Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

Negro Swindler i Has A Long Record John Kate* uegro wwlndlor who wu* sent cured to ?orv c rtv? years by Judge Kami age ou Tuesday when ho plouded kui (? to working u pockotbook trick on A Fort I -it w 11 negro has a criminal rovonl In several Hiatus or (tiis union and when tin cuilio up for sentence hi* n'coi (I wiih road to I fit- court | Judge Kuimcge asked (ho colored man If ho know any thing about (ho charge* made again*! him in (hone place* and ho admitted that ho did The fact ihat tho record of tliia negro iuih known wax booauHo the departincnl of justice received hi* finger print* on each o< fusion when lio vi as arrested Some lime* ho gave tip* name or Nam Swill and hoiiio If iii- a in1 gave lio* II Hill 0 of John Hates li in oic no dilforonco lo the' department of Justice what mime lie gave a the prints cave Ins Inn- ideii tity Hatch was seiileiieed lo hcrvo four year* for htealiug money hy working the pock' t hook trick and was given nnotlHi vear for endoavoting to break Jail Hales togolhor with oilier* burnt a hole in the roof of the jail in a futile attempt lo break, jail The department of Justice record* on Hates go hack as far as November 2. 1'j2x, when he was arrested in Kuiford, Flu , on a c harge of grand larceny The charge* was simply grand larceny on the record so it i* not known as to whether lie worked the porketbook I ric k or stole something of value. He was arrested there under the name of Sam Swift. On Jutiuur) 2'J, 1031 lie was arrested In Macon tine! held for investigation No charge was evidently preferred against him by the Macon authorities. On September 'J. 1931, lie was arrested at Kvansvllle, Ind., on a charge of vagrancy. On November fc. he was arrested at Omaha, Neb . and held for investigation. The in*xl we hear of Hates was at Fort Worth. Texas, where ho was arrested oil November Hi, 1931, on H charge of pigeon dropping which is just anothe r name for Him flaming by ti-ing the pockethonk trick On October 2k. 11. w is arrested in i'.ii iningliain Ala. oil a charge of grand la re en.v Fvid.ntlv lie got out of this' i sc r.i p< a he wis art . t eel two months!lat c i i a M >i;i niner\ \ la . oi: am-t her I < ha r nl ?i '.nd I a i eepy Hii. 1 'i nil j ui * i ,\1 "lit goiMic v and Mn. Catoe Dead Kershaw, Keb. Uf? Mrs H A Ca > toe, 7 >, widow of II L Cntoe, died I at the homy of her son. Henry Catoo. in (lie Mount IMsgah nedlon this afternoon She was olio of the iiiont beloved 4 ID/ens of her community. Site Is survived h> the- following children /. A and Henry T Catoe. Mrs W. I' So well Mrs Ward lllrd, Kershaw; Mrs W J'' Mungo, Charlotte; J F Catoe. Charleston; liernard I. Catoe aiicl an adopted son Koberl. Hurley of Columbia London experienced the most dostruc t ive lire of many years last Thursday, the property loss being estimated at f >00,000. In- was plac eel on the wanted list Howeve r, i lie authorities at Montgum* . i v e. nb hi ly decided that tbe com niiiuity was belter off without Hates t< r the next time lie was c aught they said be was no longe r wanted In Montgomery Neitblng more; was beard) o! Hale s until almost three xears la te-r W ll e * 11 he Wild ai'le-Ste'd in I ti < I Ht 11 spoils c?ii a charge of vagrancy. Shortly afterward he was arrested In W.isliingion, I) C, on a charge- e>f conspiracy to defraud Ills last arie-st was cin Ihicemher 9 in Columbia when he was preparing to w in k a pocket hook game. He was returned to Lancaster" when ho was identified us one of the' negroes who swindled the; Fort Lawn negro. From the above It Is seen that Hates or Swift Is well acquulntcxl with Jails in various parts of the country, lie Is known to have worked the pockcthook trh'k in numerous places. He may have been arrested in other places which were not equipped to take finger prints as