Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 AUp Teachers Requested Not Sacrifice Notes The Chronicle is in receipt of a letter from J. 1\ Coates, secretary and treasurer of the South Carolina Kducation Association, requesting that we give the following information relative to the $8,81*4,#80.00 issue of notes now being distributed to the teachers of this state: I have on file in my office letters from the Attorney General and the State Trea?urer*/rom which 11quote: "'Hie general revenue applicable to the payment of the Appropriation Act, as estimated by the South Carolina Tax Commission and the Comptroller General amounts to $9,894,000. The Appropriation Act including the $3,894,339.00 for the teacher notes amounts to $0,255,248.00. The taxes are therefore levied in u sufficient amount to take care of the notes is.sued. In addition the full faith, credit and taxing power of the state is irrevocably pledged for theiV payment. The notes are worth 100 cents on the dollar and accrued interest, and the teachers of the state will he sacrificing them ifg^Jiey sell them for less." J. H. 'Scarborough, State Treasurer. "It is the opinion of this office that the notes issued under Section 18-A, are legal binding obligations of the State of South Carolina to the payment of which are irrevocably pledged the full faith, credit and taxing powers of the (State." John M. Daniel, Attorney General. One of the provisions of the law providing for the issuance of these notes is: Any and all notes issued under the provisions of this Section, shall be received ut par value, in payvjnent of State property taxes for 1082 and thereafter and said notes shall he so receivable from any legal owner and holder thereof. "It was the intention of the General Asse>mbly that these notes were at all times to be worth the principal and interest. There is no valid reason why a person who desires to pay taxes with his notes should receive for the note or notes so issued, less than the true value. * * It is the opinion of this office that a taxpayer who uses these notes for the purpose of paying faxes is entitled to receive ^credit for th*. principal of stfid notes plus accrued interest to date of tax payment " -Vjohn M. Daniel, Attorney General. , The 0-0-1 school act was passed in the spring of 1024, but no appropriation was made that year to carry it out. The schools l>egan operating under this act July 1, 1024. When the legislature met in the spring of 1925, it made the first appropriation for this law, pledging the 1025 taxes for its payment. The money was immediately borrowed from New York and the teachers were paid their salaries for 1024-25. The appropriation each year has been one year behind and each spring the money was borrowed from New York and paid back the next spring. This year the legislature knew that the money could not be borrowed from New York, so it issued these] notes to the teachers. Next spring the State will take up these notes from i its own citizens, paying them G per cent interest, instead of paying it to the New York banks. In other words, the teachers are lending the State $3,394,320.00 to pay her obligations when she could not borrow the money from New York or from her own bankers, due to the closed financial markets, as she has been doing for the past six years. Teachers and citizens are tirged not to sacrifice these notes. They are worth 100 cents on the dollar. 1 Youth Takes Own Life In Airplane Chicago, May 22.?'Nineteen-yearold Ernest Langyel shot himself fatally today whilo on a $2 sightseeing ride in an airplane?a gesture against the fa tea which prevented his becoming an aviator; Young Langye) had long dreamed J of being a pilot, his family said, and [ brooded because finances prevented jit. At home he left a note saying, "death is better than a life of monotony." 1'ilot William Dally took I>angyel| aloft, tiie youth wearing helmet and goggles he purchase*! in hope of some day using them in piloting a plane.1 They .soared in a wido circle for eight minutes and then came back over the air field. "Just as I was starting to land," Dally said, "he tapped ?my shoulder land asked, 'aro we going to light?1 1 ppdded my head and turned back to the controls. j "A moment later t heard a shot, turned and saw him slumped in the seat with a wound in his head. I was so startled th$,t I don't even remember landing the plane." In the cockpit, Dally found a .22 calibre rifler" Its bariel and stock J were sawed off. Langyel died in a hospital two hours later. <Drl Drowns at Inlet Conway, May 22.?Miss Inez Connelly, 18, formerly a student at Anderson college, was swept out intoj the channel and drowned while bath-1 ing at Murrell's Inlet yesterday. She was accompanied by a brother, J John, 13, who was unable to assist ; her to safety. The body was sent to Marion for; burial today. Miss Connelly was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Connelly, of Marion?"