Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Eyes Right! To tfte School -Child* correct vision is all-impor- I j tant. Eye trouble of any kind retards mental pro- j I gress. Have your youngster's eyes examined now and, ; if need be, fitted for PROPER GLASSES. j j THE HOFFER COMPANY I $ JEWELERS AND OPTOMETRISTS I j Camden, South Carolina ?> ' Rook Pleads Guilty; Gets Life Sentence \ Greenvillo, Aug. 23.?>Blair Rook, m'gro laborer; today submitted to a charge that he murdered Sheriff Sam P. Willis here the night of Juno 11, 1927, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Carlos A. Hector, lormer deputy who succeeded Willis as sheriff,* and J. Harmon Moore, said by Rook to have hired him to kill Willis, are now serving 10-year sentences for their part in the slaying. Under the South Carolina law, no defendant can plead guilty to a murder charge, so Rook today entered a formal plea of not guilty in General Sessions Court, and then immediately rrikde a statement that he was willing to confess the crime and entered a plea for mercy. Judge Dewey Oxner passed sentence immediately. The negro is expected to start serving his term on the^chain gang. Sentencing of Rook marked the end ? of-a long series of trial:! and hearings growing out of the sensatioTial slaying. Willis was shot to death at his garage as he returned home at night. Shortly thereafter his widow and Henry Townsend, a deputy sheriff, were arrested and brought t<> trial for the slaying. Their acquittal brought a lengthy lull in the case, which was broken when Rook confessed, and showed officers where he had thrown the gun used. Rector and Moore vigorously denied the negro's story, and fought for many month's in the courts, hut Rook's story stood up and they were finally, committed to state'* prison. Rector and Moore were tried separately from Hook so that his testimony could he used against th$m. Shoes may cyM more next winter, in the opinion yof leading dealers and brokers in hides, if leather prices continue to add I'o their recent gains. Hides, it .is claii^sul by some experts, are among the best barometers of economic conditions. From the lowest level since 1X92. or around three ami three-fourths cents a pound last June, packer hides have advanced to about seven cents a pound today. It j$ said offerings are diminishing as the demand grows. A wild animal which has been killing dogs and livestock in the Marlon, N. C., section was asserted to be a hyena by Ben Price, who related yesterday that he and several companions clubbed it away from a bull dog with which it had come to grips. R. S. Clay, police chief, said he- had a report a hyena escaped from a private zoo at w lnston-^aiem three months ago. 6 6 6 LIQUID - TABLETS SALVE Cheek* Malaria in 3 days. Colds first day. Headaches or Neuralgia in 30 minutes 666 SALVE for HEAD COLDS Most Speedy Remedies Known Jefferson Hotel In Bankruptcy Charleston, Aug. 19.?Voluntary petition in bankruptcy for the Jefferson hotel, Columbia, scene of many political conferences in the capital, was filed in United States district court here today. The petition was filed by the Jefferson Hotel corporation, own^fs and operators of the hotel. Assets and lia-f bilities were not formally totaled but approximated $938,196 and $601,415, respectively. Judge Ernest 'F. Cothran issued an order staging adjutication on petition of counsel for the hotel, pending the outcome of negotiations for refinancing the company. I Robert Moorman was made referee \ in charge and B. T. Rosemond receiver, with bond set at $5,000. Secured claims against the hotel include $1,500 in wages and $13,830 in i taxes. Unsecured claim* total $568,i 085. In the petition for-staying adjutication counsel set forth that if the) property is sold now it would not : firing sufficient to pay the first mortgage and that it is worth far more I than this. The petition said that! with conditions improving, the busi- j ness can Ik* refinanced. Miss Lucile Walts, 19, of. Rock Hill,' was drowned early last night when a | rowboat overturned on a lake at Lake- i wood park in Charlotte. Her com-1 p.inion, .lame* Mclntyre, was pulled from the water by a member of the fire department and taken to a local hospital. His condition was not .ser-, ' i<>us. Miss Watts was still clutching , an^ oar when she was brought ashore shortly after the tragedy. Efforts at artificial respiration failed. Bryant Stone, a white man, who on 'June 12 last near Hnmptonvjjle, N. C., | shot his son*rn-law, Wayne Norman,' 28, to death, has been sentenced to ! die in the electric chair at Raleigh, following his trial at North Wilkesboro. i # | Three persons were injured fatally j and six were seriously burned Friday whefi a state highway truck load- j ed with convicts collided with a wagon on a bridge near Newton, Ala., Friday. Two convicts escaped. j Because of the blockade of road1 ways leading to Sioux City, Iowa, by farmers who are trying to prevent the movement of farm supplies to that city, rum runners have been forced to abandon their traffic in ^piritous