Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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v ui uta?Ji * ^ . Three Negroes Die In Ejectrie Chair Columbia. July 2#.?'Throe young negroes were put io death in the electric chair at the South Carolina penitentiary here today. One protested hie innocence until the end, a second confessed to a murder for which ho was never tried and the third stoically refused to make a statement. As he sat strapped in the death chair, Evans Wood, small Darlington county negro, calmly confessed, "I killed a woman I was living with in Ohio in *31." Wood received the death penalty for killing his common-law wife, Hattic Samuel, last January. Visibly affected and in a highly emotional condition, Booker Copeland broke into song -while praying in the chairs uThoy didn't give me no justice, but Jesus Christ will give mo justice," he said. Cope land said he was not guilty of the shooting , of Henry Creech .. McMillan, white farmer of near Lodge, Colleton county, in April. Just oefore the current was applied, however, he admitted ho struck the farmer. A youth of 19, Buster Tucker, preceded Copeland in death without making a statement. They were convicted jointly of McMillan's murder. Tucker yesterday absolved Copeland of any blame, claiming he killed the farmer unaided but Oovernor Blackwood refused to intervene. Willie McMillan, of Uxlgc, brother of the slain farmer, and a number of other Colleton residents witnessed the electrocutions, Copelund's last request, "please send my body to my mother and my wife and children." will be granted. ,1. Olin Sanders, captain of the guard, said. Tucker's body also will be sent lt> bis people but Wood's relatives have made no request for his. Wood was the first to go. He wascomppsed when he entered the chair. Cruler questioning by Sanders be ad-j milted the Ohio killing. "I'm guilty of what I'm act-used of j and a great many other things. 1 m guilty of murder in two places, one place in the state of Ohio. I killed j the woman I was living with, under the name of Evans Wood. I was = never caught. It was last year, in '31. "That's all the serious crimes I done, hut I've <kinc a lot such as petty larceny things. "I'd like to tell you good people I am ready to leave this weekh Fmin the. hands of Jesus. Don't live good enough just to miss the chair but live good enough to get to heaven. I'll see you on the other shore." The current was applied at 0:13 j and then shut off because, the head, electrode had not. been' adjusted.} Wood was pronounced dead at ' Two-young girls with escorts wit-, noised the electrocution. One covered her face with a handkerchief but j refused t<? leave until it was over. Buster Tucker was brought in} next. "No sir. nothing to say." he said, j He was given a shock at (5:29 and I pronounced dead four minutes later. When Copeland entered the chair he gave a long, rambling fervered statement. "It's'the truth before God, I absolutely did not take Mr. McMillan's life." he said earnestly. "I absolutely told you I ran by Mr. McMillan to the rear of the house. God is well pleased with me. I feel the Lord has forgiven me for my sins. Meet Tne over in glory." Copeland then asked "please send my body to my mother and my wife and children." Sanders told him ho would. "I am an innocent man," the negro continued, "and I ask Jesus Christ to vjjve my soul. They didn't give me no justice but Jesus Christ will give me justice. I've got a pure, clear, heart toward everybody." Tlx- penitentiary chaplain prayed; an: then i <>peian<i asked to be allow-^ < i p ay. I II,. I,, ?,- in a mono?ore but soon g.i- ' . - rg )os words, his head h - v ,-i r.rd h. - <yo- closed.. Wh< ii h?- ? nded he a>k, fl "for one tr'rrk of water before I leave this w His reque-t wo-* granted. Wh.h he was whispering, the curren' was turned on at in, He was pronounced dead at Oi.lO. Federal Judge Akerman has written j Col. Amos W. Woodcock, federal director of prohibition, asking that he either withdraw all prohibition agents from Hillsborough county (Tampa) Florida, or muster them in sufficient numbers to clean up conditions, which he declares are deplorable. Ten white prisoners overpowered their guards and escaped from a truck at the state prison at Wetumpka. Ala., Tuesday. Twenty thousand men will he employed by the government from six to eight months and will bo paid $0,000,000 in wages for construction of army buildings provided for in the rdliof bill. ) _i i nun ? 