Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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" - I Women-Floggers Are Sought In N. ('.! \VIJinJngfon. N. Juno 2k ?A Columbus county grand Jur> lagan at temptsytodny to pierce tin.* fcar-of reprisals of victims of a band of night-< ItdlUg VVOIJlOfl floggcTK vv ti i ! - 1 ?i hi ? I? f Attorney .1 J Ihiimy uiinoimoed a "war to the. death" against the secret "law and order" iiioh. HftekeH A ppb- V, Idle, directing a. i grand Jury investigation ordered against the musk'd nlghl riders at VV-UUfcv ilbt last week by Judge- It. Hunt i'urkor, Hald fe?v of the tannervicitiins was liinderinK tin- litvesligai ion but thai "Home progress had b?*on made. He aalft thirty witnesses liad been questioned, that thirty more were, to he questioned and that he did not know how iiutny others mJght be brought before the Jury before It atlived at 11.h findings. .The floggings and other humiliations began seven months ago, be said, In a w(l<l Heetion of Columbus county in or near the town of Clarendon, near the Mouth Carolina line. I'oH.Hlbiltty of a federal investigation wan injected today in the announcement of District Attorney..! <) Carr, who said -he wan watching for evidence that any of tin; victims were carried across the state line into South (!urolina. Carr said he planned no. action until further developments by the state If. however, lie said, there is a suggestion 111 a t (logging took place in South Carolina., life matter would enilie under the scope of the l.illd tiergh law and the depart mem of justjee would In* asked to investigate. Applewhite said he had obtained t lie names of three alleged (loggers and that he was sure others would lie revealed hh soon as victims were con* ildent they would suffer no eonseqtteiii es at the hands of the hand. He said all the victims told him members of tile mob flogged them hecause the victims "were undesirable and are not wanted in this section." Applewhite said the Clarendon'area was renowned for its lawlessness in some sections and that "ninny criminals" frequently came from there lie said the victims told him the (loggers intended to uphold law and order and | rid this (dace of undesirables." Ihirne> announced "every mini re | .sponsible tor this outrage is going t?? ' he ferreted out <i11<I brought to trial.! I clou t care what bis business or social standing is. I am convinced that not half the depredat ions committed I have been brought to light." Applewhite said six victims four! women and two men had been qr.es-1 tioned through today. The nocturnal activities of the remote area were revealed last week during the trial of lMnk King on charges of criminal assault on a llf teen year old girl He was acquitted hut later was charged with "carnal knowledge." During the proceedings, the girl's mother refused to take off her hat and when she was forced to do so by court order, her head was revealed to have been shaved .Judge Hunt Immediately directed institution of an investigation of the alleged guilty parties. During King's trial, the nine-yearold brother of the attacked girl was disqualified as a witness when he said he had never heard of Christ or (Jod Applewhite pointed toward this as proof the isolated section was "an ideal place tor intimidation and wholesale depredation llolman Farm Sold To Government! Announcement was made today of the sa I.- by Francis K Holman of his i farm located in l.ee county to the' Federal Resettlement Administration] to bo added to the A sh wood Resettle- | nient Project, which it adjoins The farm, consisting of l.Ofio acres j was sold for $40,820, approximatelyj $." 0 per acre. The Ashwood project, j with the addition of the Holman farm, will consist of approximately 8,000 j acres. Wyndham H. Manning is the ' manager of this big development. The Holman farm Is a purt of a tract of lf>,000 acres originally owned i .?> Prank Kennedy and has been In the family for over a hundred years It was a portion of a tract known as the Meohaniceville farm and was the; i last part of the original tract owned by the family, the remainder having J been sold at various times in the past. There is one field on the Holman farm that has been planted in cot- < ton continuously for more than sixty ! years. All or the papers relating to the I sale of the Hofrnan property have! been signed and it is expected that , the government will take possession j of the land In the near future?Sumter Item, July 1. At every U. S. army post from coast to coast, 48-gun salutes were fired early Saturday morning as a "Salute to tbe Union," celebrating Independence day. General News Notes The Louisiana legislature Iihh pass (I a Itlll reducing tin* f? cents u barrel <>|| refining tax to 1 rent a barrel. The 5 rents tax was