The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 01, 1938, Page PAGE, Image 8
Strike-Bound Circus
Heads For Quarters
8cranton, Pa., June 27.?Roustabouts
and canvaaamen packed the
Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey
circus on a special train tonight for
a thrpe-day journey to winter quarters
A dlsaatroua spring tour which averaged
a dally toss of $<0,000 ended
here Wednesday night when 1,600
performers. and workers struck in
protest against the management's Intention
to reduce wages by 26 per
cent.
Before the tents were struck, Ralph
Whitehead, secretary of the American
Federation of Actors, asked General
Manager John Ringling North to
assume responsibility If fire broke
out In the freight cars carrying the
chemically-treated tents. North, who
already had signed agreements covering
workers' pay during the loading
and guaranteeing employes transportation
from Scranton, refused to sign
another one.
After another brief conference with
North, Whitehead strode from the
general manager's office and announced
to workmen:
"Tear It down boys, we're heading
for home."
8o the fat lady watched in glum
anticipation of an unseasonal hlber
nation as tho gaily decorated calliope
was trundled up a ramp onto a flat
car. The "greatest Bhow on earth,"
beset by labor and financial troubles,
heuded south to Sarasota, Fla., with
less thau one-third of its nation-wide
tour completed.
Whitehead told the fat lady, the
living skeleton, the comely snakecharmer,
the tattooed man and other
"exhibits" that the union would seek
employment for them. But performers
held little hope of obtaining work,
since tho Ringling Brothers, Barnum
and Bailey circus was the fifth American
show to founder this season.
Conferences Intended to settle the
dispute produced a welter of damage
suits, summonses and dally ultimatums
from city officials that the circus
must leave town at once because
sanitary conditions at the show
grounds were "terrible." Animals
wore unattended for days?except for
regular feedings, a routine handled
Inexpertly by circus executives and
ticket sellers.
Union leaders indicated a suit for
$100,Q00 damages would be filed by
the Actors Federation, an American
Federation of Labor nfflliate, against
the circus for alleged violation of a
wage agreement. The city presented
Manager North with a bill for extra
expense Incurred by the delay In removing
the circus.
- North said a new type of ngrecment
covering performers and workers
would have to be worked out before
the show would mako an attempt to
renew its tour. He denied the circus
would be broken up permanently.
Union compromises offering smaller
wage reductions were rebuffed by the
management. Pleas from "heads-ofthe-acts,"
Including Frank "Bring 'Em
Back Alive" Buck that the strike be
ended and the show permitted to go
on were rejected by the strikers
Buck and others told the strikers
that the chief sufferers from their decision
to continue the strike would ,
be thousands of potential customers
in hundreds of communities on the
circus schedule.
Departure of the show was watched
by a sad group of local boys who
had carried heavy pails of water for
the elephants in return for free tickets
to a circus which gave only one
long-waited performance?a niatineo
Wednesday afternoon a few hours before
the strike went into effect.
Story hour Club Met
Antloch story hour held its meeting
In the library Tuesday, June 14,
3 o'clock. The meeting was presided
over by Miss Maggie Lou McCaaklll,
the librarian and Golda Weathers, the
president. The following program
was given:
Prayer; son A by Marie. Funderburk?
and (tolda Weathers; ^11 c?U and
minutes by Mae Shirley; story... by
Maggie Lou McCasklll; contest by all;
Jokes by Marie Funderburke; poem
by Klalne Galloway; Jokes by Mae
Shirley.
<" The following new officers , were
elected: EHalft* Galloway, president:
Marie Funderburke, rice president;
Dupfee Cook, gfecyeUry and treasurer
; Dorothy Cook, Mao Shirley and
Goida Weathers, program committee.
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Forestry frcturesTouring
The State
The State Commission of Forestry
has Hnnouaced the summer schedule
for tt| forestry moving picture outfit
which has been operating in South
Carolina. The schedule during the
balance of Jnne and from July 10-16,
calls for showings In the district of
forester H. F. Bishop whose headquarters
Is Walterboro. During the week
of July 8-0, it will be In the district
of R. F. Newcomb, Florence. The outfit
will then go to District Forester
J. R. Tiller, Aiken, for use July 17*28
and August 1-6. The next district will
be that of R. W. Hleger, Camden,
where shows will be held July 24-20
and August 14-20. During the periods
August 7-18 and 21-27 District Forester
J. C. Blakeney, Spartanburg, will
have the outfit.
The moving picture outfit Is carried
In a trailer, has ltrtfwn power generating
plant and can show either indoors
or outdoors. It Is complete in
Itself and Is operated by a competent'
attendant. The district foresters at-J
tend all showings In order to give a'
short talk on forestry to those present!
to answer questions and to give fur-'
ther assistance to landowners and clt-.
izejis Interested in forest protection,!
planting, proper cutting methods and
marketing of forest products. |
The films were loaned to the South
Carolina Commission of Forestry by
the United States Forest Service and
they depict the need for forest protection,
forest management, the value,
of preventing fires in order to preserve
wildlife and the many ways by
which woods benefit us economically
and socially.
