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alcatra*. five years old Noted San Francisct^fay Prison Hai Had a tra^hplstory. What? oo birthday cgke with five caudle*? Ahairaz prison, "that place of hocrot" where the government keeps Its toughest convicts, has come to kindergarten age. 1( was August 22, 1934. five years ago, Tuesday?that A1 Capone and tlf(vtwo other chosen* felons from the quae were ferried to the twelve-acre rock In Han Francisco bay and locked In Its supposedly escape-proof cells. Since that time, Alcatraz bus come In for all manner of violence?mayhem and murder, uprisings and shootlugs. wild brawllngs and death. . l,ook at this "babyhood" record: When Alcatraz was six months old, H hundred Inmates rioted. When It was a little over a ypar old, jot. Powers, 40, .California mall robber. hi llie prison's first escape attempt. fell while running from gaurds, broke his neck and died. When it was three yegrs .old, Warden James A. Johnson was slugged ami sent to the hospital by Burton Phillips, Witchffa, Kans., kidnaper and bank robber; Rufe Persful, 29, a prisoner. maimed himself by chopping off his left fingers with an axe; and Ralph Coe and Theodore Cole, young Oklahoma desperadoes, vanished from the Island during a fog, possibly to drown i ill the buy, possibly to will u <lubiou:* freedom. When Alcatraz was four years old, three convicts killed Guard it. C. Cline, 36. in an escape at tempt; one of the convicts was phot to death at the time und the other two, Sanies C. Lucas and itufus Franklin, were convicted of murder ami given life sentences. This year, In January. Arthur (I)oc) Barker, who once was public enemy No. I, was killed In an escape attempt. Although Tuesday was an aunlvers* ury, there was no birthday c?ke. and no celebration for the 300 to 400 convicts. Alcatraz's prospects for longevity are a little uncertain. Unlike former Attorney General Homer S. Cummlngs, who called Alcatraz his "pet project," Attoniey General Frank P. Murphy does not like Alcatraz. 1 The new civilian war resources board' began Thursday a "precautionary" study which officials indicated might involve a thoroughgoing revision of the war department's master plan to mobilize American industry in the event of war. The group of industrial and commercial leaders received instructions from Louis Johnson, acting secretary of war, to Beek flawq and ommisaions in the detailed blueprints on which military experts have worked for the last eighteen years. PRELIMINARY BOOK LI8T OF CAMDEN CITY 8CHOOL8 1939-1940 First Qrad* No books to be provided before opening of school, September 5, l9S9. The first price is the purchase p; Ice and the second price is rental. Second Qrade Header: Friendly Stories? Trips To Take $ .41 .14 Arithmetic; Fun With Num bers 40 .14 Health; llullding My House of Health 63 .21 Spelling: Spelling for Every1 day Use 21 .07 Work Books: My Word Book Third Qrade Reader; Treasure Box 48 .16 Arithmetic: Champion Arithmetic 40 .14 Language; American Language (third year) 46 .151 Health: The Road to Health .66 .22, Spelling: Spelling for Kvery day Use ., 21 .07 Work Books: My Word Book Essentials of Everyday English. | Fourth Qrade Arithmetic: Strayer-Upton (fourth grade) 33 .11 Reader: Magic Hour 69 .23 Language: American Lnnguage( fourth year) 38 .13 Spelling; Spelling for Everyday Use 23 .08 Geography: At wood-Thomas (fourth grade) 56 .1# Health: Health by Doing .. .51 .17 Work Books: My Word Book Essentials of Everyday English Other work books to be selected. Fifth Grade Reader: Pleasant I^ands 75 .25 History: Estill's History ... .60 .20 Arithmetic: Strayer-Upton (fifth grade) 33 11 Language: American language (fifth grade) 41 .14 Spelling: MeCall's Speller (complete) 30 .10 Geography: At wood-Thomas (fifth grade) 73 .25 Work Books: My Word Book Essentials of Everyday English Other work books to be selected. 8lxth Qrade Reader: Golden leaves 75 .25 Arithmetic: Strayer-Upton (sixth grade) 33 .11 Language: American Language (sixth grade) 41 .14 Geography: Atwood-Thomas (sixth grade) 76 .26 History: Slmms* S. C. History 87 .29 Spelling: MeCall's (complete) 30 .10 Work Books: My Word Book Essentials of Everyday English ! Arithmetic (to be selected) Other work books to be selected. 