Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Winthrop Home (iocs To Campus Rock Mill. May :i0 Winthrop col leges birthplace. a brick chapel Which stands 111 Columbia at Mm old seminary. will b? moved 10 the cam puh of Mic college here In Mm* near future, according to plans reported by Miss Leila UtiHsel, alumnae secre tury, to the col lege alumnae in session here today uh u part of commence moot week.' SecurlnK of the building l" which ihe late Mr. D H Johnson founded Winthrop climaxes ten years work oil the part of college alumnae. MIhh Russell iii reporting to i he alumnae association today, review ed the hopes of Winthrop Daughters of obtaining the building, telling bow the board of directors of the Presbyterian synods which own Ihe building hud donated II ?> the alumnae , association and lo ihe ? ollegc adminis) rat Ion Winthrop wuh lonnded in tills "borrowed" building, the chapel ol the old Columbia Theological seminary of the Southern Presbyterian church. Tills building lias been controlled by live Presbyterian synods and it was by thiH group the building was given to Winthrop The building will he torn down, removed to the campus of Winthrop and rebuilt exactly its It stood when Doctor Johnson laid the foundation of the South Carolina college for women. New Commission Prepares To Meet Columbia. May 30.?The new state highway commission will be composed of nine of the old commissioners and five new tmea. The current legislature abolished the commission, appointed by (lovernor Johnston, and called for a new one elected by the legislators of each judicial district. Legislative delegations completed the reorganir.atIon of the board yesterday with the election of Commissioner 7. F. Wright c?r Newberry, for a new term Tlir status of Chief Highway Commissioner Hen M Saywer was not expected to he changed until the end of bis term of office next year. The im-w commission was expected to meet within a few days to elect a chairman and complete other details of organi/.ai ion More than lOO representatives of American Automobile association clubs in the southeast will attend a three day confernce at Lake Luro ami Chimney Hock. N. <\, June I.Vfti, it is announced at Carolina Motor club headquarters. The conference was called bv A A A national headquarters and is being held in Western North Carolina in recognition of the fact that the Carolina Motor club is the largest A A. A. affiliation in the sout beast . Fishes For Bass; Catches Shark A party of local fishermen returned from South Island Tuesday evening where they spent two days Ushing for channel bass and while they had poor luck in catching bass, ono of the party. R. H Robinson, caught a ion pound shark Mr. Robinson had a most difficult time pulling in He- shark hut succeeded after anout a ten minute struggle. (iood sl/ed. pieces of mullet wore used for fishing for bass and the shark bit on this bait Stout lines are used lo catch the l>a.-.s which are very heavy and are almost as hard to bring in as the sharks Lancaster News Electors Will Meet In December Columbia. May 30.?The senate 1 passed to tlie house today a "bob tailed bill by Senator Kdgar A Drown, of Rarnwell, to provide that South Carolina presidential electors meet "on the first Monday alter the second Wednesday" in I >eeeiu tier Drown said "Chairman Farley has called to our attention that our star ules do not conform with a new i on stiiutional amendment for inauguration of the president early in January ?>ui presidential electors don't meet under present law until about January So That would be too late to do any .'naff " Deposits Gam $20,000,000 Yearly to Aw in.: at the rate of $20,000,000 :t ><ar tin tin past t \v o >'<ars. state Atei national bank deposits in South Carolina totaled $121 .mm.ono March 1. l'Jibl, as auainst $M.rum nun on tiesame date in TCI. and $ 1 P4.000.000 March 4. I93.r.. according to a compilation from official reports completed Thursday by Thomas H Daniel, chief bank examiner ? Marvin Batten. 