The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 06, 1937, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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)ixie-Home Stores
Ranking Largest
Columbia, July 31.?Dixie-Home
^<g # South Carolina corporation,
Hiking aa ope of the largest food
Hips In the Southeast, have been
ptlfled by Francis P. Braasor, secrecy
of the Securities and Exchange
pmlssion, that their application for
titration of 83,000 shares of com
WB stock haB been granted. When
kis stock is distributed in accordance
rfth the rules of the New York Curb,
PPllCAtioD will be made for listing
i that exchange.
.So modern success story is more
^resting than tHe amazing growth
I this corporation, formed recently
\ the merger of 83 Home Stores and
# Dixie Stores, in South Carolina,
toih Carolina and Georgia, coneen,ted
particularly in the central seeon
of this? state and in the Piedmont
[the two Carolinas. One store has
tor. opened since tiie two chains
ore joined, making a total of 164
nits Of these 113 are In South Carina,
two in Georgia, and the remaintr
in North Carolina. The company
40 operates in Columbia a bakery
ith a capacity of 15,000 loaves a
ttk. with large warehouses in Co-'
imbia and Greenville.
R E. Ebert, of Columbia is presi Dt;
J 1*. Williamson, of Greenville,
lecotive vice president; M .S. Merit.
Greenville, second vice president;
. H. Harris, of Columbia, third vice
esident; K. K. Parker, Greenville,!
icretary; W. I*. Newton, of Colum-i
i. treasurer. Those and T. P. j
nchillon of Piedmont and Ix>uie
Jr.. of Helton ( who is also presi t
of the Boltpp? Ligdit and Power
tnpany) form the directorate. The i
esent owners are all residents and
tizens of South Carolina and the
itire board has been connected with
xie or Home stores almost since
eir modest start fifteen years ago.
Mr. Ebert opened his first store in
e Pacific community of Columbia
1922. Mr. Williamson began with
small wholesale grocery in Belton
1920, but did not open his first reH
unit until 192J5, the location be!
Ware Shoals. By 1927, Mr. Wilson's
chain had grown to nine,
<1 be incorporated as the Dixie
"res. By 1930 Mr. Ebert's Home
Dr?s chain had expanded to 29 and
i firm was incorporated that year.
1932. despite the depression when
most firms were drawing in rather
than reaching out, Honle Stores had
increased lo 48, and Dixie to 49. The
years that followed, which were lean
for most businesses, saw both Dixie
and Home Stores grow in number
with the result that by 1937 there
were 80 in the former and 88 in the
latter chain. And what's more interesting
receipts during the depression
gained by leaps and bounds, the two
chains doing a business of $2,997,782.00
in 1932, $3,810,044.30 in 1933,
$4,386,509.27 in 1934, $5,090,592.38 in
1935, $6,621,507.73 for 1936. This year
the sales have grown correspondingly,
the ilgure for the first twelve weeks
of 1937 being $1,581,219.38. In January
1932, Home Stores employed 247
persons and Dixie 253. On March 31,
1937, the total was 1,099 employes of
which Dixie had 547 and Home Stores
552.
Granting of application for registration
of common stock by the S. K.
C. is but another forward step in the
rapid progress of two fast growing
South Carolina concerns, now merged
into one under the same energetic,
progressive leadership that defied the
depression, and developed in an amazingly
short time into one of the country's
large food chains.
Mob Fails To Get
Negro Prisoner
Statesville, N. C\, Aug. 2.?A crowd
of white men rode into Statesville in
thirty automobiles early today, surrounded
the county Jail, and demanded
that Sheriff John White Moore turn
over a negro prisoner.
The crowd* however, soon disbanded
after Sheriff Moore took three of
the men inside the jail and convinced
them that the prisoner, Preach Caldwell,
35, charged with assaulting a
white woman near Mooresville Saturday,
was not there.
The negro was rushed from Mooresville
after his arrest Saturday and
taken to an undisclosed jail as a precautionary
measure.
Sheriff Moore estimated there were
125 men in the crowd which surrounded
the jail.
James J. Walker, former New York
mayor, had a conference In Washington
with President Roosevelt on Monday.
It was the first time they had
met since 1922 and Walker was 20
minutes ahead on the appointment.
He was always noted for being late
for his engagements.
Tied To A Tree;
Robbed Of His Car
Darlington, July 31? Sheriff J H
j C salt] I wo men ari?ntttd at (,'hejfaw
today Iomm than throe hours alter
j? Darlington county resident wu?
trussed to tt tree and his automobile
I stolen bad given their names as Allen
Swan son. 33, and Hob Williams, 23.
He said pawn tickets In their pos
| session indicated they were from Philjadelphia,
but the men themselves re,
fused to talk other than to ?fuy they
were in this state "looking for a job "
The two men were arrested by
1 tier of Police, Horace McLean, ul
tlK'raw, after the Darlington sheriff
bud spread the ularm.