1 Baby Chick Group Head Shot Dead Milwaukee. Wis., July 80.?Charles L. Sawyer, Hoytville, Ohio, president of the International Baby Chick Association, died today in a vain attempt to shield Ueese V. Hicks, Kansas City, Mo., secretary of the association from bullets Bred by C. A. Norman, Knoxville, Tenn., who shot himself through the head, Norman, a past president of the association, died later at an emergency hospital. Surgeons said Hicks had a good chance to;, recover from his wounds. < The shooting occurred shortly after noon in a committee room of the Milwaukee auditorium, wl^re the thick association's annual convention is to open Monday. , Just before the shooting the executive committee, numbering 20, had voted suspension of Norman frpm the association for one year on charges of alleged unethical business practices. ' The committee yesterday began consideration of the charges and the question was still before the group when it convened this morning. Hicks, in his capacity of general manager of the association, investigated the matter and presented his findings to the committee. Norman denied the charges and defended himself. When the vote was announced Norman backed up to the wall and said: "This is the end," as he drew a .32 calibre revolver from his pocket. He held it aloft for a tense moment and then pointed it toward Hicks, a few feet away. Sawyer leaped between Norman and Hicks just as Norman fired. Sawyer crumpled to the floor, mortally wounded. Norman pulled the j trigger twice again and both bullets struck Hicks. Nornuin still standing with His back to the wall, held the weapon as several men started toward him. He raided the gun toward h?s head, fired and fell across Sawyer, with a bullet through his brain. Norman and Hicks, according to G. I. Bishorc, Silver Lake, Ind., a director and past president of the association, were raised within 10 miles of each other in the Tennessee mountains. They had been friends until a few months ago \vhen_the investigation started. Hicks is a former revenue agent and the son of a Tennessee judge, Bi shore said. General News Notes Glenn Graddock, a bank cashier, was put in jail for an hour at Morrison, Illinois, Wednesday after he had offered a filling station operator a silver dollar in payment for gasoline. The filling station man had never seen a silver dollar and thought j his customer was trying to bunco j him, and bad jhim arrested. Two memlH-rs of the H. h. F. were shot in combat with Washington police following a fight which the <#ticers tried to stop among the veterans surging around a partially dismantled brick building which they were occupying. A half dozen shots were fired in the affray, and one policeman was dangerously wounded. Police reserves soon stopped the combat. The veterans had chased the police for some distance on lower Pennsylvania avenue, after the fighting broke out suddenly for some unknown reason. Arthur .Sellers, chief deputy coroner for Philadelphia, committed suicide at his home in that city Tuesday afternoon by shooting himself through the heart as officers were outside waiting to arrest him on charges of embezzling $50,000 of funds belonging to an estate of which he was trustee. Ho was facing 115 other charges of maladministration of estates. He left a note inside his hat which read as follows; "Tell Magistrate Carson that ,. , _ T'-ll M r. Sellers uieu cms hum um?. the .or<>ner to say nothing." Sellers < said to have given the last years of h - i:fe to the unquestioning obod-j .en.-e an.', unswerving loyalty to the Phi.adelph.a Republican organization, j 11e made many appeals to higher up* j for aid. but his speculations had gone, beyond the point where he could be further protected. Frank Campbell, a Chester insurance agent, and his family probably would have been burned in their home there, if the driver of a north bound bus passing at 3 o clock in the morning bad not seen the fire and turned from his route to stop in front of the house and awaken the inmates. The fire department was then called and saved tho neighboring houses. The burned house belonged to the Whiteside estate. With only throe exceptions the number of marriages in Pennsylvania last year were the fewest in number of any year since records have been kept, the number for last year being 00,100. The