passed at the behest of the late Senator Ixing. Km pinyes of the Picket Cotton Mill, 2'jti of then), are on strike at High Point, N ('. They demand !t 40-hour week instead of the scheduled /Jf>hour week ii iiiis iii'fii (! < i < i? d bj; Brit la l> no val authorities that the Britannia, once, the |>rou(l racing .cutter of King George, will be taken secretly out ill I tltV Kltgllsh channel unci entitled Thousands of Catholics of Nebraska, joined Saturday over the state in a prayer for rain, after two bishops bud officially recognized the situation as a "most acute problem." * . The floods in the Gaudaloupe river in southeast, Texas rolled on Sunday toward the Guir of Mexico, taking heavy tolls of the crops, cattle, highways itn<l railroad property, I) B. McDougall, skipper of, the Knglish motorship Comliehank, docked jit Long Beach, Cal.. was killed by aii automobile as ho crossed a street t here. 'I"lie factory of Arthur Lee K- Sons, | Sheffield, Kngland, makers of wire fpr the British navy, was badly damj aged Sunday by what is believed to have been an incendiary lire. One. Jew died and 31.'? were under treatment In Jerusalem hospitals during the week end for poisoning, believed to be due to eating decayed fish brought to the city from Iran through t he desert, I Joseph Stalin, dictator of Soviet I I Russia, though liberalizing the voting j of the Soviet I'nion, Is planning to fix | things so no one. party can gain the I ascendancy and overt brow the present! government. A nervous patient in a l.ns Angeles hospital, swallowed a capsule containing radium valued at $2.uuu. put in his mouth for an oral ailment. He is safe so long as the calpstileHs kept moving. Ralph Lenundero of Tampa. Fla., was floating around so edinfortably on an inflated iJIner tube in the warm gulf waters of Clearwater bay, that he fell asleep, mid when he awoke I lie had drifted a half mile out to sea. j Many hundreds of farm workers of France went on a st.rike Thursday and j Friday, refusing to milk cows or feed j the (irk lii Paris 2t)o seamstresses' are mi a strike from the lug di> ss 11 taking est a Id I sh merit b. Four men were killed Sunday. 2'> miles from Miami. Fla.. when the car they were in. slipped from a narrow key intii an eight foot canal, and so trapped them that they were unable to escape. North Carolina has a total of 41?1 combined textile establishments, with 12G.9N2 earners w ith payrolls totaling j $H9,74u,nOo annually, and a total value I of products of $421,920,000. Audrey Ynllette. 31, cafe beauty, is j dead in Chicago.sahot to death In her | apartment Now the police are searching for another woman, a cafe hostess i on suspicion that she shot her rival because of the affections of her husband. - Mrs Minnie Rose Jenkins, 32. was convicted at Little Rock. Ark., on a charge of murdering a daughter, 10. bv poisoning. It was the third trial of the woman on charges of murdering three of her children. Life imprisonment. Leaf tobacco exports from the I'nit-| ed Stiites last year totaled 39H.330.3OS i pounds, as compared with an average, 1930-1924 of 4 79.OitO.UOO. High prices' I of American tobaccos caused a nutn-j tier of foreign countries to increase tbfir own tobacco production. President Roosevelt attended serve t-s in the fatuous old lirutou parish church, at Williamsburg. Va , on Sun- i day This church was used as a place of worship for royal governors of Yir- i ginia when that colonv was under tin* t ltritish crown. It Is said in a Washington dispatch > that plans for the development of an j electric plant at Passamaquoddy. Me., by using the tides, will bo abandoned, at least temporarily, and that the construction camp there will be used for a veterans' hospital Alfred H. Smith is still saying noth- i lug as to what part ho will play in i the presidential campaign There is much speculation as to whether or, not he \vill throw asido his life-long loyalty to the Democratic party and come out for Landon. Republican presidential nominee. The nation-wide drive to organize the steel workers of the country into unions is on. The unionization is being vigorously opposed by the five Mlilott.dollar steel industry. Lieutenant Governor Kennedy of Pennsylvania, promise* relirf for any steel workers thrown out of work as the result of the big labor contest. Pope Pius last week ordered a permanent. organized fight <vf the Roman Catholic church to save the world from the "debasing" Influence of the "bad films." The clergy is enjoined to obtain from their communicants, renewable each year, to stay away from pictures which were "offamlTe" to truth and Christian morality. Ginners To Be Paid Kxtra Compensation ('leiOMon, July 4 Cotton glnncjn l throughout the state u)n> make' upplication fo) conipciiHUt^oii for a<|i ditonul .expenses incurred in c onnection wjth the operation of cotton gins Wider the Hunkhead Act during the ginning season of 1935-36 throtiRh the jcoi.tnty agricultural agent's office in iio n respective coimt}^ it w. Hunt ilton, assistant to Director I). W. Wat kins, announces Each county agent has been provided with the necessary blank forms whiHi tin- giiiner must fill put. Payment will he made promptly after iipplications are filled through the State ('otton Office in Cohfnitiiu and checks will he mailed directly from that office to the ginners. The total maximum payment in South Carolina on tills compensation wllI iinatcly $186,o0O.