29, farmer, was asphyxiated at the state prison at Raleigh. N. C . Friday for the killing of Mr*. Lyda I>aughtery. Youthful Bandits. Rob Monroe Man Sticking a revolver in his ribn after! having awakened It Hit to open up his j store, (wo >ouililul bandits robbed W. I' I'lyler about f> o'< lurk Saturday morning, i wo iniIcH west of Monroe. Mr I'lyler, v\ iio in 7'J years old, was awakened by rap? on the porch of his home on l.ancuater road. Arising and dressing. he walked out on his porch to Unci two coatlean young mutj who asked Mr Plyler to open tils store, < which I" located nearby, in order that they miKht purchase aonte salmon. Mr. Plyler uHHcnted and opened hln store. . Ah hooii as the door wan opened und before he could switch on the lights ope of the .boys locked Mr. Plyler's arms to ills side while (lie other dug a pistol in his side ; "(li\e us your money or we'll kill >011." said one of tjMk.y^'n. Mr I'lyler plea dwiih them saying, "I'm near- i ly ho years old and thls^is all of my < money You're young and can work. I < an i I'lease don't take my money." His words were to no avail and the i culprits searched his pockets and took from lhem ahout $L". in cash. Mr. I'lyler had the money In his clothes the day before and had not taken It out. They also took throe or four 1 cartons of cigarettes and some small change in the cash drawer of the store. As soon as the robbery bad been completed one- of the men went out and cranked up the waiting automobile while the other held the gun on Mr. I'lyler. At a signal this bandit run from the store, jumped in the auto and away. Vernon Helms who lives nearby Bald that he could see In the half-light of the early morning hour that the thieves were driving a model A Ford. Mr. I'lyler said that he could identify one of the brigands, lie being between IS aud 21 years old, weighing about 13f> pounds, and having a slight chin and freckled face. Sheriff J. W. Spoon was notified immediately following the robbery and since lias been working continuously on the case. He stated this morning that he had strong cities and an arrest was imminent The sheriff also said that he believed that finding the guilty persons in the case would solve the robbery of Kd Startles' store at Koughedge and of itufus Snyder's store on the i'ugehtnd road about two months ago. Tlii* plunderers of those stores were also young men and the robberies were committed in much the same manner Monroe Kntjulrer. Byrd's Slayer Is Not Insane Unbel t Ashley , who by his own confession. killed Corporal Joe. IJyrd of the state prison, is "not insane, but a mental defective, grading in intelligence to that of a normal child ten years of age." This is the opinion of experts at the State hospital, who. after Ashley's conviction, were directed by court order to make an examination as to his mental condition and report their findings within thirty days. Ashley is scheduled to die in June. Child Wounded Stopping Fight Lancaster. May 30. ?Annie Ruth Black well, nine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis I {lack well, who live In an apartment on North Main street, rec eived a gunshot wound when she attempted to stop a tight between L. ) I tost iik. also a resident of the apartment and Leroy Faile Kaile followed liostick upstairs and with gun in hand chased liiin through the building Bulling Faile's hand clown. th?- child received the discharge in her foot, though not serious Nates First Head Bureau Of Labor! Cowrnor Olin Johnston lias appoint- j cd John Nates, of Spartanburg, youtli1111 president of the State Federation "l labor, as South Carolina's tirst state labor commissioner Johnston sent the appointment to 'he senate for continuation only a few bonis alter the act creating the; department was ratified and reached him I hi position pays $3,2t'M a year. The 1 vested with supervi-i sum ot the state labor laws, and lias under him a staff of inspectors. m 1 A WHOPPPER ? I'>etinet ts\ille. May 2'J - Kemp I\ Modlin. mouth watering, finally land d the lug trout aiigh-rs here had been trving to catch for four years. Instead of making a tasty meal, friends said, the fish was so tough and full of broken hooks and lures ; that Modlin had to "sell him for scrap Iron " Pope Plus, head of the church of : Rome, celebrated his 79th birthday j anniversary on Sunday. Youth Convicted Of Pianist's Death Lexington, May ,28.- Cecil Arnold. 19-year-old Lexington county youth, was found guilty of Involuntary man slaughiei' by a jury In general sessions court here today In connection with (he highway death of Mis* Leona Steele laat fall A motion for a new trial wa? filed at once and Judge J. C. Itamage announced he would lioar argument* Wednesday morning ut 11 o'clock. Miss Hteele,, pianist for the hexing ton Baptist church, wuh returning to her home from services at the church Sunday night, October 13, when she wan struck and fatally injured by an automobile containing a number of young people. The car did not atop after hitting the young woman, Young Arnold wan arrested u couple of days after the accident a* the driver of the car. He wa* tried on a charge of murder. Trial of the case was begun Wednoaday and concluded this afternoon, attracting