Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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L BICYCLES $25.95 We invite you to visit our stor .' to see our many GIFTS I Ask about our ( Lay-Away & Plan * SKATES $1.48 Make our store your Headquarters . fk mm Barringer Hardware Company Wagons $1.00 to $3.50 ?ne2i Lives Week With j Heart Injury ; Spartanbur, November 25?Burton j Jaffney, Chesnee negro, died today j ai a local hospital after having been, kept alive for nearly a week by the' leiicate operation in which a three inch wound in the pericardium, sac, < nclosing tho heart, was closed. trafTney's heart was laid open by a; wound lie received Sunday iu an altercation in the Cowpens battleground section of Cherokee County. He was brought in a dying condition to the hospital here, where a young Spartan burg physican performed the operation, taking several stitches in the pericariuni between heart beats. After the operation GafTney rallied and appeared to be*on the road to recovery. His condition took a turn for the worse and death followed today. 5"^ f*?* ^^ MRMPIPPf^^P Easy Be sure when you give this love gift that it's a genuine Lane ?the only tested aroma-tight cedar chest. See this turn* Chmtmas Sprctal?a. gorgeous modern chest in rich Oriental and walnut veneers with a smart waterfall top. Waterproof Lane-welded Veneers won't peel or lift. Sensationally priced. Many other beautiful models to chotrte from. HOME FURNISHING COMPANY ? CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA V->~ ' ti - <: _ * i Reporter Loses Test With Lie Detector: TriMium. N J. Nov 26. ?A weary,j little old follow with sallow dun ks I and va? ant eyes shambled Into a' >P?m ml room In i' , mental wurd of: the Now Jersey Slate hospital lit! Trenton i I hope this convinces you thut I'm sano," he suld hollowly "Vou know j 1 in getting old Not many years to go. I il like u> go bark home " Hi John J Taylor. Jr., resident physican, looked s> input hot irUlly ui' the patieni "I hope so too, Joe.'' the doctor an Id' [as he placed two shilling silver disks, in the man's palms and fastened them j there with wide rubber bands "Been a long lime, hasn't it ?" "Three years, two months, 16 days," I { was the toneless response. He had been committed after threatening his wife and two children with 'death "Voices" advised him to slay ; them Voices that came to him in the . solitude of the park where he liked j to wuuder, voices that wlspered in; I the darkness as he tossed restlessly in! j bed, voices that constantly haunted his tortured mind and put to flight! his sanity, j Joe's reaction to Insulin had been, I favorable. He deduced now with all! I the energy he could muster that the i voices had gone and so had the hallucinations and delusions that made, I up the world of make-believe luj which he had lived He protested that he had no Intention of harming his family?that he wanted to spend his last years with them. "Hut we can't believe him." Doctor Taylor explained earlier. "He has what we call a "hospital Insight' into | his own case. He knows the answers that will mark him as sane. Hut we have never been able to know whether or not he is sincere "To turn men who are superficially! sane but at heart dangerously mad j j on the w orld means more murders of j j innocents To keep them here when, they art- sate- that. too. is tragic." j j The silver disks In Joe's hands were a11a< hod to a large, radio-like machine I by two small wiles A 22 a volt (ur-i rent Mowed through the wires and his body Enough eleetricial to create his body. Enough electricity to create' I Whenever he lied the needle register-1 ing the current swung sharply, the result of additional current generated by Joe's body and amplified many j times on the registering device, a I scroll that moved slowly and recorded truth and falsehood with mechanical relenllessness No "piety nor wit, could lure it back to cancel half a line." At the control of the machine was Jacques L. Bril, a builder of lie de-l tectors which he uses extensively in his work as consulting criminologist. He had installed the machine for the ttso of New Jersey state police and Doctor Taylor had appropriated it1 for clinical experiments Doctor Taylor asked Joe a series of I questions, every third a "crucial" one. He asked Joe what his religion was, if he was married, and then: "Do you hear voices?" He asked how* many children he had. if he drove a car, and "Do you ever hu\c a desire t.? . kill anyone?" He asked how* old tlio 1 j children were, whether they went rrrj school, and "Are you in truth and in: Tact lTrtparatnr