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ON PAGE 1934 I Of Father Times' Book, we've asked him to I make the following notation; Bring Health and Happiness to everybody in Kershaw County. DICK GOODALE I I I S?S??S!*mm"m'm Pen Prisoner Kills Another As Charles McCormick, 25, white convict from Horry county, was en- j torihk the furniture factory at about j 8 o'clock Thursday morning in* the! state penitentiary, his throat was cut ! from one ear to the middle of his > throat, severing the jugular vein. by | a fellow convict, Hubert Mctlaha, 21, white, from Pjckehs county. The stabbing was done 'with a'large knife j made very sharp. ! McCormick was assisted towards1 the hospital by two convicts, hut J brokeway from them and ran to the ' hospital alone. There he received at- j tcniion from two' physicians, hastily summoned, but he <lied in 25 minutes . from the cutting. His last words were, "Tell the cap-1 tain (Kestcr) to send my body to my mother." -This Captain Kestcr will do this morning. * Mctlaha was seized by Corporal j Haynes and others and is now in close confinement . awaiting the in-, a quest, which will be held at 5:20 this \ afternoon, the hour.set by Coroner* Sargean-t,1 It. seems that Mctlaha had been of fended the <lay before because Mc-. Cormick asked him for some money! which it is .-aid had been loaned Mc- ! tlaha. Then1 were some words, be- j tweon the two but nothing came of il" C McCormick was sent up from Horry county by .Judge Kamago in March. 1and given three years for grand . larceny. Mctlaha was sent from Pickcr.s county in June. r.<."'?2, when fie was 20 y?ars old, and given five years, being convicted of an attempt to commit lV!,?ny. He wa- the prisoner who hid liim?elf recently in the furniture . factory and put a dummy in his cell i to c'uuvai his di-appearance. Yesr terday morning when he a Nibbed McCormi. k lie was wearing shackies, indicating that he was under punishment for violation of prison rule?. In the offer of the penitentiary 1 there is now a letter from a Miss Jones, of Pickens, evidently a good i Christian woman, who also sent a Christmas card to Mctlaha. She had i writt( n the prison authorities that she had become interested in Mctlaha and two other young w^iite men while i they weie prisoner.; i't Pickens jail, < and .-she u^.kc.i the privilege ^f writing i TV.iun act a-.' i rtlTy .n the hope tha. J r.ir loiters would do them gmod. This privilege was driven her and she has written several letters of cheer and n couratfement. MoCormick was the only son of his mother, and was popular in the penitentiary. The prisoners yesterday afternoon raise<l iimung themselves a purse of $20.52 to send to his mother. It was all that some of fhem had. One man gave two cents, all he had; triers gave five, ten and a few as much a* a quarter dollar, and one gave :i half dollar. = rrxrr Death List In Train Wreck Now At 200 v? ' ;v ' ? vPar)?, l>oc. 20.?The death list in the Legny railroad catastrophe reached 2t>0 today a.s all hut two bodj'os were identified. One child on the ill-1 fated Nancy express disappeared completely. j "Two fa mi lids disputed for posses- ! -ion of the body of an eight-year-old hoy, too mangled to be recognized! Police after studying marks on the ; clothing gave it to one family, while! the other parent--, overwhelmed by; grief, sought vainly for their missingson. ci. Only dU of those injured in the wreck,' which occurred on Saturday night when the Strasbourg flier ran j into the rear of the express, remained j in hospitals. A day of national J mourning will bo held tomorrow, when the victims are t,o be buried. A fight to place responsibility for the action will go to the chamber of deputies. Deputy Louis Rollin, defender of the engineer and fireman Ui* the flier held in prison on charges of homicide by imprudence, said he would demand that safety measures of the railroad company be investigated. Presbyterian Church Services Services at Hethesda Presbyterian { rhurch Sunday! January 7. are aniu>u::te.l by A Douglas McArn, pasto:. as follows: Church school 10 i. nr.; morning worship -11:15; The I.<>nP>. Supper, will be celebrated at this service. lnte! mediate ("iub Friday evening a; six. Junior Club Satin.lay morning at ten o'clock. Young People'- Society Sunday evening at -ix. Midweek .-crviee Wednesday er.;ng at .-even-thirty studying Kzra haptens 7-10. The public is cordially invittd to the service-, of this church. 