Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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R. H. HAILE FUNERAL DIRECTOR FOR COLORED PEOPLE 927 Broad At. Camden, 8. We hMve weured the nervicea of I?vett Proctor, licensed Kmbalm, er for 8. C., who will be with us permanently to do our emt>alming. Residence 'I'hone 293-J ? Office Phone 145 General News Notes Associate Justice Blease 'at Newberry last week, fixed hail bond jr\ the sum of $3,000 in the case of the state against J. R. Thomas of Hone4 Path, recently grunted a neW trial following his conviction in Anderson several months ago, for the murder , of his son, who it was changed the father drowned .in order that he might collect life insurance on the life ?jf the lo-yufti-old boy. Mrs. Millie Fleming, held on i charge of slaying her husband, (IIIh rt Fleming, has been granted bail by order of Judge T, S. Sea sc. The bond was $5,000. The elderly farm i er was hacked about the hear! at least !'.? times with a sharp instrument, presumably an axe, while he lay sleeping in his home near Spartanburg several week* ago. Mrs. Fleming said an intruder attacked him while she was calling neighbors t.> aid her hu.strand. Two youths, 10 years old, with buchshot wounds in their faces and, bodies, early Thursday confessed to police in Charlotte thut they were the bandits routed by Cramer ton, N. C., citizens the first <>f the week after four robberies there. The bodies of Jexie Clriffith, .'hi, and Jessie Griffith, 21. sisters, whv lived in Bluckwell, Okla., were found dead by the roadside near their home Saturday. They hud been shot to death and their automobile was missing. Investigation indicated that robbery was the only motive. Denatured alcohol killed four Win-1 ston-Salem, N. C., negroes Christmas 1 day. Officers investigating the: deaths found that t.he negroes had i secured the alcohol nt a filling station ami that all who drank died. The Onley Bank and Trust Company in Philadelphia, Pa., was he'd up Satu-day by four men and robbed of around $25,000. The robbers forced five patrons and five employes ] to line up against a wall while the cash drawers were emptied. Laden with 2.800 sacks of liquor. . a vessel of British registry, .was clip- ! tured Saturday by the Coast liuard as she attempted to enter (Jroenport, I,. I. The vessel was seized after she ha<l ignored a signal to --t??p and had been struck by a one-pound shell fired by a ('>>nsl (ln?-d parro! H. r_ crow of ten was arrested. The value, of the cargo was estimated at $100,000. Robert L. Williams, ]s, Te\a> university student. is being held by the ; police at Port Arthur on suspicion , of having murdered his j,w.cctheuiL. . "Mi<s Elizabeth Johnson. By a division of a Federal tot ; judge at Yoyngstuwn. Ohio, 'he pro ]H?sed merger of the Bethlehem Steel ? company with the* Youngstown Shoot ' and Tube company l- denied. The : coni-t battle for. and against the proposed billion dollar CvrpoiuUon merg- j er has been in the courts fo: six months or longer and was opposed bv minority stockholders in the two corporations. BAYER ASPIRIN is always SAFE gm Beware of Imitations Xi'lXB Bayer Aspirin, the kind t i! 11 rs prescril>e and millions of u-er- lave proven safe for over thirty sears. ran easily l>e identified hv the rt tme Bayer and the word genuine as al >o\ e < .crtiine Bayer Aspirin is safe and sun ; it is always the same. It has the unqualified endorsement of phvsicians and druggists everywhere. It does n<>t depress the heart, and no harmful effects follow its use. Bayer Aspirin is the universal antidote fo^ pains of all kinds. Headaches Neuritis Colds Neuralgia Sore Throat I umlvago Kheumatism Toothache Aspirin is the trade-martc of Bayei manufacture of monoaceticacidester of ?jalirylirackl. North State Bad Man