The trailer was made in South Carolina
and the body Is framed out of
native ash, celled and floored with native
loblolly pine, is painted with
paint thinned with turpentine extracted
from South Carolina pine and the
panelB and doors are made from a
pressed composition material of wood
fibres.
The State Forester said "the shows
have been well attended during the
past three months and If at all possible
this outfit will be kept operating
continuously as It fills a great need
particularly In rural localities and other
portions of tho state where the
need for dissemination of forestry information
is the greatest.
The State Commission of Forestry
announces the completion of the water
supply faciltles for the new forest
tree nursery at Sumter.
The Installation was made by the
CCC enrolleos under the direction of
R. A. Conard. The needs of tho nursery
were specified by Assistant State
Forester N. D. Canterbury, assisted
by Nurseryman L. M. Staley.
Four wells were drilled to depths
ranging from 168 to 179 feet and they
yield In excess of 165 gallons per
minute, which will supply, antlcipat
ed needs. The water Is first pumped
into a reservoir having a capacity of
750,000 gallons. From here It la pumped
Into an overhead sprinkler system
with water driven automatic oscillators
which evenly distribute It over
the beds containing the growing trees.
The CCC had to stop lively in order
to get the system installed In time to
supply tho water to the seven and a
half million seedlings which are growing
in this nursery.
State Forester Smith wishes to extend
an invitation to those who live
near or visit Sumter to stop at the
nursery in order to examine the growing
trees and tho nursery facilities.
However, inasmuch as this nursery
Is still under construction, the only
two features of interest at the present
time are the growing trees and
tho newly Installed water system.
Stay For Turner and Payne Denied
Raleigh?Bill Payne and Wash Turner,
sentenced to death for the murder
of a state highway patrolm&Ji,
sought spiritual comfort In prayer alter
informed Wednesday that Gover^
nor Hoey had declined to stay their
asphyxiations, scheduled for July 1.
The governor, in a statement, described
the pair as men who had "declared
war on society." From the day
the two escaped from Caledonia prison
farm until their capture nearly a
yoar later by G-men. the governor
said, they progressed step-by-step "toward
the death penalty that they now
face."
" Four men were beheaded by the
guillotine at a .Berlin prison early
Monday morning, following conviction
of high treason, allegedly because of
Com man let activities .?
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Tennessee Farmer
Attends Own Rites
i Klnston,
Tenn., June $$.?Bewhlskered
^eMx ("Bush") Breast*!*, who
wanted "to hear what the prgacher
says about me/' sat happily beside his
hand mad* coffin today while * minister
eulogised hlra In a lengthy "funUfSjj*
sermon.
"It was the nicest funeraL I ever
heard," the* 74-year-old farmer said.
"When I die there won't be another
one. This was my )ast funeral and
I'm mighty well pleased."
While the Rev. Charles B. Jackson,
of Parle, 111., praised the manifold
merits of "Undo Bush." a crowd estimated
at more than 8,000 swarmed
over the peaceful little Cave Creok
valley grove which Breazeale had
chosen for his obsequies.
RELEASED MAN SAYS
CAPONE "WORST HATED"
I job Angeles, June 26.?Hoy Gardner,
notorious mall robber recently
released from prison, said here today
that A1 Capone Is the center of a feud
at Aloatraz prison.
| "He undoubtedly is the most fcated
and most hating man at Alcatra/.,"
said Gardner, who plans to start work
'tomorrow as salesman for a. motion
picture distributor.
| Men who were his enemies are
there, and George ('Bugs') Morap and
his palB, too. They were enemies m
Chicago, and their feud widen$?'lurther
In prison.
j "Any of them would do anything to
see that Capone did not get out.
| "If Capone does come out, he will
be a worthless man, for his mln* is)
gone. His enemies and 'hell nlgats'
have finished him.
I "A fellow like Capone Hftt sits in
his cell at night, staring at the black
wall. He gets to thinking of | the
grand times he used to have?boar he
ordered politicians around, the .money
he spent and the parties he gavei
I "At first he falls asleep easily, but
I the longer he Is in captivity, the longer
he stays awake. Finally he finds
himself unable to sleep all night."
! Gardner told of a fight he had at
Alcatraz with Capone, after one" of
the latter's "hell nights."
"As we lined up for breakfast, I
stood next to him," Gardner related,
'"and said. "What's the matter, At,
can't you take it?"
"He peered at me through hiJ blood
shot eyes and let a haymaker a^ my
chin. I saw a guard pointing his rifle
at us from a quard tower, dragged |
Capone under the tower and we finished
the fight."