8eventh Qrade Readers: Studies' in Reading .74 .26 History of American Prog- j ress 1-00 .34 New Day Arithmetic 37 .13 Our English (seventh grade) "-.48 .16 Atwood-Thomas Geography (seventh grade) 73 .25 MeCall's Speller (complete) .30 .10 Work Books: Arithmetic: Lennes Drills My Word Book English Work Book. Eighth Qrade Payne's Speller 38 .13 West: Short History of Early People 1.38 .46 New Day Arithmetic 87 .13 McKltrlck West: English Composition 92 .31 Literature and Life (Blue) 1.65 .52 C. & C.: x Introduction to Science 1-46 Ulman & Henry: Elementary Latin 105 .36 Gregg: General Business Science, Pts. 1 & 2 1.29 .43 Wells-Hart: Modern Algebra 1.18 .40 Ninth Qrada Payne's Speller 38 .13 Webster: History of Mankind 1.83 .61 Wells-Hart: Modern Algebra 1.18 .40 McKltrlck-West: English Composition 92 .31 Literature and Life (Book II) Blue 1-66 .56 Arnold: Cooperative Citizenship -98 .33 Baker-Mills: Dynamic Biology 1.48 .50 ogy 1.48 .6.... 11.... s. .2..; Ulman & Henry: Second Year Latin 1-20 .40 3regg: Oeneral Business Science, Part 3 87 .29 Tenth Grade ^hew: Speller 43 .15 | Webster: History of Man- , kind 1-83 .61 3ruce: Plane Geometry 69 .23 Tanner: Correct English .. 1.21 .41 < literature and Life (Book III) Blue 173 .58 :0th Century Bookkeeping, i Introductory Course 90 .30 t :0th- Century Typewriting, 1 x Year Course 96 .31 iregg: Shorthand Manual .. 1.29 .43 T iregg: Speed Studies 1.04 .35 s "'he New Chardenal 1.55 .52 L Vermont: La Belle France .. 1.04 .35 t Eleventh Qrade Ihew: Spewer v... .43 .15 ? >atane: History of American 1 People 1?72 .58 ^ells-Hart: Modern Algebra, Second 107 .36 fc literature and Life (Blue) 1.90 .64 . F. & S.: Introduction to . Economics 1.25 .42 I easier: First Year Chemls- t try 1-32 t a Voyage de M. Perrlchon . .69 .23 j 0th Century Bookkeeping, t Two Years 1.25 .42 0th Century Typewriting, ( Two Years 1.21 .42 < 'anner: Correct English ... 1.21 .41 'he New Chardenal 1.66 .52 rermont: La Belle France .. 1.04 .36 iregg: Shorthand Manual .. 129 .48 IFtgt' Speed Studies 1.M 46 Hitler orders every theatre to ahow lm depicting Reich's "Invincible' Western fortifications. ' Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee IfcGee, Copyright. 1928. WHY THE GOVERNMENT CROP CONTROL FAILED 1 Every farmer in the land grew mure stuff on fewer acres. The cotton farmer produced 10 bolls of cotton where only 6 bolls grew before. The wheat fal'Uier had 100 stalks of wheat where ouly 60 stalks grow before, and on and on it went with crops of all kinds. In other words, the farmer discovered that he had always worked twice as much land as was necessary. 2 The Good Lord had lots to do with this over-production. We have nearly all been afflicted (so far as psoperlty Is concerned) with Ideal farming weather. It hasn't been too hot or too cold, too dry or too wet. I nor have we had as many holl weevils1 and sharp-shooters and corn tiles and corn borers und whout bugs and Japanese beetles as we have been entitled to My. my! How we have tnlssod those good old profitable droughts that we used to have. 3 lly reason of tho fact that Cncle Sam has been rather liberal with his money each farmer has been able to buy more fertilizers than he needed for his own good, and then?no government money was left over to buy modern plow-tools and farm equipment. We always got along fine without thoso things when we didn't have the money to buy thorn with. Another help that I heard of only yesterday was?the farmers have learned how to plant their seeds in the right moon. 4. Without an attempt to control crops wo possibly would have been in a worse mess. If we had 48,000,000 acres planted to cotton instead of 24.000,000 acres, we might now have a surplus of 36,000,000 bales of cotton Instead of only 11,000,000 bales. And If wheat acreage of 1930-1934 average had been permitted we would now have enough wheat to last the world 5 years (possibly) Instead of only enough to last us 3 years, as at preseut. 5. But we have the crops. They are all ours. The /'furrluers" have large crops, too. \Ve don't need their surpluses and they won't have ours unless we sell It to them on credit. They will buy anything on credit from World Wars to dough-nuts. Everybody In the wide, wide world has been doing just as we have viz: grow-| ing surplus crops. Surplus crops mean that uo one has any money to "buy anything with; normal crops and sub-normal crops have proven to be the most profitable crops ever grown. We have foundered ourselves and the Nation with unneeded necessities, yores trulie, mike lark, rfd, I corry spondent. , THE FIGHT LA8T NIGHT deer mr. edditor: a big argument took place at the drug stoar