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t 1 1 " ' Haiglar Theatre Corner Kroad and Ratledge Bia. FRIDAY, MAY 8 Final Showing of tliu Sensational ! Miu) West Victor Mcliflglen "KLONDIKE ANNIE" ~S ATU R DA Y, MA V 9 (JKOItOK O'JIRIKN In "Whispering Smith Speaka" And a Fox Comedy "K188 THE BRIDE" Starting the greatest chapter pi ay spectacle of ull time! "FLA8H GORDON" With Hunter Crab be and Jeun Rogers. LATE 10:30 SHOW "NAVY WIFE" ^ MONDAY ' and TUESDAY, MAY 11 and 12 MAKLKNK DIKTRICH and OAKY COOFHJR in the lineal sophisticated comedy to cotuo out of Hollywood in tho past year. j "DESIRE" A picture you will want to see ! twlco. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 ('heater Morria, Leo Carlllo, Madge ! Kvaawo and Frank McHugli in "MOONLIGHT MURDER" The flrat night of Bank Night. THURSDAY, MAY 14 Joaephene Hutchison. George Houaton, John Halllday and ; Mona Barrle in "The Melody Lingers On" You'll enjoy the moat Htriking acenea ever presented on the screen. COMING: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon and Joel McCrea "THESE THREE" COLORED MEDIC08 CLOSE THEIR MEETING HERE > ** (Reported .Tor The Chronicle) The Palmetto Medical Association held lta second public mooting at the Mt. iMorlah Baptist church Wednesday evening, April 21), with the president. I)r. D. J. Dixon, presiding. The music which was furnished by th<? Junior-Senior choir of the church, was airy, peppy and well suited to the occasion and the season. The speeches of the evening were delivered by Mrs. A. \V. Sirhpkins, of Columbia. S. C., and Dr. Orville Mallard, of Waverly Hills Sanitarium, Waverly Hills. Ky. The theme for Hot It speeches was "Tuberculosis Problem of the Negro Child." The unusually large audience was well pleased with these two Interesting addresses. The male quartette of Morris Collego, Sumter, S. C.. pleased the audience with many musical selections. The welcome address for the church was made by William Brownee. The doctors expressed themselves as enjoying the evening. It was full of pleasure and information. The doors of the old Court House on south Broad street were thrqwn open In grand style to the Palmetto Medicos In a ball given by tho Watcree Medical Association Thursday night, April 30. The ball room which was decorated In pea green and pink, intertwined with smllax and tiny colored lights, made a most beatiful scene. Men and women danced lightly and gaily to the sweet strains of music made by Phil Miller's orchestra. Iced punch was served between dances. This markod the high spot in the meeting of the association. Kveryone had a gloriously good time. Doctors say the heat time they ever has was here iti Camden Drs Pickett, Thomas and Brevard wish to say "Thanks" to Camden at large for having cooperated in helping to make the meeting of the Palmetto Association such a grand success. Officers for the association elected to serve for another year are: Dr. H. H. Seabrooks, of Charleston, president; Dr. Chappelle, of Columbia, president-elect; Dr. Durham Counts, of Columbia, secretary, and Dr. C. C. Brevard of Camden, as treasurer Columbia was chosen as the mooting place for next year. Oldest Jockey Club Columbia, May 7.?The oldest organization of its kind was the South Carolina Jockey Club, according to information in the library at the University of South Carolina. This club held races successively at York (1736) at New Market (1760), and at Washington (1792), race courses near Charleston. There were also courses outside Charleston at Straw berry, IMnevllle, and Bluford Plantation. It Is said that these races were conducted in such a way that even the most moral people could attend without being offended. May Day parades In New York on Thursday last, are estimated to have had 800,000 panders in line, with I,400 policemen assigned to keeping , .J**"-. Jkt oraer. * rr ?* * * General News Notes Eleven persons are reported to have been killed In a military airplane crash In Germany early Friday morning. A (11 h pat eh to liondon said lb were killed In the crash of the plune and a number of others were killed when the plane fell on them. The lower house of congress passed the biggest peace time naval appropriation on record Friday, carrying appropriations totaling $r?21,068,000, and authorising the conatruction of two new super-battleships. The vote for passage was 212 to 73. The liritlah home office haa recommended to King Edward of England, that he grant a respite In the death sentence of Mrs, Gladys Amelia Varley, convicted of strangling her 6months-old twina, and change the sentence to life imprisonment. . Three youths were killed in an , automobile accident near Newborn, N. C., as they collided with a truck. The cause of tho accident is ascribed to a heuvy cloud of dust on the highway thut obscured the view. Two other persons were seriously Injured. C'laude