The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 14, 1934, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
Famous Robbing I
. Circus Coming'
The fumoua Kobbins circuH fori
more than a century America's favorite
show after *ufew yearn of retirement11
ia once more on the road
and making another visit to this section,
where it is a household word
with every man, woman and child.
Although more than a hundred years
of age there is nothing obsolete about
it ami will be as up-to-date us the
new full styles when it appears here
mxt Tuesday.
Following the trend of the times,
t he circus has abandoned the rails for
trucks and tjiere are actually one
hundred atid six of them , needed to
11 ansport the big circus from city to
tuy. The circus is presented in thfoe
ling*, and there is u large steel arena
In which Captain Wallace battles
with eight' hionster jungle bred Nubian
lioiis ahd gives a performance
said to be more thrilling than that
of the famous Clyde Realty. Captain
Wallace forces his lions to. leap
through hoops of lire and he places
his head between the jaws of Duke,
the largest lion in the group.
Another feature is the appearance
of the' Peasley family in a European
novelty seen in this country for the
first time and imported especially for
this season's tour. Both the man and
woman in the act toss twenty four
pound cannon balls in the air and
by a quick twist o? the head catch
the balls in the small of the neck:
Then they toss them about and juggle
them like billiard balls. The circusalso
is offering the Weber family of
somersault riders, with Phill the riding
clown, Captain Younge's jungle
actress, performing elephants and
zebras, the Partellos, somersault teeter
board acrobats, Tom and Betty
Waters experts on the wire, and the
Joe Sanderlin troupe of aerialists.
Buckley's trained stallions also appear.
A special added attraction is the
famous western screen star, Bud
Home, with his favorite picture
horses. He will make' personal appearances
at each performance and
he has a wild west with him as well
as several champion riders, ropers
and broncho-busters. There is an extensive
menagerie; Tusko, the five
foot tusked elephant, as well as Essau,
the monster camel ami a little
baby camel but a few weeks old.
There are also several cages of baby
lions and other animals but a few
dqys old, some of the cat cubs just
getting their eyes open.
The side show presents new freaks
and curiosities and a colored minstrel
show. The circus will give two performances
here at two and eight
o'clock with the doors opening an
hour earlier for the inspection of the
menagerie. The Bobbins circus has
never before reduced its price of admission
but this fall it has decided
to exhibit at popular prices of lf>
cents for children and cents for
adults. ' |
Seed Treatment Of Wheat, Oats, And j
Barley For Smut Oats.
Oats?For oat smut use a Formaldehyde
solution as follows-: Fan
the seed in order to- remove all light
seed and foreign material. Mix one
pint of formalin (40 per cent Formaldehyde)
with ten gallons of water.
Keep solution covered so as to prevent
the escape of the gas fumes.
Place the grain on a tight floor or
a good canvas and sprinkle the solution
with a sprinkling can at the
rate of from one to two pints per
bushel. Mix rapidly and thoroughly
in order to get every grain covered.
Pile the oats and cover with blankets,
canvas, or bags. After two hours remove
covering. The oats may then
be drilled in the field. If they ure
to be held over, they should be spread
in a thin layer and stirred occasionally
until all gas fumes have escaped.
Wheat?Bunt or Stinking Smut.
The above formaldehyde treatment
may be used but if so, the seed should
be dried rapidly and thoroughly after
treating. A better method is the
copper carbonate treatment: 1 1-2 to
2 ounces of copper carbonate to every
bushel of grain. Place the grain in
a tight container, put in the copper
carbonate and then roll or stir until
the grain is thoroughly covered. The
seed is then ready to plant.
Ixioso Smut, l/oose smut of whoat
can be controlled only by planting
resistant varieties or by using the
hot water seed treament. The latter
is hardly feasible under ordinary
farm ?conditions and is not recommended
as a general practice.
Barley?Covered Smut. Formaldehyde
treatment as for oat smut.
Loose Smut. Same as for loose
smut of wheat says Henry D. Green,
County Agent.
