Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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lT_5 I f ^ I 15SS?? Too Much ACID MANY people, two hours after eating, suffer indigestion as they cull it. It is usually excess acid. Correct it with an alkali. The .best way. the quick, harmless and efficient way, is Phillips Milk of Magnesia. It has remained for 50 years the standard with physicians. One spoonful in water neutralizes many times its volume in stomach acids, and at once. The symptoms disappear in flve minutes. You will never use crude methods when vou know this, better method. And vou will never suffer from excess acid when you prove out this easy relief. He sure to get the genuine Phillips Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physicians for 50 years in correcting excess acids. 25c and 50c a bottle? any drugstore. "Milk of Magnesia" has been the U. S. Registered Trade Mark of the Charles H. Phillips Chemical Company since 1875. Congressman Charles It. Crisp has unowned that he will be a candidate or tin* scat in the United States sente made vacant by the death last reek of Senator Harris. Governor iussell. of Georgia, will also be a Bndidate for the senatorial toga. Arthur J. Draper, 57, leading CharHie business man, and former presient of the American Cotton Manuicturcrs association, died at his home Here on Tuesday after a critical ill- i ess of several weeks. Five persons were killed and sev- ( ral injured when a cyclone hit South] f Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday. Sev-j ral homes were also destroyed by the irrific winds. . ? li, .i , Taxpayers' League To Meet MafUlth. Hon. John Richurds has received the following notice of availed meeting of the South Carolina Farmers' and Taxpayers' League from NeiU Chrislensen; "Pursuant to the constitution and by-laws of tlje Farmers' and Taxpay* j ers League, I am calling the unnual convention of the League to meet in I Columbia at eleven o'clock, May 11, ) at the Columbia Hotel in the assembly hall. Fach county is entitled to delegates to the number of twice its representation in the Senate and House. These delegates may be designated in uny way that is now most feasible although it is preferable that they be elected at a county meeting of the League. "The Convention will elect the state officers of the League for the coming year and take such steps as are necessary to properly present its proposals to the Skite Democratic Convention that mCTts May 18. Our last annual convention, which was held in the House ?of Representatives last July was one of the most representative gatherings ever held in South Carolina and it is very important that the coming convention be truly representative of the entire membership of the League which has an organization in every county. So we urge that you arrange for a full representation from your county. "The executive committee of the League, composed of one member from each county, is called to meet at the same place at eight o'clock ! Tuesday evening, May 10. i "It would appear from early reI turns that Che"League has been supI ported by resolutions at Democratic ' Club meetings in each county*' and i that we may look for a strong endorsement from the State Democratic ; Convention." Veterans To Meet , A meeting is called of all members of Camp Richard- Kirkland, Confed! erate Veterans, for Saturday, May 14th, at 11 o'clock, to be held at thecourt house. Plans will be discussed for attending the state meeting of Confederate VeteraYis in Rock Hill on June 8 through 10, and the meeting to be held in Richmond on June 21 through 24th. I. F. Holland, Commander Camp Richard Kirkland. I __________ t Grandmother'* I CINNAMON I [^SOl ROLLS ' ' 5c Ann Page?Pure Fruit ? I PRESERVES 2 ^ 35c I A A P Fancy I APPLE SAUCE ? 3 1? 25c I 1 pkg. SHREDDED WHEAT ?p I 1 lb pkg. CHAMPION FLAKES ^ J? I SPARKLE Dessert Pkg. 5c I I COFFEE SPECIAL | BOKAR Drn I a 27c CIRCLE lb. 23C11 I | 8 o'Clock 3 lbs. 50c Sultana tX P ilk 1^.1 nan C Irvi&E/ ban w 11 PEANUT BUTTER 2 lbs. 25c I * rlae Ivory Soap 2 (,,k'*Camay Soap 3 rnkos P&G Soap 2 I'ks*. Oxydol with 1 Toy Aeroplane 49c LUX FLAKES 2PKGS. 19c LIFEBUOY | SOAP ! 3 CAKES 19c | Sultana Assorted | JELLIES 3 J 25c BANANAS, 8 lb* 25c LETTUCE, 4 head* .. 25c CELERY. ?talk 10c Pot Roast Beef, lb 17c Pork Chops,' lb. , 15c Veal Chop*, lb* 17c CARROTS, 3 bunches 25c TOMATOES, lb 10c SQUASH, 3 lbs. 25c Hamburger, lb. .......... 