J. Strlcklin, of Columbia, was Instantly killed when he fell 60 feet from a water tank he was dismantling. A metal band around the tunk slipped and knocked him ofT. He was 44 years old. "Colonel" James D. Hancock, a hitch hiker, claiming to be 102 years old, wbh takon to a hospital at Salt Lake City, I'fall, suffering from a heart attack, lie insists that ho will live jis long "as they make whisky and tobucco." Harry Weiss, one of five men accused of kidnaping Paul II. Wendel, New Jersey lawyer, who wjls charged with a part in tho Lindbergh kidnaping case, attempted to commit suicide in a New York Jail, where he Is being held pending further developments. Mrs. Velma Patterson, 3.4, thrice murried, was acquitted by the Jury who s.it in on her trial at Greenville, Texas, where she was charged with poisoning her daughter, 12, that she might the more easily carry on a romance with a cattleman. Joseph I. McMullen, veteran officer of the Judge advocate general's office in Washington, has been convicted of accepting compensation illegally from a private firm. He is lijible to a fine of $10,000 and two years In prison and is disqualified from holding any gov-1 eminent position. Louis Silver, 4fi, former business partner of John Torrio. New York's "public enemy No. 2." was found seriously shot twice In an automobile on Broudway, a few days after he test!fled in an Income tivx case against Torrio, held in $104,000 bond while the government Is suing him for $2b0,000 Income taxes. Murray Bleefleld, one of the five men indicted in Brooklyn, N. Y., for kidnaping Paul H, Wendel, disbarred lawyer of Trentop. N. J., who repudiated his alleged confession that he kidnaped the I-dndbergh baby, has cade a complete and full confession of his part in the Wendel kidnaping, and said that the whole plot was concocted by Ellis Parker, veteran detective of Burlington county, N. J. After Alvin Karpls was arrested in New Orleans Friday night, he was shortly afterward started to St. Paul, Minn., in a chartered passenger plane, with J. Edgar Hoover and eight Gnion going along as guards. Of the arrest of Karpls, Mr. Hoover said that he made no resistance whatever. "Ho was so nervous lie could scarcely talk. His hands were shaking like a leaf and his knees shook as if he had the palseyv,,r Mayor Hettwy of Nogales, Ariz., knocked William R Matthews, editor of the Arizona Dally Star, of Tucson, down as the latter was addressing the state Democratic convention at Tucson and denouncing President Roosevelt. Bettwy was led from the hall, but returned later and apologized to Matthews, saying he "lost his temper." When Matthews again attempted to address the convention he was howled down. Matthews refused to prefer charges against the mayor. Roy Rhyne, operntor of a tourist camp near Rockingham, N. C., on highway 20, was shot to death by three bandits Saturday afternoon at 5:f?0 in a holdup. Two of the men entered the filling soatlon where Rhyne and a helper wore at work, ordered them to throw up their hands. Tho helper obeyed tho order, but Rhyne made a break for another room and was shot to death. The bandits then eooly took $800 from his ' pockets and $49 from the helper and ' made their escape. Colonel J. D. Fulp. head of SCDPW has stopped payment of relief money j and closed ita offices In the olght | counties In this state which did not make contracts with It for Joint care 1 for the unemployable poor. One clerk was retained in each county to distribute commodities coming from the federal government, but 40 office people were discharged. The counties streeted ore Union, Edgefield, Colleton. Georgetown, Newberry, Lee, 1 Richland aild Salads. < J Confesses Death By Rattlesnake Los Angeles. May 3,- Haggard and hwhiiI iiik from 36 hours of question* lag, Robert 8. James, a barber who has bad two of his live wives die by drowning, confessed today that last August he used rattlesnakes to kill ' bis bride of three weeks. District Attorney Huron Fitts announced the confossion bad been obtained from Jumes after Charles Hope, a former sailor, told police James had plunged his wife's bare foot Into a box of writhing rattlesnakes Then put her Into a bath tub. The woman's body. was found August f>, face down In a fish pond back of the James home. -A coroner's Jury found death due to accidental drowning with cellulitis?apparently from strange lumps on her legs?a contributing factor. James' confession, according to Fitts, was confined to this terse sentence. "I did it because when I am drinking I am Insane." "When you killed Mary, your part In it was caused solely by reason of your physical condition and the fact that you had been drinking and was not actuated by any desire for money on insurance policies or out of hatred. will you answer yes or no?" Fitts said: "My answer to that is yes," James was quoted as replying. Fitts said he would