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^jo Operates Crewless Ship Diego, Calif., July 34.?An .';''r'lMi destroyer maneuvered at K^eed off San Diago yeat^day Hpnong other things made a 180 Tturn, described by naval of[' 'W as the moat atartiing trick ^Emed by a crewless ship. E| ship watt the U. S. 8. Stod,;E liHi foot vessel of 1/600 tone. ^EvthmK from its whistle to its Err operuted by radio from E^jdge of the control ship, the Ejyyer Ferry, which followed in Com. Boyd Alexander, comber of the Stoddert, an<j Iyjeut, E^Carl H. Quilan, commander of perry, stood o" the bridge >>i : I latter craft watching tho StodE Alexander turned to a sailor ^Kding before a little box bearing Kt keys, resembling those of a E<h>' hundred eighty degrees Et," Alexander said. Eone hundred eighty degrees E'., sir," said the sailor, tapping < E' the etheral command the Stod E veered from tho straight course had maintained for miles and Env completely about without Eomniander Alexander smiled. Eat is the fir.st time that ever E been done," he said. "There's E>t of machinery operating^ itself / pry officer and man of the Stodtransferred to the Perry ^ r to the test. ;E^ 8 ra(iio robot at her wheel tEiftofitlert moved out to open sea fl* knots. The Perry followed. El*c'(l ?f the Stoddert was stepBop to 15, then 20 knots. She E her whistle and blinked her Et searchlight at radio comEds. Then the order "full speed E*d" was given and she. moved at knots or about' 30 miles an hour. E radio robot was doing the work E60 men. E?r 1? miles the Perry followed I crewless leader. The Stoddert, Eded by mechanical hands and elecEal nerves, left a wake of green E as straight as a string, while E Perry, with an experienced seaE at her helm, made flat curves E> her wake across the azure blue 200 yards behind. We haven't tested all the possi ties as yet," Commander Alexan said, "but they seem as limitless I the imagination." Kn route back to San Clemente Lnd something snapped in the Hio equipment. The Stoddert E"" t0 a stoP automatically, turnB off her steam and whistled lusE the tests had been completed, E tww returned and within 40 E?oU|*he was under way again. Stoddert was ordered decomrecently?and?ctmverted E " target for battle practice. Planes using dummy bombs will he Ford Motor company on SatB?y shut down part of its plants Detroit for the month of August. Bven of tjje thirty-six Ford assem triants will continue in operation. *n running at full capacity tho 'er Rouge plant employs 110,000 rkers. leorgoW. E." (Jiggs) Perry, "marug brakemanV of Milwaukee, Wis., s been given a life sentence follow' his conviction for the murder of ra IWle Hackett, Chicago, one of ren women he is alleged' to have rried. Both Perry and his legal fe collapsed when the foreman of ' tr'a* jury read the verdict of ilty. President Hoover has assured the ought and insect ridden sections iti 6 northwest and central states that ey shall have the aid of the govament in fighting their troubles. A lurvey of the sections of Montana, wh iind South Dakota, Iowa, Neand Minnesota is being made estimate the extent of the aid necsary for relief. Sated tongue, bad taste JJ suffered from heartburn and tMy would t?l, and 1 would have a bad r I J*** my mouth. X had ?aa jJS lu.r u rU** SKsa5jk?* ?5ipil - THE MACHINE AGE 1 APPLIED TO CRIME Methods Employed by Criminals Demand New Police Methods, Bankers Association Official Declares. IJ8B by criminals of modern technological developments such ai automoblleis, machine guna and air? ILmT uE,y*n them *4vantagea which old-fashioned local and dlsconnected police systems are powerleaa to combat and the situation demands the broader modern protection of State police ayetema, James K. Baum, deputy manager American Bankers Association in charge of ita crime investigating department, declares in the protective section of the American "ankers Association Journal. "The Association's Protective Committee has repeatedly urged the advantages of extending state police systems beyond the nine eastern States which have enjoyed this protection for many years," Mr. Baum says. "The time has passed when we can safely rely upon the disconnected and oftentimes ineffective methods of local and county police. The advent of automobiles and bettor roads, to say nothing of machine guns and airplanes, demands the same wide latitude in authority and field of operation be given tho police no less than the criminal." , Statewide Police Plans Be?t He quotes a Kansas Judge as, saying that our system of sheriffs and constables was not designed to meet presentrday conditions. As a system of law enforcement, it is as out of date as old common-law pleading, both eVolved about the same time. The semi-mill, tary, highly trained State police officer owing allegiance only to State laws, la the most effective agency for order yet brought forth." Every year the robbery experience of banks In the nine States having State police proves the merits and urgent need of State-wide police protection," says Mr. Baum. "Last year for example, there were 38 bank holdups In Connecticut, Maine, Maryland Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York' Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia where State police forces are operated," he continues. "Although this total is exceptionally high due to an unprecedented number of robberies in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, It Is little more than half the number of daylight bank robberies suffered in 1930 in Illinois alone. Furthermore, total of 38 robberies in the nine eastern States was exceeded in California, where there were 42 bank holdups, and in Ohio where banks auf: fered 40 similar attacks. j ^ Holdups Fewer Under New Plan j "If we extend the comparison of the robbery experience in these States enJoying State-wide police protection to . the record in eight central and far western States, we find a total of 304 bank holdups in the latter group. The odds, therefore, continue to be not less than 8 to 1 against the banks in these western States, where they are denied the speedy, coordinated action of State police and their modern means of transportation and communication. The same comparison holds true of the farmers' losses through robberies of livestock, poultry, produce, etc. '^Moreover, these State pT51Tcs-TffrcBSinvariably yield an operating profit in the amount of fines collected and the value of stolen property recovered. Bankers interested in cutting down the I cost of robbery Insurance might well consider this Job of extending State police systems as a timely, co-operative service to be undertaken alongside the farmers." . _ BANK EMPLOYEES SENT TO SCHOOL Modern Scientific FinancUI'and Management Methods Taught Throughout Country. ' T"HE American Institute of Banking Section of the American Bankers Association conducts 223 chapters, or local banking schools in as many cities throughout the country. One large city chapter has almost 6,000 students, who are combining formal theoretical and practical banking studies with their daily working experience and other places have these schools with a thousand to two thousand students. In addition there are fifty study groups In small communities with some 6,000 enrollments. All told over 42,000 bank people are taking these courses?not only clerks, but Junior officers and even senior officers In gome of the more advanced work. The/work of the institute has been declared to be "a dynamic economic force, pouring IdLo banking a broadening, deepening stream of better qualified bankers than coiild be developed merely by the daBy workings of banking itself," and it has been suggested that every bank worker should be compelled to combine Institute courses With his work. A good many banks now make it a part of the contract of employment that an employee shall ijtf ertake to render himself proficient and trustworthy In banking by taking institute work and others make successful progress lh this educational eapect of banking a pre-requisite to Promotion. Flans are being developed to make the benefits at banking edu* cation through this organisation more federally available in the rural districts. < General News Notes Boardman and Polando. American ? to Istanbul, Turkey, flew , ,|is. Unce of 4.4H6.# mil.,, breaking the -r t? " lonK dlotance flight, rhey were tfiven a capita" "* Pt?pl" the TurkisS , I>r. Oscar K. Baliay, 40. of K.tep, j y-? was uhot to death by his \'K \ year-old son, Billie, who claimed tha't I ?* ? he believed his father had whipped a younger brother to death and was attacking hi. mother, he i fired to save her life. After farmer Edward Herbert of l Illinois had paid . threshing crew for i a full days work he U)0k (hc harvest of 10 bushels of oats to Jo- | let ami sold It for $2.09. H? re- I turned home and set fire to 76 acres 1 ? oats still unharvested. The Federal department of justice has announced that it will investigate 1 the rece/H raise in the price of cigarettes to try and determine whether or not the raise is due to a price-fixin* agreement among the cigarette makers. ' More than 13,009,000 people now have average accounts of $753 in the mutual saving, banks ?f ,he United . bites, amounting to total deposits of $9,976,907,381 on July 1, according to figures made public by the Nabanks US80ciation of mutual savings The body of Dan p'. O'Flynn, secretary of the P:iks club at .Meridian Miss., was found in a pond near that city. Five feet of grass rope was tied around his neck and it is the theory of the police that he was* first strangled to death and his body then thrown into the Jake. Thomas Alva Edison, the sage of West Orange, N. J? and America's most noted electrical genius and inventor, is critically ill und his physicians declare that he will never again be out of danger. He is a victim of diabetes and brights disease. Varner Corry, a "model" pupil of a Chicago high, 15 years old, who shot a policeman to death when he was ordered out of a swimming pool by the officer, following his conviction on a charge of second degree murder, has been sentenced to serve 18 years for his act. The judge, in sentencing the boy, read a seven and a half page summary of the case, severely criticizing the'parents of the boy. Machine gun gangsters wounded five children on the streets of Harlem, New York, Tuesday night as they made a desperate effort to shoot a man to death in the Italian section. The