0 Don't skid, don't take chances, don't lose time loving punctures with those thin, old tires ? come in, find out the low cost of new guaranteed (ioodyears in jour size. All types ? all prices. Let us show you why more people buy Cioodycnrs than any other tires. Play safe, come in today. I iCw gj jjj 4 40-21 Carolina Motor Co. Open Day and Night Good Urted Tire# $1.00 and Up. Expert Vulcanizing riitoi m n- * ... - ^ --'frVlh-a^ ~ "hAM Many Monuments In South Carolina ? fii'i "i'*V By Frank A. Dickson, Jr., in Anderson Independent. The only statue ever erected as u memorial .to our first mother?Eve raises its simple gruy shaft of granite oh one side of the home of Robert Quillen, the man xof short payings, in the village of hountain Inn, South Carolina. Many celebrated names appear upon monuments throughout tho United States, tho names of those men and women whose deeds are chronicled in histories. The most familiar, of course, is tho character to which Robert Qui Hen has marked his respects in stone. On the monument, before which Will Rogers stood and admired the fino thought, Is carved an apple an^ this inscription: "In Memory of Eve?the First Woman." Besides this statue dedicated to Eve, South Carolina has the first and only monument in the world addressed to the slaves of the Old South. It was unveiled in 18^0, at Fort Mill. In York county. This sculpture is a i marble shaft 15 feet high and bears ' the following message: "1860?The I faithful slaves who, loyal to a sacred trust, toiled for the support of the army with matchless devotion, and with sterling fidelity guarded our defenseless homes, women and children during the struggle for the principles ? of our Confederate States of America ? 1865." Opposite the State House J in Boston, on the wall of the Boston I Common, is a bronze mural tablet of , large dimensions, commemorating a j Mass achusetts negro regiment. But I that monument represents the sentiment of the abolition, not the personality of the slave. The one in Massachusetts is there as a memorial to an idea, while the other, in South Carolina, though not so beautiful as j a work of art, exemplifies the actual slave as a beloved personality. Too, the little town of Fort Mill is known all over this country, and even across the Atlantic, for its monuments; erected to the Confederate women of the South, to the Confederate soldier, and one to the Catawba Indian, "always the friend of the white man." South Carolina has in a statue, at Camden, the ,first and one of the few ; monuments ever founded to an In dian. Surmounting the turret of the ! town's opera house is gilded iron | likeness of "King Haigler." It was ! executed in 1826 by a hrenchman, jj. B. Marthieu, who of it achieved a ! masterpiece of art; the statue was put ' on the summit of the old market | house steeple, whence it was removed ju*t in time to escape destruction from the market fire, to its present t position. j South Carolina is the first state j in the Union to honor by a nionu| ment the virtue, courage and.patI rlotism of her womanhood. The erected stone stands on the grounds 'of the .state capitol in Columbia, j The state also is the only one in America that has in a public park a statue set up to the respect of a member of the British Parliament when the ohm m on wealths were British col'onies. There in Marion Square in ! Charleston a statue of William Pitt, I ! erected in 1770. j In addition to these "firsts,' the j Pa Inn t\y State has led the nation in i many things. I" or instance, the first j },.:n',i. ,;h ary in Amenta was es' tabii-kod in < a: during 1608. I \ t .h- tir-; ?diti o in this country liuii'i for '.he -ole u-.e of a library was . li : i'v <>f Sou h Carolina. [ It ua- erected in 1M0. thuv of Ilar| .a I .-.:y m 1M1. and that oi j j?. i:i 1>7>>, Whiie the lib.-i'v o '* the University f)f \irgm:a has I . . , ui iy.i it - present quarters since 1- the p'.a. < i- the hall i>: tr.e r?j tu: da a-.i .- not a separate and <1 i s tin.ct building, nor wa- it constructed j . . (. ; j. :: j).)-e of a library, j lie au-e the building at the Univeri . y <>:' South ( aolina during the last ,, , f the ( i! War wa" converted ! a hospital, it .-scaped Sherman'.* j ,,,, v, f, i <.>i,i\ iorr.o very .,r.. va.uable books. I j .. . ho >. in tin- South I ,,r:e ? f the emim. t r. Air- rien !-.va- f ur.dol in < har! -;or.. during I- ( r.a-.e-ten wa- < stab"e'i ,r.mh-d ;r ibis ! . .. ir.t ry. p'-rh.aps .r. tho world. Ir Re, Ab \an<it r (In-don. Teci ? f > . Pr?i!lip'- cnuich. a :verti?t c i . .. sf..j ~ ca-nii-.a C.azotte thai ! ;h<- lir.gh-h -ocir-y fn- the ]> -paga (io-pe! had. about 1." 1 ?>f ,rr. h r'-d two promising : rven i had educated then j a : % of having th'm tend ' nt gro and Indian child-en. Mr. Car :, i. >ia:.