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Solid South Cheers
' Leader At Charlotte
Aboard lioosevelt Train En Koute
to Washington, Hopt. 11.?President
Roosevelt hurried back to Washington
today to fill another speaking engagement
after projecting a New Deal
"prosperity" and states' rlghta laaue
before a rain drenc hed outdoor audtence
In Charlotte, N. 0.
Dried out from two cloudburata that
aoaked him to hla akin au he drove
in au open car to the Charlotte stadium.
the tourlu* chief executive arranged
to addreaa the World Power
conference late today In Constitutional
hall near the White House,
Kn route to the capital by a apeclal
train that caught up with him at the
North Carolina city after a 160 mile
motor daah from Aahevllle in the
weatern part of the atate, he wan
greeted by pushing and ahouting after-dark
crowds last night at the three
Tar Heel cltlea of Salisbury, High
Point and Greensboro,
Brief rear platform talks were made
In which he spoke of Ills "wonderful"
jtwo days In Tennessee and North
Carolina. Ho also waved to groups
at Lexington ami Thomaaville, N. C.
In Ills speech at the seven state
"green pastures" rally ut Charlotte
late yesterday, the president posed
several questions which his reelection
inuuagers have said would figure
prominently in the presidential campaign.
He spoke of huving turned that
"uow historic corner," the depression:
Of a "definite upturn" In business;
of "better conditions" on the farm
and In factories and homes; of "b&ck
In the black" and of record-breaking
low Interest rates on borrowings.
All of this, he asserted with rain
drops still dripping from his brow,
had been attained without endangering
"individual liberties" or invading
the "Inherent rights of the sovereign
states."
Ife did not refer to the supreme
court by name, but be drew applause
as ho spoke highly of the NKA and
AAA, and added:
"It was obvious of course, because
of the economic unity of that no
group of Individuals and no individual
states could by themselves, take the
action necessary to restore the purchasing
power of the nation."
"Only the federal government could
accomplish that," he emphasized.
When the president reached the
WPA constructed municipal stadium
amid a deafening roar from the rainsoaked
thousands, his light gray suit
was dark and wrinkled and clinging
to the flesh. No sooner had he reached
the speaker's platform than the
sun came out and a rainbow pierced
a crescent through the fading cloudB.
Opening his 2,500 word address extemporaneoualy,
he noted with a
broad smile that a "rainbow shines In
the sky' and termed the heavenly
phenomenon a "fitting climax to two
of the most delightful days { have
ever spent in rav life,"
Governor J. U. B. Ehrlnghaus, of
North Carolina, proBontod him as the
Gideon of Democracy" and "our
captain-courageous." Others on the
platform Included Governors Dave
Scholtz of Florida; Olin I). Johnston
of South Carolina and Hill McAllster
of Tennessee, and all the senators
from^ those states and North Carolina
except Ellison I). Smith of South
Carolina.
Hulldlng Ms speech around tfca Biblical
"green pastures" and "still waters
in the 23rd Psalm, the presldent
nsserted "happiness Is most often
described In terms of the simple
ways of nature rather than In the
complex ways of man's fabrications."
^ "I speak to you today," he said
as common sense American men and
women. You will agree that from
the material aspect the nation's consuming
power has been rapidly restored.
thai HZ """ y?U Wl" "kewl?? ???*>
in la conditions on the (arm.
In the fsoiories and ,n the homes of
America are leading us to the-spiritual
figure of the Psalmist?-green pas|
tures and atlll waters.
He expressed the hope that if his-,
tory gives a name to the present age
11*, would call it the "era of rebuilding
for it is my firm conviction that unless
we, in our generation .start to
rebuild the Americans of a century
hence will have lost the greater part
of their natural and national heritage."
fie said the New Deal had
achieved the goal ho set for the
Southern farmer at the outset of his
administration?12 cent cotton.
