Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f ' , ? I I .1 I I I | ! ! ... Prefers Death To Imprisonment Golumbia, Aug. 18. ? Preferring death to resuming a ten-year sentence in the state penitentiary, Robert J. Watson, youthful convict, was in a (Columbia hospital again today in a serious condition after taking poison a second time. He only recently recovered from a similar attempt to kill himself. Granted u leave of absence by Gov. Blackwood, Watson took poison several weeks ago when tiijie came for him to report back to the penitentiary. His leave then was extended until August 20. Yesterday he was brought again to the hospital. Physicians said his condition was serious. Watson was convicted of manslaughter early in liKSU after he admitted slaying Karl P. Fetter on the Isle of Palms near Charleston. He was a soldier at Fort Moultrie at the time. A plant is beirtg built at Ware Shoals by an old and big Troy, N. Y , company which will make 1,000 do/.en shirts a week. Two shirt factories were recently started at Greenville. The two Carolines buy ar\d use ubout 15,000,000 shirts annually, and a half dozen Tarheel towns have factories making them now, although n few years ago none were made in either Cm rolina. MASTER'S SALE " 0 r> /, State of South Carolina County of Kershaw (In the Court of Common Plea?) First Carolina* Joint Stock Land Hunk of Columbia, Pluintiff, against Carrie Annie Southern, et al, Defendants. Under and by virtue of an Order of Court made in the above entitled action, the Master for Kershaw County will offer for sule at public uuction, before the Kershaw County Courthouse Door, Camden, South (Carolina, during the legal hours of sale on the first Monday, being the 7th day of September, 1931, the following described real estate: "All that piece, parcel or tract of land, situated in the County of Kershaw, State of South Carolina, on the waters of Granny's Quarter Creek, containing one hundred seventy and twenty-five one hundredths (170.25) acres, more or loss, said land being bounded as follows: On the North by public road, separating sumo from other lands fromerly of Barfield; on the East by lands of Lottie Rabon, known as Tract No. 4, of the subdivision of tho said Barfield lands, on tho South by Granny's Quarter Crock; and on tho West by lands of Alice Rabon, known as Tract No. 2 of the said subdivision of the Barfield binds; for a tnoro particular description of same reference is made to a plat of said tract of land ma le by Kershaw doLoach. Surveyor, dated October 19th, 1921, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County, in Book <>. page 120." The above described tract of land is the same conveyed to tho said Annie Southern by deed of Henry?Bai field, dated November 10th, 1921, recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County in Book "BC" at page <>92. said tract being tract No. .5 of the Henry Barfield lands. I\rms of Sale: Cash; the Master to require of tho successful bidder a deposit of $100.00 before accepting' his bid as final, the same to be forfeited and applied to costs in the event of npn-eomplianee by the purchaser witnm tmnj W. L. DePASS, JR., Master for Kershaw County. August 21st,. 1931. BAYER ASPIRIN is always SAFE Beware of Imitations C3F-MINE Bayer Aspirin, the kind that dix-tors prescribe and millions of users have proven safe for over thirty years, can easily be identified by the name Bayer and the word genuine as above. Genuine Bayer Aspirin is safe and sure; it is always the same. It has the unqualified endorsement of physicians and druggists everywhere. It does not depress the heart, and no harmful effects follow its use. Bayer Aspirin is the universal anti* dote for pains of all kinds. Headaches Neuritis Colds Neuralgia % Sore Throat Lumbago Rheumatism Toothache Aspirin is the trade-mark of B?y?v manufacture of monoaceticacideeW m alkrylicacid. -CG..V.C7 HILLS FQ?v LOVE /.'