*-' * i Norfolk Resents Bad Advertising Norfolk, Va? May 20.?OJeeply resenting the unsavory advertising that had come to this conservative Southern city, Norfolk authorities, assisted by federal agents, prepared today f(tf the possible prosecution of John Hughes Curtia, author of the Undberk'h kidnap hoax, , on stronger charges than those preferred by New Jersey officials. An investigation was launched by the commonwealth attorney, John M. Arnold, to see whether the shipbuilder and cotillion leader can be jailed for attempted, extortion, obtaining money under false pretenses, or violation of the laws that forbid giving newspapers information. A parallel investigation of Curtis' activities was on foot headed by federal agents, who were choeking on the possibility of charging him with violation of the postal, prohibition, revenue or other federal laws, Norfolk has been shocked to, the depths of its conservative soul by the revelations of Curtis' confessed duplicity, particularly in view of his social prominence, and especially since he brought into the case the Very Rev. Dean H. Dobson-Peacock, rector of the most fashionable church in Norfolk. K-o aristocratic institutions are involved in the case. First in the "German society," an association "whose history goes back more than half a century, which took its name from the dance that was featured at every cotillion of that romantic day. And Christ church, originally the "crown" church, since it dates back to pre-Revolutionary times, when it was .subject to the Church of England, has always preserved its old traditions for exclusiveness. To be a communicant at Christ i church and a member of the German i society was once considered the hallI mark of social achievement, j In late years, the German society | had broadened and let down the bars, |and admission had beenmuch easier. With this increase in membership, a number of the social leaders of Nor! folk withdrew their support and formed their own society, known as the Norfolk assemblies. Curtis, a leader in business and once worth more than $1,000,000, was both a member of Christ church and of the German society. Since the Lindbergh kidnaping and the days of his "heroic search" for the kidnapers, he had been elected to the dancing club's presidency. ' And while Curtis still had his defenders, friends who believed he became involved in the Lindbergh affair through irresistible circumstances, the plans for social?and possibly legal?ostracism went rapidly forward today. Smith Reynolds, 20, who a few months auro divorced his first wife, | the former Anne Cannon, was mar; ricd in New York sometime ago to \ Libby Ilollman, a singer. The marj riage was announced Friday. Captain George Enibres, whb flew | from New Foundland to. Budapest, | Hungary, with Captain Alexander | Nagyr in July, 1021, was killed in a crash of " his plane at Rome, Italy, j Saturday, while making a landing. William Hardy, negro, railroad fireman, was shot to death at Natchez, Miss., 'Sunday. He is the fifth negro fireman to have been killed the last two months in what is believed to be a feud between white and negro railroad workers. Under the new suffrage laws of j Hungary, women are allowed to vote I when under 20 years of age, provided > they have given birth to three chil! dren. Ashton Williams ! - Out For Senate Columbia. May 21.?Ash Lull II. W il' Ihuii-. Florence attnmev. todav anno..need his candidacy for I. nited States senator from South Carolina with repeal of the prohibition laws one of t he planks in his platform. The former state senator and former eondidato for governor will enter the race '.n the Democratic primary ' this summer for the seat now held by the veteran Senator E. D. Smith, of Lynchburg, and ardent dry. ! He is the sixth man to announce for the position. Senator Smith will stand for re-election, former Senator Cole L. Blease, Solicitor Leon W. Harris, of Anderson; State Senator R. M. Jeffries, of Colleton, and L. G. Southard, Spartanburg attor! ney, also seek the senatorial toga. The entry of Williams into the race was heralded by the South Carolina j Association for Prohibition Reform after a resolution for a prohibition 1 referendum was defeated at the state 'Democratic convention this week. | "The fight will be vigorously 'pushed at the polls this summer," a 1 statement by the association said. 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