The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 30, 1929, Image 3
auto awko natives
'
ar i? Fiji Islands Vas treated" by
JPevil Doctors.
The ii i motor our to appear i? the
Fiji Munds h? 1905 wo# viewed with
$we by the inhabitants, it beir^ conjiderwl
the contraption of a madman,
9n(i conservative residents suggested
that the owner be deported as a dimerous
character.
The .second car made its appearance
in 1907, doetfawd foy ttyr^wlfe of
the mayor of Suva. A liveried chauffeur
was provided, and it 'is not
known which created the greater stir,
the vehicle or its driver. One day the
owner found under the machine several
bush men, poking about and exploring
the mysteries. Explanations
revealed that the Fijians,had held a
conference about the new vehicle that
lacked visible means of locomotion
and hud concluded that the affair was
nothing less than a devil wagon.
Therefore, partly out of kindness to
the owner and partly to prevent the
I escape of the devil into the bush and
into the villages, the "devil doctors"
constituted themselves a committee
to study this weird thing and to exterminate
its concealed monster.
Eighteen Months for- Robbing King.
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Brussels, Belgium, Aug^?Alexander
Itcheit, 4ST; a Russian* who, recently
robbed the bath house of King
Albert while his majesty was on the
beach at Ostend, today was sentenced
to 18 months imprisonment. Itchen,
who was unaware of the identiXj'
ty of his victim, took articles vauled
at $1',075, Including a locket containing;a
picture of Queen Elizabeth. o
AonlWr Drunken Millionaire Driver.
Ixjs Angeles, Aug. 23.?Michael J.
P. Cudahy, 21, of the Chicago meat
packing family, was convicted by a
jury in superior court tonight on a
charge of driving an automobile wihle
[intoxicated, 'pie jury recommended
a $5,000 fine.
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Masons Give State
New Hospital Home
Columbia, Aug. ?1.~ 0t
South Carolina through their tuberculosis
committee have presents! to
the State a building for the oar? of
tubercular white women, Dr. James
A. Hay no, secretary of the State
board of health, announced today.
The building will be erected at State
Park at a coet of $85, ooo.
Funda Tor the "women's building
have been (turned over to the building
committee to decide on the type and
location of the building, which is to
take care of 50 beds.
The building, Dr. Hayne said, will
be so constructed that additional
funda which .the various Masonic
lodges in the State will false can be
used for the erection of additional
wings.
"The Masons hove aided in the
crusade against tuberculosis not only
by their generous gift," Dr. Hayne
said, "but fyy the educational work
that they have conducted all over the
State in connection with their drive
for funds." *
MAN AND WOMAN HANGED
Poisoners Pay Penalty fqr Crime
Committed in Canada.
Hull, Quebec, Aug. 23.?Philip I>efebvre,
32 years old .trapper from Qic
Gratineau hills and Marie Viau, 42
years old, mother of eight children
were hanged today for the murder of
the woman's husband seven months
ago.
As the ruin poured down in the
jail yard, the trapper went to the
gallows first, followed 16 minutes
later by Mrs. Viau. She was the
sixth woman in the history of the
Dominion to be hanged. They were
convicted of poisoning Zephyr Viau.
Although wooden screens and curtains
had been placed about the scarlet
scaffold to hide it from the curious,
a large crowd milled about the
walls of the jail yard during the double
execution.
Two masses were said for the condemned
before they were led to the
scaffold.
Mrs. Viau was the more composed
of the two as they waited in their
cells. While she sat stern and "unmoved,
Lefebvre sobbed and fretted.
Although Mrs. Viau had expressed
a desire to see him before they went
to their deaths, he expressed no such
wish. One of his last acts was to
write a letter to his father asking forgiveness
for what he had done.
The couple were arrested after authorities
found poison in Viau's body.
His sudden death and hasty burial
aroused the suspicions of the village
priest of Montpelier, near here, who
communicated with authorities.
At their trial last spring neither
made any attempt to deny the crime.
Her Body Spurned By Children.
Hull, Que., Aug. 24,?Unclaimed by
any of her eight children, the body of
Maigie Viau lay in Hull- jail today,
awaiting burial in a nearby potter's
field.
The 43-year old woman, hanged
with Philbert Lefebre, 82, for the poisoning
of her husband, Zephyr Viau,
spent the hours before she mounted
the gallows "writing last messages to
each of her children, !?" her ftldtKey
and other relatives. All "her letters
remained unanswered.