the only record of his arrests was made? through linger print identification. Hates was taken to the Lancaster county chain gang whore? lie is now employi-cl. He> had a small saw file on his person which he dropped in the' coui'thousr on Tuesday. He has broken jail before* and the authorities ;ef the camp may find that ho is a hard man to keep Taylor, tin- negro who was arrest' I with him also has a criminal re' "Tel but it j>, not as long as that of I'ati' - 'I a\lor had i-viebnHy taken up til' iTmC.IIU .am.' bill Ji-cellllv Tliisl * III -g It i w a ; ul i :ii I'll 11) v-1 |-ve. but four ' al? ;i^ it w.is -aid that be- did liot I >x< all) thin--: I*. >ln Willi Hie attempt''I Mil Ti'.ik In I- Laiea-a. r \<ws Sun Editor Ih Local Visitor Lust week Mr and Mrs. K. T. H KhafTtvi' wore bouts to fllMt visitors, Dan Algernon, associate edl tor of tlie Now York Sun, and Homer M I'ace, vice president of tho South ; Carolina I'owcr Company, of Charleston, wJio were on a lour of several low country counties. Mr Shaffers/accompanied l iiem over ('oliulou ami Meaufort counties. Mr. Anderson was much impressed with what lie saw here and upon ills return to New York, wrote a special article about Ills visit to thin section of South Carolina. The following Is taken front his article in the Sun, which was sent Mr j I Shaffer by Mrs. S K, Honey, of New . York, a former resident of Walter-! born: First. Walterhoro, witli a population of a bout .'l.r.uo, mainly dependent j on agriculture, is in the licit where' l icit roasfal soil makes if possible tor i intelligent fanners to have well paying diverse crops of truck, as well J as cotton as a staple for shipment to | north) i u markets. Walterhoro now is j adding considerably to its Income he-; cause of its strategic situation at the! Junction of two main highways between the north and Florida, the Atlantic Coastal U. K. Route 17, and the Lafayette, South Carolina Route JO It gets u large amount of overnight, tourist trade, has a restaurant which in the season serves from tiOO to 800 meals a day, and is an overnight stopping point for many travelers who find it convenient to break their Journey just there on the way south from points in Virginia, or on the way north from Jacksonville, or some other stopping place In northern Florida Second, there is the charming city of Charleston, a point of Interest in its own right as well as a convenient stopping place for those making journeys along tho coast. It proclaims Jtself "America's Most Historic City," and can marshal plenty of ar gumonts wlnm other towns dispute the boast. Resides historic interest, it has beauty, found in its old homes, so many with graceful wrought-lron I gates, its water site, which gives i( importance also as a port, and in the! magnolia and cypress gardens outsidethe city, just about now coming into I bloom lis tmirist season comes to tlm loigl.t in Mar. h and April, though i' begins a< ( ordin.: to some reckonings j on January 1. hi l'.'J",, there were, j a> cooling to tli" Chamber of Com-' en r. . at ? \ j ji. rs to tin- (it>, jn 'he as>?n .fanners ! to \pril 1". and ; n ! -7. tli. : , .s, r II ."tin. la i no j .nth- >' Mar!) ;ri I April mfy, last J . a' lis ina hot. Is, t1.. re ' \\. i.- 1 o .n i. - j -1 \\! i j. ms. Tliat is | to- v;a .--111 e | ,|, grown in <! . r-! I -! 1 n. s' itnit!af. d in part by t be j a/'ib-u I'e-tivtl In Id when til" Mowers j are in fin. s: l>lo, tn, partaU'ing of 'he nature of a Mardi fir.ts. There are also the resorts in South) < urolina. Aiken, Caiuden and Sumin*-; ville and furthermore, a development nlong t'ais line is taking place which tn t.v have a profound effect on the state eonorn!I>. This is the ;,c 1' isjtii'ii bv w aitbv no u of est;it i I I.ia I ; .. t lei n ii\ to- ...'ton and I in-' 1-1. !,' a t inn., v. 1; i h mail.' t hi ir '1 a a is ?. alt: \ w j > t! : I. a s i d as : ' ?