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America to Hear St. Bernard Monastery Program 1 One of the famous Saint Bernard dogs on a mountain look-out point at the celebrated monastery in the Alps of Switzerland, A BROADCAST direct from tlie fimiiout Hospice of Saint Bernard in the Alps of Switzerland will t>j t special feature of the Magic Key program to bo hoard over hti NBC network on Sunday afternoon, February 2nd. at 2 F'. M., EST. The monastery Ik world famous for the fact that the monk a n??in tain a largo kennel of Saint Bernard , dogs which patrol the blizzard ssvej t passes In search of lost or inim < ' jj; traveleiH. When a traveler Is t<> ca'.?d, ho is revived by the hi,tody which the dog carries In a small 'k<*c attached to its collar. If una Mo "y; continue afoot, a rescue party Is directed to the travelor by the dog. Tho broadcast will Include a description of the hospice and the surrou.'Vdint rnountulnous terrain. One of th? monks will explain tho work of h!? brothers In maintaining this 50: vfe tn humanity, and, In a tour or the kennels, some of tho Saint I {?.<( :; 0. r'i?. wtl! send their canine vr i-'Upg* to American listeners. To th:? broadcast possible, en.-4 /> j e hauled special equip r;- .hi v:p (he steep sides of \!: H'.'.r.; through drifts 30 feet r{ ?< o n - - ......... 1 Elliott Springs On j Child Labor Law! Captain Elliott W. Springs, ht-ad of ilic Sprln.us chain of cotton inillt Lancaster. Chester and York counties, designed and had printed for circulation among his friends a Christmas card of most unusual character, portra> ing scenes connected with tlie mills and their activities. Included among pl< tares of children portrayed as at work in the mills were some of the younger members of his own family, and one of the cards fell into ' the hands of a New York Clothing Firm by the name of Joe dish Clothing Purchasing Company, -it" Worth street, New York, whose ire was riled thereby and he sent it to Washington authorities, writing Captain Springs a letter also with reference thereto, and there is where lie made h 1b great blunder. Captain sent him a reply that you will really enjoy reading and here it is: "Dear Sir: I have your letter of December 2t?, informing me that our Christmas card has caused you to stop all purchases from the Springs Cotton Mills and expressing your horror that the South still lives by the sweat of Its barefoot children. I note that you are forwarding the evidence to the Department of Labor. "Well, that Is hardly necessary, for the latest available statistics from the Institute show that 74.6 per cent of all the cards 1 mailed out have already been forwarded to Washington. As for the loss of your business, you and I both know that if Iscarlot and Company offered you the original JO pieces at a sixteenth below the currelit market >nu would ground loop your revolving chair reaching for the sales-note. "Perhaps I should oiler you some explanation a< to whs 1 >eiil sou -u< h a < a i d In I'nix .1 phot eu la pie r Itoni t h> Noi t h came in t he La lies -1 r ' 'ot! < n \lill> during tin lumdi hour sshen the 111111 Wax . Illpls lie found a 1 Near old girl w ho had brought her lathers diiitiet to the mill and persuaded her to stand by a spinning frame while he took her picture. This picture has been used ever since as | an evidence of child labor in the South and was published again last year on the front page of The New York Herald-Tribune to illustrate that tiie Southern mill workers did mention Proclamation for the toiling i hihlren of the Sout h "In 1 ! JJ Miss Perkins made a speech in New York City and stated that the Southern mill workers did not receive enough wages to bu> shoes "Considering these .two virions bits of ptopngamfcr I evolved the Christ mas card which vnti received. "Tin* lid h> barefoot girl batting uu 111?' broom is Kutherim- (Jayle, aged 12. the daughter of a peddler of gadgels ami boondoggles for whom 1 named the plant. The duller is Leroy Spring*, aged 11, whose ureal grandlather laid out the lirst plant of the Springs Cotton Mill with ills walking stick, which accounts for the present shimmy in our weave room floor. Leroy frequently violates the code by playing hookey from Sunday school to help me make a qualitative analysis of the ? linkers from our new boilers. The spooler girl is Anne Springs, who is dest itmd to he the first co-ed at the Philadelphia Textile school. The weaver is Mrs. Springs, aged 24, who turned up in a carload of second-hand machinery front New hJjrglund. "One of my first actions after I became president was to issue orders that no children should be employed in these mills. I wuh proud of this humanitarian policy until an investigation showed that no children under* 16 years of age had been employed for 20 years except under a permit front the secretary of labor applying only to children over 14 after evidence of affidavit that the child was the sole support of an Incapacitated parent. Only once have nty orders been disregarded and then because a girl applied for work under her married name. One of her disappointed rivals reported that she was not yet 16 and the overseers immediately gave her a furlough. 