He added "most thinking people"
believe the NRA has done as much to
restore "prosperity" as any other fedLcral
law in 100 years. Saying he was
convinced before he entered the
White House that a "reasonable prosperity"
would have to be brought
about before proceeding to whnt he
described as "next" steps?soil erosion
and flood control?he continued:
"Today, because of better prices for
farm commodities we are actually and
actively engaged in taking these second
steps.
"Not only have we aroused a public
understanding and approval of the
need of ending soil erosion and water
run-off, but we have enabled the
public through a practical prosperity
to begin to pay their debts, to paint
their houses, to buy farm tools and
automobiles, to send more boys and
girls through school and college, to
put some money in the bank and, incidentally,
to know for the first time
that the money in the bank is safe."
At Salisbury, N. C., last night a
group carrying a large sign reading
"100 Percent, for Roosevelt and the
New Deal" forged to the front of several
thousand persons around the
presidential special.
Representative Doughton (D? N. C.)
chairmnn of the house ways and
means committee introduced the executive
as "our great Democratic
president.** Mr. Roosevelt praised
Doughton as a man of ''keen perception"
who had been of "tremendous
value" to him in working out problems
with congress.
Further along the line, at High
Point, the president drew a laugh
from the crowd when he recalled having
hunted quail there, but said "most
of the quail are still flying around
the country.".
M Qreemefeore, the president remarked
the crowd reaslmded him tt
waa jm elMftto* jmt.
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Anatomical Model
Of Woman Exhibited
New York.?"The woman without a
mystery"?a transparent life-size anatomical
model ahowluK every organ,
vein*, arteries, nerves and boue in a
woman'o body?la on display here at
the New York Museum of Science and
Industry.
Following the private showing hefore
a distinguished group of physicians
and scientists, the counterpart
of the now famous "transparent man"
will go on a two year tour 9X.10Q.
cities of the nation. A doctor-lecturer
will Introduce the figure to scientists,
public health officials and the
medical profession nationally,
The model which took two years to
construct in the Dresden, Germany,
Hygiene Museum is the property of
B. H. Camp, philanthropist of Jackson,
Mich, It Is the only one of its
kind in existence.
Outer coverings of the transparent
woman is a tough, clear material
known as celhorn, made by a secret
process only In the Oermun museum
which built the intricate model. Celhorn
is a synthetic material which is
non-inflammable and almost unbreakable.
Viewing the figure is u weird sensation
to having something like X-ray
eyes. Embedded in the outer transparent
covering one sees the veins
and artefies Interlacing through the
body.^/The nerves spread from the
brain and spinal column to their tiny
ramifications at the body extremities.
Deep inside the figure the skeletal
structure is vlsable, partially covered
in places by the various organs
of the body proportioned and located
as in real life.
Through an ingenious lighting system
each organ of the body is illuminated
in turn until the whole body
stands forth in natural color. As each
organ Is illuminated its name appears
on glass labels around the base.
Sentenced To Hang
, lx>s Angeles, Cal., Sept. 10.?Without
any outward sign of reaction,
Robert S. James, red-haired, greeneyed
master harbor, heard himself
sentenced today to hang for killing
his seventh wife by drowning after
causing a rattlesnake to bite her foot.
Cobb Gets Twenty Years
Wllsou, N. C., Sept. 10.?Roy Cobb,
escaped convict caught by a posse after
he and a companion shot their
way out of a police trap in Florence,
S. C., drew sentences totaling twenty
years today for two filling station
stlekups near here.
Labor day visitors in New York on
Monday, broke all former records for
numbers.
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BOBBY FRANKS MURDER
NEAREO PERFECT CRIME
Chicago, Sept. $.~Th? kidnaping
and murder of 14-year-old Bobby
Frank* waa planned aa the "perfect
crime." <0*
It waa a crime which had IU Inception
In the mluda of two preeocloua
University of Chicago students,
Itichard I<oob. then 18, and Nathan
Leopold, 19, ?on* of . Chicago inlllionulrea
anil brilliant member* of a student
body noteworthy for It* intellectual
attainment. At 18, Leopold had
ulready won the pralae of scientists
for hi* ornithological studies.
