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Five Former Tampa' Police Are Convicted Marsbiw Flu. Mil) 22 Five former Tampa po1i? emeu were convi< I <I | I otitis on a charge ol kidnaping lai j gene F I'oillliof. otic ol I lifee v i i I JIIIH j who were Hogged, tarred ami li-ath red l?> i nioli in Tampa Nov 11?I?**i" j :?o, it',;. 'I tlf f|V?* rolivilleil Hu ll all- .1 oilII , I' I !l IllgeS. (' \\ ' i l|l I 11I' w j Svo'/' f, < A llrou it 11 aii'l Sam ! I ( | unli) Two others, lot i iii-r I'olh e < * I?i * I It j Tlttsworth ami Special uflicer Robert Chappoll. were admitted by di reeled verdicts several days ago. Titlsworth was < 11n?> ? 1 with being i an accessory after the fact ('hupped j Ulnl the live convicted today were iiuined an principal* in the kidnaping l'oulivot. Sain Rogers and Joseph Shoemaker admitted Socialists and labor organizers -were arrested by Tampa officers while they were attending a political meeting in a pri i vatw home the night of November 20. The officors had no warrant. After being released from custody j the three were driven just outside the city to a wooded section where they were stripped of their clothing, heuton. tarred and feathered. After being warned to' keep their mouths shut and to get out of the state, the men were left to shift for themselves. i'oulnot and Rogers made their way ba? k to town hut Shoemaker, who weighed more than 200 pounds, had to wait for help to he sent buck to liini Nine days later lie died in a hospital after one leg had been am putated in an effort to sa\e his life. <'onvetjon of the li\e carries with it a maximum pcuatt) ol ten vars to the state prison Judge Dew ell deferred sentence t>? dav and continued in effect the $7.f-"0 bond under which each of the no u had beep at liberty. Mrookl>n police arrested i?? dismiss i'il \Y I' A workers w ho had barricaded themselves behind doors of the homo relief offices, demanding immediate ud KJ-Pound Bear Shot In" Horry County (onway, May lit. A be.ar chase be(-min Sunday afternoon ami <*mlc<l yes terday shortly before noon when Im iii weighing one bundl ed seventylive pounds was killed near liayhoro in Ilia' swamp. Horry county. Foiny Harris saw the bear on bin laiiu Sunday afternoon lie tracked be animal until night and yesterday iiioi ning. wiili the assistance of Hen \ I J s 11 o e, Sill* Misboe, Kelly ' 1' 11 (> 111 {>kins |{e-v> Hamilton Will Small, lloyt Hamilton and a pack of dogs, tin* i base, was renewed After three miles, the dons took the trail and within a short while (lie beH r < I III) bed a t l ee Will Small shot the bear and down he rame from the tree and began lighting the dogs. Others in?tho party then fired at close range for the kill. TO THE ROACH ! Scuttle, scuttle, little roach, [llow you run when I approach, li p above the pantry shelf. Hastening to secrete yourself. Most adventurous of vermin, How 1 wish I could determine How you spend your hours of ease? Perhaps reclining on the cheese. When we've gone and till Is dark Then the kitchen is your park. I >o you banquet on' tea leaves. Or swing in webs the spider weaves? How delightful to suspect All the places you have trekked! Hoes your long antenna whisk its Ueiitle tip across the biscuits? I !><i you linger, little soul. { Drowsing in our sugar bowl? Or abandonment most utter | Do you fox-Trot oil'the butter? 'Do you rhanl your simple tunes Swimming in the baby's prunes? Tin n. when dawn comes, do you clink Homeward d<<wu the kitchen sink'.' Timid roach, why h<- so shy? '.We are brothers, you and 1, l-'or ail' r midnight, like yourself. I ? \pioi < i lie pant ry shI ! Former Frontier Heriot declares that the way is now open' for the settlement of the war debt "inisumler standing'' between the Tinted States and France. 500,000 Vets Have Died Since Armistice Washington, I) Nearly half a million American World War Veterans have "gone west" since (lie Armihlic They are now dying at tho rule of eighty a day And each suecccding >ear H?*e? this death rate going tii?. This was the suddeuiug data dux up from it? records hy the bureau of hudKot and statistics of the Veteran*' Administration, From Novemhor 11, 1918, to December 31. 