coining on, I begin bv taking a
dose of Black-Draught, drv, at
night. 1 continue to take it for
several days, and In a short
? r~ r while I am feeling fine. _It U__ail
the medicine I need."
Coats only 1 cent a dose.
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f DeKAI.B COUNCIL No 88
. Junior Order U. A. II.
Regular council firat ood
/ \ : y ir*.i Mondays of each
inunth at S p.m. Visiting brethren
are welcomed. 1>. J. CRKKD.
L. H. JUNKS. Councillor
Recording Seety.
A KERSHAW LODGE No. 2'
A M.
r f;" Regular enmmuni a'.ion o
> . V this lodge :? held on thi
first Tuesday in each mont]
at 8 p.m. Visiting ILcthtcn are wel
corned. T V. \V A LS11,
J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master
Secretary. ] - ] 1-27 :
Automobile
Repairing
We a re now prepared
to do all kinds of automobile
repairing. Good
workmanship and moderate
prices.
DEMPSTER'S
GARAGE
^ . j Formerly Little's Gerege
I BANKERS IN NATIONAL MOVE FOR
]' UNIFORM FINANCIAL PRACTICES
Would Promote Greater Consistency Among All the State
Laws in Respect to' Banking Conditions?Uniform[!4u
ity of Practice and Understanding,Will Make
r' for Greater Convenience, Efficiency
and Safety for A11 Business.
\5, J.HIGH j
f By 8. J. HIGH " V
President 8t?te Bank Division, American Banker# Association
RAPID interchange of business and the quick transportation
of goods in the United States, coupled with almost instantaneous
means of inter-communication by telegraph, tela
phone and wireless, have wejded the country
into an economic unit, The nation is not,
in a business sense, conducting its affairs in
water-tight compartments, as in a measure
it did in the days of slow travel and remote
places, but styles, methods, commodities
and business practices flow freely today in
all directions. Therefore it is desirable
that finance, trade and industry throughout
the country operate along generally uniform
or at least consistent lines, so that a
contract or an agreement or obligation in
connection with business transactions shall
mean virtually the same thing in all parts of
tho country. Particularly necessary in this
connection is the establishment of uniform
financial and banking practices-so as to facilitate
the flow of trade along accepted and
understood lines.
Banking in tlx1 United States is recognized
as a semi-public type of business and is therefore subject
to laws to define the scope and character of its activities.
These laws at present set up a great diversity of conditions
under which bunking In conducted In <*> ?,
various parts of tho country since
tlicy come from both stale anil federal
authorities. The national banks
nro all chartered by the federal government
and therefore operate on the
name lines In every state of the
Union, but there Is no such regularity
In respect to the conditions
under which the state banks chartered
by the respective forty-eight states
must conduct their business. All state
banking codeB, while they have similarities,
also have many great dissimilarities
In respect both to the national
hank laws and the banking laws
covering state bank operations In other
jurisdictions.
Bankers Move for Uniform Laws
Tlio State Bank Division of the
American Bankers Association, which
latter Includes In its membership
banks of all descriptions throughout
the country subject to all tho variations
of state and federal banking
laws, is committed to the efTort to
bring about greater consistency and
uniformity among the statutes of all
these various jurisdictions. This body
Is conducting n vigorous nation-wide
campaign urging that active steps be
taken to secure greater co-ordination
In banking legislation, more equitable
conditions and more uniformly efficient
public supervision of banks In
the several states
Tho organization Is particularly concerned
with fostering this movement
to bring about more uniformly desirable
conditions throughout the United
States In respect to tho public supervision
of banklnc Institutions by the
utato banking departments. It Is on
record aa favoring the policy that tho
Important office of state bank commissioner
should he kept as free from
entangling, partisan politics as the judiciary
Itself and should be completely
detached from all other functions
of state government.