Ju!iu? Caesar?" -L The record registered truth wljeiij Joe denied lie heard voices and t Da t J ] he wanted to kill Hut it showed Joei( lied when lie denied he was Caesar j and that his w ife loved Mark Amine I ny. The questions w ere repeated in other series and each lime the iieal became more evident in the swing of; the needle, just as the truth was, more pronounced on repetition of ( conscientous answers. ' "You'll have to stay a little longer." . Doctor Taylor said. ( Joe's shoulders drooped. His head , I bowed. He walked slowly from the room. "I've experimented with the machine six weeks." Doctor Taylor ex- , plained. "1 believe it will prove to be a 100 per oent. correct in its diag- , nosls." or csarae, well have tfr eharr" improvement from commitment until discharge to thoroughly know the ' value of the machine." Similar machines are used by four law enforcement agencies in the East. Lie Detector evidence was admitted In one court In New York to prove the innocence of a defendant. The reporter believed he could deceive the machine. "W you can," said Bril, "in fact if anybody can, I'll throw this one out the window and never build another." Bril sat the reporter in the chair, placed the electrodes in his hands and said "think of a number from one to fen. I'll repeat the numbers. YOu don't have to say a word." The reporter thought of seven, When Bril said "one,"- the reporter mentally interpreted it as, "do you like spinach?" and gave the mental response, "no." The reporter gave the same interpretation ond response, silently of course, to every number mentioned. v Nevertheless, when tho number * C seven was spoken, despite the reporter's transposing the figure to moan "do you like spinach?" and mentally insisting, "no." the needlo swung far to the right and registered an unqualified lie. "The results are unaffected by the will power of the person tested." explained Bril "The reaction automatically rises from the sympathetic nervous system and is not controlled by the will of the central nervous system. The better lite liar, the clearer the lie on tho machine. The energy used in suppressing tho truth is regis- j tered in the meter." He said police are using the lie | detector in some places rather than i third degree me.thods. "it establishes innocence very i quickly," he said. "And I believe it ( gives a first, rate presumption of guilt It is most effective with recaitcl- ' tant prisoners who won't talk." ( "The lie detector was once used on a hardened criminal suspected of mi ( certain robbery. We learned immedi- j ately from the machine, that he was ( involved and that lie Knew where the | loot was hidden, even though he re- i fused to answer questions. i "We asked him if the loot was in ^ Manhattan. Brooklyn, the Bronx. The j machine I old u.s~ Brooklyn We broke i up Brooklyn into districts and ques- i tinned him about each We broke the ; district up into streets and found the < street and eventually the address. The machine all* ee-te4 us W a ece4k?n - of -1 a yard at the address and there un- i dor a tree we found the stolen property. i "It took hours but it was worth tho effort i "I believe the lie detector should be used on professional witnesses in court. Their opinions affect verdicts, i l The court is entitled to know whether their opinions, correct or not, are honest." Bril said he had concluded after, many hundred examinations that wo-' men lie more than men for social rea- J! sons, while men He more than wo- ; men for business purposes. I; Woman's Exchange Opens. The Woman's Exchange opened for! t he season on Thursday. December I first. Miss Ethel Yates will again have I charge of the gift department and urges Christmas shoppers to see the! lovely gifts on display at the Ex j change before buying. j In the tea room Mrs .1 H Guthrie will have charge and Invites those giving parties to entertain at the Exchange. D. R. Coker Dies Of Heart Attack -Hartsville. Nov 28 ? David Robert J Coker, agricultural scientist, business mail ami philanthropist, was found doad in bod at his homo hero early today, one day before his 6Xth birthday. 11 is death, which was discovered shortly before 2 a. in. was attributed to a heart attack, the culmination of several months of ill health. Although Dr. Coker gave freely of his lime and energy to public services, and operated Rovoral successful business enterprises, ho was most widely known for the development and perfection of superior strains of crops in his model scientific agricultural laboratory The achievements of this laboratory Included the origination of ten new varieties of cotton, a highly productive type of wheat, two new varieties of corn, a new yam type of potato, smut and cold-resisting oats, a superior type 01 cigarette tobacco, and a number of lesser important crop Improvements. 