The motive for the ghastly murder
amazed and sickened even veteran
policemen to whom killings were
routine experiences. The slayers of
Bobby Franks had taken a life not
only to assert their places as "supermen,"
men who could outwit the authorities,
but also as an experiment
to determine how far they could preserve
their own detached, scientific
attitude iu the ultimate tragedy in
human life?the willful destruction of
another human being. It was a crime
that was carried out almost in the
manner of an experiment in a
psychological laboratory.
Hut the crime was not "perfect."
its tlaws were soou discovered. A pair
of horn-ribbed glasses trapped the
slayers.
It was May 21, 1924. Out of the
Harvard school came Bobby Franks
to join a group of classmates in a
baseball game on the school playground.
Ijoss than an hour later the game
broke up and Bobby started happily
toward his parents' home a few
blocks distant in Chicago's finest
Houth-slde residential community.
In the Franks' luxurious residence
sometime later, Jacob Fr&nkB,
wealthy retired manufacturer and
capitalist, and Mrs. Franks became
worried. The dinner hour had passed
and Bobby had not appeared.
Thoroughly alarmed, Franks left
hiB home at 10 p. in. to seek police
aid. And while her husband was absent
Mrs. Franks received a message
by telephone.
"This is George Johnson," a gruff
voice Informed the frantic mother.
"Your son has beeu kidnaped, but he
is safe. Instructions will follow." v
The Franks family, despite the dire
news, asked that the kidnaping be
kept secret. No report was placed for
some time on police records.
Within 12 hours, however, the need
for secrecy had passed. At approximately
8 a. m. the following morning
a laborer came upon the body of a
nude boy, lying face downward in a
railway culvert in a forest preserve
near Hegewlsch, on the far south
side of the city. The body waB that of
Hobby Franks.
A coroner's physician said the boy
had been murdered under circumstances
of peculiar brutality. His
head was savagely beaten. Other evidence
seemed to indicate that the
crime had been committed by a slayer
of meagre, if not deranged mentality.
Police were convinced they must seek
a slayer of the lowest class with instincts
of depravity.
The city,'B shrewdest detectives began
an investigation. Automobile
tracks were spotted on the narrow
trail leading through, the forest preserve
to the railway culvert. There I
were footprints in the marshy surface J
A pair of shell-rimmed glasses was
found ten foet from the spot where 1
the boy's body had been found. j
Apparently the slayers had not!
counted upon discovery of their victim's
body so soon. Before word of
their son's death had reached the pa-1
rents, the postman brought a letter, I
addressed to Mr. Franks. Its language
caused police at once to reverse their
opinion as to the type of killer they 1
must seek. The letter told them plain-1
ly they must search, not for a crlmi-1
nal of debased mentality, but for a
person of some education. I
"Dear Sir," it otated, "allow us to
assure that he is at present safe and I
well, you need fear no physical harm I
for him, provided you live up care-j
fully to the following Instructions and I
such others as you will receive by I
future communication."
The writer demanded $10,000 ran-J
som in "ojd bills" for the safe return
of a boy, already dead. The money I
was to be ready at 1 o'clock and the
worried father, believing his son still
lived, withdrew the cash from a bank.
At 3:26 Mr. Franks received a sec-|
ond 'telephone call from "GeorgeI
John son."""He was directed to take!
a cab that would call for him at his I
home and convey him to a drug store 1
where further instructions would bel
given. He was to bring the ransom. I
Word of his son's death reached
j Mr. Franks, however, before the cab I
arrived. He went to see the body I
which had been removed to an under-1
taking chapel. Police had placed the!
horn rimmed glasses on the boy in the
belief they belonged to the victim.