> si' ; .O a; a 1 , j ' 'tt. '. n i .. . . I : V n i I ' it i. . , I: Ill i " t ' - t- I . I . . | i j , , | , j, o j i ;. . , t; at-! S 51. t * :;'5i. .:a. V 'i r II -:: i': *. - At.<; m S in f. \ t. i - - ! [ r.i y 11 1 .i,< e, .1. Met,. . . If I .and'-n K T1 or-;..- (f.-urt:. \ aa tin ' Ce - !.: it \Y t ! i. r ami 'I ' iI - \ V I \V k e > 'be e. I .a ..s 11 : - i - 1 Id w a t : I \ 11." a. a . tit I. .A he a- ;1 t : i ! .Idin. - a -y I- . a e l ' " i ' i i ! 1 j j t ', . I H ' . 1 a A , T j >: i _ i ' '' - - :. ;i < ' i . 1.1-4 .1 ' k' I ! ' ! ' i 1 - c brm..;A a illt" : l 'rri;or> ] h -... i. j? .. ,it n'?-1 1,1 ar" 11 at ,s ,,..1 enfiiely so Oil the Kr >s nljin t .11 ion, for instance, are grown all the bulbs which are sold in the Kress stores Huge Petroleum Mine Is Found Now York, Fob. 18 An uctuul mino | of "hard" petroleum ill Canada, con- j iaiit 11>k four limes as much oil an all ] the oil ri'hcrvch of the world, wub re- j ported to the American Institute yff Metallurgical Knglueera today. ! Thin oil is not solid, but is too viscous to flow. It can be squeezed out of Ms hand, like water out of U sponge. Some of thih ?and 1h 25 per cent oil. To reach the treasure, suld Max W. Jlall, of Kdmonton, Alberta, will require regular mining operations. Shafts will have to be sunk 800 to 1,200 feet. Hut he suid squeezing operations already tried show that the oil can be extracted successfully, it contains compounds good for high class anti-1 knock gasoline. The hard oil deposit covers tin area 1 which he estimated from ten to fifty ! thousand square miles. It lies in the McMurray district of northern Alber-; ta, along the Athabasca river. "C. S. Kills, Dominion Government authority," said Mr. Hull, "estimated at least one hundred billion barrels 1 of oil there. C. P. Howie of the U. S. Huieau of Mines put the estimate ul two hundred and lit'ty billions of barrels, which would be equivalent to four times the U. S. Geological Survey's estimate of known pertoleum reserves of the world." Some of the oil sand has been eroded to the surface along the Athabasca. There Hall said ho is setting up a mill to squeeze oil from some of the top sands. The oil sands are ground to a pulp. Then they are mixed with water and naphtha. The oil flows off the top of water tanks. It comes off, Hall said, carrying less than half of one per cent mineral matter and less than one per cent water. It is ready for the refinery. If, lie said, this new operation Is successful, when it begins this coming spring, it should add half a billion barrels to the immediate reserves of the oil industry. That much, be estimated, is available without the expense of mining deeply. The senate judiciary committee has s, i March ih for the beginning of public learin-s on President Roosevelt's proposed supreme court reorganiza' ion bill throughout the nation. On Ooinbahoe I'latit at ion Folix duPont lias a herd of white faced Hereford cattle, and is mi.thing money on them,now. Them are different reasons t >r parti ttlar ditf rent present aspe< ts oT the ou'lrfn situation. More eonlidettco or nan-.. set i h-dness of thought, and the effects of demand accumulated threiiith the depression still am i requeiitlv mentioned. When D. 10. Moncrief, cc(\jiomist of the Federal Reserve Hank at Atlanta. was asked for his explanation, however, he put it in two words. "Do you want to know what 1 really think is the reason?" he asked. VPs." "Government sjmnding."