Killed By Police Chief Salisbury, Dec. 3!,??The law he had k<> often mocked got Otto Wood today. ? The dure devil prison breaker and outlaw was' shot to death in a battie with .Chief R. U. Hankin and Anaiatant Chief J- W, Kealer of the local police force in the heart of Salisbury's business section shortly after noon. After 10 shots had been fired, thi llth, from Kankin's pistol, ended Wood's turbulent career of jailbreaking and petty banditry, whicn had left its trail in half a dozen states. Hunted throughout, the country after his fourth escape from state's prison at Raleigh last July, Wood and a companion, who said he was Ray Banner Barker, 2d, of St. Paul's, drove 'boldly into SalisV?ury ainMUt noon. Unidentified men tipped off the officers, and they went to investigate. Rankin und Hosier, driving in the former's automobile, saw Wood and Barker walking along Hast i/tnes street, a block and u half from the police station. "<Y>me here, buddy," Chief Rankin eallod to Wood". "What do you want?" Wood demanded. with an oaLh. "Ix't me see your other hand," huid the police ehief, who knew the fugitive had lost a hand and suffered a foot injury in a railroad wreck before he gave up' the life of a brnkeman for that of a bandit. "I am Otto Wood. Here's my hand," Wood exclaimed, whipping out a 'lb-calibre pistol. "Move, and 1 will kill you Imth." Wood then climbed into the officer's automobile, and ordered them to drive hint to the railway station. Moving as if to obey the command. Chief Rankin ducked and slipped from the ear, using the radiator and front] fender as a partial protection. He, opened fire through the windshield.] and Wood sprang <>ut, veturhing the I fire. Sitting at his home tonight. Chiei Rankin described the finish ot the j battle. "I raised up from behind the radiator." he said. "1 wanted t<? end it. As I raised up, I fired. Wood fired. We both shot at the same instant. Otto missed in- mark. My j bullet went home." At tin ? SO und of the la>l shot, th" ; outlaw, so proelaimed by ofticial act of the state government, staggered against ;he curb anil tell. 1 he tat til bullet hit him noa- the mouth, and t made a great wound in h.- heaM. ' He died almo.-t instantly. \V,?>d'? le_- also w a> shattered at the knee. KesJer was believed to have ft vet I i he bullet nvaking this .- round, ' i \:though '?niy "lie or two spectators witnessed the battle, a throng -oon gathered, and word tfyit "Otto W.?od i- dead" spread like wild fire. The outlaw's body was taken t*> a local mortuary. The undertakers aid 000 persons visited the establishment for a look at his remains. T<?night. no"claim had been made, for .1 b\ Wilkes county relatives or r*i lends. In the automobile uked by Wood ard Barker, the officers said they found a loaded rifle. W ood had a| p.uketful of ammunition for his pis- | toi. Barker had a 38-caliber pistol) in his pocket, but it wa#'not loaded.1 He said Wood gave it to him Monday, j Barker was present at the gun t battle, but made no move to parti- j cipitate. The young man was held at the ' county jail lie. .said, his - niuther,. Mrs. Edna Barker, lived at St. Paul's. 'Wood, he explained, picked him up near Rocky Mount. \ a.. Monday us he was hitch-hiking toward his home from West Virginia. Until today, he declared, he di.d not knowWood's name. A small coach, carrying Missou.i license number -131388, w.is lu mg used by Woodland Barker. Negro Woman Paroled llattie Dempsey, Negro woman, who in October. 