As he gased sadly at the body of
his only son, the father provided authorities
with the due that was
prore the undoing of the slayers. ?
"icy m," he nil,' "did not wear
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glUHHOH."
Police began the painstaking tank
of tracing the glaavea. It waa soon
established that only one firm made
glasses with the diamond trademark
which the pair In question tore.
Eventually they were traced to the
oculist, who eold them, a Chicago
Arm.
The records of this firm showed the
glasses had been prescribed for Nathan
Leopold, son of one of Chicago's
pioneer families, a precocious ornlthologlHt.
In that capacity he bad
been acclaimed by scientists for engaging
the confidence of the little
Klrkland Warbler, a bird so shy as
to have been supposed extinct,' so successfully.
that It perched on his
shoulder and ate from his hand when
u thousand feet of moving picture film
were unrolled In the Michigan wilderness.
On May 30, nine days after the kidnaping
and murdei*. police seized
Leopold. He readily admitted ownership
of the glasses, said he must have
lost them while studying birds in the
vicinity of the culvert.
Authorities were puzzled. They
sent for Richard Loeb, youngest student
ever graduated from the University
of Michigan, a youth whose
scholastic brilliance matched that of
Leopold. Both were graduate students
at the University of Chicago when
the crime was committed.
Leopold and Loeb asserted they
had gone riding in Leopold's car on
the afternoon of the murder. Questionloned
about a portable typewriter he
had used in his studies, Leopold said
he had disposed of it. Police who
searched the Leopold home were unable
to find the machine but returned
with the Leopold family chauffeur,
Sven Englund.
Meanwhile a watchman brought to
the police a bloodstained chisel which
he said he had picked up near the
Leopold home*. The watchman said
he had seen the chisel thrown from
the same type of car Leopold drove.
Lnglund said the car had not been
out of the garage that day. Students
brought In typewritten notes by Leppold
the typing of which corresponded
with the typing of the ransom letter.
Confronted with theBe discrepancies
Loeb broke down the next day and
confessed. Some hours later Leopold
also confessed. The two youths attempted
to throw the guilt for the
actual murder on each other.
They admitted that they had Induced
Bobby Franks to enter their car,
a rented one, and "ride home" with
them as he left the school grounds;
that almost as soon as he was in the
car they had murdered him with
blows from the chisel found by the
watchman. Whether it was Leopold
or Loeb who struck the fatal blow
never has been definitely told.
Prosecutors said the youths confessed
they killed the boy for a
"thrill." It was planned, they said,
as an experiment to test their own
reactions in the perpetration of a
murder.
On June 11, 1924, Loeb's 19th birthday,
they were arraigned before Judge
John R. Caverly and pleaded not guilty.
But on July 21, the noted attomey,
Clarence Darrow, had the
youths change their plea to guilty.
The trial began July 23. A battery
of alienists testified for the defense.
Dr. H. S. Hulbert declared the young
men wore victims of a lack of normality
In their lives. He blamed the crime
on early childhood complexes established
in each case by experiences
with nursemaids.
Darrow asserted that while Loeb
and Leopold might have known intellectually
the difference between right
and wrong they could not, emotionally,
make the distinction.
After pondering over the evidence
for 13 days and nights, Judge Caverly
passed sentence. Each got a 99 year
term for kidnaping and a life term
for murder.
On September 11, 1924, the two
youths were taken to the Illinois
state penitentiary.
Then, on January 28, 1936, twelve
years after the most sensational slaylng
of its period, a sequel occurred
inside the walls of Stateville prison,
on the outskirts of Joliet, 111.
Richard Loeb, then 80, died as violently
as had Bobby Franks. Locked
in a prison shower room with a fellow
convict, James Day, 22 year old
Chicago larcenist, Loeb was slashed
to death with a razor wielded by Day
who asserted Loeb had sought to compel
him to submit to an immoral proposal.