Lefebvre's "body was claimed by his
father an hour after it was removed
from the scaffold.
Officer Kills Two Men.
W&t Frankfort, 111., Aug. 22.?
! Earl Kreicer and Albert McDonald
were shot to death by Police Ohief
! Leroy Fisk at about 10:30 o'clock
, night, after the chief and Patrolman
1 George Nipper stopped their motor
car in the downtown district to search
it for liquor. Kreicer is said to have
fired at the officers first. Fiejc fired
four shots from a sawed-off shot gUn,
hitting both in the head and killing
them instantly. An inquest was
scheduled here today. Fisk was plae.
ed under, technical arrest and held jn
jail at Benton. Kreicer and McDonald
were about 35 years of age.
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The Chicago .National League ^baseball
club, hae recently signed up aa a
future prospect for He pitching
"Red17 Solomon, 13-year-ofcf IwaebaH
I phenomenon of the Bronx, New York.
Tuesday was the coolest August 20
that Boston has experienced in 82
,ye*a. ihena<n?*m worded a
temperature of 54 degree? at day-V
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One boy was killed, another seriously
wounded and a girl dwt in the
Um |fy m Hew Jotwey fawner Toeaday
night whan ha found the trio
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A mm * Um state auvene
in Columbia on Augutt 80th for
such business aa may FgMfi coma
before the tilbunal,
Contract Let For
School at Kershaw
v.The
contract for the erection of
Kershaw's new grammar achool building
w#? let last Thursday to W.iS.
l^angley, of Ijancaster, for ground
118,000, his being the lowest bid.
There were severs! bidders from Ijsuctttttvr,
Hock llill and Clover.
The building is bo be two stories
Shd of brink, ooosiruction, and will
contain seven class rooms and an auditorium,
with other necessary additions.
The new building will stand
north of the high school building,
about opposite the home of W, F.
Estridge, and when completed about
the end of the year, will give Kershaw
a well balanced school plant In
a group with the high school building
in the center, the grammar school
on the south side.?Kershaw Era.
c MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS
Washed Away Annually Because of
Soil Erosion Says Clemson.
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Clemson College, Aug. 27.?In this
state 91,000 acres of land have been
mapped that have been abandoned be?j
cause of erosion, said H. H. Bennett,|
Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, U. S.
Department of Agriculture, when
speaking at Farmers' Week on "Is
Your Farm Washing Away?" When
the South Carolina topsoil is washed
away all we have left is (?n impervious
clay subsoil.
"The people of South Carolina
have been asleep on the soil erosion
problem for a long time," declared
Mr. Bennett, "and it is time for them
to awaken to the truth.
Erosion is active on 75 per cent of
! all the land in the United States,
l continued Mr. Bennett, and it is ex[
ceedingly harmful on 50 per cent.
The washing of gullies is not -ythe
most serious type of erosion, he explained,
but it is the sheet erosion
we do not notice that does the most
harm.
Three of God's most precious gifts
to man are soil, sunshine and rain,
and we cannot afford to waste any of
them. Annually 1,500,000,000 tons
of soil in suspension are carried from
fields in the United States by the
streams, containing 126,000,000,000
pounds of plant food at a potential
value of $2,000,000,000.
Following Mr. Bennett's address,
Prof. John W. Carpenter, research
agricultural engineer, Mississippi EXj*
pfcriment Station, spoke to .the assembly
on Latest Developments in the
Control of Soil Erosion. Mr. ,Carpenter
said the worst feature about the
controlling of erosion in South Carolina
is that the wrong kind of terraces
are used. He gave blackboard illustrations
of how to lay off, build, and
maintain proper terraces, and how to
cultivate the land between the terraces.
He emphasized the fact that if
you are not going to build terraces
right, and keep them up, it is better
not to terrace at all because water
will be drained from all of the slopes
and turned on the lowest place. The.
Mangum or broad-base terrace was
recommended for general purposes/
Convicts Burned in Cage.
Clinton, August 23.?Seven members
of the Sampson county convict
force were painfully burned, five of
them seriously, early today. The men
were locked up in an iron cage attached
to a truck when it caught on
fire while en route from the camp to
|heir work.
There were 10 men in the cage and
the guards were unable to Unlock the
door owing to the frantic effort of the
prisoners to open it from the inside.