Coker said 8. McDonald, of Darlington
was stopped by two men on
the highway between Darlington ahd
Society Din ut 7;3o u m
McDonald said be slowed down
when the men flagged him and us he
d d' one ot 'bem Jumped on the run'
istol d a0d C?Vt'red h,m wlth *
He said they forced him from the
car and tied him with strips torn from
the seat covers. McDonald freed himself
and notified authorities in a short'
time.
"Chief McLean was one of the first
I called," Sheriff Coker said.. "He
bung up, got a shotgun and left his
office to start a hum for the car. Just
ah he walked out of his office the car1
passed by. He ran after it and covered
the men with Ids shotgun.
One of them had a pistol but he
dropped it Jn his lap and they surrendered
Without a fight." Coker related.
The men were returned to the Darlington
jail, Coker said.
He expressed doubt that they were
members of the gang of five convicts
who escaped from the Elberton Ga
prison Monday night and were traced
into South Carolina.
He said he was awaiting the arrival
Of authorities from Columbia to
see if they might be identified as the I
couple who held up Bobby Dotter, Columbia
taxi driver, early Thursday
morning, and stole his cab after tying
him to a tree.
Wreck Starts In N. CJ
But WindsUp In S. C.
A neat question of jurisdiction arose
Sunday afternoon when an automobile
bearing two young men from Morganton
-KCl^utjjf control in North Care
na and wound up in South Carolina
after striking a filling station, knocking
down two pumps and breaking
the operator's leg.
The accident occurred on Pageland
highway at the State Line filling station.
The young men, E. S. B. Dale
and Joe Lane, both of Morganton,
lost control of their automobile at
Mungo 8 station. It ran off the road
there but travelled on until It hit the
State Line station. Virgil Eudy, 18
was the attendant whose leg was
_broken Jn the crash.
t ^fP?ty I^6 Wa,kuP an<i Patrolman
J. B. Boyd went to the scene but the
South Carolina officers made the arrest,
the charge being reckless driving.?Monroe
Enquirer.
BLIND FARMER RAISES LEAF
CROP BY SENSE OF TOUCH
Harisfield, Ga? July 30.?Deprived
of his sight twenty years ago, M O
Taylor depended on his sense of touch
to raise 33 acres of bright leaf tobacco
now awaiting sale -in Georgia's
auction markets.
Taylor. r.O-year-old farmer and merchant
sold *10.000 worth of tobacco
from 23 acres last year.
"I follow the planting from seed
bed through to the market." he said
I can tell by the feel If the plants
at-e diseased, when they need to bo
sprayed for Insects. I spend most of
my time 'watching' my crops with my
hands
"1 direct the curing of all of the
leaf, even being able fo grade It by
sense of touch. I control the heat
n ho curing barn by feeling the loaf.
Instead of changing the temperature
according ,0 the number of hours ,!
has been ,hc barn That ,
give, me . better curf. becau6e (
Ion t turn on the heat too soon "
Tay,or waa b?nded wh))e workir)>;
a merohT ? OPOrat0r' an" became
a merchant .later taking ,lp tob?cco
growing. In hl8 atore ha
change Quickly accurate|y
omers He clalma he alao can tell
V feeling, whether a customer gives
hint *1 or *5 bills.
Dead Man Does Float
tm"* Dranch' Ca"f. July 28.?
"la ho ""ld ReV' George Lohr, 86
la how you do the 'dead man float ?
T? demonstration In three feet of
water seemed ? bit too real to tbe
?if 8ma11 50X8 Who wer? being
eateruined by Hie mtal.ter, a life
?wd and an lnhalator .Quad ^
Oead. An
2T, ' Phy,,Clan "'0 death wa,
r to Batur*i causes.
jStrip-Tease In |
Labor Dispute]
Harlan. K> , Auk 2.?-The National
Labor Keluilons Hoard tame Into Harlan
couniy today to tlnd out what?
If anything "atrip tease" dinners
.have to do \n 1111 coal mining
Leonard Shore, of ( iiu innati, an
NLU1J attorney, was to conduct questioning
at a hearing on a eoini>lalnt
that the Clover Fork coal company
of neai by Kills, Ky., employed "lewd
and lnnnorul ' women to lure comIHiny
employes away from organization
meetings sponsored by the Chited
Mine Workers' of America.
The company's answer to the N'LItH
charge was a blanket denial by A K.
Whitfleld, secretary treasurer.
ThtT complaint, filed ut Cincinnati
with I'hillp (J. Phillips, regional NLltH
director, formally charged thiit the
Clover Fork company mentioned recently
in hearing before senate civil
liberties committee in Washington,
did:
- procure lewd and immoral
women to perform free, Indecent exhibitions
known as strip-and-tease
dances to otherwise enguge in gratuitous,
licentious conduct ut times when
union meetings were scheduled for
the purpose of enticing its employes
from attending such meetings."
k Cancels Trip
Cincinnati, Aug. 2.?Long distance
trucking from Cincinnati wus puralyxed
today by a strike called by the
teamsters and chauffeurs union,
1 homas J. FurreH, International representative,
said that several hundred
men were idle.