The "thrill" slayer died on an operating
table two hours later aa a
corps of physicians attempted to
patch up fifty-seven wounds^
Tried for the staying. Day won
speedy eoqulttal from a circuit court
Jury which accepted his story
ha had aeted in satt defease after
wrestla# the raasr tmm
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Mrs. Joseph Garbariul kept a vigil
at the bedside of her daughter, crltbj
tally ill with peritonitis at her home
in Memphis, Tenn. When told that
the daughter had a good chance of recovery,
the mother died, as the news
unnerved her.
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MY8TERY TO SCIENTISTS
New York.?Larry the Lamplighter,
a six foot electric eel from Braall,
Hulked In hia tank at the" aquarium
the other night, refusing to turn on
the lights..
He had been overlooked completely
when a group of foreign delegates to
tUp world conference to be held in
Washifigton next month made a tour
of lnspectlbi^ city's great power
plants.
Larry thinks he is something pretty
hot in the power plant line himself,
and his opinion is shared by physicists
and biologists who have marveled
at his, death-dealing thunderbolts.
"He is not only a thousand times
more efficient than any power plant
/ever produced by man," said C. W.
Coates, the curator, "but he is a very
mysterious beast as well. He Just
doesn't make sense."
Scientists have tried for years to
discover the secret of the electric
eel's generating system, Coates said,
but thus far have met with no success.
Coates disclosed that he and Prof.
Richard X. Cox, of New York University,
were carrying on .extensive
experiments with Larry in an effort
to solve the riddle. They are using
a borrowed cathode ray oscillograph
to measure his electrical discharges
and already have published a preliminary
paper on the subject in Zoologies.
Electric eels discharge powerful
shocks with great rapidity, killing
their prey. Coates has rigged up a
system which causes two bulbs outside
of Larry's tank to flash when he
is "broadcasting."
Once when he was hooked up with
the oscillograph he let go with 20
distinct shocks within a space of onefortieth
of a second, 'Coates said. Each
discharge carried about 200 volts,
enough to knock overra horse.
Larry, a sluggish creature that
looks like a monstrous earthworm,
was brought to the aquarium from
Para, Brazil, four years ago and has
grown so tame he seldom turns on
his current, except when prodded or
fed. He never knows that the fish
which Coates tosses to him two or
three times a week are already dead
and that he is wasting his electricity
at meal time.
Load Of Matches
Causes Brisk Fire
Laurens, Sept. 7.?Ignition of a motor
truck load of matches precipitated
a brisk battle between water and Are
here lato Saturday night. By the us*
of w^tffr and chemicals, the flre department
won, though at an estimated
loss of about $700 to the owner
of the shipment, a local dealer.
Fire broke out at the top of the
cargo of 325 cases of matches as the
upper container came in contact with
the overhead trestle runners that
span the underpass on East Main
street. The driver of the truck was
quoted as saying that he was driving i
cautiously, but had felt he could pass!
through safely. The crushed cases in-!
atantly started ignition of the contents,
causing the blast to spread to
other containers before being brought
under control. More than 100 case,
each containing a gross of standardsize
boxes of matches, were burned or
water damaged. -
When the crews of two naval ships,
anchored in the Tagua river, at Lisbon,
rebelled Monday, the Portuguese
government qulokly swung heavy land
atteriea on the ships and smashed
t e rebellion. Both ships were damaged
and six sailors were killed.