~" T1"* "This payment to ginners was authorized by an Act of the 74th Congress", Mr. Hamilton explains. "The enabling Act was approved in Aug- j ust 1935, hut before payment could be made it was found that various amendments had' to be made to the original Act. The final amendment jyita. approved May 15. 1936. TJie necessary forms for meeting the provisions of the law were not approved until June 8, 1936, and these forms have just reached the state. "Cndcr one of the Amendments to J the Act. it is assumed that additonal expenses incurred by ginners under 1 th?? Ilunkhead Act e<iual 25 cents per | hale. As the Hunkhead Act was repealed February 10. 1935, no payment will lie made to ginners for baleage ginned after that date. "(tinners making application should , total up the number of hales shown on their copies of Form (J. T. 103, which is the ginner s monthly return required to be filed with the Collector of Internal Revenue under the Hunkhead Act." modern methods will be used to solve old mystepv Charlotte, N. c., July 7.?Modc'ti identification methods will be used soon to find the answer to a riddle oi history - the century old mystery of Marshal Ney. Napoleon Bonaparte's military strategist. Supposedly the marsh,1] was . \e; <-rited fur treason in France on DoI ceinher is I... Hut some It istoius have contended Ney's execution was ." framed" and that he escaped to j America under the name of Peter I Stewart Ney. A French fencing school teacher by that name landed at Charleston. S. C.. in 1816, and taught In many parts of North Carolina. He was said by witnesses at the time to have confessed his identity on his deathbed . He lies buried in an old cemetery near Statesville, N C. C. W. Allison, author of several books on the mystery. and Detective Chief Frank N. Lit tie John of Charlotte, said today arrangements had been made to exhume the body. Hone measurements will be made, they said, and the earth sifted for the principle clue to the mystery?a silver trepan said to have been placed in the soldier's head after lie was | wounded on the battlefield. 1'hyslelans. dentists, morticians and others will be present to aid in the Identification. Allison said, as well as several historians who hn\e done exhaustive research In nie case.' Permission to exhume the body, Al lison said, has been granted by The Third Creek Presbyterian church near Statesville. which owns the plot where Ney the fencing teacher, or tlie Held general lies buried. pisgah news notes Pisgah, July 6. ? Mrs. Mat tie Reams, of Sumter and Rembert; Mrs. f, J Rrow ii. Mrs Roy Minis ami daughter. Katherine, Mrs. \V. A Shuler, Mrs. John K. Mcleod and daughter. Irei^e. and Mrs. Clarence McDeod. all of Rembert. spent Tuesday with Mrs. W. F Raker and dnughters. Mrs. l. a. White, of Spring Hill, spent Wednesday with her sister. Mrs. Leon Stuckev. Mr and Mrs. Hawkins Watson, of Ratesburg: Mr and Mrs. Ernest McManus, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Raker spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs J. T. Watson. Mr and Mrs. Clarence Mcl.eod, of Rembert were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Raker and chil Urc.n. Carl, Jr., ami Hetty, spent Sun! day with Mr. and Mrs. I.eon Stuckoy. Mr. and Mrs \V. H. Shiver. Mr and I Mrs Leroy Rogers and Miss Mabel Hatfield returned home Monday night from a pleasant stay at Asheville N.. C. ' "" ' Chairman Farley is hoping that the , Democratic party campaign war chest will have at least $2,000,000 for campaigning purposes before the election Is over. The 74th annual convention of the National Education association is in session at Portland, Ore., this week. ? . . 