It Is also on record aa favoring the
pollev that the tenure of office of state
bank commissioners should be made
more secure and lasting than Is now
the care in trtp.ttv ofnte jitrixilictlons
ttnd that this important public olflcer
bo granted sufficient compensation
and discretionary power so that the
office shall attract and retain the services
of men of outstanding executive
ability and successful hanking experience.
i It Is also a part ?>f this policy that
the hank commissioner's ability to
[ ecrve well shot:'- i hn strengthened by
, providing !.;m w adequate forces of
bank exan iters. - - locted on the basts
of merit i".m ne-n having the requisite
qua 11 -vi' inns of hoio-sty. ability,
training ami banking knowledge to
carry oat * dutb-s of their otllces on
the 1 :.:h- : j 'arte of usefulness to tho
public as w. ; as to hanking,
f < TUr Trend of State Law:,
T: e Acsociation's Stii'e Bank Divl;
fi vi 1: is recently concluded a nation
' v. !.- survey of state banking iegtsla'
ib?:i and conditions and In g- t.- ral ha*
I ! discovered a definite trend along the
following lines
There is a distinct tendency anion*
the states to raise the mltvmum cap!
tal required for banking :tutioni
to ?2!>,000 and also to give the banl
commissioners or the batik tig board
eole power as to tho granting of chat
ters for now bank3, thus enabling
them to use discretion as to the pee
or desirability of added banking facfl
ties or tho fitness of the organizers t
enter tho banking field, in this coi
neetlon many states are creatln
banking boards to act In an advisor
I capacity with the state bank comml
Blonors.
There has also been observed
tendoncy to lncreaso the compens
tlon of the bnnk commissioners And
lengthen their terms of office and
them power to appoint necessa
deputies and examiners so as to bul
up an adequate force to carry out the
responsibilities and duties. An lmp<
tant augmentation of ths powers
0
/f 1 11,1 fr?I1." -
bank commissioners In some states Is I
found in laws giving them complete
charge of Insolvent banks and their
liquidation as distinguished from more
costly liquidation through the courts.
In the Public Interest
Distinctly in the public Interest are
laws prohibiting or limiting an officer
_or director of a bank from ^.borro wing
from his own bank unless his collateral
security is approved by a majority
of the board of directors of the
bank. Also there Is recent legislation
noted providing for closer supervision
and regulation of building and loan
associations, credit unions, finance
companies and prlvato banks.
In so me states measures hare been
enacted broadening the field for investment.
of funds of savings .banks
and trust companies, which have materially
enhanced the service that
these institutions can render, particularly
In the way of co-operation with
their customers in personal financial
management. Another type of legls
lation, important especially to bank
lng in view of the frequent efforts to
defraud banks, is that which makes
tho Issuance of worthless checks u
misdemeanor with specific penalties.
I he Slate Hank Division of the
American Bankers Association en
dorses in the fullest degree in principle
the development of banking laws
along the foregoing lines and is actl>-e.
ly engaged in fostering tho spread of
such legislation wherever its services
are toonsiden <1 useful both to banking
and to tho public. Uniformly sound
banking Institutions and practices, to
gether with common methods and understanding.
will materially add to the
convenience, efficiency and surety or
business In serving' the well-being or
the public in all parts of tho nation,
especially in those transactions involving
dea.ings between different localities.
?
AMERICA LEADS THE
WORLD IN SAVINGS
The past year saw the greatest
gains in savings in a single twelvemonth
ever recorded in the United
States, bringing the total savings deposits
in banks to over S2S.400.000.000
on Juno 30. 1923. held in more than
53.000,000 Individual accounts, it is
reported by the American Bankers As
soclation. Those are the highest fig
ures In this field shown by anv conn
try in the world.
These figures nre Indicative of pros
perity more general than any time
since the business depression of 1920
tho r. port declares Only three ?tate>
failed to show a gain and the l?2v
, volume of savings constituted an in
, crease oft more than $2,327,000 0(u
above the 192? -,ro. Thp Rftln p
, inhabitant for > over 1927 was $1
and the coin It. umber of savings <?.
n pos,l^f wus 3.496.079, an increa.-.
t of f>2r, a.s ni.iinst'ft growth In tl.
s popula'icn of country of 1.2^
The gain i ; savings per inhnhita:
K in New K ftn(j Middle A'
d lantlr^ st;,-. . ,,M?r tne provioas ye
I b'roqps of states, w.i.
rt *-?- o of t!.,- population of the Ur.it,
v States a- : jvc-p of the t0(n] 8aV|
K dcjKi.sits, i?iv,. (j,e largest savings r.vy
*4,)1 p' -'bltant. of any area la
8. world l r.e por capita savings for t.
nited States as a wholo this to,.
a stands at $237 as compared with f?a
last year
to ;
to "An acre of alfalfa for every cow i
ry Howard County. Iowa," Is the slog,,
adopted by the county bankers ass,
elation there after watching sevor?
>r- hundred thousand dollars go out (
of their county laat winter for feed.