1 Many scientists and farmers visited ' the Cokor enterprises every year to observe their operations. i After a visit on one oceaslon, Carl Vrooman, former assistant Secretary >f Agriculture, told Dr. Coker: " i "You have right hero in Hartsville 1 me of the most remarkable ex perl- i menl stations in the world, headed by jno of the greatest leaders in agricultural improvement, surrounded by a i notable staff." In the field of business, his interests i wore mainly in the Coker Pedigreed Seed Company {which dealt largely In the imjyrovFrt seed development under i his guidance, J. L oker and Company, i merchandising firm, and the Coker Cotton Company. For many years Dr Coker was a ' direi-mr of' "thr-RjrhTrrrnrt" branch nf the Federal Reserve Bank, a post he was tendered upon establishment of the bank in 1914. During the World War he was chairman of the South Carolina Council of Defense and Federal Food Administrator for the state. Ho had previously served as a member of the National Agricultural Advisory Committee, and In 1918 he went to Europe as a member of an agricultural commission sent by this government to study conditions abroad. He also served on tha South Carolina Band Settlement Commission. _ In 1928 he was awarded the Stat? American legion distinguished ? ... ~ ?M ; mj, service plaque, an annual award by Iho South Carolina department. In 19011903, he servod one term is mayor of HartHvllle, the only time he ever held elective office. He was rrjrjj&j a Democrat. . Dr. Coker was born November 29, 1870, the son of James Lido Coker and Su.san (Stout) Coker. After tak- ? || i iik preparatory Htudy at Hartsvillo and Society 11111. ho entered tho Uni- ^ vorsity of South Carolina, from which ho was graduated with an A. 13. degree in 1891. ' "iv He served us a trustee of tho Uni- || versity until a few months ago, when I $ ill health caused him to resign. He Was ii trustee also of Coker College,, Hnrinmry 'dnfrrncs hrsroTvcd irpon. O him included a Doctorate of Science from Duke university in 1930, a Dop-. torate of Laws degree from the University of North Carolina in 1932, and ?p later tho College of Charleston also awarded him an LL. D. In recognition of tho value of his work,,tho University of South Carolina awarded him the McMaster Tvioua! several years ~ Dr. Coker was twice married. His first wife, Mrs. Jessie Ruth Coker, died in 1913, leaving five children. In i ? August, 1915, he married Margaret, . *Ja "J May Roper, of the Department of Com- g merce. 1 v _ Death of Mrs. Holland Mrs. Mamlo J. Holland, 41), died y ?j *? Wednesday afternoon after sovoral month's i'llnoss. She was a life-long .!.i? 7^ resident of the Flint Hill section of | | Kershaw County. Surviving are her parents, Mr. nnd Mrs. K. M. Drakeford of Flint Hill section, six daughters, Elizabeth, ~i ?: Pauline, Irene. Marie, of Flint Hill section; Mrs 10. O. Williams, Camdon; Mrs. C. I) Funderhurko of Dentsvllle; two sons, John Richard and Henry Hryan of Flint Hill section; five brothers, Sam of Columbia, John of Hamlet, W H of Hlshopvlllo, J. K. of Cumdeu; It. 13. Drakeford, Flint 11111 section; two sisters. Mrs. C. B. Hornsby and Mrs. J. M. llorusby, Flint Hill soction. Funeral services were hold at .1 p. tn. Friday at the Drakoford burial ground with the Rev. Mr. Fallo and the Rev. J. 11. Castou officiating. Colonel Henry D. Llndsley, former ? 1 national commnndqr of the American Legion, one time mayor of Dallas, -.if p[ Texas, and chairman of the first American Legion national convention, who died Saturday, was burled in Arlington national cemetery Tuesday1. - ,4 % fitlHT CM? CI I Ul V111111* GIFTS Fruit Cake made from An old, superb recipe! In an air-proof cellophane. 1 to 5 pounds, at 50c lb. Ml M ince Meat or Pumpkin Pie with delicious flaky crust. A big 9 inch pie only 35c Just place your order, leave us your giftjist of names and addresses, and we'll get them delivered by Christmas! ELECTRIK MAID BAKE SHOP I || CAMDEN, S. (\ I |j| ii I FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY! I 59$ This Certificate Is Worth $4.41 - 59$ I Thii eeellfiea4* en4 entlllf* lh? h-eiee < ?ee ?f ??r liHU?te?'lihU 44.44 V AClitiM Flt.I.Rtl RACKm I.H8S KOt a Tf'N PENH. Visible Ink Htipply. Y?u HF.K the Ink! A life-Time tiersntee with eech pen. Unl- M A fcritl ilie tor ladle*, men. Soy* and rlrle. 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