large crowd* to the courthouse. The youth 'clalriiod he had wanted to stop after hitting Mi** Steele but that the girl* in the car were frightened and he had been urged to take them home. Death Penalty For Fiorenza New York, May 28.?Trapped by a piece of string, the perpetrator of what appeared for several day* to be a "perfect crime" tonight faced a mandatory death sentence for the murder of Nancy Tltterton. Rejecting hi* dual defense of alibi and Insanity, a general sessions jury convicted John Fiorenza, 25, of criminally assaulting the comely author in her Beekman palace apartment nnd then strangling her with her own pajamas. Fiorenza, dull-eyed, taciturn upholsterer who overlooked a bit of cord when he removed the traces of his crime, was remanded to the Tomb* until June 5, when he will be consigned to the electric chair at Sing Sing. Defense Counsel Henry Klauber expressed hope he would win a newtrial for his client on the ground the Jury was not permitted to consider a manslaughter or second degree murder verdict. Townsend Cited For Contempt Washington. May 28.?The house voted 2.1 to -11. today to cite l)r. Francis K. Townsend and two of his pension plan aides for contempt, beating down all points of order raised by a small bloc of Townsendites who could not muster enough strength even to force a roll call. By its action the house turned over to the I'nited States district attorney. Leslie t\ Garnett. of the District of Columbia the task of seeking an indictment against Townsend. I)r. Clinton -Wwilder and J. B. Keifer. charging them with contempt of the house for refusing to testify before the- special committee investigating the $200 month old age pension scheme. The committee chose to reeomend trial in tiie District supreme court rather than in the house so as not to delay adjournmen t. Fortune Smiles On Quintuplets New *1 ork. May 27.?Spot cash to the sum of $250,000 was paid to the Dlonne sisters" guardians today for a movie contract for three feature length pictures fTwentieth CenturyFox films! to lie completed by the end of 1038 It provided for an additional $50.nno and in per cent of the -film receipts if the pictures were 1 success CuIIn completed When the uulntuplots wtere horn in a crude farm home their father. Ollva Dionne. expressed worry about how be was going to feed them As part of the birthday celebration, the (piints toda> presented their parents a check tor $1,000 Tireless Joe Wants Recognition Announcing that the t'nion Republican party of South Carolina would have candidates this summer in every congressional district in the state and also a candidate for the I'nited States senate. Joseph \V Tolbert ("Tireless Joe" of Ninety-Six) says ho would go to Cleveland, Ohio. June 3, and ap pear before a subcommittee of the Republican national executive < otnmittee. and present bis case against 1 O Hambriuht. national committeeman of the Hamhright Gardner faction. in his tight to obtain recognition when the 'Republican convention meet* June Thirty Pupils in Crash Lancaster. Max 28.?Thirty pupils of the Lancaster schools were injured. none seriously, today when a school bus overturned near here Officers said the accident occurred when a light coach made a f-omplete turn In front of the bus at a highway Intersection Both the car and the bus went over 1 an embankment. Time of Cutting Hay Influences Quality Cleiusou, May 30.?The quaJlty of many excellent crops of huy Is virtually sacrificed after the hay in ready for harvest hecauHe of lute cutting, aaya G. Cushman, extension specialist. reminding farinera that even with perfect curing weather It la Inipoaaihle to produce high quulity huy from late-cut graaa and legume crops. The Important quality factors in sound hay are leaflneas and green color, Cushman explains, quoting ' these fucta and statements from K. O. Pollock, hay specialist of the Wxtonslon Service in Washington. "The leaves of legumes contain most of the minerals and digestible protein and are the most palatable part of the plant. Green color la ulao or considerable Importance Indicating among other things, high palatahllity, freedom from damage, and a high carotene content, upon which the Vitamin A potency of milk and Its products depnds. "It Is Impossible to make hay with a high percentage of leaves and green I color when cutting is delayed until the plants arc overripe; also livestock will not consume large quantities of overripe hay. Many farmers delay cutting uutil the greatest yield of hay I per acre may he obtained or try to I make hay and grain from the same J crop by delaying the cutting