high mark was in 1920 when there were 83.805 marriages in the state. Chairman l&arou, of the AtatO. highway commission, announces that it will spend $2,500,000 for new roads in this state during the next year, regardless of what the governor does about borrowing that other $10,000,000 from the bi|^finance corporation set up by President Hoover and congress. He said work will begin as soon as possible, perhaps next month, much of it in the Piedmont, including projects in Cherokee, Spartlrhburtft and Union counties. The state highway patrol is shining now on 36 new Hurley-David?on motorcycles, put into service the other day, when two-thirds of the ^qrce had their old machines turned in on new ones. The new motorcycles are finished in chromium metal to shine bright in the headlights of cars on the road, and are capable of 1(M) miles an hour without straining the engine or mechanism. In collision they will throw the rider into the adjoining township, but they are equipped with first aid kits and loud sirens. Throe persons wore drowned and another hud a. narrow escape Monday when heavy rains flooded the western part of Anderson county and washed out bridges and culverts. The dead are a white man and a negro and his wife. The automobile of the white man, Herman llolcomb, plunged into a washout on the highway, while the driver was blinded by rain. The negroes drove into a swollen creek in a closed car. Miss Lucy Jefferson, in the Holcorrtb car, a sodan cantaining seven persons which went into five feet of water, came so near drowning that physicians at the hospital said she had only a chance for recovery. The other occupants of the Holcomb car escaped by breaking the windows. The rainfall there was the he^yiekt in 20 years. A wind of f?0 miles an hour with much hail, at Anderson, damaged the) airport of the big airmail company so much'it Could not operate, damaged; buildings at the country club, razed a i few barns and injured crops, Saturday afternoon. Lieutenant Governor James O. Shcppard, of Edgefield, has announc ed that he will be a candidate for governor two years hence, and will later announce his platform and begin his campaign for the place early. He will oppose Olin D. Johnston, of Spartanburg, who barely lost the plum two ; years ago and sometime ago announc- , od that he will be a candidate again in 1934. The auditors of the receivers ap-; pointed by Judge J. Lyles Glenn have filed a 4.r) volume audit of the Peoples j StaTF hank and its 44 branches all, over this state in the federal court! at Charleston. It shows loans to six, officers and directors of the bank, in-( adequately secured and violations of law, and that the heaviest losses in the branches at Columbia, Lexington,! Ratesburg, Edgefield. Springfield and Sumter, were caused %y bad paper: held as assets and taken over when j the local hanks were bought by the big chain bank. The depositors are expected to get 18 per cent sometime. ' About 220 gallons of corn likker was finally found by federal prohibition officers, after Columbia city aqd county police had failed to discover it, less than a block from the state house, one door from the rear entrance to the post office, and across the street from the chamber of commerce offices. Under the floor of a garage rented to motorists working in offices in that vicinity, for temporary storage, was difg a cellar 8 by 15 feet in size and six deep, in which the booze was kept. The cinder floor had a trapdoor over that cellar, made from a tub of cinders set in place over the hatch and easily lifted for access to the booze. A high wind at Gaffney last Thursday evening ripped off the roofs of several houses, blew down trees in the city and did several thousand dollars damage there and in that vicinity. Six stores had their roofs damaged, and 30 residences were damaged by , , nr . f 1 I ?C HIVl V>il JSCftl t/> w* * ao and crushing trees into homes. The town was without lignt or power 'or three hours. The storm lasted 10 minutes and its center was ir. ffnoy. Another of the slayer* of oe r Ureenwlle motor policeman, or.c .-unday night three months ago, in a : at- , tie with bandits, has been arrested in! Tennessee and was jailed at Kr.ox-J ville. A North Carolina judge re-i fused to allow four 'men from r.