11*2*4, m Kcr-haw county, cnte-ed a plea !' gir.ity t > a charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to serve twe years, has been granted a pamie by (Jovornor RuT.ard She was alleged to have inflicted fatal wounds with a table knife on a Negro girl'in a quarrel in .i boarding house. Judge S. W. (!. Shi pp. Solicitor A. F. Spi'gncr ami the board of directors of Kershaw county recommended clemency. The state board of pardons did not recommend clemency. Frank Nitti, business partner of Alx Capone, Chicago racketeer, or. Satur? lay entered a plea of guilty to charges of evading 5158,823 income ttoeas. The judge sentenced him to 18 iwonths in the prison at Iyoavenworth, Kan., and a fine of $10,000. I Bethune News Notes Told, by Correspondent Bethune, Dec. 30.?On Sunday ?ve ning preceding (ftriatmas u cantata " Yuletide Memories," was sung at th? Presbyterian church. litis iovety number was beautifully and artistically rendered 'by voices from tht three churches of the town. The woman's missionary society ol the Methodist church met with Mrs J. 1.. King Tuesday afternoon. At th( close of the meeting little Betty Best delivered a message to Mrs. J. L King, saying there 'was an expres* package for Mrs. Ingram, wife ol the Methodist pastor. Two little girls Gene Bethune and Harriet 'Mays, followed, carrying a basket filled with gifts for Mrs. Ingram from the mem bers of the society. Mr. and Mrs. Mayo Duvi$ and Mar Davis, of Dothan, Ala., have beer spending the holidays with relative*! here. Miss Oaudine Gardner of Durham, N. is at the home of hei parents; Mr. and Mrs. K. K. Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith and children have been the recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. K. E, Austin at Matthews, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. 'Mark King and children and Miss Ivouisc 'King of Neec-ps, spent several days hero during the holidays with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. (J. E. Brant of Bamberg, sipent last week with Mrs. Brunt's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Ward. The following teachers spent the holidays at their respective homes 'here: Miss -Mary Louise Mt-Laurin, [Calhoun Falls; Miss Carrie Yarbrough, Lancaster; Miss Mable Watts, Madison, Va.; .Miss Katherine Ward, Chesterfield; Miss Clara Gordon, Union school; Miss Frances Saverancv, Schrock's Mill; Miss Lizzie Kate Davis, Kershaw; 'Mr. Fred .Josey, G. M. ('., Milledgeville, Ga. Misses Birdie Belle and Leonu Smith, pupil nurses at Columbia hospital, spent the week end at their respective homes. Miss Mary Beattie, of McBee, has bee^visiting Miss Malloy Hearon. Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie G. Richards, of Asheville, X. C., have been the guests of relaUvc* during the holidays. Mr. Richards has returned to Asheville while Mrs. Richards is remaining for a longer visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John McCaskill. Mr. and Mrs, C. iM. Wilson and children, of Columbia, have" been the recent guests of Mrs. M. L. Kelly. Miss Stella Bethune and Miss Margaret Truesdell are spending several days at Neeces, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mark King. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Mays and little grand-daughter, Harriet Mays, spent several days last week in Whiteville, X. visiting Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Padgett have moved to Che raw where they will make their home in future. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Foster ' and children are visiting relatives at Pauline, S. C. Among the college students who are spending the Christinas holidays at home are: Sarah Hammond, Margie Parrott and Sarah Lee Heustiss, Win throp; Mary King, Dorothy Parrott and Kathryn Truesdell, Colombia college; Gladys Baker, Limestone; June and Neil Truesdell, P. C.; Burrel Best, Tom Smith, John Neil MvLaurin, Kirkland Watts, Gordon Watts, Clemson; James King, University of South Carolina; Laviti Savci' a rice. Davidson college. Robert DuBose, who is with the State Highway Department in Georgetown spent the