1 could not centfure him severely because the girl really looked older than Mae West. "In closing 1 wish you a Happy New Year. 1 hope your children do not have to compete with the Japanese or ride iu buses. Yours. "i Signed ?. KI.LIOTT SIMIINUS. "President." Widow oits Large Verdict I lie jury in the ease of Mrs Thee lv ir| Baldwin against Atlantic Least tan. K.nlro.id Company late last night I'turmd a verdict for Mrs. Baldwin lei $.m.nnti The vase was given to the jury shortly before 6:20 o'clock and the verdict returned an hoyr and a half later. The suit was for $100.OoO for the pain and suffering and death of Vernon Baldwin, who was killed when tin train lie was operating as engineer crashed into an open switch near Ileum ttsville on the night of IVcemtier 2. 1024 Mrs Baldwin was represented by I??hn (i lunkins, of Manning, and Kpps I'.pps of Sumter The defi nd ant company was represented by Douglas Mi Kay of Columbia and William Reynolds of Sumter Friday's Sum t< r item By -o -t.- <. ^===r? 1100 ACRES $6,000.00 ! A .tract of 1,100 acres situated on bluff overlooking Winyah Bay with about one-half mile waterfront. Beautiful live oaks, x bountiful game and deep-sea fishing close by. Timber possibilities $ | alone make this a worthwhile Investment. Only ten miles from 1 town, wonderful alte for winter home. Owner has refused $15,000 I for this property, but now must have some cash immediately. || WRITE P: O. BOX 894, COLUMBIA, S. C. 8 ?"fr??????11 Q" ??^ ? s&sr&r Boys Slayer Killed By Fellow Prisoner Jollel, 111 , Jau, 2'J.?-Richard Loeb's debt to society contracted by the murder of Hobble Franks was stumped paid today In IiIh own life blood. Victim of a ferocious at tuck by a (> Jlow convict, James Day, - 23, of < hlrugo. Loeb's life plus 'Ji? years sentence yesterday wtts completed in violonco similar to that which brought 111/" to til.. K/lm Statovlllc penp.ri tlary twelve years ago. l/oeb'H body wits horrtbly Blushed with 5t? gaping razor wounds, one of whltjh almost severed the Jugular vein. died within two hours, doHldte frantic .efforts of eight physicians who resorted to blood transfusions. J loath was attributed to shock and loss of blood by Dr. Lester K.I 1' rankentlial, the Ixyb family physician. Nut ban Leopold, Loch's partner in what they planned and executed as "the perfect crime"?the brutal slaying of Robert Franks, 14. refused to discuss the lutost crime, answering all questions of prison authorities with, "I decline to answer." A. L. iiowon. director of the state department of public welfare, promised a searching Investigation of the slaying. He aided State's Attorney William It. McCabe and Warden Joseph 10. Kagen in questioning six convicts. . * 'I lie stale's attorney said early today In- had prepared a warrant charging Day with murder. He added it would he served alter the coroner's jury made its recommendation at an inquest called for II a. m. today. Din ctor Mowen indicated the inquest would he open to the press, although pilson inquests usually are closed. I lie body of Loch, who was 3d years old. was taken from the prison to Chicago secretly. Slate's Attorney .Mct'ahe said he understood the victim would he buried in Chicago at ' a- m- but that Loch's family de< lined to n;ake public any of tile details. The preliminary inquiry into Loeb's violent death unearthed many unusual angles which remained to be solv 'd by the prison authorities. Day was quoted by Howen as saying. "I killed him in self-defense." t aptain Austin Humphrey of the pi ison staff, who heard Loeb's screams and rushed into the corridor reportmi Day handed him a bloody razor, saying, "Here's the razor. I killed in self defense. That man (Loeb) tried to attack me." Howen also quoted Day as saying, Loeb had been bothering me with Indecent advances for a long time." He said Day's cellmates, George Hllss and