of such J crops as soybeans and cowpeas until J the seed is mature. "Alfalfa should be cut for hay wheal from one-tenth to one-fourth in bloom; I soybeans between the time the seeds begin to form and when they are half I developed; lespedeza when In full bloom; cowpeas when the first pods begin to yellow, but bofore any pods I are mature enough to shatter during handling; red clover from the half to full-bloom stage; oats and vetch mixed when the oats are in the milk stage; Johnson grass when the first heads appear; oats and wheat when the grain Is In the milk stage; and Bermuda and other miscellaneous grasses not later than full bloom." Kings Mountain Belongs To U. S. York, May 27.?Signalizing the realization of a long dream to have the federal government take over the Kings Mountain battleground area as a national park, ownership of more than XfK) acres Immediately surrounding the battlefield has been acquired by the government. Other transfers of land in the park area to the government will take place soon. No formalities and no ceremonies marked the government's acquisition of the land that constituted the first actual step toward the development of the park. The King's Mountain Chapter. I). A. It., had already deeded the government the 39 acres comprising the battleground and the immediately surrounding area. The eight property owners selling their land to the government were paid $lf>,393 for their holdings. Other and more extensive transfers of land In the battleground section to the government are expected to take place soon. The change in ownership will take place as soon as payment checks are received here. Infant Is Found Dead In Field Greenville. May 27.?Coroner G. W. McCoy said he planned to confer today with Sheriff 13. 13. Smith on the case of a mother accused by a coroner's jury of causing the death of her child. The jury in upper Greenville connly yesterday said a male infant buried in a field in the Sandy Flat sec- 1 tion came to its death at the hands 1 3f Its mother. Alice Stroud, with the ' assistance of her mother. An autopsy report said death was due to it head ' injury. Baptists Meet In Greenville Miss Vonnie Lance, state secretary I of tfie Baptist Woman's Missionary I I'liion of the state, has announced that plans are now well in hand for the annual missionary conference and camps to be held in Greenville July I 6-11 in connection with the Baptist general assembly. The entire program lasting one week will be at Greenville Woman's college in Greenville, and is the large>I gathering of Baptist church work'! ?r> in Greenville, and Is the largest gatleiiiig of Baptist church workers! in the state. Kadi year several linn-1 dn<! adults and young people attend the Assembly. The (dining session will l>, the 22nd annual event. Mahmoud. .horse owned by the Agal Khan, won the Knglish derby at Kpsom Downs. Kngland. Wednesday before a crowd estimated at half a million. Mahmoud was priced in the betting at 100 to 8 and In the race of one and a half miles set a record of 2:33 4-5. ?iMIH DO YOU KNOW THAT A in the first letter In all alphabets ( except the Ethiopian. ) Men and apes are the only creatures whoso eyes can he focused for different distances. A house fly In flight heats Its wings 830 times a second. Last year the Post Office Department estimated that more than 20.000,000 pieces of mall weighing more than 7,500.000 pounds were franked. In the past ten years the American Red Cross has spent more than $56,000,000 for relief and rehabilitation of disaster victims. More than $310,000,000 in "baby bonds" have been sold. On March 1 the railroads of this country owned 45,000 locomotives compared to 60,000 in 1928. Appomattox post ofTice was once called Surrender. Horse racing pays 15 states nearly $7,000,000 a year in taxes. The depression's cost 'to business has been estimated at $26,630,000,000. Peacock feathers are considered unlucky. It is going to cost over $60,000,000,000 to pay the pensioners of America's past wars. Blow-up or bad actor fires are the ones which cause the most trouble in our national foreBts. Not more than two per cent of the 3,000,000 lepers in the world are in leprosariums. Scientists claim the rocks which make up the Palisades in New Yorkj are 150,000,000 years old. j Approximately one out of every four farmers in the United States depends on government financial aid?through loans or direct grants.?The Pathfinder. MOTORIST'S PRAYER The following prayer, written by j Dr. Frederic S. Fleming, rector of Trinity Church, New York, should prove valuable for all motorists: "Grant me a steady hand and watch-1 ful eye, that no man shall bq hurt i when 1 pass by. Thou gavest life, and I pray no act of mine may take away or mar that gift of Thine. Shelter those, dear Lord, who bear rne company from the evils of fire and all calamity. Teach me to use my car for others' need, nor miss through love of speed the beauties of Thy world; that thus I may with Joy and courtesy go on my way."