The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 07, 1931, Image 7
^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?*
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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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