Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ACCURATE DEPENDABLE PRESCRIPTIONS SAFE, SATISFACTORY DELIVERIES 1 4 ? ' t " " Special Summer Prices on all Shelf Coods not restricted as to retail price, we are giving a discount of Ten per cent or more on ('ash Sales Zemp's Drug Store "ThLf " B?'hCity Drug Company News Of Interest In And Near Bethune IkttllUIIO. July 14?A Hluff meeting of the supervisors of the W I' A. recreutlon project of l^.e and KerhIiuw counticH wuh held at the community house In Bethune ut 11 o'clock Tuesday, July 13. After reports on all uctlvltlcH were made, plana were discussed for u three days camp at I'ocallo, Bumter county. Thla project, which has been approved for another year, la contributing conalderably to the development and growth of the child. Great Intercut la being shown In tho community center at Bethune. Mlaaea Mary Alice and Francos Helms have been vlslttng relativea In Raleigh, N, C. Johnnie Davis la spending the week with friends In Charleston. Miaa Bara Grey Proctor and MIsh, Martha Thompson, of Rock Hill, were guests of Mrs. Crowell Bethune, durlnMrHh^"wrence McDowell with Daw-, Knr^lHuiK th'? W: A- Mcl'ow: | ' ".Vl rs Johnson. Hartsvllle. I?J' ^ ducting a Sunday school t^^'hera Htudy course at the Baptist church tills week. The text book being.used l? -Personal Factors in (huraittr tdlding " by J. M Price. Z w. K Kozler (? vtaHIn, her brother and family In Ashevllle. N. C. The afternoon bridge club was enained by Mrs. C. K. Bruawell Tuesdav The arrangement of mixed sum":r flowr. K-n, a aheerl.ll at.noa ?|?.re to the rot,ma. Cuneh t???i?<|rved IhrotlKhout the afternoon. M ???tt a Itethune won hIKh '.core prize an<( , Mrs Neil Truesdale bingo. 1 hi host .'.as also presented Miss Margaret Truesdale. who was soon going away with a dainty gift. Ice cream and cuke were served after cards , Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Best and Mrn. R B. Smith. Mrs. Best "mother w^? , is making her an extended visit, re rent ly motored to McCormtck foi tin lister'1 King and Vann Smith visited Myrtle Beach during the week en 1. | Mrs. F. M. Llndler and Miss Annie Vaughn Mungo carried a number o the members of the Bethune band^ Camden last Thursday to attend a Sunbeam rally at Wateree Baptist church. , .t . ii, Idllic Best Is visiting relatives In ( Columbia. . Superintendent J. C. hosier and family have recently moved Into the Hester house on east Main street. : Miss Mary Myrtle Raley. of Mt IMsgah. spent last week with Miss luaulta Pate. Bounder Helms, who Is attending summer school at Cleinson college, was at home for the week end Circles one and two of the Baptist Woman's Missionary Society met Monday afternoon with Mrs. HnttR I leiistiss and Mrs. J W. Smith, respectively. After the business period and Bible study, delicious refreshments were served Fori)!--- Morgan has gone to Myrtle Beach. Where be has accepted a position wl'h the Delta Drug Company. Another severe electrical storm visit. d Bethune Tuesday night ldghtmug struck a tree hack of tho Crowell Bethune house killing Mr. Bei huues (log It also ran down the post of their bed. tearing off the light cord, and setting the tied on lire It see in s almost miraculous that Mr and Mis Bethune and little daughter. Bet-. \ Ann, escaped Injury Mis B M Waters has discovered ,i new us, for a hot water bottle Sin had a s.ning hen whiih tired of her lot, and u > in on a stand up strike Mrs Waters hatched out the biddies wuh In i hot water bottle, tints furth, r ,1? monst rat ing the proverb that. NVossilv is i he Mother of Inven lion 1, W Rest. of Sumter, was the -Upper guest ot the B \\ Best s last I lull s,ta\ < \ mug I in- last square dance given at the A I' \ recreation e?-nter. sponsored ' \ the , ount \ hoard of directors and si|i,t\is,d M Mrs Beatrice Mn.igo. 