The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 31, 1936, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
America to Hear St. Bernard Monastery Program
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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
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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
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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.
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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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