holidays witn his mother, Mrs. Lillie DuBose. Mr. and Mrs. David* Holley, of the Mt. Pisgah section, have been the recent guests of Mrs. Holley's pa-ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Sitveranee Miss Fannie MeSween, of Darlington, has been visiting her sister, Mrs Clara Davis. Norwood Thomas, of Winivsboro spent several days last week with his mother, Mrs. Sallie Robertson. Miss Louise Mclxian, of Hartsville has been spending several days with Miss Thelma Day is. Charles Belch, of Cayce, is tht guest of Douglas Mays, Jr. Miss >Mabel Watts ami Mr. Kirkland Watts visited tiheir sister ant brother-jn-law, Dr. and. <Mrs. H. G Hiers, of Bambeig, last week. Mr. Homer Fields has moved hi; family to Cheraw where he has -\vorli with a highway company. Misses Marguerite and Cornelir Johnson, of the Oakland section, sen. at- AVlumbm -roBege, were week i end gupsts of Miss .Mary King. Twenty Five Lynchings Occur During Year Xow York. Dev. 27. The year li*3( hn.- seen 2."> ynchings as compare, with twelve in 1020. the National As vio lation for the advancement <>f co! ored people said today in an annua timmary. INventy-four of the victims wevt negroes, the association said. Geor ga ha<l seven lynchings. Alabama an. 1 e\as four apiece. Mississippi throe Indiana and South Carolina two euef and Florida. North Carolina and Ok lahoma one eaeh. Waiter White, aeting secretary oi the association, hailed as an encour ?g:ng development "the increasing repudiation by white women of th\ south of lynching as a protection o! womanhood." "Of twenty-five lynchings in 1030,' he said, "criminal assault was assigned as an excuse in. only throt cases." Of the $116,000,000 appropriated by congress for public works, including highways, South Carolina is to get as her share $1,300,000. which is to be matched by a sum of equal amount for highways in this state. ,. .?: ' ' " i IVeivs Among Tour iota and Kirkwood Society 78 Winding up the hoHdgys with a round of gayety, the many cortege | students spending their vacation here r enjoyed to the utmost the opening of . the New and the closing of the old ! year. ' v , ? Early in the week Miss Sutmn Ken-1 | nedy entertained the young set with a buffet supper, accompany id# her [ guest* later to the Armory dance. , i t Mra. Robert Marye gave a tea dance for her daughter, Miss Oaro[ line Richardson, who is a student at f Winbhrop, for John Richardson frojn the V. M. I., and his guest, Henry ! Curtis, and on Sunday evening Jimi ,mie Campbell of Hobkirk Inn had as . dinner guests, Misses Alice DePas# Willie Haile, Caroline Richardson, . Susan Kennedy, Phyllis Carrison and 11 Thomas Wooten, J<>hn Richardson, \' Henry Curtis. Walter and Thomas Wooten. Honoring the birthday of her daughter, Miss Betty Knapp, Mrs. Julia L. Knapp entertained on New ! Year's Day \$th an old fashioned egg p hog party. In the cottage colony dinners have been numerous, one of the / largest being given on New Year's night by Mrs. William N. Kerr for her sisters, 1 Mrs.. S. Osgood Pell, of Paris, and Mrs. Page Warden of Pasadena. At the Kirkwood William Brewster entertained with a luncheon on Monday fon Miss Ruth Richards, Mr. C. V. Henson, Mrs. John Mc<Mahon, .John Martens and Mrs. Robert Gill. Clayton Mayo had as dinner guests at the Kirkwood, Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, Mrs. C. V. Benton anti, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harmon. Mrs. A. S. Hunter gave a luncheon at Greenleaf Villh on Wednesday for eight, and on Friday afternoon Mrs. William B. Nisbet of Now York entertained with a card party at the | Sarsfield Club. | Miss Helen Meriam Farrelly, who | is passing her vacation with her I grandmother, Mrs. Stephen Farreliy, on Hampton Avenue, will return in a few days to the Holy ChiLd