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Change of Venue Granted To Reds V ' - ? Gastonla, N..C., July 30. - Sixteen member* and ofAcials of the National Textile Workers union and affiliated organization* accused of the murder of O. F. Aderholt late today were granted a change of venue to Meek* lenburg county. The case, hearing on which started at a special term of the Gaston superior court yesterday will be resumed ? in Charlotte at a date tar be set by Gov. Max O. Gardner. The ruling of Judge M. V. Barnhill of Rocky Mount, named by Governor Gurdner to preside at the special term here came at the end of a day of reading affidavits and hearing of a number of witnesses. The defense alleged intimidation of witnesses and attorneys while the prosecution sought to prevent the case being taken out of the county. Judge Barnhill ordered Amy Schechter, Workers International Relief worker, Sophie Melvin, organiser for the Young Pioneers of Amefica and Vera Buch, National Textile Workers union organizer, released on |6,000 bail' each. Solicitor Carpenter .- had announced that the first degree murder charge against them would be amended to second degree murde^. He ordered Fred Erwin Beal, southern organizer for the union, Joseph Ilurrison, union organizer, I George Carter, K. C. Byers, W. M. | McGinniss, J. C. Hefner, Robert A1 len, Russell Knight, N, F. Gibson, ' KY. Hendricks, Delmar H ampton, i Clarence Miller and Louis McLaughlin confined in the Gaston county jail until the first day of session of the Mecklenburg superior court j called for resumption of the hearings. ' The legislature of Connecticut has I been called in special session for ' August (5th to re-enact 1,500 laws' which have been declared invalid by the state supreme court. In order to make the cpll for the session valid Governor Trumbull flew from Canada to Hartford in an airplane. Physicians attending Chancellor Hermann Mueller of Germany who underwent an emergency operation for gall stones on Monday, report his condition as improving steadily. * Luther Ballenger, Harathon county constable, on trial last week at Buchanan, Gn., on a charge of slaying Grady Phillips, young saw mill operator, while attempting to stop an : automobile in which the officer be-1 lieved there was liquor, has been released on bail after the jury in the first trial, of. the case was unable to , agree on a verdict. Ballenger claims to have fired at the tires of the car when Phillips failed to stop at his ! command, one of the bullets killing | him. |Majestic Program j* WITH A LARGE SI CTION FAN IN OPERATION I THE COOLEST PLACE IN TOWN I)OC BLE F E A T V RE 1 >ROG RAM* Today, Friday, August 2. Dorothy MacKail and Jack Mulhall in "TWO W EEKS OFF." Darling Dorothy on a merry-goround of romance. And she doesn't, stop till she gets the "brass" ring. i From whom? Jack, of course, the i other half of the screen's best loved love team. Don't miss them in this one. Also "THE GREAT WHITE NORTH." One of the most unusual features ever produced. S AIT RI) A Y. A CGC ST V/ The greatest spectacle of wonders, thrills and tense drama you ever beheld. A love story unsurpassed! The most unusual circus picture ever shown* upon the screen. Experience the thrills you have always longed for! See "THE SIDESHOW". With Ralph Graves, Mario Prevost and "Ltttle Billy". Also a Gang Comedy and The Police Reporter. Monday and Tuesday, August 5th-6th Milton Sills with Dorothy MacKail in "HIS CAPTIVE WOMAN". Never has a more fascinating "Story-- roaehed the screen. Think bf all the sensational murder trials ey??r recorded. Then try to imagine the most thrilling moments of each, all in one unforgettable drama. Milton Sills as a New York cop telling at a sensational murder trial the soul secrets that doom his own wife to death! 1 ^WEDNESDAY' ACGUST 7. A picture with a jazzy tempo that strikes a high note in entertainment. "DANCING VIENNA." With Ben Lyon and' Lya Mara. Hear the sweet notes that sound a love song, and the blue notes that wail disappointment. See a Yankee Doodle youth running wild in Dancing Vienna until.a Viennese beauty sings, "I Love You". Uniting the 'art of the screen and the dance. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8. Red Area of revenge, quenched by the suprenp power of love. A drama of human emotions at white heat. See "Hie Eternal Woman" with a great east, including Olive Borden, Ralph Graves and John Miljan. She dnarly loved him and she hated him like death. What waa she to do? A gioriouf adventure of life and love. :/-tf.risr * V *' - ~ t\ **" - - '' ' ' '* j ' ' . _ I SOUTH CAROLINA NKW8 Dick Whitmire, state constable of Greenville, is under $300 bond to answer a' charge of beating J. C. Sherer, when he arrested Sherer on a minor charge. The drug store and poet office at Buffalo in Union county waa broken into and robbed last week. A]|x>ut $100 in cash was stolen, as well ae a quantity of merchandise. V The legislative delegation has plans to build a new residence for the superintendent of the Anderson county poor farm, the residence to coat abotlt $0,000. . Suit for $30,000 against the Blue Kidge Railway company has . been brought by Mrs. Gena C. Garrison of Denver, Anderson county, because of the death of her son, John C. Garrison, 22, who was killed at a grade crossing when his automobile crashed into a train. The city hall of Chester, destroyed by fire last Thursday will likely be rebuilt at an early date and the new city hall building will be designed so as to provide headquarters for a number of Chester civic organizations, according to present intentions. wmtffnr XAVarre, purchaser with Harold Hall, of the Augusta Chronicle, the Columbia Record, and the [Spartanburg Herald and Journal, bus j entered suit against the International Paper and Power company for the sum of $2,500,000 alleging breach of contract by the paper company. A. E. Neal, 70, and R. Pearson, 50, met instant death near Fair Forest in Spartanburg county, when the Piedmont Limited of the Southern Railway struck their automobile at a grade crossing. Lawrence Bolt, alleged wife murderer of near Laurens, has been granted bail in the sum of $3,000. He claims his wife committed suicide bgt circumstantial evidence caused the coroner's jury to hold him on a charge of murder. Mayor Alvin H. Dean was re-elected Tuesday as mayor of Greenville over his opponent H. C. Beattie. Mayor Dean received 962 votes while Beattie received 697. Joe Cloud, negro of Chester, was found guilty by a jury in Chester court of the murder of Dan Gladden, another negro, and has been sentenced by Judge Henry to die in the electric chair on September 20. The negro murdered his viefcrm, robbed him and then set fire to the house in which ( he was sleeping. According to announcement made j by Miss Wil Lou Gray, state supervisor of adult schools, there are now in session in this state 181 lay-by schools. The present sessions began July 14 and will continue until Aug- * ust 10. Plans are being made for an j all-state commencement to be held at j ^ Clemson college. James Henry. 15-year-old negro, was killed and Bill Breenlee was ren- 1 dered unconscious by a bolt of light- ' ning while working on a farm at Clemson College Tuesday afternoon. t] S. i-rouis Major, 38, of Ware Shoals, |J was drowned at Tybee Island Tues-? ' day afternoon while in swimming. The body was recovered a short while afterward and carried to Greenwood ; for burial. Seven persons, members of National Guardsmen, at Camp Jackson, were | slightly injured when lightning struck, a recreation tent Tuesday afternoon during a heavy vain and wind storm, j G. A. Lemmon, aged 65, prominent j banker, merchant and planter of Sum- , ter, died at Sumter Wednesday morning after an illness of four days. Paving of eight miles of road between Kinards and Clinton, the only unpaved portion of the ColumbiaGreenville highway, has been awarded to the Simmons-Marant company of Charleston on a bid of $148,011.25. J. \Y. Thompson, a hotel clerk at Ashevillc, was killed when his car plunged off the Asheville-Waynesv^lle highway Sunday. Twenty persons, comprising four families in Chicago, became critically ill Sunday night from eating cake purchased from a bakery. Three banks of New Jersey were closed Wednesday and were taken over by the state banking department. Automobile accidents in Pennayl" vania the first six months of