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Blood Stained Clothes
Found In King's House
York, Feb. 21.?Tho finding of a
suit of bloody clothing and a bloodstained
shirt hidden above the ceiling
in the piazza of the home of Eafa
K mg of Sharon, and the refusal of
Chief Justice K. C. Watts to rescind
the order grunting King bond, after
Solicitor J. by lea Glenn had appeared
before Justice Watts at Laurene
with the new evidence, were the
startling developments today iu the
King murder case.
The bloody clothing was tied to:
gether in a bundle, with the shirt on
the outside. .It was found by Chief
of Police J. Frank Faulkner y{ York
while searching the loft of the house
with a flashlight. Af^er climbing
through an opening in a closet of ono
of tire front rooms of the house,
Chief Faulkner searched the spacu
between the ceiling ahdl,the r6of but
found nothing of interest. It Wus
while carefully exploring the space
over the ceiling of the front porch
thut the sensational discovery was
piade. There wedged in under a projecting
piece of framing, he discovered
the bundle of clothing.
Every one of the garments?coat,
vest, trousers and shirt?is heavily
splotched with blood, the officers say.
They will let no person but those officially
connected with the case see
the clothing. Especially large splotch^
cs art? on the front of the coat and.
on the cuff of one of the sleeves, it
is stated. The suit is said to be
rather dark and striped, but the bloodstains
are described as being clearly
v:-ible on it and <jlso plainly evident
on the light strip<$ shirt. The
shirt has a tear at the back, it h
ru.d, and on it is an imprint as if
made by a bloody hand.
Tiie coat is tailor made, and bears
on the side lining the initials "R. F.
K." These are said to be the initials
of King, who is known by many as
simply "Kale King." In obtaining
buil the legal papers designated him
as "Rafe R. King," but in signing
them he used no initials but his given
name, "Rafe.' It is understood here
tHaT his "middle initial was incorrectly
given on the legal papers and that
it is "F" instead of "B."
Asked tonight. if tests would be
made to confirm the officers' conviction
that the crimson splotches on
the clothing were made by hunman
blood, Sheriff Quinn said that to him
this step did not seem necessary.
After a midnight conference here
Solicitor J. Lyles Glenn, accompanied
by Sheriff Quinn and Chief
Faulkner, bearing the bloody clothing,
left here at 8 o'clock this morning
for Laurens. They appeared before
Chief Justice Watts at 8:3U and
Solicitor Glenn asked him on the
strength of the newly discovered
evidence, to rescind the order granting
King bail. Chief Justice Watts
heard Solicitor Glenn's presentation
of the matter "and refused his request
for rescinding the order for bail.
His disposition seemed to be, it is
said, to let things stand as they are.
The officers who discovered the evidence
were there to testify to its
genuiness if this were necessary, but
it wrs not required.
Two of the York county rural
police, J. A. Jackson and J. M. Davison.
were in Shelby ready to arrest
King, if Justice Watts had taken
favorable action on the Solicitor's re|
quest. W. G. Finley of York, associated
with the prosecution, was
there to look after the legal side of
the matter. King has been out of
jail since February 7 on bond in the
sum of $3,000, granted' by Chief
Justice Watts. King is staying at
the home of his parents, _Mr. ami
Mrs. W. K. King, of Shelby.
Other bloody articles are said to
have been found in the King home
in the systematic search that uncovered
the blood-stained clothing
Report has it that one of the~ articles
is a quilt, but when queried as
to this Sheriff Quinn said he had n.
comment to make.
Sheriff Quinn and Chief Faulkne:
had gone to the King home to chif
up the blood-stained parts of the
floor and doors when the sensationa
findings were made. Looking insid.
a closet where canned fruit hae
been stored. Chief Faulkener's eye.
rented on :ho opening in the tot
ol the el .set chimney and hi
climbed u: into the space above thi
ceiling wra-re no search had boei
made. II, as rewarded by lindinj
the most .,'niticant evidence that ha
come to 11g .t -nice the arrest of King
One . f :ht- shingles on which th<
I bundle ot l>l,,0<iy clothing lay is sar
; to bear aim-up spots. The dus
j around the place is said to b
! trampled, and officers "believe tha
the change hum bloody clothes t
other garment* ,* indicated by evi
dence there. :place where th
bundle of clor-.r.g was discovered i
of difficult a.. usability. No staii
way leads fr. m the closet to th
Open space above between ceilin
and roof. Th, ascent has to be mad
bp standing f.n a chafr an(j ^
climb between the chimney and'?
wall of th* closet.