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that Id accordance
with the terms and provisions
of the Decree of the Court of
Common Pleas for Kershaw County
of recent date in the case
of James 8. Edmunds and Arthur
B. Helns, as surviving directors and
statutory trustees of Chas. P. Wray
& Company, in liquidation, plaintiffs
versus Charlotte Thomas, P?arl
Std&dman, Bell WeBt, Mildred Wllliams,
Cleola Williams, Lois Williams
Hosle Bright, Joseph Williams'
Brooks Williams, Shannon Williams'
Mack Williams, Nellie Shepherd, R
Branhaia and J. E. Abbott, defendants,
I will sell to the highest bidder
for cash, before the Court House door
at Camden, S. C., during the legal
hours of sale on the first Monday in
October, 1936, being the 6th duy
thereof, the following described property:
"All that cWtaln parcel, piece or
tract of land, lying and being situate
In the County and State aforesaid
and containing ninety-two (82) acres,
more or less, and bounded as follows '
North by lands of Henry Sessions
And Robert Williams, East by lands
of Robert Williams; South by lands of
Levi Jacobs; West by lands of Robertson
Boyd."
Terms of sale: For Cash, the Master
to require of the successful bidder,
a deposit of five (6) per cent of
his bid, same to be forfeited in case
of non-compliance; no personal or deficiency
judgment is demanded and
the bidding will not remain open after
the sale, but compliance with the
bid may be made Immediately.
W. L. DePASS. JR.,
Master for Kershaw County
DOUGLAS & DOUGLAS,.
Plaintiff's Attorneys
i" NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that in. accordance
with the terms and provis- I
ions of the Decree of the Court of
Common Pleas for Kershaw County,
dated September 11, 1936, in the I
case of D. A. Boykin, Conservator of
The Bank of Camden, plaintiff, ver- j
sub E. C. Stokes, Fred E. Stokes, Lei
la M. Lovett, Sadie R. Shiver and j
Wallace Stokes, defendants, I will sell
to the highest bidder, for cash, before '
the Court House door at Camden, S. H
C., during the legal hours of sale on
the first Monday in October, ,1936, be- j
lng the 6th day thereof, the following H
described property: H
"All that piece, parcel or tract of H
land, situate, lying and being in the j
State of South Carolina, County of j
Kershaw, about nine and ^ one-half j
miles East of the City of Camden, in j
DeKalb Township, School District No. j
36 of said County, on Burkett Branch, I
being twenty-five (26) acres, more or H
less; bounded on the North by lands H
of the estate of Augustus Johnson; j
East by lands of John Thompson and I
R. L. Stokes, South by land of Amanda
Hall and tract of ' Ferd E.
Stokes, hereinafter described and j
formerly a part of this tract, and j
West by said tract of land of Fred E. ;
Stokes and lands of J. B. McCoy. The j
above described tract of land was !
conveyed to Laura Stokes and E C.
Stokes by deed of Columbus Stokes
dated July 17, 1923."
Also ? -?v - ;
"All that parcel of land adjoining I
the above and formerly a part there- |
of, containing twenty-five (26) acres, i
more or less, bounded-** follows: On
the North and East by lands of E. C.
Stokes, and Laura Stokes; on the ;
South by lands of Amanda Hall; on the j
West by lands of J. S. Dunn; the di- ;
viding line between this tract and the |
lands hereinabove first described being
a neighborhood road which ram
North and South and thence turns in 1
a Westwardly direction. Said tract
of land is the same conveyed to Fred j
E. Stokes on May 3, 1924, by Laura
Stokes and B. C. Stokes." 1
Terms of Sale: For cash, the Mas- I j
ter to require of the successful bid- I ;
der, a deposit of five (6) per cent of ;
his bid, same to be forfeited in case
of non compliance; the bidding will
remain open for a period of 30 days
after the publlo sale.
W. L. DePASS, JR.,
Master for Kershaw County
KIRKLAND A deLOACH,
Plaintiff's Attorneys
Judge Richard W. Leche of New Ob I
leans was elected governor of Lofls
tana on Tuesday last and all other I
candidates on the Long ticket wsrs I ,
swept Into office. - A K
Now is the time II
I to buy a farm^ ||
I I HAVE SOME FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN, AND I
SMALL RATE OF INTEREST, A GOOD WAY TO I '
I INVEST YOUR BONUS.
I Sm me at Hotel Cimlwi any Tuesday I
I H. G. BATES, Sr. II
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