would-be victim' escaped as did the two gangsters who fired the shots. The estate of the late C. J. Valley of Hendersonville, N. C., is suing the city of Gastonia for $50,000 damages because of the death of Valley in that city a year and a half ago when he ran against the concrete base of a, stie'et stop light. The case is to iw heaid August & Hundreds of people of Wichita,) Kan., are reported as sleeping in the bed of the Big Arkansas river at that place, because of the intense heat of the nights. For two nights the scorching winds sizzled the corn in tfce %lds and made the city a seething furnace. w facTOAE. cashier, of the defunct Farmers bank at Belhaven, N. C., has been sentenced to serve eight to ten years in prison, following his conviction on a charge of misappropriation of bank fluids. A fire at the county home near Charlotte destroyed a barn, two mules, 100 loads of bay, 300 ^ushels of corn, and other property. The cause is unknown. The loss was $6,000 and was three-fourths covered by insurance. Dave Shepard, 0f Portland, Ore., is a miser extraordinary. Possessed of $30,000 in cash, he forced hi8 wife to cut his whiskers with scissors rather than pay a barber for the job, she charges in a divorce action. After the dry weather had caused the waters of Flint Lake in Indiania to recede to an extent of more than five feet, Leonard Spooner found his $800 diamond ring which he lost in five feet of water two years ago. Effie Regan, (Philadelphia underworld character, is in jail in that city and is not trying to get out, following an attempt on his life by gunmen Sunday morning, there being 60 bullet marks on his bullet-proof car. O. R. King, 35, afVested by police of Asheville, N. C., has been taken to Marion, Ark., where he is wanted for the alleged killing of two North Carolina youths, Burton Henaley and Woodrow Wilson on October 22, 1030. The (South Carolina medical profession was exonerated this week when the supreme court ordered a n?w trial in a Union county lawsuit because a lawyer told the jury that a number of physicians could be purchased to testify, If the party had the money. The opinion was written by Justice M. L. Bon ham. ' J - fer < ? ' Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by UM McGee, Copyright, 1U28. * A WEEK'8 VACATION (Seventh Day) ....Well, folks?our vacation is just . about oU-r. The net results of our *eck', stay at the beach is. .* sun- 4 burnt, terribly blistered back, a dis- I [ike for bull dogs and a love for i baked flounders. . t ' . .. . The first thing I did this morn. 1 ngwas have the filling station fill my gas tank. The said tank has a capacity of 11 gallons. 1 had I gallons in the tank before he put any in, but somehow or other, he pumped in 12 additional gallons. I am truly thankful that he did not bust my container. .. The land-ladies at our Inn consented to take a check for our board and lodging. That was nice of theni. I woke up, this morning worrying about things back home. When we left, we forgot to phone the electric light folks and the water meter people and the gas works that we would be out of town for a few days, and now we will possibly have to pay a?. the same rates that we would have had to pay had we stayed at honm. But here's hoping Jhey'll take the meter's word for it. 1 ....I saw a sad thing this afternoon. Just oodlings and oodlings of pretty girls were parading and walking and strolling up und down the strand, d re feed in those big-legged beach pajamas, and believe it or NOT, an Austin car ran up Miss Kuty Didd's pajamas and frightenojJ her into buying a Flit gun. Austins is bad, but personally, I m opposed to those pajamas, .when 1-piece bathing suits can be had for less money. Folks don't talk politics much at the beaches. I asked a man down there how he liked Hoover. He replied: I don't think I ever tried any of it." He thought Hoover was a soft drink. Another guy was approached on the tariff bill, but he had never heard of it. I tried to find out how many legislators were sent up (not to the pen) from the county our beach was located in, and the old farmer who was peddling mud-turtles at that time told me that he diddent think his county had a legislature at all. ? ....We are packed up now and just as soon as we can get our installment plan cranked up well be on our way. Take it from me, folks: If you want to have a real pleasant, cool, satisfying vacation, go to the seashore, take along a few everydayclothes, a bathing suit, and all the money you can get, and the water! and the breezes will do the rest cure. . FOLKS I MET ON MY VACATION 1 Miss Lou Sunnitt: "Oh, I dearly1 love sun-tan. Sister thinks it's horrid. hut, fthe's an old fogy and has 3 younguns. No kiddies for me. jfm says so too. We will get married next June. He's with the Standard of New Jersey, but he works in Virginia. Gotta cigarette? I prefer an Adam's apple teaser. .Right." ? Mr. H. R. A. Smith: "I got up this morning with a sort of pain in my aoaomen. i/uc wi jo . *.... b ject to intermittent ulcerations of the Intestinal ducts,, and must lay off sweets. Fine day, but nothing like we have at New Port. The South Is 0. K. for Southerners, but 111 take Maine and Vermont for mine." (I