1935, a total of 469,541 veterans died, the recordh disclosed. Another 130,128 met death In ac tion, dJed of wounds or succumbed to disease war itself Thus a grand total or accident^ during the World of 599,6?i'.? young Ajuorhans who nun c lied off so enthusiastically to war in the spring of 1917 no longer are atn^Tig the living. A grand total of 4,757,240 soldiers, sailors and marines served in the armed forces of the ('lifted State s dining the World War. Thus, of this vast army there remain today 1,157,571 veterans. The estimated number of veterans deaths each year since the World Wains supplied by the Veteran's Administration, follows: 1919 21 ,6su If 20 36,212 1921 34.368 '922 30.618 1923 26,873 "'24 25,087 If25 25.192 If 26 25,296 If 27 25,738 If28 25,995 If30 26,286 If31 26,979 If32 27,393 '933 27,859 1934 28,859 1935 28,971 1936 28,971 Total 469,541 These- figures show that the normal death rate for the veterans was not | reached until 1923, four years after the Armistice, owing to belated fatality of many battle injuries and privat ions. He-ginning with 192 1, however, the death rate of the veterans showed an acceleration from year to year. Kxperts on vital statistics point out that this acceleration will continue at a faster rate eac h year from now on until l?y I960 the majoritv of all the veterans will have passed on. Marion Robber's Efforts Are Wasted Marion, May 2'h- There is one robher in Marion county or nearby, who has some money he can't spend Suitdav night, vvlUle Miss Helen Bryant. of the Temperance section of the county was attending services at lu-r church, an intruder entered her home, looked the place over in the dark, and found what lie thought was good old I'nited States currency, hut instead, it whs $250 in Confederate money, that Miss Hryant had been saving for many years. The money belonged to her late lather, who was in the Civil War, and who had this money when Confederate currency became worthless. There were two fifty dollar hills and a good inanv small bills- and evidently the robber picked this up and in the dark thought that In- had made a good haul. officers were called to tlm scene, hut it was found that the Confederate tnonev was all that the rot.tiers got However, the officers are still looking for the thief, Georgian Burned To Death Manchester, i',a Mac 'J3 Trapped in : he cat) of his light pick-up truck When i' caught tire on the highway four miles south of here Fridav morning. W I. Tax lor. 6n. prominent retired merchant of Manchester was burned to death Mi Taylor had h^-n having trouble with the wiring of the truck, fronds reported It huI'M into flames a he -peiI dow i: .i hill on tin- way to t iwn t rom hi- tartn. Mr Taylor sufi red a h-g in jut > in a tall about two w eks ago and this i- believed to have handie.ipp.-d h'tn 111 his efforts to imp t rom tin- tlatiling vehicle. He w.i^ d.-ad when would I), rescuer rush, d to the scene, hi- body, -ti.1 in Mauie-. having fallen our of the truck Stray Cats Kill Wild Life For- -rr> officers on dutx at George Washington National Forest, in Virginia. \]"<t ' heir troubles hut hoy obje. r -o-a a V T lit III ? ,g in tb- e l., i,; -tia> cats rio- Olivers ttu.it- that Ilea:!) 1."'"' of the oneT - l?.i- which iiave fo: -aken their home- t->r this m-w and full, r lit, are >ow r. ai...,.g t ..it ugh the r-.-st I hey - '> e.n, h - a- kills about ttft> birds a > cajr. hornier President Hoover, in a prepared statement, issued in Chicago, said in part. 'It should he evident by this time that I am not a candidate." Baptists To Gather I For Greenville Meet Columbia, May 25. Within the next I *w weeks tin* attention of the quarter <>t a million Baptists who live in South Carolina will be focusscd on the annual assembly of tin* dcnotnlliution which will be held at Greenville Woman's college in tlte city of Greenvillo. During the two weeks of the assembly. June 2b to Jnly 11, there will be a varied program so arranged as to touch every phase of church life. The state Sunday school convention will be in session June 29 to July 2. the liyi'U. workers for the next three days, and the camps for children and young people? will be in progress during the second week, in addition there will be a school for pastors extending through the? entire period, another school for Sunday