this yea*, accounted for 882 persons killed and 14,500 persons injured. Death of Colored Carpenter. . John Shields, aged about 40, dlad.at his home in the northern .,$>art of the city Sunday night. Shields waa the sexton for the second colored-Baptist church near" his home and had Bounded the bell for the evening services, returned to his home and -4aa fkf minutes was dead. He waa a victim of heart disease. Shields wtl ireU known carpenter and had ipany friends. His funeral and burial was held fror^ Sanders' Criidk' Baptist church, with Rev. R. C. Dow offlciai Aing at the uervieea. i % )* Lad "Borrowed Arretted in Camden A thirteen-year-old lad, giving the name of Carl Whitcher, was arrested In Camden Monday, having In his possession an automobile belonging J. W. Harris, a guest at the Jefferson hotel in Columbia. f The arrest whs made on DeKalb street by motorcycle officer Alvin Rush at the place where the boy hfjd, parked the tar. The lad <jlaimed_ the car .belonged to his uncle, but he could not give satisfactory answers to other questions. He was taken to headquarters and during the further questioning called Chief Hilton to one side and told him he had taken the car in an effort to get to his mother in Syracuse, N. Y. And also stated that he intended to drop a note to the owner apd tell him where he could find his car. He stated that his mother and father had separated, the father having married again in Florida, but he did not like the new step-motheV, hence his desire to return home. Detective R. F. Broome came !|4o Camden Wednesday morning and returned the car and boy to Columbia. It was quick work on the part of 150th Columbia and Camden police departments. ;; &> : Foster -Names Jeschers at Bethune Superintendent J. C. Foster announces the faculty of the Bethune public schools for the session 1929-80, which is as follows: Bethun? High . | J. C. 'Foster, superintendent, Clemsor. and Pen body; It. Broadus Parker,' principal high school, Citadel; Miss Thelma Stroman, Columbia Colege, Miss Eloise Miller, Coker; Miss Eddie i Bradham, Winthrop; Miss Patty | Epps, Columbia College. Bethune | grammar: R. Russell Burns, principal j grammar school, University of South Carolina; Miss Lucille Smith, Lander; Miss Ruby Norris, Newberry; Miss Marie Morton, Limestone; Missj Stella Bethune, Chicdra; Miss j Annie N'eyle Lnngdale, Winthrop; j Miss Laura Yorke, Winthrop. Timrori grammar: Miss Lillian Miller, principal, Limestone; Miss Margie Brock, W+nthrop. Shamrock grammar: Miss Mamie Coker, principal, Dufe West;, Miss Sue Hendrix, Anderson. The wofk of the next session will begin Wednesday, September 4th. Storm Destroys Barn. Following the heavy storm here on Tuesday afternoon another heavy wind and rain storm struck the Stockton section of the county Wednesday afternoon, doing considerable damage. A large barn filled with oats,i, belonging to Mr. E. E. Holland, wag -blown 11 down. Mr. Holland had eleven head of mules the barn sheltered, but luckily the stock was grazing at the time and there was no loss from this source. A cheek up on his hogs revealed five missing and it is thought they were ;aught in the falling timbers. The barn crashed in such a manner as to protect the oats from the elements, and there will be small loss as only part of them were damaged. Mystery Shrouds Coroner's Action Honea Path, July 30.?Mystery shrouded the'action of Coroner M .ke Clarke, who this afternoon ordered an autopsy over the body of Maxie Thomas, 1G, son of J. R. Thomas, which was found in the Saluda river this afternoon, after the youth and his father had gone fishing during the morning and the father had reported that his son had drowned. Information tonight was to the effect that the boy's stomach had been removed by Dr. Milford, county physician, at the order of Coroner Clarke and sent to Clemson College for chemical analysis, while the lungs were sent to Anderson for examination at the Anderson county hospital. A coroner's jury has been empaneled and will hear the inquest tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, it was learned tonight. The body of the youth was recovered from the river at a place where the water is some 15 feet