-- Walterhoro Dress and Standard General News Notes Seven persons were killed and five hurt, when a powder train exploded in a topper mine 700 feet under ground, near Quincy. Calif. Mrs. Katie Hennett, 65, has retired from the rural mail service at Ix>ngmont, Calif., after serving as a carrier for 31 years. The Tin Can Tourists of the World, meeting at Sarasota. Fla., turned down tht* invitation of Mexico City, to hold the 1938 convention there. Prince Chihibu, eldest brother of the emperor of Japan, with his wife, will cross the United States someI time in April, en route to London to j ! be Japan's official representative at the coronation of King George VI The Democratic controlled house of j the Delaware house of representatives, has adopted a resolution supporting the recommendation of Presi- j dent Roosevelt for reorganization of ' the supreme court. A coroner's jury investigating the; drowning of 31 poisons, when a barge i anU at New Madrid, Mo.. January 30, r. turtnd a v< rdiet to the effect that ; [!. ' tragedy was due to "contributory I negligence" an the part of the 21 lev e J workers. C. P. Abernathy, whose honeymoon j with Kathleen Phelps, was curtailed j several wt eks ago, when he was ar- . rested by police at Illackstone, Va., j has bt en sentenced to prison for two! years, following his conviction on a j | charge of check flashing, lie met his j wife while the two of them were in jail at Hopewell, at the time she was > | bring held on suspicion of murdeV. I New Postmaster At Blshopville For Home time it has been known that It. M. Smith had been appointed postmaster for Blshopville. The following news Item was published Wed- ] nesday: Washington, Feb. 23.?The senate confirmed today the nomination of Richard M. Smith as postmaster it 1 Blshopville, S. C. Mr Smith will take charge of the office as soon as necessary papers are completed. This will be in about week.?Blshopville Messenger. Alexander W. Waddell, I". S. ambassador to Chile, and Mrs. Waddell, j are 011 their way to the United States, traveling by passenger airplane. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, 011 March 20. 1937. I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw county my final return as Administratrix of the estate of James Oscar Summer deceased, and on tlx' same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge an said Administratrix. MRS. KM MA J. Sl'MMKR, Administratrix. Camden. S. C.. February 20, 19157. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS i All parties to the estate of H. 0. Marvin are hereby notified to make;. payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within the time pri s< rib<Nl by law. MRS. 10 UK A NOR B. MARVIN Administratrix. Uauuleu, S. February 19, 1937. ] ___ ! VBLQVS M ^ from Better j Fertilizers ... . Representing five of the leading fertilizer manu- ; ^-""facturers of the South ? goods made for Southern soils. We are in a position to save you money on your ' needs for the coming season ? see us before buying?, let's talk it over. . j SOUTHERN FISH SCRAP CO. F. 8. ROY8TER GUANO CO. SUMTER FERTILIZER CO. LOGAN-ROBIN80N CO. HARTSVILLE FERTILIZER CO. C. V. MASSEBEAU I ] ssbbbb mamm r SCIENCE IMPROVED ON NATURE TO GIVE YOU MORE NITROGEN flm MCiilY THAN IN ANY OTHER "SODA" K " ! . ' ' ' K'i" ::i f: 0 ;is i : .so is for N;7K:-J.:N, ArLLi'.i.v.n scientists spent of dc'iers to produce ci scda" trot would L'ft r ef er in nifcjcn than any other kind. And ' u s c:;d I .is? ' of in Arcadian, The . rr.n Nitrate cf Scria. Arcadian conto. as men nitronen per ton t'-.an en/ a'hi r ' stc/n." It cctwc'ly r,'. < s v ... ? v?, - f(%. n a ' r n e ? ' if. ; " 1 i v... i > ; t-jy. *> THE GAP RETT CCMTAHY Hep' < 1 Vn. ? Xs*r. I*. K.tooa ! L U : i, THE AVirtiCAN [ > NITR.V. F. OF il SODA ? ?. f* b WW*!.. .*{? ? n *m D? U??m COJMUIT It's a fact . . . you can do better at the ... Camden Furniture Company "Featuring Fine Furniture Since 1910" offer New 1937 (Model SB) WASHER and this 36 Piece Washday Outfit ? Limited T 1 m e ? Limited Quantity ? by special arraiu.ernent w i: 1 \ the manuf t ciutv. ; .s! ALT, TOR ONLY ^^KUUmhS ,^ETJr ^qT|S SCT^/P^ CAMDEN FURNITURE CO. 1036 Broad St.---Phone 156 ?? --=3 >..