-.; ii,ht "they will he read: r the ir wo k in a few months more,' and requ? -tt'l ?ub-. r:p: ion- for thi e :ion of a school building on thi rhur h property, where the childrei would receive instruction free. Th' TnstTtution existed 22 years, and ex aanded under the direction of^Mr r.artlen and his successors untiTjth demise of "Andrew," a teacher. * m-jkrifon 1 - A'. . ifaa Midget Automobile | Is Being Developed > prom little Czechoslovakia, noted for its industrial enterprise, comes j word of two new developments m motorao.n~? midget, automobile to r?! tail under *100 and the use of wood iga" aa a motor fuel in truoka and . bUMI- ' ' ' The motor of the midget car is o the front drive, twoAjy Under, twoeyoU typo, developing tB horaepower and is placed acrpss the frame of the chassis. Body types will be two and four-passenger cabriolets w t wheel base of 103 inches and not weighing more than 1,400 pounds. TherniO-syphon cooling system, solex carburetor, independently sprung reaf axle, dynamo and starWr forming a combined unit fixed directly to the .crankshaft are some of the features of the tiny car. One of the largest Czech iron works recently had a three-ton truck equip* ped with a generator for wood gas for test purposes. How the generator produces the gas is not made pu it. ltut chemists here say the process is probably distillation of the wood, a method which might produce gas at less cost than the high price of European gasoline. Beechwood was used in the truck generator. A speed ranging from 32 to 37 miles an hour wail attained. The use of wood as a fuel, it was reported, would result in a saving o from 40 to fiO per cent as compared with the price of gasoline in Czechoslovakia. Wood gas as fuel is reported to be especially suitable for trucks and possibly for auto buses.. However, the time taken to heat the generator with wood gas makes this kind of fuel unsuitable for passenger cars. SlowDeathTrom Radium Poisoning Latest victim of radium poisoning which had its beginning in a watch and clock factory of East Orange, N. J., 19 years ago, is Grace h ryer, She has known for years she was doomed t,p die but lingered on longer j than most of the others who were I stricken. , , | Grace Fryer, with other girls and I women, was employed to paint the I numerals on luminous watch and I clock dials', using a paint containing I radium. The small brushes were kept pointed by putting 'them between their lips and in this way the poisonous radium was taken into the 'system. ,. j Of the girls and women doing tnis work 15 are known to have died. The I infection may have proved fatal to more who did not know what thenailment was. The plant was closed when the terrible effect of this slow poison was discovered. In 1928 five of the workers shown to be infected on the examination of physicians brought suit against the factory owners and obtained a settlement out of court which gave each of the victims $10,000 and $600 annuity together with all hospital and medical expenses the rest of their hvesGrace Fryer, one of the five, offeied herself to be experimented upon by doctors in an effort to save the others. Even at that time she had to weai a i brace from hips to neck to stiffen her ! .pine, which had been affected. This J insidious affliction attacks the bones ! also destroys white corpuscles of | the blood. H works quite siowiy. ! none of the Victims knowing tho i were infected until two to foul yeal 1 after working with the radium paint. Buzzard Flies Into Speeding Airplane Louisville. Ky.. Jan. l.-A turkey buzzard swerved suddenly m.o a speeding mail plane in midair near I here today and came near wrecking I it ! The collision between the bird ' weighing some eight or ten pounds iand the plane. Hyjng l-<> miles ar hour, sent the buzzard's body crash! ir.g through the windshield to strike a glancing blow against Pilot Mu ! sick's cheek. '[ Although he required first au i treatment for scratches from th< 'buzzard's claw*, Mu-iek managed t< i 1 r ght his plane ami land safe.y a Bowman held here. Dan Beard, ro i plot, and C. H. Otterman of Tucson ! ! Arizona, the only passenger aboard OS aped injury. ? , The plane, American Airways, ei r i route from Cincinnati to Nasnville II was delayed a short time for deodor Nation ami repairs to the windshieh -'and for the pilot to borrow anothe " 1 suit of clothes. ei The funeral was held on Saturda e afternoon of Richard Wilkes, a life n I long resident, and until recently c j prominent merchant, of Chester, wh - died following a stroke of paralysil aged 71 years. He leaves a wido> e and two daughters in Chester, and sister there, j I r BANNER SEASON IN AIKEN AND CAMDEN (Continued from page one) horses are available. This form of racing is popular in England. The beautiful course at Koslyn was made up of two rating strips, brush and hurdles, and when the hurdle racing wus completed the obstacle# were quickly token away and the course left open for flat racing. The idea may haveJbaon taken from Camden, for when the Hunts Association first raced at the Murray place last spring, many remarked that the course reminded them of the historic racing ground at Camden, a short distance north of Aiken. When Messrs. Kirkover and Woodward built the Camden layout they did it in three sections?that is, to