Shmeling's Vertebrae Fractured
New York.?Two vertebrae In his
back fractured by the power of Joe
Louis' fists. Max Schmeling lay In
Polyclinic hospital today, his dream
of regaining the heavyweight title a
dream and nothing more. One powerful
right hand punch to the kidneys
partially paralyzed the German challenger
In the opening minute of his
fifteen-round bout with Ivewls last
' night, made him an easy mark until
the champion knocked him out In 2 04
of the first round and sent him to
the hospital for an indefinite stay.
Just how seriously hurt the German
was remained to bo disclosed. A diagnosis
by Dr. Robert Brennan, professor
of surgery at the Polyclinic, revealed
however, that Schmeling had
suffered fractures of the transverse
processes of the third and fourth lumbar
vertebrae as well as hemorrhage
of the lumbar muscles. There was
no indication from any source that
Schmellng's condition was serious.
Two Lawyers Killed
I-os Angeles, June 22.-*-Two lawyers
were shot to death today lu a
superior court room of the hall of
records. A few minutes later Capt.
William Penprase said Arthur Erall
Hansen, 38, had been taken into c*?-.
tody and had admitted shooting the
two attorneys, R. D. Mclaughlin and
Irving Hancock. Captain Penpraae
^ald Hansen told him "everythingwent
red" after Court Commissioner
Kurtz Kauffman gave an adverse decision
in a land case on which Hansen
was a party.
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It takes a smart man to think Of
ways of making money faster thgfi
his family can think of ways of spend*
Ing it.
Chairman Byrnes of the audit senate
committee, said the first of the
week, that congress would probably
add $50,000 to the $100,000 fund to b*
used in Investigating the Tennets**
Valley Authority, now In progrese.
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Florence Negro To
Die in Chair July 29
Florence, June 25.?L. 0. Goodman,
t wen ty-four:y ear-old negro, was sentenced
today by Circuit Judge JLwJD*.
Llde to die in the electric cbair at 6
p. m., July 19.
Goodman, convicted Thursday night
q| slaying Llewellyn Slngletary, 29year-old
Lake City plantation owner,
received the sentence calmly. He was
captured last t week after a ten-day, ;
search, and given a speedy trial. , j
He testified he shot and killed
jSlolse Graham, a negro woman on
the Slngletary farm, but was tried
only for the death of the white man.
I NO COMjPRENDE AMERICAN;
BUT ENGU8H, 8HE'8 EA8YI
Lancaster, June 21.?-"Cthlnk I have
made remarkable progress In learning
the English* language the six weks 1
have been In the United Statos, but
this American language, now?how do
you say??-it atumpB me," said Juan
L. Carattlno, who with his attractive
wife la spending some time in Lancaster
studying the construction of a
new type of road from Lancaster to
Great Falls.
Mr.,' and Mrs. Carattlno are from
Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Mr
Carattlno is an enginer with the National
Bureau of Highways in South
America. He is in Lancaster observing
experiments made with a new cement
soil stabilised road base. The
state of South Carolina is co-operating
with the Federal Bureau of Public
Roads in the ^construction of the new
type road.
Mr. and Mrs. Carattlno say they
are favorably impressed with this
country. This is their first visit to
tire United States, and they say they
have found everyone patient and considerate
in their use of the English
language, about which they knew
nothing when they landed in the United
States six weeks ago.
Both think they have made remarkable
progress In mastering the English
language, but as Mr. Carattlno
says In the best American slang, "This
American language stumps me." He
says he Is unable to comprehend all
of the slang expressions which stud
the conversation of the average American;
so he Just passes them up and
asks for a more detailed explanation.
"Another thing which paakes It hard
for one from a foreign country to
learn to speak your language," he
said, "is the tendency of people from
different sectiona^of the country to
vary the enunciation of their words.
And I have found that these variations
do not come from widely separated
parts of the country. Why, I
can talk to one man from one part of
South Carolina and understand him
perfectly, but another man from a
different section of the state Is unable
to make his meaning clear to me. I
must turn to my other friend for an
j Interpretation of what a man from
the same state has said. And this is
not a misunderstanding of slang expressions,
but the wide variation of
the enunciation of the second man.
Still, I think I am doing right well
and hope to be able tQ understand a
low country Carolinian as well as one
from the up country soon."
When asked if they find any of our
customs peculiar, Mr. and Mrs. Carattino
said that they are becoming accustomed
to the American foods, although
they think our foods are highly
seasoned, and miss wine with their
meals. They say it Is hard to under
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stand why Americana drink coffee and :
tea with sugar in it with meals, toed
tea Is new to them, but they hiave
learned to like it.
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Both are high in their praise of
American hospitality. Mr. and Mrs.
Carattlno will spend several more ^
weeks in South Carolina and expect
to bejn the United States about six
months. -fll
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