.temp', to Pejrin Lcri Hyippittxzt U Failure. Pittsburgh, I'ii. The lax t chnpter in an vx-i'imv let'* attempt to regain flie happiness he hi i'c IiihI known was writ I en nilli the iiiii ii 'm suicide In the home of the woman he liuii loved In vain. Nathan Oormi. forty-five, Pitts burgh, paroled InM December from Marquette (Mich.) prison, where he hud heen sentenced for killing a woman In Detroit, killed himself in the home of Mm. Dora Itilt, u widow. For six weekH Corna had sought to win the love of Mr*. Ultt, she said. t'orria told her of hi* prison sentence, Mrs. Ultt an Id. "If 1 had loved him, I could have forgotten and forglveil?but without love, It wan hope If km," she said. Am Corna finished his utory and wum about to leave, he slushed Ida throat, Mrs. Hid said. "Coma told me he had none to Detroit from IM11hliiii'^ii when a young man and met a former Pittsburgh girl fho wan married ami tiad one child," she added. "He said he fell In love with her. "One day the unman was found dead and Corna was accused of the crime. For two \ears the case wi^s j fought In Michigan courts' nt^ he finally was sentenced to life Im^sonment. He begged me to believe him ih/ibcent." Doctors at Last Solve Puzzle of Boy's Illness Harrlsburg, du.?I meters of the Harrlsburg hospital believe they have cor rectly diagnosed the mysterious ailment which has confined Mark Kellers, sixteen. Halifax. Pa., to the hospital for more than two months. I.liners was adml'ted last April when he was found urn onseious while fighting a-forest fire, lie was treated f< r smoke suffocation. He showed no signs i f iu proveiflont and seemed to Ire a \ i< 111.1 of hemolysis, !n which the red <1 rpusch4 of the blood dissolve. f'tl.er physicians diagnosed bis ail ment as 'purpura hemorrhagica" and treated hi in accordingly. He was -delirious at times Hemorrhages hroke out nt several points and his vkin at times flushed red and oozed hi nod. Hlood transfusions were given and for several days thereafter the boy rallied. I.ater he sank hack into a serai-comatose state. Other diagnoses were made and other treatments applied. <hie day a veteran physician reached Hie conclusion that jfij/lers had been bitten by a snake, or' n noxious lnj sect. So a form of treatment to arrest such n condition is now being applied, and the physicians believe that they are on the right track at last. Africans Send Money to Starving Americans New York.?A collection raised by black natives in the village of H?\ tanga, In t'amemun. AVost Africa, to "Kelp the starving in America" was received by the board of foreign niiss'ons ?f the Provb\ terian church. With Hie check came a letter from a Presbyterian missionary. Rev. Albert D. Good saying: A month or so ago thorp was a little article in the Hulu news sheet. The Mefoe," telling of the hard times. , America, and indicating that there wore actually people In America who did not have enough to eat. This particular item caught the attention - of Pastor Kduma Musaiubl and. hi*, son, Muaamhl, and they decided to give something for the starving people In America. They quietly told the church people about it. and, entirely of their own volition, a sum of money whs gathered, which I inclose to you." The Inclosed check was for $3.77. Most States Contribute to Forest Service Fund Washington.?Virtually every state nnd territory contributed last year to it mass almost $t.300,000 for expenditures on state forestry, ft re control, extension and reforestation, the forest service of the Agriculture department here announced recently nfter completing a summary of state and territorial expenditures last year. State forest work bas shown a total gain of $4,000,000 in die last two years, forest service officials pointed out. and has been successful in extending fire protection and reforestation to several million acres of forest lands. In the past year over $2,500,000 was spent by the states for fire pronation and upwards of $1,000,000 for reforestation projects. During the -ame time $2,300,000 has heen spent for additional purchases and malntena nee. Scotland's Population Decreases in 10 Years London.?Scotland's population Is decreasing. There were 30,043 fewer Scots this year than there were ten years ago. according to W. Adamson, secretary of state for Scotland. The popula Hon of Scotland is now 4,842,354. h decrease of 0.8 per cent, compared with 1921, he sold. The decline wag shared by the sexea, and there are still more women titan men In Scotland. The number of male? this year la 2,325.807 and women 2.510,087. % r * -> SOME DEPRESSIONS WORSE THAN THIS By ROME C. STEPHENSON Prttidtut American Batikdri Aitocialiott ONE of the most significant aspects of the present business period Is that, while we had a speculative panic and while we have had a general economic breakdown yet wo have not had any semblance of a financial panic, uuch aa occurred in 1907, and in other yeara when the credit and monetary machinery broke down and we had money panics, suspension I of specie pay- i menis and Kindred disasters. None of these elements of a true financial panic has been present in this depression of*the l'J30's. At