15c Pork Sausage, lb 15c Frankfurters, lb 15c I ?SS, Atlantic & Pacific S | 1 State Settds Out Pension Checks Vouchers covering one-third of Confederate pensions, cut this year, will be sent out Monday to judges of probate over the state, according to A. J. Beat tie, comptroller general, and will in turn be placed In the hands of Confederate veterans and widows of Confederate veterans. In this payment, the veterans will receive $80 each and the widows about $51, which is one-third of tho amounts they are to receive later. The full amount of the pensions cannot be paid at the present time, the comptroller general suid, because of lack of funds, and this year under provisions of a section in the general appropriations bill, they can be paid in such installments as may be necessary. Tho payments of the other , two thirds will bo made as funds become available. The third of tho pensions amounts to approximately $230,000, the total amount due the veterans being about $004,000. Tho comptroller general said it would have been possible to pay the pensions in full at the present time except for the fact that the money from the hydro-electric tax, amounting t6 about $000,000 is tied up in court litigation. The money, Mr. Beattie said, is in the treasury, hejd us a special fund, awaiting action by the courts.* Salary vouchers for state employes for the last month were also made ( available yesterday.They go out this month with reductions varying from 10 per cent, to 25 per cent, as provided for in the appropriations bill. The comptroller geftyral said money was on hand sufficient to pay salaries for April.?Sunday's State. Former Senator Tom Hcflin of Alabama, addressed the United States senate on Tuesday for five hours, dobating the question of lira-right to the seat in the senate now held by Senator Bankhead. The senate galleries were packed during his speech and at the conclusion he was greeted with such prolonged applause that the galleries were ordered cleared. Heflin in one part of his speech declared: "I am fighting to smash the worst political machine outside of Tammany, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Senators, take my case. Be just and fair to me and to the people I represent. I was elected by an overwhelming majority." The jury in the Massie trial for murder at Honolulu resumed its deliberations at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, our time, which was 9 a. m. there, after being ordered to retire for the night at 10 o'clock Hawaiian time. The charge of Judge Charles S. Davis told them that they could consider the assault on Mrs. Massie by the native Massie said he killed .only as bearing on Massie's mental condition. A separate Yerdict on each defendant was ordered, which might be either second degree murder, manslaughter, or acquittal. The maximum penalty is 20 years to life imprisonment. Attorney D a r r o w made the speech of his life to the jury, pleading for the unwritten law, and arguing that Massie was insane when he shot the native. Influenza and pneumonia reached a new high peak for the year in number of cases in South Carolina last week. Former Senator Blease definitely announced his candidacy for election to the senate again this year against Senator E. D. Smith in a statement to newspaper men at Greenville this week. "If I'm not a speaker at the first campaign meeting ^his summer then you can put in your paper that Cole Blease is dead," Blease told reporters. Two thieves robbed a filling station proprietor at Russellville, Ark., of $20 | and took ms wooden ieg ttitmg w jm*?vent his pursuing them. Saloons reopened at Helsingfors, Finland. Tuesday at 10 a. m., and j buyers of booze kept up a ru>h until ^ the liquor stores were closed with, large numbers unable to buy because j the sellers couldn't take yare of the; business. The Republican convention of Arkansas* has instructed that state's fifteen delegates to the national convention to support Mr. Hoover for renomination. The name of Tom Mooney, noted California convict, is to be presented at the Farmer-Labor party's national convention to be held at Omaha, Neb., by delegates from Colorado for the presidential nomination. Three former Havana students, tried by military judges week before last on charges of violating the 1894 explosives law, were found guilty and have been sentenced to prison to serve eight years each. -Mayor Walker's "beer parade," scheduled to be staged in New York on May 15th, will be one of the biggest parades ever held in that city, f^orty-eight separate divisions will be j needed to accommodate the paraders., U I I.... i.. 1.1 . ' 'JUJ..? -1-1 THEFT OF WORKER NEW SOVIET RACKET Shortage of Labor Brings Keen Competition. Moscow.?Th? shoring? of labor In Hi? Soviet union has loci, u> keen competition for workiiik hnipls among various .state organisations, curried, in some instances, to the extent of "stealing" each otiter's workers. Tito luring of peasants hound for one Job to halt at another on route lias developed, according to charges in