Big trees from acorns grow?and big
fires from little ones.
Brush land will grow big trees?if
fire is kept. out. .
If you see a fire, put it out. If you
can't, notify and help the warden.
When your match goes out, be sure it
can't come back. Be careful
with fire in the afooda.
Sowing matches:?reaping ashes. Don't
make light of the match.
A cigarette may be down?bat not
out. Save the foreata.
Morro Fire Was
Work Of Incendiary
New York, Sept. 10.?Chief Officer
W'. F. Warm* told u federal board of
inquiry today that he believed the
raging fire which early Saturday reduced
the luxurious liner Morro Castle
to a charred hulk and caused a
loss of more than 110 live* waa of
incendiary origin.
He said he baaed this belief on the
fact that a locker in the writing
room>Hblew out" at the start of the
fatal fire.
Warms, who wa* acting master of
the ship at the time of the disaster,
testified his belief that the disaster
resulted from the work of an incendiurist'Waa
based also on the fact that
during thFvpievious voyage of the
Morro Castle a fire broke out in the
hold and charred paper was found
on cargo in that hold.
Warms broke down twice during
his testimony, both times when he
spoke of Captain Robert R. Will matt,
master of the ship who died suddenly
the night before the fire.
The chief officer described frantic
scenes aboard the ship during the
fire.
"I shouted orders to get the passengers
in the lifeboats," he testified,
"but the passengers were shouting
and there was great confusion, Many
of them wouldn't get into the lifeboats."
0
He testified the first word of the
fire reached him at 2:4-5 a. m., eastern
standard time. An officer he sent to
investigate turned a fire extinguisher
on a locker and it "blew out."
Warms said. A few minutes before
three, he testified, he sounded a general
alarm.
"I did all I could," he said. He
added he ordered the crew turned out
and ordered tin pans be used if necessary
to arouse the passengers.
The first wireless message, a "stand
by" signal, went out about 3:15,
Warms said, and the "SOS" about a
minute later. He said he delayed
sending a message beca.u$.e he thought
he could control the fTY^
Warms said there had been drinking
parties in the lounge just before
the fire, but as they were very common
he thought there.was nothing
to be uneasy about.
Warms denied reports that lifeboats
left the ship without orders.
He said panic was created by passengers,
many of whom refused to
get into the lifeboats.
"I hollered 'for God's sake get into
the boats' und I saw a steward pick
one girl up and forcibly put her in,"
Warms testified.
Fireflies Have Perfect
Lighting System of Own
Lightning bugs, glowworms and
fireflies, as those Insects are called,
have h perfect lighting system which
science has not been aide to equal,
says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The
light, which those Insects carry and
intermittently flash during summer
nights, is not due to phosphorus, as
is commonly supposed, because it
glows In the dark with a greeu light.
The lljrht Is produced by two secretions,
on which tlie Introduction of
oxygen has the effect of combustion.
Strictly speaking, the firefly is not
a fly at all; neither is it a worm. It
belongs to the beetle group of Insects.
The appellation "glowworm" Is due
to the fact that the female of this
specie* is wingless, and bears a striking
resemblance to a worm, as doe*
the Insect In the larva stage. Not
only Is the udult, particularly the
female, light producing; even in the
egg, larva and pupa stages this organism
gives off a pale phosphorescent
glow.
Examined under magnifying glass,
the lantern mechanism of the firefly
appears on the last three segments
of the abdomen. The microscope discloses
further that this photogenic orgnn
Is made up of a ventral mass of
large cells where the luminescence
originates, and directly behind It is
another layer of small cells which
acts as the reflector. Two large
tracheal trunks or air tubes puss Into
the light organ and branch out Into
every cclL These tubes give an
abundant supply of oxygen to the photogenic
cells. Paralleling the air tube*
is a system of white, threadlike
branches which are the nerves controting
luminescence.