no tlmo was the banking structure as a whole shaken, despite the unprecedented rato of sinull hank failures that it had to absorb. At no tlmo was the banking and credit machinery unable to extend support to tho panic-stricken and broken stock markets and cooperation to all kin^s of business and manufacturing. Anyone would havo been a wise prophet who could have foretold that our banking and credit structure would stand up so well under conditions so bad. Finance Taking Cuts And banking and corporate finance in this period of depression are unflinchingly taking their portions of short rations and enforced self-denial that the nation's need for readjustment demands. Interest rates on money, yieldB on securities and dividends on corporate investment havo all dropped to levels that constitute drastic reductions in the compensation of capital. These are but part of the necessary economic realignments that all phases of the country's working life must go through before a general revival of business activity can start. It is my belief?indeed it is my hope ? that the tempo of the next cycle of prosperity will be somewhat more moderate than the mad whirl of jazz that brought the last, one to a close. I think it will be agreed that the worst, aspect of the collapse of that period of false prosperity is the condition of insecurity for employment which it caused. Unemployment is our greatest public problem today. Unemploymdfit is the worst wage cut that the worker can suffer. It is the worst cause of stagnation that business has to strive against. The sooner we can get our masses of workers back into jobs on almost any terms the better it will be both for capital and labor. H. C. STEPHENSON TRUST BANKING SPREADING FAST Government Official Shows That This Type of Financial Service Is Enlarging Its Field OPECTACULAK growth of trust 8orvico in the banking field is reflected in the national-banking system, Aubrey B. Carter, in charge of Tmst department supervision in tho office of Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D. C., brtngs out in an article in the American Bankers Association Journal. "At the close of the 1930 fiscal year trust powers," he says. "Their banking resources aggregated $23,629,100,000, which represented 34 per cent of the number of banks and 80 per cent of the total banking resources of the 7,262 national banks. Trust departments had been established by 1,829 of these bank* which were administering 79,900 individual trusts with trust assets aggregating $4,473,000,000,- and in addition were administering 11,600 corporate trusts and acting as trustees for outstanding note and bond issues aggregating $11.S03.700.000. "These figures represent an increase during a four-year period of 446, or 22 per cent, in the number of national banks authorized to exercise trust powers; an increase of 725, or 66 per cent, in the number of banks actively administering trusts; an increase of 65,370, or 250 per cent, in the number of trusts being administered; an increase of I.T.TiOO.OO'VOOO, or 3S5 per. cent, in the voluThe of individual trust assets tinder administration, and an increase of $9,340.000.oon. or 379 per cent, in the volume of bond issues outstanding for which these institutions were acting as trustees." These facts, he concludes are "a striking testimonial of the growing public recognition of the desirability of tho corporate fiduciary n the settlement of estates and the administration of trusts." "No corn?no credit" was a slogai adopted by bankers of S.iiuda, South Carolina, last year. "The propositlor was kept before our pe- pie by a die play advertisement in the count: paper several weeks prior to cort planting time. As a result w? havi more corn raised in the county thl vear than ever previously, regardles of the need of rain in many sections,' said one of the barkers in reviewin the result*. Homo gr.rd?r.a was anothe project advocated u.th like rtsulta 4 * ' " uniiiiimii i i i ? - . * ,K'& ?> S Low Estimates on I HIGH GRADE JOB PRINTING o i I Look no further?our job printing department can take care of you adequately. Equipped with the very finest printing machinery, manned by experts, and operating > under a system eliminating every particle of waste, we are prepared to quote you low prices on any job?big or small, simple or elaborate. In addition we are prepared to turn out J work that reaches the very peak of perfec- 1 tion?extremely neat, and up to the high- | I est standards of modern typographical art | The Chronicle I Telephone 29 | v *