fclie Moscow economic press, Into a profit aide "racket" for those engaged in it. The Russian slang name for a racketeer or swindler Is "beetle." It appears that railroad stations are infested with beetles, who waylay and "capture" raw labor power, using vodka, cigarettes, tall promise?, and sweet words. Beetles Get Five Rubles. The beetles receive tha^.rphi^s. nijd^ sometjmes more, for Tvoty laborer lured into the employ of organisations suffering from lack of labor. The newspaper /a Industriallzatzlo reveals that of 11,200 peasants enlisted in the Tartar Soviet republic for service in tho Donbass coal fields, only 0,820 rent*hod their destination. For weeks the 1,380 missing men were sought by the Donbass authorities. Finally It was established that they had been decoyed to construction Jolts by beetles'. A graphic description of the labor thieves tit work is given In rtn tndlgnant attack on th? racket In th? press .here. A train hound for Donbass arrives in the Moscow station. A group of peasants gets olY to look around. Soon thoy are spotted and approached by a beetle. The Bottle of Vodka. At first the peasants distrust flic mini, hut In a few minutes be wins their confidence, lie sits down with them In the waiting room, gives them hotter cigarettes Hum they are accustomed to and mysteriously a hoi lie of vodka appears. In a few minutes more the peasants are convinced that iliev have met a true friend. They go hack to the train only to fetch iheir bundles and remain on the station waiting for the next train to a nearby town, whore n large chemical combine Is under construction. Their "friend" receives his reward, plus expenses, when they nre delivered to the eonstruction nmnager. Census Report Shows Families Are Smaller Washington.?The size of the American family In the last decade continued the steady decrease which has been apparent in every decade since 185)0. according to figures Just Issued by the census bureau. The population per family in 1930, the bureau reported, was 4.1, as eom-# pared with 4.3 In 1920. Tn fblO the average population per family was 4.5. In 1900 It was 4.7. and In 1890. 4.9. The total number of families in the country, however, was 23.1 per cent higher in 1930 than ten years ago. According to the figures, there wore 29,'.180.140 families in the United States last year. i More than 40 per cent of the families In tlie United States had -radio sots when the census was. taken in April, 1930. In Illinois nearly 50 per cent owned radios at that time, while in the east north central area the per-, rentage of families possessing radios was 43.1. In the preliminary figures made public, the bureau said, the term "family"applied to all groups of persons, whether related or not, who live together as one household, usually sharing the same table. One person living alone, It was pointed out. was counted as a family, while, on the other extreme, all Inmates of an Institution or all persons living In a boarding house were also counted as p. family by the census enumerators. Bullets Stop Two Dogs' Vigil Over Dying Woman Macleod. Alta.?Two collies sacrificed their lives here for Mrs. William Anderton, seventy-seven years old, who lived alone with her dogs since her husband's death three years a go. Neighbors had not seen Mrs. Anderton for several days and, becoming Harmed, informed police. When police arrived tit the house the dogs at;< ked them A struggle .ensued and r he officers had to shoot the collies be >re they mold gain entry. They *' iiind Mr*. Anderton unconscious. Taken to a hospital, she' died several fiollFfT TTlf el*. Nevada Lakes Reported to Be Drying Up Fast Iteno, Nev.?Nevada Is going dry,, not In a prohibition way, but waterless. The level of Pyramid hike, which Is about four miles northeast of here, has dropped nearly 55 feet In the last 00 years. In the last four years the level has dropped more than 14 feet. Pyramid Isn't the only vanishing lake in Nevada. Walker, WInnemucca, Washoe, and Tahoo levels are dropping at tremendous rates. Hebrew "U" Fellowship A Rudolph Grossman fellowship of $2,500 has been established at the Hebrew university by the newlyformed chapter of the American FTIends of the Hebrew unlveitity at Kodeph Kholom temple, New York city.?Opinion. I Honor Roll Students Jackson High School A \ 't * Honor roll for fifth six-weeks period, Jackson high school (colored): Grade 1B11 ? JaiucJ Alexander, James Gaskins, Joseph Alexander, William Bynum, Leon Caulley, Willie Deas, Verno Flemming, Willie J. Hampton, Edward Cluik, Less Kennedy, Clifford Reynolds, Harry Saunders, Patterson Grant, Willie Belle Barnes, Mamie Leo Beuttie, Annie Mae Hodge, Hettio Niland, Kloise Reek, Sarah Standley. Grade 113?Mary Alexander, Isabella