'a,- attended hv approximately I<e,q11,* Music was furnished by the local string hand Bast Friday Mrs Mungo haperotied thirty young poo I 1 on a swimming party DO YOU KNOW THAT? Finland is the most thickly forested i ountr> in the world IVars develop much better quality r ripened off the tree When a camel goes a long time without food or water, its hump gets smaller Snuk< poison has little effect on pi g s B S was not President Grant's initials Ills name was Hiram Chaos ('.rant President Pierce had three children all of whom died before reaching the age of 12 Bight president's wives had been married before and the presidents were married for the seiond tine The thirteen original colonies are about the same size a* the area ot t l^e lzouislana purchase Queen bees live from four to five years, while the workers end their activities in about six weeks The lungs of an average man weigh forty-one ounces Violin strings and surgeon's ligatures are not cat gut. but sheep gut. The only things that will change finger prints are leprosy, radio dotmatltls and scleroderma. Arabia has neither lakes, forests nor rivers. Rattlesnakes keep their rattles out of the water when nrhnwiii ALCATRAZ MAKE8 NO | PRETENSE AT REFORMING GUYS Ftiniahttiettt and not reformation Is the code of Alcatruz Inland, the government prison in Han' Frunclaco Hay for Incorrigible criminals. Warden James A. Johnaon said in an Interview, i On the grim twelve-acre outcrop1 ping of rock there la no thought of preparing men to become uaeful cltlbona, he aald. No man entera there until he la udjudged "too tough" to get alon? at other prlaona, I "We get only Jhe moat perplexing problems at Alc&traz?problema for the moat part which cannot be aolved in other prbsona," Warden Johnson aald. "No prisoner la ever sentenced directly to Alcatraz. All have been transferred from other institutions as Incorrigible or to break up prison gangs. "On Alcatraz we can handle only a limited number and take only those prisoners whose cases have been passed upon by prison boards and when their transfer is approved by the Federal Director of Prisons." The present prison population of about .'170 men includes A1 Capone, Chicago gangster, and other hard cases such as "Machine Gun" Kelly, Harmon Waley and Albert Hates, kidnapers. "We get the supercrlminal, or at ! least those with superego, and our | Job lp to defeat that ego," Warden Johnson explained. "We play them J down, not up. I "We have had some tough custom- ' ers, but 1 believe we have whittled them down to their proper size. We have brought all of them to the realization that they are not as big us they thought they were." "How many prisoners have attempted to escape since the Department of Justice took over Alcatraz from the United States Army?" the warden was asked. "One," he replied grimly, "and that one died." I he one break for freedom was made by Joe Powers, a mail robber, on April 21, 1936. Powers tried to climb the barbed wire. Alert guards called for him to halt. Powers kept on climbing to the top of the wire. 'Pelow was the surf and rocks. Two shots sounded. Two bullets struck Powers and he tumbled off, head ilrst, onto the rocks fifty feet below. Not only were the bullets fatal but Powers' neck was broken. | The gray-haired prison chief, with years of experience at Folsom and San Quentin behind him, explains the rules of the prison fully to each entering convict and the convict is impressed with the fact that no Infractions will be tolerated. If a prisoner is found to be in need, of medical attention. he is so classified and, according to the warden, receives better treatment than the average person on the outside. About the Alcatraz rule of silence a rule often complained of by departing prisoners I In re is no absolute rule of silence. Warden Johnson said. "There are places where we do not permit talking and there are places where [ we do. The prisoners at work are allowed to talk to men in their own shop on matters regarding their work, in the yard there is no restriction to conversation during the recreation period, except when the men are en route to aiid from their cells. Genetal conversation is not permitted in tiie mess halls during meals. The men <ro permitted to ask for food to be passed them from the man across the "I- beside tllem. bill thev , an??" I;,'k to a person behind them or i .t m isi a no* a wa \ In t lie m. ss hall and at work eonv I'.-alion is rest, ,, ted to absolute c.-SMtx Otherwise lli.-x iililst it-main M,ls so-called mail breaking 11 ! 1 ' do.-s not exist t liroughout tli?- prison '-^ rx pro..in r on Ahatraz woikand works for eight hours a dav ' ;?