say, they built a timber course and around that they -constructed a brush course. Inside of the two jumping courses they laid out a flat course, carpeted with Bermuda grass. When the job was finished the two sportsmen had the satisfaction of knowing they had built the finest race course of its type on the Atlantic Coast, and perhaps in the country. Atfythis point, one not familiar with Aiken and Camden might well v ask: j "But why such fine race courses so far from New York or other centers of population ?" The answer to that is that Aiken and -Camden in the ivinter are New York, if you get the point. At Cam- j den one finds most of the hunt ! devotees from the Genesee Valley, a! famous sporting spot for crosa-eoun- ' try horses. Two hours away by motor one comes to Aiken, and were it ; not for the scrub palm oni; might well ; think he was on Long Island. Aiken in the winter is populated largely by Long Islanders. Mr. and , Mrs. Hitchcock discovered the spot some fifteen years ago, and they immediately came to the conclusion that it would be a splendid place to winter horses. Mr. Hitchcock conducted experiments with cattle and the soil, possibly in co-operation with the state, and presently a hunt was formed. Mrs, Hitchcock still is master of that hunt, and credit is given to her for developing some of the leading riders on th<^ Aiken drag line. Mr. George H. (Pete) Bostwick is only one of the horsemen that Mrs, Hitchcock helped to develop. News of the place that Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock had discovered spread j rapidly, and others started to go > there. They wanted to hunt, and j they found that they could do so all I winter. Some wanted to play polo j and Aiken also was suitable for that. Now if one goes to Aiken he sees j Mr. F. Skiddy von Stade, Mr. Henry | W. Bull, Mrs. James C. Austin and | I her children, Mr. Henry W. Sag**| Mr. 1). Stewart Iglehart, whose boy* I developed into crack polo players %\ I Aiken; Mr. Bayard Warren, Mr.W Bayard Tuckermnn, Mr, J. F. Byer*, 1 from Pittsburgh; Mr. Algernon Cr?v'aB en, Mr. Augustus F. Goodwin, ' Mr. 1 Kigan McKinney, Mr. and Mr*,j Francis P. Garvan and Mr. and Mjr? I Vadim Makaroff. Up Camden way, where the Camden a Hounda run, Mrs. Dwight Paitridg* I is master, and among those who fol- I low her lead across country are Mr. Kirkover, Mr. Ernest L. Woodward, Mr. Oscar F. Soule, Mr. Watson I Pomeroy, Mr. Henry V. Colt and Mr*. 1 Lucy Deans. If one happened to go to Camden I now he would find many horses well known on the hunt racing circuit, m j well as a group of hunters that will 9 start their activities when hunting I begins on Christmas Day. Mr, Carroll K.' Bassett, one of the best known I amateur riders and trainers, wag down to Camden a few days ago and I ordered four additional box stalls to care for the string of eight horses he ' will winter there this year. He will I have Mr. W, D. Cleland's mare, Pas- > sive, one of the outstanding brush horses of the season, in this string. Mr. Ernest L. Woodward took ten i horses to Camden, four for hunting j and six for racing. . Mr. Alvin Unter- ! myer also has made arrangements for stabling and the four horses that he now has in Camden will be joined by 9 others later. Miss Harriet Jackson is shipping four horses. .9 Others who will be in Camden this / winter are Miss Frances Thord-Gray, i of Greenwich, Conn., who is bringing I two hunters; Mr. Ward Belcher, of *1 Lakeville, Conn., who has sent fiv$ * horses; Mr. Douglas W. Mabee, of ! Saratoga, who will have a string of a jfl half dozen, four for hunting and two j for racing; Mr. North Fletcher and j Mr. Thomas Waller, of Warrenton, fl who will open their stable some time 9 this week. Theirs will be an exten- j sive string of about twenty horses, many of them racing prospects. Miss Thord-Gray has taken a cob- J tage, as have Mr. Algernon Craven, former master of the Albemarle Hunt 9 and at present steward of the Nation- > al Steeplechase and Hunt Association i in the South, and Mrs. T. H. Somer- j ville, who has leased the Proctor place. ,9 As the winter tightens its grip on 1 the North and more people depart for " J, their places iri Aiken and Camden ! more news will be heard on plans for hunting and the race meetings. But even at this early date it looks as , though these two sporting resorts are- I in for banner seasons- with a winter 9 of uninterrupted hunting and enter- 9 tainments that will culminate in the. I race meetings. - _-C_ mmmmmmmKamtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaammmmmmmmmmmi \ j Send it to The Laundry The Laundry Does it Better Dry Cleaning of a Superior Quality 1^ For Health's Sake, Wear Clean Clothes ****** Men's Suits Dry Cleaned and Pressed 65c Men's Overcoats Dry Cleaned and Pressed 65c . 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