last night, but no serious dammage was done except the mirrorglass In the sody fountlng got broke in the melee. > It was all about the last congress, holsum moore said the republicans and the semi-republicans, formerly called dlmmercrats, killed nearly all of the new deal spending bills for eoonomy's sake, so they said. but this economy block (heads) rallly spent more inonney than pres, roseyvelt had asked for, only they did dent appropriate It lor the Bawa pup- pose he asked for it to be appropriated; it would not help them to spend it like he said, it went elsewhere to bigger Intrusts. after the statement was made, slim chance, Jr., got struck on the head by an auntie new dealer and when lie flung a pop bottle at him, that s when the mirror-glass got broke, dr. hubbert green settled the fuss by telling Lhem that the last congress was not a. congress for the people; it was a congress for the politicians. sen. pepper has benn rote and incited to make a speech to the young limmorcrats of flat roek. a special neetlng will be hell far him and he vlll explain what jpe neant when he laid what he did about what they done ip there enduring the last days of he session, allso why they done It insoforth. ho hlsself did not let no obbylsts Influence him. back to the fight: everyboddy shuck lands when it was over and dr. green Mastered stacking plaster over ever oddy's eyes who got hit or skinL the tew dealers wero in the majority, but he "purgees" had some friends In he meiee. mr. art square explained hat nearly everthing done by the last congress was either done thru spite >r hate or prejudice or to get even irith someboddy else. yores trulie, mike lark, rfd, _ corry spondent. HARD TIME8 COOKING CHOOL mrs. holsum moore Is planning to *ech a cooking scoll all of neat week In tho vacant store-room on main .street where Jones, Jones, Jones & Jones went busted a few weeks ago while trying to make a livving selling stuff on creddlck. mrs. moore will teech the coinmlng genner-ration how to cook the things that It looks like they will have to eat front now on, due to over production of all crops which make mouney entirely absent from our nildst, thanks to the suppreme coart, so tur. moore says. mrs. moore'8 first lesson will have to do with cooking corn-bred, she will tell how to make Jhonney cakes, ho cakes, sodybread, corn muffins and corn flapjacks, no lard will be used; nothing but watter will be put Into same?we have plenty of watter, but no other Ingredients. the secont and third days ^111 be took up teechlng how to roast sweet potatoes, how to bile turnips without meat, how to cook poke sallet, how to bake homade wheat bread with nothing but salt in it. we are still able to buy salt. I the other days will be used in setting up examples of how to cook cabbages, beans, and squashes, she will teech the townfolks how to live on nothing, fried to a dark brown, and turned over twice . . . allso how to eat roots and bark, they can't^grow nothing to eat in town. mrs. moore will not refer to cakes and pies, and custards and sallads, and pickles and Jellies and roast beef and t-bones and good eating, she will < have a verry timely class, no doubt ? her services will help us to live on common foods, such as can be bought with pressent Incomes ansoforth. yores trulie, < mike lark, rfd, < ?? corry spondont. Runaway Mule Kills Boy Uaffney, S. C.?Entangled in tho trace chains after he was thrown from the bark, of a runaway mule near here. James NUes Ledbetter. 12. was dragged five hundred yards and was dead.when witnesses ran the animal down. According to reports, the boy mounted the muly ut a small creek where it was being watered. I Apparently frightened, the mule ran! away throwing young Ledbetter to the ground. The boy's body became entangled in the harness and ho was Jerked over the rough ground for more than a quarter of a mile. Torso Slaver Kills Himselfjn Jail Cell Cloveland, Auk 24.?The suicide of the ouly person over formally charged in Cleveland's twelve "torso" slaying" added another question mark tonight to the five-year investigation. > Frank Dolozal, f>2, brawny Bohemiati born bricklayer accused of docupltatlng Mrs. Florence Polillo, hanged hlmsolf from a clothes hook with a ragged towel at county Jail, Shorlff Martin L. O'Donnell said. Coroner S. K. Gorber returned a suicide verdict. Deputy Sheriff Hugh Crawford found the accused man's 1 p body and cut him down. Dolozal was still alive and a flro