liquors into that city. The state bank at Olla, I>a., was roKKn<~i Friday for the second time in ja month. Two bandits forced four I [customers and five employes to lie on ' the tloor while they gathered up $5,'850 in loot and fled in an automoile. Joe Lucas and Howard Dean, young r men of Carthago, N. C., who a few weeks ago attempted to extort $5,000 ' from n wealthy cifrrcr. of Pinohurst,! have been sentenced to serve ten years . in prison each. VOTERS: CONSIDER! Who knows better the Qualifications of a candidate for Congress than the people of his home county? Why did Congressman Steveijson lose his home county of Chesterfield in 1930 by a big majority? I i Take the judgment of Stevenson's home people and Vote For Richards I FOR CONGRESS lift hum* School* Open Sept. 7. According to mm announcement mpdo by superintendent J. C. Foster, the liethune public schools will open Wednesday morning, September 7, at 8:80 o'clock. The patrons of the schools ?re invited to be present at the opening exercises. The pupils are requested to bring all schoql books not needed to the exchange, which will bo-kept in the high school building. Those desiring new bboks may purchase them from Mr. C. C. Pate, who runs the schoql book dfcpofrltory. Admiral Hens Zenker, 92, commander of the German cruiser Von Derv Tann at the battle of. Jutland during the World war, is dead, . ROOSEVELT'S OPENING SPEECH AT CLEVELAND (Continued from first page) believe it should be subjected to the ruthless manipulation of professional gamblers in the stock markets in ttye corporate system...., "I believe that the government, without becoming a prying bureaucracy, can act as a check or counterbalance to this oligarchy so as to secure initiative, life, a chance to work, and the safety of savings to men and women, rather than safety of exploitation to the exploiter, safety of manipulation to the financial manipulator, safety of unlicensed power to those who would speculate to t^ie bitter end with the welfare and property of other people." He said he offered his "remedies" in contrast "to the complete silence" of the Republicans "and in contrast to the theories of the year 1928 which I have shown that the Republican leaders still hold." "The acceptance speech of the distinguished gentleman who is running against me," he said, "is equally empty of hope on this subject. "There is an eloquent description of the storm through which we are passing; glimpses through the clouds, of troubled officers pacing the deck wondering what to do; belated -recognition that the storm rose out of a hot current of speculation; stout adherence tp the alibi that the second-) ary phases came^from abroad; the! outltrre of the Ship clouded in vague: phrases about the 'intrepid soul of our people.' "Changing the figure of speech he speaks with feeling of a 'soil poisoned by speculation' in which grew 'uglyl weeds of waste, exploitation and abuse of financial power,' but not of the beneficicnt sun of administrative approval under the rays of which these weeds sprouted and flourished. "As to the claim of economic captaincy, the address is completely unregenerate. "The only approach to the protection of the investing public beyond temporary and immediate loans is a vague reference to a stronger banking system." The governor *SSuI he regretted "the necessity" of making "severe criticisms" of the administration, and added: "But to build we must first clear the ground. ... To justify our right to build we must show not only a sound plan but why, in contra.*, this plan offers the hope of better things." "Both platforms and the speeches of acceptance of both candidates," ho declared, "at least have agreed upon one thing?that the major issue in this campaign is the economic situation." His general indictment of the administration was that it "misunderstood the forces which were involved in the economic life of the country, that it encouraged a vast speculative boom, and that when the reckoning came the administration was not frank?not honest?with the people, and by blundering statements and actions postponed necessary readjustments." "This," he said, "prolonged anu deepened the depression." In giving his outline of economic history of recent years, Roosevelt said: "Buy more, owe more, spend more ? that was the program. "This caused the deluge of highpressure selling, lavish extravagant-!-, head-on plunges into debt and \ it more debt, and all this, coupled w.th' tiic president'.-- uU'ii <>l government , p,,n?..r>hi p ?>f the whole hoa.llr.r g plunge, wa - the dangerous < i >?. t_: r.. ailed 'the new economics.' "It wa- the hey-doy of premo': -luganeers. mushroom milliona'-' ?. opportunists. ad\enturt-r- - f all k.r. . "In this mad whirl wa- latin h? 1 Mr llim'.crh campaign. ( "I'erhap.