seek Indictments Tuesday. Hope and his wife, Florence, were held as material witnesses. Piecing together James' confession and the Btory told by Hope the district attorney said this was what happened. James decided to kill his wife. He hired Hope to go out and get him some rattlesnakes, - specifying they must be "sure killers." Hope agreed because James exercised a "hynotic power" over him and went to a snake farm near Venice He told the owner he wanted the snakes for a side show. They turned out to "no good"?meaning they were not killers. Hope went shopping again, this time to Pasadena, where he interviewed J. C. (Snake Joe) Hountenbring, owner ot' the Anaconda Snake farm. He took along a rabbit and a rooster to be sure the snakes were killers but "Snake Joe" refused to make the test tor him. Hope bought the snakes, anyway. Houtonbring said Hope was ac?ompanied by a woman anil Hope admitted his wife went with hint in the shopping tour for the snakes. The snakes were taken to the James home. Hope said James put adhesive tape over his wife's eyes and mouth and then put her on the table near the snake basket. She was tied to the table with a rope but one leg was free. Mrs. James was clad only In a night gown. Hope Bald. James stuck Mrs. James' foot In the snake box, according to Hope. He said he heard the snipes move then heard Mrs. James groan. "She's not dead ybt, I'll have to drown her," Hope quoted James a* having said. James then took his wife Into the bath room and drowned her. The next day James and Hope took the body to the fish pond and laid it face down In six Inches of water. CGC To Build 2.300Mile Mountain trail CCC boys under the direction of the United States Forest Sendee and (he National Park Service will do most of the work on the recently planned Pacific Coast Trail, over which it will be possible to ride horsehack or hike 2.300 continuous miles on high mountain trails?from Canada to Mexico. The trail, it is expected. will be completed In 1936. Distinctive metal signs are to mark the entire route. This trail?sponsored by the Forest Service In cooperation with Pacific coast outdoor recreation groups?Is to be almost entirely through wilderness areas. It will traverse the Mount Raker, Snoqualmie, and Columbia National Forests In Washington, touching also Rainier National Park. In Oregon It I will Include the Skyline Trail already completed by the Forest Service in the Mount Hood and Willi&mette National Forests. In California the trail will follow the high Sierra, traversing the Shasta, Lassen, Plumas, Tahoe, Eldorado, Mono, Sierra, and Sequoia National Forests, lessen Volcanic. Yosemlte, and Sequoia National Parks, and In southern California, the Angeles, San Remardlno, and Cleveland National Forests. Fire did damage to the extent of $330,000 at Lexington, N. C., early Friday morning. The fire started In the finishing room of a large furniture factory and spread thru the factory and to nearby buildings. It is reported from Chicago that the Standard Oil company of Indiana, will thla year spend MS,600,000 In expansion and rebuilding Its facilities. a Ton* of Radium Ore Are Dug Froyn Barren Wast#* The radium ludustry, which for some 30 odd years has been extruding radium from pitchblende and other ores, will probably continue turning out its few grunts of radium annually for at least u little while. The 700 or so grurns, which .by Infinite labor and putlonce it bus been able to extract from the earth, represents thousands of tons of radium ore?dug from the steaming Jungles of the Belgian Congo lu darkest Africa, from the mines of Bohemia, from the barren frozen wastes of (Jreat Bear lake on the j rim of the Arctic circle In wildest Canada?ore which has been rousted, acidified, dissolved, precipitated, redlssolved, washed und rewushed over and over again by chemists who must wear gas masks and lead uprons to protect themselves from the dangerous radium rays. In this wuy is produced such a small quantity of radium that the ounce is fur too heavy to weigh It by. So scientists record the weight In grains and milligrams, the former being 1-28, the I latter 1-28,000 of an ounce?which amount of rudium, by the way, costs many dollars, and is probably about as big as a speck of dust.?Washington Post. i fi'- i ?