4?L?.. PLAN TO RECLAIM BA8IN OF MI88I88IPPI RIVER I'm- of the Mississippi River basin an the center of a giant relief prograin, designed to diminish the natioifa unemployment lints by 6,000,000 and to end the country's depressed economic HtatUH by instituting increased demands for basic goods, is the crux of a plan reported to be under scrutiny,by the government. This scheme, as outlined to the christian Xelttiico Monitor, would in volve a herculean engineering task. According to its proponent, ICugene Hudgins, former superintendent of the T. S. <ommlssionary at the building of the Panama Canal, this plan would call for making the Mississippi River Into a glorified canal with a lasting flood control system. "It would mean the walling-in of the Mississippi from source to outlet with steel and concrete foundations ami superstructure, elevated to a point beyond aH possible flood waters," asserted Mr, Hudgins. The tops of these anti-flood banks would he made Into north and south lothfcet wide boulevards. Pipe lines and the pumping stations would run off excess waters at flood times to reservoirs in the drouth country. I hery would be water-gates and protective quays or estuaries at the cities along the river. Power plunts would1 be spaced along the river. Such an engineering feat, if attempted would cost approximately $1.0,000.000,000 to $12,000,000,000 estimates Mr. Hudgins. He maintains even at this cost it would he less expensive proposition and cost the taxpayer 1 ess than the constant "ineffectual" repairing of. the river's flooded banks each year. As to the employment angle, it is Mr. Hudgins' belief,that "taking into account the protection of other rivers that flow into the Mississippi River, with cut-offs and pumping stations to prevent overflow, and the proper grading to make this work a useful institution, with landscapes and permanent approaches, the employment possibilities are beyond imagination for two years to come. 1 According to his figures, it would take an army of men over five years to finish the original canalization of the river. And filling the demands for steel, electrical equipment, lumber. cement, building machinery, elevators. trucks and other materials would "together with cotton goods. I shoes and textiles of various kinds, keep our mines and factories working full time in every state in the United States." Such an undertaking, he contends, would reach across the nation, destroying "hysterical panaceas, the dole and the various get-somethingfor-nothing plans." It would as well, he holds, give all employable persons "good paying jobs." By creating such a new empire along the Mississippi River basin, the scheme plans for dwellings and new cities for hundreds of thousands of persons, where before wasted flood and delta land remained fruitless. The whole drouth situation that has caused so much damage the last few years would be alleviated, inststs^Mr. Hudgins. For hundreds of miles east anTT west, the farms would no longer be without water. Drouths would be abolished. With this blessing for the farmers would come agricultural stability." How this tremendous project would be paid for is a question which Mr. Hudgins answers by painting the picture of a busy 100-mile _ highway to the Gulf of Mexico for trucks and passenger vehicles atop these canal walls There would be a tax for riding the superhighway. There would also he other taxes collectable from tourists and concessionaires, which be says he believes, would feed the government treasury for 100 years to come. 1 he main sustaining financing would he done, however, by the issuance of bonds. Along the highways would be paths of hotels, golf courses, concessions, and ' every convenience* for tourists. "These and other income-producing activities, said he, "such as power plants, gas stations, and Increased real estate, would go far toward paying the interest on whatever bonds were issued for the task of building the project." Mr. Hudgins says that this plan, submitted to Washington, has already been* the subject of several eonterences. Wisconsin's unemployment Insurance law became effective Wednesday, the first in the country. Many Women Owe > Their Charm To Marvelous Creme Darkish, freckled, pimpled skins are due to ignorance. Smart women have beautiful skins because they know how to care for themselves. Many'1 beautiful women owe their charm to P Golden Peacock Bleach Crams. It a whitens and clears the skin with amating quickness. One three-minute treatment will cctoYtnce you.?Zemp'a Drug 8tore, Camden, 8. C. i' . ' - ' ?'p ODD ACCID?