Convent at Sharon Hill, Pa. At the Court Inn recent arrivals are Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Knowlton and family of Now York, Dr. and ?Mrs. I. F. Harris and family of Bronxville, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Stearns of Boston. Mr?. Lyndon S. Tracy and Lyndon Tracy, Jr., have come from Syracuse for a visit at the Kirkwod, as have also Mr. and Mrs. George L. Bean of Valley Forge, William Brewster of Newport, R. I., and John Wilkinson and John Wilkinson, Jr., of Syracuse. Mrs. John Hutchinson, the Misses Mary Louise and Betty Hutchinson of Trenton, and Miss Caroline Getty of Washington, are visiting Mrs. George ! R. Cook, and Webster Todd has join| ed his father, Mr. John Todd, at his i home on Kirkwood Heights, j Leverett Bradley of Lakeville, ConI necticut, is a guest at Greenleaf Villa | where Mrs. Robert Gill of New York ' ' is also- visiting. Mrs. N. B. Morgan of Greensboro, N. C., has joined Mrs. John Gulland for a visit .at Hobkirk Inn, and Mrs. D. M. Converse, of Winchendon, and Miss Charlotte' Campbell, of Washington, who ard guests of Mrs. H. G. Marvin at Hobkirk Inn, will return north on Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ramon O. Williams, of New York, have come to Hobkirk, where Mr. Ward C. Belcher and Benjamin Belcher of lakeville. Conn., " wro r.x-onf irrivah. ? Mr. and Mrs. C. Collins Merriam, of Lyons Falls, N. Y., joined Mrs. Frederic de Peyster Hone for Christmas at Deare Place, and Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Palmer, of New York, and Fairfield, Conn., are also at Deare ' Place. Mr. Palmer went North on Tuesday evening to attend the ball of the Fairfield Hunt Club, of which" h"e~ is a member. Miss Betty and John Knapp visited Mrs. Beverly Mikell in Charleston for ! a day or two. this Week. ? , 1 Meets of the hounds are being hel 1 twice weekly, and always with a good field. Mrs. Dwight Partridge, Master, i 1 Lamont Dominick ' and Carroll K. Bassett, Whips, will again be active ? in the promotion of the hunts this j season. Mr. M. Burke, of 'Marlborough, ' Mass., who has spent many winters \ at the Kirkwood, is again there, and Professor George F. French of Phil5 lips Academy, Andover, and Mrs. 1 French, after ten days at the Kirkwood, have returned home. 1 Mrs. F. C. Clark, rtf Yonkers, N. Y., playing with. Tom Harmon rm -Thursday on the nine-hole Kirkwood course made the eighth hole, 125 yards, in one. . r I \ Death of Mr. Catoe Bethune, Dec. III.?Mr. H. H. Catoe, an elderly man who resided a few miles from Bethune on the 1 Bishopville road, died very suddenly . Monday morning, December 20. * Mr. - Catoe had walked over to the home , of his son, Mr. Steve Catoe. and just 'las he arose from his chair to return to hi> home, ho dropped dead. Funeral services were held at J Pleasant Hill church on Tuesday 1 with interment in the Pleasant Hill ' cemetery. Mr. Catoe is survived by three , i daughters and four sons and several I grandchildren. Dr. McCain Dead 1 Due West, Dec. 27.?Death Friday . claimed Krskine College's veteran , teacher of English, Dr. John T. McCain. The 7H-year-old professor died after becoming seriously ill Wednesday night. He had been in ill health for . about two months, but was thought on the road to recovery. For 48 years he taught at Erskine and for 40 years taught English literature. During the past 20 years he has held the chair of English Bible, I which he established in connection with his work in English literature. , " ' I > Th# governor of Alabama issued i 15-day paroles to more than 300 *on? victs fn state prisons and on state farms. , 1 ' ' ' Family of Three Killed in Automobile Mishap ^ " Charleston, S. (fc, Dec. 30.?A family of three was wiped out 13 miles from here today wfoen an automobile left the