deep after dragging with hooks had been carried on for several hours. San Diego Union?Congress has ordered the next censua to begin on April 1. Which may be a delicate hmt as to what Congress thinks of the majority of us. -tr Richard J. Reynolds* son of the Reynolds family of Winston-Saleirt, N. C., accused of Tunning down Arthur Graham in London, last May with his automobile, was arraigned in Old Bailey court in London for the second time on Friday. The first trial was brought to Ml abrupt halt when it was reported to the court that a juror had been sMB talking to a witness in the case. No blsme was; a tUcheAJ* Reynolds. * ^ Cow Bears Two Calves Three Months Apart \ " All this may be entirely unbiological, but you will beve a difficult time convincing B. F, Taylor, prominent Columbia man, among others that the tale is not true. . Three months ago a Jersey cow owned by Keitt Hants of Fort Motte gave birth to an equally fine Jersey calf. Both the mother and the off" spring developed healthily. Thursday another calf was born to the same cow just three months after the first had come into the world. Mr. Hane and the negroes on his. plantation, while freely admitting that the two births so close together are unheard of, are willing to stake claims they are authentic. Mr. Taylor has seen both calves and adds his force to the contention of the owner.1 The genital period of cattle is nine months. Experienced raisers and planters here yesterday failed to explain the ur^biological process.?Sunday's Columbia State. A Spartanburg county coroner's jury waH unable to place responsibility for the death of Edward Cathcart, 28, farmer, who was shot to death at his home near Camp Wadsworth early Tuesday morning. The verdict of the jury was that Cathcart came to his death from gunshot wounds at the hands of an unknown pajrty. It was testified by the man's wife that he hn<l oft (mi threatened to commit "<?' T'ji'.'; Former Attorney General Wolfe of Anderson has thrown otrtj]1 feeler indicating that lie will offer election in the primary next yew.lM^ sny? he would like to have the jflr back again since the salary is motfl attractive than it uaed to ty. FINAL CLEARANcI STARTING THURSDAY AUGUST 1, 2, 3 I Entire stock mus?.be reduced, regardless, b^J leaving for New York., Come early, All SsIm Final CASH No Approv.l. We Clo?e THURSDAYS 1 P. M. ..E THE FASHION SHoJ camden, south Carolina i" HCi schlosburcFsi Wish to announce the opening of their new | Grocery Department 1 The store has been completely remodeled thropghout B and will be operated on a strictly cash basis.* i , cmosi * H This store is owned and operated by Camden folks ! j and we pledge ourselves to give the public at all times I the very Highest Quality in Groceries, Fruits and B Produce at the very lowest possible prices. - I ; We are very fortunate in having secured the services of Mr. M. L. McLeod, i former Manager of the A & P here, as Manager of our store. ; j Opening Friday, August 2 j FRUIT Half Pints, Doz. line Pintsr 77c Doz. JflHo JAR TOPS, 25c Doz. J7** - FRUIT I Half Gal?' $1J7 Doz. ||nc RUBBERS, 6cPkg. JAHo | PORK and BEANS ARMOURS 3 Cans for 25 Cents CIGARETTES | All Brands 15c L In our Fruit and Produce Department we shall endeavor to give you the very Highest Quality at all times LARD I Finest Compound II 2 Pounds25 Cents j SALMON I Fancy Pink I JVjr| Tall 15c Can I CORN FLAKES 2 Pkgs. Campbell's Soups 10c can i jwwt r/ ITllMJMY Carnation or Pet Large can 10c MACKEREL 1 No. 1 TALL CAN 2 Cans 25c I II BALLARD'S "OKEH" FLOUR H I FLOUR I (SELF - RISING) \ 12 lb. Sack 47c >24 lb. Sack 88c ??? ?B??? 48 lb. Sack $1.71 96 lb. Sack $3.37 FLOUR I IELECTRIK k v.. DD17 A H 2 Loaves 18 cents I : MAID" Kream Krust DtVl-'AU 1 Free with every purchase of 2 II (BabyRuth Candy and All Chewing Gums 3 Pkgs. for IQc COFFEE White House Maxwell House 49c Pound QUAKER OATS I Regular or Quick [ 10c Pkg. I POST TOASTIES 2 Pkgs. 15c LARD 4 lb. Bucket 55c 8 lb. Bucket $1.05 GINGER ALE I CANADA DRY i 24c Bottle, Tax Paid I WHITE UPySUBL?? - - - ?-? ' ! - ? W vinegar Qt. 19c, 2 Gal. 31c, Gal. 57c | , ?? :? 1 II J-. - - 1[: UpHl. '.ini t [' a I i I I a J I "WHERE YOUR MONEY BUYS MORE" ( I N I ;^"'T^