^ Ruins of Blue Beard's Castle on Erdre Banks The ruins of Chuteau de la Verrier, on the banks of the Erdre, in the department of the Loire Inferieure, France, are, according to the tradition of the neighboring peasantry, those of the castle of the celebrated Blue Beard, the hero of the well-known nursery tale. This person Is not altogether a creature of fancy, usscrts u writer in the Indianapolis News. He was Giles de ltetz (or Laval), who lived In the reign of Charles VII, nnd was a vassal of John, duke of Bretagne. He was tried at Nantes on suspicion of having destroyed children who had been seen to enter the castle and never were heard of afterward. The bodies of several, however, were found much later. He had caused them to be put to death, to make use of their blood In writing charms and forming Incantations to raise infernal spirits, by whose means he believed (according to the superstitions of the times), that buried treasures would be revealed to him. On his trial he confessed acts of ntrocity, arul was sentenced to be burned alive; but the duke caused him to be strangled before he was tied to the stake. The execution took place December 25, 1440, and a detailed account of It still Is preserved In a manuscript in the archives of Nantes. I Origin of Fairs The word "fair" is derived from the I Latin word for holidays, "ferlae," and | has been applied since the Middle Ages to special periodical gatherings of merchants. to which the people could come and get their supplies. These were first held back In the days of the Roman empire. As time went on their Importance Increased and thousands of them were chartered in England and other European countries, many to churches and monasteries, whose fairs were often held on religious festivals. Many of the surviving Euro pean fairs still have attached to their names the commodity In which they specialized such as horse-fair, cattlefair, cheese-fair, etc.; other names Indicate the season of the fair, as Mlchaelmas-fnlr. Poison Tree Saves Lives In Hawaii the ornamental yet poisonous "he-stlll" tree promises to supply valuable supplies of thevenln, powerful drug for heart Ills where digitalis has failed to give relief, according to Island experiments in pharmacological research. Named the "best ill** tree because the days before these Islands were a part of the United States, n native queen heard lovers beneath It whisper "be still" as she passed close by, it is known to science, as "thevetia nerefolia." Not indigenous to Hawaii, it was Imported there some years ago as an ornamental shfuh. The nut Is reputedly poisonous. The stimulant thevenin is extracted from this nut. The Snake'* "Spring" Respecting the length of a snakes stroke the I nited States biological surve.\ has this to say: "The idea that u snake can strike its full length or even n greater distance is a popular but erroneous belief. When a snake strikes from its usual S shaped curved position, the anterior half ot the body which Is' thrown forward must he free from coll. In striking the snake simply straightens out the S-shuped curves. It does not have to he In this position, fof. observation has shown that when Irritated most of our poisonous snakes can strike from almost any position for short distances. The greatest length of stroke Is about three-fourths the length of the snake **_. Thorn Hill 4-H Club Met The Thorn Hill 4-H club held its regular monthly meeting at the church April 14. The president was in charge of the meeting until all business was finished. Ilise Margaret Fewell then took charge of the meeting and gave a very interesting talk on "Different Materials and Colors Suitable to Different Types of Girls." Games were then played. Sometime# iron rest can be removed (rem white goods with nw milk. o ?:* . V ^^? ..I . I ) I I > I I Champion Pigeon Honored As a result of Us winning the recent national pigeon race, agginqt 1,114 other racers, Always Faithful, the speediest homing pigeon in the United States Army, was awarded a gold medal. In the race this bird flew 716 mileB at an average speed of 47 miles an hour.?Pathfinder. Helpful Hints . A small quantity of turpentine added to dry shoe polish will soften it almost immediately. Don't cover the dish in which apples are being baked. Oak furniture can be renovated with boiled linseed oil applied with a flannel. Paint spots can be removed from clothing by saturating with equal parts of turpentine and ammonia. Wall paper can be cleaned with a flannel cloth dipped in oatmeal. Finger marks can be removed from wooden or metal furniture by rubbing with a soft rag dipped in sweet oil. DEATH PLOTTER KILLED IN OWN CONSPIRACY? Montgomery. Ala., May |Jfl strange story of a slaying consjirJfl won Tom Perkins, negro, dooaM |9 di(- Thursday night, a two week* r>^| prieve from Governor Graves Mondij I to allow Attorney General Cannickffl absent from the clemency hearing, |fl chance to weigh the case. ; Perkins killed Clifton McNeil, ifl young white man of the Texae co?fl munity in Monroe county. He toll I the hoard McNeil and his sister, Carvln Owens, "ordered" him to a young negro cook at the Ovtg^H home, where McNeill also lived, He said he obtained a shotgun frosl the Owens home and fired at the gro girl as she stepped on the btd^H porch, but accidentally shot McNdfl Perkins fled but was captured. did not take the stand and his sion was not given until Monday. 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