>> a week 'I here are , wo "types 'phi m " I nn , AK :U, az-" "'< warden exI laitn d. the prison industries and tin- prison maintenance. Our in.histi i. s consist of the- . loth' "tors. Ihe mat factory, and the ln-Ik > i i" ,h'' factors we clothing for prisoners in 'Alcana/. and for those confined In other h ederal institutions |n the mat factory we make all the rubber and ... .?T' - ; Uu> nav> ?? i)?ar?i at ships, the w arden explained A Gapone works in the heat and 1 apy steam of ,he laundry and works b. II li f hourr a (,av {,u win ui Alcatraz until about 1942 War' ">> Johnson declined to confirm or n<ns a .eport that Capone is placing ' guitar in the prison "If the director of education he17 "lusk'al instrument will supIk^ the relaxation needed for a nris " " '"- n furnish .!? ' sahi. Mr. Johnson lndl! that he would not disc uss n. r so'ialitios in Alcatraz v ' Ihe type of men we g.-t on the island has., been built up by public?>. n many cases We do not care I" add to that publicity by giving por unl'v""'5 ""llvl<|ual pi lion* ? On s one thing did the warden let slip about Capone We have taught him that h- is h, san,.""1 w?.:No real strong arm methods am mThe ^very-day safeguards at.out the men are such as to instill if a nna fee,,nK 0f h?>Plei>nos. Bu" if a prisoner should decide to get cells un/leh'teHare dunKeon8 These ? *11 s. unllghted and with damp brick floors are eight in number I you the wron* ,dea when >ou talk of^-dungeons," said Warden Johnson. "We have dungeons and we ! FINGERPRINT8 May Be Used to Protect Civilians As Well As Catching Criminals. "Realizing that linger prints may be an effective means of identification in i cuhc of death or amnesia, increasing numbers of civilians are having their prims recorded at the Federal bureau of investigation, a division of the United States department of justice that is perhaps better known as 'the G-Men,'" says a bulletin from the Washington, I). C., headquarters of the National Geographic Society. Visitors are conducted on tours through the Identification Division at the rate of several hundred a day. Many remain to have their fingerJ prints taken. In long chattering lines, 1 business men and their wives, glggI ling girls and solemn small boys puss I bp/ore the recorder with his yellow I stump pud and small white cards marked off Into spaces for each finger's print. j A young girl approaches, holding out red nailed white hands. The recorder presses her right thumb firmly on the stamp pad and then down on the card, rolling it from right to left. "Just relax, don't try to help me," he instructs her, for if Bhe presses with her thumb, it overinks and smudges the pattern. He takes the murks of her right hand's fingers, one ufter another, und then those of her left hand, Individually. Next, he records, at a single impression, all the fingertips of her right | hand, and, with another impression, all those of the left, as a check upon the sequence of the preceding prints. She stares amazed at the dark whorls on the curd made by her unstained white fingertips. The colorless chemical solution on the stamp pad acts on the chemically-treated card, but remains Invisible on the hand. Little boys, whose cards are already smudged with thumbmarks of grime, approach us solemnly as If going to the dentist. "It won't hurt," the recorder assures them, and gives them each a souvenir fingerprint which they study under a handy magnifying glass. The original cards are also returned to those who request them. The Federal bureau of investigation, with 267,000 sets of flngerpripts in its civilian files, is increasing them at the rate of aLniost 800 a day. The bureau does uot search for fingerprints of criminals among the prints in these files, but it may search for them among the prints of civil service employees, which are filed to keep men with prison records from holding positions of public trust. Kxhibited on the wall of the Federal bureau of investigation is a device like a large automobile-mileage-meter. Kach time the last number on the right changes, it marks, not another mile, but a new set of criminal fingerprints received at the bureau The number changes about 175 times an hour. The bureau, on duty twentytour hours a day, receives during that time about 4,200 new records of people under arrest. These are sent In truin more than 10,000 law enforcement agencies all over the United States and from 80 foreign countries. Imagine that a suspcet. Hill Smith, is arrested in Los Angeles. His fingerprints are taken with .printer's black ink. which, with his photograph, are rushed to Washington to the Federal bureau of investigation. There they will be checked against fingerprints m the criminal files to see If he has a previous criminal record. If the che<k reveals that Hill Smith Is really ex-convict Hutcherknlfe Joe," wanted in New Orleans for murder, two telegrams are sent, one to inform the Los Angeles authorities, another to tell New Orleans officials the Los Angeles poliee have,their man Fingerprints found on weapons, woodwork, glass and articles mar a scene of crime are also checked against prints In the bureau's crimisonietlines use them. To the ordinary person a dungeon means a cell far below the level of the earth and perhaps below sea level, with sea water dripping in. The dungeons on Alcatrnz are not pleasant places, neither are the cells, but they are not dripping with water. 