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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
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(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.
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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. <
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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.
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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.
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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. Htfl
made no explanation of his previosfl
silence.
Iswim suits!
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NEW
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ANN PAGE PXJRE FRUIT
Preserves 2 < ?*? 35- I
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MILK Evapc ated 3 T|H CMt 19c ifl
OUR OWN
TEA i~\b Package 19c
FINEST GRANULATED
Sugar 10 ? Cloth Bag 50C j j
^handmoiksiJuL , I
PAN gg PULLMAN 9
u.L 16-oz. loaf 7#
SLICED OR UNSLICED | I
ISNOWPEAK 3 cans
Asparaguschlp" 25c
Brillo 2 Pkfs.l5c
KAJAH
Vinegar ?? 39c
SUNNYFIBLD
Soda &b 5c
NAVY t
Beans 7 25c
TALCO 1
FEEDS M
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Feed $2.10 U
*S-lb. H| 57e vj I
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Mash ^ $2.35
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New Potatoes, 10 lbs 25c I
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