Robert Camy, told him that Day had been under a strain for months, that he did not eat or sleep well and that he had been "brooding over Loeb's solicitations." Howen declared Day's story did "not seem very reasonable." He pointed out that Ix>eb suffered virtually all the wounds, although Day had a blackeye. Both Loeb and Day were naked at the time of the attack. Another unexplained angle was how Day and Loeb were together at the time of the altercation. Both men were semi-trusties. Day was assigned as a clerk in the. warden's front office until 4:30 p. m. daily. The attack on Loeb took place uround 2 P- m. and he died at 4:05 p. m. Warden Ragen explained Day's black eye by saying convicts reported be got It in a fight with U>eb Monj day night. Other convicts, however. , told him the two men were on friend! |v terms. Howen said he obtained j another statement to the effect that | Day r. < . ived the black eye hist Friday in a light with another convict, i Mct'ahe quoted Day as saying that lie went to Loeb and said "I want to .straighten out that difficult with von now." '.orb's reply lie said was Tin busy | now. I ll see you j,, about live mjM. I utes," j A short time Inter the two met in j a 'avaR>ry. which was being remodelI ed to house a correspondence school i which Leopold and Uieb were conduct| Ing for the prison inmates. Day told Mct'ahe that when Loeb I entered the room he said. "You take I off your Clothes and i ll take off mine." Roth men undressed and Day charg t nd that Ixjeb threatened him Day I said ix?et? drew a razor, which was .one of forty used in the prison barj 1 i r shop. It was the one reported -missing at the daily inspection Monday night. '*"> ??nt. tided in his statement that bo disarmed Ia>eb and slashed i? self l.C'f b f. 11.?11 \ fled (he loom :and s?aggo,ed ;i , , r,. Uo;. Uh"v Swoll. > . se.vm, life' " nn av a I'ie1111 >i i ,,| ,?... hat'd-o'il * .-Lick klut.is c;,ng wheii kidnaped j Hack. tt. Blue Island, ill.. gam. j bier, heip.nl him to the prison ho-ni I tal. ' Warden Ragen said. I don't think Leopold knows anything about the slaying as he was in a cell 100 feet away at the time." of^J BrV61 ol(le8t * duate of Rutgers univereity. died at Newark. V Mo"day He graduated with | the class of I860. 'Amerson Murder Thought Solved More evidence bus been obtained in the killing of Mac Autorson in the" Flat Creek section of t It in county on ilie evening of December 28 unci it is probable that a war runt will bo sworn out charging J. D. McLeod, student at Clomson college with the murder. Sheriff It. A. Hlnckmon left for Hock Hill curly Thursday afternoon to confer with Solicitor Flnley TvlTaffllng this cese. ^"ftefdre IbavliTS the sheriff said that no -warrant had been made out uh yet for the arrest of young McLeod a? he wanted to confer with Mr. Flnley before tliia wuh done. * Clyde Millor yvho waH with McLeod on tho night of the killing haa been arrested and is being held in the county Jail. It wfts said?that a charge of murder muy be mado against him also us he admittedly was with MoLeod 011 tho night of December 28. In the county Jail Miller is alleged to have told tho officers that he told all he knew at the inquest und that he has no further information to give on the case. Amerson's body was found lying iq the snow about 8 p. m. Saturday night December 28. It had been snowing for a couple of hours when his body was found. He had a wound on his forehead where he seei/ted to have been hit by a blunt instrument. On t.jie back of his head was another gash which was more severe. One h g and one arm was broken and oth? r injuries bad been suffered. A coroner's inquest was hold following the killing and it was tile verdict of the jury that the killing was accidental. liut little evidence was given at the inquest to connect McLcod with intentional killing although he admitted that on making the second trip down the highway he and Miller driving a milk truck had driven over the body of Amersoji which was lying in the road. It is said that McLeod and Miller went down the road leading from the Flat Creek school to the McLeod peach orchard and came back the same road going down tho road to Midway. Anierson had left the store! of Frank Fuile a short time before I walking down the road leading to the: peach orchard. Evidence has been ' secured that Anierson and McLeod had some words at the store over the i if - -i ?^^? -.