School workers, an encampment for the training of BYPU leaders, Missionary conferences, platform addresses, pageants, speaking contests, and various other features of unusual interest. The full equipment of G. W C. will he turned over to the assembly management so that individuals, families and groups may he housed in the dormitories. Meals will he served in the dining room. Prominent among the list of speakers are: Rev. M. I... Bannister, of Chester, state president of the Sunday school convention; W. A. Harrell, of Nashville, BYPU field secretary; Miss Ruth Provence, of Columbia, field secretary for the young people's missionary organizations; Dr. John R. Sampey, president of the Southern Baptist convention; Dr. John Lake, missionary to the lepers in China; Dr. J. 13. Weatherspoon of Louisville, Ky., who recently toured the Orient; Dr. M. E. IX)dd, of Shreveport, La., who will tell of his visits to -mission fields; and more than a score of other denominational leaders. Hundreds attend this annual assembly which was begun more than twenty years ago. POWERFUL JUTE INTERESTS For some years Congressman Ful* mer, of South Carolina, has been try* ing to do something to break the bold which the jute industry has in this country, chiefly in the South where jute bagging is used universally as n covering for cotton. A covering made from cotton itself could he used and should bo used but the jute people manage to stall off all efforts of this nature. This extract from a speech by Mr Fulmer on his net weight bill delivered some days ago arrests attention: No other cotton country in the world uses more than fifteen pounds of- tare, and no other cotton country uses old. heavy jute baging. not even India, whore jute is grown, and every cotton country except the United States sells on net weight. Why is everybody except the well-organized jute interests demanding net-weight sale? For the reason you would be permitted to use around 200.000 bales of cotton, low grade, that would he manufactured into cotton bagging. We would save? annually millions of dollars, freights on useless bagging. insurance, handling of grossweight cotton in foreign countries and mans other items. M> net-weight bill is endorsed by every organization interested in cotton. the only people^ opposing the bill, as stated, being the jute interests. Tin jute interests'" must be most powerful. The backing it gets in Congress comes chiefly from New England Why cannot Southern congressmen combine with some effect and rout this "jute interests?" Greenwood Index Journal. Ran Private Orphanage Charlie Hammond. S2. a negro, who died April 2,*> near Heath Springs, not only led ' a dean and. useful life." as Captain J W Haniel's nearby newspaper. the Kershaw Era, testifies, but took into his home, fir-q and last, no fewer than 20 yes. 2u adopted children. who he brought up along with bis own three children. The above comment appeared in the State on Monday and Heath Springs residents say that this old negro, known a> Laughing Charlie," always had a house full of children. I hev believe that lie adopted more than a total of 2o children during his long lite. I he old negro was a unique character and was visited by many white people who delighted to hear boo iaugh His laughs were said to be hearty, prolonged and very loud. Strong Warning Says Hands OIT London. May 21? Prime Minister Raidvvm served strong warning in the hows, of commons today that Great Britain would not tolerate foreign tampering with the affairs of Pales* tine and Hgypc His statement w made in reply to a member's request that he make it clear that Great Britain would not permit Italian interference in those two countries CCC Workers Die I ; In Forest Fires Manahawkin, N. J., May 25.?Four civilian conservation corps workers attached to the New Gretna camp burned to death tonight while lighting a forest fire which swept through many acres of pine woodland in Ocean county. The victims were not immediately identified. Their bodies were found in the vicinity of Stafford Forge. Midway between Tuekerton and I3arnegot. after the flames had passed on. They were burned too badly to be recognized. They were members of a contingent of fifty sent into the area on trucks. At midnight, only