highway and plunged into Little Goose creek, drowning all three. Twenty minutes after the automobile entered the water, about 10 a. m., the bodies of Frank J. Johnson, his wife dnd their ,son, Allen, about 10, were recovered. They were from Jacksonville,' Fla. i Papers found in luggage in the car indicated that. Johnson was an ice plant engineer. His address appear ed to be at 425 Florida avenue. Just what caused the accident will! perhaps never be known. W. C. Lott, a highway foreman who was working nearby saw the car swing on a j soft shoulder of the road, he said, and then dash directly across' the pavement, turn oVer some two crt three times before hurtling upside down into the waters of the stream. County police spent this afteraoop dragging the creek ir).- search of an infant at first Supposed to be in the I car. _An infant's nursing bottle' found in the car led to this belief. The search, however, was abandoned late today after officers had received information from Jacksonville, that the family had but the three1 members. A bulldog was found dead in the tonneau of the ear. Officers said tonight they believed j the Johnson's had been on a Christmas visit to relatives of Mrs. Johnson at Castle Hayne, near Wilmington, N. C., and were returning to 'i " imm B Florida. Bodies otf the three were at a Char. leaton undertaking establishment to-1 ^ night, awaiting word from relative*, ^fl John I). Motley fl Dies At fiteyl -.y" | ' J John Daniel Motley, 47, died at fcfijS late residence at Blaney. about 6:30fl Monday afternoon following an ill-^fl ness of only four Wurt. ? ' y Mr. Motley had made his home ii fl Blaney for four years and wa% member of Union Baptist church. Ht |H leaves numerous friends in vafioo^I sections of the state who will b?l v grieved to hear of his sudden doatfc. Surviving him are his widow, merly Miss Jessie Mae Heath ot 1 Blaney; two sons, Buck Motley and I Talmadge Motley; one sister, Mrj. H W. R. Laughlin of totoinlbia; and I two brothers, S. D. Motley of New I Broo^cland and B. MT JJcrtfcy of Go-1 lumbia. fl Funeral services wibre held at 4 I o'clock Wednesday afternoon from 1 Union Chapel Baptist church, Blaney, fl with the Rev. Mr. WilKs* pastor, of I Ridgeway, in charge. Interment I in the churchyard.?-Columbia State. B fl H. H. Quinn, Greenville man, had fl roast wild duck for Christinas. The I duck just dropped in for the occasr I ion. Driving along. Main street H Christmas Day, Mr. Qhinn heard a 1 crash, saw his windshield fly 4nto bits H and picked the duck, little damaged, I from his lap. That was the piece de fl resistance of the Quinn's Christmas fl dinner. t .' - " i ' WARNING 1 y * v. ?v*T*~' ? y r' * H?V^H To Parents and Children! I It hu come to the atention of the Police Depart* II merit that there1 it con?iderable complaint at to pro- || miscuou? shooting of rifle# and tling-thot# in the corporate limit# of the city. I want to hereby warn par- [l ents a# well a# children that officer* have been in- | tructed to keep a cloae lookout for these offender# ! and arrest# and confiscation of rifles will follow any' fl violation of this warning. f H. D. HILTQN, H Chief of Police I Camden, S. C.> Jan. 1, 1931 < ^ r ^ . - M:: /^\ Grandmother's I I 4j I .Nsr~ iy? _ FULL POUND MA I |-wHiM ccoNQMVlgl Wrapped-Loaf 7 |, I Rajah Brand I I I SALAD DRESSING I I 3 *" *B? IS8 jS %*c I I I Sumter Brand I I I SPINACH 3 H? I Del Monte I Fruit Salad 1' Z3c I I I Rajah Brand Ifl I Sandwich Spread 11 ^ Small ^^4* 9-<a * Sf;iE" ; I 3 Jars Jar - I VTT ATTH AAiP pl?dn Ot 4* Jg lb. ! VLUUII Sol I rising X4 Bug 7j? I I LARP Compound lb. lie I I MEAL or GRITS lb. 3c I I CHEESE w-&r? lb. asc I ! I CAMAY SOAP 3 cakes 19c I I Lettuce 10c Grapes ' 10c I | Celery 10c Banana*, 4 lbs. .... 25c j] I Carrots 10c Fresh Tomatoes 12V4C I