Gaines, Jessie Harris, Marie Ixiwis, Mabel Martin, Lillie l'atterson, Willie M. l'atterson, lumise Robinson, Millie Richardson, Estollo Sutton, M innie Williams, Willie Alexander, Willie Brown, James Coleman, Wash Carlos, Moses Fletcher, tWlver Fletcher, George Hammons, Singleton Howard, Horace Jackson, Clarence Watkins. Grade" 1 (Advanced)?.Isaac English, Thomas Johnson, James Samuel James Martin, Fuelina Anderson, Katherine Brooks, Helen Burroughs, Elizabeth Johnson, Willie Mao Shannon. ' Grade 2.?Thomas Strong, George Washington, Almeta Samuel, Josephine Lykes, Jimmy DuBose, Marion Deas, Albert Deas, Julius Bishop, Willie Bishop, Helen Blending, Virginia Kennedy, Oneal Simmons, Martha Carlos, Gertrude I/ewis, Emmaline Williams, Mary Kelly, Isabel Johnson, Hampton Thompson. , Grade 3,-r?George- Jones, L. C. Jones, Jerry Lykes, Peter Buskins, Jr., Columbus Fletcher, Albert I>ewis, Alice Johnson, I>aura Roid, Catherine Ross, Cynthia Stover, Lucia James, Angie Alexander, ^Cleaver Reynolds, Naomi Stanley, Ruth Stanley,. Mattie Davis, Florie Richardson, Hattie Simmons, Jessie Barnes, Oralie DuBose, Jimmy McLaughlin, Helen Williford, Bossio Brown, Bessie Harris, Willie It. Williams. Grade 4.?Susie Carlos, Catherine Collins, Almelia Flemming, Geneva Flemming, Beatrice Hollman, Addie Jackson, 1*311a Johnson, Louise Kelly, Rachel Murphy, Zinia * Murray, Elnora Simmons, Marie Stanley, Bessie Wiley, Flora Wright, Willie Burroughs, Robert Brown, Laurence Doby, Dan Howard, James Horton, John Johnson. Joseph Raincy, Clarence Strong, Tommy Whitaker, Johnnie Williams. 1AX NOTICE ] Taxes for 1931 will be collected until June 1st, 1932, with two (2) per cent penalty. All taxes unpaid will go into execution after June the 1st,! 1932, with all penalties provided by law. Yours very respectfully, S. W. HOGUE, Treasurer Kershaw County, S. C. Grade 5.-* Jennie Muo Tucker, Nellie Strong, Rowilla Lawson, Carrie Reynolds, Sad ye Ross, 1atria Mae Jones, Thelma Reddish, latum Blunt, Pauline Strong. Grade (?.?>1 >iv. 1. Dorsey Furman, Leslie Coot, John Henry Alexander, Townsol Reynolds, James Glover, Catherine Martin, Rosa Dompsey, Mayzolla Dinkins, Rosa Gee Rovvens, Annie Mai Davis, Mattio Wade. Grade (>.? i>iv. II. Ruth James, Louise Burroughs, Kmma Burroughs. Kranejs Itoykin, Alice Logan, Russel James, Mailing Stewart. Grade 7. ? -Div.L Robert Cornish, * Lartha McLaughlin, Bessie Mdodana, Charlie B. Smith, Caroline Bradley, Elizabeth Chatten, Lucy Mcllwaine, Blanche Whitaker. Grade ?,.?Div, 11. Elizabeth Frederick, 10dha Bolton, Uozena Bolton, Victoria Bishop, Bertha Woods, Isaac Bolton. Grade S. Ksen mend Mdodana, llattie W right. Rebecca Carlos, Mary Williams, Carrie Salmond, Eloiae l.awson, Francis Carlos, Alice Wolst, Yirga Boykin, Elease Bolton, Almeta Bolton, Eunice .Canty, Rebecca Deas, Eloise Carlos, Alberta Clinton, Lilio Mac Tucker, Betsy Reynolds, James Gamble, George Pay ton, James Alexander, Berlin Waddy.??? Grade 0.? Elense Allen, Loniso Allen, Willie M. Jones, llattie Thomas, Eva, M. Brown, Williams Murphy. Grade 11).? Mary L. Deas, Mary Dow. Grade 11.?Christine Mdodana, Beatrice McGirt. QTEKlt LAWS IN MANY STATES In West Virginia It Is a Misdemeanor I To Sneeze on Sunday, Law Says South Carolin's law' outlining the prerogative of a husband to beat his wife with a stick not exceeding an inch in diameter lias counterparts in other states of the union. At Zion, 111., it is a crime to mako ugly faces at anyone. A prison sentenee is the punishment. In Pennsylvania all restaurants must be equipped with stretchers and wheel chairs. In the town of Erie in the same state, it is against the law to fall asleep in a harbor's chair while being shaved. In West Virginia it is against the law to sneeze on, Sunday. In Winchester, Mass, a young girl may not be employed to danco on a 1 tightrope except in n church. In Kentucky anyone operating a ' still must blow a whistle. Impersonating Santa Clhus on the street is illegal in Minneaipolis. In Newark, N. J., it is against the Taw to sell ice after 6 p. m., without a doctor's prescription. /Pennsylvania has a law forbidding singing in a bathtub. The First Rule in Charm ?ear I?Hi nu*t kc ivory white and perfectly Of courae teeth and gums that are m a w down l*i? 1 *' OOflMuwOCI I^^Cl fttvClWIOil* RIGGS meehcated tooth powder ArTUAI.I.Y ? prevents pyorrhea Its strong antiseptic qualities kill mouth germs? cleanse the teeth, leaving them strong and firm ; and the gums hard. What it has done for others it can do for you. I | testimonial Mouth in horrible condition. . Teeth very loose. Pus around the gums. Received relief at once. Gums now healthy and firm. Z. H. SIMMONS, Pine Castle, Fla. 4. f SOLD BY DePASS' DRUG STORE W. ROBIN ZEMP CITY DRUG COMPANY \ ?*