1 he idea of imprisonment away from natural daylight and without recreation periods In the open air is ihJrtJ?.*0 !n8.tm, f?ar ,n th* most hardened criminal. But It is not alln?an|8.HneT,'Uiry to U8e dungeons to punish prisoners. You'd be surprised how much enforced absence from a meal or two will do to change the attitude of a recalcitrant prisoner." iuiI files und aid In capturing law violators. Hince no two fingers have ever been discovered whose patterns were lden-j tical, fingerprints offer such toll-tale evidence that criminals have tried to change theirs. Hut they cannot be entlrely changed, even by the painful process of removing the skin. Dillinger tried this, and after the scars healed, the skin grew back into the same design. A baby's fingerprint pattern is firmly fixed about three months before birth; enlarges, but does not change as the child grows to an adult. It remains thq same even after death. All fingerprints fall into one of nine patterns, including loops, arches and whorls. The Federal bureau of investigation has nearly 7,000,000 criminal fingerprint records on file, in more than 1,000 great green cases stretching for two city blocks within the bdlldlnK. Only 300,000 of these are records of women, the rest are of men. Workers search through these prints by hand, to check an incoming set of criminal prints against them. If the incoming fingerprints fall into a certain common classification, chiefly the ulnar ^ loop type of pattern, the search is speeded up bjr.a machine Vhich automatically sorts the cards at the rate1 of 475 a minute.?Yorkville Enquirer. General News Notes The American Airlines announces that it Carried 30,902 passengers duri ing the month of June, an increase over any previous month's business. | Corn farmers of the corn belt are expecting a bumper crop this year, basing their predictions on present crop conditions. New York garment workers have called a city-wide strike in New York1 city. About 35,000 workers are affected. The Communications commission has refused to issue authority .to Vir-1 gil E. Evans for the construction of a radio station at Gastonia, N. C. ! 1 he marriage license bureau at' llono, Nevada, Issued 210 marriage licenses from Saturday morning to Monday at noon, breuklng all former record*. A London paper expresses fear* for the king when he makes his scheduled visit to Belfast, Ireland, on July 28. President Roosevelt has signed a bill by which blind persons will be permitted to take trained guide dogs with them on Pullman cars and In passenger coaches. The Netherlands placed orders to a total of 9621,446 In the United States, during June, for the purchase of nonmilitary aircraft, engines and equipment. After strenuously denying it for two years or more, Mae West, movie actress, admitted in Los Angeles, that she was married 26 years ago to Frank Wallace. She denied that they had ever lived i together as man and wife. President Roosevelt has made It quite plain that he Intends to Ignore charges of Representative Fish, of New York, to the effect that the President's income tax returns are themselves a subject for Investigation by the congressional committee on tax dodging. After the British freighter Gordonia had been seized by a Spanish Insurgent warship near Santander, Spain, two British warships went to the rescue of the freighter, which whs released pronto. I The publication of The Star at' Seattle, Wash., was stopped Tuesday, by a strike of- American , Newspaper Giuld members, the issue being the matter of the standing of circulation employes' union affiliations. More than 200 employes were idle. Representative Walter Lambeth* of North Carolina, chairman of the house printing committee, is opposed to the publishing of a free booklet on the Federal constitution at a cost of 9S$0#> 000. The government's printing bill is now approximately $20,000,000 a year. The Ford Motor company and 15 individuals are named in an assault warrant issued at Detroit, as the result of a one-man grand Jury investigation into the beating of United Automobile Workers, who were trying to distribute literature at the Ford plant on May 26. Steady! In dealing with a national problem, as in driving on the highway, the sane ones must save the fools. ? Colored City Carriei Had Large Funera The funeral of James A, Hates m ored mall carrier on city route tw who died Wednesday of last wm and held at Trinity Mathodtat churt Sunday afternoon, was largely attem ed, by both white and colored. A large number of the colored cit carrier** from towna apd cities ? South Carolina, were In attendance Bates was popular with both race whom he had served around slxt* years, and was known city wide. Hi was a service of non-demerits. Thy had never been a complaint so far/* we could learn. The church was filled to Btandia room and the services were In chart of his paator, Rev. Freeman, other assisting were Rev. B. F. Bradford a former pastor, now of Charleston Rev. A. R. Howard, of Sumter, Rev. J. W. Boykln, of the Mount H< rlah Baptist church, of Camdeh tl of whom paid tributes of respect t his memory. Funeral arrangements were ii charge of Richard Halle, colored at dertaker. Honors House Guest In honor of her house guest, Mb Emily Thomas, of Charleston, Mlti Betty Carrison was hostess at & de lightful buffet supper which she gin Friday evening at her home &t Tk Precipice. Besides the honor guesi and hostess, those at the party Miss Katherine Kennedy, Miss Hir riet Beard, Miss Charlotte DuBon, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Kennedy, 3rd, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Woolen, J, B, Cantey, Whit Boykin, Walter Wootea, Julian Burns and Jack Haile. Entertains For Visitors Miss Dorothy Creed has had as he house guests recently Miss Mary EN zabeth Magill and Miss Frances Ml gill, of Charlotte; Miss Vivian Witti of Crescent City, Fla.; and Miss Jalk May Taylor, of Columbia. In coop# ment to these visitors a steak auppe was given at Miss Katherine March son's cabin In the country on Tan day evening. j Employes of two large Philadelphia baking concerns, voted to line np with the American Federation of Labor, rathe* than with the CIO of John Lewis. I THANK YOU! We, the Texaco Dealers of Camden, wish to thank oor I many friends for the wonderful response to our lubrica- I tion days last month and offer to those who did not re- I ceive the wonderful 40 for 1 Service another opportunity I to do so. I FRIDAY ? SATURDAY ? SUNDAY 1 40 for 1 MARFAK * V X LUBRICATION II | At All Texaco Stations I I These are the forty things we do to your car for the price I of one Marfak lubrication job I II Clean all fittings before and after lubrication 2 Lubricate all shackles with Marfak 3 Lubricate distributor 4 Lubricate, starter, if required 5 Lubricate starter pedal at friction point through floor boards 6 Lubricate generator 7 Lubricate clutch throwout bearing, if required 8 Lubricate clutch pedal 9 Lubricate clutch rods 10 Lubricate brake linkage (clutch linkage) 11 Lubricate foot throttle 12 Lubricate fan bearing 13 Lubricate water pump 14 Lubricate drag link 15 Lubricate steering gear 16 Lubricate universale 17 Lubricate ride control linkage 18 Lubricate distributor shaft 19 Lubricate spring seats 20 Spray springs 21 Check engine oil level 22 Check oil filter 23 Check transmission and differential 24 Lubricate hood lacing 25 Lubricate hood hooks and hinges 26 Lubricate door locks and * hinges 27 Wax door latches and checks. (A small Item, but important; grease soils) 28 Test battery with hydrometer. 29 Fill battery to proper level 30 Clean corrosion off battery j terminals j 31 Grease battery terminals 32 Inspect battery cables 33 Thoroughly clean Interior of j car | 34 Clean all gl?ass windows -windshield, etc. - ?*? H 35 Check all light bulbs , 36 Inspect and Inflate tires to | proper pressure j 37 Clean and test spark plufls when requested. This Is lm" portant. i 38 Check and fill radiator I 39 Inspect wiper a r m s if111 I blades ( .. .1 40 Lubricate every other J as listed and recommend*? I by your car manufacture* I and aa shown on the Tettt* ; Chek-Chart i ???i i??????III I Red Star Service Station East DeKalb Service Station I I Phone 129 Phone 526-J I Wall Street Service Station Lafayette Service Station B I ' < ' ****"?