It is reported that Solicitor Glam
ma y ?* for a special term of oooi
to try King. The solicitor ooald~M
"
Waiting For Her
Little Boy Blue
-1 i
s Christmas day is passed and goue
these seven weeks and more bat a
] 'wilting tree, draped with silver trimmings
and gay with bright lights
still stands fn the home of Mia. Uay*
mond Horst, Orrville, Ohio. On the
floor in front of the tree the toys still
i lie?a wooly dog, a train, blocks and
; 'jother things dear to the heart of
every small boy.
All of this is waiting fur the return
of Melvin Horst, aged 4, who two
day* after Christmas, went out of
doors to play and never came back.
Tiring of his toys for the time he
started for the home of one of his
playmates. He has not been seen or
heard of since.
Police, detectives and volunteer
helpers have searched for him ever
since without result.' It is believed
he was kidnaped and police in cities
hundreds of miles in every direction
have been warned to be on the lookout
for the little fellow. But not so
much as a. clue has been reported.
Local officers have only the slimmest
hope that Melvin is alive but his
mother is confident her boy will come
back.
"Melvin will come home some day, '
she insists, "and we'll be waiting for
him. I want the tree to stay right
there. Ho loved its bright trimmings
so much. If he comes in the daytime
he'll find me waiting for him. And
if he comes in the night the lights on
.the tree and the porch light will guide
him." T'
tr>
Sadly the tragedy in this Ohio
home reminds one of Eugene Field's
famous poem:
"The little toy dog is covered with
dust
But sturdy and staunch it stands.
The little toy soldier is red with rust
^ And the musket molds in his hands,
lime was when the little toy dog was
?new 7??
And the soldier was passing fair,
And that was the time our Little Boy
Blue,
? Kissed them and put them there."
Woman Takes Kidnaping Blame
San ITrancisco, Feb.?.Mrs. Edna
Sharp, confessed kidnaper of fouryear-old
Doris Smith-Murphy, today
absolved three other persons arrested
in connection with the disappearance
of the child from a playground a week
ago.
In her confession to police, the woman
took the entire blame. She exonerated
her husband, Charles Sharp,
C. C. Bidwell, a radio salesman who
first suspected Doris' identity, and
John A. Williams, 63-year-old employe
of the United States mint here.
The child was returned to her
parents yesterday by Mrs. Sharp,
told police she took Doris from the
playground on an impulse because she
reminded her of her own child, who
is being cared for by relatives.
No use for divorces and family
squabbles say two 'couples of* Minot,
N. D. The story runs thus: Willis
Knight and Lawrence Rikansrud
have been friends for years. - They
Hie still amicable. They found recently
that each was falling in love
with the other's spouse. What did
they do, did they get shot guns? No,
they arranged for uncontested divorces,
and had happy remarriages.
Knight is now blissfully radiant with
the one time wife of his friend and
neighbor, and Rikansrud is lovingly
cooing with the erstwhile mate of
Knight. A published photo of the
four, taken together, carry expresssions,
which indicate that the change
is proving pleasing to every member
of the quartette.
Ray Coleman charged with the at1
tempted hold up of the Drayton Mills
1 pay-roll clerks at Spartanburg or
December the fourteenth l?str which
resulted in the fatal shooting of
Lai le Belue, has been arrested in In^
dianHpolis, Indiana and was brought
! to Spartan burg the first of the week
1 A Pulaski county, Ky., jury or
s Saturday released Mrs. Ida Crosf
j I le,r,kins. nf a murder charge for the
, killing of Mrs. Pearl Decker Owens
of Ixjuisville, whom she found sitting
" he side her husband in a train din
i coach. J
^ reacb?><i i.\ ,-r the telephone tonighl
, to affirm o- deny the report, as h<
Nvas away from Chester. The ncxi
regular term of criminal court con
. venes here April 15. Judge J. Henrj
e Johnson of Allendale will preside. 1
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A negro ut Cheraw last Sunday
was literally^orn to pieces through
being struck by a train on the
board Air* Line Railway. The naw<
reads: "Fred Walker, young neg^
was found on the Seaboard railroti
track near the block house early this
morning in a mangled condition.'
Parts of the body were scatter^
along the traek for 800 or POO feet.
Whether he was run over by a train
or ?met with foul play and placed on
the track is not yet known."
the Bright way to travel
is by train. The safest. Most com.
fortable. Most reliable. Costs less.
Inquire of .Ticket Agents regarding
greatly reduced fares for short trips,
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