Six* of the Brain
It would be difficult to prove that
the size of the average brain has Increased
to any great extent during the
centuries. Examination of the skulls
of persons who died centuries ago does
not Indicate any particular change In
sire. However. various authorities
claim that weight of brain has no direct
relationship with Intelligence.
Exceptionally large brains have been
found both in great geniuses and in
Imbeciles. Intellectual capacity Is said
to depend on the great multiplicity of
nerve cell connections rather than on
weight or slr.e of brain. In any comparison
of this kind the value of the
accumulated knowledge of the ages
should be taken Into account
Policeman A. R. Jones has been
named by a coroner's jury *t Augusta,
Ga., as the officer who fired the
shot that killed Leon Carrol, a union
picket at the Enterprise mill there. :
Missed Big Haul t
By Being Early
Hurlington, Aug. big
money they were after by half a"
hour, the $10,000 weekly P?y roll of
the Ossipee plant of the burlington
mills, four unmarked, heavily armed1
but "gentlemen" bandits, carrying]
two young women us shields, escaped4
at 1:30 o'clock today with $200 cash.,
Ohe man entering the office to inquire
about Arthur liudley, a nanu
unknown, was' followed a moment,
later by two others, carrying sub machine
guns and pistols. They instructed
employes to carry on. *
Demanding that the pay roll be
produced, the men were told it had
not arrived, but they insisted that an
old vault be? opened. It could not. The
company's vault w^as open and they
imprisoned five employes?dames
Cowan, E. B. Cobb. R. A. Desanto,
Mr?. Lena McRey, Mrs. Kerns Roberts
and a Mrs. Tysinger, who hap-1
pened to come in, A lock was bat-,
tered to free them. t ,, ^ijLj
Remaining for an hour waiting for
the pay roll, the bandits were hon-ll
chalant, even lighting a cigar for one
of the men, then deciding it time to
evacuate one turned to Misses Madell
Lanvbeth and Lucy'Elkholm and said:
Want to take a ride, girls?"
"No thank you," they chorused.
"Well I guess you do," came the reply,
with a machine gun muzzle a bit
ticklish in the ribs of Miss Lambeth,
an Elon college girl. ,
Miss Lambeth, whose wit must have
served her and Miss Elkholm well, sat
with Miss Elkholm and the driver on
the front seat on a ride via Elon and
Gibsonville to a pofnt near Sedalia,
where the trail turned upon country
roads to a point near Liberty where
they were given $1, 'instruction .,to
wait until they were home to tell, and
a farewell with "We'll be'bnck again,
when we have more details. We
wanted five grand. We'll get it."'
"You're awfully good looking to be
a crook," Miss Lambeth addressed the
driver. "Yeah, I studied law at Oxford.",
"Then you should have some sense."
"I.have/' he said. "I am using it."
On the back seat, she said, were
many guns of all kinds, indicating the
men were both professional and "business
men as crooks."
At the risk of her life while the
bandits were in control, seating those
who entered the office during the
j noon hour in direct line with a machine
gun, Miss Lambeth casually in-j
formed the leader there was no burglar
alarm while she held a finger on
a'buzzer to another office hoping to
give an alarm. It was unanswered.
During the ride, she said, she kept
up conversation with Miss Elkholm,
quiet, confessed that her silence was
in prayer. The men tried to frighten
them, "the country roads were enough
to do that," said Miss Lambeth.
The bandits, in a car believed to
have a Tennessee license, were seen
in the village yesterday, probably
studying the layout for their jobs.
People other than those who came in
contact with them in the office knew
nothing until they were gone.
"They said they were going to take
us to Chicago," one of the young women
said.
"Don't you want to kiss me goodbye?"
the driver asked MisB Lam-,
beth.
"I didn't kiss you when 1 met you,
did I? Well, I am not going to now/'
she said. .
Officers over the state were notified
to join the search.
Cockroach Control
Cockroachs have become a serious
nuisance in many homes and business
establishments of Camden and
throughout the county. Housewives
and others interested in exterminating
cockroachs will find it easy and cheap
by the use of Sodium Floride, which
can be purchased from almost any
drug store for about 15 cents a package.