-~rur:~ " . -- j ^Tr-?. milk truck. It Is ajtegod that McLeod ha<l Mm? keyh to the; milk truck aiul that Amerson in quoted as saying when lie leit the a tore that he was giv- ( en "a (tamii dirty deal," At the time McLeod who is a stu- j dent at C'iomson college wus home on liis Christinas vucation. He is the son of James McLeod who operates the peach farm of 'J'ownley ltetlfearn. Young Amerson was employed on the same farm but IiIh duties were to look after the eows and deliver the milk, while Mr. McLeod looked after 'the whose home in near Sumter lived at the McLeod home. Hardly had the inquest been concluded than people began ) talking about the case and many were of the opinion that the killing wus not accidental. Humors flew thick and fast ' r and the sheriff began a further investigation of the case.' In working on the matter Sheriff Hlackmon picked up a lurge number of rumors but not until this week did he uncover any information on which to base charges. Some of these rumorq are to the effect that McLeod on driving down the highway overtook Amerson and after an argument struck hirq with a jack and then ran over Ills body with the milk truck. When the body of Amerson was found he seemed to have bled a good deal from the wound in the back of his head and blood , seemed to have come out his ears. It wnjj said that the wound on his forehead did not bleed and that this wound was not serious enough to cause his death. McLeod and Miller on driving down the road leading to the peach fann reported after making the second trip that they ran over the body o A. ;* rson which was lying in the 1?1. it was admitted that they saw the body in the road but that they could not stop in time to avoid striking the body, according to the officers. It was said by some that tHe tracks made by the truck where it turned around after making the first trip down the road was 45 feet from tHe place where the body was found. Others placed the distance from where the car turned around to where the body was found as being only 15 to 20 feet. According to rumors which have .been circulated Miller is alleged to have told certain parties that McLeod engaged in an argument with Amerson and struck him with a jack. How = m evrr, Miller who is now in the coi.uuy I Jail denies these minora hik| my( 1 ibut lie has already lold all he know* I of the matter. Amerson is aahl to liuve been drink. 9 ing on the night of the killing qj. 9 ticer* said that young McLeod 1 evidently not been drinking as ho I failed to show any signs whatever or I taking liquor when questioned the | night of the tragedy, Sheriff Hlgekmon wutd that it i,aB I been pretly well established that af. 9 tor Amerson left the store operated I i by- Frank- Fnfleand went" dowti Ttle 9 road hut two ears went down the high- 9 way in' thut direction. One ear wa* I driven by Mr. John Lucas and the I otlier by MeLeod. Mr. Lucas eaid I that when lie passed Amerson the I yoUng man raised iiiu haiid as iud|. I eating that lie wanted a ride but that I the cur did not Bt^fr for 'him as he I already liad some passengers. { Whether this killing was accidental 9 or the result of a fight will probably I | bo threshed out at the n^ct term of 9 court wliicii will be held here corn- 9 mencing the fourth Monday in Kqjj. 9 ruary. After Sheriff Rlackmon confers this fli afternoon witli Solicitor Finley some I : action will probably be taken. 11 is I ! possible that a murder warrant I i against Miller may also be sworn out 9 or that ho may be charged with be- 9 ing an accessory.?Lancaster News. 9 Thorn Hill Club Held Meeting I j The' Thorir Hill Home Demonstra tion Club held its regular meeting at 1 : Thorn Hill . church on Friday after- 9 1 noon, January 17, at 2:30 o'clock. I j Mrs. J. L. Thome, the president pre- 1 sided. The devotional was led by I Miss Virginia Truesdhle. The open- 9 iug song being "Old Slack Joe," the I project soag for the month. The roll I was called and minutes read by the I secretary, the members responded to I the roll call with a gift they received I for Christmas. After the business session Miss Fewell took charge. She I gave us a most interesting talk on I the topic, "Outlook." She gave fig- I ures and told of many tilings of the I past year. According to her talk the 1 coming year will be much brighter. I We also filled out more in our year I books. The meeting was of great terest to all witli an attendance of H one hundred per cent in members. President Roosevelt says that he is I hopeful of making his annual brief I lisliing trip in southern waters before the winter is over. 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