-arj Sylva. N*. C., to he retun/d to Green- j ville for trial recently, but th.s last one, James Peek Royston, will not escape Palmetto law so easily. He escaped pending transfer to Atlanta on a 17-year sentence for robbing a j post office, and the federal authorities have first claim on him. but they are exposed to allow the Green\ille sessions court to ta^ice-and try him for murder, before he is imprisoned in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta. Every day it looks more and more like Paraguay and Bolivia are going to war. Hostilities are liable to break at abnost any hour. 4 U. S. PLANS LIBRARY OF CRIME RECORDS P I Biggest Undertaking of Kindi Ever Attempted. Washington.?The most ambitious and far-reaching program of scientific criminal Identification ever undertaken Is being quietly pressed here by the bureau of Investlgutiou of the United States Department of Justice. Under ft now division of Wentlflcafc* Ion and Information of the bureau, a nation wide campaign,,In which 4,000 police departments and other agencies are co operating, Is under way to build up In Washington an exhaustive national library of finger-print records and other crime data. Already fingerprints of 1,750,000 male and female lawbreakers have been secflrcd, classified and filed, and 1,700 cards are being added every day. Over 3,500,000 cards containing names and aliases of criminals already hjive been collected. Against this unprecedented assembly of crime records Scotland Vurd is said to have only 500,000 sets of fingerprints. Under the new plan, wherever an Infraction of the law occurs In the United States, even though a minor ofi'onse Is Involved, duplicate fingerprints, with accompanying data, are Immediately sent on to Washington by the local police. There search of the files is made to determine whether Identical prints uro already on file under the same name, or some alias. So elficlent is the classifying and filing system that the average search requires but from three to five minutes. Often the offender Is discovered to have committed a crime In another part of the country. Out of every 100 sets of prints ^ent to Washington previous records are found In 37 cases and data on the offender's past life Is reported back to the local authorities'within 4S hours. Beginning July 1 all applicants for United States government Jobs will be required to submit to fingerprinting. Out of 1.000 applicants for Christinas postal jobs the government found that 11 had criminal records, as revealed by the fingerprint division. The army" has found criminals out of* 1,000 enlisted men. Giant Airship, Sister of Akron, Taking Shape Akron. Ohio.?A giant, gaunt skeleton, of framework Is rapidly shaping up into what will be the U. S. S. Macon, sister ship of tha^U. S. S. Akron, world's largest airship. Workmen are swiftly imoceding on the duralumin skeleton which has attained a length of more than 350 feet. The sixtli main frame has been raised into position and crews are now engaged in constructing the giant fins to which will be attached the movable control surfaces. Crews are making^faster p'rogress on the .Macon than was achieved on the Akron because of their previous experience. Both design and construction are identical on the two ships. The point of procedure, however. is different. Construction work on the Akron was carried forward from amidsiiip to the protP first. On the Macon, crows are proceeding from amidsiiip t<> the stern before constructing the forward part of the ship. The Macon will have three keels, or "gangways." which are being installed as work progresses on the hull. One keel lies along the bottom center lino of the airship; the other two, on each side in a line with the engines. Vet Wants Compensation v for Corns War Gave Him New Orleans.?Claiming that rigorous wartime' drilling gave him "incurable corns" on the bottom of his feet, Willie I/ee Johnson, World war veteran, appeared in Federal court here and asked full disability payment under provisions of the war risk insurance act. Johnson, a railway brakeman by trade, said he had been unable to follow his profession since his discharge. Preaches in Overall* Wiathcrford, Texas.?In order that the working man with limited means may feel at home In his church, Rev. Paul Clifton, pastor of the Fundamentalist Baptist church here, wears overalls while delivering his sermons. Cron of 1,000 Piece* Brockton. Mass ?A carved cross, two feet high and containing 1.000 j separate piems nf wood, was made by ! Daniel Stitilis. No