This is a white, crystaline powder
itnd is very poisonous. Children,
especially Crawling babies, should be
kept strictly away from it. Sodium
Floride is applied by sprinkling along
the paths usually traveled by the
cockroachs, around the pantry, kitchen.
store counters, etc. When the
roachs run through this poison it
stings their feet and they endeavor to
remove it by pulling their feet
through their mouths thereby receiving
a dose of the poison internally.
Sodium Floride is also very effective
in combating mites on chickens
which may be applied either as a dry
powder or made into solution with
water and the fowls immersed quickly
head down. For further information
see or write County Agent. The
poison should be swept up after a
day or two and burned says Henry
D. Green, County Agent.
The ILancashire, Plngland, cotton industry
is watching the trend of the
States with very considerable interest.
The longer the strike continues
in the United States the better it
will be for the English cotton mills.
The federal government agents, under
direction of Attorney General
Cummings, are now directing special
efforts towards professional people
who extend aid to criminals in any
farm.
Death For Chronic
Incurable Criminals
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All chronic incurable criminals
should be executed, is the opinion expressed
by H. L. Mencken in a recent
article appearing in Liberty. lie
states that they should be given a
reasonable opportunity to reform,
but if they are incurable death should
be the penalty.
Such a procedure may seem severe,
but to obtain a more revealing view
of this important problem suppose we
feduce the size of the United States
to thatKof a small village.
Now, suppose in this village a brutal
murder is committed, and the sentence
that is iinally imposed, after
the heavy expense of prosecution, is
life imprisonment. This murderer is
sent to prison and all the taxpayers
of this village have to board and
clothe him throughout the entire bal ance
of his life.
11 etc is an enemy of society whom
every test would doubtless prove to
be incunable. And if the citizens of
this village were to vote on hjs fate,
realizing at the same time that .they
would ha taxed to pay for his keep
the balance of his life, they would undoubtedly
end his career by the shortest
possible route.
Such incurable enemies gf society
are usually resentful, and at times
arrogant and merciless, and theyj
should not be allowed to live in a
civilized community. They are always
a dangerous menace, and when
treated with too much consideration
they have even maimed or murdered
their benefactors.
It may he desirable to give all lawbreakers
a second chance, but they
should bo under observation during
this trial period to insure protection
to law-abiding citizens.
Several years ago a young man was
automobiling with his sweetheart. I
two men asked him for a li^t. One
of them offered to do the driving, |
and after he took the wheel his part- |
ner, using a heavy blunt instrument,'
brutally murdered this kind-hearted |
young man. The screams of his sweetheart
doubtless made her very troublesome.
She suffered a similar fale,'
and the bodies were apparently
thrown out of the moving car.
Do such human mad dogs deserve
the slightest consideration from society?
Should the people be taxpd under
any circumstances to board and'clothe
men of this type?
It was the Master who said if you
are smarting from a blow on one
cheek to turn the other, but such a
procedure can hardly be recommended
when your assailant is minus a
conscience. Some enemies of society
are cruel and vindictive, absolutelywithout
an atom of gratitude or appreciation
for anything that is done
for them. And, regardless of what
may be the psychological reason for
innate brutality, society should be
protected from them at any cost.
We might as well turn a merciless
savage loose among a group of children
as to allow freedom to men of
this type. They belong behind bars
until their fate can be decreed. And
I justice should be swift and certain,
with but one penalty for these human
degenerates, and that is the
shortest route to the cemetery.
There is not a taxpayer in this
1 country?and we all pay taxes, directly
or indirectly?who will not bitterly
resent an expense, be it ever so
hsmall, for boarding and clothing
criminals of this type, and that is
what a life sentence literally means.
In some prisons, doubtless, the labor
of the inmates balances the cost
of their support. But there is always
the possibility of escape, and then
the terror-stricken inhabitants resid
HIS EDUCATION WON SUCCESS
Tarheel Went to Arkansas and Rose
.Steadily by Keeping Mouth Shut.