Finally the guards succeeded in tearing
the door loose so the prisoners
could escape. 0 *' It
is not known what started the
fire but it spread rapidly when more
than a case of dynamite carried along
with the prisoners became ignited. A
case of dynamite caps also carried on
the car didn't explode until after the
prisoners had been released. The dyTiamitc
was to be used m blasting
stumps.
The men burned are white, Walter
Rivenback. and T. G. Home were the
most seriously burned and. their recovery
is doubtful. The oth?r prisoners
burned a^ fT 1
^th and Henry McGhee. ,A11 were
taken to a Fayottevilte hospital except
Faircloth and MeGhee who received
treatment here. ? JamesE.Peurifou
Urged Far Governor
Columbia, Aug. 21.?Judge James
?, Peurtfoy, pronahn** attorney,
banker, farmer and draah van, i? *
potential candidate for gOreroor, who
is being urged to make da ttte hy
many personal frtenda throughout the
state White Judge PourifOj tmrwmte
no authentic amoonen^etr it was
sold by doae friends <M the former
circuit court M?u thut he to not
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Tractor Replaces
H One-Mule Teams
Clcmson College, August 20.?Qno
tractor with proj>er equipment w ill replace
eight to fourteen one mule outfit
on the farm, declared J. T. McAlister,
extension agricultural engineer,
speaking during Farmers' Week on
Supervised Power Farming Demonutraiions
in South Carolina. These
figures were based on Mr. McAlistei's
study of the comparison oC man and
horse hours uguiost man and tractor
hours for similar plot# of ground
growing'tfimilar crop?.
"The purpose of the power demonstrations
being conducted over the
state is not to do away with animal
power," continued Mr. McAlister,
"but to make full use of power that
is available. There are about 600
geiwial purpose tractors in the state,
that if outfitted, could be profitably
us< (1 it) cultivate crops. Farmers have
money tied up in tractors from which
they get only u part-time benefit.
The expenditure of $250 for equipment
would make these part-time
tractors whole-time tractors."
When Mr. McAlister called on some
of his j>ower farming demonstrator $
to relate their experience with using
only tractor power, Miss Keels, of
Rembert, gave sustaining evidence of
the efficiency of tractor power, and
L. O. K.underburk, of Camden, said
he felt sure his tractor outfit could
cultivate 25 acres of cotton per day
and do it as well as mule labor or
belter. Mr. Davis, of Albany, (la.,
tested the efficiency of tractor power
in growing peanuts. He said that the
cultivating labor that required sixtenths
of a tractor day required over
three days of one-mule power. The
digging cost with the tractor was
$4.H5 per acre against $(5.75 for mule
power. His net profits were $13.34 per
jure with tractor power and $5.<50 per
acre with mule power.
Mother Gives Up Hope.
Aaru, Switzerland, Aug. 22.?The
mother and sister of Kurt Luescher,
missing Swiss trans-Atlantic aviator,
today gave up hope of seeing him
again, and accepted with resignation
what they considered' the will of
Providence.
Neighbors greatly admired the
mother's stoicism, she bakl them that
when she agreed to her son becoming
an aviator, she realized she must
fi prepared for all hazards.
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Murderer Dies in (lhair.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 23.?Leator
Bouyer, negro, died m the electric
Chair at Kilby prison shortly after
| midnight for the murder of Jack
Hine?, young Eufala, Ala., mechanic
I on the night of July 10. He entered
j the death chamber at lid: 12 a. in., and
was pronounced dead at 12:23 a. m.
Bouyer made n lengthy statement
| before the Current was tui nod on.
He admitted shooting Hincs to death
but denie<l having attacked Hines'
young woman companion, which he
was said to have admitted shortly afj.ter
his capture.
| Bootleg Planes Are Been.
San Antonio, Texan, August 24.? ,. -S
Phantom? of moonlit skies uro those
' lone airplanes tlvat carefully avoid
| San Antonio's landing fields.
Thinking that the droning motor Z~$
may belong to a otray plane seeking
to land after dark, the night watchman
at Winburn field frequently prepares
for a landing. But there never
i? anything in sight.
Wayne Parks, Wilbum field manager,
explains these unseen ships this
i way: 6 ^ 0 )
I "They are outlaws of the air, deali
ing in bootleg, both bottled and hu1
C
man contraband. There are several of
..
I these planes oj>erate<l from the border,
evidently, and they pick moonlight
nig'hts in order to land on some
, lonely stretch of land unseen."
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