department rescue squad worked over him forty-five minutes before Dr. A. V. Fried pronouncod him dead. On two previous occasions, tho shorI iff said, Dolezul had attempted to end his life?first only thro days after his unrest when he attempted hanging with a shoe string and later with his shirt, which broke. An original charge of murder against the suspect was reduced to manslaughter and he was to have faced a grand jury Investigation on that count September 7. July 7, O'Donnell announced tho suspect after forty hours of questioning confessed slaying Mtb. Pollllo, a 42-year-old waitress listed as No. 3 among tho "torso" victims. Her decapitated body was found January 23, 1936, In a vacant lot but the head was never recovered. A negro wanted on a minor charge in Apex, N. C., disarmed Police Chief Lloyd Castleberry, held him hostage at the point of bis own gun and threatened to shoot two law officer? who came to the rescue, Deputy Sheriff T. C. Womble said. The negTO, Identified by Womble as Melvln Lewter, of Chatham county, fied when Deputy C. D. Maynard made a move to obtain another weapon, and was being sought In woods near this small Wake county town. Chief Castleberry went alone to serve a warrant on Lewter, accused of causing a disturbance Saturday night before last. Irvln S. Cobb was reported "resting quietly" mid week at the University of California hospital where the famed 63-year-old humorist was undergoing treatment for a stomach disorder. Stricken with a gastric upset while vacationing on the Russian river, north of San Francisco the portly raconteur was ordered to bed for several days. ._ J 7. 77 - x: ? - ? - - - - _ - - . - - r-_^Partial Premium List Of The I KERSHAW COUNTY FAIR I To Be Held October 9 to 14,1939 I (Continued From Last Week) { J POULTRY | Exhibit No. 7 M. N. HARMON, Superintendent j | F. BILLINGS, Superintendent j ! (Display Coops Furnished By Association) j 1. No entry- fee will be charged but exhibitors I are requested to show only such poultry as j are free from disease and placed In condition I for exhibition. , j 2. Entries positively close Tuesday, October 10, j ! 7 p. m. ' i 3. No fowl can be removed until after 12 Noon, j J October 14. j 4. The expert judge will confine the awards to j those laid down in the premium list. 5. The latest American Standard will govern j In all varieties. I 6. General prizes are to be awarded by comparison. Display prizes are to be awarded j i by points to be counted as follows: Single? j First prize, 6 points; second prize, 4 points; I third prize, 3 points. Trios oount double or singles. j | 7. The decision of the judge shall be final. ! 8. Every exhibitor must be the bona fide owner ; I of each entry made by him. 1 9. The term Cock applies to a male bird over j one year of age; Hen, a female over one j year of ago; Cockerel,'a male less than one j [ year of age; Pullet, a female less than one ^ year of age; Trio, a male and two females; Display conslsta of cock, hen, cookersl, | j J pullet and trio. I j 10. 8ingle entriea cannot compete for trio premiums and trio entriea oannot compete for ! j single premiums. I ; 11. Birds entered in trios may compete for j j sweepstake prize, individual birds In that j ! pen cannot compete further. j 12. In order for an exhibitor to compete for a display prize he must have entered upon the i ! booka of the Secretary a cock, cockerel, hen, ' pullet and trio of the same breed. I 13. Where only two entries In a class in poultry j department second prize money will be I awarded. ? - -wr i POULTRY !h , Prizes listed below will be offered on each of the following breeds: Barred Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, White Leghorns, and the best I j of any other breeds. j Entry No. First Second IM 1. Best Old Pen, 2 Hens and 1 J I Cock $2.00 $1.00 I ( 2. Best Cock 1.00 .50 In 3. Best Hen 1.00 .50 I 4. Best Young Pen, 2 Pullets and IN 1 Cockerel 2.00 1.00 IK 5. Best Cockerel 1.00 .60 ! 6 Best Pullet 1.00 .50 I 2 Turkeys: |L 7. Best ^alr Bronze Turkeys ... * 2.00 1.00 , j 8. Best Pair White Holland Tur- l|C keys 2.00 1.00 IIC 9. Best Pair Bourbon Red Tur- I ^ keys 2.00 1.00 ! Ducks: I 10. Best Pair Any Breed 1.00 .50 I *Pigeons: I ^ 11. Best Pair Pigeons, Any Breed 1.00 .50 Junior Poultry: ? J 12. Best Hen exhibited by boy or I girl under 18 1-00 -fi0 I f 13. Best Cockerel 100 .60 14. Best Pair Birds 1.60 .50 I I Rabbits: I 15. 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