Eugene Ashcraft, in The Monroe,
N. C., Enquirer, tells this story of
how an education brought constant i
rise and success to a man of that
county who went to Arkansas.
Banyan Tadlock, octogenarian, a
Union county native, and who recently
walked nearly a thousand miles
from his El Dorado, Arkansas, home
to visit relatives here, visited me Friday
afternoon, when he related many
incidents of his boyhood days when
he lived on historic Beaver Dam
crick near Marshville.
"All the schooling I ever received,"
related Mr. Tadlock, "was from your
Paw and Maw, Mr. Ashcraft, at Old
Gilboa. I studied Webster's Blue
Back Speller, North Carolina Reader
and Davies' arithmetic. We were
not graded in those days."
Then he related that when he arrived
at Hope, Arkansas, sixty odd
years ago, he had a wife, four small
children and five dollars in his pocket.
"In getting off the train," related
Mr. Tadlock, "I crossed the street and
asked the owner of a livery stable if
he could tell me where I could rent
a small house."
"I've just the place for you," said
the livery stable man. "The price is
only four dollars a month?three dollars
if you pay in advance." The deal
was made when the stable man agreed
to transport the family and the baggage
free to the new home.
"Then I asked the good livery stable
man to direct me to a hardware
and furniture store," said the tenant.
"This he did, and I purchased a stove,
some furniture, and at another place
some groceries. The livery stable
man told 'em that I'd paid cash in
advance for the house."
Continuing, Mr. Tadlock said that
same afternoon he saw a man
pass who had the appearance of one
ing in that vicinity have to face an
appalling danger not unlike the losening
of wild beasts within their midst.
For criminals of this type are usually
little more than irresponsible maniacs.
We unequivocally indorse Mr.
Mencken's recommendation?death
for chronic incurable criminals.?
Bemarr MacFadden, in Liberty Magazine
in authority. "I asked him for a job
and he told me to report next morning
as a day laborer on a railroad"
'construction job. Bright and early
next day I was wielding a pick among
a gang of negro laborers. First week
I received a dollar-^-day?pay off ev.
ery Saturday night. I soon became
foreman of the gang.
'We w$|:e blasting out soapstone
in a cut, using black powder. Holes
were bored about two feet deep and
tfce blasts blew out a hole about the
size of a barrel. Then, since I was.;
becoming a railway builder, I decided
to bore a hole in that soapstone six
feet deep and fill it with powder
properly tamped. Well, I set off the !
fuse and yelled for everybody to run
as I lit a rag. They all laughed. But
j the rock from that blast broke one
negro's leg, ariother's arm and threw
dirt and rocks all over the superin- *
tendent, who up to that time had
looked upon the deep hole? and the Ij
big charge of powder as a joke.
"That blast caused the railroad
contractor to give me a paying job |
as an expert. And, Mr. Ashcraft, the
only way I had in advancing was to \
look wise, act wise and keep my
mouth shut. My education stood me
in good stead. I kept my mouth 1
shut."
Lee Blakeley, the Laurens county commissioner
who robbed the Founttain
Inn bank of' $1,500 several
months ago, pleaded guilty at Greenville
and was sentenced to five years
imprisonment, the sentence to start
in 30 days, the delay being to give *
him opportunity to settle his affairs
at home.
A new post of Veterans of Foreign >
Wars was formed in Lancaster this ? .
| week with department and post of- ;
ficers present from Columbia, Rock
Hill, Sumter, Hartsville, Pageland
and Charlotte. That organization of veterans,
in competition with the
American . Legion, is strenuously org-;
anizrngr posts in both Carolinaa now. ..
W. A. Leckie, proprietor of j
prominent store in Chester, is recovering
in a New York hospital from
severe injuries received when four
cars of a train upon which he flWL
traveling to buy goods . overturned
near Trenton, N. J. He was cut
bruised, and was unconscious for
awhile, after a suitcase hit him on
the head.
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