Employers culled an afternoon
meeting to discuss the situation. Philip
G. Phillips, regional director of the
National Labor Relations Hoard, cancelled
a scheduled trip to Harlan
county. Kentucky, to offer his services
in mediating the dispute.
Farrell said the strikers sought uniform
wage rates for drivers. Employers
said an internal dispute in
the union prevented them from determining
whether to negotiate with
Farrell's group or an independent
formed from a faction of the Jnternat
ional.
Son Acquitted Of
Shooting Father
Kannapolis, N. C., Aug. 2.?A coroner's
jury today exonerated J. 1'.
McCurdy, 20, for the killing of his
father. IX H. McCurdy, 39, at their
home on the Kannapolis-Concord highway
yesterday.
Young McCurdy testified at the inquest
held by Coroner N. J. Mitchell
that he fired a pistol at his father
when the elder McCurdy advanced
upon the youth's mother with an open
pocketknife.
The Jury returned a verdict of "juslflable
homicide."
McCurdy died a short time after
being taken to the Cabarrus county
hospital.
FORTUNE IS REPORTED ~
SMUGGLED FROM MINE
L?*ad, S. D.?Gold and greed have
woven a fantastic story of "high grading"
in the west. This timo the nation's
richest gold mine has been the
scene of the alleged thefts.
Roland K. Goddard, United States
secret service head at Denver, says
underworld gossip has it that $2,000,000
worth of yellow metal haB been
stolen from the fafhed Homestake
mine here and whisked to a secret
cache.
Five men are under arrest and the
elusive "head man" in the plot, described
by Goddard as a world-traveling
soldier of fortune, is sought, but
only $6,500 worth of stolen metal has
been traced.
Homestake officials deny they have
lost anything, like $2,000,000.
Hut miners'* homes in Lead have
been searched and officers report they
have discovered gold hidden In gold
fish bowls, In coffee cans and other
receptacles, personally secreted to bo
sold "when things cooled off."
This was but a trickle of gold dust
compared to the fortune which men
of the underworld are said to have
plotted to steal from the high graders,
then skip to Mexico and hide,
Goddard Indicates. From Mexico the
metal might have been shipped back
to the United States and sold as gold
mined there.
Goddard planted a listening device
in a rooming house and heard men
plan, he says, to steal the gold from
the men who had taken it from the
Homestake. Hut he doubts that as
much gold as they talked about could
have been smuggled from the mine.
Miners might have carried gold
from the mine, however, secreting it
in their clothing, their lunch pails
and by other means, to carry to their
homes and hide. Because of the United
States gold act, prohibiting possesi
slon of gold and regulating its sale,
i the metal is hard t6 dispose of.
i This caused the secret service tc
Investigate reports that the gold wai
pooled In one cache for shipment to
Mexico.
Five men Goddard reveals, have admitted
they plotted to steal this gold.
Hut this far Goddard has been unnble
to discover tho "caclio."
Just how much gold has disappeared
authorities may never know. About
114,000,000 worth passes annually
through the Homestake gates.
The ore In the Homestake is low
grade, running from $3 to $7 a ton.
The best opportunity for the thefts
occurs when a rich vein Is struck. In
the history of the Homestake this haH
happened seldom, but occasionally a
nugget Is found and It is comparatively
easy for a miner to hide this
in his clothing.
Nearly every famed mine in tho
west has been the target of high graders
and mining men say it is impossible
to stop them.
In the old Cresso'n mine at Cripple
Creek, Colo., where the Cresson 'Vug'
was struck, a bank vault door was
placed at the head of the underground
chamber and armed guards were posted
over it.
The 'vug* was an underground |
"pocket" of gold and tho "pocket"
was the size of a large room. It
yielded more than $1,000,000 In gold.
MinerH were tempted to hide a nugget
or two In their lunch palle or In
the cuff of their trousers an they went
off duty. So Home mines Installed a
"change" room, where every nllner
changed clothing as he left tho prop- '
erty each day.
One of tho most sensational high
grading plots was uncovered at a
Cripple Creek mine In the early history
of that camp.
The mine manager, 11. A. Shlpman,
suspected tho high graders were entering
the mine through abandoned
openings to the "Hull Pen" stop,
where one was worth ubout $1 a
pound.
Shlpman armed himself and a number
of trusted employes and waited
one night in the dark recoBsos of the
stope.
They heard men entering the mine
and soon saw light.
"Hands up," Shlpman shouted.
A gun battle raged for minutes and
the gang was captured.
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