- foreseeing it. a shrewd, man from New Kngland. whiie in; the eool detachment of the Dak- ta <t hills, had typed on a narrow si:p of! papejk T do not choose to run.' " At another point of his attack on1 the administration, the Democratic nominee said: "This mobilization of business as. the president practices it by promo- ' tion and advertising methods will always be defective. "His power to influence public opin- I on is great, bat this dririag will, j i?' " -a -wrr.9 . J3 us it has been well put, always be back-seat driving ? ineffective and dangerous. y "Apart from the futility and danger of such interference, the president's thought is a wide departure from the Republican tradition as voiced by President Harding's slogan of less government in business. . . . "It is completely alien to the traditions of his party. The co-incidence of the two policies is as dangerous as a mixture of fire and powder. This is the tragic folly of the last four years." * , In a long criticism of the president's actions and- utterances while stock market prices were falling, Roosevelt said: "Mr, Grundy and the Republican leaders . . . asked for a copperriveted American market, sealed by \he highest tariff in the history of the world. v The president hesitated, because he must have seen the awful nature of the choice. But his courage failed. Grundyism had its way; and American industry, accelerated to a pace never before known,. suddenly found the brakes locked on a slippery road. The law of gravity did the rest." "The Federal reserve board," he added, "saw the clouds, but did little. "The administration lined up with the stock market; and warnings went unheeded." He called the Hoover theory a "Hftyourself-up-by-the-bootstraps theory." In describing the stock market crash he said: "The market balloon rose 30 per cent. It did not stop. It went on, up and up, up and up, for many fantastic months?always up and up, until at last it was 80 per cent higher than the year before. "These were the figured of a dream, the balloon had reached the economic stratosphere, above the air, .where man cannot survive. - Then came the crash. "Now came what I believe to b? the real crime of the Republican administration. "They had a sea of statistics at hand; but the administration did not tell the truth. ... "On March 7, 1030, came the classic remark of the whole depression. Said the president to the press: 'All the evidence indicates that the worst effects of the crash upon unemployment will have passed during the next GO days.' " In attacking the Republican party in general, the Democratic standard bearer said: "Has th& party, I ask, under this leader, suddenly become the heavensent healer of the country who will now make well all that has been ill? "In other words, has the Republican elephant, spotted with the mire through which he has wandered blindly during these last four years, suddenly by miracle over night become a sacred white elephant of spotless purity, to be worshipped and followed by the people, or has he merely been scrubbed and whitewashed by cunning showmen in the hope they can deceive a credulous electorate for four years more?" In concluding his address, Roosevelt said: "The confidence which the administration has asked us as individual j citizens to have in ourselves i? not, enough. The kind of confidence we 1 most need is confidence in the integrity, the soundness, the liberalism, the vision, and the old-fashioned horse sense of our national leadership. "Without' that kind of confidence we are forever insecure; with that kind of confidence the future is ours to conquer." Cox told those who filled the stadium that the government crisis arising from the governmental crisis is in many respects greater than "even slavery that brought sections to grips." He declared "our modern fanaticism and intolerance are as hideous as witchcraft was" and contended that "if the country cultivates the true spirit of liberalism, there can be neither the despotism of dictatorship, nor the chaos of communism." DID YOU KNOW 11 H O. BURNS' CASH STORE I At DuBose Park 11 Has some of the Best Prices 11 that can be found ? II , Pee Dee Flour, 24 lbs. 69c Select Flour, 24 lb*. 59c Select Flour, 12 lb*. 32c ,12 lb. paper 30c Sea Gull, 24 lb. cloth 54c Sea Gull, 12 lb. cloth 28c Pee Dee Meal, peck 18c 8 lb. Pail Copap. Lard 60c 4 lb. Pail Comp. Lard 32c Bulk Lard 7c Carnation Milk, tall .. 7c 3 for 20 | Carnation Milk, small 4c j 3 for 10c Northheld Milk, tall .. 5c Northfield Milk, s. 2 for 5c Cigarettes'i 16c i NATIVE FlftSH MEATS I Any Cut of Steak, lb. 15c I Beef Roast, lb. 12*/#c I Stew Beef, 3 lbs for 25c I Cured Hem, boiled, 20c 1 Breakfast Bacon, lb. 19c I Good .Fat Back Meat 6c ! Extra thick 7c I Beat Rib Meat, lb. ..., 8c J Weinera, 13c lb.; 2 lb. 25c I Smoked Pork Sausage 13c I .... 2 lbs. 25c Sugar, 5 lb. cloth bag 22c I Sugar, 10 lb. cloth bag 43c , I i All Brands Snuff ......... 9c [ WE DELIVER | | | FOR YOUR PROTECTION ALWAYS ? THE LAUNDRY DOES IT BETTER I BACK TO SCHOOL' Let'us assist you in getting your boys and gifcls ready for school. Do not oast aside tfcat olcf suit or coat?have your fall apparel Dry Cleaned now. Just now they should have our expert attention. Telephone 17?we call for and deliver. It is thrifty to have things cleaned. 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