?The Pathfinder. POTATO ONCE SHUNNED Remembering its importance in our diet today it is difficult to believe that Just two centuries ago the potato was shunned as food. The vegetable was then viewed with such suspicion that the people of one European city actually threatened with a food shortage refused to accept the potato as food until it had been disguised in a kind of soup. Today the whole situation has changed. Now the potato is prized by the rich and poor alike as the essential ingredient of at least one meal a day, and some families eat potatoes for breakfast, lunch and supper. For this reason the potato is now the most important crop commercially produced.?The Pathfinder. Cole L. Berry was killed at Johnston Monday while attempting to stop a pair of run-away mules hitched to a threshing machine. The mules trampled hjm and the thresher passed over his body. Dog Of Sheriff Acclaimed Hero ] Darlington, June 1.?The v*k>r of a dog owned by Sheriff J. H. Coker of Darlington, which lorn Its life an(1 died a hero in a struggle with a pr|?. oner being pursued by its master, ig being widely discussed in thin community. Recently Sheriff Coker and Deputy Sheriff Geue Miller with the sheriff g tw obloodhounds were in pursuit of Mallie Taylor, wanted for committing a crime in Clarendon county and charged with midnight burglary, house breaking and larceny. Taylor wag run from Clarendon county into Sumter, Lee and Florence counties. Somewhere along Lynches river he wag seen by the officers and he was almost overtaken by them in their car as he ran in front of the car. Shooting at the fleeing man the of fleers failed to hit him and when he turned off the road, Taylor was hit in the leg by a shot from Sheriff Coker. However, he continued through the swamp closely pursued by the dogs Moon, a 16-mouth-old bloodhound, j which Sheriff Coker had only a month, finally overtook Taylor and grabbed him by the leg. Taylor shot the dog and the animal died in victory, for the prisoner was captured a short time later. The dog ,lt Is understood, jumped from the officer's car aud Sheriff Coker attributed the capture of the prisoner entirely to the heroism of Moon, which held on to him even after he had been shot aad was dying The dog, faithful to the end of his too short life, was the means of cap turing a prisoner wanted for three crimes In another county. Moon died in battle, a hero of service. Newton D. Baker, secretary of war in the Wilson cabinet, in presenting his argument before the supreme court of the District of Columbia, in behalf of four utility companies, which lie represented, said to the court in part: "Mussolini disbanded ! the Italian parliament because he | grew tired of it. But President Roosevelt won't do that. His congress gave i him $4,880,000,000. He's got all the money he can use and he can spend it any way he sees fit. President Roosevelt doesn't need to disband his congress. He's already more power ful than Mussolini and Hitler." Baker's charge climaxed a two-hour indictment of the New Deal's efork-relief program as an unlawful delegation of power to the president and an unconstitutional invasion of state's rights. Frank Bruc, 60, a farmer, surrendered to the sheriff's office at Raleigh. Miss., after being hunted by a posse for the grudge shooting of Circuit Judge Edgar M. I^ane. He is being held In an unnamed Jail. Clan warfare blazed up again Sunday in Clay county, Ky., after almost a year of peace. At its end two persons were dead and two wounded. II Far Bfltousnosa, Sour Stomach, I I Flatulonco, Nbumd and Sick I I Haadach*, Sua to ConstlpatiMfal = FIRE?AUTOMOBILE?BURGLARY?BONDS * 9 ^eKALBTNSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO I <3 "INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS" < P CROCKER BUILDING?TELEPHONE 7 3 M. G. MULLER ELIZABETH CLAHKH. M,r. ? tL, ALL?FORMS ?OF?INSURANCE 0 I To Delinquent Taxpayers || I June 30th has been set by the 11 Comptroller General of the State of 11 I South Carolina as the final date of 1I I settlement by me of all delinquent 11 I taxes on town property of Kershaw I I I County. Pay these taxes now and 11 I avoid any further penalty. 11 I J. H. McLEOD, 11 I Sheriff of Kershaw County 11