twine, pegs, glue or I nails were used. Statistics Refute "Weaker Sex" Idea Washington.?The "weaker sex" Idea lias been overthrown, officially. Public health records show that; Girls have a lower mortality ^ rate at Birth and during childhood. They begin to walk at six weeks to two months before their supposedly stronger brothers. They begin to tnlk from two to three months earlier In life than the boys. Women can stand more pain tha^ men. Tne statistics came frotn numerous seafchers and hospital testa ! recorded in the health aervlciand census filea. MiUuii in First Rank as Masters of Finance The story of the famous Japanese family of MItsul goOs back more than 260 yours. Tttktttoghl MItsul conceived the i?lun which resulted In the great house of Mitsui: lie Inherited a pawn shop from his futher, Ills ambition wus to have uu exchange house, but It was very dUttoull for un outsider to break Into u business of this kind. He begun, therefore, by opening a drapery shop In Iloneho In 1070 and established a tfioney exchange department. In less than 10 years he had won u place aiuong ekchpngers. In May, 1083, he opened an exchange house In Surugacho. In 1080 another one opened In Kyoto and In 1001 one * In Osaka. * He provided that each exchange house should have a member of the Mitsui family 4it Us head and each of these In turn should be succeeded by a member of the Mitsui family. In February, 1872, live young members of the Mitsui family were sent to the United States to learn the hanking, business. The following year the tlrst national hunk in Julian wus opened by Mltsul-Guml and OnoGuml. In 1870 the Mltsuls establlshed the first private bank In Japan. Pacific Crab Shown as Example of Evolution During the ages In which-evolution has been advunclng, denizens of the water have taken to the land, and some creatures which at one time lived entirely upon dry soli are now equally at home in the water or wandering In the fields. On some of the Pacific coral Islands we find a great crab which spends most of Its time on land, only occasionally visiting Its element. This crab, often over twelve Inches In length, was at a remote period In its history a hermit living a solitary life In a shell on the ocean floor. Today It exists on the land of the coral Islands, making a large burrow In the sand, where it has few enemies. The gill chamber which at one time functioned In the water, is now so modified that with the upper chamber It can breathe, while the lower portion still helps It to exist in the sea, where j it lays eggs. v-- The favorite food of this crab Is the coconut. Many are blown down by winds, but If the food on, the ground becomes scarce the crabs climb trees and dislodge the nuts. Brief Assyrian Greatness The Assyrian# were warlike, ruth- j less and cruel, aprt although great organizers, gave little time or thought to Interior decoration that did not emphasize the greatness of their kings. Assyrian furniture was heavy and dull. Its decorations consisted largely of scenes which pictured the venegeance inflicted upon the enemies of their kings. A table supported upon the backs of slaves or vanquished foes was the Assyrian's Idea of beauty. Scenes depicting frightful punishments and sufferings were not uncommon on articles of household, palace or temple use. But It was a short-lived perfbd and gave nothing to the furniture arts, not even to the Greeks, whose glory, heightened over the dying shadows of Assyrian greatness. American Gla?s-Making Though glass has been made, In America from the days of the first settlements?there was a glass house In Jamestown as early a? 1008?it was not until well on into the Eighteenth century that It was made in large quantities in such factories as that of the Wlstars In South Jersey (established in 1738), Stlegel's factory at Mannheim (first operated In 1764), the Pitkin Glass works at Manchester, Conn., (1783-1830), etc. Most of th* early enterprises In this field were short-lived, as glass-making did not seem to be a remunerative Industry In the early days In America. Strts Seas' Definition Col. G. E. Gerlnl, In his "Researches on Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Asia," traces the expression "Seven Seas" back to Indian and Chinese legend. From the Puranas Colonel Gerlnl made the following list of seven seas: Sea of Salt Water, surrounds India; Sea of Sugar Cane Juice, surrounds