/NT8 A rock flipped by the wheel of a pausing vehicle crashed through the windshield of an automobile and out the back window. In ith passage it struck two Indianians, killing one, Richard Elliott, and knocking the other, C. E. Weaver unconscious. When Are swept through a compressing station in a Pennsylvania oil field, Harry Staggers, partially blind ^worker, joined the bucket brigade. When the fire had been put out he found his sight fully restored. As Thomas Reidy was demonstrating a coin trick, holding a half dollar in his mouth, an acquaintance passing along the Indiana street .slapped him on the back. He swallowed the coin. A recent item about an Oregonian finding his watch after it had been [lost 27 years is now bettered by the experience of a Kansan. Charles Rastah writes in to spy his watch was found last year after having been lost since 1881?a matter of 54 years. Can you beat it? Falling four stories may not be such a serious matter if the descent is broken by a mass of ivy as happened^ when Lewin W. Wickes, Jr., went sleepwalking and stepped through the window of a Maryland college dormitory When a speeding auto carrying Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gelatte struck a high j spot in a "California road the car! somersaulted, throwing them in a j slough. They were drowned when the j machine landed on top of them, pin- j nine them Under wateu. ] Hearing a loud crash. A. P. Veach, i Indiana jeweler, looked around to find La 10-inch length of auto spring rel posing among his merchandise. An j 1 eye witness declared the piece of met-j al had flipped directly from the spring of a passing car. Inspector James E. Montgomery was the victim of his own revolver when it dropped from his holster as he entered his car. It was discharged when it struck the running board, the bullet furrowing his scalp. After a New Jersey Janitor, Herbert Bowden, had been told he would never see out of his right eye again a cin|der blew into the blind optic. After the pain had subsided he found he tcould see out of the eye for the first. time in 22 years.?The Pathfinder. NOTICE OF ENROLLMENT The books of enrollment are now open and in the hands of some club members at each precinct. It is not necessary for one to enroll this year if his or her name was on the roll in 1024. Persons becoming of voting age since 1934 will have to add their names to the list' and persons moving/ from one precinct to another sinoe 1934 will have to have, their jHtrfJes added. The roll books will remain open until midnight Tuesday July 28, 1036 when they willl close. Filing of Pledges Candidates will have until noon Tuesday, July 14, in which to pay their assessments and file their pledges. Assessments are to be paid to P. C. Hough, treasurer of Executive ( ommittee and pledges will have to be made to J. H. Clyburn, Clerk of Court. J. H. McLEOD, County Chairman. A. W. HCMPHR1ES, M. D. Secretary. I ' ^ I mm f y I *$jmi 0QWWWW WW W' -ISW / <*u,,o#"-r0a?hei... \ ./ fleas...bedbugt... and other insects FINAL DI8CHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month front this date, on July 30 1936, Mrs. June Haley will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw Countv her final return as General Guardian of the persons and Estates .of Marv Haley, Faith Raley and June Ualey and 011 the same date she will applv to the said Court for a final discharge as said Guardian of Mary Ralev Faith Haley and Bernice Haley. N. C.-ARNETT, Judge of Probate for Kershaw Countv Camden, S. C., June 30, 1936. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District ol South Carolina in Bankruptcy. In the matter of: Anna Karesh Schlosburg, Camden, S. C. BANKRUPT NO. 4 316 Notice is hereby given that the above named bankrupt has filed a petition for discharge and that a hearing has been ordered to be had upon the same on the 30th day of July. A. D. 1936, before this Court, at Charleston, S. C., at 10 o'clock In the forenoon; at which time and place all known creditors and other persons in interest may appear and show cause, ff any they have, why the prayer of the said petitioners should not be granted. RICHARD W. HUTSON, Clerk. 14-17ab. NOTICE TO CREDITOR8 In the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina IN BANKRUPTCY In the Matter of Carl H. Schlosburg. Camden, S. C., Bankrupt. Notice is hereby given that the above named bankrupt has filed a petition for discharge and that a hearing has been ordered to be had upon the same on the 27th day of July, A. D. 1936, before this Court, at Charleston, S. C., at 10 o'clock In the forenoon, at which time and place all known creditors and other persons In interest may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petitioner should not be granted. RICHARD W. HUTSON, Clerk 13-16 sb. !J I I Per IIImmmm, Seer Stomach, I I Flatulonco, Naaaaa and Sick I I Hoadacho, dua to Constipation. I I Now is the time II I to buy a farm^ II I i HAVE SOME FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN, and ii SMALL RATE OF INTEREST. A GOOD WAY TO 11 I INVEST YOUR BONUS. I I I See me at Hotel Camden any Tue?day j I I H. G. BATES, Sr. II I notice I ?of? i I SERVICE INTERRUPTION I I Sunday, July 12, 1936 I i due to pitting back into service elec* i l?ne through kennedy's pqnp; thf i i carolina power and light company will i ve electric service off of camden i rom 2 p. m. to 4:30 p. m. sunday, july 12, ) 1936. _ _ M' I Municipal Water and lit lit Department I * f