staged to ask him who sent for him to come down here.) Mrs. Hugh Wood: "Howdy, doooo. So gladter meetyer. Jimmie, drop that frog right this minnit. You're from Anderson, eh? Know Joe Wheeler, the laundryman? Siara, quit that squinting, turn Billie aloose. I know another family there. The Er-er-Lemme gee?What is his name..Taint Scott? No? Gosh, L knowit bettcr'n my own. Sam, M tend to them younguns. They ^Il< all get drownded in that pond." Old Mrs. Bumgartner: "Well, my young man?old wimmen like me is out of place up here. Too much noise. Never saw so many babies at one place. Is that all they do up here, raise babies? My days ain't long on this old earth, and I will soon be up yonder with James. Oh, James was a wonder of a man! So gentle, kind, soft and funny! How 11 do miss him! I like Florida better than the mountains, but the mosquitoes and sandflies almost ran me craay. Come and g"et me, Ollie." (Ollie was her grand-daughter, and a fine flapper when out of sight of the old mogol.) Mr. Pondexter: "Yep, panic's over. Hoover fixed it with his littlei moratorium. .France, Germany and England ought to thank the Lord for Hoover. f man, nobody can ' 3^7"" - ' boat him now. Stronger than he was when he fed the ltelgium's on Ameriis in the meat market business in Tennessee, so his wife told me later.) Gee Mc(iee: "Off for each weekend trying to keep his family cool and comfortable on 40 bones a week while he's making only 20 back home. They ain't hard to pletsae. He keeps batch Monday-to-iSlaturday morning, then buys some gas and oil on credit and joins them.."at his palatial home un Pisgah," but he wakes up in u hotel after his arrival. It must be awful to be rich. It's too hot or too cold all the time for the wealthy, (live me my old office and my nice office force for comfort, satisfaction, pleasure and happiness. You can't beut home nohow." (Gee, his-seff). Nuthun Fields, an escaped convict from the Arkansas state prison where he was sentenced to serve ten years for second degree murder, was shot to death at Taylor, Ark., when officers from the prison went there for him after he had been serving the town for six months as a police officer. Nathan saw the prison superintendent coming toward hitn and at once whipped out his. pistol and shot him through the arm and body. The superintendent was seriously wounded. Fields was shot to death by another officer from the prison. Kvanston, 111., hus invoked the curfew law there that has been a dead letter for fifteen years.* Fat Men I Mr. W. It. Daniels, of Richmond Hill, N. Y. City, writes, "Have finished my second bottle of Kruschen Suits ?Results ?Removed 3 inches from the-, waistline?am 26 per cent more active?.-mind is clear?skin Eruptions have disappeared?am 46 years old?feel 20 years younger." To lose fat take one-half teaspoon of Kruschen Salts in a glass of hot water before breakfast every morning?an 85 cent bottle lasts 4 weeks ?Get it at DeKalb Pharmacy or any drug store in America. If not ioyfully satisfied after the first bottle? money back. Shower of Frogs Fell in Andersffti It has never rained tlw? proverbial luth, dogs and pitchforks in Andvrson, but little bullfrogs did come peppering down out of the clouds during the rainstorm Saturday afternoon. Most of the frogs smote the ground in the southeastern section of this city. Some were killed by the shock,, but most of them were merely stunned and hopped jubilantly away upon regaining their composure. The frogs were about the size of small horseflies, according to J. K. Keith, of Roberts street. "After tho storm my little boys, William and James, gathered up ubout a hundred of them ami put them in a tiny pond," he said yesterday afternoon. "This is not the first time 1 have known such u thing to happen," he continued. "Many years ago when J was a boy living at Walhalla there came a shower of frogs one summer afternoon, I went out and captured hundreds of them." The Irog ruin may sound fantastic, hut such a thing is possible and does happen, according to scientists. Tho explanation is simple. Winds of cyclonic intensity sometime sweco across bodies of water in which there are tiny frogs. Thousands of thego frogs are swept up into the clouds and whirled about like little chips. After tearing through the heavens for many miles, the wind, which is accompanied by clouds, runs into a hot or cold area. Here precipitation occurs and tho frogs come swishing down with tho rain. In addition to frogs, tadpoles, fish and crawfish have bean known to come showering down out of tho clouds.?Anderson Independent, 21st. Frost Torrence, Gastonia textile manufacturer and capitalist, died early Friday morning after a lingering illness. Mr. Torrence was first a Gastonia druggist and later became interested in cotton mills and at the time of his death was president and treasurer of the OzArk mills. IOnly I a day I Twenty-nine cents a day I P?Y8 for a Westinghouse Refrigerator. And it saves, I according to owners,nearly half its cost the first year. . I Don't deny yourself this great convenience. Get the I facts. Only $10 down?bal ance in 2 years. I Westinghouse The Camden Furniture Company Telephone 155 I 1036?1038 Broad Street ? Camden, S. C. I *' . i ?*