Burma; Sea of Wind, surrounds the Malay peninsula; Sea of Clarified Rimer, surrounds the Sunda nrchlpolago; Sen of Milk, surrounds Slam and Cambodia; Sen of Curds and Whey, surrounds southern China, and Sea of Fresh Water, surrounds northern China and Mongolia. Rapid Recording Typewriter speeds of us high as 236 words a minute have been recorded. In shorthand, 280 words a minute oti court testimony have been transcribed, while speeds as high as 350 words a minute have been re- , ported. The speed of wireless telegraphy Is 1S6.000 miles a second. The average speed of transmission by Ihe Morse manual telegraphy is given ,ns 30 to 40 words a minute; automatic devices have Increased this speed to 500 to 000 words or more. Metallic Hearts We often hear the expression "a heart of gold," but although there Is no gold In the human heart there certainly are other metals. Examination through the spectroscope has revealed traces of eopper, * ^ aluminum, and silver. The thyroid gland has been found to contain tin, ; silver, copper, lead, and zinc. Crops Damaged By Long Drouth OohimbU, July 80.?4Jorn in , areas of (South Carolina ha* been W ly damaged by drouth and'hot wea* er 'and some of the upland crop win make fodder only/' Richard H SoH van, meteorologist in charge of th Columbia weather bureau, a?jd in 7? weekly report. j Cotton, tobacco and other assTi have Buffered from the prolonged dry period, he said, but boll weevils w been checked. ''Cotton shows some. deterioration especially in the uplands, and the general condition is fair consider^ the persistent heat and drought," the report said. "Blooming and fruiting plants are reduced, and the reports of shedding are increasing, while the propagation of weevils^has been m*. terially cheeked. Corn in large area? of the eastern, central and southern counties has been badly damaged, and some of the upland crop will nuke fodder only; the lowland crop is jn better condition generally. "Tobacco, likewise, has been badly fired, and sweet potatoes are in poor condition generally. Rain is imperative to save the truck and forage crops. Commercial fruit orchards are still healthy, but need moisture." Congressman Doniniek is having a real fight for re-election in the third district. His opponents' say lye 16 years in congres is long enough, the district needs new blood in congress, and a number of other things more or less revelant. One of them was the charge that three years ago he married the daughter of a Republican congressman from New Jersey. He says she has voted the Democratic ticket' since the wedding. He de- , nounced in strong words the telegram from Hendersonville, N. C., saying his Republican friends in the Tarhbel state hope for hi? election, in recognition of th? splendid seiwcei' rendered the Republicans by I/$l& ick and his Republican father-in-law. Dominick says he.is going to discover who sent that telegram and make trouble for them. His opponents in the race are John C. Taylor, of Anderson, and the picturesque D. A. G. Ouzts, lately member of the legislature from Greenwood. rj Fulton B. Creech, prominent young lumberman, was Tuesday accorded the greatest gift, in the power of tne citizenry of the Gamecock City, when he was nominated as mayor over a seasoned veteran of many political campaigns, L. iD. Jennings, local attorney and former mayor, who wm staging a comeback, (but failed of his goal. Creech led Jennings by 404 votes. The National Association of Mutual Savings Banks announced in New j York this week that mutual savings .j banks have gained 72,468 depositors in the past six months and additional deposits totaling $45,770,868. The j average amount of money per depositor has dropped slightly, from j $750.77 on January 1st to $743.50 on j June 30th. ?? d?? ??????i??^ NO-MO-KORN FOR CORNS AND CALLOUSW Made in Camden And For Sale IT DeKalb Pharmacy?Phono H i mJ i ROBT. W. MITCH AM j Architect \ Crocker Building, Camden,, S. C. a KERSHAW I.OfHlB N?. HA. P. M. communication of this lodge is held on the j - first Tuesday in each mo0"1 at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren corned. W. R. CLYBURN. J. E. ROSS, * Worshipful MatW < -Sen clary. ft DeKALB COUNCIL No ** 4AAA Jun,or ?rder, U* A* ^nd Regular council second am j \ fourth Mondays or ea j month at 8 p.m. Visiting ^ are welcomed. J. W. THOMPSON, , L. H. 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