seventeen of these were accounted for but officials expressed belief the others were scattered and were out of danger. They were to return to their camp later for a roll call. One of the group said they were engaged in "back-firing" in the area. "The wind . suddenly changed," he said. "Most of us had never fought fires before and did not know what to do. The boss told us to run. We jumped on a truck and hauled one j fellow on just as we were leaving. | He would have been caught, too, if J we hadn't pulled him aboard." Great Profit From Plot of Ground j Hack in 1S07, John Jacob Astor. a German immigrant, held a mortgage! for $2f>.00<i on a parcel of land which is now in the heart of New York City. When the borrower could not pay, Astor foreclosed and took the property which now is among the most valuable ground in the city, or In tho world, for that matter. The Hotel Astor "and other skyscrapers worth hundreds of millions, stand on it. It is estimated that this ground has produced more than $100,000,000 in profits, forming the Astor fortune which lias now passed down through several generations, a powerful argument for more inheritance taxes. Hens Pay Greatest Profits In Spring Clemson, May 23.?An average production of 18.1 eggs per hen is shown in the demonstration flock summary for April covering 86 farms and a total of 1 i>,376 hens, according to reports received by P. H. Gooding, extension poultryman. The hens ate 19 cents worth of feed each, and returned a total Income of 42 cents (including sales of eggs and poultry), leaving an Income above feed cost of 23 cents per bird for the month. The average monthly charge for in terest, decpreciation on equipment, and all other costs except feed is approximately 3.5 cents per hen, according to records. Deducting this amount from the income above feed cost, the labor income for the month was 19.5 cents per hen. The highest producing flock with less than 50 hens was that of Miss Gilmer Blankenship, Union, with 31 Rhode Island Reds which averaged 20 eggs each. In the class of flocks with 51 to 200 hens the 66 Barred Rocks of Mrs. J. W. Bair of Orangeburg, made the best record, averag ing 2 4 eggs each. J. H. Crews of Latta, had the highest producing flock with 201 to 50u hens, his 211 White Leghorns averag- ing 22 eggs each. In the class of flocks with 501 hens or more J. C. Hpting of Little Mountain, had the best record, his 664 White Leghorns averaging 20 eggs each. s-.. Sometimes iron rust can be roniov- , ed fro,ni white goods with sour milk j I : ?FOR? COMPLETE, COURTEOUS, EFFICIENT SERVICE and The Most Modern Engineered Lubricating j | Stop At j I (iJULF SERVICE STATION I j | Fair and DeKalb | j I WALTER WOOTEN JOE SHANNON j | 'IN CONVENIENCE 'IN COMFORT 'IN COURTESY 'IN SERVICE PLUS I Vj pi EFFECTIVE JUNE I 'TMIIS summer, more than ever before, Greyhound sets the pace in down-right dollar values. Many fares were recently cut to an all-time low . . . still others are to be cut on June 1, giving a uniformity of savings to both local and long distance travelers. Schedules have been revised and improved .. . service rendered more frequent and convenient. Watch for a later announcement of a fleet of revolutionary new coaches to be placed in service early this summer. Drop phone the station below for full information on ,iiew fares and schedules to any city. Toleph ??ne 2 H) Greyhound Bus Terminal East DeKalb Street ^Ijour "Heavy QarmetiU DRY CLEANED We wiH return eecH one to you perfectly CLEANED?DEMOTHED, Pressed end Finished in e ccderizcd MOTH SEAL BAG. SAFE from Mothsll PROTECTED from Dust I l Moisture end Vermin I Q KEPT Fresh end/ ^^Unwrinltled I Phone Us and We Will Call for Your Heavy Coats, Suits and Dresses at Once MOTH SEAL BAGS FREE CITY LAUNDRY CAMDEN DRY CLEANERY Phone 17 Oldest Largest Best I For Biliousness, Sour Stomach, I .Flatulence, Nausea and Sick I Headache, due to Constipation. I I To Delinquent Taxpayers I I June 30th has been set by the I"j I Comptroller General of the State of I I South Carolina as the final date of I SI ^ ^ me of all delinquent I | taxes on town property of Kershaw I; I County. Pay these taxes now and I I avoid any further penalty. 11 I J. H. McLEOD, I I Sheriff of Kershaw County I V